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package org.openforis.collect.persistence;

import static org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.Sequences.OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ;
import static org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.tables.OfcTaxon.OFC_TAXON;
import static org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.tables.OfcTaxonVernacularName.OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
import org.jooq.BatchBindStep;
import org.jooq.Configuration;
import org.jooq.Field;
import org.jooq.Insert;
import org.jooq.Record;
import org.jooq.Result;
import org.jooq.Select;
import org.jooq.SelectConditionStep;
import org.jooq.StoreQuery;
import org.jooq.TableField;
import org.jooq.impl.DSL;
import org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.MappingDSLContext;
import org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.MappingJooqDaoSupport;
import org.openforis.collect.persistence.jooq.tables.records.OfcTaxonVernacularNameRecord;
import org.openforis.idm.model.species.TaxonVernacularName;

/**
 * @author G. Miceli
 * @author S. Ricci
 * @author E. Wibowo
 */
@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
public class TaxonVernacularNameDao extends MappingJooqDaoSupport<Long, TaxonVernacularName, TaxonVernacularNameDao.TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext> {

	private static final TableField[] QUALIFIER_FIELDS = {OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.QUALIFIER1, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.QUALIFIER2, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.QUALIFIER3};

	protected static Field<?>[] TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_FIELDS;
	static {
		Field<?>[] fields = {
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.VERNACULAR_NAME,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_VARIETY,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.STEP};
		fields = ArrayUtils.addAll(fields, QUALIFIER_FIELDS);
		TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_FIELDS = fields;
	}

	public TaxonVernacularNameDao() {
		super(TaxonVernacularNameDao.TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext.class);
	}

	public List<TaxonVernacularName> findByVernacularName(int taxonomyId, String searchString, int maxResults) {
		return findByVernacularName(taxonomyId, searchString, null, maxResults);
	}

	public List<TaxonVernacularName> findByVernacularName(int taxonomyId, String searchString, String[] qualifierValues, int maxResults) {
		TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext dsl = dsl();
		//find containing
		searchString = "%" + searchString.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH) + "%";

		SelectConditionStep selectConditionStep = dsl.select(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.fields())
			.from(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
			.join(OFC_TAXON).on(OFC_TAXON.ID.equal(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID))
			.where(OFC_TAXON.TAXONOMY_ID.equal(taxonomyId)
				.and(DSL.lower(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.VERNACULAR_NAME).like(searchString)));

		if ( qualifierValues != null ) {
			for (int i = 0; i < qualifierValues.length; i++) {
				String value = qualifierValues[i];
				if ( value != null ) {
					TableField field = QUALIFIER_FIELDS[i];
					selectConditionStep.and(field.equal(value));
				}
			}
		}
		selectConditionStep.limit(maxResults);
		Result<?> result = selectConditionStep.fetch();
		List<TaxonVernacularName> entities = dsl.fromResult(result);
		return entities;
	}

	public List<TaxonVernacularName> findByTaxon(long taxonSystemId) {
		TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext dsl = dsl();

		SelectConditionStep selectConditionStep = dsl.select(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.fields())
			.from(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
			.where(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID.equal(taxonSystemId));

		Result<?> result = selectConditionStep.fetch();
		List<TaxonVernacularName> entities = dsl.fromResult(result);
		return entities;
	}

	public List<String> loadVernacularLangCodes(int taxonomyId) {
		return dsl()
				.selectDistinct(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE)
				.from(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
				.where(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID.in(
						dsl.select(OFC_TAXON.ID)
							.from(OFC_TAXON)
							.where(OFC_TAXON.TAXONOMY_ID.eq(taxonomyId)))
				).orderBy(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE)
				.fetch(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE);
	}

	public void deleteByTaxonomy(int taxonomyId) {
		TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext dsl = dsl();
		SelectConditionStep selectTaxonIds = dsl
				.select(OFC_TAXON.ID)
				.from(OFC_TAXON)
				.where(OFC_TAXON.TAXONOMY_ID.equal(taxonomyId));
		dsl.delete(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
			.where(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID.in(selectTaxonIds))
			.execute();
	}

	public void insert(List<TaxonVernacularName> items) {
		if ( items != null && ! items.isEmpty() ) {
			TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext dsl = dsl();
			long id = dsl.nextId(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ);
			long maxId = id;
			Insert<OfcTaxonVernacularNameRecord> query = dsl.createInsertStatement();
			BatchBindStep batch = dsl.batch(query);
			for (TaxonVernacularName item : items) {
				if ( item.getId() == null ) {
					item.setId(id++);
				}
				Object[] values = dsl.extractValues(item);
				batch.bind(values);
				maxId = Math.max(maxId, item.getId());
			}
			batch.execute();
			dsl.restartSequence(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ, maxId + 1);
		}
	}

	public void duplicateVernacularNames(int oldTaxonomyId,
			long taxonIdGap) {
		TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext dsl = dsl();
		long nextId = dsl.nextId(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ);
		long minId = loadMinId(dsl, oldTaxonomyId);
		long idGap = nextId - minId;
		Field<?>[] selectFields = {
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID.add(idGap),
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID.add(taxonIdGap),
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.VERNACULAR_NAME,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_VARIETY,
				OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.STEP};
		selectFields = ArrayUtils.addAll(selectFields, QUALIFIER_FIELDS);
		Select<?> select = dsl.select(selectFields)
				.from(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
					.join(OFC_TAXON)
					.on(OFC_TAXON.ID.equal(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID))
				.where(OFC_TAXON.TAXONOMY_ID.equal(oldTaxonomyId))
				.orderBy(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID);
		Insert<?> insert = dsl.insertInto(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME, TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_FIELDS).select(select);
		int insertedCount = insert.execute();
		nextId = nextId + insertedCount;
		dsl.restartSequence(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ, nextId);
	}

	protected long loadMinId(TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext jf, int taxonomyId) {
		Long minId = jf.select(DSL.min(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID))
				.from(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME)
					.join(OFC_TAXON)
					.on(OFC_TAXON.ID.equal(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID))
				.where(OFC_TAXON.TAXONOMY_ID.equal(taxonomyId))
				.fetchOne(0, Long.class);
		return minId == null ? 0: minId.longValue();
	}

	public long nextId() {
		return dsl().nextId(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ);
	}

	protected static class TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext extends MappingDSLContext<Long, TaxonVernacularName> {

		private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

		public TaxonVernacularNameDSLContext(Configuration config) {
			super(config, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID, OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_ID_SEQ, TaxonVernacularName.class);
		}

		@Override
		public void fromRecord(Record r, TaxonVernacularName t) {
			t.setId(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID));
			t.setVernacularName(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.VERNACULAR_NAME));
			t.setLanguageCode(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE));
			t.setLanguageVariety(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_VARIETY));
			t.setTaxonSystemId(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID));
			t.setStep(r.getValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.STEP));
			List<String> q = new ArrayList<String>();
			for ( TableField field : QUALIFIER_FIELDS ) {
				q.add((String) r.getValue(field));
			}
			t.setQualifiers(q);
		}

		@Override
		public void fromObject(TaxonVernacularName t, StoreQuery<?> q) {
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.ID, t.getId());
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.VERNACULAR_NAME,
					t.getVernacularName());
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_CODE,
					t.getLanguageCode());
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.LANGUAGE_VARIETY,
					t.getLanguageVariety());
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.TAXON_ID, t.getTaxonSystemId());
			q.addValue(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME.STEP, t.getStep());

			List<String> qualifiers = t.getQualifiers();
			for (int i = 0; i < qualifiers.size(); i++) {
				q.addValue(QUALIFIER_FIELDS[i], qualifiers.get(i));
			}
		}

		protected Insert<OfcTaxonVernacularNameRecord> createInsertStatement() {
			Object[] valuesPlaceholders = new String[TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_FIELDS.length];
			Arrays.fill(valuesPlaceholders, "?");
			return insertInto(OFC_TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME, TAXON_VERNACULAR_NAME_FIELDS).values(valuesPlaceholders);
		}

		protected Object[] extractValues(TaxonVernacularName item) {
			Object[] values = {
					item.getId(),
					item.getTaxonSystemId(),
					item.getVernacularName(),
					item.getLanguageCode(),
					item.getLanguageVariety(),
					item.getStep()
					};
			Object[] qualifierValues = extractQualifierValues(item);
			values = ArrayUtils.addAll(values, qualifierValues);
			return values;
		}

		protected String[] extractQualifierValues(TaxonVernacularName item) {
			String[] result = new String[QUALIFIER_FIELDS.length];
			List<String> itemQualifiers = item.getQualifiers();
			for (int i = 0; i < QUALIFIER_FIELDS.length; i++) {
				String value = i < itemQualifiers.size() ? itemQualifiers.get(i): null;
				result[i] = value;
			}
			return result;
		}

		@Override
		protected void setId(TaxonVernacularName t, Long id) {
			t.setId(id);
		}

		@Override
		protected Long getId(TaxonVernacularName t) {
			return t.getId();
		}
	}

}

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As some of my readers discovered, last Thursday, the chat with Deb Butterfield had to be rescheduled at the last minute. Details on what happened were not readily available other than we were told that Deb ended up at the hospital Thursday night. We were told she was reportedly alright.
I wanted to let everyone know that Deb e-mailed on Sunday, and she apologized profusely for missing the chat Thursday evening. She said she was very excited to catch up with old friends and for the opportunity to share her thoughts. But as it turns out, she had a serious reaction to penicillin that had been prescribed (she had never been allergic to penicillin previously), so she drove to the ER and they put her in ICU. She was released from the hospital on Sunday.
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On Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 9:00 PM EST, meet Amy Tenderich, co-author of "Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes", and fellow diabetes blogger at diabetesmine.com.
Amy Tenderich is a freelance journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a BA in Journalism from California State Long Beach and an MA in Communication Studies from University of California Santa Barbara. She began her career as a journalist, and has experience in magazine editing, marketing and public relations. Following two stints overseas and 13 years of communications work in the Silicon Valley technology industry, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in May 2003, and subsequently launched DiabetesMine.com, "a gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes" - for which she recently received the LillyforLife Achievement Award™ for diabetes journalism.
As a relatively new type 1 diabetic and mother of three, Tenderich takes an unusual "cynically optimistic" view of the trials of living with diabetes. She speaks creatively and from the heart - to people with diabetes and their family, friends, and community - on topics ranging from inside looks at diabetes research and breaking news to daily life with diabetes to uncovering the diabetics' deepest hopes and fears. And she can make you chuckle.
Tenderich and DiabetesMine.com have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the UK Guardian, TechCrunch, NPR's Future Tense, and a number of other influential blogs and publications. DiabetesMine.com itself was named one of three most influential blogs in healthcare at the 2006 Healthcare Blogging Summit.
Tenderich recently collaborated with Dr. Richard Jackson, a leading physician from Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to co-author the new book, "Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes" - hailed as the first-ever straightforward guidebook providing a clear strategy for living well with diabetes and avoiding the long-term health damage it can cause.
Finally, I should also mention that another chat will be held the first week in June with Lisa Roney, author of "Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life With Diabetes" which was first published in August 1999. I'm speaking of none other than Lisa Roney. As some d-Bloggers may recall, Kerri interviewed Lisa back in February. Once the date is finalized, I'll be sure to get it on the calendar and post it for everyone.
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Insurance Industry Battles To Tame Rate-Cutting
Despite the success of the 'no premium, no cover' initiative, the insurance industry is confronted by the problem of rate-cutting among operators. Stakeholders are of the opinion that if left unchecked, many insurers will be running at a loss, NIKE POPOOLA writes
Towards the end of the last financial year, the National Insurance Commission read out the riot act to operators that they should not provide cover for policyholders who failed to pay premium on their policies. The aim was to bring to an end credit transactions and premium payment default in the industry.
While the 'no premium, no cover' policy is making significant progress and stakeholders are adjusting to the new regime, operators are still faced with a major challenge of rate-cutting, which results from cut-throat competition.
Rate-cutting is a situation whereby an underwriter charges ridiculously low premium on an insurance contract in order to secure it, even if it has to be done at a loss.
While premium payment default may soon be phased out, rate-cutting has the tendency to make the insurers to continue to do business at a loss, and overtime, it will affect their ability to remain in business.
As a way out of the quagmire, members of the Nigerian Insurers Association signed a market agreement in 2009.
The major objective of the agreement was to ensure that members did not charge inappropriate premium rates in their thirst to get businesses, a situation that could make them to be unable to settle claims.
Unfortunately, while most members of the association concurred on the market agreement terms, as soon as they left the meeting, they seemed to have forgotten what they had signed and resumed business as usual as far as rate-cutting was concerned.
The underwriters made another attempt to resurrect the agreement, but unfortunately, they still found it hard to stick to the terms.
As a result, the operators have continued to groan that most corporate and government accounts are unprofitable to them, even though they have to pay huge claims.
The Managing Director, Equity Assurance Plc, Mr. Ekpe Ukpabio, blamed rate-cutting on pressure on the industry because every underwriter desired to have a piece of the available business.
"Of course, we are burning our fingers because some will go to the market with rates that are not commercially viable just to get the business," he said.
While noting that underwriters were not giving priority to proper risk assessment because of this, he said governments and corporate bodies usually give the business to the firms with the lowest rates.
"You are left to either take it or back out of the consortium. Some people have backed out because it is not helping the bottom line. But some will say because of the profile of the client, they want to be part of it," Ukpabio added.
The President, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, Dr. Wole Adetimehin, said the issue of rate-cutting was debatable.
According to him, rate-cutting can make a firm to continue to record underwriting losses when it is not generating enough premium and needs to pay claims
In charging rates, he said in a particular year, if there were huge losses, which could destabilise the insurance pool, what the insurers should ideally do was to raise the rates the following season.
Claims experience, he added, would help to ascertain if a particular class of insurance was good or not, and if the rate should be reviewed upward or downward.
He also expressed worries that local manufacturing industries were not springing up while old ones were dying.
The implication of this, Adetimehin said, was that companies that should be insured were reducing in numbers and insurers were equally scrambling to get businesses from the few existing ones.
For this reason, he said where the insurers should be proposing an increase in rate; they lacked the courage to do so because if one firm did it, others would be waiting for the opportunity to grab its business.
Adetimehin, however, said, "I think insurers should be able to hold on to their market agreement. If everybody is talking the same language, it becomes very difficult for the insured or any broker to impose any rat, because if you move from company A to B, you will meet the same brick wall."
The Chief Business Analyst, North Waterloo Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, Canada, Mr. Kehinde Borisade, said rate-cutting was not prevalent in North America because it was a mature and evolving market that operated within an organised structure where regulation and code of ethics were taken very seriously.
According to him, flouting the law can lead to severe sanctions.
"An insurer has to seek rate change approval from regulatory authorities and adequate notice and reasons for rate changes must be given to the brokers and affected clients before changes are effected," he said.
Borisade pointed out that NIA, in conjunction with all stakeholders, could play a leading role in overhauling the rating system and structure of premium rating by creating a rating bureau.
The bureau, he added, would collect loss information, which could then be analysed to ensure premiums were adequate to cover losses, expenses, allow for profit and also maintain insurers' solvency.
"NAICOM, NIA, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, CIIN and other stakeholders, as part of their code of ethics, can also establish whistle-blowing policies to expose errant companies," Borisade said.
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The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
I think the trouble was that I had set my expectations too high. There has been so much written about this book, about its biting wit, its fine nuance, its subtle characterizations and its underlying sweetness. The author comes from a family of curiosities, to say the least -- two of her sisters were Nazi sympathizers (one even married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists), one of her sisters ran away from home and became a writer, and she herself also wrote books that were described as "maliciously witty." I had expected something akin to Waugh with undertones of Gogol. I know -- it's best never to expect anything when entering a book, but I couldn't help it. I was a victim of too much information.
Needless to say, I didn't like it. Oh, I had so wanted to like it, and I tried to like it, and I read all of it just in case there was a hidden nugget in the end that will tie everything together in such a way that will warm my heart. I hated David Copperfield and Brothers Karamazov for the first 300 or so pages, after all, but then I loved them, and, as a famous authoress said, it came on so gradually that I was in the middle before I knew it had begun. Unfortunately, no such revelation happened here.
I won't spoil the book, just in case someone wants to read it, but in general terms, I never felt for the characters what the narrator clearly felt for them, and what I think the author meant for us to feel. I lukewarmly enjoyed the portrayal of the British aristocratic society that went a little mad when faced with a foreign and changing world during the two World Wars. There are layers, and it is written cleverly and well, but there was too much sarcasm for me, too much bitterness, and I never found the sweetness that everyone was talking about. Perhaps it is because I don't belong to the class of people that Nancy Mitford describes and I cannot feel nostalgic about them; the book is never quite atmospheric enough, never quite warm enough, never quite that something that makes you like even the saddest and bitterest of narratives. Whatever it is, I felt as an outsider looking in -- my attention was engaged but my emotions never touched.
If any of you have read either of these two books, please please let me know what you thought about it. I felt very alone in my antipathy. What am I missing here?
Posted by Irene at 10:56 PM
A great post and kudos to you for sticking with it. I on the other hand tend to give up too easily. I haven't read the book and probably won't.
I love your description "an outsider looking in and emotions never touched".
I hesitate to say this about any famous book, but I think you would be right to skip it. It was well written, but it left me indifferent and I don't think I enjoyed it very much. :(


Ya know……. It's not that bad. Life.
Yes, we struggle and we go through the most painful experiences, we're hit with the hardest of hard times.
And, honestly. Sometimes it is that bad. Sometimes, it just plain stinks.
But, if we keep trusting and keep moving, we see that there is always another side to the pain and heartbreak.
If we bind our hearts to his.
If we never give up hope.
If we get up after we've fallen.
If we focus on people and other things besides ourselves.
And, commit to enduring and persevering.
If we don't remain stuck in the past.
Harbor negative emotions, feelings, memories, regrets.
If we allow forgiveness to free us.
By forgiving ourselves and others.
We can move on right along with it.
We just have to move.
We have to trust that God has much better plans.
Believe that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
Know that our God is a redeemer.
That our Lord can make something beautiful of the ashes.
And, that His love is everlasting.
We can overcome any situation or painful situation.
We just have to trust and have faith. Seek God.
And, allow ourselves to see His hands moving on our behalf.
He is able to abundantly more than we can ask or think!
But, while we wait….. He's given is gifts and talents that we are to use to further his kingdom.
To declare His goodness and His glory. To use to encourage, support, and love on His people.
Our God really is good.
… Here's to trusting that what He says is true and embracing the situations He puts is in to teach that!


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Aug. 19 - Three Part SPECIAL REPORT: Memorial charged as a Repeat Offender for Overpaying and Overbilling
Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:19	Editor	Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:32	Published on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:32	Hits: 19400
Part 1 of a 3-part series on the Justice Dept's lawsuit filed August 8, 2014 against Memorial Health
By Lou Phelps, Savannah Business Journal SPECIAL REPORT
August 19, 2014 – UPDATED - This is a story that affects every taxpayer in Chatham County because the County underwrites the financial bonds that keep Memorial Health University Medical Center afloat.
And, it's a story of a legal case that may sound complicated, but isn't, and potentially affects every current or former Medicare or Medicaid patient at Memorial who may have been overcharged or prescribed unnecessary services.
It's a story that goes back to when Bob Colvin was President and CEO of Memorial hospital, one of Savannah's leading and most influential business executives. Colvin was fired by the Board of Directors of the hospital in April 2008 after the hospital's Board negotiated a $5.08 million settlement in 2008 – though not acknowledging guilt - for allegedly doing some of the same things Memorial is now charged with doing again.
A week ago, on August 8, 2014, the U.S. Justice Dept. interveined – in effect they took over - former President and CEO of Memorial Phillip S. Schaengold's lawsuit against Memorial Health Inc. ( the legal entity which owns the hospital); Provident Health Services, Inc. which operates the hospital; and MPPG, Inc, d/b/a Memorial Health University Physicians (MHUP).
MHUP is the holder of the physicians' contracts for all of the doctors working at MHUP, and is the legal entity that employs them.
Provident is also the holding company for many of the ancillary service providers operating in connection with the Hospital including ambulance transport, medical office buildings and oversees the contracts of some of the physicians employed by the hospital. Ray Gaster, president of Gaster Lumber, is the chairman of the Provident board of directors.
On the same day, Schaengold's legal team filed an amended action that also names 16 other local physicians for the same illegal practices as outlined in the Justice Dept. case. It is also possible that the Justice Dept. may intervene in that case at a later date, according to sources close to the case.
"At all relevant times," states the Justice Dept., all of these entities "were controlled and directed by senior management and the Board of Directors of the Parent Company and Memorial Hospital."
Justice is charging all defendants with violating the False Claims Act of the Medicare/Medicaid/Tricare system from 2008 to 2011, and for firing Schaengold who was trying to stop the illegal practices, urging the hospital's board of directors to stop signing contracts with various physicians that violated federal laws.
Phillip had been bringing the Board information for over a year that there were practices of the hospital which he believed were illegal, and violated the Compliance Agreement that the Board had signed back in 2008 when it paid the large fine.
He also wanted the hospital to hire independent legal counsel - to not use Mills Fleming of Hunter McLean - legal counsel for the hospital and the Board.
Schengold is now termed a "whistleblower" by the Justice Dept. which is supporting legal action against Memorial, and seeking fines and penalties which could reach $90 million.
Schaengold first brought a wrongful dismissal case in March 2011 after he was fired in January. Had the hospital board paid off the balance of his contract, and other demands he made at that time, this case may not have come to the Justice Dept's attention.
But they did not. Instead, his attorney brought Schaengold's allegations and information to the U.S. Government, which has now sued Memorial. While no criminal charges have been brought against individual board members or senior managers, at this juncture, that possibility in the future still exists the Savannah Business Journal has been told by those close to the case.
The Government's Case
"The claims in this case center on the Defendants' unlawful plan to overcompensate certain physicians well above the fair market value for their services in return for the promise of patient referrals from those physicians to the Defendants' health care facilities and for ancillary services," according to the Justice Dept's filing.
"The Defendants had ample opportunity to come into compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute of the Start Laws, and the CCA but chose not to do so because members of the Board of Directors determined that compliance would be contrary to the Defendants' own financial self-interests. As a member of the Memorial Board of Directors wrote in an email dated October 3, 2010 in reference to physician contracts and management's efforts to reduce compensation, "we all recognize we cannot continue to pay the salaries at the same level. However, we cannot afford to lose paying referrals to the hospital," according to legal documents in the case
The Justice Department's case also states that the hospital "knowingly presented, or caused to be presented, numerous false or fraudulent claims for payments or approval to the United States in connection with the operation of their health care facilities in Savannah, Georgia. These false claims were the tainted product of prohibited patient referrals to the Defendants from physician practices and individual physicians in violation of the Fraud and Abuse Anti-Kickback and prohited referral provisions of 42 U.S.C. 130-a-7b(b) and the Stark Laws. In addition (Schaengold's) employment was unlawfully terminated in retaliation for his protected activities under the FCA and his efforts to stop ongoing violations by the Defendants."
The Anti-Kickback Statute arose out of a Congressional concern that is those who influence healthcare decisions were allowed to have a financial stake in selection of healthcare good and services, their judgment might be tainted, "resulting in goods and services being provided that are medically unnecessary, of poor quality, or even harmful," the legal complaint explains.
To protect the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the government, in 1972, enacted a prohibition against the payment of kickbacks in any form. In the Memorial case, the Justice Dept, states that it is a criminal action to pay illegal remunerations – overpaying a physician – for example in return for referring an individual to a person for furnishing any medical service.
Those convicted can face a fine of $25,000 or up to five years in prison, and are guilty of a felony.
And, those violating the anti-kickback laws can be excluded from accepting Medicare and Medicaid, and face civil penalties of $50,000 per violation and three times the amount of remuneration paid.
In addition to the hospital costs billed to Medicare and Medicaid, the physicians also bill for their services.
Schaengold, who is now a resident of Florida, is seeking $5 million for the retaliation, hired on June 1, 2009 and discharged on January 5, 2011. His annual salary was $616,000, and called 18 months severance if he was terminated. The severance was not paid, which he is also seeking.
The Justice Dept. states that after he became CEO, he commissioned a review of compensation, concerned that the hospital was violating various federal laws. "After obtaining the results of this investigation which confirmed his suspicions of excessive compensation," he began to negotiate with the doctors being overpaid. He went to the board to end the contract with those physicians – contracts that were set to be terminated as of January 23, 2011. But the board fired him on January 5.
"The Memorial Board of Directors was fully informed of Mr. Schaengold's actions," and that the contracts represented a possible violation of the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, thereby constituting a violation of the False Claims Act.
The president of the physician's group involved was led by Dr. Paul Bradley, and affected all of the physicians in that group. "Dr. Paul Bradley launched a covert lobbying effort including meetings with Bill Daniel, Chairman of the Board, Curtis Lewis, Chairman-Elect and physician Board members Drs. Christopher Wixon and Mark Murphy," in an effort to reverse the contract termination and remove Schaengold as CEO.
Memorial overpaid $3 million in a 30-month period, according to the Justice Dept. with the specific group of physicians named in the suit, as well as $4.2 million in bonuses in 2008 to other physicians, and $3 million in bonuses to Dr. Bradley's group. Schaengold uncovered the erroneous bonuses in 2010 while reviewing physician's billing and collection service records.
He "brought this to the attention of Mr. William Daniel, Chairman, Mr. Curtis Lewis, Chairman-elect, and Mary Ann Beil, Vice President for Compliance sometime in the November/December 2010 time frame," the Justice Dept. states. Beil "lodged a formal complaint with Mr. Schaengold relating to violation of Memorial's Conflict of Interest policy by Dr. Robert Brown, board member, and Mills Fleming, legal counsel. Dr. Brown was alleged to violate the policy by failing to recuse himself from all board and board committee's discussions relating to the development of a new compensation model because of the direct financial impact on him and his physician partners. Mr. Fleming is alleged to have also violated the Conflicts of Interest policy by failing to recuse himself from all board and board committees' discussions relating to the development of a new compensation model because it has a direct impact on his wife's salary and compensation."
And last, this is a story that involves all of the hospital's board members . The Justice Dept. singles out three, alleging what they knew: "The concensus reached by Kay Ford, Harry Haslam and Michael Kaigler was an indication that these board members understood the illegality of physician compensation above FMX but were willing to conspire to continue such a practice so as not to jeopardize losing "paying patients" which is a violation of Stark Law, the Anti Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act."
Ms. Ford is no longer a Memorial Hospital board member, nor is Kaigler. Harry Haslam is the current Chairman of the Board.
As Schaengold and the hospital's senior management team worked to renegotiate physician contracts that were illegal and hurting the hospital financially, the board removed them from contract negotiations. And, they fired Schaengold on Jan. 5, 2011.
Reached this week, Gill said she could not comment due to ongoing legal issues, but that the reported fines if won would not approach $ 90 million.
The current members of Memorial hospital's Board of Directors include:
Harry Haslam Jr., chairman Hancock, Askew & Co. LLP senior partner
Marilyn M. Buck, Secretary, Professor nursing emerita, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Art Dana, Treasurer, Senior tax and business valuation partner, Deemer Dana & Froehle LLP
J. Curtis Lewis III Past chair, member Attorney, businessman
Ira P. Berman, Senior Vice President/Administration and general counsel, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
Robert F. Brown Jr. M.D., Physician, Memorial Health University Physicians, Chatham Medical Associates
Judge LeRoy Burke III, Chatham County Juvenile Court
Gerald E. Caplan, M.D. Board member Ex officio, Chatham County Hospital Authority
Bill Daniel, Vice President/General Counsel, Vaden Automotive Group
Helen Dean Downing, community representative
Margaret "Maggie" Gill Memorial Health president/CEO Ex officio member
Jay Goldstein, MD, Medical director of the emergency department, Memorial University Medical Center
Charles F. McMillan, President/Owner McMillan and Associates
Mark E. Murphy, M.D., Savannah Center for Digestive and Liver Health
Jacqueline H. Rabinowitz, Chairman, Memorial Health Foundation Board of Trustees
Francis P. Rossiter Jr. M.D., Pediatric allergist and immunologist, retired
W. Rex Templeton Jr., Vice President, Morris & Templeton Insurance Agency
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Yassine Hethat (; * 30. Juli 1991 in Muaskar) ist ein algerischer Leichtathlet, der sich auf den 800-Meter-Lauf spezialisiert hat.

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Yassine Hethat nahm erstmals 2011 an Algerischen Meisterschaften im 800-Meter-Lauf teil, ohne dabei das Finale zu erreichen. Ein Jahr später gelang ihm dies und er konnte die Bronzemedaille gewinnen. 2013 trat er über 800 Meter und mit der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel bei den Mittelmeerspielen im türkischen Mersin an, bei denen er jeweils zwei vierte Plätze belegte. Über 800 Meter verbesserte er sich im Finale auf 1:46,26 min. 2014 siegte Hethat erstmals bei den Algerischen Meisterschaften. Im August nahm er an den Afrikameisterschaften im Nachbarland Marokko teil, bei denen er im 1500-Meter-Lauf an den Start ging. Es gelang ihm das Finale zu erreichen, in dem er den zehnten Platz belegen konnte. 2015 gelang es ihm sich über 1500 Meter für die Weltmeisterschaften in Peking zu qualifizieren, bei denen er im August antrat, ohne dabei sich für das Halbfinale qualifizieren zu können. Einen Monat später trat er über 800 Meter und mit der Staffel an den Afrikaspielen in Brazzaville teil, schied in beiden Disziplinen allerdings ebenfalls bereits nach dem Vorlauf aus. Über 1500 Meter belegte er in 3:48,46 min den sechsten Platz bei den Militärweltspielen im koreanischen Mungyeong.

2016 qualifizierte Hethat sich für die Olympischen Sommerspiele in Rio de Janeiro. Es gelang ihm in das Halbfinale einzuziehen, in dem er mit 1:44,81 min persönliche Bestleistung lief und damit als Dritter seines Laufes den Sprung in das Finale knapp verpasste. Nachdem er 2017 nur in vereinzelten Wettkämpfen antreten konnte, nahm er 2018 in Tarragona zum zweiten Mal an Mittelmeerspielen teil. Wie schon 2013 landete er im 800-Meter-Lauf auf dem vierten Platz. Danach trat er bei den Afrikameisterschaften in Nigeria an. Dabei belegte er in 1:48,59 min den vierten Platz im zweiten Vorlauf und verpasste damit den Einzug in das Finale. 2019 qualifizierte Hethat sich für den 800-Meter-Lauf bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Doha, bei denen er es bis in das Halbfinale schaffte. Im Oktober trat er bei den Militärweltspielen im chinesischen Wuhan an. Während er über 800 Meter nach dem Vorlauf ausschied, konnte er mit der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel die Bronzemedaille gewinnen.

Ende Juni 2021 verbesserte er in Spanien erstmals seit 2016 seine Bestleistung, nachdem er sie auf 1:44,25 min verkürzte. Damit war er für die Olympischen Sommerspiele in Tokio qualifiziert. In seinem Vorlauf belegte er mit 1:46,20 min den fünften Platz und verpasste damit den Einzug in das Halbfinale. 2022 siegte Hethat im 1000-Meter-Lauf bei den Algerischen Meisterschaften. Ende Juni nahm er an den Mittelmeerspielen teil, die in seinem Heimatland ausgetragen wurden. Im Laufe des Monats stellte er zuvor in 1:44,06 min eine neue 800-Meter-Bestzeit auf. Bei den Spielen erreichte er das Finale, in dem er sich nur seinem Landsmann Djamel Sedjati geschlagen geben musste. Einen Monat später trat er bei den Weltmeisterschaften in den USA an, schied allerdings als Siebter seines Vorlaufes vorzeitig aus.

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Persönliche Bestleistungen
Freiluft
 800 m: 1:44,06 min, 17. Juni 2022, Straßburg
 1000 m: 2:16,59 min, 2. Juli 2018, Székesfehérvár
 1500 m: 3:35,68 min, 5. Juli 2014, Oordegem

Halle
 800 m: 1:46,83 min, 1. Februar 2022, Algier

Weblinks

 Eintrag bei olympics.com (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

800-Meter-Läufer (Algerien)
Olympiateilnehmer (Algerien)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020
Teilnehmer an den Afrikaspielen (Algerien)
Teilnehmer der Mittelmeerspiele 2018
Teilnehmer der Mittelmeerspiele 2022
Sportsoldat (Algerien)
Algerischer Meister (Leichtathletik)
Algerier
Geboren 1991
Mann

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Neon Empire
Drew Minh
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Adventure; Science fiction; Cyberpunk; Society; Urban Sci-Fi; Crime & Mystery Sci-Fi
Drew Minh uses his background in digital advertising to craft an all-too-believable Brave New World for our social-media addicted age. Recommended for fans of Black Mirror. --Andrew Shaffer, New York Times bestselling author In a state-of-the-art city where social media drives every aspect of the economy, a has-been Hollywood director and an investigative journalist race to uncover the relationship between a rising tide of violence and corporate corruption.
Bold, colorful, and dangerously seductive, Eutopia is a new breed of hi-tech city. Rising out of the American desert, it's a real-world manifestation of a social media network where fame-hungry desperados compete for likes and followers. But in Eutopia, the bloodier and more daring posts pay off the most. As crime rises, no one stands to gain more than Eutopia's architects--and, of course, the shareholders who make the place possible.
This multiple-POV novel follows three characters as they navigate the city's underworld. Cedric Travers, a has-been Hollywood director, comes to Eutopia looking for clues into his estranged wife's disappearance. What he finds instead is a new career directing--not movies, but experiences. The star of the show: A'rore, the city's icon and lead social media influencer. She's panicking as her popularity wanes, and she'll do anything do avoid obscurity. Sacha Villanova, a tech and culture reporter, is on assignment to profile A'rore--but as she digs into Eutopia's inner workings, she unearths a tangle of corporate corruption that threatens to sacrifice Cedric, A'rore, and even the city itself on the altar of stockholder greed.
By: Drew Minh
Imprint: RARE BIRD BOOKS
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Drew Minh is a former digital advertising executive in Los Angeles, with firsthand knowledge of our current social media revolution. He's lived in Barcelona and Paris, where he worked as a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and digital consultant. He's had fiction published in 3AM Magazine, Word Riot, Litro Magazine, and other publications. He also wrote a fictional crime column for weekly newspapers in Spain.
Reviews for Neon Empire
Acclaim for Neon Empire Minh creates a nonstop social media frenzy amid a rich cyberpunk landscape. --Publishers Weekly Sci-fi fans will want to read this story of #SocialMediaDystopianism before it becomes a reality. --Kirkus Reviews A vibrant, densely-visual, often-uncanny vision of a world that is equal parts dystopian future and twisted present. Hugely engaging, strange, dangerous and quite unlike anything you've read before. Original, techno-paranoid sci-fi at its finest. --Neon Literary Magazine UK Drew Minh uses his background in digital advertising to craft an all-too-believable Brave New World for our social-media addicted age. Recommended for fans of Black Mirror. --Andrew Shaffer, New York Times bestselling author Drew Minh has constructed a world that is scarily close to our present day--Uber has reached its natural apex and is now doling out sex-on-demand; we make our money from our social feeds and are constantly searching for the next monetizable thrill. I wouldn't want to live in Neon Empire, but it sure is a fun place to visit. --Jessica Powell, author of The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story Daring and vivid, Neon Empire is a glimpse into what our social media obsessed world may morph into. --James Siriano, author of The Cult of Mao
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I just rode home from school, a binder full of cell biology notes strapped to my back, a bag of Trader Joe's groceries shoved into my front basket, and I felt a bit like Anne of Green Gables peddling down the tree-covered Pine Street in my long burgundy and blue dress (careful to not get it caught in the spokes, as Marilla might say). I simply love my commute now that I have Caro, my beautiful Raleigh Detour 3.5, a great deal from Cambridge Bicycle shortly before moving to Philly (that story is for another day). It's my first bike in 15 years!
So, I guess it's already obvious that I always thought of her as a woman…I mean, come on, do you think John would be at all okay with me straddling another man for six+ miles a day? The first name that came to mind was Charlotte…I was thinking of the brand Raleigh, which led me to another North Carolina city name. It seemed nice given the number of years John and I spent in Charlottesville, VA. But it's too sweet.
I was trying to think of strong, Southern (in keeping with the Raleigh theme) females in fiction–and yes I did think of Ainsley, Sookie, and Vivi–but Caro resonated. She's described as tall, strong, thoughtful (oh please oh please help me stay out of oncoming traffic!), reliable, and loyal (oh please oh please don't let any part of you get stolen).
And another plus to living further away from school in order to afford living alone, it's perfectly acceptable to strip down to my delicates when I come home dripping in sweat after my oh-so-pleasant ride home and the strength-training exercise that is maneuvering the overweight Caro up and around the 27 steps to my apartment. Love that fat chick.


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Playstation 4 and Uncharted 4 Massive Holiday Sale Numbers Revealed
Sony has revealed that the PlayStation 4 has continued to go from strength to strength, with a massive 6.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles being sold throughout the Holiday period for a lifetime sales number of 53.4 million consoles. There's no specific breakdown indicating what the split is between different PlayStation 4 consoles, but the number is likely largely filled with PlayStation 4 Pro consoles are their November release and PlayStation 4 Slim consoles after some discounting and bundling during December.
These consoles sales are also backed up by some great software sales numbers, with 50.4 million pieces of software being sold for the PlayStation 4 through the holiday period. This was helped along by Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, which has now sold more than 8.7 million copies worldwide. This makes Uncharted 4: A Thief's End the best selling Uncharted game to date, with Nathan Drake's final outing being a massive hit with fans and critics alike, taking out our Game of the Year award for 2016.
2017 will be an interesting year for the PlayStation 4, with both the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Scorpio to launch during the year, but with a line up consisting of Horizon Zero Dawn, Knack 2 and potentially Insomniac's Spiderman, Sony have put themselves in a great position to have another record breaking year.
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President Donald Trump walks with Colombian President Ivan Duque to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Trump pans Venezuelan leader's refusal of humanitarian aid
By The Associated Press February 13, 2019 at 2:41pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's refusal to accept humanitarian aid a "terrible mistake" and the decision an example of what can happen when the wrong government holds power.
Trump seemed also to hint at future action by the U.S. and its allies against Maduro, who has blocked shipments of food and other assistance sent by the U.S. and other countries for the people of Venezuela. Political and economic turmoil has led to vast shortages of basic goods, forcing many Venezuelans to flee to neighboring Colombia or participate in massive street protests in an attempt to pressure Maduro to leave office.
The U.S. and other nations favor that outcome and have recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's rightful leader.
Asked if he had a backup plan should Maduro retain power, Trump said: "I always have Plan B. And C and D and E and F. … A lot of things are happening in Venezuela that people don't know about."
During an Oval Office appearance with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Trump said many countries want to help Venezuela.
"We'll be seeing a lot over the next few weeks," he said.
Maduro has blasted the humanitarian aid as part of a U.S.-led coup to topple him. Trump said Maduro made the wrong call in denying his people the assistance, noting that Maduro has blocked the bridge closest to where the aid is being warehoused on the Colombian border, but not other crossings.
"I think he's making a terrible mistake by not allowing" the aid to be distributed, Trump said. "It's showing bad things and, really, we're trying to get food to people that are starving. You have people starving in Venezuela, and it just shows what can happen with the wrong government."
Guaido said this week that he will try to run caravans of the badly needed food and medicine into Venezuela, starting Feb. 23.
Duque publicly committed Wednesday to making sure the supplies get into Venezuela.
"Obstructing the access of humanitarian aid is a crime against humanity," the Colombian leader said.
Russia, which backs Maduro, has said Venezuela should be allowed to solve its issues internally and peacefully, a sentiment that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a telephone conversation Wednesday, according to Lavrov's office.
Trump repeatedly has said he has not ruled out any option, including military action, for dealing with the turmoil in Venezuela.
Asked Wednesday whether he would send in U.S. troops, Trump replied, "We'll see." But Elliot Abrams, the president's special representative for Venezuela, was more direct during an appearance Wednesday on Capitol Hill, telling House lawmakers military action "is not the path that the U.S. is pursuing."
Several members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they would oppose U.S. military intervention. Abrams said he believed increasing international pressure and the pain of sanctions against Venezuela will eventually lead to Maduro's ouster.
On another top concern, Trump chastised Duque over illegal drugs during the public portion of their meeting. Colombia is the world's largest exporter of cocaine and the steady growth of its coca crop in recent years has tested relations with the United States.
"We are working together so that Colombia eradicates some of what they're growing in Colombia," Trump said. "I wouldn't say that at this moment you're ahead of schedule, but hopefully you will be at some time in the near future."
Duque defended his administration, asserting that more cocaine has been eradicated in the first four months of his term than during the eight months before he was sworn into office in August 2018. He said the administration has a "moral duty" to rid Colombia of illegal crops and narcotrafficking.
"We have to deliver. We will deliver, because it is our moral duty," Duque said.
Associated Press writer Luis Alonso Lugo contributed to this report.
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Pelham Civic Association To Raise Funds For Computers, Tutoring for Needy Pelham Students
The Pelham Civic Association has announced a new program called "Help a Child, Change a Life," a student development initiative to assist Pelham students who cannot afford tutoring, SAT prep courses and computers.
A direct mail effort and in-store posters will complement a print advertising campaign to raise funds to support the program.
Pelham Civics' President Joe Benefico explained that the organization realized through its Good Neighbor Program—which identifies and provides needy individuals and families in Town with food, clothing, and occupational support—that Pelham students who are from these families cannot afford the basic fundamental development opportunities like tutoring, SAT prep courses, and even computers.
"So it was a natural evolution for us to help these students," said Civics Good Neighbor Chairman Richard Davidian, "giving them the same chances to succeed in life as the more fortunate children."
Joe Nunziata, longtime Civics' member and officer and owner of Nunziata Ad Agency, is developing the probono creative work for the new Civics program. "Once Rich and his committee proposed this new program, we knew that it needed an extensive marketing and fundraising campaign to meet its goals," he said. With the support of the Civics Board of Directors and membership, the ad agency first created a trifold brochure that Mr. Davidian brought to the Pelham Schools, soliciting their support. "We then created a print ad campaign that garnished a lot of attention and community support. As our own 'celebrity spokespeople' we are featuring endorsements from Pelham's own Joe Longobardi, former
Pelham Middle School Principal, Nancy Fisher, former Pelham Board of Education President, and Joe Benefico, President of the Pelham Civics (and also the Village of Pelham's Chief of Police).
Mr. Longobardi said, "The Pelham Civics have always been there for the kids. Always. This program is crucial to help these students reach their potential. I wholeheartedly support it!"
Mrs. Fisher, whose husband Tim is a Civics member and chairs the Civics' Sophomore Career Awareness Day, said of the new initiative. "It's crucial that our students receive as much support as possible and be given every conceivable chance to succeed in life. The Civics is the right organization at the right time to accomplish this."
Mr. Nunziata also solicited the talents of Pelham residents Art Director Al Saura and Photographer Domenica Comfort to help with the campaign.
Tim Curry, a member of the Civics Good Neighbor Committee and Chair of the Holiday Gift Giving Program, added, "This year alone we distributed food and gifts to almost 100 families in Town, including more than 175 kids. This new program will now fuel them in another way as well!"
For more information on how to be a part of this program, contact Pelham Civic Good Neighbor Committee Chairman Rich Davidian at 914-552-0872 or visit www.pelhamcivics.org.
To make a contribution to the program, checks payable to Friends of the Pelham Civic Association may be mailed to The Pelham Civics, PO Box 8184, Pelham, NY 10803. The Pelham Civic Association is a Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by the IRS.
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As we reported last week, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently republished its proposal to require firearm dealers to report multiple sales of various rifles. Compared to its initial request in December, which was rejected as an "emergency" request, the new notice clarifies that the proposed requirement would apply only to dealers in four southwestern states, and would apply only to semi-automatic rifles of a caliber greater than .22 (including .223) and that can use detachable magazines. The notice fails to address the NRA's comments, which pointed out that the agency has no legal authority to demand this information.
Comments may be e-mailed to oira_submission@OMB.eop.gov (note the underscore after "oira") or faxed to 202-395-7285 until May 31. Disturbingly, the comments on the first proposal ran more than 2-1 in favor of this useless and unauthorized bureaucratic fishing trip; the new notice gives gun owners the opportunity to correct that situation.
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I am writing to OPPOSE the Information collection action to register multiple sales of certain rifles with BATFE from the 04/29/2011 Federal Register: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-04-29/pdf/2011-10355.pdf This information collection is both illegal and unnecessary. Specifically addressing your request for comments on whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility, the collection of this additional data will impede the proper function of ATF field operations. Even when firearms dealers in the Southwest voluntarily provided information on multiple semi-automatic rifle sales to the ATF in an effort to prevent straw purchases and illegal sales, the ATF could not keep up with the volume of information. Adding a requirement that ALL dealers submit this information will create information overload. Because of this it would not have practical utility and would impede proper performance of the agency. This regulatory action should not be approved.
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However hard we try and deny it stitchers always have a stash of something whether it's fabric, thread or ribbon; to be honest we usually have a stash of more than one item. Now my jacket is finished (I'm busy sorting a photo) my head has moved onto challenge number 4.
My daughter's old baby and toddler clothes makes up the majority of my fabric stash. I kept them to make a quilt and I didn't use as much of the fabric as I thought I would!
New fabric keeps tempting me and the fabric stash keeps growing so this challenge is to use my existing fabric to make a cute cushion for my 3 nieces as Easter presents. The cushion is from an old edition of Homestyle sewing magazine. This time I'm going to use machine freehand embroidery instead of hand embroidery.
Of course I was gutted (does anyone believe that?) when I realised I didn't have any pieces of fabric large enough for the actually cushion covers. So, as mentioned in a previous blog, I had an enjoyable time in a fabric shop choosing and buying some fabric.
Other than that the rest of the fabric has to come from my fabric stash.
That cushion is so cute and gorgeous. I can't wait to see your designs.


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Troy University Men's Basketball Coach Don Maestri Announces Retirement
March 10, 2013 Admin_trop
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Legendary men's basketball coach Don Maestri announced his retirement Saturday evening following Troy's quarterfinal game at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Maestri has served as the head coach at Troy University for the past 31 years.
Maestri, who was inducted in the inaugural Troy University Sports Hall of Fame class and has the court in Trojan Arena named in his honor, amassed 500 victories over his 31 seasons as the head coach of the Trojans. Troy reached the 20-win plateau eight times during Maestri's illustrious career and won seven conference titles.
"I always knew there was going to be a time when I would need to make a change in my life and now is that time," Maestri said. "I want to thank all of my former players, coaches and everyone associated with Troy University that helped us accomplish some very special moments during my time at Troy. I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend a career and I am thankful for that blessing."
Maestri took over a struggling NCAA Division II program in 1981 and quickly turned the Trojans into a powerhouse. Troy averaged 23 wins a year over its final six seasons as a Division II member, including a 72-19 record from 1990-93.
The Trojans led the nation in scoring three times (1991, 1992, 1996) and led the country in 3-point shooting seven different times (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006) during Maestri's tenure. Troy became the first team in NCAA history to score 200 points in a game when it torched DeVry 258-141 in 1992. The Trojans drained 51 3-pointers in the game, which is still an NCAA record.
"Don Maestri has built a hall of fame coaching career at Troy University," said Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., Chancellor of Troy University. "He not only took us to the top of Division II by reaching the championship game in 1993, Coach Maestri also led our program through a successful transition to Division I, the highest level of NCAA competition. But what I will always appreciate most about Don Maestri is he is a gentleman who always represents Troy University with class and dignity. Trojan fans everywhere owe Don Maestri a huge debt for his outstanding leadership of our basketball program for the past 31 years."
Maestri was named conference coach of the year seven times and earned the honor in five different leagues.
"It's hard to express what Don Maestri has meant not only to the Troy men's basketball program, but also to the entire University," Troy Athletics Director John Hartwell said. "Don has been a great ambassador for Troy University for 31 years and his legacy will be much more than what his teams accomplished on the basketball floor. Don's work off the court with the development of his players as men is admirable and I want to thank Don for his service and dedication to Troy University. His name and all that he accomplished at Troy University will carry forward on "Court Maestri" in Trojan Arena."
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