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Mason Lewis leaves the club
After finding it difficult to get into the starting 11 Mason has signed a season long deal at Longlevens. Mason made 12 starts and 13 appearances from the bench in his time at the club. We wish him well.
Report from www.severnsport.co.uk
Longlevens have strengthened their defence with the signing of versatile Cirencester Town defender Mason Lewis.
Lewis, who began has career with Gloucester City, signed for Longlevens during the 2017/18 season on a short term loan. The loan was cut short itself after a spell of impressive performances along with a bad run of injuries for the Centurions.
Longlevens manager Mark Moore spoke to Severn Sport about the signing and told us it was an easy decision to bring Mason Lewis back to the club.
"Mason proved to us last year that he is a massive talent, especially in the short period of time we had with him. Not only defensively but in an attacking sense he is a great asset to have."
"He wanted more game time than he was currently getting at Cirencester so we have jumped at the chance to get him back and to get him on board. He has had one training session with us already and the squad can already see how much he has progressed in the last 12 months."
"He is still very young with lots to learn despite his experience so far. We are all really looking forward to working with him and trying to develop him to reach his full potential."
During his loan at Saw Mills Lewis caught the eye at both centre back and left back, including a lovely solo goal in Longlevens' 6-1 defeat at home to Highworth Town.
Lewis has played in midfield for previous clubs and has the physique and power to be used as an emergency striker if needed.
With Longlevens signing Mason Lewis for the remainder of the season, they have added to the influx of Southern League talent now playing for the Hellenic League side.
During the summer Longlevens brought in Kieran Squires from Slimbridge, James Campbell from Evesham United and have also brought in Blaine Waugh on a dual registration from Cinderford Town.
Moore praised his squad for their performance levels this season and put his side's attraction to Southern League players down to a number of factors.
"I'm not too sure really as to how we have attracted so many quality players. For me, it is down to a number of factors rolled into one. The lads we have playing are our biggest asset and champion everything Longlevens are about."
"The coaching team we have provide a great balance of youth and experience, so we can get our messages across in a number of ways and mainly everyone still wants to progress and win games. The club went through a rise we have never seen before, now the challenge is taking that on and building on the foundations and keep progressing as a side."
Severn Sport understands that Mason Lewis will be in the matchday squad for Friday night's FA Vase tie against Tuffley Rovers.
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Nephritis, Kidney Disorder
Nephritis refers to an inflammation of the kidneys and if not treated properly may also result in death.
Nephritis refers to an inflammation of the kidneys. It is a serious condition and may be either acute or chronic. A synonym for Nephritis is "Bright's Disease". This disease, most often strikes during childhood or adolescence. It becomes worse as it progresses and if not treated properly may result in death. In the alternative, it may subside into a chronic stage where the patient gets better but not too well.
Symptoms of Nephritis
The main symptoms of acute Nephritis are pain in the kidneys extending down to the Ureter, fever, dull pain in the back and scanty and highly coloured urine. Often the urine may contain blood, albumin and casts consisting of clumps of red and white cells, which come from the damaged kidneys. The patient suffers from puffiness in the face and swelling of the feet and ankles. In the chronic stage of Nephritis, which may drag on for many years, the patient passes large amounts of albumin in the urine. Later there may be rise in blood pressure and the patient may develop Uraemia. There may be frequent urination, especially during night.
Causes of Nephritis
Nephritis usually follows some streptococcus infection of the throat or an attack of scarlet fever or rheumatic fever. The underlying causes of Nephritis are however; the same as for Leases of the kidneys in general, namely wrong dietary habits, excessive drinking, the suppressive medical treatment or former diseases, the habitual use of chemical agents of all kinds for the treatment of indigestion and other stomach disorders and frequent use of aspirin and other painkillers. Nutritional deficiencies can also lead to Nephritis.
Diet Therapy for Nephritis
The safest treatment for acute Nephritis is Fasting Therapy. By means of the fast, the toxins and systemic impurities responsible for setting up of the inflammatory kidney conditions are removed rapidly. The patient should resort to juice fasting for 7 to 10 days till the acute symptoms subside. Mostly vegetable juices such as carrot, celery and cucumber should be used during this period.
After the juice fast, the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for 4 or 5 days. Juicy fruits such as apples, grapes, oranges, pears, peaches and pineapples should be taken during this period at 5-hourly intervals, after that, the patient should adopt fruits and milk diet. In this regimen, milk, preferably raw goat's milk may be added to the fruit diet for further 7 days. The patient may thereafter gradually embark upon a well-balanced low-protein vegetarian diet, with emphasis on fresh fruits and raw and cooked vegetables.
In case of chronic Nephritis, a short juice fast for 3 days may be undertaken. Thereafter, a week or 10 days may be spent on a restricted diet. In this regimen, orange juice may be taken for breakfast. Lunch may consist of a salad made of raw vegetables, which are in season, and dinner may consist of 1 or 2 vegetables, steamed in their own juices and few nuts. Thereafter, the patient may gradually adopt a balanced low-protein vegetarian diet. Further short juice fasts followed by a week on the restricted diet should be undertaken at intervals of 2 or 3 months until such time as the kidney condition has shown signs of normalization.
The patient should avoid vegetables containing large quantities of oxalic acid such as spinach and rhubarb. Chocolate and cocoa also contain oxalic acid and must not be used. Garlic, asparagus, parsley, watercress, cucumber and celery are excellent vegetables. The best fruits are papaya and bananas. Both have a healing effect on kidneys. A small amount of soured milk and home made cottage cheese can be included in the diet. All salt should be eliminated from the diet. 5 or 6 small meals should be taken in preference to a few large ones.
A glassful of carrot juice mixed with a tablespoonful of honey and a teaspoonful of fresh lime juice is a very effective home remedy for Nephritis. It should be taken every day early in the morning before breakfast. Bananas are also valuable in Nephritis because of their low protein and salt content and high carbohydrates content. In this condition, a diet of bananas only should be taken for 3 or 4 days, consuming 8 to 9 bananas a day.
However, smoking and drinking must be completely given up. The patient should also avoid white bread, sugar, cakes, pastries, puddings, refined cereals and greasy, heavy or fried foods. He should also avoid tea, coffee, and all flesh foods, condiments, pickles and sauces.
Water Therapy for Nephritis
All measures should be adopted to relieve the kidneys of work by increasing elimination through other channels. A warm water enema should be taken each day while fasting, to cleanse the bowels of the toxic matter being thrown off by the self-cleansing process resulting from the fast. Hot Epsom salt bath should be taken every alternate day to increase elimination through the skin as much as possible.
Exercises for Nephritis
Fresh air and outdoor exercises will be of great benefit in all cases of Nephritis and where possible, the patient should have a walk for at least 3 kilometres once or twice daily. The sufferer from chronic Nephritis should never exert himself when doing anything. The patient should avoid excitement and late hours.
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Alyssa Milano told Good Morning America that allegations of sexual assault against actress Asia Argento, a vocal member of the #MeToo movement, do not undercut the group's efforts to expose abusers and hold them accountable.
Argento was one of the first women to level allegations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein last fall. This week, The New York Times obtained legal documents alleging that in 2013, Argento arranged to pay $380,000 to former child actor Jimmy Bennett, who claims that she assaulted him that year.
When asked about these allegations on Good Morning America, Milano — who has been a vocal advocate for the #MeToo movement — replied, "people that have been abused can also be abusers. That's a sad fact."
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The Double Tree West End was very nice. I did one of the mystery deals on Priceline so I got a pretty good price (good for London at least). The room was spacious and comfortable. The decor was maybe a little too American for my international getaway, I imagine this same decor is used in all locals. The location was also very great.
I had left the office at 5pm and by the time I was settled in my room it was almost 8pm. It was a very long and tiring journey between the walking and carrying my bags up and down the stairs at each of the tube stations. I have always found public transportation in the UK to be very easy to use – and I still think it is, but it's certainly not for the out of shape! Why don't all the stations have escalators or elevators??
I had picked two restaurants that looked nice, plugged the first one into the GPS and started walking. Now, I visited at one of the best times to be in the UK. It was during the June Solstice – the longest day of the year, which in the UK means the sun sets well after 9 pm. It was also during the World Cup (before England was eliminated…), the weekend before Wimbledon kicked off and not to mention some of the best weather you can get in the UK. Of course, this meant every place was packed to the brim. I walked through the West End into Covent Garden and every restaurant and bar had people spilling on to the streets and enjoying their drinks while they stood in crowds on the sidewalk. And these were not drunk sports aficionados, this scene was investment bankers in three piece suits having their first glass of Pinot this year.
I misjudged the distance to my destination and walked for what felt like forever to my first dinner choice, Punjab. There was a line out the door so I decided to continue on to my second choice Dishoom, which had an even longer line! I've taken plenty of solo business trips and don't have a problem dining alone during the week at half full restaurants. But on a Friday night I couldn't bring myself to stand in line for a table and eat alone at a crowded restaurant. It was also after 9pm now, starting to get dark and I was fading fast.
I remembered reading a review of Thai Dream which was near my hotel and the reviews were very good and many said it was not crowded! So I headed back in that direction, resolving that if I could not get a seat here I would just eat cookies for dinner. Thai Dream is not located in the popular neighborhood with all the restaurants and if I did not have the GPS I never would have found it. It was down an alley and kind of off to the side. When I approached the owner was standing outside playing with his small son. I entered and was delighted to see only a few other diners in the restaurant. Just what I needed at this point! I immediately ordered a glass of wine and a fried rice dish and all was right in the world as I enjoyed my meal and my book. While this wasn't the best Thai dish I've had it was still pretty tasty (especially compared to most British food!) and it hit the spot. Not to mention it was probably the only reasonably priced meal I had during my trip.
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Once upon a time, an Executive Director and a Chief Revenue Officer set out on a journey to share the untold stories of the people in the business of law. After having climbed to the highest tower, defeating the odds, and rescuing the princess that was Season 1, they decided to forge on to Season 2. With the launch of the new season coming on February 14th, they felt invincible. Until they met their foe, the blinking red light of a camera recording, and this is what happened…. (watch the video 😆)
As all fairytales go, these two podcast heroes will return for Season 2, but a little on down the road, so stay tuned!
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Lyn Calu (Regional Office Administrator at Dinsmore & Shohl) and Michael Keatts (Regional Office Administrator at Bowman and Brooke) began their friendship at Bowman and Brooke where they navigated the...
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Everyone knows you should always maintain a professional relationship with your coworkers, but what happens when your coworker also happens to be a great friend? From a floating Walmart to...
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Michael Bumgarner (President of ALA) and Debbie Elsbury (former President of ALA) join the show to discuss everything from the hurdles that come with huge career transitions to the power of titles within a firm. They also discuss how one can progress into leadership within ALA.
In the legal community, it's easy to feel like the dumbest person in the room because let's face it, you're surrounded by so many great minds and imposter syndrome is real. But both Debbie and Mike have some tips on how to overcome this. And if that wasn't enough to pique your interest, they also have a haunted house story!
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Finding the love of your life is rare. It isn't something you can search for or pull out of thin air, and sometimes, people go through their entire lives without it. But that wasn't the case for Mark Bridgeman (HR Manager, Shuffield, Lowman & Wilson, P.A.). From the Navy to Chief Legal Records Manager to three ALA chapter leadership positions, Mark has seen it all. But what he didn't see coming was Steven Wingert. From a love born out of a Starbucks line to defying the odds, and navigating pancreatic cancer, Mark takes us through a love story that continues to live on through their children, grandchildren, and Steven's leadership legacy. It will be remembered as the deepest and purest form of love, partnership, and hope.
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What would you do if, 48 hours before the most important event of the year, someone asked you to fill in for the keynote speaker? Would you pass up the opportunity or would you make it to the stage and give the best speech of your life? What if, after 20 years at a small firm, you made a leap and moved to a large firm? Would you be ready for the challenges that came with that transition? What about getting buy-in from attorneys and partners? How do you sell yourself in a way that gets you what you need? Take it from us, we can't answer those questions, but Judy Hissong (President, Nesso Strategies) and April Campbell (Executive Director, Association of Legal Administrators) can. They take on the mic and bring us the wisdom we never knew we needed.
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If we asked you right now who your mentor is, would you be able to give us an answer? Would you without a shadow of a doubt be able to name a person who has not only inspired you but has personally had a hand in your professional success? Statistically, not many people claim to have a mentor, so if you don't, that's okay you're not alone. But in this final episode of our inaugural season, we interview Amanda Koplos's lifelong mentor, Winston Williams (Partner at CWP Entertainment Management), and discover why having a mentor is not only crucial but may also determine your success in life.
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What's the difference between passion and perseverance? Passion only takes you so far and perseverance takes you the rest of the way. Take Jenna Carter (Director of Administration for K&L Gates, LLP, Washington, D.C.) and Chassidy Deckard (Director of Administration for the Texas region of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP) for example. Their perseverance has gotten them to where they are today and through the adversity of a high-pressure job, to overcoming the obstacles and blazing their own trail, these two powerhouse women show us what it looks like when the rubber truly meets the road.
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Here's another noteworthy ruling by Justice Pazaratz – and one that was ultimately reversed on later appeal. Written in his inimitable style, the judgment begins this way:
You wouldn't think the singular or plural should be so complicated.
Property.
The same word. Add an "s".
You really wouldn't think that in a nine day trial, involving four presenting counsel — and three more lawyers as witnesses — they couldn't keep it straight.
Or, that the court wouldn't find out until the end of the seventh day of evidence – from the very last witness — that all the time we were talking about "property", we really should have been talking about "properties".
The Applicant's lawyer — apparently the only one who knew all along about the mistake — says whether it's "one property or two" really doesn't matter.
I'm not so sure he's right. Or that what he did was right.
This is a story about two houses; 151 acres; a benevolent matriarch; a pregnant bride; and a marriage contract apparently suffering from too many "cut and pastes". More importantly, it's a story about two children, still trapped under the same roof with a mother and father who can't agree on either the past or the future.
With that prologue delivered, Justice Pazaratz went on to examine the merits of the former couple's dispute, which (at least on the property side of things) related to a 151-acre piece of land that the husband owned at the date of the marriage. The matrimonial home was one of two houses on the property, the other being the husband's mother's home.
In 1996, the spouses had signed a marriage contract providing that in the event that they separated, the husband was entitled to exclude the assets that he owned at the time of the marriage. Neither spouse (nor their lawyers) knew at the time that the 151 acres were actually two separate properties, rather than one, and that the husband owned them both.
When the true state of affairs came to after the parties' separation light years later, the wife claimed that the husband's non-disclosure about owning both properties invalidated the marriage contract that they had purportedly reached.
Justice Pazaratz agreed with the wife, and held that the marriage contract should be set aside due to the material misrepresentation. At the time the contract was drafted and signed, the wife and her lawyer were misled that there was only one property. This omission rendered the contract inadequate to satisfy the disclosure requirements of the Family Law Act since it undermined the factual basis of the parties' ostensible deal, and left the wife unable to accurately assess her rights and options.
After setting the marriage contract aside, Justice Pazaratz proceeded to divide the parties' assets through the normal equalization process. (That ruling was later reversed by the Court of Appeal, which included comment on a "serious matter arising from the reasons for judgment given by the trial judge." The later appeal ruling will be the subject of an upcoming Blog].
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Butty v. Butty, 2008 CanLII 23946 (ON SC)
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Butty v. Butty, 2009 ONCA 852 (CanLII)
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Why the emancipation of women is the best thing that ever happened to Irish fathers
With Father's Day this Sunday, Carol Hunt takes a look at how parenting became a 50/50 deal
19 June 2015 03:00 AM
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'Will you talk to your daughter?" was a familiar phrase in my home when I was a teenager.
It initially began as a loud appeal from my mother - like most other mothers of her time, she had responsibility for the upbringing of the children - to my father as she attempted to put a few manners on her truculent adolescent daughter.
Like many fathers of his era, my father worked every hour he could. When he wasn't working, he was training, coaching or playing football.
He wasn't up to speed with the Machiavellian machinations of a stubborn teenager. Or perhaps he secretly approved of them?
"Hello daughter," he would smile at me, as if the power struggle he just witnessed between his wife and daughter hadn't actually occurred. "What would you like to talk about?"
I would laugh, flutter my eyelashes at him and join in the game - father and daughter colluding together against the rest of the world, who just didn't understand them.
God love my poor mother. How does one compete with the magical bond a doting dad has with his adoring daughter? She didn't even try.
She would shrug her shoulders, shake her head and mutter, "You're as bad as she is." But we both knew that she approved hugely of our obvious love for each other.
Years later, when I had become engaged to be married, as they say, my father gave my husband-to-be some words of fatherly advice.
"Don't make the mistake I made when I got married first," he said. "I thought my role was to provide a good stable house, to put food on the table and make sure all the bills were paid.
"I thought my responsibilities ended there. But fathers of my era had it wrong. We should have spent far more time just being with our families, spending time with our kids. It took me years to learn that. And you don't get that time back. Don't waste it."
When my dad was a young father, we didn't know any man who was a stay-at-home-father. Not one. If a father was unlucky enough to be unemployed, he wouldn't use the free hours in his week helping out with the housework and childcare. That just wasn't done. You wouldn't see him down in the park pushing his kids on the swings.
And in the very odd case where some brave bloke might break ranks and help out with the kids and the cooking, he was thought to be somehow less of real man, somewhat lacking in those essential macho-provider hormones, the ones which made the father, legally, the head and master of his household.
Both fathers and mothers knew what their roles were in society - the same ones that their own fathers and mothers had inhabited, that of provider and carer. There was rarely an overlap.
And then those damn feminists starting getting ideas about women working outside the home, earning their own money, paying their own bills.
Suddenly, all the traditional notions of fatherhood were up for grabs. Fathers no longer had a specific role as the provider of the family. Increasingly, women were going out to work - some part-time, and some - unbelievably - full-time. Family life was turning on its head.
And oddly, the role of the father within the family was going to become crucial to the ability of many women to cope with work and family.
This may sound strange, but for Irish fathers, the best thing that ever happened to them was the emancipation of women from the home.
Why? Because it left a gap - a gap which society had always assumed could only be filled by a woman - but now, needs must and all that, could be filled by a man.
Yes, the statistics show that women still do the lion's share of housework; cooking, cleaning and all the boring stuff that has to be done in order for life to be liveable. That's another day's work. Another day's argument. Another battle still to be fought and won. But, where the care and nurture of children was concerned, suddenly fathers began to sit up and take notice.
They began - to use a current phrase - to 'lean in', and many of them found that they quite liked spending more time with their kids, they liked getting to know their children and take more interest in the day-to-day minutiae of their lives.
They found, much to the surprise of many, that they could do this 'mothering thing', if not better than then certainly as well as many women. Amazingly, the kids didn't leave the house naked or go to bed starving if they were left in the care of their fathers occasionally.
Today, fathers routinely dress their kids, cook for them, play with them, talk to them and generally enjoy their company. Compared to half a century ago, it's not an understatement to say that there has been a revolutionary shift in how men now involve themselves in the life of their children. And a very welcome one.
Some years ago, when my daughter was quite young, my husband had her out for a walk and a chat and a bit of good 'daddy-daughter time'.
He was surprised to be stopped by an elderly woman who said: "It's just so lovely to see how you men today interact with your children. You're better men than your fathers were. You know what's important".
This is exactly what my father told him so many years earlier; being a hands-on father to your children is probably the most important job a man can have.
And yet, old traditions die hard. Even though so many men today care for their children - and we've seen a big upsurge in the number of stay-at-home fathers - fathers are still not even mentioned in our Constitution.
It's the mother that the State still considers to be the nurturer and carer of the child. Our refusal to introduce paid paternity leave shows how the State still refuses to acknowledge the essential role a father has in the life of their child.
To a girl, a father is her first love. To a boy, a father is his first hero.
Research indicates that fathers are as important as mothers in their respective roles as caregivers, protectors, financial supporters, and most importantly, models for social and emotional behaviour.
My own father died some 15 years ago. I still sometimes think I can hear his voice telling me everything is alright, assuring me that there's nothing we can't deal with, no problem we can't sort out together.
Interestingly, research shows that daughters who have good relationships with their fathers do better at maths. My daughter's favourite subject is maths. Well done dad. And happy Father's Day.
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Coney Island Baby, Lou Reed's sixth studio album after leaving The Velvet Underground, is all about context. Lou Reed's first solo outings were David Bowie-wannabes, albeit pretty awesome David Bowie-wannabes. Then Lou decided he wanted to fuck with his audience and out spewed Sally Can't Dance and Metal Machine Music. The latter was Reed trying to be the pop star and is, ironically enough, the only one of his solo albums to crack the Top Ten. It's plagued by delusions of R&B grandeur and the overwrought opulence that accompany most Elton John compositions. Despite what anyone says to the contrary, Metal Machine Music is not, I repeat not, a musical masterpiece. It's a lot of annoying white noise spread out over four sides. Don't try to intellectualize it, Metal Machine Music is not good.
Coney Island Baby, on the other hand, is what Reed should have been doing all along. His instantly recognizable monotone sounds much more comfortable above the minimalist masterpieces of Coney Island Baby and he is obviously more at home with these songs of love and hate than on earlier solo work where he spent entire album spurting out glamourfied Bowie-isms. It's much more simple and straight forward than his previous solo work and, if anything, proves that the less is more aesthetic works for Reed in all of its glory.
Coney Island Baby has the ability to be alternately light and dark without throwing the listener off guard. "Kicks" is about a man who gets off on murder. "When you slayed that cat that night / You did it so crudely, now / With that blood coming down his chest / It was way better than sex, now, now," Reed creepily sings. But the following song, "A Gift" completely shifts gear without Lou missing a beat. The eponymous gift of that song is Reed himself as he declares that he "is a gift to the women of this world." The song after "A Gift," "Ooohhh Baby," changes the tone of the album again, as a rollicking tune about a stripper in Times Square. Reed's strength lies in the fact that Coney Island Baby never feels uneven or disjointed. No song seems out-of-place despite the spectrum of emotion that he is able to encapsulate.
The evenness of Coney Island Baby is due in part to the minimal instrumentation that runs throughout the record. Coney Island Baby is quiet and relies mainly on an acoustic guitar, drums, and bass. An electric guitar is used sparsely throughout each song and when it comes in, it cuts like a knife. Reed, while making a simple record, was not trying to become a folk singer with Coney Island Baby, but rather make something sparse and open. From the man who reintroduced the electric guitar to rock `n' roll in the Velvet Underground to the comparative decadence of his previous solo work, it is incredibly refreshing to have Reed stand on his own, without the help of avant noises and unnecessary backing vocals.
Interpreting Reed has never been an easy job. Even when he seems to be at his most earnest, it seems that Reed is staunchly hides behind ambiguous lyrics or sings in tones that completely betray what he is saying. On "She's My Best Friend," Reed sings, "She's my best friend / Certainly not just like your average dog or car." Woah Lou, let's not go crazy with the compliments here, ok? While the knee-jerk reaction on first listen of "A Gift" maybe something akin to "Lou Reed is an egomaniacal bastard." It's pretty hard not to think someone like this especially when you hear Reed sing, "Responsibility sits so hard on my shoulder / Like a good wine I'm better as I grow older." Bu upon further listening there is an almost sad self-consciousness that pervades the song, giving it an intricacy that wasn't previously present. I mean, he can't be that narcissistic. Right?
The epic of Coney Island Baby comes with the ending title track. It starts out as a slow piece with Reed speaking about how he wanted to be on the football team over an uncomplicated melody but it slowly escalates into quite a bit more. Out of almost all the tracks in Reed's storied career, "Coney Island Baby" sounds the most sincere. He speaks of the glory of love and how it can show you the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel even in the darkest of times. Reed sings, at the end of the song, that he would "like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel," Rachel being his transgender girlfriend at the time. And then Reed let's out one of the most candid moments ever recorded on wax. As a doo wop-esque chorus of voices finishes singing the last "coney island baby" of the song, Lou says, "Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you." In one short sentence, Reed opens himself up to his audience in a way that he had never tried in his entire career as a recording artist. It's a shocking end to a beautifully understated record.
Not unlike the punk movement that he had no small part in creating in The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed took Coney Island Baby back to basics and created something completely stunning. Reed doesn't need decadence or strangeness or peculiarities to be great, he just needs him. Despite whether Lou's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek when he wrote "A Gift," or whether he actually is that pompous, it's still is hard to dispute him when he sings, "It's hard to settle for second best / After you've had me."
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Nebraska, #19, and counting! Nebraska has become the 19th state to repeal their death penalty.
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The "conservative" Republican unicameral legislature in Nebraska got it right! On May 20, by a 32-15 margin, a death penalty repeal bill passed. This was the third vote in this session and the "yes" votes were consistently favorable in each round of voting. Following the final vote, Governor Pete Ricketts stated he would veto the legislation and began a strenuous effort to get senators to change their vote. To override a veto 30 votes were required.
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Maryland Assembly votes to repeal death penalty
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The Maryland legislature voted Friday to abolish the death penalty, which would make the state the sixth in as many years to end capital punishment and add to a canon of liberal policies recently embraced by state leaders.
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Urban League of Portland Speaks Out on Criminal Justice
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The Urban League of Portland has joined forces with scores of other Oregon organizations, advocating for the replacement of the death penalty with life without parole.
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Oregon legislator prepares death-penalty repeal bill, as anniversary of execution moratorium approaches
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When Gov. John Kitzhaber declared a year ago that he would block any executions as long as he's governor, he also challenged legislators to help turn the moratorium into law. "I am calling on the Legislature to bring potential reforms before the 2013 legislative session and encourage all Oregonians to engage in the long overdue debate that this important issue deserves," he said.
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California Prop 34 Vote Shows Shift
On Nov. 6th California voters rejected Proposition 34 and an opportunity to replace their death penalty with life with no possibility of parole. In spite of the facts that the Golden State holds 22% of the nation's death row inmates (725) and has had only 13 executions since 1967 (none since 2006) and most death row inmates die of old age, after decades of taxpayer-financed appeals, in a close vote the death penalty stays as a part of their constitution.
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Salem-Journal: Sister Helen Prejean speaks out against the death penalty at Willamette
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Roman Catholic Sister Helen Prejean tours the nation to speak against capital punishment, experiences that culminated in a Pulitzer-nominated book, "Dead Man Walking." Tuesday night's talk in Willamette University's Cone Chapel marked the sister's fourth visit to Oregon.
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'Dead Man Walking' author Sr. Helen Prejean discusses death-penalty, repeal efforts
Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of Dead Man Walking, talks about Oregon's death row and the death penalty in general. In 1982, at the suggestion of a civil rights activist, Sister Helen Prejean wrote a letter to a man on Louisiana's death row. Her correspondence with Patrick Sonnier, convicted of the murders of two teenagers, would lead Prejean into a life of challenging the death penalty and the morality of a legal system skewed against minorities and the poor.
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June 22, 2012 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's execution law Friday, but did not deem lethal injection or the death penalty unconstitutional.
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Eugene Register Guard: Until justice is absolutely fair, abolish death penalty
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In April, Connecticut became the fifth state in five years to abolish the death penalty. In Oregon this past December, Gov. John Kitzhaber placed a moratorium on all executions, citing his refusal "to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer."
That public response to Kitzhaber's action has been relatively mute perhaps indicates that the time has come for Oregon to join Connecticut and 16 other states in abolishing capital punishment.
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Connecticut governor signs bill to repeal death penalty
HARTFORD, Conn.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment.
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'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn's effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' Guardian
Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss.
The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can't see straight for all the acid he's dropping. Fledgling actress Billie Cantrip is hoping for her big break but can't find a way out of her troubled relationship with an older man. And journalist Freya Wyley wants to know why so much of what Kloss touches turns to ash in his wake.
"In the various layers of a slick, enjoyable plot, the glossy surface finish never distracting from the messiness beneath, art reflects life and also reflects itself… There is wit and entertainment aplenty… What brings it all delightfully together is Quinn's flawless, easy-going prose. He never once puts a foot wrong… Clever, certainly, but in just the right measure."
Peter Stanford, Observer
"Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn's effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it, but larger questions lurk beneath its polished surface… Eureka… is in glorious Technicolor."
Clare Clark, Guardian
"Quinn's prose is elegant and his eye for the evocative details of social history acute as he chronicles the pleasures and perils inherent in Nat's pursuit of love and art."
Nick Rennis, Sunday Times
"A cast of wonderfully vivid characters ducks and dives its way through London's beau monde… There is something Evelyn Waugh-like about Eureka, not just it its depictions of the escapades that privilege can afford, but in the ease and seeming effortlessness of Quinn's prose… Few eras have been as well documented, but Eureka succeeds in bringing it to life in a new and hugely entertaining way."
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Anthony Cummins, Metro
"Quinn's immersive approach to his historical fiction means we're soon woozy with the sounds and sights of that significant year when the Beatles changed music history, homosexuality was decriminalised and cinema was playing with our minds."
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Malcolm Forbes, National
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Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.
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A recent Newsweek poll reports that 76 percent of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps, and wispy angels in flowing robes. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful, and comforting vision of what heaven is like, and A Travel Guide to Heaven is the entertaining and enlightening result.
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Rather than these I want to make use of my own sequences, is it possible to do that?
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The sequences provided in the default DDLs are a starting point. You can customize them as need (start value, increment, etc). However, only the name prefix is configurable with this option.

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Cost concerns hold up health care merger in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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By Alex Kacik
Alex Kacik wrote this story as a participant in the 2016 California Fellowship, a program of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Santa Barbara's Cottage Hospital and Sansum Clinic have always been neighbors. (Nik Blaskovich)
Pacific Coast Business Times
It was the biggest celebration in Santa Barbara's history.
The 1889 Grand Carnival at the Lobero Theatre attracted more than 5,000 residents who donated $2,742 — about $73,000 in current dollars — to help build the area's first hospital.
The carnival fundraiser was the brainchild of a group of 50 women who set out to care for "the number of homeless people, clerks, teachers, tourists and others who had no place to go when they became ill." They laid the foundation for the three-story, 25-bed Cottage Hospital that opened on Dec. 8, 1891 and served the community without regard to cost or ability to pay.
Today, Cottage Health has three hospitals, 3,667 employees, $751 million in annual revenue and a foundation with $288 million in assets.
The 125-year-old Santa Barbara hospital – along with seven other Cottage Health facilities that offer care from the Ventura County line to Santa Ynez — is on the verge of a transformational deal.
A long-awaited decision by regulators appears to be imminent on the proposed merger between Cottage Health and Sansum Clinic, which has the largest physician practice in the South Coast with 23 outpatient sites spanning Santa Maria to Santa Barbara.
CEOs at Cottage and Sansum said they couldn't speak with the Business Times because their attorneys do not want them to comment while the Federal Trade Commission wraps up its investigation.
Under scrutiny
The merger could have wide-ranging impacts.
With regulators concerned over rising health care costs, Cottage has taken an unusual step of voluntarily selling off an ambulatory surgery center.
While Cottage and Sansum officials claim that the combined organization will be leaner and more cost-effective, critics worry that the price of care will increase. As the dominant South Santa Barbara County health care provider, its leverage with private and government insurers would grow along with its footprint, they argue.
Cottage and Sansum are already intertwined in an interdependent relationship. Cottage provides in-patient services across five facilities — including the only hospital in the city of Santa Barbara, one in Goleta and another in Santa Ynez — and Sansum is the major provider of outpatient care. Sansum has about 1,000 employees, $265 million in annual revenue and a foundation with $122 million in total assets.
The FTC has been analyzing the potential anti-competitive effects of the merger. The California Attorney General's Office is also reviewing the deal, as it does with many nonprofit health care mergers in the state.
The venerable organizations officially embarked on a path to become one in 2013, but their missions have overlapped since the earliest chapters of Santa Barbara's history.
Health haven
Even without a hospital, Santa Barbara earned a reputation as a place to get healthy.
Lore had it that in the 1780s sailors would rid their scurvy by bathing in the mud of medicinal springs inland of West Beach. The sick traveled in numbers to Santa Barbara seeking the healing power of the sun and temperate climate. Among those lured to the city was Cottage Hospital Society President Mary Ashley, who sought care for her ill husband. He died in 1876.
Ashley headed the pioneering group of women who set out to create Cottage Hospital. They formed a hospital society, charging $1 per year or $25 for a lifetime membership. When members stopped paying their dues and construction financing dwindled, the women organized the five-day spectacle called the Grand Carnival that proved to be its saving grace. The $2,742 raised at the carnival grew to about $15,000 in donations.
Cottage Hospital was originally designed to have a series of bungalows housing various medical departments connected by long corridors, but the design was too costly. Still, Ashley liked the "cozy-sounding" name "Cottage Hospital" and it stuck. The hospital offered one bed free to indigent patients, supported by the community for $200 a year.
Insulin pioneer
About 25 years later, the first iteration of the Sansum Clinic was born. Even then, the organizations were joined at the hip.
In 1920, Dr. William Sansum took over the Potter Metabolic Clinic, which expanded into a wing of Cottage Hospital following the death of Dr. Nathaniel Potter. Sansum studied diabetes, a disease that was widely regarded as a death sentence at the time.
He assembled a team of scientists to develop the lifesaving serum known as insulin and delivered the first successful dose in May 1922. It was administered at no cost, outside of the $21 weekly Cottage stay, even though it cost $100 to produce, a significant amount given the average annual salary was $1,200. The clinic's expenses outpaced its revenues, but a group of 31 donors came up with $33,000 to keep the operation running.
The medicine put Santa Barbara on the map, drawing celebrities to the area for the groundbreaking treatment. Yet, the major 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake almost brought it tumbling down.
The quake upended the other two area hospitals, St. Francis and County General, which had operated since the early 1900s. They had to transfer their patients to Cottage, which put a strain on the organization. Cottage disbanded the Potter Clinic and rolled it into Cottage's research department. After funding was pulled in 1928, Sansum decided to branch off on his own. A separate Santa Barbara organization, the William Sansum Diabetes Center, is not part of the merger.
Cottage and Sansum have grown to become the dominant providers in the South Coast. A hospital that began with 25 beds has swelled to more than 400 by incrementally increasing its footprint.
In 1995, Santa Ynez Hospital joined forces with Cottage Hospital and a year later Goleta Valley Community Hospital affiliated with Cottage to form what is now Cottage Health.
After a faltering St. Francis Hospital closed in 2003, Cottage purchased the building and turned it into subsidized employee housing, leaving Cottage Hospital as the city's sole inpatient provider.
Catholic Healthcare West, now Dignity Health, had taken on St. Francis in 1998 but closed the institution when it faced $20 million in earthquake upgrades.
Health care providers are increasingly looking to consolidate. Combined operations allow them to spread costs over a wider asset base while satisfying the federal government's push to provide integrated, all-encompassing care that emphasizes value over volume.
Cottage and Sansum officials have claimed the merger will allow them to lower administrative costs, particularly in the IT department, but did not comment on whether those savings would trickle down to the consumer.
At what cost?
A more efficient delivery system under one umbrella organization will likely lower costs, said Dr. Matteo Dinolfo, medical director of the UCLA Department of Medicine's community offices.
UCLA Health has been expanding its footprint in Ventura County.
"Particularly for businesses and small employers this will be a better option for them. I think over time costs would go down," Dinolfo said.
But as health care providers consolidate, prices charged to payers have ballooned, several recent studies found.
The cost of care in areas with monopoly markets increases an estimated 15.3 percent compared to regions that have four or more hospitals, according to a study from the Health Care Pricing Project. Backed by the Commonwealth Fund, a group of economists analyzed employer-sponsored payment data from three of the country's largest commercial insurers — Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare — which cover 14 percent of the U.S. population.
The city of Santa Barbara spends more than twice the amount on retirement and health care costs per employee than the city of Ventura, according to data from the California State Controller's Office. Santa Barbara spent an average of $350 per employee in 2015 while Ventura spent $139.
"Too often, hospital consolidation has led to higher health care costs for employers and consumers," said Nicole Evans, the VP of communications for the California Association of Health Plans. "In Northern California, where large hospital systems dominate the market, costs are significantly higher than Southern California, where there is more competition."
Over the past 15 years, the number of short-term acute care hospitals nationwide has been reduced by 238, according to the nonprofit MergerWatch, which studied the regulatory laws by state.
Those that are left are merging at a faster pace: 112 hospital deals were made in 2015, up from 66 in 2010, according to analysis by consulting firm Kaufman, Hall & Associates.
This trend has led to higher costs, according to Glenn Melnick, an economist at University of Southern California's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, who analyzed Blue Shield of California payments. The average price for hospital admissions grew 76 percent from 2004 to 2013, from $9,193 to $15,642. The jump was even more drastic for the state's biggest hospital chains, where average admissions increased from $9,193 to $19,606, or 113 percent.
"Usually what happens when one entity owns a majority of similar practices within one geographical area, it has more power to negotiate higher rates with insurers," said Martine Brousse, a patient advocate who has worked with Cottage and Sansum and previously managed an oncology practice in Santa Monica. "They are also more willing to walk away if they do not get contract rates to their advantage."
But the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project in 2014 concluded "the two entities compete in different relevant markets, which means the merger should not create market power."
Paying the price
Brousse worked with Thomas Fefer after his wife died from pancreatic cancer. She successfully negotiated with Cottage and Sansum to reduce his bills.
But if Cottage and Sansum merge, she is afraid the organization may be less willing to "make a deal" as corporate policies take precedence, she said.
If the merged institution is able to charge higher rates for inpatient care, that money will come from outpatient and physician services, according to Santa Barbara Preferred Health Partners, a group of 172 independent physicians in Santa Barbara.
"There is a reason why physicians in Ventura are paid more than physicians in Santa Barbara," said Dr. Brent Kovacs on behalf of the SBPHP executive board. "We don't think it is because they are providing superior care and it is certainly not related to the cost of living."
With deeper pockets, the combined organization would also have a physician recruitment advantage, Kovacs said.
Over time, the independent physician base could erode significantly and decrease patient access, according to Kovacs.
"The merged Cottage/Sansum entity could also monopolize outpatient care," Kovacs said. "There is no doubt that this will translate into disproportionately higher consumer costs."
Cottage lined up a buyer for its outpatient surgery center at 2403 Castillo St., hoping to ease the FTC's concerns about the combined institution's concentration of services and pricing power. The sale will go through if the merger is approved.
In the meantime, the region awaits the decision from regulators. All parties have been tight-lipped and even public comments on the details are off limits because federal law exempts merger proposals from the Freedom of Information Act.
The health care sector has had some of the most consistent job growth in the region, said Dan Hamilton of the California Lutheran University Center for Economic Research and Forecasting. It accounts for about 8 percent of Santa Barbara County's total employment and 7 percent of its GDP.
"It is one of the few that has grown consistently through the recession," said Hamilton, adding that it plays a bigger role in the regional economy.
A combined Cottage and Sansum would have about 4,600 employees, if no jobs were impacted, and rival UC Santa Barbara as the county's largest employer.
A group of women set out to create the city's first hospital 125 years ago. More than a century later, it could be the cornerstone of one of the region's dominant health care organizations.
"I hope they abide by what originally drove them to open that facility," Brousse said.
[This story was originally published by the Pacific Coast Business Times.]