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DOJ Secures $100 Million Penalty from Florida Oncology Provider for Criminal Antitrust Conspiracy
Healthcare Alert
Author(s) Mark J. Horoschak, Brian A. Hayles, Michael P. Fischer, Najla Long
On April 30, 2020, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that it had brought a one-count felony charge against Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute LLC (FCS), an oncology group headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, for conspiring with another provider group to allocate cancer patients in Southwest Florida. The parties entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) that includes, among other things, FCS's agreement to pay a $100 million criminal penalty, the maximum allowable for violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. Under the terms of the DPA, FCS also agreed to waive and not enforce any non-compete or non-solicitation provisions contained in its physician contracts. In addition, FCS agreed to pay the State of Florida more than $20 million in disgorgement of profits and abide by other terms of relief to resolve the state's investigation. According to DOJ, this charge is the first in its ongoing investigation into market allocation in the oncology industry.
The field of oncology has three major areas of specialty: medical, radiation, and surgical. Medical oncologists focus on delivering chemotherapy treatments, whereas radiation oncologists treat cancer through the administration of radiation. FCS is one of the largest oncology practices in the country, with more than 100 practice locations throughout Florida and 200 employed physicians. DOJ charged FCS with conspiring with another Fort Myers-based oncology practice – identified in the charge as "Oncology Company A" – to allocate the delivery of cancer therapies in Southwest Florida (i.e., Collier, Lee, and Charlotte counties). Specifically, the parties agreed through "conversations and communications" that FCS would provide medical oncology services but not radiation oncology services and that Oncology Company A would provide radiation oncology services but not medical oncology services. The parties also agreed that, in Southwest Florida, FCS would not employ radiation oncologists and Oncology Company A would not employ medical oncologists. The conspiracy dated back to 1999 and was in effect until at least September 2016. During the relevant time period, FCS generated more than $950 million in revenue. The DOJ alleged that the conspiracy was a per se violation of the Sherman Act, meaning that it had no offsetting procompetitive benefits.
The DOJ cited two principal factors for entering into the DPA. First, if convicted, FCS would be subjected to a mandatory exclusion from all federal healthcare programs under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7 for a period of at least five years. This would result in substantial disruption to FCS's patients – including those enrolled in clinical trials – and FCS's employees. Second, FCS cooperated with DOJ's investigation leading up to entry of the DPA and agreed to continue doing so going forward. The terms of the DPA run through December 31, 2023.
Healthcare providers should be mindful of the following takeaways from the FCS matter:
DOJ remains very active in the healthcare enforcement space. The FCS case is the latest of DOJ's enforcement actions aimed at curbing alleged anticompetitive conduct by healthcare providers. In recent years, the agency has pursued civil enforcement cases involving a wide range of provider conduct, including managed care contracting practices (see United States v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth); agreements among competitors to limit marketing within a particular geographic territory (see United States v. Hillsdale Cmty. Health Ctr. and United States v. W.A. Foote Mem'l Hosp.); and agreements by competitors not to poach each other's employees (see Seaman v. Duke Univ where in an unprecedented move, DOJ successfully intervened in the private action for the limited purpose of joining the parties' settlement and obtained the right to enforce the settlement's injunctive relief). Every indication is that these enforcement initiatives – whether pursued civilly or criminally – will continue.
Private lawsuits are likely to follow. Government enforcement actions commonly spawn a spate of private class action litigation. While FCS has already been subject to some private antitrust-related lawsuits, it is possible that others may follow. For example, to the extent that FCS agreed not to recruit and employ physicians in the radiation oncology space, a radiation oncologist practicing in Southwest Florida may contend that his or her wages were artificially suppressed as a result of an anticompetitive conspiracy. Accordingly, the DPA may not resolve all of FCS's antitrust-related legal headaches.
Now, more than ever, providers should adopt and enforce antitrust compliance policies. FCS has sustained an enormous economic and reputational setback that would have been avoided through the adoption of, and adherence to, an antitrust compliance policy. All provider organizations would be well advised to educate their employees on the bounds of permissible conduct as it relates to interactions with competitors. The centerpiece of any educational initiatives should be a comprehensive, written antitrust compliance policy.
All agreements among competitors are not unlawful. DOJ characterizes the conduct in the FCS matter as per se unlawful, meaning that these are "naked" market allocation agreements that provide no consumer benefit whatsoever. That is not to say, of course, that competitors can never enter into arrangements that pass muster under the antitrust laws. For example, a properly structured joint venture among competitors to expand or enhance a healthcare service typically would be evaluated under the rule-of-reason standard – a more pliable, defense-friendly legal standard than the per se standard. By contrast, agreements that only reduce competition and offer no procompetitive benefits are more likely to be evaluated under the harsher per se standard pursued in the FCS matter.
Bradley has an experienced team of antitrust attorneys who devote their practice to the day-to-day competitive issues confronted by healthcare providers. Should you have any questions, feel free to contact Mark Horoschak, Brian Hayles, Michael Fischer or Najla Long.
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Remembering Danny Cohen (1937 - 2019)
2012 Internet Hall of Fame inductee Danny Cohen, whose work paved the way for voice over IP (VOIP) technology, died August 12th in Palo Alto, Calif., according to his family. He was 81.
Writes The New York Times: "Dr. Cohen, an Israeli immigrant who started out as a mathematician, is credited with designing the first real-time computerized flight simulation system, providing the experience of piloting a plane without having to leave the ground. When he took on the project, he told Wired magazine in 2012, the challenge was not just to master flying as a skill -- he later became an accomplished pilot -- but also to represent it graphically on a computer."
Cohen developed the flight simulator in 1967 on a general purpose computer (he also developed the first real-time radar simulator). This led to the creation of the Cohen-Sutherland computer graphics line clipping algorithms, created with Ivan Sutherland. Then, in 1973, he was the first to implement "packet-video" and "packet voice" (Network Voice Protocol) when he adapted the visual flight simulator to run over the ARPANET. It was the first application of packet switching to real-time applications.
In addition to this work, as a researcher at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), he started and led several projects including FastXchange (e-commerce), digital library and ATOMIC, which was local area network technology. Cohen and his research group under ARPA sponsorship developed the USC/ISI ATOMIC LAN, which was based on the Caltech Mosaic components. It was the research prototype for Myrinet, a high-performance system area network. He would go on to co-found Myricom, which commercialized Myrinet, and start the MOSIS project.
Cohen was also well-known for coining the computer terms Big Endian and Little Endian in his landmark article "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace," which examines the proper byte order.
Hall Of Fame Highlights
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From the Internet Hall of Fame Archives: Inductee Teus Hagen examines how his willingness to challenge authority –… https://t.co/m0Uo2FhVOe — 4 days 6 hours ago
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Youthinmind is a "psychology technology" business providing diagnostic services for mental health conditions in children, adolescents and young adults. The company's key products utilise online forms filled in by patients, their family members and teachers. Youthinmind's initial use for ChainZy was to provide client governments with an immutable record that patient survey interactions had happened at a given time and had not been altered subsequently. As a second stage use case, survey responses written to ChainZy were cross referenced with respondents' physical location to create a dynamic daily global heat map of the results.
ChainZy processes 100,000's of survey responses and Youthinmind interactions every day across 60 countries. In 2016, ChainZy processed 8.2 million transactions, increasing to 15 million in 2017. The ChainZy product suite was written into the Youthinmind software with minimal disruption and at near-zero throughput cost. As well as providing data security and validation for respondents, the use of ChainZy has helped Youthinmind visualise and track user interactions, enhancing their sales strategy and performance management.


Let's consider the impact of the distributed encryption attacks like WannaCry, Petya, NotPetya and all the other variants. They have been using encryption offensively to attack what we consider valuable: the information that we use and technology to create, distribute, and enrich ourselves in both a corporate or personal way.
Before we go too much farther, let's clarify some definitions for "Security" and "Defense" so we can use that to drive the rest of this post. For fun, let's also throw in one more word: "Attack."
Defense: The action of defending from or resisting attack.
Attack: An aggressive and violent action against a person or place.
If we apply "Cyber" to either definition, we start seeing how a word changes perspective and objectives. Cyber Security speaks to solutions that make you free from danger or threat. Cyber Defense speaks to solutions that actively resist attack.
Before we dive into what active resistance means, let's look at recent ransomware attacks. Considering how WannaCry, Petya, and NotPetya were deployed, each package had objectives whether financial or otherwise. In terms of the NSA tools released by the Shadow Brokers, they were delivery systems as defined by The Register here.
These tools were developed by the NSA to deliver exploits in SMB1, SMB2, RDP, IMAP payloads that attack systems to destroy, disrupt, or disable targeted systems. WannaCry, Peyta, and NotPetya's use of encryption as an attack against businesses and individuals are not particularly sophisticated despite being effective. This is made self-evident by the challenges the attackers had in coordinating the release of key material for those who opted to pay the ransom. In the case of NotPetya, it looks like the payment behavior isn't even a working feature - they need better QA\QC. So what we have is the equivalent of a North Korean warhead on an American Missile.
Even with the less-than-stellar attack payloads, these weapons took advantage of systems and orchestrated an attack that took advantage of how we work – by exploiting flaws in earlier versions of communications protocols like SMB1. This presents a challenge to anti-virus, firewalls, and other technologies that focus on observation and restriction. The cyber security challenge in light of the above creates a scenario where technology's requirement to deliver "freedom from threat" correlates with "inability to work". If we can't work, what's the point?
But there is hope! The concept of Cyber Defense — Cyber Active Resistance, can be applied with the same construct as the delivery systems used by the recent spike in ransomware attacks. Just like on the battlefield, Cyber Defense is an act in coordination and resistance. The differences are what technology is used and how the technologies are coordinated to respond to a threat. Just as soldiers have the means to coordinate artillery, machine guns, and grenade launchers to respond to an attack, we need the capacity to coordinate the myriad of cyber security technologies such as firewalls, systems management, identity management, and encryption management to address cyber threats as they occur.
At Fornetix, when we say Key Orchestration, we mean coordinated, actively controlled key management. We learned that if you use standard protocols (KMIP, PKCS11,CEF, etc) and deploy them to actively interact with other systems beyond the "Want Key / Have Key" paradigm of encryption key management, you create solutions where you can use encryption key management to actively resist — DEFEND — against an attack by allowing the technology to interact, coordinate, and respond to other systems. Demonstrating that existing security technology can be coordinated like NSA capabilities, Racktop's Secure Data Protection Platform, VMware VSphere, Seagate's ClustStor CL220 and even tactical radios can use orchestrated encryption key management for coordinated active resistance of attackers.
Cyber Defense extends to coordination of patching strategy, leveraging analytics and machine learning, and even how we assert our identity. Each security technology plays its part and becomes an asset to coordinate to respond to Cyber Attacks as they occur. Coordinated, Orchestrated Defense lets us work with confidence, knowing that the enemy at the gates will be answered.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Cyber Security is dead, long live Cyber Defense.
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Q: Android custom static xmlfile Ok so I want to put a custom static xml file into my application so that I can easily pull data from it. The problem I am facing is that every time I try to add an xml file to res/values/ I get invalid start tag, I would really love to use my own tags and not be forced to use things like <resources> and <item>. Do I have to store this in a separate location if I want to use these custom tags, or am I just screwed out of doing this.
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Thanks in advance

A: For static xml files like this, you need to put them in the "raw" or "xml" folder under the "res" directory. That way Android doesn't try to parse it. You can read more about it here in the Android docs. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html

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The day is almost here to enjoy an afternoon of entertainment and insight. Learn more about refugees and their life experiences at our free screening of The Good Lie, starring Reese Witherspoon. Immediately following the movie will be a post-film discussion with one of the many refugees living in our very community! Come ask questions, listen to real life stories, and leave enlightened.


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Die Zauberflöte Programme (CZE)
A booklet for the production of Die Zauberflöte
The fairy-tale story about Prince Tamino who, with the help of a magic flute, seeks the way to Princess Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. This opera is full of famous arias, for example a comic duo of Papageno and Papagena, but most of all the phenomenal Queen of the Night aria. The director Vladimír Morávek staged the new production of a charming Mozart opera at the Estates Theatre – the theatre that is bound to Mozart inseparably.
What's inside the programme?
The content of the opera, the complete libretto in its Czech translation, black and white photographs from the production at the Estates Theatre and the illustrations by Miroslav Huptych, foreword by the director Vladimír Morávek, the chapter about the life and work of the great composer in data, the analysis and history of The Magic Flute opera or the chapter devoted to the theatre director Emanuel Schikaneder – libretto author and the first Papageno!
Publisher: Národní divadlo
Format: 84 pages, 210 × 130 × 5 mm, paperback


Sad to hear about this. My son had his bike stolen out of his garage two weeks ago (he lives in London). After reporting this to the police he contacted his home insurance company who told him that his plan only covered up to $1,000 with a $500 deductible. I subsequently checked my home insurance with the same story. I have since bought separate insurance for my bikes and registered the serial numbers with the police. The cost was $40 per $1,000 with $100 deductible. Given the cost of some of the bikes out there this may be something to consider.
UPDATE: Pauls bicycle has been recovered! Thanks for all you watchful citizens who keep your eyes peeled. There were a few "sightings" reported which made all the difference!


In a first-person New Yorker essay that appeared on the magazine's website Thursday, Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke revealed that she nearly died after suffering two brain aneurysms during the early years of filming on the hit HBO show. After suffering her first aneurysm in 2011, Clarke said she couldn't remember her own name during a two-week recovery period. "Nonsense words tumbled out of my mouth and I went into a blind panic. I'd never experienced fear like that—a sense of doom closing in," she wrote. "I could see my life ahead, and it wasn't worth living. I am an actor; I need to remember my lines. Now I couldn't recall my name." After undergoing surgery, she developed a second aneurysm that required an additional operation. Of her recovery, which lasted a month, she evoked her GoT character in morbidly quipping, "I looked as though I had been through a war more gruesome than any that Daenerys experienced." She's since started a charity for victims of brain injury and stroke.
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We human beings are pretty good at procrastinating aren't we? Yes, we entertain vague plans of getting healthier, taking up new hobbies, visiting places we've always fancied, learning a new skill, changing career direction etc etc. But our constant busyness and innate inclination to stick with the status quo always seem to get in the way.
Take getting healthy for example. It's something we all, in our heart of hearts, want to do….
I'll think about it after my daughter's entrance exam, after my Mum's 70th, after my son's GCSEs, when I've decorated the house, when things are calmer at work, when the kids are bigger, when I have less on my plate, when I'm less stressed.
There's just one problem here, and it's a biggie: your body can only take so much. And the truth we prefer to ignore is that it always collects its dues.
The good news is that you already know what it is you need to do to feel and be your very best. Trust me, you do. But maybe you don't know where or how to start.
Are you waiting for that magical, mythical moment when conditions are just, oh-so-perfect to get started and you feel completely up-for-it and inspired to get going? I think we both know deep down that you may be waiting a long, long time.
Now we've acknowledged that, I'd like to share with you a tip that I've found absolutely invaluable. Just take five minutes today and do something (however tiny and no matter how little you feel like doing it) towards achieving whatever it is you've been putting off. Something that will allow you to take that first baby step towards being who you want to be. You'll see that your initial action will kick-start the process and you'll then naturally move on to the next action and then the next. Try it – it really works!
What would you regret not doing if you didn't get started on it this month?
Grab a piece of paper and get scribbling. Then get planning. Then get started. Just begin with that one little thing that gets you going on your chosen path.
Great advice! I'm so guilty of telling myself I'll do something another day and then never actually doing it – time to stop putting things off!
We all get tripped up by that one Lucy – good luck with whatever it is you're going to crack on with!
This is so true – thanks for posting.
My piece of paper is at the ready!
That's brilliant Debs – good for you!
This post is great motivation for me to stop procrastinating my dissertation haha!
Brilliant. Good luck with it!


Agina comes from a musical family, which has allowed her to be educated in music since the age of 3. She was trained in many different genres of music such as R&B, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical, and Latin. Her first professional appearances were winning at the Apollo Theatre in New York and Sabado Gigante in Miami at the age of 8. She is no stranger to dedication, hard work, and sacrifice and has been in production and record deals since the ripe age of 10. At age 18 she signed a record deal with Ruthless Records and toured around the US with a hit single in Spanish called, Somos Mar Y Arena, a song in collaboration with MANA's guitarist Sergio Vallin. She's also had song placements on TV and reality shows such as, MTV and Showtime. She was a contestant on Season 4, "The Voice" representing "Team Adam Levine". In 2014 she was a finalist on "La Voz Mexico" representing "Team Ricky Martin". Ricky invited Agina to tour with him in Mexico as an opening act and likened her voice to that of a young Mariah Carey, "because of her ability to reach 3 octave range notes". Following the success of the show, she had a hit single in Mexico called No Te Dejare featuring "Mando".


Home » Music » Space Balloons » Space Balloons in the Boston Herald! Photos and videos beamed to Earth! …and Space Balloons visit Planet Allston!!!
Earth Children, Space Balloons appeared in your Earth newspaper, The Boston Herald!
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M-Pesa New Features and Improvements after Full Upgrade
This upgrade started in June, and went on for a number of weeks. This is the third upgrade in 10 years, and will automate some of the M-Pesa functions.
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Expected Efficiency after Upgrade
According to the service provider, the upgrade will reduce the need for customers to make requests to its call centre. It will also reduce the time that new partners take to join the mobile money system. This is expected to start taking a few hours from weeks. In addition, the M-Shwari and KCB M-Pesa will find their way in the Safaricom App.
See Also: Safaricom MPesa 1Tap Finally Launched for All Users
The service provider believes that the upgrade will add more value to the service. And this will definitely be good for their customers and partners.
Next Phase of M-Pesa
The upgrade will pave the way for the next phase of the system, according to the Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore. The upcoming phase will definitely come with a fully revamped M-Pesa. The new service will bring about tremendous growth and provide even more value to the ecosystem.
Must Read: Sending Mobile Money Across Networks to be Possible in Kenya
Looking Back From the Launch of M-Pesa
The platform went live for the first time in 2007. It was a micro financing system then. Over the years, the Safaricom service grew to gain over 25 million customers.
It uses a mobile phone to send and withdraw money. It is also used to save money, pay bills and buy airtime. The "save money" works with M-Shwari – a mobile service that acts like a bank. Generally, it is a saving and loan product also developed by Safaricom.
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You must have a national ID card to access M-Pesa from a Safaricom agent. You can also use a passport. There are over 40,000 of these agents in Kenya, according to surveys. You must also have a cellphone using a Safaricom line. In addition, you must be a registered M-Pesa user to use most of the services.
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Railway Jobs 2019:- If you are searching for Government Jobs as well as Central Government Jobs then Railway Jobs 2019 is the best option to you. Here we are mentioning Latest Indian Railway Jobs Opening List according to their qualification and region wise. In every year the Indian Railway provides large number of opportunity for candidates according to educational qualification wise. Thousand of vacancies are available in this department. In India 21 RRBs, 17 RRC, RPF (Railway Protection Force) and various others Metro Rail Department are available. In this page we are going to provide you all the Latest Railway Jobs and all the Railway Jobs 2019 Notification details that are released by the various Railway Departments.
So candidates you need to visit this web page regular for all the Latest Updates regarding to Railway Jobs. All the interested candidates who want to make Career in Railway Jobs 2019 have a great opportunity. The railway recruits candidates according to their interested and eligibility. Candidates need to check all the eligibility criteria before going to apply for Railway Jobs 2019 For 12th Pass. Candidates must check all the desirable criteria for the particular post and start their preparation to grab this. All the Railway Jobs Recruitment can be checked from the official website www.indianrailways.gov.in.
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As we know that the Railway Jobs 2019 for Degree is for all candidates who have completed 10th, 12th, Graduation, Post Graduation, ITI, Engineering, Diploma and other types of qualification. In this department various type of Job Opportunity available for all types of candidates. The Indian Railway is come under the Central Government and its recruitment process for the fulfilment of RRB Vacancies in various zones. All the Latest and Upcoming Railway Recruitment Notification for the various Railway Recruitment for Group A/ Group B/ Group C/ Group D posts available. All the recruitment can check from its official website. The recruitment process will be done by written exam and interview test.
There will be huge number of Railway Jobs 2019 for 10th Pass available for candidates. In the Latest Railway Recruitment candidates who are seeking for Railway Jobs 2019 must submit their application form in online mode or offline mode. In the financial year the Railway Ministry gives more budget to the rail department n order to expansion the Latest Railway Jobs 2019 for the village and town their don not have railway connectivity. Some of areas still train running in meter gauge only. To improve this meter gauge the board require huge man power and machinery also.
For this requirement the department release huge number of Upcoming Railway Jobs 2019 to recruit man power from all sources to give the good employment to the candidates. Candidates who are going to apply for Railway Upcoming Jobs 2019 must read this full page and get collect all details from here. Here we are giving the name of Railway Vacancies below this table which come under Technical and Non Technical Posts. The eligibility criteria can change according to the particular posts. So candidates you are require checking the respective Railway Jobs 2019 Region Wise posts eligibility from the notification and then take any decision of apply.


The annual Cedar Park Middle School 5K is a school-wide fall event that promotes fun and fitness, while raising funds for the incredible programs and events provided by the PTC. This year's event is scheduled for Thursday, 10/4/18.
Students will solicit pledges/donations, then run, jog, dance or walk their way to the finish line. The money raised supports programs that directly enrich students' education and impact their positive student experience.
The 5K will focus on boosting PARTICIPATION, meaning ANY donation, from $1 to $1000, helps students earn a school-wide participation reward.
On the day of the event, each class will run, jog, or walk a 5K around CPMS. Each student will be issued a different color bracelet for each leg of the race that they complete as a record of participation.
Parents will man various fun stations to cheer, encourage, and probably embarrass their middle schoolers. The goal is to have fun, get outside, and enjoy the Cedar Park community. Parents are welcome and ENCOURAGED to attend.
Volunteer shifts for 2018 are LIVE! We need you!
ONLINE– Build a quick, simple, & secure online fundraising page. Please note: Each fundraising page requires a unique email address, so if you are creating a page for more than one child, multiple emails are required.
ENVELOPE– Place cash or checks into the pledge envelope provided. Students solicit donations and then collect money.
September 6– Kingpin Bowling. All students who have created a Firstgiving online page will have their name entered to win a Kingpin bowling gift card.
September 13– Top Golf Experience. Each unique donor on a student's fundraising page will earn them one entry to win a Top Golf gift card. The more donors you have, the more chances to win!
September 20– Trail Blazer Tickets. Every $50 raised through a student's firstgiving fundraising page will earn them an entry to win two Trail Blazer tickets. Game date TBD.
September 27– Timbers Tickets. Every $50 raised through a student's firstgiving fundraising page will earn them on entry to win two tickets to the 10/21 Timbers home game.
NEW THIS YEAR! 50% School-Wide Participation: Double lunch!
$75,000 Reach Goal: Students vote to dress administrators in costume!
Fastest 5K time (top girl & boy per grade): Fun gift card!
Sponsorship opportunities are now available for this exciting and valuable event. To become a sponsor, please send an email to Bettina Jeszenszky, 2018 CPMS 5K Sponsorship Chair, at cedarpark5K@gmail.com. We will work with you to find the sponsorship level that is right for your business and also gives you the visibility in our community that you are looking for.
Read more about our 2018 5K Sponsorship levels.
Corporate matching funds are an invaluable resource to help maximize your contribution. While they do not count toward overall dollar amounts for individual prizes, they do help maintain the enriching programs at CPMS. Please read more about matching funds opportunities.


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The Trio accidentally warps to ancient Egypt where they meet the young Pharoah Thutmose and — thanks to his evil minister Hatsnat — get a little too up close and personal with the mummification process.
3500 years ago Thutmose becomes Pharaoh, King of all Egypt, self-styled as a god on Earth.
2005 Cardinal Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI, and is seen by Catholics as God's representative on Earth.
I seem to have warped into Ancient Egypt. The Nile looks beautiful but those crocodiles look hungry, so I think I'll head to the market. I hope I can find some papyrus so I can write home. If I'm lucky I'll be mistaken for a Pharaoh. I wanted to learn how to write hieroglyphs but they beat students who make mistakes. I went into a mummification room by mistake and saw that I'm not cut out for a job like that and discovered that even pets were mummified.


Each year to our surprise Stratford's business show off their festival flair with and array of stunning displays for the annual Christmas Window Competition.
After launching the salon only in November and being Stratford's newest business we were overwhelmed to receive the award for the Independent category.
" it was such an amazing surprise and honour to hear that we had won the Christmas Window Competition in our first month trading in Stratford. We wanted to bring a little Christmas magic to the town and think our collaboration with fellow traders 'The Tradition Cycle Shop' has done just that".
Huge thank you to Fran down at The Tradition Cycle Shop. If your a traditional cyclist enthusiast with a passion for Pashley or Moulton bikes then these are the guys you need to check out. Details can be found below.


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Aage Bugge (26. marts 1874 i Ryde ved Holstebro – 12. december 1949 i Hareskovby) var en dansk arkitekt.

Hans forældre var sognepræst, sidst i Torrild og Vedsted, Georg Nicolai Bugge og Frederikke Marie født Olsen. Aage Bugge blev tømrersvend, gik på teknisk skole og blev i 1898 optaget på Kunstakademiet, hvor han gennemgik arkitektskolen og dekorationsskolen (under professorerne Ferdinand Meldahl og Martin Nyrop). Han var med det Larsen'ske Rejselegat på studierejser til Sverige, Tyskland og Norditalien 1903 og tog afgang som arkitekt 1907. I studietiden var han ansat på Nyrops tegnestue som medhjælper ved opførelsen af Københavns Rådhus 1897-1904 og derigennem fik han et grundigt håndværksmæssigt og teknisk kendskab til arkitektur. Som sin generation blev også Bugge præget af Nyrops nationalromantik.

Han drev egen tegnestue i København 1906-1922 og derefter i Varde indtil 1944. I Varde fulgte Bugge tidens stilretninger og arbejdede først i nyklassicismen og nærmede sig siden funktionalismen. Han var desuden en komptetent og pietetsfuld kirkerestaurator.

Bugge var også assistent ved Polyteknisk Læreanstalt 1905-1922, medlem af svendekommissionen i Varde samt medlem af provstetilsynet i Øster og Vester Horne herreder.

Han blev gift 3. november 1905 i København med Franciska (Fanny) Møller (28. juli 1882 i Nordby, Fanø – 28. marts 1996 i Odense), datter af birkedommer på Fanø, senere byfoged i Præstø, Jacob Ferdinand Møller og Hansine Beate Ziemer.

Hans urne findes på Hareskovby Kirkegård.

Værker
 Villa for instrumentmager Søegren, Bernstorffsvej 128, Hellerup (1916, udvidet af samme 1919)
 Præstegård i Lunde (1926)
 Handelsbanken, nu Danske Bank, Torvet i Varde (1928-29)
 Forsamlingshus i Hodde (1935)
 Nymindegab Kro (1937)
 Skole i Nørre Nebel (1940)
 Varde Bibliotek (1941, sammen med P. Riis Olsen)
 Helligåndskirken i Hvide Sande (1954, opført posthumt)
 Talrige restaureringer af kirker og kirkeinventar, bl.a. større restaureringer i Hostrup Kirke (1926); Kerte Kirke på Fyn (1930); Tjæreborg Kirke (1938) og Jerne Kirke i Sydvestjylland (1942)

Referencer

Kilder
 Hanne Christensen, "Aage Bugge", i: Sys Hartmann (red.), Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, København: Rosinante 1994-2000.

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Nationalromantiske arkitekter
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Ansatte ved Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

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Lora Wilkerson does not have to look far to see the potential effect of the Senate's ongoing efforts to overhaul the nation's health system. The Charleston, West Virginia, woman needs only peer into the bright eyes of her 3-year-old granddaughter, Ellie.
The girl was diagnosed at 18 months old with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that mostly affects children. Wilkerson said Ellie is still alive because of the Medicaid coverage and patient protections available under the current health care law, provisions that the latest version of the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA) would overturn.
"Ellie would have died," Wilkerson said at a press event held Thursday in Charleston. "Ellie survives, but continues to have nerve damage in her hands and feet." The girl receives physical, occupational and speech therapy on a weekly basis.
Little Ellie is just one of more than 180,000 West Virginians now covered by Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Their coverage is threatened by the BCRA provision that would phase out the enhanced rate at which the federal government funds Medicaid expansion between 2021 and 2023. Expanded Medicaid makes coverage available to people who earn too much to qualify for the traditional Medicaid program but earn less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line (that is $28,180 for a family of three in West Virginia).
Revised Senate bill fails to address core AMA concerns
Nationwide, more than 14 million Americans have Medicaid coverage in 32 states that have opted for the program expansion that is endangered by the BCRA, which the AMA opposes. And in six other key states whose senators could decide the fate of this legislation, more than 2 million people have expanded Medicaid coverage that could disappear:
Ohio: 682,900
Colorado: 425,500
Arizona: 418,400
Arkansas: 303,900
Nevada: 203,900
Alaska: 14,400
There is another way that Ellie's access to essential care could be hindered by the BCRA. If her parents' income grew to the point where they were no longer eligible for Medicaid, they might seek insurance in the individual marketplace. In that event, Ellie would be penalized for her pre-existing condition—rhabdomyosarcoma—or her parents would face higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs due to lower subsidies and benefit standards.
In nine health care battleground states—the seven above plus Maine and Tennessee—more than 11.2 million people are estimated to have pre-existing conditions that would have been the basis for a medical underwriting denial of coverage prior to the ACA. In West Virginia, nearly 40 percent of residents fall into this unfortunate category. In Tennessee and Arkansas, one in three patients do. In Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and Maine, more than 20 percent of patients have pre-existing conditions.
How a safety net could become a sieve
Perhaps the biggest impact of the BCRA would come about because of proposed changes to the traditional Medicaid program enacted in 1965. The proposed legislation would cap federal funding based on the number of patients enrolled in a state's Medicaid program, starting in 2020. Payment increases would grow at the rate of medical inflation until 2025, when they would grow at the lower, non-medical inflation rate.
Such an approach would hamper access to care for the country's most vulnerable patients—the poor, children, patients with disabilities and seniors who rely on the program to help pay for nursing-home or long-term care. As the Academy of Actuaries recently noted, this dramatic reshaping of the program could have dire effects.
Health care costs, these experts noted, are driven not just by factors such as the number of patients enrolled "but also by utilization increases, new treatments (e.g., costly biological drugs recently made available) and unexpected events such as natural disaster or pandemics."
The caps would lead states to make "efforts to close budget gaps including eligibility and benefit changes may reduce Medicaid spending, but they will not reduce total spending." Rather, the Academy wrote in a June 30 letter to Senate leaders, "the cost of care will be transferred to providers, insurers, employers and to the individuals who seek needed care."
The BCRA's arbitrary Medicaid funding formula would make it difficult for states to address public health epidemics or pay for breakthrough treatments that save or dramatically improve the quality of the lives of the country's most vulnerable patients.
In the nine battleground states below, more than 10 million patients are covered by the traditional Medicaid program—a vital safety-net program that could become transformed into a sieve:
Ohio: 3 million
Arizona: 1.9 million
Tennessee: 1.7 million
Colorado: 1.3 million
West Virginia: 510,200
Maine: 272,100
Alaska: 137,800
In many of these states, Medicaid covers a large share of the children who live in small towns and rural areas, according to a recent report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. In some of these states, majorities of such children rely on Medicaid to access the care they need to grow into healthy adults. In Arkansas, six in 10 children in small towns or rural areas are covered by Medicaid. In Arizona, the program covers 54 percent of these children. In West Virginia, the figure is 51 percent.
It figures, then, that recent polling found that support for cutting Medicaid is abysmal in seven of these states, ranging from 9 percent in Tennessee to 17 percent in Alaska. In West Virginia, the vast majority of those polled say they or someone they know is covered by Medicaid.
For Katie Coombs of Reno, Nevada, the staggering proportions of these kind of data underlie a deeper truth that elected officials should recognize. Coombs lives with supraventricular tachycardia and carries a defibrillator to get her heart back into rhythm as needed. She worries about how her pre-existing condition would be treated in a post-ACA world.
"I have a son who's turning 2 today, and I need to be here for him for a long time," Coombs told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "They need to understand the impact of the decisions they're making. This isn't just about winning or losing or repealing a law because you didn't like the previous administration. This is about real people who have real concerns and have real health problems. And there are millions of us."
Make your voice heard
Physicians and patients who want to engage in the advocacy campaign to preserve access to affordable and meaningful health insurance coverage are encouraged to visit the AMA's campaign website, at Patientsbeforepolitics.org. The site explores the AMA's health reform objectives in depth and provides resource documents, patient profiles and grassroots action links to facilitate communications with their Senators.
Read more about the AMA's comprehensive vision for health-system reform, refined over more than two decades by the AMA House of Delegates, which is composed of representatives of more than 190 state and national specialty medical associations. Or explore the AMA Wire® special series, "Envisioning Health Reform."
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by Jim Davis
People pray at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Surfside, Fla., June 30, 2021, as emergency crews continued the search and rescue operations for survivors of a collapsed condo building. (CNS photo/Marco Bello, Reuters)
MIAMI (CNS) — Following the sudden collapse of a multistory building with people trapped inside, many Catholics around South Florida have fled to a common refuge: the comforting presence of Mary.
So it was that several schools in the Miami Archdiocese reacted to the June 24 fall of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside by praying the Rosary. Reflecting on its glorious, joyful, sorrowful and luminous mysteries, they called on the Mother of God for aid and comfort.
"I think everyone understands that in pain, you turn to your mother," said Wency Ortega, who helped organize a virtual online Rosary June 27 for students, teachers, families and alumni of Christopher Columbus High School. "And in turning to our Mother, we turn to Jesus."
About 2,000 people tapped into Columbus' virtual Rosary, coordinated by a group of instructors and alumni of the Marist school in Miami. Taking part through YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook Live, they were knitted together via the StreamYard platform.
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As of July 1, at least 18 people were confirmed dead and authorities put the number of those still unaccounted for at 145. Miami-Dade County's mayor said two of the 18 fatalities were children, ages 10 and 4.
Other schools also have held or planned their own rosaries. On June 28, Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami drew 300 people to a "Prayer for Surfside." Seated in the campus' Roca Theater, they also heard words of encouragement from Jesuit Father Guillermo Garcia-Tuñon, school president.
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A businessman was beaten and threatened so badly by a dissident republican gang that he asked to be shot to end his ordeal, the Special Criminal Court has heard.
The non-jury court heard this afternoon that Mayo businessman Edward McAndrew was beaten with iron bars and threatened by a group of men demanding money in Omeath, Co Louth, in 2017. The men told Mr McAndrew that they were members of the Continuity IRA.
Today Anthony Finglas (49) with an address at Havelock Place, Warrenpoint, Co Down, appeared in the Special Criminal Court pleading guilty to demanding money with menaces from Mr McAndrew at One Ferry Hill, Cornamucklagh, Omeath, Co Louth, on December 2nd, 2017.
The offence comes under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act of 1994.
After his defence counsel outlined the mitigating circumstances in the case, including that the defendant was a grandfather, Mr Justice Tony Hunt said "not to push too hard on the grandfather line" as Finglas is "hardly a candidate for Werther's Original".
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A victim impact statement read to the court by prosecuting barrister Ms Anne-Marie Lawlor SC said that after his ordeal Mr McAndrew, who traded in plant machinery, became suicidal and endured "an unbearable psychological and emotional impact".
Ms Lawlor said that two other men stand before the court on related charges, but that Finglas had entered a guilty plea to the single offence of demanding money with menaces, which the State accepted on the basis that the full facts of the case be heard.
Detective Sergeant Padraig Boyce told Ms Lawlor that Mr McAndrew received an email in September 2017 requesting a meeting with Mr McAndrew from a man called "Barry", claiming to have machinery for sale.
Mr McAndrew travelled from Mayo to attend the meeting, which had been arranged for the Crown Plaza Hotel in Dundalk, Co Louth, on December 2nd, 2017.
Mr McAndrew arrived in Louth at around 3.30pm on December 2nd, 2017, when he met a "25-30 year-old" male driving a Seat Toledo.
Two deals were discussed for one piece of machinery purportedly worth €85,000 and another for €50,000, which were to be bought by Mr McAndrew.
Mr McAndrew was to follow the Toledo to the machinery, but temporarily lost it but met with the male again, who was now driving a silver Caddy van, which Mr McAndrew got into. Mr McAndrew was driven to Cornamucklagh, about 200 metres from the Border, said Det Sgt Boyce.
At Cornamucklagh, three males, two of whom had iron bars while another brandished a knuckle-duster, attacked Mr McAndrew.
In a statement to gardaí, Mr McAndrew said that the men claimed to be members of the Continuity IRA and began to "batter" Mr McAndrew about the head, body and legs while demanding money.
Mr McAndrew was put into the boot of a Mercedes E3 and was told that his mother and daughter would never see him again if he did not pay £50,000 to them in the coming days.
Mr McAndrew later identified Finglas from a line-up parade and recognised his accent from a moment at the scene when Finglas said: "Ease off or you'll kill him".
After two hours in the boot of the car, Mr McAndrew was released and managed to reach his own jeep before driving to hospital.
Mr McAndrew, who was in fear for his life at the time of the hospital visit, told gardaí that he told the doctors that he was in a motorcycle crash.
Amid phone calls and emails demanding money in the weeks after the attack, a text message was sent to Mr McAndrew's daughter claiming to be from a friend of Mr McAndrew's called "Barry".
Mr McAndrew downloaded an app to his phone that allowed him to record calls and took a recording of a threatening call to gardaí in Enniscrone, Co Mayo.
The PSNI and gardaí co-operated in a search of Finglas' house in Warrenpoint, where they found Mr McAndrew's phone, which Finglas had been using. Mr McAndrew's phone had a contact list that included the number of his daughter, said Det Sgt Boyce.
Reading from Mr McAndrew's victim impact statement, Ms Lawlor said Mr McAndrew stated that when the three males threatened to shoot him, he asked to be shot "to end it all".
Mr McAndrew's said in his statement that he has facial scars that he sees every day, cannot sleep, suffers flashbacks and had taken to drinking to numb the psychological and emotional impact of the attack.
Mr McAndrew said that he was in counselling and that he did not feel safe regarding himself or his family and felt that he would be better off leaving Ireland and starting a new life abroad.
Guilty plea
Det Sgt Boyce said that Finglas had previous convictions that included assault, possession of drugs, burglary and malicious damage.
Defending barrister Mr Michael Bowman SC said that the recorded call was not from Finglas, but from another male and that his client was "muscle" for the gang and was not "operationally engaged".
Counsel said that his client was in custody on an early guilty plea, had taken responsibility for his involvement in the attack and had assisted the State by taking part in the identity parade.
Mr Justice Hunt adjourned the case to December 15th for sentencing.
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The truth is that I didn't feel I had created a successful life until I began giving without expecting anything in return. I found my purpose through volunteering and later through working with volunteers in a professional capacity. The first time I volunteered was a fluke. I was invited by a friend to serve lunch at a soup kitchen because her husband couldn't make it and she didn't want to be short. Although not terribly excited about it, my need to please people prevented me from saying no. So, I went.
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Grand Sire:
The Minstrel
Solar Slew
Dam Sire:
Seattle Slew
Foaled:
Allen E. Paulson
Madeleine A. Paulson
Trainer(s):
Alex Hassinger, Jr.
William I. Mott (at age 4)
Jockey(s):
Jerry Dale Bailey
33:19-4-5
Earnings:
Major Race Wins
NYRA Mile (1994)
Massachusetts Handicap (1995, 1996)
Pimlico Special (1995)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1995)
Woodward Stakes (1995, 1996)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1995)
Oaklawn Handicap (1995)
Gulfstream Park Handicap (1995)
Breeders' Cup Classic (1995)
Donn Handicap (1995, 1996)
Dubai World Cup (1996)
Arlington Citation Challenge (1996)
United States Horse of the Year (1995, 1996)
U.S. Outstanding Older Male Horse (1995, 1996)
Cigar, foaled April 18, 1990 at Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Maryland, is a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1995 and 1996 became the first American racehorse racing against top-class competition to win 16 races in a row since the Triple Crown winner Citation did it in 1948 and 1950. He is also the 2nd greatest money earner in North American history. A product of Maryland's oldest thoroughbred breeding farm, Cigar is the grandson of The Minstrel who was a son of the greatest sire of the second half of the 20th century, Northern Dancer. Out of the mare Solar Slew, who in turn was a daughter of the 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, Cigar had the credentials to become a great race horse, but it took a few years for his greatness to materialize.
Madeleine A. Paulson was the original owner of Cigar. In his 2003 book, Legacies of the Turf, noted race historian Edward L. Bowen wrote that according to Paulson family banter, she traded Cigar to husband Allen for the filly, Eliza, the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and that year's Eclipse Award choice for American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Cigar was named not for the tobacco product, but for a navigational intersection for airplanes. Owner Allen Paulson was a major figure in American aviation and who had owned the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation which manufactured the famous Gulfstream private business jets. He named many of his horses after the five letter long names given to intersections on aeronautical navigational charts.
Race Record at 3
Cigar did not race as a two year old, and under his first trainer, Alex Hassinger, Jr., he won twice in nine starts at age 3, but failed to win in stakes competition. He did finish second in the Grade III Volante Handicap at the Oak Tree Racing Association fall meeting at Santa Anita, and third in the Grade III Ascot Handicap at Bay Meadows. During this period, Hassigner switched him from dirt to grass but the horse remained a low-grade stakes / high class allowance horse, not giving much hint of what was to come. As a 3 year old, Cigar earned $89,175.
The Switch to Bill Mott's Barn
The following year, his owner had Cigar shipped to an east-coast trainer, Bill Mott, who gave him the first half of the year off, only bringing him back to racing in July. Cigar managed third place finishes in allowance races at Saratoga Race Course and Belmont Park. It was decided to give Cigar one more try racing on dirt, in another allowance race at Aqueduct Racetrack at 1-mile (1.6 km).
The Streak
Cigar won that allowance race by 8 lengths on October 28, 1994. He would not lose again for almost two years.
Off Cigar's dominating performance in the allowance race, Mott immediately stepped him way up in class and ran him in the Grade I NYRA Mile (now the Cigar Mile Handicap), against the top New York stakes winner Devil His Due. Cigar dominated again, winning by 7 lengths. This concluded his four year old campaign.
As a four year old, Cigar finished up with 2 wins in 6 starts and earnings of $180,838.
Cigar started off 1995 in a 1 1/16 mile allowance race at Gulfstream Park in January, which he won by 2 lengths. He then faced the champion Holy Bull in the Donn Handicap at 1 1/8 miles. Holy Bull was favored based on his dominant 1994 campaign, but, tragically, broke down on the backstretch. Cigar won the race easily, but little attention was paid to the victory due to the breakdown of Holy Bull. The streak stood at 4.
Cigar then ran once more at Gulfstream, in the Gulfstream Park Handicap at 1 1/4 miles. He won by 7 1/2 lengths. He then went to Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas to face 1994 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Concern in the Oaklawn Handicap at 1 1/8 miles. He won by 2 1/2 lengths in a good time, 1:47 1/5.
Next was the Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore at 1 3/16 miles; Cigar once again defeated Devil His Due and Concern, running a very fast 1:53 3/5. The streak was now at 7.
Next was the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs north of Boston at 1 1/8 miles; Cigar won again in 1:48 3/5.
Many great horses from the east, such as Kelso and Seattle Slew, suffered losses on the faster, harder California racing surfaces. The Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park thus posed a particular challenge; the California track also assembled one of the greatest fields in the storied race's history, including Santa Anita Handicap and Pacific Classic Stakes winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up Best Pal, Pacific Classic Stakes winner Tinner's Way, Santa Anita Handicap winner Urgent Request, and Concern, who had showed his fitness with an impressive win in the Gold Cup's major preparatory race, the Californian Stakes. Nonetheless, Cigar was the odds-on favorite, and he barely broke a sweat. Carrying top weight of 126 pounds, Cigar was kept on the outside all the way by jockey Jerry Bailey and won by 3 1/2 lengths in 1:59 2/5.
Cigar then went to Belmont Park for 2 preparatory races and then the year end championship race, the Breeders' Cup Classic. Cigar won them all; the Woodward Stakes at 1 1/8 miles, the Jockey Club Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles, and the Breeders' Cup Classic at 1 1/4 miles in stakes record time of 1:59.58. He had completed a perfect season, 10 for 10, with earnings of $4,819,800. His streak stood at 12, and he was named Horse of the Year as well as American Champion Older Male Horse.
Cigar then set his sights on a new race, the inaugural Dubai World Cup, which was to be the world's richest horse race with a $5,000,000 purse. Rarely had great horses been able to travel to another continent, duplicate their form, and then return in good shape. Cigar started 1996 with a repeat win in the Donn Handicap, and then headed over 6,000 miles (9,700 km) to Dubai. In Dubai, Cigar gamely held off Soul of the Matter to win by less than 1 length; he was now the world's richest racehorse, and his streak stood at 14.
Cigar came back to seek a repeat win in the Massachusetts Handicap; the largest crowd in the history of Suffolk Downs turned out to see him. He would have to pass another test of greatness, carrying 130 pounds in the race. He won again, and had now won 15 races in a row, the longest winning streak for a major American stakes horse since Citation won 16 in a row in 1948 and 1950.
Arlington Park carded a special race, the Arlington Citation Challenge, for Cigar to attempt to tie Citation's streak. He would have to face the talented colts Dramatic Gold and Unbridled's Song. He would once again carry 130 pounds. He pulled away from Dramatic Gold nearing the wire to win his 16th race in a row.
The End of the Streak
Cigar would make his attempt to surpass Citation in the Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club near San Diego, California. Another record crowd of over 40,000 attended. Like in his last race in California, the Hollywood Gold Cup, Bailey took Cigar wide most of the way. However, he was drawn into a three horse speed duel with the good stakes horse Siphon and Dramatic Gold, going the first 3/4 of a mile in a very fast 1:09 1/5. The speed dual caused all the leaders to tire, and Dare And Go, ridden by Alex Solis, was able to pass Cigar in the stretch to score the upset, with Cigar settling for second.
Cigar rebounded in the 1996 Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park, which would turn out to be Cigar's last victory as a racehorse. Cigar was beaten by Skip Away (who would go on to win the 1997 Breeders' Cup Classic and the 1998 Horse of the Year title) in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, and concluded his career with a third place finish (again suffering from a wide trip) to upset winner Alphabet Soup in the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada.
Despite losing his last two races, tying Citation's race record was enough to earn him his second straight Champion Older Male and Horse of the Year honors. As a 6 year old, Cigar won five of eight starts and $4,910,000. His third place finish at Woodbine cost him the chance to be the first horse to win $10 million; he finished with a tantalizingly close $9,999,813.
Cigar was retired to stud at the end of the 1996 racing season. Ceremonies were held at Madison Square Garden to honor the horse. Further accolades came when he was named the Racehorse of the Decade of the 1990s, and in 2002 he was inducted in his first year of eligibility into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Cigar was ranked #18. In accordance with that ranking, Cigar is the highest ranked thoroughbred during the decade of the nineties (1990-1999) and therefore lays claim to the title, "Horse of the Decade."
On February 2, 1997, a life-size bronze statue of Cigar was unveiled at Florida's Gulfstream Park on "A Salute to Cigar Day."
Also in 1997, the New York Racing Association renamed the Grade I NYRA Mile, run in November at Aqueduct, as the Cigar Mile. The NYRA Mile was the second race in Cigar's win streak.
Cigar proved infertile as a sire and now lives at the Kentucky Horse Park's Hall of Champions in Lexington.
Until Curlin surpassed him in 2008, Cigar was America's richest racehorse. Cigar now ranks second in lifetime earnings, although it should be noted that the size of purses in Cigar's day were smaller than in Curlin's. When calculating for inflated purses, neither would be near the top of the lifetime earnings rankings.
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As the hostages who are to be freed make their way out, Roxane, when she is nearly at the door, is told to wait. She protests and tries to reach the door, but General Hector grabs her by the hair and pulls her back. The generals go into a little conference among themselves—since they had promised that all the women would be released—and one of them says "She could sing." Roxane is therefore detained apparently because of the entertainment value she offers.
Roxane's accompanist Christopf, who managed to find the strength to leave with the others, storms back into the house when he finds that Roxane has not been released. He flops down beside her and refuses to leave. He becomes even more ill, however, and loses consciousness. Father Arguedas helps Roxane attend to him. The priest believes the man is dying and administers the last rites as Roxane looks on, remembering her Catholic upbringing. She also reveals that the accompanist had, out of the blue, declared his love for her on the flight over. She had previously respected him for his musical skills, and recoiled from this sudden passionate declaration of his feelings.
After finding an empty vial and a hypodermic needle in Christopf's pocket, it is realized that he is a diabetic and needs insulin. But no medicine is available, and Christopf dies. General Hector suggests shooting him and putting his body outside, to show the government what they are capable of. A German hostage, LotharFalken, tells them the ploy will not work, because the wound will not bleed. When Roxane hears about the plan she says that if they want to shoot the dead Christopf they will have to shoot him through her. The generals back down and agree to release the dead body. The remaining hostages feel a sense of loss. They admire the accompanist because they are aware that he died for love of Roxane. Messner returns and arranges for the removal of the body. He asks for the release of Roxane but the generals refuse.
Gen is instructed by Mr. Hosokawa to tell Roxane that he is grieved by the death of her accompanist, whom he considers to have been very talented. On his way to Roxane, Gen notices for the first time one of the young militants who is sticking close to the singer. The terrorist has a delicate, intelligent face. After speaking to Mr. Hosokawa, Gen brings Roxane over to meet him. Mr. Hosokawa explains to her, using Gen as an interpreter, why he feels responsible for their joint misfortune. He tells her he had agreed to come to the party only because he knew she would be singing and had no intention of helping the host country. Roxane says she does not blame him, and Mr. Hosokawa is relieved.
The generals take an inventory of all the remaining hostages. Since they have failed in their objective to kidnap the president, they now want to find out if they have any high-value hostages and prepare some demands, such as the release of political prisoners and money. By evening they decide that thirty-nine hostages will be kept, which rises to forty because Father Arguedas again refuses to leave.
Messner returns and notices that Ruben's wounded face is showing signs of infection. He orders some antibiotics by telephone. General Alfredo gives Messner a list of who is being kept and who is being released, and also a list of their political demands and their immediate needs (blankets, toothbrushes, etc.).
Roxane Coss and Mr. Hosokawa take their first steps toward a friendship, even though they do not speak each other's language. Gen notices one terrorist in particular, and this will prove significant later in the novel. Although from an objective point of view, the situation is desperate, as eighteen militants hold scores of hostages, it is beginning to become clear that the militants are not over-anxious to kill anyone. Only Christopf has died so far,and that only indirectly as a result of the hostage situation. Patchett's intention is not to tell a realistic, action-packed story but to explore how a situation such as this gives rise to unexpected emotions and states of mind. The novel is in fact more of a fable than a work of realism. One of the themes is love, which is just beginning to emerge. Roxane is a larger-than-life figure in the sense that she seems to be an attractive force, because of the beauty of her singing, that draws others to her. Her singing awakens mysterious feelings of love and takes people into a different realm of experience than the normal.


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He advocated revisions in IORP II to encourage the take-up of cross-border operations and asked why European multi-national corporations, unlike their US counterparts, performed so poorly.During a later panel, a senior official from the European Commission was questioned over the current stipulation that cross-border funds should be fully funded at all times.Jung-Duk Lichtenberger of the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) explained that, if there could be no harmonisation of solvency rules, absence of the full funding rules would result in a "race to the bottom", likely due to a drive to re-locate to jurisdictions with more relaxed regulation.Lichtenberger questioned whether a minimum harmonisation of the 28 EU member states' pension regulation was "too much of an administrative burden". Hayes said the matter of solvency inevitably required not only his attention but the attention of questioners from the floor.He echoed a comment from a recent parliamentary hearing, noting: "Remember, we are dealing with other people's money – money they are putting aside."Answering a question later on, Hayes added: "We have to take the responsibility for getting more people to take up pensions, and I don't see EIOPA's [the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's] involvement as some kind of negative issue."Separately, he said EIOPA was "an important player, but, at the end of the day, it is the European Parliament and the Council [of the EU] that decides on legislation".At another stage, he described the Directive as a "minimum act"."We do not need to strangle member states on the matter of [excessive legislation]."More generally, he said that, "broadly speaking, we are working on a consensus position in the European Parliament".Hayes also touched on the matter of professional qualifications, a contentious issue in the UK and other member states that allow lay trustees to oversee schemes, and said he was aware of the concerns.He said he expected to have completed his own report to ECON by the end of July, to be followed, by late November or early December, by a final report from the committee. The dearth of cross-border pension funds must be addressed by the revised IORP Directive, according to the MEP in charge of the legislation. Brian Hayes, rapporteur for the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs committee (ECON), returned repeatedly to the issue of cross-border during a speech at the PensionsEurope conference in Brussels.The Irish MEP reasoned that the growing number of cross-border workers would warrant the growth of cross-border provision, but also that funds raised to back effective cross-border schemes could benefit the economy as a whole.Hayes said the current cross-border framework was "a heritage nightmare" and "a case of a regulatory framework that is bizarre", arguing it was a "key issue" that needed to be resolved. read more
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Former Syracuse linebacker Zaire Franklin has been drafted by the Indianapolis Colts with the 235th overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The seventh-round selection is the first SU player off the board.Franklin, the second three-time captain in Syracuse history and first in more than 100 years, appeared in all 12 games this year, totaling 85 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. He started in every game over the past three years and started the last three his freshman season. Throughout his 48-game career, Franklin tallied 311 career tackles, 31.5 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks.The 6-foot, 236-pound linebacker became a leader for the Orange early and was known for his drive to both improve and help his teammates. Franklin hosted a once-regular YouTube show, called "Z60," where he asked teammates what motivates them. Comments Published on April 28, 2018 at 6:39 pm Contact Charlie: csdistur@syr.edu | @charliedisturco Facebook Twitter Google+ read more
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In the last topic we have learnt about comparison of two strings and different ways of comparing strings. In this topic we are going to see finding out the substring in Java.
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