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Heartbreak for dog owners: Popular breed more prone now to cancer
By Jim Morelli, Boston 25 News
February 25, 2020 at 6:07 pm EST
Heartbreak for dog owners: Popular breed more prone now to cancer Heartbreak for dog owners: Popular breed more prone now to cancer
HUDSON, Mass. — The American Kennel Club lists golden retrievers as the third most popular breed in the United States, just behind Labrador retrievers and German shepherds.
"Golden retrievers naturally love people," said Pauline Hoegler, owner of Golden Opportunities for Independence in Walpole, Mass., which raises the breed to serve as help dogs.
And the feeling is apparently mutual.
"I think what attracts most people to goldens is their sweet personality," said Alysson MacKenna, executive director of Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue in Hudson, Mass told our sister station Boston 25 "They just really, really want to make that connection with people. In my opinion, there is no sweeter breed."
But it appears there is a genetic flip-side to that sweet disposition.
"Goldens are one of the breeds that we see that get a lot of cancer," said Dr. Cheryl London, a veterinary oncologist and director of the clinical trials office at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton. "For a period of time, there was a lot of interbreeding to create the golden retriever and all the other breeds. When you do that you create issues in the genes that predispose you to a variety of different things and one of them is cancer."
In fact, several studies -- both in Europe and North America -- have shown golden retrievers develop cancer at far higher rates than most other dog breeds.
One study, published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, looked at the cause of death in more than 72,000 dogs in North America by breed. It found golden retrievers ranked second on the list of 82 breeds for cancer deaths -- with at least half the goldens studied succumbing to neoplastic disease.
A study published in the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association found, in a five-way comparison of breeds, that golden retrievers and boxers died significantly more often from cancer than German shepherds, Labrador retrievers or Rottweilers.
Finally, a Dutch study from BMC Veterinary Research determined golden were not only at increased risk for tumor development -- but that certain tumors were more common in the breed than others.
In fact, London said goldens typically develop four types of cancer: hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive, often fatal malignancy of the lining of blood vessels, osteosarcoma or bone cancer, lymphoma and mast cell tumors. "The incidence of cancer begins to rise at six years of age and peaks at 10 to 12 then starts to fall off," London said.
Cancer in dogs can be treated -- sometimes with good results.
"If you have certain cancers that can be removed, then it may be curative simply to have surgical removal of the tumor," London told Boston 25.
If it's not a "removable" tumor, London urges pet owners to get multiple opinions.
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"I think the world of cancer therapy in veterinary medicine is constantly evolving. And there are new options out there all the time," she said.
Among those options: clinical trials at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Many of these require the ability to come to the Grafton campus for treatment, but they can offer promise -- especially for pet owners strapped for cash.
"So you get state of the art treatment with really no cost for your dog, which can be for many owners really welcome," London said.
"Any time any of our patients get cancer it's tough," London said. "And anytime they lose the battle it's tough. But every once in a while, we do see what we call our 'exceptional responders.' In fact, one of them is a golden retriever who lives in Maine, who is a long-time lymphoma survivor. He was involved in one of our clinical trials and is over a year out now."
London says it's hard to know how much progress they're making against cancer in goldens and other dogs, despite the success stories. But she thinks in a year or two, they'll have a clearer picture.
One area of concern for some dog owners has been the effect of spay and neuter operations on canine health. It's just one study, but research published in PLoS One found neutering male Golden Retrievers did not make a significant difference in cancer deaths when compared with leaving the dog intact though it did find more spayed female goldens developing cancer than intact females.
Given the possible genetic component to cancer in goldens, is it possible to breed the "bad" genes out?
The short answer is yes. But don't expect that to happen any time soon.
"Once we begin to really understand what's in the genes of various breeds, there are techniques we can use to sort of edit those genes," London said. "It's probably a little ways off. But something there in the future."
At present, golden retriever breeders can "suggestively" edit cancer out by looking for parental attributes, which might indicate a lower possibility of offspring developing the disease.
When breeding help dogs, Pauline Hoegler focuses on finding not only even-tempered parents but also dogs with a family history of long lives. However, she knows completely breeding-out cancer is impossible at this point.
"There's no getting around the fact that golden retrievers have cancer in their bloodlines," Hoegler said. "So I believe in having an open and honest conversation about what you do have."
What you do have in golden retrievers is an unusually persistent companion, said Allyson MacKenna.
"You'll never go to the bathroom by yourself...if you have a golden retriever," she said. "They just want to be as close to you as humanly possible."
That means they are not the dog for everybody. In fact, MacKenna says Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue has taken in goldens from owners who couldn't handle the clinginess of their dogs. But she says for most golden owners that's a big attraction.
"We have many more adopters, potential adopters, than we have dogs at any given time," MacKenna said. "People who've had them come back over and over. They wouldn't think of getting another breed of dog."
But be forewarned if you've never owned a golden, not only do they prefer company but they need a substantial amount of exercise and consistent grooming. And beginning at age 6, London says, they need to be checked weekly for growths.
"And anything new needs to be investigated," she added. "So you should get a diagnosis if your dog has a lump."
Goldens also have a tendency to steal your heart. And that can make the inevitable end — whatever way it comes — excruciatingly difficult.
MacKenna has lost several goldens over the years. Some to cancer. "Anybody who's had one, I think, can attest to the fact that all the years of enjoyment and love that they give you back is well worth it," she said. "And most of the people who've had one after going through the grieving period end up coming back for another one. And sometimes that's the best legacy you can do for the dog you lost."
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Upper Peninsula Special Olympics Winter Regional games held in Marquette on Saturday
By Tyler J Markle |
Posted: Sat 9:45 PM, Jan 11, 2020 |
Updated: Sat 11:36 PM, Jan 11, 2020
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Special Olympics athletes were competing in Marquette Saturday afternoon.
The 2020 Upper Peninsula Winter Regional Games were held at Marquette Mountain and the Rippling River Resort on Saturday. The festivities began with the opening ceremonies. Those ceremonies were followed by snowshoeing, cross country skiing, alpine skiing and snowboarding.
The games are made possible thanks to plenty of generous community support.
"Without them, this program isn't possible," said Special Olympics Area 36 director Pamela Bahrman. "Our program is all volunteer based, even myself, we're all volunteers doing this for the athletes."
Winners from Saturday will compete at the state winter games February 5-7.

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Matt Sabella, personal trainer at New Orleans Athletic Club, was born and raised in Kenner. A few years ago, he purchased his first home there as well. That's good news for us, because it means he isn't going anywhere soon. Sabella developed a passion for fitness at an early age, and the desire to help people find the same passion wasn't far behind. "I began weight training at 14 years old," he says. "I was a small guy, so my initial motivation was to build muscle. I started out at home with my dad's old bench press and a few dumbbells. That grew into a local gym membership at 16. That's where I really developed a passion for training."
Sabella began training at New Orleans Athletic Club in Sept. 2009. He says he was immediately interested in the history of the club and impressed by the buildings and old New Orleans charm. "In terms of personal training, I offer a variety of programs personalized to meet my clients' specific goals," he says. "In over 14 years of training, I have had success with programs ranging from toning and weight loss to bodybuilding and sports-specific training."
However, he gets the most satisfaction from forming connections with his clients. "There is something special about helping someone achieve their goals that maybe seemed intimidating or even unrealistic," he says. Yes … we can all identify with that feeling of it being impossible to get fit. But your goals really can come to fruition. And Sabella is happy to help you get there.
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The Reinvention of Mexican Cuisine, An Interview with Enrique Olvera
Words by The Curious Pear
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It only takes a few chefs to breathe life into a flailing cuisine. Anyone who has been to Mexico will have memories saturated with flavour – out there, food is woven into the culture. Yet here in England our perception of this colourful cuisine has long been shaped by bad restaurants and supermarket packet meals (sombrero cartoon, check. Grated cheese, check). It wasn't until the birth of Wahaca, Thomasina Miers' street food institution, that London started tasting Mexican food for what it truly is: vibrant, zesty and colourful.
But it is Enrique Olvera, Mexico's most celebrated chef, who is most often sited as the catalyst for the world's newfound obsession with the cuisine. Olvera opened his first restaurant, Pujol, in his hometown of Mexico City in 2000. Three years later it was named the 16th best restaurant in the world, by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, and won praise from the biggest names in the food game. From Pujol's kitchens, Olvera weaved together his passion for classic Mexican recipes with rare ingredients and elaborate flavour combinations. The results marked a new kind of Mexican gastronomy, and put Mexico City on the map as a culinary hub.
But Enrique wasn't satisfied with what he had done in Mexico. In 2012 he launched Mesamérica, a conference that aims to shed global light on Mexican food. He opened his much-anticipated New York restaurant, Cosme, in 2014. Naturally, it was a runaway success. With his one-of-a-kind recipes and passion for Mexico's culinary legacy, Enrique Olvera is showing the rest of the world exactly what they've been missing.
We caught up with Enrique on a recent cooking trip to London to talk quesadillas, ants and mole.
CURIOUS PEAR: Do you think the rest of the world has an accurate concept of Mexican food?
ENRIQUE OLVERA: It is hard to know Mexican cuisine. Mexico is so large and there are so many regions that not even Mexicans know it well. When people travel they synthesise the traditional processes and you end up with something superficial. But in general people are becoming more aware, and there are several chefs that are contributing to that awareness. For instance Thomasina Miers in the UK with Wahaca, Paco Mendez and Albert Adria with Hoja Santa in Barcelona.
CP: What do you think are the main misconceptions about Mexican food?
EO: Here in the UK, it is that it is cheap. But Mexican food is not cheap. It is created using the highest quality ingredients and is very labour intensive. If you put a lobster on top of a tortilla there is this perception that it is cheap, but at the end of the day you are still paying for that lobster.
CP: You've been described as someone who is reinventing Mexican cuisine, in what ways have you strived to do this?
EO: The intention was not to reinvent Mexican cuisine, but to make dishes that are personal based on what we know, but also trying to cook in a way that is honest to our principles. The result was a reinvention, but that was never the aim.
CP: How has your cooking changed over the years?
EO: It appears to have got a lot simpler, but in fact it has actually got more complicated. We have been synthesising our work and building up, creating things that are true to Mexican flavours. For example our Mother Mole, Mole Madre, which is Pujol's contemporary version of the classic mole negro. We started out with a recipe for a seven-day mole, traditionally reheated over the course of a week (the usual length of a celebration). After seven days we then wondered what would happen if we continued heating it indefinitely and found that the mole never stopped evolving. Since then, we have been reheating it every day for over 700 days, adding new ingredients that vary according to season. I find mole to be a fascinating, laborious and complex expression. Since mole is a universe in itself, we present it with tortillas, nothing else.
CP: Describe true Mexican flavours in three words:
EO: Powerful, vibrant and fresh.
CP: Tell us about your new book, Mexico from the Inside Out. What was the inspiration behind it?
EO: Street food, tradition and produce of Mexico – those are the three main inspirations and there are chapters dedicated to each of them.
CP: How did you go about choosing the recipes in your new book?
EO: The book is divided into two sections. Side A is the greatest hits of the last five years at Pujol. Side B includes recipes that we believe a lot of people can cook at home. They are easy to make, if you have the right ingredients, but also relevant to different occasions.
CP: What is a dish that defines your childhood?
EO: I have eaten a lot of quesadillas in my life. Not the cheap ones with flour and fake cheese, but the ones made with heirloom corn. The first time I realised I was truly Mexican was when I ate a quesadilla in Oaxaca. An old lady in the market with wrinkled hands filled the tortilla with quesillo Oaxaca cheese and squash blossoms.
CP: And one that defines your adult life?
EO: Baby corn with chicatana ant, coffee, and chile costeño mayonnaise, which is a welcoming appetiser at Pujol. I first tasted hormiga chicatanas (ants) during a trip to Sierra Sur coffee plantation in Oaxaca with chef Alex Ruiz, from Casa Oaxaca. I was mesmerised by their flavour, but above all, by the chance to eat something as exceptional as these flying insects that appear only during the first two June rainfalls in certain regions within Mexico. It made me realise that in traditional cooking, you can also find new things and flavours that mean something. My visit to that farm sparked the creation of a dish that today plays an important role at Pujol.
CP: What is your favourite food market in Mexico?
EO: Tlacolula market in Oaxaca. They have communal grills so you can choose your food – including live turkeys – and cook it in the market. There is also great bread there.
CP: What has been the best street food experience you have had in Mexico?
EO: La Guerrerense, Ensenada, Baja California, a seafood cart established in 1960 by the late Alberto Oviedo and his wife that makes amazing clams with abalone and 13 different salsas.
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CP: What do you like to do most when you are visiting London?
EO: Eat! And I love running in Hyde Park.
CP: What is next for you?
EO: Enjoying life! As always.
Mexico from the Inside Out by Enrique Olvera is published by Phaidon (£39.95)


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Talk:Yuletide
1 Christmas Controversy
2 Should there be a nod to the first secret santa communities?
3 Wait, Wait, Don't Eat Me
4 "Eastern" vs. "Western" Fandoms
5 Transfer of Old Archive?
6 Screencaps?
7 Splitting the page
8 Bears!!!
9 Import of Old-Archive Comments
10 FF.Net yardstick
Christmas Controversy
Should this page have a bit about the controversy around the whole Christmas thing? Or is that another page, "anti-Semitism in fandom" or some such? Either way I think it needs to be acknowledged. --Emma 15:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Sure, go ahead and add a controversy section. That way all the bases are covered. --rache 15:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I think this controversy sparked some interesting conversations about antisemitism in fandom, and eventually about Judaism and fandom. That stuff probably wants to be its own page, though. Kass 15:31, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Added a basic summation of the original posts, but I have to admit that I really have very little memory of the nonJewish response to the situation, or of which of the mods, if any, discussed it...
Ditto Kass on the need for a new page about the issue at large. And oh, man, I'm so psyched to see there's a stilljewish page already -- I was there and I still have no idea what, exactly, went down. *wry* --nextian 16:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I just created the stilljewish page, figuring that if this controversy were going to get written about, the other side of the coin ought to be here too. :-) I'd go ahead and create the "antisemitism in fandom" page so we could begin collecting bits of that conversation, but honestly, my qualm is that I don't like framing the issue in terms of negativity; I'd rather start a page on "Judaism in fandom," of which "antisemitism" could be a subheading. But that might just be me, so I figured I'd wait and see how others felt before plunging in. Kass 16:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I say plunge away; even if eventually people want to break "antisemitism" off onto its own page, "Judaism in Fandom" is a completely relevant topic that should have a page. --Arduinna 20:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Okay, the page exists. It's incredibly bare-bones and needs a ton of references and more material and links and so forth! So I hope folks will dive in. (I also welcome conversation about how the page is structured -- I took a stab at it but I'm not sure these are the subsections which we'll ultimately want.) Kass 21:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Should there be a nod to the first secret santa communities?
Some mention of where Yuletide got some of its inspiration from?--Sherrold 23:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Ooh, yes. In my mind, it was inspired by Don We Now Our Gay Apparel (the popslash secret santa -- do I have that name right?) but it's possible I dreamed that... Kass 02:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Wait, Wait, Don't Eat Me
I hate to be un-PPOV, but this story did not get all of those hits because people are dying for NPR fic. That might also be true, but what's distinctive about this one is that it came to the attention of people at NPR and then lots of high-traffic sites like BoingBoing where it was treated more as non-fandom satire (even if/when the word 'fanfiction' was mentioned). The article on the fic itself makes this clear. Franzeska 20:24, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Wait Wait was a popular yuletide story, but I agree that the people from outside fandom who read or linked to it were not looking for rare NPR fic. Maybe it should be replaced with a better example?--æþel 20:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Yeah. It's definitely notable (and funny and widely read by fans because it's good), but I just don't see it as an example of the particular thing it was being used to illustrate. I can't think of a good example of that though. Franzeska 02:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me it's a question of what was meant by "go viral"; I've recast the intro text in "Notable Stories" to supply multiple examples in slightly more detail, which may help solve the problem. --djonn 11:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
"Eastern" vs. "Western" Fandoms
I started rewording this section so it's less reflected of a Western-centric bias, but I need to read up on some of the issues discussed here. For example, on the section "The moderators have been upfront about the fact that they aren't overly familiar with Eastern source fandoms and frequently ask participants for help judging fandom rarity or identifying nominated fandoms" and "In early years of Yuletide, complaints were usually about the difficulty of being matched if one requested too many Eastern source fandoms", are there any citations or links I could check? -wistfuljane 18:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I remember people complaining about it being hard to be matched but not attributing this to any problems with the exchange itself (or at least not as much as in more recent years), but I don't have any links. For the mods mentioning this, there have been plenty of posts and comments over time. The current note 17 is an example: "We are particularly interested in hearing about anime/manga fandoms that are not obscure, as this is a weak area for your moderators, and I remember some puzzled mutterings from last year." That one's from 2005. Franzeska 21:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the links. Regarding your edits, I think the The franchise rule has also had a negative effect on rare Western comics fandom and RPF fandom inclusion. should be moved to another section since this is focus on the tension between Eastern source fandoms and Yuletide. -wistfuljane 03:01, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Sure, sounds good. Note 45 just struck me because I've seen the same view from Marvel and DC fans, among others. If I had to guess what was most directly responsible for the franchise rule (from the perspective of the mods), I'd probably say Batman or all fandoms collectively or something. Not that that fan's perspective isn't worth including, but in its current format, the article feels a bit misleading to me. Franzeska 16:06, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
I've reworded the paragraph by adding a "partly" to it. That particularly section, however, isn't meant to focus on the hows and whys of Yuletide's franchise rule though, but its effects on Japanese gaming fandoms and why some gaming fans of Japanese video game sources feel frustrated and alienated -- on which I'm hoping to expand. -wistfuljane 21:19, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Transfer of Old Archive?
I've added text in a couple of places updating what was originally there about the proposed Great Migration of everything from the original archive over to A03 (which, of course, still hasn't happened). Those with closer ties to the AO3 code-monkeys may want to amplify on the potential tech issues and/or timetable.... --djonn 09:09, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I agree, I poked around and didn't find an answer. There are 60 works from Yuletide 2003 but I don't know if that's all of them or there are more to come.--msilverstar (talk) 18:53, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Edited again, with a pointer to the new Open Doors announcement. I'm afraid I couldn't resist inserting a meta-comment into the present language, as I suspect there will indeed be further developments to document when/as/if the import goes live. --djonn (talk) 11:14, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Edited with some 2017 info --Msilfan (talk) 21:44, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Screencaps?
Did anyone hang onto their screencaps of this? "the spiffy "Latest story updated by [Author Name]!" with sparkly bright exclamation points of joy around it, along with the number saying which story it was of the total" --Anenko 17:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Splitting the page
The page is too long. We should start splitting out some of the sections into their own articles. Franzeska 15:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Came back to look at this page after doing some light update to the "Controversies" page. I am wondering if it's time to split the "History" sections here to their own page -- which would, looking further down the tree, probably involve co-opting the current "History of Yuletide" page and moving that content to a brand new subpage along the lines of "Yuletide Statistics" or "Yuletide Catalog". --djonn (talk) 02:39, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Bears!!!
Discussion on where "bears!" originated: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1102600.html. --Anenko (talk) 03:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Import of Old-Archive Comments
A note here just to clarify that I'm not trying to engage in a "dueling edits" situation. On the latest round, I moved a "while" that didn't make sense where it had been left after the prior (and entirely proper!) tweak, and added a parenthetical note for readers who may not be familiar with AO3's usage of "guest" to refer to users not logged into the site. (The kudos feature refers to "guests", but I don't think the comment engine does.) I suspect we'll end up reworking this again after the import's actually done.... --djonn (talk) 07:35, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
heeh, no problem! I'm just (full disclosure) the Support liaison into Open Doors, and for totally unrelated reasons (read: here totally unofficially) I came across this. Because I knew part of the info was wrong, I just changed it to avoid having inaccurate info doing the rounds. I didn't feel you were duelling or anything! hl. (talk) 07:39, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
FF.Net yardstick
The page says, "At one point Fanfiction.net was used as one of the yardsticks for "how much fiction already exists", but a number of participants pointed out that Yuletide participants are largely from a different part of fandom than fanfiction.net users, and ff.net was later dropped as a yardstick." However, eligibility rules for Yuletide 2015 still use FF.Net: http://yuletide-admin.livejournal.com/187158.html Was there a year that didn't use FF.Net? --Sarken (talk) 03:09, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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REVIEW: A Series of Unfortunate Events, S3 Eps 3&4 – The Grim Grotto
on January 3, 2019Posted in: Featured, Recaps, Reviews, Television
The Baudelaires have an underwater adventure in A Series of Unfortunate Events as they board the Queequeg, a submarine whose intrepid captain, Fiona Widdershins, is a devoted member of the VFD, and who is on a mission to retrieve the sugar bowl. There are some tensions between Violet and Fiona at first because the former wants to reach the "last safe place" to warn the volunteers of impending danger while Fiona is determined to see her mission through.
Klaus remarks that both are very similar, strong and intelligent women who have had to grow up too fast because of their complex circumstances. Klaus is also enchanted with Fiona and both share a love of research.
Sunny practices her culinary skills with the absurd optimist Phil, who is the new cook of the Queequeg, having survived his misfortunes at the Miserable Mill. The kids also encounter a mysterious and dangerous entity that appears as a large question mark on the radar but is one of the most terrifying creatures on A Series of Unfortunate Events so far. It is referred to as The Great Unknown and in the books it isn't clear if this is an actual monster or a metaphor for death. On the show, however, the orphans all witness a physical manifestation of a fearsome beast.
Of course, Olaf, Esme, and Carmelita are not far behind, in a tentacled monstrosity of a submarine (aptly named "Carmelita") with the kidnapped orphans from Mount Fraught as their galley slaves. Esme was made captain by the Man with the Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard, much to Olaf's displeasure, and the Hook-handed Man tries to make up for saving Sunny Baudelaire to his boss. They also encounter The Great Unknown but somehow also escape its terrible clutches. I just must mention that Esme Squalor sports a fabulous tentacled costume reminiscent of Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Her outfits trump any of Olaf's ridiculous disguises and it's always a delight to see her dress up for no good reason.
While in pursuit of the sugar bowl, the Baudelaires are captured by Olaf's crew and then forced to enter the titular grim grotto which is beneath the burned down ruins of Anwhistle Aquatics and which also houses a deadly strain of fungus called the medusoid mycelium. Quigley Quagmire has already retrieved the sugar bowl but his reunion with the Baudelaires is painfully short as the medusoid mycelium appears and somehow enters Sunny's diving helmet.
After this happens, it's a race against time for the Baudelaires as they need to save Sunny's life before the mycelium takes over. They enlist the help of the Hook-handed Man who eventually does lead them back to the Queequeg because of the bond he formed with Sunny back on Mount Fraught. Sunny guides her older siblings to finding a substitute for horseradish (which contains the cure) and they manage to feed her with a healing dose of wasabi before sealing the helmet with the deadly sample.
This was a turning point for the story of the Hook-handed Man, who is revealed to be Fernald Widdershins, Fiona's long-lost brother. He was also once a "noble" member of the VFD before joining Olaf's troupe. But he also comes to the same realization as the previous troupe members because for all his efforts to please Olaf, Fernald is continuously belittled and berated by his boss. Later on, when Olaf threatens his life, it's Fiona who comes to his aid. She helps the Baudelaires escape Olaf but she needs to stay behind to help her brother.
These couple of episodes effectively show one major theme of A Series of Unfortunate Events which is the bond of family, this time not only limited to that of the three Baudelaires but also for the Widdershins siblings. Another interesting facet of the story which will continue to be explored in the latter episodes of the season is the complexity of characters like Fernald, who may have been on the side of the villain but who also has some noble qualities. It's a more nuanced view of characters rather than limiting them to black-and-white morality. A Series of Unfortunate Events makes it clear that bad people can do good things and good people, like the Baudelaires, can sometimes resort to less than savory acts. All this is best summed up in this quote:
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
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Senate Concurrent Resolution 70, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Margaret Rose Henry, D-Wilmington East, would create a study group to evaluate the particulars of a Medicaid Buy-In program for roughly 24,000 health care consumers in Delaware's individual marketplace.
While many states, including Delaware, offer Medicaid buy-in programs, those programs are narrowly available to specific groups of health care consumers, such as working adults with disabilities. No state currently offers a broader Medicaid buy-in option for middle class consumers, although the State of Nevada recently came close.
Sen. Henry, who is retiring at the end of the 149th General Assembly, says her legislation could be the beginning of a leap forward on health care in Delaware.
A recent KFF poll shows national support as high as 75 percent for the concept of a public option.
The study group would be charged with evaluating potential buy-in models for consumers whose incomes are too high to qualify for the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. That evaluation would include levels of coverage, eligibility criteria, positive and negative consequences of a potential implementation, and premiums that the State would need to charge in order to keep its Medicaid budget stable.
SCR 70 also allows the Governor and the Secretary of Health and Social Services to apply for an innovation waiver under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to implement a Medicaid buy-in program, including possible approval of federal premium tax credits to defray premiums for buyers between 138 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Highmark Delaware, currently the only commercial insurer available on Delaware's individual marketplace, increased individual marketplace premiums this year by 25 percent.
Above and beyond providing a coverage alternative that is affordable for consumers, Medicaid's record of cost-effectiveness could have an important impact on the broader health care economy in Delaware, where health care expenditure growth was the nation's fourth-fastest from 1991 to 2014 (7.2 percent).
Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that from 1987-2015, Medicaid spending per beneficiary grew by only 4.1 percent, compared to 6.9 percent for private insurance in the same period. The Urban Institute reports that an average adult on Medicaid costs about 22 percent less than one covered by private insurance, despite an essentially identical likelihood of receiving health care.
"Medicaid buy-in offers a unique path forward for progressive state health care reform, offering people affordable coverage with comprehensive benefits. Delaware is playing a critical role in advancing our health care system by studying this issue. Medicaid may represent the future of the American health care system - and Delaware will be on the front lines of building that future," said Ari Ne'eman, a national policy expert on Medicaid and CEO of MySupport.com.
If the Senate and House pass SCR 70, the Medicaid Buy-In Study Group will be required to hold its first meeting by September 10, 2018. A final report on the group's findings and recommendations would be due to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 31, 2019.


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