| United Way contributes funds to Mental Health and Substance Abuse ...
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers of Southern Oklahoma, located at 111 E. 12th St., has been providing services for the Ada area since the 1950s. "We provide behavioral health services, counseling - individual and group, rehab - individual and group. We have a medication clinic which is where we have a psychiatrist that comes in and provides psychotropic medication for those who need them. Our psychiatric rehabilitation program is a day program from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. This program enables individuals to learn new living and social skills," said Terry Goodwin, executive director of MHSACSO.MHSACSO is a non-profit agency that provides mental health care and chemical dependency treatment to nine counties in South Central Oklahoma. Other services include screening and assessment, emergency crisis intervention, outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, case management, day treatment, children/adolescent programs, aging programs, chemical dependency treatment, consultation, education, and prevention.
Shoring up retirement path
Like many couples in their 50s, Wanda and Donald McCoy are worried about retirement.
And perhaps with good reason: They haven't managed to save much over the years.
They both are planning to work until age 70, but Donald's job as a truck driver can be demanding. And Wanda, as a breast cancer survivor, knows that health-care surprises happen all the time.
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Health laws flatten pancake race
The event was revived 11 years ago and since then crowds have gathered in the centre of Ripon, North Yorkshire, on Shrove Tuesday to watch school children running down a cobbled street flipping pancakes as they go. The start is signalled by the ringing of the cathedral's ancient "pancake bell" at 11 am on the day. The bell, originally sounded to call worshippers to make their confession before the start of Lent, has been rung at that time for at least 600 years. However, organisers have reluctantly scrapped the popular pancake race this year because of mounting costs and bureaucracy linked to health and safety rules. Payments for road closures, policing, insurance risk assessments and volunteer staffing problems have forced the cathedral Dean to call time on the tradition.
UPDATE: Charges dismissed in neglect case
Mary's Medical Center the day she died. "I didn't realize this was a possible neglect case until I got to the hospital," he said. "The emergency room nurse said it was the worst neglect case she'd seen, and then Annie Groves said the same thing to me at the coroner's office." Williams said he is concerned this could impact his ongoing civil case, but added he does believe Deputy Prosecutor Malcolm Gwinn did a good job. "They always say these cases are hard to prove or hard to try," Williams said "I still feel they would have felt differently if it was their relative." Prosecutors left the courtroom without comment this morning. For more of this story, read Friday's edition of the Courier & Press. PREVIOUSLY: Whether the trial for four nurses accused of neglect at an Evansville nursing home will proceed today is in the hands of the judge.
Palmetto Politics
We're live with results from the South Carolina GOP primary, where tonight John McCain pulled off a big win. Also today, the Nevada caucuses, where Hillary Clinton beat back a tough challenge from Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney cruised to an easy win over his rivals in the Republican field. But first, to the Palmetto State, where tonight veterans and self-described moderate voters helped propel John McCain to victory over his chief rival there, Mike Huckabee. For more on that, I'm joined by Republican pollster Whit Ayers. Whit Ayers, thanks for being here. Ayers: Hey, Paul. How are you? Gigot: I'm great, thanks. Big win tonight for John McCain. Eight years ago it didn't go so well for him. What did he do differently tonight that gave him the victory that didn't happen eight years ago? Ayers: It has to be an awfully sweet win tonight after the bitter loss eight years ago.
Tioga Energy VP Preston Roper's Presidential Pick
San Mateo, California-based Tioga Energy is a renewable energy startup with more than $14 million in investment capital from Nth Power, NGEN, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, RockPort, and Capital Partners. Founded in 2007, the company operates its own solar electricity facilities. Through long-term power purchase agreements, the company wants to provide affordable renewable energy. Tioga Energy executive Preston Roper spoke with Red Herring about his presidential pick for 2008's Super Tuesday. What would you like the next U.S. president to do to benefit tech companies?
The biggest thing that I would want to see is a cap and trade mechanism that brings the market forces to bear in a way that levels the field with traditional energy sources. The true cost of oil and its use are not accounted for today.
Clinton camp accuses Obama of plagiarizing lines
He added that he and Patrick agreed not only on many issues but on the language to describe them. "Sen. Obama and I are longtime friends and allies. We often share ideas about politics, policy and language," Patrick said in a statement. "The argument in question, on the value of words in the public square, is one about which he and I have spoken frequently before. Given the recent attacks from Sen. Clinton, I applaud him responding in just the way he did." Obama said Patrick was aware of his use of the governor's verbiage. "I was on the stump. He had suggested that we use these lines, and I thought they were good lines," Obama told reporters Monday on a trip to Ohio before returning to Wisconsin. Further, Obama added, the senator from New York has borrowed from him also, including a couple of his signature phrases.
Professor launches Yale-Ghana research exchange
Last summer, Emily Mosites EPH '08 spent 11 weeks traveling the most rural areas of the Kintampo, Ghana on foot. She and her team were searching villages for people unknowingly infected with hookworm — a soil-born parasite that is a leading cause of anemia and malnutrition in the developing world. Mosites found prevalence to be alarmingly high — with 45 percents of Ghanaians in the area infected. But of those living with the disease, many had never made it to a diagnostic facility, let alone accessed treatment. “The closest diagnostic facility is five miles away, and people don't have cars," she said. “A great number had never accessed a health care facility in their lives." Mosites is among many Yale students and faculty members who have conducted field research in Accra, thanks to a two-way training initiative established in 2007 by Michael Cappello, a professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at the medical school.
Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (Feb 4 - 10 ...
Things are going to get a lot worse before they are going to get worse." Randall Forsythe of Barron's offered the following commentary: "The Mardi Gras that's lasted four decades for the American consumer is drawing to an end, if it is not already over. After Fat Tuesday comes Ash Wednesday, which is observed today, and is the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting, self-examination and renewal for Christians, analogous to Ramadan for Muslims or Yom Kippur for Jews. Lower interest rates are a palliative, not a cure, for the economy's woes. Time is the only healer. Economists call that time a recession, and it can no longer be avoided." Before highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators, let's briefly review the financial markets' movements on the basis of economic statistics and a performance chart.
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