Reprinted here from:
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With the completion of the resurfacing of South Gwinnett's track the Comets are ready to light up the 2010 Track and Field Season by holding 2 home meets for the 2010 High School Track and Field Season.
Racing the Comets JV, will be open to all JV runners including 9th grade, on March 3, 2010 at South Gwinnett.
On March 6, 2010 Racing the Comets, will be held at South Gwinnett. This meet is for Varsity Boys and Girls teams and is at this point an invitational meet. If your team is interested in competing at this meet contact Coach Pritchard at sharard_prtichard@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
We plan to makes these quality annual events with fast times and record distances and a showcase for fastest teams in Georgia.
Times for both these meets will be Fully Automated Time.
Since these are both first time meets, winning times and distances will be meet records. It is also an opportunity to beat the all time events' records for Snell Stadium.
Start times for these meets are TBA but will be avaliable soon.
Concessions will be avaliable at both of these meets as well as t-shirts will be avaliable for sale.
Stay tuned we will be providing updated information about these meets on our new South Gwinnett Track and Field Website.
GO COMETS!!!!
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The end of summer always seems to be the hottest time of year and this year with the debate during the Congressional August recess on the debate on the direction health care should take has definetly heated the end of summer up.
Congress's current version of "health care reform" should have already died. For anyone who owns a business and last time I checked that would be all of us in the real estate business anything that is going to end up creating more cost in the form of higher taxes for businesses should be a read flag that we have to do whatever we can to defeated it. It will end up costs more money that gets taken away from our bottom line and in some cases make drive many of us out of business.
I am not a doomsayer, or trying to scare anyone but those are simple ecomomics facts that cannot be argued.
I think everyone agrees that there are definte reforms that need to be accomplished to rein in the every increasing size of the cost of health care. Single payer is not the answer, period.
Our allies in the developed world have had single payer for a long time and it doesn't work. In Great Britian women are having to bear children in restrooms, Doctor's office, or at home because there are no beds avaliable in hospitals.
Private insurance is now being suggested as an option in some provinces in Canada because the provincial healthcare system is not adequately providing for the needs of its citizens.
The United States has always been an advocate of free market solutions. It is the reason we lead the world in so many catergories and the world looks to the US for leadership on so many issues because the free market and freedom loving people find a way to deliver what is needed.
Here are some suggestions on what the debate should be about concerning health care reform, these are from the Heritage Foundation website at Heritage.org: retrieved August 27, 2009
A Consensus on the Problems
over $2.4 trillion on health care (almost 17 percent of GDP), and the government accounts for almost one-half of all health care spending.[1]
85 percent of all employers offer only one health plan for their employees
Premiums continue to rise in the private sector
Similar restrictions on personal choice face enrollees in government programs.
Medicaid, 23 percent are not accepting new Medicaid patients, and 18 percent are accepting only some paients
Medicare, serious legislative efforts are underway that will likely chip away at seniors' access to the private plans they want in Medicare
Those without coverage remains constant, the individuals are not the same
45 percent of uninsured are uninsured for less than four months; only 16 percent are uninsured for more than 18 months
This churning in the health insurance markets, and the lack of portability, is almost entirely the result of outdated government policies.
Two Competing Health Care Visions
General agreement on the outcomes Americans are looking for in any health care reform proposal: affordability, accessibility, portability, and quality.
On one side, there are those who believe that centralizing power in Washington is the best approach to achieve serious and long-lasting health care reform.
Proposals for a new public health plan and a federal health insurance exchange, as well as an individual mandate to purchase a government-approved package of benefits, clarify their intent: Washington control over health care financing and delivery.
The result,
Congress would ultimately be in charge of health care decisions.
A massive one-size-fits-all government system
Would depend on flawed financing schemes, new mandates, and higher taxes to pay for it.
On the other side, there are those who believe that individuals and families should be the key decision-makers in health care and that they should control the flow of health care dollars in a reformed system. They are concerned that a centralized system of federal decision-making would:
Diminish individuals' control over their personal health care decisions;
Directly undermine state autonomy and authority in health policy, undercutting both innovation and experimentation to expand coverage and deliver quality care, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens;
Generate and perpetuate unsustainable federal spending; and
Ultimately, in the face of serious budget crises, lead to government rationing of care and services.
Key Elements for a Workable Solution
1. Tax Equity. The cornerstone of any serious health care reform proposal must address the tax treatment of health insurance. Today, individuals who purchase coverage through their place of work receive an unlimited tax break on the value of their health care benefits. However, those who purchase coverage on their own receive no comparable tax break. There is broad bipartisan agreement, especially among health care economists and experts, that the current tax treatment of employer-based coverage is inequitable and regressive. Ideally, Congress should replace the current tax exclusion with a system of universal tax credits. Moreover, as a general principle, Congress should provide tax relief for those who purchase coverage on their own and redirect other health care spending to help low-income individuals and families purchase private health insurance coverage. 2. State-Based Reform. The health care challenges vary greatly across the country. Some states face high health care costs, while others face high rates of uninsurance. And, rural states face different challenges than urban states. Instead of depending on a federal one-size-fits-all solution, Congress should embrace a federal-state partnership that would preserve diversity in the states. The states' role would be to devise the best ways to achieve common national goals--for example, to establish a mechanism for portability. This is in sharp contrast to other state-based approaches where the federal government sets explicit requirements and imposes on the states the onerous task of administering its federal reform. These types of partnerships are little more than a backdoor way to a one-size-fits-all federal plan. 3. Sound Financing. The U.S. spends over $2.4 trillion on health care. Instead of spending an additional $1.6 trillion on a plan financed by tax increases and unproven savings from Medicare and Medicaid that may never materialize, Congress should restructure and redirect existing health care spending to make it more effective. To address long-term health care costs, Congress must focus on fundamental reform of the tax treatment of health insurance and entitlements. At the very least, Congress should require that savings be realized before appropriating them to any expansions Creating a Lasting Health Care Reform Members of Congress have a choice: Either they can support efforts that expand Washington's control of the health care system, or they can allow the states to develop solutions that will transfer direct control of health care dollars and personal health care decisions back to individuals and families. The choice should not be that hard. Nina Owcharenko is Deputy Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. [1]Andrea Sisko et al., "Health Spending Projections Through 2018: Recession Effects Add Uncertainty to the Outlook," Health Affairs, March/April 2009, at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/28/2/w346 (May 14, 2009). [2]Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Education Trust, Employer Health Benefits 2008 Annual Survey, September 24, 2008, p. 30, at http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/7790.pdf (May 14, 2009). [3]Ibid. [4]Kaiser, p. 59. [5]Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Community Tracking Study Physician Survey, 2004-2005: [United States]," August 2006, p. 38, at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/04584.xml (May 13, 2009). [6]While the financing system for Medicare Advantage is flawed, some approaches to address these changes would have a negative impact on the highly popular plans. See Robert E. Moffit, "The Success of Medicare Advantage Plans: What Seniors Should Know," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2142, June 13, 2008, at http://www.heritage.org [7]Congressional Budget Office, "How Many People Lack Health Insurance and For How Long," May 2003, p viii (Figure 2) at http://www.cbo.gov/ This is the kind of sustainable solution which which be beneficial to all and keep health care decisions where they belong in the hands of individuals.
/Research/HealthCare/bg2142.cfm.
ftpdocs/42xx/doc4210/05-12-Uninsured.pdf (May 14, 2009).
I wanted to take this opportunity to pause and reflect as our nation celebrates its 233rd Birthday.
I hope everyone who lives in this country understands and realizes how lucky we all are to live in the freeest land on the face of this little blue planet.
Never has a country existed on the earth which has accomplished as much as we have in a relative short time.
We came for the original 13 colonies of approximately 7 to 10 million citzens to a nation in 2009 of over 300 million.
Our founding fathers were some of the greatest minds of any age who had the courage, understanding of history and desire to build a new nation free and different from anything that had every been tried before and did everything they could to get the nation off on the right path and on a course to sustainability. On this day we should take the opportunity to remember and thank our Father in Heaven for blessing these men with the great gift of foresight and courage to build an American Nation.
We have helped citzens of many nations of this world in their times of need. It was the US with our allies that rebuilt western Europe and Japan after WWII. Germany, Japan and Italy where our enemies and we came to their aid and helped them rebuild. Japan become one of our major trading partners and has become an economice super power it is own right.
The improvements in the standard of living that much of the world enjoys has been in many respects because of the ingenuity of many citzens of the United States of America, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Benjamin Franklin just to name a few.
We went from the concept presented by Pres. Kennedy in 1960 to the moon in 1969. We have expanded our understanding of the universe that we are a part of with the Hubble and Spizter space telescopes.
Ronald Reagan brought us the concepts of peace through strength and economic prosperity which started this nation on a 20 plus year run of prosperity which has neverbeen seen before.
I have listed just a few of the many wonders and blessings that our nation has brought to the world. We should always leave the world better than we found it and for 233 years we have as a people have tried to do just that.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA and everyone have a GREAT 4th of JULY.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
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Rate of Motin Elite has a new blog.
http://coachseanscorner.blogspot.com/
We will stil provide updates on active rain.
You can look up all the stats on our athlests at Rate of Motion on Milesplit.com
Rate of Motion Elite is currently in the midst of the summer outdoor season of track and field and as I writie this post we have 2 athletes in Michigan at the USATF Youth Championships. Donye Coleman and Quandra Shanks are competing in the 400,800 and 1500m. Yesterday Donye and Quandra finished 10th and 11th overall in the 800 and more updates will be coming as they are made avaliable.
Next weekend we have 3 athletes who will be competing in the USATF Jr. Olympics Region 3 meet which is the next qualifier for the USATF Jr. Olympics in Greensboro, NC. Kevin Gary in the 400, Mark Watts in the 800 and Aliyah Abrams in the 200 and 400. We will be in Washington D.C. for this event and there will be several update post on how they do.
We have a couple of new member of Rate of Motion Elite who did PRs at the USATF Association Meet. Bryant Crenshaw and Sloane Mattadeen. Sloane ran the 400 hurdles on Saturday July 13, and ran 1:04.39. He qualified for the finals on Sunday and ran a 1:00.33. He dropped 4 seconds off his time from the previous day and missed qualifying for the Region meet by 1ooth of second. Putting him in 7th place overall, it was also on his second time running the event. Although he isn't running at Region he is going to come with the team members going to D.C. because of his outstanding performance at the Association Meet. Bryant did the long jump at the Association meet and did a PR of 19.85 feet. Wasn't enough to make the finals or qualify for Region but it was a personal best and he placed 13th overall, it was a great effort on his part.
Thats all for now.
South Gwinnett took 8 people to compete in the 38th Annual Georgia Games in Jefferson, Georgia.
Kevin Gary came in 3rd in the finals of the 400m in a time of 48.71 and one of the best showings by a Comet in years, wait to go Kevin. He is closing in on the South Gwinnett all time 400 record. Looking forward to seeing Kevin become the State Champion at 400m.
The 4x400m relay team competed in the finals on the feet of Mark Watts, Jonathan Krause, Roodgery Rosemberg and Kevin Gary. They came in 4th in a time of 3:18.47. This was Roo's last race as a Comet and he ends his high school career on a high note and did so injured.
South Gwinnett finished 13th overall in state 5A with 11 points.
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