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September 3 2012, 01:28 AM
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Re: How does that blasted transporter work anyhow?
I think the way it SHOULD work is that a quantum scanner records your pattern and then as a consequence of that scan your atoms are quantum-linked with extra-dimensional energy and phased intact, effectively swapping places with the energy from the other dimension. The anular confinement beam is needed to keep the quantum-linked energy in the correct pattern for reintegration which occurs automatically once the beam is switched off at destination co-ordinates. The energy pattern is sent via a subspace carrier wave.
Now whenever a signal is sent, some of the information always leaks away, despite the confinement beam. When a person returns to the ship, the transporter adds back in any missing atoms using replicated material. If too much information is lost, an excessive amount of replicated material just leads to the person reforming as a corpse except in rare situations like with Tom Riker.
This method takes a step away from the kill and copy format at least, stays relatively consistent with what we've seen on screen, including Realm of Fear. It would also add in sensible limitations so you always need a communicator or tag (both standard issue to all landing parties) and that using transporters too often in quick succession can lead to illness.
Technically, the transporter should only work if the person on the planet has a Starfleet issue communicator or some other relay (like a tag) to allow a localised quantum scan to take place. I don't really understand why it's necessary to carry out a quantum scan using a transporter pad if you can just use normal scanners to beam people straight up off a planet's surface. I think they opened Pandora's box early on and couldn't shut it again and the escalation has now involved increasing the distance over light years in the latest movie, transmissable through standard subspace communications relays in the ongoing comic. But it seems to me the issue isn't sending the information, it's maintaining the confinement beam over a relatively long period of time so that too much information doesn't leak away.
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Ducks Unlimited hosts annual event to help preserve wetlandsPublished 12:02am Sunday, November 17, 2013
NATCHEZ — The steaks flew off the grill, and raffle tickets were bought in abundance Thursday night at the annual Ducks Unlimited banquet.
More than 100 hunters and outdoorsmen and women filled the Natchez Community Center to raise money to preserve something very near and dear to their heart — the wetlands.
"Ducks Unlimited is a North American conversation non-profit organization," event director Key Smith said. "The money we made will go to preserving wetlands and increasing the number of ducks in North America."
The organization has conserved more than 13 million acres of waterfowl habitats since 1937. One of its top five conservation priorities is the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.
Ducks Unlimited has conserved habitats by acquiring land, restoring it, replanting forests and restoring watersheds.
The fundraiser featured a raffle ticket prize giveaway, an open auction and a silent auction that included a large array of prizes.
Smith they made sure to keep supporters' best interest at heart when picking out the type of prizes people had the chance to win.
"All of our prizes are hunting-related," he said. "We had 13 guns up for auction. We had decoys, ducks calls and much more. Our hope is to raise as much as we possibly can. Last year, we raised about $25,000 to $30,000, and we want to get around that number."
Other prizes auctioned off included four-wheelers, and as many supporters went home with neat prizes, they also went home knowing they contributed to a great cause.
"Everybody here is a hunter, and 98 percent of the money we raised here goes directly to the preservation fund," Smith said.
Smith's father, Billy Key Smith, has has been attending Ducks Unlimited banquets since 1971, and he said it is a great way for hunters to give back to the very grounds they hunt.
"It's a great opportunity to give back to the resource and enjoy the harvest of the duck hunt," Billy said. "Ducks Unlimited encourages wetlands preservation. We're losing so much of the land to farming operations and things like that, and the goal is to restore as much of this to its original state."
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A stolen vehicle attempted to breach the main gate of the NSA Headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland resulting in a shooting death , injuries to a second occupant of the vehicle and a security officer in a police cruiser . Fort Meade is located in Laurel, Maryland adjacent to the busy Baltimore-Washington Parkway equidistant between the two cities. I am familiar with the NSA complex having been stationed as an Army Intelligence officer with the 52th MI Group during the Viet Nam Era. The successor 525th MI Brigade is part of the VXIII Airborne Corps headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC. The NSA headquarters complex is separate from the Army base and has extensive physical security arrangements to prevent an assault like today's bizarre event involving two men disguised as women ramming a stolen vehicle into a police vehicle at the main gate. A later ABC report provided further information, "Hotel Partying Preceded Deadly Shooting At NSA Gate, Sources Say:"
Shortly before 9 a.m. ET today, a vehicle with two people inside "attempted an unauthorized entry at a National Security Agency gate," according to a statement from the NSA.
"The driver failed to obey an NSA Police officer's routine instructions for safely exiting the secure campus," the statement continued. "The vehicle failed to stop and barriers were deployed."
Sources say the two inside were men dressed as women. Preliminary information indicated the two men were partying at an area hotel with a third individual when they took that individual's car without permission. However, it's still unclear how or why they ended up at the NSA gate.
A law enforcement source confirms the car that crashed at NSA was reported stolen in Howard County, Md.
Nevertheless, when the vehicle "accelerated toward an NSA police car blocking the road" and "refused to stop," an NSA police officer opened fire, and one of the two men inside the "unauthorized vehicle" ended up dead, the NSA statement said. The other man in the vehicle was "severely injured" and taken to a local hospital, according to sources.
An NSA Police officer injured in the incident was also taken to the hospital.
"The incident has been contained and is under investigation," Colonel Brian Foley, Fort Meade garrison commander, said in a statement. "The residents, service members and civilian employees on the installation are safe. We continue to remain vigilant at all of our access control points."
The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism. The FBI evidence response team is on the scene investigating and testing for the possible presence of drugs.
The incident is being investigated by FBI, NSA Police and Army Criminal Investigation Command. Anne Arundel Police and Maryland State Police are also on the scene assisting.
President Obama has been briefed on the incident, according to White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
A career criminal who had tried to kill policemen before, Angelo West was stopped for a traffic violation by a policeman, John Moynihan. West then shot Moynihan in the face, just below the eye. Moynihan is in a medically-induced coma. Other officers shot and killed West. Now Black Lives Matter (Boston Division) is going to hold a meeting to decide what response it should make to this latest outrage by the Occupying White Policemen who have no understanding, this case shows yet again, that Black Lives Matter.
Remember Edward Said? He's the one who started a Permanent Jobs Program for the most primitive people who wanted to live in the West, and get jobs in universities,, and did so not through the brilliance of their scholarship, or through the lucidity and seductiveness of their classroom performance, but because they were authentic, they were aggrieved, they were victims of the very West in which they desired so much to live, and to make sure that they could, without much talent or knowledge, manage to find a way to carve out a category -- post-colonial studies, bristling with ressentiment -- that would be off-limits to Westerners, and could only be taught by the people who had authentically suffered -- just the way Edward Said, at Harvard and Columbia, had suffered.
One of the beneficiaries of Said's ludicrous "Orientalism" -- it had a good run, but it's on its way out, that way out no doubt hastened by the spectacle, too longlasting and too widespread to continue to overlook, of Muslim behavior all over the wolrd -- was Hamid Dabashi, who became that appetizinig thing, a Full Professor at Columbia University, hired, and then promoted, by those who shared the same background, felt the same resentments and hatreds.
I put up, from time to time, Hamid Dabashi's Ode To Edward Said.
Here it is, one more relevant time.
And to judge by what Hamid Dabashi continues to produce, and to unembarrassedly post, he still doesn't realize what a figure he cuts. So you can, if you wish, continue to digest and relish his work, simply by googling the name "Hamid Dabashi." Bon appetit!.
It seems that some lessons are difficult to learn. As ISIS was busy slaughtering Yazidis, Coptic Christians and western hostages, burning fellow Muslim alive, and destroying ancient pre-Islamic artifacts, President Obama was denying its spiritual pedigree and planning a White House summit on violent extremism that would deny any connection between radical Islam and terrorism.
The very use of the term "violent extremism" minimized the terrorist threat by obscuring its ideological motivations. And by using neutral terminology to mask its doctrinal character and goals, the president didn't simply ignore the religious connection – he affirmatively denied it and thus facilitated Islamist dissimulation.
He also attempted to shift blame for terrorism by legitimizing Muslim grievances against the West and attributing the actions of religious extremists to economic privation. With other world leaders and moderate Muslims finally acknowledging the threat, President Obama's steadfast refusal to do likewise seems pathological. His denial of the religious foundation for much of today's terrorism – and for Iran's nuclear ambitions – is a slap in the face of reality and an insult to Israel and all other U.S. allies that are targets of Islamist aggression. Moreover, it demonstrates either ignorance of history or an affinity for those committed to religious totalitarianism.
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Stephen Greenblatt, who has not always been treated kindly at this website, was invited to a Shakespeare conference in Teheran. Many of the other morris-zapps declined; Greenblatt decided to go. His report on his trip has just been published at The New York Review of Books. And it has already elicited furious responses, expressed in very bad English, full of resentment and illogic and hysteria, by Hamid Dabashi (at Columbia University) and by Ismail Salami (at Tehran University). Read what you can stand to.
How do Sunni Arabs see the handful -- no more than a few hundred --of ISIS fanatics who have managed to hold off, for a month, the 30,000 troops, mostly Shi'ite militiamen, with some Iraqi army forces, and some Iranian advisors too, who started their campaign to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State nearly a month ago, on March 2, and promised, kept promising, it would all be over in a few days. And this "it would all be over in a few days" was repeated every few days.But Tikrit was not taken. Now the Americans, responding to a request from the Shi'a-dominated Iraqi government, have been bombing. And still the ISIS forces remain, quite ready and eager to die.
I wrote a few weeks ago about the likelihood that this Great Battle of Tikrit might become, not just for Islamic State members, but for others too, a Sunni Alamo, or possibly, given that there are about 300 men left, a Muslim Thermopylae. Judging by the comments at Al Jazeera put up today under a piece about Tikrit, that mythologizing has already started. And since that month of holding-off forces ten times their size has already passed, even if Tikrit falls to the Shi'a tomorrow, it's too late to prevent that inspiring tale of an Alamo or Thermopylae, Sunni version, from entering, and staying, in many Sunni minds.
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The Iranian negotiations have been behaving --- have been allowed by the Americans to behave -- like smiling sly bazaaris in the souk. oilily promising or holding out the promise of making a very special deal, a deal only for you, effendi, because I like you so much, I even love you effendi, more than I love my father, more than I love my mother. This should have been nipped in the bud early on, and the Iranians made self-conscious and embarrassed about their non-Western style of negotiation, held up repeatedly for inspection and analysis by the American negotiators. But that didn't happen, and right up till now the wiles and guiles have been on display. Not tolerable.
Meanwhile, the three big questions have still not been resolved.
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(Reuters) - There are three major sticking points that must be resolved if Iran and major powers are to secure a framework deal before a self-imposed end-March deadline and it is unclear whether those differences will be bridged, a Western diplomat [French, surely] said on Monday
The diplomat said the most difficult issues were related to the duration of any limits on Iranian nuclear activities after an initial 10 years, the lifting of U.N. sanctions and restoring them in case of non-compliance by Tehran.
"There cannot be an agreement if we do not have answers to these questions," the diplomat said on condition of annonymity. "The feeling is that if things are to happen, it's now that the pieces will fit together. There's a moment when you have to say yes or no." (Reporting by John Irish; editing by Louis Charbonneau)
Yemen President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at Sharm El=Shaik Summit , March 27, 2015. Source: AP/MENA
This weekend, less than 72 hours before the deadline for P5+1 political framework for Iran's nuclear program, President Obama's "offshore balancing" act in the Middle East collapsed. In a January 27, 2014 New Yorker interview with editor David Remnick President Obama revealed:
It would be profoundly in the interest of citizens throughout the region if Sunnis and Shiites weren't intending to kill each other ... And although it would not solve the entire problem, if we were able to get Iran to operate in a responsible fashion - not funding terrorist organizations, not trying to stir up sectarian discontent in other countries, and not developing a nuclear weapon - you could see an equilibrium developing between Sunni, or predominantly Sunni, Gulf states and Iran in which there is competition, perhaps suspicion, but not an active or proxy warfare.
His naive paradigm of a geo-political equilibrium between Shia Iran and Sunni Arabs led by Saudi Arabia foundered with the dramatic intervention by the Saudi Air Force on Wednesday March 25, 2015 attacking Houthi rebels in northern Yemen , the capital, Sana'a and targets near Aden. Operation "determination storm" has begun. The Saudis gave less than 1 hour notice to the Pentagon and the White House of the launch of the air campaign. The Administration wasn't consulted. That effrontery to the leader of the free world was in evidence at the 26th Summit of the Arab League in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Shaik. Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi, The ousted US- backed President of Yemen, who had fled from Aden to Saudi Arabia, accused the Houthi of being "stooges" for Iran. He refused any offer of a cease fire while the Saudis and Emirati air units continue attacking Houthi forces. Iran warned the Saudi and Emirate allies of "bloodshed," if attacks continue. The Saudi have mobilized 150,000 ground forces for possible action. The US may provide aerial refueling, bombs and air search and rescue for downed pilots as they did for two Saudi pilots on Thursday.
In a statement released today, Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil Al-Araby said the Arab states would "join ranks and look into taking pre-emptive and defensive arrangements to maintain the Arab national security." The Declaration went on to point out:
the "conflict between the concept of a modern state and destructive projects that detract the idea of a national state and employ the ethnic, religious and sectarian variation in bloody conflicts, sponsored by external parties." It cited recent developments in Yemen and the slide the country almost fell into as a flagrant example of these challenges and stressed the dire need for "necessary measures to counter them."
The Washington Post reported Arab leaders had effectively announced a "joint military force to intervene in neighboring states grappling with armed insurgencies."
David P. Goldman in an Asia Times column, "The Middle Eastern Metternichs of Riyadh, noted the stunning assertion of the Saudi leadership in the confrontation with Iran over the US policy collapse in the Middle East and failures in Yemen:
A premise of the "realist" view that American policy in the region should shift towards Iran was that the Saudi monarchy would collapse and Sunni power along with it. All of us underestimated the Saudis.
Now the Saudis have emerged at the top of a Sunni coalition against Iran–limited for the moment to the Houthi insurgency in Yemen, to be sure, but nonetheless the most impressive piece of diplomacy in the Sunni world since Nasser, and perhaps in modern times. That attributes a lot of importance to a coalition assembled for a minor matter in a small country, but it may be the start of something important: the self-assertion of the Sunni world in response to the collapse of American regional power, the threat of Sunni jihadist insurgencies, and the Shi'ite bid for regional hegemony.
There was more drama in Lausanne, Switzerland, when an Iranian journalist Amir Hossein Motaghi, a former election aide to Islamic Republic President Rouhani defected. The UK Telegraph reported Motaghi saying: "The US negotiating team is mainly there to speak on Iran's behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal." Meanwhile Secretary of State Kerry and the US team are endeavoring to have the P5+1 approve a verbal outline of a political framework with the intransigent Iranians, who demand immediate lifting of financial sanctions while denying compliance with IAEA requests for background information on past military application developments.
These developments gave rise to further criticism by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who warned at a Sunday cabinet meeting that:
Iran is trying to "conquer the entire Middle East" as the West appears close to signing a pending nuclear deal with Israel's arch-enemy.
"This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears, and even more than that," Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem, according to Reuters.
Doubtless, Netanyahu will have more to say to US House Speaker John Boehner who travels to Jerusalem this week for a previously arranged meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister in the midst of cobbling together a ruling majority following his victory in the March 17th, Knesset elections.
The failure of a US supported state in Yemen adds to the growing shadow of Iranian Hegemony over four Arab capitals in the Levant; Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and now Sana'a. Should the Saudi and Gulf emirates air attacks not succeed in halting the Iran-backed Houthi conquest of the remaining stronghold of Aden, then Iran may control a major international geo-resource choke hold on the Red Sea with significant economic repercussions. The prospect of a Shia Sunni sectarian war in the Middle East fuels the apocalyptic end time's vision of chaos of the Iranian Shia Mahdists are seeking to arouse the moribund Twelfth Imam from his slumber at the bottom of the holy well in the holy city of Qum hard by the underground uranium enrichment cascade hall of Fordow.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, elected by the Assembly of Experts to fulfill that bizarre Islamic obligation, is on the verge of achieving the ultimate symbol of chaos - becoming a nuclear threshold state courtesy of the looming P5+1 political framework that may be announced on March 31st. With Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, ISIS cells, the vanquishing of US counterterrorism in the region, Iran has achieved its goal of fomenting chaos to bring about end times. As night follows day, Sectarian war between Sunni Arab states and Shia Mahdmen in Tehran could erupt. All while the Administration in Washington abandons Israel surrounded by Iranian proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas and Sunni Salafist Islamic State seeking its destruction. Is this the legacy that President Obama wants to leave behind when he leaves the White House in January 2017? If it is, then his pursuit of an accommodation with an Iran equipped with a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear warhead tipped Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles amounts to colossal appeasement and "faithless execution" of his oath of office as Commander in Chief to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
This weekend the President was in Florida playing golf in Palm City, Florida with a Halliburton Director and the Houston Astros owner while his global equilibrium went up in flames. So much for his feeling the pain of the middle class. Stay tuned for further developments.
And if they dare to try to secede, even if the Iraqi Arabs are otherwise occupied, Iran and Turkey will take care of the problem of Kurds who want an independent Kurdistan.
The editorial in the Washington Post appeared two days ago, here.
With the news that the Oxford Union had invited Anjem Choudary to speak (closely followed by Trinity College Dublin putting such restrictions on Maryam Namazie that she was effectively barred) I know certain people wrote letters and e-mails of protest to the University. This is not the most obvious effect - but I think it is a brave and intelligent one.
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In one of her first acts as President of the Oxford Union, Olivia Merrett has invited American author and leader of the group 'Jihadi Watch' Robert Spencer to take part in next term's 'This House Believes Radicalisation is Born at Home' debate, along with the radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary.
Robert Spencer, who also co-founded the group 'Stop Islamization of America' (SIOA), is banned from entering the UK, following the Home Office's 2013 decision that his visit would not be "conducive to the public good", and that his views would be likely to "foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".
The ban was issued after he was invited to speak at an EDL rally in Woolwich, where drummer Lee Rigby was killed. At around the same time, Anjem Choudary infamously declared himself "proud" of Michael Adebolajo, one of Rigby's killers, and insisted that Rigby would "burn in hellfire".
In the invitation, seen by Cherwell and reproduced in full below, Merrett told Spencer, "Your knowledge and experience will be of huge interest to many in the University.
Though projects such as SIOA may be appear [sic] somewhat questionable, we would like to hear your reasons behind it."
Merrett also intimated that Spencer would have control over which media outlets would be allowed to cover the debate, telling him, "The level of media coverage is, of course, entirely at your discretion."
In a post on the Jihadi Watch website, which was taken down almost instantly, Spencer commended the Oxford Union for extending the invitation, and called for it to appeal to the Home Office to get the ban lifted.
But Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League (EDL), and sometime associate of Robert Spencer, defended the Oxford Union for the invitations to Spencer and Choudary, and called for the Home Office ban to be lifted, telling Cherwell, "I think it's about time we heard some people who were honest. Anjem Choudary's very honest, and so is Robert Spencer.
"Robert Spencer tells the truth; that's all he does, he tells the truth. He's never called for violence, never incited any hate, he's just told the truth about an ideology. And the only reason he was banned was because they were fearful that it could provoke terrorism.
"So what they're doing is limiting not just his freedoms but they're limiting what freedoms we have to listen to people in this country, because of what the violent reaction could be from Muslims. It's absurd, he should never have been banned in the first place. . . "
Neither Robert Spencer nor the Oxford Union could be reached for comment, while the Home Office told Cherwell that since the pre-election period had started, it could not provide a comment either.
A senior White House official, who had perhaps recently seen the film The Godfather, was heard to remark "It's not personal; it's strictly business" when commenting on the attitude of the U.S. administration toward the Israeli prime minister.
One might accept the administration position if President Barack Obama had taken "yes" for an answer when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retracted his statement that a Palestinian state would not be established during his tenure. Using imperial language, Obama said in an interview with the Huffington Post on March 25, 2015, "We believe that Netanyahu meant it[.] … Instead, 'we' need to reconsider the options available to us to ensure that we do not see further deterioration in the region."
Those options might involve United States approval of the Palestinian Authority's intention to bring charges of war crimes against Israel to the International Criminal Court. This is indeed a moment to review the situation, with all its trials and tribulations.
After the Israeli election, Netanyahu issued the statement that he favored a two-state solution, but "circumstances have to change." The Obama administration might be helped in its "reconsideration" of the need for circumstances to change by the publication of a crucially important objective report by Amnesty International (AI) documenting the hostility against Israel.
AI has never been positive in its attitude toward the State of Israel or its political figures. Last year, it issued two reports critical of Israeli actions during the fifty-day fighting in Gaza, and it has long been critical of the Israel Defense Force. Every mainstream media has covered stories of alleged violations of international law by Israel. Therefore, the report, "Unlawful Deadly: Rocket and Mortar Attacks by Palestinian Armed Groups during the 2014 Gaza/Israel Conflict," which AI issued on March 25, 2015, comes as a surprise.
The report is devastating in its precise account of Palestinian violation of humanitarian law. Its basic accusation is that Palestinian "militant" armed groups have killed both Israeli and Palestinian civilians in an indiscriminate manner. The Palestinians' flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law during the conflict is evident from the routine firing of rockets toward Israeli towns and cities. Specific assaults included direct attacks on civilians, including civilian property, residential homes, public buildings, and educational institutions.
AI boldly asserts that Palestinians are guilty of war crimes as a result of their direct attacks on civilians; their use of prohibited weapons that are inherently indiscriminate, such as unguided rockets and imprecise mortars; and indiscriminate attacks that kill or injure civilians.
The Palestinians have long shown a reckless disregard for the lives of civilians in Israel. They have deliberately targeted civilian centers in Israel in the hope of killing civilians. Between 2001 and July 7, 2014, the start of the Israeli Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian groups fired 15,200 rockets and mortars against Israeli civilians. From July 8 until August 26, they fired 4,881 rockets and 1,753 mortars from Gaza, and struck 224 Israeli residential areas.
The danger to Israel has intensified because of the increase in range of weapons – namely, medium- and long-range rockets. From 2001 to 2004, the Palestinians fired homemade Qassam rockets. In 2014, they fired long-range ones, such as the Iranian Fajr 5, the R-160 rocket, M-75s, and the M-302, weapons that can hit the major Israeli cities.
Though it does not refer to them as "terrorists," the report states that the Palestinian organizations involved have committed war crimes. The fact that they launched unguided rockets and mortars that could not be aimed at a specific target is a breach of international law. Those who have claimed responsibility are the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad), al-Nasser Salah a-Din (the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees), the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (the armed wing of Fatah), and the National Resistance Brigades (the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine).
Palestinian attacks on August 22 killed six Israeli civilians, including a four-year-old boy in a family car near his home. But their killings were not limited to Israelis. On July 28, 2014, they killed 28 Palestinian civilians when a Hamas projectile from Gaza landed in the al-Shati Gaza refugee camp. Hamas had falsely claimed, and mainstream media reported it to be the case, that Israel was responsible for those murders, but AI concludes that all evidence shows that it was a Palestinian rocket that killed their own civilians.
In fact, Palestinians killed more civilians in Gaza than in Israel. The report notes that it was Israel's effective system for civilian defense, including bomb shelters and advanced warning systems, and particularly the Iron Dome anti-missile system, that helped limit Israeli civilian casualties.
The report shows that Palestinians are guilty of other violations of international humanitarian law in addition to those above. Those violations include the storing by Palestinians of munitions in civilian buildings, UNRWA facilities, and United Nations schools, as Israel has long reported. AI also criticizes the launching by Hamas of attacks in or near locations such as hospitals and religious sites, where civilians were taking shelter.
Rockets and mortars were launched from civilian facilities, such as hospitals including the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and the Greek Orthodox Church, where more than 2,000 people took shelter, in Gaza City
AI continues to investigate the charges that rockets were launched from within schools in the Gaza strip. Those launchings include rockets from the UNRWA elementary school in Jabalia on July 13 and 14, the Abu Nur school in the al-Shati refugee camp on July 20, the UNRWA girls' school in Beit Lahiya on August 1, and the boys' school in the UNRWA Shahada al-Manar in Shuja'iyyeh on August 21, 22, and 25.
The report, commenting on the imprecise nature of the massive firing of Hamas mortars, emphasizes that indiscriminate attacks that kill or wound civilians constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes. The July 28 attack was an egregious example of the indiscriminate nature of the rockets fired by armed Palestinian groups.
The White House should note that neither the Palestinian authorities nor the Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip have been willing to open investigations into their violations of international humanitarian law. Nor has AI received any response from the Palestinian authorities about the cases it has been investigating. AI indicates that Palestinians have not investigated similar violations on previous occasions. It also points out that Palestinians have long claimed impunity for abuses inflicted by their security forces, such as arbitrary detention, torture, and the use of unlawful force against protestors in both the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
The Amnesty International report is an important contribution to the accurate history of the activities of Palestinians. It is incumbent on senior officials in the White House to read it and to consider the circumstances Prime Minister Netanyahu says must change if a Palestinian state is to be established.
First published in the American Thinker.
'Men,' said Marx in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 'make their own history, but they do not make just it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances already existing, given and transmitted from the past.' This is true, despite its provenance; indeed so obviously true that it is virtually a truism. For if it were otherwise, men would find themselves behaving in no circumstances at all, which is literally inconceivable. Circumstances are like the poor, only even more so: ye have circumstances with you always.
But it does not follow from the fact that men don't make their history just as they please because they inherit particular circumstances (in part self-created, as our past always is) that they have no choice but to act as they do, any more than grammatical rules determine what people say. Those rules prohibit, or rather make meaningless, certain utterances, but there remain an infinite number of possible meaningful utterances.
The degree of duress exerted by circumstance varies, of course. A man under torture can still choose not to divulge the information wanted by his torturer, but it would be a harsh judgment indeed to blame him for giving way in the face of continued pain or death. The law, as usual, defines duress more precisely than any phenomenon on a continuum allows, for fear that any circumstance whatever will count as duress if there is not a clear demarcation. But in extra-legal thought, the idea of duress has been so far extended that almost all circumstances, economic, sociological, political or psychological, are deemed by some intellectuals, particularly but not exclusively left-leaning, to count as such.
Recently, in Britain at least, there has been a lot of attention paid to the problem of obesity which (no pun intended) is growing. Since the human world is infused with meaning, the question on every commentator's lips is, 'Who is to blame?' Even the most thoroughgoing determinist needs to blame someone, if it is only his parents.
Some people, mainly conservatives, blame the conduct of the fat themselves: their greed, lack of self-control, laziness, bad habits and so forth. They eat too much, especially of the wrong foods, and watch too much television instead of exercising as they should, or as they are told that they should.
Others, mainly liberals, blame society in general and the food companies in particular. Obesity, which was once a sign of prosperity, is now statistically associated with poverty, that is to say with those who have relatively low incomes in rich countries, as these incomes might be considered rich in poor countries. Moreover, the food that the poor in rich countries are constrained to eat is deliberately and knowingly manufactured in such a way as to result in the obesity of those who eat it – what the French, succinctly, call malbouffe. Obesity is not, then, a pathology of choice, but a pathology of society and a manifestation of injustice and exploitation.
That there are cultural aspects to obesity and slenderness as ideals no one could deny. I once witnessed a startling change in those ideals as they were happening: in Zululand, where I worked briefly as a doctor, modern, educated and urbanised young women would ask for something to make them thinner, while more traditional, unschooled and still-rural young women would ask for something to make them fatter: and interestingly, from my point of view, those who wanted to be made thin were already thin, while those who wanted to be made fatter were already fat. Social pressure of one kind or another obviously had an effect on these young women's aesthetic ideal.
But a rising rate of burglary, for example, does not mean that the burglars whose activities contribute to that rising rate are not acting voluntarily, and therefore excuse burglary. Each individual act of burglary remains a matter of choice and deliberation. (Except in vanishingly rare cases of automatism, you cannot break into a house and steal its contents without wanting to do it.)
It is true that the content of much prepared food is appalling; and it is also true that food companies deliberately lace that food with fats and sugars that they know are attractive to people with a poor culinary culture and a disposition to easy and quick gratification. But it is not true that people eat such food because it is cheap. With reasonably careful shopping, and a knowledge of how to cook, it is possible to eat much more economically than by buying prepared food.
Liberals take very easily to Professor Lustig's argument that the epidemic of obesity, which is particularly serious in Anglo-Saxon countries no doubt because of our relatively impoverished culinary traditions, has been caused by the lacing of so many prepared foods with sugars, chemicals which are addictive. Once you have been fed with them, goes the argument, you are inclined to seek them out more and more. It is as if your food had been surreptitiously laced by a drug-dealer, and therefore you are not to blame for how or what you eat; like Luther at Wittenberg, you can do no other. You are a plaything of your neurotransmitters that have been re-set without your knowledge or consent.
It seems to follow from this that the solution to the problem of obesity is to regulate what is put into food. You cannot expect a population of addicts to give up its addiction just by itself – at least not if you think of addiction as a kind of neurological or neurochemical slavery. The only answer, therefore, is to cut off the supply of the addictive substance by regulatory legislation.
I happen to dislike prepared foods, though more on aesthetic than on health grounds; I see what people choose and am appalled by their choices, which seem to me to be those of overindulged children who have never matured in their tastes. And I have no cast-iron, unbending objection to regulatory action, either; none of us is really deeply opposed to requirements for requirements for drinking water to be uncontaminated, or wants our only protection against the supply of contaminated water to be ex post facto legal action under tort law against the suppliers once we have fallen ill from contamination.
Of course harm results when regulators get things wrong. It so happens that one of the reasons manufacturers add sugars so plentifully to our prepared foods is that regulators told them years back to avoid the alternative to sugars, namely fats. Furthermore, it is manipulation by agricultural policies that makes sugars so cheap and convenient for manufacturers.
But we always have to start out from where we are, not from where we should have been if our predecessors had been wiser or more prescient than they were; and we can act only on the best information that we have at the time we act. Regulation of the sugar content of prepared foods might produce unforeseen harmful consequences: but we have always to act with incomplete knowledge, and can only do our best according to the information that we have.
I would have no real objection, then, to regulation of the sugar content of prepared foods, provided it was done on intellectually honest grounds. Those grounds would not be that people are incapable of acting other than as they do, but that they are too idle to cook, their tastes and pleasures are too brutish, their habits too gross, for them to be left free to choose for themselves. Someone who knows better must guide them.
Of course, one could just leave everything as it is, without any intervention. It is quite likely, though not certain, that people will one day bethink themselves and eschew the malbouffe to which they have grown accustomed and has made them so fat. There is already a suggestion of reduced levels of obesity among children. A solution without anyone enforcing it is the best of solutions.
First published in the Library of Law and Liberty.
On February 19, 2015, a full-page ad was published in the New York Times by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) opposing the invitation given to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress. It asked the question: "Will Congress side with our President or a Foreign Leader?"
The ad did not disclose that the founder and president of the organization, Trita Parsi, was an Iranian-Swedish citizen who holds a Green Card and has had links with Iranian authorities, especially the Iranian defense minister, Javad Zarif. Those links were held to be extremely close by a critic, Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist who left Iran in 1981 and lives in Arizona. He wrote that NIAC, and its leader Parsi, are an organization engaged in lobbying Congress on behalf of a foreign government – namely, that of Iran.
The invitation to Netanyahu and his speech to Congress became the occasion for dramatic political theater by Team Obama and its supporters, who disliked the Israeli's criticism of the Obama administration's attitude toward Iran. Nothing was said by that team or in the mainstream media on the question of whether the NIAC had lobbied or tried to lobby Congress or had any impact on the current policy of the Obama administration in negotiating with Iran.
In his articles, Daioleslam (Dia) claimed that the NIAC, and former Congressman Bob Ney, who was associated with it, were helping Iran to manipulate U.S. policy on Iran's behalf. Among other issues, in 2007, the organization had lobbied to prevent U.S. funds going to democratic elements in Iran. The NIAC brought a lawsuit in May 2008 in the attempt to halt Daioleslam's further criticism of the Iranian regime. But it delayed producing, and sometimes failed to produce, necessary information on its computers, calendar entries, and e-mails. In addition, the assistant director of the NIAC changed some files from references to "lobbying" to "legislative direct."
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge John Bates) in September 2012 dismissed the lawsuit. The Court found that the NIAC had given false information to it, and it ordered the NIAC to pay Daioleslam's legal expenses – about $184,000. It held that the work of the NIAC and its founder, Trita Parsi, was not inconsistent with the idea that it was "first and foremost an advocate for the regime." Consequently, Daioleslam's statement could not be considered defamatory.
The court in July 2010 had ordered NIAC three times to submit its server for inspection to determine if all documents had been given to it, and complained that additional computers in the network of the NIAC had not been produced. The court found that the NIAC had withheld 5,500 e-mails written by its senior officials. It is unclear whether this refusal or inability to produce documents was deliberate or result or incompetence.
The decision of the District Court was upheld by the opinion of two circuit judges and a senior circuit judge in the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in a decision on February 10, 2015. The Court of Appeals approved the opinion of the District Court that the NIAC was involved in systematic abuse of the legal discovery process and made false declarations to the court.
The court held that the NIAC had "flouted multiple court orders" and taken "inexcusable" action in delaying delivery of documents to during the lawsuit that it had itself brought, and therefore had driven up the costs imposed on the Daioleslam. It referred to the NAIC's conduct as "dilatory, dishonest, and intransigent."
Ironically, this case is somewhat similar to other events current in Washington where individuals have refused to provide or have misplaced official documents or have given incomplete records after requests by members of Congress for full documentation.
The Court did not finally decide if the NIAC had violated the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The statute, enacted in 1938, requires that persons acting as agents of foreign authorities in a political or quasi-political capacity make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with a foreign entity. Action of this kind is legally different from advocating better ties with a foreign entity, because this would be in the interests of the U.S.
The NIAC was founded in 2002 by Trita Parsi, who said it would enable Iranian-Americans to condemn the 9/11 attacks. It is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and states that it is non-partisan and does not receive funds from the Iranian government or from the United States government. It says it is dedicated to advancing the interests of the Iranian-American community on civic, cultural, and political issues. It speaks on behalf of that community to which it refers as "one of the most highly educated minority groups in the U.S."
The founder and president of the NIAC has been invited to the White House, has arranged meetings between the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and members of Congress, and given talks at the CIA. He has done so without registering as an agent of a foreign power.
The NIAC also expresses its "vision" to work to ensure that human rights are upheld in Iran and that civil rights are protected in the U.S. It received funds, almost $200,000, from the National Endowment for Democracy.
More significantly, the NIAC has pressed for an end to international sanctions on Iran. The NIAC has also played a partisan role in U.S. and international politics. It lobbied against the appointment of Dennis Ross to the National Security Council. The documents revealed to the Court that Parsi had helped prepare reports about Iran and helped send them to Atieh Company in Tehran, which paid Parsi for his work.
One can only hope that the NIAC was not consulted in the current negotiations with Iran on nuclear issues.
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It turns out that one of the girls from Bethnal Green Academy who was made a Ward of Court to stop her defecting to ISIS/ISIL last week was stopped in her earlier attempt. She was following girl(s) from the private Muslim School(s) in the borough run by the East London Mosque. Also more about papa's connection with the jihadist underworld.
From the Sunday Telegraph.
A fifth girl from Bethnal Green Academy travelled to join Islamic State (Isil) and was only stopped after her plane was halted on the runway, it can be revealed. . . Her case is particularly concerning, however, since it took place in December, more than two months before the other girls left.
It had been thought that four girls from the school – Kadiza, Shamima and Amira, plus another teenager who succeeded in reaching Syria in December, Sharmeena Begum – were the only Bethnal Green pupils to have tried to travel to Isil.
However, the 15-year-old is the fifth. All five children were friends. The 15-year-old who was taken off the plane is one of five girls remaining at Bethnal Green Academy who have been made wards of court and handed travel bans to prevent them from going to Syria.
Tower Hamlets council attempted to prevent journalists from revealing the further links to the academy, but a judge ruled that it was in the public interest to report it.
Amira Abase's father, Abase Hussen, blamed police for his daughter's disappearance, saying they had "terrified" his daughter and should have done more to warn him after Sharmeena Begum left for Syria.
emerged yesterday that a man appearing to be Mr Hussen and bearing a close resemblance to him attended an extremist rally with Anjem Choudary, former head of the al-Muhajiroun group which has radicalised dozens of convicted terrorists. Also present was Michael Adebowale, one of those who would later murder the soldier Lee Rigby.
Pictures of the event, in 2012, appear to show Mr Hussen chanting "Burn, burn USA" and attempting to hold a blazing US flag. Behind him, hundreds of jihadi sympathisers chant provocative slogans while holding black terrorist banners.Mr Hussen had claimed to the committee that he did not even know what Islamic radicalisation was.
As the Telegraph revealed two weeks ago, Mr Hussen's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee – who also gave evidence to the committee blaming the police – is an extremist with links to both al-Muhajiroun and Cage, the pro-terrorist lobby group which defended Mohammed Emwazi, "Jihadi John," as a "gentle" and "beautiful" man who had been "radicalised by MI5."
Mr Akunjee, also known as Mohammed Akunjee, attacked the Met for making a "cacophony of error" over the girls, saying: "One would hope the Met would have expended greater resources checking their facts and getting it right." However, he has previously said that no Muslim should co-operate with anti-terror police, saying that Prevent, the government's counter-terror policy, is "straightforward, paid-for spying on the community."
Mr Akunjee is based in Brentford, on the other side of London. The revelation of Mr Hussen's apparent al-Muhajiroun links may help explain how he came to be representing families from Tower Hamlets.
One source involved in the investigation of the three girls said: "We are desperate to get Akunjee off the case but it doesn't look like it is going to happen."
Another London teenager who has travelled to join Isil attended a private Muslim school in Tower Hamlets run by the East London Mosque, an institution controlled by an extremist group, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), and which has regularly hosted hate preachers.
Zubair Nur, 19, went to London East Academy, one of six private Muslim schools identified by Ofsted in November as leaving children "vulnerable to extremist influences and radicalisation." Nur was also a lead volunteer for the IFE's youth wing, the Young Muslim Organisation (YMO), and attended private study classes with the mosque's imam, Abdul Qayyum.
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"The Texas part of the tea comes from the tequila as opposed to a Long Island iced tea, which uses gin instead of tequila. This is the standard Bartender's recipe for a Texas Tea."
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Great drink! - It tastes pretty much like a long island iced tea (one of my all time favorites)! They go down very easy. Honestly there's so much alcohol in these things things you really can't tell the difference between this and a long island and by the time you're done with it who cares anyway......
Good taste but nothing special or out of the ordinary.
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Pretty good, though I preferred a bit more cola flavor so I kicked it up a bit. It is silly that the alcohol is listed in fluid ounces yet the cola and sweet-and-sour are listed in cups.
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And for my taste I made the cola be in the range of 3 1/2 to 4 fl oz
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When all danger of frost is past I will be growing bitter melon. I want to start some indoors this time to get a longer growing season. I have one melon I purchased at the market and will cook tomorrow or later tonight. My mouth is watering now!
I have not tried the smaller ones yet. I have read they are stronger flavored.
I think the tea bags probably contain the leaves. All parts of the plant are usable. They have many medicinal uses as well as nutritional. They are also an attractive vine. I will be starting some seeds indoors tomorrow for planting out after danger of frost is over in spring.
I still remember how when I was a little girl (soooooooo many years ago),how much I disliked Ampalaya. I found it too bitter. But we can't leave the dinner table unless we finish the Amapalaya serving in our plate. My grandma insists that it's very good for our health. She used to cook it just stir fried with shrimp and pork. As I grew older though, I learned other ways to cook it and get out some of the bitter taste. After you scrape out the seeds, thinly slice it, mix in like 1/8 cup of rock salt with it and start mixing and squeezing the mixture. Then wash out the mix with water and proceed with cooking. Now my children eat them with lesser bitter taste. It's very good cooked with ground pork or beef...thus the "Ampalaya con Carne" dish. By the way, we also cook the Ampalaya plants' new growth tips and flowers. They are not as bitter as the fruit.
I just read that the Taiwanese bitter melon has almost no bitterness compared to the Chinese or other bitter melons. Also, a lady on a cooking show said, for her recipe, only to use the light green one - she was very specific.
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"We met for about one hour. We discussed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the political prisoners," Tin Oo told reporters following Thursday's meeting with Quintana.
"We also spoke of our request for a meeting between the Senior General [Than Shwe] and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and for a meeting between [her] and our central committee members so that we can continue our work for the future."
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The new national charter was brought in after a referendum that was held days after Cyclone Nargis hit the country, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
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Systemic Candidiasis...and/or vagina. It causes a smelly, thick, white-yellow discharge that might occur with itching, burning and swelling. A bad case can make walking, peeing or sex very painful. Infection in the Mouth Oral candidiasis, called thrush , involves the mouth and sometimes the throat. It can also occur without symptoms. The most common symptoms usually include discomfort of the mouth and throat, burning and an altered sense of taste (often...
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Rash and thrash with NevilastMy sister just started taking Nevilast for a week now. Prior to this she was treated for toxoplasmosis. Now she is rashes all over her face, hands and legs. she is also developing thrash (white pumps) in her month. Left leg is some how swollen. ...
Response from Keith Henry, M.D.
University of Minnesota, School of Medicine...such severe rashes are lower in women who have CD4 count < 250 when starting treatment).She may need topical treatmet for her thrush (mouth washes or lozenges or sometimes a pill). As her CD4 count increases then chances for thrush decrease over... Read more »
penis rashHi BobHow r u feeling man? All power to you.Had a genuine HIV scare couple of years back that freaked me out. 3 negative tests since in same facility up to 20 months - all negative.Problem is I have had this bad penis rash for a year now. Its like...
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation...Hey Penis-Rash-Guy,Your three negative HIV tests out to 20 months are definitive and conclusive. HIV is not your problem. No way. No how. Your Read more »
Still WorriedHello Dr. Bob,I went to see a infectious disease specialist today, which lifted my spirits a bit, but I am still very anxious. I wrote to you yesterday about having unprotected insertive oral sex with a woman in Africa. A few days later I...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS FoundationHi,The HIV-acquisition risk for unprotected insertive oral sex is extremely low.Symptoms related to HIV acute retroviral syndrome (ARS) generally manifest themselves several weeks after HIV primary infection. Symptoms "a few days later" would not be... Read more »
just started and covered in pin point rash43 years old. Diagnosed in 2007. Since 2008 have been having allergic reactions requiring antihistamine every two or three days. Last 6 months have had 3 serious bouts of oral thrush and herpes. anal warts materialised about six months ago....
Response from Keith Henry, M.D.
University of Minnesota, School of Medicine...Starting HIV medications with your medical history seems very reasonable. Efavirenz (Stocrine or Sustiva) often causes a rash as you describe during the first 1-2 weeks. With your rash history you may be even more prone to a drug rash than the... Read more »
Candidiasis (Thrush)...way to avoid an outbreak of candidiasis is to strengthen your immune system by taking antiretroviral medications (ARVs). Most candida infections are easily treated with local therapies. In people with weakened immune systems, these infections... Read more »
Fluconazole (Diflucan)...skin lotions or creams. It works against several different types of fungus, including the yeast infection called candidiasis or thrush. Many germs live in our bodies or are common in our surroundings. A healthy immune system can fight them off or... Read more »
Vaginal Candidiasis... Table of Contents Cause Diagnosis Treatment Treating Vaginal Candidiasis Prevention Treating and Preventing Fungal Infections Naturally Practical Prevention Tips Food as Prevention! Read more »
Gynecological Problems...with a doctor who is experienced in treating HPV in HIV-positive patients. Fungal Infections (Yeast Infections, Vaginal Candidiasis, Vaginitis) Candidiasis is a very common vaginal infection caused by yeast (fungus). Symptoms include... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply...Anyone out there with bouts of candidiasis of the underarms? Read more »
Skin Rash
Posted by DJones, 8 Replies...I have been on Atripla since January. I am also on Fluconazole and Acyclovir. In the last month I have developed a skin rash where the sun seems to hit my skin on my back of my neck where my hair line ends and lower arms. I thought it was... Read more »
Aterrado, chileanman in constant sorrow
Posted by chileanman, 4 Replies...deambular por internet, leyendo cuanta pagina encontraba y viendo fotos por todos lados, de tanto mirar creo que mi lengua es candidiasi hiperplastica!!! no puedo retirarla, hice la prueba del vaso con agua y si se formaron los hilos!!. Tambien... Read more »
Help please.. Possible 2 False negative ELISA
Posted by HoPeAndFaiTh, 1 Reply...It was negative. I did the test after 4 weeks too. And negative. But I have all se sympthoms: Rash on the palms of my hands, candidiasis, sore throat, night swats, pains. 2 possible false negative tests?... help me please. I have another test... Read more »
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On Friday, March 20, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") issued a proposed rule (available here) which would make significant changes to the federal Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records ("EHR") Incentive Programs (collectively the "Meaningful Use Program"). Continue Reading
More Risk for All and "Free" Care?
While the Supreme Court continues to debate the outcome of King v. Burwell in their chambers, stakeholders must be prepared for the potential fallout the nine justices' ruling may have. Two weeks ago, we summarized the underpinnings of the case (read about it here) and last week, we reviewed the impact of a ruling against the government on individuals (read about it here). Today, we will take aim at two other groups of stakeholders who are sure to be impacted by a ruling against the government: (i) healthcare providers; and (ii) third party payors. These two groups have seen a significant benefit in the form of new patients/enrollees from the exchanges and are likely to take the most significant hit to their businesses if the Supreme Court rules against the government and limits tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") currently available to consumers on both federal exchanges and state run exchanges to only those consumers on the state run exchanges. Continue Reading
Stripping the ACA of Both the Carrot and the Stick: Sticking it to Consumers On and Off the Federal Exchange
Even as we write and you read, the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell is considering whether qualifying (often low income) individuals and families who have an opportunity to purchase healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act's ("ACA's") federal exchange also have the right to federal premium subsidies/tax credits when determining the premium costs associated with the actual purchase of such coverage. While it is obvious that the King decision will be of great importance to those who need the discounts created by the subsidies/credits to make the cost of purchasing coverage on the federal exchange affordable, the King decision could also have a significant impact on those individuals and families who purchase insurance coverage outside of the federal exchange. Continue Reading
Medicare ACO v. 3.0—More Risk, More Money?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced on March 10, 2015 that it is adding a new Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model to its cadre of innovative models.[1] Titled the "Next Generation ACO Model," CMS' new ACO model allows provider groups to assume higher levels of financial risk and reward than currently available under its Pioneer Model and Shared Savings Program model. CMS noted that the goal of the Next Generation ACO Model (Next Generation) is to "test whether strong financial incentives for ACOs can improve health outcomes and lower expenditures for Original Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries."[2] Continue Reading
Time is Running Out to Avoid the Negative Effects of 2016 Value-Based Physician Payment Modifiers: CMS Releases Results of Medicare's Value-Based Payment Modifier for 2015 as Final PQRS Participation Deadlines for 2016 Adjustments Approach
CMS recently released results of Medicare's value-based payment modifier for 2015.[1] This is the first year in which physicians are subject to adjustments under the payment system and, in this first phase of implementation, only affects practices with 100 or more eligible professionals. Continue Reading
Round and Round and Round She Goes, and Where She Lands, Nobody Knows: The Future of Obamacare and Why King v. Burwell Matters – A Five-Part Series
Last week, on Wednesday, March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the highly publicized case of King. v. Burwell—a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare" based upon what many would call the most pernicious of statutory problems – poor drafting.
The exact issue presented to the Supreme Court by the King petition is "whether the IRS may permissibly promulgate regulations to extend tax-credit subsidies to healthcare coverage purchased through Exchanges established by the federal government under section 1321 of the ACA."[1] At first glance (and maybe even at the second, third, and fourth glance), this may seem to be a highly-technical issue of tax and administrative law. However, for every professional and armchair constitutional law pundit out there, the issue – Federalism – goes to the core of who we are as a country.
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Medicare Advantage Insurers May See Positive Growth in 2016 Despite CMS' 0.95% Payment Rate Cut Announcement
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 0.95 percent decrease in Medicare Advantage payment rates for 2016 in its Advance Notice and Draft Call Letter released on February 20, 2015.[1] Medicare Advantage Plans, sometimes called "Part C" or "MA Plans," are offered by private companies approved by Medicare. Unlike "original Medicare," in which the government pays for Medicare benefits when a beneficiary receives them, Medicare pays these private companies to cover beneficiaries' Medicare benefits based on a risk-adjusted, per-patient payment formula that varies annually.[2] Continue Reading
Oral Argument in King v. Burwell Concludes; Debates Ensue
At approximately 10:00am EST this morning, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in King v. Burwell – the highly publicized case whose final decision may "end Obamacare as we know it!" (as one excitable healthcare "talking head" noted during a morning newscast). Although an audio recording of today's event will not be available for download or streaming until this Friday, the transcript is currently available at http://www.supremecourt.gov. The Sheppard Mullin healthcare team is now mining the text to provide blog readers with our insights and predictions regarding the case and the future of the Affordable Care Act. Moreover, on Friday, we will be listening closely to the audio recording of the argument. Although avoiding the temptation to make "much ado about nothing," auditory clues can often provide insight into an argument's strengths and weakness and the possible outcome of a case based upon the tones and inflections coming from the Bench and coming from the presenting attorneys. We look forward to providing our commentary to you in the days and weeks to come.
On the Eve of Oral Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell: Obamacare in the Balance
As every healthcare geek and Supreme Court wonk will tell you, on March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in King v. Burwell (an amalgamation of four cases – King v. Burwell, Halbig v. Burwell, Pruitt v. Burwell, and Indiana v. IRS). As the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act a/k/a "Obamacare," King v. Burwell challenges the IRS's interpretation of an Affordable Care Act provision that authorizes tax credits/subsidies for qualifying individuals and families who purchase health insurance through an exchange "established by the state." These credits/subsidies are considered to be a crucial element of Obamacare because they make participation possible for qualifying individuals and families who cannot afford the monthly insurance premiums applicable to policies purchased on the exchange. In fact, studies show that the credits/subsidies can reduce the cost of monthly premiums for qualifying individuals and families by as much as 89%. Continue Reading
HHS Launches New Payment and Delivery Model to Improve Oncology Care
Cancer care is notoriously complex, intensive and costly. With more than 1.6 million people diagnosed with cancer each year, there is a strong impetus towards reforming service delivery. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching a new payment and care delivery model for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing chemotherapy treatment.[1] Continue Reading


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HOUSTON -- Brenham Oil & Gas has executed a production sharing contract with the government of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Brenham received a 15% participating interest in newly-created Block Y, which consolidates four offshore exploration blocks into a single, half-million acre license. Xuan Energy is the operator of Block Y.
Rog Hardy, Brenham's Vice President of Exploration, stated, "Block Y is between and along a geologic trend with Hess Corporation's large Okume and Ceiba oil and gas field complex (which peaked at more than 80,000 bopd) and an undeveloped oil discovery in Block P to the north, with, among other companies, VAALCO Energy. The block awarded to Brenham is large, with plenty of room to run, and is in benign operating conditions and moderate water depths. We are very excited about the exploration potential of Block Y."
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India's tobacco exports keep rising
India's tobacco and tobacco products exports are expected to have earned INR50 billion in the financial year to the end of March, 29 percent more than was earned during the year to the end of March 2013, according to a story in the most recent issue of the BBM Bommidala Group newsletter.
Despite this increase in exports, the Tobacco Board of India is concerned that tobacco farming is facing challenges thrown up by local anti-smoking campaigns and by India's participation in the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
So the chairman of the board, Dr. K. Gopal, has promised growers and traders that technical assistance will be provided to help them produce tobacco whose quality compares with the best in the world.


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It's overpriced. And, the plates are small.
Foodies claim that the cuisine is inventive. I say, the presentation is above average and the flavors are on point.
Overall, I'd try it once. I'm a fool for trying it a second time unless someone is buying me dinner.
Did I tell you that this is a vegetarian restaurant?
If I didn't need to entertain a co-worker from India who is vegetarian, I would choose a different place.
These are the only palatable plates I can endure – the desserts.
Meyer Lemon Cheesecake
Chocolate Uber Chuck
We had a few small plates so I know that we paid too much for not much food.
Spicy Grilled Tofu
Roasted Maitake Mushroom
Salt Roasted Gold Beets
Portabella Carpaccio
Appetizer from the Dirt List – garlic, almonds and cauliflower. It just reminds you that you are eating rabbit food.
Asian-Inspired small plates from Pub & Kitchen chefs Eli Collins and Rob Marzinsky.
Marc Pauvert of the Four Seasons Baltimore butchered a pig for the audience. The butchered parts were sold off at the event to benefit Drexel University.
Scott Drewno, two time Cochon 555 Washington DC champion, was among the judges. It was incidentally also his birthday that day.
Pig popcorn from Chef Jason Cichonski was the most beloved non-competing food item that night.
One of the Punch King Cocktail competitors showing me how his artisinal potion is made.
You will be truly inspired by how much passion these chefs had put in to creating these dishes for both the judges and for attending guests.