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In this article, the Neumann problem on the semi-line for the Burgers equation is considered. The problem is reduced to a nonlinear integral equation in one independent variable, whose unique solution is proven to exist for small time. An explicit solution is discussed as well.
Keywords:Burgers equation; Neumann problem
1 Introduction
Initial/boundary value (IBV) problems for integrable nonlinear PDEs frequently appear in physical applications and have originated several important studies in the past few decades. Much interest has been devoted to IBV problems for nonlinear PDEs which are treatable by the inverse scattering transform method, such as the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS), the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV), and the Sine-Gordon equation [1-8]. Other studies have been devoted to IBV problems for nonlinear PDEs which are C-integrable, namely, which are exactly linearizable via a change of variables: well-known examples in this class are the Burgers equation and the Eckhaus equation [9-15].
It is the aim of this article to analyze the Neumann problem for the Burgers equation:
on the semi-infinite domain x ∈ [0, ∞) characterized by the following set of initial and boundary data:
where F(t) is a continuous, bounded function of its argument:
and the initial datum u0(x) is assumed to be integrable on the semi-line:
We point out that such problem was previously considered in [12], where it was shown to be equivalent to a nonlinear integro-differential equation (in one independent variable), which however cannot generally be solved. In this article, our analysis is based on the method developed in [10] for the solution of Dirichlet problem and on the use of the contraction-mapping technique, analogously to what was done for the Eckhaus equation in [15]. In particular, the main result of the present study is to prove the following.
Theorem 1 There exists a finite constant σ ∈ ℝ, 0 <σ < ∞, such that the solution to the Neumann problem (2a-2e) for (1) exists and is unique for 0 ≤ t <σ.
Unlike the Neumann problem on the finite interval (0,1), for which the existence of a solution in L2 (0,1) was proven in [16] by means of the Galerkin method, the Neumann problem on the semi-line for the Burgers equation has not received much attention in the literature in the past. To the best of the authors' knowledge, Theorem 1 (as well as Lemma 1 in Section 3) are new.
In Section 2, we put problem (1, 2a-2e) in a one-to-one correspondence with a Neumann problem for the heat equation, characterized by a boundary datum which is a nonlinear combination of the boundary data {u(x,0) ,ux(0,t)} of the Burgers equation. We reduce such a problem to a nonlinear integral equation of Volterra type in one independent variable (t). In Section 3, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution for small time. In Section 4, we discuss a special solution of the problem (1, 2a-2e).
2 Reduction to a nonlinear integral equation
We begin our analysis by introducing the following ("generalized" Hopf-Cole) linearizing transformation [11,12]:
The above transformation maps the Burgers equation (1) into the linear heat equation
with the "compatibility" condition for C(t) given by
where (hereafter) the dot indicates differentiation with respect to time. Through transformation (3a-3c), from the Neumann IBV data for the u(x,t), (2a-2e), we obtain the IBV data for the υ(x,t) that characterize (4):
Comparing (6c) with (5) and making use of (6b) with (2b), we can restate the compatibility condition for C(t), (5), in the following shape:
According to (6c), the boundary datum υx(0,t) for the heat equation (4) is a nonlinear combination of known (ux(0,t)) and unknown (u(0,t)) boundary data for the Burgers equation (1).
The Neumann problem on the semi-line for υ(x,t) is then in principle solved through the following prescription:
1. Solve the Neumann problem on the semi-line for υ(x, t), with initial datum (6a) and (6c);
2. Determine the unknown function C(t) by means of the transformation (3a) and (3c);
3. Recover u(x,t) via the inverse transformation (3b).
We reduced the problem of solving Burgers equation (1) with the Neumann condition (2a-2e) to the determination of the couple {υ(x,t), C(t)}, where υ(x,t) solves the heat equation (4) with the Neumann condition (6a-6c) and C(t) simultaneously satisfying (7).
In order to explicitly evaluate the solution υ(x,t) of (4), as in [12], it is convenient to introduce the cosine-Fourier transform:
Using (8b) and (8c) with (8a), via (7), we equivalently get
In the right-hand side of (9), υ(0,t) is unknown. It is then convenient to set z(t) = υ(0,t) and to calculate left- and right-hand sides of (9) at x = 0. To do so, let us start by recalling that
(a) for an arbitrary function of t, g(t), we have
b) from the convolution properties of the cosine-Fourier transform (8), we have
From this, at x = 0, we can restate (9) as follows:
or, via (7),
Making use of (10a), we can put in a more explicit form the previously given prescription to solve the Neumann problem on the semi-line, (1) and (2a-2e), for u(x, t):
1. Given the Neumann data on the semi-line, (2a-2e), compute C(t) by substituting (10b) into (10c), namely, from the following nonlinear integro-differential equation:
with C(0) = 1 as in (3c);
2. Evaluate the solution to the heat equation (4) with IBV data (6a-6c), υ(x,t), by means of (8a) making use of (8b) and (8c);
3. Recover u(x,t) from υ(x,t) via (3b).
For arbitrary u0(x) and F(t), there is no general technique for solving a nonlinear integro-differential equation like (11). On the other hand, the determination of the solution u(x,t) has been reduced to the solution of the nonlinear integral equation (10b)--with C(t) satisfying (10c)--for only one independent variable (t). In the next section, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the function z(t) for 0 ≤ t <σ, with 0 <σ < ∞ (Lemma 1). Once the existence and uniqueness of z(t) are established, the existence and uniqueness of υ(x,t) for 0 ≤ t <σ then follow, via (9), with C(t) being obtained via (10c). Then, via the inverse transformation (3b), Theorem 1 immediately follows, namely the solution of the original Neumann problem (2a-2e) for the Burgers equation (1) exists and is unique (for 0 ≤ t <σ).
3 Contraction mapping
In order to analyze the existence properties of z(t) for 0 ≤ t <σ < ∞, we denote by SM(σ) the closed sphere ||z|| ≤ M in the Banach space of continuous functions z(t) for t ∈ [0,σ), with the uniform norm ||z|| = l.u.b.|z(t)|. On the sphere SM(σ), we introduce the transformation:
where coincides with the right-hand side of (10b). To prove the existence and the uniqueness of the solution of the integral equation (10b) for a finite interval of time, we will prove the following:
Lemma 1 The mapping operator is a contraction mapping in SM(σ) for t ∈ [0,σ).
In order to prove this Lemma, we need to prove that, for t ∈ [0, σ), is closed and contractive in SM(σ).
3.1 Closure of in SM(σ) for t ∈ [0,σ)
We need to prove that if z(t) ∈ SM(σ) then w(t) ∈ SM(σ) as well, namely that ||z(t)|| ≤ M for t ∈ [0,σ) entails for t ∈ [0,σ).
The first step is to obtain an upper and lower bounds for |C(t)|. Integrating (10c), we obtain
From the fact that |ex| = ex ≤ e|x| for any x ∈ ℝ, applying the triangular inequality (|x| - |y| ≤ |x + y| < |x| + |y|) on (13) we get
imposing the last right-hand side of (14b) to be strictly greater than zero, we have the following condition on σ:
where W is the Lambert-W function, implicitly defined as the inverse function of f(W) = W ew.
The second step, is to obtain an upper bound for . Applying the triangular inequality on (10b), via (16), we get
From (6a) and (2e) we can write
then, for the first term on the right-hand side of (15), we get
For the second and the third terms in the right-hand side of (15), inequalities (14a-14c) and (2d) entail
Defining M = αA, with α > 1, and combining (15) with (17a-17c), we get
with σ satisfying condition (14c). On the other hand, in the interval , for B > 0 and M > 0, β(σ) is a monotonic, increasing bijective function on the positive Reals, and so there exists a value such that
Taking σ ≤ σ*, from (18a), we have ||w(t)|| ≤ M. Thus the mapping is closed. □
3.2 Contractivity of in SM(σ) for t ∈ [0,σ)
We need to prove that, given two solutions of (12), z(t) and ẑ(t), with ||z(t)-ẑ(t)|| = δ < 2M; it then follows that with 0 <θ < 1.
We now write
Let us recall
Notice that, if , then, for 0 ≤ t ≤ σ, via (14a) and (14b), we have that C(t) is a nonzero bounded function of t:
thus X(t) and are bounded functions of t as well.
The identity
Let us recall
existence and well-definedness of which are implied by our previous considerations about the boundedness of C(t).
Since, for an arbitrary function of t, g(t), we have that , from (22), we can write
or, integrating once with initial condition |C(0)-Ĉ(0)| = 0,
Formula (25b), via (19), implies
we get θ < 1 and, for what we saw in the previous Subsection 3.1, the mapping remains closed. Thus, Lemma 1 is proved, namely, is a contraction operator on SM(σ). □
Lemma 1 means that there exists a unique fixed point of in SM(σ), for 0 ≤ t ≤ σ. We have thereby proven the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the integral equation (10b) for 0 ≤ t <σ. Then, as explained at the end of Section 2, from the existence and uniqueness of z(t) in the interval 0 ≤ t <σ, we get, via (9) and (10c), the existence and uniqueness of υ(x,t) in the same interval, and via the inverse transformation (3b), we immediately get Theorem 1.
4 A special solution
In this section, we consider a particular solution of the Neumann problem (2a-2e) for the Burgers equation (1), and derive the corresponding expression for z(t).
A solution to the Burgers equation is given by
where A and t0 > 0 are two real constants and
From (28), we obtain for the squared modulus
Thus the solution (28) on the whole line is a single hump with (negative) peak value given by
where yp is the solution of the equation
the peak value is attained at
and moves to the left with velocity
The corresponding initial datum and boundary condition, which associate the given solution (28) to the Burgers equation (1) are
Notice that, if t0 = 0, then, from (31a), it turns out that u0(x) = Aδ(x), where δ(x) is the Dirac delta function; in this case, all the following calculations can still be performed.
Next, we prove that (28) considered on the semi-line x ∈ [0, +∞) is a particular solution of the Neumann problem (2a-2e) for the Burgers equation (1). To this end, we start noting that from the solution (28), we get
so that
this last relation, via (5) and (3c), implies
which in turn, from (6b) and (32), implies
On the other hand, it is now immediate to see that the integral equation (10b), when (34) and (35) are used, reduces to
An explicit computation of the integral (36a) with (36b) yields immediately the same expression (35) for z(t).
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
The authors declare that the work was realized in collaboration with the same responsibility. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors wish to thank M. J. Ablowitz for enlightening discussions on this topic. MS wishes to thank T. Horikis and M. Hoefer, particularly the latter for bringing to his attention a different way to linearize (1).
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The firm claims that the App Store Ranking tool will provide mobile app publishers with current-day insights into the positions of the top-ranked applications for iTunes, Google Play and Windows Phone Marketplace. These automated charts will provide publishers with side-by-side rankings across multiple product categories and different countries.
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The Ligonier Valley Rams girls basketball team triumphed in a convincing win over the Purchase Line Red Dragons but then fell to the Homer Center Wildcats.
Ligonier Valley traveled Jan. 15 to Purchase Line to play the Red Dragons. The Rams got off to a solid start, out-scoring the hosts, 12-4, in the first quarter. Kyra Ludwig scored half of those points for Ligonier Valley. Maddy Grimm, returning to play from injury, scored six points in the second quarter as the Rams totaled 10 to take a 22-8 lead into the halftime locker room.
Ludwig had another good quarter in the third period, scoring seven for Ligonier Valley, which went up 33-15. Taylor Rudnik totaled the most points in the final period, with six. The Rams won, 45-23.
Ludwig ended up with 15 points to lead all scorers. Grimm and Rudnik each finished with eight points. Grimm also contributed five steals and three assists. Stephanie Heming scored six points, grabbed 12 rebounds, stole the ball four times, blocked three shots, and assisted on two baskets.
Amanda Ross pulled down nine rebounds to go with two points. Madison McLaughlin and Caitlin Michaels also scored for Ligonier Valley. The junior varsity lost its game to Purchase Line, 29-28.
On Jan. 17, the Rams met the Homer Center Wildcats at the Homer Dome. Four players scored for Ligonier Valley in the first quarter, which ended at 12-12. The home team Wildcats edges out to a 21-18 lead at the half.
But thanks to a stifling defense that limited Homer Center to just three points in the third quarter, the Rams tied it up again, 24-24, heading into the final quarter. There the Wildcats were able to pull ahead and hold on for a 40-32 win. Heming scored 10 for Ligonier Valley and also had six rebounds. Grimm totaled eight points, four steals, four assists, and three blocks. Ludwig, Ross and Rudnik also scored for the Rams.
The Ligonier Valley junior varsity won its game, 30-24.
The Rams are now 8-5 overall and 5-4 in the Heritage Conference. Ligonier Valley needs to pick up one more victory to ensure a spot in the District 5⁄6/8 regional playoffs.
The Rams were back in action earlier this week with a non-conference home game against the Conemaugh Township Indians. There is another home game tomorrow night as Ligonier Valley plays host to the Northern Cambria Colts.
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Abraham Wins 60-Meter Championship at the Armory
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Senior Ashlee Abraham ran a personal-best time of 7.29 seconds to win the 60-meter championship Friday afternoon at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City, highlighting the first day of competition at The Armory for the Ohio State women's track and field team.
The winning time by Abraham ranks the Detroit native third all-time at Ohio State and seventh in Division I this season. Fellow senior Chesna Sykes posted a personal-best time of 7.30 in the preliminary round, placing her fourth all-time at Ohio State and eighth in Division I this season.
Junior Abie Ehimwenman posted a personal-best mark of 6.10 meters (20-0.25) in the long jump to place fourth overall. The distance ranks third all-time in Ohio State indoor history.
In the 1000-meter run, freshman Rachel Weber fell just shy of the school-indoor record, finishing 12th overall in 2:52.61, the second-best time in OSU history.
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Here is a reasonable new review of my Climatopolis book. Unlike 98% of the inane reviews of my book, this review joins Matt Kotchen's in the winner's circle. In late October 2013, I will return to the University of Chicago to discuss my book at a conference where 250 unlucky people will receive a free copy. EBay exists and there is free disposal but this select set of friends of free markets should embrace my thinking. While my book tour hasn't been as successful as Dr. Levitt's or Dr. Glaeser's, I have nudged some people to take a second look at the power of free markets in helping us to cope with environmental challenges.


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The day comes when Charmaine discovers that Ram is having an affair. The scene is a high point in the film.
But it doesn't end there.
Another theme that No Other Woman plays up is that of obsession. Anne Curtis's character embodies that. At the outset, she swears off love and toys with the men whocome her way. She is thus taught a painful lesson: the only person she ever learned to love is "unfortunately married!"
To add to Anne's troubles, the character Cristine plays may be good-natured and gentle, but when she unleashes the warrior inside her, she is ferocious.
She is also backed by a feisty mother (Carmi Martin), who pushes her to fight for her man. In what will probably be iconic lines in the next years, Carmi exhorts Cristine with these words: "Ang asawa 'pag may suki nang kabit, dun ka na lalaban! I-pack up mo na si Lucy Torres, ilabas mo na si Gretchen Barretto...Anak, ako na ang bahala sa red stilettos mo!"
In No Other Woman, not one of the women comes off as a victim. Neither is stigmatized by the man who cheats them. Instead they come off as empowered beings who confront their battles and fight for their relationships. They endure. They take the pain of loving until their hearts can bear no more.
As the film draws to a close, the scenes turn even more riveting. The characters of Cristine and Anne face off in a series of intense confrontations that can leave the weak of heart limp.
A poignant scene finds Cristine, after a major brawl with Anne (where both of them are in skimpy bikinis), confronts Ram to ask the inevitable question: "Why?" Here, the wife takes centerstage and the husband wilts.
No Other Woman is introspective. It makes the audience ponder the very concept of love as an emotion. Is love something that just gives pleasure? Is the joy it gives enough reason to pursue it beyond all reason?
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In this holiday season, there are journalistic conventions one comes to expect: stories lamenting the commercialism of Christmas; stories summing up the 12 months gone by and predicting the direction of the New Year; and stories blaming Israelis for the problems afflicting the Holy Land.
Reuters, the BBC, McClatchy, ABC News -- in recent days, all have run pieces in the last category. But the one that troubled me most appeared in the Wall Street Journal -- my favorite national daily newspaper -- on Dec. 24. It was written by Ken Woodward, a religion writer whose work I've long respected. But in this instance his subject was not religion but foreign affairs, and what he produced was the usual anti-Israeli dogma.
His op-ed was headlined: "The Plight of Bethlehem: Why Christians can't visit the holy shrines in Jerusalem." The first thing to note is that, according to Palestinian tourism officials, 450,000 foreigners will have visited Bethlehem by the end of this year -- a 50 percent increase over the 295,000 who came last year. Every hotel room was filled. Among the tourists on Christmas Day were 7,000 Israeli Christian Arabs. Fadel Badarin, the chief of the Palestinian tourism police, declared that in 2007 "the tourism situation in Bethlehem was great."
The low point for tourism to Bethlehem came in 2002. Then-Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat had turned down the peace offers forged by President Clinton during his last days in office. Arafat went on to launch a wave of suicide bombings against Israel, a terrorist assault known as the al-Aqsa Intifadah. At one point in that conflict, Palestinian terrorists took over the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and used the Christians inside -- including nuns and priests -- as human shields.
Yet Woodward argues that Israel "cannot blame the Christians' dire circumstances" on the Intifadah because "Muslims are suffering just as much as the tiny Christian minority." Does Woodward actually believe militant Islamists spare ordinary Muslims from suffering? Does he not know that the majority of victims of Islamist terrorism -- in Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and elsewhere -- have been moderate Muslims?
Woodward also seems unaware of the extent to which Bethlehem's Christian population has declined since 1995 -- the year Arafat's Palestinian Authority took over the West Bank and Gaza as part of the Oslo Accords. Arafat quickly fired the city's Christian politicians and replaced them with his cronies.
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If you are fortunate enough to have insurance, and I do, really who likes their current Insurance? Their job is to deny claims to make themselves profitable. It is an inherent conflict of interest. Nothing is perfect and you can call it "Universal Coverage" or "Socialized Medicine" depending on your view, but the system in the US is completely broken by the Greed of Big Pharma, Big Hospitals, Big Insurance, Big HMO's, Big GPO's on and on. If you see someone hurt, is access to healthcare a right or a privilege? Unfortunately the answer is obvious!
re: Current Health Care System is Broken: I completely disagree with your conclusion that "the system in the US is completely broken". Our system is the best in world. When people need the best health care, they come here. Is it perfect? No Can it get better? Absolutely. But don't kid yourself into thinking that socialized medicine in a panacea. If you don't want a beaurocracy like the IRS making decisions about how to ration health care, then stay away from single-payer, government-run medicine.
Whether healthcare is a right or a privilege is not relevant. In the hey-day of the real estate bubble, lots of uninsured Americans bought fancy designer jeans and ingratiated themaselves with other expensive luxury items, instead of purchasing health insurance. There are Medicaid-eligible folks who chose not to sign up for Medicaid. Hardworking, successful, and prudent Americans should not subsidize these prodigal sons.
Have any of you seen just the VA system. If you want a Gov't run system, take a look there. Patients are suspicious of the care they get, much is denied them, providers are less than motivates, they can't find doctors to work there, lines are long, there is a bureaucracy that you have to deal with etc etc. Why would be want that. Why not just allow the insurance industry no more than a 10% administrative fee, regulate them much like the utilities, and impose a minimum services level for them and then just let the market run free from there.
We also needs to encourage the entrepreneural spirit in each Doctor, we have killed that
Single payer health care is widely misunderstood. Single payer does not mean the government taking over and running something like the VA system. It does not mean that health care would be rationed. Doctors, nurses and all other health care providers would not be employed by the government. And you would still be able to choose your own doctor with as much or more freedom as you have now. Health care providers would continue to work for their practices, hospitals, or wherever they work now. What single payer would do is significantly simplify the payment process. Instead of all of us contributing monthly both through our employers and our paychecks, to an insurance company (and in my case, even with a "good" PPO, I still have to pay a large portion until I get to my deductible), that money would go into the state or national insurance system. When you visit your health care provider, they would bill the insurance, but the difference would be, this insurance system would actually pay, and providers wouldn't have to jack up their prices or make sure to do some kind of procedure in hopes of getting reasonable compensation. The doctor and insurance would know how much exam time and procedures cost, and the system would keep the reimbursements fair. Some added bonuses would be, when you are sick or injured, you would not have to pay extra, just at a time you might be losing money because you can't work. The contributions that you make all along (which most estimates put at 2/3 of what most of us contribute now) would cover your care when you need it...no co-pay, no deductible. And, because so much money would be saved on the wasteful overhead of billing etc. and because the national health insurance would bargain with the drug and medical supply companies to get fair prices, the money saved could be used to insure everyone. That might seem like subsidizing prodigal sons, but most of us are employed and contribute to the system for at least some portion of our adult years. When I am no longer able to work, I think I deserve health care. If I am staying home with my kids I think I deserve health care. If I loose my job, should my daughter still be allowed to attend public school? I hope the answer is obvious. And I hope it is obvious that if I loose my job, I should still be able to take her to the doctor.
Single payer isn't misunderstood. It is a terrible idea only advocated by socialists or fools. If there's no copay or no deductible, people will show up to be seen for runny noses and hangnails. The government doesn't do anything efficiently, and the WHO statistics many cite as evidence why health care in the US isn't the best are a fraud. The VA is a great example of what the government does with health care. How many people who have a choice choose to be treated there? Are things perfect? Absolutely not, but I'll take what we have vs. what Canada has anytime. They can have their misguided sense of moral superiority and continue to die for the sake of their Medicare system if they so choose, but we'd be nuts to emulate that.
Single payer is the only solution to our healthcare nightmare.. As long as for profit health insurance companies are at the heart of our system,America will reamin the only industrialized country in the world where you can lose everything you own or just die because you got sick..The only way to take profit out of the equation is take insuance companies out of the equation.. Say what you want about Canada's system.. No Canadian has ever went bankrupt because of health care.. I have talked with countless Canadians over the years and have yet to find one who would trade their system for ours..Single payer is NOT socialzed medicine.. Instead of for profit insurance companies collecting premiums,with a hefty profit margin thrown in, a government ,non-profit agency collects the money through payroll deductions.. Payroll deductions that are far less than employers are forced to pay in premiums now..It covers everyone.. health insurance companies are not part of the problem,,THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.. In no way should they be part of the solution!!! Enough is enough.. 20,000 Americans die every year at the hands of for profit health insurance companies.. That's more than all Americans killed by terrorism in 10 years..
Healthcare is not a right, but a privledge.
Equal access to healthcare is the goal, as well as protection from bankruptcy for bad medical illness.
But to give this over to the federal govt to run, you must be out of your mind. They would run it into the ground, and going to the doctor will be like going to the post office. Good Luck!!
We need to make health insurance , insurance again, and not the health plans that have been masquerading as insurance. These plans which pay a protion of most doctor visits jack up the cost of care tremendously.
Make health insurance actual insurance again and you will see rates drop.
Allow individuals to fully deduct premiums like businesses do.
Allow health insurance to be purchased across state lines, to allow more competition.
Make all healthcare costs transparent to allow patients to mind their own costs.
There are many other simple things taht can be done to bring down costs and make care more affordable, that will not cost our govt one dime, and will leave control of healthcare with the individual.
Begrudgingly, I do not forsee our new president allowing this to occur. This will not bode well for our country.
<> Awesome idea! And while we're at it, why stop here? Why not nationalize everything? Why worry about Big Pharma, Big Hosptials, Big Insurance when you can have BIG GOVERNMENT? Let's do away with for-profit corporations - they're too greedy. And who needs all those small businesses - they just get in the way. Why have the corner market when you can have BuyNLarge instead? So let's join together and do the right thing: nationalize everything under our beloved government, for they know best. Down with capitalism! Long live the socialist agenda! <>
A good friend of mine and liberal Democrat who I consider to be a healthcare expert told me that he studied Medicare carefully. When he crunched the numbers, he was shocked to find that government run programs such as Medicare were far more expensive per patient than private healthcare. He had hoped to find the opposite, but the numbers did not lie. Making such a radical shift to a single-payer system would be incredibly painful. Thousands of jobs would be lost. Healthcare could very well be rationed. While single payer systems in other countries have their advantages, ask our neighbors in Canada how long they must wait for certain types of surgical procedures - if they can get them at all. It's little wonder why many of the most advanced procedures and treatments are invented here, and why people are desperate to come to the US for treatments they could not receive - or be allowed to receive - in their native countries.
By all means, the current system has tremendous problems. There is no escaping that. But there are many ways that healthcare can be made as efficient as other industries, which it is anything but right now. To think that any one answer is a panacea is foolish oversimplification. Healthcare, by its very nature is highly complex. And to say that by sweeping everything aside for a single payer system will solve all our problems invites the law of unintended consequences. And it is that which I fear the most. America, think long and hard about a change of this order, for healthcare alone will not be the only institution dramatically altered by something as large as this.
Karl - Of course Medicare costs more, but you shouldn't blindly cite a friends comment as proof that Medicare is more problematic than private care. To compare the costs of treating patients in both general groups is like comparing shiny apples and rotten oranges. Of course one group comes out looking better. The demographics of Medicare beneficiaries and the treatment modes are a far cry from those of patients in privately run plans. On Medicare are many people who take poor care of themselves, many people who have health problems that harm their employability, and people who cannot afford checkups and maintenance care. That is certainly going to lead to higher average costs per Medicare patient. So what? To change that, you need to eliminate the people. We could euthanize these groups of higher-cost people if you like, but putting them on private plans would not eliminate the factors that force up their treatment costs.
For Medicare to be reformed, all the Medicare Guidelines have to be thrown away and begin with taking a snaphot of the existing paradigm and assessing it's potential progress and guide it to eventually attain highly accessible, available and affordable care delivery model. Without immediate radical change with practical observation should be essential to guide this industry to reform. Though many things are self correcting through time, the question is how much is the country or economy willing to forbear at this time and in the short term and how soon is self destruct. And, what balance can be installed or sacrifaced without adverse semi-permanent effect to the economy. The rules of the basic foundation of life in this country must be re-examined and retaught to the people. We can be certain that; "There is something wrong with this country when one expresses "Pay me to take care of my mom". Only immigrants and people from poor countries have not truly embraced this attitude, however they are starting to learn and are learning fast. What is this indicative of ? Reform must be rapid and a president to champion this, must lead to this direction. For this constitutes our life in this nation and our children's.
Pretty discouraging to me...I look down through the list and there' s no one with a fundamental knowledge of healthcare costs. If there are virtually no physicians involved, and no healthcare financial professionals involved, how exactly are we going to 'reform' a system?
I still say, give me the people who routinely contibute to this blog, in spite of all our areas of disagreement, and I'l hand you a game plan for reform in six months that will expand access, improve accoutability, and move us toward 11% of GDP within 4-8 years.
Single payer = monopsony. Monopsony is n which only one buyer faces many sellers.As the only purchaser of a good or service, the "monopsonist" may dictate terms to its suppliers in the same manner that a monopolist dictates term to buyers.
What it means to you:
Under single payer, the state (monopsonist) will be telling doctors and hospitals how they should treat you, what drugs to prescribe, whom to deny treatment, etc. The state will be free to deny any services or drugs it deems too 'expensive' or not 'worth it'. All this will be achieved through centrally planned price control.
Single payer is a terrible idea and should not even be considered by lawmakers.
Dr. Green, I know you are reading this. Please post the entire article that claims that 60% of doctors support single payer; I have serious doubts on its methodology.
Healthcare CFO "I still say, give me the people who routinely contribute to this blog, in spite of all our areas of disagreement, and I'l hand you a game plan for reform in six months that will expand access, improve accoutability, and move us toward 11% of GDP within 4-8 years."
You are likely right on that, but keep in mind that the so-called healthcare summit was exclusively a public relations event, so of no substantive importance. As I note elsewhere, a good idea if done infrequently to at least give an appearance of openness to the proximate attempt at reform. Any bill and the consequences of enactment of the bill will be completely the work of horse-trading among Congress members. Reductions in costs or reductions of hassles to hospital executives or to physicians simply are not in the cards based on the Administration's proposal in the Fiscal Budget outline. Wishful thinking by those who support fundamental changes in the system, but I am still wishing.
President Obama is clearly aware of the value of single payer/insurer for example, but at the same time he has expressed doubt of the feasibility of enactment of such a scheme. There is still a significant number of Congress members who support that and similarly effective reforms, so who knows. The "people" collectively might get lucky.
I still have a - likely futile - hope that at least a few right-wing Republicans in Congress see the light and make proposals in support of their rhetoric to do something that favors the average citizen and patient rather than waste everyone's time with pure nonsense and obstructionism.
Their rhetoric, if taken beyond the nonsense of tax cutting, but consistent with the underlying goal of reducing cost burdens imposed on the average citizen/tax-payer offers them an excellent opportunity on the healthcare reform issue. They are likely too ideologically blind to see the opportunity and perhaps too dense generally, but at least a few among them must have some common sense, native intelligence and relevant knowledge.
(Good point Boston doc) Who are we kidding? Daschle and Medco CEO (Medicare Part D beneficiary) David L. Snow Jr got Snow's minon and a member of his BOD to lead some goofy White House health care reform panel. Daschle and Snow need the single payer system so that Medco Health Systems (traded as MHS on NYSE) can be the administrator of the universal health plan (in the same way MHS handles Medicare Part D and other private insurance companies administer state high risk pool health plans).
How is Medicare Part D (RX plan) doing for us? Its a nightmare. But check last weeks closing numbers on the NYSE. MHS is closing "up" when the rest of the economy is tanking? Who is buying the stock? SOmeone knows something that the rest of us do not! Look for the common denominators.
Please doctors. Please. Do something to protect your honorable profession before some yahoo in a US federal health board peruses your patient's computerized medical records from a cubicle in DC and tells you how to practice medicine. Please. Is this why you went to med school?
Maybe socialized medicine isn't best. How about a single payer system that provides basics for ALL and charging more for those that want extra coverage.
Or maybe instead of universal health care, we demand the health insurance companies are transparent with their billing. For example an foot x-ray at Duke Medical should cost an actual, true amount. The price should not be a function of your health insurance provider. That need for transparency is particularly significant when we decry the fact that bankruptcies are largely caused by medical bills . . . it is common practice for the medical care providers to charge the "premium price" for an uninsured patient! Good grief.
It is ironic that the insurance industry sets the price for premiums but not the prices for medical care and services.
Of course Medicare is not run well, DUH! And as far as the Part D Prescription coverage is concerned THAT IS A GIVE AWAY, THANKS TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, TO THE DRUG COMPANIES. If you have NO INSURANCE AT ALL and buy drugs at a pharmacy AT COST you will pay LESS THAN MEDICARE CHARGES FOR THE SAME DRUG. In fact, the cost is usually HALF of what medicare people pay for their drugs. I am not talking here about the dollars you pay the pharmacy when you pick up your pills, I am talking about the COST of the pills that Medicare charges your total benefit. For instance, each recipient's gets $2700. per year to pay for their prescriptions. If your pain pill costs $35 at the store, Medicare deducts from your $2700. $193 for that prescription. Where if you go to the store with out ANY insurance, the cost for the pain pills would be $98. I am sure this is the way it works BECAUSE I HAVE DONE THE TEST AND THIS IS THE WAY IT COMES OUT! Medicare is not what we will get for single-Payer AT ALL. Just put that idea out of your head. SINGLE-PAYER IS NOT MEDICARE. And, even as bad as Medicare is, it still only pays 3 cents out of every dollar for overhead, VERSUS 30 CENTS OUT OF EVERY HEALTHCARE DOLLAR WE PAY THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY! Where most of the money they take goes to pay CEO SALARIES AND BONUES, $BILLIONS TO LOBBYISTS EACH YEAR, PLUS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS FOR THEIR DRUGS AND OTHER OFFERINGS WHICH WOULD BE UNNECESSARY UNDER SINGLE-PAYER!
I spend my work day running interference for the doctor at a psych hospital, so he can treat patients. I'm on the phone arguing for more days of treatment for people who are not in any position to leave the hospital. Not only is MY work a complete waste of time and energy and money, but so is the job of the people at the managed care outfit I talk to all day. This is insanity! This is a job that needs to be eliminated. Managed care is pure, unmitigated waste. It is the problem and eliminating (i.e. outlawing) the waste that is managed care would pay for single payer, goverment run, commie-pinko socialized medicine. And I'd be out of a job. I would gladly be unemployed to save the lives of 20,000 Americans every year. It would be nice to go back to helping human beings instead of battling greed all day.
The only way we are going to defeat a national health care plan after it's rammed down our throats is with unified resistance. I was forced to enroll in Medicare Part B when I turned 65 otherwise I would have lost my regular insurance. Since I have been on Medicare I have obtained 7 power scooters. I jog 3.5 miles so I hardly need a power scooter. I visit an emergency room at least twice a month and tell the ER physicians I have chest pains. They run a whole multitude of tests including an EKG and CAT Scan to ensure they won't get sued for malpractice. The first year on Medicare I racked up over 400,000.00 in medical bills. If enough people organized and did the same thing with the national health care system we could crash the whole system and maybe the government will get out of the health care business once and for all. Good luck my friends. MJD
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Game Legendary Ultima Will Born Again?
A game called Shroud of the Avatar filed in crowdfunding site Kickstarter to get funding of 1 million dollars from the prospective supporters. What makes it special is the people behind him, Richard Garriott, creator of Ultima RPG series were aged 20 years or more.
From the Kickstarter page, not much information can be retrieved. Role playing game genre is going to be set in a world that can be explored alone offline or online with other players connected to the internet.
The game is being developed Portalarium is claimed will return players to the RPG genre is now getting away from the aspect of depth and involvement of players. Richard Garriott developed mentions that the game will invite players to explore the story focus and make decisions rather than practice in order to become stronger or the term "grinding".
Like the Ultima series, Garriott promising new game is going to have a profound fictional world, has its own culture and even language. The approach is what makes the Ultima series to attract millions of players.
In the game Shroud of the Avatar, Garriott is freeing players to live and interact. They could have ventured out to find a treasure but there is also the option to stay at home and explore one of the features of the game such as crafting professions. In other words, they can become virtual crafters.
Players can also have a home in this game. Garriott has prepared a scheme of tax to be paid on a regular basis to stay. What determines the amount of taxes, such as rural areas is lower than in urban areas.
In an interview with gaming site Kotaku, Garriott explained that his team is a combination of the old team while working on Ultima, most are experienced experts make a first class game, and the rest is a young talent who has never played Ultima before. The combination is expected to generate a fresh work.
With the remaining 28 days, the project Shroud of the Avatar through Sunday (10/3), has been gathering support for up to 607,390 dollars from 9683 backers. Six people accounted for more than 10,000 U.S. dollars, 20 people supported over 3,000 U.S. dollars, and at most as many as 2643 people who donate above 30 dollars.
Richard Garriott's reputation as creator of the RPG game began in 1980 when he was offered the game "Akalabeth" for Apple computers. Games are offered in conventional, made his own cover and put in an airtight plastic such as food wrappers commonly encountered. Unexpectedly, the product ogled publishers and generate sales of up to 30,000 pieces.
The story is a forerunner in developing Garriott Ultima RPG series. In the first series in 1981. Throughout the nine series, the first three series set in a world called Sosaria while five series in the world named Britannia, and one more series in the Guardian.
Ultima series puts the player as a person who comes from the real world into the world of fiction to help Lord British in dealing with the problems encountered. In the first series, he had to deal with mundane, son witch's revenge for being defeated Lord British. The second series, mondain lover named Minax coming revenge, while the third series the player must face the Exodus, a creature born of mondain and Minax.
In the fourth series, the player is introduced to the world called Britannia. Lord British is now the king and he was again summoned the players to come and be a role model in carrying value of virtue. After reaching the perfection of all virtues, the player assigned to find the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom that he later titled Avatar, the Awatara. The degree is what continues to cling to the series of nine.
In the last series, Ascension is released in 1999, the avatar back to the Britannia to face enemies named Guardian that nothing but the dark side of the avatar itself. The guardian has existed since the seventh Ultima series.
The central character besides protagonists, namely Lord British, none other than the personification of Richard Garriott himself. He acted as an advisor and a key figure in the course of the story Ultima series.
After the ninth series, this series never tested MMORPG genre with Ultima Online in 1997 and running until now.
Unfortunately, a Garriott dispute with publisher Electronic Arts made the development of this series stagnates. Ownership rights to the characters either by Garriott separately or EA made the development of a sequel to Ultima impossible. One of the EA project titled "Forever Ultima: Quest for the Avatar" shift the character Lord British into British Lady.
Thus, the Shroud of the Avatar Garriott developed through his studio, Portalarium is expected to restore the glory of the Ultima series, though with a new face, a new world and a new story. Has not been ascertained whether the character Lord British will re-appear.
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It has not been a typical offseason for the York Revolution. The franchise loaded the roster with Triple-A and independent league talent before. The franchise rebuilt its roster before. But never quite like this.
Of the 28 players signed at the start of spring training, 13 have major league experience.
New Revs manager Mark Mason has said he wants all 25 players on this year's roster to earn an affiliated contract. This year's preseason roster could be a reflection of that goal.
Before the Revs start the regular season with a home opener against Bridgeport at 6:30 p.m. April 18, here's a look at five storylines to watch in 2013:
Revs: 2013
York is built to win the first half. That's a good thing, seeing as 13 of the 15 league champions started their championship runs with first-half titles. Typically teams stacked with players with Triple-A and major league talent compete in the first half. The second half could be a different story, because by July major league organizations have signed the league's best players and assigned them to Triple-A.
Some of the best players in the Atlantic League during the last three seasons have been career independent league players.
The Revs established a team ERA record last season under Mason. Former big leaguer John Halama, 41, takes over as York's pitching coach. On paper, the Revs boast an impressive group vying for spots in the rotation (Brett Tomko, Chris Cody, Matt Fox, Nick Green, Kris Regas, Nick Schumacher and Corey Thurman). Halama will also try to rebuild a bullpen that lost three of its late-game options. Don't worry, former big leaguers Julio DePaula, Josh Judy, Pedro Liriano, Juan Rincon and Michael Wuertz have joined.
The Revs lost a lopsided playoff series to Lancaster last season, and pitching was a big reason why. York didn't have the offensive power Lancaster had late in the year. Will the Barnstormers continue to hold an edge? Or more to the point, should York have tried to coax Halama (a former Stormer) and Dwayne Pollok (14-4, 2.30 ERA) to share pitching coach duties in York this season?
The Revs sent a record six players back to major league organizations in 2007 and 2011. If York approaches those types of numbers this season -- and it should with its experienced roster -- the Revs coaching staff will continue to need to be one of the best in the league at rebuilding a team in June and August.
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|We have measured the optical properties of wire-grid polarizers (WGPs). The implications of these results to the application of WGPs in projectors that use reflective light valves are discussed. In particular, the brightness and the contrast ratio of the projection system are investigated as functions of the angle of incidence of the light beam onto the WGP. It was found that the optimal incident angle is dependent on the physical design of the wire grids. In the sample that we describe, the optimal incident angle was 35 degrees instead of 45 degrees. At the optimal incident angle, both the transmission and the reflection extinction ratios can be quite good. However, WGPs suffer from the drawback of free-carrier absorption by the metal grid.
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LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson walks off the field following the BCS title game loss.
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NEW ORLEANS - About that split national championship.
It's not happening.
There were those who said LSU still deserved a national title through the Associated Press media poll even if it lost to Alabama in the BCS national championship game Monday night. This theory was based on the Tigers going 13-0 in spectacular fashion through the regular season and Southeastern Conference Championship game.
It would have made sense if the AP awarded its national champion before the bowl season. Not even Alabama, which in the old days would count a national championship if Reader's Digest awarded it, would accept a national title trophy after a night like LSU had Monday.
Alabama 21, LSU 0.
The Tigers had a great season - one of the greatest in school history. It just ended very badly in the last and most important game - the BCS national championship game. Anyone who votes LSU No. 1 after what we have just seen should never have a vote again.
"Well, the only thing I can tell you is we think we had a great year," LSU coach Les Miles said. "This football team had as quality a run as there was in this country. We beat eight nationally ranked teams. We played in six stadiums before the SEC championship game, which we won as well."
But you lost to your ninth ranked opponent in a fashion that was not even remotely championship form. LSU did not cross the 50-yard line until midway through the fourth quarter. It had two first downs after three quarters.
"I think this team accomplished a lot," Miles said. That's true. It did. It will be remembered as one of the best teams ever to not win a national championship.
"I think that's for the voters to figure," Miles said.
There is nothing to figure.
"I will vote for LSU no matter what," wrote Erik Gee, an A.P. voter of KNML-AM in Albuquerque, N.M.
I hope he watched the game. Gee was not so smitten with LSU as he was angry that Alabama got into the national championship game because it lost to LSU 9-6 in overtime back in November. I hope he and many others realize that a team doesn't have to win its league or its division to win the national championship. Ask the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. Ask the Alabama Crimson Tide.
"We knew a lot of people said we didn't belong," said Alabama linebacker Courtney Upshaw, who virtually went unblocked through much of the night. "We knew people said that LSU was going to run the ball down our throats."
That did not happen. The Tigers totaled 39 yards on 27 carries. Quarterback Jordan Jefferson was awful again, averaging less than five yards a completion. He threw an interception. He fumbled three times. He was sacked four times. He should have been replaced by Jarrett Lee in the second quarter, third or fourth, but he wasn't. That's the only game Miles won on this night. He stuck with man - Jefferson - and both went down with the ship.
LSU could not run, pass or cheer and drowned in a sea of red. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome was transformed into the Chevy Truck Bamadome. There was as much or more red than purple and gold, and they made more noise. As I look on the field hours after the game, there is still red, but that might be LSU blood.
In the end, Alabama coach Nick Saban was smiling. And the Sad Hatter wasn't. His cap was low on his head.
"It was as painful as anything we've been through," Miles said.
Lick your wounds, know you had a great season and that you have enough coming back to win it all next year.
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In the morning, while I'm eating breakfast, I track the exercises I scheduled for that day into SP. If I've already logged them, I'm obligated to do them! I would hate to waste the time, going back in and deleting exercises I didn't do that day.
I finally realized the only way to gaurentee daily excersise is to walk to work. Its the only way I cant cheat, or squirm out of it. Once I start I have to keep going till I get there, or home. And it fits in my daily schedule during usual travel times.. Just very lucky I live just 1.5 miles from my office. I compliment that routine with home yoga sessions to keep that vital mind body link.
I just started...ok restarted...& this time, I made Sparkpeople.com my home page! So, every time I log on I am able to remember & track! It is actually really helping me to stay accountable...as well as a weight lifting class I started 2 mo. ago..now, I need to start tracking my food & had NO IDEA what I have been doing to my body daily, by way of calories...It has definitely opened my eyes! Thanks Sparkpeople for these great tools!
I'm putting a plug in for reading "THE SPARK" ! This concept has made a huge difference in my thinking. Keep doing SP even if we don't see immediate results, EVENTUALLY there will come a time when we hit what Chris calls the 'tipping point theory" and things will start happening for the positive. Example: a friend exercised on treadmill for 4 miles a day for 4 months and didn't LOSE ONE POUND, then she started losing 1 pound a day and has kept it off for over a year! We CAN'T give up! :-))


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