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Vintage Books, 2000 - Fiction - 257 pages
"Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage."--Gloria Naylor
Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family.
Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin Reverend James "Jimmy" Green questions the values of a community that nourishes a boy, places their hopes for salvation on him, only to deny him his destiny.
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Identification of Impacted Tests – Visual Studio Team System 2010 will have a Test Impact View, that identifies all the tests that should be run to validate a code change. That is great, cause TDD is all about:
Now this has worked well before, but the first bullet point might take some time when you have a couple of thousand tests. Well you might think that the application should be better partitioned so that you don't end up with that many tests, but the reality is that you might get there anyway (and some tests might even be integration tests that tests complicated interactions between several components and sometime you want to run those too). Anyway, I've been there, where the tests take too long time to run, that you start to cheat. You try to guess what tests that are impacted of a specific code change and only run those. Perhaps you run all tests before you check-in your code, but perhaps you cheat even there (even though you know you shouldn't… shame on you if you commit this sin… shame on me if I have sinned).
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Worst of all — for them — the unions have been unable to set Wal-Mart's workforce to march to their orders. Wal-Mart's employees remain non-union.
That's a good thing. Perhaps Wal-Mart (and the millions who work and/or shop there) won't be subjected to the same fate as American automakers. A fate brought on in large part by the unions barnacled to GM, Ford and Chrysler.
Unions are declining. They represented over 30 percent of the American work force back in the 1950s, but have steadily lost membership. Today, they represent only 12 percent.
Even these stark statistics don't tell the whole story. For the private sector, unions represent a scant 7 percent of workers. But 36 percent of public sector workers belong to unions. The discrepancy may be the thorny fact that the private sector must actually produce a good or service that someone will voluntarily pay for. And, in the process, turn a profit to boot.
Something the government doesn't have to do. And something Wal-Mart continues to do, persevering through this plethora of political pricks.
The Good News? Low prices usually beat bombastic brickbats. The Bad News? Wal-Mart has been forced into politics.
The retail giant, founded in 1962 (incorporated in '69), grew phenomenally throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s. But the company didn't hire a single lobbyist until 1999. In the 1998 cycle, Wal-Mart's PAC donated a total of $135,000 to federal candidates. Seems they were focused on pleasing customers, not politicians.
Former Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers explained Wal-Mart's disinterest in making political donations this way: "They were doing very well without any government assistance, and the government was not interfering with them too much. And I guess they felt it would be money sort of wasted."
But now the besieged company spends $2.5 million a year on lobbyists; political contributions have jumped a whopping ten-fold.
Same thing happened back in the '90s when the Clinton Justice Department decided to launch a witch-hunt against Microsoft. Microsoft had been working its business instead of plying politicians with donations. After the government mugging, Microsoft's political donations soared 9,000 percent.
Still, SEIU and UFCW expended far more in contributions. Together they spent $2.9 million in the 2006 election cycle — more than twice that of Wal-Mart. And 2006 was no exception: both unions are large and longtime donors to Democrats. Of course, unlike Wal-Mart, their business is politics.
Sure, it'd be far better for Americans if our most successful companies could concentrate on pleasing customers, rather than placating politicians. That's what our country is supposed to be all about.
But the brats want it their way.
Let's not give in. Let's not let the spoiled brats win.
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Tobias Harris (ankle) did not participate during shootaround and will likely be a game-time decision for Wednesday's matchup with the Spurs.
A deal sending Al Horford to the Boston Celtics is reportedly a "legitimate possibility" according to Chris Mannix of Yahoo! Sports.
The Heat have reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Omri Casspi.
The Hawks and Magic have reportedly discussed a potential deal involving Victor Oladipo and Jeff Teague.
Tyreke Evans plans to undergo surgery on his right knee and will likely miss the rest of the 2015-16 season.
Stephen Curry helped the Warriors improve to 47-4 on the season in Tuesday's win over the Rockets, scoring 35 points with nine assists.
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For normal pregnancies, you don't get ultrasounds after 20 weeks unless there is an issue.
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Most doctors don't do anymore after 20 weeks unless medically necessary because a lot of insurances won't cover it unless there is a medical reason. Mine did one at 31 weeks because of gestational diabeties, I've lost 20lbs since being pregnant and I haven't gained anything back I'm 33 weeks now...I was overweight before I got pregnant though and my belly is measuring fine...the doctor just wanted to make sure the baby is growing...I will have another at 35 weeks and then again at 37 weeks...
BTW...my OB doesn't charge me for the ultrasounds she does, just the ones the tech does. She LOVES to look at the babies, too, so she just likes to have the opportunity.
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The "Friends" actor will be the first non-British host in the history of the motoring show, which is being rebooted by the BBC following the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson last year.
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Absurdity upon absurdity
The more I watch our current government work these days the more absurd its works become.
Here's the story. Governors Cumo (NY) and Christie (NJ) imposed 21 day quarantines on health care workers returning from countries with ebola epidemics. That's right, these poor souls have to spend three weeks being monitored in an area isolated from the general public so if they're possibly infected they won't have an opportunity to spread the infection – you know, like the doctor who passed "enhanced screening" at JFK did last week.
Now the first thing I expect to hear is, "whoa, wait – you're a libertarian and you're agreeing that the government should have the authority to hold someone against their will?" What I'm agreeing with is a medical protocol that has stemmed epidemics for hundreds of years – at least since we've discovered it was germs and viruses, not "ill humors" that brought various plagues.
And, its not like we're talking "imprisoning" them or this taking years or even months. 3 freaking weeks. 3 weeks in some sort of center where they can be medically monitored to ensure they aren't infectious before they're given the okay to again join the general population.
Instead we get two reactions. One from a "health care worker":
Hickox, the first nurse forcibly quarantined in New Jersey under the state's new policy, said her isolation at a hospital was 'inhumane,' adding: 'We have to be very careful about letting politicians make health decisions.'
Hickox is now suing and has now hired Norman Siegel, a high profile civil rights attorney, to challenge the order.
Well, of course she has. Because one of the things we see more and more of is "we have rights!" but it is rarely followed by "and we have responsibilities that go with those rights". You know, like taking the precautions necessary to ensure you don't infect others. By the way, she's complaining that she tested negative for ebola. I'd remind her, so did the doctor who is now down with ebola in NYC. Nope, this is all about "her rights" – screw yours.
Now contrast that with this bit of word salad from the NIH:
'The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those health care workers, so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go,' said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci made the rounds on five major Sunday morning talk shows to argue that policy should be driven by science — and that science says people with the virus are not contagious until symptoms appear. And even then, infection requires direct contact with bodily fluids.
He said that close monitoring of medical workers for symptoms is sufficient, and warned that forcibly separating them from others, or quarantining them, for three weeks could cripple the fight against the outbreak in West Africa — an argument that humanitarian medical organizations have also made.
'If we don't have our people volunteering to go over there, then you're going to have other countries that are not going to do it and then the epidemic will continue to roar,' Fauci said.
A) It doesn't have to be "very, very uncomfortable". They're health care professionals. It's kinda like a deep sea diver saying he's not going to spend the decompression time necessary to avoid the bends because it's "uncomfortable". Of course he is, because that is part of the freakin job! Anyone remember this: "first do no harm". Until you are sure you are ebola free – that's after 21 days – then you can't be sure you're fulfilling that part of your pledge to those you serve, can you?
B) While the best way is obviously to stop ebola in Africa, it certainly does no good to let infected members to return and reintegrate with a population that isn't infected. That's how freakin' epidemics start! So certainly stop it in Africa. But also take the common sense precautions necessary to stop it before it gets here. Is that too much to ask of a "health care professional" and an agency charged with protecting us from health care threats such as ebola?
C) Because the people "volunteering" are indeed "health care professionals" they should understand the need for quarantine upon returning. It should be a part of the entire process. I simply don't understand the resistance. I have to wonder if they keep suspected ebola patients in the same wards with regular patients. Well, no, of course not. They quarantine them, even if the chance of them infecting others is very small. Why, oh why, is it too much to ask those who've been exposed to the virus and may be infected (but asymptomatic) to have a little regard for others and understand the need for separation for a period of time? Oh, and by the way, if the virus mutates (and health care officials say it might, given the amount of infection seen in Africa) then what? Suddenly it's a whole new kettle of fish, isn't it? And what they're asking us to let them do is close the barn door after the ebola cow has left. Stupid.
So what does the leadership in DC do? Well it talks the governors out of doing what is common sense and relying on the "wisdom" of a system that promised ebola would never reach the US.
Absurd. Stupid. Unthinking. Dumb.
Don't know how to say it any other way.
UPDATE: in light of a statement today by dopy Donny Deutsch saying "we're a nation of cowards" because … well because he believes there's hysteria in the air … I want to make it clear what I say isn't said out of "fear". It's said in frustration. Frustration about applied stupidity. It's as though all the common sense precautions we've taken in the past are "dated". Now we just wing it and make pronouncements about how it just can't happen here, even though it has happened here. Talk about arrogance. And stupidity.
To the Shepard Smiths of the world, STFU!
Smith has essentially jumped the shark by lecturing the audience to remain calm and not to believe most of the media hype surrounding the Ebola scare. And Smith should know about media hype being one of the main purveyors of it during the Hurricane Katrina coverage. Anyone remember that? Yeah, me too.
But here's the point. I'm remaining calm. I'm not panicking. However I am more than a little bit angry about the fiasco, the circus, that surrounds the US case of Ebola.
Here's a hint about why the CDC has been so blastedly inept in its handling of a single freaking case:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public-health agency, and public health is an uneasy combination of two very different things: emergency disease containment and nannyist do-goodism. It is a field that exists to save us from the plague and to tell us to drink less soda. To expect the same agency, and many of the same people, to be very good at both of these missions is a lot to ask, and the CDC is much better at the second than the first. Since (thank God) we don't experience many plague outbreaks, public health spends most of its time on that second mission: preaching the virtues of green vegetables and contraception. So the CDC is for the most part an agency engaged in a kind of low-grade, often silly social activism much of the time. When we confront a disease outbreak or similar public-health emergency, the CDC turns to the other part of its mission, and has an impressive core of experts and resources to call upon in doing so. But the turn is no simple matter, and the fact is we (thankfully) just haven't had much experience with public-health emergencies on American soil, so the people charged with handling them haven't had much practice here. It is not hard to imagine how all of this could lead to failures of the sort we have seen.
And who is the head of the CDC? The same guy who helped NYC's mayor Bloomberg impose tobacco bans, try to ban Big Gulps and chase your salt use. That's right, a "nannyist do-gooder" who hasn't the faintest idea, or so it seems, on how to address the core mission of the CDC (i.e. the mission for which it was originally formed). Shouldn't we be angry and upset about that? After the initial whining by the bureaucrats about how "funding" was a problem we learned about how they prioritized the funding they got (which, by the way, was more than adequate). It certainly wasn't primarily spent on the core mission as is now very obvious.
Ever hear of Dr. Nichole Lurie? Yeah, me neither. But she is the defacto "Ebola Czar".
…Dr. Nicole Lurie, explains that the responsibilities of her office are "to help our country prepare for, respond to and recover from public health threats." She says her major priority is to help the country prepare for emergencies and to "have the countermeasures—the medicines or vaccines that people might need to use in a public health emergency. So a large part of my office also is responsible for developing those countermeasures."
Or, as National Journal rather glowingly puts it, "Lurie's job is to plan for the unthinkable. A global flu pandemic? She has a plan. A bioterror attack? She's on it. Massive earthquake? Yep. Her responsibilities as assistant secretary span public health, global health, and homeland security." A profile of Lurie quoted her as saying, "I have responsibility for getting the nation prepared for public health emergencies—whether naturally occurring disasters or man-made, as well as for helping it respond and recover. It's a pretty significant undertaking." Still another refers to her as "the highest-ranking federal official in charge of preparing the nation to face such health crises as earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and pandemic influenza."
Lurie is the Asst. Secretary of HHS for "preparedness and response, whose job it is to "lead the nation in preventing, responding to and recovering from the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters, ranging from hurricanes to bioterrorism.""
Really? Where IS she?! Instead, CNN reports, we're getting a different Ebola Czar:
President Barack Obama is expected to name Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to two Democratic vice presidents, as the country's Ebola czar, knowledgeable sources told CNN's Jake Tapper today.
Klain is a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and also to former Vice President Al Gore. Klain is currently president of Case Holdings and General Counsel of Revolution, an investment group. He has clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and headed up Gore's effort during the 2000 Florida recount.
Yes, that's right friends, we're getting a lawyer and political hack inserted into the mess.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Belize, a Carnival cruiseliner is being barred entry to a port because one of the healthcare workers who treated our Patient Zero is on board (so far no symptoms, thank goodness). I guess it was too forward thinking to sequester all those workers to ensure they weren't infected and didn't pose a threat to others. I mean, you know, Epidemic Prevention 101 is so 20th Century … or something.
So Shep, STFU. You're an overpaid news reader. Confine yourself to doing that. Talking about panicking because of media hype is about as hypocritical as anything you can do, given your history.
As for me, I'll remain outspoken about how poorly this particular event has been handled and continues to be handled. It is all about ineptness and lack of leadership at many levels and in many bureaucratic agencies. It is the poison fruit of big government. The only silver lining in all of this is the media coverage is keeping that front and center for the public to see.
I'm fine with that.
Tired of being called "hysterical?"
Because that's what all the elite would have you believe you are when you have concerns about their ability (and competency) to contain a virus with a 50 -70% death rate. This is the same elite that told us the virus was unlikely to show up here (it has) and that air travel wasn't a real threat (air travel is precisely how the virus arrived here). And anyone who says differently is "hysterical".
Now we learn we have a second infected nurse and, just to add to the irony, she traveled by air to and from Cleveland, OH the day prior to diagnosis. So wait lets think about this … we had 75 health care workers come in contact with patient zero in the US and they were left to just resume their normal lives afterward with no thought to possibly holding them in some sort of loose quarantine to insure they weren't infected? And, as it turns out, at least two were.
Additionally, the plane remained in service and made two more round trip flights. But, the CDC says, you're not dangerous until you run a fever and she wasn't diagnosed with the disease until after the flight. So, as our Top Men at the CDC said, she likely wasn't infectious. CNN burst that bubble today by reporting she was running a fever on the flight.
Folks, I hate to say it, but this sort of sloppiness and counter-intuitive activity is exactly how epidemics spread. But we're "hysterical".
Then there's plain old human nature to consider. As a friend of mine wrote:
If you want to understand selfishness, look no further than the behavior of people caught up in the ongoing Ebola scare — a man who lied so he could board a plane from Africa, a nurse who boarded a plane even though she was at risk of getting Ebola because she treated that man, a journalist/doctor who is now under mandatory quarantine because she violated a voluntary one, family members who have resisted being quarantined while at high risk of contracting Ebola.
This kind of behavior is precisely why Ebola is an epidemic in West Africa, and Americans apparently haven't learned anything from watching the news there. Or worse, they just don't care. They aren't willing to be inconvenienced for a few weeks in order to protect those around them.
Exactly. Add that to the sloppiness of the so-called protocols, if they even exist, and you have the makings of something which could easily get out of hand. But we're "hysterical".
Gerlado Rivera tweeted a question yesterday wondering if those who were calling for a ban on flights from Africa would now be for one on Texas since Ebola had now been found there? Gerry's never been considered a rocket brain surgeon, but this was dumb even for him. And, of course, the irony of the situation – the fact that Ebola got to Texas via the air – was apparently lost on the poor boy.
Now we learn that the disease my have a 42 day incubation period which would make the CDC's 21 day quarantine entirely inadequate. We also learn that Patient Zero spent 90 minutes in the open among other patients in the Dallas hospital's ER – and apparently no one is trying to run down those folks. But we're "hysterical".
I guess we should all just shut up and follow Bill Quick's facetious advice:
Not to worry, though. Even though she was running a fever, and even though she later tested positive for Ebola, there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever that she might have been infectious while on that plane.
How do I know this is undeniably true? Because Top. Men. at the CDC told me so.
Don't worry, be happy.
Putting on my Alfred E. Newman face as I type and sitting back to watch our Top Men's slow motion train wreck unfold.
Utter failure.
Sometimes … most of the time … you just have to raise the "BS" flag
The latest reason for hoisting said banner is this apparent decision by political operatives on the left to blame Republicans for the ebola epidemic. Because of them, so the meme goes, we've had a lack of funding. And that lack of funding is blamed for the failure to have a viable ebola vaccine. Per the NIH chief, they'd have likely succeeded in creating an ebola vaccine if only they'd had the money:
Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.
"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."
As the following chart shows, the problem wasn't money at all:
Since 2001, tons of money have gone toward global health programs. Tons. And the upward move was made during Republican control. So to say his point is BS is to be kind.
In fact, it is likely to have been all about priorities instead, and ebola wasn't a priority. Secondly, as Glenn Reynolds points out, it had to do with mission creep.
As The Federalist's David Harsanyi writes: "The CDC, an agency whose primary mission was to prevent malaria and then other dangerous communicable diseases, is now spending a lot of time, energy and money worrying about how much salt you put on your steaks, how close you stand to second-hand smoke and how often you do calisthenics."
These other tasks may or may not be important, but they're certainly a distraction from what's supposed to be the CDC's "one job" — protecting America from a deadly epidemic. And to the extent that the CDC's leadership has allowed itself to be distracted, it has paid less attention to the core mission.
So money which could have been and should have been dedicated to the core mission was instead spent on ideologically supported nonsense. Any wonder why "money" wasn't available? Because it was wastefully spent elsewhere in the structure of the CDC and NIH.
Gov. Bobby Jindal gives us more facts on the problem:
In recent years, the CDC has received significant amounts of funding. Unfortunately, however, many of those funds have been diverted away from programs that can fight infectious diseases, and toward programs far afield from the CDC's original purpose.
Consider the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a new series of annual mandatory appropriations created by Obamacare. Over the past five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from the fund. Yet only 6 percent—$180 million—of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity. Especially given the agency's postwar roots as the Communicable Disease Center, one would think that "detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats" warrants a larger funding commitment.
Instead, the Obama administration has focused the CDC on other priorities. While protecting Americans from infectious diseases received only $180 million from the Prevention Fund, the community transformation grant program received nearly three times as much money—$517.3 million over the same five-year period.
There are the numbers of funds available to the CDC for its core mission. $3 billion dollars. Spent on its core mission from that fund? $180 million. So how again is that the GOP's fault?
Instead the truth of the matter is we have a bureaucracy with a supposedly single mission (for heaven sake, its even in their name – "Centers for Disease Control") which has instead done what bureaucracies always do … creep their authority out into areas where they don't belong (with the approval of the administration, of course), doing things that mostly fulfill an ideological agenda instead of an agenda of real worth to the citizens it supposedly serves. The money that should have gone toward heavy research into communicable disease threats such as ebola instead went to "fund neighborhood interventions like "increasing access to healthy foods by supporting local farmers and developing neighborhood grocery stores," or "promoting improvements in sidewalks and street lighting to make it safe and easy for people to walk and ride bikes."
So while we sit here and watch the left attempt this bit of BS (and watch a certain segment of the citizenry lap it up), let's remember the reality of why there's no ebola vaccine. It has absolutely nothing to do with money and everything to do with political priorities.
In this case the priority chosen has put us in a position to be essentially defenseless in the face of a disease for which we should have developed a vaccine by now. But I bet we have some great bike paths out there.
And that failure, friends, is clearly attributable to the administration in power which is responsible for that shift in priorities.
Utter failure.
More self-inflicted economic problems on the way
The Obama economy is a mess, with median incomes retreating, fudged employment numbers and generally the usual mess you can expect from a over-regulated and highly manipulated "market". In other words, it stinks because of government as much as anything else. Our betters seem not to understand the very basics of human nature – humans respond to incentives. So they continue to cobble together more and more feel good projects (i.e. they make the "elite" feel good) that backfire. Why? Because humans respond to disincentives as well – and their feel good projects are long on disincentives, something they can't seem to wrap their heads around.
By design, the next example of that will take place after the November mid-term elections:
Starting this year, the United States' working population will face three major employment disincentives resulting from the very benefits the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides: (1) an explicit tax on full-time work, (2) an implicit tax on full-time work for those who are ineligible for the ACA's health insurance subsidies, and (3) an implicit tax that links the amount of available subsidies to workers' incomes.
A new study published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University advances the understanding of how much these ACA taxes will reduce overall employment, and why. It concludes that the reduction will be nearly double that projected by previous analyses. Labor markets ultimately will reduce weekly employment per person by about 3 percent—translating to roughly 4 million fewer full-time-equivalent workers.
4 million more jobs in an economy already suffering one of the lowest labor participation rates in its history. Why have "middle class" wages stagnated or dropped? One major reason has to do with disincentives like this. Its like the $15 minimum wage trope. Force it on business and they have a "disincentive" to hire people for jobs that aren't worth that and an incentive to automate or go short handed and double up the work on someone else.
That's precisely the type of disincentive that ObamaCare is about to inflict on the economy. We'll then hear the usual nonsense about greedy and uncaring companies and how the "market" has failed us. It is as predictable as the next blizzard being somehow blamed on global warming.
Meanwhile, these 4 million that may join the currently unemployed are real people who will suffer real problems because of the disincentive provided by a very poorly thought out law that won't effect those who passed it. All Democrats can hope is that enough people will drop off the unemployment roles by the time the next presidential election rolls around that the fudged unemployment stats look acceptable.
What a hell of a way to run a railroad.
Open access will make it harder to control things….
Not narrowly restricting egress of people from West Africa will make Ebola harder to control and will limit unrest.
"Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, said Sunday that a travel embargo on West African countries that are struggling with Ebola would make it much harder for them to control the virus.
"You isolate them, you can cause unrest in the country," Fauci told "Fox News Sunday." `'It's conceivable that governments could fall if you just isolate them completely."
Here's the AP article. Tony is probably a smart guy, probably lots of letters after his name on his stationary and business cards. Probably from highly touted schools. Would it be improper of me to ask about the unrest being caused HERE? Or are we just supposed to suck it up and let 'our government' admit anyone they want to (that would be, yes).
Imagine a country where the leadership has let things get bad enough that people want to remove the current leaders and change the government. Can't have that. The Obama administration understands that because they have a wealth of experience garnered through hard work and extremely careful planning in Libya. Perhaps that's why the new approach is to use us as the world's unrest relief valve and let the unhappy people come here instead.
Dr Tom Frieden thinks banning civilian travel would make it harder to get relief to them.
"Frieden added that a travel ban could make it difficult to get medical supplies and aid workers to the affected regions in West Africa."
"We really need to be clear that we don't inadvertently increase the risk to people in this country by making it harder for us to respond to the needs in those countries," he said, "by making it harder to get assistance in and therefore those outbreaks would become worse, go on longer, and paradoxically, something that we did to try and protect ourselves might actually increase our risk."
Now, I know what he's saying is those civilian flights can carry medically trained passengers and medical equipment, and medicines. Yes they can. And Domino's or Asia Wok can deliver pizza or sushi directly to people in isolation here and the pharmacies that do prescription delivery can bring them their medications. They can, but I don't think they should and I bet the rank and file in the CDC doesn't think they should either. Let the government send aid, let WHO send aid. Let them charter the planes from the airlines that won't be flying civilian traffic into those locations.
Frieden also doesn't want to make it harder for Americans or other people who are allowed to enter the US to return home. You know what? it SHOULD be harder, they're coming from a biological HOT Zone.
It's hard on those 4 people that are in quarantine here in Dallas. It's hard on the others that came in contact with Ebola Zero and are under observation to see if they've been infected, and it's hard on the rest of us wondering if the vagrant that rode in the ambulance after Ebola Zero got transported, might have caught it before the ambulance was taken out of service and isolated.. and before they lost track of the vagrant (they know where he is, now….only 6 days later of course).
Newsflash Mr. head of the CDC – you can test and quarantine them there, or you can test and quarantine them here. One way, or another. Personally I think quarantining them THERE, where the disease is already running around is a much better option than quarantining them HERE, where they can elect to go to school a couple days after you've told them they're in quarantine and are not to leave the house.
Why should the rest of us risk potential exposure because someone traveled for business, pleasure or personal reasons to a West African country where Ebola is literally in the streets?
Why should it NOT be more difficult for them? This epidemic isn't new. It started in December of 2013, so we're just 2 months shy of a year. Maybe people traveling to West Africa believe in the magic the DHS and CDC have used so far to stop disease from entering the US. That would be the magic created by letting anyone, and I do mean anyone, into the country. Oh, okay, I think we might have a special watch list for grannies from Idaho in wheelchairs, but so far I see we're okay with Central American gang members, Central American kids with EV-D68 and people from Liberia with Ebola.
Clearly at this point anyone traveling to West Africa is kinda comfortable doing so because they do it. There is a reason I don't swim in alligator bayous, belly crawl into rattlesnake dens or run into houses on fire; because I'm not comfortable doing those things. I don't much care how they accomplish the restriction but from a government that has nearly banned your consumption of trans-fats, you'd think maybe a ban on travel to and from Ebolalaland would be a natural thing.
So, let them be tested there, and quarantined there in accordance with the choices they themselves made to travel there.
There's a reason you channel access to contagious people and places. You do it to CONTROL the access, and try and limit the danger. Not that I have a tremendous amount of faith in government channeling and control right now and it could be because these bozos keep talking like this.
Meanwhile in Africa
Ebola continues to ravage the western part of the continent:
Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.
In the worst-case scenario, Liberia and Sierra Leone could have 21,000 cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the disease keeps spreading without effective methods to contain it. These figures take into account the fact that many cases go undetected, and estimate that there are actually 2.5 times as many as reported.
If that's the case, then containment would seem all but impossible.
However, if it is able to be contained and everything goes to plan, there is a "best case" scenario:
In the best-case model — which assumes that the dead are buried safely and that 70 percent of patients are treated in settings that reduce the risk of transmission — the epidemic in both countries would be "almost ended" by Jan. 20, the report said. It showed the proportion of patients now in such settings as about 18 percent in Liberia and 40 percent in Sierra Leone.
Unfortunately, best case scenarios rarely if ever come to pass. They assume too much goes well with "the plan", communication, cooperation, behavior and many other human activities, and rule out people acting on misinformation and self-interest contrary to the "best case" scenario's plan. That's not to say epidemic can't eventually be contained … or burn itself out. It's to say betting on the "best case" scenario puts you at odds with human nature.
There's another reason not to expect the "best case" scenario. The agencies who are spouting all the stats really don't know the actual extent of the outbreak:
The World Health Organization acknowledged weeks ago that despite its efforts to tally the thousands of cases in the region, the official statistics probably "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."
The report does not include figures for Guinea because case counts there have gone up and down in ways that cannot be reliably modeled.
The point? We're going to hear a lot of happy talk about how the world's effort is going to contain this outbreak and, at least for a while, they're going to point toward the best case scenario as their goal. And it is a worthy goal. But you have to remember that as with many government or quasi-government bureaucracies, their worth is measured in how successful they are – or report they are. It's how they receive funds. So the propensity is to "happy talk" and favorable stats. And, as we've all learned with "climate change", models can be monkeyed with.
As an example of why the best case scenario is unlikely, the plan for containment relies on "effective methods" to contain it – such as treatment centers where patients go and allow the problem to be isolated. But in reality, there aren't enough beds to do that:
At least one aid group working in Liberia is already shifting its focus to teaching people about home care and providing materials to help. Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the aid group Samaritan's Purse, said, "I believe inevitably this is going to move into people's houses, and the notion of home-based care has to play a more prominent role." He said there could be 100,000 or more cases by the end of 2014.
"Where are they going to go?" Mr. Isaacs asked. "It's too late. Nobody's going to build 100,000 beds."
He's right. And so isolation, a key portion of "the plan", is put in severe jeopardy.
Key take away? Beware of all the happy talk. This isn't a time for propaganda and misleading stats. But we are dealing with bureaucracies, spokespersons and the like. This is a time for honest, above-board information so the public can stay informed about something that could threaten their lives.
Let's see what we actually get.
NHS continues to give us a reason to reject government run health care … if we're smart
The VA system has given us a hint of what we can expect from a government run health care system in the US. But the UK has been doing it since 1948. And, it appears, most of those who want a single payer, government system purposely turn a blind eye to the UK's experience:
Death rates in NHS hospitals are among the highest in the western world, shock figures revealed yesterday.
British patients were found to be almost 50 per cent more likely to die from poor care than those in America.
They have five times the chance of dying from pneumonia and twice the chance of being killed by blood poisoning.
Experts say that, despite recent improvements, NHS death rates still outstrip those in many other European countries.
Note the second sentence. That's as of today. To date, our government hasn't the level of intrusion or time to turn the health care system in the US into an NHS.
If you think its bad now, just imagine the entire country run like the VA. Or NHS.
Why aren't tampons free?
Seriously, that's the question some whackadoo feminist columnist in the UK is asking (it makes you wonder if the paper that published it is a serious news source).
Her "reasoning?"
But this is less an issue of costliness than it is of principle: menstrual care is health care, and should be treated as such.
She wouldn't know true principle if it throat punched her. However, what is clear is when you allow yahoos to redefine "health care" and get government to take control of it, well then everything should be 'free'.
Her authority? Not to worry, feminists have declared a few things to be "true", and that make this a no-argument, slam-dunk:
Sanitary products are vital for the health, well-being and full participation of women and girls across the globe. The United Nations and Human Rights Watch, for example, have both linked menstrual hygiene to human rights.
Well there you go. I'm not sure where the human right not to be coerced by government into subsidizing another's wants went, but apparently that's a real right that is to be forever ignored.
If it is "health care" then it is a "right". And if it is a "right" then it should be "free". And if it is "free", someone else should pay for it – or so the "reasoning" goes. /sarc
Of course the fact that any such product has to be produced at a cost, transported at a cost and distributed at a cost that someone has to pay is just lost on these sorts of folks. It doesn't register.
As far as they're concerned tampons come from magic tampon trees and when they need them, well, they're just there. And because they're just there, they should be free! Don't you get that, you neanderthal?
Frankly I like this answer from a commenter to the article
Why aren't tampons free?
Why isn't soap free or wet wipes or shampoo?
If your argument is that sanitation should be provided for all cheaply then fine [Ed. sorry, but it already is].
But it isn't. Your argument is that its all a plot to make women pay for stuff they need. At the end of the day its not free because in the real world you have to pay for stuff. Your right to a hygienic lady area is no more compelling than mine to a clean backside or clean hands. You are once more guilty of making women victim's of their vaginas.
The commenter is right – the unspoken part of this attempt to fleece others is supposed victimhood. Read the article – it reeks with it.
In reality this is just the inevitable extension of the Sandra Fluke argument that all women are entitled to free contraception because it is a "right" or something.
Where I come from "rights" aren't something others pay for with either time, labor, material or money.
But hey, if you can redefine "health care" you can certainly redefine "rights", no?
Trying to change the argument
The New Republic publishes an article saying, in essence, "see, the ObamaCare increases are nothing to really get excited about". And to emphasize the point, they issue this Price-Waterhouse map (the reason they use it is as an appeal to authority):
If you look at it, you'd likely conclude that they were mostly right … where's the problem? Only Indiana seems to have a real problem and its increases are only around 15%.
And, you know, if Price-Waterhouse says it, it must be true.
Researching it beyond that, well, that would be journalism:
INDIANA: 2015 premiums increases 'as high as … 46-percent' "Initial 2015 premiums filed for the Obamacare exchanges in Indiana ranged from as high as a 46-percent hike to as low as a 9-percent cut." (Indianapolis Business Journal, 5/19/14)
MARYLAND: 2015 premiums could increase up to 30% "Maryland's dominant insurance company, CareFirst, is proposing hefty premium increases of 23 to 30 percent for consumers buying individual plans next year under the federal health-care law, according to filings released Friday." (The Washington Post, 6/6/14)
WASHINGTON: 2015 premiums could increase 'up to 26%' "If approved, rate increases for 2015 individual health plans proposed by 12 insurance companies may affect most policyholders… [up] to an increase of 26 percent…" (The Seattle Times, 5/13/14)
ARIZONA: 2015 premium increases up to 25.5 percent "New filings trickling into the Arizona Department of Insurance show at least two health insurers plan to increase rates more than 10 percent. Cigna Wants To Increase Rates An Average Of 14.4 Percent And Humana, 25.5 Percent." (The Arizona Republic, 6/2/14)
LOUISIANA: 'Double-digit increases' up to 24% possible "Some Louisiana private health insurers filed for double-digit percentage increases in 2015 for policies sold under the Affordable Care Act's health exchange, according to filings this week with the Louisiana Department of Insurance." (New Orleans Times Picayune, 7/15/14)
· "Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, the state's largest provider, is proposing rate increases of between 18.3 percent and 19.7 percent for policyholders in its Blue Saver, Blue Max and its Multi-State individual health plans. The plans cover 52,638 people. … The 4,947 people who signed up with Human Louisiana facea hike of 15.7 percent, while the 966 insured residents with Time Insurance Company face a hike of 24 percent, according to the filings made public this week."(New Orleans Times Picayune, 7/15/14)
TENNESSEE: 2015 Premiums Could Increase up to 21.7% "BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee — the state's dominant health insurance provider — is asking to raise rates by an average of 19 percent for its exchange plans in 2015, according to documents filed with the state of Tennessee. …the consumer will experience a rate increase between 6.1 percent and 21.7 percent, depending on the product he or she has bought." (Chattanooga Times Free Press, 7/17/14)
· "Meanwhile, Cigna is requesting an average rate increase of 7.5 percent in 2015, while Kentucky-based Humana would like to boost marketplace rates by an average of 14.4 percent." (Chattanooga Times Free Press, 7/17/14)
NEW YORK: 2015 premiums could increase up to 19.7% "Insurance firms participating in New York's ObamaCare health exchange are seeking double-digit hikes for patient medical premiums in 2015, new figures reviewed by The Post reveal. The average hike sought by insurers for individual plans is 12 percent—but a number of firms serving large numbers of patients want to boost individual premiums by nearly 20 percent. Leading the charge is Excellus Health Plan, which is seeking to sock more than 24,000 customers with a 19.7 percent hike." (New York Post, 7/3/14)
VERMONT: 2015 premiums could increase up to 18.3% "The two companies that sell policies on the state's online health insurance marketplace — Vermont Health Connect — have filed requests with state regulators for big rate increases for 2015. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont has asked for an average increase for its plans of 9.8 percent. … the increases would have averaged 3.3 percent if not for federal and state mandates. … MVP Health Care proposed an even bigger rate increase — an average 15.4 percent, with a range starting at 10.7 percent and rising to 18.3 percent." (Burlington Free Press, 6/3/14)
MICHIGAN: 2015 premium increases up to 18 percent "Most people buying their own health insurance in Michigan could see near double-digit premium increases next year. State insurance regulators said Wednesday that dominant insurers Blue Care Network and Blue Cross Blue Shield want to raise rates by an average of 9.3 percent or 9.7 percent in 2015. … Humana is the insurer with the third most customers in Michigan's individual market and seeks an average 18 percent rate increase affecting 16,600 customers." (The Associated Press, 6/26/14)
VIRGINIA: 2015 premiums could increase up to 14.9% "…the Anthem HealthKeepers Inc. plan offered by a unit of WellPoint Inc. said it would raise premiums by an average of 8.5% across its individual plans in Virginia, which cover about 110,000 people and are sold on the online insurance exchange set up by the health law, as well as directly to consumers. … The Virginia filings show other health plans proposing rate increases ranging from 3.3% for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc., with around 10,000 members in the state, to 14.9% for CareFirst BlueChoice Inc., which said it had about 32,000 members." (The Wall Street Journal, 5/11/14)
IOWA: 2015 premium increases up to 14.5 percent "About a quarter of a million Iowans would see their insurance rates rise next year should the state approve a request from Iowa's dominant health insurer. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced Friday that it is seeking to raise premium rates for 253,000 policyholders in Iowa. Those rate increases would affect individual policyholders and small businesses. Most — 92 percent — of the proposed rate increases would be less than 5.9 percent, according to numbers provided by Wellmark. … For the remaining 7.5 percent of policyholders — those who have post-Affordable Care Act plans for individuals under 65 — Wellmark is asking for a rate increase between 11.9 percent and 14.5 percent." (Des Moines Register, 6/20/14)
OHIO: "Premiums would increase 13 percent next year for Ohioans who buy health coverage through the federally run insurance exchange, the Ohio Department of Insurance said yesterday." (The Columbus Dispatch, 5/30/14)
OREGON: 2015 premiums could increase up to 12.5% "Moda Health captured more than 40 percent of the state's exchange enrollees this year, with about 95,000 people covered under its plans. The company is proposing to increase prices by an average of 12.5 percent. Only one other carrier proposed a double-digit price increase." (The Hill, 6/11/14)
RHODE ISLAND: 2015 premium increases 'averaging 12 percent' Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is proposing 2015 premium increases averaging 12 percent for individuals and families, and 8 percent for small groups." (Providence Journal, 5/19/14)
DELAWARE: 2015 premiums could increase 5% "Delawareans could face higher insurance costs under the Affordable Care Act next year under new rate requests from insurers. Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is seeking average premium increases of 5 percent for individuals who bought insurance through Delaware's exchange."(The Associated Press, 7/15/14)
Premiums would rise an average 13.2 percent for Floridians, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. But actual increases would vary greatly on families' size, financial circumstances, county of residence and the types of plans they select.
All that said, that's not the argument is it? Wasn't the promise that ObamaCare would save families an average of $2,500 a year?
That's what I remember.
But, you know, it's a great success.


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Corvette Racing history was again made in France when Lance Miller fulfilled his father's dream of returning the class-winning #3 car to Le Mans for the 50th anniversary of its win. A feature-length documentary and a book on this great human interest story are both in the works from Michael Brown Productions. Late Fall 2010.
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|Boston Red Sox baseball players gather around manager John Farrell before a team workout at Fenway Park in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, as they prepare for Game 1 of the ALCS, Saturday. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
BOSTON (AP) — To Red Sox teammate Jonny Gomes, it doesn't matter that Xander Bogaerts just turned 21 and had never appeared in a postseason game before this week.
"When you're between the lines, it hides your age," Gomes said. "It hides your draft status. It hides your contract."
Bogaerts walked twice and scored two runs in the Game 4 clincher against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, one night after he entered the game as a Boston pinch-runner and scored the game-tying run. In all, he has appeared in two games in the postseason, scoring three runs with a perfect on-base percentage: 1.000.
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"I just went up there and tried to get on base," Bogaerts, who turned 21 on Oct. 1, said on Thursday while the Red Sox waited to learn their AL championship series opponent. "For me,
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I wanted to reach on base. I didn't want to hit a homer."
A highly touted prospect who was called up in August, Bogaerts is a big reason the Red Sox were willing to part with Jose Iglesias in the deal that brought right-hander Jake Peavy to Boston. Bogaerts had 11 hits in 44 regular-season at-bats, but he also walked five times and scored seven runs.
And it was in Game 4 that he showed he was ready.
Bogaerts pinch-hit for Stephen Drew in the seventh inning and laid off a 3-2 pitch to draw a walk. He went to third on a single and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch. He walked again in the ninth — again on a full count — took second on a wild pitch, went to third when Shane Victorino was hit by a pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly.
"You put it together and you say, `Those little things, they all contribute just as big as a solo home run," said outfielder Shane Victorino, who did his part by taking two pitches off his body on Tuesday night, the third and fourth times he was hit by a pitch in the four-game series.
Red Sox manager John Farrell was impressed with the way Bogaerts came off the bench to draw a walk and didn't get impatient.
"He's very mature," second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. "He seems calm; he's controlling the at-bat. Those are things that normally take a long time. It's pretty rare. There would be a lot of 21-year-olds doing it if they could."
The Red Sox worked out at Fenway Park on Thursday on the second of three off-days before the start of the best-of-seven AL championship series. They will play the winner of Thursday night's AL division series Game 5 between the Oakland Athletics and Detroit Tigers.
Farrell said he didn't expect any changes from the ALDS roster that included 14 hitters and 11 pitchers. Left-hander Felix Doubront, a starter in the regular season who did not pitch in the previous round, will again be available in long relief.
Farrell said there were no injuries in the ALDS that would lead him to change the roster. None of the pitchers was overtaxed in the four-game series, especially with three days off to rest for the next round.
The Red Sox manager stayed away from rooting for one team over the other, saying "either team that we're going to play is going to be another steep challenge." But that doesn't mean it makes no difference who the Red Sox play.
The closest John Farrell would come to expressing a preference between Oakland and Detroit is to note that one is kind of far away.
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