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Health Care
Most transparent administration ever …
You've probably seen this quote floating around, or at least part of it. You need to read the whole thing. It's about how those without principles, who want something passed into law, calculate how to word it and present it so the American people can be fooled into accepting it. Everything is acceptable in terms of methods. In this case the person is talking about ObamaCare, aka the ACA:
"You can't do it political, you just literally cannot do it. Transparent financing and also transparent spending. I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies. Okay? So it's written to do that," Gruber said. "In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in, you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not."
So we have the CBO which is supposed to score bills and tell us how much they'll cost, whether or not it is a tax, etc. This crew intentionally wrote it so it couldn't be construed as a tax. That gives you a little idea of how hard the Supreme Court had to stretch to make it one, and thereby "Constitutional". Most importantly, it was the presentation that was important and about as opaque concerning the facts as possible.
Not everyone was fooled. Many understood that someone had to pay for this, understood that it was going to be the healthy and said so. Ignored.
What did the "architects" count on? "The stupidity of the American voter" – and now they're crowing about it. They used it. They counted on it.
Finally read the last sentence. This jerk is pleased with the outcome because he'd "rather have this law than not". So deceit and trickery are okay. "By any means necessary".
Is that a principle your government is supposed to represent?
From the Department of I Told You So
The subdepartment of "If You Like Your Coverage, You Can Keep Your Coverage":
Small companies are starting to turn away from offering health plans as they seek to reduce costs and increasingly view the health law's marketplaces as an inviting and affordable option for workers.
In the latest sign of a possible shift, WellPoint Inc. said Wednesday its small-business-plan membership is shrinking faster than expected and it has lost about 300,000 people since the start of the year, leaving a total of 1.56 million in small-group coverage.
Of course anyone with a brain and a passing understanding of economics and human nature saw this coming – despite the assurances of our elites. It is called "responding to incentives or disincentives" – something human beings have done since the dawn of our time.
Provide enough of a disincentive to maintain the status quo and you won't. You'll go with what is best for the business. And the incentive to drop health care plans has been provided by this awful ACA law. Now these people will go onto the exchanges and pick a plan with huge deductibles that will never be met in a year. They'll effectively pay for their medical care. Or, we'll pay for their medical care through subsidies.
Result? Well, as you can imagine with huge deductibles, people will likely go to the doctor less and one of the supposed reasons this law had to be passed was in order to stress and implement "preventive medicine". But if you have a $6,000 deductible, and are a middle income family that wouldn't qualify for subsidies, when are you going to visit the doctor? When whatever problem you have is so bad you have little choice. Of course, that's the most costly way to do this, isn't it?
So now we have a huge problem, don't we? And what will we point to as the cause of that problem? That's right … government intrusion. Oh, the good news? Their high deductible coverage will be portable. But we could have solved that problem without ever creating this health care monster we're stuck with now, couldn't we?
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.


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Patron Story: Kiri and Alexei Salazar
Kiri Salazar has been bringing her son, Alexei, to the Walker branch of KDL since he was about a year old, sometimes every day. His first stop is typically either the train in KDLville or the shelves that hold Dora the Explorer books.
But it wasn't until about a year ago that Kiri knew for certain that her son, now 8, could read. Alexei has autism and only in the past year started using special software on a computer tablet to communicate.
"He grew up eating books," Kiri says with a laugh, "and he'd fall asleep on piles of them, but because he is non-verbal, I never knew for sure how much he was taking in. I've always read to him, hoping to instill a love of books even if it wasn't reading reading them yet. It's that tangible sense of the potential for it."
Now she knows for sure. With quick jabs of his index finger, Alexei recently typed a message to his mother about his Halloween costume — this year, an affinity for calendars is inspiring him to transform into "Calendar Man." When Kiri asks him about his chosen superhero's superpower, her son's response seems obvious: "He travels in time."
KDL staffers have some experience relating to children who have autism. Last year, based on a patron's recommendation, children's librarians attended a workshop on working with youngsters with autism. Some KDL librarians visit their local schools to do "sensory storytimes" aimed at children with developmental and physical disabilities. Jacque Viol, youth specialist at the Cascade Township branch, said KDL hopes to offer a sensory storytime that is open to the public in the spring.
"Serving the diverse population of our area includes serving people with special needs," she said. "Any time you can connect a person with something they enjoy, it's a positive experience for all involved."
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Are Gouramis or Angel fish predacious?
I have 2 of each plus 4 Rosy? tetras or is it Ruby? anyway I also have (had) neon tetras and Espei Rasboras but now I only have 1 neon and I don't see any carcasses. Are my little ones getting eaten? It's a 20 gal tank BTW, I'm not sure if I should go out and buy a bunch of little guys or not:-?
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Angels are natural predators of neons so that may be the culprit. How big are your angels? What type of gourami do you have?
I'm seeing a couple of issues here. Jeaninel is right that Angels are knowing for eating Neons and Gouramis will also sometimes help themselves depending on their temperment and the size difference between them and the other fish in question. Knowing what type of gouramis is going to be important.
What's also important is that I stress that a 20g is not an appropriate sized tank for angels and gouramis. IF you were to keep just two gouramis (and they were Dwarf Gourami) that would probably work. But any of the other larger gourami species or angels do not. Angels are shoaling fish that require a group of at least five (unless you have a mated pair) and you'll neeed at least a 55g tank for a group that size. The mated pairs need a 30g for just the two. Also to note, angels and gouramis are aggressive fish and keeping them in such tight quarters will only make this tendency worse. I'd be looking at finding a larger home for these guys, either by purchasing a larger tank or by rehoming them. It's for the best.
OK so I looked them up and they are pearl gouramis, I'm relatively new to the aquarium thing and had to rely on the employees at the store, but they don't usually mix a lot of species in the same tank. So until I can get another tank going should I bother getting some buddies for the sole remaining neon? I would have thought that keeping them well fed might stop the predation, but apparently not:roll:
Nah. The predation is an instinct. As is the eating in general actually. In the wild they don't know when they're next meal would be so they're happy to gorge themselves.
Pearls get fairly large. If you want to keep the two gouramis, the two angels, and three new angels you're looking at a 75g tank probably, minimum. Other options include a couple of slightly smaller tanks (think 55g for the angels, and probably a 40 breeder for the gouramis). I'd avoid getting any more neons until you have a plan.
You can't really trust what employees say at pet stores. Especially chain stores like Petco and Petsmart. If you DO find an LFS that you think is trustworthy you can research some questions ahead of time and go "quiz" the employees. Let us know what you decide to do.
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We will be "tourists" in DC many days next month. Are there any spots, museums, restaurants, stores, etc. that seem more nursing friendly than others? I'm looking for the places with chairs in the restrooms, locations where a screaming baby won't disrupt someone viewing artwork, etc. My daughter is extremely fussy, flails the cover off, and is generally uncomfortable nursing in public locations. As we'll be metro-ing into the city many days, I would love the inside scoop.
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Though Future Combat Systems is changing its name and focus, testing of FCS systems will continue on White Sands Missile Range.
According to Paul Mehney, associate director of Public Communications for FCS, in accordance with guidance from the Secretary of Defense, the FCS program will transition to an Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization effort. While this change means the end of the development of the FCS BCT, it instead means that all 73 of the Army's BCTs, including both regular units and National Guard, will be provided with new enhanced capabilities developed by the FCS program. "The tests that are taking place at WSMR and Fort Bliss are now directly supporting the effort to field the early equipment sets to all BCTs," Mehney said. While the development of the FCS family manned ground vehicles has been halted, including the Non Line of Sight Cannon system that had begun testing and evaluation at WSMR, many of the other systems including unmanned and weapons systems are still being tested and prepared for production and deployment. "What is going on here is critical for us on the program to establish the criteria to move into production," said Mehney. Included in the systems that are continuing development are the non line of sight missile system know at the NLOS-LS, the small unmanned ground vehicle, the micro air vehicle, the unattended ground sensors, unattended urban sensors, and the unmanned logistics vehicle known as the mule.
The Army is currently reevaluating its ground vehicle needs to better incorporate lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan and the new breed of IED resistant armored vehicles known as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles currently in use in theater.
The wide reaching FCS computer network designed to connect all the new systems together and allow Soldiers to better share information about the battle space is also still undergoing testing and development. "You still have a need for that network testing with whatever platforms are chosen," said Mehney. Mehney explained that the secure and multifaceted structure of the network is specifically designed with the modern and future battlefield in mind and to prevent Soldiers from losing the entire network to an enemy electronic or cyber attack. Furthermore, a component of the development process will be to ensure that not only Soldiers share information with other Soldiers, but also with Airmen, Sailors, Marines, and foreign allied forces. "The (other services) need that target data, and multinational forces need to share that data as well," Mehney said.
Taking advantage of the tri-service nature of WSMR, many of the systems being tested here are also being evaluated by the Air Force, Navy, and Marines both to determine their compatibility with systems in use by other services, and to evaluate them for adoption. Some systems are expected to be directly integrated into emerging designs. "We are already coordinating the NLOS-LS with the Navy, and the NLOS-LS is going to be integrated into the new littoral combat ship," Mehney said.


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Paul do Madriz - 29th July 2011
Both of us managed to forget our headlamps, adding a little challenge to getting the nets up at a leisurely 5am - being much further south than the UK has other advantages. By the time that dawn was approaching, we were already in the café having our breakfast.
After a sweltering night, it was good to be out in the fresh air, although the coldest that it got was about 18 degrees - I wouldn't be complaining about that in December! The ringing session was reasonably uneventful, with a handful of Melodious Warblers, Reed Warblers and Willow Warblers breaking up the Robins and Blackcaps. Late on, an early Whitethroat put in an appearance.
Blackbird - 2 (2)
Song Thrush - 1 (1)
Robin - 9 (5)
Blackcap - 7 (3)
Reed Warbler - 3 (3)
Melodious Warbler - 5
Whitethroat - 1
Willow Warbler - 3
Blue Tit - 4 (2)
Sardinian Warbler - 1
Greenfinch - 1
Paul do Taipal - 30th July 2011
After trying to evade the heat, catch up on some kip and mix some new tunes (Reed & Sedge Warbler mix) on Audacity (a fantastic program for manipulating and mixing bird calls), we woke up bright an early (4:30am) to head to Taipal. Again it was just myself and Paulo and we had the nets up in no time! Paulo really is the man for efficient mist net erection!
This mornings ringing session was also to be a Geocaching event - with Geocachers from all over coming to see what ringing was all about - hosted by Scirpaceus (Paulo) with assistance from Scouse Ringer. Over the course of the morning, we had a good number of visitors, most of whom were completely oblivious to the significance of the juvenile Penduline Tit that I brought back from Line 1.
Juvenile Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)
When we returned to base, Paulo got the breeding bird atlas out and there was only couple of confirmed sightings in Portugal during the summer, all south of the Tejo, with one confirmed breeding pair, near the Spanish border on the Guadiana. That makes this Penduline Tit the first juvenile bird caught in July, in the north of the country. Awesome!
We caught a decent number of birds during the morning, so whilst Paulo demonstrated the ringing side of things, I kept things ticking over with processing and net rounds etc. In the end it was a belter of a morning, with some real significance!!!
Reed Warbler - 27 (7)
Sedge Warbler - 4
Penduline Tit - 1
Cetti's Warbler - 2 (1)
Swallow - 1
Blue Tit - 1
Blackbird - 1
Waxbill - 4
G.Reed Warbler - 1
House Sparrow - 5
Kingfisher - 7 (4)
Savi's Warbler - (1)
In a few hours we will return to Taipal with a bigger team to put up 1km of mist net. We will complete a Swallow roost tonight and a big reed bed session in the morning. A Portuguese Record may just be broken.......
I'm not sure if I will get a chance to blog tomorrow as I will have to head to Santo André to take up my post as Chief Donkey, helping Moxey to run the ringing for the month of August...


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In a privileged setting just minutes from the medieval city of Carcassonne and the Canal du Midi, Domaine de Calvayrac is an ideal place for a quiet stay, for exploring the Cathar country, Carcassonne, castles, medieval villages, abbeys, vineyards, and to share conviviality and gastronomy around the guest table.
The name « Calvayrac » has its roots in the 13th century, a period tormented by the Dominican terror, the Albigensian Crusade. South-west of Carcassonne, the hills of the Malepere then belonged to the monks of the Chapter of Montroyal , now the village of Montreal Aude.
The Domaine de Calvayrac is 17 km from Carcassonne and his Medieval City, in the Malepère, an unspoilt nature where quiet hills appreciate its streams, green oaks forests, lavish vineyards and lush meadows. The region is classified NATURA 2000 - Region recognized importance of flora and fauna by Europe for the quality of its unique environment.
In the west wing of the house are the three charming guest rooms, in a quiet and resting environment. The decor reflects the atmosphere of serenity of Calvayrac. Each room has a separate entrance and a private bathroom.
The evening, after a day spent to exploring the thousand treasures
of the Cathar country, you can relax with a walk in the
domaine, or take an aperitif in the shade of the park
before you sit around the guest table.
On sunny days, the table will be set in the
garden, or inside to enjoy the freshness
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Tribes: Ascend GOTYE Launches This Week, Machinima Trailer
Tribes: Ascend Game of The Year Edition will Launch on February 15, which will unlock all classes, weapons and perks with a single-purchase.
With this edition, players can get access to over 100 weapons, all 9 classes, and all 21 perks. The Tribes: Ascend GotY Edition includes weapon and perk DLC from all ten previous expansions, as well as the new Shocklance weapon.
If you've been enjoying T:A as an F2P game, don't worry. "Nothing changes for players that are enjoying the game with the free-to-play model," says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Chief Operating Officer. "But we now also offer an additional single-purchase option to unlock every weapon in the game."
The upcoming patch includes six new maps (three CTF/Blitz and three Arena maps), the new Shocklance weapon, and two new cosmetic skins.
Check out the machinima trailer released alongside this announcement — it's impressive, given everything that happens in it can happen in-game:
I laughed at the subtle flirtatious undertones of the "Hi" exchanged at 1:25.
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Former President Bill Clinton is pleading with Colorado Democrats to stick with Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, saying that a vote for Republicans would return the nation to dangerous times.
About 2,000 people packed a high school gym Monday in northeast Denver to hear Clinton speak in a rally that harkened back to the past as he stumped for Bennet. The former president is touring the nation whipping up support for vulnerable Democrats.
In Colorado, Clinton told Democrats that Republican Ken Buck wants voters to think only about their anger at the current economy. Clinton insisted Republicans are to blame for the current problems and shouldn't be returned to office.
You might recall that during the U.S. Senate primary for Democrats, Clinton actually put his support behind Bennet's opponent, Andrew Romanoff. In reaction to the new endorsement, Ken Buck's campaign sent out this statement:
"Former Presidents are always welcome in Colorado. We hope Pres.
Clinton's second endorsement in this Senate race is just as successful as his first."
Clinton's rally came the same day early voting began in Colorado.
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From: SECSTATE WASHDC (STATE 125179 - ROUTINE)
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1. The Department offices involved with the property tax
issue (L,OFM,EUR) have determined that the following
note to the Swedish MFA should be sent in response to
the MFA note in reftel B. The text of the note was
prepared by L/DL. The purpose is to lay out the
Department's legal position once again and to make
clear that reciprocal measures may be taken.
2. Text of note: (complimentary opening) and refers to the
matter of tax exemption of Government-owned residential
property below the Chief of Mission level. The Embassy
referred the aide-memoir of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to the Department of State in Washington D.C.
for review. The Department has advised that it
restates and reaffirms its earlier position that
customary international law imposes an obligation on
the host State to provide tax exemption to government-
owned residences housing members of the diplomatic
The Department disagrees with the Ministry that "customary
international law has [not] developed in this field."
Rather, after two exhaustive studies of international
practice conducted by the Department, its Office of Legal
Adviser, and United States embassies world-wide in 1980
and again in 1986, the United States Government published
its position on international law exemption for diplomatic
residences in the United States Federal Register dated
July 30, 1986. That publication read as follows:
"In the opinion [of the Office of the Legal Adviser], the
Department stated that its conclusion that 'international
law imposes a binding obligation to exempt such property
from taxation' was reached on the basis of its study of
the sources of international law listed in Article 38(1)
of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, 'and
in particular... the current virtually uniform practice of
states in implementation of the Vienna Convention. ...[T]Be
survey reflected a general acknowledgment of a legal
obligation to exempt such property on the part of states
that are party to the Convention'...subject to reciprocal
treatment of comparable property owned by the United
States abroad."
After publication of the Federal Register notice, and as
noted in the Embassy's earlier diplomatic note, the
Department circulated a note to all missions on August 13,
1986, implementing its international legal determination.
The Department also requested confirmation of reciprocal
treatment of United States property abroad. As noted, the
Government of Sweden confirmed exemption of United States
diplomatic residential property in Sweden. On the basis
of this representation, the Government of Sweden enjoyed
exemption from costly annually recurring property taxes,
as well as exemption for one-time transfer taxes
associated with purchase or sale, on all of its real
estate holdings of diplomatic residences in Washington,
D.C., Maryland, and Virginia for over thirteen years.
As recently as 1997, the Department again surveyed all
United States embassies regarding host State practice with
respect to exemption form real estate related taxes
imposed on properties abroad. Of the 160 embassy
responses received by the Department, ninety-one percent
(91%) of States exempt the United States Government from
annual property taxes on diplomatic residences.
Additionally, the vast majority of States, over 75% and
perhaps as high as 91% (the data is not more precise],
exempt the United States from one-time property taxes
associated with the purchase or sale of embassy
Therefore, the Embassy reconfirms the position of the
United States Government and restates that the nearly
uniform custom and practice of States have ripened into a
customary law obligation to provide tax exemption to
Government owned residences housing members of the
diplomatic mission, subject to reciprocity.
The Embassy asks for reconsideration of the position of
the ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of
Finance, for recognition of the international law
obligation to grant tax exemption for 11 diplomatic
residences purchased by the United States Government in
1997 and for the immediate removal and cure of all adverse
actions taken by the Government of Sweden stemming from
The Department wishes this issue to be resolved to the
benefit of both countries and not to become a subject for
reciprocal action by the Department. However, the
Department is required under the Foreign Missions Act to
take reciprocity into account when considering the
benefits provided foreign missions in the United States.


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From OLPC
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XO-1 and XO-1.5
On an XO-1 or XO-1.5 with OLPC OS 10.1.3:
- switch to GNOME,
- connect to the Internet,
- using Firefox, go to the Skype Web site and download the Linux Static version (here's a direct link),
- locate the file using the File Browser — it is most likely in the "Download" folder in your home directory, with a file name like "skype_static-220.127.116.11.tar.bz2",
- right-click on the file and choose "Extract Here",
- wait for the archive to extract to a new folder — it should look like "skype_static-22.214.171.124",
- open the new folder, you should see a file called "skype" — double-click it.
Not yet available, check with Skype for latest news or devel list discussion.
Options - Sound Devices
Audio does not work immediately. Adjust the options to make the microphone work:
- click the tiny Skype button in the bottom-left of the main Skype window, choose "Options", and in the list of categories on the left, click on "Sound Devices",
- on the right, click the drop-down box next to "Microphone" and select "HDA VIA VT82xx, CONEXANT Analog (hw:0,0)" for XO-1.5, and "CS5535 Audio (hw:Audio,0)" for XO-1,
- click "Apply" at the bottom,
- test the setting with the "Make a test call" option.
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This look features one of my all tine favourite eyeshadows. It's a shimmery moss-green colour by Lancome called Erica F. I loved it so much I bought several incase it would get discontinued.
1. Start with a black cream base and blend out the edges with a clean blending brush. I've used Mac Blackground paint pot and blended it out with a Mac 217 brush which is my absolute favourite for blending out outer edges.
2. Blend a matte grey eyeshadow around the black shadow to get a smokey finish. I used Mac Print closest to the black and then Mac Scene outside Print, but it's really fine with only one grey eyeshadow. Blend it in underneath the eye as well.
3. No dark smokey eye without eyeliner! Grab a black soft eyeliner and line along both the upper and the lower lash line and on the waterline. Blend it out and between the lashes with a small brush. I used Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero and smudged it out with a Sigma E-30 (small round brush).
4. Now that we've smoked out the eyeliner it´s easier to go in with the black eyeshadow so that we make sure we don´t get too much black and end up with panda eyes. Put the black in the outer corner and inner corner to get some depth, and leave the middle part as it is. I used a Sigma E-45 to apply both Carbon (black) and Typographic (dark tarmac-greyish coloured that blends wonderfully).
5. Now to the magic of the look. Get some shadow on the brush and tap the brush to get rid of glitter that is in danger of falling down on your cheeks. Dab the brush carefully on the centre of your eye lid, do not stroke it as with other eyeshadows. This technique is great with all glitter eyeshadows that has a tendency to cause fall outs.
6. Use the same technique to dab on some of the same eyeshadow underneath the eye as well leaving the outer part dark. Brush on a light slightly shimmery eyeshadow on the brow bone to lift the eyebrows. I used a Mac 224 to apply Mac Mylar.
7. Slap on a couple of coats of a volume mascara and you´re done :) Keep lips neutral to dark eyes like this. I´ve used my favorite nude lipstick, Mac Hue.
If you are looking for a bit more dramatic look you can put on some falsies and a slightly winged eyeliner.


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Inventive trials and supporting characters boost this otherwise standard-issue quest fantasy. Middle-schooler Jason falls through a zoo hippo's mouth into Lyrian, a land ruled by a wizard named Maldor, whose only weakness is a magical Word that will unmake him. Each of that Word's six syllables are hidden behind different defenses, and Jason and sidekick Rachel—a lost Beyonder like him, who proves to be just as intrepid and at least as pig-stubborn—face a series of trials. There is a lake in which anything that stops moving for even an instant gets sucked down, a tree (in the middle of a swamp well-stocked with giant carnivorous toads) that robs interlopers of their short-term memories, a deadly political battle waged with riddles and other tests. Along with such allies as a gent who can detach and reattach any of his body parts (including his head) at will and a warrior who gets to start over as a 20-year-old any time he's killed, Mull provides his young protagonists with a foe as genuinely clever as he is powerful and rescues an ambling plot with a devastating climactic twist. Readers fond of fantasies that don't take themselves too seriously will enjoy this trilogy opener. (Fantasy. 10-13)Copyright Kirkus 2011 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
Mull (the Fablehaven series) launches the Beyonders trilogy with a dark tale that updates classic tropes with solid contemporary characters. Thirteen-year-old Jason is transported (via hippopotamus gullet, no less) from Colorado to Lyrian, a magical world ruled by the despotic sorcerer Maldor. After witnessing some horrific deaths and learning the history of Lyrian, Jason discovers that his quest to return home might be impossible without defeating Maldor, which can only be done by finding the syllables of a long-lost magic word that erases itself from the memory of those who utter it. He's given this task by the Blind King, the last man to discover the word, who also introduces him to Rachel, another refugee from Earth. Mull throws some magical creatures--including a race that can be dismembered and still live--and plenty of challenges at Jason and Rachel, who must use their wits to survive. Death and betrayal often dominate the plot, but Mull moves his story at a brisk pace, preventing the tragedies from overwhelming the adventure, while offering ample action and feisty dialogue to keep fantasy lovers entertained. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)[Page ]. Copyright 2010 PWxyz LLC
Gr 5-8--Jason Walker is a typical 13-year-old, doing his best to fit in with friends in Vista, CO. His internship at a local zoo puts him in close contact with wild animals. Unbeknownst to him, the zoo contains a portal in the hippopotamus tank. One day, the portal, exuding whimsical music, lures him in, and Jason is immediately transported to a new world called Lyrian. In this epic tale that's filled with adventure on every page turn, Jason initially tries desperately to discover a way to get home to his parents and his previous life, but as his journey continues, he finds himself drawn into the political unrest of an empire ruled by a powerful and sinister wizard. Tortured and neglected members of society hope Jason will be their hero and save them from Maldor. The teen befriends the desperate citizens of Lyrian and commits to taking down the evil emperor. Jason's journey will require readers to think hard about life's unpredictable nature and the difficult decisions that must be made. It also touches on finding trust in others and the importance of asking for help. While there are a few places where readers need a little more detail between one scene and the next, this book is highly recommended for those fantasy-hungry readers who frequent the stacks.--Kathryn Kennedy, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA[Page 166]. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Veterans of the War on Hopefully
Over at Grammarphobia—you do check out Grammarphobia regularly, don't you?—Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman take on once more what R.W. Burchfield called "one of the most bitterly contested of all the linguistic battles fought out in the last decades of the 20th century": the dispute over hopefully as a sentence adverb.
In this post they quote what they wrote in Origin of the Specious, so please allow me to repeat myself: Many people believe that hopefully, as an adverb of human emotion, can only be used in the sense of "in a hopeful manner" and not in the sense "it is to be hoped," modifying an entire clause. Sadly, they are mistaken.
Ms. O'Conner and Mr. Kellerman cite a use of hopefully in the latter sense in The New York Times in 1932, and no furor about the usage was raised until the mid-1960s. I don't know what class of despised wretches—teenagers, advertising executives, business consultants—brought the usage into vogue, but you can depend on it that the peevers identified the usage with some class of people over whom they could demonstrate their imagined superiority.
If memory serves, the taboo made it into the current edition of The Elements of Style and is now among the unhelpful strictures inflicted on the impressionable young by instructors who should know better.*
Let us be clear. We use sentence adverbs all the time. The prejudice against hopefully goes against both logic and established usage.
And yet style manuals that know this encourage writers to avoid hopefully in this sense for fear of stirring up the objections of the uninformed. I call this cowardice. It is like uttering mealy-mouthed equivocations about evolution because there are people who believe, against all evidence, that the planet is a little over six thousand years old. It is like catering to the no-prepositions-at-the-end-of-sentences crowd or mechanically following the Associated Press Stylebook's asinine no-split-verbs rule.
Enough truckling, I say. There are real errors to avoid and inane vogue usages to shun. Don't waste your time honoring superstitions. Just go ahead. Hopefully, over time you will prevail. Happily, you certainly will.
*I keep a copy of the 1959 edition of The Elements of Style, acquired in high school, on my shelves for purely sentimental reasons. A copy of a later edition came into my hands and was speedily discarded.


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Newest parlor game: Six degrees of Madoff separation
The Bernie Madoff Victims' List is out, a whopping 162 pages long, and it seems no town in South Florida was spared. To read the full list, click here.
Seemingly half of Boca Raton is on there, along with individuals and institutions from Fort Lauderdale, Tamarac, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Hallandale Beach, Davie, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Margate, North Lauderdale, Aventura, North Miami Beach, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and Miramar.
Not to make light of the fact that a lot of people took a serious hit from the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, but the list is sure to become the latest version of the Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Separation game.
As in, everybody will start poring over it to see if they know somebody, or knows somebody who knows somebody on the list.
Even Kevin Bacon is on there.
On the local front, Avellino & Bienes, a Fort Lauderdale investment firm run by Madoff associates Frank Avellino and Michael Bienes, is listed. Bienes is a noted local philanthropist.
Also on the list is Franklin Sands, the state representative and Democratic House leader from Weston, who already has come forward to say he's lost most of his life savings in the scheme.
Fred Havenick, the late patriarch of the well-known Miami dog-track family (owners of Flagler and Naples dog tracks), is listed.
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It would have been the perfect time for Scott Lucas to close the door on Local H.
In February, he was mugged in Russia, an attack that left him with damage to his vocal chords – and they still aren't fully healed. In August, Local H announced that drummer Brian St. Clair was amicably leaving the guitar/drum duo after 14 years.
On the plus side, the band was coming off Hallelujah! I'm a Bum, which one PopMatters.com author dubbed the "best rock album of 2012," and which TinyMixTapes.com called a "watershed album ... . Not only is it the most intricately arranged and carefully structured of the band's 20-plus-year history, but it is also their first to delve so deeply into the polluted waters of partisan politics. ... Musically, Hallelujah! is on par with the best entries in the H catalogue. Lucas has a knack for crafting heavy rock with strong, distinctive hooks." As epitaphs go, a band could do much worse.
But when I asked guitarist/vocalist Lucas last week about shelving his Chicago-area band given the events of 2013, he said he never seriously considered it. "This would be the second time in my life where I would sort of think that," he said. But "at this point it's kind of hard to separate myself from the band. When I'm dead, you won't have to wonder what I thought and what was going through my mind. All you have to do is put on these records, and you'd know. ... This has never been a job for me. I honestly don't know what else I would do. It is part of me, and it always has been."
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Kitchen remodeling 101: Making the space your own
(BPT) — There is a lot to think about when remodeling your kitchen. You want to design a kitchen that reflects your taste and style, which you'll love for years to come. Whether you're designing for yourself or for resale, the key to success is to embrace timelessness. That doesn't mean sacrificing personality for a neutral palette, though. Quite the opposite.
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I have a friend who does a bit based on a seminal Laverne & Shirley gag. In nearly every episode of that sitcom, one of the titular characters would say, "There's no way this situation could get worse!" or "What's that smell?" and Lenny and Squiggy would cluelessly burst through Laverne's and Shirley's door; if someone around us says something like "That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen!" my friend will mime a door opening and exclaim, with perfect greaser-nerd cadence, "Hello!" That gag is pure sitcom-honed irony – that is, obvious irony – and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the follow-up to 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary, is like a continuous loop of that Lenny and Squiggy routine.
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The interdisciplinary and interdepartmental "Arbeitsstelle für Geschichte des Wissens und der Literatur†(Research Group for the History of Knowledge and Literature) at the University of Hamburg invites papers that examine aspects of leisure in the 18th century. We are particularly interested in proposals that appraise the role of leisure in generating knowledge across Europe.
Leisure in the 18th century has predominantly been investigated from a socio-economic perspective (as a feature of early consumer societies and/or as a means to explore and explain social stratification). We seek papers that investigate questions of knowledge in relation to leisure: in what ways has leisure participated in shaping knowledge? What exactly is the ontological status of leisure in the 18th century? Is it a host of recreational activities or does it genuinely create new matters of inquiry? In this context – and along the lines of Dr Johnson's observation – the relation between 'prodesse' and 'delectare' should be negotiated: are the concepts 'prodesse' and 'delectare' relevant in the way that leisure activities present themselves or are presented? How does the opposition of 'otium' and 'negotium' inform and configure leisure activities? To address these questions, interdisciplinary approaches are sought. Presenters should ideally add!
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1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2009-12-01Works: Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne for Organ in C major, BuxWV 137; Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Felix Mendelssohn: ...
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DessertJune/July 2009
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This gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free crust is light and delicious. The dough is easier to work when it's rolled out immediately so if you're making a double-crust pie, prepare the filling first before making the crust. For a one-crust pie, halve the recipe.
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4� teaspoons cider vinegar
1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil a 10-inch pie pan.
2. In a medium bowl, combine gluten-free flour, xanthan gum, salt and maple crystals. Set aside.
3. Melt coconut oil until liquid but not hot. Add liquid coconut oil to water and cider vinegar, stirring to combine.
4. Pour oil mixture into dry ingredients and mix with your hands until just combined. Do not over-mix or the dough will become tough. Dough will be a little wet.
5. Divide dough in half, keeping half covered. Turn the uncovered half of dough onto a work surface dusted with gluten-free flour and form it into a flat disk. Roll out dough with a floured rolling pin to �-inch thickness. Work fast as dough dries out rather quickly.
6. Carefully place dough in prepared pie pan. Crimp edges and add pie filling. If desired, top pie with second crust and crimp edges together. Slit top crust in several places for steam to vent. Chill pie for 30 minutes in the freezer before baking.
7. To precook the crust without filling, chill crust in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove crust from freezer and prick bottom a few times with a fork. Line the crust with parchment paper and fill it with pie weights or dried beans. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until parchment paper pulls away from crust without sticking. Remove paper, along with weights or beans, and bake an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until bottom is golden.
Each serving of crust contains 279 calories, 14g total fat, 12g saturated fat, 0g trans fat, 0mg cholesterol, 36g carbohydrate, 7mg sodium, 2g fiber, 3g protein.
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Why Isn't Aretha Franklin Performing at Whitney Houston's Funeral?Sunny Chanel
One of the big names that was to perform at Whitney Houston's funeral was the one and only Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin who also happened to be Whitney Houston's goddaughter. But now there are breaking news reports that she won't be singing. What happened?
Aretha was scheduled (and was even included in the program) to sing "The Greatest Love of All." But she had to bow out at the last minute due to illness.She had performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday night and apparently did not make the correct footwear choice, she has been experiencing leg spasms.
"Regretfully, I am so sorry that I was unable to be with you at Whitney's service today," Aretha said in a statement.
"I had every intention of being there. But unfortunately I had terrible leg spasms and locked leg muscles until 4:00 a.m. this morning following my concert last night, which I've been having for the last few days."
"I feel it necessary and very important to stay off my leg today as much as possible until concert time this evening. My heart goes out to my dear friend Cissy, Dionne, Bobbi Kristina and the rest of the family. May God keep them all. Aretha & the Franklin Family."


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Toledo Bend gives up another lunker
Texas angler takes 10.53-pounder from deep grass in Six Mile area
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Ronnie Bland caught this 10.53-pound lunker on an Oldham perch jig fishing deep grass in the Six Mile area.
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Ronnie Bland broke in his brand new Ranger 520 Comanche in style recently on Toledo Bend.
Purchased only five days beforehand, Bland and fishing partner Malcolm Franks were working the Six Mile area late last month while he got familiar with the boat, flipping submerged grass in 15- to 20-feet of water.
"We had seven bites all day, and I had the first six of them," said Bland, from Indian Creek, Texas. "I got a bite about once every hour."
After lunch, they started focusing on deep grass on points.
Bland was casting a 1-ounce, barbed-wire Oldham perch jig on 65-pound PowerPro braid spooled to a Lew's Speed Spool on a 7-foot 3-inch Kistler heavy action flipping rod.
At about 1 p.m., Bland noticed his line moving and set the hook.
"The fish was heavy, so I told Malcolm I thought it was a catfish," Bland said.
But the fish started pulling drag and then vaulted out of the water three times, clearly identifying herself as a lunker.
"She finally came up and Malcolm lipped her," the angler said. "I was pretty sure it was over 10."
Bland should be good at estimating big bass weights: He has already taken 10 other bass weighing more than 10 pounds at Toledo Bend.
His most recent lunker was a 12.07-pounder taken in March, 2013 during the Sealy Big Bass Splash, and Franks witnessed that one, too.
At Fin & Feather Resort, the fish weighed in at 10.53 pounds and became eligible for the Toledo Bend Lunker Bass Program, which rewards anglers who agree to tag and release 10-pound-plus bass back into Toledo Bend with a free replica.
Bland's bass was the seventh entry for the lunker program during the 2014-15 season.
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