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CordeValle has been on my to-play list for a couple of years now. Only problem, it's a resort course, requiring a minimum night's stay. At ~$500/night and another ~$350 for green fees, you're looking at $1,000 (taxes, caddy gratuity, etc.) for a round of golf! As much as I like to waste money, a grand for a round of golf is just too much; especially considering I live an hour away so the night's stay would be useless.
Then I found out about their Youth Foundation charity tournament. Donate to a good cause, play for a fraction of the resort cost, sign me up! I've donate here and there to the First Tee Program but this would be my first charity tournament. If all charity tournaments are as fun and well-organized as CordeValle's I'm going to start playing a lot more charity tournaments.
The drive from San Francisco to San Martin is just over an hour. San Martin is only about 20-25 minutes south of San Jose but it feels so secluded. Beautiful day, around 75 degrees and sunny when I arrived at 11:30am. At the gate I told the attendant I was here for the golf tournament and he let me through. As I was pulling away I swear he radioed, "white Ferrari on the way in." I wished!
The parking lot is awesome. If you've read my other blog posts you know how much I value good parking. Large and plenty of spaces, so you can park far away from door dingers. There are also these extra wide spaces up front marked "e". There weren't any "reserved" signs so I parked in one, next to a Bentley. Pretty sure he won't be dinging my doors.
Registration was setup at the driving range area, along with a big tent for lunch.
Checked-in, got 2 drink tickets (for the reception afterward) and a coupon for 15% off in the proshop. Also got a ticket for a free golf shirt. What a pleasant surprise. I typically buy a golf shirt when I play a new course, so this free shirt just saved me $50-$100!
I decided to go hit some balls before eating lunch. Grass range (of course) with good quality Titleist NXT Tour practice balls. First dozen balls I was hitting so well, best I've hit my irons ever. Then I couldn't even make contact with the ball on the next dozen. Got really frustrated so decided to go eat lunch. Nothing fancy, turkey sandwich, apple, cookie, etc. After lunch we met our forecaddie. He would be guiding us, spotting our ball and helping us read the greens.
1pm, go time! The tournament format is best ball in the foursome. Basically everbody plays their own ball and the group takes the best score. We actually only had 3 in our group (the 4th score would be a "blind draw"). One guy was retired, took up golf as hobby and now plays twice a week. The other guy was around my age. He's really into golf. I mean really into golf. If you think I'm into golf, this guy makes me look like a casual fan.
We would start on the 9th hole. I had about an 6 footer to save par and ended up making double bogey. Holy crap the greens are fast! Definitely the fastest greens I've putted on. Faster than the Lake course at Olympic Club, faster than Pebble Beach the week before the 2010 US Open. I don't know if the greens are just really fast or maybe I was above the hole a lot. Very nice greens, rolls great. But surprisingly, there wasn't as much break as I thought. I'd read a 6 inch break and it was maybe 3 inch. A lot of putts ended up fairly straight, just needed to get the speed right. Maybe the wind was straightening out some of the putts.
Ah, yes, the wind. It was blowing today. I figured CordeValle would be a little breezy but it was very windy today. There was a stretch of holes straight into the wind that played easily 2 clubs longer.
Some really beautiful holes. The par 5s and par 3s were great. The par 4 8th is a nice short one with water on the right. Bunkering is beautiful with real, white sand. The rough wasn't particularly long but the ball seemed to really sit down and the grass felt really thick. Very punitive being in the rough for a "sweeper" like me.
I didn't enjoy the round as much as I should because I couldn't hit a good drive to save my life. The driver was my number 1 club. I felt so confident, so comfortable with the driver. I had this swagger, knowing I could step up and hit a good drive. Then something happened about 2 months ago and now I'm like a 30 handicap just trying to make contact with the ball. I'm not sure if it's physical (my back and hips have been giving me a lot of problems lately) or mental.
The good news is, I've figured out my irons. Best I've hit my irons ever. I've figured out how to stop hooking my irons by keeping the face square through impact. Much, much straighter now. Even into a stong headwind I was hittng my irons really well, with very little sidespin. I loved the par 3s todays. But if you pop fly your drive 50 yards your iron play doesn't really matter. Sigh.
After the round there was a small reception with a taco buffet and a wine/beer bar. Winners were given prizes. Damn nice prizes too! The winning foursome got 4 Nike hybrids, 2nd place got some Vokey wedges.
Overall, really great charity tournament. The staff was great, the event well run, the venue amazing. Frankly, I would have gladly paid 2x the donation. If you are reading this now, quickly sign up for the next CordeValle Youth Foundation tournament. I can't recommend it enough. Yes, it's on a Monday. Call in sick, take a vacation day, quit your job. You won't regret it.
And oh, my favorite photo from today,
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years we became the first named college at the universitythe
Max M. Fisher College of Business.
We achieved this by establishing new priorities through the Agenda
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Excellence across all lines of activity
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reflected in teaching programs consistently rated in the top 20
nationally and among the top ten at public research universities
Over the past ten years the Fisher College has worked to achieve
these goals and to respond to the pressing need for innovative
business education in todays global environment. As you
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has taken the Fisher College down a number of paths that have
included expanding existing programs, developing new programming,
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Many of our efforts have been funded by dollars raised during
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history. With the opening of The Blackwell, our executive residence
scheduled to start business in June of 2002, the college will
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The results of our redesign have been satisfying. Our MBA program
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Average MBA starting salaries are over $85,000, with starting
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The Virginia Port Authority recently completed construction of a roller-compacted concrete (RCC) pavement for a large container storage and handling area at the Norfolk International Terminals (NIT) in Norfolk, Virginia. This project is part of continuing expansion at the port; currently the 2nd busiest on the east coast in terms of general tonnage. The NIT South Backlands Project – Stage I included 26 acres of RCC pavement 16.5 inches thick (57,300 cubic yards of concrete), topped with 3 inches of asphalt to allow for adjustments to future differential settlement
The Norfolk office of Moffatt and Nichol was the engineer for the design and construction of the facility. Pavements for port facilities must be strong and durable because of the heavy loading of the container handling equipment that can have wheel loads of 30-60 kips per tire. In addition, the channelized traffic can cause significant pavement distress.
Because of the large pavement area, cost was a significant factor. Moffatt and Nichol evaluated several possible pavement strategies, including asphalt, conventional concrete, concrete paver blocks, and RCC. An overall evaluation of strength, cost, time of construction, and expected performance resulted in RCC being selected. The design pavement strength was 450 psi flexural strength in 7 days, which related to a construction specification of 2,500 psi compressive strength in 7 days.
The overall experience of the project was positive. The final cost ($42 per square yard) and especially the time required for construction (2.2 days per acre) resulted in a lower cost and faster construction than other comparable paving projects at the NIT. This is not surprising since RCC has been successfully used at the Port of Boston (Conley Terminal), Port of Los Angeles (Pier 300), and for container facilities at rail-truck intermodal yards in Denver, Colorado (Burlington Northern) and Calgary, Alberta (Canadian National). The use of RCC at the NIT is expected to continue, with a project for another 20 acres currently under contract.


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Sept. 27, 2011
Junior outside hitter Rachael Kidder (Moorpark, CA/Moorpark HS) of the UCLA women's volleyball team was selected as the UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week for Sept. 20-26.
Kidder established two career highs in Friday's victory against second-ranked Stanford with 30 kills and 77 attacks, and added 12 more kills in Saturday's upset win over #1 California, as seventh-ranked UCLA defeated the top two teams in the nation this weekend.
The 30 kills for Kidder marked the 38th time in UCLA history that a player posted at least 30 and the first time since Oct. 11, 2001 (Kristee Porter against Stanford). The 30 kills for the junior also tied Porter for the most in school history during the rally-scoring era, which began in '01, while Kidder's 77 attacks were the most for a Bruin in the rally-scoring era.
Kidder led the Bruins in kills in four of the five sets against the Cardinal, posting seven in the first, five in the second and nine in the fourth. But it was the fifth set where Kidder shined, as the junior scored five of the final six UCLA points of the match on kills, including the last three. She added eight digs and three solo blocks for a career-high 33 points.
Kidder added 12 kills and three more blocks, including two solo stuffs, for 14.5 points versus California. She led the Bruins with three kills in the first and five in the clinching fourth set, as she mostly played in the front row during the match.
Kidder leads the Bruins with 4.25 kills and 4.88 points per set, having posted 10-straight, double-figure kills matches.
This is Kidder's second UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week honor of the season and fifth of her career.
Also nominated: Derrick Coleman, Football; Dustin Fay, M. Cross Country; Katja Goldring, W. Cross Country; Tiffany Lua, W. Golf; Kelyn Rowe, M. Soccer; Chelsea Stewart, W. Soccer; Griffin White, M. Water Polo.


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In the world of tattooing, Mike Rubendall is an influence, a visionary, a household name, a legend. He has been featured in New York Magazine, and on TLC's Tattoo Wars. He's one of the very best on the planet—his clientele alone is testament to that, to say nothing of the countless awards that have been bestowed upon his work. Or, if you need further proof, just look at the work itself. Mike Rubendall is one of the most revered and influential practitioners of one of the most accessible and popular visual art forms in the world. And he's not in Manhattan or Brooklyn, where the rock stars and the movie stars and the cool kids live; he's not in Tokyo or San Francisco or London or Paris: He is in the middle of Massapequa, the middle of Long Island. In the world of tattooing, Mike Rubendall is in the middle of nowhere.
Long Island is home to many tattoo shops, of course. Tattooing everywhere has seen impressive growth over the last two decades. The explosion began in the early '90s, a byproduct of grunge, the coming-of-age of Generation X and the mainstreaming of alternative culture. It saw another growth spurt in the early aughts, when custom tattooing and larger pieces came into fashion among hipsters, gym rats, college kids. Today, tattoo shops are nearly as common a suburban outpost as sports bars and hair salons. They are in strip malls, on main streets, in downtowns.Yellowbook.com lists 137 tattoo shops on Long Island, though that seems a low estimate. Spend time on any Long Island beach, or in any Long Island gym, and the evidence is stark: Most bare bodies under the age of 45—and, yes, many in the 45-and-over category—sport some ink, somewhere. Tribal bands, butterflies, skulls. The disembodied head of Jimi Hendrix. The symbols from the cover of Led Zep 4. The Tasmanian Devil.
They are everywhere.
They are not always very good.
Mike Rubendall knows this better than anyone. At 32, he's young by most any standard, but he's been in the business now for literally half his life—since the age of 16—and he has witnessed firsthand the transformation of the Island and the industry. He's an old soul. He's seen it all. He tells one story, about a client who came in to get his arms tattooed, and revealed to Rubendall a back piece that was, ah, something less than superb. The client knew this, and admitted as much, and Rubendall agreed the tattoo was indeed quite bad. But, it was obviously a work that had taken numerous sessions—the back is a big stretch of real estate, after all—which left Rubendall incredulous. Why, Rubendall asked his client, would you do that to yourself? Why would you keep going back, knowing you were getting a bad tattoo?
"He said, 'Well, it was cheap. And it's on my back, so I don't really have to look at it.'"
Mike Rubendall was born and raised in Massapequa. He graduated, in 1995, from Plainedge High School—seven blocks away from the storefront where Kings Avenue Tattoo now stands (the name is borrowed from one of the cross streets on which the shop is situated). It was at Plainedge that Rubendall started drawing seriously. His ability, he says, was neither innate nor immediate.
"I never felt like I had a God-given talent," he says. "But I had a drive."
Today, Rubendall is sitting in the small, fenced-in concrete patio behind Kings Avenue, at a hard plastic picnic table. (This is the week following Billy Jordan's visit: Billy's back in Mobile; by now, his sleeve has probably healed enough so that his wounds are no worse than patches of dry, flaking, scabbed-over skin.) Rubendall is remembering, reminiscing, leaning back on a deck chair in a black Kings Avenue T-shirt, his bare forearms displaying elaborate, colorful ink. Rubendall has a concrete-thick South Shore accent, linguistic patterns that twirl and spin and slip like spaghetti on a fork.
Before he was a tattooer, back when he was a student at Plainedge, Rubendall worked at a Massapequa pizza shop, Pappalardo's Pizza Cove, listening to local hardcore bands like Vision of Disorder and faraway metal bands like Sepultura—all of whose members' bodies were covered in tats. Rubendall liked the look, and when tattooed patrons walked into Pappalardo's, Rubendall asked them about their ink. He was 16, looking for a career, a path, a direction. One day, he was told he could get a tattooing apprenticeship with Frank Romano, at Da Vinci Tattoo Studio.
"I'd heard it was a pretty brutal upbringing," he says. "And it was the type of industry that the artists kept the secrets very close to their chests. They didn't really share information."
Indeed, at that time, tattooing was mysterious, elitist, almost something of a secret society—not like today, says Rubendall, thanks to TV shows like Miami Ink and Tattoo Wars and Tattoo Highway, not to mention the Internet, where every tattooer's work is readily available. Now, he says some shops are even offering classes on how to tattoo.
"People aren't getting tattooed in back of a dimly lit tattoo shop, with beer bottles laying around and switch blades…it's not like that anymore," he laments. "I feel like the magic is gone. It's missing something now. I was just fortunate to be involved in it when it really had some magic."
Rubendall describes his apprenticeship as grueling, demeaning, humiliating. In other words: exactly like any good apprenticeship anywhere. Before he could even begin, Romano handed the 16-year-old Rubendall a tattoo magazine, and said, "Here. Copy 10 pictures from this." Not trace them. Copy them. Freehand. Rubendall went home, copied 10 pictures—between schoolwork and sports, this took maybe a month—brought them back to Romano, who looked at them, put them down, then picked up another magazine. "Here," he said. "Now copy 20 from this one."
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Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Blake Shelton joined together to bring some classic country to the 2014 GRAMMY Awards. With a backdrop of an Old West building, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson performed "Okie From Muskogee" before being joined by Merle Haggard and Blake Shelton for "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys."
The throwback to country's roots was a fun interruption to the GRAMMys otherwise mostly pop and rock themed performances. Even more entertaining was seeing how many audience members were actually singing along with the classic lyrics. Several country artists were honorary Okies for the night, including Australian Keith Urban, and artists from many genres seemed to be acquainted with the chorus to the Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson hit, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys."
Waylon Jennings passed away in 2002. Hopefully, we'll have the rest of these country icons with us for quite a while, but whatever the future brings, the memory of this cozy, familiar performance will live on in GRAMMY history.


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Steve Rogers is officially the captain of the box office. On Sunday, April 6 Variety reported that the highly anticipated Marvel sequel "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" brought in over ninety-six million dollars at the box office, breaking the April record for films released in the United States. The film which previously held the record was "Fast Five," with thirty-four million in 2011.
The action adventure film was released in just under four thousand theaters nationwide, and brought in ten million in Thursday midnight screening alone. The film has received positive reviews from critics and fans, with extensive marketing and word of mouth helping the box office total climb to thirty-seven million on Friday.
The sequel has already done twice as well as the original film, "Captain America: The First Avenger," which was released in 2011. The film was released in 2D, 3D, and 3D IMAX theaters, but only one third of the total came from 3D or IMAX showings. As far as Marvel movies go, "Iron Man 3" was the biggest opening day with nearly seventy million, but Steve Rogers still brought in more than the thirty million opening day gross from "Thor 2."
The sequel also did well overseas, bringing in over two hundred million worldwide at the box office this weekend. However, some countries released the film a week before the United States, so the total gross for the film worldwide is three hundred million. A third film in the franchise is planned for 2016 and the character is also expected to appear in the upcoming "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and its sequel.
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Horizon Gardens, located in Kent, Washington provides the following services: Assisted Living, Micro-Community: Residential Care Facility, Alzheimer's Care, Hospice, and Short Term Care: Respite. It accepts the following payment methods: Medicaid and Veteran's Benefits. Horizon Gardens has an average hospital, Auburn Regional Medical Center, located nearby, which scored a 77 out of 100 in its most recent Medicare review. The Horizon Gardens's nearest hospital is 4 miles away. The zipcode (98030) in Washington, where Horizon Gardens is located, has a below average safety rating based on recent crime statistics.
Horizon Gardens is an assisted living facility. Assisted living facilities are an apartment-style habitat designed to focus on providing assistance with daily living activities. They provide a higher level of service for the elderly which can include preparing meals, housekeeping, medication assistance, laundry, and also do regular check-in's on the residents. Basically, they are designed to bridge the gap between independent living and nursing home facilities. When thinking about how to pay for care, assisted living facilities are generally less expensive than nursing homes, if assisted living is a viable option for your loved one.
Also, Horizon Gardens is a Micro community, which means it is a smaller senior community. It is a Residential Care Facility. Some people prefer it for its smaller less institutional setting.
Also, Horizon Gardens facility provides Alzheimer's care. This means it has special safeguards for wandering seniors, and caregivers are trained in handling dementia behaviors.
Also, Horizon Gardens care provider provides hospice care. Hospice care is an infusion of home care and facility care provided to benefit terminally ill patients and support their families through their tough times.
Horizon Gardens AFH is family owned and operated by Norma and Melanie Burnam. They believe that care giving is what an Adult Family Home is about. They work closely with each resident and their family to individualize care and maximize independence. Norma is a Certified Nursing Assistant with offer five years of experience providing quality care in a nursing home setting. Most recently working as a rehabilitation aide She has also worked as an activities coordinator and loves to cook and entertain. Norma is a very compassionate and competent healthcare professional. Melanie has been caring for the elderly for over twenty years. Fourteen years ago she became a Registered Nurse and has specialized in the field of geriatrics and wound care. She has been the Director of Nursing at several different rehabilitation facilities over the years. Horizon Gardens is dedicated to providing excellent individualized care in an atmosphere where residents are able to maximize and maintain high levels of physical and mental functioning through good nutrition, daily activities and managed care. Residents will have all the modern convinces of home with quality and safety provided by 24hr caregivers. Our staff will provide, accommodate and /or arrange services based on each individuals needs desires and interests. It is the perfect alternative when your loved one can no safely live in their own home . Horizon Gardens is a beautiful single level home located in the Kent Valley, which features a spacious living room and kitchen. 4 private and 1 semi private bedrooms, 3 wheelchair accessible bathrooms. The living areas are tastefully decorated in warm and inviting d?cor. There is a secure private patio to enjoy the out doors. We encourage residents to bring their own furnishings and decorate their rooms as they desire . We have an open door policy, where family and friends are encouraged to visit often and are always welcome to participate in the activities, outings, share a meal or have afternoon tea on our patio.
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After installing CM9 on my Samsung Galaxy S+ (Plus) it gets stuck in the "SAMSUNG" screen whenever I restart, the very first screen (I guess). I have to press the Power button 10 seconds to restart when I come to that point. Did someone discover that kind of problem before, how can I solve the issue?
This is a common outcome for many possible problems. If you can get in to clockworkmod(or whatever custom recovery) try reflashing cm9. If that doesn't work try doing a factory reset from recovery (clear data/factory reset) and then reflashing cm9.
On the international SGS you always had to flash cm-roms twice (on first flash it sets up the partitions and on the second flash it finaly flashes the rom).
If you still can't boot, flash a stock ROM with Odin (I think it is Odin you use for flashing stock ROMs, since it is Samsung device, if not use whatever is recomended on XDA-developers under topic named something like "restoring a stock ROM"), and check that it boots that. After that install root, recovery and cm as before.
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Smithsonian paleoanthropologist, Richard Potts with his team of scientists, reanalyzed the new scientific data and ascertained how the adaptability of human kind to physically acclimate to unpredictable types of environmental situations.
Therefore, it permitted the earliest species of Homo physiognomies to physically become diverse, survive, adapt and to begin migration from Africa to Eurasia 1.85 million years ago.
The oldest known Homo Sapiens remains were unearthed and classified by Richard Leakey with his team from the Kenya National Museum, in 1967, from Omo Kibish Formation rocks close to Kibish, Ethiopia. They found one modern Homo Sapiens and the other was primitive.
Therefore, after they did an analysis of the geologic layers surrounding those Ethiopian fossils, they mistakenly estimated the remains to date back only 195,000 years ago. Ethiopia has now become the current choice for the cradle of Homo sapiens due to their very ancient beginnings.
"Unstable climate conditions favored the evolution of the roots of human flexibility in our ancestors," said Richard Potts, curator of anthropology and director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
"The narrative of human evolution that arises from our analyses stresses the importance of adaptability to changing environments, rather than adaptation to any one environment, in the early success of the genus Homo."
Paleoanthropologists presented data stating that the brain and body size has been increasing from 2 million to 800,000 years ago by spreading the Homo lineage.
During this period in time, early humans migrated around the globe, encountering many different and demanding ecosystems on different continents. Brain size grew more rapidly during the time of dramatic climate change.
Larger brains were developed more and assisted early humans in communication with one another and to survive their habitats. Over the millenniums, the brain size tripled. Our modern Homo sapiens brain is the largest and most complicated of any primate.
With a large brain, longer legs, the ability to use tools and lengthy growth periods were all thought to have evolved together at the start of the Homo lineage in response to the Earth's changing climate; however, scientists have evidence showing those traits evolved separately and not all at one time.
When looking at the Hominine Evolution (chart), which depicts human evolution from 3.0 -1.5 million years ago by illustrating the range of early human species and behaviors, which is important to how early Homo Sapiens settled into a habitat, people today can live in several different homes around the world.
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If you do something that carries more risk, you are more likely to fail. That's one reason so many people fear failure. But if you risk nothing, you risk everything.
The question isn't whether you will fail – everyone fails at something. The question is what you do after you fail.
Here's a wonderful short video showing why failure is rarely permanent. Michal Marosi was racing in a mountain bike race. He was in the lead and made a risky move on an aerial descent that got him into trouble. He could have easily stopped racing. Instead, despite the big setback, Michal got back on his bike and executed an absolutely incredible passing move that was even more risky than the one that caused him to fall.
It's a great reminder that failure is rarely permanent. Your attitude can turn even catastrophic failure into success.


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On March 4th, the Mountain and Plains Education
and Research Center conducted a full-day retreat at Chautauqua Park,
facilitated by Dr. Deborah Helitzer from University of New Mexico. As a
five-year old Center, we considered it a great time for examining where we are
going, in the context of a number of emerging trends in education, in
occupational health and safety practice, and at NIOSH.
The session was attended by faculty members, trainees, MAP
ERC alumni, staff, community members including some members of our external
advisory board. The energy was infectious.
Retreat Focus:
We focused our discussion on the following questions,
including just a few of the most
popular ideas emerging from the breakout sessions:
1. How
can we best train students in occupational safety?
Increase experiential, interdisciplinary
learning opportunities, such as:
Define the skill sets and level of
training that are needed by those who hire safety professionals in our
2. How
can we best integrate health promotion with health protection?
Increase outreach efforts to:
Modify our pilot projects program to attract
proposals that address health promotion in the workplace
Conduct an inventory of what we are
already doing at CSU and UCD in health promotion in our teaching, research, and
3. What
are the best approaches to training future leaders in Occupational Safety and Health?
Collaborate with other professionals
through networking opportunities, mentoring
Model opportunities (along the lines
of young leadership training programs)
Identify corporate opportunities
Create opportunities for our
trainees to be leaders, through
4. What modes of learning should we be
using to be most relevant to the way people learn?
Do more with 'blended models' of
interdisciplinary learning, so that faculty teach using multiple modes of
learning to reach the most students.
More hands on/practical learning
Learn when it is appropriate to use
the modes of learning (online, hybrid, problem based, classroom etc.) for their
effectiveness – employ technology where appropriate and where it is best proven
to be effective
Teach critical thinking skills
through writing and research
New or improved
In addition to reviewing and refining our existing Center
goals, 3 new goals were heavily endorsed by the group:
1. Improve
the marketing of occupational health and safety.
2. Increase
efforts to integrate MAP ERC activities with the Agricultural research center
(HICAHS), with other regional partners, and other regional training programs
3. Improve
the economic sustainability of the Center
Please see our
Center's current vision, mission, and the 'old' goals in the set of slides from
the retreat 'kick off' presentation, just click here: Retreat Newman 2013.pptx
Next Steps:
On April 4th and 5th we will be
holding our annual live meeting of the MAP ERC External Advisory Panel (EAP).
We have provided retreat minutes to the board and will use it as the
basis for discussion of our future direction.
After that meeting, the executive committee of the MAP ERC
will discuss next steps, including the formation of several task forces to
formulate strategies and actions centered on some of the new goals and
recommendations emerging from the retreat and EAP review.
Thank you:
I'd like to personally thank all of those who participated
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This is interesting. Browsers are slowly ditching 'favicons' (the little logos that appear in the URL address bar of your web browser), and Firefox is the latest to do so. The reason is that it is very easy to create a favicon in the form of a padlock – giving your dodgy e-commerce site fake legitimacy. I'd never thought of that.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina coach Lou Holtz said Monday he's focused on preparing his team to play Ohio State in the Outback Bowl - not on discussing Notre Dame.
The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune reported that Notre Dame officials contacted Holtz on Saturday to discuss the coaching position left vacant when George O'Leary resigned last week after admitting he lied on his resume.
"The only thing I'm thinking about right now is preparing my team to face a good Ohio State team," Holtz said at practice Monday.
The newspaper said it was unclear whether Holtz was contacted for advice or as a possible candidate.
South Carolina sports information director Kerry Tharp did not know whether Notre Dame had contacted South Carolina athletic director Mike McGee to discuss the opening with Holtz.
McGee was in Birmingham, Ala., for a Southeastern Conference meeting and did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Monday.
Holtz has said little about the coaching search at Notre Dame, where he coached for 11 years, including a national championship in 1988. He still follows Notre Dame closely. Following the South Carolina-Georgia game, he had someone call The Associated Press office in Columbia to get a Notre Dame score.
Tharp said Holtz doesn't plan to talk with the media until Wednesday's Outback Bowl press conference.
The 14th-ranked Gamecocks (8-3) are preparing to play the No. 22 Buckeyes in a rematch of last year's Outback Bowl, which South Carolina won 24-7.
Holtz took over a 1-10 South Carolina team three years ago and saw the losing streak stretch to 21 games. Last year, Holtz guided the Gamecocks to an 8-4 record.
It's the first time South Carolina has gone to consecutive New Year's bowl games. Holtz could become the first South Carolina coach to win two bowl games.
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Drechsler, R; Straub, M; Doehnert, M A; Heinrich, H; Steinhausen, H C; Brandeis, D (2007). Controlled evaluation of a neurofeedback training of slow cortical potentials in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3:35.
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BACKGROUND: Although several promising studies on neurofeedback training in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have been performed in recent years, the specificity of positive treatment effects continues to be challenged. METHODS: To evaluate the specificity of a neurofeedback training of slow cortical potentials, a twofold strategy was pursued: First, the efficacy of neurofeedback training was compared to a group training program for children with ADHD. Secondly, the extent of improvements observed in the neurofeedback group in relation to successful regulation of cortical activation was examined. Parents and teachers rated children's behaviour and executive functions before and after treatment. In addition, children underwent neuropsychological testing before and after training. RESULTS: According to parents' and teachers' ratings, children of the neurofeedback training group improved more than children who had participated in a group therapy program, particularly in attention and cognition related domains. On neuropsychological measures children of both groups showed similar improvements. However, only about half of the neurofeedback group learned to regulate cortical activation during a transfer condition without direct feedback. Behavioural improvements of this subgroup were moderately related to neurofeedback training performance, whereas effective parental support accounted better for some advantages of neurofeedback training compared to group therapy according to parents' and teachers' ratings. CONCLUSION: There is a specific training effect of neurofeedback of slow cortical potentials due to enhanced cortical control. However, non-specific factors, such as parental support, may also contribute to the positive behavioural effects induced by the neurofeedback training.
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According to a May 17 article in AP News; more and more foster care leaders and politicians are advocating for shorter stays in foster care facilities. According to New York based Children's Village CEO Jeremy Kohomban: "the longer kids stay in institutions; the less capable they are of reintegrating into society."
The article goes on to say that, over a 10 year period, available beds at the Dobbs Ferry campus had decreased by a third. Over the same period, the number of children receiving help more than tripled. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch proposed a bill seeking to cut federal funding for long term placement in half.
The potential impact of being "wrong" on how care should be managed is scary! According to Fosterclub.com, by the year 2020:
- More than 10 million kids will spend some time in foster care
- Over 20,000 kids will die from abuse before they turn 5
- More than 300,000 young people will leave foster care (due to age) unprepared for the next phase of life
According to the Holy Bible, we are to look after the weak and needy, and make sure the afflicted and destitute have a voice. But, according to one Christian husband and father, this is much easier said than done.
"Foster children sometimes come with emotional baggage. My first obligation is the protection of my children. Second, so many families are struggling without taking on an extra mouth to feed. Others see dollar signs and underestimate the impact of raising another child. The decision to cut the time a person spends at a facility is a bad one. The safest place for the children right now is at the foster care facility.
The short and long term welfare of children will always be a sensitive issue. The impact of such changes to the number of available beds or length of stay may not be felt or understood for a decade. Do you believe that shorter stays at care facilities will lead to a better adjusted child?
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Dickinson, N.D. – The Black Hills State volleyball team was defeated by Montana State-Northern and lost to Bemidji State on the final day of the Dickinson Triangular in Dickinson, N.D.
The Yellow Jackets fell to Montana State-Northern in the first match of the day by scores of 25-21, 25-15 and 25-20. Bemidji State knocked off Black Hills State by scores of 25-21, 25-15 and 25-20.
"We still need to get more consistent with our play," said head coach Jennifer Weitzel. "Our team is starting to come together. We just need to continue to grow and mature as a team."
Black Hills State will return to action on Sept. 10-11 at the Hastings Tournament in Hastings, Neb.
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From the information provided by FDA the import alert product, cantaloupes from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran company, were not distributed in the State of Indiana. The cantaloupes were distributed to neighboring States of Illinois and Ohio. In addition, if any cantaloupes are found from this grower, please notify Dan Gala at this office at 317-233-7360.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an import alert regarding entry of cantaloupe from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer, because, based on current information, fruit from this company appears to be associated with a Salmonella Litchfield outbreak in the United States and Canada. The import alert advises FDA field offices that all cantaloupes shipped to the United States by this company are to be detained.
In addition, the FDA has contacted importers about this action and is advising U.S. grocers, food service operators, and produce processors to remove from their stock any cantaloupes from this company. The FDA also advises consumers who have recently bought cantaloupes to check with the place of purchase to determine if the fruit came from this specific grower and packer. If so, consumers should throw away the cantaloupes.
To date, the FDA has received reports of 50 illnesses in 16 states and nine illnesses in Canada linked to the consumption of cantaloupes. No deaths have been reported; however, 14 people have been hospitalized. The states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The FDA is taking this preventive measure while the agency continues to investigate this outbreak in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state partners. Such intervention is a key component of FDA's Food Protection Plan.
Symptoms of foodborne Salmonella infection include nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. In persons with poor health or weakened immune systems, Salmonella can invade the bloodstream and cause life-threatening infections. Individuals who have recently eaten cantaloupe and experienced any of these symptoms should contact their health care professional.
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These are some screenshots demonstrating the uses and setup of passwdqc on Openwall GNU/*/Linux. They pertain to versions 1.1.x of passwdqc.
The "passwd" program started, with pam_passwdqc configured in the system:
pam_passwdqc rejected a weak password:
A stronger-looking password was finally accepted:
Of course, pam_passwdqc also works for "passwd" invocations by the users:
A similar interaction with pam_passwdqc via the Owl setup program:
The PAM and libpasswdqc configuration files:
Changes to passwdqc.conf and their effect:
An excerpt from "man pam_passwdqc":
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PTEC Year End Lunch
Today is the last day of the semester for our PTEC helpers. These amazing students learned a lot around the hotel and assisted us in so many tasks, including laundry, landscaping, food prep, and restaurant set-up. As a "thank you" for their help and all of the great times we've had this semester, we held a BBQ luncheon in our garden courtyard just for them.
Amid discussing how much we would miss them and vice versa, each student singled out their favorite aspect of working alongside us and being here at PCI. Here's what they had to say…
James: "Landscaping with David. Definitely not laundry- that was too hot!" David sure has a lot of work ahead of him this summer without his best assistant!
Woody: "The trees are very nice [in the garden]. They're a great attraction." It's our favorite place to relax.
Dana: "The food!" Lunch is our favorite time of day here, too!
Nadya: "All the people who work here. And landscaping, weeding." Nadya's bright smile is reflective of her bright future, as a new PTEC grad!
Jackie: "The water view." We think our guests would agree.
Sienna: "Walking out on the beach." Sienna will be missing that over the summer, but we know she'll be having a great time in Michigan.
Chantel: "The beach and meeting new people." Chantel's outgoing personality and crazy good dance skills made her a lot of new friends!
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Build trusted brands. Engage upscale viewers. Influence purchase decisions. The formula sounds deceptively simple. But there's nothing simple about the success Scripps Networks Interactive has had in bringing that formula to life. Its growing family of on-air and digital brands illustrates the profound effect Scripps Networks has had on culture, and how it touches viewers in every stage of their lives.
Scripps Networks' six benchmark brands and its powerhouse Web platforms offer some of the most impactful marketing environments in media. Advertisers are so organically aligned with each network's programming that viewers are instinctively drawn to the message. Because at its core, each of the Scripps brands represents a fundamental element of modern life: Home, Food, Travel and Entertainment. It's the foundation of its "Brands for Life" philosophy.
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Scripps Networks blends customized marketing and viewership strength to create an ideal environment for advertisers to reach their objectives.
- Custom short/long form
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Scripps Networks channels and digital platforms reach the most desirable and targeted consumers, the people most coveted by today's leading brands.
Scripps Networks and its websites deliver a powerful combination of on-air and online viewership, reaching 144 million unduplicated consumers every month. (Nielsen NPower and comScore Media Metrix)
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Is truth is stranger than fiction?
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That will teach the dude to wrangle with a wounded animal, was he out of ammo?.....Dumb!
thats funny.
Clear case of self-defense in my book!
we need to ban foxes from having assault rifles with high cap magazines, this kind of tragedy should have been avoided. Foxes do not need guns, this is why we have the forest police
A couple of years ago we had a duck hunter here in Oregon shot by his retriever in a very similar manner. He had left his shotgun loaded in his boat, but allegedly with the safety on. His dog then managed to both undo the safety and touch the trigger and set it off, wounding his owner. The fellow insisted that the gun's safety was indeed on, but some folks have expressed doubt about that.
Just a year before that shooting, there was a very similar case in Tennessee. In that case, the duck hunter tragically died from the shotgun blast.
So these types of bizarre shootings do happen here in the USA too.
Sig, I'm gonna email my legislature right now, We have to prevent these psycho gun toting foxes from getting their hands on ammo and high cap mags, If they only have 5 or 6 rounds loaded in their guns, they cannot pull of a mass shooting of hunters. We have to protect our citizens today
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The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information regarding recent developments and other matters of interest related to this topic. For further information see http://www.sigslate.org.
ISCA-SIG SLaTE is delighted to announce its next workshop to be held in Grenoble, France on August, 30-31 & September 1st, 2013, just after Interspeech 2013 in Lyon (~1 hour by train/car) .
SLaTE-2013 is being organized by Pierre Badin, Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly, Didier Demolin, (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble) and Françoise Raby (LIDILEM, Grenoble), within the framework of the ISCA-SIG SLaTE.
The workshop welcomes all topics related to speech and language technology for education (SLaTE).
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• Speech technology for first and second language learning and acquisition
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• Spoken dialogue systems for education
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Five UCLA gymnasts were named to the Pac-12 All-Academic gymnastics team for 2013 - second-team honoree Lichelle Wong and honorable mention picks Kaelie Baer, Mattie Larson, Alyssa Pritchett and Vanessa Zamarripa.
Wong, a senior from Ossendrecht, Holland, holds a 3.39 cumulative GPA in Psychology. This is Wong's third consecutive All-Academic honor; she was a honorable mention selection in 2011 and 2012. She has set career-highs this season on vault (9.85), bars (9.9) and all-around (39.375).
Baer, a senior from Columbus, Ind., earns her second Pac-12 All-Academic honor. The All-Pac-12 performer on vault has competed on vault and beam in every meet for the Bruins this season, achieving career-highs on both events with a 9.925 on vault and 9.875 on beam.
First-time honorees this season are Larson, Pritchett and Zamarripa. Larson, a sophomore from Los Angeles, competed in eight meets before suffering a season-ending knee injury on Mar. 10. She had season-highs of 9.875 on bars and 9.9 on beam. Pritchett has had a standout season, averaging a team-best 9.896 on floor and scoring a career-high 9.85 on vault. Zamarripa has been ranked No. 1 in the nation in the all-around for two months and was named the West Region and Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year.
To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be either a starter or significant contributor.
2013 Pac-10 All-Academic - Women's Gymnastics
First Team
Alicia Asturias, California, Jr. - 3.87, Psychology
Lia Del Priore, Utah, Jr. - 3.84 Math Teaching
Hailee Hansen, Utah, Jr. - 3.95, Communications
Mary Beth Lofgren, Utah, Jr. - 3.90, Health-Ed
Corrie Lothrop, Utah, Jr. - 3.70, Health-Ed
Stephanie McGregor, Oregon State, Sr. - 3.98, Bioengineering
Shona Morgan, Stanford, Jr. - 3.77, Human Biology
Kahoku Palafox, Arizona State, Grad. - 3.90, Urban & Enviornmental Planning
Shana Sangston, Arizona, Jr. - 3.81, Family Studies & Human Development
Becky Tutka, Utah, So. - 3.81, Business
Aliza Vaccher, Washington, Jr. - 3.62, Psychology
Megan Whitney, Washington, Sr. - 3.83, Psychology
Jenny Peter, Stanford, Sr. - 3.64, Communication
Callie Price, Arizona State, Gr. - 3.92, Exercise and Wellness
Shana Sangston, Arizona, So. - 3.76, Pre-Nursing
Megan Whitney, Washington, Jr. - 3.78, Psychology
Second Team
Aubree Cristello, Arizona, Sr. - 3.53, Marketing
Georgia Dabritz, Utah, So. - 3.64, Undeclared
Nansy Damianova, Utah, Jr. - 3.49, Mass Communication
Barbara Donaldson, Arizona, Jr. - 3.57, French
McKenzie Fetcher, Washington, So. - 3.63, Pre-Major Arts & Scoemces
Taylor Keeker, Oregon State, So. - 3.63, Human Development & Family Sciences
Katelyn Ohlrich, Oregon State, So. - 3.59, Civil Engineering
Amelia Rew, Arizona State, Sr. - 3.48, Biological Sciences
Arla Rosenzweig, California, Sr. - 3.44, Cognitive Science
Amanda Spinner, Stanford, Jr. - 3.45, Economics
Tory Wilson, Utah, So. - 3.65, Biology
Lichelle Wong, UCLA, Sr. - 3.39 Psychoogy
Honorable Mention: Leilani Alferos, Jr., CAL; Kaelie Baer, Sr., UCLA; Paige Bixler, Sr., WASH; Danielle Buchanan, So., ARIZ; Carol Chang, Sr., CAL; Dallas Crawford, Jr., CAL; Nicole Dayton, Sr., STAN; Allison Flores, So., ARIZ; Natelle Gentile, So., ASU; Pauline Hanset, So., STAN; Mattie Larson, So., UCLA: Alyssa Pritchett, Sr., UCLA; Molly Quirk, Sr., ARIZ; Lauren Rogers, Sr., WASH; Samantha Shapiro, So., STAN; Chelsea Spomer, Sr., CAL; Chelsea Tang, So., OSU; Phoebe Tham, Sr., WASH; Kristina Vaculik, So., STAN; Jordan Williams, Jr., ARIZ; Cerise Witherby, So., OSU; Amber Womba, So., ARIZ; Vanessa Zamarripa, Sr., UCLA.


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Is the GOP's Debt-Reduction Plan Courageous or Dangerous?
People disagree!
Both parties recognize the need to control long-term spending and reduce the national debt. Up to this point, however, neither party has wanted to be the first one to propose a solution, since that would entail fiddling with sacred entitlement programs like Medicare. Which in turn means pissing off old people, or anyone who aspires to be old some day — everyone except maybe Charlie Sheen. Now, Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, known as the GOP's resident budget wonk, has jumped into the fray. As introduced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed and a snazzy YouTube video, Congressman Ryan's plan would reduce federal spending by $6.2 trillion over ten years and reduce the debt by $4.4 trillion. That would be great and all, but it's how he wants to do it that's already become quite divisive. Medicaid would be turned into block grants, giving states more flexibility in how to use the funds. More controversial is that in his reformed Medicare (which would not affect anyone currently 55 or older), vouchers would be provided for purchasing private health-care insurance. The government would save money by limiting the value of the vouchers, which, many observers contend, would put seniors at risk of not being able to afford medical care. So: Is this really a courageous, visionary proposal? Or is Ryan merely weakening the social safety net?
Ezra Klein, Washington Post:
To my knowledge, Ryan's budget doesn't attempt to reform the medical-care sector. It just has cuts. The hope is that those cuts will force consumers to be smarter shoppers and doctors to be more economical and states to be more innovative. But all that's been tried, and it hasn't been enough .... What Ryan has here isn't so much a plan to control spending as a plan to cut spending, whatever the consequences.
Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo:
[B]y any reasonable standard, that's getting rid of Medicare. Abolishing Medicare. Phasing it out. Whatever you want to call it. Medicare is this single payer program that guarantees seniors health care, as noted above. Ryan's plan pushes seniors into the private markets and give them a voucher. That's called getting rid of the program. There's simply no ifs or caveats about. That's not cuts or slowing of the growth. That's abolishing the whole program. Saying anything else is a lie.
Paul Krugman, Conscience of a Liberal/New York Times:
It's going to be just like the Social Security fight, only worse: once again, Very Serious People will pretend not to notice that the Republican plan is a giant game of bait-and-switch, dismantling a key piece of the social safety net in favor of a privatized system, claiming that this is necessary to save money, but never acknowledging that privatization in itself actually costs money.
Matthew Yglesias, Think Progress:
The idea here is that today's old people—a very white group that's also hostile to gay rights, and thus sort of predisposed to like conservative politicians—will also get to benefit from an extremely generous single-payer health care system. But younger people—a less white group that's friendly to gay rights and thus predisposed to skepticism about conservative politicians—will get to pay the high taxes to finance old people's generous single-payer health care system, but then we won't get to benefit from it. This is in part in order to clear headroom in the budget so as to make gigantic tax cuts for rich people affordable.
David Brooks, New York Times:
Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes. Ryan is expected to leap into the vacuum left by the president's passivity. The Ryan budget will not be enacted this year, but it will immediately reframe the domestic policy debate. His proposal will set the standard of seriousness for anybody who wants to play in this discussion.
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones:
Courageous. Serious. Gutsy. I imagine that within a few days this will be the consensus view of the entire Beltway punditocracy. A plan dedicated almost entirely to slashing social spending in a country that's already the stingiest spender in the developed world, while simultaneously cutting taxes on the rich in a country with the lowest tax rates in the developed world — well, what could be more serious than that? I think I'm going to be sick.
Steve Benen, Political Animal/Washington Monthly:
[M]y biggest fear is that the D.C. establishment will start to assume that Brooks is correct. He's not. Ryan's budget plan is stark raving mad. "Courageous"? To the extent that a major political party and House majority is actually willing to rally behind such extremism -- without a hint of shame or trepidation -- I'll gladly give Republicans credit for actually putting their ridiculous wish list on the table. But in this context, real, meaningful courage requires sound judgment, not just a willingness to fight for millionaires and corporations, while screwing over the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and working families.
Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot/National Review:
The public reaction to this will tell us a lot about how serious we are as a country. If the response is general support, or "I think we need something like this, but would want to change this part here or that part there," we'll be okay. If there's a general recoiling and rejection, and a preference to cling (bitterly?) to the notion that small-ball cuts in discretionary spending will be sufficient to control the debt, then we're doomed.
Peter Robinson, Ricochet:
Paul Ryan's document is historic. By cutting more than $4 trillion from the budget over the next decade, it exceeds the recommendations of the budget commission President Obama established (and then ignored). For that matter, it exceeds the fondest hopes of nearly everyone I know, including the most ardent members of the Tea Party.
Michael Shear, Caucus/New York Times:
Mr. Ryan and his budget team have not designed a grand bargain that would weave Republican philosophy with Democratic ideas, like a permanent end to the Bush-era tax cuts, or proposals that might make Republicans queasy, like deep cuts to defense. Rather, Mr. Ryan and Speaker John A. Boehner appear to have calculated that Republicans hold the upper hand politically, and that by going first they can set the terms of debate over how to handle the debt. Packaging long-held Republican ideas into a huge shift in policy, the lawmakers are betting that voters will focus less on the individual things they don't like and more on the overall impression of the party's fiscal discipline.
Megan McArdle, Atlantic:
Expect there to be a lot of angry back and forth over this in the next week or so. But one thing to keep in mind is that this Medicare plan is not effectively very different from what the Democrats claim ObamaCare is going to do: which is to say, cap the amount of money spent on providing health benefits to those who are not rich enough to opt out of the public system. The Democrats want to do so by having a central committee of experts decide what our health dollars get spent on; the GOP wants to put those decisions into the hands of consumers.
Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast:
[T]he leaked outlines are highly encouraging .... The Dems, in my view, should neither dismiss nor demonize it. The fiscal crisis is real. But the Dems can suggest tax increases, like the ones above, as well as spending cuts, as the Tories have done in Britain. It's a win-win if that happens.
Jonathan Cohn, New Republic:
Based on what we know so far, the Republican plan for Medicare would appear to be one part hypocrisy and one part con. Republicans have spent much of the last two years attacking President Obama and the Democrats for cutting Medicare spending, as part of the Affordable Care Act. Now those same Republicans appear to be proposing cruder, deeper cuts that would, for all intents and purposes, destroy the program.
Andrew Stiles, Corner/National Review:
How will Democrats respond? By drafting a counter-proposal? Perish the thought. Apparently, Democrats have resisted the urge to wait until the final details of Ryan's plan are revealed to pass judgment, and are already seeking to score political points by attacking it for daring to touch Medicare and Medicaid. They just can't wait to tell you what Paul Ryan has in store for grandma and grandpa.


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