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- Data security - including running a continuous backup on an internal HDD (probably using Oops!Backup), supplemented by monthly offline backups.
- Power - Core i7 3770 processor and Sapphire Ultimate Radeon HD 7750 graphics card
- Quietness - passively CPU cooler, Seasonic Platinum Fanless PSU and Nofan CS-80 case
- a Plextor PX-256M5P SSD for system files, programs and general data
- a 1T SATA 6.0Gbps HDD of some kind for storing images
- a Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green WD20EARS for the continuous backup of the other 2 drives
My current thoughts are:
- A second Western Digital Caviar Green would meet the quietness criterion and would be reasonably reliable, but would be slow when loading and moving the large image files.
- WD RE4 drives seem to be the most reliable, but they are optimised for RAID operation and servers. Since I don't intend to use RAID, I should avoid them.
- WD VelociRaptors would meet the reliability and speed criteria extremely well, but would smash the "quietness" criterion.
- A WD Caviar Black would be a possible compromise solution.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Reynolds, 67, formerly of Bennington, is facing four pending felony charges in Bennington criminal court of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and one pending felony charge of aggravated sexual assault on a child younger than 13, for allegedly touching a 7-year-old girl in Bennington on several dates including on Christmas Eve of 2013.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the girls parents, sought to preserve the money from the sale of Reynolds home while the suit was still in court.
The home, however, belonged to Reynolds and his wife, Pamela Reynolds.
During a hearing in Bennington civil court in May, the attorney representing the family said he had no evidence that Pamela Reynolds knew about the alleged sexual abuse but asked Judge Katherine Hayes to preserve the money from the sale of the house in a trust while the lawsuit is active.
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Dower's performance sent him over the 1,000 career points mark at Gonzaga. Drew Barham added 16 points and Gerard Coleman had 11. Kyle Dranginis also chipped in 9 points.
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She must need to pay for some more hideous plastic surgery.Hide replies
"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING", you seem like such a sweet person.....
Cher was on the Today Show this morning singing one of her old hits. While I admire her success, she didn't sound very good today. Some people don't seem to know when to hang it up.
YGBK Mean or cliche... pick one or the other, not both.
Hey, if she comes wearing a thong and high boots, she can have all the plastic surgery she wants.
nice 1 Mark but I hope those fishnets don't reveal too much cheekiness?
Mark L only likes it if guys show up wearing a thong and high boots....
if I go, I'm going to throw my boxer-briefs @ her!
She has had a remarkable career. It's unfortunate that her "style" of music does not wear well for an older woman. It's interesting how men can continue on long after they can no longer sing a note( Dylan, Lenard C.) but it never works for women.Hide replies
I think her performances disprove what you are saying. She certainly sounds a lot better than Paul McCartney, who we all revere but whose voice is cringe-inducing. Cher's always had a sense of self-parody about her that makes her endearing and enduring.
Without voice enhancements she would be a perfect duet partner for anyone else who can't sing.
She's still living? Is Cher the person who used to be a man named Sonny and then she had gender reassignment surgery?
At least her face, after 10 years of healing is starting to look a little more natural, when they lace up the face sometimes they can pull the strings just a might too tight.
I'd rather sit and listen to William Shatner recite the 4000 pages of the ACA.
Really, could there be anything more boring than Cher?
The mayor will be there in the front row wearing his sheer black body suit.
First time in Milwaukee since 2003. That's probably not an accident.
She really struggled on the Today Show on Monday.
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a corporation's influence can persist long after the corporation itself
Empire tells of the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, and its cultural legacy, through online experience blending image, text, video, and audio.
Viva San Pietro
Yesterday, "Surf and Turf" Joey DaSilva slid, slipped, and skipped to the end of a 45-foot-long telephone pole suspended over the water and covered with grease and slop. By grabbing the flag at the end, he became the 2015 Saturday champion of the annual Greasy Pole contest, making him one of the elite crew eligible to compete again on Fiesta Sunday for the rest of his life. It's one of the highlights of the unique St. Peter's Fiesta, an annual festival sponsored by the Italian-American fishing community of Gloucester, MA. The festival is a five-day celebration including a procession of St. Peter's effigy accompanied by bands and Sicilian chants, a Sunday mass on a large outdoor altar, seine boat races, a carnival, food, and drinking - lots of drinking. The annual festival is a defining force in Gloucester's tight-knit community, even as the fishing industry that generated it continues a long decline. [more inside]
That Thing You Dew
How Mountain Dew Came to Perpetuate a Deep-Seated Appalachian Stereotype As Mountain Dew taps into tropes of corn-syrup-free authenticity and nostalgia for "backwoods" "renegades" and "rebels" with its throwback drink Dewshine, a daughter of Appalachia considers how the beverage reflects cultural stereotypes. [more inside]
Emerald. Elegant. Curious. Hidden. Unseen. Dragon. Treasures. Unbound.
The Asians Art Museum is a parody site bringing a cirtical lens to orientalist tropes in art museums, prompted particularly by rhetorical choices of the San Francisco Art Museum's 2009 Lords of the Samurai exhibition [audio]. It highlights the tendency for museums showing Asian art to present their shows as a"a harmless trip to a fantasyland of romanticized premodern Otherness, a place where dreams of Manifest Destiny never have to die?" [more inside]
Turkey, Pie, Football, Costumes and Trick-or-Treat! Wait.
Halloween and Thanksgiving are two of the slipperiest holidays in the American tradition. Costumed masquerading and trick-or-treating used to happen on Thanksgiving, while Halloween was mostly devoted to vandalism. As Americans did they best to stamp out the vandalism, they also cleaned up the unruly traditions of Turkey Day, banishing the Thanksgiving Ragamuffins to October. [more inside]
Born Digital Folklore
"Its not like we all sat in silence and stared blankly at our TVs waiting for the Internet to show up. We have probably always had vernacular webs of communication." Digital studies scholar Robert Glenn Howard talks about vaccines, the Christian right [PDF], AC/DC guitar tutorials and other "born-digital folklore" on the "vernacular web."
It's a Different Nick Cave
Nick Cave's Soundsuits: Calling up echoes of wild beasts, Carnival dancers, maskers and shamans, the "soundsuits" made of a wild diversity of materials by visual artist and dancer Nick Cave have life beyond the gallery. They're designed to be used in performances and 'invasions,' creating a sense of mystery, playfulness and joyful moments of community.
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History uses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection as the starting point for a deeply informative, chronologically arranged exploration of world art history, with maps, timelines, art images, thematic essays, and more.
Site Seeing
Wiki Loves Monuments: "World's largest photo contest" seeks to create a visual record of world monuments and historic sites on the Wikimedia Commons. The USA version focuses on sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Canadian version here. If you don't see your country among the 30 participating so far, you can volunteer!
American Sabor
American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music is a currently traveling Smithsonian exhibition exploring the wide range of Latino artists and influences which have shaped American pop music genres since WWII, from Alice Bag to Flaco Jimenez to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass to Joan Baez. The website is rich with maps, interviews, videos, and music samples.
The Jersey I Know
"Driving Jersey represents and reflects the most misunderstood and misrepresented place and people in all of America." In this series of calmly paced, short documentaries featuring profiles, atmosphere, landscape, and interviews, filmmakers Steve Rogers and Ryan Bott travel 21 counties to capture some of the true character and cultural nuance of the Garden State. [more inside]
Party On, Weird America
The American Festivals Project takes you along on two guys' National Geographic-funded 2008 tour of the "small, hidden, and bizarre" festivals celebrated all over the United States. Through photos, video, and a blog, discover Rattlesnake Roundup, Okie noodling, an American Fasnacht, the Idiotarod, and plenty more. [more inside]
The Minds Behind the Mind-Set List
Who comes up with that annual list of generational markers that aims to help college faculty better understand their incoming freshmen? These guys do. [more inside]
Take a Little Trip and See
American Ethnography Quasi-Weekly is a somewhat gonzo cabinet of curiosities -- a mix of photography, academic essay, archival materials, and bloggy postings on "outlaw aethetics" and outsider culture, presenting glimpses of American subcultures past and present, from Califormia low-riders to "hoochy-coochy" dancers to blackface tambourine jugglers, and plenty more. [more inside]
Local Knowledge
In 2000, the Library of Congress celebrated its 200th birthday by inviting representatives and members of the public from each of the 50 American states to nominate folk traditions, local customs, and special places to a "century's-end time capsule" called the Local Legacies Project. A nice little introductory catalog to points of local pride, like Fountain Green, Utah's Lamb Day, Oakland, CA's Black Cowboy Parade, Kentucky's Bourbon tradition, and Binghamton, NY's Spiedie Fest, and plenty more. [more inside]
Wiring the Castle
Circuits are flipping on in the nation's attic. A couple of weeks ago, 31 "digerati" -- like Clay Shirky, Chris Anderson, and George Oates -- dropped in to the Smithsonian Institution for the invitation-only conference "Smithsonian 2.0: A Gathering to Re-imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age". Dan Cohen of the Center for History and New Media provides a great summary (and continues to pose provocative questions) on his own blog. Those whose invitations were somehow lost in the mail can play fly-on-the-wall by watching the keynotes, paging through the Flickr pool of envymaking glimpses of their behind-the-scenes lab and collections tours, reading the blog (where Bruce Wyman of the Denver Art Museum lays out a succinct road map for museums using social media), and poking around in the SI's website gallery. Want to cheer on the USA's favorite 163-year-old "Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge" without taking the trip to DC? Thanks to their recent efforts, you can now follow the SI on Twitter, listen to its podcasts, watch its YouTube channel, visit the Latino Virtual Museum in Second Life, or use the FaceBook gifts page to send your best friends their very own pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers, Hope diamond, Negro Leagues baseball, or coelocanth.
"Many times when the women were sewing they would cry."
Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory, an online exhibit of comtemporary textiles created (mostly) by women living in war zones.
"It doesn't really seem that long ago."
Home Movies. A 1975 documentary by a young academic folklorist, exploring what it was that people were doing when they made home movies: remembering selectively, creating a "golden age." [more inside]
Cornbread Nation
The Southern Foodways Alliance is one weighed-down church-supper table, full of oral history/blog projects like The Tamale Trail, the Boudin Trail, interviews and recipes from the Bartenders of New Orleans, photo essay/interviews from Birmingham's Greek-Americans, a mess o'homemade films, and a passel of event and BBQ-shack photos on Flickr, all smothered in the tangy-sweet academic goodness of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss. These folks get my vote for most flavorful, funkiest food-loving folklorists in the lower forty-eight. [more inside]
Hell's Gate and Beyond
Regular Bowling Not Frustrating Enough? Try This!
The Dreaded Half Worcester warning: music is just one of the possible vexing configurations players encounter in candlepin bowling, a regional variation on traditional bowling that's unique to northern New England and maritime Canada. Developed in Worcester, MA, around 1880 (warning: more music), the game is played in gorgeous antique alleys dotted around New England and Nova Scotia, and features a 4 1/2" wooden or rubber ball, three rolls per frame or "box," and 15 and 3/4" narrow, cylinder-shaped pins that are the devil to knock down -- even though you can use the dead wood to knock other pins down, a score over 200 is extremely rare. Find some lanes and play or just take the quiz - like so many regional quirks, this one's undergoing a bit of a revival.
Summer of Love: 40 Years Later, a series of articles appearing this week in the San Francisco Chronicle, revisits the fabled, far-out, semi-spontaneous happening of 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Videos and oral history interviews help tell the story of a utopian vision which created a pivot point for American social values, before going a bit rancid around the edges. For more consciousness expansion, see PBS' The American Experience episode on the same topic. Check out that summer's San Francisco Oracle. Oh, and the Diggers are still around.
Charlie Foxtrot.
Embrace the Suck. Intensive military activity creates an incubator for slang. By bringing together people from geographically diverse backgrounds, putting them into stressful circumstances, and teaching them a new language of jargon and acronym, the armed forces create fertile ground for new idioms - many of which return home in civvies when the conflicts are over. In the Civil War, World War I and World War II, in Korea and in Viet Nam, servicepeople created or popularized now-familiar terms like shoddy, hotshot, cooties, tailspin, fleabag, face time, joystick, SNAFU, FUBAR, flaky, gung ho, no sweat, flame-out, and many, many others. Now, the GWOT brings us a new generation of 'milspeak'. Military columnist Austin Bay has published an early collection of neologisms from Gulf War II. On NPR, Bay explains what The Suck is, how to identify a fobbit, and why Marines look down on the attitude of Semper I.
You better watch out...
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but do you know Stekkjarstaur, Giljagaur, Stufur, Thvorusleikir, Pottaskefill, Askasleikir, Hurdarskellir, Skyrgamur, Bjugnakraekir, Gluggagaegir, Gattathefur, Ketkrokur and Kertasnikir? They're the Jolasveinar, the impish "Yuletide Lads" of Iceland, and those are only some of their many names. During the thirteen days before Christmas, legend says that they do their best to monkeywrench the celebrations with hijinks like stealing sausages, milk, and candles, and peeping into windows and up skirts. The children of gruesome child-eating trolls Gryla and Leppaludi, who were known for snatching naughty children, the elves got their start in the 17th century. In the years since, their image has apparently mellowed, and now they leave children presents in their shoes and limit themselves to mild pranks.
Pass the Dutchie
How We Eat A photo gallery of families around the world, and what they eat over the course of one week. Text in French.
"In a close-knit Chesapeake Bay community, the world's fastest muskrat skinners face off in a truly cutthroat competition at the National Outdoor Show. One lucky young lady gets to be their queen." [Warning: Fiddle tunes!] Muskrat Lovely, a documentary about the conflation of the world muskrat-skinning championships with the Miss Outdoors beauty competition. The film will air soon on the PBS program Independent Lens. Catch some of the brackish flavor of the Chesapeake Bay's traditional regional culture, including some muskrat recipes and skinning tips.. And don't miss the link to Everything Muskrat.
Beyond the Mouse
Folkvine: A creative presentation of Florida folk artists and their work. The interface can be a little baroque, but there's some nifty stuff inside.
Shuck an Oyster, Smoke a Bluefish, Sail a Skipjack, Call a Duck, Haul a Net
Wade in the Water In 2004, Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured the maritime cultures of the Mid-Atlantic region, from Long Island to North Carolina. Now, this site gives a home on the web to the cultural documentation gathered for the festival -- music, recipes, stories and oral history, an interactive map, the occupational folklore and natural history of regional fisheries, photos, video, and more. The material, ably compiled by folklorists and educators, creates a lasting and very accessible archive of festival highlights as well as an excellent overview of the distinct coastal culture of the Mid-Atlantic. Don't miss the great menhaden net-hauling chantey Help Me to Raise 'Em (links to mp3).
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Many women have questions regarding the early symptoms of pregnancy and may wonder if their symptoms are suggestive of pregnancy. This article focuses on the most common symptoms a woman might experience in the first trimester of pregnancy. In addition to a missed period, these include:
Missed Period
A missed menstrual period is most often the first sign of pregnancy and is a common first trimester symptom. Sometimes a woman who is pregnant may still experience some bleeding or spotting around the time of the expected period, typically 6 to 12 days after conception. When it occurs, this so-called "implantation bleeding" is generally not as heavy or long as a regular menstrual period. This small amount of bleeding that happens at the time of the expected menstrual period occurs because the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall. This is referred to as implantation bleeding.
Any bleeding during pregnancy is typically lighter than that observed during the regular menstrual period. However, if a woman does not have regular menstrual cycles, she may notice some of the other symptoms of early pregnancy before it is apparent that the menstrual period has been missed. A missed menstrual period also does not confirm that a woman is pregnant even if she has regular cycles, since both emotional and physical conditions may cause absent or delayed periods.
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Gilroy Wine Tour
Wine enthusiasts who wish to try wine produced in the Gilroy area will want to plan and visit on the third weekend of the month.
Temecula's Premium Red Wine Tour
This five hour tour for up to 6 guests visits some of the finest red wines in Temecula. It is perfect for those looking to learn more about premium red wine.
Los Olivos Wine Tour
The quaint, historic town of Los Olivos is located in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County. Visitors can taken in shopping, art galleries and plan a wine tasting tour.
Taste of Temecula's Most Popular Wineries
This five hour tour for up to 9 guests visits some of the finest wineries in Temecula. It is designed for first time, or new tasters looking to expand their palate and have fun. Experience Temecula's most popular wineries and get a glimpse of old town Temecula
Lodi, California's Wine Grape Capital Wine Tour
When one thinks of California wine, often the first thoughts turn to Napa and Sonoma Valleys. However, what is not always well known is that Lodi is considered California's wine grape capital. Every wine lover should take a tour of some of Lodi's wineries.
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Lodi is one of the biggest wine grape growing regions in California. One of Lodi's most popular events is the yearly Grape Festival. Additionally, a Spring Wine Show takes place each year. So many well-known and small wineries call the Lodi area home. Gather a few like-minded friends and tour Lodi's wineries
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San Francisco Bay Area Wine Tour
Take a drive south of San Francisco to the Santa Clara Valley. Here, visitors will find several wineries owned and operated by families with a long history of California winemaking.
Santa Ynez Valley Wine Tour
Solvang and Los Olivos are historic towns located in the Santa Ynez Valley. The valley is bordered by the Purisima Hills, the Santa Ynez Mountains and the San Rafael Mountains. The western section of the valley tends to be cooler and more suited to Chardonnay. Rhone varietals fare well in the warmer eastern section.
Howell Mountain Wine Tour
Howell Mountain was designated as an American Viticultural Area in 1983. Located in the Vaca Mountains, it comprises the northeast side of Napa Valley. This area makes for a perfect climate in which to grow grapes.
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12 Sep. 1989Inherit the Wind
An embarrassing episode for Becky during a student council meeting sees Roseanne sharing her most embarrassing moments from her own life with her daughter.
19 Sep. 1989The Little Sister
Roseanne and Jackie are at odds when Jackie announces she's going to the Police Academy.
26 Sep. 1989Guilt by Disassociation
Tired and frustrated of her job selling magazines over the phone, Roseanne is ecstatic when she gets an interview at a meat packing plant that seems like a sure thing.
3 Oct. 1989Somebody Stole My Gal
An emotionally-needy architect at Dan's new job site adopts the Conners as a surrogate family much to their terror.
10 Oct. 1989House of Grown-Ups
Roseanne feels the empty nest syndrome when Jackie leaves for police training and Darlene goes to her first party.
24 Oct. 1989Five of a Kind
Roseanne is perturbed when a friend of Dan's plants a passionate kiss on her during Dan's weekly poker night with his buddies. The first appearance of Tom Arnold as Arnie.
31 Oct. 1989BOO!
The first of the annual Halloween episodes finds Roseanne doing her best to scare Dan who is waiting to hear about an important business deal going through.
7 Nov. 1989Sweet Dreams
Ten minutes alone in the bathtub is all Roseanne wants, and when she doesn't get it, her fantasies take hold for thirty wild and musical minutes.
21 Nov. 1989We Gather Together
Thanksgiving at the Conners brings the usual family strife and hilarity as Roseanne is determined to make her parents stay at a motel and Jackie continues to hide the fact she joined the police.
28 Nov. 1989Brain-Dead Poets Society
Roseanne is ecstatic when Darlene is asked to read her poem for her school's recital, but Darlene refuses to do it.
5 Dec. 1989Lobocop
Working two jobs, Roseanne finds she and Dan are drifting apart and turns to Jackie for support.
12 Dec. 1989No Talking
Roseanne gets the silent treatment after clashing with Becky when she becomes the teenage daughter from hell.
2 Jan. 1990Chicken Hearts
Roseanne lands a job at a chicken restaurant, with a total dweeb for a supervisor. He wants her to work weekends, which she is unable to do, so she invites the boy to dinner and gets Dan to help him assemble his carburetor for school. But will the kindness pay off in the end?
9 Jan. 1990One for the Road
Becky and her friend make "Tornadoes". A combination of several liquors she found in the liquor cabinet topped off with a splash of Root Beer.
23 Jan. 1990An Officer and a Gentleman
Jackie plays happy homemaker with Dan and the kids when Roseanne is called away for three days for a family emergency.
30 Jan. 1990Born to Be Wild
In his first appearance, Dan and Roseanne's old friend Ziggy returns for a visit, prompting the Conners to wonder what happened to themselves and when they became "old".
6 Feb. 1990Hair
Roseanne feels she's sunk to an all-time low when she gets a job sweeping up hair at a hair salon.
13 Feb. 1990I'm Hungry
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27 Feb. 1990To Tell the Truth
Jackie gives Roseanne the silent treatment after she's had enough of her interfering in her love life.
20 Mar. 1990Fender Bender
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10 Apr. 1990April Fool's Day
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1 May 1990Fathers and Daughters
Convinced that Dan and Becky's relationship needs some maintenance, Roseanne forces him to accompany Becky to the mall as she tries to bond with Darlene.
8 May 1990Happy Birthday
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Della Naquin Aucoin, 77, a native and resident of Labadieville, died at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007.
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She is survived by her husband, Arthur Aucoin; one son, Arthur Aucoin Jr.; two daughters, Deborah A. Benoit and Deidre A. Schwab; six grandchildren, Philip Benoit Jr., Yancy Benoit, Eric Aucoin, Brett Aucoin, Kayla Schwab Hebert and Drew Schwab; and five great-grandchildren, Britton Benoit, Emma Benoit, Lexie Benoit, Aiden Aucoin and Joel Gros.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Alcide Naquin and Inez Navarre Naquin; and three brothers, Ridley Naquin, Lindon Naquin and Earl Naquin.
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WASHINGTON, May 13— An increasingly popular new surgery for emphysema that at first appears to defy logic is at the center of an intense debate among chest surgeons and health care providers concerning its effectiveness and cost.
The operation, called lung volume reduction surgery, is increasingly being offered at hospitals around the country, even as doctors argue about how it should be performed, which patients are likely to benefit and if its benefits are worth the risks and cost.
Experts agree that the operation is not a cure for emphysema, a common, degenerative lung disease that most often results from cigarette smoking. But while many say it offers hope for at least temporarily relieving the shortness of breath and dependence upon external oxygen of many seriously ill patients who are virtually bedridden, the question of long-term benefit and relief remains unanswered.
"The procedure has shown substantial benefit to some patients, but clearly there are some others who have not benefited and may have been made worse off," said Dr. Leonard D. Hudson, a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. He added that more data were needed.
Treating emphysema with lung reduction surgery involves removing 20 percent to 30 percent of the damaged lung tissue. The operation has touched off so much debate that the American Thoracic Society, which represents chest and lung specialists, issued a position paper today in New Orleans at its annual conference acknowledging the operation's promise, based upon preliminary studies, but urging caution in its use.
"At this point in time, the operation should not be considered experimental, although insufficient data are available to determine if lung volume reduction surgery should be considered standard therapy," said the society, the medical branch of the American Lung Association. "Since there are many questions to be answered," the statement continued, "we recommend that this operation be performed only at centers where these procedures can be more completely studied through clinical trials and extensive physiologic evaluations."
Dr. Hudson, who is president of the thoracic society, said in an interview that there was concern that the surgery was becoming too widespread too soon. "We are calling for caution," he said. "Until we know more about the surgery and what it takes for it to be successful, we think it is too early to have the procedure done at every hospital."
Concern about the cost of the procedure prompted the Health Care Financing Administration, the Federal agency that regulates Medicare, to stop paying for the surgery in January, citing questions about its safety and effectiveness. But some private insurers continue to cover the surgery. Studies show the costs of the operation, not including doctors' fees, range from $35,000 to more than $70,000, depending on complications and the amount of rehabilitation required.
A subsequent assessment by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of more than 3,000 procedures from 27 medical centers found current data inconclusive regarding the risks and benefits of the surgery. The study, requested by the financing administration, recommended limited Medicare reimbursement only for patients who were part of a national controlled trial of the procedure.
On April 24, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute announced that it would sponsor such a trial. The institute said it would support a seven-year randomized study of more than 2,500 patients at 10 to 15 centers to determine which of several types of lung reduction surgery worked best and which patients were most likely to benefit. The study will also examine how much of the reported benefit is due to the procedure and how much is a result of the aggressive medical therapy and rehabilitation required at centers that get the best results.
Dr. Gail G. Weinmann of the institute said: "There is a possibility that the incremental improvement of surgery is so small that it could be negligible after a year or two. But the only way to determine that is with a trial."
Emphysema, which afflicts an estimated two million Americans in varying degrees, results in irreversible tissue damage when the walls between the air sacs within the lung lose their ability to stretch and spring back. The disease, which generally spreads through both lungs, is characterized by enlargement of the air spaces and loss of the organ's elasticity, causing air to be trapped and impairing the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Until recently, little could be done for patients with severe emphysema, many of whom cannot walk more than a few feet or do simple tasks without exertion and the need for supplemental oxygen to assist their inefficient, often overly distended lungs. Lung transplantation has become an option for some cases, with the number of transplants for emphysema patients increasing to 688 in 1994 from 2 in 1985, said the American Lung Association. But a shortage of transplant organs and rigorous criteria for the surgery prevent it from being the primary therapy for most patients.


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Skip to comments.Age-old distributism gains new traction
Posted on 10/18/2011 8:36:07 PM PDT by MeNeFrego
NEW YORK Can an Anglican theologian from Britain revive an 80-year-old Catholic social justice theory and provide a solution to Americas economic woes and political polarization?
Philosopher and political thinker Phillip Blond thinks so, and hes giving it everything hes got.
Blond, who has been a counselor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, just wrapped up a two-week U.S. tour to pitch his retooled version of distributism, a theory that argues that both capitalism and government are out of control.
In that sense, the thinking goes, both Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are right...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
explains why most catholics i meet are leftists.
What's your opinion on this, new FRiend?
Interested in it.
I have heard the James O'Keefe is very interested in distributism. The great Catholic intellectuals of the early to mid 20th Century,like Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien, joined by the great Anglican C.S. Lewis provided great material for thought, especially today. This article may send me back to my high school days to reread Rerum Novarum.
It is just another variant on statism.
Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are essentially different expressions of the same phenomenon, Blond said. Both are angry at the concentration of power, but both are on rocky ground when they demand salvation from either the gods of the market or government.
Notice that this dovetails with what Christie said today, and Obama said yesterday.
The meme they seem to be pushing is: The Tea Party and OWS are MORALLY EQUIVALENT. They are equal. They cancel each other out because they both want the same things.
Not sure how this strategy is good for Obama & Rinos, but let's watch to see if they keep pushing the same meme.
And most of the ones who claim to be conservative are ideologically to the left of conservatives!
He had obviously never read the constitution of the United States. I love these lefty "thinkers" who think they can rewrite the constitution at their superior whim.
Centralized health care and education? Get lost! No mention of National defense nor border protection - two of the central constitutional functions of the US government.
Let the states and locals handle health care and education however the citizens want.
But he's right about this: Tea Party is right that the government is too big and powerful. Some of the wall street protesting stinkies are right that corporations have too much power and influence in the government due to global trade. Globalism has to go if America is to recover.
Distributism is hardly leftism. It's founded on the principle of subsidiarity, that it's evil to assign to a higher level of hierarchy what a lower level of hierarch is capable of. In other words, it supports not only states' rights in the face of the federal government, but county rights in the face of the state, village rights in the face of the county, and family rights in the face of the village.
Distributism is the economic side of that model. As corporations become massive, they invariably restrict competition, and seek to manipulate government to prevent competition. Distributism seeks ways to keep the marketplace free, so that conglomerates don't get to write the rules in ways which that favor "synerigism," "supply line dominance" (the lethality of which for an economy was demonstrated by the Japanese earthquake), regulation, and exclusive contracts.
An artifically imposed distributism might have effects that might please liberals, such as defeating Walmart in favor of local grocers. But an organic distributism (which is necessary as not to violate the underlying principle of subsidiarity) would see Walmart diversify into niche subsidiaries, while local grocers get the leg up with microdistribution, farmer's markets, etc.
There's some natural limits to distibutism in bricks-and-mortar companies; a smallish manufacturing plant is going to develop the expertise and scale to efficiently produce automobiles. But, surprisingly, new markets tend to start out better distributed: remember Mom & Pop video stores were the norm before Blockbuster? And that they were cheaper than blockbuster? The problem is Americans mistook 500 spaces with one video as indicating a better selection than all copies of one video being in a single stack... because we naturally believe bigger is better. Well, the internet is the ultimate is distributism.
Correction: distibutism has found a very unlikely foothold: banking. Microloans are revolutionizing the third world, and reversing poverty.
Centralized health care is the antithesis of distributism. Distributism would be every doctor acting independently; every person providing their own health coverage.
Distributism in education would be home schooling.
Distributism in national defense would be a heavily armed citizenry.
The folks on this thread who take anything from this brief article as an excuse to oppose it are being hasty.
thank you, never heard this one before.
assuming the article has the concept right and i understand it. one minute of thought suffices to spot the fallacy at the center of this idea:
power cannot be distributed in a "collective." corrupt human nature trumps theoretical communism (the distribution of power equally among individuals). any morally rudderless individual or oligarchy will then, again corruptly, maintain, defend and extend it's power over others, who will be rendered slaves.
if power is allowed to concentrate at all, and in communism there is no barrier to factionalism as madison defines it, it will recursively concentrate itself within a smaller and smaller circle of individuals.
the genius of our Founders was to erect institutional barriers (our Constitution) and leverage God's law (morality) to retard and block it's concentration.
the other proposition in the article is provably absurd. if all power is concentrated in the libertarian individual, it can only be defended by just and dispassionate government. but governments are by definition a concentration of power in the few. thus we have the reductio absurdio.
Centralized health care is the antithesis of distributism. Distributism would be every doctor acting independently; every person providing their own health coverage.
Distributism in education would be home schooling.
Distributism in national defense would be a heavily armed citizenry.
To try to associate communism with the Tea Party is laughable.
Well there's your problem from the get go.
Do you really think that G. K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis would spend significant portions of their lives supporting communism?
Or have you never heard of Chesterton, Belloc, or Lewis?
Phillip Blond is an Englishman. Regardless some of his ideas may do well here despite the differences in are founding documents.
It's not that difficult to google distributism, Phillip Blond, G. K. Chesterton, etc.
You might find that you like some of the things they have to say.
Of course you'll probably find one thing you disagree with, then decide their all a bunch of commies, including that damned leftist C. S. Lewis! /sarc
This assumes that Christie and Obama are thoughtful people, rather than just triangulating politicians.
Distributism has a long, respectful heritage. It was supported by luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis. Those gentlemen supported distributism because it made sense to them, not because they hoped to get more votes.
Whatever the MSM or egotistic politicians decide to do with distributism is besides the point. If the distributists have even a couple of good ideas that can help us through our current economic troubles then good for them!
OK, let's slice your nuances thin and be more specific.
They advocate an amorphous religious state in which the state benevolently allocates justice and resources based upon the needs of the people, and grounded in Biblical principle.
Statist, Fascist or Communist...they're all the same to me and my mortal enemy.
Leftist Catholics are too ignorant to even know what 'distributism' is.
Most of the Catholics that were distributists were also very conservative. Especially Hillaire Belloc who was one of the first commentators to state that at some point one of the major foes of Western Civilization would be Islam. And this was before the communists had even done their worst.
ha, you mean a journalist got it wrong? what a shock. well i'm sure now that i've heard the term, i'll pick up more about it as time goes on.
How do you like living in the United States of Morgan Stanley, Frank, and Dodd?
Does this mean the Chinese were distributists when they pushed "back-yard blast furnaces" to boost steel production back in Mao's day?
Before Belloc was born, that major foe had 1,000 years of aggresive history. To me, Mr. Belloc's economic theories were unconvincing.
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Distributism is/ was not any official Catholic idea. It was not from the Church. It was believed by some priests and some prominent lay Catholics in England early in the last century. Catholic seminaries do not teach much about Economics, alas.
You are in the Northeast, right? If so then most of everybody you meet is probably Left. In my K of C council we sometimes talk politics after a meeting and the liberal members are from New York or New England. Everybody else is pretty straight conservative. Nobody has a kenyan sticker on his bumper.
I am not optimistic that America will recover. I am a longtime gate guard at a resort in Florida. The spring break crows and the early summer crowd- mostly college kids or just out of college and unemployed- has been getting duller each year that I have been there and this year the curve took a discernible turn netherwards. This is the generation that will run our businesses and politics in a few years.
"libertarians of the left and the right..."? Libertarianism, at least from the Randian perspective, will never be a leftist or statist perspective. The closest thing might be an Nietzchian or 'will to power' viewpoint and that is anything but a classical liberal viewpoint.
I respect the intellect and intentions of people like Chesterton, Belloc and Blond, but the fact is there wouldn't be such an ideological gulf between left and right if anything the left attempted in the last century actually worked. Forms of distributism are brought back from time to time, witness the "small is beautiful" movement of the Seventies. While localized socioeconomic models have their obvious charm, they must arise naturally from existing circumstance. If they are created or enforced by public sector coercion, they will never succeed and will probably fail immediately.
So, there were Catholic intellectuals who were in favor or a different balance of state, corporate, and individual, power. Many a Protestant was a Fabian socialist in the same era, too, so it's just another example of intellectuals doing their usual theorizing. There are more than enough boneheaded ideas that were once popular among one or another group of intellectuals to find fault with any religious group. Just put this theory in that category and forget it, no one much is even interested in hearing about this theory much less in implementing it.
You have no reason to fear some "mortal enemy" creeping out of a dark, dank, Catholic, alley somewhere. The existing Protestant system is heading quite rapidly to the logical endpoint of Protestant theology overlaid on a society. Rest assured that Catholics don't want to seize control and take credit for the existing system. What we have now has done a fine job of destroying the Constitution in favor of the Almighty Dollar. Those who built the skeleton and left it to be fleshed out by future generations are long dead, and those rapidly establishing a fascist nobility are cozy in their Snuggies oblivious to everything except their own superiority
Good for you, Sara.
From the article: "You need a new culture, or a new commonality around which you can associate and create.
And the problem is you dont have that because you have culture wars. And once you have culture wars you have a society that fragments ... which means you become a society that cant solve problems. Which is very worrying."
The whole article was just another WaPo space filler against the TeaParty. Oh, and somehow give the illusion that it's the fault of religion.
Yes the leftist are trying to use the TEA party and make us all "useful idiots" en masse.
What needs to be said, first and foremost about this article in the absolute error that is made by the statement there are ANY similarities between OWS and the Tea Party. The two are like night and day. And there are no REAL similarities at all.
That being said, distributism has much more in common with Christian principles and subsidiarity than any other form of sociological approach to economics. In fact, I think F.A Hayak would tell us that it fits the model of "Free Markets" better than anything else.
""Distributism is hardly leftism""
Spot on! So is the rest of your post.
One can see by reading the late Belloc and others that unbounded usury is the real evil force that has driven the west closer socialism and lack of ownership, this has aided greed and corrupt power more than anything else.
by Hilaire Belloc
As long as Usury was forbidden by the moral law and its immorality admitted, even though it took place widely, it took place under protest. It was always checked by the public disrepute in which it was held and by the fact that unless it were disguised, the interest could not be recovered by law. Disguises were indeed often used, as for instance, the promise to repay on a certain date a certain sum of money as having been lent, when as a fact a small sum had been lent. But though such subterfuges were continual, the evil could not spread until the taking of interest upon money alone became an admitted practice of which no man was ashamed, which no one thought evil, which was taken for granted.
By the third generation great central banks had arisen, notably in Amsterdam and London. Shortly afterwards, during the 18th century, men had everywhere begun to think (later in Catholic nations than in Protestant, but everywhere at last) as though interest on money were part of the nature of things: as though money had indeed, merely as money, a right to breed. The false doctrine was bound to lead to a deadlock at last, and in our own time that deadlock has been reached. The recovery of the vast usurious loans is impossible. Recourse has had to be made to repudiation on all sides, and the whole system is breaking down.
But remember that the worst of its effects is not its own self-destruction, but the way in which it has gathered into a few centers the power of controlling lives of the community and particularly of the proletariat, whose employment, and therefore existence, depends upon the great advance of credit by the holders of financial power. For all our great enterprises today are possible only through the favor of the lenders of money or credit.
We may sum up then and say that the unrestricted admittance of Usury as a normal economic function about a lifetime after the Reformation advanced the destruction of economic freedom, the swallowing up of the small man by the greater man, and the ultimate production of a large destitute Proletariat in the following fashions:
1. By the eating up of small property by Usury, falling as it did habitually upon men already embarrassed, and achieving their ruin;
2. By transferring real wealth in goods and land to those who directly used their mere money power, often enormous and impersonal, through mortgage and foreclosure.
Hilaire Belloc was correct and we are seeing it unfold before our eyes!
Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are essentially different expressions of the same phenomenon, Blond said. Both are angry at the concentration of power, but both are on rocky ground when they demand salvation from either the gods of the market or government.That is not distributism as I understand it. Distributism will have a local school teaching local kids and a local doctor visiting his patients, no different than local blacksmith shoeing local horses and local farmer getting food to local market. It is a medieval model, not a central-government model; in a medieval state the central goverment, at most, mints the coin and brokers peace treaties.
Distributism, Blond argues, calls for going smaller and more local in search of solutions (music to the ears of classic conservatives) while leaving the central government to build the infrastructure and guarantee basics like education and health care (ideas that would warm any bleeding heart).
He may have some hybrid left-wing version of distributism which makes little sense.
What you must understand is that Distributism is an economic application of Subsidiarism; it's antithetical to state management of justice and resources... which is why distributists have had a difficult time forming a political movement. All stripes of politicians recognize it would strip them of power.
The only sense in which the government "does" anything for Distributism is that it pulls back from its role in protecting the market shares of behemoth corporations, by means such as reducing regulation, withdrawing from market management, removing a tax structure which favors supply line dominance, reforming intellectual property rights (which are supposed to support innovation, not destroy it), and prevent exclusive contracts. You'll note that the first four of those five are downright libertarian.
Thank you for your explanatory posts.
It's been a while since I read Belloc on distributism, but doesn't he advocate the state introduce impediments (e.g. progressive taxation, etc.) to discourage market-share growth?
Not sure about Belloc... I think Chesterton included some form of taxation on contracts, aiming to minimize supply-chain dominance. But it was part of his 9-9-9 plan. ;^)
Essentially, distributism distinguishes itself by its distribution of property (not to be confused with redistribution of wealth). While socialism allows no individuals to own productive property (it all being under state, community, or workers' control), distributism itself seeks to ensure that most people will become owners of productive property. As Belloc stated, the distributive state (the state which has implemented distributism) contains "an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production."[4] This broader distribution does not extend to all property, but only to productive property; that is, that property which produces wealth, namely, the things needed for man to survive. It includes land, tools, etc.[5]
It implies, by it's very nature, that the state has the power to seize property and give it to those it believes are deserving.
If not the state, who would have the power of coercion necessary to bring about such utopia?
What person could not see that as a threat to individual liberty?
Distributism is an interesting concept that I have some trouble wrapping my head around.
I'd like to see a knowledgeable person give a comparison between free markets or capitalism and distributism.
>> It implies, by it's very nature, that the state has the power to seize property and give it to those it believes are deserving. <<
Absolutely not! You just PRESUME that direct action by the state is the ONLY way to get anything done; you've falled into the trap of the liberals. "Seeks to ensure that most..." means nothing similar to "enlists the state to forcibly require that most..."
Rather, distributists recommend a series of policies which would reach this goal, the majority of which involve RETRACTING state influence in the economy, allowing entropy to bring the means of production to the greater number of people.
That is not to say that no distributists have ever proposed new government action to accomplish this. For one, most distributists imagine a very vigorous collection of laws against restraint of trade, such as, for instance, establishing exclusive dealerships. As mentioned above, Belloc proposed prohibiting usury. But there is no seizure of wealth scheme, because distributism is the economic application of subsidiarity, and the entire purpose of subsidiarity is to ensure that there is no entity powerful enough to redistribute wealth by fiat.
Think what you like or go read the histories of both the Anthracite region and the Steel Centers from Pittsburgh over to the Mon Valley. There were all sorts of proposals flying around and an awful lot of them were intended to be an alternative to having workers become unionized due to the fear of unions common at the time.
A great many groups proposed all sorts of schemes that thought were morally superior and some companies were already doing almost exactly what proponents of distributism believed in with no one at all forcing them to do a thing. That's not some form of statism no matter what the "pure theory" was in England or among the eggheads. The issue was, I thought, what Catholic social thinkers of the day, in this country, were proposing, not what some group or another considered to be the pure form of the idea.
Other than the usual socialists calling themselves anything but socialist and some anarchists advocating the destruction of all forms of both corporations and government, no one was proposing any coercion to force distributism on society. How something advocates thought would be adopted because of the obvious moral improvment they felt would result becomes worker, state, community, or some other form of collective control, I don't know. Whatever it "implies" in theory, what was proposed and even considered in some places was nothing like what you're saying nor was it like the "pure" theory you refer to.
Part of the problem is that in the 1920s, there were grave economic crises which American industrialists were only beginning to discover solutions for (Ford, etc.); they were trying to imagine ways to bring about distribution of wealth. 90 years later, different proposals might be better for bringing that about. For one, people have greater access to capital, but zoning laws and regulations prevent people from being able to build a home, except at an enormous multiple of the actual cost. Here in Virginia, you can't get your "5 acres and a mule," because zoning requires you to get 15. Let alone, a reasonable sized suburban dwelling (1/4 acre) for those who aren't in agricultural work.
Then, without the power of the state, how do distributionists achieve their goals? Even the above stated and limited goals? Just WHO applies subsidiarity upon the economic and political order?
It's 100% voluntary? They would ask that the collective owners of corporations surrender their ownership interest voluntarily so that families could own those means of production?
Or, perhaps they would ask that "natural monopolies" surrender growth and efficiencies so that grandma can pay $275/month for a phone that only calls those other phones produced by the cottage industry phone company that services only Puyallup, WA?
What I am saying is that their goals cannot be achieved, in real terms, without the coercive power of the state. Short of that coercive power it's nothing more than the bleating of an utopian. As soon as implementation is attempted it requires the power of the state.
Oh sure, there have been and will continue to be those who volunteer themselves to such goals...great. Nobody objects to that.
But anyone who values individual liberty will not support the implementation of such goals coercively by any entity.
>> It's 100% voluntary? They would ask that the collective owners of corporations surrender their ownership interest voluntarily so that families could own those means of production? <<
NO No No No No no NO! My God, you think like a socialist. The free market, that Invisible Hand tied behind our back, would do it. There's no reason on earth why a company in Arkansas can sell produce grown in New Jersey to customers in New Jersey more cheaply than a company in New Jersey can. The Arkansas company gets involved because it can guarantee a huge market to the grower, but it does that at the cost to the grower of having to sign an exclusive relationship.
There's no growth and efficiency in Microsoft destroying innovation for fifteen years until Google finally comes up with an end-run around operating system dependence. There's no growth and efficiency in Nintendo patenting a screen-scrolling algorithm invented by Atari, and then putting Atari out of business.
Now, no-one promises all huge corporations would disintegrate into small companies. A mom and pop operation probably can't build the same quality aircraft that Boeing can. But we can at least remove the artificial economic forces through which Big Capital and Big Government squash entrepreneurship and private ownership. (For starters, one thing that Belloc and Chesteron didn't dwell on, but I will simply putting an end to laws prohibit subdivision of land.)
No-one owns their land; they rent it from the bank at exorbitant rates, and must seek approval for their Masters in the government before they can do anything with that land. That's a crisis.
>> What I am saying is that their goals cannot be achieved, in real terms, without the coercive power of the state. Short of that coercive power it's nothing more than the bleating of an utopian. As soon as implementation is attempted it requires the power of the state. <<
That is nothing more than an uninformed assertion. Prove that any one of the specific recommendations of distribution would fail to help the distribution of the means of production. Naturally, before you can do that, you need to read up on those recommendations and the theories behind them; your posts demonstrate you haven't. So quit making untrue assertions based on your own prejudices, and start contributing to solutions.
What specific regulations or laws would you implement or eliminate that would achieve the distributionist goals?
The reason a company in Arkansas can sell produce grown in NJ cheaper is that the company in Arkansas has done the work to build the business relationships and contracts with the buyers in NJ.
How would you un-do that?
From your descriptions, distributism doesn't sound all that different from free markets/capitalism. It just sounds like capitalism with a few regulations.
That sounds similar to how we (at least used to) have free markets but with anti-trust laws.
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