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by Jeff Stevenson
The author is professor of animal sciences at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
Timed A.I. breeding programs have become very useful to dairy producers for a number of reasons, especially convenience. Profitable reproductive performance requires all nonpregnant cows to be inseminated at every eligible opportunity. To make that happen, most herds need a reliable system that includes heat detection and some timed A.I. program.
It becomes less and less possible with increasing herd size and cost of labor to examine daily every open cow for signs of estrus. To rely solely on heat detection, whether that is visual observation in addition to some type of heat detection aid, is not likely to produce the number of pregnancies that are needed every week. Even in the best scenario, about 30 percent of the eligible cows will be missed. To resolve this issue, many dairy producers have opted to use a timed A.I. program to set up the A.I. breeding of cows at first service.
Standard presynch . . .
A standard Presynch protocol + Ovsynch program is illustrated in Figure 1. Two injections of prostaglandin are administered 14 days apart, with the second Presynch injection administered between 11 and 14 days before initiating a timed A.I. program such as Ovsynch. A Presynch protocol is desirable because it presynchronizes estrous cycles, so when the timed A.I. protocol is initiated, the majority of cows are between Days 5 and 12 of the estrous cycle, an ideal time to start the timed A.I. protocol to maximize fertility. A contributing factor to this improved fertility is the greater proportion of cows that ovulate in response to the first GnRH injection of Ovsynch.
The G-6-G protocol (Figure 2) leads to a higher proportion of ovulating cows. In fact, the proportion of cows that ovulate in response to the first GnRH injection of Ovsynch is approximately 54 percent due to the random stages of the estrous cycle when Ovsynch is initiated . . . compared with 85 percent ovulation rates after cows have been setup with G-6-G.
The G-6-G protocol starts with an injection of prostaglandin to regress a mid- to late-cycle corpus luteum (CL) that may be present in the ovaries. A GnRH injection follows in two days to induce ovulation and formation of a new CL. Together, these two injections initiate a new synchronized estrous cycle and new wave of follicle growth. Six days later, a functional dominant follicle is capable of ovulation in response to another GnRH injection which is the first GnRH of a standard Ovsynch protocol. This new CL, in combination with the initial CL from the GnRH injection of the G-6-G presynch, boosts concentrations of progesterone during a seven-day period of follicular development and maturation before the timed A.I. These enhanced progesterone levels seem to have a profertility effect on the developing follicle and the egg contained therein.
The standard Ovsynch protocol is then completed with a prostaglandin injection followed in 48 to 56 hours with GnRH and timed A.I. about 16 hours later. The timing of the last GnRH sets up ovulation to occur about 24 to 30 hours later or 8 to 14 hours after semen is deposited in the uterus at A.I.
Although limited results have been published in the scientific literature by Richard Pursley, who developed the G-6-G presynch program before Ovsynch, the results look promising compared with using only the Ovsynch protocol. Combining results from two small studies, conception of 62 cows receiving the G-6-G Presynch before Ovsynch was 47 percent compared with 30 percent in 66 cows treated with only the Ovsynch protocol. According to DHIA records of commercial dairy farms using the G-6-G Presynch before Ovsynch, Ray Nebel of Select Sires, reported a modest increase in pregnancy rates.
Advantages and disadvantages of the G-6-G Presynch + Ovsynch program are in the hands of the end user. Whether one uses it or the standard Presynch + Ovsynch program, each cow must be treated with five injections before A.I. The G-6-G protocol injections, however, are on five different days of the week.
Compliance to a protocol schedule is clearly the most important issue for making any protocol successful. Good management is essential to the success of any protocol implemented on the dairy. Further, when cows show heat some time during the protocol, decisions about whether or not to A.I. breed cows in heat must be clearly communicated to everyone involved. Protocol choice depends on heat-detection efficiency, conception rates, and ability of employees to implement the protocol correctly. You have a choice.
To ensure success:
Important points to consider when using timed A.I. protocols:
1. Use 18- to 20-g, 1-1/2 inch needles for deep muscle injections of prostaglandin and GnRH.
2. Size of syringe should fit the volume of injection (for example, 3-cc syringe for 2-cc injections; 6-cc syringes for 5-cc injections).
3. Handle and store hormones according to instructions.
4. Health and cycling status of cows should be part of the decision to include cows in a timed A.I. protocol.
5. Ensure that the correct hormone is administered to the right cow at the prescribed time.
6. Double-check ear tag IDs of cows before each injection. Prostaglandin will lyse the corpus luteum and induce abortion.


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we just got home from a very very very good day
no news or anything,
just a time of being absolutely
I'm convinced those are the very best days we could ask for. Just really, really, really good care free days.
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us, too. today was beautiful.
glad yours was, too.
Her outfits are amazing. I can't *wait* to dress Liv like that.ReplyDelete
So very very very happy to read this!!!ReplyDelete
oh GOOD! i am so glad you guys had a great day ... you deserved it! xoReplyDelete
Yay for care-free days, we need more of them.ReplyDelete
Hooray for good days! :)ReplyDelete
Would you look at that darling girl!!! Isn't amazing how it's the little things that keep us grounded!!!ReplyDelete
Ivy's dress = cute.
Ivy's style = just like her mama's. :)
I hope tomorrow is just as grand.
It WAS a very very good day!ReplyDelete
Fantastic to hear!ReplyDelete
She looks like Gretel from Hansel and Gretel. Sounds like a lovely day. These beautiful autumn days are so peaceful.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love the way you dress your daughter. Or perhaps she picks our her own clothes? My husband sometimes comes up with ensembles like this, but I can't seem to get over my need to match everything.ReplyDelete
ha- it's a mixture of both! I obviously buy her clothes and like to be able to mix and match as she doesn't have a LOT to choose from, but at least they are quality pieces. And then she usually has an opinion about what she wants to wear (it almost always includes a dress over the shirt and pants she already has on!)


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Two months after his announcement to PEOPLE that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, country legend Glen Campbell has given his first TV interview – coming across as forgetful and strongly dependent upon his wife to fill in many of the answers.
"What was I saying?" Campbell, in the course of his conversation with ABC's Terry Moran for Tuesday's World News with Diane Sawyer, asked in the middle of answering a question about his career.
"I'm going to be right in the middle of a sentence, man – and it just goes, pew," he said.
With his wife of nearly 30 years, Kim Woollen, at his side in their house in Malibu, Campbell said of Alzehimer's, "I hadn't gotten it yet. In fact, I don't even know where it came from."
"Yes, you've been diagnosed with Alzheimer's," interjected Woollen.
"What? I haven't felt it yet," Campbell said with a laugh. "I've always been forgetful anyway. I'm only what, 78?"
"Seventy-five," said Woollen.
Woollen, pointing out that music is a natural memory aid that is helping Campbell from declining, went on to say: "I just take care of him, which is a big job. We'd been noticing short-term memory loss for quite some time. You know, he repeats himself. … He'll tell a joke, laugh at it and a few minutes later tell the same joke, laugh, and then we laugh at him because he's just enjoying it so much. You just make the best of each day and try not to worry about tomorrow."
"Definitely take care of what's today and tomorrow's going to have what it has," said Campbell. "There's a verse in the Bible that says, 'If the man findeth a good wife he's found a good thing,' and I found a good thing, or she found me."
To Woollen, he said, "Did you find me or did I find you?"
"I think we found each other," she replied.
"That's what we did," he said. "Amen."
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April is National Occupational Therapy Month.
Occupational Therapy is a type of rehabilitation, which focuses on increasing a patients' independence in all areas of life. This means that the focus is on return to work, and activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing and hobbies.
We use exercise like typically thought of with rehabilitation but also use various functional activities that will also achieve the goals.
In South Carolina, there are over 1,400 licensed Occupational Therapists and over 600 Occupational Therapy Assistants. The Medical University of South Carolina is the only school in the state to offer an Occupational Therapy degree, which is now a Masters degree. Trident Technical College and Greenville Technical College offer the Occupational Therapy Assistant degree programs.
Occupational Therapists can be found in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, outpatient facilities, assisted living centers, and schools.
Patients treated can be 0-100 years old. In the hospital setting, Occupational Therapists work with babies in NICU, children and adults who have had an illness or accidents such as burns, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, heart attacks, broken bones, etc. There are also out-patient centers which focus on specific types of injuries such as a Hand Therapy Center where the main goals are to increase movement, strength and functional use of the hand/arm for ADLs and return to work.
There are outpatient rehabilitation centers that offer more intensive rehabilitation for stroke, head injuries, joint replacements, etc where OT is often offered to patients twice a day.
Occupational Therapists also work in the school system with kids who have cerebral palsy or other types of birth traumas that impair mobility and functional use of the arms/hands. In nursing homes, OTs work with patients on increasing their abilities to dress themselves, feed themselves, bathe and get around in the center or hopefully in the patient's home.
Occupational Therapy is a versatile field with the main focus of restoring the patients' independence in activities of daily living, hobbies and return to work if appropriate. It is a rewarding field of work but often people do not understand what it is all about. April is Occupational Therapy Month and the hope is that you have a better understanding of the profession after reading this article. If you know an OT, tell her or him that you learned something about what they do! They will appreciate it!
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This competition was a disaster for Dai. Sad because this was his last 4CC of his career...
I am devastated for Yuzuru and Dai. But after such a good nationals they were probably tired. They really can't take a break. I wonder if they have enough time til worlds to get in better shape both psychically and mentally
I am not talking only about nationals, they also had SOI and some other galas, they were on the GPF before nationals. Maybe it's too much for them at his point
I have to say that this competition has been incredibly shocking, what can we expect now? Song winning a medal?
I'm really mad right now. Daisuke was way underscored, I can't even .......
takahashi daisuke
tes = 58.8 pcs = 82.34
that is similar with 2009 gpf in japan.
That time, his score was tes = 53 pcs = 82
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Nan SONG (CHN)
Music: Symphony No. 4 by Peter I. Tchaikovski
Romeo and Juliet Overture by Peter I. Tchaikovski
4T - hand down
3A - hangs on
3S - hand down
Perhaps enough for bronze... It's been a strange night
Reynolds got relatively lower scores on skills and transitions, so it seems his lack of deep knee bend, speed on the transition skating and smaller triples was noticed by the judges. It seems this was marked correctly.
A special thank you to Kutien for posting the vids right after the skates! You rock!
song nan was way too cautious. You can even feel his nerves.


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Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet
You have a condition called heart failure. It is also known as congestive heart failure, or CHF. When you have heart failure, excess fluid is more likely to build up in your body. This makes the heart work harder to pump blood. Fluid buildup causes symptoms such as shortness of breath and edema (swelling). Controlling the amount of salt (sodium) you eat may help stop fluid from building up. Your doctor may also tell you to reduce the amount of fluid you drink.
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The Last Days of the Palace at Knossos
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John McEnroe's article, "The Final Palace at Knossos," was recently published by the Canadian Institute in Greece in Meditations on the Built Environment in the Aegean Basin. The volume presents the proceedings of a colloquium held in Athens to honor the eminent Canadian architectural historian, Frederick E. Winter. McEnroe is the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts.


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Appeared in 28 of 31 games as a freshman, all off the bench … scored a season-high 11 points in a loss at Jacksonville, playing a season-high 24 minutes ... made 4-of-8 field goals, including 3-of-6 from three-point range against the Dolphins … tallied nine points and three assists in home win over Florida Atlantic … scored eight points two games later in a home win over ETSU … had seven points in a loss at Notre Dame and six points in a loss at Mercer … averaged 2.4 points per game in Atlantic Sun Conference games.
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Played first three seasons at St. Mary's College High School in Berkeley, Calif. … led the Panthers to three Northern California Division IV State Finals appearances, including a championship in 2010 … earned NorCal Preps All Division IV honors and was ranked 11th in Northern California while averaging 18 points per game in 2011 … played senior season at Salisbury School in Connecticut, leading the Crimson Knights to a New England Prep Class A Championship in 2012 … went on to play a prep year at Westwin Prep Academy in Phoenix, Ariz. … helped lead the Wildcats' National Team to a Southwest Prep Championship in 2013 … led Westwind, which regularly sends nearly all of its players on to play college basketball, in field-goal percentage at .650 … also played baseball and was a member of the track & field team at St. Mary's … earned the I-Hoops Scholastic Achievement Award.
Born Glenn Joseph Baral … son of Christine and Jerry Baral … has four siblings: brothers Richard Perry and Edward Satcher, and sisters Jaimee Perry and Kalisha Satcher.


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I love many things about this area, but one of my strongest pulls is from the legacy of art that underlies this and our surrounding towns. Beautiful landscape paintings seem like the very earth beneath our feet here, or at least this earth is the sustenance out of which these paintings have grown. Many artists have lived here. Their life stories are as fascinating as their works.
Albert Quigley lived in the nearby town of Nelson. He died in 1961, so I never knew him, but I've heard so many stories that I feel as though I did. He lived in a tumbledown house near the town green. There he raised his family, clearing off the kitchen table in order to paint and trading his paintings for groceries and odd jobs he needed done. The births of all three of his children were paid for with paintings. "Quig" could do many things–he was a master fiddler, and when he wasn't painting, he worked long hours at the local woolen mill–but he's also remembered for his gentle nature and good heart.
His son, Barney, lives now in New York City, but each spring, he and his wife, Nancy, return to a remote cabin beside one of our beautiful lakes. With floors that seemed they might give way with each step and a roof that sagged and sometimes leaked, their first cabin was at the edge of the lake on a little spit of land–nothing in sight but water and the trees on the other side. All those years, Barney rented from an old fellow who owned a lot of lake frontage and leased out camps to eager city folk. He kept them the way he kept his own house and his clothes: threadbare, to say the least.
But Barney didn't mind; in fact, I'm pretty sure he liked it that way. More like home. But, as is the way in this life, the old man of the lake died and his land went to his heirs, and there were many changes as a result. One of those changes was Barney's camp. One summer, Barney and Nancy stayed somewhere else while the old cabin was torn up and rebuilt, a new version of the old. They looked forward to the time when their old place, now new, would be ready.
Quig's paintings have an evocative, almost elegiac, palette of grays with hints of pink. He seemed drawn to the edges of the season, the cusp of change. Last fall, Barney and Nancy's new Shangri-La was ready, and they asked me to dinner, late one October day. Walking into the new place seemed like a shift out of time–little reminiscent of the old place except the general layout of the rooms and a few familiar pieces of furniture. New appliances shone, and the smell of freshly cut pine lingered throughout. They invited me out onto the big new deck that all but hangs over the water. An unobstructed view lay before us. The trees on the other side of the lake were bright with their end-of-summer colors, reflected in the dark water as the sun set. Loons made their mournful calls. We sat out there until the last faint pink colors on the water faded to black, and we then went inside, where Barney and Nancy laid a feast on the same old table whose legs now rested on solid floors.
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Getting Started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS
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The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. The toolkit works two different ways: accessing Windows Azure storage directly or through proxy services running in Windows Azure.
You get can get the toolkit—and all the source code—on github:
For details on how to get started, see Wade Wegner's post on Getting Started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.
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4 Ways Nature Brainwashes You into Taking Care of Babies
#2. A Baby's Cry Can Change the Brain Chemistry of Fathers
While mothers are busy getting contact highs from their babies, fathers can feel a little left out, like designated drivers at a party who have to patiently wait on the couch as everyone else has an infinitely better time. But nature isn't going to risk the chance that he'll get bored and wander away to meet other women who are unencumbered by tiny shrieking meat sacks. That's why even the sound of his baby's cry will release a heaping dose of a chemical into his system that is basically the hormone equivalent of a cockblock.
A mother isn't the only one whose mind rewires in preparation for raising a child. During pregnancy and childbirth, the father's body is stockpiling prolactin to keep him from acting like an asshole once the baby arrives. Prolactin is like the antagonist to testosterone, and it's the reason men don't have multiple orgasms. After sex, it's responsible for that satisfied, sometimes sentimental but completely non-erotic sensation most men feel, and if you happen to be a new father, you'll recognize it as that overwhelming affection you feel every time you interact with your baby.
"You're the best thing that ever happened to my browser history."
While the hormone helps a father bond with his child, its more important role is to crash his libido and keep him from trying to hump anything else. It's basically the baby's built-in safeguard ensuring that its father's attention isn't divided. But the strangest part is that a dad will only get doses of it when he can see or hear his child. Outside the sexless force field babies emit, the prolactin dams up and testosterone levels shoot back up to normal levels almost immediately. In other words, a baby is like a really adorable form of kryptonite to its father, if that father's superpower were fucking stuff.
#1. We Are Instinctively Primed to Love Any Baby
As you've been reading this article or even just scanning the pictures, you've unwittingly allowed babies to wrap their little fingers around your mind like a snare. Here's an experiment: Take a minute to really look at the baby in the image above. Now look at this guy:
Assuming you aren't a broken sociopath, you'll actually be able to feel the different responses in your body to each picture despite the fact that, objectively speaking, these are just two strangers to you. That's because the baby is triggering nucleus accumbens all over your brain, rewarding you just for looking at it. See, evolution has left nothing to chance. If something happens to the biological parents of a newborn and someone else is forced into care-taking without the benefit of the hormone surges to stay invested, babies still have another tiny, adorable card up their tiny, adorable sleeves: They're just so goddamn precious.
While this may seem completely intuitive to you, science deemed it worth exploring why we turn into cooing, smiling puddles in the presence of babies. Well, it turns out it's all in the face. Those big eyes, the tiny nose and the comically oversized head are all features we are built to treasure. For proof, look at literally any representation of cuteness in modern culture. Disney has built an entire multimillion-dollar empire entirely on those characteristics. It's called the baby schema, and it's not something we are conditioned to love -- it's something we love instinctively. Studies have proven that just seeing a face that matches the baby schema will activate pleasure and reward regions in every human brain, which is part of the reason the Internet is flooded with pictures of baby animals.
Being a slave to biological imperative feels incredible.
So, lacking the muscle strength to even lift their own heads, babies are equipped with only one weapon, and that weapon affects us on such a fundamental level that we are powerless to fight against it. It's not just true of humanity, either; across the board, mammals are overwhelmed with the impulse to nurture babies of any species, even ones they would otherwise eviscerate. Knowing all this, I'm now on the side of those doped-up mothers wondering why anyone wants to do anything other than collect puppies and kids all day. It may sound overly simplistic to fire helmeted babies over the walls of our enemies, but holy shit has anyone actually tried it?
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The Bishop England at West Ashley football game proved one thing in two different ways: it's not 2012.
The Battling Bishops have more kinks they need to work out in order to defend their state championship than they did this time last year. And the Wildcats are better than a 1-10 team this season.
West Ashley won 28-6 by capitalizing on untimely Bishop England mistakes. "We didn't play with as much intensity as we've had in the past," coach John Cantey said. "That's something we've got to work on. We came in flat, and it's just not characteristic of us."
The Wildcats used an 18-play opening drive covering 58 yards to do more damage than just the seven points they put up. Bishop England's offense didn't have its 18th play until midway through the second quarter. It was a false start penalty on first down during its fifth series.
Bishops quarterback Jack Wilson, named the starter four days before the game, threw an interception in the Wildcats end zone in the second quarter and then later lost a fumble in the Bishops end zone in the third quarter, which was recovered for a touchdown by a swarm of West Ashley defenders.
West Ashley junior quarterback Pedro Manigault rushed for 135 yards. Tailback Cameron Byas added 83 yards and a pair of touchdowns. "They're better than we've seen of them in the last four years," Cantey said.
Bishop England tailback and slot receiver Nick Shiver scored the team's lone touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 35-yard run, which was set up by a West Ashley fumble. Shiver finished with five rushes for 61 yards and a 29-yard reception.
"We're always going to see people packing in the box on us to stop our run," Cantey said, adding that the loss of lineman Hudson Little to an early injury was a big blow. "I saw that we were young, and it hurt us...We just couldn't put something together all the way down the field."
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There is not a more recognizable sound in music than a steel guitar.
A staple instrument of country-and-western swing, the steel guitar can also be heard in rock, gospel, blues and folk. However, in my years of writing, when rattling off names of musicians and the instruments they play, I can�t recall typing a woman�s name followed by the phrase �on steel guitar.� Until today.
Thank Cindy Cashdollar, a New York native who has made a name for herself in Austin, Texas, as a regular session musician and performer, backing a range of people, including Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone, Dave Alvin and Ryan Adams. She has also received five Grammys while playing with Asleep at the Wheel. Cashdollar will sit in tomorrow night with headliner Marcia Ball at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.
Ball can�t be pigeonholed solely as a blueswoman, although that�s where she gets stuck in record stores, radio stations and iTunes. But the native Texan�s piano style is more like zydeco, country and honky-tonk. Adding a talented woman like Cashdollar on the steel guitar makes perfect sense. They are old friends, a result of the tight-knit musical family that exists around Austin. Ball has played on Cashdollar�s releases and vice versa, and this is a prelude to a project both women will be working on in 2013.
�I�ve known Marcia for quite some time,� Cashdollar said. �Around here in Austin, everybody gets to play with everybody else.�
Cashdollar embraces her unique choice of instrument. While female steel guitarists are rare, the number is growing.
�There�s not a lot,� Cashdollar said. �But there�s more and more over the years, and, of course, decades ago during the Hawaiian music craze, there were schools of lap steel. A lot of those old photographs had quite a few women. At that time there weren�t women visible on the touring circuit, but certainly now there�s quite a few players.�
Her progression toward what remains a difficult instrument to play began at an early age. Beginning with guitar, she moved onto dobro. A need to be heard guided her next experiment.
�I needed something louder because acoustic dobros just weren�t loud enough,� Cashdollar said. �So I took up lap steel, six strings. Then I took up steel guitar, which is bigger and heavier with a lot more strings.�
She�s into letting the instrument take her in whatever direction she wants it to take her. Free of the constraints of country-and-western, it is found a place in many musical genres.
�The instrument has always been associated with country music, but it has taken off in so many different directions over the years, it has covered so much ground,� she said.
Steel guitar players are not often headliners, but Cashdollar is happy in the role of session musician and side player. As an Austin musician, she is afforded the opportunity to play with an endless list of great players, including Ball.
�I�m excited to be doing shows with Marcia. She�s a great person, and her band is phenomenal,� she said.
Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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5 Urgent Questions About the Live Action 'Akira' Remake
Now, here are three facts that simply should not be: They're making a live action version. They're changing the location from Tokyo to New York. And they're recasting it with all white people. Not just any old white people, either. No, Akira, that quintessentially Japanese classic, is being recast with the whitest white people this side of a Mint Julep. Here's the latest casting announcements for the two leads:
Kaneda: Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake or Joaquin Phoenix
Tetsuo (now, no shit, changed to "Travis"): Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson or James McAvoy
Coming soon to a theater near you: Akira, starring Justin Timberlake and that fucking guy from Twilight.
And this brings up a vital and urgent question: Why?
Actually, it brings up several vital and urgent questions, though to be fair, most of them are just the word "why" with varying degrees of capitalization, exclamation, and with different synonyms for "motherfucker" appending them.
Why change the location of a movie whose central theme is how fucked up it is to be Japanese?
I know that sounds disrespectful, but you have to admit that it is, indeed, a pretty fucked up thing to be Japanese. You're confined to an isolated island for the vast majority of your cultural development - an island regularly beset by massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and typhoons - and when you eventually do emerge from your isolation, you become the only society to ever have nuclear weaponry deployed against them. Consider all of those factors, and then watch one of those tsunami videos; it's easy to see why so many of their movies seem to think of cities as "those things that just go away sometimes." Akira's imagery relies heavily on this concept of civilization as an impermanent thing: Cities are fragile beings in the movie. They can, and frequently do, dissolve away into nothing right before the character's eyes.
Akira takes place in Tokyo, decades after it's been completely devastated and eventually rebuilt. The location wasn't picked at random: That specific setting has great significance to the story, which revolves around the brutal, violently changing forms of its protagonist, Tetsuo. It's a movie that explores what people are, what civilization brings with it, how progress changes us, and why that's not always for the better. But it absolutely has to take place in Tokyo, Japan's most iconic and permanent settlement, otherwise it means nothing. You can't just do a line, close your eyes, spin a globe, stop it with your dick, and expect the story to work just fine wherever it lands, jaded Hollywood producers.
Why did you think a race change was even necessary?
Humanity is basically an international culture now. Japan isn't a place so foreign to us that we can't relate to them as human beings. It's where our video games come from. It's where Mario lives. It's a plane ticket or a Skype call away. If you wanted to, you could do a quick Google search right now, and flip over to a webcam dedicated to watching them poop. That's about as intimate as you can get with another society. We're okay with Asians, Hollywood: They're no longer a mysterious and inscrutable society that fills us with fear and wonder. We don't think they feel rage with their feet, or hover when depressed or anything -- we generally assume they have human emotions and human struggles just like everybody else. Chow Yun Fat had a career over here, remember? Lucy Liu? Hell, Ong Bak even did okay in American theaters, and that was a movie about a guy who did feel rage with his feet.
So when you're needlessly remaking movies in the future, remember that you can leave the setting and ethnicity of the characters alone, just so long as you change all of the dialogue to English, lest we spot a subtitle and are forced to flee the theater, slapping at the air like bees are chasing us. (SIDE NOTE: It might also be okay to tone down the weirdness at the end of Akira a little. In general, American audiences won't really get the significance of the whole "teenager can't handle evolving into a higher form and explodes into a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man of cancerous throbbing organs" plot device. That's just not a thing, here. We prefer our ambiguous supernatural endings to be people either becoming or disappearing into amorphous light beams, thanks.)
Why the switch to live action?
Akira was so cutting edge at the time it was filmed, that it still stands up perfectly well today, even against modern animation techniques. Aside from the fact that nobody in the movie is capable of closing their mouths completely -- all standing around with bared teeth like howler monkeys -- there's just no cause to change anything about the visuals.
You know we still watch animated movies, right? We have an entire Oscar category for it. Toy Story 3 brought in over a billion dollars at the box office. There's obviously a thriving market for animated films in America today. The main draw of animation in movies is that the characters will always seamlessly integrate with their surroundings, no matter how lavish or intricate they get. You're actually losing authenticity with the integration of CGI and film. The only possible gain in updating to live action is that you won't have to pay an entire platoon of Koreans to cel-shade Robert Pattinson's pasty half-abs.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Stetson women's soccer team (3-10-1, 1-4-1) lost to North Florida (6-6-2, 4-0-1) on the road by a score of 2-1 on Sunday afternoon. Freshman Mara Keomanivane scored the Hatters' only goal in the defeat.
Stetson gave up two goals within the first 22 minutes of action. Thea Linkfield opened the scoring in the 8th minute, beating a Hatter defender and finishing to the far post. The unassisted goal was Linkfield's fifth of the season.
In the 22nd minute, the Ospreys' Lauren Hopfensperger tallied her third goal of the year on another unassisted score. The North Florida forward carried the ball towards the goal from the right on a breakaway, beating Stetson goalkeeper Victoria Troccoli to the near post.
"It took us 20 minutes to start executing our game plan, and we were lucky to only be down 2-0 early in the game," Head Coach Julie Orlowski said. "Then we started playing well and dominated the game for the final 70 minutes."
Keomanivane kept the Hatters in the game less than seven minutes later with her third goal of the year. The ball was deflected back out to the Stetson freshman. She then took one touch, and fired a shot past UNF goalkeeper Brittany Hahn to the far post.
Neither team was able to capitalize on their respective opportunities throughout the rest of the match, resulting in a 2-1 loss for the Hatters. North Florida held a slight 14-13 advantage in shots, and a 6-2 lead in corner kicks. Troccoli totaled five saves in the loss, while Hahn finished with six stops in the win.
"We had a number of wide open chances to tie and then take the lead in the game, but we couldn't capitalize," Orlowski continued. "The good thing is that we're getting in position to be dangerous, and usually that's the hard part."
Stetson will next play at Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday, October 13. The Hatters and the Eagles are scheduled to kickoff at 7:00 p.m. in Fort Myers.


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quote: In the rapidly growing market for sub-$1,500 systems, PCs powered by AMD-K6 family processors captured a 54 percent market share -- the highest penetration we have achieved to date.
quote: So, according to you, AMD's very first competitive product wound up outselling Intel in its target market? And this is "evidence of a Intel perpetually holding AMD back"?


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it comes to the digital music sales market, services like Amazon or
Zune Pass have made a minor splash, but Apple has long dominated the
market. Over the last two decades, antitrust regulators in the
U.S. and Europe have imposed fines and restrictions on Microsoft and
Intel to try to prevent them from abusing their dominant position in
several markets. However, they have cast a largely blind eye on
Apple's iTunes -- until now.Antitrust investigators with the
U.S. Department of Justice are conducting an extensive
inquiry into Apple's online music business, interviewing Apple
employees, internet music company employees, and music label
employees according to the New
York Times.
At the core of the investigation is the allegation that Apple applied
pressure to force music labels not to grant Amazon.com access to
exclusive tracks to help grow the online retailer's fledgling music
market.A previous investigation was conducted several years
back in the European Union, examining Apple's iTunes pricing
practices. The investigation's conclusions were highly
critical of Apple, but did not levy any fines -- unlike recent EU
investigations into Microsoft and Intel.In March, it
was reported in Billboard magazine
that Amazon.com would be getting certain songs a day before they were
widely released. It would put these songs in a special
promotional section dubbed "MP3 Daily Deal."
According to the article, Apple hated the idea and threatened music
labels that participated. Specifically, it vowed not to sell
the songs featured in the promotion on iTunes -- a much bigger
reportedly owns 69 percent of the online music market, according to
the NPD group. The next closest competitor in the online market is
Amazon, which holds an 8 percent share. The remaining 23 percent are
split up among smaller players.
2007 Apple had a mere 12 percent of the total music
market (both online and offline), but it recently became the largest
single seller of music in the world, with 26.7 percent of the overall
market.Daniel L. Brown, an antitrust lawyer at Sheppard
Mullin Richter & Hampton states, "Certainly if the Justice
Department is getting involved, it raises the possibility of
potential serious problems down the road for Apple. Without
knowing what acts or practices they are targeting, it's difficult
to say exactly how big a problem this is, but it's probably
something Apple is already concerned about."Apple now
has dominant positions in several markets -- tablet computing (iPad),
portable music players (iPod), smart phone applications (iTunes App
Store), and online music (iTunes Music Store). Thus it has
leverage to use its position to damage competitors, if it should so
choose.The new investigation is at least the fourth antitrust
inquiry into Apple. The U.S. government is also investigating
Apple, Palm and others to see whether the companies illegally agreed
not poach each others' employees (Apple's CEO Steven P. Jobs secretly
suggested such a truce, which appears to be illegal). The
government is also investigating Apple's
ban on Flash for the iPhone or iPad and its decision to
block out ports of Flash titles to native iPhone code. And
there's also a pending investigation about whether board
members serving
on both Apple's and Google's boards violated antitrust
laws.ITunes first launched in 2001 and has long been on the
forefront of the push for legal online music downloads. Apple
has sold over 10 billion tracks on iTunes to date, and has become one
of the biggest revenue sources for the struggling music industry.
Apple also has supported a number of smaller independent artists by
promoting them and giving them tools to expose their work to a
broader audience. Apple also has recently made some steps to
increase competition, such as allowing streaming music services such
as Pandora and Rhapsody onto Apple devices.Spokespeople for
Apple and Amazon would not comment on the inquiry. Gina
Talamona, a deputy director at the Justice Department, also had no
quote: It sorts music through the tag information. Which has the crap imbedded into it, when you purchase it online.
quote: If you rip it off your CD, those programs automatically connect to the CDDB to pull all that information to tag your music.
quote: Also, if users have no clue what they're doing, why are external hdds becoming so popular? You think every hdd comes with an iTunes like software? USB keys? Sorry, but ppl don't need iTunes to throw music on their mp3 players.
quote: Choice and freedom mean nothing to these people if they can't figure out how to use their music players.
quote: But it's not an either-or situation. Apple could continue to support syncing content to the iPod through iTunes, while AT THE SAME TIME supporting basic drag-and-drop file management for users who would rather not use iTunes.
quote: Yes, but the ipod requires itunes on the desktop to interpret and build the database so it can sort them in its own way. Cowon's D2 doesn't need this. It also took them 10 firmware updates to get it to not ruin the database.
quote: So does itunes. And instead of one program to rip, one to move over, it does both. Keeping it simple for simpletons.
quote: Maybe you don't need itunes, but they do. These are people who don't even understand the concepts of files and folders.I know it is hard for you to understand, but there are people out there who don't get computers, and for them, playing music meant putting a needle on a record or putting a cassette in the player and nothing else.For those people, time and time again, they will find it within their power to use itunes vs. drag and drop. We are talking here about people who, after me explaining to them 10 times where their podcasts are, still don't get it. They also finds the thumbwheel much easier to use than say, Cowon's D2's touchscreen interface.Choice and freedom mean nothing to these people if they can't figure out how to use their music players.


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Have Some Madeira, M'Dear
When it comes to wine, Madeira is unique. This tiny volcanic island, which lies to the west of Morocco, began producing wine at the end of the 16th century, less than 200 years after the Portuguese first inhabited its shores.
Ever since, its wines have charmed their way into the cellars of successive generations. Madeira was sold in the very first Christie's sale in 1766, was served to toast the U.S. Declaration of Independence a decade later and endured the ravages of the mid-19th-century vine-eating aphid phylloxera.
History is central to understanding this underappreciated fortified wine. In the mid-17th century, English law ruled that any European wines shipped to the colonies had to go via British ports. Madeira, being closer to Africa, circumvented this and instead became a popular tipple in the Caribbean and North America. This popularity soon spread to the Far East, where it was noted the wine had improved immeasurably on its long, hot journey in cask.
Today, this result is emulated by either heating the wine to between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius after fermentation in stainless steel vats, or placing it in casks that sit on the top floor of wine cellars to bake in the heat for two years. It is this exposure to heat that partly allows Madeira to age properly.
For this is a wine that really only gets going at around 20 years in the bottle, hits its stride at 30 and can go on drinking for well beyond 100. It isn't unreasonable to suggest that Madeira is probably the only wine in the world that can live forever.
Its central trick is achieving a gracious rapport between acidity and sweetness. The best examples disguise themselves and startle the taster. Depending on style, a first sniff of this bright, golden wine can reveal a pungent range of flavors, from dried figs or salted almonds to dark raisins or caramel. But overall, the impression is one of sweetness.
Once sipped, the picture changes completely. Despite their hefty amount of residual sugar, these wines can taste dry because of their vigorous, enlivening acidity. In some cases, the sensation is like biting into a lemon and ingesting a handful of freshly cut peppermint leaves at the same time. In short, it is incredible. This energy, which has been described as bottled electricity, is what makes Madeira such an interesting wine to appreciate. Appreciate is the operative word, as Madeira isn't an everyday wine—it is a niche product to be enjoyed when the mood permits.
Everything about Madeira is tiny. Wine production is limited to around 1,800 hectares of patchwork vineyards dotted around the island in various small pockets. These vineyards sell their grapes to a handful of major producers: Vinhos Barbeito, the Madeira Wine Co., Henriques & Henriques, H.M. Borges Sucrs, Pereira D'Oliveira, Vinhos Justino Henriques.
There are five major grape varieties—Sercial, Verdelho, Bual, Malmsey and Tinta Negra Mole—each producing a particular style. Sercial produces wines that are dry or extra-dry; Verdelho, medium-dry; Bual, medium-rich; and Malmsey, rich and concentrated. Tinta Negra Mole is principally used to make basic Madeira.
Those in the know have been drinking and collecting these wines for decades. But for the novice Madeira drinker, when to serve such a wine needs further exploration.
From my experience, it is wonderful enjoyed at the end of the evening, especially after numerous courses, when its energy revives the palate like no other. It can pair superbly with richer desserts, such as fruit pudding or, indeed, fruit cake. Personally, I am not a fan of serving it as an aperitif as I find it too sweet; moving on to a dry white or red afterward just isn't comfortable. But when it really shines is on those rare occasions when one can serve it mid- to late afternoon, as a convivial reviver. Imagine arriving at a friend's house after a long journey on a hot day to be greeted with a slightly chilled glass of Madeira. A rare, indulgent treat.
—Email Will Lyons at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @Will_Lyons.


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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
May 2, 2012
Nine Saint Vincent College pre-professional health students have been accepted for admission to medical or optometry schools in the fall. Admitted students and the schools they will attend include, from left, Michael G. Barkowski of Natrona Heights, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Michael A. Kochik of Wexford, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; Jessica N. Miskanic of North Huntingdon, West Virginia University School of Medicine; Herbert J. Morrow, III, of New Alexandria, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; Katelyn N. Orslene of Somerset, Salus University / Pennsylvania College of Optometry; Blase A. Prosperi of Latrobe, Georgetown University School of Medicine; Jennifer R. Schweinsburg of Latrobe, Temple University School of Medicine; and Eric F. Sulava of Leechburg, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Missing from photo is Ross R. Agagliati of Nanty Glo, Salus University / Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Admission to pre-health professional schools is highly competitive and is supported by a pre-professional health committee, chaired by Dr. James G. Barnett, associate professor of biology. The committee is composed of faculty from within and outside the natural sciences and works closely with individual students in determining their interests and abilities. Students receive guidance in course selection, extracurricular experiences and opportunities to learn about admission, schools and careers. Acceptance is based on academic performance, commitment to service, knowledge of the health professions, interpersonal skills, leadership and performance on professional school admission examinations. Forty-three Saint Vincent College graduates are currently pursuing degrees in medical, dental, veterinary, optometry, podiatry and chiropractic schools.
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text: Green Day – Bang Bang Green Day's new album, "Revolution Radio" drops Oct 7th. "Bang Bang" is the first song off the album and man do they take on a difficult topic. The song seems to be about the mentality of a mass shooter, about their potential motivations. Give it a listen below…. and watch for lyrics like "Daddy's little psycho and Mommy's little solider." xo – CT Comments comments Alt AZ ALTAZ Bang Bang christyosities listen mass shooter Monster New Music new music 2016 nra psycho revolution radio soldier stream 2016-08-11 Christy Taylor


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Gleeful supporters are doing victory laps over Obamacare enrollment numbers. Should they be?
I hope you get the job, Donald.
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Good news everyone, at least for me. So far this year I had not made a dime. My healthcare insurance is not subsidized due to my estimated income that I put down on the ACA enrollment. So I was starting to think that I might get my health insurance paid for this year by you. Thursday I began getting phone calls and emails about a job opportunity at a very large hospital in the Southeast. Their chief architect for a major project had left suddenly and it just so happens that I am an expert on the exact same systems they are using. Yesterday I had my phone interview and I was told to expect the contract on Monday. So if you want to blame me for your healthcare insurance/ healthcare costs going up, go ahead. I am charging them a boatload of money. I am about to go from making zero this year to making more than all of you combined. Ha Ha Ha
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A good idea is to automatically enroll in health-insurance plans Americans who are eligible for premium tax credits. At first glance, 7.1 million people signing up for exchange-based coverage might suggest that auto-enrollment is a solution to a problem that no longer exists. But with more than 30 million Americans projected to lack insurance even with Obamacare, there's more to be done.
And I don't think either party should dispute that those are good ideas. (At least not anyone who reads correctly)
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Which explains why I've given up. I'll try for Bug here tho.
You keep wanting the republicans to rewrite the health care laws, but it doesn't make sense to start over from scratch. But here are some repub ideas that have improvements to the ACA.
The first is to let nurse practitioners and other medical professionals practice to the full extent of their abilities. This makes sense because it would drive down costs.
End the exemption from taxes for health-care benefits provided by employers, an accident of history that encourages higher consumption of health care and makes it more expensive. Scrap the exclusion altogether, replacing it with a tax deduction for all health insurance.
(Right now this exemption is unfair. Americans with employer insurance get the benefit of a tax break while those who buy policies on their own do not.)
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In fact, D3 made this statement (which I disagreed with):
I saw my cost for health insurance go up every year by 10% or 15% for the past decade...So if anything, for the past decade I have been subsidizing your insurance.
Not sure how he can confused what I said with what he said, but using his logic and his words, what He wrote is "total BS"
"to try to blame me personally for (his) higher health insurance is total BS. Only a complete and total idiot would attempt something like that. This is a classic (liberal) tactic though. They paint a picture with an extremely limited amount of information in a order to force a false conclusion. Anyone who can look at the big picture can easily see how dishonest that is.
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I'm not sure D3 can read, or read without bias. I said:
I totally believe that for you this (Obamacare) is a very good thing.
However, I hope you can believe that for many of us, our costs have increased.
D3 now says; I am saying that for questioner to try to blame me personally for her higher health insurance is total BS. Only a complete and total idiot would attempt something like that. This is a classic Republican tactic though.
What the heck? How did he get all that from my simple statements?
He also says, "I did not miss anything." Wrong wrong and wrong.
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They can read, Bob...sometimes they are just reading other things like the Constitution and their Bible. Then again, I don't live in Texas and haven't noticed the pink Prius.
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"Each contestant will drive a pink Prius with 14 bumper stickers which will read:"
It is safe few read in Texas!
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And remember, while the left says facts are lies...
Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration.
The expected rate hikes will be announced in the coming months amid an intense election year, when control of the Senate is up for grabs. The sticker shock would likely bolster the GOP's prospects in November and hamper ObamaCare insurance enrollment efforts in 2015.
"The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the ACA," Sibelius said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee.
"It's pretty shortsighted because I think everybody knows that the way the exchange has rolled out … is going to lead to higher costs," said one senior insurance executive who requested anonymity.
The insurance official, who hails from a populous swing state, said his company expects to triple its rates next year on the ObamaCare exchange.
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Yes, and even here where facts concerning the ACA are branded as lies and those stating the facts are dismissed because they do not agree with the left, or even worse, called names.
Well, it's a bad law, conceived in a back room by people only interested in their political agenda & nothing more. And whether the president or Ms. Pelosi or Mr. Reid says there is nothing that can be done, we must demand it be dismantled...it's after all the American way, no matter what the left tries to tell us! Remember, the left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any & all opposition.
The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian & declares certain controversies over & visits serious consequences — from social ostracism to vocational defenestration — upon those who refuse to be silenced.
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"Or try objecting to the new so-called Paycheck Fairness Act for women, which is little more than a full-employment act for trial lawyers. Sex discrimination is already illegal. What these new laws do is relieve the plaintiffs of proving intentional discrimination. To bring suit, they need only to show that women make less in that workplace .
Like the White House, where women make 88 cents to the men's dollar?
The good news is that the "war on women" charge is mostly cynicism, fodder for campaign-year demagoguery. But the trend is growing. Oppose the current consensus and you're a denier, a bigot, a homophobe, a sexist, an enemy of the people.
Long a staple of academia, the totalitarian impulse is spreading. What to do? Defend the dissenters, even if — perhaps, especially if — you disagree with their policy. It is — it was? — the American way."
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"To this magic circle of forced conformity, the left would like to add certain other policies, resistance to which is deemed a "war on women." It's a colorful synonym for sexism. Leveling the charge is a crude way to cut off debate.
Thus, to oppose late-term abortion is to make war on women's "reproductive health." Similarly, to question Obamacare's mandate of free contraception for all."
Some oppose the regulation because of its impingement on the free exercise of religion. Others on the simpler (nontheological) grounds of a skewed hierarchy of values. Under the new law, everything is covered, but a few choice things are given away free. To what does contraception owe its exalted status? Why should it rank above, say, antibiotics for a sick child, for which that same mother must co-pay?
Say that, however, and you are accused of denying women "access to contraception."
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"The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.
The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences — from social ostracism to vocational defenestration — upon those who refuse to be silenced.
Sometimes the word comes from on high, as when the president of the United States declares the science of global warming to be "settled." Anyone who disagrees is then branded "anti-science." And better still, a "denier" — a brilliantly chosen calumny meant to impute to the climate skeptic the opprobrium normally reserved for the hatemongers and crackpots who deny the Holocaust."
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After nearly 5 hours on the phone waiting to speak with someone, I'm convinced that an Obamacare specialist is like Bigfoot or Norm's wife on "Cheers." I've heard the tale, but there's no proof they actually exist.
Ultimately, on my umpteenth try, three days into the process, I was finally able to get into the Healthcare.gov site, wade through several pages & cancel my plan — although, unlike with most insurance plans, I couldn't get a prorated refund on the days I had paid for but wouldn't need. One last $100 slap in the face.
It was difficult to sign up for Obamacare, but nowhere near as hard as it was to leave the program. That raises a serious question: Was Obamacare designed to inflate its numbers by holding enrollees hostage in the program once they signed up? From my experience, that certainly seems to be the case.
Question by, Drew Johnson an editorial writer for The Washington Times.
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No, I am saying that for questioner to try to blame me personally for her higher health insurance is total BS. Only a complete and total idiot would attempt something like that. This is a classic Republican tactic though. They paint a picture with an extremely limited amount of information in a order to force a false conclusion. Anyone who can look at the big picture can easily see how dishonest that is. I did not miss anything. There was nothing said that was worth reading. I can scan the text and decide not to read the BS.
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I'm sorry, is Donald saying that he missed something he said?
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The incredible lies from the regime have been completely exposed. Great piece on Yahoo Finance today distinguishing between the lies from obama and the reality of the situation.
Oh, and Sebelius just resigned. I assume they will appoint a new marxist to continue the BIG LIE.
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Sorry, I missed that wild serious of rants, out right lies and nonsense. Could you please repeat them again?
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I've given up on TripleD. When he couldn't even admit that while his costs are lower with ACA, some of us have higher costs as a result of it, or that insurance companies charged him higher rates because of being a diabetic (just like they do for women of childbearing age), well....
Those two things are just unemotional facts, unable to be disputed, and yet he still did. So I give up.
So far I haven't said "I told you so"--like about when Obama raised federal minimum wages that the rest of us will end up being affected. Or that Crimea would have a negative affect on us. But when insurance rates go up I may make a lawn sign that says "I told you so" and stick in D3's lawn.
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But, my friend, questioner...to TripleD, these facts don't matter and ladybug will just claim it's Bush's fault...or yours or mine or the Pope or Billy Graham...never Mr. Obama or Reid or Pelosi.
Then again, maybe it's really ladybug's fault since he voted twice for Obama? But, he's so enamored with him (Obama)...awestruck...dreamy eyed...easy to understand.
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When the next round of premium increases hits over the summer, and the market for employer-provided health insurance undergoes the same kind of massive disruption as the individual market did over the last six months, the debate over the honesty and integrity of the Obama administration may hit new levels of intensity.
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incoming enrollees require more medical attention than the previous risk pools, not less – which means that insurers will need to raise premiums even more than first thought.
Their new study shows, for instance, that the enrollees from state and federal exchanges have a 47 percent higher use of specialty medications than in commercial plans in general.
The medications themselves show that the care costs will increase relative to the existing risk pools as well. The rate for HIV medications in Obamacare exchange plans is four times higher than in existing commercial plans. Medication prescriptions are 35 percent higher...
As Express Scripts, which studied changes in pharmacy benefits concludes that the ACA has succeeded in getting coverage to consumers who need it. However, that comes at a high cost for those who had their existing coverage canceled and saw their premiums and deductibles skyrocket as a result of Obamacare.
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While the White House can claim credit for a net increase of 9.3 million insured and a lowered uninsured rate from 20.5 percent to 15.8 percent, the data provides a significantly different picture than that painted by President Obama and the ACA's advocates.
First, a significant amount of this increase comes from Medicaid enrollments, not private insurance. Almost six million people enrolled in Medicaid, and earlier studies showed that a relatively small number of those came from the expansion built into the ACA; most of these would have been Medicaid-eligible prior to the reform.
Moreover, those who did enroll through the state exchanges didn't provide the demographic lift and risk-pool support needed to prevent massive increases in either premiums or deductibles, or both, in the near future. Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, which collected more data from insurers than HHS managed through its own exchanges, determined that the incoming enrollees require more medical
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Two New Studies Raise Red Flags on Obamacare
the systems designed by HHS still cannot determine basic and critical information about enrollments such as whether a premium payment has been made. Without a premium payment, a sign-up in the web portal does not mean coverage has been extended.
Furthermore, the systems were not designed to collect important demographic information such as pre-existing coverage, current health status, or even definite age ranges, even though the success of the Obamacare structure depends on getting previously uninsured healthy Americans locked into expensive comprehensive insurance.
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TripleD, no one is going to control what high level CEOs make, what pro athletes make, what college coaches make, what actors (mostly democrats) make.
Are there college profs who resent what coaches make?--I'm sure. Are there gofers on movie sets who feel that way about actors?--I'm sure.
But that isn't going to change and whining about it won't do any good.
For small businesses, I can tell you there were times our employees got paid, but we didn't cash our checks--and they aren't big ones. I can say when we started out, we didn't have healthcare, because we couldn't afford it. That is much more the case for a lot of small businesses.
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