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"Brett the Vet" visits the TODAY Show.
"Brett the Vet" visits the TODAY Show! Check it out here:
Got a question for Brett? Ask him! Or follow his Twitter account for every-day helpful tips: @AskBrettTheVet
Jay Harrington DVM
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VERG Welomes our new Ophthalmologist
Originally from a small town in Ohio, Jay attended The Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2008. Following graduation, he completed a one-year rotating internship at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine and then stayed for a three-year ophthalmology residency. During his residency, Jay published several journal articles on the subjects of cataracts and laser therapy for glaucoma and he was awarded a resident research award by the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists. In 2012, Jay completed his residency and successfully passed his specialty board examination to earn his Diplomate status in ophthalmology.
Professionally, Jay is interested in all aspects of ophthalmology, especially cataract surgery, management of glaucoma, and ophthalmic manifestations of systemic disease. In his spare time he enjoys traveling, running, and spending time with his family and friends. While Jay is excited to have an apartment in Brooklyn, he maintains a house in North Carolina that he shares with a French Bulldog, two Jack Russell Terriers, and a one-eyed cat.
Dr. Harrington will be available at both VERG North and VERG South, please call for an appointment.
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This coming Saturday, June 1, the New York Catholic Bible School, which is sponsored by the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, will hold a graduation ceremony at the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Pearl River, N.Y. Thirty men and woman will each receive a Certificate of Basic Bible Study. This means that they have completed a two-year course of study in Sacred Scripture. I am happy to report that most, if not all, are going on to complete the entire four-year cycle, during which they will read, pray on, and reflect on every book of the Bible. Hopefully, they will go back to their parishes to encourage and perhaps lead Bible study group themselves.
As you can imagine, preparing for class and meeting every week, usually at the end of a work day, requires a great deal of dedication. People from every walk of life and educational background are enrolled What is it about Sacred Scripture that brings these men and women back week after week, year after year? They have found the Word of God and they are finding themselves, too.
Perhaps you might be interested in studying the Bible, learning how to read it, reflect on it, and pray on it. Here's a suggestion. Spend a day with the Bible.
On Saturday, June 22, the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office and the American Bible Society will sponsor their fourth annual New York Catholic Bible Summit at Cathedral High School in the New York Catholic Center, 350 East 56th Street, Manhattan. This year's theme, very appropriate for the Year of Faith, is "Preach the Gospel to the Whole of Creation."
As always, the day will begin with the Sacred Liturgy in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, also in the Catholic Center on the 55th Street side. Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan will be the principal celebrant.
There will be two complete tracks in English and Spanish. Rev. James Martin, SJ, author and editor-at-large for America Magazine, will give the English keynote. Father Martin's new e-book, Together on Retreat — Meeting Jesus in Prayer, will help you to pray with Scripture. The Spanish language keynoter is Jesús Rubén Cardinal Salazar Gómez, Archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, and vice president of the Latin-American Conference of Catholic Bishops. Check here for a full listing of our presenters, along with details on registration. Don't wait until the last minute to register, however.
A day with the Bible. Who knows? Your next step might be the New York Catholic Bible School.
Tags: American Bible Society, Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, Bible, catechetical leaders, catechists, Fr. James Martin

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Top Definition
when someone does something a little strange, or when something is not quite right.
Bev was acting all kooky, and scaring the little kids.
"You kooky nutter"
"You kooky nutter"
από Peachy Cream 18 Απρίλιος 2004
Trending Now
Can you define these popular missing words?
A way of saying someone's crazy.
That guy is kooky!
από Simonela 19 Δεκέμβριος 2015
A term used by Vash, Ultra Cookies
E-kookies can kill someone.
από Vash 24 Ιούλιος 2003
Liking someone you know you shouldn't and who you have a sneaking suspicion doesn't like you back. Often accompanied by an electricity when they look at you and nervous laughter.
I feel Kooky about him,
He makes me kind of kooky, but I know he's trouble!
He makes me kind of kooky, but I know he's trouble!
από DIAlexDrake 20 Ιούλιος 2010
Not Cookies, can mean exstacy or that crap the cookie mosnters eats!
Yo you have some Kookies?
από Brucey B 31 Δεκέμβριος 2006
Makes Mehmets go crazy. Like seriously, don't mention the word "kookies" in the presence of a Turkish males known as "Mehmet". If kept from kookies, a Mehmet is likely to explode into an extreme rage, similar to that of Schnoorlax when awaken.
από Merciful Molina 14 Οκτώβριος 2008
A food invented by Vash. Ingredients include: Amphetomines, Listerine, Windex, Toothepaste, Soap, More Windex, Paper, Some Copper Stuff With A Long Name, Gadifgergifger, Crack, Butt Crack, Pot, Soda Pot, Ass-Meats, and Sugar.
These Kookies are f***ing delicious. My Tummy hurts. Why are there fish in the sky?
από KirbyKollector 14 Σεπτέμβριος 2003


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The Social Machines Mindset Emerges
For years computer technologists have been trained to focus on the design and engineering of computer systems – to build systems which address "user requirements", where those users are somehow external to the system. Thinking has changed a bit over the years and sometimes now (not often enough still!) those "users" are much more closely involved in the design, for example in the Web 2.0 approach – where perpetual betas can be achieved with websites in a far more agile... Read more


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Mike Trapp Writes Something:
Wait...You're Not Full
of Chocolate, Either?
by Count Chocula
From the Headlines...
Blame devil for infant in microwave
Cat too scary for mail carriers
What if Lincoln had lived?
Will face masks help if super-flu strikes?
Gorilla wreaks havoc in zoo escape
(All headlines are real, taken from CNN.com)
by Owen Parsons '08
Don't Feel Bad
Better Hit the Road
by Alex Rogers '08
by Fred Meyer '08
Top Ten
Things to Do in
Your Own Backyard
by Justine Sterling '07
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Michael Sonnleitner, Instructor and Fulbright Scholar
"Politics is the study of who gets what, when, where and why."Robert Dahl
Political Science is an excellent foundation for a liberal arts, college transfer degree. Political Science majors often continue in careers that include becoming lawyers, political consultants, teachers, political office holders, and others engaged in the political realm. Those who undertake the study of politics are encouraged to actively engage in impacting policy making, as well informed voters, lobbyists, advocates associated with social change movements, and others concerned about justice issues.
Transferable Credits
Although PCC does not offer a degree in Political Science, the classes are lower division collegiate courses that transfer to a four-year college or university. Political Science courses may transfer as:
- Elective credits
- Program requirement credits
- and/or graduation requirements for the receiving institution
Students are encouraged to check with the receiving institution, a PCC academic advisor, and the University Transfer website for the most accurate transfer requirement information.
What's Next?
- Apply for admission to PCC.
- Talk with an academic advisor.


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2006 Annual Conference, "Social Justice in Practice"
Thu 29 June – Sat 1 July 2006
University College Dublin, Ireland
The 2006 conference of the Association for Social and Legal Philosophy (ALSP) will be organised around the theme of "Social Justice in Practice". ALSP 2006 invites panels and papers across the disciplines of philosophy, politics, law and social policy that explicitly discuss the complex relation between philosophical and practical analysis in relation to concerns of domestic and international social justice. We also welcome papers that discuss practical solutions to questions of social justice in contemporary society. The conference is open to many different theoretical approaches and we invite contributions to all aspects of the social justice debate, but preference will be given to contributions that explicitly address the connections between philosophy and practice.
Confirmed plenary speakers include John Baker (University College Dublin), Paula Casal (University of Reading), Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Russell Hardin (New York University), Richard Hull (National University of Ireland, Galway), Ingrid Robeyns (University of Amsterdam), Doris Schroeder (University of Central Lancashire), Philippe Van Parijs (Catholic University of Louvain & Harvard University), and Jonathan Wolff (University College London).
Submission of Paper/Panel Proposals: Please send title & abstract of about 300 words to firstname.lastname@example.com by 1 February 2006. We also encourage submission of panels with up to three papers discussing a related topic: panel conveners should send a short outline of the panel theme, a list of participants and titles & short abstracts of the papers to email@example.com by 1 February 2006.


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It appears that the dust has settled (for the time being) on the crazy expansion frenzy that has gripped the college football world over the past two weeks.
In the end, what actually happened seems a bit mild when compared with the expectations just a few short days ago.
The Pac-10 added Colorado to bump its membership up to 11. They will almost certainly be looking to add a 12th, possibly in the next few days, with Utah being the most likely candidate.
The Big-12 lost two members and ended up with a conference that is so totally dominated by Texas that its future is cloudy already. The problems that tore apart the Big-12 in the first place (primarily revenue sharing and television rights) will most likely be magnified ten fold in the new incarnation and will almost certainly rip apart the new conference sooner or later.
Additionally, without 12 teams, will the new Big-12 even be able to have a championship game?
Without a conference title game and outside of Oklahoma-Texas, what games are people even going to watch? Good luck making money in that set-up.
The Big-12 could add two teams to make up for the losses and get a conference title game back, but who would they go to? I don't think TCU or anyone else is going to be a national draw. On top of national exposure considerations (or a lack thereof), no matter who they add, it does nothing to improve their problems, so it will be a mess regardless.
The Big-10 added Nebraska, a top 5 all-time football program and a school that 'fits' in with the rest of the conference.
I think it is safe to say that the Big-10 in unequivocally better with the addition of Nebraska, most notably because of the ability to add a championship game. If you like money, the championship game is undoubtedly awesome, if you like tradition… well, we can talk about that later.
So while things have certainly settled down a bit, and thoughts of mega-conferences and playoff systems will have to be put on hold for the moment, there is still plenty of action on the horizon.
Most importantly, the Big-10 is back to their original 10 to 12 month time line for expansion, and everyone's eyes will be on Notre Dame rather than Texas this time around. So rest easy, there will still be plenty of speculation on that front over the next few months.
Less importantly, as mentioned, the Pac-10 will be looking to add a 12th member, and that decision may get done in the next week or two. Utah is pretty yawn in terms of additions, but if the Pac-10 tries to go in a different direction things could get interesting once again.
Finally, let's talk about Texas.
They were the apple of every conference's eye during this expansion frenzy, and there is little doubt that they were in contact with the Pac-10, the Big-10, and the SEC over the past few weeks exploring their options.
Ultimately, as Frank points out, they chose total control of less money in the new Big-12 rather than less control of more money (potentially) in the Big-10 or Pac-10.
I look at the move by Texas as an experiment. They tested the waters of moving to a new conference and basically found that they could force their Big-12 companions (those that were left) to bow to their every whim to keep the conference together. Whether or not this was premeditated is up to you to decide.
Side bar: how humiliated is Oklahoma right now?
Texas gets to experiment with their own television network and a revenue sharing system that supposedly will earn them between 20$ and 25$ million a year (I find those numbers to be extremely doubtful, particularly long term).
So while Texas clearly benefits in the short term and will enjoy almost unprecedented control over their conference, how long will this arrangement last?
Missouri is interested in realignment, and would join the Big-10 in a heart beat… in fact, they are probably writing love letters to Jim Delany as we speak. Texas A&M very seriously flirted with the idea of joining the SEC. If Texas doesn't play nice (which they won't) how long before they are fed up and do make the move? Oklahoma has to be embarrassed by all of this and will be looking for ways to not seem like Texas' lap dog. The best way to do that may be jumping to another conference that isn't quite so pathetically dependent on Texas.
The point is, Texas may have scored big in the short term, but ultimately the conference they have created and control is almost certainly doomed to collapse. When that happens, 16 team mega conferences may be the next step.
For Texas, I have a feeling that they really don't care. As I mentioned, this is an experiment for them. They get to control a conference for however long it lasts, reaping the benefits all the while. If the experiment fails and the conference breaks apart, they have their pick of conferences to move to (that was made resoundingly clear in the last two weeks), leaving their poor Big-12 friends in the dust.
How each conference positions itself for the inevitable collapse of the new Big-12 will be the expansion story worth tracking in the next few years. Hopefully Texas decides to play nice (haven't they heard of the golden rule?) the next time and follows the money to the Big-10.
For now, it looks like the expansion hysteria has passed and the college football landscape is relatively unscathed. The next few years will be like the period between WWI and WWII, everyone knows that it's going to hit the fan again, they are just not sure when. The question is: which Big 12 team will be Franz Ferdinand?
update by MaliBuckeye: The Oklahoma thing cannot be stated enough… Can you think of any other team that would say to Ohio State or another Big T1e2n program "Hey, we'll do what you do. We don't care that you make a lot of money, as long as you give us just a little bit."
I can't imagine how a Sooner fan could stomach this- They know that, even if they win the "Dr. Pepper Red River Shootout Brought To You By The Bevo TV Network" 77-0, they will still be a) losing money and b) to their number one rival.


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There are two things that I have found I only have passive interest in: Assassin's Creed and card games. Maybe not "passive," I suppose. Half-hearted, maybe.
Fine; I have a half- interest in Assassin's Creed and card games. On the one hand, running around rooftops and diving into haystacks sounds like a snazzy way to spend a hangover, which, on the other hand, I usually get playing cards with people. Since hangovers mean queasiness, AC's parkour-enabled killing sprees generally don't aid the road to recovery. Plus, they're monotonous games. You can see why I gave up this vicious cycle.
Behold my surprise on how my two half-interests' coitus in the form of Assassin's Creed: Recollections successfully married them together. Something of a card-based real time strategy game, AC:R turns out to be a very addictive and competitive multiplayer game, and definitely worth eyeballing now that's out on the iPhone yesterday.
A complex game that basically forces you to study the tutorial and in-game glossary, two players melee over control of two out of three areas of a playing field. Control is given to whomever scores and maintains ten points in a given region, and this is accomplished by either playing Agent cards that can battle other Agents, or by location-type cards that score over time.
Time, though, is the great equalizer in the game. Everything happens in a real time countdown which lasts roughly 30-45 seconds. All cards take roughly half of this time to be usable after being played from a user's hand, and about the same amount of time (with a few exceptions) to reconcile when placed into one of the fields. Players draw another card and earn a higher cap for gold (that which allows you to do anything. See: any government in the world, ever) at the beginning of each round. It takes a bit of adjustment before it all clicks, but the timing compared to card plays certainly lends to some nail-bighting fights.
It will also keep you pretty busy. The game comes pre-loaded with 20 story missions that will teach you the ins and outs of its systems, and has a good variety of AI opponents that use differing tactics to force you to rethink your own maneuvers. It shines with a fairly user friendly competitive multiplayer, though, with plenty of people online ready to play.
The best part is that new cards are easy enough to come by without having to shell out real cash to acquire them. The story mode will pay you a modicum of currency to buy packs of cards (which hold random common, uncommon, and rare booty), but playing online bouts will net you up to $500 per day. Depending on your patience, this will either get you up to five packs of low-level swag for a day's worth of work, or one pack of higher-tier stuff for two. While the option is certainly available to shell out the coin for quick currency, this system never made me feel as though I was forced to do it to be competitive; something I find pretty rare in cases like these.
The game looks great as far as card games go, though iPhone gamers might find the lack of real estate that iPad players have enjoyed for the last couple of months a little cramped. Just a heads-up.
As a package, it's also got a lot of extra goodies from the full AC: Embers animated short to an art gallery. Plus, I can play it pretty well hungover. It doesn't make me a better general, but it still helps.


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Chief Stelly releases details on recent narcotics arrests
On Tuesday afternoon, Rayne Police Chief Carroll Stelly released details on several recent drug-related arrests. On April 20, Rayne Police Department detectives arrested
Damian LeBlanc, Sr, a 31-year-old African-American male, who resides at 611 North Eastern Street, Rayne, for distribution of cocaine. Chief Stelly stated that detectives executed a warrant for unspecified counts of distribution of cocaine. Chief Stelly did not give a time period when the transactions occurred other than they happened in the past year.
Rayne police officers arrested Joshua Ledet, a 23-year- old white male, who resides at 1074 Roy Melancon Road, Breaux Bridge, for possession of schedule 1: Ectasy, Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Schedule IV: Alprazolam. On April 20,officers stopped a vehicle in which Joshua Ledet was a passenger.
Officers observed Ledet acting very suspicious and from his appearance knew he was under the influence of a drug. Officers conducted a field investigation and located MDMA pills, marijuana and Alprazolam tablets. Ledet was booked into the Rayne Police Department and bond was set by Judge Jim Cunningham at $40,000 on the three drug charges.
Auino Yancy, a 21-year-old African-American male, who lives at 200 E Alexander Street, Lafayette, was arrested for a traffic light violation, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended driver's license, Expired license plate, Obstruction of Justice, and Possession of a Legend Drug. His passenger, George Corlon, a 22-year-old African-American male, who resides at 323 Ena Street, Lafayette, was arrested for felony possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and proceeds derived from drug transactions.
On April 18, Rayne police officers observed Yancy's vehicle disobey a traffic light. When the officer attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver refused to comply. While fleeing from the officer, the driver, Yancy, discarded Soma tablets from the window. The passenger, Corlon, had marijuana and a digital scale in his possession. Both subjects were arrested and booked into the Rayne Police Department for the felony drug charges.


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WASHINGTON, DC -- Get ready. Get set. Go.
But not too quickly.
That was the theme in health care this year as the United States braced for the start of the main Affordable Care Act, or ACA, requirements. The last 12 months set the stage for the nation's biggest social program in decades, with a federal government goal of getting nearly all Americans covered with health insurance in 2014.
But a number of steps turned into stumbles.
None have been fatal, and the ACA is alive, if bruised and bandaged. These events help explain why over the course of 2013, the law and policy that most people call "Obamacare" limped rather than ran to the starting line.
Jan. 1: As the year began, 42.3 percent of Americans said they liked the ACA – but 48.5 percent said they didn't, according to a Jan. 1, 2013, average of polls tracked by Real Clear Politics, a politics website. Each poll had variations but the trend was undeniable.
Jan. 1 was also the starting date for several tax hikes on high-earning Americans, approved by Congress in 2010 to help pay for the ACA.
* The payroll tax for Medicare Part A, which pays for hospital stays, rose by 0.9 percent, taking it from 1.45 percent to 2.35 percent for individuals earnings more than $200,000, or married couples making more than $250,000.
* Another tax, at 3.8 percent, kicked in for net investment income -- interest, dividends, capital gains, rental income after expenses -- for high earners.
* The cost of unreimbursed medical expenses required for income tax deductions rose from 7.5 percent to 10 percent. People ages 65 and older are exempt from this higher threshold until 2017. Most people already had a hard time deducting medical expenses to reduce their taxes under the old threshold. The new, higher threshold makes it even harder.
Jan. 2: The IRS issued a proposed rule on "shared responsibility for employers," laying out the obligations and penalties for employers under the ACA. One of the most important parts: It spelled out the definition of an "applicable large employer" as one with at least 50 full-time-equivalent employees working 30 hours or more a week.
Companies under this definition would have to offer health insurance in 2014, with coverage for such things as preventive and wellness services, prescription drugs, maternity and newborn care, mental health treatment and rehabilitative services.
Most large companies already offer health coverage to full-time employees, but the services covered were not always as broad as the ACA's mandates and many companies only covered employees who worked around 40 hours a week. Thus started the debate over companies that hire workers for only 30 hours -- or 29 or 31 but with weekly variations -- and whether they would cut hours, delay hiring or even lay off staff in 2014 to avoid the cost of insurance or ACA fines of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee.
The IRS told employers that to determine if they would be affected at the start of 2014, they could choose any six-month period in 2013 as a "look-back" period to measure the hours of their workforces. It sounded like guidance for record-keepers, yet this served as the foundation for some employers, including colleges that employ adjunct instructors, to pare back hours in 2013 – well before they even needed to.
Colleges, and some city and township governments that use seasonal workers and part-time firefighters, said they were trimming workers' hours because they wanted to make sure there was no confusion in their look-back periods. Part-time faculty said the colleges were using the rule as an excuse to make cuts they wanted to make anyway. The part-timers' case grew stronger when some of the ACA's rules were later suspended for a year – but some colleges cut back anyway.
April 1: The Obama administration said it would delay a provision of the law that might have appealed to workers in a small business: the ability for employees in the same company to pick and choose among different insurance plans.
As envisioned, the SHOP exchange (Small Business Health Options Program) was to operate like an insurance-buying cooperative, pooling small companies' limited buying power and giving at least some of them more affordable rates. The SHOP exchange would be open to businesses with up to 50 employees, and those with fewer than 25 workers could apply for tax subsidies to help cover the employers' share of premiums. Then any worker could choose among a range of plans in the SHOP marketplace rather than getting stuck with an employer's single choice.
But such a cafeteria-style package of plans has many moving parts, and the Department of Health and Human Services, helping to run exchanges in 33 states including Ohio, said it wasn't ready. So it pushed back this part of the SHOP exchange in these states until 2015.
Small businesses were told they each should just pick a single insurance company on the SHOP exchange to cover all employees in 2014, rather than giving employees a range of choices.
July 2: One of the biggest changes of the year came with the Treasury Department's announcement on this day. Treasury said that employers with 50 or more workers need not worry about complying with the ACA's main edict – to provide health insurance or pay fines -- until 2015.
This was in response to employers' complaints about the complexity of the law. But Treasury's announcement set up an odd quirk: Technically, the administration did not rescind the ACA's centerpiece requirement to provide health insurance. It merely said it would not check for compliance and issue fines during this time.
"During this 2014 transition period, we strongly encourage employers to maintain or expand health coverage," wrote Mark Mazur, assistant secretary for tax policy, on a Treasury blog.
Aug. 1: The Ohio Department of Insurance, led by Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, announced that based on the prices insurers planned to charge, it expected premiums in the state to rise an average of 41 percent. This was for individual policies, to be sold for coverage in 2014 under ACA rules. If an individual does not have health coverage through the workplace, the ACA requires him to get it or pay a fine of $95 or 1 percent of 2014 income, whichever is greater.
ACA supporters questioned Taylor's methodology. She used a wide variety of policies to arrive at an average premium hike, comparing among other things cheap current policies with deductibles so high -- $10,000 more – that most will be forbidden in the new marketplace. The new policies will offer fuller coverage, the ACA supporters said. The premiums cited by Taylor, a Republican who is critical of the ACA, also did not factor in tax subsidies that many buyers will get to reduce or eliminate their share of premiums.
Asked why she did not mention the reductions that will come from federal subsidies, Taylor said that the insurance department did not have the necessary information to calculate the impact of subsidies. She also said that the subsidies come from federal taxes, so they do not represent free money.
Sept. 18: The Cleveland Clinic announced it would try to cut $330 million from its budget, offering voluntary early retirement to 3,000 employees. The Cleveland Clinic blamed some but not all of the cuts on the ACA, a law that aims to expand access to health care but requires money, some of which will come from, of all things, health care.
The Clinic and other hospitals said they worried, for example, about government cuts to hospitals for Medicare reimbursements. HHS justifies the cuts with the belief that ACA-mandated Medicare treatment efficiencies will make up for the loss. Similarly, the ACA should cut down on the amount of charity-care work that hospitals perform, and on their bad debt when people without insurance don't pay their bills. Yet the Clinic and other hospitals worry about bad debt from newly insured patients, because some will have deductibles and out-of-pocket costs as high as $6,350, depending on their medical needs.
The Plain Dealer examined these and other concerns and found that some appeared valid, yet noted that other trends are also responsible for hospitals' revenue-loss worries. After passing the ACA, Congress continued cutting hospital Medicare payments, with even bigger reductions that had nothing to do with the ACA.
Oct 1: The online marketplaces, or exchanges, opened for individual enrollment – and the biggest one, the federally run Healthcare.gov, quickly froze. The drip drip, dripping of bad new continued over the next two months as the public learned that despite years of planning, HHS and its contractors were not ready for the technological challenges of getting millions of people to go online; of checking their eligibility for insurance and subsidies, and of sharing their information with insurers. News stories continued through the rest of the year on these and other problems, but the date best remembered is Oct. 1 – the eagerly awaited day the exchanges opened for business but conducted precious little of it.
Oct. 21: The Ohio Controlling Board approved expanding Medicaid, the federal-state program insuring the poor and near-poor, to cover people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $15,856 for a single person and $32,499 for a family of four. Medicaid expansion was a big part of the ACA, and Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, pushed hard for it in Ohio, saying it would bring health care to 275,000 more Ohioans. The Ohio Hospital Association wanted this, too, as it would bring hospitals more patients with health coverage and make up for steep reimbursement cuts to hospitals that now treat a large number of uninsured patients. The reason Congress called for those cuts, in fact, was because lawmakers expected many uninsured patients to go on Medicaid or gain other insurance.
Members of Kasich's party in the state legislature, however, said that even though the federal government would pay the full cost of expansion for three years and 90 percent after that, they worry the state would get stuck with big costs eventually. So Kasich went around the legislature and got the Controlling Board, which provides oversight of state spending, to approve the expansion.
Nov. 13: HHS released figures for ACA enrollment from Oct. 1 through Nov. 12. As expected because of the technical problems, they were not good. Only 106,185 people had enrolled and picked a health plan, and most were in states that had their own computerized marketplaces. Ohio relied on the federal marketplace, and only 1,150 Ohioans had enrolled and picked a plan.
Nov. 14: President Barack Obama, fighting criticism as people were losing their old individual insurance policies because they will not provide the full array of benefits required by the ACA, announced that people could renew their old, non-compliant policies if they wanted to. For more than three years, Obama had said that people could keep their old insurance if they liked it – failing to specify clearly a footnote: If their old policies provided insufficient coverage, they would actually have to get new policies.
Obama's problem was twofold. Replacement policies in some cases cost more, depending on the customer's age and his or her eligibility for tax subsidies. And some people liked their old policies even if they only provided limited coverage.
This was believed to affect an estimated 4 million people, out of 262 million people with insurance -- small as a share but large as a number, and Obama took a pounding. PolitiFact later decided that Obama deserved of the 2013 lie-of-the-year award for saying, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."
So Obama on Nov. 14 said insurers could renew those old policies for another year, as long as state regulators said it was okay. Ohio quickly said it was fine.
A contrite Obama also acknowledged, "We fumbled the roll-out of this health-care law."
Nov. 22: HHS announced that people who lacked insurance would get a little more time – eight days – to sign up. Previously, they had until Dec. 15 if they wanted to enroll in an individual policy for coverage that would start Jan. 1. The deadline was extended to Dec. 23. Many insurers said they would give people until Jan. 10 to pay premiums for those Jan. 1 policies. (Individuals may enroll all the way up to March 31 without incurring a penalty, for insurance that starts then.)
Another new date was announced as well, to hoots from Republicans: the starting date for open enrollment for 2015 coverage. It was going to be Oct. 15, 2014, but the Obama administration delayed it until Nov. 15, saying this will give insurers an extra month to assess how things worked out in most of 2014 and to make adjustments for the next year.
Republicans suspected a different motive. They said they think 2014 won't work out well and rates will have to rise for 2015. If so, that would be on the minds of many Americans on Oct. 15, about three weeks before the 2014 congressional elections. And, Republicans say, angry people would take it out on Democrats at the polls.
Now open enrollment won't begin until after the 2014 elections. Timothy Jost, a Washington and Lee law professor, noted in the Health Affairs Blog that state insurance departments still must review rates well before the start of enrollment in order to approve them and send them on for HHS signoff. The states can release the rates to the public whenever they want. And as Jost wrote, "If 2015 rates bring bad news for the ACA instead of good, it is unlikely that this news will be a secret by Election Day."
Nov. 27: The White House announced it would delay SHOP online enrollment, for small businesses, for a year. This was despite HHS insistence in October that the federal SHOP exchange would be ready in November.
HHS encouraged small businesses to sign up through insurance brokers instead. Though the announcement added to the Obama administration's public perception problem, the actual impact on small businesses may have been minimal. Many businesses rely on brokers to help them with insurance decisions anyway. Brokers, largely critical of the ACA, had already taken pains throughout the fall to re-enroll businesses clients in current plans for another 12 months.
Dec. 9: This was the deadline for members of Congress and their staffs to sign up for ACA-compliant policies on the District of Columbia's SHOP exchange. The D.C. exchange, which has had its share of problems, is independent of the federal exchange. Congress members and aides could keep the same financial benefit they had when they were on the Federal Employees Health Benefits program: The government will cover about 75 percent of their premiums, as it does for all federal workers.
Based on interviews and reviews of lawmaker and staff premiums and deductibles, it appeared that lawmakers over age 50 faced higher premiums on the exchange. Many young staffers will save money. Data is not yet available for a full comparison.
Dec. 11: HHS released enrollment figures through November. Only 5,672 Ohioans, and 364,682 Americans altogether, had enrolled and picked a health insurer for 2014. Far more were working their way through the system but had not selected an insurer.
HHS said December enrollment was looking strong, tweeting that there were more than 950,000 visits to the federal enrollment website, Healthcare.gov, on Dec. 3; 820,000 on Dec. 4, and 725,000 on Dec. 5.
Dec. 19: HHS changed the enrollment rule for people whose individual policies were being canceled because they did not meet the ACA coverage minimums. (See Nov. 14 for the previous change on this rule.) This group now would be allowed to buy policies for 2014 with just bare-bones, or catastrophic, coverage, even though the coverage won't meet ACA standards.
People who find themselves in this category -- their current insurance is being canceled, the cannot get their insurer or state to renew it and they cannot afford a new ACA-compliant policy -- also can apply for a hardship exemption from the tax penalty, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. However, that tax exemption already existed under the old rules, as Modern Healthcare reported.
The ACA already allowed for some catastrophic coverage, but only for people under age 30 or, in limited cases, others who get a hardship exemption based on their financial circumstances. Premiums for these catastrophic policies are about 20 percent cheaper than for other policies in the ACA market, HHS said. But these policies do not qualify for tax subsidies that can reduce an individual's share of premiums.
It was unclear how many people would choose this option. When HHS announced it, an estimated 500,000 people were losing their previous policies and still had not picked a new one, although many were expected to still buy one. The health insurance lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans, said the change could cause "significant instability" and "lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers."
Dec. 20: "The basic structure" of the ACA "is working despite all the problems -- despite the website problems, despite the messaging problems," President Obama said at an end-of-year news conference. He said that more than 500,000 people had enrolled for coverage since Dec. 1, with tens of thousands signing up every day. He acknowledged that "this is a messy process," but said that "when you try to do something this big, affecting this many people, it's going to be hard."
"The question is going to be ultimately, do we make good decisions trying to help as many people as possible in as efficient a way as possible?" he said. "And I think that's what we're doing."
Dec. 21: 52 percent of Americans oppose Obamacare, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average. That's a bigger share than when the year started.
ACA proponents said this merely reflects start-up pains that will disappear as people realize the benefits in 2014, such as better coverage for an array of conditions and an inability of insurers to reject customers or charge more if they have pre-existing conditions. The White House spent December reminding Americans of ACA benefits in force already, such allowing young adults to stay on their parents' policies until age 26 and covering more prescription costs for seniors.
Opponents said the poll numbers show that more Americans have buyer's remorse – which is deserved, the critics say, based on what occurred in 2013.
Dec. 23: This was the deadline for individual enrollment to get insurance on Jan. 1. But it turned out that the administration had quietly pushed it back with a technical fix to allow for any problems that might arise from the high volume of attempted enrollments in the final day. Julie Bataille, director of communications for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an HHS division, issued an operational update advising that that anyone aiming to get coverage January 1 "should try to sign up today." But she allowed that those why try to enroll but are delayed by the high traffic "have a fail-safe," with an "advanced queuing system" that would let consumers submit their email address and "be invited back to the front of the line to find affordable health coverage."
The next day -- Christmas Eve -- Bataille provided another update, saying Dec. 23 turned out to be "record day" for the marketplace. "Healthcare.gov alone received a remarkable 2 million site visits and our call center received more than 250,000 calls as consumers were rushing to complete their applications," she said.
Even those who left their email addresses rather than stay on their computers -- a group of more than 129,000 people -- "received emails inviting them back the same day to complete their applications," she said.
"We see this intense traffic as a sign," she said, "that people are eager for affordable health insurance."
To critics, however, it was a sign that the administration was still playing with the rules. Even on Dec. 24, the federal Healthcare.gov website offered this advice: "Even though we have passed the December 23 enrollment deadline for coverage starting January 1, we don't want you to miss out if you've been trying to enroll.
"Sometimes despite your best efforts, you might have run into delays caused by heavy traffic to HealthCare.gov, maintenance periods, or other issues with our systems that prevented you from finishing the process on time. If this happened to you, don't worry – we still may be able to help you get covered as soon as January 1."


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President Obama: 'Patron' of the Israeli Occupation
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Here are a few of those with at least some Syrian ancestry who wouldn't be here if Trumpism had kept their ancestors out.
The scandal-plagued awards show gets a nod for spotting groundbreakers, but the back-scratching nature of the ceremony makes it a little hard to swallow.
If we're going to bomb Syria, we need to take care of the displaced.
The triumph of Steve Jobs, Apple and tech in general was ushering in a new language of business. The iPhone is not a hand-held computer; it is an "extension of oneself." And Jobs and his disciples are not merely businessmen and technicians but also "poets and artists."
The big tech companies have the resources to launch a campaign for privacy that could change the world. As one scholar and researcher has written, "They may be our best chance out of this surveillance mess."
Emails unveiled in federal court suggest Apple founder Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a secret and perhaps illegal pact not to hire each other's workers and to keep salaries low.
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Because Apple Inc. could really use another electronics giant's spare change, Samsung Electronics Co. will be forking over some $290 million to give the tech empire Steve Jobs built a helping hand.
The Walton family, better known as the Walmart heirs, have invested millions in trying to privatize Los Angeles public schools; perhaps the true culprit of the sequester is President Obama; meanwhile, the former pope's resignation can be seen as a sound surrender rather than a cowardly abdication. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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All that bad press about working conditions at Apple-affiliated factories apparently hasn't caused the computer giant any significant economic harm; in fact, the company, bolstered by booming sales of its shiny new iPad, is planning to spread the wealth among shareholders this summer.
A mistake on Time magazine's latest cover has opened a nationwide conversation about race and ethnicity; Rick Santorum belittles American public education, calling it an "anachronism"; is the U.S. finally done with Afghanistan? These discoveries and more after the jump.
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China's labor practices are now to be admired rather than scorned, lest the American economy decline further in the new world order.
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Since his death last year, we've heard plenty of lionizing and denigrating takes on Steve Jobs and his challenging leadership style, but we can now add the FBI's character sketch of the late Apple founder, circa the George H.W. Bush era, to that mix.
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Deadly conditions, long hours, cramped quarters and little pay. Reports of Apple suppliers' derelict manufacturing practices and their devastating effects on Chinese factory workers have been appearing in the press for a while now. After an explosion that killed a supervisor in charge of iPad construction in Chengdu, The New York Times adds a new exhibit to the case.
Thanks to the deplorable treatment of journalists during OWS, the U.S. drops in the Press Freedom Index; turns out, it's more environmentally friendly to reuse an old building than to build a new one in its place; and a peaceful Occupy L.A. protester is charged with lynching. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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I get angry because betrayal by the "good guys" for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm.
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The name Steve Jobs has been sweet on the lips of techno-capitalist fankids pining for a cultural hero since long before the Apple CEO succumbed to cancer late last year. Since his death, an author and an actor have taken some of the first shots at shaping his legacy. With an eye on the man's cruelty toward his employees at home and abroad, n+1 reviewer Gary Sernovitz tries to fill in the blanks.
During his first few days on the social network, the mogul promoted "We Bought a Zoo," told Iowans to consider Rick Santorum, praised President Obama ("decision on terrorist detention very courageous - and dead right!") and called education America's "absolute biggest crisis. No read, no write, no jobs." (more)
The search term "Occupy" is now banned in China; online anonymity is becoming a thing of the past; and a new app called Bully Button protects children but it might just be another Big Brother act. These discoveries and more after the jump.
By Robert Grossman
Occupy Wall Street is working on convening a national General Assembly; Rick Santorum pledges to repeal federal funding for contraception; meanwhile, Amazon attempts to rid the world of publishers. These discoveries and more, after the jump.
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Writer and performer Mike Daisey isn't dropping his current act, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," in light of his titular character's recent exit from the world stage, but he has been obliged to make some formatting tweaks.
By Mike Luckovich
In the last 24 hours, many have lauded Steve Jobs as a visionary, a genius, a fearless leader. Although all of those are certainly true, there are those who point out that he was also an unabashed capitalist and even kind of a jerk.
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Steve Jobs never graduated from college, but in 2005 he gave the commencement address at Stanford University. In his speech, Jobs urged students to see the opportunities in life's setbacks, including death itself.
Apple Inc. announced that its co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, died Wednesday at age 56. (more)
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With the simple dictum "don't be evil" as its motto, the Internet software giant Google—which ranked as the third-highest lobbying spender in the tech industry in 2010—wages an aggressive image and relations campaign with an international public, and its strategy is evolving. (more)
Nurses in San Francisco make a statement about Wall Street; Hispanic media are faring better than their mainstream counterparts; and Steve Jobs leaves the world with a pricey legacy. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January, has stepped down as CEO of Apple Inc. and has "strongly recommended" the board name Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook as his successor.
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According to a tweeting Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine, "both old & new" is coming to the iPad, and it "will be uncensored." That's somewhat surprising, considering that Apple CEO Steve Jobs once claimed that the iPad was designed to offer "freedom from porn." (Update)
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No other company is as dependent on one man as Apple is on Steve Jobs. That's the perception anyway, so when the Apple CEO announced he is taking another medical leave, the murmurs about the fate of the world's second-most-valuable company began immediately. (more)
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How do you take down the guy who gave us the iPhone, the iPad and the wrinkle-free turtleneck? It helps if you speak fluent nerd.
Our Chinese is a bit rusty, but it seems, judging by this video, that Steve Jobs is a Sith lord who will solve your iPhone antenna problems by light-sabering your fingers off. But don't take our word for it.
AP / RIA-Novosti, Dmtiry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has enjoyed a couple of down-home American traditions on his visit to the States this week, involving such time-honored rituals as the consumption of unnecessary gadgetry and hamburger meat.
What Obama hasn't learned about offshore oil drilling, why Steve Jobs and Apple want to offer "freedom from porn," and how GM bamboozled the country into thinking it repaid its bailout money.
The "Real Time" host says America is stuck in the mud and desperately needs a trip to the Genius Bar.
How exactly does Time magazine measure influence? That exact formula, such as it exists, might be known only to Time's editorial team, but the rest of us can still exercise our own evaluative faculties in sizing up the mag's picks for the 2010 Time 100.
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When the University of Hartford was incorporated just over 50 years ago by business and community leaders, they envisioned a center of education and culture for Greater Hartford. At its core, it would be a university for the community created by the community.
The University has come a long way since its humble beginnings on Hartford's last remaining farm, evolving from a local school for commuters into a comprehensive university that attracts students from throughout the world. Yet it remains true to its original mission of serving as a valued resource for individuals, families, businesses, and communities throughout the Hartford region, offering hundreds of programs that serve the University and its neighbors every day. For over 45 years listener supported WWUH has served an important role in the University's community service mission.
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera - Lehar: Das Land des Lachelns
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:
Sentimental Viennese operetta always figures in my Summertime programming. The operettas of Franz Lehar's later period were all bittersweet musical melodramas with partly unhappy endings. Lehar's works constitute the core repertoire of the Silver Age of this genre in the early twentieth century. A poignant story seemed to evoke his loftiest flights of lyricism.
In The Land of Smiles (1929) Lehar created the role of Prince Suo-Chong expressly for the Austrian Richard Tauber, the greatest lyric tenor of the day. Many other German lyric tenors to follow would essay Suo-Chong's part. The eminent Siegfried Jerusalem took it up in a 1982 radio production of the operetta. Opposite him as the Austrian countess Lisa is soprano Helen Donath. Willi Boskowsky, the Viennese expert in the genre, conducts the Munich Radio Orchestra.
The airtape of this Radio Bavaria broadcast was issued on two compact discs through West German EMI. I last broadcast this recording, which I have in my own collection, on Sunday, April 26, 1992.


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Greenhouses, in Reading, are the buildings for growing plants. From small sheds to huge buildings these green houses can vary largely in their structure. Greenhouses possess a structure with different types of covering materials, like- roof and walls made of glass or plastic sheets made of Polyethylene film or Polymethyl methacrylate. The incoming visible solar radiation easily enters these houses through the transparent glass walls, gets absorbed by the plants, soil & other elements inside the houses, warms up the interior air, which is retained inside the houses. Convection is the principle mechanism for heating up the green houses. The heated up structures & plants inside these houses release some of their thermal energy in the form of infra-red radiations, to which the glass walls are opaque. This adds to the convection effect to trap much of the heat inside the green houses and hence maintain a suitable atmosphere for growing plants especially when the outside temperature is not favorable for sustaining vegetation. There is a certain amount of unavoidable heat loss because of thermal conduction through building materials & glass walls. However, as a whole, the net energy inside the building rises & hence the temperature.
Greenhouses, in Reading, help protecting crops from extreme environmental conditions, shielding plants from dust storms and blizzards, and keeping out pests. Light, temperature & aeration controls inside the green houses allow improving crop production in marginal environments and thus contribute to a significant extent in the food supply to the countries of higher latitude. Apart from crop plants, Greenhouses in Reading are also used for growing flowers, vegetables, fruits, and tobacco plants. In most greenhouses, pollination is mediated either by the Bumblebees or by artificial means.
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Two New York teams are among the finalists (Long Island, NY) Alliance for Green Heat and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that seven pellet stoves have been chosen as finalists in the Pellet Stove Design Challenge. This international competition, administered by the Alliance for Green Heat, identifies innovative low emissions and high efficiency..


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THE NUMBER of South Africans shopping online is on the rise, according to the latest research by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) on South Africa's digital nation.
Of the 2,263 people surveyed by the DMMA, 52% said they had shopped online on platforms such as BidorBuy, Amazon and Kalahari.net over the past year.
South Africa's internet economy was worth R59bn in 2011, making up 2% of the economy. It is expected to grow its share to as much as 2.5% by 2016.
Elna Smit, senior market researcher at Columinate, an online marketing research company that conducted the survey for the DMMA, said the research showed the factors that affected consumers' comfort when transacting online.
"In general, consumers trust information on social networks. Those who have been using the internet for between three and five years or more are the most likely to shop online," she said.
Ms Smit said the respondents had also indicated that they spent more money online last year than in previous years.
The data also showed that almost one in five users were likely to spend more than five hours a day on Facebook and, in general, users responded to animated online ads with no video or sound.
"We found that people mostly use the internet at work, and in a working environment you might not always have the time or the equipment to play a video advert or an advert with sound. The good news is that a lot of people click on the animated ads and take action accordingly," Ms Smit said.
Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they actively looked for brands on social networks, while 72% said they followed the brands they liked on social networks.
Ryan Hogarth, communications speaker and social media expert, said businesses were now focusing on growing and maintaining their brands for the online shopping market.
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The people at WidowPC are looking to take notebook gaming to the next level. They have announced their development of an SLI notebook computer powered by a mobile AMD processor.
Somehow the word has gotten out that WidowPC is developing SLI laptops with 19" fast response displays. The rumors are true. It's hard to keep the lid on something this big. Now, we're finally allowed to release some information. This is pretty general data, but it's all we're allowed to release at this time. The SLI laptops are still in development and we don't want to release specific info about the laptops components and then have to change it due to development issues.
More here.Update 09/02/2006 7PM: WidowPC has removed the specifications of the notebook from the website, but we recently republished the notebook specifications from an industry insider in a more recent article here.
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Name: Alex Gildea
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Athlete of the week achievement: Gildea scored 17 in a victory over Elizabeth Forward in the first round of the PIAA class AAA playoffs.
Season update: Gildea is averaging 15.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.
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Here's an IxD problem I've grappled with for years and haven't had a
satisfactory resolution. I expect that many of us have opinions, perhaps
some have references, and maybe even some studies.
In many use cases / design patterns, the proverbial "table" (matrix, grid)
is an excellent widget to both display the results of data and provide an
input mechanism. The advantages of tables include:
A) a highly rational layout of information that allows the user to clearly
compare entries one to the other
B) an ability to sort/filter and arrange the elements in ways that have
become commonplace (if not standardized)
C) an efficient display device that packs a lot of information in a fairly
compact area
Several disadvantages come along as well, but the one I'm most interested in
resolving is "selection."
In the browser context, row selection is often achieved using a checkbox,
along with the necessary set of management utilities to select all, deselect
all, etc.
In the rich application context, many table widgets provide built-in
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Effectiveness Of Krav Maga
Effectiveness Of Krav Maga
There is a studio opening up right near my house and I am curious if anyone has any experience with KM?
I'm not asking if this is the "best" because I know there is no best martial art or self defense system and that will be argued to the end of time. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with it and how they felt about its approach to real life defensive maneuvers.
It's total crap. You can't have a true self defense system without having full contact days. The American version is completely watered down and is akin to cardio kickboxing.M.Ed. Ex Phys
Most of them have become pure business's, nothing wrong with running your practice as a business, but to move people along the ranks, not care about the progress of your students, and to only be concerned with their monthly checks is disheartening.
I typically stay away from chain type studios but this place only has two locations so I figured they may be a little more sincere in their teachings.
KM is difficult because unlike your standard karate dojo who teaches respect, discipline, various forms and katas, has full contact sparring with a points system. KM approach is just a straight forward approach to the most direct way of defending yourself by learning to kill or seriously injure your opponent.
I do agree with you, you can't really have true self defense without having full contact but you can't really go full contact on groin strikes, throat strikes, and eye gouging.
I can see how the theory behind KM works but what some people don't understand is that this fighting form was created for Israeli commandos who were already tough, aggressive, and physically fit.
You take an average joe and think he's going to take down any opponent with a knee to the stomach and a few hammer fists to the back of the head, then they are in for a rude awakening.
I stand by the philosophy of taking what your learn from all art forms and using what works best for you or what will help you out best in that particular fight.
I enjoyed it when I tried it - at the time, I found Aikido involved too much thinking to be useful in a reasonable amount of time, and krav employed a lot of similar stuff but with less thinking... more like brawling than art, which suited me. I didn't go to a "studio," though - I trained with bodyguards in a park.
I'm surprised at the answers in here. I took Krav Maga several years ago and we could quickly move into a level 2, which was light sparring and incorporated flow drills with slow movement to teach those that never sparred how to control it. Once that was established, you could move into level 3.
I enjoyed it and had full contact sparring almost every class. It opened my eyes to what was possible and gave me a better sense of physical confrontation confidence.
That was about 5 years ago and after about a year, I wanted to get into more striking. I started Muay Thai and have been doing that every since with some BJJ sprinkled in. I train 90min 2x week and it is the most ass kicking workout ever. I'd recommend a kickboxing or muay thai class anyday.
As far as effectiveness- I wouldn't want to mess with me. LOL, But then again, I have no way of knowing because I would avoid a street fight with all my being. People are crazy and I'd rather just avoid situations like that.
Thanks for the reply Kisaj, so would you say Krav Maga was worth taking or would I be better suited to find a decent Muay Thai school?
I really liked it and it would depend on your interests. I did it because I used to box and knew how to defend myself, but the interest in using my body as a weapon if needed and the art of stopping an attack fast was intriguing. I gathered a ton of knowledge, but muay thai always interested me with the knees and kicks. Plus, we knew we wanted to get my daughter into a martial art so I started looking for a studio we could both learn in.
About to be a long story short:
krav maga is very functional and probably the most efficient self defense you can do. Muay thai is more traditional and very much focused on fitness as much as attack/counter. You can't really go wrong with either.
I would love to train KM another art to look into is San Soo Kung Fu or Praying Mantis....both Brutal straight to the point. Personally I think everyone should have a ground game. I started with wrestling actually wrestled with Muhammad Lawall in high school (King Mo). From there TKD, BJJ, Hapkido. You are right you need to be smacked around and tossed around to react properly. I am not so sure I would count KM out. In my opinion it's all about the trainer. Most people think Aikido is not a good combat sport....you would change your mind if you where training with Steven Segal. I would go check out that school see about a one week trial. What other options do you have in your area?
Ya take look at San Soo in practice.....makes my balls hurt watching.....http://youtu.be/TskDuQcb7wI
I wrestled with mo in high school. Even then he had a BJJ background. He was and still is just real nice guy in real life he's pretty soft spoken. The wrestling take downs are very important, of coarse there is a lot of good stuff to learn. I like all of the martial arts mentioned here. I am gravitating more towards different styles now. I happen to have a San Soo instructed around my neck of the woods. I like MMA just after having two screws in my ankle this year I'm not wanting to have people torque on it regularly. So San Soo will be my next study....brutal stuff if you get a chance check it out its in the same general ballpark as Krav Maga.
I've just started a 2 yr defense and tactical weapons training to work towards a certification. I'll be dropping the muay thai/kickboxing to concentrate on this, but thanks for the info for research purposes.
TKD AND BJJ ... krav maga is more for show. I have a little experience from my father. Sambo and BJJ are where its at for me .
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My cousin learned it in the army its not for sport easiest way to kill someone in hand to hand combat
Krav Maga is a complete fighting system and truly applicable in real life, IMHO.
I wish this sport was around when I was young.
I wasted my youth on Shotokan karate for 14 years and Judo for 3. I found, Karate is only partially useful in RL, but mostly bullshyt. Judo helped me in two occasions to win a fight.
i saw this on , dam it , i cant remember the name of the show- think on the history channel, 2 guys learn a new form and at the end of the show, they use that form in a competition.
shyt aint no joke
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The thing is that even if we are physically trained to fight, we are not mentally ready. Martial arts are, as the name says, about fighting, breaking, maiming, and killing if necessary. Most unarmed forms of combat were designed to keep you alive long enough to get your hands on a weapon. Also the whole thing about discipline, respect, etc is just a bunch of crap. The true philosophy behind a fight is make short and sweet, and once you start don't stop until your opponent can no longer get up. We don't have the mental training to do that.
There was a story about this girl in California that used to go running on a dirt track in the hills behind her home. One day this rapist guy that was on the run from the police happened to be hiding out there and he saw her run by. So kind of jogged after her and when she turned to head back home he grabbed her as she ran past him. She was a black belt and had won competitions. She proceeded to give him the beating of his life. He begged her to stop, so she did. The moment she stopped he made another grab for her, so she went back to beating him. Then he begged her to stop again, that he just wanted to take her money because he hadn't eaten in days, and that he was sorry. So she stopped, pulled a note from her purse and handed it to her. As he very reached to take the note, saying how sorry he was, he grabbed her wrist and overpowered her. He ended up keeping her died to a tree in the woods and raping her for three days and then killed her with a stone to the head. This was someone who was physically capable and well trained, but not mentally prepared.
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One important thing to remember is that in a real life situation you will more than likely have to square off against an attacker that has a weapon. Unless it's a bar fight you won't get attacked by someone without a weapon. KM focuses on disarming and severely neutralizing an attacker. For self defense it is outstanding for protecting against real world scenarios. For example getting attacked by someone with a knife or a gun. Nothing like deboning someone's trigger finger...
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Makes 1 1/2 Cups
The nutritional yeast makes this pesto creamy. Serve over pasta and vegetables or spread on some italian bread and toast it.
2 cups basil leaves
1 cup fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup walnut halves
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
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Toast the walnuts in a toaster oven for 5 minutes, or on a baking sheet in a conventional oven for 10 minutes, turning once.
Combine the basil mint and oil in a blender until smooth. Add the toasted walnuts and garlic and blend until pureed. Add the lemon juice, nutritional yeast and salt and blend once more. It's now ready to be used or stored in the fridge in an air tight container.
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"I wish I could attend, but alas, my schedule precludes it," says winemaker Jordan Fioretini. Well, that's too bad, but at least you may savor the cuisine of Maui's "Best Chef," Todd Carlos. He'll entice you with a rock shrimp tini with garlic and lemon on a bed of shaved fennel, blood orange, pomegranate and Absinthe mist.
Other courses are Kona lobster and miso-glazed scallop salad, lemon sorbet, herb-crusted medallion of veal loin, and dark-chocolate Dacquoise on Godiva sauce.
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Que, Syrah, Syrah is the theme for the next wine tasting on the Rhone varietal.?It will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Cafe Marc Aurel in Wailuku.
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I thought it was a good project for your "Spring fling" photos, but guess not.
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