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HI Zenix
I got some of your greeblies. They look great but the surface feeling is kind of funny, I guess is the 3D printing. Should they be sanded before painted to have a smooth finish? Do they need any kind of special primer? Any advice would we appreciated.
Has somebody else painted them yet?
Just placed my order today. Will let you all know how it goes.
I ordered a set of these and seem to get a lot of extra parts and some missing parts.
Trying to work it out with shapeways, to get my missing mesh grill piece.
Looks like they are going to reprint the missing mesh grill piece and send it to me.
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Just got mine today and checked it off against the list in the thread and they are all there. Now I have all the bits to start my HIC.
Shapeways is changing prices! It affects the greeblies greatly. The price is going to go up at least $115 dollars, probably more. Order tonight if you ever plan on getting these at a reasonable cost!
They're changing their pricing algorithm and it affects models with multiple pieces a lot. There are 115 greeblies and I expect the cost to increase by a dollar per part, as of tomorrow. If you're planning on doing a build, I suggest ordering tonight. To get them all, use these two links and be sure to order ASAP.
Nipples and small cyl for zenix hic greeblies
Nipples and small cyl for zenix hic greeblies 27 smaller nipples 11 larger nipples 1 small cylinder
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zenix hic greeblies no nipples
zenix hic greeblies no nipplesgreeblies for han in carbonite side panels. this includes all the parts aside from the nipples and small cylinder which can be ordered here: http://shpws.me/rXn6
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Order both of the above links if you want a complete set of greeblies. It's $168.50 for the full set. Again, please order tonight if you'd like these prices
Ordered! Can't wait to get them and finish my HIC
I spend a few hours reworking the parts yesterday and was able to bring the price back down. Not down to what it was, but certainly reasonable at $220 for the complete set.
Hi guys! Han in Carbonite greeblies are available again. The price is a tad more than before but still a great deal for 111 (plus two extra nipples in case you lose 'em) custom-made pieces.You need to add FIVE items to your cart to get the full set of greeblies. It's five sets, one for the nipples/smaller parts, one for parts with holes in them, one for the clips, another for the handles and a box, and finally one for the mesh grill. You can order them here:
http://shpws.me/wHWM clips
http://shpws.me/wHXa parts with holes
http://shpws.me/wHXm box and handles
http://shpws.me/wHXo small parts
http://shpws.me/wHXH grill
Order all five of the above links if you want a complete set of greeblies. It's $220 for the full set in the USA.
Parts List
The full pack will include:
26 smaller nipples (1 extra)
10 larger nipples (1 extra)
3 T pieces
2 handles
29 rings
1 capped ring
1 slightly larger ring
1 small cylinder
1 half sphere
1 small flat disc
6 large flat discs with cutout
1 shorter knurled knob
1 taller knurled knob
4 small tubes (I only saw three but I think there was a 4th)
1 square side greeblie
1 spring screw for side greeblie
1 mesh screen grill
1 tall knob
1 flat knob
1 dial box
9 U-clips with rounded flathead screw
6 U clips with flat phillips screw
5 U-clips with flat flathead screw
RPF thread: the RPF
the RPFBuild your own replica props, costumes, and models from movies, television, and video games via our community of makers, cosplayers, collectors and film...
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Hey Guys,
Embarrassingly enough I just realized I was short a flat head u clip from shape ways. I didn't realize until recently that there were 2 clips on the 2nd panel so I thought I was sent an extra clip. Anyway, if any of you were shipped an extra clip (Flat or phillips) I would be interested in purchasing it from you.
I PM'd Zenix to see if he had one laying around but I figured I would throw it out to the forum since it seems many of you have gotten odd parts orders from Shapeways.
Thank you all very much,
http://shpws.me/DExR if you ever want to order one clip. i don't check my pms here often enough...
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I have a single set of panels ready to ship.
boxes are always available, as are greeblies.
metal greeblies (clips and grill) are available for preorder
Clips are ready too! I'm excited, are you?
Tooling is complete and the first sample has been made. Here's a pic from the factory.
Remember, these are aluminum, just like the ones used on the real prop. That means they'll be more flexible than the steel ones made several years ago, and wont rust. I'll be including all three kinds of bolts and nuts so you'll have it as accurate as possible to complete your replica.
Order form is here: Zenix's HiC stuff. Don't forget to fill it out or I won't know where to send your stuff!
The final price for a set of clips in this pre-order is $128 including priority shipping, and $153 if you're getting a grill too. I'll update this with international shipping quotes at a later time. If you only want the grill, it's $28.25 shipped in the US and $33.50 elsewhere.
I'm accepting $88 non-refundable (gift payment family and friends) partial deposits at email@example.com via paypal and will accept pre-payments until September 7th which is 3 weeks from today. I'll then start production and the parts will arrive here in Baltimore by the end of September. I'll ship them out and you'll have them the first week of October. Feel free to make the full payment now too if you feel so inclined.
I've got to decide now how many to make, so this will be a limited run, and I'm not sure if we'll be able to gather enough demand again in the future, so if you think you want these, now's the time to let me know and submit payment. I'll be ordering some extra beyond the count I get here because I'm sure there will be some people who want, but I can't lay out unlimited cash right now so please order if you or someone you know plans on making one of these in the next 3 years.
For those not pre-ordering, please reconsider. They'll be more expensive and limited in quantity after September 7th.
Thanks for sticking with me and it's been fun.
(I'm also launching a kickstarter today so if you know anyone in Baltimore who might be interested check this out too www.charmcitymaps.com)
clips are in!
Hey Zenix, I'm looking at getting those awesome aluminium clips and an aluminium grill. Do you have any floating around? How much to get them to Australia?
$160 to Australia. Fill out the order form please and send PayPal to firstname.lastname@example.com
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the plastic greeblies are 20% off til monday using code save20 at shapeways.
I've got panels available! To order, head to: http://bit.ly/zenixHiC
I've got about 15 sets of metal clips left. panels and boxes and greeblies all available.


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Kung Fu FightingWhy didn't China make Kung Fu Panda?
When the first Kung Fu Panda was released in China, it caused an existential crisis. Chinese audiences marveled at how well Western filmmakers had understood Chinese culture, but deep down they all wondered the same thing: Why hadn't this movie been made in China?
In an thoughtful op-ed in China Daily, Chinese director Lu Chuan (Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, City of Life and Death) wrote:
Producers of the movie were sincere to the Chinese culture. Besides borrowing a number of sequences from classic Kung Fu movies in China, the animated comedy had grasped the essence of our culture.
All this suggests that the producers had a thorough understanding of our philosophy about life, including its logic and manifestation.
He pondered, "I cannot help wondering when China will be able to produce a movie of this caliber."
Indeed, the film made such an impact that it was even the topic of a panel at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, one of the "Two Meetings" where high-level cadres discuss national issues. There, China National Peking Opera Company president Wu Jiang asked, "The film's protagonist is China's national treasure and all the elements are Chinese, but why didn't we make such a film?"
Anyone who has spent time around Chinese people know that the Chinese are intensely proud and often times possessive of their culture. My colleague Fenwick Smith has touched on the dismissive attitude foreigners sometimes face when they try to talk about Chinese culture, but even the most ardent protectors of China's legacy had to admit, Kung Fu Panda was a great film.
So it's no surprise that the sequel's release has reignited old debates about Chinese culture and the Chinese film industry. A Global Times op-ed wrote of Kung Fu Panda 2:
However, the public may still consider the film beyond its visual entertainment and enjoyable plot. It is after all an American success that benefits from Chinese cultural elements and sells terribly well in China, which inevitably leads to wondering why Chinese cannot do the same.
Such a question is due to an explicit disappointment in the Chinese film industry's productivity and quality.
For some, the franchise's success in the country from which it draws its inspiration is cause for introspection and begs the question of whether or not China's strict system of censorship and top-down control of culture and media benefits the very culture and media it purports to promote. It's what the Washington Post called "a lack of imagination that comes as a result of tight government controls over the film industry and hypersensitivity over how China is portrayed to the outside world." In his op-ed, Lu Chuan recounts the story of his ill-fated attempt to create an animated film for the Beijing Olympics:
In 2006, I took a job to produce an animation movie for the Olympic Games. During that year, I kept receiving directions and orders from related parties on how the movie should be like. An important part of the instructions was that the animation should promote Chinese culture. We were given very specific rules on how to promote it. And some were not flexible about "promoting the Olympic spirit", "promoting Chinese culture" or "rich in Chinese elements".
Under such pressure, my co-workers and I really felt stifled. The fun and joy from doing something interesting left us, together with our imagination and creativity. The planned animation was never produced.
If a camel is a horse designed by committee, then the Fuwa are mascots designed by clueless apparatchiks. The dromedary quality of Chinese cultural products doesn't stop there: government-produced blockbusters, such as Founding of a Republic or Beginning of the Great Revival (which currently enjoys a 1.9/10 on the blocked IMDB), outdo even Hollywood in terms of throwing stars at a roll of celluloid and seeing what sticks. But that's what you get when you task people with no artistic talent but plenty of cheap political ideology with protecting your country's culture.
However, not everyone is looking inward for answers as to why great films about Chinese culture are not made in China. For these individuals, introspection is too painful, or simply beyond their cognitive ability—these people choose instead to externalize the problem.
Meet Zhao Bandi, an avant-garde artist who sued the filmmakers for an apology when the first film came out and was accused of trying to advance his own career by disparaging the film. If I may be allowed several ad hominem attacks, Zhao's "art," as far as I can tell, is centered around pandas and consists mainly of poorly Photoshopped pictures that are, I can only imagine, meant to be funny. Apparently he also carries a stuffed panda with him wherever he goes because that's not creepy.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Mr. Zhao hasn't acquired a life or a sense of irony since the first film. In his view, boycotting Kung Fu Panda goes deeper than the fact that people prefer an animated panda to his ridiculous line of panda couture—we are in the midst of "a battle against the invasion of American culture." He has encouraged theater managers to not show the film in order to "save children from watching a movie that fools Chinese people by twisting Chinese culture."
Hmm… "twisting Chinese culture"… Without giving away too much, there's a part in Kung Fu Panda 2 where a megalomaniacal tyrant orders all the metal from a village to be taken and melted to make weaponry. Surely this is a perversion of Chinese culture and no such instance of this has taken place in recent Chinese history, and certainly not between the years of 1958 and 1961.
But this is just one guy, one creepy, untalented, misguided, pathetic artist manque, right? (Sorry, these ad hominem attacks are hard to stop once you start.) If only. Perhaps even more depressing than Zhao himself, are his allies. Global Times reports,
Zhao's campaign team includes Kong Qingdong, a professor from Peking University, and Sun Lijun, Beijing Film Academy animation school dean. They jointly issued a letter that called for children to explore nature instead of watching Kung Fu Panda 2.
Great idea professors, but unless this so-called nature is in IMAX 3D, I don't think the kids are going to go for it. Sun has characterized American films as "powerful cultural invasion," while Kong for his part said, "Rushing to see a Hollywood movie with twisted Chinese culture is the behavior of brainwashed morons whose money is being robbed as well."
Speaking of brainwashed morons, who wants to bet Professor Kong goes to see Beginning of the Great Revival and loves it? And bravo, Professor Sun, for boycotting the very art form you are supposed to be teaching. Surely your students could learn from a film that has broken box office records for animated films in your country? But I guess you're too busy trying to advance a myopic, nationalistic agenda based on nothing but your own ignorance about art and life to care. It's a wonder why Chinese students want to study abroad when they have such paragons of pedagogy like yourself at the most prestigious film school in China. (Last one, I swear.)
An opinion piece on china.org.cn called the claims of cultural invasion "dubious," and said "It's not wise to boycott the film." Another piece on the Global Times website characterized the backlash as "a reflection of lack of confidence." It went on:
If we aren't able to produce as elegant a piece of animation as a Hollywood studio, shouldn't we tolerantly accept and appreciate this?
Nowadays, many cities in China are endeavoring to build animation communities, but it is a pity that there are still no Chinese animation brands or characters that are famous worldwide.
Imagination and creativity are the core factors for the development of cartoon industry, but Chinese animation is just simply copying and imitating others.
So, the imported first-rate cartoon products including Kung Fu Panda 2 should be taken as a mirror to reflect our deficiencies.
Boycotting competitors is useless. What we need is to learn from them and improve ourselves.
You know you've hit rock bottom when Global Times tells you that you're too nationalistic. For the first time, I agree completely with them. This backlash is fueled by fear, fear that your culture is weak enough to be twisted, stolen, or destroyed by someone else; by anger, sublimated from a disappointment in yourself or your country; by sheer stupidity, to view a movie by filmmakers who have repeatedly expressed their reverence for Chinese culture as a threat; and by selfishness, in particular the desire to hoard and claim culture for your own ends.
Culture is meant to be shared. After all, trade was how Chinese culture spread and rose to preeminence in the first place. In that sense, Kung Fu Panda has done more to spread and promote Chinese culture internationally than all of the recent government-produced films combined. It is sad to see people railing against distortions of their culture when they don't really understand it themselves. Some cultures thrive and others wane, but as long as we treasure our past, culture never really dies. By treating Chinese culture like an endangered species, as something that must be protected at all costs, these individuals create a self-fulfilling prophecy—they weaken China's greatest legacy until they themselves become the only hope for its survival.
Of course China can make movies as powerful and culturally rich as Kung Fu Panda. It will take money, and time, and dedication, but the most important factor is the courage to come to terms with yourself, your country, and your culture. But as long as people in power promote a narrow-minded and pusillanimous world view, it will not be a mystery why Kung Fu Panda and its sequel were not, as so many other things are, made in China.

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My handbag was snatched while we were on holiday in France. We claimed on our Sainsbury Bank travel insurance policy but Sainsbury says that, although the handbag and purse were covered, the contents other than money were not and we couldn't claim for passports, spectacles, sunglasses, pen and keys. The cash was joint money of €200 and £50 but Sainsbury assigned the euros to me and the sterling to my husband, incurring the £35 excess charge twice. We received only £239.72.
HW, Ipswich
An administrative mistake, says Sainsbury. You should have been paid the cost of replacing the keys, although for passports the policy covers only the cost of accommodation and travel incurred in replacing them. Spectacles are excluded, which is common with travel policies. As you claimed jointly, Sainsbury believes it rightly imposed two excesses. Now the bank says that it likes to consider each case individually, although this would not be the impres sion you get from the 'full and final settlement of your claim' stated when sending the cheque for £239.72.
Because of its mistakes, Sainsbury will now send you £486, which includes the cost of passports and, as a gesture, specs, and it is waiving both excesses.
Can expat get hands on pension?
Six years ago, my son went to Australia for a holiday and never came back. He now has Australian residency, a family and intends to remain there. In the UK, he had built up £20,000 in the Teachers' Pension Scheme. He needs money to get on to the property ladder and has been told that he can 'in exceptional circumstances' access his pension fund. Can he do this?
BS, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
No. The Teachers' Pension Scheme says it doesn't know of an exceptional circumstances rule. You can cash in a pension fund only if you have contributed for less than two years. His options are to leave the money where it is until he retires or transfer it to an Australian pension scheme.
Abbey muddles 89 - year - old's tax
When my father, 89, was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's, his finances were in disarray with unpaid bills and an outstanding summons. I approached the Court of Protection and was appointed receiver to act on his behalf. I cleared his bills and had £8,000 left to invest. In September 2002, I placed £3,000 in a Safeway/Abbey one-year fixed-rate bond. I posted the court order by special delivery with form R85 to ensure my father received interest gross. In April, I received a tax deduction certificate showing tax had been deducted.
In mid July, Abbey said an apology was on the way with £30 to cover my expenses, claiming it had not seen my court of protection authority. I pointed out that I had sent an original copy the previous September which had been returned and another in July which had not.
The bond has now matured but I am still waiting to have the tax refunded, my court order returned, the promised apology and the cheque.
CC, Leigh-on-Sea
Our mistake, admits the Abbey. The bank wrongly set up a joint account so deducted tax because you are a taxpayer. It does not know what happened to the promised £30. Abbey has now added the correct interest plus £20 to your father's account and is sending you £100 compensation, which I understand you are donating to his nursing home's Christmas party.
Lloyds' plodding reply to scam
On 14 October, I had a phone call, supposedly from LloydsTSB, asking for details of my credit card, which I quickly foiled. The caller was not too clever because the number appeared on my caller display. I immediately emailed the bank and sent the telephone details. The bank took until 27 October to confirm this was not a genuine LloydsTSB call and told me to contact the police. I am sure whoever's number it was has long gone.
DH, Bury St Edmunds
Indeed they have. When I tried the number it was 'temporarily out of order'. LloydsTSB says it did investigate your experience immediately and realised it was a fraud but failed to tell you what was going on, which it now accepts was poor customer relations.
This is different from the recent email scam which tricked customers into divulging their bank security details. LloydsTSB hasn't heard that any other customers have received dodgy phone calls. If any readers have, let me know.
Childless - so how do we avoid IHT?
There is no shortage of advice on avoiding inheritance tax when you have children but there is a dearth of help for those like myself who do not. Our house is worth £250,000 with no mortgage and we have the same amount in savings. We retire in two years and anticipate a big spend followed by downsizing and living on our occupational pensions.
We plan to make wills leaving whatever remains to charities, as charitable donations are exempt from inheritance tax. If our estates are over the inheritance tax threshold, can we leave the global sum, apportioned between the chari ties by a formula, knowing that there will be no inheritance tax problems? Or can we leave the amount above the inheritance tax threshold, as obviously we do not know what that will be, to charities and an amount up to the threshold to our remaining relatives?
AJ, Stanmore
Without children, you cannot easily use both your nil-tax bands on the house unless you trust your relatives not to throw out the survivor when the first of you dies. But you can dictate whatever you want in a will..
The surviving spouse can inherit everything, free of inheritance tax and capital gains tax. Then you can leave your total estate to charity, divided however you wish. Or you can give the whole tax-free limit to named relatives, adding any not yet born if you wish. Do not specify an amount of money but make clear that in total they are to receive no more than the maximum amount allowed without attracting tax, with the excess going to charity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Table of Contents
- When will I get my room and roommate assignment?
- Can I make a room/hall change?
- Can I stay in my room during vacations and breaks?
- What are my residence hall choices?
- Can I bring a refrigerator for my room?
- Are my belongings insured by the University?
- What is the visitation policy?
- Can I cook in my room?
- Do I have to be on a meal plan?
- What's the security like on campus?
- What shouldn't I bring?
- Can I have a car on campus?
- May I have a pet in the residence hall?
- What should I do if I need accommodations for a medical condition or disability?
- Where are the best places to study?
- Who is responsible for the Residence Halls?
When will I get my room and roommate assignment?
New freshmen/transfers will receive their housing assignments in late July/early August (Fall semester) and January (Spring semester).
Can I make a room/hall change?
You can request a room/building/hall change anytime there is space available.
Can I stay in my room during vacations and breaks?
Yes. Students may request to stay on campus during breaks by emailing the GA/RHD of their residence hall. Requests must be made at least 7 working days in advance of the break to allow for proper processing time.
What are my residence hall choices?
Choices cannot be guaranteed due to space limitations.
- Suite style
- Co-educational residence halls
- Service Learning
- Honors (Department decides)
- Freshman Year Experience
- Single rooms (limited quantity)
- Double rooms
- Triple rooms
- Quad rooms
- Rooms with private baths (limited quantity)
Can I bring a refrigerator for my room?
You may wish to bring a small refigerator for your room. Refrigerators may not exceed 12 amps. Micro-fridges are also available for rent at mymicrofridge.com
Are my belongings insured by the University?
Millersville University does not insure your personal belongings and does not assume liability for theft or damages. A parent's homeowner's policy may provide insurance coverage.
What is the visitation policy?
- All halls at MU have a visitation policy
- Students can have guests in their room only if there is no objection from their roommate(s).
- Any guest of a hall resident can only enter or leave the residence hall by the main lobby doors, and must be escorted at all times by his/her host/hostess.
- Visitors/guests who want to sleep over may do so anytime, but only with the agreement of the roommate(s).
- Very young children may not be overnight guests of MU students.
Can I cook in my room?
Small microwaves (not to exceed 9 amps.) are allowed in student rooms.
Do I have to be on a meal plan?
Yes. All residence hall students are required to purchase either a 21, 19 or 14 meal plan.
What's the security like on campus?
- University Police work round-the-clock on campus and can be reached 24 hour-a-day at (717) 872-3433. They provide escort service during the late night hours, and patrol the campus, including the residence hall areas, during the night.
- Residence hall staff members are trained to deal with emergency situations.
- Resident Assistants are on duty in each residence hall nightly, and Graduate Assistants & professional staff are on call.
- There are fire alarm systems and smoke detectors in all halls.
- Main entrances and peripheral doors are locked at all times.
- All halls have electronic card access.
What shouldn't I bring?
If you are not sure what to bring and not bring, please check our web page or call the Department of Housing & Residential Programs at (717) 872-3162.
- Alcoholic beverages and containers (decorative collections of alcohol containers are not permitted)
- Hookahs
- Space heaters
- Potpourri pots
- Candles
- Lava and oil Lamps
- Fog machines, strobe lights, and decorative string lights (only LED approved)
- Nuwave Cookers/Rice Cookers
- Hot pots
- Refrigerators over 12 amps.
- Cooking appliances
- Ceiling fans
- Air conditioners (unless approved for medical reasons). Call the Student Support Services Office at (717) 872-3178 for verification forms.
Can I have a car on campus?
- Due to the number of available parking spaces near the residence halls, the University has restricted parking privileges to students who have 30 or more credits.
- Students with less than 30 credits may still be issued a parking permit if they can show need for one. For a complete explanation of these guidelines see the Freshman - Sophomore Resident Parking Policy and Restricted Parking Policy Waiver documents available through the University Police Parking Division. The University will consider these requests on a first-come basis.
Parking permits issued to students with less than 30 credits are considered to be Restricted Permits and allow the operator to park in assigned lots from 7 a.m. Monday to 4 p.m. Friday. After 4 p.m. Friday, you may park in any designated parking space not reserved by signs. You must return to your designated parking area by 7 a.m. Monday.
- Additional parking information can be found at the Parking Division's website
May I have a pet in the residence hall?
Students may bring fish in a small container or aquarium.
What should I do if I need accommodations for a medical condition or disability?
Contact the Student Support Services Office, (717) 872-3178, to obtain a verification form as soon as possible.
Where are the best places to study?
- Courtesy regarding noise is expected in all residence halls, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
- Residence hall study lounges
- The library
- The Student Memorial Center
- Classrooms in academic buildings
Who is responsible for the Residence Halls?
There are two area coordinators for the Department of Housing & Residential Programs. The Coordinators supervise all student staff members including Graduate Assistants. There is also one Residence Hall Director. In addition, each office employs several support staff members and a large number of student employees who work to make the residence halls a comfortable place to live and learn.
- Each of the residence halls is staffed by a Graduate Assistant or Residence Hall Director.
- All Graduate Assistants are currently pursuing master's degrees.
- GAs and RHDs are directly responsible for the day-to-day operation of the their residence halls.
- GAs and RHDs are assisted by undergraduate Resident Assistants.
- Area Coordinators, Residence Hall Directors and GAs supervise student staff, coordinate educational programs, support policies and rules, deal with emergencies, and are available when students need assistance with residence hall, University, or personal concerns.


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For the first time, the Obama administration has offered a plan for funding the health-care law's now somewhat controversial "risk corridors" program, which is meant to shield insurers from major losses if early Obamacare enrollees are less healthy than anticipated.
The Obamacare "risk corridors" provision sounds like the kind of wonky health-care issue that wouldn't grab too many headlines. But it took center stage a few months ago when the law's opponents started labeling it an "insurer bailout" and demanded its repeal.
Wonkblog had a previous explainer on how the Affordable Care Act risk corridors provision works, but just to sum up briefly here: It's one of three programs included in the law intended to ease insurers' transition to health insurance exchanges.
The risk corridors provision, a temporary program lasting through 2016, basically limits how much a health plan can lose or make in the Obamacare health insurance marketplaces in their first three years. Insurers are dealing with a new population of enrollees, who because of Obamacare provisions can't be denied insurance or charged more because of a pre-existing condition starting this year. So insurers may have trouble pricing their plans early on.
The risk corridor program is funded by money the government collects from insurers, which is then redistributed to health plans that had a greater share of sicker enrollees. (In that sense, this is a bit like insurance for insurers). The more that claims exceed an insurer's expectations (by at least 3 percent), the more it receives back from the risk corridor program, as this chart illustrates:
Obamacare opponents have argued that that the feds would have to dip into taxpayer money if the program didn't collect enough money from insurers to cover risk corridor costs.
That administration has rejected the charges of an insurer bailout, contending that it intends to implement the risk corridors program in a "budget neutral" way. In other words, the program won't take in more money than it needs, and it won't struggle to pay out insurers needing financial help.
The administration explained how it will make budget neutrality happen in a notice posted Monday night on Regtap, a technical assistant Web site the Health and Human Services Department uses to communicate policy with insurers. Here's how they say it will work:
- If HHS collects more money than it needs to pay out in risk corridor charges in 2014, it will hang on to the bonus funds for 2015 in case of a shortfall. Under the example HHS provided, if it collects $800 million in 2014 and only has to pay out $600 million, then it will keep the remaining $200 million to use in future years of the program.
- If HHS doesn't collect enough money to cover the charges, it will pro rate the amount it pays out to insurers that year. In the following year, HHS would then pay out the difference from the previous year first before paying risk corridors charges for that year.
So what happens if at the end of the three-year program, HHS hasn't collected enough payments or it's collected too much? Well, HHS doesn't know yet what happens then, according to another letter to insurers from the agency explaining the policy.
"We anticipate that risk corridors collections will be sufficient to pay for all risk corridors payments over the life of the three-year program," HHS writes. "However, we will establish in future guidance or rulemaking how we will calculate risk corridors payments if risk corridors collections (plus any excess collections held over from previous years) do not match risk corridors payments as calculated under the risk corridors formula for the final year of the program."
For what it's worth, the Congressional Budget Office in February originally said it thought the risk corridors provision would amount to $8 billion in savings for the government, because the independent budget scorekeeper projected the federal government would take in more than it had to pay out to insurers for the program.
In its latest Obamacare update Monday, CBO now doesn't anticipate any savings from the risk corridor program because of a HHS rule in March saying that the administration will implement it in a budget neutral way. The CBO said it expects the administration will do that.
"CBO believes that the Administration has sufficient flexibility to ensure that payments to insurers will approximately equal payments from insurers to the federal government, and thus that the program will have no net budgetary effect over the three years of its operation," it wrote.


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Medical Action Myanmar is a new Dutch medical aid organization, whose mission it is to improve access to health care for the poorest of Myanmar people.
The motivation for the creation of this NGO comes from the large unmet health needs, the very small amount of international aid and the tragic consequences this has for the health status of the Myanmar people.
The initiative is from Dr Frank Smithuis (previous director Medecins sans Frontieres Myanmar 1994-2009), Mr Rene Mous, Dr Ni Ni Tun and Dr Tun Tun Lwin, who are working with a team of very committed and experienced national health professionals.
Why Medical Action in Myanmar?
Myanmar citizens receive the lowest amount of development aid (ODA) of all "least developed countries" i.e. 4 USD per person per year compared to 38 USD in Cambodia and 50 USD in Laos, both countries with a higher gross national income (GNI). There are very few medical aid organizations in Myanmar and most operate on a very small scale.


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I was given some dried mother dough over 15 yrs ago from Italy would that be ok ? If so what do I do with it?
Thanks Elda
Hi Elda, put some in water, let it soak for a bit, then add the same amount of flour that you have water. Stir and wait for the mixture to ferment. After it starts to ferment. Feed it as usual. See here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDqMWhgSTguGZFILq0CwgMyIZ-GgAkT3z
Dear Mother…….Teresa :),
Its been over a year since I last visited your beautiful family. As I look at your delicious web-site I have to confess it pales in comparison to the warmth and beauty of your family. Each one of your children a master piece of love, grace and itelligence that you have so patiently nurtured. Each one of your children stealing a piece of my heart with Willis stealing the prize of biggest part of my heart. So while you can take huge pride in the bread you so masterfully create and that looks so mouth watering good, it is only a small measure of the true beauty and gifts that reside within the loving walls of your nurturing, sourdough-bread making home.
Thankyou for visiting my site Dale and for your nice comments, you need to come by when I have some fresh sourdough on the table, although I know you are partial towards the chips and homemade salsa! Come anytime and bring Shayla with her guitar. It would be nice to see you again,Teresa
Hi Glenda, if you read back in my blog, you will find posts on the people who sent me some of the starters.
I sell the starters at my website at: http://www.northwestsourdough.com they can be sent as fresh dough or as dried. Teresa
I was wondering how you received your sourdough starters from other places? Are they dried or can a person mail them wet? Thanks for your response.
Jerry,thankyou for the compliments, I would love to take a professional photography class, do you offer one online? Teresa
I am a sourdough nut as well. I teach professional photography and your shots look great. I'll be back, good work, thanks for sharing.


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To win, Obama needs to get white voters to stay home
posted at 1:41 pm on August 3, 2012 by Howard Portnoy
President Obama has met the enemy, and they are us (us, that is, if you are Caucasian). So reads the handwriting on the wall, according to BuzzFeed, which reports:
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has spent more than $100 million on advertising over the last 3 months. Much, if not most, of it has been produced to shred Mitt Romney's reputation and suppress turnout among white voters who might vote for Romney.
That last sentence is worth re-reading. It links to a New York Times op-ed that notes with equal candor, not to mention nonchalance:
He is running a two-track campaign. One track of his re-election drive seeks to boost turnout among core liberal groups; the other aims to suppress turnout and minimize his margin of defeat in the most hostile segment of the electorate, whites without college degrees.
It's a simple matter of arithmetic, the BuzzFeed article goes on to note. In 2008, black voter turnout reached its highest level ever. Hispanic and "youth" voters (ages 18 to 29) also turned out in record numbers. Obama captured 43% of the white vote, cinching a victory.
But with black unemployment reaching 14.4% in July and unemployment among millennials at 12.7%, enthusiasm is down. The dreaded "white vote" is now expected to account for 75% of ballots cast.
By most analysts' lights, Obama needs to capture 40% of that voting bloc to win a second term. But a Quinnipiac poll released on July 12 shows him attracting just 29% of non-college-educated white males. Taken together with other recent polls, Obama's share of the white vote as a whole is well shy of the 40% threshold.
The BuzzFeed piece predicts a "chemical warfare campaign, the war to end all wars" but doesn't offer specifics on what that might translate to.
In the meantime, one might wonder how Obama supporters countenance speaking in such matter-of-fact terms about voter suppression, which Democrats consider the ultimate sin. The answer is provided in the Times op-ed by Thomas Edsall, who asserts that Obama is merely taking a page out of the Republican handbook. "Over the past two years," he writes, "Republican-controlled state legislatures have been conducting an aggressive vote-suppression strategy of their own through the passage of voter identification laws and laws imposing harsh restrictions on voter registration drives."
It is a fascinating admission. He imputes the basest possible motive to supporters of voter IDs laws, and one that is unprovable, to justify behavior that can't rationalized as anything other cynical and anti-American. Just imagine the reaction if the tables were turned.
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text: NEW YORK ( Bullion Bulls Canada) -- Austerity has failed. You won't see that in any of the headlines from the media propaganda machine, and for a very good reason: Our intellectually bankrupt governments have no "Plan B."The evidence of the colossal failure of Friedman Austerity is both abundant and unequivocal. Greece was an insolvent economy in steady decline when its own "austerity" was commenced. After two years of austerity it was totally bankrupt, and the economy had been so completely destroyed that even after defaulting on 75% of its debt further default already seems inevitable. Austerity transformed an economic decline into one of the most rapid economic collapses in modern history. Then there is the UK. It began its austerity campaign shortly after Greece, and its own economic collapse is proceeding on schedule. Its monthly budget deficits continue to widen, with the UK government recently reporting its largest one-month deficit ever for the month of February. Given that the entire raison d'etre of austerity is to shrink deficits, that statistic alone is proof of the complete and utter failure of UK austerity. However, as an added "bonus" the UK's people also get to watch their economy being destroyed through this economic masochism. Tuesday, the UK government announced the collapse in UK retail sales. Sales plummeted 2.3% in April from March. But keep in mind that number excludes inflation. Factor in double-digit inflation (thanks to "competitive devaluation" and endless "QE"), and the actual one-month plunge in UK retail sales works out to a rate of collapse approaching 40% (when expressed as an annualized number). What was the explanation given by the mainstream media for this austerity-induced collapse in the UK retail sector? It rained in April. Yes, that must have been it. UK residents were unprepared for April showers. Perhaps they all lost their "brollys"? Meanwhile, the newest member of Europe's Austerity Club, Spain, has already announced that it will miss its 2012 deficit target and that it will exceed its 2013 target by at least double. More austerity. More total failure.


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Do you want people's heads to turn? Then bring in a bag that looks like this and leave it out on your desk. So what is it?
I was at Vinfen's 2nd Annual Health Fair this past Saturday, and I finally got a chance to talk to a few heath experts about some good things to eat for some great health benefits, but when I brought my "stash" of vitamins to work, Larry, Neal, and BJ thought I was dealing drugs out of my office.
Its actually a product called "Mila" and its supposed to be very good for you. Just sprinkle it on some food or pour it in your drink of choice, and that's it. So, I brought it into work in a plastic bag. Thus the confusion! Has anyone ever used this product before? I hope I'm not wasting my money. I did some research and found the typical feedback on anything related to health. Some think its wonderful, others think its a scam.


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Vesitirim™ in Men Postmarketing Observational Study (VIM)
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This is an observational study which will look at the improvement in Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) in Irish men being treated with Vesitirim™ (solifenacin).
Vesitirim™ is a competitive specific muscarinic receptor antagonist and has been used extensively for the treatment of OAB (Over Active Bladder) in women and has shown significant impact on urgency, frequency and incontinence in females. It is also indicated for the symptomatic treatment of urgency incontinence and/or increased urinary frequency and urgency in men. The purpose of this study is to evaluate LUTS storage symptom improvement in men with non neurogenic LUTS who have been prescribed Vesitirim™.
The effect of Vesitirim (solifenacin) treatment on bothersome symptoms improvement will be measured using Over Active Bladder-q Short Form (OAB-qSF) and the Perception of Treatment Satisfaction (TS-VAS). The study will also help define some of the characteristics of the male population in Ireland who are treated with Vesitirim™ (solifenacin) as well as evaluating the effect of Vesitirim™ monotherapy or combination therapy on storage symptoms improvement (urgency, frequency and urge incontinence) using a bladder diary and IPSS (International Prostate Symptom Score). The study will also evaluate the effect of Vesitirim™ monotherapy or combination therapy on nocturia using IPSS. The impact of LUTS on quality of life will also be assessed. Data will also be collected regarding adverse drug reactions.
|Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) Overactive Bladder (OAB)
|Drug: Vesitirim™ (Solifenacin)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|An Irish Observational Study to Evaluate LUTS Storage Symptom Improvement in Men Being Treated With Vesitirim™ (Solifenacin)
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in Over Active Bladder questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q SF) score [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in patient assessment of treatment satisfaction (TS-VAS) [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in voiding function assessed by Qmax and PVR [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in patient perception of voiding symptoms assessed by: IPSS scores and number of urge incontinence (UUI) episodes per week [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in storage symptoms assessed by micturition diary; number of urgency episodes per 24 hours; number of micturition per 24 hours and number of nocturia episodes per 24 hours [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Change from baseline to visit 2 in quality of life assessed by IPSS score [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
- Adverse drug reactions- incidence of acute urinary retention and urinary tract infection [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Male patients with non-neurogenic LUTS taking VESITRIM
Male patients diagnosed with non-neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) with bothersome storage disorder defined as urgency, and/or frequency and/or Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI)
Drug: Vesitirim™ (Solifenacin)
Other Name: Solifenacin
Detailed Description:
This is a post marketing, non-interventional study (NIS) of patients who are to be treated with Vesitirim™. The decision whether or not to treat with Vesitirim™ will be made by the treating physician prior to the entry of the patient into the study. The patient will be informed of the study and written consent will be obtained prior to screening and determination of eligibility.
No study drug will be supplied as part of this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|35 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of non-neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) with bothersome storage disorder defined as urgency, and/or frequency and/or Urge Urinary Incontinence (UUI) at the discretion of the Investigator
- Eligible to start Vesitirim™ 5 or 10mg according to SmPC (Summary of Product Characteristics )
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of stress incontinence
- Active urinary tract infection (confirmed by positive urine analysis)
- Symptoms suggestive of severe Bladder Outlet Obstruction (BOO) defined as Qmax<10ml/sc and/or PVR>150ml
- History of known hypersensitivity to solifenacin succinate, oxybutynin hydrochloride, other anti-cholinergics or lactose, to any component of the dosage form or any other allergy, which, in the opinion of the Investigator contraindicates their participation
- Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse at the time of enrolment
- History of acute urinary retention, severe gastrointestinal obstruction (including paralytic ileus or intestinal atony or toxic megacolon or severe ulcerative colitis), myasthenia gravis, uncontrolled narrow glaucoma or swallow anterior chamber or deemed to be at risk of these conditions
- Undergoing haemodialysis or has severe renal impairment or moderate hepatic impairment and who are on treatment with a potent CYP3A4 inhibitor
- History of urogenital tumours which in the opinion of the Investigator precludes their participation in the study
- Likely to participate in another study during study period of 12 weeks from study entry
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01639794
|Site 2 - Mercy University Hospital
|Cork, Ireland
|Site: 4 - Tallaght Hospital
|Dublin, Ireland, 24
|Site: 1 - St James Hopsital
|Dublin, Ireland, 8
|Site: 5 - Beaumont Hospital
|Dublin, Ireland, 9
|Site: 3 - Sligo General Hospital
|Sligo, Ireland
|Study Chair:
|Medical Director
|Astellas Pharma Co. Ltd (APCL)
|Responsible Party:
|Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01639794 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 11, 2012
|Last Updated:
|January 16, 2013
Keywords provided by Astellas Pharma Inc ( Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd. ):
LUTS (Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms)
Overactive Bladder (OAB)Vesitirim
Anti-muscarinic treatment
Cholinergic receptor antagonist
Storage Symptom improvement
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Bladder, Overactive
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Urinary Bladder Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Urological Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Solifenacin Succinate
Muscarinic Antagonists
Cholinergic Antagonists
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Urological Agents
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Same here. There are plenty of people willing to role the dice though. To each their own.
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Same here. There are plenty of people willing to role the dice though. To each their own.
I was skeptical about Taurus at first, I bought a pt 92 about a year ago. Roughly 600 rounds throught it now, never had a problem.
I have previously owned two taurus pistols, the PT11 9mm and a Millinium Pro .45.
Bought both brand new, and both couldn't fire a full clip of ammo without jamming.
On the other hand I have owned two Ruger pistols, a model P89M 9mm and the LCP. Have put over 1000 rounds of various makes and types of rounds through the P89m, no jams, a couple of miss fires on faulty rounds. The LCP has over 500 rounds of hardball and various brands of hollowpoints and it has fired each and every time.
The Taurus TCP may have a better feel to it, and may kick less, and have a smoother trigger pull, but if I can't rely on it 1000%, I'm not trusting my life with it!
When I pull my LCP, I know its going to perform flawlessly.
The only way I would risk buying a TCP is if the gun dealer let me test fire it for 100 rounds before I bought it.
I bought my TCP when they first came out and had problems after thirty rounds. I sent it in and two weeks later it came back with trigger, hammer and slide release replacements. I think all the new ones have the fix. Mine is a little ammo sensitive (S&B FTF) but have no problems with proven ammo. They won't run when real dirty like a Glock will but I like mine well enough.
Still waiting on Taurus to return my TCP after a month. Broke the magazine catch in less than 30 rounds. When it gets back, it's outta here. Lesson learned.
Never had problems with mine :)
I should rather save money and get a PM9.
We have a TCP in our family and have had no problem with it.
I would buy a Kel Tec P3AT, the little gun that started all this 380acp craze.
Wife and my P3ATs have been 100% with near 500 rounds through each of them.
I picked up my TCP a couple of hours ago. I plan on shooting it this weekend. I hope I don't experience some of the problems other shooters have had. I'm excited to shoot it!
Question: The gun comes with a carry pouch. With the pouch exposed, is the gun still considered concealed? I'll attach a photo of the gun and of me wearing the pouch.
My TCP went back to Taurus today... Disconnector hanging up on...something; making a clicking sound and feel in the trigger. Hammer misaligned, and less than perfect slide to frame fit. We will see if at the end of this warranty service if i am still a Taurus fan
IMHO, if you cannot tell what is in that pouch, then it's concealed. It could be a camera, a large PDA, medical device, or just a pouch containing keys/medicine/phone/money/passport/etc etc...
You can't help what conclusions people make.
Unless part of the weapon is exposed (which it is not with that pouch) it is considered concealed.Quote:
The gun comes with a carry pouch. With the pouch exposed, is the gun still considered concealed? I'll attach a photo of the gun and of me wearing the pouch.
I've put 200 rounds through mine. Two jams, but that seems to be the case during break in. It's a good $280 purchase for me.


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About ten years ago, when Forrester was writing some of our early research on effective Web design, we noticed a pattern among leading companies. They told us they were finding it very helpful to use design personas - models of customers based on qualitative research into real customers, but presented as vivid stories about individuals (not segment descriptions). These tools enabled them to stay focused on the needs of their most important customers when designing online experiences.
Since then, design personas have become fairly mainstream design tools in North American companies, and increasingly common in Europe and Japan - not only for Web design, but across all channels. However, the quality of personas varies enormously from company to company. For example, I'm evaluating personas from UK interactive agencies at the moment and although some are clearly well researched, engaging, helpful to designers and believable, others seem to be mere stereotypes.
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One of the sweetest numbers from any musical ever:
And Mark Steyn has done a special Song of the Week podcast on this Irving Berlin classic. Learn the genesis of the song as well as the history of Easter bonnets and parades. Also some background on this remarkable song:
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One of the sweetest numbers from any musical ever:
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April 12, 2011
Excellent advice for mothers
Dr. Meg Meeker talks to Kathryn Jean Lopez. Hear her!
Lopez: Someone is looking at this Q&A and thinking: "I'm a busy mother with NO TIME TO READ THIS INTERVIEW NEVER MIND YOUR BOOK. What do you want out of me besides my Amazon purchase? How exactly do you suggest I find time to take all your advice?Have you noticed that crazy-busy-ness is worn as a badge of honor by many moms? It makes them feel as though they're doing their jobs well. But it's folly, not good for them or their families.
Meeker: The reason that you have no time to read, spend a few moments relaxing, or play Monopoly with your kids is that your life is out of control. You, like many mothers in America spend a whole lot of time doing a whole lot of things that you don't need to do. We mothers succumb to more peer pressure than our kids do. We over-schedule ourselves and our kids — making us all crazy — because we feel that's what successful mothers do! Where does that thought come from? The subculture of mothers around us. We have jumped aboard the hyper-performance train where each of us feels that we need to raise stellar kids, perform as outstanding mothers (be home-room Mom, bake cookies from scratch), advance in our careers, and — of course — hit the gym four times per week for 45 minutes to battle that last ten pounds. The course we are on is unsustainable and we are stressed to the max.
Moms motivated by fear:
Lopez: Overcoming fears is one or your recommended habits. Isn't that just solid advice for anyone?What to do? Drop out of the rat race:
Meeker: Of course, it's good for everyone to confront her fears, but I am speaking very specifically of the fears we mothers harbor (subconsciously) which drive much of our parenting. For instance, we sign our kids up for too many activities because we "fear" feeling like a failure if we don't provide every opportunity for our kids. Many mothers drive ourselves to work compulsively because we "fear" that we will feel like failures at work.
I strongly believe that we mothers should never live our lives out of fear and we should most certainly never parent out of fear. In my chapter on fear, I address the specific fears that most mothers face which, I believe, are sapping us of energy and joy.
We need to be bold in cutting activities from our kids' schedules. Whether it's hockey practice, flute lessons, or tutoring, we need to realize that kids simply aren't getting enough time with us. And time with us is very important because sound identity formation in kids comes from being with parents, discovering what we think about them and expect from them, and then internalizing what they glean. If we don't simplify their lives and ours in order to open up more time for our kids, the results from kids can be poor identity formation. The bottom line is that if our kids don't find their identity by spending time with us, they will find it elsewhere — and those other places are usually very dangerous (gangs, forming a new "family of their own," etc.)As a proponent of attachment parenting, I'm totally on board with her diagnosis and recommended treatment -- spend time with your kids. If you substitute "secure attachment" for Meeker's term, "identity formation," this could come straight from my favorite parenting book. When kids don't have the secure attachment to their parents so necessary to their well-being, they will seek to fill the void by attaching to someone else, usually peers.
I like this part on establishing habits, so often viewed as a mere function of "positive and negative reinforcement." Not so. It's a matter of understanding, will, and commitment:
The only way we can make any habit stick is to understand what the habit involves, why we need it, and how it is important to us. In short, if we don't feel that we need it, we will never make it stick. So I believe that understanding our need is the first step in making it stick. Then it is simply a matter of making a plan for how to change.Read the whole thing. I've just added Dr. Meeker's 10 Habits of Happy Mothers to my Amazon store.
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April 11, 2011
Culture watch: Love songs endangered
Mark Steyn's song of the week is Rogers & Hart's There's a Small Hotel. It embodies, as Mark says, something basic that seems to be dying out:
It's not the vulgarity of current pop that alarms me (Katy Perry's "F**k You" , Pink's "F**kin' Perfect"), nor the crassness (Kesha's "Take It Off") nor even the grunting moronic ugliness ("Sex Room" and "Candy Shop", the latter apparently a synonym for the former). I'm way beyond that: Driving around and roaming the dial, I'm struck, even in the non-effin', disrobin', sex-room humpin' numbers, by something more basic - the absence of tenderness. The first quarter-century of rock'n'roll saw a diminution in harmonic sophistication and the discipline of rhyme but its practitioners inhabited broadly the same emotional universe as their predecessors. These days, as time goes by I'm not so sure, as I said somewhere or other recently, that the fundamental things do still apply.He said it in March 29th's Pushing Deviancy Up:
A hyper-sexualized society becomes, paradoxically, sexless, and certainly joyless. Listening in recent weeks to young women in both New York and London complain that the men they meet would rather look at pictures of them naked on the Internet than actually see them naked in the same room reminded me of The Children Of Men, in which P D James' characters, liberated from human fertility, find sex too much trouble. Eight-year olds with fake breasts are almost too obvious a satirist's fancy for a last desperate transgression of the terminally jaded. On WGN the other night, Milt Rosenberg and I were talking about popular music and the University of Chicago's approval of "hook-up" culture, and I made the not terribly original observation that a song such as "It Had To Be You" or "The Very Thought Of You" pre-supposes certain courtship rituals. If you no longer have those, it's not surprising that you no longer have songs to embody them: A love ballad, after all, is a kind of aspiration. So, if the fundamental things no longer apply as time goes by, who needs a song about them?Read the rest if you missed it. When love and beauty go out of style, we're in deep, deep cultural trouble. Kids and young adults are the main consumers of this brutal, soulless music. Why aren't parents shielding their children from such poison? It should be among their highest priorities. If we can keep them from consuming ugliness when they're young, they'll likely reject it later on.
Back to the song of the week: Frank sings it here, Diana Ross swings it here.
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Alex Rodriguez, who anonymously tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 admitted to ESPN's Peter Gammons of past steroid abuse dating back to 2001. Rodriguez joined the Rangers in 2001 after signing a then-record 10-year, $252 million deal.
In A-Rod's words:
"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure, felt all the weight of the world on top of me to perform, and perform at a high level every day," Rodriguez told ESPN's Peter Gammons in an exclusive interview in Miami Beach, Fla. An extended interview will air on SportsCenter at 6 p.m. ET.
"Back then, [baseball] was a different culture," Rodriguez said. "It was very loose. I was young, I was stupid, I was naïve. I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time.
"I did take a banned substance. For that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful."
My thoughts: The story of steroids in baseball has taken a tragic turn when the man that was to lift the game out of the Steroid Era ends up tainted by past steroid use. As for the 103 other players that tested positive for steroids in MLB's anonymous testing program in 2003, they should all be named at some point.
We know that more names will be leaked, but baseball cannot turn to the next chapter without closing this one. They need to expose those names for the guys that didn't cheat (whoever they are) at all. I will forever suspect people like Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, and other past Red Sox stars until they are cleared from that 2003 list.
Of course, there are definitely players not among the list of 104 players who did steroids in the past and will probably never be exposed.
Did A-Rod do the right thing in admitting to steroid use?
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Every sport has there flaws.
Football has top picks who start riots in strip clubs, pro bowl wide receivers who shoot people at their bar, and superbowl mvp's who are suspect of actually killing someone. It's a sport that leaves their players with brain damage. It's a sport who's stars are suspected of major drug use…during the game (LT with the Giants has told friends he was high on Cocaine during games which helped him because he couldn't feel the hits he was delivering on people or the bones he was snapping…Joe Theismann).
Basketball is a sport where most of it's players are covered in tattoo's, where weapon possession, and explicit music albums made by all-stars are common practice. It's a sport where it's own officials have been caught betting on the games they are officiating.
Hockey has it's dirty hits.
Soccer has it's massive fan riots.
Cricket…well never mind about that.
Why should we think that baseball can escape any controversy? When we find out something is flawed about this game, why are we surprised…every time? A-rod took Steroids, just as Gaylord Perry use to doctor balls with foreign substances, just as the historic NY Giants magical run capped off by the shot heard round the world…were stealing signs, just as Ty Cobb spiked any infielder who had the gaul to field a throw to the base they were covering as he slid into it.
When you are a part of an era, of a culture, there is very little chance you can come out of it clean. From now on we should assume that no was safe from it. That they were smart not to, that if they did resist, they wouldn't have gotten the contract that everyone else was getting. That they could do it because it wasn't illegal. We can believe all of this and just accept that it happened and hope that it's over.
We can believe that whoever is doing it now has been or will be caught, however, we MUST believe that if it's not steroids, if it's not stealing signs, then it will be something else. No professional sport is safe and anyone who believes it is: are just Naive.
All we can do is watch and enjoy the game for the simplicity of it, which can NEVER EVER be taken away.
Makes you wonder if Texiera is on it as well, no?
umm jk, but seriously:
like you said, sport always involve controversy. however you can't compare someone who has tatoos, makes millions by bouncing a ball, and makes millions by rapping music to someone using steriods. the former is entertainment, the latter is outright cheating.
whats the difference between watching a bunch of players on steroids play, and a bunch of robots play? none what so ever.
Well what sports and its stars are ultimately judged at are as role models. People felt the best role models came from baseball and worst ones came from basketball. What's the difference between a player on steroids and a player knowing the location and what pitch is coming…the latter has a better chance of hitting a homerun. Competitive edges are and will always be a part of the game. Steroids only became illegal in 2004. If MLB cared that much about keeping the game clean, they would have stopped it 20 years ago, when it started to become prevalent, almost in your face.
lokesh – You mention those rappers…but they're sadly involved too. I hope you know that rappers/performers like 50 Cent were discovered to have purchased (and probably used) HGH. It's scary that performance-enhancing drugs are entering the entertainment business.
Baker – MLB only cares about keeping the game clean now because the federal government and public got on their ass about it. Good thing they stopped now…because what if Alex Rodriguez soared to 915 home runs or something..and years later was found to have been taking steroids for the majority of his career? That would be MUCH worse than revealing it now.
Sure, revealing the 'roids killed the careers of Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and ruined the legacies Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, but the game would've suffered greatly if this circus continued for another 20 years.
kc, yea but they dont use it to get an edge. its not like they gain rapping speed/strength thus enabling them to be better musicians, which leads them to making more money etc.
baker, can't really argue with that. I guess i was just trying to say its not fair that someone uses roids to make their way into the game mostly because but not limited to the fact that they take the place of someone who is clean.
Some one who knows the pitch location and which pitch is coming, it depends on how the batter acquired such information. If the coach/pitcher/catcher is not doing a good job of hiding communication, why will the batter not take advantage, y'know. I just view steroid use as a more serious offense, but in essence you are not wrong in making such a point either.
Mike Schmidt brought up a good point today. The players during the '70's and '80's were no better. They were all on amphetitmines. Schmidt, Mattingly, they all were. It was the culture of that time. They were on them during the game. That is a performance enhancing drug and none of those guys were held back from the hall of fame if their statistics allocated their acceptance.
Basically I say this, if the baseball allowed these players to take steroids then they didn't break the rules. The hall of fame is a museum. It tells the story of baseball, the dead-ball era to the steroid era. We quickly forget how mcgwires and sosas homeruns saved baseball after the strike. It won over many fans.
If the sport allows it, it should only be frowned upon, at worse. All these players McGwire, Palmero, Clemens, Bonds, Arod: ALL MUST BE IN THE HALL OF FAME. The fans and the historians will know when they played and what happened. If some players want to prove their clean, good for them, they knew what was going on and DIDN'T STOP IT, didn't say anything about it why? Because it was a part of the culture. All are guilty. All have always been guilty. The era must be represented in the hall of fame.
On a side note for Lokesh: the NY giants stole their signs from a scoreboard signals in centerfield. I know, weird, but it worked. They overtook a 14 game deficit in August to win the pennant.
I really don't think it matters whether or not these athletes take performance enhancing drugs, because the only people they are hurting is themselves. I mean taking a drug can't make you hit a baseball or slam a basketball if your only four foot tall, get real these guys already have the natural talent.
, some losers just don't and are jealous
The honest admission came out a few days after Sports Illustrated published online a list of players tested positive for steroid use in 2003 – a list which was supposed to be intended for testing purposes and kept anonymous.


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Symmetry, Harmony and the Human Being: Italy and the Arts through the Renaissance
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The course will examine the history of Italian Judaism, through its cultural and religious peculiarities. It will survey the history, from the Renaissance period to Modern times, the current condition of this cultural minority and its ties to Italy. The course will focus on the history of the Jewish communities of Ferrara and Venice, two notable examples of Italian Jewry, from the first Jewish presences to the golden Renaissance period, through the so called "era of the Ghettos". Furthermore, the course will provide the skills to analyse the Emancipation that characterise Italian Judaism, from the Fascist Regime to our times. The course provides the students with basic notions of Judaism and it examines the evolution and development of the relationship with the cultural majority. It presents the major Jewish protagonists of Italian history and literature, such as Dona Gracia Nasi, Giorgio Bassani and Primo Levi. The city of Ferrara, the area of the former Ghetto, its monuments, the place and the Museum of National Judaism and the Shoah, will be an integral part of the lessons.
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Limbaugh Pretends He Never Questioned Obama's Citizenship
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Yesterday on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh told his audience to be wary of birther theories. Limbaugh claimed he has been warning against going down that "dead end street" for a while now. He told his audience that birther conspiracies are "fun" but he is "not going to be distracted" by the claims against President Obama's citizenship. But Limbaugh is re-writing history now that Obama released his long-form birth certificate.
In fact, Limbaugh, as recently as April, made the false claim that the Governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, "can't find" President Obama's birth certificate. This kind of false claim is not "fun," rather it fuels the fire of birtherism. Furthermore, Limbaugh also recently said "We've got somebody about whom there are legitimate citizenship questions here, serving as president." He has also said to a birther that he "would love nothing more than for this guy to be proven a fraud," adding that "that would be fun." Limbaugh even speculated that back in October 2008, when Obama made a quick trip to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother, he might actually be there to deal with "this birth certificate business." Obama's grandmother subsequently passed away two days before the election.
Limbaugh has also attacked the press for not asking Obama "why won't you show the birth certificate?" and repeatedly touted Donald Trump's birther theories. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of Limbaugh's touting of birtherism.
It is clear that Limbaugh has been constantly stoking the flames of the birther nation, but now wants to pretend he hasn't been doing that.
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