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North Korea's dictator, the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il, likes to keep a close tab on his favourite actresses. Some would say too close. Last week, the 26-year-old film star Kim Hae-young defected to South Korea, the latest in a string of intriguing defections.
Kim Jong-il is a film buff who has issued directives on how actors should perform. The actress in question belonged to the Pyongyang film studio and had appeared in seven recent productions. The studio receives regular visits from Kim Jong-il, and his artistic "instructions" are displayed on huge billboards there. Actors, the Dear Leader has said, have "a noble duty to appear before people and educate them". To do their job more effectively, "they should be beautiful both ideologically and physically."
In his personal life, Kim Jong-il is believed to have paid close attention to physical beauty in the acting profession. His first wife, Sung Hae-rim, was a film actress who, according to one story, was talent-spotted by Mr Kim when she was already married to a senior official. She was rumoured to have defected two years ago.
Another Korean star, Choi Kye Ok, a friend of Ms Sung, was also a favourite of the Dear Leader. He once told her that she made a better impression than anyone else on the stage. Her husband, a Korean diplomat, defected last year.
Ms Choi was best known for her leading roles in The Flower Girl and other North Korean "revolutionary operas". These extremely long works have all received personal guidance from Kim Jong-il or his father, the late Kim Il-sung.
It has even been suggested by adulatory North Korean media that the Dear Leader wrote The Flower Girl himself. This tells the tale of a peasant girl in the feudal past who sold flowers to support her oppressed family. The landlord beat her mother to death and blinded her little sister. Eventually the heroine "awakes to class consciousness." Instead of selling flowers, she embraces "the red flowers of the revolution" and helps to "liquidate" the landlord and his family.
In a bizarre episode in the 1980s, a South Korean film director and his wife spent several years in Pyongyang under Kim Jong-il's patronage. Later they turned up in the South saying that they had been abducted by the North Koreans. They also gave details of their patron's less than revolutionary film tastes. He was said to have a vast library of western classics, including musicals and cowboy films.
Kim Jong-il's instructions to the acting profession range from the general to the specific. He tells them how to laugh, how to cry, and how to be good citizens at home.
He also sets high standards in method acting. An actor who is going to play a football player, he has ordained, "should actually become a football player himself and run sweating across the pitch to kick the ball."
"The actor's job", the Great Leader concludes, "is by no means an easy one." Perhaps that is why some fail to match up to their revolutionary task -- and are tempted to defect.


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Man Charged with Stabbing Wife
A North Greenbush man is charged with attempted murder for stabbing his wife at their home on Kent Place, according to North Greenbush Police. She is being treated at Albany Medical Center, taken there by North Greenbush Ambulance.
Police say Joseph Adamo, Jr., 41, was found in the driveway. He's charged with Attempted Murder (2nd Degree), Assault (1st Degree) and Criminal Possession of a Weapon (4th Degree). Adamo was arraigned by Judge Stephanie Piel. He was sent to the Rensselaer County jail without bail.
"The investigation is continuing as Investigators continue to follow up on leads," said NGPD Chief Robert Durivage in a statement. "Anyone with information relating to any of Mr. Adamo's activities or events at the residence [is] encouraged to contact North Greenbush Police at 283-5323."
The North Greenbush P.D. was assisted by the New York State Police and Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office.

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Seared Duck with Roasted Walnuts and Green Olive Tapenade
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Fresh walnut and olive tapenade is the perfect complement to this succulent duck first course.
- 1 1/4 cups unshelled California walnuts
- 4 cups green olives, large, pitted
- 1/3 cup capers, drained
- 1 tablespoon garlic, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons thyme, fresh, chopped
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 2 tablespoons walnut oil
- 1/4 cup, plus more as needed, olive oil, extra-virgin
- 6 halves duck breast, boned with skin on (each 7-8 ounces, 3 pounds total)
- Coarse salt as needed
- Black pepper, fresh ground, as needed
- Spread unshelled walnuts on baking sheet and place in preheated 350°F oven for 25 minutes. Cool. Shell nuts and break into pieces. Set aside.
- To make tapenade, in food processor chop olives coarsely. Add capers, garlic, thyme, orange juice and walnut oil and process just to combine. With motor running, add enough olive oil to make a mixture that is finely textured, but not a puree, and is just thick enough to hold its shape. Set aside. You will have about 1 3/4 cups tapenade.
- With long, sharp knife, score skin side of duck breasts in diamond pattern. Season generously with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Film skillet with olive oil and place over medium-high heat. When hot, cook breast halves, skin side down for 3-4 minutes, until well-browned. Turn and cook 3 minutes more, until well-browned outside yet rare inside. Remove from pan and let rest a minute or two.
- Cut each breast half into lengthwise diagonal slices. Fan slices and place on plate. Place about 1/4 cup tapenade at the side and sprinkle with walnut pieces.
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COPPERAS COVE – Cory Scott has never enjoyed taking the easy way.
He prefers criticism to coddling. He thrives on brutal honesty and hard work, and his tough skin is just as important to his success as his soft jumper.
On Wednesday, the Copperas Cove senior guard signed up for four years of hard yet rewarding work by inking a national letter of intent to play basketball for Stephen F. Austin State.
After celebrating the occasion with family, friends, teammates, coaches and school administration during a signing ceremony at Bulldawg Gymnasium, Scott admitted playing for a hardnosed perfectionist like Lumberjacks head coach Danny Kaspar is a dream come true.
"He's going to get in you, and he's going to tell you how he feels the situation," the 2012 all-district first team member said. "It's not to get you down, but it is to make you better as a player. He's going to make me better, and I like that.
"I know it is not going to be easy trying to get where I want to go, so I might as well just take the coaches who are going to get in me now."
While the day was momentous for Scott, it was also significant for Copperas Cove. Scott's signature made him the first Bulldawg to sign a national letter of intent to play for a Division I school.
"It is amazing," Copperas Cove head coach Billy White Jr. said. "He has really done a lot for Bulldawgs basketball, and it is great see him have that opportunity to go off and play Division I basketball."
Copperas Cove superintendent Joe Burns echoed the sentiments.
"That is a phenomenal achievement," Burns said. "But we are glad he's here for the rest of the season because we are going to need him."
Less than 24 hours prior to signing with the Lumberjacks, the Bulldawgs relied heavily on Scott, who scored a game-high 31 points in an 83-70 season-opening victory at Pflugerville Hendrickson, continuing a trend of high-scoring games dating back to last season.
In the final six games of District 12-5A play last season, Scott averaged 22.2 points per game, including three games with at least 25 points and consecutive 30-point performances.
Obviously, Scott's skills on the court were appealing to Kaspar, but his personality cemented the decision for the most successful coach in Stephen F. Austin State history.
"I'm not the easiest guy to play for," Kaspar said. "I'm very demanding, so we need to recruit people that have some character and discipline."
While Scott is an all-around talent at guard for Copperas Cove, leading the team in points (17.8) and assists (3.2) as a junior, in addition to averaging 1.1 steals per game and connecting on 46 percent of his shots, including 39 percent from behind the 3-point arc, Kaspar views Scott's role within his program to be more of an off guard.
And the coach is expecting Scott to contribute immediately for a team coming off its fourth 20-win season in the last five years.
"His versatility will help him get more minutes on the floor," Kaspar said. "We hope he can give us some quality minutes next year."
First, however, Scott will be expected to help lead the Bulldawgs back into the playoffs – something he believes is a legitimate goal. In fact, Scott intends to finish his high school career with an impressive postseason run.
"I'm not going to take (this season) lightly," Scott said. "I've still got things I need to do here for my team. Obviously, we want to win a district championship and make a run at a state title, so I'm going to give them 100 percent every day and every night."
Regardless of if the Bulldawgs win state or not, Scott can expect to have White constantly barking at him, and he would not want it any other way.
"Cory is a kid who is going to work hard, but he doesn't mind when you get on him and do some things like that," White said. "Trust me, I have done so many times in the past few years. But he is that type of kid. He loves the game of basketball, and wants to always get better.
"The only way he is going to get better is to keep pushing and keep pushing, so it is great for him to have coaches who are going to push him like that."


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Decay accelerating factor (DAF/CD55) is targeted by many pathogens for cell entry. It has been implicated as a co-receptor for hantaviruses. To examine the binding of hantaviruses to DAF, we describe the use of Protein G beads for binding human IgG Fc domain-functionalized DAF ((DAF)2-Fc). When mixed with Protein G beads the resulting DAF beads can be used as a generalizable platform for measuring kinetic and equilibrium binding constants of DAF binding targets. The hantavirus interaction has high affinity (24–30 nM; kon ~ 105 M−1s−1, koff ~ 0.0045 s−1). The bivalent (DAF)2-Fc/SNV data agree with hantavirus binding to DAF expressed on Tanoue B cells (
Virus entry and productive infection generally require the expression of specific cell-surface receptor molecules on target cells. Receptors can efficiently target viruses for endocytosis or may be used to activate specific signaling pathways that facilitate entry. Decay-accelerating factor (DAF/CD55) has been implicated in many cases of multi-receptor tropism amongst the enteroviruses [
More recently, DAF has been identified as co-receptor of pathogenic hantaviruses: Hantaan virus (HTNV), Puumala virus (PUUV) [
To the best of our knowledge the interactions of hantaviruses and DAF have been limited to few functional (infection) assays in the literature [
Schematic of the molecular assembly of Alexa 488 labeled, IgG Fc domain-functionalized DAF (DAF)2-FcAlexa488 and octadecyl rhodamine B (R18)-labeled SNV (SNVR18) on Protein G beads and confocal microscopy images of the components. (DAF)2-Fc is immobilized on protein G (
Binding of fluorescently labeled (DAF)2-FcAlexa488 to protein G beads was measured by incubating a variety of concentrations of the fluorescent probe with fixed aliquots of beads and analyzing the samples on a flow cytometer.
Equilibrium binding analysis of (DAF)2-FcAlexa488 to protein G beads. (
In summary, we have developed a generalizable molecular assembly platform for studying interactions between DAF and its ligands (
As an illustrative example, the equilibration times (calculated from Equation (1)) for incubating (DAF)2-Fc with Protein G beads using the same concentration of soluble (DAF)2-Fc, as that used in
Tanoue B-suspension cells express DAF but not the entry receptor integrin αvβ3 (
Total Receptor surface distribution of DAF and αvβ3 at Vero-E6, and Tanoue B cells surfaces.
|DAF a
|Total αvβ3 b
|Vero E6
|5.85 ± 1.37 × 103 i
|1.61 ± 0.38 × 106
|2.54 ± 0.84 × 105 ii
|2.26 ± 0.28 × 105 iii
|Tanoue B
|9.29 ± 2.18 × 104 i
|None detected
Median channel fluorescence (MCF) from flow cytometry histograms was used to determine the receptor expression using MESF calibration beads (see Experimental methods). The same secondary antibody was used for all measurements. IgG1 and IgG 2a K isotype controls were used as appropriate isotype controls. (
Real time binding time courses of 10, 20, and 30 µL aliquots of 108/µL SNVR18 particles to 40,000 (DAF)2-Fc beads in 400 µL HHB buffer were analyzed on a flow cytometer.
The typical data were averaged over 10-second time bins to reduce the noise and then fit to the model given in Equations (4) and (5). The median channel fluorescence (MCF) associated with SNVR18 was then converted to surface occupancy of SNVR18/bead using lipobead calibration standards as described in the Experimental section. The data were then converted to concentration units as previously described [
Binding of SNVR18 to Tanoue B cells and DAF beads. (
Equilibrium binding constants of SNV to DAF allow quantitative estimates of inhibitor concentrations to be made according to Equation (2) [
In this way, we assessed the ability of sDAF and (DAF)2-Fc to block the binding of hantavirus to Tanoue B cells expressing 100,000 DAF/cell, and lacking αvβ3 expression (
Finally, we used increasing titers of up to 3.35 µM soluble DAF (sDAF) to inhibit infection of Vero E6. It is worth noting that the ratio of total particles to infectious virions in our preparations is 14,000:1 [
Octadecyl rhodamine B chloride (R18), and 5-octadecanoylaminofluorescein (F18) were purchased from Molecular Probes (Life Technologies, Eugene, OR, USA) and used without further purification. 6.8 µm Protein G coated polystyrene beads were purchased from Spherotech (Libertyville, IL, USA). Recombinant DAF was purchased from R&D systems. Rabbit polyclonal H319 anti DAF antibody was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, TX, USA). Primary antibodies for immunostaining: CD55/DAF (1:40, Millipore Cd55 MsxHu, # CBL 511) mouse monoclonal anti‑human DAF, clones IA10, 2H6 ascites, 8A7 ascites [
SNV was propagated and titered in Vero E6 cells under strict standard operating procedures using biosafety level 3 (BSL3) facilities and practices (CDC registration number C20041018-0267) as previously described [
The envelope membrane of hantavirus particles was stained with the lipophilic lipid probe octadecylrhodamine (R18) and purified as previously described [
The sequence encoding the short consensus repeats 1–4 of human DAF (residues 35–286; GenBank accession number P08174) was cloned upstream and in-frame of the human IgG1 hinge/Fc sequence. Both DAF and Fc sequences were codon-optimized for expression in tobacco. The Fc encoded the mutation N297➔Q (numbering according to Kabat
Transient expression of the fusion protein was accomplished by whole-plant vacuum infiltration [
1.8 µM (DAF)2-Fc in 200 µL sodium bicarbonate buffer (pH 8.3) was mixed with 20 µL of 1 mg/mL amine-reactive Alexa Fluor 488 carboxylic acid succinimidyl ester in DMSO for 30 min at room temperature. The fluorescently tagged (DAF)2-Fc was purified and concentrated by ultra filtration in phosphate buffered saline using a 30,000 NMWCO Centricon membrane. The fluorophore to protein (f/p) ratio was determined following standard procedures supplied by the manufacturer. The f/p ratio was 2.8:1. The quantum yield (ϕ) of (DAF)2-FcAlexa488 was measured relative to fluorescein with absorbance matched samples using a Hitachi model U-3270 spectrophotometer (San Jose, CA, USA) and a Photon Technology International QuantaMaster model QM-4/2005 spectrofluorometer (Lawrenceville, NJ, USA).
Analysis of purified DAF-Fc. (
Tanoue B, and Vero E6 were maintained in minimum essential media (MEM) (GIBCO, Grand Island, NY, USA). All media contain 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), 100 units/mL penicillin, 100 mg/mL streptomycin, 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 20 mg/mL ciprofloxacin, 2 mM L-glutamine, at 37 °C in a water jacketed 5% CO2 incubator.
Confocal laser scanning microscopy was performed with Zeiss META or LSM 510 systems using 63 × 1.4 oil immersion objectives as previously described [
Equilibrium and kinetic binding interactions were analyzed by flow cytometry as described previously [
The number of receptors per bead or cell was calibrated using a variety of calibration beads depending on spectroscopic region of interest. Commercial standards from Bangs Laboratories (Fishers, IN, USA), Quantum fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) MESF (molecules of equivalent soluble fluorescein) beads were used with the appropriate correction factor, to account for the spectroscopic differences between calibration standards and probes detected in the 515–545 nm band pass filter-delimited spectral region [
Lipid coated glass beads (lipobeads) were prepared as previously described [
Adherent cells (Vero) were detached with accutase (Sigma), blocked with 10% human serum for 1 h, and incubated with primary antibodies at 4 °C on a rotator for 2 h. Secondary antibodies were incubated at 4 °C on a rotator for 1 h. The cells were washed once and then analyzed with an Accuri C6 flow cytometer. Non-specific binding by secondary antibodies was determined by staining cells with isotype controls in the absence of primary antibodies (see
Binding assays were performed by incubating varying concentrations of SNVR18 with 10,000 Tanoue B cells in microfuge tubes gently nutating for 30 min. Specific binding to DAF expressed on Tanoue B cells was blocked with 40 µg/mL of rabbit H319 anti-DAF antibodies [
For BSL3 live virus infection assays, Vero E6 cells were infected with SNV strain SN77734 inocula (moi = 0.1) that had been preblocked with 0–3.35 µM soluble DAF (sDAF) in a final volume of 100 µL for 1hour. Unbound virus particles were removed by a triple washing, and cells were then transferred to a CO2 incubator for 24 h. The infection was monitored by a standard Western blot analysis of N-protein expression where cell lysates were boiled in sodium dodecyl sulfate buffer and separated by 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. SNV N protein was detected with αSNV/N, (hyperimmune rabbit anti-SN virus N protein) [
The time course of association was measured by acquiring a 60–180 s baseline of ligand-free beads before an aliquot of (DAF)2-FcAlexa488 was added with a Hamilton syringe, while data collection continued for up to 600 s. This process was repeated for different concentrations of (DAF)2-FcAlexa488. Raw data were converted to ASCII format, using software developed by Dr Bruce Edwards at UNM [
Hantaviruses encode two glycoproteins, Gn and Gc, which are required for receptor binding. We used the structural parameters from recent studies of Tula [
Model binding of multivalent virus (V) to bivalent (DAF)2-Fc on beads occurs in two steps (S, M, L refer to
It is also possible to consider the ligation of more than one (DAF)2-Fc receptor on the bead. This might increase the valency to 2 + n (where n is the nominal value of additional DAF binding sites). Based on topographical constraints and goodness of fit of a simple model, the multi (DAF)2-Fc ligation model was not considered. The present scheme is illustrated in
Assuming that
The experimental rate equations for the variable parameters in Equation (5) were solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta method [
This study has described a generalizable cell-free platform to characterize specific binding interactions between DAF and SNV. The derived equilibrium and kinetic binding constants from this study provide useful insights into future studies on the mechanism of DAF's co-receptor role in mediating cell entry.
This work was supported by NIH Grants R03AI092130, R21NS066429, 1P50GM085273, UNM School of Medicine RAC award and The New Mexico State Cigarette Tax to the UNM Cancer Center. Images in this article were generated in the University of New Mexico Cancer Center Fluorescence Microscopy Facility P30CA118100-08S2 Sub-Project ID: 6322.
Buranda T, Hjelle B. Belle A. and Wycoff K. designed research; Schaefer L., Maclean J., Mo Z. and Belle A., cloned, expressed and purified and analyzed (DAF)2-Fc from Nicotiana benthamiana and wrote the method; Hjelle, B. provided SNV virology expertise; Swanson S., Bondu V. and Buranda, T. performed the binding and infection assays; Buranda, T. analyzed the data and wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Application of the steady state approximation to the association of SNV with (DAF)2-fc beads.
From Equation (4b):


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Mayor urges Aucklanders to stay safe
News Release
5 December 2012
Mayor urges Aucklanders to stay safe
The Mayor urges Aucklanders to stay safe in the heavy weather that has hit Auckland, after a tornado in Hobsonville and heavy rain and surface flooding in West Auckland.
Auckland Civil Defence is working with emergency services, and closely monitoring the situation in West Auckland where there are reports of fatalities and roof damage following a tornado around lunchtime.
Police have set up an operational base at Whenuapai near where the worst of the damage is reported.
Metservice warns there is the likelihood of more tornados may be experienced in the next few hours.
The Mayor says people should stay inside if possible, or if driving, take great care.


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Lyfe Tymme
Dust To Dust Is A Must - Poem by Lyfe Tymme
After his demise....after prevention from decay n delay in turning to clay
Dressed n raised him up in his favorite spot for peeps to pep
Signing condolences; to do wit conscience n Differences n sympathy
Took him to church
Even if its not wit A Porch...
The Catholic, the Reverend father n the Cathcist slow in a rush holdin' a clutch to let go
Left him in D Underground away from the water flush
In his favorite place, undertakers act drama like Harley Chase
Dust to dust is a must at all cost
Families...relatives strangers dEeply morn the loss
Mac Dowells mixed wit' sweeten, rapped wit a fabric in my left pocket
Consolations not to kick d bucket
The two balls are red in my Socket
Loud cries....cover me in his blanket
Left him alone n drove away in convoy to fiEld to feel n feed those that still breed
Shaw n wine, chairmen wit Chapman
Local dogs n bones
Music n Rhythm
Rest him in peace n grant him heaven
Dust to dust is a must at all cost.
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Chinedu Dike (9/12/2014 6:46:00 PM)
Made from dust, we must all return to dust. Death is the call of Nature, it is inevitable. A nice piece of poetry. Keep it up and thanks for sharing. (Report) Reply
Gajanan Mishra (1/13/2014 8:18:00 AM)
dust to dust is a must at any cost, good one, thanks. (Report) Reply
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Earlier this week, we posted a story about a restaurant customer who not only chose to deny the waitress a tip, but also wrote "I Give God 10% Why do you Get 18?" on the receipt. Now we've learned that the server who posted the receipt online has been fired.
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Here's how you can use the hosts file to block access to web sites in Linux.
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type in the following command to back up your hosts file, then hit Enter:
sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak
3. Type in the following command to block Facebook, for example:
sudo sh -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 http://facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts'
4. If you prefer to use a different method, use this command:
sudo sh -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 http://facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts'
To block a different site, just replace facebook.com in the command.
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| Remove from label for propofol (Diprivan) the warning that propofol should be administered only by trained persons
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Dr. Randolph Freeman
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|08/25/2005 11:08:30
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|Anesthesia Associates of Belleville, Ltd.
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| Taking propofol out of the venue of professionals trained in anesthesia (MD's and CRNA's) would be an extremely grave mistake. Respiratory sensitivity to propofol varies with individuals and you must or should have someone trained in airway management present when propofol is being administrated.


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Anyone else notice sites going down? - Printable Version
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Anyone else notice sites going down? - BrandonOBrien - 09-08-2006 08:14 AM
None of the sites I have hosted on whittier.dreamhost are working.
Also, I can't get dreamhoststatus.com to pull up either.
Anyone know of any scheduled outtages that might be causing this?
Anyone else notice sites going down? - munk - 09-08-2006 08:22 AM
Yeah, hard to get a status report when the status report page is down...
One of my sites is up and running "normally", but I did have an error once about my SQL not exsisting. Another wouldn't load at all. "index.php" not found...but it has since come back.
Oh the joy.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - Tyrel Lohr - 09-08-2006 10:02 AM
Ditto here, except that all of the sites under my main user account are down. Which really isn't all that convenient, and this isn't the first time that it has happened in the last few months.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - seiler - 09-08-2006 10:18 AM
The status page is the only thing that doesn't load for me -- but that's not hosted here, so I doubt that's linked to any other problems.
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Anyone else notice sites going down? - edalzell - 09-08-2006 10:23 AM
Same here, my site is kinda up and I can't get to DH status either.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - snokarver - 09-08-2006 10:26 AM
Status is down here too.
My sites are up, however. They are a bit slow.
I'm starting to think DH should scrap the whole status site for one that just tells us when services are running normally. It would be MUCH less work for them since they wouldn't have had to do anything for the past month or so.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - lvkyle - 09-08-2006 10:30 AM
my site has been slow, unresponsive, and lagging badly for the past 3 days during the morning hours and was down for over a hour yesterday.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - kevinr - 09-08-2006 11:24 AM
Likewise, I can't get to http://www.dreamhoststatus.com and my site is either unusably slow or not responding. My site was that way for the last 3 days with the exception of last evening.
I thought the status page was hosted elsewhere, to let DH customers check the status even during a major outage. If it's hosted at DH, that makes it a lot less useful..
Anyone else notice sites going down? - mcaldero - 09-08-2006 11:28 AM
I've been with Dreamhost for over 6 years, and I've stuck with them through their growing pains over the years. I've never really considered leaving them until the past few weeks. It has just been awful. How anyone can run a business like this is beyond me.
Anyone else notice sites going down? - aldar - 09-08-2006 11:40 AM
It's been several days that I experience several complete downtimes.
Today, my site is down like every 10 minutes, including FTP.
So every 10 minutes i'm disconnected from FTP breaking my file upload.
I'm always suprised about how much RAGE I can feel when troubles like this happen with my hosting provider.


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We Are Knitters is a yarn company with a zestful outlook and a strong commitment to the environment, and this fabulous kit contains everything you need to make the Air Snood. Easy to knit, the warm and cosy Air Snood is a quick-to-make project in thick yarn using large needles. The kit includes 2 x 100g skeins of Petite Peruvian Wool (the softest, downiest 100% Peruvian yarn), a pair of beautiful We Are Knitters 8mm (US11) beechwood knitting needles, the pattern for the Air Snood, a tapestry needle for sewing up and stitching in any loose ends, and an embroidered label for your finished project. All beautifully packaged in the distinctive We Are Knitters style.
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Interview: Geoff Chapple, Founding CEO of the Te Araroa Trust
Liam Butler interviews Geoff Chapple, Founding CEO of the Te Araroa Trust.
25 July 2014
Geoff Chapple is an accomplished writer, journalist and committed trail-blazer. He is the author of four books, including Rewi Alley, 1981: The Tour and New Zealand North to South.
This year Geoff has again updated his guidebook of Te Araroa Trail: The Long Pathway to include route changes. It is the official guide to New Zealand's greatest walk. Random House NZ $49.99 www.randomhouse.co.nz
The Te Araroa Trail is a continuous trail running from Cape Reinga to Bluff, 35 years in the making, which officially opened in late 2011. The book maps the 3000-kilometre trail in 40-kilometre sections, with maps by leading map maker Roger Smith of Geographx.
Question one
As the founding CEO of Te Araroa Trust you must know the 3,000 km trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff better than almost anyone else. Which part would you describe as its most hidden treasure?
The Red Hills (Nelson region) are geologically astonishing, and the Mavora Lakes track is very beautiful - both are hidden at the end of several days' walk southbound.
Question two
Many older people love to tramp. Te Araroa includes day walks and long tramps.
What do you think are the best day walks in the North and South Island?
In the North Island the Tongariro Alpine Crossing can be walked in a day - but note that it is an alpine crossing, rather than a "day walk". Auckland's Coast to Coast Walk is a great urban walk full of surprises, and you can catch the train back!
In the South Island the Foveaux Walkway is a cracker, going through different types of flora and finishing right at Stirling Point. Just across the water Stewart Island beckons.
Question three
Your book combines history, photography and 3D maps in a way that entices the reader to walk part or all of the Long Trail masterfully. Do you have any tips for older people who want to encourage younger people to try tramping rather than television?
Take them out into the bush! Find your nearest hut and spend a night there with them.
Question four
What parts of Te Araroa are Wheel Chair Accessible?
Most parts of most of the urban sections are accessible.
Question five
The NZ Government is investing in raising the profile of cycle trails for the benefits of New Zealanders and the delight of tourists. What needs to happen for Te Araroa to fulfill its potential as a tourism revenue earner for New Zealand?
A good investment of Government money, even a fraction of the amount ploughed into the cycleways, would be a huge help.
Question six
All royalties of this book go to Te Araroa Trust. How can older people volunteer to ensure that the track is extended and maintained?
Te Araroa is the people's trail. Anybody, anywhere, can adopt a section of the trail and make sure it stays clear, weed free, and easy to follow.
Take in any Te Araroa walkers you find and give them a meal or a bed - you can meet fascinating people from all over the world.
If you have building or track-making skills contact the trust and offer your services.
A bit more about Geoff and A Walking Guide To New Zealand's Long Trail: Te Araroa
Geoff Chapple is a modern-day visionary who took the concept of a continuous trail running the length of New Zealand and turned it into a reality. Until recently the CEO of the Trust, Chapple complements the maps with a running commentary describing the landscape, the flora and fauna encountered along the way, as well as the special features of particular parts of the trail. Photographs of the trail illustrate each section.
Each of the 12 regional sections opens with a stunning 2-page 3D map. A short introduction describes the history of the trail as well as the variety of New Zealand's landscape along the way: forest, farmland, volcanoes and mountain passes, river valleys, green pathways and the urban areas of seven cities. This book is an accessible guide both for those who only want to walk parts of the trail and dedicated trampers who intend to walk its entire length.
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Discussion in 'GameSpy General Gaming' started by -1313-Evil_Homer, Jun 18, 2012.
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I miss Minecraft.
Gaming...is a fun worthwhile activity
Play with me damnit.
Where? I need white listing...
Depends on what game...
games are fun, events rule!
Oh man Matt! How's China if you are still there?
in Europe for a month . China's fine, just no GSA there.. not that it does much now except make memories hehe.
let me know when they reboot the WIZ program . all well with you?
Yep all is well. Things are not too bad actually! Still working on the MMO game?
Games are fun
Some games are fun but some aren't fun
Games are fun?! Bylin would disagree.
You're like the Neutral Preisdent on Futurama.
Ha! Flashback to 2006.
Doing the same thing over and over isn't fun
They are indeed.
I remember that thread. I was in the camp that a game doesn't need to be fun to be a good game. My example to back that up was Final Fantasy 7 and since then I would add Heavy Rain.
But FFVII is fun. I recently re-bought it on PC and am having a good time with it.
Turn based fighting is fun? Not for me, the closest thing to fun in that game were the arcade games at the goldenn saucer. I put up with the lackluster gameplay to facilitate the story.
I liked the combat in FFVII a lot when it was new. Not sure how I'd feel about it now.
I played half way through it back in 2005 and had a pretty good time with it then.
For me it is. As long as the turn based fighting remains active (meaning the game doesn't freeze while you're taking your turn), I find it a nice mix of speed and strategy. Dicking around gets you killed, but quick thinking can be rewarded.
Well try Heavy Rain then and tell me if you think that's fun.
Someday I plan to. When it's really, really cheap.
I play games when they are cheap, I see no point in playing dear for a game
Games are fun but I can't keep up with all the ones I want to play! Not enough time..Right now on the PC I'm playing Diablo 3, Alan Wake, Black Mesa, and Battlefield 3 Campaign. On the PS3 I'm playing Just Cause 2 and Outland..I still have Infamous 2 (+ vampire expansion), Borderlands 1 and a few other titiles I've not even started. And right around the corner we've got XCOM, Dishonored and Hitman coming out!
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The bath water where Houston was found measured 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit six hours after her death, suggesting a temperature of as high as 150 degrees when she died.
The medical examiner's report, the newspaper claimed, also revealed a perforated nasal septum caused by habitual cocaine use.
One coronary artery, according to the report, was found to have narrowed by 60 percent. And several scars indicated a series of plastic surgeries on her chest, stomach and left thigh.
Autopsy: Whitney Houston Had 11 Missing Teeth, Skin Slippage, Weakened Heart, Scalded by Water
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Discussion in 'Sports Zone' started by Doomsday101, Feb 18, 2013.
You don't think the fact he was a minority in a white sport had anything to do with it?
Danica >> Johanna
She has 7 top 10's on the nationwide in her 1st season. Montoya did not come into NASCAR winning right away either. These guys are not handing out top cars to just anyone if they did not feel she had the ability they would find someone who did. As for how she is coming up she went from Indy racing to nationwide just like her male counterparts have done and she is racing in limited events on the Cup series just like many of her male counterparts have done.
You may think she sucks they don't
No because he was winning Jr events at a very young age that is why he was being seen on talk shows as a child. As he got college he was highly sought after by the top colleges and when he was there he wins 3 US Amateur consecutively then in his 2nd year on the PGA wins his 1st major and goes on to win 14 total at this point?
Only 3 men in the history of the game have won double digits in Majors Jack Nicklaus with 18, Tiger with 14 and Walter Hagen won 11 all the other all time greats of the game like Hogan, Jones, Watson and a host of others are well behind what Tiger has accomplished.
Calling someone hyped and that person living up and exceeding the hype is pretty damn impressive. You may not like the guy but he is the best the game has ever seen.
She hasn't shown that at all. She didn't run up front at all last year in the Nationwide series. She won't run up front this year in the cup series. Heck, she won one race in all the years she drove the open wheel cars and she's always had great equipment simply because of her gender.
She's also the only woman to ever attempt to qualify for the 500 with Hendrick equipment. Her teammates also qualified right up front.
You can pretend it's an amazing feat, it's not. It's historical, but not really that impressive when you know the details.
She's in the cup series full time this year. She started her stock car career running full time Nationwide and selective cup races last year. That is way too ambitious. She's not ready and showed it last year. She would never be where she's at right now if not for being a woman.
She will not be in the top 20 in points this year. Maybe not even top 25. She's in over her head. Especially when she gets off the plate tracks and actually has to drive the car.
There hasn't been one open wheel driver in the modern era who came over to run one of these top two series that has been a success story. Montoya's about the best name you can mention and he hasn't won a thing outside of a couple of road course races.
Carpentier flamed out. Hornish flamed out and is now gaining experience back in Nationwide. I don't expect anything more from Danica. You can't expect to learn on the fly against the best in the business. She should have started in a lower series where her equipment advantage might have given her a chance to be competitive.
never stated it was an amazing feat but it is a big deal being the 1st to do something and while the equipment is very good it still takes skill to hit your marks at the speed they are traveling to post the time that she did. Everyone else was shooting for the top spot. As for what you think is too ambitious the reason she did not start in ARCA was because of experiance in the Indy racing league just as other open wheel drivers have done she is taking the same path as them.
How she may finish this season it is hard to say her best finish in cup was at Phoenix that is not a plate race and on Nationwide she finished 9th at Bristol and that sure as heck is not a plate race.
She could start by not filming anymore provocative Go Daddy commercials.
She's not a victim. She's usually her sexuality to keep her butt in that seat. While I think she has talent, she certainly doesn't have the on track performance to warrant such quality rides everywhere she's been.
Daniel Patrick would have a much tougher road.
Really Tony Stewart was racing open wheel before he went to NASCAR
Never said she was a victim what is it with you putting words in people mouth? She is doing what other have done, will she find instant success chances are no, there is a lot that goes into it but she is taking the same path as male counter parts have done and what people in their business think are the right moves and right way to do it as opposed to a know it all message board member. You act as if you know everything as opposed to those who do this for a living. :laugh2:
Go get a clue before telling others they don't know. :laugh2:
Nationwide is a lower level. She struggled to get 10th every week with the best car in the field most of the time. In Cup, she'll struggle to run 20th. Watch and see.
It's not hard to say where she'll finish this year. Outside the top 20. I guarantee it.
Her experience in the IRL means nothing. We're talking about stock car experience. She had none. She's been trying to learn on the fly since last year. Following a path of such success stories as Marcos Ambrose and Juan Pablo Montoya and Patrick Carpentier and Sam Hornish Jr. They of the combined no wins outside the road courses and no top 10 points finishes in their career. These guys are field fillers.
Yes Mr know it all you know because of your vast experiance as opposed to people who actually own and run these cars. Yes your word is everything.
You are such a joke acting as if you know it all and yet have done nothing even close to what these professional have done.
You said she can't help it. I laugh at that ridiculous notion since she films an endless reel of sexually driven commercials. Yes....she clearly has no control over it.
Danica Patrick is all hat and no cattle. I believe she has talent but it needs to be developed over time. Most of these guys have years and years of experience racing against each other in similar chassis before they arrive in the cup series. Danica's trying to skip all that and jump right in with drivers that are frankly her superior. She can't hang and won't hang for a very long time, if ever.
I know enough not to say ridiculous things like her IRL experience allows her to jump into Nationwide without experience.
I would get laughed out of any Nascar hauler saying something like that.
She makes commercial so does everyone else in her sport, those logo on the side and other sponsor not only expect it they demand it.
Tony Stewart also raced the lower levels of stock car too.
Google failed you there.
Might I suggest trying Mario Andretti?
Yeah that is why these owners put these drivers in these cars. Only laughing stock is you. You act as if you know all there is to know and yet the more you talk the more you show you don't know much at all.
No one is putting people behind the wheels of these very expensive cars if they don't believe in their talent level to do the job.
Yes. All drivers attempt to sell their body in their sponsor commercials.
Stewart was racing many different level of midgets and so on and was racing in the indy league as well.


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The company was stung by weakness in its U.S. and European markets, where sales volumes declined.
Despite the weakness during the spring quarter, Timothy T. Tevens, Columbus McKinnon's president and chief executive officer, said he expects its domestic markets to improve in the coming months, while Europe also has shown early signs of strengthening.
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The company's sales fell by 9 percent to $139 million during the quarter that ended in June, down from $153 million a year ago, as lower volumes offset the impact of higher prices. The sales were weaker than the $148 million in revenues that analysts were forecasting.
Columbus McKinnon's U.S. sales, which account for 59 percent of its overall revenues, dropped by 9 percent to $82 million, with more than half of the decline stemming from the sale of a crane business last August. The company's international sales dropped by 10 percent to $56.9 million.
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A 63-year-old Ogden man will spend 120 days in jail for attacking a nurse at McKay-Dee Hospital Center in 2011.
Charles Anderson was charged with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony, after he tried to strangle a nurse with monitor wires on Nov. 8, 2011.
Last week, 2nd District Judge Michael DiReda sentenced the man to up to five years in prison, but suspended the sentence in favor of the Weber County jail sentence and 36 months probation.
This was the fifth time Anderson had been scheduled to be sentenced since he pleaded guilty to the charge in June 2012. According to court records, Anderson had heart surgery and was in poor health, which delayed the original August sentencing hearing.
Anderson reportedly was belligerent with hospital staff on Nov. 8, 2011. While he was being helped to a urinal that day, Ogden police officials have said he ripped wires from the monitor and wrapped them around a nurse's neck.
The nurse called for help before losing consciousness as other staffers arrived.
Anderson wrote in a February letter to DiReda that he does not remember that day.
"I do not know anything that happened," Anderson wrote. "I don't even remember seeing the nurse at the time of the assault. They had me on a lot of drugs at the time and I remember nothing. ... I didn't come out of it until the second day in jail."
Anderson wrote that he was at the hospital in November 2011 to have heart surgery.
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BARACK Obama's anti-Israel jihad is one of the most irresponsible policy lurches by any modern American president. It rightly earns Obama the epithet of the US president least sympathetic to Israel in Israel's history. Jimmy Carter became a great hater of Israel, but only after he left office.And it gets better. Read it all here.
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It was previously burnt to the ground in an Arab riot in 1721. And rebuilt.
The Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem, around 1920
Then, again.
Once the Jordanians got done with it
Then the hope, the promise.
The arch.
And now, finally.
Last summer
And the Arabs are rioting again.
For dinner, S. whomped up an incredibly delicious venison stew. He got the meat from a buddy at his gun club who bagged more than he could eat or freeze.
It's a tradition.
A scan of the multitude of news stories on the outrage, the affront and the insult ought to give you a clue. E.g., the CBC:
Canada voiced muted criticism Thursday over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in disputed East Jerusalem.The BBC:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sharply rebuked Israel over its recent decision to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.AFP:
European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday urged Israel to reverse a decision to build new homes in occupied east Jerusalem that she warned could throttle peace talks.Even the Jerusalem Post:
Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, said that Israel's announcement on building in east Jerusalem during United States Vice President Joe Biden's visit last week was intentional and not coincidental.So if you answered "East Jerusalem," it would be hard to fault you. But you'd be wrong. Ramat Shlomo is due north of Jerusalem. Not east, not northeast. Not quite even north-northeast.
Eiferman Properties Ltd. lists homes for sale in Ramat Shlomo. On this page of its website is a photo and (scroll down) a Google satellite map of the community. If you zoom out four clicks, you'll get a much clearer idea of where Ramat Shlomo is situated in Jerusalem and specifically with respect to those Arab neighborhoods to which the media usually refers when using the phrase "east Jerusalem." Although it sounds innocuous, that phrase is loaded, because it's commonly intended to conjure up images of displaced Arabs and Israeli "land grabs."
The new housing in Ramat Shlomo, of course, is neither. The expansion won't impinge on the nearby Arab neighborhood of Shuafat and, as you can see (or read), Ramat Shlomo is already a thriving community of close to 20,000 people and the new units are intended to accommodate the population's natural growth within the confines of plans that were neither new nor expected to be controversial.
Actually, back to that (zoomed out) map, if you have sharp eyes, you'll see, all the way down at the bottom and slightly to right of center of your screen, two small, flat, white patches with black dots in the middle. Those would be, respectively, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque, which sit at the far eastern edge of the Old City and pretty much define the heart of "east Jerusalem."
Hopefully, this will help to put into graphic perspective Evelyn Gordon's salient point in this important post at Contentions. Bottom line:
All the parties concerned were understandably upset by the announcement's timing: just as proximity talks were about to begin, and while Vice President Joe Biden was in the region. But substantively, the new construction makes absolutely no difference to the prospects of an agreement -- because any agreement would unquestionably leave this neighborhood in Israel's hands.Other than the (admittedly) bad timing of its release, this decision has been demagogued to death. And by people who can't even get their geography straight. It makes you wonder whether they have any idea what they're talking about.
I'd love to know who that official was. Wouldn't you?
France claims it long ago achieved much of what today's U.S. health-care overhaul is seeking: It covers everyone, and provides what supporters say is high-quality care. But soaring costs are pushing the system into crisis. The result: As Congress fights over whether America should be more like France, the French government is trying to borrow U.S. tactics.
In recent months, France imposed American-style "co-pays" on patients to try to throttle back prescription-drug costs and forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses. "A hospital doesn't need to be money-losing to provide good-quality treatment," President Nicolas Sarkozy thundered in a recent speech to doctors.
It's often pointed out that France's health care system was ranked #1 (in 2001) by the WHO. And they have a better record of saving lives than the U.S. does. But in the meantime, the system is under water.
French taxpayers fund a state health insurer, Assurance Maladie, proportionally to their income, and patients get treatment even if they can't pay for it. France spends 11% of national output on health services, compared with 17% in the U.S., and routinely outranks the U.S. in infant mortality and some other health measures.
The problem is that Assurance Maladie has been in the red since 1989. This year the annual shortfall is expected to reach €9.4 billion ($13.5 billion), and €15 billion in 2010, or roughly 10% of its budget.
And this in spite of the fact that France's health care system got to where it is today via a very different path than the one Democrats are planning to drag the U.S. along. For one thing, France did it incrementally, over decades. And then there's this:
In France, "If you are in medical care for the money, you'd better change jobs," says Marc Lanfranchi, a general practitioner from Nancy, an eastern town. On the other hand, medical school is paid for by the government, and malpractice insurance is much cheaper.
Is that where we're heading? Government (i.e., the taxpayers) paying for medical school? As for med mal insurance, suffice it to say that France's legal system in general is very different from ours. In addition, France had its own version of "tort reform" several years ago that's, well, just downright alien.
Here's another difference.
Patients can choose their own doctors, and -- unlike the U.S., where private health insurers can have a say -- doctors can prescribe any therapy or drug without approval of the national health insurance.
So much for cost containment. Yes, the French are pretty happy with their health care system, they pay through the teeth for it and it's been bankrupt for more than a decade.
Anyway, read the whole thing. Compare and contrast. It's an interesting profile.
Hey, the distinguished panel on Fareed Zacharia's show this morning was bemoaning the fact that, while Europeans realistically "expect to die," Americans are less eager to capitulate to that particular reality (hence our wasteful spending in keeping people alive who by all rights ought to be out of our hair). This is exactly the mindset that's going to inform our health care decisions under Obamacare. Get ready to capitulate.
WASHINGTON -- US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal."What part of "Jerusalem is not included in the freeze" did the Obama administration miss? Or rather, forget? Because last summer, it sounded like they got it.
The US State Department said Clinton spoke to Netanyahu by phone for 43 minutes to vent US frustration with Tuesday's announcement that cast a pall over a visit to Israel by US Vice President Joe Biden and endangered the indirect peace talks with the Palestinians that the Obama administration had announced just a day earlier.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly agreed to exclude east Jerusalem from any future settlement freeze, Israeli and western officials said.
The officials stressed the United States will not endorse the building of Jewish housing in the predominantly Arab part of Jerusalem but will not publicly condemn the construction either, Haaretz said Thursday
What we have here is a failure to communicate. honestly. And our "partners in peace are loving every minute of it.
Meanwhile, Abbas says talks would have resumed if not for Israel's announcement.Sure. Right. Pull the other one.
Shabbat Shalom.
[W]hat has been placed in front of them [the CBO] is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke-and-mirrors.Brooks:
They've stuffed the legislation with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don't genuinely control runaway spending.
[The Senate bill] does [a] couple of other things. It takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that's really reserved for Social Security. So either we're double-counting them or we don't intend on paying those Social Security benefits.Brooks:
There is the Social Security dodge. The bill uses $52 billion in higher Social Security taxes to pay for health care expansion. But if Social Security taxes pay for health care, what pays for Social Security?
It takes $72 billion and claims money from the CLASS Act. That's the long-term care insurance program. It takes the money from premiums that are designed for that benefit and instead counts them as offsets.
The Senate Budget Committee chairman [Kent Conrad] said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
There is the long-term care dodge. The bill creates a $72 billion trust fund to pay for a new long-term care program. The sponsors count that money as cost-saving, even though it will eventually be paid back out when the program comes on line.And it goes on, pretty much point for point. Now Brooks has been critical of the President's approach to health care for quite a while, because he doesn't think it's big enough, "fundamental" enough or change-y enough. But he's also been on to this cost curve problem all along. And in some cases, it actually sounds like Ryan might have been channeling him. E.g.:
Brooks (on the Senate bill, back in December):
The second reason to oppose this bill is that, according to the chief actuary for Medicare, it will cause national health care spending to increase faster.
Well, if you look at your own chief actuary at Medicare, we're bending it [the cost curve] up.A consensus is building.
The Wall Street Journal has been a source of much clarity on the health care bill debacle. Yesterday, it called the Democrats out on their failure to respond to the points Paul Ryan made at the "summit" last Thursday. Of course, there has been one response ... from Ezra Klein at the WaPo (good of him to step up and give it a shot). Here's a detailed reply from Rep. Ryan (link via Verum Serum; but, seriously, this ought to be published somewhere more prominent than Ryan's Facebook page). Those few links provide a lot of insight into some of the critical points of the health care bill debate, if you have the time to wade through them.
Here's an AP article that I found a bit ironic: Scientists defend warning after tsunami nonevent.
Scientists acknowledged they overstated the threat, but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that killed thousands of people who didn't get enough warning.
"It's a key point to remember that we cannot end the warnings. Failure to warn is not an option for us," said Dai Lin Wang, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. "We cannot have a situation that we thought was no problem and then it's devastating. That just cannot happen."
Caution is always good, but there's that crying wolf thing. Alarms become counter-productive when they turn out to be false. Counter-productive and expensive.
Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground Saturday in a panic that circled the Pacific Rim after scientists warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by the massive Chilean quake.
It was the largest-scale evacuation in Hawaii in years, if not decades. Emergency sirens blared throughout the day, the Navy moved ships out of Pearl Harbor, and residents hoarded gasoline, food and water in anticipation of a major disaster. Some supermarkets even placed limits on items like Spam because of the panic buying.
You'd think the experts could predict a catastrophic event that was supposedly just a few hours away with more accuracy. Let alone one that's supposedly a few decades away. But the fact is, they can't. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Shabbat Shalom.