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In selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken the unusual step of embracing a man whose deficit-reduction plan is far more detailed than his own.
When questioned on his own plans, Romney often refers reporters to his website and his multi-point plan for getting the economy back on track. Many of those plans are just an endorsement of broad concepts, however.
That's not the case with Ryan, a seven-term Wisconsin Republican who's the chairman of the House Budget Committee. His deficit-reduction proposals include revamping Medicare, and that's made some Republicans uncomfortable, in part because anything that tinkers with benefits for seniors is often tantamount to political suicide.
Concerned about potential blowback from his pick, the Romney campaign aired a new ad Tuesday that says Romney's plan would protect Medicare and accuses President Barack Obama of slashing Medicare spending through his health care law. That's a misleading reference to 165 provisions of the Affordable Care Act that would spend $500 million to $700 million less over the next decade through reduced payments to providers and other provisions.
Medicare is the government insurance program for the elderly and people with disabilities. Last year it covered 48.7 million Americans and had expenditures exceeding $549 billion. As baby boomers, born from 1946 to 1964, hit retirement age, they're expected to overwhelm Medicare.
Even before Romney selected his running mate, his website touted Medicare-restructuring ideas similar to Ryan's. Both men support the idea of giving future retirees a fixed amount of money and letting them choose whether to spend it in traditional Medicare fee-for-service programs or use it to buy private insurance.
This private insurance would work off a Medicare exchange, much like the state health care exchanges for today's uninsured envisioned in the law signed by President Barack Obama and derided by Republicans as Obamacare.
Where Romney and Ryan differ, and presumably must reconcile, is in important details, such as how payments for beneficiaries would grow over time as prices rise. Ryan favors capping the per-beneficiary payments to seniors at 0.5 percentage point above the growth rate of the economy. Late last year, he favored a more generous rate of 1 percentage point above economic growth.
Romney is silent on this key detail.
"Mitt continues to work on refining the details of his plan, and he is exploring different options for ensuring that future seniors receive the premium support they need while also ensuring that competitive pressures encourage providers to improve quality and control cost," the Romney website said. "His goal is for Medicare to offer every senior affordable options that provide coverage and service at least as good as what today's seniors receive."
Ryan's plan is much more detailed. With broader budget-deficit reduction as the goal, Ryan's plan would revamp Medicare through a voucher-like program called premium support that would give seniors lump sums that they could use to buy health insurance. In addition to capping the percentage by which Medicare costs could grow, Ryan would raise the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67.
Critics of Ryan's plan, mostly Democrats, argue that there are insufficient guarantees that caps on benefits wouldn't simply become a way of transferring most costs to the elderly. But with Medicare's trustees projecting in April that the program's trust fund will go broke as early as 2024, liberals and conservatives agree that Medicare growth threatens to overwhelm all other government spending.
"Medicare cannot sustain itself as it is now, and I don't know any nonpartisan person who believes it can," said Steve Bell, a senior researcher at the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center, a group that's proposed its own deficit-reduction plan, which also includes capping the growth rate of Medicare benefits.
Whether Ryan's "Path to Prosperity," as his budget plan is known, is the right idea or not, he's put one out for public debate. His selection on the ticket ensures that Medicare will be a key area of debate.
"The Romney plan has been pretty vague, so it's hard to say how much of it is the same as Ryan's," said Bob Bixby, the executive director of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, a budget watchdog group. "I would just assume that Romney's plan is Ryan's plan."
There's little reason to pick Ryan as a running mate if you aren't choosing his detailed deficit-reduction plan with the Medicare centerpiece, Bixby said.
"Paul Ryan is on the ticket because of his budget," he said. "Without Paul Ryan's budget, he would not be a credible pick." It's implausible to think Romney would have selected Ryan "without being pretty much on point with his budget," Bixby said.
Bell of the Bipartisan Policy Center says that others have proposed plans similar to Ryan's, including two liberal Democratic researchers, Henry Aaron and Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution, two decades ago. The ideas of competition and capping the growth rate of Medicare benefits have been the centerpieces of other efforts to revamp the program that failed in Congress.
Indeed, Bell said that most deficit-reduction plans offered in recent years had included some component of what today was called the Ryan plan.
In an opinion-page article in Tuesday's New York Times, David Stockman, who was President Ronald Reagan's budget director, dismissed the Ryan plan as a "fairy tale" that doesn't go far enough.
Calling the plan phony because it defers "changes to social insurance by at least a decade," Stockman, who resigned from the Reagan administration because of its yawning deficits, argued for tougher measures that surely would anger the key voting bloc of seniors.
"A true agenda to reform the welfare state would require a sweeping, income-based eligibility test, which would reduce or eliminate social insurance benefits for millions of affluent retirees," Stockman wrote. "Without it, there is no math that can avoid giant tax increases or vast new borrowing. Yet the supposedly courageous Ryan plan would not cut one dime over the next decade from the $1.3 trillion-per-year cost of Social Security and Medicare."


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What IS parenting?
The perspective most often taken is to look at the effects of parenting (what does parenting do to the child?). However, Alice van der Pas looks carefully from a different perspective - what is the parent's experience? She provides a powerful conceptual framework in her book, A Serious Case of Neglect: The Parental Experience of Child Rearing.
In The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans, Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Stuart G. Shanker, D.Phil. explain how the future of humanity depends on relationship-building. And it begins with intimate, two-way relationships between parent and child. These are the base on which a child builds relationships with others in the community, the nation, the world.
Read more here: Thinking About Parenting.
Anne-Marie Slaughter's advocacy for better workplace policies for families (New York Times opinion piece "A Toxic Work World" 9/20/15) fails families with an at-home parent (mother or father) by pushing them out of the policy discussion. Slaughter claims that too many workplaces were designed for the "Mad Men" and "Leave it to Beaver" era and says: "Our families and our responsibilities don't look like that anymore, but our workplaces do not fit the realities of our lives." First of all, it's insulting to families with an at-home parent to persist in comparing them to sit-com families; secondly by claiming "our families don't look like that anymore" she just erased families with an at-home parent from her policy-making concerns.
Slaughter is the President and CEO of the Washington DC think tank New America Foundation. Their own scholars have advocated for inclusive family policies - rather than policies such as universal child care which serve only some families while ignoring those who prefer to make other choices. Here is the comment I left on the Times Opinions Facebook page:
Why aren't you advocating for inclusive policies? Michael Lind summed up years of work by New America Foundation scholars in "The Next Social Contract." He writes: "the most solvent, efficient, and equitable social contract is one based on a few simple, universal programs of social insurance." Many other countries have been using these types of policies for years. Pointing to core American values, Lind calls for policies that confer "equal rights for all, special privileges for none." The nonprofit organization Family and Home Network campaigns for such policies - inclusive family policies - which support parents equally regardless of how they choose to meet their income-earning and caregiving responsibilities: https://www.newamerica.org/asset-building/guest-post-equality-and-justice-for-all-families/
Rachel Macy Stafford is the author of Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters. Rachel is a beautiful writer, and she writes on topics dear to the Family and Home Network community: time and relationships.
Rachel tells her own story—about being buried in busy-ness—until finally she recognized the negative effects of her distractedness, her perfectionism and hurry-up habits. She started blogging about her struggles to change, and she heard from many others—mothers, fathers, grandparents, teens—all struggling with similar challenges. Rachel explains the strategies she used to "let go of my daily distractions and grasp moments of loving connection."
Not being a perfectionist myself, I wondered whether that aspect of Rachel's story would have meaning for me. I was surprised to recognize myself in some of the scenarios Rachel recounts. I've certainly overcommitted to a volunteer project, obsessed with worry over things I was powerless to change, been distracted by technology.
If you've ever wondered "am I too busy, too distracted?" then Hands Free Mama can be an excellent guide to examining your patterns of behavior. And you can feel great about the things you're already doing to connect with loved ones. I enjoyed being reminded of the value of some things I do with my grandsons: conversations in the car, cuddling, "do nothing" time--and I found some new things to try. The stories Rachel tells, from her own life and from her blogging community, illustrate how emotional connectedness happens--in all it's messy, patched-together imperfection.
A few of the chapter titles illustrate Rachel's journey to a less distracted life: 1. Acknowledge the cost of your distraction – Awareness; 2. Make purposeful connection – Connectedness; 3. Choose what matters – Deliberateness. There are twelve chapters, each examining a concept that Rachel dug into as she changed. She recounts powerful wake-up moments, acknowledges daily struggles, lists ideas and strategies for changing behavior and outlook, and offers suggested weekly intentions and reflections. Rachel's belief in God was an important part of her journey, but it's part of her personal story—I never got the sense that she expected readers to share her beliefs.
There are going to be times for most of us when circumstances conspire to drive us away from our ideals about time and connectedness. No matter how mindful we are about time, things happen. Most of us will experience periods when we are too distracted, too busy. Some families face extraordinary challenges that exhaust them and leave little leeway for deciding how to spend time. Many cultural forces push us away from a focus on investing time in the people we love.
Decades ago, when my children were young, there were books, newspapers, magazines, phones, radio and television. But when we went to the park, I couldn't make a phone call or check my email (there was no email!). Today there are so many new ways to get distracted! But it's not only the external sources of distraction that matter, as Rachel explores in Chapter 8: Silence the Inner Critic - Acceptance. Hands Free Mama is rich in ideas and inspiration for thinking deeply about the day by day choices I make that add up to the essence of who I am.
I'm grateful for Rachel's honesty in telling the story of her journey and for her wisdom in forgiving herself for those distracted years. Forgiveness of oneself is an all-too-rare theme in parenting books and it was especially welcome to find it througout Hands Free Mama. Change is hard, and it takes time. Rachel acknowledges this right up front and has structured her book so it can be read and put into practice one-chapter-a-month for a year. I'll be re-reading this book and recommending it to parents for years to come. I know it will inspire introspection, conversations, and best of all, more connectedness in families and communities.
- reviewed by Catherine Myers, Executive Director of Family and Home Network
As the new year begins, we're reviewing our "to do" list. if you have questions, comments, suggestions -- or if you'd like to volunteer, please speak up!
-Catherine Myers, Executive Director
December 2013
Dear Friends,
This has been a very good year for Family and Home Network, and we're looking forward to a great year in 2014 – when we will celebrate our 30th anniversary!
Family and Home Network's mission is, simply stated: we focus on helping families spend generous amounts of time together.
We've been thrilled to see more attention being paid recently—in policy discussions and in the media—to the impact of parenting. Research evidence shows that the most effective way to help young children is to help their parents. And 33% of parents say they want more time with their children (The Pew Research Center, "Modern Parenthood" 3/14/13).
Unfortunately, there are many work/family activists who strive to keep policymakers' focus on getting parents to remain in the paid workforce and on providing more child care services. Media stories examine the barriers to parental employment, but not the barriers to at-home parenting.
We conceptualize our work in three parts: advocacy, information and affirmation. Your support is vital in enabling us to continue our work.
Please support Family and Home Network with a generous year-end, tax-deductible donation!
Advocacy in 2013: as a result of my attendance at policy events and my questions and comments, I was invited to contribute a guest blog to a major Washington, DC think tank, the New America Foundation. FAHN's Board of Directors worked with me on draft after draft, contributing ideas and editing. The blog post, "Equality and Justice for Families" was published on the New America Foundation website in July. And it is cross-posted on Peggy O'Mara's website (Peggy is the founder of Mothering.com and long-time publisher of Mothering magazine.)
I also wrote a letter to the editor in response to the article "Can American Women Have it All and Be Happy?" by Lin-Yi Zhou in The Forum, the quarterly magazine of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. My letter "Parenting is Vital Work" was published in the Fall 2013 issue.
Family and Home Network offers information and affirmation for parents through our website and weekly postings on Facebook and other social media—and our collaborations with other nonprofit organizations enable us to alert parents to many timely issues. Our Transitioning Home workshops help at-home parents make the transition from a focus on career to life at home with a baby. We look at the "being" as well as the "doing" parts of at-home parenting. Essays from the archives of Welcome Home stand the test of time and continue to offer much-appreciated insight and support to new parents.
Our website serves as a clearinghouse of information for parents, as well as for media representatives and policymakers. In 2013 we added articles about the latest scientific research on the power of emotional and social competencies, and on effective programs to strengthen parent/child relationships in order to prevent or treat trauma. On our Resource pages we provide brief notes and links on an ever-growing number of topics (don't miss our Holiday Resources page).
Our very long "to do" list for 2014 and beyond includes: writing articles, building support for inclusive family policies among the public and policymakers, and expanding the reach of our Transitioning Home workshops. We'd love to hear your feedback, questions and ideas—and if you'd like to get involved in our work as a volunteer, please let me know!
Please help us continue to build on our decades of work: give a generous end-of-year contribution today. Thank you!
Catherine H. Myers
Executive Director
P.S. We love helping parents and children. We can only continue because of the support you give with your donation (every contribution, no matter the amount, helps!). We all work as volunteers, and we operate with a bare-bones budget (approximately $5,000/year – covering insurance, technology costs, bookkeeping services, office supplies, etc.). If you'd like more information about our finances, please let me know.
In this very long and complicated article, it was hard to sort out which issues to address in a 400-word Letter to the Editor—and for a while it sat in my "to do" pile. But I finally sent off a letter, and soon heard from the magazine's editor, Peter Szatmary, who worked with me through several rounds of revisions. My letter to the editor was published in the Fall issue of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum with the headline "Parenting is Vital Work."
I agree with Professor Zhou that the U.S. needs better family policies, but as I wrote in my letter to the editor: "her focus on promoting policies for mothers who pursue full-time careers leaves out mothers as well as fathers who make other choices. Instead, policymakers could enact inclusive family policies that support parents regardless of the ways in which they meet their income-earning and caregiving responsibilities."
If you're interested in working with Family and Home Network on media and public policy issues, please let me know! You can reach me by email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Play is essential for children! Kids play alone, with siblings, friends—and with their parents. This book is about parent-child play. I loved reading Attachment Play: How to solve children's behavior problems with play, laughter, and connection. I wish the subtitle could have been even longer, acknowledging the preventative aspect of play: How to prevent or solve…. As the author, Dr. Aletha Solter says, play can foster cooperation and increase happiness.
Dr. Aletha J. Solter is a developmental psychologist who studied with Jean Piaget in Switzerland, and later earned her Ph.D. at the University of California. She is the founder of the Aware Parenting Institute and author of several other books about parents and children.
The book is organized into three sections, with examples of parent-child play throughout. The first section offers insights into different types of play and how it can strengthen parent-child attachment. In the second section Dr. Solter explains how playing with a child can help to solve behavior problems. And in the third section, she shows how parents can use play, laughter and connection to help children deal with hardships—or prepare for upcoming events such as the birth of a sibling, a medical procedure or beginning school.
Dr. Solter offers reassurance to parents in the chapter "When You Find it Hard to Play." She writes, "Remember that it's never too late to initiate attachment pay even if you missed opportunities to play with your children in the past. Remember, too, that the more you play with your children, the more skilled you will become, and the more you will enjoy it. You and your children will begin to feel more connected, and your power struggles will decrease."
Attachment Play includes information about research on play in an Appendix, as well as Summary Charts of the Nine Forms of Attachment Play, which is useful as a quick reminder/inspiration.
We think it's time to transform the family policy discussion from its current focus on "working families" to one that includes all families. The New America Foundation, a Washington, DC think tank, published my guest post on Friday, July 12:
Equality and Justice for All Families
We'd love to hear what you think - please comment on the New America Foundation's blog, or here, or on FAHN's Facebook page or on Twitter.
Stephanie Coontz's opinion column in The New York Times ("The Triumph of the Working Mother," 6/1/13) is disappointing and misleading. Coontz perpetuates the false dichotomy of "working" v. "at-home mothers," contradicts her own writing from just two years ago, and ignores evidence published in scholarly journals. And she concludes by calling for better policies for only some families - working families.
The first problem with Coontz' column is her assumption that there are two types of mothers - working and at-home:
As the founders of Family and Home Network pointed out 30 years ago, mothers cannot simply be divided into two categories--working and at-home. The statistics most often cited, from the U.S. Department of Labor, include all mothers with children under the age of 18. The "working" category includes: mothers who are employed part-time even just a few hours per week, those who care for other children as well as their own as family child care providers, those working without pay at least 15 hours/week on a "family operated enterprise," those on maternity leave, and others.
In the Journal of Marriage and Family in February 2005. Authors Kathryn Hynes and Marin Clarkberg of Cornell University conducted a complex analysis of data on more than 2400 women. They explain the difference between measuring employment transitions at particular points in time and seeking to understand employment trajectory over a period of time. Hynes and Clarkberg note: "scholars frequently imply that at the first birth, women divide themselves into two groups: workers and homemakers." And they conclude, "Women's employment patterns are characterized by significant amounts of change over the life course."
Second - on mothers' well-being Coontz states, without citing a source:
"Ms. Friedan wins on the question of whether working improves women's well-being. At all income levels, stay-at-home mothers report more sadness, anger, and episodes of diagnosed depression than their employed counterparts."
Yet in 2011, Coontz wrote in The New York Times ("When we Hated Mom" 5/7/11):
"...in a new Council on Contemporary Families briefing paper, the sociologists Margaret Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon report that among mothers of young children, those who were not working and preferred not to have a job had a relatively low risk of depression — about as low as mothers who chose to work and were able to attain high-quality jobs.
"Mothers who want to work outside the home but instead are full-time homemakers, however, have a higher risk of depression. This is a significant group: in 2000, 40 percent of full-time homemakers said they would prefer to be working at a paid job. So telling women who want to work that they or their children will be better off if they stay home is a mistake. Maternal depression is well known as being harmful to children's development.
"These findings suggest that it is time to stop arguing over who has things worse or who does things better, stay-at-home mothers or employed mothers. Instead, we should pay attention to women's preferences and options."
The briefing paper by Usdansky and Gordon is published on the website of the Council on Contemporary Families, of which Coontz is co-Chair. Usdansky and Gordon write:
"The study is also important because it reveals the inaccuracies of arguments that all women should work for pay or that all women should stay at home. It's not as simple as these one-size-fits-all arguments suggest. The actual situation, desire, and job quality all matter. Although our study could not measure why women chose to work for pay or not, it is clearly important for mothers of young children to consider their own desires when deciding whether to seek a job."
Furthermore, the research conducted by Usdansky and Gordon, along with Xue Wang and Anna Gluzman, was published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, March 2012, Volume 33, Issue 1, and in the abstract the authors state:
"...non-employed mothers have elevated depression levels only if they desire employment. Our results demonstrate that neither employment nor non-employment is best for all mothers of young children; rather mental health depends on mothers' employment preferences and, when they do work for pay, job quality."
Third, Coontz calls for better family policies for only some families -- working families -- ignoring principles of equality and choice as well as her own advice - "pay attention to women's preferences and options."
Family and Home Network's Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies calls for family policies that promote equality and choice for mothers and fathers, policies that support families regardless of the ways in which parents meet their income-earning and caregiving responsiblities.
Family and Home Network will contact the Board of Directors of the Council on Contemporary Families and ask them to support the Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies.
Wednesday 6-5-13 update: I sent an email to Stepahnie Coontz, expressing my dismay about her column, and asking her to endorse FAHN's Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies. I received a reply very quickly, Dr. Coontz says, in part, "I didn't choose the headline and found it very dismaying, because if you read the piece carefully you'll see I was just making the argument that work CAN be good for women." And she added that she will be writing again but is currently on deadline with other projects. She adds that the headline "implied a competition between employed and non-employed parents, all of whom do vital WORK."
My take on this: I DID read Coontz's piece carefully, and the problem is not just with the headline chosen by editors. We'll see what happens next. It's fine to express support for the WORK of employed and non-employed parents -- but putting that support into policy means economic support for ALL parents, whether they care for their child(ren) themselves or pay others to provide care. More later... I have to go care for my grandsons now!
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I know, it's a little past Memorial Day. But it's never too late to enjoy a great wartime cartoon that's really hard to see these days! Bob Clampett's "Russian Rhapsody"(1944) takes a very UNfunny historical figure and lampoons him in a very funny way. In World War II, Adolf Hitler, angry that Germany can't quite make it into Russia, decides to fly his own bombing mission to Moscow. He soon learns first-hand what's been happening to his German planes! A whole bunch of "Gremlins from the Kremlin" (caricatures of the Warner animation staff) make a mess of the evil dictator and his plane!
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Chester Backpackers
We are a clean comfortable and friendly hostel in a lovely black & white traditional English building in...
We are a clean comfortable and friendly hostel in a lovely black & white traditional English building in the centre of beautiful Chester.
Chester is an amazing city - fantastic cathedral, superb old buildings and is Britain's most complete walled city. There are numerous museums to visit, Roman sites to wander around, Britain's biggest zoo, great shopping and a lovely river. The nightlife is excellent too with great pubs and clubs and we are just 2 minutes walk from all of this.
Come and stay a day or two, or even longer and explore North Wales, Liverpool, Manchester and Snowdonia National Park, all on Chester's doorstep. Our friendly and helpful staff will give you all the information you need.
We have 3 Twin Ensuite rooms and 1 Double Ensuite Room. There is an 8 Bed Dorm with ensuite shower and toilet which is limited to females only WHEN POSSIBLE!
The 18 Bed MIXED Dorm is limited to 9 people from Sunday to Wednesday to suit our more dedicated travellers! It can however be booked exclusively for various events.
All linen is freshly laundered, computer access is available, free tea and coffee, free WIFI if you have a computer. We are 5 Minutes walk from railway station. The hostel is located 0.3miles from the city centre, shops, city walls and pubs.
There are lots of eat-in and take-away restaurants just a minutes walk from the hostel.
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From the train station walk straight up City Road, turn left just after 'The Compass' pub into Boughton. We are located 200m on the left just before the Waitrose store.
The National Express bus service now arrives and leaves from Terminal 7 at the Chester Bus Exchange. On leaving the station, turn left up Princess Street. Turn Right at the top of the road onto Northgate Street. At the top of the road by St Peters Church turn Left onto Eastgate Street. Pass under the famous clock on top of the Roman wall and keep going straight on this road. Staying on the left hand pavement will take you through 2 pedestrian subways. This road changes from Eastgate Street to Foregate Street then after the second subway becomes Boughton. Exiting out of the 2nd Subway turn right up the steps and go around the corner passing the Fast food restaurants. We are 200 metres further up this road before the Waitrose store.
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Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Uehara has been unbelieveably good
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Koji Uehara (19) and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia (right) celebrate a victory over the Chicago White Sox at Fenway Park on Friday. (Mark L. Baer-USA TODAY Sports)
-- When the Red Sox acquired
Joel Hanrahan
from the Pirates on the day after last Christmas, the trade had been official for all of 135 minutes before the club's marketing wing sent a news blast out to fans trumpeting his arrival.
A few days later the team had him in for a tour of Fenway Park, a press conference, and a visit to the Jimmy Fund as well as a few other sites around the city. They even let him take over their Twitter account for a few hours as he familiarized himself with his new surroundings.
By comparison, when they signed
Koji Uehara
to a free-agent contract about a week earlier, there was no press conference. There was nary a conference call. There was only a standard news release, calling the agreement a one-year deal without bothering to note that it would automatically turn into a two-year commitment if the reliever made a certain number of appearances. The treatment from media relations honestly reflected the team's own mild expectations for the veteran right-hander.
Little did they (or anyone) realize then, though, that Uehara wouldn't merely be a more important acquisition than Hanrahan - he would ultimately be more important and impressive than any player the Red Sox brought in during their winter remodel of 2012-13.
The story of his season should be familiar to Sox fans, given that the team wouldn't likely have entered Saturday with a 3 1/2-game lead atop the American League East if it hadn't been for his impact at the back of the bullpen. Most of them remember how shaky things were while Hanrahan and
Andrew Bailey
were trading the closer's role before each saw injury end his season, and how much smoother things have been since Uehara assumed the role.
But, even still, some might not realize just how ridiculously good Uehara has been until they take a look at the numbers he's put up, particularly since taking over the ninth inning in late June.
He was really good to that point - good enough to warrant consideration for the All-Star team, in fact - but starting June 26, and continuing through Friday, he'd made 28 appearances covering 30 1/3 innings, and over that span he'd allowed just one earned run and only a dozen baserunners. That's an 0.30 earned run average, and an average of 0.40 walks and hits per inning pitched.
"He's been as good as any reliever in the league," Sox starter Ryan Dempster said after Uehara saved his victory Friday, after which the closer had faced 74 batters over his previous 20 appearances - and retired 67 of them.
Opponents had an on-base percentage of .095 as well as an on-base plus slugging of .204 against him during that period, and what might be most remarkable is the efficiency with which he's registered all those outs.
To complete 23 innings over those 20 appearances, he needed to throw a grand total of just 271 pitches, which equates to 3.66 per batter, and 3.93 per out. Furthermore, not once during that stretch did he let two runners reach in the same outing, and so he hadn't faced more than four hitters in any of his August appearances - despite going more than one inning three times. And he hadn't thrown more than 20 pitches in any game since June 18.
That's key, given that the Sox entered the season concerned about overloading the 38-year-old, though the closer role has been something of a blessing in that sense, because it minimizes the number of times the reliever wastefully warms without coming into the game. And Uehara has taken care of the rest himself by relentlessly pounding the strike zone.
Almost 73 percent of his pitches this season have been strikes, which goes a long way toward explaining the 9.1 strikeout-to-walk ratio (82 to nine) he took into Saturday. That's actually down from last year's 14.3, which was third-best ever, but to put it in historical context consider that Mariano Rivera's career K:BB ratio is 4.1, and that's fifth-best all-time among qualifying pitchers.
Uehara is not Rivera, of course. Nobody is or ever has been. But at this point, for this season, you wouldn't be wrong if you'd rather have the Red Sox option if it came time to close out a game.
And that's something, considering that back in December - hundreds of high-fives ago - it didn't look as though Uehara would even be an option to fill that role for his own team.
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First and foremost, the focus should be on Tampa Bay as the Red Sox peer into their rearview mirror. The AL East race is far from over as September arrives, particularly given the Rays' propensity for getting hot.
But Boston will need to be keeping an eye on Detroit and Texas, too, and under baseball's second-year playoff structure it's almost as important that the Sox finish ahead of the Tigers and Rangers as it is that they outrank the Rays.
Beyond just making the playoffs for the first time since 2009, the Sox' top priority is obviously winning the division. However, there's also a big benefit to finishing with the AL's best record because that team gets to face the winner of the one-game wild card playoff in the division series, and the pitching matchups in that best-of-five figure to significantly favor the team allowed to get more rest.
Entering Saturday, the race for the AL's best record was basically as tight as it could be. All three division leaders had 56 losses, with the Red Sox having 80 wins, the Tigers at 79, and the Rangers at 78. With Texas the league's hottest team over the past month, that makes this upcoming week's three-game series between Boston and Detroit a big one.
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Stat of the week: In beating the White Sox, 4-3, on Friday, the Red Sox made it 10 consecutive games in which their pitchers have not allowed more than three runs or eight hits. By doing that, Boston became the first team to do so since the vaunted Braves staff did it in 1993.
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Polerio writes: "pyCatalog is a Python, MySQL, wxPython, Reportlab application specifically usable in library and information centers. It simply produces book catalog and card catalog in pdf format rendered using reportlab. The program takes MARC file as its source data. Catalog output is one of the core output needed in library software today. Because open source system for libraries as of this date didn't have this kind of feature as most other proprietary library software have today. This includes Koha, Obiblio, and PhpMyLibrary. By making this generalized solution, those open source system for libraries mentioned will be able to take advantage from this application because the software is not centered on one library system. The application simply needs a MARC file in order to output the desired book and card catalog. The application was written in Python to make it platform independent. Thus it will run in Linux, Mac, and Windows environment. The application require MySQL database to manipulate the order of the catalog. Card catalog is a 3x5 page size output that comprises one book bibliographic entry. Book catalog is a full page output that comprise 1 or more bibliograrphic entry. It was named pycatalog, simply because it is written entirely in python, and catalog wholly describes the purpose of this application. I wanted to make this application open source because I believe open source developers will put this application above all expensive proprietary software for libraries. And will make this application fully-functional, I may not have that complete resource to create a world-accepted catalog generator but I think ideas and contributions from the developers around the world would help improve this application. I brought this idea to the public because of the necessity I felt during my project. I have searched all day long at Google to find a catalog generator but I find nothing. Hope this application would be able to help small to large scale libraries around the world."
Ed writes: "Net::OAI::Harvester is a new Perl module available from CPAN for easily interacting with data providers that implement the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It provides an object-oriented client interface to OAI-PMH in the same way that LWP::UserAgent does for HTTP. Net::OAI::Harvester is basically a toolkit which allows you to quickly write programs that retrieve data from OAI-PMH archives without having to get your hands dirty generating HTTP requests, parsing large amounts of XML, and representing lots of data in memory.
Net::OAI::Harvester uses XML::SAX internally, so potentially large documents are handled as streams (no large DOMs in memory). An OAI DublinCore module is included for representing Dublin Core metadata; and there is an extension mechanism so that you can plug in your own metadata handler to handle other flavors of metadata. For more information see: http://search.cpan.org/author/ESUMMERS/OAI-Harvester-0.2/lib/Net/OAI/Harvester.pm
If you are interested in contributing at all to the project please express your interest at on the perl4lib list."
MARC4J beta 7
Bas writes: "This new version supports full character set conversion between MARC-8 and UCS/Unicode. For UNIMARC character set conversions are supported between ISO5426 and UCS/Unicode and ISO6937 and UCS/Unicode. This new version also fixes some bugs. The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use library for working with MARC records in Java. MARC4J adopts MARC related standards and is tightly integrated with SAX2, a high performance XML interface, to enable robust conversion routines between MARC and XML. MARC4J is written in Java and published under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation."
Metadata3 (md3)-0.1
Jeremy writes: "The initial release of the metadata3 application is now available. You can download the .gz file from the project's website. This is version 0.1 of the md3 application, and is a developer's release. The metadata3 (also known as md3) application is a peer-to-peer client/server that promotes the sharing and automatic translation of bibliographic metadata. The current version of the application focuses on the basic peer-to-peer functionality; the next version will add in basic metadata translation capabilities."
Ed writes: "MARC::Charset 0.4 now supports MARC-8 character translations to Unicode (UTF-8) for the East Asian character sets. More information is available at MARC/Perl. Now that there is good support for MARC-8 character conversions to Unicode it is possible to update MARC::XML to do a good solid job of converting to LC's MARC schema."
MARC4J beta 6
Bas writes: "This is the first MARC4J release and it includes a lot of new features, including support for LC's MARC XML. Currently it's the only released tool that supports this new format. The MARC4J project is a continuation of James (Java Marc Events)." [note: the last James release was beta 5.]
Ed writes: "The MARC::Record Perl library now includes MARC::Doc::Tutorial which provides common recipes for using Perl to read, update and create USMARC data. New recipes and comments welcome!"
MARC Template Library 0.6
Mark writes: "The MARC Template Library is a C++ API for reading MARC records using C++ templates and the Standard Template Library. It features an event parser inspired by Bas Peters' James (Java MARC Events), althought I have taken a very different approach by using templates and other features not found in Java. The parser is very fast - able to read over 30,000 records a second on my 450 mhz AMD k3, that is if you don't include the time to load the records from disk. In real world situations the speed is about 5,000 to 10,000 per second. It is still in the very early stages of development - so parts of it are not really usable yet and there's quite a few bugs."
YAZ 1.8.7 released
Kevin writes: "A new version of YAZ has been released. YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. A sample client, a sample server, and documentation are included in the distribution. YAZ also includes experimental support for the industry standard ZOOM API for Z39.50. There are several changes from the last version (mostly bug fixes)."
James (Java MARC Events) beta 5
Bas writes: "New in this release is a version of MarcXmlWriter that supports XSLT processing using any JAXP compliant XSLT processor (like SAXON or Xalan) and a RecordHandler interface to support complex conversion routines using MARC record objects.
Added to the site is a tutorial about writing MARC to XML conversion programs using the James API and SAX2 events.
The James API provides a sequential model to access a collection of MARC bibliographic records in tape format. The goal of James is to provide a generic Application Programming Interface (API) for records that conform to the MARC standard.
James (Java MARC Events) is written in Java and published under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Downloads and additional information, including the tutorial and Javadoc documentation, can be found at www.bpeters.com."


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When I try to download an ISO file from linuxiso.org using mozilla-firefox, I run out of space on the /tmp partition. It's my understanding that Arch maps /tmp to the swap partition, which after taking the Arch default duriing install, is about half the size of my RAM = 256M.
Is there a way to re-direct /tmp to another partition (like from within fstab), or increase the size of my swap file? I'm afraid my PC wont boot if I guess wrong on the swap file configuration.
Use /var/tmp, as I do, or read this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … =space+tmp.
If ou really want /tmp to be big, you could always not mount /dev/shm in /tmp .
Or download the iso with wget.
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How would I go about using /var/tmp? I'm a newby, is that just changing an entry in the /etc/fstab file? If so, change it to what? VMWare is also complaining I don't have enough /tmp space, so I need to figure out something. I have 512MB, a 80GB boot drive, and 2 x160GB data drives.
ree showed me how to fix this, I just put a # in front of the "tempfs" line in my /etc/fstab file. Now I dont run out of /tmp space anymore.
I had this problem also, I found that Moz is broken, as a FTP client. Use the HTTP repos or use a "real" FTP client
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You can raise the size limit in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=2G,nr_inodes=10k 0 0
Then remount it:
# mount -o remount /tmp
Be careful with the size, though. Since it exists in RAM, you don't want a tmpfs partition to be bigger than your RAM, otherwise the big bad OOM killer will come along and start assassinating your processes.
i found this a problem also when i first started using arch.
but i don't blame arch as it sounds like something linux users of all kinds wanted and it was created using part of your valuable ram . I never liked that idea from the start so i fixed it by doing the following:
i usually make a large partition to do dirty work like things that change alot. the /var directory sounded like the a perfect place to store temporary files like /tmp and doing kernel rebuilds.
take the /var/tmp directory and symbolic link it to / (root) as /tmp. i also put the /usr/src directory into /var and linked it back to /usr. that is where i do software builds along of cource kernel builds.
i also believe that the /usr and / partition don't get fragmented as much this way.
take that silly tmpfs thing out of fstab.
i know this isn't kosher to the linux folks and there directory laws, but that is why i use linux.
freedom of choice .
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Actually I almost never don't care what is in my RAM as far as non usable pages are swapped to disk so they can be there even forever. The nice feature of tmpfs is that /tmp after reboot will be cleaned up without doing any magical hacks like rm :-)
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Seem like it.
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Washington, D.C - Tire shipments in 2010 are projected to increase by approximately 3 percent or approximately 7 million units to 267 million units, according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association. Total shipments experienced an 8 percent drop in 2009 to 259.7 million units. The increase in tire shipments reflects the onset of the economic rebound, an increase in vehicle miles traveled and a slight uptick in auto sales. As a result, this rebound is projected to extend into 2011, reaching approximately 275 million units as the economic recovery gathers momentum. RMAs Tire Market Analysis Committee forecast for key categories and their respective segments for 2010 includes: Original Equipment Passenger Tires - Passenger OE shipments declined by nearly 35 percent in 2009 to 24.6 million units, a low point for recent history, attributable to the economy and large vehicle production cuts. For 2010, light vehicle production is forecast to rebound slightly, resulting in an approximate 21 percent increase in OE passenger tire shipments to nearly 30 million units; Original Equipment Light Truck (LT) Tires - Consumer and commercial demand for LT OE tires was less severely impacted by the light vehicle production cuts. As a result, shipments declined only 4 percent to 2.79 million units, a 100,000 unit year-over-year drop. For 2010, this category will experience a nearly 10 percent increase to more than 3 million units, reflecting a strengthening economy; Original Equipment Medium/Wide-Base/Heavy On-Highway Commercial Truck Tires - For 2009, this category decreased by 36.9 percent to 2.4 million units, attributable to the continued large economic slowdown in the commercial sector. For 2010, commercial activity is expected to pick up, resulting in a nearly 8 percent increase, or approximately 180,000 additional units; Replacement Passenger Tires - The sluggish economy, coupled with consumers looking to extract more miles out of their tires, contributed to a decline of 4.3 million units in 2009, representing a 2.2 percent decrease for a total of 189.5 million units. However, this sector is forecast to increase by nearly 1.7 million units in 2010, or approximately 1 percent, as the measured economic recovery gains hold and the number of vehicle miles traveled increases; Replacement Light Truck Tires - This market segment realized a drop of 6.5 percent, or 1.9 million units, for a total of 27.5 million units in 2009 as soft economic conditions impacted small commercial vehicles. Given that the number of vehicles for this market remains steady, the soft economic conditions and fewer vehicle miles traveled will contribute to another nearly 1 percent decline in replacement LT tire shipments in 2010 to approximately 27.3 million units; Replacement Medium/Wide-Base/Heavy On-Highway Commercial Truck Tires - This market declined to 12.9 million units in 2009, a decrease of nearly 2 million units or 13.2 percent. However, this market will realize an increase of approximately 600,000 units in 2010 as the economy picks up, and more goods are shipped. The Rubber Manufacturers Association is the national trade association for the rubber products industry. Its members include companies that manufacture various rubber products, including tires, hoses, belts, seals, molded goods and other finished rubber products. RMA's Tire Market Analysis Committee is comprised of tire market professionals representing the major U.S. tire manufacturers, which account for over 90 percent of all U.S. tire shipments. Their analyses and forecasts of current and future industry activity include a review of RMA tire industry and economic data, government trade figures, and vehicle sales and production. TMAC develops its consensus view for tire demand from this process.
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Dennys Global Politics: Egypt: Revolution Loses Meaning As Women Denied Rights, Role in Society: From Denny: Egypt held so much hope for the world when the Arab Spring broke out last year, toppling the regime.
Then reality set in. The very women that protected the men who marched, the very women who gave medical aid and money to help the revolution, were turned upon and denied their respect and freedom.
The protesters took it all and gave nothing in return by denying women a seat at the table while they restructured the national government. The former male protesters and the Egyptian military council refused the concepts of generosity, kindness, partnership and equality. To the women, the protesters and the military are no different than the regime: all deny freedom and equal rights to women.


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The cover of the new issue of FASHION Magazine has been taken over by a member of the Twilight New Moon cast. Noot Seear is Canadian, from Vancouver, and holy f-cking sh-t what a goddamn face. It would have to be, right? Heidi in the book is the ultimate draw: ridiculously beautiful and irresistibly sexy.
That's Noot.
She's just moved to LA from New York recently, her modelling days behind her, now pursuing an acting career.
The modelling anecdotes are amazing though. One day backstage at a fashion show, Noot accidentally put on Naomi Campbell's gold panties instead of her own.
Can you imagine? The Swears? The terror? Her life flashing before her eyes?
"Thanks God" there was no cell phone around. Or Noot would have received a serious beatdown to the head.
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Picking up the lone win for the Navy and Yellow was sophomore Jessi Campos. Campos pulled out a 7-5, 6-3 straight-set victory at No. 1 singles to earn her second win of the season.
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National Preparedness Month (NPM), recognized each September, provides an opportunity to remind us that we all must prepare ourselves and our families now and throughout the year. This NPM will focus on planning, with an overarching theme: Disasters Happen. Prepare Now. Learn How.Disasters Happen. Prepare Now. Learn How.
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Today Mayor Dan Kemp reminded Hopkinsville residents that all City TV – Channel 12 content, including City Council meetings, is available free online at www.hoptown.org/tv. Both Live Streaming Video and Video on Demand can be accessed from the city's website by computer, laptop, or mobile device (e.g., iPad, cell phone, or tablet).
The announcement comes on the heels of recent moves by Time Warner Cable to reclaim bandwidth associated with former analog channels HCC-10, City TV-12, TWC-16, WPGD-20, C-SPAN 98, and C-SPAN2 99. Those channels are now only available in digital format, meaning customers must obtain a Time Warner Cable-supplied digital set top box unless they have a digital-ready television.
For customers who do not have digital equipment, Time Warner has offered to supply one digital box and remote control per household at no cost through 2014. Additional digital boxes are available at $8.50 per month.
Beginning January 1, 2015, the first digital box will cost $1.50 per month. All subsequent boxes will charged at market rate.
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The original gallery was a gift to Keene State College and the community from beaTrix Sagendorph, artist and benefactor, in memory of her mother, Louise E. Thorne, in 1965. The gallery was then located in Keene State's Mason Library.
In 1976, the Thorne became the Thorne-Sagendorph Memorial Art Gallery, when a new wing was dedicated to beaTrix's husband, Robb Sagendorph, founder and publisher of Yankee magazine.
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Can you honestly tell me that George Foster isn't an upgrade over what the Lions currently have at RT? No... you cannot.
As much as you may think that Foster is a "back-up linemen" (although he started 45 of a possible 48 games for the Broncos over the last three years... on an offensive line that is known to turn any player into a 1,000+ yard back)
Foster is a definate upgrade and will improve the unit GREATLY.
That gives the Lions a potential line of Backus-[---]-Raiola-Woody-Foster, which is a solid line... and much improved from last year, when the Lions' offense actually performed well (with names such as Frank Davis, Jon Scott, Stephen Peterman and Rick DeMulling *starting* games for the Lions).
This also changes their focus for the draft. Now that they've filled one hole, they can focus on improving other areas.
Now, onto Bell. With KJones out, Bell was the PERFECT pick-up for the Lions. They could've spent a draft pick on a young back (which would leave them two young, unproven backs), or gotten rid of one of the last "trash" pieces of the old Lions to improve two areas of need. Bell will thrive in Martz' offense... and will give the Lions a powerful 1-2 punch when Jones is healthy.
Bly. When he plays in a system that fits his talents, he is a playmaker. You MIGHT have forgotten his previous seasons... but he had great numbers and deserved his spots in those Pro Bowls. Paired with Bailey, they will form a great CB duo... you won't want to throw to one but will get picked throwing to the other.
You can pretend that this trade was simply a "convenicence", but you will be proven wrong. The Broncos secondary will be much improved with Bly and the Lions offense will be much improved with Bell/Foster.
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The month of November is filled with events and experiences to be thankful for.
The month of November is filled with events and experiences to be thankful for.
Harvest is in and we can be thankful for another good year. The weather cooperated pretty well throughout the summer and crops were in before the snow was falling. I am thankful that those who are passionate about working with the land have good health to continue to do what they love. When the days get long, for those in the fields or those at home, I am thankful for the equipment available to make the work of harvest go a little quicker.
Election Day offers us the reminder that we live in a democratic country and that our voice matters. It also reinforces that we have rights and individual freedoms. I appreciate that we have the freedom to think differently, to practice different customs and to express ourselves in our individual ways.
I'm not a big hunter, but I know some who are. Deer hunting occurs this month and seems to offer more than just the shooting of an animal. The peace and silence in the woods or fields must be like a little retreat. How often do we position ourselves in the cold, fresh air and be still? It must be an invigorating experience. Sharing stories with friends or family is sometimes the greatest part of the experience, it seems.
Veterans Day, this week, reminds us to be thankful for the service and sacrifices made by military members and their families. When I see pictures of soldiers returning from deployment, I see the heartache the loved ones have endured and the exhausted relief to once again have their soldier in their arms. Holding so tight, it appears they don't ever want to let go again. Many soldiers suffer physical or emotional trauma during their duty or when they return and their loved ones work hard to encourage and support them. For whatever reasons soldiers have for risking their lives and separating from family to protect our entire country, they offer a great deal. I am thankful for all they do!
Thanksgiving offers another opportunity to be thankful. A time to connect with family or friends and/or a day to consider the important traditions and values you have. By merely considering them, taking a moment to reflect on you, you can boost your self-confidence and feel recharged to continue to do what you do. Thanksgiving has always been filled with good food, a cozy house, refreshing walks and relaxing conversations. I am incredibly thankful for that. May everyone experience a comforting Thanksgiving!
If we need a month of events to remind us to focus on thankfulness, we've got it. There are many things every month and even each day. Today, focus on what you have and be thankful.
"An attitude of gratitude spreads like ripples from a tossed pebble, benefiting all that it touches" author unknown.


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Sea Star Wasting Syndrome | MARINe
Last updated Sept 10, 2018
Ecological Consequences and Juvenile Recruitment
Photo credits: Christy Bell (left), Rachael Williams (right).
Sea stars along much of the North American Pacific coast are dying in great numbers from a mysterious wasting syndrome. Similar die-offs have occurred before in the 1970s, 80s, and the 90s, but never before at this magnitude and over such a wide geographic area. Pisaster ochraceus and many other species of sea stars have been affected by the current sea star wasting syndrome event. The following paper by Hewson et al. "Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality" provides evidence for a link between a densovirus (SSaDV) and sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS) but there is still much work to be done before this mysterious disease is fully understood.
The first photograph in the below series of a sea star with wasting syndrome was taking on June 27th, 2014 on Guemes Island, Washington. The following picture was taken a day later, and the last picture, the day after that. These sequential photographs of a single individual demonstrate how quickly the disease can progress and the extent of damage that can be done in only three days.
Photo credit: Kit Harma
Over the past year, much of our effort has focused on documenting the progression of sea star wasting along the West Coast of North America and across a range of sea star species. That effort continues, however, we are now moving into a new phase in the assessment of sea star wasting: the ecological consequences from the loss of these species.
Sea star wasting syndrome is a general description of a set of symptoms that are found in sea stars. Typically, lesions appear in the ectoderm followed by decay of tissue surrounding the lesions, which leads to eventual fragmentation of the body and death. A deflated appearance can precede other morphological signs of the disease. All of these symptoms are also associated with ordinary attributes of unhealthy stars and can arise when an individual is stranded too high in the intertidal zone (for example) and simply desiccates. "True" wasting disease will be present in individuals that are found in suitable habitat, often in the midst of other individuals that might also be affected. The progression of wasting disease can be rapid, leading to death within a few days, and its effects can be devastating on sea star populations. The proximal cause of the disease, when pathological studies have been done, is typically a bacterium (vibrio), although a recent wasting event on the east coast of the United States has been attributed to a virus.
The current bout of this wasting syndrome was first noted in ochre stars (Pisaster ochraceus) in June 2013 along the coast of Washington state during monitoring surveys conducted by MARINe researchers from Olympic National Park (ONP).
MARINe monitoring groups have since documented wasting in Pisaster ochraceus from Alaska through California (see wasting map for specific locations). Two common attributes for many of the sites are: (1) the period prior to wasting was characterized by warm water temperatures, and (2) the effects are dramatic.
The majority of early observations were made in intertidal (tidepool) habitats and as a result most of the early reports were for ochre stars, the most common in the habitat, but others species affected include the mottled star (Evasterias troschelii), leather star (Dermasterias imbricata), and six-armed stars (Leptasterias).
In August 2013, divers investigating subtidal habitats reported massive die-offs of sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) just north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Shortly afterwards, other subtidal sea star species in the region began showing signs of wasting. During October and November 2013, a similar mass death of sea stars occurred in Monterey, California, with another die-off of sunflower and ochre stars around Seattle, Washington, with the syndrome spreading throughout the Puget Sound.
In mid-December 2013, substantial numbers of wasting stars were spotted around southern California. By the turn of the year it had been reported in 45 of the 84 MARINe sites from Alaska to San Diego sampled since that summer, and in the summer of 2014 it has spread to Mexico and parts of Oregon, which had previously been unaffected. It is also intensifying, appearing at additional sites in those regions already affected.
Photo credit: Nate Fletcher
In subtidal habitats, the sunflower star is typically the first species to succumb, followed by the rainbow star (Orthasterias koehleri), giant pink star (Pisaster brevispinus), giant star (Pisaster giganteus), mottled star, ochre star and sun star (Solaster), leather star (Dermasterias imbricata), vermilion star (Mediaster aequalis), six-armed stars, and bat star (Patiria miniata).
We don't know whether the syndrome spreads sequentially from one species to the next, or if some species simply take longer to express symptoms, but the usually large populations of ochre and sunflower stars have experienced massive, geographically expansive (if patchy) and well-documented declines. Other species are less abundant, so the impact of the syndrome is not as clear.
From extensive samples collected researchers have begun to identify the agent behind the syndrome, and the environmental conditions that may have led to the outbreak. One of the top priorities is to confirm that an infectious agent is involved, and if so what it is. Molecular sequencing work of samples is underway at Cornell University to identify possible viruses and bacteria that could be causative agents. Current thinking is that there is an infectious agent involved, likely a pathogen. Importantly there is no evidence at all that links the current wasting event to the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan.
Ecologists consider both sunflower and ochre stars to be keystone species because they have a disproportionately large influence on other species in their ecosystem. In fact Pisaster ochraceus was the basis of the Keystone species concept because of its potential to dramatically alter the rocky intertidal community in which it occurs. Our long-term monitoring data, including population estimates prior to the Wasting event, in combination with our biodiversity surveys, will allow us to interpret change to communities that might result from severe population declines of P. ochraceus. The collected information will also be used to document recovery of both sea star populations and the community affected by way of the loss of sea stars.
Long-term trends in Pisaster ochraceus numbers at our monitored sites can be viewed by location here or by using our Interactive Map & Graphing Tool. Under "Long Term Graph Type" select "species counts data" and under "plot type" select "pisaster".
For more information about Sea Star Wasting Disease, please click here:
Tracking and Documenting Observations
Our research group is concentrating on:
Documenting the presence of sea star wasting symptoms by means of submitted reports, our own sampling as part of MARINe Long-Term Monitoring, and our newly established Rapid Assessment Surveys of the outbreak.
Developing a spatial/temporal map of the outbreak showing the location of affected populations and (when possible) the onset of symptoms for each location. This will allow for an evaluation of potential hypotheses concerning the cause of the disease. For example if the outbreak started from a single location its cause is likely to be different from a situation where there were multiple initiation points.
Assessing the impact of the outbreak on the biological community.
Other research groups are addressing the pathology and infectiousness of wasting. These groups include Cornell (Harvell & Hewson), University of Rhode Island (Gomez), Brown (Wessel), Western Washington University (Miner), and Seattle Aquarium.
If you are interested in adding information to our Sea Star Wasting Syndrome Map, please see the options below.
Fill out the Sea Star Disease Observation Log
Click here to submit observations through our web form. If you have any photos or spreadsheets to send, please send them here.
Please continue to submit observations after spending time diving or in the intertidal. We are constantly updating our website with the latest reports, and will update the map on a regular basis. Please remember to fill out a log even if you search and only find healthy sea stars, or no sea stars! This information is just as valuable as observations of diseased individuals.
Identification guides (PDF)
Pisaster ochraceus symptoms guide
Juvenile sea star identification
Evasterias symptoms guide
Examples of Mild vs. Severe symptoms
Collect additional sea star data:
Below are the different categories that we are using to document the stage of the disease. If you are interested in collecting additional information about sea star counts, sizes, and disease categories, please contact Melissa Miner, Rani Gaddam, and Melissa Douglas for details. We would like to increase the number of sites where long-term sea star data are collected, but in order to ensure data consistency, it is essential that a MARINe researcher is involved with initial site set-up and sampling.
Note that data submitted to us may be used by our research group for analyses, as well as by others who submit data requests to us. If you have any concerns about this, please contact us.
Download the intertidal sampling protocols (PDF).
Download the subtidal sampling protocols (PDF).


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