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Green Oil Agent Apple Professional Degreaser mimics the cleaning power of petrochemicals but without the nasty environmental consequences. Don't be fooled by the eco-friendly labelling, though; store it carefully, and minimise contact with exposed skin, painted, plated, carbon and composite surfaces.
This might explain why it comes in an aluminium container, rather than recycled plastic, though it hasn't chomped through old, better quality ice cream tubs). The ingredients aren't particularly cutting edge, consisting of Limonene, a popular industrial cleaner derived from citrus fruits, and linalool, which is seemingly ubiquitous in toiletries/cosmetics. Said pairing forms a colourless, pleasant smelling, gunge gobbling cocktail.
Chain aside, for best results remove the offending components, pop them in a parts washer or thick-walled ice cream tub, shake the degreaser and pour in carefully. If you have a spare spray canister, say an old bike cleaner container, use it to squirt the degreaser into the parts nooks and crannies. Whatever your chosen method of deployment, leave it soaking for a few minutes while you find some brushes and disposable gloves as today's two part synthetic lubes are more tenacious than ever.
Simpler wet lubes and their contaminants scarper, ready for a freshwater rinse and drying off with an old rag in 5-10 minutes, though modern ceramics demanded two hours or so with periodic agitation, ditto the stodgy lithium greases commonly fed to headsets, bottom brackets and similar bearing surfaces.
In the name of investigative journalism, I sloshed 75ml worth over my elderly 8spd LX mech and left it marinating for three days. I ended up with lots of black, silty fluid, and some dulling of the anodised body. While we're on the subject of destroying surface finishes, acrylic paints literally vanish before the eyes, especially where they overlap electroplate. You have been warned.
However, slight spillages onto flamboyant or metallic enamels haven't resulted in any lasting damage when flushed away with clean water. It's disappointingly pedestrian by the brand's usual standards when presented with stodgy ceramics. While undeniably toxic, identical quantities of 95 octane unleaded literally strip super crudded cassettes, chain rings and so on, piranha fashion, in a matter of minutes.
[Editor's note: road.cc does NOT recommend that you use petrol as a cleaning agent unless your life's wish is to die in a domestic inferno.]
Promising concept but pricey given its distinctly average performance.
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Make and model: Green Oil Agent Apple Professional Degreaser
Size tested: 200ml
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The suppliers site says " Agent Apple is differerent, using three different citrus plants together, each with powerful degreasing properties. The formula also utilises plant alcohol.
Agent Apple is a light fluid that starts work within minutes of the chain being dipped in. For lighter applications it can be sprayed on with the handy button spray". Yes but I can't help feeling the present formula doesn't meet its true potential.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Basically a blend of two naturally (plant) derived chemicals, limonene and linalool, forming a colourless, sweet smelling solvent cocktail.
Swift on old fashioned wet lubes such as motor oil but more advanced petrochemicals demand soaking and enthused scrubbing rituals.
Minimise contact with bare skin.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
While reasonably effective on more traditional lubricants and when used in conjunction with a chain bath, performance is pedestrian against stodgier/sophisticated preps.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Quite tenacious in conjunction with a chain bath and/or applied to derailleur cages/jockey wheels etc.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Undeniably kinder to the environment, it remains very flammable and rather expensive for such modest quantities.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Not in its present guise.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? I like the concept but feel it needs further development.
About the tester
Age: 39 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)
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I'm not completely serious, but "Agent Apple" seems to be an obvious word play on Agent Orange (I mean why else even call something Agent Apple when it contains citrus extracts?), the highly toxic dioxin-containing herbicide used by the US military in Vietnam. The USAF sprayed 76 million litres of the stuff on Vietnam, exposing millions of people to extremely high levels of dioxin. Vietnamese deaths caused by its toxicity are in the tens-to-hundreds of thousand range, depending on who you ask. And that's excluding birth defects, which are still very common to this day in the worst affected areas. IRRC the manufacturers - Dow and Monsanto paid ca 150 million dollars in settlement to US veterans poisoned by the stuff.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it seems a very unfortunate choice of name for a company touting its green credentials.
As for "Cyclone", the German word for it is "Zyklon", and I think you can figure out the rest.


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|2013-04-02, 21:14
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Indeed, especially the bolded part. That would essentially be like Goku reaching Super Saiyan One, Two, and Three in the same fight. Way too quick. I doubt Tsukune will release the third seal (if he even can) until the fight against either Miyabi, or the Masked King himself.
As for Moka, although I'd love to see her beat down her wicked stepmother, I'm a bit dubious about her chances of accomplishing it alone. Gyokuro has merged with Alucard, and for all intents and purposes become a Shinso herself, so a simple boot to the head won't be enough to take her down. Either Moka finds a way to end her with a single blow (highly unlikely) or she removes the Rosario and thus allows Alucard to devour Gyokuro (more likely). Can't wait to find out, though. Until then...
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|2013-04-03, 01:38
|Link #23963
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Location: Poland
Age: 33
If anyone is interested, recently a interview with Ikeda, made a few months ago (more exactly in November 2012), has been found:
It's in Italian, but with the help of Google Translate, you can roughly learn, what they are talking about.
I agree that the most likely option of defeating Gyokuro is by using the fact that she uses the Rosario to "fuse" with Alucard.
After all, I think it's pretty unlikely that anyone from the group of good guys is strong enough to defeat Alucard (especially Tsukune, even if he transforms, into his berserk mode), and whenever I hear someone saying something like that ... I have to really control myself, to not say something to them...
|2013-04-05, 20:16
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Never really thought that Rosario + Vampire would sell well in US.
|2013-04-07, 15:08
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So far, I guess the worst that has happened is the censoring of Kurumu in one of the early volumes of SII. Beyond that, I think Viz has otherwise been doing a good job in the second season.
|2013-04-07, 18:07
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|2013-04-07, 21:37
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Montreal
i do believe VIZ did also shadow any low angle scenes to limit panty shots. that, the doppleganger and the bizarre group names are the inconsistencies. Outcast Ayashi, the disciplinary council, snow fairies to name a few were a bit bizzarre but some terms will be lost in translation.
|2013-04-08, 04:10
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NL
Guess I'll check out season 1 first to see if the changes bother me.
|2013-04-09, 19:31
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Location: Orlando
Hellsing's Alucard had it pretty close, as does Shinobu from Bakemonogatari all things considered. Vampires *could* walk around in the day, but it was usually dusk or dawn hours and they just really didn't like being out there. They reference it in R+V that Moka could get easily sunburned, but it's jumbled in both Gyokuro and Kahula in how they got that tanned skin... 0.o The 'burning up thing' was put in later, as were most of the other weaknesses. Silver is a well known purifier of sorts against the supernatural, and of course being blessed also helps. But the thought of a vampire wearing a cross as a power limiter ... yeah. They did show that the Rosario did weaken Dopple-Moka considerably with mere contact but otherwise, it was made to do that. I don't think that Moka could survive a silver cross through the chest, or any creature in R+V for that matter with the exception of Akasha and Alucard respectively.
"Wooden stake through the heart?"
"Yeah, yeah, who wouldn't that kill, huh?"
Vampire lore has been muddled, especially in recent times but especially when Christianity moved into an area and 'adjusted' many local legends and superstitions to suit the beliefs of the Church. European-based Vampires was one such that went through that 'adjustment' phase.
|2013-04-09, 23:35
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Noctis Labyrinthus
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Ikeda's version of the vampire is a bit different from traditional folklore. The only things that are really different with his version is that the vampires can survive in sunlight, as seen when we witnessed Moka being in direct sunlight on multiple occasions in the human world, especially in the Witch and Sun arcs.
Another thing that is different is the method used to turn others into vampires, rather than drinking their blood, vampires need to injected their own blood into another through their fangs to convert others into vampires, this is the case with Tsukune Aono.
Other than that, things such as crosses, silver and water, usually anything that falls under the catagory of "Holy" harms them, which is something Ikeda decided to stick with.
|2013-04-10, 00:07
|Link #23977
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Poland
Age: 33
Regarding Moka, most specifically, Inner Moka, I think she might reach a similarly broken level as Akasha did, provided that she isn't going to wear the Rosario anymore.
After all, Inner Moka has Alucard's blood in her veins, as well, it's just that ... due to her, only being released for a short period of time, this blood hasn't been capable of "awakening", it's true potential.
Of course there are probably going to be some differences, between having his / her blood being merged with Alucard's blood (basically, what happened to Akasha, when she sacrificed herself to seal Alucard) and inheriting it, which will lessen the effectiveness of this blood, a little bit...
Still, I think that Inner Moka's regenerative abilities and some of her other "parameters" are definitely going to gain a boost, after her "Alucard blood" awakens from it's dormant state, which - overall is going to provide her with a nice power up, for the future arc's.
After all, Inner Moka is the only main character, that haven't gained any power ups, from the beginning of the series ... I think it's finally time to expect some changes in that regard, even if it's going to involve some sad events as well...
|2013-04-10, 01:01
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Join Date: Feb 2012
|2013-04-10, 01:37
|Link #23979
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Poland
Age: 33
After all, Tsukune, even if his power is still under some restrictions, has already ... more or less caught up with Inner Moka, after his one month training with Tohou Fuhai + the effects of the human modification ritual.
The enemies have also gotten stronger (well, most of them are vampires ... or something even worse then that), and I think that in the future arc's the enemies strength is going to rise as well - and, since it's pretty obvious that Inner Moka isn't strong enough to defeat the current arc's enemies, with a single attack - the same is going to apply to her future opponents.
Basically, what I think is going to happen, after this arc ends ... is that, the only opponents, that Tsukune, Inner Moka and the rest of the group are going to have, will be coming from, some of the strongest ayashi spices - equal with or even stronger then a "normal" vampire - and Inner Moka will finally need to get stronger, unless she would want to be defeated in a single attack, like what happened to her former opponents.
|2013-04-10, 01:53
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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SPIE Advanced Lithography remains the technical conference where the leading edge of minimum resolution patterning is explored, even though photolithography is now only part of the story. Leading OEMs continue to impress the industry with more productive ArFi steppers, but the photoresist suppliers and the purveyors of vacuum deposition and etch tools now provide most of the new value-add. Tri-layer-resist (TLR) stacks, specialty hard-masks and anti-reflective coatings (ARC), and complex thin-film depositions and etches all combine to create application-specific lithography solutions tuned to each critical mask.
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The members of the Carolina Animal Protection Society (CAPS) want to thank everyone who supported our Tree of Lights in the Jacksonville Mall over the Christmas holiday.
The tree was beautifully adorned with so many meaningful pictures of beloved family pets.
Each time I added pictures to the tree, there were people admiring the pictures � smiling and commenting on how cute the dogs and cats were or deeply touched by the pictures of cherished pets in loving memory.
This past Christmas was the 13th year our tree has been in the mall and it has been our most popular fundraiser. Your loyal support helps pay our veterinary bills that include spay and neuter fees as well as necessary vaccines and other medical needs.
We greatly appreciate everyone�s assistance, and it is our pleasure to honor these lucky pets that are so blessed with loving homes. Some of the pictures are of dogs and cats we rescued that have been adopted by responsible, loving families � and that is a special reward for our efforts in helping many homeless pets.
CAPS has been Jacksonville�s humane society for 36 years. We are all volunteers and can only continue our efforts with your help. As is often the problem, we desperately need foster homes for both dogs and cats. We pay all medical expenses and will provide food if you need assistance.
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These animals cannot speak for themselves; we are their only voice � please add your voice to ours. To fill out a foster form on our website go to www.capsrescue.com; or call Mickie at 910-382-4053 for information regarding fostering a dog. To foster a cat, you can contact Debbie at 910-330-1376.
We invite you to join us at our monthly meetings. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at a grooming and daycare business called Wag Time, located at 4654D Gum Branch Road on the corner of Ramsey Road next to Super Scoop ice cream shop. We want to thank Wendy and Belinda for allowing us to use their business for our meetings.
Please join us for a very worthwhile cause. We welcome your assistance.
Once again, thank you all for supporting CAPS through our Tree of Lights fundraiser. We send you our very best wishes for a healthy and happy new year.
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I got a tattoo in the beginning of December and have been worried about transmission of HIV ever since. I go the tattoo in NJ which is a regulated state. Is there any chance I could have gotten HIV? I gave blood about three weeks ago and I know they test it to see if you have anything.
Regarding your tattoo anxiety, see below.
What concerns me is your statement: "I gave blood about three weeks ago and I know they test to see if you have anything." If you had the slightest concern you were HIV infected, why would you donate blood??? If you were doing so only to "see if you had anything," that is unconscionable!
Dr. Bob
Tattoo and risk of infection (different than in the archives) Feb 14, 2010
Dr. Bob,
I did an internet search and your name came up. I read you provide science-based logic to your practice. Being a fellow scientist, I respect your wisdom. With that said, I have a few questions pertaining to my tat (my first and defienitly only now...lol) I got a couple of weeks ago. I went to a local parlor and they used new needles and tubes (and everything not sterilized was covered in saran wrap before I got there to prevent cross-contamination)--hell I even called the health dept to find out their inspection results and complaints (clean as a whistle BTW). Anyways, I got my tat which was an armband with my two boys and wifes name in it--she was always complaining when I took my wedding ring off to work out so I figured I would make the symbol of our union even more permanent. (Sorry to digress but I know you love the details from your posts). Anyhow, the past few days I have been having intermittent sharp pain and tenderness in the upper right quadrant and just below the last rib on my right side. I am not one into coincidences (and I know the CDC has taken tattooing in commerically licensed facilities off of the risk list), but the timing fits too perfectly. So I have decided to go to my doc on Tuesday (damn Presidents day they're closed on Monday) and get a HCV RNA/PCR just to make sure (thank heavens the healthcare bill didnt go into effect or I'd probably have to wait a year for it--we do need reform, but I think if politicians dont have to use it for themselves, then something is wrong). Now for the questions. First, how long should I wait from the suspected tattoing to to get the HCV RNA/PCR--CDC states the RNA takes 1-3 weeks to show up? Next, I know there has not been a reported HIV infection caused from tattoing in a licenced tattoo parlor, but should my results come back positive (or negative for that matter), would HIV testing be warranted (my logic being that if positive, obviously there was blood products present)? Finally, my wife thinks im being irrational--which she may be right dammit. But what else could be causing pain there if its not Hep? She suggested IBS but I have never experienced that before.
I would appreciate a response, but I know you help people with much graver circumstances than me. Please accept my humble thanks and commend you on what you do for folks on here. Sometimes, just having someone knowledgable to ask some sensitive questions without getting judged or given the party line is very reassuring. Peace.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Fellow Scientist,
Actually your question doesn't require much in the way of science, but rather just common-sense logic! I have to side with your wife on this issue. Your fears are illogical (and irrational). You essentially answered your own question! Shall we review the facts (science)?
"They used new needles and tubes."
The health department report was "clean as a whistle."
"The CDC has taken tattooing in commercially licensed facilities off of the risk list."
"I know there has not been a reported HIV infection caused from tattooing in a licensed tattoo parlor . . . ."
With the above facts in mind, your concerns about HIV center on "intermittent sharp pain and tenderness in the upper right quadrant" for the past few days. Why would you immediately take the irrational quantum leap to assume the pain in HIV related (remembering the facts listed above)? It's just not logical, as Mr. Spock would say! Let me add two facts that might help.
"Symptoms" are notoriously unreliable in predicting who is and is not HIV infected.
Right upper quadrant pain is not suggestive of or worrisome for HIV acute retroviral syndrome (ARS).
My advice would be to see your general internist for an evaluation of your localized discomfort. There are many potential causes. If you insist on HIV screening, despite common sense logic and my reassurance, I'd recommend a single HIV-antibody test at the three-month mark. PCR testing is generally not recommended for routine HIV screening, due to the rate of false-positive results, other technical concerns and cost.
Finally, I couldn't disagree with you more about the health care bill. (See below.)
Dr. Bob
OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS FAIR, DON'T LET OBAMA MESS IT UP!!!!! Sep 20, 2009 Dr. Bob,
I dont trust Obama. Im a red-blooded American and I think our health care system is fair and that insurance companies have the right to make a buck. Folks who need or want insurance should just go out and buy some the way I did. Lets not try to fix a system that isnt broke.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Red Blooded American,
Do you really believe that folks who want or need insurance "should just go out and buy some?"
I'm amazed that you don't trust what Obama is trying to do. What he's trying to do is provide health care for all. This is really a moral issue. Please see the Nicholas Kristof article below. If you still believe our health care system is not broken, then you are choosing to ignore fact and reality. I urge you to rethink your position. It's the moral thing to do.
Dr. Bob
September 13, 2009 OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Body Count at Home
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, New York Times
In the debate over health care, here's an inequity to ponder: Nikki White would have been far better off if only she had been a convicted bank robber. Nikki was a slim and athletic college graduate who had health insurance, had worked in health care and knew the system. But she had systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease that was diagnosed when she was 21 and gradually left her too sick to work. And once she lost her job, she lost her health insurance. In any other rich country, Nikki probably would have been fine, notes T. R. Reid in his important and powerful new book, "The Healing of America." Some 80 percent of lupus patients in the United States live a normal life span. Under a doctor's care, lupus should be manageable. Indeed, if Nikki had been a felon, the problem could have been averted, because courts have ruled that prisoners are entitled to medical care. As Mr. Reid recounts, Nikki tried everything to get medical care, but no insurance company would accept someone with her pre-existing condition. She spent months painfully writing letters to anyone she thought might be able to help. She fought tenaciously for her life. Finally, Nikki collapsed at her home in Tennessee and was rushed to a hospital emergency room, which was then required to treat her without payment until her condition stabilized. Since money was no longer an issue, the hospital performed 25 emergency surgeries on Nikki, and she spent six months in critical care. "When Nikki showed up at the emergency room, she received the best of care, and the hospital spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her," her step-father, Tony Deal, told me. "But that's not when she needed the care." By then it was too late. In 2006, Nikki White died at age 32. "Nikki didn't die from lupus," her doctor, Amylyn Crawford, told Mr. Reid. "Nikki died from complications of the failing American health care system." "She fell through the cracks," Nikki's mother, Gail Deal, told me grimly. "When you bury a child, it's the worst thing in the world. You never recover." We now have a chance to reform this cruel and capricious system. If we let that chance slip away, there will be another Nikki dying every half-hour. That's how often someone dies in America because of a lack of insurance, according to a study by a branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Over a year, that amounts to 18,000 American deaths. After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die because of our failure to provide universal insurance and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing? Mr. Reid's book is a rich tour of health care around the world. Because he has a bum shoulder, he asked doctors in many countries to examine it and make recommendations. His American orthopedist recommended a titanium shoulder replacement that would cost tens of thousands of dollars and might or might not help. Specialists in other countries warned that a sore shoulder didn't justify the risks of such major surgery, although some said it would be available free if Mr. Reid insisted. Instead, they offered physical therapy, acupuncture and other cheap and noninvasive alternatives, some of which worked pretty well. That's a window into the flaws in our health care system: we offer titanium shoulder replacements for those who don't really need them, but we let 32-year-old women die if they lose their health insurance. No wonder we spend so much on medical care, and yet have some health care statistics that are worse than Slovenia's. My suggestion for anyone in Nikki's situation: commit a crime and get locked up. In Washington State, a 20-year-old inmate named Melissa Matthews chose to turn down parole and stay in prison because that was the only way she could get treatment for her cervical cancer. "If I'm out, I'm going to die from this cancer," she told a television station. Mr. and Mrs. Deal say they are speaking out because Nikki wouldn't want anyone to endure what she did. "Nikki was a college-educated, middle-class woman, and if it could happen to her, it can happen to anyone," Mr. Deal said. "This should not be happening in our country." Struggling to get out the words, Mrs. Deal added: "The loss of a child is the greatest hurt anyone will ever suffer. Because of the circumstances she endured with the health care system, I lost my daughter." Complex arguments are being batted around in this health care debate, but the central issue isn't technical but moral. The first question is simply this: Do we wish to be the only rich nation in the world that lets a 32-year-old woman die because she can't get health insurance? Is that really us?
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?????? Sep 5, 2009
Dr. Bob,
How can you of all people support socialized medicine. It scares the hell out of me.
Response from Dr. Frascino
"Socialized medicine" is a propaganda term dreamed-up by insurance companies and right-wing lunatics to try and scare folks into rejecting any kind of healthcare reform. If your house was on fire would you be worried about "socialized firefighters" coming to put out the blaze? Or if you are the victim of a violent crime, will you shun "socialized policemen" who come to your rescue? These programs are government run! The government also runs part of our current healthcare system: Medicare and the Veterans Affairs Medical Program. See the columns by Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times below. Hopefully, you'll find them enlightening!
Dr. Bob
September 3, 2009, OP-ED COLUMNIST
Health Care That Works
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, New York Times
Here's a paradox.
Health care reform may be defeated this year in part because so many Americans believe the government can't do anything right and fear that a doctor will come to resemble an I.R.S. agent with a scalpel. Yet the part of America's health care system that consumers like best is the government-run part. Fifty-six to 60 percent of people in government-run Medicare rate it a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale. In contrast, only 40 percent of those enrolled in private insurance rank their plans that high. Multiple surveys back that up. For example, 68 percent of those in Medicare feel that their own interests are the priority, compared with only 48 percent of those enrolled in private insurance. In truth, despite the deeply ingrained American conviction that government is bumbling when it is not evil, government intervention has been a step up in some areas from the private sector. Until the mid-19th century, firefighting was left mostly to a mishmash of volunteer crews and private fire insurance companies. In New York City, according to accounts in The New York Times in the 1850s and 1860s, firefighting often descended into chaos, with drunkenness and looting. So almost every country moved to what today's health insurance lobbyists might label "socialized firefighting." In effect, we have a single-payer system of public fire departments. We have the same for policing. If the security guard business were as powerful as the health insurance industry, then it would be denouncing "government takeovers" and "socialized police work." Throughout the industrialized world, there are a handful of these areas where governments fill needs better than free markets: fire protection, police work, education, postal service, libraries, health care. The United States goes along with this international trend in every area but one: health care. The truth is that government, for all its flaws, manages to do some things right, so that today few people doubt the wisdom of public police or firefighters. And the government has a particularly good record in medical care. Take the hospital system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the largest integrated health system in the United States. It is fully government run, much more "socialized medicine" than is Canadian health care with its private doctors and hospitals. And the system for veterans is by all accounts one of the best-performing and most cost-effective elements in the American medical establishment. A study by the Rand Corporation concluded that compared with a national sample, Americans treated in veterans hospitals "received consistently better care across the board, including screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up." The difference was particularly large in preventive medicine: veterans were nearly 50 percent more likely to receive recommended care than Americans as a whole. "If other health care providers followed the V.A.'s lead, it would be a major step toward improving the quality of care across the U.S. health care system," Rand reported. As for the other big government-run health care system in the United States, Medicare spends perhaps one-sixth as much on administration as private health insurers, although the comparison is imperfect and controversial. But the biggest weakness of private industry is not inefficiency but unfairness. The business model of private insurance has become, in part, to collect premiums from healthy people and reject those likely to get sick or, if they start out healthy and then get sick, to find a way to cancel their coverage. A reader wrote in this week to tell me about a colleague of hers who had health insurance through her company. The woman received a cancer diagnosis a few weeks ago, and she now faces chemotherapy co-payments that she cannot afford. Worse, because she is now unable to work and has to focus on treatment, she has been shifted to short-term disability for 90 days and after that, she will lose her employer health insurance. She can keep her insurance if she makes Cobra payments on her own, but she can't afford this. In her case, her company will voluntarily help her but I just don't understand why we may be about to reject health reform and stick with a dysfunctional system that takes away the health coverage of hard-working Americans when they become too sick with cancer to work. On my blog, foreigners regularly express bewilderment that America may reject reform and stick with a system that drives families into bankruptcy when they get sick. That's what they expect from the Central African Republic, not the United States. Let's hope we won't miss this chance. A public role in health care shouldn't be any scarier or more repugnant than a public fire department.
HEALTH CARE REFORM, WON'T IT BE BAD FOR HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE? Sep 2, 2009
Dr. Bob, Why are you pushing Obama's health care reform? They are going to take over medical care, cut care to elderly folks like grandmothers and have panels to decide who lives and dies. I'm sure they will cut care to those of us with HIV cause it is expensive to treat us. Shouldn't we try to block such rationing of health care? Zelda
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Zelda,
Health care reform will not throw your granny off a cliff, nor will it cut off care to HIVers! In many ways we already have health care rationing that is not only unfair; it's morally reprehensible. (See Nicholas Kristof's article from the New York Times below.) It's time you turned off Fox News and stopped listening to the scare tactics of the insurance companies and rightwing wingnuts. Democrats, like Obama, have had to fight for every dollar in the AIDS Drug Assistance Plan (ADAP) and Ryan White Fund. Don't be fooled by the myths, lies and hype. Health care reform is desperately needed.
Dr. Bob
Until Medical Bills Do Us Part
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist New York Times, August 30, 2009
Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if she were Old Yeller.
But peel away the emotions and fearmongering, and in fact it is the existing system that unnecessarily takes lives and breaks apart families.
My friend M. you'll understand in a moment why she's terrified of my using her name had to make a searing decision a year ago. She was married to a sweet, gentle man whom she loved, but who had become increasingly absent-minded. Finally, he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
The disease is degenerative, and he will become steadily less able to care for himself. At some point, as his medical needs multiply, he will probably need to be institutionalized.
The hospital arranged a conference call with a social worker, who outlined how the dementia and its financial toll on the family would progress, and then added, out of the blue: "Maybe you should divorce."
"I was blown away," M. told me. But, she said, the hospital staff members explained that they had seen it all before, many times. If M.'s husband required long-term care, the costs would be catastrophic even for a middle-class family with savings.
Eventually, after the expenses whittled away their combined assets, her husband could go on Medicaid but by then their children's nest egg would be gone, along with her 401(k) plan. She would face a bleak retirement with neither her husband nor her savings.
A complicating factor was that this was a second marriage. M.'s first husband had died, leaving an inheritance that he had intended for their children. She and her second husband had a prenuptial agreement, but that would not protect her assets from his medical expenses.
The hospital told M. not to waste time in dissolving the marriage. For five years after any divorce, her assets could be seized precisely because the government knows that people sometimes divorce husbands or wives to escape their medical bills.
"How could I divorce him? I loved him," she told me.
"I explored a lot of options with an attorney here in town," she added. "The attorney said, 'I don't see any other options for you.' It took about a year for me to do the divorce, it was so hard."
So M. divorced the man she loves. I asked him what he thought of this. He can still speak, albeit not always coherently, and he paused a long, long time. All he could manage was: "It's hard to say."
Long-term care constitutes a difficult and expensive challenge in any health system. But the American patchwork, full of cracks through which people fall, has a special problem with medical expenses of all kinds bankrupting couples.
A study reported in The American Journal of Medicine this month found that 62 percent of American bankruptcies are linked to medical bills. These medical bankruptcies had increased nearly 50 percent in just six years. Astonishingly, 78 percent of these people actually had health insurance, but the gaps and inadequacies left them unprotected when they were hit by devastating bills.
M. still helps her husband and, quietly, continues to live with him and care for him. But she worries that the authorities will come after her if they realize that they divorced not because of irreconcilable differences but because of irreconcilable medical bills. There were awkward questions from friends who saw the divorce announcement in the newspaper.
"It's just crazy," she said. "It twists people like pretzels."
The existing system doesn't just break up families, it also costs lives. A 2004 study by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, found that lack of health insurance causes 18,000 unnecessary deaths a year. That's one person slipping through the cracks and dying every half an hour.
In short, it's a good bet that our existing dysfunctional health system knocks off far more people than an army of "death panels" could even if they existed, worked 24/7 and got around in a fleet of black helicopters.
So, for those of you inclined to believe the worst about President Obama, think it through. Suppose he is indeed a secret, foreign-born Muslim agent who is scheming to undermine American family values while killing off as many grandmothers as possible.
If all that were true, why on earth would he be trying so hard to reform our health care system? We already know how to prod families into divorce and take a life unnecessarily every 30 minutes all we need to do is reject reform and stick with exactly what we have.


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Unlike HTTP handler, HTTP modules are not bound to a specific extension or a family of URLs. In a certain sense, HTTP modules are lower level tools than handlers and are loaded at the very startup of the application. HTTP modules form a pipeline that each Web request passes through. Modules are used to hook up application-level events rather than specific requests. Here's a typical implementation of a HTTP module:
public class SampleModule : IHttpModule { public void Init(HttpApplication app) { // Register for pipeline events } public void Dispose() { // Nothing to do here } }
The Init module is invoked at the application startup and registers the module with the application events of interest -- BeginRequest, AuthenticateRequest, AcquireRequestState, EndRequest, and the like. The Dispose method is invoked when the application is shutting down and is normally used to dispose of any resources that was acquired earlier. An HTTP module is used to authenticate and authorize a request, to load and save the session state, to deal with the output cache. As you can see, a HTTP module is the ideal tool to implement cross-cutting concerns of an application when not extensions to the ASP.NET platform.
It may happen that your application needs to implement some sort of pre- and post-processing on top of a certain category of requests. The HTTP module is seemingly the perfect to tool; but unfortunately, once registered, it kicks in for each and every request that arrives to your Web server and is dispatched to your ASP.NET application. For example, no JPEG file requests triggers a module because this request is served directly by IIS and never reaches the ASP.NET runtime. If, say, you need to pre-process only ASCX requests than a HTTP module might be optimal if it weren't that it would hook up also ASPX or ASMX requests.
Is there a way to fix this issue? I'm afraid this aspect of HTTP modules is built this way by design. One thing you can certainly do is, however, hook up the BeginRequest event and check whether the current request is something you may be interested in. If this is not the case, then switch off some internal flag that will prevent the rest of HTTP module's code to work for the duration of that request.
It's not a definitive answer, but it helps at least a little bit.


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EUREKA, Ill. – Looking to find their groove in 2011, Greenville Baseball (4-14, 3-1 SLIAC) headed to Eureka Ill. for an afternoon double-header against SLIAC opponent Eureka College. The GC club was firing on all cylinders Tuesday, as they displayed their best performance of the season, downing the Red Devils 11-8 in the opener, and 16-3 in the finale.
Senior Kyle Hobar was hot in Tuesday's double-dip, as he peppered Eureka's Henry Sand Field on his way to a 6-for-8 performance on the day. Hobar went 3-for-4 at the plate in the first game with an RBI and run scored, and mirrored that effort with another 3-for-4 effort in game two while adding three more runs.
In game one Greenville trailed 7-1 after four, but used a big six-run fifth inning to even the score heading into the sixth. GC's David Massengill slugged a clutch three-run triple to put the Panthers back in contention, while Hobar and Justin Hubbard delivered timely RBI rips to close the margin.
Answering the surge by Greenville, Eureka added a go-ahead run in the sixth to put the pressure on the Panther Club moving into the seventh and final inning.
With runners on second and third with one away in the seventh, an intentional walk sent Justin Hubbard to first and juiced the bases in a potential double-play situation. Freshman catcher Alex Quirin, not intimidated, stepped up to plate and blasted a grand-slam deep to center that gave GC the 11-8 lead.
Sophomore pitcher Scotty Voyles relieved Wes Letizia in the bottom of the seventh and earned the save, surrendering only one hit while posting a strikeout and forcing a DP ball to end the opener and clinch the win 11-8.
In the capper Greenville showcased true consistency offensively, using 15 hits to manufacture 16 runs in 38 team at-bats. Daniel Covert led the Panthers at the plate, batting 3-for-4 with five runs scored and two RBI.
Greenville paced themselves throughout the seven inning contest, posting a 7-2 lead after three. GC added three insurance runs in the fourth, two in the sixth, and four in the seventh to cruise to the 16-3 victory.
On the mound, Massengill (2-1) picked up the win going four innings, surrendering three earned on five hits, and notching eight strikeouts.
Greenville Baseball will turn back around tomorrow, Wednesday, April 6, as they play host to Webster at 1:00 pm in the season's series finale.


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'The Obama code': Hidden messages in birth document?
Computer experts find anomalies embedded in White House release
NEW YORK – Recalling Dan Brown's bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code," computer experts have discovered strange anomalies in the Obama birth record released by the White House.
They include a different birth registration number that shows up in "hidden text," remnants of the short-form certificate apparently bleeding through the long-form and a "smiley face" in the registrar's stamp that does not show up on other recently issued Hawaii birth records.
Curiously, in a simple process run by Optical Character Recognition software that reveals hidden text, the registration number 10611 turns up, instead of 10641, the number displayed on the two birth records authorized for publication by the White House.
Application of the Adobe Acrobat's "Examine Document" function on the Obama long-form document produces the following hidden text:
The number 10611 would seem to be more plausible than 10641, which appears to be out of sequence with the numbers of the published birth certificates of twins born a day after Obama.
As WND reported, the numbers on the Hawaii birth certificates of twins Susan and Gretchen Nordyke are lower than the number given Obama, even though the president's birth certificate was accepted by the registrar general and stamped with a certificate number three days earlier. Further, as WND reported, an article by the man who was Hawaii's registrar general at the time Obama was born confirmed birth certificates were numbered immediately upon acceptance by the registrar general.
Here is a close-up:
And here are the two pages, for comparison:
Is 10611 Obama's true birth registration number, the number on a document used by a forger or just a meaningless symbol beneath the text?
Ghost of the short-form birth certificate?
While the White House posted an electronic copy of Obama's birth certificate printed on the green hash-mark paper of the Hawaii Department of Health, the press was handed a paper copy that for some unspecified reason lacked the green background.
Here is how the white birth certificate looked when distributed in the White House pressroom April 27:
Within days, contributors demonstrated on AboveTopSecret.com that when the copy is run through a color filter process in Paintshop Pro, the text of Obama's short-form certification of live birth, oddly, appears to bleed through the page.
The contributors speculated that the short-form birth certificate was placed behind the white, long-form birth certificate when it was copied for distribution to the White House press April 27.
Here are two versions of the white birth certificate analyzed under color filters:
User "boondock-saint" posted on AboveTopSecret.com an interactive version that flashes between the short-form and a brown version of the long-form birth certificate, demonstrating how text from the short-form appears to be bleeding through.
The word "VOID" also appears behind the long-form:
Smile, Alvin T. Onaka!
WND previously reported that a close inspection of the Hawaii Department of Health state registrar's stamp affixed by Alvin T. Onaka on the White House-released document reveals a curious misspelling.
The language of the seal reads, "I certify this is a true copy or abstract of TXE record on file in the Hawaii State Department of Health."
Here is a close-up of the registrar's stamp on the White House-released document:
Additionally, with a magnification of 800 percent, the distinct form of a smiley face can be seen on the side of the "A" in Onaka's first name. The figure appears to be a side profile of a face with a nose, eye and mouth.
It is arguable, viewing the document at 1,600 magnification, that the smiley face could have been formed by inserting a stylized letter "E" into the rounded outside loop of the "A" in Alvin.
The TXE and the smiley face are not seen on other examples of the state registrar's seal, such as the copy of a long-form birth certificate released by the Hawaii Department of Health as recently as March 15:
Here is a close-up of the registrar's certification stamp on the long-form birth certificate copy dated March 15:
Why would the Hawaii DOH allow the document issued to the president to contain an obvious smiling face hiding within the first letter of the state registrar's signature?
Or, could it be the work of a forger leaving his mark, laughing at those who take the document seriously?:
Below is a hand-drawn version that illustrates how the face appears in the letter:
Certainly, whoever proof-read the stamp or examined the document for accuracy at the Hawaii Department of Health before releasing it to the White House either was negligent or had a unique sense of humor.


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Hygieia (Detail from Medicine)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Depository: Destroyed by a fire set by retreating German forces in 1945 at Schloss Immendorf, Austria
The Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, also known as the Faculty Paintings, were a series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between the years of 1900-1907. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint the ceiling. Upon presenting his paintings, Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, Klimt came under attack for 'pornography' and 'perverted excess' in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the university. In May 1945 all three paintings were destroyed by retreating SS forces.
Philosophy was the first of the three pictures presented to the Austrian Government at the seventh Vienna Secession exhibition in March 1900. It had been awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris, but was attacked by those in his own country. Klimt described the painting as follows: "On the left a group of figures, the beginning of life, fruition, decay. On the right, the globe as mystery. Emerging below, a figure of light: knowledge." Critics were disturbed by its depiction of men and women drifting in an aimless trance. The original proposal for the theme of the painting was "The Victory of Light over Darkness", but what Klimt presented instead was a dreamlike mass of humanity, referring neither to optimism nor rationalism, but to a "viscous void".Fleidl, Gottfried: "Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 The World in Female Form", p. 77, Benedikt Taschen, 1994. A rough study of the painting can be found here.
Medicine was the second painting, presented in March 1901 at the tenth Secession Exhibition. It featured a column of nude figures on the right hand side of the painting, representing the river of life. Beside it was a young nude female who floated in space, with a newborn infant at her feet, representing life. A skeleton represented death in the river of life . The only link between the floating woman and the river of bodies is two arms, the woman's and a man's as seen from behind. At the bottom of the painting Hygieia stood with the Aesculapian snake around her arm and the cup of Lethe in her hand, turning her back to mankind. Klimt conveyed an ambiguous unity of life and death, with nothing to celebrate the role of medicine or the science of healing.Fliedl, p. 81, 1994. Upon display of the painting in 1901, he was attacked by critics who could have noted that Vienna was leading the world in medical research under such figures as Theodor Billroth (1829-94), Frantisek Chvostek (1835-84), and Ludwig Türck (1810-68). An editorial in the Medizinische Wochenschrift complained that the painter had ignored doctors' two main achievements, Preventive medicine|prevention and cure. For a rough composition draft of the painting see here.
was the third of the paintings presented at the eighteenth Secession Exhibition in November 1903. As in the other murals, the central theme is man's conflicted existence.Fleidl, p. 86, 1994. It, too, is laden with anxiety: A condemned man is depicted surrounded by the three female furies: Truth, Justice and Law. They are shown as the Eumenides, punishing the condemned man with an octopus's deadly embrace. It is not surprising that the conflict in Jurisprudence has been seen as "psycho-sexual".Fleidl, p. 86, 1994.
The paintings were attacked by critics when they were presented, as each painting broke different cultural taboos, contradicting the trend of the era to 'sublimate reality and to only present its more favourable aspects.'(Neret) The paintings also drew the standard charges of obscenity which Klimt often faced. Eighty-seven faculty members protested against the murals,Fleidl, p. 81, 1994. and in 1901 a public prosecutor was called in and the issue even reached the Parliament of Austria, the first time that a cultural debate had ever been raised there, but in the end no action was taken. Only the education minister defended Klimt, and when Klimt was elected to be a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1901 the government refused to ratify the action. He was never offered another teaching position. This would also be the last time Klimt would accept commissions from the state, remarking: "I've had enough of censorship...I reject all state support, I don't want any of it."Fleidl, p. 88, 1994. A later painting of his entitled Goldfish (to my critics) (1901-1902) which showed a smiling, beautiful woman projecting her bottom at the viewer, an obvious response to all those who attacked the 'pornography' and perverted excess' of the University paintings.
Outcome and destruction
The paintings were requested for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri|, but the ministry declined, nervous of what the reaction might be. Klimt then resigned his Contract|commission, wishing to keep his work, but the ministry insisted they were already property of the state. Only when Klimt threatened the removal staff with a shotgun was he able to keep his painting. Klimt repaid his advance of 30,000 crowns with the support of August Lederer, one of his major patrons, who in return received Philosophy. In 1911 Medicine and Jurisprudence were bought by Klimt's friend and fellow artist, Koloman Moser. Medicine eventually came into the possession of a Jewish family, and in 1938 the painting was seized by Germany. In 1943, after a final exhibition, they were moved to Schloss Immendorf, a castle in Lower Austria, for protection. In May 1945 the paintings were destroyed as retreating German SS forces set fire to the castle to prevent it falling into enemy hands. All that remains now are preparatory sketches and a few photographs, most notably that of one focusing solely on Hygieia. Only one photograph remains of the complete painting of Medicine, taken just before it was destroyed.


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Paul Hollwood's Danish pastries recipe
I do love my full English breakfast, but not every day. What I can't do without first thing in the morning, though, is my Danish pastry or a croissant – anything with a laminated dough, enriched with butter to make it beautifully golden and flaky.
When my career in hotels was taking off in the Nineties, I went to work as a head baker in Cyprus, where I was making Danish pastries every day. I can remember that the head chef was always on my back to put more seasonal fruits in with the crème pâtissière. I'd even make them with rhubarb. Try it, it's a good twist.
I was also out there teaching other bakers. It is what I am still doing now – passing on the knowledge I have accumulated over the years. What I have learnt is that the key to a good Danish pastry is, like most things, good-quality flour; but more particularly, in this case, good-quality butter. The Normandy butters of northern France have a slightly higher melting temperature, so they allow you to laminate (or layer) your dough and your butter together without the butter melting.
And the key – and this is my pearl of wisdom on Danish pastries – is that when you are layering your dough, you must keep it chilled between each turn.
One of the benefits of us all being able to travel so much more widely than when I was a kid, is that we encounter new foods and flavours and bring them home with us.
Cyprus, for example, is a country where baking is still very "village". By that I mean that they use whatever they have to hand. So there are sesame seeds in everything. Likewise poppy seeds. And a lot of the bread will have tons of cumin seeds on it, all roasted and toasted. Then you'll get these local mastic and mahlepi spices that are ground down to a powder and used in Greek Cypriot bread. It gives it a distinctive aniseed flavour.
Wherever you go in Europe, you'll find each country has particular flavours in their baked goods. It is one of the big differences between Europe and the United States. When I was working there, you could travel from state to state and find very little variation between the same basic products – whether Thanksgiving cakes, pumpkin or pecan pies – or how they were made.
In Europe, though, there's always something new, if you get beyond your hotel and go looking for it. For me, it is always part of my holiday to go and work my way along the shelf in the local artisan bakery with its breads, savoury tartlets, pastries and cakes. It is soul food, one of those things that tells you about a place, and the history of a place and its people.
One thing I have been able to map with my "bakery tourism" is how different styles and recipes have evolved and travelled. The croissant, for example, has its origins not in France, but in Turkey. Whisper it quietly next time you are in the boulangerie, but the French took the idea from the Turks and made it their own.
And the same, I believe, applies to the Danish pastry. I'm not convinced its origins are actually in Denmark. The laminated dough that is its basis started off in Vienna, not Copenhagen, and it is said that what we now call Danish pastries were introduced to Denmark by Austrian bakers in the 1850s. They had gone there because there was a strike by Danish bread makers. And indeed, in Denmark itself, what we know as a classic Danish pastry is usually referred to as a "wienerbrød" – or "Viennese".
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico has just announced that he is taking the first step toward an expected White House run in 2008. It may be difficult for many people to take him seriously. After all, none of the things Terry McAuliffe listed about Hillary Clinton can be said of the New Mexico Governor: "She has the name recognition, the money, the glitz, she's got it all." John Edwards has all that plus really good teeth and a cash-in-the-bank silver tongue! And while Mr. Richardson can make a claim in the identity-politics game ("He seeks to become the first Hispanic president!"), the whole Obamarama type thing is missing. Heck, Senator Obama is said to be so fat-free than he is worthy of mention as a beach-babe in the same breath as the sainted Catherine Zeta-Jones, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba and Hugh Jackman - while the good Governor (how to say this politely) is probably best advised to stay out of saltwater.
So why take Bill Richardson seriously?
One should take Bill Richardson seriously for the same reason that one would have done well to have taken Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton and even the preposterous Howard Dean seriously at this stage of the campaign:
Bill Richardson is a successful governor.He has real public chief executive experience, and he sounds like it and looks like it. None of Clinton, Obama or Edwards has ever run anything beyond a political campaign. That doesn't seem to matter to some chattery people. For example, according to Mr. McAuliffe Senator Clinton "has it all" - but for some reason Mr. McAuliffe fails to note that at this point she doesn't seem to have the voters. Maybe she and he have a plan to bypass the voters based on some clever adverse possession argument arising from Hillary's eight years in hostile, open and notorious occupancy of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Isn't that why one goes to Yale Law School?
There is a basic political fact here that is normally and foolishly forgot as often and as soon as it is said: The Senate is poor training ground or launching pad for a presidential bid, while the governorship of even a small state is terrific as both. Yes, the dull, incompetent, unpleasant Senator Kerry eventually beat back fiery Governor Dean. But Howard Dean is from a tiny, unrepresentative state, is personally and obviously completely unsuited to serve as president and, on top of all that, is a nut. Given his limitations, it is really remarkable that Howard Dean did as well as he did ... and his governorship is much of what carried him as far as he went, which was pretty far. So the obvious advantages enjoyed by Senators Clinton, Obama and Edwards may swamp Governor Richardson's executive experience.
But don't count on it as a certainty. Bill Richardson could be a serious contender.
I could not agree more. He also has a very sincere demeanor (like Carter) and a way of seeming much more moderate than he really is (like Carter and Clinton).
It would be a mistake to underestimate him. I think he is VP material at a minimum.
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July 1, 2011
Loyola University New Orleans President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., recently announced plans to move forward with Phase II of the university's facilities master plan, including a major renovation to the Monroe Hall Science Building.
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