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Fine. I'll be Speaker.
Cocktails will be served at 3.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) October 8, 2015
Thought for the Day
Introducing Speaker Nobody
Sr. House official confirms @costareports report that Boehner is personally lobbying Ryan to run.
Gowdy also urging Ryan to reconsider.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 8, 2015
Ryan really doesn't want the job, but it's got to be hard to tell the outgoing Speaker no — especially given the chaos on the Hill.
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Guy Benson explains the Republicans' dilemma:
It's a common refrain these days, but its undeniable truth bears repeating: Given the unchanged political dynamics within the fractured GOP caucus, who would want this job right now? The next Speaker will inevitably endure harsh criticism a relatively small group of dissatisfied conservatives, who often seem long on complaints but short on workable strategies. This faction's intransigence has hamstrung party leaders repeatedly over the last five years; they've now collected two prized "establishment" scalps, yet appear to have no viable alternative in mind. The next Speaker will answer to dozens of moderate-leaning members intent on retaining swing district seats won over back-to-back midterm landslides. The next Speaker will also contend with an entrenched, very liberal, very disciplined Democratic minority — on whom he or she may occasionally be forced to rely for votes, thanks to the "hell no" hard-right flank's tactics. (This phenomenon, incidentally, affords Democrats much more leverage than they'd otherwise have, allowing them to extract policy concessions as a price for their cooperation, making legislation less conservative). And the next Speaker will have to navigate all of these perilous crosscurrents with a string of unpleasant deadlines looming.
I still say give it to Trump.
STUDY: More Sex Can Make You Pregnant
Having more sex increases the odds of getting pregnant, according to "breakthrough" research conducted by Indiana University:
Women's bodies respond to regular sexual activity by their immune system releasing more "Type 2 helper T cells" and immunoglobulins, or antibodies, as a preparation ahead of a possible pregnancy.
This means that having more sex results in a different kind of immune system for women, and one which makes them more fertile and likely to fall pregnant.
Tierney Lorenz, the lead author of the report and a visiting research scientist at the Kinsey Institute in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, said in a press release that the research was a breakthrough.
Studies, what would we do without them?
Sign "O" the Times
Welcome to the Great US Debt Selloff of 2015:
Central banks around the world are selling U.S. government bonds at the fastest pace on record, the most dramatic shift in the $12.8 trillion Treasury market since the financial crisis.
Sales by China, Russia, Brazil and Taiwan are the latest sign of an emerging-markets slowdown that is threatening to spill over into the U.S. economy. Previously, all four were large purchasers of U.S. debt.
But fear not! There are still plenty of buyers for all that debt:
While central banks have been selling, a large swath of other buyers has stepped in, including U.S. and foreign firms. That buying, driven in large part by worries about the world's economic outlook, has helped keep bond yields at low levels from a historical standpoint.
It's cool. Central banks can't run out of other people's money.
McCarthy Is Out for Speaker
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled out of the race for House Speaker, NBC News confirmed Thursday.
The California Republican had been considered the frontrunner to replace John Boehner after he surprisingly announced his resignation late last month.
Best guess is that McCarthy is trying to avoid a civil war on Capitol Hill — same as Boehner.
Good on both men. Now let's see if we can get a better one as speaker.
UPDATE, via Jeff B.
I missed this one yesterday:
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) wants to avoid the possibility of a member of the new House GOP leadership resigning from office because of a scandal.
In a letter to House GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Jones asked that Republicans discuss urging candidates for leadership to drop out if they might one day embarrass the party because of past indiscretions.
"With all the voter distrust of Washington felt around the country, I'm asking that any candidate for Speaker of the House, majority leader, and majority whip withdraw himself from the leadership election if there are any misdeeds he has committed since joining Congress that will embarrass himself, the Republican Conference, and the House of Representatives if they become public," Jones wrote.
I take it back — the Civil War on Capitol Hill may be on already.
All 8,400 Pictures Taken by Apollo Astronauts
They're all on Flickr, every single one.
Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day
Sucks to be you, Hawaii:
HONOLULU (AP) – The state has approved rate hikes for members of Kaiser and the Hawaii Medical Service Association under Affordable Care Act plans.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that members of HMSA, the state's largest health insurer, will see a 27 percent increase in rates, and Kaiser members will see a 34 percent increase starting next year.
That Means It's Working™
Can PA Come Out to Play?
Quinnipiac published some their first head-to-head matchup numbers in the vital swing states of Florida, Ohio, and… Pennsylvania?
Blue Pennsylvania? The GOP's will-o-the-wisp for almost 30 years?
That Pennsylvania?
Yes. Pennsylvania.
Note that Hillary Clinton loses to everybody but Trump. Rubio is the next-weakest GOP contender, and yet even he beats Clinton by better than the margin of cheating.
Biden on the other hand — and this really makes you wonder about the timing of the poll — beats everybody except Carson.
And it feels like rubbing it in to mention this, but even Bernie Sanders beats Trump. And he does so by a wider margin than Clinton does.
If PA is in play, it's difficult to see the Democrats taking OH or FL — FL especially if there's a Bush or a Rubio on the ticket. In that scenario, MN and WI might even be up for grabs, and Harry Reid's NV machine doesn't seem to be what it once was.
I'd like to see the RNC start hitting the PA burbs soon, and hitting them hard.
Straight Outta Vilnius
Vytautas Landsbergis, "the patriarch of Lithuanian politics," sat down for an interview on Russia, NATO, and recent attempts by Russian planes to ensnare Turkey in the Syrian Civil War:
Why does Russia want one more party in the Syrian conflict?
Today's Russia and its leadership need as much tension as possible everywhere. They exploit it to win influence. They use threats, because it's very effective. Read: you must talk with us because we are unpredictable. And "with us" means "by our rules". That's the goal of the Kremlin's masters.
The Turkish president has said his country will not remain an idle observer, that Russia's actions against Turkey are actions against NATO. What kind of response should we expect from Turkey? What do you think Turkey should do?
The most straightforward response from Turkey would be this: Make sure there's no bad weather, because next time your plane might not return. Or if you get lost, make sure you're ten kilometres away from the Turkish border, because if you do, the plane might not return. This would be serious talk, whereas now there are just laments and promises to talk. Putin laughs at this. He uses a simple formula: they talk, I act.
Then there's this:
What do you think about US President Barack Obama's policy and position in the situation? What is it down to?
I think it is down to his weak character and the weakness of his team. Barack Obama sometimes makes very strict statements, but there are no strict actions. He has vetoed initiatives to rearm Ukraine, since he knows that Moscow will be very upset by it. There are probably people counting days until the US presidential election, thinking what more Moscow could win until then.
My only quibble is with the word "probably."
Re-Back to the Future II
Thought for the Day
It occurs to me that you don't raise boys so much as you try to steer their energies away from murder and arson.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) October 7, 2015
Honor Killing in Germany
Here's how Germany is being thanked for welcoming in Arab migrants:
A rape victim branded "unclean" by her family after the assault in her native Syria has been murdered in Germany amid claims her mother ordered the honour killing.
The woman, named only as Rokstan M, was found buried in a shallow grave in an allotment in the eastern German city of Dessau after being stabbed to death.
Police believe the 20-year-old was murdered by her father and brothers, who thought she had brought shame on their family through the sex attack by three men.
And Rokstan's former employer, author Mark Krüger, has claimed the young woman's mother was behind the slaying, ordering the men to carry out the murder.
The eventual backlash might prove just as ugly.
Hillary's IT Provider Smelled a Coverup
"This whole thing really is covering up some shady s–t," the employee said in an Aug. 19 company email obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The concerns by the Colorado-based Platte River Networks employee were aired after the Clinton camp ordered a reduction in the data stored during each server backup.
The limits were ordered after the State Department contacted the former secretary of state in summer 2014 to inquire about her private email records.
In October, the department sent a formal request to turn over documents.
The employee was so suspicious that he sent an email to a colleague asking for a copy of the email from Clinton Executive Service Corp. to document "their directive" to limit the number of emails stored.
Hillary Clinton belongs in jail.
Don't Do Stupid S*** Revisited
Heavy fighting continues in Kunduz, despite assurances from the Pentagon and Kabul that the city had been retaken by forces loyal to the Afghan central government:
The reports from Kunduz contradicted testimony by the American military commander, Gen. John F. Campbell, before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday. He told the panel that most of the city had been retaken from the Taliban, and that the continued fighting had been relegated to isolated pockets in the city as the insurgents "for the most part melted away, left the city."
Public assessments issued by Afghan leaders on Tuesday mostly lined up with General Campbell's portrayal. "The enemy was pushed out of the city yesterday, the Afghan security forces, especially the Afghan National Army, recaptured the city yesterday," said Lt. Gen. Afzal Aman, director of operations for the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
But the accounts of many Kunduz residents on Tuesday greatly differed, as did details from senior Afghan military officers who spoke off the record because they did not want to publicly contradict government spokesmen who were also claiming improvement in the city.
Read the whole thing — which is redolent of Vietnam in all the worst ways.
It was possible to make sense of the Bush Administration's policy in Afghanistan. We maintained enough of a presence to "mow the lawn" as necessary, to keep the terror/Taliban presence at a manageable level. That there was no endgame for the Bush policy gave Senator Barack Obama the opportunity to declare that Afghanistan was "the right war," and that as President he'd fight it to its conclusion.
Once in office, Obama put into place a surge which hardly surged at all — the buildup was too slow to have the same psychological effects as Bush's Iraq surge. Making thing worse, as noted here years ago, Obama's surge came with an expiration date, allowing the Taliban to decide the tempo of battle, knowing just how much punishment they could take before the inevitable drawdown began.
Once the buildup was complete, the Obama strategy was typically Obama — nuanced in the extreme. As Richard Fernandez noted this morning:
David Ignatius, writing in Real Clear Politics, provides a glimpse into the kind of template the Obama administration regards as a solution. He describes Washington's efforts to create in Afghanistan and South Asia a stable division of spoils where power, influence and money are shared to the satisfaction of all. Then with everyone bought off, peace will return.
Peace has hardly returned to Kunduz — in the north of Afghanistan, where the Taliban were never strong, not even during their 1990s heyday. That there is real fighting going on there shows the futility of trying to "divide the spoils" with religious fanatics. That the Pentagon is in official denial shows how thoroughly politicized the military has again become.
Bush knew how to keep the fighting in Afghanistan at a manageable level, but not how or when to get us out. Obama never wanted anything but out, but failed to get anything for the additional blood and treasure he sacrificed there.
Re-Back to the Future
"I think of Jimmy Carter as the good old days."
Here's William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal, wanting you to know that unlike Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter could learn on the job:
Over the years, Mr. Carter's name has become a synonym for American weakness abroad and decline at home, the former represented by the Iranian hostage crisis that plagued him until his last moments in office, and the latter by an economy that introduced American working families to words such as "stagflation." Not until Ronald Reagan succeeded Mr. Carter did Americans see policies that would unleash the U.S. economy and eventually bring down the Berlin Wall.
Even so, there's a serious point in Mr. Bolton's quip. Mr. Carter may indeed be the gold standard for fecklessness and malaise. But toward the end of his tenure, President Carter proved himself capable of something that still eludes President Obama: a willingness to learn from mistakes and reconsider options.
And here's your friendly neighborhood VodkaPundit, wanting you to know that unlike Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter could learn on the job:
Carter, for all his silly notions, learned on the job and came up with some decent policies — eventually.
Jimmuh was dealt an extremely weak hand on national defense, probably the weakest in the post-war era. The armed forces — especially the Army — were making the slow and painful transition to an all-volunteer force. Drugs were still a problem, and a sense of defeat still hung in the air after Vietnam. Public trust in the armed forces was at an all-time low. Carter couldn't have engaged in any successful saber-rattling with the Soviets, even had he been inclined to. Instead, Carter made human rights the cornerstone of America's foreign policy, setting the stage for Reagan's "evil empire" speech. It was a weak policy, yes — but the best he could do given a weak hand. And when the invasion of Afghanistan made Soviet expansionism became too much to bear, Carter changed course. The defense buildup under Reagan really began under Carter.
Faced with inflation, Carter appointed inflation hawk Paul Volcker to head the Fed. Reagan kept him on for a second term. Faced with a weak economy, Carter undid New Deal transportation cartels. The man could and did learn on the job.
Which brings us to President Barack Obama.
The biggest difference between our two columns is that I wrote mine over four years ago.
Advantage: VodkaPundit.
ISIS Using Chemical Artillery Shells
The New York Times has the story of a family in Marea, Syria, whose home was shelled in an ISIS attack:
Struck from afar by a blister-agent shell, the family would suffer from an agonizing form of violence that since the 1990s, when the Convention on Chemical Weapons took force in much of the world, had seemed to fade into the past, only to be revived by the Islamic State.
Since the spring, the group has used two types of chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria multiple times, according to international arms analysts, victims, local activists and Western officials, joining Syria's government as a party in the conflict that has used chemical weapons.
The weapons have included improvised bombs containing chlorine, a toxic industrial chemical that Sunni militants in Iraq have crudely weaponized in vehicle and roadside bombs for roughly a decade, and artillery or mortar projectiles containing a blister agent that appeared this summer after being fired from Islamic State battlefield positions.
These projectiles have delivered sulfur mustard, an internationally banned chemical warfare agent, according to American officials familiar with the analysis of soil samples, ordnance and victims' clothing collected after several attacks. Two American officials said items analyzed from the Aug. 21 attack on Marea were among those that confirmed the agent's use.
It might be fairly argued that President Bush took the threat of chemical weapons too seriously. But it's for damn sure that President Obama doesn't take the threat seriously at all.
6,000 Non-Violent Drug Offenders to Get Early Release
Good news, but with a caveat we'll get to in a moment:
The Justice Department is preparing to release roughly 6,000 inmates from federal prison as part of an effort to ease overcrowding and roll back the harsh penalties given to nonviolent drug dealers in the 1980s and '90s, according to federal law enforcement officials.
The release is scheduled to occur from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, and will be one of the largest one-time discharges of inmates from federal prisons in American history, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing matters that had not been publicly announced by the Justice Department.
Mandatory minimums for non-violent offenders was never a good idea. However they were probably inevitable given the (somewhat understandable) anti-drug hysteria of the '80s and '90s.
It's been noted many times before that prison is where petty criminals go to receive their education on how to become truly violent offenders. Someone might have gone in a non-violent offender in 1995, but maybe by 2015 they're no longer quite so non-violent.
So we can only hope that Justice is vetting carefully.
The Guns of July
Reuters tells the story of how the Russo-Iranian War for Syria began at a secret meeting in Moscow last July:
Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning for a Russian military intervention that has reshaped the Syrian war and forged a new Iranian-Russian alliance in support of Assad.
As Russian warplanes bomb rebels from above, the arrival of Iranian special forces for ground operations underscores several months of planning between Assad's two most important allies, driven by panic at rapid insurgent gains.
Soleimani is the commander of the Quds Force, the elite extra-territorial special forces arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and reports directly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Senior regional sources say he has already been overseeing ground operations against insurgents in Syria and is now at the heart of planning for the new Russian- and Iranian-backed offensive.
Vladimir Putin once flattened Grozny — a major city in his own country — to stamp out a rebellion there. During the Iran-Iraq War, Iran's Revolutionary Guards were known to force-march kids across minefields in order to clear them.
Between the two of them, Putin and Soleimani certainly have enough ruthless cunning to save Assad.
Business Profile: Lex Luthor
Of all the things I expected to see today, a serious-sounding profile of Superman archnemesis Lex Luthor wasn't even a fraction of one of them.
Alexander Joseph Luthor Jr. is a 31-year-old wunderkind who transformed an aging petrochemical and heavy machinery dinosaur into a tech darling of the Fortune 500 in what some call a superhuman feat.
This jeans-wearing genius is equally at ease rappelling the climbing wall in his employee "inspiration station" and coding in "the crucible": the cutting-edge R & D lab where the baby-faced billionaire verbally extemporizes computer code like Miles Davis improvising a trumpet solo.
As we patiently wait our turn at the complimentary LexCorp vegan food truck (this day's fare: pesto-olive pizza with raw almond crust), the son of Alexander Luthor Sr. — Lex Luthor — explains the evolution of LexCorp.
"Dad named the company after himself ten years before I made my unexpected entrance into his life. But investors seemed to respond to the idea of an adoring father building a legacy for his precious son. He used that to his advantage. It was a good shtick and, whatever else he was, he was a good businessman," the younger Luthor explains.
Read the whole thing — it's quite charming.
But please take note that the Big Bad of next year's Batman vs Superman movie, the evil genius behind so many nefarious plots, has been retconned into a pretentious postmodern hipster — using somebody else's fortune in his quest to destroy the man who represents "truth, justice, and the American way."
I'm starting to get my hopes up for this movie.
Thought for the Day
Experts agree the best way to take hidden videos is to be totally upfront about your real identity. And to put the camcorder on the table.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) October 6, 2015
The Best Places to Die
Morbid, but something to think about as we all get older:
A study was conducted to know the best places in the world to die. For the study, the researchers compared end-of-life care in 80 nations and reached at the conclusion that the UK is at the top position, with Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Belgium at the top five.
Reasons behind the UK taking the top slot include the integration of palliative care into the NHS, specialized staff and deep community engagement. Annie Pannelay, of EIU healthcare, said, "A very strong marker in our index is the availability of specialized palliative care workers and this is where the UK scores particularly well. The UK has a long history of providing treatment in palliative care".
Dying: The one thing national health care gets right.
The Russians Are Coming
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia has built up "substantial" forces in Syria, and confirmed what everybody knew — that Putin is targeting anti-Assad forces in the west of the country rather than ISIS in the east.
"I will not go into any specific numbers but I can confirm that we have seen the substantial build-up of Russian forces in Syria – air force, air defences but also ground troops in connection with the air base they have," he continued.
"And we also see increased naval presence of Russian ships and naval capabilities outside Syria or in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.
"So there has been a substantial military build-up by Russia with many different kinds of capabilities and forces, over the last weeks."
Perhaps the best we can hope for now is that we take turns with the Russians. Putin can accomplish what he wants to do fairly quickly, by pounding the snot out of anti-Assad rebels. Then Russian forces can (mostly) stand down while we go back to ineffectual little pinprick attacks against ISIS.
Obama can tell Putin he's getting stuck in a "quogmire" all he likes, but that's just a silly thing to say to the man who flattened Grozny.
OK, Google — Get Lost
Porsche will preload Apple CarPlay into new 911 Carrera models, but not Google's rival Android Auto.
As with any other carmaker, Porsche had the option to include Android Auto as a user-selectable connected infotainment option, but ultimately decided against it, citing Google's data gathering proclivities, reports Motor Trend.
While not mentioned in the official PR line, Porsche was not too keen on handing over raw data gleaned from the 991/992′s onboard diagnostics unit, known as the OBD2 in automotive parlance, to Google as per Android Auto's user agreement. For reasons unknown, the Internet search giant demands manufacturers allow access to metrics relating to vehicle speed, throttle position, coolant and oil temp, engine revs and other system specifics.
Don't be creepy, Google.
Fossils Then, Fossils Now
Meet the plucky little proto-beaver:
While an asteroid impact, earthquakes and volcanoes wiped out much of life on earth, one survivor apparently emerged, a furry, buck-toothed creature science has dubbed Kimbetopsalis simmonsae.
Identified from fossils, the new species was a member of a group of mammals known as multituberculates, named for the many cusps, or tubercles, found on their teeth.
The rodent-like animals lived alongside the dinosaurs, but unlike the doomed reptilian giants, they managed to live for another 30 million years after the asteroid that pushed the dinosaurs off the evolutionary stage.
What was bad for the dinosaurs proved a boon to Kimbetopsalis, researchers explain.
After the asteroid impact pushed many species to extinction, "all this ecological space became available and the mammals went a bit nuts," says University of Edinburgh paleontologist Sarah Shelley, co-author of a published study on the discovery.
Imagine how nuts we human-mammals will go once the lefty dinosaurs trying to run everything finally die off.
Syria on $50 a Day
About those Russian volunteers heading to Syria…
"It is likely that groups of Russian volunteers will appear in the ranks of the Syrian army as combat participants," Komoyedov told the Interfax-AVN news agency.
The Kremlin has said that Russia has no current plans to deploy ground troops to Syria and will confine itself to conducting air strikes to support the Syrian army instead. It has not yet offered a view on the possibility of Russian volunteers or mercenaries fighting in Syria.
Komoyedov was commenting on unconfirmed media reports that some Russian volunteers who had previously fought alongside Kremlin-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine had been spotted fighting with the Syrian army.
"What attracts volunteers apart from ideas? Of course money most likely," said Komoyedov, a lawmaker with the Communist party.
Interfax-AVN quoted unnamed media reports as saying that such volunteers could make $50 per day.
At those prices, you couldn't hire a Seattle barista to fight for you in Syria — not that you'd want to.
But wait, there's more. This next bit is veddy, veddy interestink:
Komoyedov spoke after Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Russian internal republic of Chechnya, told a Russian radio station on Friday he was ready to send Chechen forces to Syria to carry out "special operations" if President Vladimir Putin gave his blessing.
Those Chechen are basically Mob enforcers but without the civility and tact.
The Final Countdown
It seems unpossible, but the big Bullets & Bourbon conference is just two months away at Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose, TX.
I'll be handling the model rocket launches (true) and am putting together a presentation on the ultimate penumbra emanating from the Constitution — the right to pleasure (also true). One of those truths self-evident to sports shooters is that the Second Amendment brings an awful lot of pleasure.
I'm also trying to put together a little something, maybe even a contest, on making a proper Old Fashioned. But the Lodge is in a dry county, and I'm told that complicates things. The Lodge itself isn't dry, of course, and guests all become members, which allows them to enjoy the bourbon, and…
…well, you see what I mean by complications.
The list of speakers includes Glenn Reynolds, Dr Helen Smith, Mark Rippetoe, Kevin Williamson (whose brain I'm dying to pick), Ed Morrissey, Roger Simon, Dana Loesch, and I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.
I'm told reservations are still available…
News You Can Use
Read why Florida Libertarians want to kick Sol Invictus out of the party:
"He is the absolute exact opposite of a Libertarian. He's a self-proclaimed fascist. He's promoting a second civil war," states Wyllie. "It's absolute insanity. We must explain to people this is the opposite of Libertarians. This guy has no place in the Libertarian Party."
Wyllie knew that the 32-year-old lawyer would be trouble ever since he walked into the race, claiming that he's using his candidacy to actively recruit neo-Nazis into the party in hopes of starting a civil war against the government.
Sol Invictus — "who changed his given name to a Latin phrase that means 'majestic unconquered sun'" — admits to performing the pagan ritual yet took issue with what he calls Wyllie's smear campaign.
"I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans," he told the Orlando Sentinel. "I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness … Yes, I drank the goat's blood."
You know you're not supposed to do that even at frat parties, right?
Hillary Outspending the Free-Spending Socialist
I mentioned Hillary Clinton's "comically expensive" campaign yesterday, linking to that report that she'd spent $9,000 for "experts" to put together her campaign's event playlist.
But let's put her spending and fundraising in perspective, by comparing them to rival Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders:
Clinton vastly outraised Sanders during the second quarter as their respective campaigns began, drawing in $47 million compared to his $15 million.
But Sanders narrowed the gap considerably in the second quarter, raking in $26 million compared with Clinton's $28 million.
Sanders said based on these fundraising results, he is "very confident" his campaign can pull off "one of the major political upsets in American history."
The Vermont senator said he is proud that his campaign's average contribution is below $30.
"Well I am very proud of that in the era of Citizens United and in the era of super-PACS, where millionaires and billionaires are making huge contributions to campaigns, we don't have a super PAC," Sanders said.
"And the overwhelming, overwhelming, overwhelming majority of our contributions are coming from middle-class and working class-people. I think our average contribution may be less than 30 bucks."
The Clinton campaign also reported that it had a burn rate of 89 percent in its second quarter, whereas the Sanders campaign said it spent approximately 50 percent of its cash.
If I'm doing my math correctly, Clinton entered the third quarter with about $5.2 million in the bank from $47 million raised, and Sanders entered with about $7.5 million in the bank on $15 million raised.
Note that although Clinton is currently up by five points in Iowa, her lead is shrinking — while Sanders catches up in the polls and in the fundraising.
A quick look back at Iowa in 2008 might be instructive, too. Clinton left the Iowa Caucuses "dead broke" (for real this time) and even then was only able to buy herself a third place finish behind John Edwards. What saved her bacon was a convincing win in New Hampshire just five days later.
But as of right now, Clinton trails Sanders badly in New Hampshire.
The next stop 11 days after New Hampshire is a closed caucus in Nevada — and Clinton tends to fare poorly in caucus states, which are more easily dominated by Progressive True Believers.
Clinton's firewall then is the South Carolina primary — but will she have enough money left to buy the airtime she'll need?
Or will Bill have to cut her another seven-figure check to keep her in the running?
Stay tuned.
Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day
The Commonwealth Fund's Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey conducted telephone interviews with nearly 5,000 American adults, to discover if Affordable Care Act had actually made care more affordable.
The results were analyzed by Motley Fool's Sean Williams, and this part stood out:
If there was a silver lining in the Commonwealth Fund's survey, it's that most adults, regardless of where they obtained their health coverage, believe they could afford medical care if they became seriously ill. In total, 80% of employer-covered individuals believed they could cover their medical costs if they fell seriously ill, and 65% of ACA-covered consumers responded in the affirmative.
That's the silver lining in an otherwise meh-at-best report?
Fewer Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act report that they think their care will be affordable than do Americans who get their insurance the old-fashioned way. And the Affordable Care Act is designed to get more people off of employer-based insurance and into the less-affordable ♡bamaCare!!!.
So when exactly is the affordability supposed to kick in?


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Another benefit is that it would probably need to be done once every three years, while the fecal occult blood test is usually done yearly. Savings over time on a more accurate test done fewer times could justify the higher cost of the Cologuard test, Ahlquist said.
In two other presentations at the meeting, researchers have linked key gene variants to the risk for colon cancer and also to the prognosis of the disease.
In one study, researchers found that people who have long telomeres, the small strips of DNA that cover the ends of chromosomes, have a 30 percent increased risk of developing colon cancer.
"Even for people their age, their telomeres were longer than you'd expect for healthy people," lead researcher Dr. Lisa A. Boardman, an associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, said in a statement. "This suggests that there may be two different mechanisms that affect telomere length and that set up susceptibility to cancer," she said.
In the other study, a research team led by Kim M. Smits, a molecular biologist and epidemiologist in the GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands, uncovered a surprise when it came to a gene variant on the KRAS gene called the G variant. This variant, long linked to poorer outcomes in advanced colorectal cancer, actually predicted a better prognosis in early-stage colon cancer.
"You would intuitively think that the G variant would be associated with a poorer prognosis, as it is in late-stage colorectal cancer, but that is not the case," Smits said in a statement.
Experts point out that studies presented at scientific meetings do not have to pass the rigorous peer review
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When farmers gathered in Middlebury on Monday for the annual meeting of the Addison County Farm Bureau, all eyes were on a bill that seeks to stabilize the dairy industry and milk prices.
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MIDDLEBURY — Last Thursday, a crowd of 40 Middlebury College students and a few adults marched from the steps of the Davis Family Library to Hillcrest Environmental Center. They hoisted homemade signs and chanted phrases borrowed from the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City.
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BRISTOL — The Bristol selectboard approved two new fiscal policies at their Monday, Oct. 17, meeting: an amended purchasing policy and a set of conditions for town credit card use.
The credit card policy was approved on the heels of recent selectboard debate surrounding the issuance of town credit cards to department heads, a discussion triggered by a People's United Bank policy, which only issues credit cards to specific individuals. Simply put: The bank is unwilling to issue just one town credit card.
MIDDLEBURY — Pinecones hang like bells from a branch. A birch bark globe trimmed with sumac twists in the breeze. Other pieces of sculpture are tucked just off the Middlebury trail — a wrapped figure eight of grape vines, a discarded snack food wrapper garnished with a sprig of white pine.
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MIDDLEBURY — A different kind of vehicle has finally joined the Mack trucks, cement mixers, excavators and boom lifts that have been omnipresent at the Eastview at Middlebury retirement community construction site off South Street Extension for the better part of a year.
Moving trucks this month have been making their first of what Eastview officials anticipate will be many deliveries for new residents settling into the new development taking shape just south of the Porter Medical Center campus.
MIDDLEBURY — Clarisse Shechter has loved finding, sorting and selling a variety of vintage clothing, jewelry and related accessories out of three different storefronts during a 26-year run in downtown Middlebury.
But time waits for no one, and Shechter said on Thursday it's time for her to close up her shop, Bejewelled, at 1 Frog Alley. She will officially close at the end of December, and has already begun a clearance sale on clothing.
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police were called on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 5:13 p.m. to investigate a car accident on Lincoln Road in Bristol where one vehicle left the scene after the collision.
Troopers Hatch and Szarejko reported that they located the vehicle off the side of the road in Lincoln. They said the driver, Lincoln resident David Warner, was intoxicated.
VERMONT — At a joint meeting of the Vermont Senate and House Transportation Committees on Transportation in Montpelier last Wednesday, one thing was clear: The state's coffers stand to take a major hit following Tropical Storm Irene.
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Hospital officials weren't sure how state regulators would react to their proposed fiscal year 2012 operating budget of $65.9 million. It's a spending plan that requires less than a 2-percent increase in net revenues but necessitates a 10.3-percent rise in the rates the hospital needs to charge for procedures.
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Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon 1999
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
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Opaque, dark black-cherry color. Deep, generous aromas of black currants (cassis) and black cherries that promise sweet, mature fruit, interwoven with notes of anise, black licorice and vanilla. The wine enters the mouth with an explosive impression of richly ripe fruit, especially black currants and plums. This pure fruit essence forms a solid core that dominates the wine in its evolution in the mouth. Flavors of licorice and toasted spice as well as textural elements from the finely grained tannins and plush, fleshy mouthfeel envelop this core but never overcome it. The fruit flavors deepen and expand as the wine builds to a prolonged, weighty finish.
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Wine Spectator - "Dark, rich and intense, a vibrant, deeply concentrated and firmly tannic style. Young and tight, this wine packs in lots of rich, chocolaty plum, black currant, cherry, anise and sage and herbal flavors. Really revs up the flavors on the finish, with unfolding layers of complexity and depth."
The Wine Advocate - "The dense ruby/purple-colored 1999 Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection reveals an overlay of sweet, toasty new oak intermixed with blackberries, currants, and vanilla with hints of tar, chocolate, and espresso. This big, sweet, juicy Cabernet is not the most complex effort. It is overt, flamboyant, and consumer-friendly."
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It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
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About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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This outlines data sources that must be backed up when backing up Team Foundation Server. Backup requires taking the server running Team Foundation Server offline for the period of time the backup takes to ensure a consistent backup. There are eight relational databases and one OLAP database that must be backed up. The NTBackup command-line utility can be used to back up Team Foundation Server computers. You must shut down and restart Internet Information Services (IIS) manually when backing up and restoring Visual Studio Team System. In addition, IIS data must be the first item you back up, and the last item you restore before restarting IIS and bringing Team Foundation Server back online.
Group membership information is stored in Active Directory Active Management (ADAM) files on the Team Foundation Server application-tier computer and requires special backup steps. You must first shut down IIS before starting the backup on the application-tier. You can then run NTBackup to back up the data in the \Program Files\Microsoft ADAM\BISGSS\data folder.
Project portal data is stored in a SQL Server 2005 database on the Team Foundation Server application-tier computer and requires Windows SharePoint Service procedures to facilitate the back up. For more information on how to back up Windows SharePoint Services data, see the product documentation for Windows SharePoint Services.
Team Foundation Server relational databases include work items, source code, build results, and reports. They are stored in SQL Server 2005 on the database server computer and require SQL Server backup procedures.
The Team Foundation Server OLAP data warehouse is managed with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services on the data-tier computer and requires SQL Server Analysis Services back up procedures.
Work item attachments are stored in the file system on the data-tier computer and require you to first shut down IIS before starting the backup.
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The most common considerations are discussed briefly below and are intended as general guidelines to help you through the planning process. You might have additional factors you want to consider, such as clustering, offsite data storage, or mirrored servers. Remember to account for the unique features of your Team Foundation deployment when creating your backup and restore plan.
Consider the servers and computers required for Team Foundation Server daily operations. You must regularly back up the data on these critical computers, including but not limited to build servers, test controllers, and Team Foundation Server. Because the Team Foundation servers will not be available while being backed up, you must also plan when to perform these backups to minimize disruption for your users. You can choose the frequency of these backups as well as the type. For example, you might choose to perform incremental backups of your application-tier and data-tier servers on a daily basis, and full backups on a weekly basis. You can also choose whether to back up just the data on these computers, or whether to back up the entire computer for easier recovery and restoration. For example, backing up the entire Team Foundation Server requires more storage space and more time, but when restoring the server you do not have to reinstall and reconfigure Team Foundation Server.
Consider who will be responsible for backing up your critical computers. Will it be one person or a team of people? If you are backing up critical computers after working hours, you might choose to automate your backups. If so, however, someone needs to make sure that the automated backups completed successfully. If you need to suddenly restore a server from backup, is there a way to contact these people after regular working hours? If a person is unavailable, can someone else back up or restore the data? How familiar are these people with the disaster recovery plan? Does everyone know where to find the disaster recovery plan?
Consider how much data storage you will need and where you will store your backed up data. You should choose a media storage type that best suits your organization's needs. You should plan on keeping at least one set of backups in an offsite location. For more information about backup storage, see Backing Up and Restoring Data (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=28310).
Consider whether you want to use the back up features of your operating system, or whether you want to invest in other backup software. You can choose to invest in integrated software and hardware backup systems. How much would a backup software solution cost your organization? How does that cost compare to the advantages of the feature set? Your backup software should provide the level of backup management that best suits the overall need of your organization.
Consider testing the integrity of your backups on a regular basis. You should check the backup logs for any errors or events on a daily basis. If your backup software provides the option, you should run data integrity checks on your backed up data. You should also plan on practicing restorations, including restoring a server from incremental backups and restoring a server from full backups. Full scenario testing is the only way to ensure that your backups really provide the data coverage you expect.
As a database administrator, you know that backups are required for successful recovery from data corruption or server failure. As a Team Foundation Server administrator, you must consider restoration of not only the data, but the application-tier services that use the data.
You can use backups to recover Team Foundation Server services in the following scenarios.
The databases are the major component to restore. All other recovery steps configure the Team Foundation application-tier services to connect to that restored data. Typically, you restore to the original server and the services are already configured to use that server name. However, if you restore to a different server, you must perform additional configuration steps to update the services to connect to the new server.
To restore your Team Foundation deployment in its entirety if a failure were to occur, Team Foundation deployment requires that you create backups for each location where data is stored. Creating backups is a key aspect of protecting your Team Foundation deployment against loss. The following list summarizes what you must back up for each tier.
Warning Although SQL Server Management Studio allows you to back up individual databases at a time, restoring from such back ups can cause unexpected results because the databases are related and you risk restoring outdated versions.
Note You might assume that you must back up both databases and Web sites for the team project portal pages. However, Windows SharePoint Services dynamically generates the Web sites from the databases. So when you back up the databases, the sections of the team project that you see as Web sites are backed up, too. If you have created custom site collections, site templates, or Web parts in Windows SharePoint Services but outside Team Foundation, you must back them separately. For more information, see "Backup and Restore Options for Windows SharePoint Services" in the n Windows SharePoint Services online documentation.
When you deploy Team Foundation, keep a record of the accounts that you create, and any computer names, passwords, and setup options that you choose. Always keep a copy of all recovery materials, documents, and database and transaction log backups at an offsite location.
Important Perform a trial data restoration periodically to verify that your files are correctly backed up. A trial restoration can reveal hardware problems that do not appear with software verifications.
When you back up and restore a database, you must back up the data onto media, for example, tapes and disks. Your backup plan should include provisions for managing media, such as:
To safeguard against a disaster, such as a fire or an earthquake, keep duplicates of your server backups in a different location from the location of the servers. This will help protect you against the loss of critical data. As a best practice, keep three copies of the backup media, and keep at least one copy offsite in a properly controlled environment.
Because Team Foundation data is stored in SQL Server databases, you do not have to back up the computers on which Team Foundation clients are installed. If a media failure or disaster involving those computers were to occur, reinstalling Team Foundation provides a cleaner and more reliable alternative to restoring from a backup.
You can back up a server by using maintenance plans in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to back up the databases related to your Team Foundation deployment. The Team Foundation Server databases work in relationship with one other and should be backed up at the same time and restored at the same time.
Full Data Backups (Databases) A full database backup is necessary for the recoverability of your deployment. A full backup includes part of the transaction log so that the full backup can be recovered. Full backups are self-contained; they represent the entire database at the time the backup completed.
Under the full database backup model, making regular backups of your transaction logs is necessary to recovering data. With transaction log backups, you can recover the database to the point of failure or to a specific point in time.
Transaction Log Backups The transaction log is a serial record of all modifications that have occurred in a database in addition to the transaction that performed each modification. The transaction log records the start of each transaction. It records the changes to the data and, if it has to, enough information to undo the modifications made during each transaction. The log grows continuously as logged operations occur in the database.
Transaction log backups let you recover the database to an earlier point in time, for example, before entering unwanted data, or to the point of a failure. Besides database backups, transaction log backups must be part of your recovery strategy.
Transaction log backups generally use fewer resources than full backups. Therefore, you can create transaction log backups more frequently than full backups, reducing your risk of losing data. However, sometimes a transaction log backup is larger than a full backup. For example, suppose a database has a high transaction rate; a high transaction rate causes the transaction log to grow quickly. In this situation, create transaction log backups more frequently.
You can perform three types of transaction log backups:
The only time a full backup must be synchronized with transaction log backups is when you start a sequence of transaction log backups. Every sequence of transaction log backups must be preceded by a full backup or full differential backup. In SQL Server 2005, you can back up the log after the first full backup, while a full backup is running.
The only backup performed for the application tier is for the encryption key for the Reporting Services. You might assume that you must back up Web sites or the data warehouse. However, the SQL Server databases contain all the data including page specifications and report specifications that the services request and use to create the team portal pages and the reports.
Although you have fewer steps for backing up for the services, you have more to do during recovery on the application tier. You need to restore the portal sites for the team projects.


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Red wine Reserva 2006. This wine was aged for 24 months in French, Allier oak barrels .
Winery: Ramón Bilbao
D.O.: Rioja
Variety: Tempranillo
Volume: 75 cl.
Features Ramón Bilbao Mirto 2006
This wine shows the aromas of Tempranillo grapes from old vines at their higher expression. A modern red wine, with a great personality, which usually takes the lead in the most demanding 'rankings'.
After a careful fermentation at controlled temperatures to achieve the highest extraction of aromas and colour, the wine is placed in barrels where the malolactic fermentation takes place without rackings, just the periodic stirring of the lees using the "bâtonnage" technique. It stays 24 months in new French oak barrels from Allier with a toasting level specifically chosen for this vintage. The wine is bottled without being subjected to any fining or filtering.
Tasting report Ramón Bilbao Mirto 2006
Bright and very opaque violet colour.
Intense aromas in which the notes of very ripe red fruit stay in the background under a large set of notes provided during the ageing, which range from toasted and smoked touches to the noticeable hints of spices. An intense and fresh balsamic background is also noticed.
The wine goes through the palate showing multiple layers that show the efforts of integration of fruity notes provided by the Tempranillo and the subtleness of the ageing in oak. It persist in the palate and leave a fresh and juicy sensation that brings back the fruits noticed at the first taste.
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A gui for rsync
recursively backs up or sync's directories/files -its colourful but its fast!
it's saving me hours of careful copying of files to backup directories. Just need to set it up carefully and run the dry tests until it goes right.
how to backup system directories
using "only include" and typing the dir name e.g. "/.config/" didn't send any files to backup (external drive), so I don't know what I did wrong. Ok, to use "Only include" the dir's need to have *** after them to include their contents, e.g. /dir/***
what I chose to do was to backup my /home/username/ and exclude directories (Exclude > user defined tab) such as /Downloads/ /ffmpeg/ /local/share/icons/ /.wine/ /.thumnails/ and check Trash and Cache folders on the Exclude Templates tab.
I was quite baffled at why luckyb wanted to delete dir's from the backup source -those which were excluded from the backup. I had "delete files on the destination" checked (files not present in source are deleted from destination) so as to keep the backup tidy.
Maybe they too needed /*** but the man page states that the --delete-excluded option is automatic when exclude is used with delete at destination checked -so why?
It's working properly now.
Check "Dry" and click Run to see how it will work.
!!imperitive: dry run to check what and if anything vital on destination side will be deleted by a task!!
setting a schedule is straight forward too.
can save the profile, but the profile selector is awkward to use, so can just multi-task on one profile.
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Bobby Brown – Though we're sure he's had some scuffles with anyone trying to jack his crack rocks, Bobby's most high-profile fight came when he took out a Backstreet Boy back when anyone cared what a Backstreet Boy was. That's just picking on defenseless losers, BB.


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About meI am a formerly voracious reader who has become a stay-at-home mother of a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old and who therefore has much less time for reading adult books although I do read aloud to the children several times a day. I have a doctorate in cognitive psychology and am interested in how children learn, in particular how they learn math and science.
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You will find that it advises you to take a train to Utrecht Centraal, then a bus to Montfoort.
The option via Woerden looks to be a much longer travel time, according to above website.
Just note that there are 5 train stations in Amsterdam, so it may be handy to figure out the nearest one to you. I can do that for you if you give your accommodation address.
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This is a high quality, sterling silver, stirrup. (The barbell is not.) This is the second one I've owned. It's distinctive and a lot more upscale in appearance that a lot of other stirrups I've seen or considered.
I also like that it is "orally tuggable" by partners ... and that it generates some swiveling motion during ordinary wear.
Given I am male, I would have liked to seen it offered in a slightly narrower usable width. (But I was able to bend it a bit to cover that issue).
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Rates of flu-like illness decreased in the past week, according to the latest weekly flu report which can be viewed here.
Rates of flu-like illness in Massachusetts increased slightly in the past seven days, according to the latest weekly flu report. You can view the entire report here.
The latest weekly flu report shows a very slight increase in rates of flu-like illness in Massachusetts since last week's report. You can view it here.
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is an annual observance to highlight the importance of protecting infants from vaccine-preventable diseases and to celebrate the achievements of immunization programs in promoting healthy communities throughout the United States. This year, NIIW is April 18-25, 2015. The Department of …Continue Reading Celebrate National Infant Immunization Week!
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Imagine you could be the key to curing a disease or reducing the risk of suffering from a debilitating ailment for millions of people. Then imagine that you couldn't help find that cure, because the gene inside you that holds the secret is owned by a company that won't allow for testing or further research without a significant payment.
No need to imagine. It has already happened.
DNA research has evolved rapidly since scientists learned we could map it. Your DNA is unique to you and only you. Well, kind of. The part that is unique to you is limited to small variations on the genes, amounting to approximately less than 1% of your DNA. The rest of it is shared with every other human being past, present and future. In April 2003, scientists identified the genetic code we all share. Called The Human Genome Project, they successfully mapped the genetic makeup of every human being that has ever existed. And it was cool.
The possibilities of having this data codified are endless. Great progress has been made in the past ten years understanding certain cancers and genetic diseases, not to mention the fortune companies can make on patenting them.
Yes, our genes are registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When scientists sequence a gene, they make what is called a synthetic copy. It's chemically the same and has the same properties that were created by nature. This has been going on for decades and is how we got to where we are with DNA science today. Being able to isolate this product of nature gives scientists the foundation to discover what makes us tick, and what makes us sick.
If they can afford the license, that is.
Patent law prohibits patenting anything that is considered a natural occurrence. While everyone would agree that there is nothing more natural than our cellular structure, some do argue that any physical (i.e., synthetic) copies of our genes aren't "natural" and are, instead, a product of human ingenuity. Products can be patented. This is what Myriad Genetics has argued before the Supreme Court in The Association for Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics, Inc. Myriad owns the patent to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, having been the first to isolate them. Mutations in these two genes have been identified as a key indicator to the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers.
Angelina Jolie recently discussed her family history of breast cancer, as well as her decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her risk in a New York Times op-ed. In it she indicated that she got tested for the BRCA1 gene. Myriad also owns the test for the gene, which costs thousands of dollars. They can charge whatever price they want, because no one else is allowed to test for it without going through them. In fact, nothing related to these two genes, including additional research, can be done without first going through Myriad.
Most women aren't Angelina Jolie and most cannot afford thousands of dollars to determine their risk. Having such a barrier to access could have tremendous ramifications, considering that many populations, such as Eastern European women and African-American women, have a significantly high incidence of breast cancer, with black women having a 60% higher death rate.
It is unknown if a less expensive test could be developed. Because of Myriad's patent, clinics and researchers would have to pay a license fee to even look into the possibility of developing a cheaper alternative. That's assuming that Myriad would allow them to do the research at all.
It is estimated that almost 40% of human genes are patented. Many in the scientific community believe in, and understand the value of, collaborative efforts in the name of science. Still, the only reason to patent anything is to protect any future financial benefit. It is more than unsettling to know that the very building blocks of human life could be in the hands of a company that will only make it available to those most able to pay.
Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk, the man who created the polio vaccine, who owned the patent to his life changing discovery. Mr. Salk famously replied, "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
This month the Supreme Court will let us know the answer.
Read more: BRCA1, BRCA2, gene patents, genes, Myriad, science
Didn't Salk just GIVE the vaccine for polio to the masses? Didn't he do that because to do otherwise was unconscienable?
Work is the action people take to fulfill their needs for life sustenance and cultural wellbeing. Profit is an invention of the latter centuries. Men had been on earth solving problems and discovering about nature and the universe for a much longer time before the rise of capitalism. Some people need to go back to school and shed the robotized language of the neoliberal slave class. Good grief.!
We have a warped idea of how things work. No one works for free. Everybody expects to be paid. Profit motive has allowed the rise of technologies. Now the problem is how to ensure profitability while delivering product.
The research employees expect to be paid. Those employees also have bills to pay. Getting approval takes years and millions of dollars that may never be recovered.
So how's that cure coming along Dr. Gene? Too expensive aaawww that's too bad.
Thanks for the info
This article was difficult for me to interpret but one little paragraph told me all I needed to know which is this is WRONG.
Regarding one patent......the BRCA1 gene . Myriad also owns the test for the gene, which costs thousands of dollars. They can charge whatever price they want, because no one else is allowed to test for it without going through them. In fact, nothing related to these two genes, including additional research, can be done without first going through Myriad.
What can be done....is it too late ? I'm tired of pharma making billions of dollars off of sick people.....and why I'm against privitization of many vital things to our lives like healthcare.
Thanks for sharing
I trurly believe that we have had the knowledge to cure cancer or at least some types for along time. The intervention in our lives from the pharm. Companies is much more in depth than we are aware of. Chemo has become big business. People dying has become big business.
Thank you for exposing this horrid news. I think we all know what the Supreme Court will decide.
Someone tell me how they can patent a "copy" of the gene, and then claim they have a patent on the original as well.
Corruption of the highest order.....!
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Baseball is a tough enough game without having to dodge skydivers. Just ask Mattingly Romanin, a sophomore infielder from Chicago State University, who is currently playing for the Missouri summer league's Hannibal Cavemen, according to Yahoo Sports.
Skydiver crashes into summer league baseball player
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Sorry to break the bad news to all you dreamy-eyed liberals, but it's time to stop wishin' and hopin': Elizabeth Warren isn't running for president. Really and truly.
Progressive Democrats have bombarded the Massachusetts senator's office with postcards, signed online petitions and stood in the snow waving signs to get her to run.
The Department of Veterans Affairs' long-running scheduling problems have turned into a scandal after reports that veterans died while waiting for medical care, and bureaucrats apparently manipulated records to make their performance look good when it wasn't.
No one can read the stories of individual veterans who suffered at the hands of the bureaucracy without feeling helpless fury. And those stories are certain to keep coming.
Ever since the financial crash of 2008, we've been having an anxious national debate about the growing income gap. What does it mean for American society when most workers' wages are flat and almost all economic gains flow to the top 1 percent?
But it's a discussion that too often turns into a sterile squabble over economic theology between liberal populists, who want to tax the rich, and supply-siders, who say cutting taxes will add jobs, reward entrepreneurship and raise all boats.
Last week, the White House issued a new and alarming edition of its national report on climate change. How did leading Republicans respond?
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the GOP's leader in the Senate, dismissed the issue as a hobbyhorse of "liberal elites ... who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., argued that Obama's proposals to regulate carbon emissions "would have a devastating effect on our economy" without solving the problem.
Is Edward Snowden a whistle-blower or a traitor?
Debate over the renegade computer technician who leaked thousands of secret National Security Agency documents is too often reduced to that deceptively simple choice.
But it's the wrong way to pose the question, because Snowden is both of those things at the same time. Yes, he's a whistle-blower, and if that were all he had done, he would deserve our thanks for forcing a debate over the NSA's swollen powers.
Edward Snowden should be proud.
Until recently, the National Security Agency could argue that its massive effort to collect every American's telephone records had been approved, at least tacitly, by all three branches of government.
The president was on board; the people running the program were his appointees. The House and Senate intelligence committees knew what was going on and chose not to stop it. And the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews NSA activities in secret, hadn't objected.
It almost seems like distant history now, but it was really just a few short months ago that President Obama and Senate Republicans, spurred by fear of fiscal chaos, did the unthinkable: they went out to dinner and talked civilly about the possibility of a "grand bargain," a compromise that would shrink the deficit through revenue increases and long-term spending cuts.
But since that hopeful first date, the relationship hasn't quite blossomed into romance — or even into real negotiations.
Who exactly is the enemy in the continuing U.S. war against terrorism?
In some cases, the answer is: It's a secret.
When the United States began its war against al-Qaida after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the identity of the enemy was clear: Osama bin Laden and his followers, and the Taliban who protected them in Afghanistan. Congress quickly passed a resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against anyone who "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the 9/11 attacks, plus anyone who harbored them.
Even before the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings, speculation about the unknown attackers fell mostly into two camps: They could be Muslim jihadists, or they could be American anti-tax extremists. Guess which suggestion came from liberals and which from conservatives.
Once real suspects were identified, pundits and public officials appropriated the bombings to support their worldviews, citing it to support positions on U.S. counterterrorism policy, immigration reform and even the endless battle over the budget.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything."
Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that would trample constitutional freedoms. The economy would take a long-term hit.
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Distinguished Service Citation: Katherine Gross
Kay Gross of Michigan State University is the director of the Kellogg Biological Station and is renowned in the ecological community for both her scientific contributions to plant ecology and her contributions to developing the institutional infrastructure of the field. The Distinguished Service Citation recognizes long and distinguished service to ESA, to the larger scientific community, and to the larger purpose of ecology in the public welfare. Gross has been involved in the development of a long-term archive of ecological data that is freely accessible to ecologists and was instrumental in developing a "think tank" for ecology, which resulted in the establishment of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Sustainability Science Award: Terry Yates and Stuart Chapin
Terry Yates (posthumously) and Stuart Chapin will receive the 2007 and 2008 Sustainability Science awards, respectively. The award recognizes research results that provide scientific foundations for sustainable management, link human and ecological systems and advance sustainability science.
In their 2002 BioScience paper, "The ecology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome," Yates and his colleagues apply ecological science to public health and unravel the linkages between the ecology of the Hantavirus disease and cli
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