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Health care experts may assume that insurance shields most Americans from the actual costs of their care, leaving them unconcerned about cost effectiveness. And, in the past, the public seemed relatively disinterested in talking about efforts to contain cost. This research raises the question: if we help citizens learn about and deliberate over approaches to contain costs, could they contribute to policy solutions?
For "Curbing Health Care Costs," average Americans aged 40 to 65 gathered, in a series of 4 extended focus groups, to address cost containment in health care. When given the opportunity to learn about and deliberate over various policy proposals, focus group participants became not only willing but eager to consider complicated approaches for containing health care costs. And they did so thoughtfully and civilly.
The research, while modest in scope, provides substantial clues for health care leaders and policymakers regarding the approaches that the public may be more willing to accept and those that they may resist. It also provides guidance to enable leaders to better communicate with and engage the public on cost containment approaches.
Participants in the study also believed that other members of the public, as well as medical professionals and insurers could benefit from similar opportunities to deliberate. While participants didn't reach consensus, they all reported a better understanding of viewpoints different from their own. Many remarked that the civility and quality of their deliberations were evidence that health care leaders and policymakers COULD compromise.
Even insured participants were deeply concerned about their personal health care spending and the uneven quality of the care they receive. They frequently identified insurance and pharmaceutical companies as causes of rising costs. But they also blamed doctors and hospitals for greed, inefficiency and over treatment.
Participants were eager to talk about how much national spending has risen. Variations in spending and health outcomes across the country and internationally elicited considerable surprise. But the facts alone were not enough. Participants needed time and discussion to make sense of this information. They raised urgent questions about why costs have increased while Americans health has not improved.
Participants supported policies that would encourage providers to work together more effectively. They also saw pros and cons in various approaches to payment reform under which insurers would pay physicians some variation of flat feesper year or per care episode, for examplerather than for each service performed. They agreed that this could reduce over treatment but raised concerns about whether it would lead physicians to skimp on care.
Participants wanted to see limits on what insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors can charge. At the same time, they were divided over how much the federal government should be involved in health care.
The idea of shifting more costs to individuals was troubling to most participants. While many acknowledged that paying more out of pocket could spur more judicious use of medical services, they were already chafing at the increased personal costs theyve experienced in recent years. Participants worried that further cost sharing could lead people to avoid getting the care they need. They also noted the reasons that make it so difficult for patients to compare prices and shop around for medical services.
This research highlights the kinds of concerns and attitudes that Americans bring to conversations about the nations health care spending crisis, and the places where they may lack enough information to understand its causes and to judge potential solutions. It demonstrates what happens when citizens have the chance to consider and work through information about trends and variations in spending and health outcomes. And it begins to indicate how they may weigh various policy approaches.
State and federal agencies, insurers and employers are figuring out how to implement health care reforms, cost-saving measures and new ways of purchasing insurance. A more nuanced understanding of public perspectives can help them design policies that will work for patients and their families and communicate more clearly about pending change.
For physicians, nurses and other front-line professionals, understanding these public concerns will be crucial to implementing successful change.
If, as this research suggests, members of the public are ready to engage more thoughtfully on the challenge of health care costs, then their perspectives can play a robust role in fostering better practices and policies to control costs and improve quality. This role includes participating in how insurance plans are designed, how medical providers deliver care, and how policies encourage further change. Deliberative engagement in a range of settings could help advance this through local initiatives to improve health services.
For example, employers and unions who must deal with significant insurance and health costs could stand to gain significantly from understanding their employees and members views, educating them and working with them to use benefits and health care more effectively and efficiently.
Community-based organizations and patient advocacy organizations would also be natural places to bring people together to engage with and deliberate over cost-savings practices and policies, from preventive medicine to better use of emergency rooms to Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Local and state officials in collaboration with community-based organizations could reach out to their constituents not only to inform them about changes in the health care system, but to give residents opportunities to share their views, deliberate and influence policy decisions.
This work can and should also inform federal lawmakers and regulators considerations and decisions, especially as the current federal role in the health care system is not well understood and any changes to that role are controversial.
While the scale of this research is small, it provides clues about the policies that Americans will most easily accept and those that are likely to elicit the most resistance.
Coordinated care and electronic medical records held wide appeal. Payment reform was intriguing but raised concerns about whether quality would suffer.
Government price setting was more contentious and people do not necessarily understand how much the federal government is already involved in health care through Medicare, Medicaid, the military and the FDA.
The suspicions of primary care that we found among our participants mean that Patient-Centered Medical Homes may need to consider how to gain patients trust and respect.
Finally, participants were quite dissatisfied with the poor service they so often receive in the health care system. But some policymakers, insurers and employers want patients to act more like savvy shoppers. If they want to achieve that goal, they will have to do a better job of treating patients like valued customers.
The health care system is changing. How will public opinion change along with it? Payment reform is central to many reform efforts. But participants in our research had not encountered payment reform before; some did not seem to be aware that the current system is predominantly fee for service. Many worried about getting the right balance of benefits and trade-offs from payment reform.
Future research should track changing public views on, and experiences with, different approaches to payment reform. And because payment reform is supposed to improve quality, future research should also assess how payment reform changes patients experiences of care and views on cost savings.
Benefits are increasingly being designed to give Americans more financial responsibility and choice in health care. But our work suggests that citizens may not be fully ready to embrace these responsibilities. How will increased cost sharing affect when and how people seek care? How can insurance plans, hospitals, clinics and medical professionals engage people in medical decision making that is better for their health and for their wallets?
Finally, research on the perspectives and experiences of newly insured Americans who gain coverage under the ACA will be vital to helping actors across the health system adapt in patient-centered and cost-effective ways.
Public Agenda, in partnership with the Kettering Foundation, used an innovative qualitative methodology called Learning Curve Research with Americans aged 40-64 in 4 cities around the country.
In this exploratory research, participants first engaged in open discussions about their views and experiences with the health care system. Next, the groups were presented with key facts about the nations health care spending and listened as they asked questions and worked through what those facts meant.
Participants then engaged in facilitated deliberation, during which they considered and discussed three different approaches to getting health care costs under control. Then in small surveys and one-on-one follow-up interviews, participants reflected on the deliberations and talked about their views.
For a more detailed description about the methodology for this report, click here.
In an effort to inform policy and broaden the dialogue about controlling health-care costs, Public Agenda, in partnership with the Kettering Foundation sought answers to a number of questions.


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American Special Trains: Imagining The Possibilities
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The history of American passenger railroading has been filled with a lot of ideas and, yes, even failed attempts. Consider the futuristic Aerotrain, Talgo, and Train X, or conventional trains like the Golden Rocket, Atlantic City Express, American European Express, Louisville Auto Train and The Aces. Ultimately they were unsuccessful and disappointments at best or in the case of the former stillborn at worst. The old adage that "timing is everything" might have a ring of truth to some of the efforts coupled with the twin challenges of finance and politics. Believing that one should not continue to hit one's head against the wall, advocates of enhanced American intercity rail have come to accept failure, lethargy and infighting as the norm. A certain fatigue has set in, the case of the inability to resurrect a full route Sunset Limited, the Pioneer and the Montrealer comes to mind. Further insidious examples include two attempts to bring high-speed rail to Florida, and the…
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August 14, 2013
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The Federal Transit Administration published federal policy guidance which, in conjunction with the final rule FTA published in January, 2013, outlines the details of the new, streamlined evaluation and rating process for New and Small Starts projects under Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). Additionally, FTA has posted updated reporting instructions and forms for the new process, available on FTA's website here.
John Robert Smith Vs. Amtrak Foe
July 9, 2013
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DC.StreetsBlog.org described the day's fireworks with the headline "Amtrak Foe Mica Meets His Match in John Robert Smith." Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor Tanya Snyder offered a detailed summary of the exchange between Smith and MIca, the "self-appointed Amtrak bully-in-chief."
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February 27, 2013
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A memo outlining transit-oriented development opportunities surrounding the downtown San Francisco railyards at 4th and King streets has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
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February 11, 2013
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When you get annoyed with people you tell them to take a hike, or get outta town. In my case, I'd like to tell CNN to take a ride, in particular, a train ride; even more specific, a loooong train ride across America through big cities and small towns. I'd be happy to escort them.
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October 29, 2012
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Research Explores Train Vs. Bus Preferences
June 18, 2012
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An April 2012 article from the Journal of Public Transportation entitled "Bus or Rail: An Approach to Explain the Psychological Rail Factor" has been added to the Research Center best practices database. The article by Milena Scherer of ETH Zurich and Katrin Dziekan of the Berlin Institute of Technology explores whether there is an inherent preference for fixed rail transit among transit riders and why. The research found a preference for using rail, assuming equal service conditions, of 63 percent for regional train and 75 percent for trams compared to bus services. The rail factor is highly loaded with emotional and social attributions, the researchers note, and account for 20–50 percent of the share in the different schemata for bus, rail, and tram.
International Lessons For High-Speed Rail
September 26, 2011
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The Northeast Corridor and California are the two most promising regions where the United States should pursue high-speed rail initially, according to a new report "High-Speed Rail: International Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers."
Don't X Out Public Transportation Rallies
September 14, 2011
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As the U.S. government spends an unprecedented amount of money to fix the economy, there is an equally great need to raise the cash to pay for it. This is accomplished through borrowing, whereby Uncle Sam sells Treasury securities of varying maturity.
For investors, government bills, notes and bonds are considered safe because they have a guaranteed rate of return, based on faith in future U.S. tax revenues. The government has been partially funding operations via Treasury securities for decades.
This borrowing adds to the national debt, which has recently surpassed $15.7 trillion and is rising every second. The amount of debt is quickly approaching the federal debt ceiling, a legal limit to borrowing that currently stands at $16.4 trillion.
Much of that debt is held by private sector, but about 45 percent is held by public entities, including parts of the government. Here's who owns the most. Foreign countries listed include both private and public investors, according to monthly U.S. Treasury data.
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December 19, 2013
While the unemployment rate has declined from 7.9 percent at the start of the year to 7 percent in November—and may well drop below 7 percent when December's data is released next month—one group of unemployed workers remains in crisis: the long-term unemployed.
In looking at some of the BLS' data to get a sense of the employment market over the past year (more on that to follow in later posts), I came across the figures for unemployment by length of time out of work, and they make for some fairly grim reading—not least because they've been getting worse for most of the year, even as the overall unemployment picture has been improving.
Out of a total of around 10.2 million people currently looking but unable to find work, around 5.6 million—55.2 percent—have been out of work for at least 15 weeks. Worse yet is that the prospect of finding a new job seems to decrease the longer someone is out of work. Consider the following (unadjusted) numbers, from November's jobs report:
Proportion of unemployed population, by duration of unemployment:
Less than 5 weeks: 21 percent
5 to 14 weeks: 23.8 percent
15 to 26 weeks: 16.3 percent
27 weeks and over: 38.8 percent
That last figure is not a typo: almost 40 percent of the total number of unemployed people in the U.S. today have been out of work for a minimum of six months. Many of those people have been out of work for significantly longer, and there are still more that have dropped out of the official count because they've been unemployed so long that they've simply given up looking.
That adds up to a rather alarming fact: that the longer you're out of work, the lower your prospects of ever finding a new job become. The reasons for that are fairly simple: in an employer's market, such as we have now, one of the criteria that firms use to screen out resumes is to eliminate those from people who are not currently, or have not recently been, working. While the reasons for doing so may be logical—people who haven't worked recently are less likely to be up on current technologies, skills and industry knowledge, and therefore less likely to be able to hit the ground running—it's clear that someone who is stuck in the limbo of wanting to work but having been out of a job for too long is going to need to try to fill the gaps on their resume.
In a recent post covering the issue for Slate, Matt Yglesias reached the dire conclusion that many of the long-term unemployed "probably won't be able to find jobs ever." After walking through the available options for a mass-scale approach to the problem—from government works programs to mobilizing for war—Yglesias concluded that, as a society, "We're going to do nothing. We're going to tell people to go out and look for work, even though employers looking to hire can still afford to be very choosy and generally refuse to even consider the long-term unemployed as job applicants."
If there is a ray of hope to be found here, then, it's going to have to be at the individual level. A point that can never be overstated enough is that, regardless of what's happening in the wider economy, an individual's career is within their own control. Where jobs have flowed out of an industry and seem unlikely to return, for example, those who train for new positions and industries are more likely to have success in avoiding obsolescence than those who simply try to find one of the diminishing number of jobs they are experienced or qualified in.
In an upcoming post, I'll be looking at more of the BLS data to find some of the areas that have shown job growth in 2013, as well as those that have declined. For an advance preview, though, consider this point: many of the growing areas are fields that require intellectual capital, and/or will help us meet society's needs in the coming years: energy, utilities, professional services and the like. As difficult as it is to shift careers and/or change industries—extra training and education is usually expensive, and relocation is often a barrier—it is possible. Maybe not at mass scale, but certainly at an individual level; and short of a policy rethink at a national level, the individual level is where this crisis is going to have be solved: one jobseeker at a time.
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The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed (Slate)
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Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Monohull
Beam: 10 ft 5 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 9 in
Ballast: 3196 lbs
Dry Weight: 10251 lbs
Drive Type: Sail drive
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Engine Option 1: 1x 20 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (58 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (18 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 6
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- ISTEC Premium-Tube with carbon funnel for Parasailor²
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- 140% genoa instead of standard jib
- Spi-boom Ã? 80 mm, length 3,5 m mast fitting, fastening
- Mainsheet track/traveller-fixed
- Main sheet track/traveller-removable
- Triradial sails (surcharge)
- Vertical electrical anchor windlass Lofrans Project 500 W
- Wheel steering
- Transom boxes
- Second stainless steel water tank and level gauge 110l
- Teak on side decks
- Anti sliding surface in optional colour (other than deck colour)
- Optional colour of gelcoat (other than wine red/beige)
- Sprayhood
- Brigniolla antifouling + epoxy primer
- Cover for the boat
- Compressor Fridge Waeco CB 040 40 l
- ORIGO spirit cooker with two burners (surcharge)
- Webasto Air Top 2000 heating with 2 outlets
- Hot water in WC and Pantry (Boiler Webasto 22 l)
- Two additional Sockets 12 V
- Radio with CD player, speakers and installation
- 2 batteries 75Ah instead of 1x100Ah, selector switch, diode
- LED lamps inside (instead of traditional - surcharge)
- Electrical installation 230V (shore conn., fuse box, 2 sockets)
- LED Navigations-tricolour light with anchor light (surcharge)
- 230V battery charger, load level pointer, automatic loading
- Wind meter Raymarine ST 40
- Tiller pilot Raymarine ST2000
- Wheel drive pilot Raymarine ST4000+MK
- Solar panel 45W mounted on the deck + regulator
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- Two settees each 190 cm long.
- Standing height 190 cm at the galley and nav area and 180 cm at the mast compression post.
- Cushions and backrests.
- Three ceiling lights and two reading lights.
- Folding table with drawers and bottle compartment.
- Lockers and double shelves.
- Deck hatch.
- Navigation area with table, sized to accept half folded Admiralty chart, and drawer.
- Chart light.
- Navigator?s seat with drawer, stowage locker.
- Electrical panel with DC
- BEP-Marine electromagnetic circuit breakers.
- 12V plug.
- Optionally DSC VHF and CD radio with saloon speakers.
- Panel space for the extensions
- Double ?V? berth 55 cm at each head (measured w/o triangular fill-in), 200 cm length.
- Standing height 170 cm. vFoam mattresses.
- Stowage shelves.
- Two ceiling lights (spot).
- Lighting and ventilation through the deck hatch.
- Ample stowage locker under berths.
- The design limits the flooding of the boat in case the of the hull puncture below the water line in the bows area.
- Double berth width at the heads 160 cm, at the feet 160 cm, length 190 cm.
- Standing height 187 cm.
- Mattress.
- Two ceiling lights and 1 reading light.
- Shelf along hull side.
- Hanging locker.
- Standing height 195 cm.
- Manual marine toilet.
- Washbasin with locker.
- Shower tray.
- Pressure water fitting.
- Wet partition for oilskins. vDeck hatch.
- Ceiling light.
Additional Description
- 75 Ah cranking battery and 1x100 Ah domestic battery.
- Battery voltage indicator with selector switch, fuel gauge and water gauge on electrical panel.
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- 20 HP (14,9 kW) Beta Marine BD722 engine with sail drive (optional models available) and fresh water cooling.
- Two blade propeller.
- Optional folding propeller.
- Fuel filter with water separator.
- Sea water filter.
- Access to engine front and sides.
- Engine indicator panel and controls on the side of a cockpit locker.
Additional Description
- Hand laid laminate consisting of alternate plies of fiberglass mat and fiberglass woven roving.
- NPG gelcoat with three solid laminate barrier layers impregnated with isophtalic resin ensuring excellent osmosis resistance.
Additional Description
- Deck and topsides are sandwich construction with PVC core.
- Solid laminate below the waterline.
- Ashland® Aropol? marine type gelcoats and resins are used.
- Hull colour red wine with beige gelcoat stripes.
- Deck colour beige.
- Stainless steel pulpit and pushpits with navigation lights.
- Stainless steel bow fitting with anchor roller.
- Chain locker.
- Teak toe rail, 6 stainless steel 600 mm stanchions with twin lines.
- Teak handrails on the coach roof top.
- Six stainless steel mooring cleats.
- Two 16 self tailing halyard winches.
- Two quadruple halyard stoppers.
- Two 30 self tailing genoa winches.
- Generous cockpit locker.
- Optional detachable transom boxes with opening lids and helmsman seat.
- Cockpit seats and sole trimmed in solid teak.
- Stainless steel folding swim ladder.
Additional Description
- on cockpit bulkhead ? speed, depth Raymarine ST40 Bidata and compass.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer gave a speech on fiscal responsibility at the Brookings Institution Monday. He reaffirmed his strong faith in PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budget rules as "so valuable" to the cause–although he acknowledged the large exemptions for current policy and at the same time brushed that qualification aside a little too easily (for my tastes).
But my favorite part was when he talked about how the politically easy choices are the economically devastating ones:
The most important lesson we can draw from the years of recklessness is this: when it comes to budgeting, what is politically easy is often fiscally deadly. It is easier to pay for tax cuts with borrowed money than with lower spending; easier to hide the true costs of war than to lay those costs before the people; easier to promise special cost-of-living adjustments than explain why an increase is not justified under the formula in law; easier to promise 95% of Americans that we won't consider raising their taxes than to ask all Americans to contribute for the common good. Those kinds of easy choices are so often selfish choices—because they leave the chore of cleaning up to someone else. Easy choices may be popular—but the popularity is bought on credit.
Washington's behavior will only change when the incentives change: when voters demand more responsibility, and when the political price for easy choices rises sharply. As I said, I'm hopeful that just that is happening. But the public has a responsibility, too: to educate itself about the sources of the deficit and the range of realistic solutions—not to demand that government continue to escalate entitlement payments and lower the deficit at the same time.
We can't meet this challenge unless the public is ready to confront tough choices, and unless leaders in both parties are ready to be honest about tough choices. When deficit solutions meet resistance, which they will, and when they are painful, which they will be, it's our job to explain why they are also correct—and essential.
"Steadfast Steny" can talk like this without being a hypocrite, as he's taken a lot of courageous positions and votes, even in his role as Majority Leader where he's supposed to be worried about the politics.
UPDATE Tuesday morning: The NYTimes' Jackie Calmes points out that Steny bravely "challenged the sacred cows in his own party" by suggesting some fairly specific options to damp down spending on Social Security and Medicare. My observation is that for most in Steny's "own party"–including the President himself–the (Bush) tax cuts for that very-broadly-defined middle class of households with incomes under $250,000 have (bizarrely) become another "sacred cow" of theirs (the Democratic Party). And that's the problem. How can the Democrats work in a bipartisan manner with Republicans if what they would otherwise negotiate on–in terms of "I'll give up this (entitlement spending) if you give up that (tax cuts)"–is not really bargaining for anything they really want?
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Residents of a quiet Alice Springs suburb were stunned when a Japanese thrash metal band turned up in a local carpark on the weekend.
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It's a quiet Friday night in a small shopping complex in Alice Springs.
In the carpark outside a fish and chip shop an impromptu stage has been set up, running power from nearby community radio station, 8CCC.
A handful of local and interstate bands are preparing to do their thing, but the main attraction are from a little further afield...a Japanese hardcore metal band who go by the name of PALM.
"We love too loud!" says Toshihiko (Toshi) Takahashi, the softly spoken lead singer who is known for his onstage presence.
"Yeah, yeah...big sound, we LOVE big sound!"
The show surprised more than a few Eastside residents including Rob Bekker, who stumbled across the show while riding home from a dinner.
"They were amazing, they were really going for it," he says.
"We just weren't expecting anything like that at all...it was quite quirky, very Alice Springs, and we're still not quite sure if we really saw it!"
Brisbane based filmmaker Wilson Bambrick, who is documenting Palm's Australian tour, says the Osaka-based band have an amazing onstage presence.
He tells me vocalist Toshi carries around a spare set of microphone casings because he keeps breaking the other ones...on his head.
Extreme metal is not everyone's cup of tea, but in Alice Springs it forms the basis for a tight knit community who are highly supportive of each other, well resourced and organised.
An enviable local metal scene has sprung up in one of the most isolated towns in Australia, drawing close to a dozen interstate metal acts in the last year and now claiming an internatioal coup with PALM.
Much of this is due to the work of the Black Wreath Collective, a group of local metal bands who have started their own label and organise events including heavy metal festival earlier in the year, MC'd by Triple J's Lochlan Watt.
Watt is also the tour manager for Palm...and thus, despite the considerable cost, Alice Springs was placed firmly on the itinerary.
"They were actually supposed to play out at Santa Teresa but there was a death in the community," says Lochlan.
"But [Black Wreath Collective's] 'Pirate' managed to pull together a gig at the last minute at the 8CCC carpark," he explains.
"It was actually broadcast live to air...it was crazy, something I never thought I'd see happen, like these dudes getting an encore, in a carpark and then starting a circle pit..."
Drummer Kenta Nakanishi says the carpark gig was the highlight of their tour.
"We feel so very good...no border [between] stage and floor, so audience close and we close, so very nice," he tells me, while gearing up for their second gig at Alice's Gapview Hotel.
"Alice metal scene is too extreme!"
Extreme metal is not huge in Japan (lets face it, it's not huge anywhere) but Kenta assures me there's some amazing underground bands based in their city of Osaka.
"We think important thing is energy," says Kenta.
"[To] directly communicate to audience through music."
PALM had no problems getting their message across to an eager crowd during their time in Alice and love it or loathe it, the thriving local metal scene looks like it's here to stay.
[PALM are on a national tour with Brisbane's A Secret Death - in Alice Springs they played with local bands including Exdemission, The Horror, South East Desert Metal and In the Burial.
(The organisers would like to thank 8CCC, Robert Brackenbury for supplying all the gear and a very supportive fish and chip shop and Thai take-away. Thanks also to Outback Bob and Wilson Bambrick for supplying the images and audio for this story.


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Brussels, 30 May 2013
The Commission welcomes "historic" agreement on new trans-European transport network
Siim Kallas, Commission Vice-President responsible for transport, today welcomed the agreement between the Commission, the Council and the Parliament on proposals to transform the existing patchwork of European roads, railways, airports and canals into a unified transport network (TEN-T).
Vice-President Kallas said: "This is a historic agreement to create a powerful European transport network across 28 Member States. Transport is vital to the European economy, without good connections Europe will not grow or prosper. This agreement will connect East with West and replace today's transport patchwork with a network that is genuinely European. This is a major step towards building a new transport network that will be the backbone to boost growth and competitiveness in Europe's Single Market."
The agreement today establishes a core transport network to be established by 2030 to act as the backbone for transportation within the Single Market. Transport financing under the Connecting Europe Facility (for the period 2014–2020) will also focus on this core transport network, filling in cross-border missing links, removing bottlenecks and making the network smarter.
The new core TEN-T network will be supported by a comprehensive network of routes, feeding into the core network at regional and national level. This will largely be financed by Member States, with some EU transport and regional funding possibilities, including with new innovative financing instruments. The aim is to ensure that progressively, and by 2050, the great majority of Europe's citizens and businesses will be no more than 30 minutes' travel time from this comprehensive network.
Taken as a whole, the new transport network will deliver:
This agreement, reached in trialogue negotiations between the European Parliament, Council and European Commission, must be formally approved by the European Parliament Plenary and Council.
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The new EU infrastructure policy aims at creating a real network and no longer focuses on isolated projects. The guidelines contain precise maps of the network which has been identified on the basis of an objective methodology.
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For the past 25 years on Passover, my wife and I have hosted a first night Seder for our friends.
While the main attraction is often my spouse's remarkable talents in the kitchen, for us it is about sharing the deep meaning of this festival with friends –- many of whom are not Jewish.
Our hope each year is to make the festival meaningful for others as it is for us, while permitting guests to bring their own special gifts and make beautiful contributions to our celebration. Each year we learn as much as we teach, and we expand our understanding of other religious traditions, as we get to teach about our own faith and share our joy at our festival of freedom.
While year in and year out we gain new friends at the table and miss the company of others, there are certain regulars without whom we could no longer imagine our first night seders. Chief among them are the Christian family that lives next door.
The parents moved here from Germany about 20 years ago, and with them are four children, two of whom are close in age to two of our three. The relationship has grown so close that we removed the fence that divided our backyards.
While they share Passover and Chanukah with us, we share Christmas with them.
Read the rest of Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor's story here.
The Catholic Church's teachings are based up Scripture and Tradition and Magesterium. Orthodox Churches only follow Scripture and Tradition and are the only valid Church outside of the Catholic Church proper.
Therefore the teachings of the Catholic Church are the teachings of God, directly given to the Church by Christ. Since the Church follows the teachings of Christ these are the teachings of God. When the Church must give the Sacrament of Baptism for someone to enter Heaven it is obvious that without the Sacrament of Baptism you can not enter Heaven. This is simple and is stated repeatedly by Christ the Holy Scripture and is also clearly and plainly stated in the Catechism.
Since the Catholic Church is the only Church to be founded by God Himself - it is therefore the True Church of God. As the only True Church it is the responsibility of the Church, as God's sole Church, to bring the Sacraments to the people of the world - to Evangelise. To do God's work we must enlist the help and aid of God and the Holy Communion of Saints. To do this we need to pray. This is how we communicate with God and the Saints. Therefore, to be granted special graces to convert those in the world who are not part of God's Church, we need to pray for them.
The Easter prayers for the conversion of the Jews is not something from the Twelfth Century. Was it used in the 12C AD? Yes. Was it used during the time of Christ Himself on Earth before the Crucifiction? Yes. (read your Holy Bible) Is it still used in the Church today. Yes.
Of course, you could always ask yourself if it is charitable and Christian to have and hold the keys (Sacaraments) to eternal life (Heaven) from those who are infidels (non-Catholics and non-Orthodox)...
Of course we know that is pride and greed and is sinful.
Mind you, what exactly is wrong with the 12th C AD? Let me think, no pollution, extremely low crime rates, abundance of Clergy, 150 Days of Obligation a year (that's statutory holidays that were instituted by the Church - try to ask your boss for one stat holiday a month and see what happens? Or better yet, tell him you're a Catholic and you get 150 stat holidays a year and see how long till security removes you from the building). People were kind and friendly, people talked to each other instead of hiding on their keyboards, cellphones and other devices of instant gratification that take away from humanity. People had the virtue of patience. Medicine was highly developed, schools were everywhere, every village had a Church with it's own Priests. People understood the Catechism. People believed in God. People partook of the Sacraments. There was only one Church. No legalised abortion. Marriages lasted. No mortal sins of birth control. Unpolluted ground water. No junk food. No credit cards and no interest on loans and mortgages. A slower more natural pace of life (the pace we try to get when we go on holidays to the lake - but that pace was the norm of everyday life for all). Hmm, not a lot to dislike, is there?
By the way, please take the time to read your history before responding with some type of mass-reactionary post falsely claiming the Middle Ages were horrific, and damp and draughty and full of disease with low life expectancies and full of wars and uneducated peasants who were dirty and had horrible medical issues and of how women were treated as second-class, and all the rest of the lies and mis-information to make us think we somehow live in THE only "civilized" time of the world ... etc, etc, ad nauseum.
As for the rest of your history, you have a phantasmagorical view indeed. And those arguments about ''charity'' as an excuse for disrespecting others generally strike me as cover for something a whole lot darker.
So I'll sit waaaay across the center aisle from you. kthxbai.
You can sure tell when someone has no leg to stand on for a reply when all they do is talk (write) about something completely unconnected to what was being said.
Good reply, Doc, too bad the "lady" couldn't admit she was wrong. Oh well. You know what they say about the splinter in another's eye or the forest for the trees ...


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AHL Game Day: 2-24-13 Whale at Crunch
The Entertainer, en fuego.
Cedrick "The Entertainer" Desjardins stopped all 29 shots he faced for his second consecutive shutout. Nothing wrong with that.
First Period
SYR Labrie, (11) (Namestnikov, Connolly), 9:11
SYR Johnson, (27) (Palat, Barberio), 14:29 (PP)
Second Period
SYR Johnson, (28) (Barberio, Palat), 18:16 (PP)
Third Period
SYR Wyman, (10) (Palat), 7:34
Desjardins, Tyler Johnson (pictured), and Ondrej Palat were the game's three stars. Johnson currently sits 1 point behind Grover Nyquist of Grand Rapids for the top spot in the league in scoring and Brett Connolly is 4 back of Nyqvist in a tie for 5th in the league. Johnson also leads the league in goals and Palat is tied for 2nd in the league in assists, 2 back of leader Jeff Taffe of Hershey.
After scoring just 2 points in the entire month of January, Mark Barberio has 11 so far in February.
With Springfield getting thumped by Worcester today, Syracuse extends their Eastern Conference lead to 5 points over the Falcons and Senators with the Falcons hold 2 games in hand. Syracuse will go for 8 straight on Tuesday against Rochester.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
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Chrissy Metz refuses to let critics dim her shine.
The "This Is Us" star hit the 2017 MTV Movie &TV Awards in a burgundy latex dress, a trendy wardrobe staple Hollywood has grown to love in recent years. Metz paired the look with bedazzled ballet flats and statement earrings.
But not everyone on the Internet adored the ensemble.
"For the record, I wear what I want, when I want," Metz tweeted Sunday night. "News flash it's MY body. #thankstho"
Metz has long been candid about her weight-loss journey, and recently shut down haters who accused the actress of undergoing gastric bypass surgery.
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She spoke to Marie Claire about the importance of standing up for body diversity, a cause she holds near and dear to her heart.
"Size doesn't equate to beauty," Metz shared. "I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it? Because I think people are miserable not eating and smoking cigarettes."
She continued, "I've had roommates who were thin girls and constantly working out and trying to stay under a certain size. Even the average girl looks 10 pounds heavier on the screen."
Metz can relate to her "This Is Us" character, whose storyline also grapples with the ups and downs of shedding pounds. When discussing the differences between her and Kate on the NBC series, Metz said during an appearance on "The Wendy Williams Show," that she was "at the place where I accept myself for who I am so I now can get to the place I want to be."


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Battleground Tracking poll: It's tied
DENVER— With just two days to go until Election Day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are tied in the race for president.
A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — taken Monday through Thursday of this past week — shows the two presidential candidates tied at 48 percent.
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It's a fitting end to a presidential contest that has teetered on parity in recent months — Obama was ahead by one point in the Battleground poll last week, while Romney edged the president by two points the week before.
History shows that most of the three percent of remaining undecided voters probably won't go to the polls on Tuesday, so the winner will be determined by which candidate can turnout more of their supporters in the 10 or so competitive states.
( Also on POLITICO: 2012 swing-state map)
Obama continues to be perceived as the frontrunner. Regardless of who they're supporting, 53 percent of voters say they believe the nation's first African-American president will win a second term. Historically, this question offers a good predictor of who winds up the victor.
The race is not just neck-and-neck on the head-to-head matchup. A host of fresh data reflects just how closely divided the country is two days before voters choose the next president.
Independents are now split evenly, with Obama up 44 to 43 percent. A week ago, Romney had a 10-point advantage among this key demographic. The ranks of independents shrunk partly because more right-leaning voters now supporting Romney identified with the Republican Party.
On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans are tied with Democrats at 46 percent. On this measure, Republicans led the last two weeks after Democrats had an advantage for much of the fall.
An identical number approve the president's job performance, 49 percent, as disapprove.
Romney and Obama are now at parity on likability: 51 percent view Obama favorably while 50 percent view Romney favorably. Meanwhile, 45 percent of respondents view Obama unfavorably and 44 percent view Romney unfavorably.
( Also on POLITICO: Latest polls from around the U.S.)
Democrats continue to have an advantage on early voting, but Republicans closed the gap somewhat over the past week.
A full 27 percent of those surveyed said they've already cast their ballot. Of them, Obama leads 50 to 48 percent.


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Our primary target audience is youth ages 10 through 19.
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As members of the Christian community, YFC/Youth Unlimited exists to help young people throughout Southwestern Ontario attain their full life potential, showing love and care for their whole person, and encouraging them to serve God as fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Youth Wholeness: We go to where youth are found. We seek to foster them in whole-person development – physical, emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual. We seek to restore hope and encourage youth toward fully realizing their potential in the context of mentoring relationships and communities of care, and to advocate for their needs.
Staff Wholeness: We strive to facilitate team and individual development of staff and volunteers in spiritual formation, knowledge, skill, gifting, leadership, personal and family relationships.
Relevancy and Effectiveness: We strive to be strategic in our vision and entrepreneurial in our response, utilizing diversity in programming and doing ongoing evaluation so as to be relevant and effective in reaching a wide-range of youth.
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This year marks the kickoff of ECU's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), a key component of our reaccreditation with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). While a QEP is mandated by SACS, it is more than a hoop to jump through or a way for an outside agency to check up on the university: it is an opportunity to develop forward-looking, long-term initiatives that will enhance the educational experiences of current and future ECU students. The goal of ECU's QEP, entitled "Write Where You Belong," is to integrate, align, and reinforce writing instruction for students from the day that they matriculate at ECU until the day that they complete their degrees and transition into the workplace or advanced study. More specifically, the university will expand individualized writing support for students, enhance instructional support for faculty, and revise the writing curriculum at ECU.
At the heart of the university's efforts to increase individualized support for student writers is a substantial expansion of the University Writing Center (UWC) in Joyner Library. Consulting space will grow from a four-person table to a 2,700 square-foot dedicated space, complete with hardware and software to assist students in the electronic and multi-modal writing that many of them need to do in the 21st Century. Additionally, more writing consultants will be hired to use the new space and to participate in another QEP initiative, the Writing Mentors program. This program, scheduled to begin in fall 2013, will embed trained juniors, seniors, and graduate students as writing consultants in specific writing-intensive classes.


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Lmfao, why are they so afraid to name the firms they are going to?(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730125&forum_id=2#34198882)
Begin career as litigator and hopefully an author
Why do we allow women like this to pursue professional degrees, again? She seems deeply unserious.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730125&forum_id=2#34199047)
This is AA rich daddy privilege run amok. Nobody has been rude enough to tell this girl she has nothing to contribute, and never will, because she'll never fear the wolf braying at her door.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730125&forum_id=2#34199763)
never been more glad that I couldn't get into yale(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730125&forum_id=2#34201707)


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Now the second step in tracking botnets takes place, we want to re-connect into the botnet. Since we have all the necessary data, this is not very
hard. In a first approach, you can just setup an irssi (console based IRC client) or some other IRC client and try to connect to the network. If the network is relatively small (less then 50 clients), there is a chance that your client will be identified since it does not answer to valid commands. In this case, the operators of the botnets tend to either ban and/or DDoS the suspicious client.
To avoid detection, you can try to hide yourself. Disabling all auto response triggering commands in your client helps a bit: If your client replies to a
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But there are many problems if you start with this approach: Some botnets use very hard stripped down IRCds which are not RFC compliant so that a normal IRC client can not connect to this network. A possible way to circumvent this situation is to find out what the operator has stripped out, and modify the source code of your favorite client to override it. Almost all current IRC clients lack well written code or have some other disadvantages. So probably you end up writing your own IRC client to track botnets. Welcome to the club - ours is called drone. There are some pitfalls that you should consider when you write your own IRC client. Here are some features that we found useful in our dedicated botnet tracking IRC client:
Drone is capable of using SOCKS v4 proxies so we do not run into problems if it's presence is noticed by an attacker in a botnet. The SOCKS v4 proxies are on dial-in accounts in different networks so that we can easily change the IP addresses. Drone itself runs on a independent machine we maintain ourselves. We want to thank all the people contributing to our project by donating shells and/or proxies.
Some Anti-virus vendors publish data about botnets. While useful, this information may at times not be enough to to effectively track botnets, as we
demonstrate in Botnet Vendors.
Sometimes the owners of the botnet will issue some commands to instruct his bots. We present the more commonly used commands in the last section. Using our approach, we are able to monitor the issued commands and learn more about the motives of the attackers. To further enhance our methodology, we tried to write a PCRE-based emulation of a bot so that our dummy client could even correctly reply to a given command. But we soon minimized our design goals here because there is no standardization of botnet commands and the attackers tend to change their commands very often. In many cases, command-replies are even translated to their mother language.
When you monitor more than a couple of networks, begin to check if some of them are linked, and group them if possible. Link-checking is easy, just join a specific channel on all networks and see if you get more than one client there. It is surprising how many networks are linked. People tend to set up a DNS-name and channel for every bot version they check out. To learn more about the attacker, try putting the attacker's nickname into a Google search and often you will be surprised how much information you can find. Finally, check the server's Regional Internet Registries (RIR) entry (RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, and LACNIC) to even learn more about the attacker.


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Registration is now open for the "Read to a Dog" program offered by Lincoln City Libraries and Healing Heart Therapy Dogs, a local therapy dog organization. The program provides an opportunity for children ages 6 to 12 to practice their reading by reading aloud to a dog.
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Walt Branch Library, 6701 S. 14th St., offers a drop-in program from 1:30 to 3:15 p.m. Saturdays June 23, July 14 and July 28. Pre-registration is not required for the drop-in program.
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ClearingTheBench.com is a brand new sports magazine focused on following all major sports on a 24 hour news cycle. We provide full-coverage of sports news packaged in an entertaining and humorous way and alongside pop-culture content.
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text: The eight original fireplaces of Elmwood were built and installed for heating this luxurious home. Now with hot water heat running through heavy and decorative cast iron radiators, these lovely fireplaces are welcome heat supplements but mostly provide atmosphere throughout the house. All of them work and three are available as private fireplaces in the suites. [In addition there are two Dimplex electric fireplaces which were added for atmosphere in Rosa's Room and the Nurse's Room during the 1997 renovations.] The first floor public rooms had four fireplaces, the second floor had three and the third floor for the servants had but one. Architect William Harris' house design specified that there would be natural grained wood only in the vestibule and the first and second floor reception halls. These two rooms therefore have the oak mantles and surrounds for their fireplaces. The second floor reception hall is now the Inn's Common Room for the guests. There are four (three shown here) black grained faux marble mantles found in the Library, Parlour (now our Family Room), Dining Room and the Premier's Suite. The unique fireplace in the Cunard Suite has a shelf mantle and a plaster front with a tole painted tulip motif painted by Island artist, Lorraine Quinn. There is one painted wood surround, the only original fireplace on the third floor which had been the servants' quarters. It is in the Peake Suite. We guess that the staff were expected to benefit from the rising heat from the family rooms below.


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Bethesda, Md., Tues., Oct. 9, 2007 – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced grants totaling more than $80 million over the next four years to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which in its pilot phase yielded provocative new insights into the organization and function of the human genome.
"Based on ENCODE's early success, we are moving forward with a full-scale initiative to build a parts list of biologically functional elements in the human genome," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "The ENCODE pilot, which looked at just 1 percent of the human genetic blueprint, produced findings that are reshaping many long-held views about our genome. ENCODE's effort to survey the entire genome will uncover even more exciting surprises, providing us with a more complete picture of the biological roots of human health and disease."
While the sequencing of the human genome was a major scientific achievement, it was just the first step toward the ultimate goal of using genomic information to diagnose, treat and prevent disease. In recent years, researchers have made major strides in using DNA sequence data to help find genes, which are the parts of the genome that code for proteins. The protein-coding component of these genes, however, makes up just a small fraction of the human genome – about 1.5 percent. There is strong evidence that other parts of the genome have important functions, but very little information exists about where these other functional elements are located and how they work. The ENCODE project aims to address this critical goal of genomics research.
In June, the ENCODE research consortium published a set of landmark papers in the journals Nature and Genome Research that found the organization, function and evolution of the genome to be far more complicated than most had suspected. For example, while researchers have traditionally focused on studying genes and their associated proteins, the ENCODE data indicate the genome is a very complex, interwoven network in which genes are just one of many types of DNA sequences with functional impact.
"We learned many valuable lessons from the ENCODE pilot project. Among them was the importance of scientific teamwork," said Elise A. Feingold, Ph.D., program director for ENCODE in NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research. "Following the pilot's strong example of multi-disciplinary collaboration, we are confident that the scaled-up ENCODE team will succeed in its quest to build a comprehensive catalog of the components of the human genome that are crucial to biological function."
In addition to the research grants to support expansion of the ENCODE project, NHGRI also announced awards today for two pilot-scale projects, the establishment of an ENCODE data coordination center, and six projects to develop novel methods and technologies aimed at helping the ENCODE project achieve its goals.
"As was the case for the Human Genome Project and the ENCODE pilot, all of the data generated by the full-scale ENCODE project will be deposited into public databases as soon as they are experimentally verified," said Peter Good. Ph.D., program director for genome informatics in NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research. "Free and rapid access to this data will enable researchers around the world to pose new questions and gain new insights into how the human genome functions."
NHGRI is one of 27 institutes and centers at NIH, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research supports grants for research and for training and career development at sites nationwide. For more information about NHGRI, visit www.genome.gov
The National Institutes of Health – "The Nation's Medical Research Agency" – is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more, visit www.nih.gov.
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mnp13 wrote:Pork bones are baaaaaaad. (so are sheep )
So , was that a "baaahd" pun, or is there something wrong with feeding raw sheep meat? Because I am. If there it is not good to feed sheep meat/bones, please let me know. And is horse ok? I just received a whole bunch of horse scraps from the butcher, and the dogs really enjoy it.


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