    Voice: xxx-xxx-xxxx (Please do not list phone numbers)
    Fax: 425-882-3585

    Hope this helps,

    [EDIT]Removed phone number. Please do not list phone numbers that are not normally available to the public. Thanks. BDS[/EDIT]
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 15, 2003
  15. Darkleaf Master

    Darkleaf Master New Member

    *Looks guiltly over at the discarded wrappings of EX Sandstorm Boosters and a Theme deck.* *whistles* Urm... yeah, well, I would like to see the smaller stores get the product first, or at least have a set date when the cards should be released. I asked the store owner of the League I run when they would get them and they said as soon as they release the cards to the public. I refrained from mentioning that the target a mile or so away had the cards in already. (and boy are they selling fast!!) My two cents...
  16. NoPoke

    NoPoke New Member

    Target doesn't have a problem... Target is almost certainly VERY happy with the current 'difficulties' it finds itself in.

    Now instead of a week or two imagine what happens when the release date in different outlets is separated by a couple of months. Just how long before all the other outlets give up?

    WotC had no choice but to synchronise release dates across the world for its premier product, and that was before there were so many compeeting tcgs out there. If the product is consistantly available in one outlet or market significantly earlier than elsewhere, then all the other outlets and markets are damaged by such action. The clock is ticking for Nintendo/PUI.

    Remmeber TPC is watching too, I doubt if they are very happy with the current situation. TPC believe that they have a GLOBAL brand.
    Last edited: Sep 16, 2003
  17. Gym Leader Blaine

    Most WOTC stores had the stuff a week or two early, but would keep it in the back till the release date, unless they found a store in the area that was selling it, then they could sell it also.

    As for Target I really do think it was a mistake, and I'm sure it will be fixed for EX Dragon. I guess we will have to wait till that one comes out to see if the problem was fixed or not.
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Share This Page<|endoftext|>This number is a prime.

+ There are 4783 space lattice groups in 4-D Euclidean space. [Post]

+ The only prime concatenated from the only two double-digit primes, 47 and 83, having the following property: their cubes are concatenated from two 3-digit primes, i.e., 47^3 = 103823 and 83^3 = 571787. [Loungrides]
<|endoftext|>Process Industries

Industries, where the processing of bulk resources, are either continuous or occur in batches; not necessarily for human consumption. In process manufacturing, the applicable components are mass materials unlike individual units. Despite the fact that there is constantly cross over between the two branches of assembling, the major contents of the completed item and most of the asset power of the resources permit manufacturing frameworks to be named one or the other.

Processing Industries (Non food)

Processing Industries (Non-food) involves processing of raw ingredients into usable products. Nonfood industries unlike food industries have a wide assortment of uses. All nonfood farming items require a high level of handling. A great deal more uniquely than with the food industries, there is generally a positive/ definitive hierarchy of operations, driving through different middle items before achieving the last one. A further component of the nonfood processing industries is that huge numbers of them now…

Read more

Water Treatment

Water treatment involves operational plants that process water to be safe and sanitized. Water treatment is any procedure that makes water more adequate for a particular use, may be drinking, industry, irrigation systems, waterways, recreational or numerous other employments. Water treatment ought to evacuate existing water contaminants or to diminish their concentration that water gets to be fit for its wanted use, which might be securely returning used water back to Nature. Water decontamination/ purification is…

Read more<|endoftext|>With practice the skateboarder could jump the rail but not the ramp since the rail was low.<|endoftext|>Medicare’s ‘improve or you’re out’ rehab policy

I have been meaning to write about the important court order overturning Medicare’s longstanding ‘improve or you’re out’ (of Medicare financed SNF and/or home health) policy for rehabilitation services. Basically, beneficiaries who had plateaued and could at best maintain function could not receive rehab services under these parts of the Medicare benefit package. Medicare has settled the court ruling with plaintiffs to expand the availability of these services, even to patients who cannot show improvement, but only maintenance of function. Several quick points:

  • While this issue has long been on the radar of elder/disability advocates, it never made it into the popular culture as a political issue. Why? I think it is related to the fact that long term care and disability are the underside of the health care system and people don’t like to think about needing rehab just to be able to maintain their ability to swallow, for example. Not an attractive thought.
  • Imagine if Medicare announced that chemotherapy X to treat Cancer Y would only be paid for if you could prove it was extending your life. The internet and the health policy meets political corner of twitter would break. We turn in horror from looking at long term care, but run toward the potential denial of a curative therapy and have a group freak out (sorta like ‘rubber-necking’ at a bad car wreck).
  • It doesn’t bother me and I even like the fact that the question of ‘can/is this person benefiting?’ from rehab services is being asked. It is a policy question as to whether such care should be required to bring about improvement, or simply to maintain function. I think the case has now been rightly decided toward expansiveness of these services. However, the same type of bright lights (does it extend life, improve function, how much does it cost?) should be asked of the entirety of the Medicare program. Not just the parts no one likes to think about.

cross posted at freeforall

Author: Don Taylor

7 thoughts on “Medicare’s ‘improve or you’re out’ rehab policy”

  1. I see one problem. One aspect of cost containment is the assumption that most people do not like going to doctors, do not like needles, do not like pills, really do not like surgery. Therapy is different. My husband had lots of speech therapy, some paid by insurance and some not. Three times a week, for an hour, an intelligent, usually young, frequently beautiful young woman (never met a male speech therapist) would get my husband to talk and listen with total attention to everything that she had gotten him to say.

    He would have done this 24/7 if he could.

    1. Hadn’t thought of this angle specifically….but do agree the moral hazard for some things (living in a NH, etc.) are much less than for some care.

  2. A big problem is that therapy may require the patient to live in a rehab facility. Medicare doesn’t pay for long-term care, but it will pay living expenses for a person who needs rehab, so there’s a huge incentive for facilities and families to try to keep a person in rehab if he or she can’t live independently. So Medicare polices improvement strictly and goes after faciilities for fraud if they don’t observe the improvement rule.

    We had this issue with my elderly mother, who had a number of horrendous health issues that resulted in six weeks of hospitalization, discharge to rehab, rehospitalization, and then to another rehab facility. By that point, she was unable to walk, stand, or feed herself, and she was suffering from hospital-induced dementia and depression. She refused to cooperate with the rehab therapists and eventually the facility kicked her off Medicare. They had to – if they’d kept her on when she wasn’t showing improvement, they risked fines and penalties.

    Fortunately, our family could afford to keep her in the facility, and after a month or so her dementia improved to the point that she could begin to participate in physical therapy, where she made significant improvements. She’s now living in her own apartment again.

    But if we hadn’t had the cash, she would be in a medicaid-funded nursing home now, still demented and drugged into inactivity. Or, more likely, she’d be dead.

  3. I’d say in general this is a good thing, but I’m not exactly unbiased in the matter.

    My partner has MS and has run up against this limitation because our health insurance follows Medicare guidelines for recurring treatments. What happens is he plateaus, the PT stops for a while, he deteriorates to the point where PT will result in an improvement again, and the process repeats.

    My guess is the old guidelines were written thinking of people with injuries where there might be a limit (short of full recovery) of the functional recovery that can be expected, but the condition won’t deteriorate if PT is stopped, and not those with chronic degenerative conditions. Kind of like when we were looking for a physical therapist within the medical group we use. Almost

Nintendo of America Inc.

    Voice: xxx-xxx-xxxx (Please do not list phone numbers)
    Fax: 425-882-3585

    Hope this helps,

    [EDIT]Removed phone number. Please do not list phone numbers that are not normally available to the public. Thanks. BDS[/EDIT]
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 15, 2003
  15. Darkleaf Master

    Darkleaf Master New Member

    *Looks guiltly over at the discarded wrappings of EX Sandstorm Boosters and a Theme deck.* *whistles* Urm... yeah, well, I would like to see the smaller stores get the product first, or at least have a set date when the cards should be released. I asked the store owner of the League I run when they would get them and they said as soon as they release the cards to the public. I refrained from mentioning that the target a mile or so away had the cards in already. (and boy are they selling fast!!) My two cents...
  16. NoPoke

    NoPoke New Member

    Target doesn't have a problem... Target is almost certainly VERY happy with the current 'difficulties' it finds itself in.

    Now instead of a week or two imagine what happens when the release date in different outlets is separated by a couple of months. Just how long before all the other outlets give up?

    WotC had no choice but to synchronise release dates across the world for its premier product, and that was before there were so many compeeting tcgs out there. If the product is consistantly available in one outlet or market significantly earlier than elsewhere, then all the other outlets and markets are damaged by such action. The clock is ticking for Nintendo/PUI.

    Remmeber TPC is watching too, I doubt if they are very happy with the current situation. TPC believe that they have a GLOBAL brand.
    Last edited: Sep 16, 2003
  17. Gym Leader Blaine

    Most WOTC stores had the stuff a week or two early, but would keep it in the back till the release date, unless they found a store in the area that was selling it, then they could sell it also.

    As for Target I really do think it was a mistake, and I'm sure it will be fixed for EX Dragon. I guess we will have to wait till that one comes out to see if the problem was fixed or not.
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Share This Page<|endoftext|>This number is a prime.

+ There are 4783 space lattice groups in 4-D Euclidean space. [Post]

+ The only prime concatenated from the only two double-digit primes, 47 and 83, having the following property: their cubes are concatenated from two 3-digit primes, i.e., 47^3 = 103823 and 83^3 = 571787. [Loungrides]
<|endoftext|>Process Industries

Industries, where the processing of bulk resources, are either continuous or occur in batches; not necessarily for human consumption. In process manufacturing, the applicable components are mass materials unlike individual units. Despite the fact that there is constantly cross over between the two branches of assembling, the major contents of the completed item and most of the asset power of the resources permit manufacturing frameworks to be named one or the other.

Processing Industries (Non food)

Processing Industries (Non-food) involves processing of raw ingredients into usable products. Nonfood industries unlike food industries have a wide assortment of uses. All nonfood farming items require a high level of handling. A great deal more uniquely than with the food industries, there is generally a positive/ definitive hierarchy of operations, driving through different middle items before achieving the last one. A further component of the nonfood processing industries is that huge numbers of them now…

Read more

Water Treatment

Water treatment involves operational plants that process water to be safe and sanitized. Water treatment is any procedure that makes water more adequate for a particular use, may be drinking, industry, irrigation systems, waterways, recreational or numerous other employments. Water treatment ought to evacuate existing water contaminants or to diminish their concentration that water gets to be fit for its wanted use, which might be securely returning used water back to Nature. Water decontamination/ purification is…

Read more<|endoftext|>Medicare’s ‘improve or you’re out’ rehab policy

I have been meaning to write about the important court order overturning Medicare’s longstanding ‘improve or you’re out’ (of Medicare financed SNF and/or home health) policy for rehabilitation services. Basically, beneficiaries who had plateaued and could at best maintain function could not receive rehab services under these parts of the Medicare benefit package. Medicare has settled the court ruling with plaintiffs to expand the availability of these services, even to patients who cannot show improvement, but only maintenance of function. Several quick points:

  • While this issue has long been on the radar of elder/disability advocates, it never made it into the popular culture as a political issue. Why? I think it is related to the fact that long term care and disability are the underside of the health care system and people don’t like to think about needing rehab just to be able to maintain their ability to swallow, for example. Not an attractive thought.
  • Imagine if Medicare announced that chemotherapy X to treat Cancer Y would only be paid for if you could prove it was extending your life. The internet and the health policy meets political corner of twitter would break. We turn in horror from looking at long term care, but run toward the potential denial of a curative therapy and have a group freak out (sorta like ‘rubber-necking’ at a bad car wreck).
  • It doesn’t bother me and I even like the fact that the question of ‘can/is this person benefiting?’ from rehab services is being asked. It is a policy question as to whether such care should be required to bring about improvement, or simply to maintain function. I think the case has now been rightly decided toward expansiveness of these services. However, the same type of bright lights (does it extend life, improve function, how much does it cost?) should be asked of the entirety of the Medicare program. Not just the parts no one likes to think about.

cross posted at freeforall

Author: Don Taylor

7 thoughts on “Medicare’s ‘improve or you’re out’ rehab policy”

  1. I see one problem. One aspect of cost containment is the assumption that most people do not like going to doctors, do not like needles, do not like pills, really do not like surgery. Therapy is different. My husband had lots of speech therapy, some paid by insurance and some not. Three times a week, for an hour, an intelligent, usually young, frequently beautiful young woman (never met a male speech therapist) would get my husband to talk and listen with total attention to everything that she had gotten him to say.

    He would have done this 24/7 if he could.

    1. Hadn’t thought of this angle specifically….but do agree the moral hazard for some things (living in a NH, etc.) are much less than for some care.

  2. A big problem is that therapy may require the patient to live in a rehab facility. Medicare doesn’t pay for long-term care, but it will pay living expenses for a person who needs rehab, so there’s a huge incentive for facilities and families to try to keep a person in rehab if he or she can’t live independently. So Medicare polices improvement strictly and goes after faciilities for fraud if they don’t observe the improvement rule.

    We had this issue with my elderly mother, who had a number of horrendous health issues that resulted in six weeks of hospitalization, discharge to rehab, rehospitalization, and then to another rehab facility. By that point, she was unable to walk, stand, or feed herself, and she was suffering from hospital-induced dementia and depression. She refused to cooperate with the rehab therapists and eventually the facility kicked her off Medicare. They had to – if they’d kept her on when she wasn’t showing improvement, they risked fines and penalties.

    Fortunately, our family could afford to keep her in the facility, and after a month or so her dementia improved to the point that she could begin to participate in physical therapy, where she made significant improvements. She’s now living in her own apartment again.

    But if we hadn’t had the cash, she would be in a medicaid-funded nursing home now, still demented and drugged into inactivity. Or, more likely, she’d be dead.

  3. I’d say in general this is a good thing, but I’m not exactly unbiased in the matter.

    My partner has MS and has run up against this limitation because our health insurance follows Medicare guidelines for recurring treatments. What happens is he plateaus, the PT stops for a while, he deteriorates to the point where PT will result in an improvement again, and the process repeats.

    My guess is the old guidelines were written thinking of people with injuries where there might be a limit (short of full recovery) of the functional recovery that can be expected, but the condition won’t deteriorate if PT is stopped, and not those with chronic degenerative conditions. Kind of like when we were looking for a physical therapist within the medical group we use. Almost all of them were focused on people who are basically healthy but have a specific


Michael was afraid of the dark, so Logan decided to console him because Michael was his son.<|endoftext|>lorine and organophosphate mosquito control insecticides.

Bed bugs are getting tougher 'skin,' scientists warn.  Using high-tech scanning equipment, scientists in Australia have discovered that in the battle between bed bugs and humans, some of the insects wield thicker exoskeletons, making them more resistant to insecticide.  Bed bugs are a source of itchy misery and expense for those whose homes are infested, and the number of such infestations have increased in a "dramatic" way since 2000, according to a new study in the journal PLOS ONE.

White House: $589 million to go to fight Zika virus.  Most of the $589 million would be devoted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for research on the virus and Zika-related birth defects, as well as the creation of response teams to limit its spread.

The Editor says...
It would be far less expensive and more effective to remove the ban on DDT and/or temporarily prohibit two-way travel to Central and South America.

Let's hear it for DDT.  [Mosquitoes] are presently doing their egregious harm in a new, emphatic way in Brazil and more than 20 other Latin American countries and territories.  They are biting people and infecting them with a pathogen called Zika.  The virus has been around for decades but for the first time is believed to be causing a birth defect shrinking the skulls and damaging the brains of babies.  It may also cause a syndrome that paralyzes people and it has even sneaked into the United States.  [...] Time to use DDT maybe?  Absolutely.  As the scientist Robert Zubrin has noted, here is a pesticide that was used during World War II and later to kill mosquitoes and wipe out malaria and other diseases in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, saving hundreds of millions of lives.  Mosquitoes, fighting back, managed to develop resistance to it in some areas, but then something more dramatic happened, giving them an enormous break.

This was completely avoidable:
Five star hotels 'infested' with bed bugs after major surge in blood-sucking insects across New York City.  Tourists visiting some of New York's most prestigious hotels have reported being bitten by bed bugs despite their five star surroundings.  Guests at the Waldorf Astoria and Marriott Marquis hotel are among those to have been affected by the infestation.  Reports of bed bugs in the city's hotels have jumped by 44 per cent over the past year.  According to the Bed Bug Registry, which lists reports of alleged incidents, there are almost 6,000 incidents in their databases relating to New York.

Obama asking Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to combat Zika.  President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to help fight the Zika virus.  In an announcement Monday [2/8/2016], the White House said the money would be used to expand mosquito control programs, speed development of a vaccine, develop diagnostic tests and improve support for low-income pregnant women.

The Editor says...
It would cost only a small fraction of that money to supply truckloads of DDT to South America, Central America, and the southern United States.  It is far better (and cheaper) to proactively kill every mosquito on the face of the earth than to try to repair the damage once the mosquitos spread some disease we've never heard of.

With Zika, Time to Bring Back DDT.  The Zika virus is spreading by mosquitos northward through Latin America, possibly correlated with birth defects such as microcephaly in infants.  Stories and photos of their abnormally small skulls are making headlines.  The World Health Organization reports that four million people could be infected by the end of 2016.  On Monday [2/1/2016], the WHO is meeting to decide how to address the crisis.  The international body should recommend that the ban on DDT should be reversed, in order to kill the mosquitoes that carry Zika and malaria, a protistan parasite that has no cure.  Zika is in the news, but it is dwarfed by malaria.  About 300 million to 600 million people suffer each year from malaria, and it kills about 1 million annually, 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.  We have the means to reduce Zika and malaria — and we are not using it.

Zika is latest mosquito-borne virus knocking on Texas' door.  Another mosquito-borne illness is rapidly spreading across South and Central America, one that may be linked to disturbing birth defects in Brazil.  The Zika virus is confirmed in cases from Brazil to Mexico, including one reported near Monterrey, less than 150 miles from the Texas border.  Puerto Rico just reported its first case in December.  State officials say they don't believe that the Zika virus, discovered in Uganda in 1947, is an immediate threat to Texas, but many questions remain unanswered.

Weeds will prevail in Maryland lawn care ban.  Few things are as precious to the stereotypical upper-middle-class suburbanite as their pristine green front lawns.  And those stereotypes have been proven true in Montgomery County, Maryland, where homeowners are in a tizzy over a proposal that would ban many common lawn treatments and pesticides like the well-known Scott's Miracle Grow and Monsanto's Round-Up.

Radical Environmentalism's Death Campaigns.  By denying people access to abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, modern fertilizers and biotech seeds, and especially DDT to prevent malaria and other insect-borne diseases, they are killing millions every year.  Many of my articles have documented this.  Now a new film written, self-financed and produced by Dr. D. Rutledge Taylor, MD graphically presents powerful new evidence of how the Audubon Society, Sierra Club, other predominantly white environmentalist pressure groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conspired to hide and discredit scientific evidence, and wage a campaign of disinformation and outright lies, to ban the most effective weapon yet devised to prevent malaria and other vicious diseases.

This could have been avoided:
Virus-transmitting 'yellow fever' mosquitoes discovered in L.A. County.  A new aggressive daytime-biting mosquito capable of transmitting debilitating and possibly deadly viruses has been found in the Los Angeles region, officials announced Wednesday [10/15/2014].  Known as yellow fever mosquitoes, the insects were found Oct. 7 and 8 in Commerce and Pico Rivera, respectively, according to the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.

Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban 'Neonic' Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health.  Two recent pesticide bans in the EU — one fully in effect, the other in the process of being phased in — could create massive new disincentives for further development in this area.  Both bans were politically motivated and instituted over the objection of independent scientists, and similar bans are now being pushed by activists in the U.S.  Should the EPA cave to political pressure, the long-term effect on global public health could be devastating.

The Editor says...
The way I see it, the EPA is applying political pressure, in order to prolong its existence.  They aren't about to "cave to political pressure."

Is the NYTimes reverting to the bad old days of DDT denial?  Over the 51 years since Rachel Carson's poetic attack on DDT in her "Silent Spring" novel, the chemical pesticide became the poster child for the nascent environmental movement's inchoate wrath.  The victims:  millions of African and Asian children and pregnant women who succumbed to malaria in the absence of DDT.  However, over the past decade, when the toll of malaria seemed to be ever-increasing at a rate of one-million dead each year, and the actual studies of DDT continued to show no evidence of harm to humans, animals or the environment at small levels of exposure, most scientists free of immersion in the anti-DDT fringe came around to accepting its highly effective power against the death-dealing anopheles mosquito.

Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia?.  [Scroll down]  What does hurt people is bad public policy.  Exhibit A is the U.S. ethanol mandate — justified in part as a response to global warming — which diverted the corn crop to fuel production and sent global food prices soaring in 2008.  Exhibit B is the cult of organic farming and knee-jerk opposition to [genetically modified crops], which risk depriving farmers in poor countries of high-yield, nutrient-rich crops.  Exhibit C was the effort to ban DDT without adequate substitutes to stop the spread of malaria, which kills nearly 900,000 people, mostly children, in sub-Saharan Africa alone with each passing year.  The list goes on and on.

Bees, pesticides, more green lies.  [Scroll down]  Various neonicotinoids are widely used in Canada to protect its vast canola fields, and Canadian bee populations are thriving, notes science writer Jon Entine.  Varroa-free Australia is likewise one of the world's prime users of these pesticides, and its bee colonies are among the planet's healthiest.  By contrast, bee populations have been severely impacted by Varroa mites in areas of Switzerland where neonics are not used.  Multiple

lorine and organophosphate mosquito control insecticides.

Bed bugs are getting tougher 'skin,' scientists warn.  Using high-tech scanning equipment, scientists in Australia have discovered that in the battle between bed bugs and humans, some of the insects wield thicker exoskeletons, making them more resistant to insecticide.  Bed bugs are a source of itchy misery and expense for those whose homes are infested, and the number of such infestations have increased in a "dramatic" way since 2000, according to a new study in the journal PLOS ONE.

White House: $589 million to go to fight Zika virus.  Most of the $589 million would be devoted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for research on the virus and Zika-related birth defects, as well as the creation of response teams to limit its spread.

The Editor says...
It would be far less expensive and more effective to remove the ban on DDT and/or temporarily prohibit two-way travel to Central and South America.

Let's hear it for DDT.  [Mosquitoes] are presently doing their egregious harm in a new, emphatic way in Brazil and more than 20 other Latin American countries and territories.  They are biting people and infecting them with a pathogen called Zika.  The virus has been around for decades but for the first time is believed to be causing a birth defect shrinking the skulls and damaging the brains of babies.  It may also cause a syndrome that paralyzes people and it has even sneaked into the United States.  [...] Time to use DDT maybe?  Absolutely.  As the scientist Robert Zubrin has noted, here is a pesticide that was used during World War II and later to kill mosquitoes and wipe out malaria and other diseases in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, saving hundreds of millions of lives.  Mosquitoes, fighting back, managed to develop resistance to it in some areas, but then something more dramatic happened, giving them an enormous break.

This was completely avoidable:
Five star hotels 'infested' with bed bugs after major surge in blood-sucking insects across New York City.  Tourists visiting some of New York's most prestigious hotels have reported being bitten by bed bugs despite their five star surroundings.  Guests at the Waldorf Astoria and Marriott Marquis hotel are among those to have been affected by the infestation.  Reports of bed bugs in the city's hotels have jumped by 44 per cent over the past year.  According to the Bed Bug Registry, which lists reports of alleged incidents, there are almost 6,000 incidents in their databases relating to New York.

Obama asking Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to combat Zika.  President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to help fight the Zika virus.  In an announcement Monday [2/8/2016], the White House said the money would be used to expand mosquito control programs, speed development of a vaccine, develop diagnostic tests and improve support for low-income pregnant women.

The Editor says...
It would cost only a small fraction of that money to supply truckloads of DDT to South America, Central America, and the southern United States.  It is far better (and cheaper) to proactively kill every mosquito on the face of the earth than to try to repair the damage once the mosquitos spread some disease we've never heard of.

With Zika, Time to Bring Back DDT.  The Zika virus is spreading by mosquitos northward through Latin America, possibly correlated with birth defects such as microcephaly in infants.  Stories and photos of their abnormally small skulls are making headlines.  The World Health Organization reports that four million people could be infected by the end of 2016.  On Monday [2/1/2016], the WHO is meeting to decide how to address the crisis.  The international body should recommend that the ban on DDT should be reversed, in order to kill the mosquitoes that carry Zika and malaria, a protistan parasite that has no cure.  Zika is in the news, but it is dwarfed by malaria.  About 300 million to 600 million people suffer each year from malaria, and it kills about 1 million annually, 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.  We have the means to reduce Zika and malaria — and we are not using it.

Zika is latest mosquito-borne virus knocking on Texas' door.  Another mosquito-borne illness is rapidly spreading across South and Central America, one that may be linked to disturbing birth defects in Brazil.  The Zika virus is confirmed in cases from Brazil to Mexico, including one reported near Monterrey, less than 150 miles from the Texas border.  Puerto Rico just reported its first case in December.  State officials say they don't believe that the Zika virus, discovered in Uganda in 1947, is an immediate threat to Texas, but many questions remain unanswered.

Weeds will prevail in Maryland lawn care ban.  Few things are as precious to the stereotypical upper-middle-class suburbanite as their pristine green front lawns.  And those stereotypes have been proven true in Montgomery County, Maryland, where homeowners are in a tizzy over a proposal that would ban many common lawn treatments and pesticides like the well-known Scott's Miracle Grow and Monsanto's Round-Up.

Radical Environmentalism's Death Campaigns.  By denying people access to abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, modern fertilizers and biotech seeds, and especially DDT to prevent malaria and other insect-borne diseases, they are killing millions every year.  Many of my articles have documented this.  Now a new film written, self-financed and produced by Dr. D. Rutledge Taylor, MD graphically presents powerful new evidence of how the Audubon Society, Sierra Club, other predominantly white environmentalist pressure groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conspired to hide and discredit scientific evidence, and wage a campaign of disinformation and outright lies, to ban the most effective weapon yet devised to prevent malaria and other vicious diseases.

This could have been avoided:
Virus-transmitting 'yellow fever' mosquitoes discovered in L.A. County.  A new aggressive daytime-biting mosquito capable of transmitting debilitating and possibly deadly viruses has been found in the Los Angeles region, officials announced Wednesday [10/15/2014].  Known as yellow fever mosquitoes, the insects were found Oct. 7 and 8 in Commerce and Pico Rivera, respectively, according to the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.

Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban 'Neonic' Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health.  Two recent pesticide bans in the EU — one fully in effect, the other in the process of being phased in — could create massive new disincentives for further development in this area.  Both bans were politically motivated and instituted over the objection of independent scientists, and similar bans are now being pushed by activists in the U.S.  Should the EPA cave to political pressure, the long-term effect on global public health could be devastating.

The Editor says...
The way I see it, the EPA is applying political pressure, in order to prolong its existence.  They aren't about to "cave to political pressure."

Is the NYTimes reverting to the bad old days of DDT denial?  Over the 51 years since Rachel Carson's poetic attack on DDT in her "Silent Spring" novel, the chemical pesticide became the poster child for the nascent environmental movement's inchoate wrath.  The victims:  millions of African and Asian children and pregnant women who succumbed to malaria in the absence of DDT.  However, over the past decade, when the toll of malaria seemed to be ever-increasing at a rate of one-million dead each year, and the actual studies of DDT continued to show no evidence of harm to humans, animals or the environment at small levels of exposure, most scientists free of immersion in the anti-DDT fringe came around to accepting its highly effective power against the death-dealing anopheles mosquito.

Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia?.  [Scroll down]  What does hurt people is bad public policy.  Exhibit A is the U.S. ethanol mandate — justified in part as a response to global warming — which diverted the corn crop to fuel production and sent global food prices soaring in 2008.  Exhibit B is the cult of organic farming and knee-jerk opposition to [genetically modified crops], which risk depriving farmers in poor countries of high-yield, nutrient-rich crops.  Exhibit C was the effort to ban DDT without adequate substitutes to stop the spread of malaria, which kills nearly 900,000 people, mostly children, in sub-Saharan Africa alone with each passing year.  The list goes on and on.

Bees, pesticides, more green lies.  [Scroll down]  Various neonicotinoids are widely used in Canada to protect its vast canola fields, and Canadian bee populations are thriving, notes science writer Jon Entine.  Varroa-free Australia is likewise one of the world's prime users of these pesticides, and its bee colonies are among the planet's healthiest.  By contrast, bee populations have been severely impacted by Varroa mites in areas of Switzerland where neonics are not used.  Multiple studies point to still other factors that explain why bees are struggling.  They include bees developing resistance to


 at the time it was called Ikaruga-dera (斑鳩寺), a name that is still sometimes used. This first temple is believed to have been completed by 607. Hōryū-ji was dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing and in honor of the prince's father. Excavations done in 1939 confirmed that Prince Shotoku's palace, the Ikaruga-no-miya (斑鳩宮), occupied the eastern part of the current temple complex, where the Tō-in (東院) sits today. Also discovered were the ruins of a temple complex which was southwest of the prince's palace and not completely within the present temple complex. The original temple, named by modern historians and archaeologists Wakakusa-garan (若草伽藍), was lost, probably burned to the ground after being hit by lightning in 670. The temple was reconstructed but slightly reoriented in a northwest position, which is believed to have been completed by around 711. The temple was repaired and reassembled in the early twelfth century, in 1374, and 1603.

In 1950 the maintainers of the temple broke away from the Hossō sect. The owners currently call the temple the headquarters of the "Shōtoku" sect.

After the long controversy ignited by architecture historian Sekino in 1905, the majority consensus view as of 2006 is that the current precinct is a reconstruction. The excavations in 1939 that uncovered the older temple site including architectural remains of a Kondō and a pagoda, are accepted as conclusive proof. The original complex, Wakakusa-garan, probably burned down, but there is still a debate as to whether a fire actually occurred in 670, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki, or whether there was another reason.

Yumedono is one of the main constructions in the Tō-in area, built on the ground which was once Prince Shōtoku's private palace, Ikaruga no miya. The present incarnation of this hall was built in 739 to assuage the Prince's spirit. The hall acquired its present-day common name in the Heian period, after a legend that says a Buddha arrived as Prince Shōtoku and meditated in a hall that existed here. The hall also contains the famous Yumedono Kannon (also Kuse-, or Guze Kannon); which is only displayed at certain times of the year.

Denomination in numerals is on left side.

Withdrawn from circulation at 04.01.1965.<|endoftext|>At the Chinese restaurant last night, Monica had a great time, but not Angela because Angela had a seafood allergic reaction.<|endoftext|>What to Expect From Apple: Analyst

For its stock to perform once again, Apple needs to provide investors with some level of confidence in its future, BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk said Tuesday.

"I'm a little surprised by the lack of capital allocation," he said. "A lot of people were expecting something to happen in March, and when it didn't, then the fear started to creep in."

On CNBC's "Fast Money," Piecyk issued a "buy" rating for Apple on March 14 with a price target of $540 per share.

Piecyk said that the upgrade was based on a belief that Apple was en route to grow its earnings nominally.

"They've got all these people staring at these screens on their iPhones, and there's a lot of ways to monetize that, whether it's through payment systems or ecommerce," he said.

"I think the problem with Apple right now is people are just questioning whether they can ever return to growth, whether they had a peak earnings year last year that they'll never get back to. If you can just return some level of confidence that they can return to growth, then the stock will do very well, very quickly."

Piecyk took a balanced view of Apple's performance.

"What we're looking for is a bad March quarter, frankly, that's below where the consensus is now, even though you've had massive cuts continually. Every week, you've got a different cut," he said. "But more importantly, the June guide is the real risk here, and that June guide is going to be a down revenue quarter, perhaps earnings under 8. Consensus is still over 9 for earnings for the June quarter."

Trader disclosure: On April 9, 2013, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Brian Kelly is long TREASURIES; Brian Kelly is long GOLD; Brian Kelly is long SILVER; Brian Kelly is short SPX; Brian Kelly is short DAX; Brian Kelly is short CAC40; Brian Kelly is short COPPER; Steve Grasso is long AAPL; Steve Grasso is long ACI; Steve Grasso is long ASTM; Steve Grasso is long BA; Steve Grasso is long BAC; Steve Grasso is long GDX; Steve Grasso is long HPQ; Steve Grasso is long LF; Steve Grasso is long LNG; Steve Grasso is long MHY; Steve Grasso is long PXD; Steve Grasso is long NVIV; Steve Grasso is long PFE; Steve Grasso is long S; Steve Grasso is funds long AAPL; Steve Grasso is funds long MSFT; Steve Grasso is funds long T; Steve Grasso is funds long HPQ; Steve Grasso is funds long ZNGA; Steve Grasso is funds long PG; Steve Grasso is funds long UAL; Dan Nathan is long GS MAY 145/135 PUT SPREAD; Dan Nathan is short XHB MAY 28/30 CALL SPREAD; Dan Nathan is long FB APR 26 WEEKLY PUTS; Dan Nathan is long MSFT APR 28 PUTS; Dan Nathan is long AMZN APR 240/200/160 PUT FLY; Guy Adami is long C; Guy Adami is long GS; Guy Adami is long INTC; Guy Adami is long AGU; Guy Adami is long MSFT; Guy Adami is long NUE; Guy Adami is long BTU.<|endoftext|>Thursday, January 7, 2010

Celtics 112 Heat 106 (OT)

One of the best Celtics games I have ever seen. The Heat had tied the game with 5.6 seconds left. My think was "well at least the Celtics can lose in regulation", boy was I wrong as Wade continued his unbelievable game, stealing the call from Ray Allen, and laying it up to put the Heat up 2 with .6 secounds left.

DP and I were sitting on the couch yelling at the TV when Doc drew up a play that started with Pierce inbounding the ball. Why wouuld you take you best clutch shooter and have him inbound? DP kept screaming about it, until Pierce threw a perfect alley oop to Rondo to send the game into OT. Yes, it was an amazing play, but what blew me away was the lack of effort by the Heat. The guy covering the inbound pass didn't even have his hands up, which let Pierce do an easy chest pass. Then there was basically no big man underneath to guard under the hoop, which just seemed retarded to me.

DP starts:
If you break down the play:
You can see two people on Miami made critical mistakes. First is Quentin Richardson who seemed to care less about distracting Pierce. My crazy theory is that it was his arrogance because him and Pierce have this ongoing rivalry (even though it's pretty one sided) The second player is Jermaine O'Neal who for some reason after seeing Glen Davis pick Chalmers rushed out of the lane. If he had just stayed in the lane Rondo wouldn't have been able to get to the basket so easily. It's pretty common knowledge on a last second shot you don't try and fight through picks you just automatically switch.

But whatever people have brain farts, and it was pretty costly because the Celtics dominated in overtime. Rondo outscored the Heat 6-5 and the Celtics outscored them 11-5. The Celtics were so sloppy they had 24 turnovers, and let up 17 offensive rebounds. It was a hell off game and a great win.

No comments:<|endoftext|>The US Army would like you to meet the Laser-Induced Plasma Channel

There is a new weapon in development at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey and it’s something that Darth Vader (or Dr. Evil) would be proud to wield. The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel or LIPC is a device that “…will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target.”

The LICP is intended to disable vehicles or any other target that conducts electricity better than the air around them.

The lead scientist on the project, George Fischer, explains:

The high voltage source in question might be a vehicle or other target, which would get zapped with lightning basically. This is because a target would conduct electricity better than the air that the charge is travelling through, transferring the current through whatever the target is.

There are still some challenges to be overcome however. Making sure that the laser system doesn’t destroy itself is one, making it usable on a battlefield is another. Getting past power issues is another hurdle but the researchers are optimistic following a good round of testing in January this year.

Source: US Army via Engadget

 was originally commissioned by Prince Shōtoku; at the time it was called Ikaruga-dera (斑鳩寺), a name that is still sometimes used. This first temple is believed to have been completed by 607. Hōryū-ji was dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing and in honor of the prince's father. Excavations done in 1939 confirmed that Prince Shotoku's palace, the Ikaruga-no-miya (斑鳩宮), occupied the eastern part of the current temple complex, where the Tō-in (東院) sits today. Also discovered were the ruins of a temple complex which was southwest of the prince's palace and not completely within the present temple complex. The original temple, named by modern historians and archaeologists Wakakusa-garan (若草伽藍), was lost, probably burned to the ground after being hit by lightning in 670. The temple was reconstructed but slightly reoriented in a northwest position, which is believed to have been completed by around 711. The temple was repaired and reassembled in the early twelfth century, in 1374, and 1603.

In 1950 the maintainers of the temple broke away from the Hossō sect. The owners currently call the temple the headquarters of the "Shōtoku" sect.

After the long controversy ignited by architecture historian Sekino in 1905, the majority consensus view as of 2006 is that the current precinct is a reconstruction. The excavations in 1939 that uncovered the older temple site including architectural remains of a Kondō and a pagoda, are accepted as conclusive proof. The original complex, Wakakusa-garan, probably burned down, but there is still a debate as to whether a fire actually occurred in 670, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki, or whether there was another reason.

Yumedono is one of the main constructions in the Tō-in area, built on the ground which was once Prince Shōtoku's private palace, Ikaruga no miya. The present incarnation of this hall was built in 739 to assuage the Prince's spirit. The hall acquired its present-day common name in the Heian period, after a legend that says a Buddha arrived as Prince Shōtoku and meditated in a hall that existed here. The hall also contains the famous Yumedono Kannon (also Kuse-, or Guze Kannon); which is only displayed at certain times of the year.

Denomination in numerals is on left side.

Withdrawn from circulation at 04.01.1965.<|endoftext|>What to Expect From Apple: Analyst

For its stock to perform once again, Apple needs to provide investors with some level of confidence in its future, BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk said Tuesday.

"I'm a little surprised by the lack of capital allocation," he said. "A lot of people were expecting something to happen in March, and when it didn't, then the fear started to creep in."

On CNBC's "Fast Money," Piecyk issued a "buy" rating for Apple on March 14 with a price target of $540 per share.

Piecyk said that the upgrade was based on a belief that Apple was en route to grow its earnings nominally.

"They've got all these people staring at these screens on their iPhones, and there's a lot of ways to monetize that, whether it's through payment systems or ecommerce," he said.

"I think the problem with Apple right now is people are just questioning whether they can ever return to growth, whether they had a peak earnings year last year that they'll never get back to. If you can just return some level of confidence that they can return to growth, then the stock will do very well, very quickly."

Piecyk took a balanced view of Apple's performance.

"What we're looking for is a bad March quarter, frankly, that's below where the consensus is now, even though you've had massive cuts continually. Every week, you've got a different cut," he said. "But more importantly, the June guide is the real risk here, and that June guide is going to be a down revenue quarter, perhaps earnings under 8. Consensus is still over 9 for earnings for the June quarter."

Trader disclosure: On April 9, 2013, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Brian Kelly is long TREASURIES; Brian Kelly is long GOLD; Brian Kelly is long SILVER; Brian Kelly is short SPX; Brian Kelly is short DAX; Brian Kelly is short CAC40; Brian Kelly is short COPPER; Steve Grasso is long AAPL; Steve Grasso is long ACI; Steve Grasso is long ASTM; Steve Grasso is long BA; Steve Grasso is long BAC; Steve Grasso is long GDX; Steve Grasso is long HPQ; Steve Grasso is long LF; Steve Grasso is long LNG; Steve Grasso is long MHY; Steve Grasso is long PXD; Steve Grasso is long NVIV; Steve Grasso is long PFE; Steve Grasso is long S; Steve Grasso is funds long AAPL; Steve Grasso is funds long MSFT; Steve Grasso is funds long T; Steve Grasso is funds long HPQ; Steve Grasso is funds long ZNGA; Steve Grasso is funds long PG; Steve Grasso is funds long UAL; Dan Nathan is long GS MAY 145/135 PUT SPREAD; Dan Nathan is short XHB MAY 28/30 CALL SPREAD; Dan Nathan is long FB APR 26 WEEKLY PUTS; Dan Nathan is long MSFT APR 28 PUTS; Dan Nathan is long AMZN APR 240/200/160 PUT FLY; Guy Adami is long C; Guy Adami is long GS; Guy Adami is long INTC; Guy Adami is long AGU; Guy Adami is long MSFT; Guy Adami is long NUE; Guy Adami is long BTU.<|endoftext|>Thursday, January 7, 2010

Celtics 112 Heat 106 (OT)

One of the best Celtics games I have ever seen. The Heat had tied the game with 5.6 seconds left. My think was "well at least the Celtics can lose in regulation", boy was I wrong as Wade continued his unbelievable game, stealing the call from Ray Allen, and laying it up to put the Heat up 2 with .6 secounds left.

DP and I were sitting on the couch yelling at the TV when Doc drew up a play that started with Pierce inbounding the ball. Why wouuld you take you best clutch shooter and have him inbound? DP kept screaming about it, until Pierce threw a perfect alley oop to Rondo to send the game into OT. Yes, it was an amazing play, but what blew me away was the lack of effort by the Heat. The guy covering the inbound pass didn't even have his hands up, which let Pierce do an easy chest pass. Then there was basically no big man underneath to guard under the hoop, which just seemed retarded to me.

DP starts:
If you break down the play:
You can see two people on Miami made critical mistakes. First is Quentin Richardson who seemed to care less about distracting Pierce. My crazy theory is that it was his arrogance because him and Pierce have this ongoing rivalry (even though it's pretty one sided) The second player is Jermaine O'Neal who for some reason after seeing Glen Davis pick Chalmers rushed out of the lane. If he had just stayed in the lane Rondo wouldn't have been able to get to the basket so easily. It's pretty common knowledge on a last second shot you don't try and fight through picks you just automatically switch.

But whatever people have brain farts, and it was pretty costly because the Celtics dominated in overtime. Rondo outscored the Heat 6-5 and the Celtics outscored them 11-5. The Celtics were so sloppy they had 24 turnovers, and let up 17 offensive rebounds. It was a hell off game and a great win.

No comments:<|endoftext|>The US Army would like you to meet the Laser-Induced Plasma Channel

There is a new weapon in development at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey and it’s something that Darth Vader (or Dr. Evil) would be proud to wield. The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel or LIPC is a device that “…will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target.”

The LICP is intended to disable vehicles or any other target that conducts electricity better than the air around them.

The lead scientist on the project, George Fischer, explains:

The high voltage source in question might be a vehicle or other target, which would get zapped with lightning basically. This is because a target would conduct electricity better than the air that the charge is travelling through, transferring the current through whatever the target is.

There are still some challenges to be overcome however. Making sure that the laser system doesn’t destroy itself is one, making it usable on a battlefield is another. Getting past power issues is another hurdle but the researchers are optimistic following a good round of testing in January this year.

Source: US Army via Engadget

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 grows. But this is a different model of dependency than we usually think of when we are talking about helping people. Typically what comes to mind is a short continuum, with "learned helplessness" on one side and "opportunistic free-riding" on the other. But there are broader ways of understanding dependency. One could say that most urban communities depend on rural farms, because they don't have, within their borders, the unused arable land that they would need to grow all of the crops that they eat in a year. You could say that the residents of a condominium development depend on the local fire department to come to the rescue in case of a home fire. What sets these apart from other understanding of dependency is their mutuality, and therefore, the lack of an assumption that one side is either unable to unwilling to care for itself. And so the dependency, rather than being a matter of simple survival, is more about reaching a certain standard of living. City dwellers and condo residents could manage, to some degree or another without nearby farms or a fire department, but the extra work and resources that they would have to put into filling the gaps would make them slightly less well-off than they are with them.

And I think that for all that we saw the "alienated, white, masculine working-class culture" of Hunter S. Thompson's time as self-sufficient, in fact, they depended on certain things, and perhaps their alienation is the result of losing some of the things that they depended on. Thompson is quoted in the article noting that: "Their lack of education rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy." Workers with a high-school education depend on a job market that values labor that doesn't require higher education. And as that job market started demanding higher and higher levels of education (as opposed, perhaps to skill) the bikers who depended on it for their livelihoods found themselves cast aside; not because they were helpless, but because they needed the job market they'd been accustomed to more than that job market now needed them. Their contributions were still necessary, just not in a great numbers as before, or great enough to sustain them.

When Hell's Angels was published in 1966, the American Civil Rights Movement was still ongoing. Martin Luther King, Junior was still alive and "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," otherwise known as the Voting Rights Act, was perhaps a year or so old; or maybe less. And so one might theorize that the racial disparities of the United States of the time was another thing that Thompson's Hell's Angels depended on, if not as openly. And this isn't to say that they'd intentionally hitched their wagons to Jim Crow; only that people often incorporate the advantages they have into their daily standards of living in such a way that when those advantages fade, their standards of living fade with them. The newfound competition from Black Americans need not have been catastrophic, or even particularly ubiquitous, to have noticeable effects.

Retaliatory politics are, I think, to be expected from any group that both exists within a culture driven by scarcity, and finds its access to those scarce resources threatened in favor of supplying them to someone else. They understand, even if unconsciously, their dependence and realize that the loss of their benefactors is a threat to them. But as they don't also see themselves as beggars, they feel aggrieved - that something that was rightfully theirs was being taken from them. In the end, the only way around this is to remove the specter of scarcity. But we are wedded to that, I think, and we'd rather deal with the retaliation of the losers than take the risks that attempts to free people from poverty entail.

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Type of Raise — Exterior Hitch vs. Within Vehicle Raise. Hitch versions tend to be much less expensive nevertheless you are placing the wheelchair outside of the car and exposing it to the components. Inner designs are much more pricey and take up space within the vehicle but give more piece of thoughts that your device is totally free from damage throughout motion.Price— Is a Used design satisfactory or will you really feel safer with a New one? Can you set up the gadget on your personal or will you require some assist? Will you have to purchase a new van because your old one just won't hold up? Verify out all accessible options on Commercial Lifts for vans to get a better idea.When trying to shed weight, it is essential that you consume every solitary meal throughout the working day. Obviously consume a wholesome food with the correct parts. 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<|endoftext|>Yes it can held the EAT in Khan V Stripestar Ltd. The claimant was employed by the respondent to run its car workshop. The details are not important, but involved him buying a customer’s car but then carrying out works on the car under that customer’s name. Such action, if proven, would almost certainly be considered gross misconduct and warrant summary dismissal – i.e. dismissal without warning and without notice.

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 way down to the level of individuals, dependence grows. But this is a different model of dependency than we usually think of when we are talking about helping people. Typically what comes to mind is a short continuum, with "learned helplessness" on one side and "opportunistic free-riding" on the other. But there are broader ways of understanding dependency. One could say that most urban communities depend on rural farms, because they don't have, within their borders, the unused arable land that they would need to grow all of the crops that they eat in a year. You could say that the residents of a condominium development depend on the local fire department to come to the rescue in case of a home fire. What sets these apart from other understanding of dependency is their mutuality, and therefore, the lack of an assumption that one side is either unable to unwilling to care for itself. And so the dependency, rather than being a matter of simple survival, is more about reaching a certain standard of living. City dwellers and condo residents could manage, to some degree or another without nearby farms or a fire department, but the extra work and resources that they would have to put into filling the gaps would make them slightly less well-off than they are with them.

And I think that for all that we saw the "alienated, white, masculine working-class culture" of Hunter S. Thompson's time as self-sufficient, in fact, they depended on certain things, and perhaps their alienation is the result of losing some of the things that they depended on. Thompson is quoted in the article noting that: "Their lack of education rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy." Workers with a high-school education depend on a job market that values labor that doesn't require higher education. And as that job market started demanding higher and higher levels of education (as opposed, perhaps to skill) the bikers who depended on it for their livelihoods found themselves cast aside; not because they were helpless, but because they needed the job market they'd been accustomed to more than that job market now needed them. Their contributions were still necessary, just not in a great numbers as before, or great enough to sustain them.

When Hell's Angels was published in 1966, the American Civil Rights Movement was still ongoing. Martin Luther King, Junior was still alive and "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," otherwise known as the Voting Rights Act, was perhaps a year or so old; or maybe less. And so one might theorize that the racial disparities of the United States of the time was another thing that Thompson's Hell's Angels depended on, if not as openly. And this isn't to say that they'd intentionally hitched their wagons to Jim Crow; only that people often incorporate the advantages they have into their daily standards of living in such a way that when those advantages fade, their standards of living fade with them. The newfound competition from Black Americans need not have been catastrophic, or even particularly ubiquitous, to have noticeable effects.

Retaliatory politics are, I think, to be expected from any group that both exists within a culture driven by scarcity, and finds its access to those scarce resources threatened in favor of supplying them to someone else. They understand, even if unconsciously, their dependence and realize that the loss of their benefactors is a threat to them. But as they don't also see themselves as beggars, they feel aggrieved - that something that was rightfully theirs was being taken from them. In the end, the only way around this is to remove the specter of scarcity. But we are wedded to that, I think, and we'd rather deal with the retaliation of the losers than take the risks that attempts to free people from poverty entail.

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Type of Raise — Exterior Hitch vs. Within Vehicle Raise. Hitch versions tend to be much less expensive nevertheless you are placing the wheelchair outside of the car and exposing it to the components. Inner designs are much more pricey and take up space within the vehicle but give more piece of thoughts that your device is totally free from damage throughout motion.Price— Is a Used design satisfactory or will you really feel safer with a New one? Can you set up the gadget on your personal or will you require some assist? Will you have to purchase a new van because your old one just won't hold up? Verify out all accessible options on Commercial Lifts for vans to get a better idea.When trying to shed weight, it is essential that you consume every solitary meal throughout the working day. Obviously consume a wholesome food with the correct parts. 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The employer held a disciplinary hearing. However, the hearing only lasted six minutes and the claimant was not given an opportunity to make any representations. It would appear that the employer had decided the outcome and did not give the employee a fair hearing –


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We hand-craft powered paraglider propellers! GSC Systems is one of the oldest and most globally-renowned propeller manufacturing companies for the light aircraft and airboat industries today.

We began with handmade hardwood fixed-pitch propellers and also developed the ground adjustable TECH II and TECH III. With the TECH series, customers are able to replace single blades rather than changing the complete propeller.

Handcrafted Paraglider Propellers

With our modern production equipment, we can offer the PPG customer the same high-quality products that our conventional aircraft customers have depended upon. We offer the best of both worlds; a complete line of fixed-pitch props, or choose from our 2-blade and 3-blade fully ground-adjustable product lines.

Our advantage is that we have a CMM in house, which means if you have a unique or damaged prop, we can duplicate the original. Even better, we can even modify it if necessary to get the optimum RPM and thrust that you require.

Ground Adjustable 2 and 3 Blade PPG Propellers

Ground adjustable propellers are constructed with multi-laminated Hard-Rock Maple hardwood.

The root section is under-cut then encapsulated using R.T.M. (resin Transfer Moulding) process in precision C.N.C. machined metal molds. Ground-adjustable propellers can be much cheaper and lighter in weight than in-flight-adjustable propellers. Although much less versatile than an inflight-adjustable equivalent, when compared to a fixed pitch propeller a ground-adjustable propeller means that pitch changes can be made to optimize the aircraft for specific payload and flying conditions.

Fixed Pitch PPG Propellers From GSC Systems

Construction of fixed-pitch propellors are such that the wood fibres in the laminations run the entire length of the propeller, allowing it to absorb considerable harmonic vibrations from the engine or crankshaft.

Because of this superior strength, GSC Systems will suggest that a fixedpitch propeller be used on any direct drive engine (such as Subaru®, Jabiru® and Volkswagen®. Generally a fixed-pitch propeller is a less-expensive option than an adjustable propellor. Additionally, they are ideal for flyers that wish to be able to attach their propellers and immediately be ready to fly, with no further effort required for adjusting.

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<|endoftext|>Brede Wiki for Personality Genetics

Id Gene Polymorphism Genotype Inventory Trait Mean Std Subj. Recruitment PMID Command
1995 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw short/short MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 53.2 14.3 22 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1994 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw long/short MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 51.2 9.4 58 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1993 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw long/long MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 50.4 12.3 45 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1965 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 12/12 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 49.4 9.3 47 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1964 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 10/12 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 54.7 12.4 47 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1963 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 10/10 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 50.8 9.1 16 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev

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Analysis: Statistics | Effect | Forest plot of effect | Funnel plot | Forest plot of effect with controls | Meta-analysis

Database of genetic polymorphisms and personality traits

This is an experimental fielded wiki as a database for the relations between genetic variations and personality as reported in the scientific literature.

Short help

Type in gene symbol, genetic polymorphism (e.g., SNP), genotype (e.g., A/G), inventory (e.g., NEO PI-R), trait (e.g., Neuroticism), the mean value of the genotype group investigated, the standard deviation, the number of subjects in the genotype group, who the persons in the group were, and PubMed identifier.

Use period as decimal point. Use no commas in text. Recognized abbreviations for inventories are: EPQ: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, EPQ-R: Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, KSP: Karolinska Scales of Personality, TCI: Temperament and Character Inventory, TPQ: Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire. For traits N, E, O, C, A, HA, NS, RD, P, SD, CO and ST will be expanded.

The collection is protected under European Union Database Directive 96/9/EC and released under GPL, GFDL, CC by-sa and Open Database License.

Lundbeck Foundation Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI)
Finn Årup Nielsen, CIMBI, DTU Informatics.<|endoftext|>Alternatives for Marketing Backgrounded Calves

February 5, 2014 08:25 AM
Alternatives for Marketing Backgrounded Calves

By: Ken Olson, Associate Professor & Beef Specialist, SDSU Extension

Beef cattle producers that braved the weather to attend the Range Beef Cow Symposium had the opportunity to listen to top-notch speakers. A common theme across many of these speakers, and especially from the producers, was the importance of capturing added value in the cattle they sell.

A key is that modern pricing grids differentiate among individual cattle at harvest based on how well they grade. In brief, grids reward premiums to carcass characteristics such as high quality grades and lean yield grades, and conversely discount low quality grades, yield grades that indicate reduced cutability, dark cutters, underweight or overweight carcasses, etc. An animal that grades prime, yield grade 1 or 2 (remember, lower yield grade numbers indicate higher cutability) can be worth hundreds of dollars more than an average animal.

Additionally, animals that gain at faster rates and more efficiently are worth more in the feedlot phase. Again, an animal that gains at 5 lb. per day and converts at a rate of 5.5 lb. of feed per lb. of gain will be worth hundreds of dollars more than animals that gain at average or below average rates and conversions.

Imagine the value of an animal that combines fast and efficient gain in the feedlot with superior carcass traits. These are the kind of cattle that were making money even when costs of gain were extremely high during much of 2012.

So how does a cow-calf producer capture some of this added value if his or her calves have these superior capabilities during post-weaning performance? First, that producer needs to be able to document the performance capacity of their cattle. Measuring performance is key; a person can’t manage these traits if they don't measure them.

This involves developing relationships and communicating with feeding and packing sectors to get feedlot and carcass data on their cattle. There are a variety of mechanisms to accomplish this. One is to enroll calves in a calf-feeding program like the Calf Value Discovery Program conducted by SDSU. Another option is to discuss this with your seedstock producer. Many seedstock producers buy back calves or create relationships with feedlots so they and their bull-buying customers can get data back on the progeny of their bulls. With the declining number of cattle to feed in the U.S., many custom feedlots will provide a lot of data and services to attract customer cattle, including providing feedlot and carcass data.

Another element of capturing added value is using the data to increase the capability and value of the cattle. Once feedlot and carcass performance on an individual basis is known, genetic capacity in any herd can be improved by buying bulls or semen that improve deficient traits and culling cows that transmit deficient performance to their calves. Because growth and carcass traits are moderately to highly heritable, genetic progress can be fairly rapid. Knowing who the best cows in a herd are based on the performance and profitability of their calves will go a long way toward selecting for the most profitable and culling the least.

Critical to making this work is communication. Conversations with your seedstock producers will be important to genetic improvement and possibly marketing the future offspring. Communication with feedlot management will be critical to capturing feedlot performance and also probably carcass data. Working with a branding program, which may include joining or investing in the organization or company, may be key to collecting data and also providing the

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Your Ultralight PPG Propeller Supplier

We hand-craft powered paraglider propellers! GSC Systems is one of the oldest and most globally-renowned propeller manufacturing companies for the light aircraft and airboat industries today.

We began with handmade hardwood fixed-pitch propellers and also developed the ground adjustable TECH II and TECH III. With the TECH series, customers are able to replace single blades rather than changing the complete propeller.

Handcrafted Paraglider Propellers

With our modern production equipment, we can offer the PPG customer the same high-quality products that our conventional aircraft customers have depended upon. We offer the best of both worlds; a complete line of fixed-pitch props, or choose from our 2-blade and 3-blade fully ground-adjustable product lines.

Our advantage is that we have a CMM in house, which means if you have a unique or damaged prop, we can duplicate the original. Even better, we can even modify it if necessary to get the optimum RPM and thrust that you require.

Ground Adjustable 2 and 3 Blade PPG Propellers

Ground adjustable propellers are constructed with multi-laminated Hard-Rock Maple hardwood.

The root section is under-cut then encapsulated using R.T.M. (resin Transfer Moulding) process in precision C.N.C. machined metal molds. Ground-adjustable propellers can be much cheaper and lighter in weight than in-flight-adjustable propellers. Although much less versatile than an inflight-adjustable equivalent, when compared to a fixed pitch propeller a ground-adjustable propeller means that pitch changes can be made to optimize the aircraft for specific payload and flying conditions.

Fixed Pitch PPG Propellers From GSC Systems

Construction of fixed-pitch propellors are such that the wood fibres in the laminations run the entire length of the propeller, allowing it to absorb considerable harmonic vibrations from the engine or crankshaft.

Because of this superior strength, GSC Systems will suggest that a fixedpitch propeller be used on any direct drive engine (such as Subaru®, Jabiru® and Volkswagen®. Generally a fixed-pitch propeller is a less-expensive option than an adjustable propellor. Additionally, they are ideal for flyers that wish to be able to attach their propellers and immediately be ready to fly, with no further effort required for adjusting.

Exclusive Propeller Clocks

Looking for a unique gift for the aviation enthusiast who has everything?

These propeller clocks are made with the same care and manufacturing process as our airplane propellers. Choose from a basic design in stock or let us make a one-of-a-kind propeller clock designed just for you.

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<|endoftext|>Brede Wiki for Personality Genetics

Id Gene Polymorphism Genotype Inventory Trait Mean Std Subj. Recruitment PMID Command
1995 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw short/short MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 53.2 14.3 22 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1994 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw long/short MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 51.2 9.4 58 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1993 SLC6A4bw 5-HTTLPRbw long/long MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 50.4 12.3 45 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1965 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 12/12 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 49.4 9.3 47 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1964 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 10/12 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 54.7 12.4 47 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev
1963 SLC6A4bw STin2bw 10/10 MMPIbw Hypochondriasisbw 50.8 9.1 16 Healthy Russians 12760255bp Edit Rev

Standard view | Revision view | User view | Forest plot of data | Forest plot of data with controls | CSV | CSV in HTML | JSON | Wikipedia template | Wikipedia template in HTML
Analysis: Statistics | Effect | Forest plot of effect | Funnel plot | Forest plot of effect with controls | Meta-analysis

Database of genetic polymorphisms and personality traits

This is an experimental fielded wiki as a database for the relations between genetic variations and personality as reported in the scientific literature.

Short help

Type in gene symbol, genetic polymorphism (e.g., SNP), genotype (e.g., A/G), inventory (e.g., NEO PI-R), trait (e.g., Neuroticism), the mean value of the genotype group investigated, the standard deviation, the number of subjects in the genotype group, who the persons in the group were, and PubMed identifier.

Use period as decimal point. Use no commas in text. Recognized abbreviations for inventories are: EPQ: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, EPQ-R: Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, KSP: Karolinska Scales of Personality, TCI: Temperament and Character Inventory, TPQ: Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire. For traits N, E, O, C, A, HA, NS, RD, P, SD, CO and ST will be expanded.

The collection is protected under European Union Database Directive 96/9/EC and released under GPL, GFDL, CC by-sa and Open Database License.

Lundbeck Foundation Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI)
Finn Årup Nielsen, CIMBI, DTU Informatics.<|endoftext|>Alternatives for Marketing Backgrounded Calves

February 5, 2014 08:25 AM
Alternatives for Marketing Backgrounded Calves

By: Ken Olson, Associate Professor & Beef Specialist, SDSU Extension

Beef cattle producers that braved the weather to attend the Range Beef Cow Symposium had the opportunity to listen to top-notch speakers. A common theme across many of these speakers, and especially from the producers, was the importance of capturing added value in the cattle they sell.

A key is that modern pricing grids differentiate among individual cattle at harvest based on how well they grade. In brief, grids reward premiums to carcass characteristics such as high quality grades and lean yield grades, and conversely discount low quality grades, yield grades that indicate reduced cutability, dark cutters, underweight or overweight carcasses, etc. An animal that grades prime, yield grade 1 or 2 (remember, lower yield grade numbers indicate higher cutability) can be worth hundreds of dollars more than an average animal.

Additionally, animals that gain at faster rates and more efficiently are worth more in the feedlot phase. Again, an animal that gains at 5 lb. per day and converts at a rate of 5.5 lb. of feed per lb. of gain will be worth hundreds of dollars more than animals that gain at average or below average rates and conversions.

Imagine the value of an animal that combines fast and efficient gain in the feedlot with superior carcass traits. These are the kind of cattle that were making money even when costs of gain were extremely high during much of 2012.

So how does a cow-calf producer capture some of this added value if his or her calves have these superior capabilities during post-weaning performance? First, that producer needs to be able to document the performance capacity of their cattle. Measuring performance is key; a person can’t manage these traits if they don't measure them.

This involves developing relationships and communicating with feeding and packing sectors to get feedlot and carcass data on their cattle. There are a variety of mechanisms to accomplish this. One is to enroll calves in a calf-feeding program like the Calf Value Discovery Program conducted by SDSU. Another option is to discuss this with your seedstock producer. Many seedstock producers buy back calves or create relationships with feedlots so they and their bull-buying customers can get data back on the progeny of their bulls. With the declining number of cattle to feed in the U.S., many custom feedlots will provide a lot of data and services to attract customer cattle, including providing feedlot and carcass data.

Another element of capturing added value is using the data to increase the capability and value of the cattle. Once feedlot and carcass performance on an individual basis is known, genetic capacity in any herd can be improved by buying bulls or semen that improve deficient traits and culling cows that transmit deficient performance to their calves. Because growth and carcass traits are moderately to highly heritable, genetic progress can be fairly rapid. Knowing who the best cows in a herd are based on the performance and profitability of their calves will go a long way toward selecting for the most profitable and culling the least.

Critical to making this work is communication. Conversations with your seedstock producers will be important to genetic improvement and possibly marketing the future offspring. Communication with feedlot management will be critical to capturing feedlot performance and also probably carcass data. Working with a branding program, which may include joining or investing in the organization or company, may be key to collecting data and also providing the channel to market cattle with high performance. The bottom line is that communication across sectors plays multiple roles