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Databases of the marine metagenomics
Katsuhiko Mineta, Takashi Gojobori*
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The metagenomic data obtained from marine environments is significantly useful for understanding marine microbial communities. In comparison with the conventional amplicon-based approach of metagenomics, the recent shotgun sequencing-based approach has become a powerful tool that provides an efficient way of grasping a diversity of the entire microbial community at a sampling point in the sea. However, this approach accelerates accumulation of the metagenome data as well as increase of data complexity. Moreover, when metagenomic approach is used for monitoring a time change of marine environments at multiple locations of the seawater, accumulation of metagenomics data will become tremendous with an enormous speed. Because this kind of situation has started becoming of reality at many marine research institutions and stations all over the world, it looks obvious that the data management and analysis will be confronted by the so-called Big Data issues such as how the database can be constructed in an efficient way and how useful knowledge should be extracted from a vast amount of the data. In this review, we summarize the outline of all the major databases of marine metagenome that are currently publically available, noting that database exclusively on marine metagenome is none but the number of metagenome databases including marine metagenome data are six, unexpectedly still small. We also extend our explanation to the databases, as reference database we call, that will be useful for constructing a marine metagenome database as well as complementing important information with the database. Then, we would point out a number of challenges to be conquered in constructing the marine metagenome database.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2015.10.035
Published - 2016 2月 1
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Metagenomics Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Metagenome Medicine & Life Sciences 90%
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Mineta, K., & Gojobori, T. (2016). Databases of the marine metagenomics. Gene, 576(2), 724-728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2015.10.035
Databases of the marine metagenomics. / Mineta, Katsuhiko; Gojobori, Takashi.
In: Gene, Vol. 576, No. 2, 01.02.2016, p. 724-728.
Mineta, K & Gojobori, T 2016, 'Databases of the marine metagenomics', Gene, vol. 576, no. 2, pp. 724-728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2015.10.035
Mineta K, Gojobori T. Databases of the marine metagenomics. Gene. 2016 2月 1;576(2):724-728. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.10.035
Mineta, Katsuhiko ; Gojobori, Takashi. / Databases of the marine metagenomics. In: Gene. 2016 ; Vol. 576, No. 2. pp. 724-728.
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Why is this question important, anyway? Well, if we can isolate the change where the regression first appeared, we know that the error was in the code that was added or removed when that change was applied.
git bisect is a tool you can use to run a binary search  on a set of commits to (hopefully) determine which one first exhibited the problem. It's a powerful tool, but there's a catch: you have to have a linear history of independently buildable, small, and working changes in order for it to work in the best manner possible .
git (which you probably already know or you wouldn't be reading this post) is a tool for controlling revisions of files. You edit files, then commit them to the repository after validating your changes. git keeps track of the history of these commit objects, effectively building a graph.
One other important prerequisite is that the regression is reproducible. If you don't have a regression that's consistently reproducible, you can't test it at each stage. git bisect relies on the fact that the regression can be tested for at each step in the process.
git bisect works like this: given an input range of commits, it splits the range in which the regression occurred into two sections using a commit near the center of the range. It checks out this pivot revision, and based on your input, it determines which of the two ranges on either side of the pivot should be checked next.
In the diagram above, you can see that we have a known "good" commit, a known "bad" commit (usually this is HEAD, as the regression presumably exists at the current head of the master branch, otherwise you probably wouldn't need to fix it ), and some unknown point where the regression was introduced.
You need to start by "git bisect start"
While bisecting, git keeps track of the state of each commit. Each commit could be "good" (i.e. the regression is not present in this commit), "bad" (i.e. the regression is present in this commit), or "unknown" (i.e. there isn't enough information to determine whether the regression is present in this commit) To mark the current commit as "good", use git bisect good. Alternatively, to mark it as "bad", use git bisect bad. You can also mark a commit that isn't the current commit as "good" or "bad" by adding the commit hash to the end of the command, as in git bisect bad <hash>.
[f2fd95cc92fa63a8a1a38a2ff2a8ccd406286849] Add handling for shapes that were previously considered non-primitive.
As you can see, git bisect tells you how many commits are in the range, and about how many manual tests you're going to have to perform to find the regression.
What you do now is check to see if the regression is in the currently checked-out commit, using whatever process you have available. If the regression is present in the currently checked-out commit, mark it as "bad" with git bisect bad. If it's not, then mark it with git bisect good.
There's a special situation that happens when you have a commit that you can't test - you have to skip it using git bisect skip. You should refrain from overusing git bisect skip, because if the actual regression happens to fall next to a commit that was skipped, you end up with a range of commits that could have caused the regression, and git bisect won't be able to help you any further than that.
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From time to time, you get into a situation where the bisect didn't work properly, or you screwed up along the way without realizing it. If this happens, use git bisect reset. This will terminate the bisect process, and check out the last revision you had checked out before you started git bisect.
If you accidentally mark a commit as "bad" when it should have been "good" (or vice versa), it's kind of wonky to get back to the state where you want to be. You can't just check out that commit and then set it to whatever you want (git will report Commit XXXXXXX is both good and bad). What you need to do is output the log to a file, change the one you need to change, and then replay the log back using git bisect.
# good: [f2fd95cc92fa63a8a1a38a2ff2a8ccd406286849] Add handling for shapes we previously considered non-primitive.
# good: [3f4b51f80ac276e471809ed6127b0d893df01875] Re-enable texture filling of arbitrary polygons.
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# bad: [6138263837a802d9b32c9a5a5daf668378384108] Add package for more general matrix math computations.
Previous HEAD position was 6138263... Add package for more general matrix math computations.
[6138263837a802d9b32c9a5a5daf668378384108] Subdivide all polygons into triangles using ear-clipping algorithm.
Of course, you need to write this script, but it is useful if you can automate the testing process. In other words, if the regression is that the source code won't compile, the unit tests don't pass, or some other thing that's easily determinable by a script, you can have this script do the thing in question, and then return with an exit code of 0 if the test passed (i.e. no regression was present in this revision) or any number in the range 1-127, excluding 125, if the test failed (i.e. the regression was present in this revision). The special value 125 is only returned if the test can't be run (i.e. the equivalent of git bisect skip).
git bisect will delve into commits made on separate branches and subsequently merged, provided the merge commits aren't squashed into a single commit.
git bisect only works at the commit level, so it's more effective if you have smaller, bite-sized commits.
git bisect can be used to find anything that was introduced in a specific commit - it doesn't have to be a regression. You can use it to find, for example, the first time a feature was introduced.
Even though git bisect can be used for many things (see aforementioned comment), it's better to use some other method of tracking/searching (e.g. recording the features in every release using git tag), if possible, as it's likely faster than a manual binary search.
While you can use git bisect skip to skip a commit that can't be tested, it's better to avoid this as it can add ambiguity to your results. (As a corollary, try to only commit things that don't have general, glaring errors and that compile and run at the most basic level).
You can learn more about git bisect (it has many other cool things, like the ability to change the terms for a bisect session from "good" and "bad" to anything you want - like present and missing, for feature determination) from the git bisect documentation page. It's actually very readable documentation, and I highly recommend giving it at least a cursory glance.
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Here are three DVD releases for you.
Under the Dome - Season 2 - December 9, 2014
A Good Marriage - December 30, 2014
Big Driver - January 27, 2015
Thanks to Tony Northrup
King on Horns & Hill On Good Marriage
King and his son Joe Hill comments on eachothers movies in Vulture.
What Do They Think of Each Other's Movies?
We reached out to Hill and King to find out what the father and son had to say about the other's movie.
Hill: "A Good Marriage explores a grim subject — what if the person sleeping next to you every night was a monster? — with a moral intelligence and a calm, clear-eyed authority that is rare in any form of storytelling, but especially in the movies, and especially these days. I'm a words guy, and I thought this film was full of great ones. Also I'm sick of CGI skyscrapers collapsing in a big crash of digital dust and Dolby noise. I'm bored of CGI robots beating dents into each other. All the software in the world can't give you a great story or a wrenching performance like you get in MARRIAGE from Joan Allen. To me, those unique human contributions are the first and best effect of them all ... and the one reason to still love the movies."
King: "I liked Horns for the crisp, bright cinematography, but what I loved about it is the fearless way it mixes humor and horror, creating an all new taste treat. Daniel Radcliffe's performance encompasses both the laughs and screams effortlessly. I go to the movies to be entertained. Horns was big entertainment."
A Good Marriage Reviews
Here is my reviews of the movie and audio editions of A Good Marriage. Check them out and let me know your thoughts bellow or on facebook or twitter.
King and Allen
King and Joan Allen answers 5 questions.
King on A Good Marriage
Stephen King spills secrets behind his new creepy film, 'A Good Marriage,' starring Joan Allen. Read the article here.
King Talks A Good Marriage
King talks A Good Marriage on FOX News.
King on BTK's Daughter's Comments
King comment on BTK's daughter's comments on A Good Marriage.
I don't think Mr. Rader's daughter has to worry about her father getting a big head; there's nothing glamorous about the portrayal of Bob Anderson in A GOOD MARRIAGE. He's depicted as a banal little man, and none of the murders are shown. As for making millions from the project…not going to happen. AGM is a very small, independently financed feature that is opening in less than two dozen venues. How it does as a video on demand feature film (VOD) is hard to predict, but we don't expect huge returns. The story isn't really about the killer husband at all, but about a brave and determined woman. And while I understand Ms. Rawson's distress, the BTK crimes have already been chronicled in no less than 4 feature films, and there may be more in the future. I grant there is a morbid interest in such crimes and such criminals--there have been at least a hundred films about Jack the Ripper, who claimed far fewer victims--but there's also a need to understand why they happen. That drive to understand is the basis of art, and that's what I strove for in A GOOD MARRIAGE. I maintain that the theme of both the novella and the movie--how some men are able to keep secrets from even their closest loved ones--is valid and deserves exploration.
A Second Review of A Good Marriage
This time it's Dread Central who's seen the movie and they aren't that impressed.
And so begins the game of cat and mouse. Who's who swaps and spins on its axis throughout, and that's fun to see, but overall the film feels stale. Worse, I didn't buy Allen and LaPaglia as a couple. That's the lynchpin of the whole story: devotion vs. duty, love and loyalty vs. evil and ethics. It's quite a conundrum to be sure, and while the actors themselves are good in their roles, they simply do not have chemistry.
The movie's worth a watch, but just one.
First Review of A Good Marriage
A first review of A Good Marriage has been published by JoBlo and it indicates that the movie might not be as good as we hope... Personally I didn't get a chance to watch it in advance so this time I have no inside info for you.
Sadly, King's connection is really the only thing that distinguishes the movie from your run of the mill low budget thriller. It's not an especially exciting film, even if the premise is solid.
Thanks to Ari.
King on The Late Night with Seth Meyers; Part 2
Here is part 2 of King's visit to The Late Night with Seth Meyers.
King's TV Appearances From Yesterday
OK, here are King's appearances from yesterday and if you haven't seen the episode of Roots where he find his roots you can do that here
King on CBS
King on The View. See clip here
King on HuffPost Live
King on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Don't miss King on Finding Your Roots tonight;:
Stephen will be appearing on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Season Two's first episode, "In Search of Our Fathers," premiering September 23rd at 8PM EST
And then tomorrow...
Make sure to watch CBS This Morning, The View, MTV News, Late Night with Seth Meyers and many more tomorrow! Stephen King will be on to talk about A Good Marriage and MUCH more
Pre-oder A Good Marriage
If you're in the US you can now pre-order A Good Marriage from iTunes.
A Good Marriage Will Play At...
Here are the U.S. Theaters that will feature A Good Marriage:
• New York City - AMC Empire
• Los Angeles - A Laemmle NoHo
• San Francisco - AMC VanNess
• Dallas - AMC Grapevine
• Seattle - AMC Pacific Place
• Denver - AMC Cherry Creek
• Tampa - AMC Veterans
• Phoenix - Harkins Valley Art
• Detroit - Cinema Detroit
• Sarasota - AMC Sarasota 12
• Columbus - Gateway Film Center
• Portland OR - Clinton Street
King's Fall
Looks like there will be a good fall to be a King fan!
September 11:
Haven season 5
October 3:
A Good Marriage
October 18:
Big Driver
Horns (from Joe Hill's book)
November 11:
A Good Marriage on Audio
Just in time for the release of the movie Simon & Schuster Audio is releasing A Good Marriage as an audio book narrated by Jessica Hecht.
It's released on September 30 and you can pre-order your copy here.
Trailer For A Good Marriage
Here is the trailer for A Good Marriage.
A Good Marriage Poster
Here is the poster for A Good Marriage. You can also head over to Entertainment Weekly to see what King says about it. The film will open in the US on October 3rd.
Thanks to Rick Urban, Herbert West and Lout Sytsma.
Stephen Lang Talks A Good Marriage
Dread Central did an interview with Stephen Lang and one of the questions was about A Good Marriage.
DC: I understand you're in a Stephen King movie, A Good Marriage. There's not much info online, but what a cast! Please tell us more about the story, who you play, and anything else… we love Stephen King!
SL: A Good Marriage is a very good movie. I just watched it last week, and was terrifically impressed by the work of Tony LaPaglia and the great Joan Allen. I love Stephen King's work - he is a master. I play a broken-down, ailing, but determined former investigator. He's an old dog chewing on an old bone. Very nice role. The film has been sold, so I expect it in theatres not too far down the road.
A Good Marriage in October
Variety reports that A Good Marriage will premier in early October.
Screen Media Films has acquired North American rights to thriller "A Good Marriage," adapted from Stephen King's short story from the collection "Full Dark, No Stars."
King wrote the screenplay, and Peter Askin directed the film, starring Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Kristen Connolly and Stephen Lang. Screen Media plans to distribute the film in early October — the start of the Halloween season — with a nationwide theatrical release accompanied by a day-and-date VOD platform release.
LaPaglia and Allen portray a married couple, with the wife discovering the horrifying stranger inside her husband while he's away on a business trip — ending a good marriage.
"I'm delighted that 'A Good Marriage' is going to be available to the moviegoing public very soon, and hope we can scare the hell out of millions of people," King said. "To me, that's always an exciting prospect."
Screening of A Good Marriage
Wanna go see the cast and crew screening of A Good Marriage on April 24th in New York City? Here is your chance. This was posted on King's Facebook page.
We're giving away some tickets to a screening of my new film "A Good Marriage". Anyone who likes the Facebook page for the film in the next 48 hours (by March 26th at 12pm) will have their name entered to win: https://www.facebook.com/AGoodMarriage
Two names will be picked out by yours truly, and both will receive two tickets to the cast and crew screening on April 24th in New York City. You have to provide your own transportation to New York but a hotel will be provided for the night as well as a car to the screening for each of the two winners.
A Good Marriage finished...
King posted this tweet yesterday about A Good Marriage.
If done right this Movie will be great and from King's post it sounds like it is.
Casting news for Good Marriage
Daily Dead just reported this exciting casting news for A Good Marriage
It has been revealed that Theo Stockman (pictured below) is part of the cast, playing the son in the family the story revolves around. According to THR, he's "a man who made a name for himself in the advertising world and is enjoying his newfound success." Stockman has appeared on a number of TV shows, including 30 Rock, CSI and Nurse Jackie. He's also known for his Broadway work, including his appearance in American Idiot.
Here is a first photo from A Good Marriage that's being filmed Sleepy Hollow right now.
Stephen Lang enters 'A Good Marriage'
Stephen Lang joins the cast of A Good Marriage. Lang will play a retired investigator from the Maine Attorney General's office who is obsessed with solving the crime.
More casting for A good Marriage
A Good Marriage will begin filming later this month and it will star Joan Allen as the wife. We have now also learned that Kristen Connolly will be playing the daughter and Anthony LaPaglia the husband/father. No release date has been set yet.
A Good Marriage to filming this month
The Movie version of King's A Good Marriage begins filming this month. Here is an update from Dread Central:
It's been nearly a year since there was anything to talk about regarding the latest Stephen King adaptation heading our way, A Good Marriage, but word has come that production is getting under way at the end of May in Sleepy Hollow, NY, with a 15-day shoot scheduled at a local home.
Joan Allen will star in the adaptation of the Stephen King novella, which was featured in Full Dark No Stars. Peter Askin, who directed the 2007 documentary about the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism titled Trumbo, is on board to helm the thriller and is producing with his Reno Productions partner Will Battersby.
King's story centers on a woman named Darcy who discovers the sinister and gruesome double life that her husband of 25 years and father of their two children has been living. She must now decide how far she is willing to go to maintain the marriage. King wrote the screenplay for the movie, which is being financed by independent equity. Paradigm is handling domestic rights, while Atlas International is selling foreign rights.
A Good Marriage in Hollow
The movie version of A Good Marriage is being filmed in Hollow.
King's novella, adapted into a screenplay by the author and to be turned into a movie by Will Battersby and Peter Askin, is a little darker than that, with a longterm "good" marriage crumbling as the wife (to be played by Joan Allen) discovers her husband may be a serial killer.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma.
Joan Allen will star in A Good Marriage
The Hollywood Reporter had this interesting news to report today:
Joan Allen will star in A Good Marriage, an adaptation of a Stephen King novella.
Peter Askin, who directed the 2007 documentary about the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism titled Trumbo, is on board to helm the thriller and is producing with his Reno Productions partner Will Battersby.
Production on Marriage is due to start in New York in mid-October.
Peter Askin does a Good Marriage
Atlas International has tapped Peter Askin to helm the story A Good Marriage. Askin's credits include Company Man and the documentary Trumbo.
Thanks to Jimmie Rudolfsson
A Good Marriage hits the screen
From Screen Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
Peter Askin will direct the psychological thriller based on a short story from King's book Full Dark - No Stars, winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection. Will Battersby produces.
A Good Marriage follows a woman who discovers her husband's dark secret hiding in their garage. The New York shoot is set to get underway in late summer for a summer 2013 release.
"Everyone at Atlas is very excited to be part of this project and honored by its new association with Stephen King, a true master if there ever was." says Philipp Menz, CEO of Atlas International."
The project is out to cast.
Thanks to Bev Vincent


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The focus on Illinois issues upfront sorta interesting.
Geez Ray, there's nothing wrong with being a character in Chicagoland. Our history full of them, Royko for starters; but just about everyone brands themselves in some Chicago-larger-than-life sort of way. There's money in it too (and that's not bad, we all gotta live).
But admirer Cicero's Larry Dominick? Ray, c'mon. You gotta explain that one to us.
Here's a bio on Conway. Interesting guy….
AG Holder makes the top ten this year. Picture at left is Holder with now convicted Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich announcing Holder's hiring to prove Rosemont Illnois was not a mobbed-up community, and indeed worthy of an Illinois Casino license. The b-girls and bookies on Mannheim Road were tickled to hear his selection I'm sure.
Today's Duckworth's last day to file. Cal Skinner found she wasn't first in line to file:McHenry County Blog | Tammy Duckworth Doesn't File on First Day and wonders why.
Terrible loss and one that would harm the eventual revitalization of Lawndale.
From an interview with John Corry over at the bulldog.
The opposition, having suffered from years of harassment at Mr. Putin's hands, has not yet succeeded in taking advantage of today's unstable situation. But the recent outburst of public protest has flummoxed Mr. Putin, as he finds that his authoritarian government lacks the pressure valves that allow liberal democracies to anticipate and alleviate expressions of discontent.
Mr. Putin can no longer take his supremacy for granted. It is not yet a revolutionary situation. After all, Mr. Putin, like Mr. Yeltsin before him, can count on the money and pork-barrel politics needed to win the presidency next year; and he has no qualms about letting the security agencies use force.
But Russians, having sleepwalked away from Communism, are awakening to the idea that if they want democracy and social justice, they need to engage in active struggle. Quiescent 20 years ago during Soviet Communism's final days, they may at last be about to stand up for their rights.
India West covers Krishamoorthi at a San Francisco fund raiser, and notes this stat about Illinois's 8th district.
Illinois' 8th congressional region underwent redistricting earlier this year. Krishnamoorthi believes he has benefited from that exercise: The new district's population has the highest concentration of Indian Americans – almost 10 percent – of any congressional district in the nation.
Alderman Matt O'Shea, who represents the 19th Ward, announced his intention to keep the borders intact. The problem is, given the demographic realities, I am not sure how he intends to accomplish it. The article points out that, during the last redrawing, the residents were successful in keeping the ward intact. What the article doesn't mention is that, at the time, Chicago gained population. Given how much the population dropped, especially in the South Side, the status quo will be harder to justify. As I discussed in the previous post on the redrawing, the African-American Caucus is desperate to keep its numbers intact. They're going to try to grab as much territory as they can possibly get.
On the other hand, Ald. O'Shea is a loyal member of the Old Guard with considerable political experience.19th Ward community organizations have numbers and resources few community organizations in the adjacent wards can match. The sheer number of municipal and union employees in the ward is nothing to sneeze at, either. Even if the 19th Ward residents don't get their way, they will put up one hell of a fight.
Edited to Add: It is worth noting that Morgan Park lost population in all racial categories. White numbers dropped by 8.1 percent. Black numbers dropped by 7.75 percent. Even Hispanics, whose presence was negligible, lost 7.3 percent of the population.
Those population declines are striking. The trends well established and it will have a big impact on Chicago.
Will Raja Krishnamoorthi step aside for Tammy Duckworth?
Just wondering if Krishnamoorthi will step aside (and what he would need to go) to allow a Duckworth a free shot at the nomination, and bank all that money for the General against Walsh.
It is time for Raja Krishnamoorthi to answer some tough questions about his management and oversight of Illinois' Bright Start program. Raja claims credit for supervising the Bright Start program, but who was actually watching the investments?
Raja claims Bright Start program is one of top College Savings programs, yet all but one of Illinois funds lost 50 – to- 400% more than their benchmarks?
Who's going to compensate the 185,000 Bright Start families for the rest of the 40% of their tuition money lost in Oppenheimer's derivative swaps trading in its Core Bond and Fixed Income funds?
Raja welcomed parents into the program and promptly switched the plan sponsor – his choice, Oppenheimer.
Raja left when most of the funds cratered, performing vastly worse than their benchmarks. Instead of staying with the office to fix what he broke, Raja left, to run for the next political office.
Raja has turned into the typical Illinois politician: Ducking responsibility for mistakes made, and leaving Illinoisans to pick up the pieces.
We don't need a new generation of the same old talk. As the Daily Herald said, we need more than just talk.
I'm guessing K goes, but it's going to take a price because the Indian Community may well see it an affront.
Elite media just refuses to make the obvious links.
Get of the high horse Bob. Please… prison should have cut you down to size a bit, or are we all supposed to forget that time served?
H/T loyal reader anon for pointing me to this story in American Thinker on the Frawley saga. Frawley's sentencing by the way has been postponed… again.
Later in the deposition, Weaver's lawyer, Daniel F. Konicek, asks Frawley about what specific information Weaver is supposed to have told Frawley to withhold from federal authorities.
'I'm assuming the information is about the payments made by Rezko to Obama, so we know we're talking about the right conversation, right?' Konicek asks Frawley.
Nobody directly involved with the deposition -- including Frawley and his lawyers, Weaver and his lawyers, and the FBI and U.S. attorney's office -- would comment.
Alsammarae's back from Jordan too; making noise in front of the White House.
Chicago aldermen have no money for libraries but millions for ward map fight: Another day, another alderman squabbling over the ward map.
Check out the map and the new First Ward.
Ghost of John Brown's take on the Paul Newsletters.
Once your name's out there, and the subscriptions pocketed, it's kinda hard to weasel out of some of this Doc.
Remarkable, the President of the United States goes toe-to-toe with a back bencher from Illinois over whether the FICA tax holiday should go on for two, or twelve months.
Despite the Republican caucus's unanimity, the Obama Administration singled out two congressmen for blame: Rep. Allen West of Florida, and Illinois's own Joe Walsh.
White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer blamed West, Walsh and other Tea Partiers for undermining an agreement House Speaker John Boehner had struck with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The payroll tax cut extension passed the Senate, 89-10.
In an interview with the conservative website Newsmax, Walsh said he voted against the bill because a two-month extension is "not workable" for businesses. House Republicans want a year-long extension.
That video of Walsh telling "President Obama, quit lying." must have really stung! It did by the way, shut Obama down, and nary a word was further heard from him on suspension of SSA checks.
Forget Duckworth and Krishnamoorthi, Obama's getting in the ring with Walsh. That's gotta be dumb presidential politics shining the spotlight on the humdrum burbs Northwest of Chicago. Great story for us bloggers... and Walsh.
The busy life of a Congressman. Last I recall, Congress had a barbershop.
Davis (D-Chicago) is running for re-election to Congress and also to be Chicago's 29th Ward Democratic committeeman. But before he can get on the March 20th ballot, Davis must clear up about $1,887 in fines owed to the Illinois State Election Board, according to WBEZ reporter Sam Hudzik.
The fines, imposed on two of his committees – Citizens for Davis and Davis for Mayor – were levied because campaign money disclosure reports were filed late or not at all.
Davis knew about them, but explained in an interview last week with WBEZ that the congressional schedule has kept him too busy.
"I'm here [in Chicago] for two days, and – damn – I can't find time to go get a haircut," Davis told WBEZ.
...the path for Walsh clears.
I understand the need to make a place attractive to business, but this one strikes me as bad, in a bad economy, with people strapped. I have no idea who Bystronic is or whose crony they may be, but it's the start of a crony capitalist arrangement I bet.
City Management Analyst Aaron Cosentino said Monday the jobs incentives package originally was put together when the prior council was seated but did not come up for approval until after the spring municipal elections. The new council wanted an analysis of the economic benefits of the incentives package compared with its costs to the city.
The cost of the Bystronic package totaled as much as $167,000. That includes as much as $85,000 in bonuses the city would pay the company for each employee it hires. The company would be required to maintain for the first five years at least 25 jobs with annual salaries of at least $40,000. But the city would pay incentives to entice Bystronic to grow its workforce.
During the first five years of the agreement, Bystronic would receive $2,000 for each job created with an annual salary, before benefits, exceeding $40,000 and $3,000 for each of the initial 25 jobs created with an annual salary exceeding $70,000. After that, the benefit is cut to $1,000 per job paying at least $40,000 before benefits. Under the agreement, Bystronic is supposed to recruit and hire Elgin residents.
That part of the agreement is capped at $85,000.
The second part of the agreement would reimburse Bystronic $81,843 for impact and other fees associated with its new facilities in Elgin and would give the company two annual memberships to Bowes Creek Country Club for three years.
They don't call us windy in Chicago for nothing. The Prez shooting the breeze here.
Gary Johnson goes it alone as Libertarian. My post from Johnson's visit to Chicago and America's Future Foundation.
A bipartisan bill that deserved more coverage in the press…..
The purpose of today's meeting is to mark up the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011.
I am proud to be here today marking up legislation that was written in a bipartisan way with my counterpart on this committee, the Ranking Member, Chris Van Hollen.
Chris, I want to thank you and your hardworking staff for helping us advance this common-sense reform to improve government's stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
The Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act gives the President an important tool to target unjustified spending, while also protecting Congress's constitutional authority to make spending decisions.
This new authority would allow the President to specify spending provisions within an appropriations bill, while requiring stand-alone consideration of these rescission proposals by Congress.
Legislation implementing the proposed spending cancellations would receive expedited floor consideration and an automatic up-or-down vote in both chambers of Congress. Should Congress approve the rescission bill, every dollar of savings would be devoted to deficit reduction.
In addition to this bill, there are a number of other budget process reforms that are badly needed and that I want to mark up in this committee. This bill, for example, does not address mandatory spending, which represents 60 percent of our budget and is the key driver of our debt.
We also need to keep in mind that budget process reforms alone will not solve our enormous budget challenges, but this reform and others can give us tools to help us tackle the drivers of the debt and remove impediments to economic growth.
With that, I yield to the Ranking Member, Mr. Van Hollen.
"The House Republican Conference met this evening to talk about our way forward. Listen, our Members believe that we passed a reasonable responsible bill that would extend the payroll tax credit for a year. It would take care of those doctors who treat Medicare patients – the reduction in their payments – solve that problem for the next two years. And extend unemployment benefits with reforms for a year. Exactly what the president asked us to do.
"Our members do not want to just punt and do a two-month short-term fix where we have to come back and do this again. We're here. We're willing to work. We will appoint conferees and we hope the Senate will appoint conferees because we're willing to get the work done now and do it the right way.
The income tax killing our jobs and economy. Ton Cross at IR above.
This one will get plenty violent.
Christopher Hitchens and Newt Gingrich: What kind of war are we fighting?
Good for Boehner... a big reason for the economy's slow recover is the uncertainity caused by government. A deal for two months doesn't help.
Mike, tell me it ain't so. No idea what this one's about.
I had to read the General Theory for Macro Economics at Grinnell in 1974. I wonder how many students still have to read it? Samuelson at the above link on how the world's vastly changed in size and velocity since Keyne's time.
Change they have: since 1935 and 1974.
"Are we moving Medicare from a command and control government run system to a market based patient centered system? The answer's clearly yes," Ryan said. "We're taking Medicare from a public-only option to a real-private option and a market-based option in a market-based system." Wyden-Ryan would transform Medicare from a single-payer system into a system in which those entering Medicare after 2022 receive a capped subsidy, or premium support, to purchase health insurance on an exchange. "It runs the money through the person rather than through the government. The marketplace, the patients and the doctors, can make a decision," he said. Ryan-Wyden maintains the exact same "risk adjustment" and means-testing provisions that the GOP budget did (i.e. the sick and poor get a larger subsidy, the healthy and wealthy get a smaller one).
Labour and Management unite on the curse holding back Illinois.
Tax appeals and zoning: it's where all the nasty stuff in Cook County Politics happens. Fran Eaton above in the South Town on it.
Blagojevich's a fitness nut. Zagel's giving him the rehab program to shave a year off the sentence just mocks the sentence.
Maliki, said Iraq's former Minister Ayham Alsamrayy, really does not represent the Iraqi people. He represents the Iranian mullahs.
Meetings with Kennedy. Meetings with State. Outside protesting while Maliki's talking with Obama. Poor Rod on his way to the cooler and all sorts of things start popping again. Picture below of Alsammarae, Nadhmi Auchi, and Rod Blagojevich at that Four Seasons dinner where Obama allegedly dropped in briefly.
Alsammarae's to Rod's left and partially hidden. Only in Chicago can a story like this happen!
Update: video of the demo here including Alsammarae speaking along with Tom Ridge, Louis Freeh, and Patrick Kennedy.
Update: Some background on camp Ashraf to help explain what this demo was all about. I'm just curious to see a Chicagoan here participating!
Footnote: Alsammarae on radio Sawa June 2008 supporting the insurgency in Iraq. What were Ridge and Freeh thinking?
Via his Facebook page. Raja's getting the local endorsements while the national players go for Duckworth.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 134 today endorsed Raja Krishnamoorthi's candidacy for Illinoi's 8th Congressional District. IBEW Local 134 is one of the most powerful local unions in the Chicago-land area and Illinois with 14,254 members.
Krishnamoorthi's role as president of a small business and a family man puts him on the front lines of this economic crisis every day and puts him in a unique position to understand what working families and small businesses are going through.
Democrats bring cash in wheel barrels for Duckworth.
Pelosi and Boehner bring the rumble to Illinois's 8th. Everyone things Duckworth's going to get the nomination without much of a fight. I think Raja's going to prove that wrong.
Rice was hired last month as a $84,420-a-year deputy director of traffic safety for the Illinois Department of Transportation. The spot on the payroll is exempt from civil service rules, meaning that the Quinn administration was free to fill the post based on political considerations.
The Machine taking care of its own.
Chicago aldermen get paid $114,000 a year, but a FOX Chicago News investigation finds two of them are paying themselves out of their campaign funds for extra work, like marching in parades, passing petitions, and slating candidates at political meetings.
Ald. Danny Solis (25th Ward) has paid himself $194,778 since 2004.
"My job is to promote the Democratic Party in the 25th Ward, and that's what I paid myself for," Solis said. "If I paid a consultant, they would probably get paid maybe a little more than that if they were doing this full-time."
It's the good people of the 36th and 25th Wards getting stiffed here.
Who Needs Democrats When Illinois Republicans Will Attack Each Other?
From over at Prairie State Review on the primary in the 52nd State Senate District. Who Needs Democrats When Illinois Republicans Will Attack Each Other?
Gotta wonder what a party's for when stuff like this happens.
In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences.
Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.
I never knew there was an Illinois Society of the War of 1812 or a Bicentennial Commission on it! Anyways, my kind of book, about a chunk of little known history. Illinois was an awfully violent place, even then, and for will before then too.
By passing Dekalb and the Northern Illinois University seems a mistake to me. But there's a whole lot more freight on the UP's mainline to contend with than on the old Rock Island and CB&Q lines they're proposing to use.
Still, without a University town on the line, I don't see the patronage here. Naperville to Genesso, who is going to make that trip?
A bit of a stretch putting Blagojevich away for 14 years while Speaker Madigan carries on the ways. IR quoting the IL GOP on Madigan's watering down Pension reform to satisfy buddies.
And that's the mild stuff Madigan up too. What about someone looking into the Madigan/Berrios nexus on property tax appeals. That was the bread and butter business.
Some video from today's Hultgren Campaign Open House in St Charles Laura Wallet, Rep Bob Pritchared, and Daniel Sidmore.
Laura Wallett gives a nice stump speech in the second video. More on her at Illinois Review.
No big news at this event. Everyone just happy the race's taken the turn it has.
A pic of me and Randy. I'm not photogenic enough for office.
A couple of clips from Crain's Retooling Chicago series The second on Austin's PolyTech mentions the stats on Chicago's skilled labor shortage. Go occupy that.
It's the 8th! It'll be a great race whether Duckwork or Krishnamoorthi.
Update: Warner Todd Huston was there and talked with Joe, plus his take on the evening here.
Bill Kristol's still talking a Ryan Rubio ticket and explains how it could happen. The two are my druthers too. Hope.
A hearing with Don would've been grand. Bacus should have called him.
...in fact, Democrats did not even hold a confirmation hearing for him, which would have allowed him to confront and (potentially) persuade his Republican critics.
Instead, it was Democrats' tactical (read political) decision not to hold a confirmation hearing for Dr. Berwick, since the American people might have found his many past statements in favor of rationing or his praise for the British NHS health system (which actively rations access to, among other things, new cancer drugs) deeply problematic in the run up to the November 2010 elections. In fact, that record might have made it very difficult for Senate Democrats in swing states to vote for him - creating a bipartisan vote against his confirmation and a huge embarassment for the Obama Administration.
In other words, revisionist history notwithstanding, Democrats found it inconvenient to actually schedule a hearing and vote for the man who they now say is indispensable for Medicare reform.
I can assure readers, a confirmation hearing for Don would have been a grand Turkey shoot. A catastrophe for Obamacare. The consultant to NHS, who schmoozed NHS for contracts, then behind the doors told NHS all its problems, would have been the best evidence of the pathology of the Medical Industrial Complex.
As a result of disclosure, transparency, and ethics enforcement reforms, the Better Government Association lifted Louisiana from 46th to 5th on its Integrity Index. The Center for Public Integrity places the state 1st in its ranking of legislative disclosure requirements.
Ethics reform plays a significant part in Louisiana's improved business climate. In 2009, the Gallup Job Creation Index ranked the state number three in the country. In 2010, Site Selection magazine rated its business climate number one in the nation. There's no dispute that Louisiana's economy is vastly better than it was.
A great story to be compared to the sorry narrative in Illinois and Gov Quinn. Go read the whole thing. What's with Illinois we can't produce a few of our own Bobby Jindls?
Quinn on Blagojevich above. What rock was Quinn under since 2002? Fitz repeated again yesterday Blagojevich ran a criminal enterprize for the moment he entered office in 2002. Quinn a good team player right through the re election. Either awfully stupid or lying through his teeth here.
More fish in the barrel for the Feds to net.
Federal authorities have begun a criminal investigation into how nearly a dozen union officials became eligible for inflated city pensions, according to subpoenas obtained by the Tribune and WGN-TV through an open-records request.
The Chicago municipal employees and laborers pension funds each received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in October seeking "records pursuant to an official criminal investigation." The request seeks documentation on 11 labor leaders who appeared in reports from a joint Tribune/WGN-TV investigation.
He's racking up the endorsements IR has the list at the link above.
Fran Eaton recalls a tweet from Blagojevich.
We deserved better from Judge Zagel and Fitzgerald; we deserve the truth.
In sentencing papers, the government contended that "Blagojevich's criminal activity was serious, extended, and extremely damaging." The crimes proven at trial were not isolated incidents, but, instead, were part of an approach to public office that Blagojevich adopted from the moment he became governor after he was first elected in 2002 on the heels of gubernatorial corruption and running on a campaign to end "pay-to-play" politics.
If the story's been ongoing since 2002, there is plenty left untold. For such high minded comments from Fitzgerald, he's walking away from the rest of the sordid tale.
You bet Illinosians have had the fabric of our political lives torn apart. Burying the scraps no way to stitch things back together. We deserved better from Zagel and Fitzgerald then just putting the guy who knows so much into a cooler for 14 years, and 600 hours of tapes sealed; never to be heard. Jackson Jr walks unscathed. Only the facts from the last act told and a big void from 2002 till then.
The evolving scandal over "green jobs" — with huge loans handed out to faithful campaign contributors — epitomizes the special dealing that has become an art form in the system of Chicago and Illinois politics. Beneficiaries include longtime Obama backers such as Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Google. Another scandal is building up around the telecom company LightSquared. This company, financed largely by key Obama donors, appears to have gained a leg up for a huge Pentagon contract due to White House pressure.
But the bare demographic and economic facts for both Chicago and Illinois reveal a stunning legacy of failure.
Go read the whole thing for the sad sorry statistics on what we've done to Illinois.
Back in the 70s, I had a friend who had been in SDS with Ayers and Dohrn. He told me they were two of the kindest and gentlest people he had ever known (consider we were both in our early twenties). As I look back I realize my friend was describing cult leaders. People who seduce others into situations they otherwise wouldn't consider. In the case of my friend, arrest and expulsion from school lead him to Grinnell, rather than the Weathermen. A near miss with a violent cult.
Anyways, the pair's still seducing away at our expense per above link at Illinois Review.
Update: more over at Rebel Pundit How long must Illinois taxpayers keep subsidizing this crowd?
Update: Prairie State Reporter's take.
"I did not run for Congress to become part of Washington, I went to Washington to change the way Washington worked"
McHenry - Congressman Joe Walsh will make an important re-election announcement this Thursday at the Chicago Tea Party meeting. After spending the last week discussing his options with family, supporters, and party officials, Congressman Walsh believes the choice is clear.
Walsh stated "During my first year in office I upheld my campaign promise to do everything I could to rein in the mistakes that were made by the Obama Administration. From voting to repeal Obamacare, cutting spending, cutting taxes, and cutting the size of government, I have made it my mission to stop and roll back the damage that President Obama and Nancy Pelosi created. At the same time, I have also challenged my own party leadership when I think they did not go far enough. It is for that reason that I was one of only 22 Republicans who opposed the compromise that created the failed Super Committee.
I did not run for Congress to become part of Washington, I went to Washington to change the way Washington worked. It is why I have pledged to only serve three terms, it is why I turned down my health care and pension, it is why I sleep on my couch, and it is why I come home every single week and have hosted close to one hundred town halls.
During those numerous town halls I have heard from Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who feel as if both parties have failed them, and that Washington is out of control. Like me they feel as though their country is being taken away from them, and that it is time to be bold. Whether you call them tea party members or just frustrated, patriotic Americans, this group of individuals is growing. They are fed up and want change now. I can think of no better place to announce important news concerning my re-election than in front of these folks at the Chicago Tea Party meeting.
James Fuller has a nice list of the candidates who have filed to run in local and county races. Lots happening in Kane County. It's the doldrums up in McHenry. The link here.
Illinois Review: It's 3:20 PM CST Monday, Dec 5th. Do you yet know where Joe Walsh will run?
There is worse news still for the Railways department and tens of thousands of passengers who travel on trains from day to day. Eleven further trains departing from the massive Lahore Railway Station, once one of the principal headquarters of rail travel in the country, have been cut. The trains provided services to Peshawar, Shorkot, Narowal, southern Punjab and other parts of the country. This takes the number of trains cut to 131, the highest in history.
AfPak's off way too many people's radar screens. Iran too, and I have the feeling it's all going to come crashing in on us in the next few months. Below via Bill Roggio's Long War Journal.
According to Dawn, US personnel have begun to vacate Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Shamsi has been described in the past as a hub for intelligence operations as well as a base for the CIA's unmanned Predator and Reaper drones. The Pakistani government ordered Shamsi closed within 15 days after US forces killed 24 Pakistani troops in a cross-border incident in the Mohmand tribal agency.
The new alderman there is Nicholas Sposato, a former firefighter who got the job by beating John Rice in April. Rice had been appointed to the post on the recommendation of his more powerful predecessor, William J.P. Banks, the long-time Democratic ward committeeman.
In what surely qualifies as a prime example of the law of unintended consequences, the City Council's mapmakers have preliminarily decided that the reward for 36th Ward voters who threw off the yoke of the Machine is to take away their ward.
The proposed new 36th Ward would abandon three-fourths of its current territory to move eastward in two prongs so that it can become a 67 percent Latino majority ward, filling a need to add another Latino ward on the North Side because of population shifts.
You can bet that new Hispanic Alderman's going to be a Machine Alderman first.
From the guy Blagojevich hired to tell Illinoisians Mannheim Road at nighttime had nary a mobster.
What else has Holders DOJ done that could use some daylight?
Newt wins. Don't underestimate the power of that fallen-then-redeemed-preacher archetype. Past wives don't seem to be an issue.
I stopped at Manny's for Lunch before heading over to the Veterans Art Museum.
Some pics from Chicago's Veterans Art Museum.
Update: More Joe here. At Allen Skillcorn's Value Voters Forum including video via The Prairie State Report. Joe doesn't rest.
Update 8:33PM Via Kane County Chronicle.
Streamwood resident Jim Cook, 77, said he came to see whether Walsh was as much as a rascal as depicted in the media.
"But he's not," Cook said. "I found the man interesting. ... He has a lot of good ideas. Except that he is too conservative for my point of view. ... I have not voted for a Republican in all my life."
Walsh starts the Town Hall with the Pledge and than recognition of Veterans in the audience.
Walsh responds to question about whether he'll run in the 8th. It's a twelve minute answer. If you don't want to wade through the video, just know he'll decide and announce next Monday. But it's twelve minutes of Joe at his finest. Worth watching.
One guy in the audience told Walsh he was as far left as Walsh was far right, but he'd still vote for him because he likes what Walsh was saying. There were a few of these occupy types in the audience and Walsh has a knack for engaging them.
A must read column by Larry Bell as Judge Zagel gets ready to put Blagojevich and the tapes into a very deep cold storage for decades. We need answers to all of the questions Bell asks here. People know those answers. People in high places. People in Foreign Places . People in Chicago. But not the American public.
Footnote: Afterall, Holder's DOJ a pretty slippery outfit.
To regain full employment (5 percent, which happens to be the same as the level when the recession began) with the pre-recessionary labor force participation rate, we would need 150.7 million jobs—10.1 million more than we have today. That's a reasonable measure of the hole we're still in, two and a half years since the official end of the recession.
Full employment is Bush's 5 percent? What Democrats were calling those Bush years fully employed?
At least someone's looking. It's really going to rub the wrong way if Blagojevich gets 15 to 20 and Jackson walks free.
With the exception of voters with post-graduate degrees, Obama is under water with every educational cohort: 42 percent among those with a high school diploma or less, 41 percent among those with some college, and 41 percent for voters with BAs.
McHenry County Blog | Would State Prison Threat Deter Political Corruption?
McHenry County Blog Would State Prison Threat Deter Political Corruption?
Cal Skinner asks if Blagojevich shouldn't be going to an Illinois State Prison instead of a Federal lockup. More of a deterrent maybe to spend 15 to 20 years with fellow Illinosians.
I don't know. My gut is to give the Guv probation. I think too many have gotten away, and I'd rather have Blagojevich doing a show on WLS with his mouth running in overdrive.
No idea when this happened. Quite an insult.
Taxpayers will apparently fund another potentially costly legal battle between Kane County officials as board members and Sheriff Pat Perez could not reach agreement Wednesday on who must pay for a 2 percent raise recently awarded to sheriff's department employees and correctional officers.
Attention guys: taxpayers pay it all. Sounds to me like Sheriff Perez can't take the heat and ought to get out of the Kitchen. The Executive of an Agency takes the Budget the board sets, and then makes ends meet to complete the mission. Whining doesn't cut it. Going to court on the taxpayers nickle really doesn't cut. Taxpayers rightfully should start whining at the ballot box next year.