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While the "Spotlight" is on Sex Abuse in the Church, Let's Also Throw Light on This
The new movie "Spotlight" is taking a hard look at the 2002 events that seized headlines and had a profound impact on the Catholic Church: The Boston Globe investigation into clergy sex abuse.
One might think—based on some petitions circulating—that nothing has changed.
But everything has. Everything.
And while we're throwing a spotlight on dark corners of the Church's recent past, let's not keep people in the dark about the rest of the story:
[B]ased on the surveys and studies conducted by different denominations over the past 30 years, experts who study child abuse say they see little reason to conclude that sexual abuse is mostly a Catholic issue. 'We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else,' said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children … "Experts disagree on the rate of sexual abuse among the general American male population, but Allen says a conservative estimate is one in 10. Margaret Leland Smith, a researcher at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says her review of the numbers indicates it's closer to one in 5 …
Almost all accusations against Catholic priests date from many decades ago, and indeed nearly half of all abuse accusations concern priests who are already long dead. In 2014, the "credible" accusations against priests numbered 6.
The incidence of sexual abuse by teachers in public schools today has been estimated to be "more than 100 times" that by Catholic priests, and there is alarming evidence of school officials covering up abuse and failing to report suspected cases to authorities.
The AP investigated this appalling phenomenon a few years ago and reported:
An AP investigation found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic. There are 3 million public school teachers nationwide, most devoted to their work. Yet the number of abusive educators – nearly three for every school day – speaks to a much larger problem in a system that is stacked against victims. Most of the abuse never gets reported. Those cases reported often end with no action. Cases investigated sometimes can't be proven, and many abusers have several victims. And no one – not the schools, not the courts, not the state or federal governments – has found a surefire way to keep molesting teachers out of classrooms. The seven-month investigation found 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered or sanctioned from 2001 through 2005 following allegations of sexual misconduct. Young people were the victims in at least 1,801 of the cases, and more than 80 percent of those were students. At least half the educators who were punished by their states also were convicted of crimes related to their misconduct. The findings draw obvious comparisons to sex abuse scandals in other institutions, among them the Roman Catholic Church. A review by America's Catholic bishops found that about 4,400 of 110,000 priests were accused of molesting minors from 1950 through 2002. Clergy abuse is part of the national consciousness after a string of highly publicized cases. But until now, there's been little sense of the extent of educator abuse.
The Catholic Church's record of aggressive and proactive protective measures is unparalleled in any organization today. Since the beginning of the abuse crisis, the Catholic Church has instituted a "zero tolerance" policy in which any credibly accused priest is immediately removed from ministry.
No other organization even comes close to implementing the measures the Catholic Church has taken to protect children in its care.
In this regard, the Catholic Church in the 21st century is the model for other institutions to follow in the safeguarding of youth.
As The Guardian noted five years ago—and there's no reason to think this reality has changed—the Church is doing something right:
The safeguards against paedophilia in the priesthood are now among the tightest in the world. That won't stop a steady trickle of scandals; but I think that objectively your child is less likely to be abused by a Catholic or Anglican priest in the west today than by the members of almost any other profession.
We can't ignore the sins of the past. The agony and anguish and horror are real. But let's keep some perspective, too.
And let's also hold close to our hearts these words of Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley:
"We have asked for and continue to ask for forgiveness from all those harmed by the crimes of the abuse of minors." He said he has been "deeply impacted" by the histories of the "hundreds of survivors of clergy abuse" he has met with over the last 12 years. The cardinal said he is "compelled to continue working toward healing and reconciliation while upholding the commitment to do all that is possible to prevent harm to any child in the future."


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Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
It could be my advancing years – I seriously doubt that – but every morning I dread turning on my MacBook Pro, fearful of the data deluge that it will bring and the day-long struggle to find the information I need to get things done that will ensue. And I'm not the only one caught in this quicksand-like avalanche of digital data.
According to market research firm comScore, in May the total number of Internet searches conducted in the U.S. alone was about 10.7 billion — up nearly 20 percent from 9.1 billion searches in May 2007. Those numbers make clear that we're all searching for more information. What they don't make clear is that often we don't find what we're looking for, and so end up trying again and again.
Earlier this week I was going through the digital detritus that has accumulated on my computer when I stumbled upon an old slide presentation made by Google back when they were still tiny. One slide estimated that by 2002, there would be about 500 million searches a day and between 3 billion and 8 billion web pages. Now those numbers seem so last century, for every day the amount of information online continues to grow at an exponential rate. It's nearly impossible to calculate the exact number of web pages that are out there, but a good yardstick would be data from Netcraft, which tracks the number of servers on the Internet and says that the number of active domains almost quadrupled from 2002 to 2007. The total number of web sites at the end of April stood at over 162 million.
Many of these new sites are courtesy of Web 2.0 technologies that have allowed for the easy creation of digital data. Blogs, social networks, RSS feeds, Flickr feeds, Twitter messages, video clips…the data just keeps growing and growing, much like the proverbial Energizer bunny. And the problem of data overload is going to get even bigger as devices such as the 3G iPhone, with their fast wireless connections, make the on-the-go creation and sending of videos, messages and photos to our friends even easier.
If someone can become the Dolby of the web — remove the noise and give us clear sound — then they are going to make a lot of money. And when I say sound, I mean data that is truly useful. But that would just be the start.
Pip Coburn, who runs his own investment firm in New York, recently pointed out that "It's not data that's important, but what you do with it." A good example of that would be a tiny startup called Summize, which is reportedly being acquired by Twitter.
Summize has come up with a clever way of peering through Twitter's vast data stream and finding out what's hot, where and how. The results are essentially keywords — topic-, person- or location-based — and thus can be used to show contextual advertising next to the pages that show these results. In other words, Summize has developed an ability to monetize conversations without being intrusive.
The possibilities of what a similar service could do with this data are endless. Imagine a service that would scroll through all the Flickr photos, Twitter messages and marry them to data on the Internet, such as nearby mass transit stations, Starbucks, movie theaters and grocery stories.
All this information would show up on your phone, but you would only see the options in, say, a 100-meter radius that could be increased by zooming out. It would be the ultimate mash-up of various web data sources offered to you as an application, and such applications would make it possible to find, consume and share information — without even trying.
Almost like serendipity! How's that for a business model?
This post was originally published on BusinessWeek.com.
I believe there are services (or efforts to bring in these services) in Europe which allow mobile users to receive updates on local events and destinations like retails stores, restaurants etc. within a set limit. It works like this: When a mobile user is at a city center, say Delhi's Connaught Place, he will receive updates from the operator about his chosen services- Pubs in the area, Cinema listings and the like.
Taking this a step ahead, the system can let the user know of friends within his vicinity, or maybe more interesting things based on his interests.
Truly a great business model….to think. to implement? Lets wait for a pioneer.
The point is we, as consumers of this data, can significantly improve our signal to noise ratio by rationalizing down our inputs. I believe you will not "miss" anything by cutting out a few feeds or a redundant application or two.
So, what is your Chaos Score?
I don't know. The semantic web reminds me a lot of OO Programing.
Problem is, the real world is not as clean. Data is messy, incomplete, inconsistent and the meaning can change over time, cultural boundaries.
I don't think it has great advantages over keyword search. Might be good for some things but in general it's just hype.
Summize and most of the services that focus on tracking one or two media don't really help when it comes to parsing social media activity as a whole. The conversational one-to-many nature of social media means you need discovery tools that not only bring back results from across the eco-system but also give you extensive analysis capabilities: who is talking, where are they, are they positive/negative and how influential are they? These demographic, sentiment and authority measures help sort the bewildering array of conversations out there.
Isn't the context you're calling for part of the hope for the semantic web? Once those ontologies and databases are set up isn't that the first level filter that determines which data belongs together? The second filter would be some type of recommendation engine that could learn your individual preferences?
That's interesting! It never occurred to me how confusing it will be to classify those sites as they would be pulling from as many other sites as possible.
Still the filters would be the determining factor as to how possibly close the info would be with regards to relevance to the query. Guess a few hits that would be as close to the need would be deemed more valuable than getting too many that only touches what we may call as 'border' answers.
Funny, as I seem to be talking about a similar concept called 'network'. Or maybe the meaning of 'rich'.
To me your article brings to mind aggregation and meta sites.
I don't necessarily want to plow through umpteen different interfaces to get the information contained therein. Sites like PopURLs and (the egregious copy) alltop.com make a decision about what sites you will want grouped and bring it all into a single interface.
Our site ScrapeUp.com attempts to do the same thing with video aggregators.
Spot on…turning data into information is no longer sufficient. We need actionable insights that are contextual. It is well within reach even using today's technology to accomplish that but at some point, one has to deal with behavioral and personally identifiable info. Would people make the trade off between richer information and some degree of lost of privacy? Should that be regulated or would users be comfortable with a "do no evil" corporate mission??
I don't give a damn about what's hot…I just want to get answers to my searches (often very niche) without fluff.
Well first you would have to know what is Information, or how does data become Information and when. If you take it a step further you get into Knowledge how it relates to Information and how it's used. And soon you end up writing an equation for consciousness, because this all has to fit together.
Just throwing terms around believing we all share the same definition is to say at least a stretch and repeated by all the so called Information workers out there.
BTW, trying to get this even close enough to be right based on a Boolean system or algorithm will also be a stretch, or as far as I can see, impossible.
Anyway next thing will be the talking about Intelligent systems, but if you have solved the equations for the above problems you will realize there is no one such thing (Intelligence).


In the run up to the festival, we're talking to our team about how they're involved in and why they're passionate about their area. First up is our OG friend Babs, who has been co-coordinating the theme and content of this years festival - no small job! Here's what she had to say.
What do you remember about your first Walsingham festival?
How did you end up getting involved with the team and why are you passionate about the content of the festival?
What's the process for picking the theme and the speakers for the festival?
'Picking a theme is a process of trust and prayer! Different people pray about what God is speaking to us in this moment and as a team we discern the words that have been given an listen to the promptings of the Spirit. The theme comes to us in a different way each year and it is certainly a process of patient trust.
Why is 'share the joy' the core of this years festival?
Do you remember a great talk from a previous Walsingham festival that helped you a lot?
What would you say to someone thinking about coming?


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Liverpool has targeted another defender and this time it is Athletic Bilbao's £10million-rated central defender Fernando Amorebieta.
Bilbao's 6ft 3in stopper was in action facing Barcelona in the first leg of Spain's version of the Community Shield and it is believed Liverpool were keeping a close eye on him during the match.
The defender has been attracting attention around Europe because so many teams want an imposing leader at the back.
While Amorebieta has yet to make his debut for Spain, he has been in the international squad and is tipped to break into the starting line-up this season.
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Rob Natelson: Three Cheers for Speaker Blasdell and the State House!!! (to which is appended a heads-up from past experience)
April 21, 2013 /0 Comments/in Blog /by natelson
Carl Graham and I were in the legislative galleries in Helena last Friday, when the state stepped back from the brink.
Democrats and some Republicans were pushing for the state to yoke itself to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, enticed by "free federal money." So they amended a bill designed to keep the state free from the expansion to one chaining the state to the expansion.
The rules of the state House of Representatives generally provide that when the purpose of a bill is changed, it should go back to committee for review. So in a courageous move guaranteed to irritate the state's "opinion leaders," Speaker of the House Mark Blasdel decided to just that.
Advocates of the expansion immediately moved to appeal the Speaker's ruling. All of us in the House chamber held our breaths to see what the roll call vote would be. At the end, the motion to overrule lost—but by the closest margin possible: 50 for, 50 against. Then the bill was physically transmitted to the committee.
At least one, and possibly two, Democrats claimed to have pushed the wrong button while voting, but some Republicans may have made off-setting errors. Anyway, advocates of the extension pushed for a second vote, while hospital lobbyists—eager to pad their employers' pockets by throwing more people into government dependency—vigorously worked on lawmakers, trying to flip some to their cause. They actually wound up losing people: The second vote to reverse Speaker Blasdell lost 48-52.
Some in the Montana political establishment can be ruthless in finding ways to overrule the state legislature when it makes a fiscally conservative decision. Montana lawmakers have to be careful they are not overruled this time.
For example, in the 1990s, the state House rejected federal funding for a controversial education program. Instead of respecting the legislative will, the governor and superintendent of public instruction decided to thwart it. They arranged for the money to bypass state government and go directly from the feds to local school bureaucrats.
A little later in the decade, Montana lawmakers rejected CHIP, one of those federal health care programs that are (1) promoted as improving access to care but instead (2) always make care more expensive and less accessible. So the Montana state auditor (insurance commissioner) decided to violate a central canon of our constitutional government: He decided, as an executive branch officer, to invade the sole right of the legislature to appropriate money.
First, he threatened insurance companies with prosecution for allegedly breaking regulations. Next, he dropped the cases when the insurance companies handed over large cash payments. Finally, he used the extorted funds to erect the CHIP program himself.
Voila! more dependency, less affordable care, and a new spending constituency.
Montana lawmakers must ensure they are not overridden this time. But if their decision holds, they will have made an important step toward more fiscal sanity and physical health.
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle Op Ed: Improve Medicaid Before Expanding It
April 11, 2013 /0 Comments/in MPI in the News /by cgraham
Gov. Bullock waited until nearly 60 of the 2013 legislative session's 90 days had passed before making a Medicaid expansion proposal that essentially said "do what the feds want." That's a wasted opportunity. Since Medicaid rules are made in Washington, D.C., we frittered away a chance to negotiate reforms that could better meet the needs of Montana's most at-risk population while also being fair to taxpayers.
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Legislature Watching
March 26, 2013 /0 Comments/in Blog /by cgraham
I've been a little out of sorts the past few days with whatever it is that's making the rounds, but that's given me a chance to sit and watch the legislature on my fancy computer gadget box in the basement. It's like magic. The Legislative Services Division has really done a nice job of making information on the 2013 session visible and easily accessible. You can look up bills, find your legislator, watch or listen to hearings and floor sessions, and much more. Kudos to them.
But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I'm going to be lazy today and just redirect you to some work we've already done at MPI on two issues that are currently hot in Helena.
The first is Medicaid expansion. Rob and I have been beating this to death here and here , I know. And you can get all the facts and date you need from our policy note. But you really need to tell your legislators how you feel about creating an entirely new dependency class of young, able, childless adults. The arguments and facts and data are all in the blogs and policy notes we've done, but they mean nothing if you don't show your concern. You can bet the victim industry and hospitals who stand to gain enormously are lobbying the hell out of our reps up in Helena. Somebody's got to stand up for the taxpayer and for the basic morality of a system that rewards earned success rather than punishes it.
The other hot topic is campaign finance reform. I laid out the argument here that the problem we have isn't money in politics, it's politics in money. And so whatever 'reforms' we try are for nothing if we don't reduce the size, scope and power of the government to pick winners and losers. Anything else is putting the cart before the horse. This issue divides those of us on the right and there are legitimate concerns on both sides of the issue. But please take a look at arguments against limiting free speech before letting emotional arguments take the day.
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MPI Policy Note 01-13: Medicaid Expansion Can Wait
March 25, 2013 /0 Comments/in Healthcare, Issues /by cgraham
Proponents of Medicaid expansion argue that it would insure more people, that it takes advantage of "free" federal money and that it will create jobs and pump up local economies. But the fact that barely half the states are taking action to expand Medicaid indicates that this federal giveaway may come with unacceptable risks and costs, including:
Expansion will dump more people into a system that provides poorer access to care and poorer health outcomes than private insurance.
Federal matching funds are neither free nor guaranteed, potentially leaving the state with an unsustainable funding requirement.
Expanding Medicaid without fundamentally reforming it perpetuates its shortcomings and will crowd out other public spending priorities.
There is no cost to delaying, but expansion is forever. This decision should wait until we can learn more.
There are alternatives to Medicaid expansion that will actually provide quality care at lower costs, and without creating an entirely new dependent class of young, able Montanan adults. Our policy note gives you all the information you need to see why and how we should take a pass on expansion and concentrate on true reforms.
Medicaid Expansion Policy Note
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Let Other States Experiment with Medicaid Expansion – Part II
March 14, 2013 /0 Comments/in Opinion /by cgraham
Medicaid expansion is supposedly a no-brainer. It'll provide insurance for a lot low income people. It's free federal money. And it'll create jobs and pump up local economies. So why are the 50 states almost evenly divided on whether to take this gift horse or send it out to pasture?
It's because a lot of governors and legislatures have decided that at best the jury's still out on whether expansion is a good idea; and more likely it's a bad idea that will hurt many of the people it's supposed to help and turn into an albatross around taxpayers' necks.
I'm open to being proven wrong, but I agree with those who say that Medicaid expansion as laid out in Obamacare is both bad welfare policy and bad economic policy. It's bad welfare policy because it shifts primarily young, able and to a large extent childless adults into a system with demonstrably inferior access to care, and then traps them there. Forty four percent of the newly eligible would be adults under the age of 34, and seventy five percent would be childless.[i] In addition, a fourth of all new enrollees would be dumped into Medicaid from private insurance plans that almost always provide better access to care than Medicaid.[ii] The difference is in having health insurance versus getting health care.
I have a fishing license. That gives me the right to stand in a river waving my fly rod around, but it doesn't guarantee that I'll catch any fish. Same goes for health insurance versus health care. Medicaid recipients encounter barriers to primary care at nearly twice the rate of those with private insurance.[iii] Because of this lack of access to primary care, they then show up in emergency rooms at rates nearly twice those of the privately insured, but sicker and much more expensive to treat.[iv] Shoveling well over 70,000 new Montanans into this system[v] while also decreasing provider reimbursements under Obamacare won't make access to quality care any easier for these folks or for anyone else in the state.
Medicaid expansion is also bad economic policy. In fact, it's pure crony capitalism. You can't swing a dead cat in Helena right now without hitting a hospital or pharmaceutical lobbyist trying to get their surgical gloves into taxpayers' wallets. Yes, there's good evidence that the "free" money coming from Washington may create around twelve thousand jobs in Montana; but will those jobs create health benefits that are commensurate with their costs? If not, the money is better left in the private economy where it can be spent more productively. A recent New England Journal of Medicine article said that "Treating the health care system like a (wildly inefficient) jobs program conflicts directly with the goal of ensuring that all Americans have access to care at an affordable price."[vi] And anyway, it'd be much cheaper for Montana taxpayers to just put those who are eligible for federal subsidies into the new exchanges and let Washington pay their entire bill. It's free money, right?
Except that it's not. It's taxpayer money whether you write the check to Helena or to Washington. The net cost to Montana taxpayers of Medicaid expansion through 2021 is over $50 million according to one estimate,[vii] and closer to $100 million according to another.[viii] That's after the "free" money and jobs and tax revenues, and assumes the federal government will keep its promise to cover 100% of expansion costs in the early years and 90% later on, despite the fact that even the President's own past two budgets included reductions in those commitments.[ix]
In reality nobody knows what it will cost, but there's precious little precedent for entitlement spending coming in below or even near initial estimates. In 1965 Medicare was estimated to cost $9 billion annually by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was $67 billion.[x] There's no reason to think Medicaid expansion estimates will fare any better, and Montana taxpayers would be on the hook for the difference since it's politically unlikely that these entitlements would be reversed once they're put in place.
So why not wait a couple of years? Let's see how things go in California and Illinois and other bastions of state fiscal responsibility, and then take a look at what's working and what's not so we can make an informed decision. Or, we could try true reform and turn Medicaid into a system that really does provide quality access to quality care for more people who need it. We'd do that by reconnecting the patient to the provider and the cost to create responsible consumers rather than filtering both the funding and the care through a self-perpetuating bureaucracy. But that's a topic for another day.
[i] The Urban Institute, "Opting in to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who Are the Uninsured Adults Who Could gain Health Insurance Coverage," August 2012, pp. 8-9.
[ii] University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research, "An Estimate of the Economic Ramifications Attributable to the Potential Medicaid Expansion on the Montana Economy," January 2013, p. 6.
[iii] 16.3% of Medicaid patients encountered barriers versus 8.9% of those with private insurance. Annals of Emergency Medicine, "National Study of Barriers to Timely Primary Care and Emergency Department Utilization Among Medicaid Beneficiaries," 2012, p. 4.
[iv] Ibid
[v] Urban Institute, op. cit., p. 18 and BBER, op. cit., p. 7.
[vi] Katherine Baicker, Ph.D. and Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D, The New England Journal of Medicine, "The Health Care Jobs Fallacy, June 28 2012, p. 2435.
[vii] BBER, op. cit., p. 29.
[viii] The Heritage Foundation, "Obamacare and the Medicaid Expansion: How Does Your State Fare?" March 5th 2013, http://blog.heritage.org/2013/03/05/obamacare-medicaid-expansion-state-by-state-charts/.
[ix] Charles Blahous, Mercatus Center, "The Affordable Care Act's Optional Medicaid Expansion: Considerations Facing State Governments," 2013, p. 32.
[x] Conn Carroll, The Foundry, "Health Care Reform Cost Estimates: What is the Track Record?" August 4th 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/04/health-care-reform-cost-estimates-what-is-the-track-record/.
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Rob Natelson: On the Medicaid Expansion—Yes, Montana Should Say No
March 14, 2013 /0 Comments/in Blog /by natelson
When the Supreme Court's Obamacare case was pending, I noticed that while there was a lot of attention given to the individual insurance mandate, there was little discussion of the Medicaid expansion.
The Medicaid extension was the part of the law that sought to force states into signing up for an expensive new program by threatening to cut off all Medicaid funds if they did not.
Whether the individual mandate was constitutional was an arguable question under the Supreme Court's modern jurisprudence. (As you probably know, the court's modern law on federal regulation and spending is largely disconnected from the Constitution's actual meaning.)
But the Medicaid mandate was different. However, I looked at it—under modern law or the Constitution's actual meaning—that mandate seemed flagrantly unconstitutional to me. But almost no one was addressing it.
As a result, I authored one of the very few Supreme Court briefs to address the issue in detail. The brief was edited and filed by Dave Kopel at the Independence Institute, where I am also a senior fellow.
Against all popular expectations, we won: By a 7-2 margin, the Supreme Court struck down the coercive portion off the Medicaid expansion. This left the states free to make their own decisions.
A recent MPI post explains why Montana should not sign up for the budget-busting, dependency-creating Medicaid expansion. As if any additional reasons were necessary, health care expert Linda Gorman adds this compelling argument. It's written for Colorado, but applies to Montana as well.
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More On Medicaid Expansion
March 4, 2013 /2 Comments/in Blog /by cgraham
Had a good time on KMMS this morning talking about Medicaid expansion so I thought I'd jot down a few notes from the show.
If you're on MPI's website you're already active and aware on policy issues so I won't belabor the point with a lot of background, but in a nutshell the Governor is about to roll out his plan to expand Medicaid as our masters in Washington have directed to include people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level. That's a bad idea for several reasons, as I argued in an Op Ed back in January. We'll have a lot more on this soon, but here's a quick outline:
It's bad welfare policy: According to an Urban Institute study that pretty much everyone is using, 43% of those added to Medicaid in MT would be under 35 years old and 75% would be childless. Unless they're disabled, putting young, unfettered individuals on public assistance without some kind of work or payment in kind system is unfair to taxpayers, creates all the wrong incentives, and traps them in an entitlement web that's tough to get out of.
Will cost taxpayers more than just the expansion: Hospitals claim it will save taxpayers and those who are privately insured money because putting more people on Medicaid will reduce their unreimbursed or charity care costs. Don't believe it. In states like Maine where they've already been down this road, those costs increased as people moved from private insurance to Medicaid and uninsured numbers remained virtually unchanged. Just think about it: how will adding 50,000 people from an at-risk population (lower incomes equate to poorer health) to a program with low and sinking reimbursement rates save money?
Job numbers are probably overstated: We need to do a little more homework on this – and will – but claims of more jobs from "free" federal money have been wildly overstated in the past and probably are now as well. And besides, as argued in a New England Journal of Medicine paper called "The Health Care Jobs Fallacy," if the same health care outcomes can be achieved with fewer resources that leaves more for schools, transportation, safety, and other public priorities.
And finally, it ain't free money: Over 30% of the "free" money will be borrowed by the federal government, and the remaining will either paid for by you on April 15th or come out of other spending priorities. Direct costs to Montana taxpayers of expansion range from $50 million to around $150 million depending on whom you believe, and there are few examples of entitlement program cost estimates being understated. President Obama's last two budget submissions included increasing the states' share of Medicaid reimbursements, so talk of 100% federal cost share is doubtful in the future, and so-called circuit breakers that would cancel expansion if the feds renege are meaningless. Nobody is going to take away this benefit once it's been granted, so let's wait a couple of years, see how they like it in other states, and then make an informed decision.
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The Health Care Debate Debate
January 11, 2013 /0 Comments/in Blog /by cgraham
I just posted a Medicaid expansion op ed that argues, pretty effectively I think, against Governor Bullock's plans to expand Medicaid eligibility to 138% of the federal poverty level. Those things are limited to 700-800 words, though, so I couldn't include anywhere near all of the reasons that this is a bad idea, both for taxpayers and for potential enrollees.
The moral case against expansion is that the preponderance of literature indicates Medicaid patients have worse healthcare access and outcomes than the privately insured.
This is primarily because Medicaid reimbursements often don't cover provider costs, so fewer providers are accepting Medicaid.
That means Medicaid recipients have insurance but not necessarily care, and so they end up in emergency rooms sicker and with more serious conditions than those with access to care through private insurance. Obamacare's planned cuts to both Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements will only exacerbate this problem.
A few states like Florida and Rhode Island have tried consumer-driven Medicaid reforms that have actually decreased costs and increased access to care rather than simply drive more people into an unhealthy system. What a concept, except that those options were pretty much cut off from other states under Obamacare.
As for the impact on taxpayers, the Heritage Foundation has a good report for state lawmakers outlining the hidden costs of Medicaid expansion. Give it a read, and then contact your Representative or Senator to let them know how you feel.
And then, if all this piques your interest about consumer-driven healthcare reform, consider that if Switzerland can do it to great effect so can we.
It's really pretty simple. As a society we've made the correct decision that we're not going to step over bodies on the way to the hospital. So we subsidize those who need it, but we still offer them choices in what care they receive and how they get it. That results in insurers and providers competing for their business, which results in better service, better care, and lower prices. It works for virtually everything else we purchase, so why not healthcare?
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Now Is Not the Time for Medicaid Expansion
January 11, 2013 /1 Comment/in Opinion /by cgraham
Bozeman – Governor Bullock has decided to ignore the Schweitzer administration's budget submitted last November and instead opt into Obamacare's Medicaid eligibility expansion. This looks to be a patently bad idea; and even if it's not there's no reason to rush forcing Montana's taxpayers into yet more unsustainable entitlement spending and to herd more of our citizens into a system that provides inferior care at great expense.
First let's get a little background out of the way and then I'll explain why it's a bad idea.
Medicaid provides health insurance – not necessarily health care, but more on that later – to families with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). Montana's taxpayers currently pay about 33 percent of the program's cost, with the federal government picking up the balance.
Last summer's Supreme Court ruling let states decide whether to increase Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the FPL, which Obamacare tried to mandate. Many people portray this as "free money" since Washington says it will cover almost all the costs until 2017 and then ramp down to 90 percent of the costs after that. But that promise, like so many others that were made during the health care reform debate, simply doesn't match the facts on the ground.
These facts argue against expanding Medicaid eligibility for two major reasons, one of them financial and the other one moral.
The financial reason is that we already know this expansion isn't "free money" for the state. And the moral reason is that it will result in thousands of Montanans being dumped into a system that results in inferior access to care, with many of them forced out of much better private insurance plans.
Estimates of Montana's potential share of expansion costs vary pretty wildly[i] but most come in between $100 million and $200 million,[ii] or the equivalent of between two hundred and four hundred new teachers, for example.[iii] Our costs increase for a lot of reasons, but I'll just highlight a few obvious ones.
First, with Obamacare scheduled to cut $8 billion from Medicaid and $500 billion from Medicare, you can be sure that Montana's health care providers will be coming to taxpayers to be made whole when their costs inevitably outpace their reimbursements under these government programs.
Next, the largest single increase will result from people who are eligible for Medicaid at the 133 percent FPL rate, but not currently enrolled, coming out of the woodwork as word gets out that eligibility has been expanded. Many of these people are technically uninsured today but would be enrolled in Medicaid and receive care if they needed it. Many others, though, have their own insurance and would simply shift from private to public coverage. Since they wouldn't meet the new 138% FPL threshold, about 33% of their insurance costs would be shifted from them or their employers to Montana taxpayers.
And finally, for anyone who believes that the federal government will continue to reimburse states at the 100 or even 90 percent level, well, I've got a bridge to sell you. Washington's budget woes are going to be transferred to the states, and states like Montana that get from Washington much more than we give are going to feel the pain first and most acutely.
Shifting our most vulnerable population to Medicaid is also immoral. Studies consistently show that Medicaid patients have poorer access to care than privately insured patients.[iv] Since Medicaid typically pays physicians 56 percent of the amount private insurers pay, fewer doctors are accepting new patients and they eventually wind up in hospitals with more serious conditions than those who are privately insured. In addition, there's scant reliable evidence that Medicaid improves health outcomes at all, and zero evidence that it is the best way to improve health outcomes per dollar spent.
Expanding Medicaid will only worsen our health care system's woes, increasing costs and decreasing access to quality care while adding a new entitlement burden on taxpayers and dumping thousands of low income Montanans into a failing program. There's no rush to expand. If it works for other states we can always sign on. But this is one case where we shouldn't lead with our chin.
Carl Graham is CEO of the Montana Policy Institute
[i] MT Department of Public Health and Human Services, "The Impact of Medicaid Eligibility Expansion and health Montana Kids Monitoring," 12/2/2011, http://leg.mt.gov/content/Publications/fiscal/interim/financecmty_dec2011/SJ%2026%20ACA%20Medicaid%20expansion.pdf.
[ii] For example, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "the Cost and Coverage Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: National and State-by-State Analysis," 11/2012, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/8384.pdf.
[iii] Derived from data at teacherportal.com, http://www.teacherportal.com/salary/Montana-teacher-salary.
[iv] For a synopsis see The Heritage Foundation, Kevin D. Dayaratna, "Studies Show: Medicaid Patients Have Worse Access and Outcomes than the Privately Insured," 11/9/2011, http://report.heritage.org/bg2740.
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CAIR-CAN: Kirpan Ruling Gives Muslims Hope for Hijabs
MONTREAL – Inspired by the Supreme Court ruling allowing Sikhs to carry ceremonial daggers in schools, Quebec Muslims say they should be allowed to wear hijabs in private schools and have prayer rooms set aside for Muslim students at universities in the province.
Calling the court ruling "reassuring for many Canadian Muslims, particularly those in Quebec," the Ottawa-based Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said some Quebec private schools do not allow Muslim girls to wear the hijab headscarf, while McGill University has refused to give Muslim students a special room to pray.
"We hope that this [kirpan] decision — a strong commitment to upholding religious freedom — will resonate throughout Canada and cause educational and other institutions, both public and private, to respect the religious practices of minorities," the council's human-rights co-ordinator, Halima Mautbur, said in a news release after the ruling on Thursday.


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I'm just Gothy enough to love the idea of a collection of ancient tomb inscriptions. Besides, my Master's project/thesis thing was on ancient inscriptions. It's sort of a hobby/specialty.
OK but a description of the standard formulae used in Latin tomb inscriptions would have been welcome.


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Q: Retrofit 2, same name different data type JSON Parsing I am trying to parse a JSON response from a server, If there are changes to in the query sent in post method I will get first one as response, if not I will get the second one as response.
1:
{
    "status": 1,
    "data": {
        "firstname": "First Name",
        "lastname": "Last Name",
        "mobilenumber": "1234567894",
        "emailid": "test@gmail.com",
        "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata"
    },
    "user_id": "",
    "response": "Profile Updated Successfully"
}

2:
{
    "status": 1,
    "data": "No changes to update",
    "user_id": ""
}

As you can see if there are changes the data returns a object, if there are no changes the data returns as string.
I am using this method to get the data and I am using Gson Convertor to map the data.
This is the request interface
@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("pondguard/updateprofile")
Call<UserResponse> getInfoUpdated(@Field("user_id") String user_id,
                                  @Field("firstname") String firstName,
                                  @Field("lastname") String lastName,
                                  @Field("mobilenumber") String mobileNumber,
                                  @Field("emailid") String emailID)

and this is my POJO Class
public class UserResponse implements Parcelable {

    public static final Creator<UserResponse> CREATOR = new Creator<UserResponse>() {
        @Override
        public UserResponse createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
            return new UserResponse(in);
        }

        @Override
        public UserResponse[] newArray(int size) {
            return new UserResponse[size];
        }
    };
    private String status;
    private Data data;
    private String response;
    private String error;

    protected UserResponse(Parcel in) {
        status = in.readString();
        data = in.readParcelable(Data.class.getClassLoader());
        response = in.readString();
    }

    @Override
    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        dest.writeString(status);
        dest.writeParcelable(data, flags);
        dest.writeString(response);
    }

    public String getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public Data getData() {
        return data;
    }

    public String getResponse() {
        return response;
    }

    public String getError() {
        return error;
    }
}

and finally the Retrofit call I make:
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
        .baseUrl(ConstantUtils.BASE_URL)
        .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
        .build();

UserInfoRequestInterface requestInterface = retrofit.create(UserInfoRequestInterface.class);
Call<UserResponse> call = requestInterface.getInfoUpdated(user_id, firstName, lastName, phoneNumber, email, null, null);

A: Thank you for your suggestions, but I figured out a working method. Here is how I did it...
First, in my Pojo class, I added a JsonDeserializer, then I check if the "data" is an object or primitive and depending on that I set the respective fields.
public class UserResponse  {

    @SerializedName("status")
    private String status;
    @SerializedName("data")
    private Object mData;
    @SerializedName("response")
    private String response;
    @SerializedName("error")
    private String error;

    private String message;
    private String firstname;
    private String lastname;
    private String mobilenumber;
    private String emailid;
    private String timezone;

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }

    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }

    public String getFirstname() {
        return firstname;
    }

    public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
        this.firstname = firstname;
    }

    public String getLastname() {
        return lastname;
    }

    public void setLastname(String lastname) {
        this.lastname = lastname;
    }

    public String getMobilenumber() {
        return mobilenumber;
    }

    public void setMobilenumber(String mobilenumber) {
        this.mobilenumber = mobilenumber;
    }

    public String getEmailid() {
        return emailid;
    }

    public void setEmailid(String emailid) {
        this.emailid = emailid;
    }

    public String getTimezone() {
        return timezone;
    }

    public void setTimezone(String timezone) {
        this.timezone = timezone;
    }

    public String getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(String status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public Object getmData() {
        return mData;
    }

    public String getResponse() {
        return response;
    }

    public String getError() {
        return error;
    }

    public static class DataStateDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<UserResponse> {

        @Override
        public UserResponse deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
            UserResponse userResponse = new Gson().fromJson(json, UserResponse.class);
            JsonObject jsonObject = json.getAsJsonObject();

            if (jsonObject.has("data")) {
                JsonElement elem = jsonObject.get("data");
                if (elem != null && !elem.isJsonNull()) {
                    if(elem.isJsonPrimitive()){
                        userResponse.setMessage(elem.getAsString());
                    }else{

                        userResponse.setFirstname(elem.getAsJsonObject().get("firstname").getAsString());
                        userResponse.setLastname(elem.getAsJsonObject().get("lastname").getAsString());
                        userResponse.setMobilenumber(elem.getAsJsonObject().get("mobilenumber").getAsString());
                        userResponse.setEmailid(elem.getAsJsonObject().get("emailid").getAsString());
                        userResponse.setTimezone(elem.getAsJsonObject().get("timezone").getAsString());
                    }
                }
            }
            return userResponse ;
        }
    }
}

and I attach the json deserializer to the type adapter of GSON Builder and give it to create method of GsonConvertor in Retrofit like this
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
                 .registerTypeAdapter(UserResponse.class, new UserResponse.DataStateDeserializer())
                .create();

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(ConstantUtils.BASE_URL)
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
                .build();

UserInfoRequestInterface requestInterface = retrofit.create(UserInfoRequestInterface.class);
        Call<UserResponse> call = requestInterface.getInfoUpdated(user_id, firstName, lastName, phoneNumber, email, null, null);

Then all I have to do is check if message is null or not and perform my required action accordingly.

A: You cannot use like that. You have a status field in the response. Use the status filed to check for any data present. for example :
if the status is 1:
{
  "status": 1,
  "data": {
  "firstname": "First Name",
  "lastname": "Last Name",
  "mobilenumber": "1234567894",
  "emailid": "test@gmail.com",
  "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata"
},
"user_id": "<userId>",
"response": "Profile Updated Successfully"
}

and if the status is 0 :
{
  "status": 0,
  "data": {
  "firstname": "",
  "lastname": "",
  "mobilenumber": "",
  "emailid": "",
  "timezone": ""
},
"user_id": "",
"response": "An error message"
}

A: try this,
try {
        // "data" returns an object
        JSONObject jsonObjectData = jsonObject.getJSONObject("data");
        //rest of your code
    } catch (JSONException e){
        //"data" returns a string
        e.printStackTrace();
        try {
            String data = jsonObject.getString("data");
        } catch (JSONException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

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Q: Algorithm for calculating amount of won games in last 10 games There are tables in database:
Game table with columns:
id
scoreA smallint
scoreB smallint
teamidA integer
teamidB integer
day smallint
time_of_start timestamp

and Team table
id
l10Stat smallint

Explanation for the Game table:
after game is finished that table is updated so that scores are filled for teamA and teamB.
day is the day number of the season (from 1 till 28)
the time_of_start is a time of start of the game on that day (from 00:00 to 24:00)
Also for each team the l10Stat should be filled.
l10Stat is a statistics showing how many games that team won in last 10 games.
I could do the query like:
SELECT ... FROM Game Where (day_number < :current_day time < :current_time) order by day, current_day desc

But thats very not optimal. It gonna be slow because there are a lots of games.
I want to find the way to solve this task by making simple fast query.
May be there will be a need to put additional columns or tables.
Could you help with the best way to solve this task?
EDIT1:
TeamA won the game if ScoreA > ScoreB (same with TeamB)

A: You can modify the following query to make it suit your needs but the idea is clear, you have to ROW_NUMBER() so you can easily filter the games.
    SELECT lg.teamidA, SUM(lg.Won) AS Wins FROM (
        SELECT
          teamidA
        , CASE WHEN scoreA > scoreB THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS Won
        , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY teamidA ORDER BY day_number DESC, time_of_start DESC) AS Rn
        FROM Game) AS lg
        WHERE rn <= 10
        GROUP BY teamidA
UNION ALL
    SELECT lg.teamidB, SUM(lg.Won) AS Wins FROM (
        SELECT
          teamidA
        , CASE WHEN scoreB > scoreA THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS Won
        , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY teamidB ORDER BY day_number DESC, time_of_start DESC) AS Rn
        FROM Game) AS lg
        WHERE rn <= 10
        GROUP BY teamidB


As we're losing more bookstores to online retail and technology, a Henderson couple is going against the odds.
The Marcisofsky's turned their love for books into a business.
"We love to read. We love the whole idea of books."
"When you come in we take care of people. Listen to what they have. If we don't have it we'll try it and find it," says Anthony.
For 16 years, they tried to open a bookstore - even scouting locations in Florida.
"Circumstances locally presented this opportunity so we came into this space, stripped it right down to the concrete and built it back up," says Wendy.
The store is the fulfillment of their longtime dream.
"We have heard other people say that it's kind of courageous. We opened it given the trend with technology, things like that. But we've been well received," says Wendy.
The couple says small businesses in the area are helping each other stay afloat.
Bradley Wise runs a shipping company next door. He's also a loyal bookstore customer.
"I love the layout of it. I love the cleanliness. And the thing above all is Anthony and Wendy, they are wonderful people," says Wise.
Local business owners refer their customers to each other.
"Small businesses are the backbone of any community. Small businesses provide a lot of the jobs, the community. Small businesses provide the unique type of businesses that you don't see in other places," says Wise.


26. בֹּא רְאֵה, בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁנִּמְצָאִים יִשְׂרָאֵל צַדִּיקִים לִפְנֵי הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, מַה כָּתוּב? וְנָתַתִּי שָׁלוֹם בָּאָרֶץ. זֶה לְמַעְלָה. שֶׁבָּא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְהִתְחַבֵּר עִם כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל. אָז, וּשְׁכַבְתֶּם וְאֵין מַחֲרִיד. מָה הַטַּעַם? מִשּׁוּם וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי חַיָּה רָעָה מִן הָאָרֶץ. זוֹ חַיָּה שֶׁל מִין רַע לְמַטָּה. וּמַהִי? אַגְרַת בַּת מַחֲלַת, הִיא וְכָל סִיעָתָהּ. זֶה בַּלּיְלָה. בַּיּוֹם, בְּנֵי אָדָם שֶׁבָּאִים מִצִּדָּהּ, זֶהוּ שֶׁכָּתוּב (ויקרא כו) וְחֶרֶב לֹא תַעֲבֹר בְּאַרְצְכֶם.
27. רַבִּי אַבָּא אָמַר, הֲרֵי פֵּרְשׁוּהָ שֶׁאֲפִלּוּ חֶרֶב שֶׁל שָׁלוֹם, כְּמוֹ פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה. אֲבָל וְחֶרֶב לֹא תַעֲבֹר, זוֹ הַסִּיעָה שֶׁלָּהּ. וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי חַיָּה רָעָה, שֶׁלֹּא תִשְׁלֹט בָּאָרֶץ, וַאֲפִלּוּ הַעֲבָרָה בְּעָלְמָא לֹא תַעֲבֹר עֲלֵיכֶם, וַאֲפִלּוּ חֶרֶב שֶׁל שְׁאָר הָעַמִּים, וַאֲפִלּוּ בֶּן אָדָם מְזֻיָּן לֹא יַעֲבֹר עֲלֵיכֶם.
28. וְאֶת זֶה דָּרַשׁ יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ הַמֶּלֶךְ, וּפֵרְשׁוּהָ שֶׁהוּא נִתְפַּס בַּחֲטָאֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב (איכה ד) רוּחַ אַפֵּינוּ מְשִׁיחַ ה' נִלְכַּד בִּשְׁחִיתוֹתָם וְגוֹ'. כָּאן יֵשׁ לְהִסְתַּכֵּל, שֶׁהֲרֵי שָׁנִינוּ, אִם רֹאשׁ הָעָם הוּא טוֹב, כָּל הָעָם נִצּוֹלִים בִּגְלָלוֹ. וְאִם רֹאשׁ הָעָם לֹא כָשֵׁר, כָּל הָעָם נִתְפָּסִים בְּחֶטְאוֹ. וַהֲרֵי יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ רֹאשׁ כָּשֵׁר הָיָה וּמַעֲשָׂיו כְּשֵׁרִים, לָמָּה נִתְפַּס בַּחֲטָאֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל?
Peace (שלום, Shalom) is the aspect of Yessod. When the Israelites are aligned with the laws of the Torah, they are connected to Yessod and merit the aspect of 'peace' and all that comes with it.
The "harmful beasts" is the aspect of the Klipot that will be disabled and gone into a resting state. They won't be able to harm the people. And the 'sword' of the other nations cannot hurt the Israelites, not even a single armed person.
The Zohar tells about King Yoshiyahu (2 Kings 22) who was righteous but suffered for the sins of the people. The prophet Jeremiah told him to make the people repent but he didn't do it, assuming that if he was righteous and followed the Torah then the people would do the same.
The leaders of people have great responsibility to those they lead. If they lead righteously and ask their people to be righteous then they merit life of peace. If they don't follow the righteous path then they experience wars and chaos. King Yoshiyahu was killed by the king of Egypt.
Leadership is not a prize, it's a responsible duty. The Zohar brings the example of King Yoshiyahu to teach us that leaders are tested for their leadership and how they influence the people to go on the righteous path. It doesn't matter if they are righteous themsleves.
Many leaders in the world fell and continue falling from their position because they are corrupt. Religious and spiritual leaders that have personal agenda suffer and lose a lot in their lives. In recent years, we read in the papers about political and religious people that served or are serving time in prison. Power and money corrupt people, especially in high places. Leadership is a 'risky' position for the soul.
Thousands of people read and follow the DailyZohar teachings. I protect myself by using the Internet as a channel and barrier to protect myself from getting too close to people who may 'cause' a corruption in my ways. I prefer to be a spiritual leader without a 'crown'. As a 'Leo' I know that being 'out' would be a risk to my ego so I choose to avoid the risks. It makes me free to follow and stay loyal to the teaching of the Torah and Zohar.
I bring this personal example to teach that everyone should look at the risks on his path and avoid them. Basically, avoid situation that may inflate your ego, especially if you are a rabbi, a teacher, in any position that influences people.
On individual level we need to be like rabbi Nechunia ben Hakana, who gave us the prayer of the Ana B'Koach. He was praying every morning that he would not make mistakes or mislead the people with his teachings.
If someone asks you a question, it's better to say that you don't know the answer rather than giving a wrong one. That person may continue spreading wrong information and cause many others to go on the wrong direction. That would make you a 'cause' (See DZ 2132) for spreading negativity and bring a serious correction to cleanse that negativity.


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Deletional Analysis of the rod Photoreceptor Cell Peripherin/RDS Carboxy-Terminal Region
Susan Muller-Weeks
Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Fitzgerald
10.1006/exer.2002.2013
The C-terminal region of peripherin/rds contains three predicted α-helical domains. One of these domains, corresponding to amino acids 311-322, form an amphiphilic α-helix previously shown to promote membrane fusion. The present studies were conducted to determine how the additional α-helical regions of the peripherin/rds C-terminus affect complex formation with rom-1, glycosylation, intracellular localization and membrane fusion properties. Bovine peripherin/rds and rom-1 were epitope tagged with an amino-terminal FLAG-tag or amino-terminal hemagglutinin (HA)-tag, respectively, and cloned into the pCI-neo expression vector for transient transfection into COS cells. Similarly, four C-terminal peripherin/rds truncation mutants (Δ1, Δ2, Δ3 and Δ4), corresponding to deletions of -19, -29, -39 and -59 amino acids were designed to disrupt the α-helical domains. Immunofluorescence microscopy and enzymatic digestions demonstrated that full-length peripherin/rds and the four C-terminal deletion mutants were localized to intracellular membranes and were all Endo-H sensitive. Western blotting and immunoprecipitation studies showed that the FLAG-tagged bovine peripherin/rds (full-length) was expressed as a 76 kDa dimer, which associates with HA-tagged rom-1 to form a higher order complex. The deletion mutants were also able to associate with rom-1. However, when analyzed using non-denaturing tricine electrophoresis, full-length peripherin/rds and the Δ1, Δ2 and Δ3 mutants formed homo-oligomeric complexes, while the Δ4 mutant appeared to form only homodimers suggesting a region upstream of amino acid 300 may be involved in C-terminal interactions. Membrane fusion was then evaluated using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (RET) techniques. Intracellular COS cell membranes containing full-length peripherin/rds fused with rod outer segment plasma membrane vesicles. This fusion was inhibited with the addition of a synthetic peptide (PP-5) corresponding to the fusion domain of peripherin/rds. In contrast, fusion was negligible with any of the C-terminal truncation mutants. Collectively, these results suggest that in addition to the fusion domain, other regions of the peripherin/rds C-terminus are required for fusion. Most interesting is the observation that the last 19 amino acids, a region downstream of the fusion peptide that is deleted in the Δ1 mutant, appear to be necessary for fusion. This region corresponds to the epitope for anti-peripherin/rds monoclonal antibody 2B6, which is shown to partially inhibit peripherin/rds mediated membrane fusion. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
Membrane fusion; Outer segments; Peripherin/rds; Rods; rom-1
Muller-Weeks, S., Boesze-Battaglia, K., & Fitzgerald, C. (2002). Deletional Analysis of the rod Photoreceptor Cell Peripherin/RDS Carboxy-Terminal Region. Experimental Eye Research, 75 (2), 143-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/exer.2002.2013
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Applied DNA: Cotton, leather and finally making hay
Long term: With revenues spiking, Applied DNA Sciences CEO James Hayward sees brighter days ahead.
It's not quite a return to the company's financial halcyon days, but Applied DNA Sciences may have finally turned a corner.
Yes, the Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist ended the second quarter of its fiscal 2017 (ended March 31) with a quarterly net loss of $3.4 million, or 13 cents per share.
But it was less of a loss (barely) than the $3.5 million bite suffered in 2Q FY2016, and less of a loss (significantly) than the $4 million loss (16 cents per share) suffered in the first quarter of this fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31.
And most importantly, Applied DNA reported a very impressive second-quarter revenue spike: up 58 percent, to $905,000, over the $573,000 in revenues recorded in 2Q FY2016, marking the first year-over-year quarterly revenue increase in many moons for the scrappy biotech.
Even the company's higher operating costs were, in a sense, good news. Total operating expenses for 2Q FY2017 were reported as $4 million, a 7 percent increase over the $3.8 million recorded in the same quarter last year – a slight jump Applied DNA attributed primarily to higher payroll expenses, which is a good problem to have.
Furthering the happy news, the expanding payroll was offset by plunging research and development expenses related to a pair of expired government contracts.
The bottom line, for a company that has suffered a long string of miserable quarterly financial statements, is that a revenue spike – with several big-time contracts inked after the March 31 close of the second quarter yet to make hay – is a welcome sign indeed.
Applied DNA President and CEO James Hayward said the second quarter was "distinguished" by promising commercial developments and "a high number of pre-commercial opportunities, both of which we believe lay the groundwork for greater commercial-scale adoption of our SigNature DNA platform."
That includes headway in the textile industries Applied DNA has long championed as its fiscal knight in soft, cottony armor.
"Revenue in the quarter was driven primarily by the recognition of deferred cotton revenue and from our synthetic fiber and consumer asset-marking markets," Hayward said Thursday.
Of course, Applied DNA's slowly developing comeback is not entirely cotton-related. With the help of a freshly minted, high-caliber Advisory Board, the company has "made strides in diversifying our recurring revenue in fiscal 2017," Hayward noted, with its anti-theft and supply-line-authentication technologies finding their way into military applications, leather goods, forensic documentation, foreign cars and other diverse products and systems around the country and the world.
"We are building upon the base that began in 2013 with the Defense Logistics Agency," Hayward said. "And we have expanded since then with asset and auto tagging in Europe and the long-term cotton contracts between (global home textile distributor) Himatsingka and their customers."
Applied DNA has also benefitted from a major November 2016 capital infusion – a $5 million stock deal with a single "healthcare-dedicated institutional investor" – and from its 2015 acquisition of West Virginia-based Vandalia Research, which directly facilitated its recent DNA-supply contract with a leading provider of chemicals for the in vitro diagnostics market.
That last deal is yet to impact the bottom line, but Applied DNA expects prorated revenues from the contract to bleed into its 4Q FY2017 financials. Its new product-authentication deal with Bed Bath & Beyond, announced after the second quarter closed, should also start paying off soon, meaning the best numbers of fiscal 2017 likely lie ahead.
Hayward noted he was looking forward specifically to "the recognition of deferred revenue from SigNature T-marked cotton, supplemented by non-cotton-derived revenue sources."
"We are seeing increasing interest in the marking of synthetic fiber for home-textile use, including our program with Loftex Home, where synthetics are increasingly used as an alternative to cotton," the CEO said. "With the transferability of our technology and our unique competitive position in securing bulk products and commodities, we are experiencing shortened development and sales cycles and a growing pipeline of pre-commercial opportunities.
"We believe we are well-positioned to continue closing commercial-scale contracts, and broadening the adoption of our technology platform."
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Nicholas Eymerich
Nicholas Eymerich (Catalan: Nicolau Eimeric) (Girona, c. 1316 – Girona, 4 January 1399) was a Roman Catholic theologian in Medieval Spain and Inquisitor General of the Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon in the later half of the 14th century. He is best known for authoring the Directorium Inquisitorum, that mostly summarized previous texts and mores.
1.1 Education and early tenure as Inquisitor General
1.2 First exile and return
1.3 Second exile and return
2 Writings
2.1 The Directorium Inquisitorum
2.2 Other works
3 Variant spellings of Aymerich's name
4 Literary character
Education and early tenure as Inquisitor General[edit]
Nicholas Eymerich was born in Girona c. 1316.[1] He entered the local monastery of the Dominican Order on 4 August 1334. Here, during his novitiate he was instructed in theology by the friar Dalmau Moner. In order to complete his studies, he went to Toulouse, and then to Paris, where he obtained his doctorate in 1352. He then returned to the monastery in Girona where he replaced Moner as the teacher of theology.
In 1357, Eymerich replaced Nicola Roselli as the Inquisitor General of Aragon, as Roselli had been raised to a cardinal. A year after obtaining the position, Eymerich was given the honorific Chaplain of the Pope as a recognition of his diligence in pursuing heretics and blasphemers. However, the zeal he displayed as Inquisitor General earned him many enemies. As he directed much of his efforts to the apparent errors of members of the clergy, he often found his investigations blocked by the court, curia, or papacy. When Eymerich interrogated the Franciscan spiritualist, Nicholas of Calabria, King Peter IV of Aragon had him removed from office at the general chapter held at Perpignan in 1360.[2]
Eymerich was elected to be the Vicar General of the Dominicans in Aragon in 1362 however, this election was contested by one of them: priest Bernardo Ermengaudi who, in addition to having a long-standing dispute with Eymerich, was also politically backed by Peter IV. When called on to settle the matter, Pope Urban V, invalidated Eymerich's election on the grounds that the office of Vicar General conflicted with the office of Inquisitor General. He did not, however, confirm Ermengaudi in the position, opting for a neutral third, Jacopo Dominici.[2]
For a time Peter IV prevented Eymerich from serving as inquisitor. His hostility toward Eymerich intensified in 1366 when Eymerich began to attack the written works of Ramon Llull and to harass his followers, who were known as Lullists. The king forbade Eymerich to preach in the city of Barcelona. Eymerich disobeyed covertly and subsequently supported the revolt of the diocese of Tarragona against the monarch. This conflict ended around 1376 when the local governor took 200 horsemen and encircled the Dominican monastery where Eymerich was residing. Eymerich fled to the papal court of Pope Gregory XI in Avignon.[3] While Raimon Llull supported the concept, now Dogma, of Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary, Eymerich didn't accept it.
An example of Eymerich as Inquisitor General is his sentence of the Jew Astruc Dapiera in 1370. Dapiera was a native of Barcelona accused of sorcery. He was sentenced to publicly repent in a cathedral and then to life imprisonment, that actually, few convicted had to endless term. Eymerich ordered the piercing of heretics' tongues with a nail so they could not blaspheme.[citation needed] He was the first inquisitor to get around the Church's prohibition against torturing a subject twice by interpreting directive very liberally, permitting a separate instance of torture for a separate charge of heresy. The Directorium Inquisitorum includes the sentence: Quaestiones sunt fallaces et inefficaces -'Interrogatories are misleading and futile'
First exile and return[edit]
While living in Avignon, Eymerich completed his most famous work, the Directorium Inquisitorum. In 1377, he accompanied Gregory XI to Rome, where he remained until the Pope's death in 1378. In the schism that erupted after the death of Pope Gregory XI, Eymerich sided with Antipope Clement VII, and so returned to Avignon late in 1378. While living in Avignon, Eymerich conflicted with St. Vincent Ferrer, because Eymerich believed that Ferrer had begun to sympathize with Pope Urban VI, the Pope in opposition to Clement VII.
Eymerich returned to Aragon in 1381. Where he discovered that in his absence, Bernardo Ermengaudi had assumed the position of Inquisitor General. Eymerich refused to recognize Ermengaudi in that office, and in 1383, acting as Inquisitor General, notified the inhabitants of Barcelona that he had banned the works of Ramon Llull. Furious, Peter IV ordered Eymerich to be drowned, however, the Queen Eleanor of Sicily influenced him to change the sentence to permanent exile. Once again, Eymerich ignored the sentence and remained in his native land, thanks largely to the support of Peter's son, John.[3]
King Peter IV died in 1386 and was succeeded by his son, John I, who recognized Eymerich's authority as Inquisitor General. At first, John I favored the repression of the Lullists, but this lasted only until 1388 when Eymerich decided to investigate the entire town of Valencia for heresy. King John I intervened to free the Chancellor of the University (secretary of the municipality), who had been imprisoned. Calling Eymerich a diabolicus fratrem, the King then forced him into exile again.[4]
Second exile and return[edit]
After the violence at Valencia, Eymerich sought shelter from John's reprisals in a church, but two years later, retreated again to Avignon, where he remained until the death of King John I. In Avignon, Eymerich devoted himself to the defence of the legitimacy of Clement VII as Pope. He remained in Avignon after the death of Clement VII in 1394, writing in support of Clement's successor, Antipope Benedict XIII. After King John's death in 1396, Eymerich returned to the Dominican monastery in Girona, where he remained until his death on 4 January 1399. His epitaph describes him as praedicator veridicus, inquisitor intrepidus, doctor egregius.
Writings[edit]
The Directorium Inquisitorum[edit]
Main article: Directorium Inquisitorum
Eymerich's most prominent and enduring work was the Directorium Inquisitorum, which he had composed as early as 1376.[3] It defined witchcraft, and described means for discovering witches. In compiling the book, Eymerich used many of the magic texts he had previously confiscated from accused sorcerers. The Directorium Inquisitorum was to become the definitive handbook of procedure for the Spanish Inquisition until into the seventeenth century. It can also be considered as an assessment of a century and half of official Inquisition in the "albigensian" country. For another clergyman, the Directorium Inquisitorum is written in 'Barbarian Latin'.
Other works[edit]
Although the Directorium Inquisitorum was Eymerich's only book-length work, he wrote numerous tracts and papers on various theological and philosophical subjects.
A good deal of Eymerich's life and writings were taken with opposing the writings of Ramon Llull. Owing to Aymerich's work, Pope Gregory XI banned several of Llull's writings and issued a papal decree against some postulates derived from his works. He would later dedicate his Tractatus contra doctrinam Raymundi Lulli to Clement VII. In this document, he indicated 135 heresies and 38 errors in the Lullists' theology. His Dialogus contra Lullistas is another example of his anti-Lullist works.
Eymerich also wrote numerous works, including his Tractatus de potestate papali (1383) defending the legitimacy of the Avignon antipopes, Clement VII and Benedict XIII.
Variant spellings of Aymerich's name[edit]
There appears to be very little scholarly consensus on the spelling of Aymerich's name. "Nicolau Aymerich" is the correct form of his name in medieval Catalan language spelling, and the most used form in Catalan, although nowadays it would be spelled "Eimeric". Aymerich, or Eimeric, is still a common Catalan surname, also a French name, as in Aimery de Gramont, an oncologist, "Nicolau" is the Catalan spelling for "Nicholas". Jose Meir Estrugo, in his book about 'Sephardim', points about a converse, Vidal Abnarrabí (Ibn-Arabí), who pick-up the surname Aymerich in Girona, 1492, this surname is found in the Hebrew communities of Salonica and Smirna. The Spanish spelling, "Nicolas" is also occasionally used. The title page of the 1578 impression of the Directorium Inquisitorum, which is printed in Latin gives his name as "Nicolai Eymerici", -ich being a derivative of Roman genitive -ici, also used as diminutive, to point a child's parenthood. The most common ways his name is spelled in English writing on the subject is "Nicholas Eymerich", with the spelling "Eymeric" being a close second. Occasionally, the Spanish form of Nicolas is used in English writings as well. Other, less common, variant spellings of his last name include, Emeric, Eimeric, Aimery, and Eymericus. The surname of blessed nun Anne Catherine Emmerich -Emmerick- comes from a town to which her family was bond, is not a Patronimic
Literary character[edit]
Valerio Evangelisti, an Italian novelist, has written a cycle of ten science fiction books featuring Eymerich as the main character. There is also a French comic book series on Eymeric, which is an adaptation of Evangelisti's novels.
Eymerich is also one of the main antagonists in the novel Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones.
^ Although the most commonly given birth year of Eymerich is 1320, he actually couldn't have been born later than in 1317. According to the canon law, he must have been at least 40 when he became inquisitor, and his nomination to that post took place in 1357; besides, it has been reported that he was over 80 in 1397. See Claudia Heimann, Nicolaus Eymerich (vor 1320-1399): praedicator veridicus, inquisitor intrepidus, doctor egregius, Aschendorff, 2001, p. 11. ISBN 3-402-06361-1, ISBN 978-3-402-06361-3
^ a b Kirsch, Johann Peter. "Nicolas Eymeric." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 27 February 2016
^ a b c Sullivan, Karen. The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors, University of Chicago Press, 2011 ISBN 9780226781679
^ Vargas, Michael A., Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents, BRILL, 2011 ISBN 9789004203150
Richard Gottheil & Meyer Kayserling, Astruc Dapiera at Jewish Encyclopedia Retrieved 8 April 2005
Nicholas Eymeric at Encyclopædia Britannica Retrieved 8 April 2005
Inquisition Retrieved 8 April 2005
Valerio Evangelisti, Eymerich Storico (Historical Eymerich) Retrieved 7 March 2011
Heinrich Finke: Nicolau Eimeric publicist in the beginning of western schism, in: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, Vol 1, Münster, Germany, 1928, article: Drei Spanische Publizisten aus den Anfängen des grossen Schismas
Andrés Ivars: Los jurados de Valencia y el inquisidor Fr. Nicolás Eymerich, Madrid, Spain, 1916.
Faustino D. Gazulla, mercedarian: Historia de la falsa bula a nombre del obispo de Roma Gregorio XI inventada por el dominico fray Nicolás Eymerich, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1909
E Grahit i Papell: El inquisidor fray Nicolás Eymerich, Girona, Catalunya, 1874. Includes a list of Aymerich' writings.
Text of the Directorium Inquisitorum (1578) in Latin
"Eymericus, Nicolas" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nicolas Eymeric" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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The Woodlands' No-Fault Defense
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THE WOODLANDS' NO-FAULT DEFENSE The Woodlands Development Company is trying to hold the line in its legal battle against a growing number of homeowners claiming that repeated damage to their homes is the result of movement along 3 separate geological faults running through the community. According to reporter Cindy Horswell, the company is going further than simply claiming that the building and ground cracks and resulting new alignments in the properties must have been the result of something other than surface fault lines. A statement penned by developer spokesperson Susan Vreeland-Wendt appears to claim the fault lines do not exist: "We have done actual testing, and none of the testing that we've done to date has found any evidence of an active fault line in proximity to any Woodlands residence." That contradicts the claims of the now 2-dozen families from the Carlton Woods, Alden Bridge, Cochran's Crossing, and Sterling Ridge neighborhoods involved in or about to join the lawsuit, which was originally filed in March of this year, who say a 1993 letter proves the developer knew about the problem. "The plaintiffs' attorneys say five different geologists have verified the existence of at least three fault lines — Big Barn, the longest and most active line that runs about 33 miles underground from a salt dome near Hockley to the flank of a salt formation near Conroe, as well as two smaller faults, Jones and Panther Branch. The San Jacinto River Authority's geological report also recently pinpointed these same surface faults when working on plans to install a new 52-inch pipe to bring water into The Woodlands. To protect from the shifting soils, a special flexible pipe will be used wherever the pipe crosses a fault zone. 'They do exist, and they are active,' said Mark Smith, division manager over the water authority's water project." [Houston Chronicle ($)] Fault-line map: KHOU
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commonsense November 11, 2013 at 11:54 am
I'm curious to see the fault line map going through Carlton Woods, can't find one anywhere.
Txcon November 11, 2013 at 12:17 pm
This is the closest I have found; eyeballing it, it looks like it runs right through the Carlton Woods area, but you'd have to overlay it to be sure. http://www.uh.edu/~sdkhan/Msc/Publications/2013_Geophysics_Hockley_fault.pdf
Rodrigo November 11, 2013 at 12:26 pm
https://cstx.gov/default.asp?id=454C7071-2E12-40D3-9D9E-FFCDDD048B82&show=addendum
RFP 13-030 Addendum No. 2
Page 14 of the PDF has the fault line map. If you were to extend the Big Barn line to the west, it enters Carlton Woods and then Sterling Ridge.
sriram November 11, 2013 at 12:26 pm
They are real and they are spectacular
Dave November 11, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Rodrigo, I think you meant the Fault Study under the Specifications, Terms, and Conditions tab. Addendum 2 has only 9 pages and no maps.
commonsense November 11, 2013 at 3:24 pm
That map seems to be missing the really long fault that runs close to the Bear Creek lake and across Carlton Woods.
Spirit of 2005 November 11, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Yeah, 249 goes over a fault line, it looks like it would extend into The Woodlands…
Rodrigo November 11, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Dave, you're absolutely right, my bad for only glancing at the filename and not opening it up.
elseed November 11, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Meh woodlands sux….if its not in Beltway 8 or the inner loop then i dont care…holla
Patrick November 12, 2013 at 6:56 am
These homeowners needed to have done more extensive due diligence. They're looking for a way to sell their homes & have a deep pocket entity bail them out. Besides, they cannot hold the Woodlands Development Company liable for naturally occurring situations. What next: hold the WDC liable for thunderstorms /hurricanes/tornadoes / animal attacks? A bunch of whiny, self-important,grasping homeowners. Who will NEVER be happy or satisfied with anything. They need to STF. And go away. Because if the judge rules in their favor, it'll open the floodgates of disgruntled homeowners looking to cash in…These people are exactly what is WRONG with America today: they want the government to protect them from themselves and their stupid decisions!! Yes,that sounds radical. It is called being RESPONSIBLE for yourself and not depend on the nanny state/Big Brother to bail your sorry asses out of any situation. It is a direct affront to the Nanny State that has raised up in Western nations.
commonsense November 12, 2013 at 9:18 am
@Patrick, perhaps, but on the other hand WDC is a private company that sold a faulty (pun intended) product (the lot) to the consumer. Perhaps a municipality would not carry liability in such a case but a private corporation certainly does. They also concealed the said fault from consumers and certainly the builders. When they say the information was available to builders, they mean it was filed in a locked box in a bunker 300 feet below Dick Chaney's bunker.
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