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Triad3A, an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase regulating Toll-like receptors.
Chuang TH | Ulevitch RJ
Nature immunology | May 29, 2004
Activation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) results in a proinflammatory response needed to combat infection. Thus, limiting TLR signaling is essential for preventing a protective response from causing injury to the host. Here we describe how a RING finger protein, Triad3A, acts as an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase and enhances ubiquitination and proteolytic degradation of some TLRs. Triad3A overexpression promoted substantial degradation of TLR4 and TLR9 with a concomitant decrease in signaling, but did not affect TLR2 expression or signaling. Conversely, a reduction in endogenous Triad3A by small interfering RNA increased TLR expression and enhanced TLR activation. Thus, ubiquitination by Triad3A represents one pathway by which the intensity and duration of TLR signaling is controlled.
Mesh terms: Amino Acid Sequence | Carrier Proteins | Humans | Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins | Membrane Glycoproteins | Molecular Sequence Data | Receptors, Cell Surface | Toll-Like Receptor 2 | Toll-Like Receptor 4 | Toll-Like Receptor 9 | Toll-Like Receptors | Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, Id: AI15136
Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, Id: GM28485
Triad3A regulates ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation of RIP1 following disruption of Hsp90 binding. (Fearns C 2006)
The E3 ubiquitin ligase Triad3A negatively regulates the RIG-I/MAVS signaling pathway by targeting TRAF3 for degradation. (Nakhaei P 2009)
Ubiquitin-specific protease 25 regulates TLR4-dependent innate immune responses through deubiquitination of the adaptor protein TRAF3. (Zhong B 2013)
Ubiquitylation of an internalized killer cell Ig-like receptor by Triad3A disrupts sustained NF-κB signaling. (Miah SM 2011)
E3 ubiquitin ligase-mediated regulation of bone formation and tumorigenesis. (Sévère N 2013)
BioGRID (Data, Interactions)
The direct interaction between MYD88 in Homo sapiens and TLR4 in Homo sapiens was detected by two hybrid, as noted by BioGRID.
The direct interaction between TLR9 in Homo sapiens and RNF216 in Homo sapiens was detected by two hybrid, as noted by BioGRID.
The direct interaction between RNF216 in Homo sapiens and TLR9 in Homo sapiens was detected by two hybrid, as noted by BioGRID.
The physical association between RNF216 in Homo sapiens and UBE2L3 in Homo sapiens was detected by affinity chromatography technology, as noted by BioGRID.
The physical association between RNF216 in Homo sapiens and UBE2C in Homo sapiens was detected by affinity chromatography technology, as noted by BioGRID.
The physical association between RNF216 in Homo sapiens and UBE2H in Homo sapiens was detected by affinity chromatography technology, as noted by BioGRID.
HGNC (Data, Gene Annotation)
HGNC assigned the name ring finger protein 216 (gene symbol: RNF216), citing this as a key paper for nomenclature or describing the gene.
OMIM (Data, Gene Annotation)
Cerebellar ataxia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is related to genes RNF216, TRIAD3, ZIN, CAHH which are autosomal recessive according to the OMIM database.
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Q: Hashmap Example in Java using Jersey? I am currently working with with web services for the first time and I have to write some examples of different web services in Jersey using Maven,
But I can only seem to get it to work in Spark (Here's My spark example)
//Hashmap Example
get("add/:num1/:num2", new Route() {

    @Override
    public Object handle(Request rqst, Response rspns) throws Exception {
        rspns.type("application/json");

        int num1 = Integer.parseInt(rqst.params(":num1"));
        int num2 = Integer.parseInt(rqst.params(":num2"));
        HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put("result", num1+num2);
        Gson gson = new Gson();
        return gson.toJson(map);
    }
});

I just need some help writing it for a Jersey example ?
Any help you can offer would be great

A: First, with Jersey you need to register a JSonProvider, so that you can return an Object and it will be serialized for you in JSON. You can alternatively support XML with no more effort.
Personally I use Jackson. The default with Jersey is Moxy, which doesn't support Maps, and has "issues" even with simple List (you need to wrap them) see this post
Configuring Jersey with Jackson : https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/media.html#json.jackson
Moxy issue with Map : How to return a JSON object from a HashMap with Moxy and Jersey
Here's a working example of a Jersey web service, returning a Map, given you are using Jackson
@GET
@Path("add/{num1}/{num2}")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response getClubNames(@PathParam("num1") Integer num1, @PathParam("num2") Integer num2) {

    Map<String, Object> returnMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    returnMap.put("resultAsString", Integer.toString(num1 + num2));
    returnMap.put("resultAsInt", num1 + num2);

    return Response.status(Response.Status.OK).entity(returnMap).build();

}

Personal note, as you are starting to use Jersey :
I really like Jersey. But there is a serious hard-coupling issue with HK2. https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-1933. This is out of scope, but you should understand what this means before choosing a JAX-RS 2.0 implementation. In a stand alone Web Application, Jersey works like a charm.

A: Figured it out myself
//HashMap Example
@GET
@Path("add/{num1}/{num2}")
public String Hashmap(@PathParam("num1") int num1, @PathParam("num2") int num2){
          HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
          map.put("result", num1+num2);
          Gson gson = new Gson();
          return gson.toJson(map);
}

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Q: I make more money than my friend, and she often cant afford to go to the places I choose. How can we have fun without the money thing hanging over our heads?
A: One solution is to scale back on the fine dining and expensive outings with this friend. (Whats motivating you to choose places she cant afford, anyway?) Save the pricey plans for nights out with a friend who has more disposable income. But you can also get creative. Suggest lunch instead of dinner at that hot new bistro. Tell your friend "lets grab some appetizers"—and mean it. Seek out complimentary or inexpensive wine and food tastings (try www.localwineevents.com), or snag a pair of discounted theater tickets at www.theatermania.com.
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import java.util.List;

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import rapture.common.RaptureURI;

public class SnippetValidator extends JsonValidator<RaptureSnippet> {
    public static final Validator singleton = new SnippetValidator(RaptureSnippet.class);

    public static final Validator getValidator() {
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    public SnippetValidator(Class<RaptureSnippet> clazz) {
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City of London School for Girls is a non-denominational, independent day school, for girls aged 7 to 18. Based in the London Square Mile, the school was established by the Corporation of the City of London and moved to its present premises in the iconic Barbican in 1969. The City of London School for Girls is owned by the City of London Corporation.
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It is essential that girls are themselves and are able to demonstrate their ability to think independently. Pre-prepared answered will be spotted and penalised!
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Long before the terms Native American or Indian were created, the tribes were spread all over the Americas. Before any white man set foot on this territory, it was settled by the forefathers of bands we now call Sioux, or Cherokee, or Iroquois.
For centuries, the American Indian grew its culture and legacy without disturbance. And that history is fascinating.
From Mayan and Incan ruins, from the mounds left in the central and southern parts of what's now the U.S. we have learned quite a bit. It's a story of beautiful artwork and deep spirituality. Archaeologists have unearthed remarkably elaborate buildings and public works.
While there was inevitable tribal conflict, that was just a slight blemish in the narrative of our ancestors. They were at peace with this beautiful continent and intensely plugged into nature.
The European Settler Arrives
When European leaders dispatched the first vessels in this direction, the goal was to explore new resources – however the quality of climate and the bounty of everything from timber to wildlife subsequently changed their tune. As those leaders learned from their explorers, the motivation to colonize spread like wildfire.
The English, French and Spanish rushed to carve up the "New World" by transporting over inadequately prepared colonists as fast as they could. At first, they skirmished with the surprised Indians of America's eastern seaboard. But that soon gave way to trade, since the Europeans who arrived here understood their survival was doubtful without Indian help.
Thus followed decades of comparative peace as the settlers got themselves established on American land. But the pressure to push inland came soon after. Kings and queens from thousands of miles away were impatient to find even more resources, and some colonists came for freedom and adventure.
They wanted more space. And so began the process of forcing the American Indian out of the way.
It took the shape of cash arrangements, barter, and notoriously, treaties that were nearly uniformly ignored after the Indians were forced from the territory in question.
The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were motivated by the desire to expand westward into regions occupied by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s almost all Native American tribes, approximately 360,000 in number, were living to the west of the Mississippi River. These American Indians, some from the Northwestern and Southeastern territories, were confined to Indian Territory located in present day Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche Native American tribes shared the land of the Southern Plains.
The Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet dominated the Northern Plains. These Native American groups met adversity as the steady flow of European immigrants into northeastern American cities delivered a stream of immigrants into the western lands already inhabited by these various groups of Indians.
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The early nineteenth century in the United States was marked by its steady expansion to the Mississippi River. However, due to the Gadsden purchase, that lead to U.S. control of the borderlands of southern New Mexico and Arizona along with the authority over Oregon country, Texas and California; America's expansion would not end there. Between 1830 and 1860 the U.S. pretty much doubled the amount of land within its control.
These territorial gains coincided with the arrival of troves of European and Asian immigrants who wished to join the surge of American settlers heading west. This, partnered with the discovery of gold in 1849, presented alluring opportunities for those willing to make the long journey westward. Consequently, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers started building their homesteads in the Great Plains and other parts of the Native American group-inhabited West.
Native American Policy can be defined as the laws and procedures established and adapted in the United States to define the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government. When the United States first became an independent country, it adopted the European policies towards the indigenous peoples, but over two centuries the U.S. tailored its own widely varying policies regarding the evolving perspectives and requirements of Native American supervision.
In 1824, in order to apply the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress created a new bureau inside the War Department called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked closely with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. At times the federal government recognized the Indians as self-governing, independent political communities with numerous cultural identities; however, at other times the government attempted to compel the Native American tribes to abandon their cultural identity, give up their land and assimilate into the American customs.
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With the steady stream of settlers in to Indian "" land, Eastern newspapers published sensationalized stories of savage native tribes carrying out widespread massacres of hundreds of white travelers. Although some settlers lost their lives to American Indian attacks, this was far from the norm; in fact, Native American tribes repeatedly helped settlers cross over the Plains. Not only did the American Indians sell wild game and other necessities to travelers, but they acted as guides and messengers between wagon trains as well. Despite the friendly natures of the American Indians, settlers still anticipated the likelihood of an attack.
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To quiet these worries, in 1851 the U.S. government placed a conference with several local Indian tribes and established the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Within this treaty, each Native American tribe consented to a bounded territory, allowed the government to construct roadways and forts in this territory and pledged not to go after settlers; in return the federal government agreed to honor the boundaries of each tribe's territory and make gross annual payments to the Indians. The Native American tribes responded peacefully to the treaty; in fact the Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, Assinibione, Mandan, Gros Ventre and Arikara tribes, who signed the treaty, even agreed to end the hostilities between their tribes in order to accept the conditions of the treaty.
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This peaceful accord between the U.S. government and the Native American tribes did not last very long. After hearing stories of fertile acreage and great mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their assurances established in the Treat of Fort Laramie by permitting thousands of non-Indians to flood into the area. With so many newcomers heading west, the federal government established a plan of restricting Native Americans to reservations, limited swaths of land within a group's territory "" reserved exclusively for their use, to be able to grant more property for "" non-Indian settlers.
In a series of new treaties the U.S. government forced Native Americans to abandon their land and move to reservations in exchange for protection from attacks by white settlers. In addition, the Indians were offered a yearly stipend that would include cash in addition to foodstuffs, livestock, household goods and agricultural tools. These reservations were established in an attempt to pave the way for increasing U.S. expansion and administration in the West, as well as to keep the Native Americans separate from the whites in order to decrease the potential for friction.
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These deals had many challenges. Most of all many of the native peoples didn't properly grasp the document that they were confirming or the conditions within it; furthermore, the treaties did not consider the cultural practices of the Native Americans. In addition to this, the government bureaus responsible for applying these policies were weighed down with awful management and corruption. In fact many treaty terms were never executed.
The U.S. government rarely honored their side of the accords even when the Native Americans moved quietly to their reservations. Dishonest bureau agents sometimes sold off the supplies that were meant for the Indians on reservations to non-Indians. Moreover, as settlers demanded more land in the West, the federal government frequently reduced the size of the reservations. By this time, many of the Native American peoples were dissatisfied with the treaties and angered by settlers' endless appetite for territory.
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Angered by the government's dishonorable and unfair policies, several Native American tribes, including bands of Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches and Sioux, fought back. As they struggled to defend their lands and their tribes' survival, over a thousand skirmishes and battles broke out in the West between 1861 and 1891. In an attempt to force Native Americans onto the reservations and to end the violence, the U.S. government reacted to these hostilities with significant military operations. Clearly the U.S. government's Indian regulations required of a change.
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Native American policy changed drastically following the Civil War. Reformers felt that the policy of pushing Native Americans onto reservations was too severe even while industrialists, who were concerned about their land and resources, regarded assimilation, the cultural absorption of the American Indians into "white America" as the single permanent means of assuring Native American survival. In 1871 the federal government enacted a critical law proclaiming that the United States would no longer deal with Native American tribes as sovereign nations.
This legislation signaled a significant change in the government's relationship with the native peoples – Congress now regarded the Native Americans, not as countries outside of its jurisdictional control, but as wards of the government. By making Native Americans wards of the "" government, Congress believed that it was better to make the policy of assimilation a widely accepted part of the cultural mainstream of America.
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Many U.S. government officials perceived assimilation as the most practical answer to what they viewed as "the Indian problem," and the single lasting method of insuring U.S. interests in the West and the survival of the American Indians. In order to accomplish this, the government pushed Native Americans to move out of their established dwellings, move into wooden buildings and turn into farmers.
The federal government enacted laws that forced Native Americans to quit their traditional appearance and way of living. Some laws banned traditional religious practices while others required Indian males to cut their long hair. Agents on more than two-thirds of American Indian reservations established tribunals to impose federal polices that often prohibited traditional cultural and religious practices.
To speed up the assimilation operation, the government started Indian facilities that tried to quickly and vigorously Americanize Indian children. According to the founder of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the schools were developed to "kill the Indian and save the man." To be able to accomplish this goal, the schools forced students to speak only English, put on proper American clothing and to replace their Indian names with more "American" ones. These new policies brought Native Americans nearer to the end of their classic tribal identity and the beginning of their life as citizens under the full control of the U.S. authorities.
Native American Treaties with the United States
In 1887, Congress enacted the General Allotment Act, the most important component of the U.S. government's assimilation program, which was created to "civilize" American Indians by educating them to become farmers. In order to achieve this, Congress wanted to establish private ownership of Indian land by splitting up reservations, which were collectively held, and issuing each family their own stretch of land.
In addition to this, by forcing the Native Americans onto limited plots of land, western developers and settlers could purchase the remaining land. The General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act, required that the Indian lands be surveyed and every family be given an allotment of between 80 and 160 acres, while unmarried adults were given between 40 to 80 acres; the residual acreage was to be sold. Congress wished that the Dawes Act would break up Indian tribes and inspire individual enterprise, while reducing the expense of Indian supervision and producing prime land to be purchased by white settlers.
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The Dawes Act proved to be disastrous for the American Indians; over the next decades they existed under regulations that outlawed their traditional lifestyle but did not provide the critical resources to support their businesses and households. Splitting the reservations into small parcels of land caused the significant decrease of Indian-owned land. Within three decades, the people had lost more than two-thirds of the region that they had controlled before the Dawes Act was passed in 1887; the majority of the remaining land was purchased by white settlers.
Usually, Native Americans were duped out of their allotments or were required to sell their land in order to pay bills and provide for their families. Consequently, the Indians were not "Americanized" and were routinely not able to become self-supporting farmers or ranchers, like the creators of the policy had desired. Aside from that it produced animosity among Indians toward the U.S. government, as the allotment method often ruined land that was the spiritual and cultural focus of their lives.
Between 1850 and 1900, life for Native Americans changed significantly. Through U.S. government policies, American Indians were forced from their places of residence as their native lands were parceled out. The Plains, which they had previously roamed without restriction, were now filled up with white settlers.
The Upshot of the Indian Wars
Over these years the Indians had been cheated out of their territory, food and approach to life, as the "" government's Indian policies forced them inside reservations and tried to "Americanize" them. Many American Indian bands did not endure relocation, cultural destruction and military loss; by 1890 the Native American population was reduced to under 250,000 people. Due to decades of discriminatory and ruthless policies implemented by the United States authorities between 1850 and 1900, life for the American Indians was changed forever.
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We flew from Brisbane to the Whitsunday Coast Airport with Virgin Australia. We needed to be in Airlie Beach the day before our departure on the boat so we booked a night at the Coral Sea Resort (£158 including breakfast booked through Agoda), which was located just around the corner from the marina we were departing from. Airlie Beach is quite a small place, particularly popular with backpackers and has a really chilled, relaxed vibe that despite my reservations I really liked!
We didn't have a transfer booked so grabbed a shared taxi van from the airport to our hotel which was great – our driver was very entertaining and shared lots of local insight. I caught my first sight of wallabies too!
We received a warm welcome at the Coral Sea – our room, whilst not luxurious was perfect for one night and boasted the most incredible views out to the islands. We had to check into our boat at the office in town before 5pm so we dropped our luggage and hurried the 5-minute walk into the main town area.
We had been told the office was between a fish and chip shop and a didgeridoo shop so found it easily! Once check-in was done with the lovely ladies in the office, we grabbed some fish and chips from next door and headed to the beach to enjoy them! Fish and chips are one of the things I miss most from home so this was a real treat!
After a quick trip to the pharmacy to pick up some motion sickness tablets (just in case!), we headed back to the hotel to sort our luggage from our big bags into one smaller shared bag ready for the boat the next day.
After a good night sleep and a lovely Christmas Eve breakfast of croissants and fresh fruit, we wandered into town. The boat is 'bring your own booze' so we needed to stock up at the 'bottle shop', we had also spotted a City Beach shop the day before (one of our finds of the holiday – the most incredible selection of swim and beachwear) so popped in to pick up a rash vast each (or as I learnt, a 'rashie'). Swimwear in Aus is so reasonably priced compared to Thailand. As well as an amazing choice of beers and ciders which we thoroughly took advantage of during our time in Australia, Dave also enjoyed the delicious array of coffee, so we stopped for some final onshore refreshment and last minute reading! Following a quick haircut, him not me, we headed back to the hotel to grab our luggage and head off to our boat!
I waited by the lagoon whilst Dave had his haircut!
Dave loving the Bottle Shop!
Well i didn't think fish and chips could get any better but turns out fish and chips with THOSE views, definitely can!
Hopefully Airlie Beach is still this beautiful after the cyclone, I'm dying to get there!
Oh my gosh I know! I've been keeping up to date with cyclone Debbie, how awful for the people of Airlie Beach and the rest of those affected in Queensland. When they are back up and running you must go! Honestly the most i n c r e d i b l e place!!!


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The Red Turtle
Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode
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"Some of the art is truly breathtaking, especially the star-filled skies, and the movement of the various animals we meet is beautifully observed."
Life at sea can be a lonely business, so perhaps it's not surprising that fishing communities all around the world have evolved similar stories of otherworldly women who emerge from its depths, whether as friends or foes. Scotland has its selkies, Greece its sirens, New Zealand its marakihau. It's not clear quite were the stranded sailor in this film has washed up, but for him the sea spirit takes the form of a turtle; and whether dream or reality, she changes his whole perspective on life.
A simple tale told through deceptively simple art, and almost without words, The Red Turtle was nominated for an Oscar and took home the Special Jury Prize from Cannes in 2016, both well deserved accolades. It follows the sailor from a terrifying opening in which he's battered about by ocean waves in a storm to his arrival on an island built of sand, rocks and bamboo, through his early attempts to escape and his change of heart when he finds himself in company, then for many years thereafter. Dutch artist Michael Dudok de Wit worked with Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli to bring the fable to life, and it's as beautiful as fans of either would expect, spare of line and delicate of hue but tremendously evocative, inviting the imagination to fill in what is not shown, inviting the heart to fill in what is not said.
Sustaining a narrative like this for 80 minutes in no mean feat, but at no point does the film feel overextended. There are action scenes and some pretty scary moments which mean that although it's theoretically suitable for all ages, parents may want to talk through it with younger children afterwards. Some of the art is truly breathtaking, especially the star-filled skies, and the movement of the various animals we meet is beautifully observed. There is great attention to detail and it really pays off.
With only occasional music, the film takes its sounds from nature. We sense isolation not simply by climbing a rock and looking down at the island, but through the fury of the storms that assail it, compared to which everything feels tiny. Dudok de Wit excels in capturing the moods of the sea, from a smooth sheet of sapphire blue to a feroicious tumult of leaping waves that threaten to crush everything before them. Only the turtles seem unconcerned, drifting through life as if pursuing some greater, secret purpose.
The Red Turtle is perhaps too serene, overall, to capture the mood of many modern filmgoers, but it has a grace and poetry about it which, together with its charming animation, are bound to win it a dedicated legion of fans.
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Robin Feldman Pens Washington Post Op-Ed on Vaccine and Drug Pricing
Professor Robin Feldman published an op-ed in the Washington Post in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar's comment that he couldn't promise a coronavirus vaccine would be made available to Americans who couldn't afford the medicine.
The op-ed, "President Trump's coronavirus response highlights a flawed drug pricing system," noted that while the administration's response outraged Democrats, "Azar's comments reflected less his priorities than our broader system, which dictates that, even in the face of a public health threat, the cost of drugs could well be prohibitive for many who need them because of runaway pricing."
Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i), writes that prescription drug prices have soared. A critical mechanism for containing prescription drug prices is the formulary system. Feldman reveals the role the formulary system and health insurance plans play in rising drug prices in her recently published study, The Devil in the Tiers.
Health plan tiering should reflect the cost of a drug, as well as reward patients who choose generics over brands. However, the C4i study analyzing Medicare claims from 1 million patients over an eight-year period (2010 to 2017) shows widespread formulary manipulations:
From 2010-2017, the percentage of generics on the most-preferred tier dropped from 73% to 28%.
During the same period, the percentage of drugs placed on inappropriate tiers in relation to drugs with the same active ingredient increased from 47% to 74%.
The average out-of-pocket payment tripled in Medicare plans from the most-preferred tier to the next, which hurts patients. Yet, the health plan pays roughly the same amount for generics on both tiers. Thus, by moving generic drugs onto pricier tiers, the health plan is pocketing more money for drugs that cost them the same amount.
Considering nothing but patient out-of-pocket costs and payments from the federal the low-income-subsidy program, these formulary abuses wasted $13.25 billion dollars over the eight-year period, with the waste rising significantly across time.
Further, Feldman noted that the drug rebate system may be driving up prices.
She concludes in the op-ed:
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"There is a simple, elegant solution that could help return formulary tiering to its intended path: requiring that health plans use list price as the basis for tier placement. Although perhaps counterintuitive, basing tiering on list price has the potential to realign incentives within the formulary system. Hidden rebate deals would become less appealing to drug companies if their drugs couldn't secure a better position on the formulary in return. At the same time, drug companies with high prices would find their drugs deeply disadvantaged, making price increases less attractive in the first place and eliminating the need for rebates. In other words, basing tiering on list price would unwind a vicious cycle.
"We need a functioning generics market if we hope to constrain prescription drug markets, and formulary reform is a critical step in supporting it. If generic markets are not competitive and thriving, little ground can be gained. Although there is no silver bullet, basing tiering on list price is a streamlined approach for cutting through a wide swath of perverse incentives and manipulations. After all, at the end of the day, it is the price that matters."
The full Washington Post op-ed can be found here. The full study can be accessed at The Devil in the Tiers.
Feldman's work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation, drug pricing and health care law, and artificial intelligence and data. Her most recent book is Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices (Cambridge 2019).
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Q: how to get information within  tag in html using htmlParse and xpathSApply I have a bunch of webpages and I want to extract their publishing dates.
For some webpages, the dates are in the "abbr" tag (like: abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2012-03-14T07:13:39+00:00\">2012-03-14,  7:13"), and I was able to get the dates using:
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But for other webpages, the dates are in the "mega" tags, for example:
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So, what pattern should I use instead of "//meta"?
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A: Using this page as an example:
library(XML)
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The problem with
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Review: Il Viaggio A Reims at the Sydney Opera House
By Carly Fisher
Perhaps one of the Opera's biggest challenges has been continuing to adapt to suit modern audiences and therefore to attract the attention of new patrons and make more Opera fans of us all. If this is something that the medium has been considering for some time (which, lets face it, so many facets of the Arts have been…how do we remain relevant and trailblazing in this modern climate…), then Opera Australia's latest work is an intelligent response to the issue – produce an Opera of such a high calibre and of such fun that Opera is once again accessible to all, enjoyable for all and simply a great night's entertainment.
As comfortable as I am in my knowledge of plays and musicals, I must admit, I am less familiar with Opera and as such, went into the 3 hour performance of the opening night of Il Viaggio A Reims unsure of whether or not this would necessarily be for me. All the same, the best thing about the Sydney Arts scene is that we have the opportunity to expose ourselves to some of the greatest talents from around the world in a variety of styles, forms and performances on any given night and reviewing this year has made me hyper aware of that privilege we as Sydney-siders have. In this co-production with the Dutch National Opera and Royal Danish Opera, Opera Australia has absolutely delivered the goods in regards to both local and international talents to grace the stage.
Rossini's Il Viaggio A Reims is rarely staged and in fact, this is the first time that this piece is being performed in Sydney, and it is no major surprise why when you see the juggernaut that is this Opera – featuring 16 principal cast members (all supremely talented) and an exceptionally lavish array of set and costume designs (credit to Paolo Fantin and Carla Teti respectively), understandably this piece is a big undertaking.
Within the sixteen principals are star Russian soprano Irina Lungu and popular baritones Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Giorgio Caoduro. Some Australian Opera favourites took to the stage too including Warwick Fyfe, Julie Lea Goodwin, Sian Sharp and Conal Coad, alongside Opera Australia Young Artist Shanul Sharma who performed the role of Conte di Libenskof, arguably one of the most difficult roles in the opera repertoire for a tenor.
Not featured in the 16 principals was another star of the show, the Conductor, who not only led his orchestra with precision and an exciting enthusiasm that made his conducting appear like beautiful choreography, but also provided some great entertainment for the night, participating in the show and going along with great stage gags. In his Sydney Debut, Daniel Smith as conductor shone for me as one of the stars of the show and I was entranced by his leadership of the stellar orchestra and guidance of the very large cast.
This show was originally written to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in 1825 and tell of a group of travellers on route to the coronation. Damiano Michieletto's exciting new production is now set in an Art gallery instead wherein the travellers must not only overcome the original obstacles set out for them in Rossini's Opera (namely love, lust and lost luggage) but also must now come face to face with the world's most famous artworks as they come to life. This interpretation leaves such room for Fantin and Teti's designs to shine - this night at the Opera is truly a transportation into a rich world of artistic history and grandeur for every member of the audience.
The mix of the old storyline and the new sometimes left for areas of confusion (luckily there were subtitles) but the striking direction by Michieletto distracted quickly from this confusion as your attention was drawn to another clever and powerful image he had created for us on the stage. Michieletto is a phenomenal director who seems to mix choreography, art and theatre together to create something very special and I would love to see more of his work and learn more from him.
My only criticism would be the excessive number of ensemble members. I understand the need for a large ensemble to round out the sound but whether THAT large an ensemble was required for sound or was a deliberate decision for aesthetic, I am unsure. For me, there were SO many people on stage shuffling about at times with no exact purpose (I've never seen one room require six people to mop the floor at once for example) that I found them distracting and wished half would stay in the wings at a time.
With that minor critique aside, I must say, three hours flew by and I loved my night at the Opera. There is something quite special about the formality of the Opera (especially at the black tie opening night) that has been lost from many other forms of theatre that really reminded me of the grandeur of the Arts and the privilege we have to see some of the best companies and performers in the world take to one of the most magical stages – the Sydney Opera House. I can see that over the next year I'll be becoming more familiar with Opera. Il Viaggio A Reims has captured another Opera-goer in me.
Image Credit: Prudence Upton
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Konami is celebrating its 50th anniversary with three major collections including the Castlevania Anniversary Collection featuring eight games with four that were revealed today plus a May 16 release date.
A new Samurai Shodown Darli Dagger video shows her saw sword possibly transforming into a drill for attacks.
Microsoft has revealed its Xbox E3 2019 briefing plans. People can catch the presentation on June 9, 2019, followed by a June 10, 2019 Inside Xbox livestream.
A Mortal Kombat 11 Shao Kahn breakdown is coming during the April 22, 2019 Netherrealm presentation.
EA has revealed the latest Star Wars game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, where you play as young Padawan Cal Kestis, who survives Order 66 and must now complete his training while being a fugitive.
Following a tease of Kitana's gameplay last time, NetherRealm Studios has released the full trailer introducing Kitana's moveset in a battle against D'Vorah.
Following the NieR: Automata spinoff story and prequel in the YoRHa Stage Play Ver. 1.0, an updated version in 1.1, and an all-girls musical in Ver. 1.2, we're getting an all-male cast for Ver 1.3. Here's its first poster.


From the years leading up to the switch to digital.
Taken with an Olympus OM2n with OM 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and (rarely) 100mm lenses with an occasional intruder from my vintage camera collection such as my Retina 1B.
Accessing Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop CC allows scanned images to be processed to modern digital photography standards.
ref: 091006H(33-36) Rannerdale Knotts from Peel at the far end of Crummock Water. The slopes of Grasmoor at left; of Mellbreak at right; with High Stile smothered in cloud. A photomerge of 4 negatives, spoiled by the leftmost one having camera shake. Taken with 1957 Kodak Retina 1B with f2.8 50mm Xenar lens.
ref: 091006F22 Seen from Peel, at the far end of Crummock Water.
ref: 091001F36 512 m (1,680 ft). Loweswater below; Burnbank Fell at left; the Loweswter Fells of Darling Fell and Low Fell at right. Low Fell being Walt Poucher's 'Best View In The District' and where his ashes were scattered.
ref: 091001F35 Crummock Water directly below; Buttermere further away. The narrow road circumnavigating Rannerdale Knotts is clearly seen. OM2n with 100mm lens.
ref: 091007G34 Unusual view seen from the Embleton road. OM2n with f2.8 100mm lens.
Cassie On Ullock Pike Summit.
ref: 0910G12 View over Buttermere to Crummock Water. Mellbreak and that Blake Fell. A glimpse of Loweswater. The Loweswater Fells (Low Fell & Darling Fell) with Rannerdale Knotts splitting Crummock Water.
ref: 0910G13 Fleetwith Pike is an easy ascent up the old tramway from the top of Honister Pass. This view is the reason to climb it. The High Stile range of High Crag, High Stile and Red Pike, dominate the left of the frame. Mellbreak, with Blake Fell beyond, is centre left; with a glimpse of Loweswater beyond and with the Loweswater Fells (Low Fell and Darling Fell to its right. Rannerdale Knotts, centre, splits Crummock Water in two. At right is Grasmoor; with High Snockrigg in front, and the slopes of Robinson nearest to us.
ref: 100905G15 Leaving Latrigg on the Cumbrian Way and leading down to the crossing of the Whit Beck.
ref: 100905G24 Looking East over Lonscale Fell to Blencathra. An exhibit in the Tate Modern, perhaps?
ref: 061100pr01 Gael confronting lamb. Never had to train her not to chase sheep.
ref: 070427pr35 Backdrop: Whinlatter Pass; the shadow of Skiddaw behind the ridge extending from Whiteside. Centre distant is Hopegill Head and Sand Hill; prominent is Grasmoor. Dark bulk of Mellbreak in the middle ground, right.
ref: 070426pr27 From Whin Ben on the ascent of Whiteside. Lanthwaite Green Farm below; Lanthwaite Wood centre right.


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One Fund for Boston Marathon bombing victims receives over 200 applications, has $50 million
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June 17, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News
The primary compensation fund for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings has garnered upwards of $50 million and received more than 200 applications for payments, according to the fund's administrators.
The One Fund Boston received 212 claims by the Saturday postmark deadline, with additional applications known to be en route to the fund's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in courier mail, according to Camille Biros, the deputy fund administrator.
The June 15 deadline marked two months to the day since twin explosions went off at the marathon's finish line, killing three and injuring over 260 people.
"We are still receiving applications. Typically, many applications come near or on the deadline," Biros said Monday. "We don't know what the ultimate number will be."
Any requests postmarked past deadline will be reviewed and distributed on a "case-by-case" basis, Biros said. The fund hopes to have payments in claimants' hands by July 1, she said.
The distribution protocol, finalized in May, will prioritize deaths, double amputees, and victims who sustained brain damage, followed by single amputees and then people whose injuries required an overnight hospital stay.
Families of four people killed – three by the April 15 explosions and one MIT campus police officer killed by the suspects days later — are eligible for payments, but Biros on Friday declined to say whether those four families had applied for compensation.
Applicants were required to fill out a three-page form, available on the fund's official website. The form asks claimants to specify the nature of any injuries and the duration of the hospital stay. It also requires a hospital statement confirming that the purported injuries were sustained during the attack.
Fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg has said that, despite the sum of money in the fund's coffers, claimants should 'lower their expectations' about the impact of potential payouts.
"Whatever we do with this fund is inadequate," Feinberg, 68, said at a town hall-style meeting in May. "Everyone, please lower your expectations about this fund. If you had a billion dollars, you would not have enough money to deal with the problems with these attacks."
Feinberg has managed compensation for families damaged by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre; and the shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech.
Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News


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A Cup of Joe | Mother Leaves 2-Year-Old For A Half-Hour Inside 112 Degrees Car While Shopping
A Cup of Joe | Mother Leaves 2-Year-Old For A Half...
This week we meet Melanie, a stay-at-home mother of 4 children; and, her son, Edgar, 2 years old.
One warm summer day, Melanie took her car to go to a shopping center in Newburgh in Orange County. She took Edgar along for the ride. It was 88 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 112 degrees Fahrenheit inside the car. Melanie brought her young son shopping with her at the last moment, although she had previously planned on running errands on her own. On this day, Edgar's car seat was placed in a seat different from that which it normally was in, and Melanie did not have his diaper bag on the front passengers' side of the vehicle, as she normally did when she was traveling with her children. When Melanie arrived at the mall she parked her car in the lot outside and went inside the center to begin shopping.
While Melanie was inside shopping, someone just passing by Melanie's car noticed little Edgar sitting in his car seat all alone. The car engine was off and the windows were closed. The person called 911 and the police arrived in a few minutes and rescued poor Edgar who was then taken to the hospital. He was fine.
About a half hour after Melanie began shopping, she was approached in a store by a police officer. The officer ordered Melanie to follow him outside to her car. It was then that the officer asked Melanie whether she had left Edgar in the car. And that is when Melanie realized that she had forgotten Edgar in the car.
The Department of Social Services was notified and they commenced a proceeding against Melanie for neglect of Edgar and her other three children.
Courts have regularly found that young children left alone in a vehicle were in imminent risk of harm, despite the temperature of the vehicle or the intent of the parent, warranting a finding of neglect. This was a very serious situation for Melanie even though no harm came to Edgar. During the proceedings, Melanie and her family were under close observation by DSS and she forced to receive training and counseling over the 11 months.
Here is what happened:
At trial it was determined that, after 11 months, the Department of Social Services determined that there were no safety concerns, and no indication of a likelihood of future neglect by Melanie. Also, proof was presented that Melanie successfully completed all her training and cooperated fully with the DSS.
The court determined that, although the fact that Melanie left Edgar in the car for a half hour was enough to find neglect, this isolated incident was an "error in judgment," and "further involvement of the court and the child welfare system was unnecessary."
The Court ruled that there was no indication of a likelihood of future neglect.
The neglect proceeding against the mother of four was dismissed.
Read the case here: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/3dseries/2017/2017_50912.htm?fbclid=IwAR2wwI2LC4m_UwkZEDUNfx9FTgxapGF9tV70sroMrW5CPYU0E_kAfCS71TI
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MATTIAS KLING: THE ROCK SCIENTIST WHO WROTE A BOOK ON EUROPE
Kling had never written a book before the publisher Kalla Kulor came along, pledging him to write about one of the most successful Swedish rock bands ever, Europe. The research skills of the rock scientist Kling was bound to produce some closet skeletons, a fact which made Kee Marcello's manager threaten with lawsuit.
Rock Science wanted to know more about the life of this professional rock scientist, so we got a hold of Mattias for an interview!
Mattias Kling grew up with the thrash scene of the 80s. But he abandoned his typical young boy rock star dreams in favour of another dream. He sold his musical instruments to finance journalist school.
Since then Kling has lived up to his reputation as one of the top rock and metal journalist in Sweden, writing about metal and punk for Close-Up Magazine and Aftonbladet. Close-Up is the oldest still active Swedish music magazine with a focus on extreme metal and punk/hardcore, while Aftonbladet is the most circulated tabloid in the country.
RS: Rock and metal fans often become obsessive collectors of knowledge about and releases from their favorite artists. They end up being "scientists" in their chosen fields. They have what we'd like to call a "scientist mentality". Would you say that you belong to that crowd?
– I would definitely say so, especially when it comes to the bands and the music that's been as important as the air I breathe to my physical and mental well-being over the last 30 years. At the same time, I don't see myself as a scientist obsessed with details, but more like a fan thirsting for knowledge. And like one of those I have, shamefully, some knowledge gaps that become apparent when you play "Rock Science". I'm totally off on Jimi Hendrix, the Stones and Iggy And The Stooges – which in a way compensates for my expert knowledge when it comes to metal from the early 1980s and onwards.
RS: Which bands have meant the most to you throughout the years?
– To do this question justice, you'd really have to write a book about it. It somehow depends on how you look at things and what actually can be defined as "meaningful". An example: Venom is the reason I got my eyes up for extreme metal in primary school, a passion which later led to a deep-dive into the thrash scene, which at the time was very vital. Would that have happened even if I hadn't heard Venom? Probably. And as such I don't count Venom as one of my major favorites. But to the 8 year old Mattias Kling, that became the beginner's course while waiting for more challenging things. Kind of like you should master addition and subtraction before moving on to multiplication.
– But if I were instead to list the bands which have all in their own way formed my life, we have a collection that is just as well-known as it is obvious: Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Slayer, Judas Priest, Bad Religion, Morbid Angel – and the list goes on.
RS: You've said that Europe is an interesting band to write a book about because of their exciting story. Still the idea to write the book came from the publisher. Which other bands do you think have the most exciting stories worth telling?
– Yes, the idea itself was not my own. A bit embarrassing, but that doesn't make it less true. Probably mostly because I'd never even thought about the idea of me writing a biographical book, which also meant that I actually turned down [the publisher] Kalla Kulor's attempts to recruit me. Twice. The stubbornness of the publisher to have me in the project probably became the boost of self-confidence I needed to dare taking the leap and sink into the anxiety-void that writing books basically is. And for that I am deeply thankful.
– I've had many questions about what the next book could be about, something that I too have been thinking a lot about. I really only have one requirement: I do not want to go through the same journey as with the Europe case once again. Even if it's been instructing and rewarding to put so much time into exhaustive research as I had to do with "Only Young Twice…", I'm not sure if I have the energy to do the same thing all over again. Which has made me drop the plans for my imagined follow-up – a book about Yngwie Malmsteen. Partly because it would signify for me yet another un-authorized and (surely) intensely discouraged product. And partly because I will be overrun by Anders Tegner, who is working on the same book right now. That book will be a joyful read. On the positive side, I've had other requests from people wanting help telling their stories. None of this is final yet, so exactly who and what this is about I'll have to return to at a later stage.
RS: Do you remember seeing Europe for the first time?
– Like for most others people, my first contact with the band was when they won the "Rock-SM" [the Swedish Rock Championships] in December of 1982. However, I have to admit that they did not really excite me so much at that time – or with the debut album released the year after. Instead, I think the pieces started falling into place with the follow-up "Wings of tomorrow". By then it seemed that the band could seriously take on international competitors.
RS: Europe do have some internal conflicts, especially when it comes to the question of finances and who's got the rights to what. Kee Marcello had threatened you with a lawsuit for writing the book – was this something that affected your attitude towards releasing it?
– A small correction is in place here: Kee Marcello never personally threatened me. It was his manager Gerry Helders who strongly opposed the idea of me writing a book, for diffuse copyright reasons. But after checking into the legalities of his demands I realized that he could not stop my work, other than stopping me from getting in touch with Kee. So I wouldn't say it was a direct obstacle, on the contrary, it encouraged me to keep on going.
RS: You've made a career of your musical interest as a journalist and writer, do you play an instrument yourself?
– No. Embarrassingly, no. I'm basically too bad at it. As many others in my field of work I've done some awkward attempts at it, played with some more or less hopeless groupings in Kalmar [on the southern east coast of Sweden] in the 80s, but later had to sell my instruments and such to afford my journalist studies in another town. Which probably many ears are thankful for.
RS: The book is in Swedish, are there any plans to translate it? Where can the Swedish Europe Scientists get a hold of it?
– There are plans of an international launch, yes. I see Japan, South America and, for example, Italy and Spain as obvious markets myself, but exactly how it goes with licensing agreements abroad I don't know. However, the book will be released in paperback in the end of May through [the publisher] Pocketförlaget. So soon there will be a lot of Europe on shelves all around the country.


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Chapter 723 The Bloody Steam
The Legend of Innate Mage By Hua Luo Wei Yao Characters: 7232
The four pupils of the deputy leader and the other spiritual kings of Endless Shadow widened in fear when they saw the black whips sweeping towards them. The whips were too fast for them to dodge.
They were so afraid to the extent that they pushed themselves to their limits in order to resist the attacks at the same time.
However, the fight they had put up eventually turned out to be in vain. Under the pressure of the dark water, the five spiritual kings were frozen into ice sculptures in their attack postures.
Now there were six ice sculptures.
And, as the whips swiped again, the sculptures were scattered all over the place, dropping six storage rings which were later meticulously collected by Pearl.
Now Pearl had finished attacking and collecting in a flash. She was currently powerful enough to kill two middle spiritual kings and four lower spiritual kings in mere seconds. It was obvious she had really developed.
Pearl's secret was the fact that she had the dark water as her trump card, and that was what made her so powerful.
Meanwhile, Ricky was fighting intensely with the Shadow King. He couldn't help thinking to himself that the woman was increasingly flourishing at using the dark water, perhaps even more deftly than how he used the Massacring Sand. Indeed, the Feminine Mutant was worthy of its reputation.
Ricky felt extremely lucky to have been protected by the flames and have been aware of her dark water, or else it was highly likely that he would have suffered a great deal when he was fighting with her.
"I'll kill you all! I won't leave anyone alive!" roared the Shadow King as he saw his fellows killed in a mere second. His face was twisted out of rage and anger.
However, instead of grieving their deaths, the Shadow King cared much more about the resources he had spent on cultivating the six fellows, especially the two middle spiritual kings.
And each of them had taken much more than just a massive amount of cultivating resources; talent and luck were also substantially required.
The Shadow King's heart was aching intensely, although he exerted every effort not to show it.
After the six
"Do you know what you did wrong? It's alright if you just wanted to own me. But you should not have helped Molly leave me!"
When Brian learns the truth, there is no chance for Hannah to win his heart.
Molly, who wants to run away from Brian, seems to be the only one to blame for Hannah's misfortune...
o figures, the golden body and the scarlet body, crashed violently into each other.
The two giant bodies were like giant fierce beasts, piercing each other and fighting with each other.
The strong and sharp air waves kept cutting into the two figures, leaving no trace of scars on the golden body. As for the scarlet body, it had been cut wide open, but it healed itself immediately.
"Bloody Steam Beast! Now!"
The Shadow King summoned the beast during the collision. Next, a giant red beast appeared from behind the Shadow King. Its sharp claws flapped and its scary mouth made a movement as if it was about to bite Ricky.
The beast was a combination of the most bloodthirsty intent and the most murderous instruction, rendering itself the most powerful move by the Shadow King.
Countless bloody swords sprang out from that beast's scary mouth.
"Omnipotent Skill! Massacring Golden Palms!"
The explosive golden ray penetrated the spreading bloody mist. Suddenly, two palms rose up out of nowhere like the glaring sun, radiating, crushing the void, and then slammed down separately.
Without a moment of hesitation, Ricky instantly used his most powerful Omnipotent Skill.
Ricky spared no effort this time around because he knew that the Shadow King was exerting all his energy into fight. Every collision and every moment could be extremely decisive. It was not just a physical combat, but a fight of nerves too.
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The Education Forum
JFK Assassination Debate
Controversial Issues in History
USSS Agent Gerald O'Rourke
By William Kelly,
April 11, 2010 in JFK Assassination Debate
William Kelly
EX-AGENT REFUSES TO TOE PARTY LINE OF JFK SLAYING
Date: Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:40 pm
Subject: Ex-Agent Refuses to Toe Party Line on JFK Slaying
http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2442956,00.html
Ex-agent refuses to toe party line on JFK slaying
By Ellen Miller, Special To The News
GRAND JUNCTION - Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone when he killed
President John F. Kennedy, a retired agent said Wednesday, and the
president died because Secret Service agents failed at their jobs.
"Officially, the answer to Oswald when somebody asks - because we
were ordered to say it - is that the Warren Commission found that he
acted alone," retired agent Jerry O'Rourke said. "But was there more
than one gunman? Yes, personally I believe so. And my personal
opinion about Jack Ruby is that he was paid to kill Oswald."
O'Rourke grew up in Telluride and attended Western State and Regis
colleges, then spent 22 years in the Secret Service. Now retired and
back home, he spoke Wednesday to the downtown Grand Junction Rotary
O'Rourke said his group of agents, about 10 of them, had protected
Kennedy the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, at a breakfast speech in Fort
Worth. Then the group left by air for Austin, the next stop planned
for the president's Texas tour.
"We got the word (of the assassination) in the air, and we didn't
believe it at first," he said. "We were joking. But later, most of
the agents had tears in their eyes. Agents believed in Kennedy, and
we knew we failed our job in Dallas."
After his White House tour ended during Johnson's presidency,
O'Rourke spent a year in the Secret Service intelligence division,
which offered him glimpses into the investigation of Kennedy's death.
Those glimpses, and the accounts of other agents, have convinced
O'Rourke that Oswald didn't act alone. He cited several reasons:
Kennedy had a number of enemies, any of whom could have plotted
against him. They included Southerners angered by his insistence on
civil rights; organized crime; labor unions unhappy with
investigations of them by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Cuban
dissidents angry over the failed Bay of Pigs invasion; and FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover.
The shots were impossible to make. O'Rourke learned to shoot as a
boy and trained as a marksman in the military. He said his visits to
Oswald's perch at the Texas Book Depository convince him that no one
could have fired a rifle three times so quickly, hitting the
president and Texas Gov. John Connolly.
The trajectory of one of the shots could not have been made from a
gunman on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository. The shot
entered Kennedy's body at his lower back and traveled up, to exit
near his throat.
The circumstances of the autopsy were irregular. Texas law requires
autopsies to be done in state, but agents, acting on the orders of
White House, took Kennedy's body back to Washington, D.C. The autopsy
was performed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center under secrecy that
prevails to this day.
Evidence was destroyed. O'Rourke said that on the day of the
assassination, one agent was ordered to clean out the cars used in
the motorcade, getting rid of blood and other evidence. The agent
told O'Rourke that he found a piece of skull, asked the White House
doctor what to do with it, and was told to destroy it.
Instructions were given to lie. The agent in charge of motorcade
protection told O'Rourke that he was told by the Warren Commission
during his testimony that he did not hear a fourth shot and he did
not see someone running across the grassy knoll. But the agent
insisted that his account was accurate.
Evidence about the shots is in conflict. An open microphone on a
motorcycle in the motorcade picked up four shots, not three.
"In my opinion, Hoover wanted the commission to find that Oswald
acted alone," O'Rourke said. "The complete file won't be released
until 2027, and the reason for that is most of us will be dead by
then."
Edited April 11, 2010 by William Kelly
Has anybody talked to O'Rourke?
Peter Fokes
Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Not according to Cartha 'Deke' DeLoach!
"For a practiced marksman, it was like shooting pigeons on the ground."
from Hoover's FBI by Cartha DeLoach, p. 115
Believe it or not .....
Peter Fokes,
Whether a shot from the Sixth Floor Sniper's Nest was easy or hard, whether someone like Oswald who was not known to have practiced, could have made the shot, is debateable.
When told by an associate that the assassin was a Castro loving commie nut-case, Sam Giancana replied, "He was a marksman."
Whoever he was, whether Oswald or a real professional sniper, he hit his target at least once.
Cartha DeLoach's opinion on whether the Sixth Floor Sniper's nest was a good location to shoot from is consistant with a hunter I know who checked out Dealey Plaza
and said that the Sixth Floor Sniper's Nest is where he would have put his deer stand.
And upon further reflection and discussion with professional snipers, I now realize that the shot not taken, the one coming towards the sniper down Houston,
was not taken because it would have encouraged or resulted in return fire, while the going away shot didn't.
In addition, if you read Cartha DeLoach's oral history transcript at the LBJ Library on line, it is very illuminating in describing the FBI's take and LBJ's opinion of the Secret Service.
And finaly, Peter, O'Rourke's opinion of the inability of the Sixth Floor Sniper to make all of the shots, is not the sole reason for his belief in conspiracy, as he also says that
what convinced him was his job overseeing the Secret Service records, many of which were intentionally destroyed to prevent us from reading them.
Edited February 2, 2011 by William Kelly


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