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Just One in Four Young Americans Know About Obamacare
By Benjamin Domenech
Consumer Power Report #387
This Commonwealth Fund study should be very worrisome to supporters of President Barack Obama's law: Just one in four 19- to 29-year-olds is even aware of Obamacare's exchanges.
From October 2013 through March 2014, young adults without affordable health insurance through an employer will be able to select a plan from their state's insurance marketplace, with coverage beginning January 2014. Those with incomes under 400 percent of poverty will be eligible for subsidized coverage or Medicaid. The survey findings demonstrate just how critical outreach and education will be to inform young adults about their new options. Only 27 percent of 19-to-29-year-olds in the survey were aware of the marketplaces, with awareness lowest among those uninsured for some time during the year (19%) and those in low-income households eligible for subsidized coverage or Medicaid (18%). Awareness also varied by education levels: one-third of college graduates were aware of the marketplaces, compared with 20 percent of those with a high school degree or less.
The chart is on page 6. There's another aspect of the Commonwealth study that shows how one of Obamacare's earliest policy announcements is working against the success of the law. As I noted on Twitter and Sarah Kliff writes about, a larger percentage of young Republicans than young Democrats are aware of Obamacare's details, and particularly the provision allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance through age 26. This policy is now working against Obamacare's overall success, since those lower-income Republican youngsters would be more likely to end up in Obamacare's exchanges if they weren't on their parents' plan. Without them in the risk pool, we're likely to see higher rate shock for those who do dive in.
The failure of Obama's effort to promote his law to the generation that helped make him president is clear here, and part of the challenge for the administration is attempting to push these exchanges and subsidies to a population that is disengaged – and when they do engage, are likely to find Obamacare is not a good deal for them in the short or long run, as Chris Conover argues.
A recent study by the National Center for Public Policy Research shows that: About 3.7 million of those ages 18-34 will be at least $500 better off if they forgo insurance and pay the penalty. More than 3 million will be $1,000 better off if they go the same route.
Consequently, many more will opt to pay the extremely modest tax rather than fork over many thousands of dollars to purchase coverage that became substantially more expensive for young people thanks to the misguided pricing rules imposed by Obamacare. The risk that the law will fail in an "adverse selection death spiral" thus has gotten much larger. This claim is not in dispute. Instead, progressives argue it is too narrow.
More on this here. But while Obamacare is bad for the young in these measures, it's great for Obama's other constituency: Washington insiders and big money lobbyists.
As the clock ticks down to the launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, hundreds of businesses, unions and advocacy groups are still pushing to win concessions on the far-reaching law. Restaurants want to increase the number of hours that define a full-time worker. Unionized electrical workers are seeking to change the treatment of health plans offered by multiple employers. Medical device companies hope to end a tax against them even though they are already paying that tax.
Lobbyists face slim odds of getting any additional changes to the law before October 1, when millions of Americans will be able to sign up for subsidized health insurance through online exchanges in each state. But there is an urgency to push for changes now, legislative experts say, because it will become much harder to do so once the law takes full effect in January. Lobbying may also give these groups leverage in negotiations down the road …
A Reuters review of lobbying records found that more than 500 companies, business groups, consumer advocates, unions and other organizations weighed in on the Affordable Care Act during the second quarter of this year.
The Washington lobbying windfall has been spectacular.
Major lobbying firms such as Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Alston & Bird, BGR Group and Akin Gump can all boast an Affordable Care Act insider on their lobbying roster – putting them in a prime position to land coveted clients … Veterans of the healthcare push are now lobbying for corporate giants such as Delta Air Lines, UPS, BP America and Coca-Cola, and for healthcare companies including GlaxoSmithKline, UnitedHealth Group and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Ultimately, the clients are after one thing: expert help in dealing with the most sweeping overhaul of the country's healthcare system in decades …
The voracious need for lobbying help in dealing with ObamaCare has created a price premium for lobbyists who had first-hand experience in crafting or debating the law. Experts say that those able to fetch the highest salaries have come from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or committees with oversight power over healthcare.
This is the Obama approach to governance: Pass burdensome regulations on everyone then dole out favors to your allies, as the powerful and wealthy work to exempt themselves from the rules.
— Benjamin Domenech
California Could Delay Opening of Online Exchange
Rate Shock: Massachusetts Edition
Branstad Asks Feds for Medicaid Waiver
Obamacare's Biggest Challenge: Collecting Premiums
Primary Care Shortages Will Rise
The Wall Street Journal reports:
California's new health-insurance exchange, the biggest of the state marketplaces emerging under the federal health-care overhaul law, said there was a possibility consumers won't initially be able to enroll in coverage online when it is launched on Oct. 1.
Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state agency creating the exchange, said Thursday in a meeting of its board that the agency potentially would "phase in support" for the exchange, starting with allowing offline means of sign-up and later adding the ability to fully enroll online.
Either way, consumers are expected to be able to obtain health plans by speaking with counselors on the phone or in person.
Mr. Lee said the exchange agency is "absolutely confident that we will be live and serving consumers Oct. 1." He pointed to Oregon, where the exchange has said consumers won't be able to access it online in the first few weeks after Oct. 1, and said California's exchange has "not yet made that call at this point." But he wanted to "make sure we're managing expectations" about its rollout.
Earlier, the California exchange had begun warning insurers that there was a possibility it wouldn't be able to sign up consumers for coverage online at launch. A spokesman for the California exchange said the technology for enrollment is still being tested, and so far tests "haven't revealed any major issue that can't be addressed." The exchange agency will have a clearer picture in the first week of September, he said.
Romneycare doesn't like Obamacare:
Conventional wisdom has held that Obamacare's impact on Massachusetts will be small. Some high profile academics have gone as far as to attack presidential candidates with colorful language if they suggest otherwise. Well, the conventional wisdom has had a nuclear bomb dropped on its head with the release of an independent analysis by the major insurance companies in Massachusetts. The implications are clear: the ACA will supply a rough ride for many small companies in the state. Unlike other states where the rate shock will be most pronounced in the individual marketplace and/or for younger adults, the ACA will cause the most turmoil in the much larger small business market in the Bay State. For some companies in Massachusetts, the shock will be a premium spike of over 100%, when you include healthcare trend.
The report was commissioned by the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans (MAHP) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and conducted by Wakely Consulting group. All parties involved have spoken favorably about the ACA for years. In fact, Wakely Consulting was founded by the first Massachusetts Connector executive director John Kingsdale, who advised the Obama Administration on the ACA, and has made millions from ACA related consulting contracts. These leaders are far from right-wing ideologues. In fact, many have been vocal supporters of the ACA, dating back to the legislative debate.
Across the board, leaders of the insurance industry in Massachusetts have supported the ACA, until recently. Privately the tone in the state has changed as carriers have become more familiar with the federal law, and regulations have come down from Washington. The frequency and urgency of closed door meetings increased as state officials discovered the damage the ACA could inflict on local insurance markets. State officials even went as far as to predict "extreme premium increases" in a letter to CMS. The issue came to a head recently when the Democrats in the legislature passed an amendment to force Governor Deval Patrick to publicly request a waiver from a portion of the federal law.
Latest from Iowa:
Gov. Terry Branstad filed a waiver request with federal officials on Friday, seeking expedited approval for a statewide program to expand access to health care for thousands of lower-income Iowans.
"Our plan passed with bipartisan support and is designed to increase access, drive personal health ownership, and reform our health care delivery program to pay for quality, not quantity, of health care delivered," Branstad said in a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The legislation approved by Iowa lawmakers in May creates a new public health care program for individuals earning up to 100 percent of the federal poverty level and fully subsidizes the purchase of private insurance for those making up to 138 percent.
The hybrid approach represents a compromise between Democrats and Republicans. The parties, which hold majorities in the Senate and House, respectively, were at odds for much of the recent session over how to respond to the federal Affordable Care Act. The law directs states to expand existing Medicaid programs to individuals earning up to $16,000 a year …
Premium contributions, instead of traditional Medicaid co-pays, played a key role in the bipartisan compromise, Branstad said in the letter. Many individuals involved in the compromise felt strongly that the premiums can help drive personal awareness and ownership of health outcomes, he added.
"In short, the premium component was clearly outlined in our state law and must be part of the waiver approval" for the Iowa program to move forward, Branstad said.
SOURCE: DesMoinesRegister.com
Greg Scandlen is dead on:
Many people eligible for exchange coverage do not have bank accounts or credit cards. That is why inner city neighborhoods have storefronts that cash checks and issue money orders. Many people have surges of income, working one month but not the next, or collecting commissions one month and not the next. Many people have financial emergencies – their transmission breaks down or they are out sick for two weeks, or their boyfriend moves out of the house – they don't have the money to pay their premium this month. We know these things will happen – a lot.
So far, the regulations coming out of Health and Human Services are not encouraging (see pages 18337, 18387, 18394 and 18471 of the Federal Register.) As you might expect, the regulations are being written by people with nice bureaucratic jobs and steady paychecks. They have no idea what it is like to scramble to make ends meet.
It's not that they haven't tried. Lord knows they have issued more regulations than it would take to put a man on the moon. But they are illustrating the limits of the regulatory process. Regulations always mean "you must do Y, but you may not do X" – as if every contingency can be anticipated from an office in Washington. So, rather than allowing insurance carriers to collect premiums in the ways they know will work, HHS has created a whole new and very restrictive method that must be followed to a "T."
In this case, the bureaucrats realize that some people will have a hard time paying their bills, even when the bills are partially subsidized. So they have generously provided for a 90-day grace period for paying premiums – but only for people who are getting a federal subsidy. None of this applies to people who are not subsidized.
The problem with a 90-day grace period for premium payment is that at the end of it you must pay for three months of premiums, when you couldn't afford to pay one month in the first place. A lot of people won't be able to do that, but meanwhile they have been running around with an insurance card receiving health services.
What then? Who is on the hook for those services? HHS has decided to split the baby. The insurance company will have to pay for the first month of non-coverage, but providers (doctors and hospitals) will have to absorb the costs incurred for the second two months. That could be a whole lot of money. The (formerly) insured person will be canceled after three months, but they get to re-enroll again at the end of the year without penalty. (And we were told one of the purposes of this law was to solve the "free-rider" problem. Oh, well.)
Along with paying for services during the first month of the delinquency, the insurer must: 1) notify HHS of the non-payment; 2) notify providers of the possibility of denied claims during the second and third months; 3) notify the insured that he/she is delinquent; 4) continue to collect the advanced tax credit on behalf of the policyholder; 5) return the tax credit for the second and third month to the Treasury; 6) issue a termination notice to the insured at the end of the grace period. Oh, and the carrier must also determine whether the insured has a disability as defined by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and make "reasonable accommodations" for such individuals. These are pretty substantial administrative burdens, and the costs will aggravate the Minimum Loss Ratio requirement for the carrier.
So, how many people do you suppose will do this? I would wager just about everybody. Why not? You can get 12 months of coverage for nine months of premiums and suffer absolutely no penalty.
SOURCE: National Center for Policy Analysis
Nicole Fisher:
In coming years, the U.S. could see growing shortages in the availability of primary care physicians. With the number of individuals seeking care increasing and the current medical system continuing to incentivize physicians to specialize, the number of available PCPs will decline proportional to the population. To fill that gap, Ezra Klein and others have asserted that expanded scope of practice will allow nurse practitioners to serve as viable substitutes for primary care shortages. While NPs serve a vital role in the system and meet need, the argument that they are a one-to-one substitute for PCPs (but for the greedy doctors and pesky regulations holding them back) is singular and shortsighted.
The argument also fails to address broader policies that influence both NP and PCP behaviors. Policies that unjustifiably lead to the unequal distribution of caregivers, location or expertise, inherently parlay into unequal care for patients. Sadly, a broader scope than "freeing nurse practitioners" is necessary to meet primary care needs, as NPs are compliments, not substitutes. Policy must address the need for more primary care and assist to realign the system to meet our country's basic care and equality through redistribution.
Primary care is the foundation of the evolving health care system, with equal access the intended goal of the ACA. Along the way to meeting future demand for primary care, NPs can be increasingly utilized to meet the needs of Americans and improve the health of the nation. And let it be known I am a strong proponent and supporter of nurse practitioners and all non-physician providers and coordinators. However, the argument that most NPs practice in primary care and will fill the primary care gap, estimated at about 66 million Americans, is inaccurate. It isn't a 1:1 substitute, especially given that models of the solo practitioner are vanishing in lieu of complementary and team-based care.
Why the "young invincibles" won't participate in the exchanges and why it matters.
Obamacare to force millions to upgrade insurance.
Why the most effective Obamacare delay is full defunding.
Freddoso: Yes, defunders are threatening to shut down the government.
Employers aren't dropping health coverage yet.
The swing states of Obamacare.
UVA drops health care bomb on employees.
Bobby Jindal withdraws request for Obamacare funds.
Gov. Snyder picking up push for Medicaid expansion, critics offering "hot air" balloon rides ahead of vote.
State eyes Arkansas plan as model for Medicaid expansion. Obamacare's many definitions of small business breed confusion, challenges.
This is a doozy of a letter from Delta Airlines on Obamacare.
UPS won't insure spouses of some employees.
Teachers get hours cut, too.
Obamacare's design assumes insurance is a bad deal for younger population.
Half of California voters report more difficulty paying for health care this year than last.
States scramble to get marketplaces/exchanges up and running.
It's not sexism: Women should pay more for health care.
Four million people who thought they were gaining coverage aren't.
Local governments cutting hours over Obamacare costs.
The man who was treated for $17,000 less.
Benjamin Domenech
Benjamin Domenech is the founder and publisher of The Federalist and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
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ManU accepts Real Madrid's record $131 million transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo
PUBLISHED: June 11, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 11:26 a.m.
LONDON – Manchester United accepted a world-record transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Thursday, clearing the World Player of the Year to negotiate personal terms with the Spanish club.
The Premier League champions received an unconditional offer of $131 million for Ronaldo, and unlike in the last offseason is willing to see its 24-year-old star performer join a major European rival.
United said: "At Cristiano's request – who has again expressed his desire to leave – and after discussion with the player's representatives, United have agreed to give Real Madrid permission to talk to the player.
"Matters are expected to be concluded by 30 June."
The Portugal winger spent last June pushing for what he called at the time a "dream move" to Madrid, but any transfer was blocked by United manager Alex Ferguson, who traveled to Lisbon to persuade his player to stay at Old Trafford.
That didn't stop Ronaldo being linked with Madrid, and Ferguson's irritation boiled over in December when he said he "wouldn't sell Madrid a virus," describing the club as a "mob."
But now a world-record bid appears too hard to resist for the heavily indebted Premier League club.
Ronaldo, who was under contract until 2012, plunged his future into doubt after United lost the Champions League final to Barcelona last month. He had vowed to stay at United in the buildup to the match.
The return of Florentino Perez as Madrid's president has changed things as he looks to spend to return the Spanish side to the glory days of its "galactico" era.
Brazilian star Kaka was signed from AC Milan earlier this week for a reported fee of around $92 million.
But the offer for Ronaldo would eclipse that and the $65 million Madrid paid to lure former France striker Zinedine Zidane away from Juventus in 2001.

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Thank you Chef Jim Shirley!
A BIG thank you to Chef Jim Shirley of The Bay and Great Southern Restaurants for catering our schoolwide family Thanksgiving Feast!
Chef Shirley gives must of his time and support to local schools and Bay is thankful for his generosity. He is also a board member of the Seaside Neighborhood School and hosts local Special Olympics Yolo contests at the Bay.
Thank you again Chef Shirley for your commitment to education, your community support of our special kiddos, and your generosity!
Food trucks will be availabe for those wanting to purchase dinner.
Don't miss this traditional, family, holiday, favorite event!
All funds support STEM educational resources at Bay Elementary School and is sponosred by Bay Boosters, Inc.
3rd Annual BES Thanksgiving Feast!
will be providing the "feast" portion of the meal!
and volunteer support at www.bayboosters.com.
Please plan to attend your student's Grade Level Dining Time.
If you prefer you can dine as a family at a single Grade Level Dining Time.
**Fourth Grade families need to plan to dine at the 4th Grade's time; they will be on a field trip that morning.
Guest Veteran's are invited to join us for a reception on the tennis courts sponsored by our Bay Boosters!
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday and seeing our students honor special Veteran's in our lives!
THANK YOU Sundog Books, Linda and Bob White for supporting our efforts to increase non-fiction with our students and your generous donation!
Thank you for $300 worth of books and Sundog Books bookmarks!
Thanks to our wonderful Bay Boosters and Sponsors, all students and staff receive a Bay Boosters T-Shirt each year. Order forms went home Monday and are Thursday, Sept 28th. Following is a link to print if you did NOT receive a form or lost it.
Mystery Science for First Graders at Bay!
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Students at Bay Elementary School are getting a real hands-on lesson in the States of Matter. After reading Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Mrs. Yandell's second grade students explored how "oobleck" changes from a solid to a liquid.
A COLOR a week in Kindergarten!
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Make plans to join us on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 5:30 for Open House. The schedule begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. Parents will have the opportunity to walk through their children's school day. You will visit the classroom, see what your student has been working on, learn what to expect for the year, visit art, music, PE and the Media Center.


PENSION LAW MATTERS involving entitlement to and computation of regular and disability pension benefits under private employment and public employment pension plans.
An experienced New York Pension Lawyer can help you make sense of your pension plan.
Private employment pensions are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Public employment pension plans in New York are governed by the New York State Retirement and Social Security Law. Federal employee pensions are governed by the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Regular pension plans include Defined Benefit Plans and Defined Contribution Plans. Under a Defined Benefit Plan an employee receives a certain monthly benefit after the employee retires. Under a Defined Contribution Plan the employer makes regular deposits on behalf of the employee, often in the form of matching contributions. In accordance with pension law, an employee's rights as a participant under the Plan (vesting rights) are based on minimum years of services and governed by the terms of the Plan.
Disability pension plans pay benefits when an employee becomes disabled as that term is defined in the plan, provided that minimum service requirements set forth in the plan is satisfied.
Pension Plans and the pension laws governing them can be complicated.
You should not file or furnish information to your pension plan seeking benefits without the aid of an experienced New York Pension Lawyer.
Pension plans can sometimes be intimidating.
An experienced New York City Pension Lawyer can help you understand your rights and responsibilities and take steps directed to get you what you deserve and what you worked so hard to secure.
Your New York City pension can be the key to a bright future for you and your family.


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Q: Prove that $\{x=(x_n) \in c_0 \mid \sum_{n=1}^\infty x_n = 0\}$ is dense in $c_0$ Let $(c_0,\|\cdot\|_{\infty})$ be the normed space of real sequences convergent to $0$, with the maximum norm. I need to prove that the subspace
$M = \{x=(x_n)  \in c_0 \mid \sum_{n=1}^\infty x_n = 0\}$ is dense in $c_0$.
I am trying to find an $x\in M$ such that, for a given $\epsilon>0$ and a given $y\in c_0$;  $\|x-y\|_{\infty}<\epsilon$  , but I'm struggling with it. I have tried to construct this $x \in M$ but since $y \in c_0$ is arbitrary, I don't know how to deal with it. I suspect I may need to try it by contradiction, but so far I'm stuck.
Thanks in advance!

A: Since $\lim_{n\to\infty}y_n=0$, there is an $N$ such that $|y_n|<\epsilon/2$ for all $n\ge N$. Let $S=\sum_{n=1}^Ny_n$ and choose an integer $M$ such that $|S|/M<\epsilon/2$. Let
$$
x=(y_1,\dots,y_N,\underbrace{-\frac{S}{M},\dots,-\frac{S}{M}}_{M\text{ times}},0,0,\dots)
$$

A: For each $i=1,2\ldots$, let $e_{i}=(0,\ldots,0,1,0,\ldots)$ (i.e.,
the $i$-th entry is 1 and all other entries are 0). Clearly $e_{i}\in c_{0}$.
Denote $A=\{x\in c_{0}\mid\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}x_{i}=0\}$. We show
that for each $i\in\mathbb{N}$, $e_{i}\in\bar{A}$, where $\bar{A}$
denotes the closure of $A$ with respect to the $||\cdot||_{\infty}$-topology.
Without loss of generality, we consider the case that $i=1$. Let
$\epsilon\in(0,1)$ be arbitrary. Let $a=1-\epsilon/2$. Choose $n$
be sufficiently large such that $a/n<\frac{\epsilon}{2}$. Define
$x=(a,-\frac{a}{n},\ldots,-\frac{a}{n},0,0,\ldots)$, where $-\frac{a}{n}$
appears $n$ times. Clearly $x\in A$ and $||x-e_{1}||_\infty<\epsilon$.
This shows that $e_{i}\in\bar{A}$. Note that $A$ is a vector subspace
of $c_{0}$ and hence $\bar{A}$ is also a vector subspace of $c_{0}$.
Now $c_{c}=span\left\{ e_{i}\mid i\in\mathbb{N}\right\} $ and hence
$c_{c}\subseteq\bar{A}$. Finally, $c_{c}$ is norm-dense in $c_{0}$,
so $c_{0}=\overline{c_{c}}\subseteq\bar{A}$.

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Gallowstree Lane by Kate London
Series: Collins and Griffiths #3
Published by Corvus on February 7 2019
Please don't let me die. Please don't. The final words of teenager Spencer Cardoso as he bleeds out on a London street, his life cut short in a single moment of rage.
Detective Inspector Kieran Shaw's not interested in the infantry. Shaw likes the proper criminals, the ones who can plan things.
For two years he's been painstakingly building evidence against an organized network, the Eardsley Bluds. Operation Perseus is about to make its arrests.
So when a low-level Bluds member is stabbed to death on Gallowstree Lane, Shaw's priority is to protect his operation. An investigation into one of London's tit for tat killings can't be allowed to derail Perseus and let the master criminals go free.
But there's a witness to the murder, fifteen-year-old Ryan Kennedy. Already caught up in Perseus and with the Bluds, Ryan's got his own demons and his own ideas about what's important.
As loyalties collide and priorities clash, a chain of events is triggered that draws in Shaw's old adversary DI Sarah Collins and threatens everyone with a connection to Gallowstree Lane...
"Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing. Read everything she writes." --Tony Parsons
So welcome! I have the pleasure in closing this awesome tour today and I get to share with you an excerpt from the book! Very excited about this!
Before I do share this with you, I want to share with you some of the fab reviews that have been written this week!
Steph's book blog says
I liked following the two police investigations. Both of them wanting the same results for different reasons. And both struggling to accept that one may be more important than the other. This part of the novel was more detailed than many others I have read. It was easy to follow, and I found it interesting and informative without being overpowering.
Bucks Books and Beyond says
This is police procedural fiction at it's finest and I was gripped the whole way through. Yet again it made me feel great respect towards those that choose to go into policing and all they give up to do the career that sometimes can be a thankless job. I hope to read more from this author in the future.
The Literary Shed says
From the start, London's writing draws the reader in. We care about her cast of excellently honed characters. We believe in the world she creates – the events depicted sadly too familiar, the staging of Spencer's death bringing to mind the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence.
An outstanding piece of crime fiction.
Live and Deadly says
London's writing is tight and her plotting exemplary. She creates just the right mix of character driven personalities and plot driven action to give the reader a strong sense of what it means to belong both to the wider police family and the opposing gang family. Loyalty is the recurring theme here and it is a compelling one.
My Bookish Blogspot says
Imagine a spider spinning its web, the strands are numerous, until finally they all fit neatly together, ready to catch its prey. This is exactly how I viewed Kate London's Gallowstree Lane. It didn't matter that it happened to be book three of a series, as it stood up so well as a standalone, even if there were a few bits that I perhaps, needed to catch up on.
Cheryl M-M's Book blog says
It's worth mentioning that although this is the third in the Collins & Griffiths series and that some plot elements lead on from previous books, this can absolutely be read as a standalone novel. It's a dynamic police procedural with a character-driven plot.
Rachel Read It says
'Gallowstree Lane' is a police procedural which tackles a very real and prevalent issue without undermining it, and using it as a platform.It is saying that gangland violence is real, it happens and there is no honour in dying for a cause like Spencer did. It happens way too often, is morally unacceptable and these children are being preyed upon and used until they ultimately it is too late. The investigation into Spencer's death and it's ensuing effects are played out across a timeframe for what you imagine is real life police work amidst interdepartmental wrangling-it then races towards a climatic showdown between those responsible and those searching to bring justice in death to a boy who was so ill served any in his short life.
Varietat says
This had been a race against the clock, in the beginning the story is paused, but then the clock starts ticking and all the action evolves so quick that the ending is not disappointing at all, but bittersweet.
Sandie's Bookshelves says
I found it interesting to read the conflicting viewpoints of the police officers involved, as to whose investigation would take priority once the two cases overlapped. The author clearly has a lot of knowledge on how evidence can be shared (or not) between teams and this knowledge comes across strongly throughout to make for a very credible tale. The events in the police officers' private lives clearly had some influence on how they interacted with one another and I would recommend reading the previous books in the series if you want more detail about this side of the story – I wasn't aware at first that this was not a standalone novel, and while I didn't have the background history it did not spoil the book overall.
✮ Excerpt ✮
Detective Inspector Sarah Collins had set off before dawn, whipping round London's arterial roads, thundering along the motorway and then winding down country lanes to the Saxon church that lay, through a gate and along a path, on the brow of a small hill. The hedgerows and trees were flaming with late colour.
More than thirty minutes remained before the funeral. She slid the car seat back and drank her flask of tea. Caroline had offered to come with her, but it felt wrong to be so intimately together so soon after they had separated. She sighed and pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes. The only sound now was birdsong.
When she was only sixteen, Sarah's sister had died. Susie's boyfriend, Patrick, had been driving too fast and lost control on a sharp bend. It was no more than a moment's misjudgement, a youthful thrill at the power of the car he had borrowed for the day, but in an instant her sister was as dead as if Patrick had taken a knife and killed her.
Sarah sighed again. It was tiresome to think of this so many years later and at such a very different funeral. But you can't control what comes into your mind. Perhaps it was Susie's youth when she died, or perhaps it was the vast sadness that Sarah felt now, expanding inside her like air.
The body is not a fairy tale. Sometimes it does not survive an impact or a stab wound or the bullet from a gun.
She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and tidied her flask away. Into her mind had stepped the children who would follow the hearse today. There was no remedy for the loss of a parent: that was the thing she could not handle. When she was at work, Sarah could do her best to deliver justice, but today what could she contribute? She would sit alone at the back of the church.
Pay her respects. Bother no one.
Other cars had started to arrive. They bounced up the bank and parked and spilled their occupants onto the verges. The funeral today was for a police officer, and so many of the mourners were also police. They were easy to recognize from their best-behaviour attitude and their smart clothes and the assessing way they met your eye.
There were children too, populating the graveyard as they spread out on their way to the church. Sarah smiled as she watched them. A chubby boy of about four in matching blazer and trousers. A slightly older girl in an apricot taffeta dress and dark cardigan – dressed more for a wedding than a funeral. Teenage girls in tight dresses and spike heels that sank into the path or wobbled beneath them. And teenage boys with gelled hair and outsized Adam's apples, squeezed into horrible suits in tribute to the baffling adult world that couldn't today be gainsaid.
Sarah's heart went out to them in their poorly concealed vulnerability, their sensitivity to any slight, their hastily made mistakes and their painful, long-drawn-out regrets. As she watched the adults gathering in their offspring with varying degrees of patience, she knew that for all the push and pull of parenthood, these children were the lucky ones. Mum and Dad cajoling them towards their emergence from this desperate and grandiose and ridiculous time when even a haircut felt like a life-or-death event.
Thanks to Anne at Random Things Tours for the tour invite and the Publisher and the author for an excerpt from the book.
About Kate London
Kate London graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service. She finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on SC&O1 – the Metropolitan Police Service's Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in August 2014. Her debut novel Post Mortem was published by Corvus in 2015
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Offshore-Oil Stock Losers: Transocean
Offshore drilling stocks are suffering as the White House changes its tune on new offshore drilling as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Eric Rosenbaum
-- Stocks of offshore oil-driller stocks raced ahead in March when President Obama announced the end to a decades-old moratorium on new offshore drilling. Facing intensified political pressure about its decision to open up offshore oil and gas assets to new drilling, President Obama's administration said on Friday morning that no new offshore drilling will be allowed until the exact causes of the current oil spill are identified.
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Transocean was down more than 7%, bringing its two-day share price loss between Thursday and Friday to 15%. The oil spill crisis worsened on Thursday and Friday as the original BP estimate for the rate of oil leaking out of the underwater well was quintupled by a government estimate, and the oil spill reached land on Thursday evening.
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We show that the entropy function—and hence the finite 1-logarithm—behaves a lot like certain derivations. We recall its cohomological interpretation as a 2-cocycle and also deduce 2n-cocycles for any n. Finally, we give some identities for finite multiple polylogarithms together with number theoretic applications.
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Baseball - General
Redleg Trade Review: Paul Derringer
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May 7, 1933…Reds acquire RHP Paul Derringer, IF Sparky Adams, and RHP Allyn Stout for SS Leo Durocher, and pitchers Dutch Henry and Jack Ogden.
The Reds were one of the worst teams in baseball in the early 1930's. From 1929 through 1937, the Reds surpassed a .400 won-loss record only twice. They finished 8th in an 8 team league five times and seventh twice. The St. Louis Cardinals had won the world championship in both 1930 and 1931, and four of the previous six years at the time. They were one of the powerhouses of baseball and would remain so for about the next 20 years. No doubt, young Paul Derringer was less than thrilled when he found that he had been dealt to the lowly Reds.
Derringer had finished 20th in MVP voting in his rookie year, going 18-8 for the 1931 World Championship team. His 1932 record was 11-14 and he felt into disfavor with the Cardinal front office. After starting 1933 0-2, he found himself the key component in a trade to the Reds which landed the Cardinals slick fielding, no-hit shortstop Leo Durocher. Durocher had been a four year starter for the Reds, but wasn't the star he was to become. Durocher did become a leader of the raucous gashouse gang for the Cardinals, but he wasn't going to be the player that Derringer became.
1933 was a miserable year for Derringer. He led the league in losses, going 7-27 with a 3.30 ERA (he went 7-25 for the Reds after being 0-2 in St. Louis). During that season, the Reds were shut out in 7 of Derringer's 25 losses. Of his 212 career losses, Derringer's teams were shut out a staggering 36 times.
He lost 21 games in 1934 (15-21) with a 3.59 ERA. In 1935, with a nearly identical ERA of 3.51, Derringer became a 22 game winner for a Reds team that finished in sixth (of eight teams), winning only 68 games. Derringer won nearly 1/3 of the Reds games that year. His season brought him notice from the league, and Derringer was selected to all-star teams in six of eight seasons.
Derringer won 20 games four times for the Reds, with a career best season of 25-7 with a 2.93 ERA for the 1939 World Series team. In the Reds World Championship Year of 1940, Derringer finished 20-12 with a 3.06 ERA. Derringer did not win a World Series game in 1939, but only allowed four runs in two games. He did win two games in the 1940 World Series, starting three games. He pitched the game 7 Championship winner, allowing no earned runs and winning, 2-1. Derringer also was the pitcher selected to pitch the first night game in Major League history when he beat the Phillies, 2-1.
One of the best Derringer stories (found in Total Baseball's "Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia") happens when Reds GM Lee MacPhail fined Derringer $250 for not sliding, suspended him, and lectured him for an hour. Derringer was furious and hurled a inkwell in MacPhail's direction, missing him by inches. MacPhail screamed "You might have killed me." Derringer responded by saying "That's what I was meaning to do." MacPhail's reaches into his desk and pulls out a checkbook and writes Derringer a check for $750. When Derringer asks why, MacPhail responds by saying "That's a bonus for missing me."
Derringer finished his career with a 223-212 record, with a 3.46 ERA. Nine times he finished in the top five in fewest walks per nine innings and seven times finished in the top five in strikeouts. He would not be a crazy choice for the Hall of Fame despite his near .500 record as most Hall of Fame tracking charts has him as slightly below the average Hall of Famer.
In the deal the Reds also acquired infielder Sparky Adams, who had been a starting second baseman for the Cubs in the 1920's. He played out the string for two years at 3B for the Reds (ages 38 and 39); Allyn Stout was a role pitcher who won 8 games for the Reds in 1933-34 and only one more after that. The Cardinals received Durocher, who was a miserable hitting shortstop and remained that way. However, his glove and leadership mattered, and Durocher even finished twice in the top ten MVP votes. Ogden and Henry were pitcher roster fillers who never pitched in the big leagues again.
Just as Garry Herrmann had mined the Giants minor league associations and extra players to build the 1919 World Championship team, the Reds "Lee" MacPhail used the 1930's to mine the Cardinals' farm system to build the next Reds World Championship team. He started slowly, getting some over the hill players (and missing out on Johnny Mize), but Derringer joined a Reds squad that had acquired youthful outfield slugger Ival Goodman, and two future aging HOFers in 1b Jim Bottomley and OF Chick Hafey. Derringer would become part of a terrific one-two punch with Bucky Walters (plus Johnny Vander Meer) to give the Reds a formidable starting rotation.
Allyn StoutBucky WaltersChick HafeyDutch HenryGarry HerrmannIval GoodmanJack OgdenJim BottomleyJohnny Vander MeerLee MacPhailLeo DurocherPaul DerringerSparky Adams
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Honda Classic Set To Tee Off Soon -Australian Sports News.
The big guns of the PGA are looking to stake their claim to The Honda Classic 2017, chief among them returning champion Adam Scott who will be looking to retain his title. The Australian successfully fended off PGA Tour veteran Sergio Garcia for a close 1 stroke lead. This was Scott's 12th PGA title and his first win in 2 years and secured him a spot back in the top 10. He would go on to win a second event in similar fashion later in the same year, namely the WGC-Cadillac Championship.
Competitors will do well to be wary of an in form Justin Thomas, still fired up from his back to back wins at the Tournament of Champions and the Sony Open. Thomas is widely regarded by many as the next big name on the PGA Tour as his hard work and dedication to the sport appears to be coming to fruition. At 23 a ranking of 8th in the world is a seriously impressive achievement, especially when considering the tough selection of players that he has had to contend with.
Thomas will still have his work cut out for him though, The Honda Open is fielding players of pedigree and stature such as the afore mentioned Adam Scott, Tiger Woods, Praidag Harrington, Danny Willet and many more.
After nearly a year and a half away from the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods has confirmed his entry into The Honda Open. Woods made his first tentative steps back into the game in December of 2016 where he played at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. He managed a respectable 15th place considering the length of his time away combined with the severity the 2 back operations that he has had to undergo.
There is no denying the magic that Tiger Woods brings to the golf course, even in his state of recovery. Viewers can expect anything from the man who has 79 PGA Tour victories under his belt as well as a further 14 Major Championships to his name.


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Thousands of council homes at risk from right to buy
A new study by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) found that an estimated 7000 council houses a year could be lost when right-to-buy is extended to housing associations.
The government's decision to extend right-to-buy was included in the Housing and Planning Bill and came after a deal was struck with housing associations.
An integral part of this bill is legislation regarding the sale of vacant high-value council homes which, ministers claim, would generate enough money to replace both the housing association and council houses sold, and set up a new £1bn brownfield regeneration fund.
The CIH study, however, shows that local authorities could be left with no money to replace the homes they are forced to sell.
CIH chief executive Terrie Alafat said: 'The government should examine how to close this funding gap in the forthcoming spending review, so that both housing associations and local authorities are able to replace the homes they sell with new affordable homes to rent.'
The research indicates:
• Between 2,100 and 6,800 'high-value' council homes are likely to become empty and be sold each year – compared to the government's estimate of 15,000.
• Those sales would generate between £1.2bn and £2.2bn a year – compared to the government's estimate of £4.5bn.
• Around 1.45 million housing association tenants would be eligible for right-to-buy during the first five years of the policy, with around 10% (145,000) likely to take advantage.
• £1.2bn would be around half the amount needed to compensate housing associations for homes sold under the scheme – housing associations would need almost all of the higher £2.2bn estimate, leaving virtually nothing for councils to replace the homes they have sold or for the brownfield regeneration fund.
Alafat urges the Government to consider how it can close the funding gap in the next Spending Review.
'The Government has said it wants to address our national housing crisis by driving up new house building so that we build one million new homes by 2020,' she added.
'But the combined impact of selling high value council homes and cutting affordable housing rents will make it virtually impossible for councils to play their part, as the government had originally planned.'
The Government should, the CIH claims, consider other options to close the right-to-buy funding gap. Two suggestions they put forward are offering smaller discounts than those currently proposed or increasing the qualifying period from three to five years.
The organisation is also calling for full consultations on the sale of high-value council homes and the sale of housing association homes.
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Hype can destroy our actual experiences with the games we've awaited the release of.
As the days begin to countdown to 2017. We have to begin our preparation for some of next years biggest games that include games like the highly anticipated Horizon: Zero Dawn, Resident Evil VII: Biohazard, and even Mass Effect: Andromeda - we have to take notes on the hype train that is preparing to leave the station.
There is, however, something we have to remember as we board that train and prepare for our upcoming titles. That thing is the need to remember that our hype for these titles can become unbelievable due to the hype that surrounded No Man's Sky. A very game that serves as a crude reminder of how hype can destroy our actual experiences with the games we've awaited the release of.
To help with the hype, here's a few steps you can take in order to not find your enjoyment of a game marred by the extensive amount of hype surrounding the game.
5. Ignore the hype build-up by the publisher or news outlets.
While this one sound shard, there's always the need to have some form of media hype surrounding a game. For Horizon: Zero Dawn we already know the hype is real. With the game focusing on a rather large open world, gathering systems, combat systems, and exploration - we can only expect to see a bit more of the games mechanics before long.
For now, it's safe to assume that avoiding trailers, videos, and suggestive articles that could hype up the game more than it's worth.
4. Do your own research - don't let others do it.
When looking to get that big game about to come out, one of the best things you can do is prepare to do your own research. Even when looking to gaming news sites, remember, there are plenty of ways to research. Developers are open to answering fan questions through their forums and social media outlets. Asking them directly can sometimes alleviate over assumed thoughts about an upcoming game and can provide you the experience you wanted.
3. Wait for streamers, reviewers, and even dev streams for the game.
Wanting to see your game being played or wait till it comes out? There's excellent sources to see what that game has to offer by hitting up streaming services such as YouTube Gaming and Twitch.tv. Both of these services offer live streaming of new, old, and even current games for those of you wanting to find out as much as possible.
2. Rent the game, if possible, once it's available.
This is one that's never a bad idea. Want to try it out before chucking out 60+ bucks for a game? Just wait till it's rentable on services such as Gamefly, Redbox, and or other providers.
1. Just wait. Don't expect more than what is out there.
Expectations can get us in trouble. That's where the hype train begins. Resident Evil VII: Biohazard isn't innocent of this, neither was Final Fantasy XV. Both games are surrounded by demo's and updates to those demos for fans to enjoy. The demo's and trailers give us a glimpse of what we can hope to expect from the full game, but guess what? That can cause us to assume more than what's readily available for us to see.
Just remember, what is out there, is just what you should expect from the game when it releases.


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Over at EdSurge, I've produced a sort of field guide to five of the most prominent in the U.S., all of which I've attended, some for many years.
The guide is from the standpoint of a startup entrepreneur or an educator who may little familiarity with the conferences aimed at companies and organizations that serve the edu cation/edtech market. The calculus will be different for, say, an established company evaluating the five.
The guide doesn't include the very many conferences aimed at teachers and other educators directly (like ISTE), though admittedly, it's a continuum, as some conferences like SXSWedu straddle both sides.
So remember the lens as you read: for entrepreneurs and educators, and listing from broadest focus/newest events to the narrowest focus/most established events.
Now click over for, "An opinionated field guide to industry education conferences," at EdSurge.
"People judge you by the words you use." That phrase isn't just part of a once near-ubiquitous ad campaign, it also applies to tech industry terminology. And based on what's happened to some once-meaningful phrases, many in media and marketing would be judged morons.
Analytics, Curated, Engagement, Reach — reasons for all — ubiquitous application of these terms to virtually every product, service, or platform currently being sold. Add to this the term "Social Media" which jumped the shark back in 2011 or so.
Not a tech term, but "awesome" has been rendered utterly meaningless, thanks to techies.
I'm a maker, and in 2014 I'm looking to disrupt the cloud. Who's with me??
Read, "Four tech terms to forget in '14," over at GeekWire.
As 2014 begins, I'm re-entering familiar territory: independent, full-time consulting.
And by "familiar," I mean really, really familiar. Consulting became my career (not a label I wore while looking for other full-time work) in 1992. I had been in marketing management at Egghead Discount Software, a national chain of some 200+ retail stores and a healthy (half of revenues) education, government and corporate direct sales business.
I had been in charge of product and sales promotion, so I had relationships with literally hundreds of technology vendors and had written and executed dozens of launch plans, strategic and tactical. So it was a natural move to consult more deeply some of the companies with which I'd worked at Egghead. A few consulting engagements became on-going or repeat relationships (Apple, Rick Steves' Europe) or longer-term interim executive assignments (MetaMetrics, McGraw-Hill Home Interactive).
I've only left consulting thrice in the past 20+ years, each time to join a then-client in an executive role: iCopyright (briefly, during the dot-com days), Pearson Education (for four years last decade, primarily in the assessment businesses), and most recently for much of last year, Professional Examination Service.
I've now left ProExam's staff because I recognized the work I'd begun as a consultant and joined them to complete as Chief Marketing Officer was fully implemented. And I realized that staff marketing needed to take a stronger sales support role. My "CMO" title was a distraction. So it has been retired, I've returned full-time to Intrinsic Strategy, and I'll keep working with ProExam as a client to provide guidance (and continuity) as a strategic adviser.


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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment said Friday that the first title released under the new Blu-Ray format will feature Cameron Diaz's nether regions in full high-def glory.
Although the movie never quite reached Academy Award levels of quality, Sony apparently thought highly enough of "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" to announce that it would be the first to be released under the new format.
Authoring on the film was completed last week, Sony said, and the disc has been sent to player manufacturers for testing. The film was compressed using MPEG 2 full high-definition (1920 x 1080) resolution.
As the developer of the Blu-Ray standard as well as a movie studio, Sony ensured that movies would be well protected. Sony designed in three technologies to protect digital content: AACS, BD+, and ROM Mark. Sony did not state, however, whether any of them had been used to protect the "Full Throttle" film.
"We are extremely proud to deliver on the promise of Blu-ray. This is an important step for our industry in order to begin mass production of high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format in the near future," added Don Eklund, senior vice president of advanced technologies for SPHE, in a statement.
Sony did not disclose when the new Blu-Ray title would be released, or its cost.


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