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We've been using Wordpress for awhile and I've been self-managing it. It's been a great platform and I'm sure that it'll continue to be a great platform. But, being the curious tech nerd that I am, I want to keep things fresh and try something new.
Long Live Wordpress
Wordpress started off in 2003 as an easy to use blog platform written in PHP. In the 12 years since being unleashed on the web, it has grown from a simple blog to a pretty robust content management system. From a programming perspective, I've gotta tip my hat to how the app was designed as even though its complexity and utility has grown substantially with a million hooks and filters, the database itself is still quite simple.
But as we'd like to focus more on writing about our process and experiences as we find our boat and sail the world (and less on everything else), that extra functionality really has no place. Going along with our philosophy of reducing complexity in our lives in meatspace, I think that it'd be a good idea to reduce complexity in the digital realm as well.
Hello Ghost
I've been interested in Ghost.io since it was announced late 2012. It was started by some of the same talent and leadership that helped grow Wordpress to what it is today; it has a clear focus on writing; and its built on node.js, a wonderful new and modern architecture that's sweeping the net.
Though it doesn't quite yet have all the bells and whistles, that's a good thing!
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Plugins were both a blessing and a curse within wordpress. They were a blessing when you needed to add some quick functionality, but had neither the time nor the know-how to write it yourself.
They were a curse because you were then stuck with the html generated by the plugin author... and more often than not, the plugins only did about 90% of what you wanted. So, since you went the plugin route to save time, you also more often than not either just lived with it, or hacked it either in css, writing a filter, or editing the plugin code directly.
With ghost.io, there's currently no plugin (aka app) support yet. While this is the number 2 requested feature, I think it's a good thing.
Markdown > TinyMCE
Markdown, co-invented by Aaron Swartz, is the "editor" and pretty much eliminates the need for a wysiwyg editor.
Wordpress uses TinyMCE, a great and mature wysiwyg editor written in Javascript.
To be candid for a moment: from having started cleaning up MS Word exported web pages, weaning people off of Dreamweaver, and then fighting the idiosyncrasies of TinyMCE, I've always had a dislike for WYSIWYG editors.
Despite doing a great job most of the time, in one way or another they always end up generating the wrong html and I resort to manual edits or some other form of hackery. It requires quite a bit of code to make it work right - and even then, it never really works right anyway.
With markdown, you do trade off a bit of the wysiwyg and are exposed to markup... but the markup is extremely simple. And seeing the markup in context is a good thing - it makes it very easy to see what's generating what. With WYSIWYG editors, you'll see this:
Fun Heading#
But is it being generated by:

Fun Heading

or by:

Fun Heading

Both will produce the same result, but the latter is horrible when trying to keep things consistent with css, useless for proper semantics, impossible to read, and a nightmare for search and replace.
In markdown, you know exactly what's producing what because the markup in the editor is this:
#Fun Heading#
So +1 for markdown!
Ghost.io's post editor goes a step further with a side by side preview... which shows you a live preview as you type. +1 for Ghost.io!
Easy Images :D
With wordpress, you had to use the media uploader:
Its got a lot of options, which is great! Except most of the time, you really don't care about most of the options. It also takes you out of the writing flow. Again, removing us from our goal of focusing more on writing.
The ghost.io way of doing it is much much more simple... you type in this:
and that's your media uploader. Not quite sure what image to upload or not ready for it yet? Write yourself a note:
![@TODO: Find and image of ghost uploader]
Then continue on your merry way. Once you're done, and you want to go back and check for images you need to add, search for "@TODO" and put in the images you need. The markup is already there for you too.
So if you find a photo on the web that suites your needs, just copy and past the image's url:
![Kitties](http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Best-Cats-Photos8.jpg "Photo from pluspets.net")
Generates this:
Photo from http://www.pluspets.net
Not too shabby! And on top of that, you can immediately tell if the image is coming from where... and replacing the image is as easy as copy and paste. Love it!
Great Experience Thus Far!
In any case, the experience is awesome thus far and I'm looking forward to where ghost.io is going to go!


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Hi! Just wanna tell you how much I love your blog! Not as much as I love cookies but anyway congratulations!!
Because of my insane addiction to delicious desserts like the ones in your post I wasn't able to follow my kids acroos this amazing Aquapolis water park
fortunately nothing bad happens at the end of the day!
Yay, chocolate I didn't really miss anything! LOL
I'm a salty sweet! I want them both, please. 🙂
You are preaching to the choir……
The $6 hot dog is the real killer :-). Your fudge looks wonderful and your story was fun and fabulous. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings…Mary
Amen, sister!!! Oh, I am tearing UP reading this post! Yes!
And that fudge! I LOVE the sweet & salty combo!
I share your disdain for waterparks, and a love for the salty sweet combo. First you lured me in with the reese's cones, and now your tempting me with pretzels and fudge? Holy moly girl, you almost know me better than my husband 😉
You said slimy bathroom floor and I cringed. THAT is exactly why i don't do waterparks. That and because that would mean I have to be half naked in front of people. no thanks!
Sweet. Always 🙂
I'm with there on the water park idea. Great in the planning stage-but it end up being a lot of climbing 🙂 and waiting.
Love this recipe. I'm SALTY! This looks like a great no-bake recipe for those hot days you don't want to heat up the house!
Glad to see you got out in the sun and are enjoying the summer! It flies by too fast, my kids go back to school in 13 days! Seems like 1/2 a summer to me.
My sweet tooth wants you to adopt it. I'm new to your blog and really love the recipes that I've been able to browse. I'll be back for more. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings…Mary
I don't know what I love more, the fact that you put all that deliciousness together in a fudge, or that you used a recipe from Woman's Day. I send you a virtual hug on both accounts, my friend.
Yum! I vote for sweet!
The fudge looks delicious! And your thought process while at the water park cracks me up! I was never a big water park person…I'd take some of this fudge though for sure 🙂
I love chocolate and salt! Yum! I'll be linking. I'm glad I'm not the only one who isn't a fan of water parks. Everyone always looks at me like I'm crazy!
Wow, this is a new perspective on waterparks. I usually love them 😛 Maybe that's because I'm still a child at heart, and have never had to go with a child!!
I wish I had a panful of those treats now 🙁
you said it all–those blasted stairs and everything involved with them make one really reconsider if it's worth it for an oh-so-brief rush of adrenaline. 🙂
AWESOME bars!
Haha! Loved your description! I would choose your fudge anyday over the waterpark…chocolate and pretzels, mmm!
You are so funny! I remember the waterpark days when my kids were younger..you are right…not fun. My kids are older now and we did the Disney waterparks recently and it actually was fun, the prancing around with a bathing suit on never really gets fun though:)
Great recipe. Sweet and salty is my favorite…looks delish!
I have never liked waterparks either. Something about playing in water that 1000s of other people bathed in doesn't appeal to me, no matter how much chlorine they dumped in. Anyway, the sweet and salty combination sounds very appetizing. I'd take that over sweating in a waterpark anytime 🙂
That looks great. I love the combo of pretzels and chocolate.
I was never a big fan of the water park. The cooly going up the steps…scary! And totally hilarious at the same time. I hope you had these beauties waiting for you when you came home. I would of eaten half the batch trying to comfort myself!
Chocolate and pretzels are the best. Love the contrast of sweet and salty 🙂
OOD ~ They keep their crunch nicely.
It is a very chocolaty fudge, obvs due to semi-sweet and unsweetened chocolate. Next time I will try with milk instead of semi-sweet. I am sure that will be good!
Oh my gosh – too funny and totally true. Every single word. LOL
The fudge sounds awesome and you can't go wrong with no-bake in this heat. Do the pretzels get soft in the fudge or do they keep their crunch?
….not to mention the L-O-N-G lines to stand in with the sun beating down on you, all for 30 seconds of cool fun! And, at the end of the day, I get to take my tired, whining kids home with me!! But, they usually sleep on the drive home.
The fudge sounds like a more appealing option.
I love sweet and salty together! These look great!
I laughed at this post from top to bottom! 🙂
so funny you mention that in the post because we passed by the main community water park today (ironically seconds after devulging a love/hate relationship with sunny summer. i mean just how hot can one handle?) but my only problem is…i am still trying to fight my informal OCD about water, um, like, the public kind. the kind people pee in, kiss in and all around do secret mischievous activities. how do you get past that haha
I LOVE the pretzel-chocolate combo. I can't wait to try this. And thanks for adding the printable version link for your recipes – super helpful!!
I hate water parks. You can never find a seat, everything is so expensive, and also, I'm scared of the big slide.
There, I said it.
I just keep hoping that my son will never find out that water parks exist. I'm sure it's just a matter of time til someone spills the beans, though.
Fudge looks awesome, I really love sweet and salty combos. The fact that it's no bake is a bonus!! 🙂
These look delish! I must try! 🙂 I LOVE sweet and salty. Currently obsessed with the new pretzel M&Ms.
I am way over waterparks…your post made me laugh out loud! And my oh my, your fudge looks lovely. I adore the sweet and salty combination.
Oh I have to make these!
Oh those goodies do look yummy! I love no bake recipes, especially for the summer as we don't have AC except in the bedrooms and office.
My kids are old enough to go to the water park alone, thank goodness! I am definatly not a water park kind of gal.
I have a friend who is a very large gal, VERY large, she went down the waterslide and no one mentioned to her that the heavier you are the faster you will go. She went around the curves so fast and wild that she almost flew over the top of the slide wall. She will not be doing that again! LOL
Well, good grief that looks tasty!!!! I love fudge 🙂
Oh my hell! That is so funny and so incredibly true! You left out the giant wedgy from whooshing down the tube/slide. No thanks. I'll pick chocolate anytime! =o)
And your fudge sounds HEAVENLY!!!
I was one of those weird kids who absolutely hated water parks. The slides scared me ridiculously much. I always felt like I was going to drown when I reached the bottom. My mom perpetuated this idea. For obvious reasons.
I'd much rather have fudge anyway. Especially sweet and salty!
You are so funny and I totally agree with you! Water park + wearing a bathing suit + a toddler = desaster.
I love ther recipe!
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Oval Office Duplicity: Cover for Corporate Criminality
By Stephen Lendman
WarIsacrime.org original HERE...
Since taking office, Obama proved himself a machine politician, not a man of the people, an earlier article explaining it this way:
He promised peace and delivered war; real health and financial reform, not same old, same old; help for millions losing jobs, homes, hope and futures, not handouts to Wall Street and other industry favorites; regulatory oversight, not the usual incestuous government-industry ties, making disasters like in the Gulf possible, and when they happen conspiring with offenders in coverup, distortion, lies, and a total disregard for the environment, wildlife, and way of life for thousands - let alone permanent damage to a vital ecosystem.
At the same time, Big Oil gets billions in subsidies, special tax breaks and other financial benefits, besides being free to operate recklessly in a regulatory-free environment. Little wonder that a disaster now threatens to become the greatest ecological one ever, gushing oil that's potentially unstoppably from multiple sea floor ruptures, worsened apparently by BP fix attempts done as PR stunts, the company and administration knowing they wouldn't work but used them anyway as a charade to fool the public.
In addition, for nearly two months, company officials:
* obstructed cleanup efforts and hasn't provided proper equipment to do it;
* suppressed vital information;
* told cleanup workers they'd be fired if spoke to the media;
* lied from day one about what happened and its severity;
* denied adequate compensation to Gulf victims;
* withheld respirators and other protective gear from cleanup workers, many now ill from flu-like symptoms, including severe headaches, dizziness, nosebleeds, chest pains, and trouble breathing that may persist, become worse and for many be long-lasting or permanent;
* ordered workers showing up with respirators and other protective gear to remove it or be fired; and
* on June 17, BP CEO Tony Haywood stonewalled the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation by refusing to provide information he knows as chief operating officer.
Yet BP got White House, cabinet, and congressional backing from the start, collaborating in a likely trillion or multi-trillion dollar crime, affecting the entire regional economy as well as the lives, health and welfare of tens of thousands of its residents, on their own and out of luck, like millions of others nationwide facing enormous hardships from job losses, home foreclosures, growing poverty, hunger, and unaffordable illnesses because of Washington's indifference during the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
One of Many Disturbing Views
On June 12, theOilDrum.com assessed the crisis as follows:
"First of all....set aside all your thoughts of plugging the well and stopping it from blowing out oil using any method from the top down. Plugs, big valves to just shut it off, pinching the pipe closed, installing a new (blowout protector) or (lower marine riser package), shooting any epoxy in it, top kills with mud etc etc etc....forget that, it won't be happening....In fact, (it) actually open(s) up the well at the subsea source and allow(s) it to gush more."
"It's really an inescapable conclusion at this point (based on expert oil and gas professional opinions) that "The well bore structure is compromised 'Down hole.' That is something which is a 'Worst nightmare' conclusion to reach....It means they will never cap the gusher (at) the wellhead. They cannot (and) the more they try and restrict the oil gushing out the top, the more it will transfer to the leaks below."
"The down hole leak will undermine the foundation of the seabed in and around the well area. (In fact), we are beginning to (see) the well's total integrity beginning to fail....I am convinced (that) the entire system is accelerating and attacking more key structural areas of the well." After enough damage is done, "the casing will buckle and the (blowout preventer) will collapse the well."
BP and Washington know it but conceal it from the public and residents most affected.
At some point, "the worst things you can think of" will happen. "The well may come completely apart as the inner liners fail....the least damaging outcome (being) that we are stuck with a wide open gusher blowing out 150,000 barrels a day of raw oil or more."
The longer the oil gushes, the worse things will get, and in the end every fix tried will fail, including relief wells to relieve pressure. At that point, "the system will collapse or fail substantially....and the worst is yet to come," increasing the magnitude of the disaster "exponentially."
Response from The New York Times
The paper of record largely supported Obama's address, including his supposed humbling BP with a $20 billion escrow fund for claims, saying in an editorial headlined, "From the Oval Office" that:
"Americans have been anxiously waiting for President Obama to take full charge of the gulf oil catastrophe," and he did by "vow(ing) to 'fight this spill with everything we've got for as long as it takes' and declared that 'we will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused.' "
Agreeing that follow through is essential "with more energy and dedication than they have shown so far," and that his speech "was short on specifics and devoid of self-criticism," The Times was hopeful that "Obama was right when he predicted that in 'coming weeks and days,' up to 90 per cent of the oil leaking....will be captured and the well finally capped by this summer" - a virtual impossibility for either to happen, something the "newspaper of record" should know and report.
The Times also endorsed the Senate's "long-stalled comprehensive energy and climate bill, a necessary first step to reducing this country's dependence on fossil fuels and tackling the problem of global warming," when, in fact, it's a scheme to raise energy prices and create a huge new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation, and has nothing to do with the environment except increase pollution.
Yet the editorial says "Time is quickly running out for Congress to act before the midterm elections. There is no chance at all (for passage) unless Mr. Obama takes full charge of that fight as well," typical irresponsible misinformation, backing powerful corporate interests, a longstanding Times tradition, why nothing it reports can be believed in editorials or news coverage, why most of what it publishes isn't "fit to print" or read, for sure not believe.
Gulf Gas Bubble Danger Alert
On June 14, author Richard C. Hoagland, citing insider BP and US government sources, told the BBC that "a gas bubble approximately 15 - 20 miles across 10+ feet high near (BP's) well head....had formed that that it may cause a massive explosion within weeks or months."
(Editor's NOTE: I have been unable to independently verify this assertion which I encourage reader's to research further).
He said the pressure is enormous, around 100,000 pounds per square inch, so if it happens it will be an underwater volcanic eruption, creating a huge tsunami, traveling at 400 - 600 miles per hour, sinking all vessels in its path, besides causing vast shoreline damage and deaths, driving up oil prices, and spreading hazardous dispersant's and gasses well inland.
Florida, he believes, will be hardest hit, but the entire region will be affected. A mass evacuation will be ordered, affecting about 40 million people, what Jane Burgermeister reported on her birdflu.666 site, saying under "martial law:"
"The US military is preparing to 'evacuate' 40 million people in the (Gulf) region....under the pretext of toxicity, according to sources," taking them to "notorious FEMA camps, built around the country and resembling concentration camps or prisons...."
(Editor's NOTE: I do not know who the "sources" are and the veracity of this statement).
Citing sources she calls reliable, she adds that "if the seabed is fractured, then all gulf drilling will be suspended (and) will force the price of energy and gas to double worldwide within a few months." Only time will confirm if true, but already the situation is grim, with nothing in prospect for improvement, according to some reliable oil experts.
In readiness, Hoagland said the Coast Guard is calling up former officers and seamen, "offering enticements to come back into service quickly," and that "measurements at Venice and (New Iberia), LA are (already) showing health endangering levels of toxic hydrogen sulfides and benzene gasses." He believes evacuation will likely come or millions may die or suffer severe health consequences, because of toxicity in large amounts being emitted.
Again, whether or not true remains to be seen, but better to know the possibilities (even if exaggerated or proved false) than remain uninformed and unprepared for the worst. Under the best case scenario, this is an unprecedented environmental catastrophe, criminally covered up by Washington and BP.
Oval Office Cover and Capitulation to Corporate Predation
Obama's June 15 address was disingenuous, shameless, hypocritical and supportive of Big Oil interests, much like his backing for the Israeli Lobby, Wall Street bandits, Big Pharma, the insurance lobby, auto giants, agribusiness, defense contractors, and other corporate favorites, while endorsing big cuts in vital public benefits and services to show fiscal restraint.
Playing front man for BP, he didn't explain the cause or severity of the crisis in terms of its effects on the economy, ecosystem, and lives, welfare and health of Gulf state residents. Nor did he demand accountability for perhaps the greatest ever environmental crime, as a result of government-corporate complicity that neither this or any other disaster will change, and unless it does, profits will always supersede public welfare and ecological safety, externalities indifferently sacrificed without concern, no matter how severe. Obama, of course, is a front man for a human and environmentally destructive system, his pious rhetoric and brave face a shameless lie.
To a nationwide audience, he said nothing about regulatory laxity, BP's disregard for worker safety, its shoddy history of dangerous practices, the disrepair of its equipment by cutting corners on maintenance and proper controls, years of manager warnings to top officials ignored about safety concerns risking serious accidents, employees pressured to be silent, say nothing, or be fired, and the company's single-minded pursuit of bottom-line issues, everything else be damned - to such an extreme that it got former EPA debarment attorney, Jeanne Pascal, to say after investigating company practices:
"They are a recurring environmental criminal and they do not follow US health safety and environmental policy. At what point are we going to say we are not going to do business with you any more, bye? None of the other super-majors have an environmental criminal record like they do."
So why did Obama provide BP cover from day one, and in his 18 minute nationwide address? Why hasn't he held a corporate scofflaw accountable, run the cleanup from the start, demand BP provide full information on the problem and cooperate with Washington in charge or face criminal prosecution, huge fines, and nationalization? Why hasn't the public been fully informed? Why do the administration, its officials, the Congress and Coast Guard work for BP instead of the other way around?
Why has he unquestioningly accepted all BP pronouncements on faith, including deliberately falsifying gush estimates - first, 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then 25,000 - 40,000, and now 30,000 - 60,000 when reliable evaluations are double these numbers or higher and explain a problem that may turn the entire gulf and beyond into dead zones, as well as contaminate the entire Atlantic coast and waters well beyond?
Why hasn't he explained Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen's offhand comment that most oil isn't flowing up BP's pipe but is "in communication" with the sea floor and surrounding formations, meaning it's gushing from multiple ruptures, perhaps more to come because of the enormous pressure eroding the well's walls? Why hasn't he announced that perhaps nothing can stop them short of technologies that don't exist, other than perhaps a nuclear option that might fail and magnify the problem as well as irradiate the Gulf and regional shorelines?
Why did he said nothing about noxious air and toxic rain if one or more hurricanes hit the Gulf? Why isn't he warning residents and providing help in case of the worst? Why doesn't he use the military for cleanup, restoration and other aid, and bring home US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan to do it?
Why does he repeat BP's lies, censor the media, conspire to destroy evidence, and keep the public in the dark when they have every right to know anytime, let alone when there's an unprecedented disaster affecting this and other nations?
Why hasn't his Justice Department indicted BP officials, ordered their arrest, and imprisoned them where they belong? Why did he deliver shameless boilerplate to a nationwide TV audience, instead of a detailed action plan, with facts and hard numbers, including seizing BP's assets, mandating all be used to cover recovery and restoration costs, even if it bankrupts the company? Why hasn't BP, and perhaps the entire industry been nationalized - one responsible for global environmental disasters, mostly where victims aren't compensated and get shot if they complain?
After a choreographed White House meeting with top BP officials, why did he let them off easy with a bogus $20 billion escrow fund, amounting to two quarters of dividends, affecting only company shareholders, that's way less than needed to compensate affected residents, who'll be trashed in deference to Big Oil interests? Why did he appoint Kenneth Feinberg as overseer, a notorious Washington fixer who'll protect BP and the administration, not affected Gulf residents?
Why didn't he announce a complete halt to offshore drilling, especially in dangerous deep waters? Why didn't he (belatedly) order immediate environmental impact studies on all current and future drilling operations as well as mandated safety regulations, placing worker and ecological issues above bottom line ones?
Why isn't he our president, instead of BP's front man, stooge, shill, willing agent, betrayer of the public trust, like he's been in all ways since taking office? When will the public realize they've been fooled again, scammed, betrayed, Obama no different from the rest, and, in fact, worse, by fiddling, lying, obfuscating, and concealing the truth while America and other nations face a potentially catastrophic disaster? When will they understand that only grassroots activism brings change when it's determined enough to demand nothing less - and what better time to try than now?
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So, back to mostly Paleo/Primal foods, even if there is cake here and there.
A deboned, sweet potato and bacon-steak stuffed chicken with oven-roasted veggies and a soup-come-sauce.
Listed as steps rather than recipes so you can follow it through steadily and minimize prep time for a marvelous meal.
Step 1: Deboning the chicken.
-1 whole chicken
-paring knife
-heavy knife
-poultry shears or strong kitchen scissors
1: Turn the chicken onto its back and cut off the tail and neck with the shears.
2: Using the paring knife, make a slit down the spine, to the bone.
3: Use your fingers to pry the flesh from the bone and lift. Insert the paring-knife and slowly carve around the chest, lifting and slicing.
4: When you get to the wings and thighs, dislocate the bones and, using the heavier knife, cut them away from the collarbone and hips.
5: When you reach the chest, gently pull the breastbone out of the flesh and away from the skin. Avoid using the knife so you can't accidentally pierce the skin. Lift the main bones out of the bird and place to one side.
6: Now you decided how much bone to remove. I decided to debone the thighs, but leave the legs and wings bone-in.
7: To debone thighs, roll back the skin and make a cut down the bone to the knee. Use your big knife to break the knee and then carve around the thigh bone with the paring knife.
8: To debone legs, roll the skin up the leg and cut up to the knee, carve around the bone and be sure to remove all cartilage and the splinter bone.
9: Deboning wings is easier after cooking.
Step 2: Prepping the veg.
-1 small sweet potato
-1 small aubergine
-1 small parsnip
-200g swede
-olive oil
-chicken trimmings, raw
-chopping board and knife
1: Wash the vegetables.
2: Cut into 1×1″ cubes.
3: Drizzle the aubergine, parsnip and swede with oil. Place in a pan with the chicken trimmings on top.
Step 3: Stuffing the chicken and roasting.
-1 deboned chicken
-300g bacon steaks or gammon
-your sweet potato
-baking tray
-baking twine
1: Fill the body cavity and empty bone areas with sweet potato and/or celery sticks.
1: Place the bacon or gammon where the backbone would have been.
3: Flip the bird over into a tray and tie it tightly shut.
4: Roast with the mixed veg at 160C for 1.5h.
Step 4: Making the sauce.
-1 cup parboiled rice
-1 cup broccoli and peas
-the grease from the roast chicken
-the meat from the chicken trimmings
-small pot
1: Blend everything together.
2: Blend in warm water until thick but pourable. Add salt and pepper.


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"It's not lookin' pretty out there, but I hope we don't cut off our noses to spite our faces," worries Trish Riley, executive director of the National Academy of State Health Policy. Riley is referring to reductions in Medicaid and overall health care spending that make up a big chunk of the cuts proposed by states that face declining revenues and rising expenses. The National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) estimated that aggregate state shortfalls for fiscal 2002 could exceed $15 billion.
Several states reported budget shortfalls as early as spring and late summer. The economy continued its decline.
And then came Sept. 11, which made everything worse.
In Indiana, Gov. Frank O'Bannon spoke about his deficit-reduction plan in a special address Nov. 15. During the first four months of this year, Indiana took in $209 million less than the projections on which its two-year budget was based. That budget already was in the hole by $500 million a year when adopted.
Like many other states, Indiana had enjoyed a budget surplus. O'Bannon and the legislature spent most of it on tax cuts, public schools, prisons, roads, university building projects, and the like. But if current trends continue, the onetime surplus will be wiped out by rising Medicaid costs and by lower tax revenues — $3 billion less than what the state projected to collect.
This year, the legislature passed a new two-year budget that relies on gambling revenues, a reserve fund to pay Medicaid claims, the state's Rainy Day Fund, and delayed payments to public schools, universities, and local governments. O'Bannon said the budget was unrealistic and allowed it to become law without his signature.
Without some combination of spending cuts and more taxes, the state could be $400 million short by the middle of 2003. O'Bannon's deficit-reduction plan would cut state-agency spending by 7-percent ($100 million), cancel state-employee raises, freeze the $50 million in the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, delay construction projects, and freeze hiring. But by far, the biggest savings — $680 million — would come from Medicaid cuts.
Coupled with proposals to increase fees, scuttle tax breaks for businesses and homeowners, raise cigarette and casino gambling taxes, and use some money from the state's emergency and tobacco-settlement funds, these actions would balance Indiana's budget by the end of the biennium, June 2003, O'Bannon says.
The Hoosier experience is typical of what other states are going through right now, especially when it comes to the huge Medicaid cuts being proposed. According to the National Governors Association (NGA), 20 states are proposing outright spending cuts and reductions in their Medicaid and overall health care budgets.
"Education and Medicaid are where the big spending is, and that's where you're going to get the big cuts," Riley explains. "Increasingly, education is a hot-button topic and many governors have said they're not going to touch it, which means even more attention on Medicaid."
In the NASBO 2000 State Expenditure Report, elementary and secondary education accounts for more than 22 percent of total state spending; Medicaid, 19 percent; and higher education, 11 percent. Nothing else tops 9 percent.
The downside to Medicaid cuts is that for every dollar a state reduces Medicaid spending, $1 to $3 in matching funds from the federal government is lost. (Some states have tried using a loophole in federal law to head this off; see Washington Watch). In Indiana, for example, the feds kick in about 62 cents for every 38 cents the state spends on Medicaid.
NGA Director of Health Legislation Matt Salo notes that rising Medicaid costs were a source of concern even before the economic downturn. The same factors driving medical inflation in the private market — higher drug spending, hospital rates, and physician fees — have contributed to 10 percent or greater annual Medicaid-spending increases in many states, a rate unsustainable even in a booming economy. In addition, many states increased enrollments by raising income eligibility levels to provide coverage to the working poor.
"There's also been a significant backlash, not just in the private market but in Medicaid, against tightly controlled managed care, with fee-for-service treatment and open networks more in favor," Salo adds. "You have happier people, but higher costs."
In the private health insurance market, payers and purchasers are reducing benefits and passing costs on to consumers. With orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars, state Medicaid directors are now considering doing the same.
"We're going to have to reduce services or reimbursements for services to our Medicaid clients in conjunction with continuing to explore any opportunity for revenue enhancement from the federal level," says Karen Kinder, director of budget and finance in Indiana's Family & Social Services Administration, which administers the state's Medicaid program.
Already on the list are a 10-percent reduction in coverage for over-the-counter drugs and the elimination of coverage for dentures. An attempt by Indiana to reduce dispensing fees for Medicaid prescriptions from $4 to $3 was challenged in court by retail pharmacists and was subsequently withdrawn. But Kinder says reductions in Indiana's current Medicaid case- mix reimbursement formula for hospitals and nursing homes, under which the state now pays for empty beds, are being considered.
A report from the Commonwealth Fund, "How the Slowing U.S. Economy Threatens Employer-Based Health Insurance," estimates that under current Medicaid eligibility rules, a 2-point increase in the unemployment rate will add about 3.3 million people to Medicaid, at $5 billion a year. This sets the stage for intense discussions in statehouses as administrations try to keep their states solvent and interest groups try to keep their slices of the Medicaid pie.
Meanwhile, the Sept. 11 attacks and anthrax bioterrorism have states scrambling to beef up their public health infrastructure. In Indianapolis, the volume of testing by the Indiana State Department of Health lab is only now starting to taper off after postal equipment from New Jersey sent to the state for servicing and cleaning in late October turned out to be contaminated with anthrax.
State Health Commissioner Greg Wilson, MD, sees this and other recent events as a wake-up call to strengthen the public health system. "The federal government has an important role in setting standards and providing expert authorities, but actual public health gets implemented at the state and local level," says Wilson. "In Indiana, we need more trained personnel and communications equipment, everything from walkie-talkies to integrated computer systems, so that police, fire, EMS, and health officials can communicate and store data online."
Wilson is quick to point out that while bioterrorism dominates the headlines now, more insidious public health threats such as cancer, heart disease, and smoking are just as deadly.
Riley, too, has been thinking about the aftermath of 9/11. Her take is that it may change the way we think about government, about how we spend tax dollars, and how we help each other.
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Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has heaped praise on midfield pair Ramires and Bernard after Brazil thrashed Australia 6-0 on Saturday.
The duo were drafted into the starting line-up after injuries to Hulk and Oscar during the week and were both pivotal as the Seleção romped to victory.
Ramires set up Neymar to score Brazil's third goal of the night, before finding the net himself with a header in the 58th minute.
"He is agile, fast and can be used either as an attacking midfielder or defender," Scolari said about the Chelsea midfielder.
"The more versatile the player is, the better he is for me. He is a modern player who can help change the team's setup during a match if needed."
Bernard, who joined Shakhtar Donetsk from Atlético Mineiro last month, set up both of Jô's first half goals and troubled Australia's defence with his pace on the right wing.
"He was great. He can play on either the right or left-hand side with excellent tactical awareness," Scolari added. "He is gaining points and cementing his place in the team."
Next up for the World Cup hosts is a friendly against Portugal in Boston, which kicks off in the early hours of Wednesday morning.


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Can my long term disability insurance company force me to apply for Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Disability or other benefits?
This depends on the wording of your policy. Some policies are a "last option", meaning that only after all other sources of disability benefit are exhausted will the long term disability policy apply. However, most policies do require the applicant to file for CPP disability benefits.
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One of the most common questions our clients ask is whether insurance benefits are taxable, or considered as employment income or taxable benefits. In general, the distinction between taxable and non-taxable depends on whether the insurance premiums
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More specifically as well, where an employer contributes to an individual insurance plan, these may also be considered a taxable benefit.
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If the insurance company agrees that I am still entitled to benefits, what are the different ways that my settlement can be paid to me?
Insurance benefits, once approved, or mandated by a court, can be paid on a monthly basis as stipulated in most standard form insurance contracts. You may also opt for a lump sum settlement amount that accounts for moneys owed and future benefits, plus interest and costs owing.
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Hedda Gabler has been a runaway success on Broadway ever since it was first performed in 1902. Playwright Henrik Ibsen said about his character Hedda that he wanted her to be more a father's daughter than her husband's wife hence the maiden name Gabler sticks to her. On her inward journey in search of individual and spiritual freedom, Hedda explores her options for escape. Hedda Gabler tickets are sure going to be worth the price.
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Roundabout Theatre's production of Hedda Gabler starring Mary Louise Parker is being touted as not only a unique production but a version with an entirely different perspective. The theme of a conventional marriage explored in the late nineteenth century, enacted on the 21st century stage seen through a fresh lens is sure to cause a lot of excitement. Is it a woman's struggle for identity that we witness or is it an un-gendered dilemma of an individual caught in a limiting society. Realism at its best, this was Ibsen's last realist play before he dabbled with other forms of theatre. Have you got your Hedda Gabler tickets yet?
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I stowed the pieces away in 3 separate containers, knowing that I would be giving away at least one, and labeling them carefully. :-)
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HTML5 Videochat app is the most recent interface added to PaidVideochat platform, built specifically to provide advanced interactions using HTML5 only, with no Flash plugin-ul. This makes it compatible with most browsers including mobile browsers like iOS Safari, Android Chrome.Full Page Videochat Demo
Key Features for HTML5 Videochat
- 1 way to many live video streaming, in public lobby
- 2 mod de videochat, in private (1 pentru a 1) shows with request/approve interaction
- live wallet balance display (updates from tips and other transfers)
- tips with multiple customizable options, darul imaginilor
- WebRTC transmis in direct (fiabile și scalabile de la mai multi clienti la server de streaming, independent de conexiune de încărcare de radiodifuziune)
- group / videochat plătit privat, plata pe minut
- random videochat with Next button to move to different performer room
- fullscreen for videochat interface or playback video
- collaboration mode with file sharing, presentation (webcam, Imagine, video)
- adaptive target video bitrate (depending on cam resolution) and configuration in resolution change
- broadcasting/playback bitrate stats (open controls and stats should show in few seconds)
- show snapshot/video playback while not streaming
- mod întunecat / lights on: each user can toggle interface mode live at runtime
- split view: live video collaboration, conferencing showing multiple media items
Only HTML5: No Flash
Using the HTML5 videochat interface is highly recommended as main browsers have plans to discontinue Flash support in 2020.
HTML5 Videochat uses WebRTC technology to allow broadcasting webcam directly from website, without need for Flash.
Some other solutions use Flash to broadcast and HTML5 HLS only for playback but this application / interface does not use Flash at all.
This makes it compatible and all functionality available in most browsers including mobile iOS Safari, Android Chrome.
- Fullpage Videochat – demo room in full page mode (includes minimalist site menu)
- Videochat Room – a specific demo room, will play a teaser as performer is not online
- Videochat aleatoare – a random videochat room, move to a different room with Next button
- Register in Demo – register as performer or client to access advanced features, including broadcasting, privat 2 mod de videochat, plata pe minut
Video Conference Mode
Room owner can start Conference Mode by toggling live from Options tab.
In conference mode, room owner can split display to 2, 4, 6 slots where he can assign streams from participants in Users tab.
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In conference mode, advanced complexity interface (with tabs) is always used to display the advanced features and layout.
Collaboration / Modul de prezentare
HTML5 Videochat includes a mode for advanced collaboration and presentations. In addition to conference mode, collaboration includes file sharing and ability to display images and videos in media slots.
In collaboration mode, compared to regular videochat, new feature Tabs are available: Users, Files, Presentation in addition to Chat, Camera panels.
Interpret (profesor, consilier, coach, presenter, moderator) can upload/delete files, display other user cams or images/videos for everybody to see.
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Order a turnkey combo package with full mode license and all hosting requirements to run the HTML5 Videochat features.
HTML5 Videochat interface requires a nivel 4 VideoWhisper web app license, to enable full mode without ads and limitations, for commercial use.
A lower license can be upgraded for price difference: older Flash based level 3 Video Chat Messenger license can be upgraded for price difference.
The level 4 license includes full mode for all lower level app interfaces.
Without a modul complet licenţă, application includes free mode limitations like intrusive ads in interface like: a Free mode button, ad in chat, restricted broadcasting resolution (< 480p), restricted maximum broadcasting bitrate (< 750kbps).
HTML5 Videochat app involves specific cerinţele: HTML5 WebRTC relay streaming for reliability and scalability, SSL and specific configuration on specific streaming server, session control to manage streams and interactions between streaming and web server, ffmpeg with involved video codecs on web host.
All requirements are available with the planuri de gazduire complet la cheie, specifically setup/configured/managed to run these features.
FAQ. about HTML5 Videochat & PaidVideochat Solution
- Can performer broadcast from mobile camera using the HTML5 Videochat?
da, HTML5 Videochat uses HTML5 WebRTC technology available in mobile browsers like Android Chrome, iOS Safari.
Same application loads both in PC and mobile browsers, with some adaptive adjustments, mainly referring to layout adapted to mobile screen.
- Do users need Flash for HTML5 Videochat?
nu, users don't need Flash plugin in their browsers for using the HTML5 Videochat app.
PaidVideochat also supports a Flash based interface that can be used if enabled by site admin and selected by performer.
- Can both HTML5 Videochat and Flash Video Chat interfaces be used?
The 2 interfaces are not compatible in same session: performer needs to use HTML5 Videochat app to connect to clients also using HTML5 Videochat app.
If using Flash Video Chat interface, mobile clients will get a simplified HTML5 Streaming interface, not the advanced HTML5 Videochat app.
Performer could opt to use Flash based interface in scheduled sessions where all clients also use PCs, for specific features available in that interface.
Integrating with other Frameworks / Scripts, Plain PHP Setup
The videochat application is a frontend HTML5 JS based solution that relies on specific streaming server setup and web server side backend site scripts. The WP based turnkey site plugin, Paid Videochat – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams, is provided as free source code and implements all features and capabilities.
Application licensing and hosting requirements are the same, independent of scripts used on server side.
For integrating HTML5 Videochat with frameworks/scripts, there is also a simplified plain PHP HTML5 Videochat edition, with some basic scripts that embed the app and showcase basic features. These scripts include some simplified sample data to showcase basic streaming and interface elements in a easier setup for developers.
– Plain php edition does not involve database and pages to manage members, Camere, billing as with the PaidVideochat turnkey edition. These depend on framework/scripts you want to integrate with, plugin-uri, database, member system.
– The simplified edition can also be used as sample to embed app with other types of scripts like ASP, JSP.
– Simplified scripts include only some basic sample data, parameters for 3rd party developers to understand how it works. All features are implemented in full with the turnkey site edition WordPress plugin, that should be used as sample/documentation when integrating with a different framework.
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I gave her my handwriting. I gave her the touch of my hand against the page. I gave her my fingers, grasping the pen.
I gave her my handwriting: one paragraph. One paragraph in which I had written the word bodies, the word longing.
I gave it to her in secret, one handwritten paragraph folded in the center of the typed pages, the work she had asked to see. I gave it to her in secret so that I could imagine her later, in a room alone, unfolding the pages and finding the words I had written with the fingers of my right hand.
I gave her my handwriting and she, unknowing, took it. She slipped the folded pages into her pocket. There were people around, mingling; we drifted away from each other. I watched her a few minutes later, taking the pages out, turning them over in her hand, not unfolding them. I watched her put them back in her pocket, to lay against her thigh in the dark.
I had touched the page, grasped the pen. But it didn't work. I never grasped her, never touched her skin like a page.
I thought I knew the spell I was casting then. What am I working on now, as I type these sentences in front of a screen? Am I working a magic of declaration, of hardness? What will come of this that did not come of the magic of softness and secrecy?


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Industry Nine has been making Enduro wheels for almost ten years now. It makes sense — the manufacturer is located in the heart of some of the rootiest, rockiest, nastiest technical terrain in the U.S. The Pillar Carbon Enduro 27.5in wheelset is the culmination of all that experience trashing, building, trashing, and rebuilding wheels. The bombproof, ultra-lightweight Pillar Carbon rims are laced to Industry Nine's ultimate hubs with 32 oversized aluminum spokes each. That's a recipe for some seriously tough wheels.
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Just one word.... Plastics. -- Mr. McGuire, The Graduate
I grew up in France. As a teenager, I was contemplating
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from both my family and French culture did not seem to leave me
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to get my BAC, get married, have children, spend winter in St.
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or a glimmer of a hope.
In 1984, we moved to Boston. I discovered that American
culture rewarded and praised individualism. I could finally invent
and re-invent myself anytime, at any age. The cultural yoke was
lifted and I was free to experiment and pursue my own dreams.
At the same time, I am still a French person, with
strong political opinions, and I am aware of the corrosive influence
of American culture abroad. A lot of my motivation to make art
comes from this constant dichotomy in my life: this country is
my home and not my home; it welcomes me and it rejects me; I love
it and I hate it.
My choice of materials reflects this paradoxical
view that I have of American culture. Plastic is indispensable
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