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Improved farm system has Mets' future looking bright
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- It wasn't long ago that putting together a Top 20 Prospects list for the Mets was an arduous task. A thinned-out system brought some to the big leagues, but the lack of depth made it tough to pick out enough legitimate prospects to fill out a full 20.
That's no longer the case.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- It wasn't long ago that putting together a Top 20 Prospects list for the Mets was an arduous task. A thinned-out system brought some to the big leagues, but the lack of depth made it tough to pick out enough legitimate prospects to fill out a full 20.
That's no longer the case.
While no one would make the claim that the Mets have the best farm system in baseball, they are on a short list of teams mentioned in discussions of the most improved pipelines.
"It's nice to hear people saying you are doing better," said Dick Scott, entering his fourth season as the Mets' farm director. "I think it's improved more in the volume category. It's exciting for us. There are a lot of hands that touch these guys along the way. Our guys are excited because when we start carving up our rosters, they're like, 'Oh, boy, we've got some pretty good arms going to Binghamton, or to Port St. Lucie.' I think we're turning a corner on that, and I'd like to think that it's only going to get better."
The new Mets' Top 20 Prospects list is chock full of intriguing names. Half of the list is pitchers, including two of the top three in No. 1 prospect Noah Syndergaard and No. 3 Rafael Montero. Both right-handers are in the overall Top 100 Prospects as well, with the guy who will catch them, Travis d'Arnaud, sandwiched between them. Several of the pitchers on the Top 20 have the chance to impact the big league staff this season or the next.
"Definitely, our pitching is ahead of our position players, but our position players are coming," Scott said. "There are some position players coming."
Some of the Top 20 hitters with more upside are a bit farther away. Brandon Nimmo (No. 7) and Gavin Cecchini (No. 10) were back-to-back first-round picks in the Draft. Both are still in A ball. Exciting young shortstop Amed Rosario (No. 6) is a step behind them.
The built-up system has come from a combination of the Draft, efforts in Latin America and, of course, the big R.A. Dickey trade. It all means the Mets seem pointed in the right direction in terms of finding a way to return to competitiveness in the National League East.
"Every organization says the same thing: 'If we can hit on the next two Drafts, we're really going to make it strong,' Scott said. "But we have a good blend now who are making their way, then we have guys behind them."
Three questions with Brandon Nimmo
Nimmo was the Mets' first-round pick (13th overall) in the 2011 Draft.
MLBPipeline.com: What has it been like in big league camp?
Nimmo: It's been amazing. I told my dad when I got the call, "If it feels like this to get called up just to big league camp, I can't wait for what it feels like to get called up to the big leagues." I'm just enjoying this experience and learning a lot. It's great to have Curtis Granderson and Chris Young. They're so personable and open to me about anything and any questions that I have. To be able to have these kinds of guys in the locker room and just be around them, see how they work, see how they go about their business is a pleasure.
MLBPipeline.com: You were a guy who most people thought would take a while, being a high schooler from Wyoming. From your high school days until now, how far do you think you've come?
Nimmo: Light years. I've come a long way, just in my overall play. It's all been an up-and-down experience. Through a lot of failure, I've learned how not to do things, and through success, I learned how to do things right. I'm a much more well-rounded, better player going through the Minor Leagues so far. In the future, I know I have more to improve on, and I'm excited about that. Seeing how far I've come in the last few years, even just strength-wise, I've put on a good 20-25 pounds since coming into pro ball. That helps me phenomenally.
MLBPipeline.com: At what point at the end of the 2013 season did you look back and realize who much you experienced?
Nimmo: It was a crazy year. It was probably October/November before it all settled in and hit me. I thought, "Last year, a lot of things happened." A lot of good things happened, it was an up-and-down year, but overall it was a pretty solid year. I got to experience a lot of fun stuff that not a lot of people get to do. It wasn't just the Futures Game, it was also going to the All-Star Game for my league, but being able to go to Citi Field for the Futures Game was a huge deal for me. It took a little while for it to settle in and I thought, "That was a heck of a year last year, and I'd like to do it again."
Camp standout: Steven Matz
Back in 2009, Matz was the Mets' top Draft pick, a high-ceilinged high school lefty. He signed and then really wasn't heard from again for a long time. Tommy John surgery in 2010 and lingering elbow issues kept him from throwing a competitive pitch until 2012. The 2013 season was his first full one, and he responded with a solid year, one that earned the No. 12 spot on the Mets' Top 20 after not being on the list at all a year ago
Matz also received an invite to big league camp. He hasn't wasted the opportunity.
"He has really opened some eyes over there, because most of them haven't even seen him pitch," Scott said of the 22-year-old. "He's been one of those 'wow' guys."
Matz was a top Draft prospect because of his projection and arm strength. Even after all of the arm trouble, it's all come back, and he can throw his fastball in the 94-95 mph range with a ton of late life. Add in his breaking ball and changeup, and it's been clear to see why the Mets are excited to keep Matz healthy.
"He's just power fastball, left-handed," Scott said. "That's hard to find. He's big and strong, he has a great body, he has a nice delivery. Hopefully, if he stays healthy, he could move quickly. You get excited, because you don't see left handed pitching with the potential stuff that he has too often."
Breakout candidate: Gabriel Ynoa
There might be top-end pitching talent near the top of the system in guys like Montero and Syndergaard, but there's also some very exciting arms lower down in the system.
It's hard to say a pitcher is primed for a breakout after leading the organization in wins and finishing fifth in ERA during his first taste of full-season ball. But Ynoa, a 20-year-old Dominican, has the chance to jump on a fast track in 2014.
Ynoa is a strike-thrower extraordinaire, one who walked just 16 in 135 2/3 innings a year ago. He's not a soft-tosser, though, with a fastball in the 93 mph range and a very good feel for a changeup. The No. 16 prospect in the organization still has plenty of room for improvement, and the Mets feel it's coming.
"He has a great feel for pitching, he's always in the bottom of the zone, pitches to both sides of the plate," Scott said. "He's always thrown strikes, but his stuff has just gotten tighter. He'll start in the Florida State League, but we'll try to get him to Double-A."
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter.


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On Wednesday morning, August 17, 2011, attendees will hear from Stanley Nelson, an award winning filmmaker. Mr. Nelson's latest documentary film, "Freedom Riders" deals with the 1961 Freedom Rides across the South and the violent reactions they inspired. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides. Stanley Nelson is the founder and president of Half Nelson Productions, Inc, an independent production company and has produced a number of PBS documentaries.
EXCEL is three days of cutting edge training on hot topics in employment law. This year's theme, ReAlign, ReFocus and ReVitalize, draws attention to the need for agencies, employees and stakeholders to keep EEO concerns in focus.
"We are honored that Chair Berrien will be our kick-off speaker this year," said Mary McIver, director of the EEOC's Training Institute which sponsors EXCEL. "We also look forward to hearing from Stanley Nelson, whose stirring documentary about the Freedom Riders reminds us of the sacrifices made to enact the Civil Rights Law of 1964 which we enforce."
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Well, I don't have much to give y'alls but here's this. Happy holidays, if this is of any interest to anyone!
I just re-re-re-found this thing after finding it and dismissing it a few times. I thought you all might be interested in seeing what I was typing at Simon's when compiling the analysis of CNN's memorial pages. The list of missing pages at the bottom is incomplete; I think that's when I started writing Pull It! because I realized there were a lot of missing pages and it was a curiosity in its own right. I made a lot of discoveries from just putting the pictures together in that Open Office spreadsheet, but this was the first document I ever made on the subject. It was started when I was posting on Slick and Killtown's forum.911movement.org, just looking at the "A" names for kicks, until their forum went down. That sort of sparked our interest in the subject and Simon let me use his computer for hours and hours at a time to do the work of downloading and jotting notes. We were both really excited but I think only I had the robotic patience to do it so systematically. I am a nerd that way.


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If I can figure out how to do it, I want to post a delightfully science-ific parody of the "Gangnam Style" video here:
Okay, that didn't seem to work. But do click on the link, and enjoy a few minutes of sciency silliness.
Why? Because I need time to think. The first salvos against the USian violence culture are clear: keep assault-type weapons at gun ranges, and make mental health care easily accessible and a positive thing to access. Just those will be difficult enough. But Dana has called for nothing less than the eradication (or at least a great reduction) in the violence culture of our country, and thinking of ways to go about that makes my head hurt.
Meanwhile the video reminds me that there are lot of people doing good work for the sake of our country and our world. They don't negate the shooters of the country; they don't reduce the violence. But they do good, and in this climate, it's proper to remember that some people go to work every day and do good (other than teachers; they go to work every day and do fantastic.)


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The first yoga classes I attended were $3 each, guided by an
ashram-trained teacher in the dusty back room of a crystal shop. None of us had
a sticky mat (not yet widely available) to put on the concrete floor, and $100
yoga pants weren't even a gleam in some marketer's eye. Times have changed.
Classes today average $10-20, and most yogis would consider a mat a necessity.
No longer counter-culture, yoga has moved from backrooms and basements to spas
and studios, and it seems like everyone's gone to the mat, from your best
friend's mom to Hollywood celebrities. Though yoga practices are still
transmitted from teacher to student, technology has given us a myriad of ways
to "take" a class, from streaming video to Wii Fit.
Every electronic device comes with countless yogic options.
You can learn about
asanas in depth by viewing instructions on your computer. Join a virtual
studio like the popular YogaGlo. Stream a
complete class for free (Yoga
Dork adds one every week or so) or download one to your smart TV with Hulu. Relax in your hotel room with
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yogis on Skype.
Accompany your home practice with soothing tunes from Sacred Sounds radio. Chant along
with podcasts from Sikh Net while
you make dinner or tune into an inspiring interview from Spirit Voyage or Everything Yoga.
But while technology can dazzle us with options, it can't
replace the vibe you create with other students during a public class, or the
personalized instruction you receive from a teacher, whether it's a hands-on
adjustment or a modification geared to your recent knee injury. Between studio
visits, however, virtual classes can help you remember the mechanics of a
particular pose or the sequence of sun
salutations. They can also help you work with specific conditions, such as insomnia or menstrual
cramps when you can't get to class. You can sample different asana styles
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The very best use of virtual classes, however, is to help
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studio every day. When you practice asana more than three times a week, you
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We started our day with cinnamon rolls and pumpkin bread. They don't look as pretty as when my Mom makes them, but we didn't care since they tasted amazing!
Before heading into the gym for our traditional cardio workout, I made pumpkin dip and Keith got the turkey breast prepared and into the crockpot.
After the gym, once we were all cleaned up, we watched a little bit of the Macy's parade before football took over and flipped trough the Black Friday ads.
The rest of the day was spent cooking and eating.
Appetizers (we put them away about three hours before our meal was ready)
Pumpkin Dip served with ginger crisps, graham crackers and apples. So delicious! We will definitely be making this again next year and sooner!
Cheese and Crackers…
Main Thanksgiving course,
Turkey Breast
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Traditional Green Bean Casserole
Pumpkin Pie
My dinner plate… after I ate all this I was so stuffed and had to wait about 3 1/2 hours until I could eat a small sliver of pie!
Both Keith and I agreed that all the food turned out amazing and we were happy just to spend the day hanging out as a family! We did miss our families in Minnesota and Montana and wish we were able to share in the holiday with them. Maybe next year. At least we will be surrounded by family for Christmas!
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving as much as we did in the Conrad house. Remember, just because Thanksgiving is over for another year doesn't mean you should be thankful, grateful and count your blessings on a daily basis!
- What was your favorite part of Thanksgiving?
- What traditions do you and your family have?
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Tommy John is a Punk
The Twitterverse damn near blew a gasket tonight when Drew Hutchison became the third Jays starter this week to tiptoe off the mound in the first inning and disappear into the dugout, presumably to navigate a maze of MRIs and/or flight schedules to Birmingham, the home of Dr. James Andrews. (Aside: I picture Dr. James Andrews owning a foreboding-looking castle on the top of a mountain somewhere, and you have to pound a giant medieval door knocker to get in the place. And it's always raining. I'm sure his office is much better lit than I'm imagining, though.)
Lost in the rush to start hacking off our own arms and sending them to SkyDome as replacements was the fact that the Jays won tonight, with some yeoman's work put in by the bullpen being the most significant factor (because they sure as hell didn't hit much, although it was good to see Brett Lawrie drive a couple of balls hard to the wall. We'll forget about his little baserunning escapade in the eighth). That losing record? Back to even-Steven. No matter how much rending of garments takes place, the fact remains that the team is still competitive. Nobody's printing post-season tickets, but they're hanging tough.
Don't tell that to Fox Sports' Jon Paul Morosi, though. After Hutchison's injury, Dr. Morosi (I can only assume he's a medical doctor, and moreover one who is capable of diagnosing arm injuries from a TV screen) tweeted that it was time for the Jays to start selling. I'm not here to tell you that the Jays will hang around a wild card race with a mess of starters on the DL, but if my knowledge of 1970s crossover country hits has taught me anything, it's that you have to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. I just don't think it's time to start selling every last piece just yet. Maybe let's wait until we're a little closer to the deadline? Please?
I feel awful for Morrow, Drabek and Hutchison, but you may have noticed that apart from that, I'm basically an optimist when it comes to the Toronto Blue Jays. My reasons for that are pretty simple, when it comes right down to it: I have a family, a job, a mortgage and a real life that all provide me with my quota of stress. I don't need to let baseball, of all things, add to it. When things turn negative for the team I support, I try not to get too grouchy or complain too much. I try to take it with a bit of good humour. A couple more wins this weekend will help with that.
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- The Ack said...
Tao disappeared on sabbatical and left me to deal with The Halladay Trade (caps intentional, because it was A Thing) back in the day. He's a real rat bastard that way sometimes, man.
Also, I do let baseball stress me out, maybe second only behind the health of my kids.
No, you're a loser.
- June 15, 2012 at 10:19 PM
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DMCA As Censorship: Site Reposts Articles About Disgraced Researcher, Claims Copyright, Has Originals Removed
from the incredible deptI first heard about the excellent site RetractionWatch via a segment on On the Media. The RetractionWatch site, put together by Reuters Health executive editor (and doctor) Ivan Oransky and Anesthesiology News managing editor Adam Marcus, does what you'd expect from the name. It covers scientific research that is retracted. Since there have been an increasing numbers of stories of academic research fraud exposed, and the pair felt that the "retractions" often were buried, despite questionable circumstances, they started collecting such information. It's a really useful site.
Yesterday, however, they pointed to something odd happening. They were alerted, via their hosting company Automattic (who runs WordPress.com), that it had received a DMCA takedown notice concerning ten posts they had done about researcher Anil Potti. They found that odd, considering that the content they write is original. WordPress has removed all ten posts. When RW asked for the details of the DMCA notice, they received the following (with the URLs to be taken down removed to keep it readable):
As the folks at RW note, while their content was, in fact, also showing on NewsBulet.in, almost everything else is suspect. The content was clearly originally from RW, and reposted to NewsBulet.in. As they note:
First Name: Narendra
Last Name: Chatwal
Company Name: News Bullet
Address Line 1: Plot No 15 & 16, Express Trade Tower
Address Line 2: Archana Complex
City: Noida
State/Region/Province: Utter Pradesh
Zip/Postal Code: 201302
Country: India
Telephone Number: 8953171759
Copyright holder you represent (if other than yourself):
Please describe the copyrighted work so that it may be easily identified: Hello WordPress Team,
Myself Narendra Chatwal Senior editor in NewsBulet.In, a famous news firm in India. All the news we publish are individually researched by our reporters from all over India and then we publish them on our site and our news channel. Recently we found that some one had copied our material from the category Medical Reviews and published them on their site. So we request you to help us in protecting our content and copy right.
Thanks & Regards,
Narendra Chatwal
Location (URL) of the unauthorized material on a WordPress.com site (NOT simply the primary URL of the site – example.wordpress.com; you must provide the full and exact permalink of the post, page, or image where the content appears, one per line) :
[list of 10 URLs]
If the infringement described above is represented by a third-party link to a downloadable file (e.g. http://rapidshare.com/files/…), please provide the URL of the file (one per line):
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.: Yes
I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.: Yes
Signed on this date of (today's date, MM/DD/YYYY): 02/02/2013
Signature (your digital signature is legally binding): Narendra Chatwal
In other words, NewsBulet.In is violating our copyright; we are not violating theirs. That's driven home by the fact that the site did not exist until October 2012, according to a WhoIs search. All but one of the Retraction Watch posts they cite appeared before they even existed.While all of the links to the NewsBulet.in site in the original DMCA takedown now lead you to a 403 Forbidden error message, it's pretty clear that the site copied all of RW's content and then filed a DMCA takedown to get the originals down.
John Timmer, over at Ars Technica, dug into the story and provides significant background information that suggests what is likely to have happened. Timmer's story notes that RW had published a bunch of stories (22 in all) about Potti, and much of it is about his downfall and disgrace:
One of the cases they followed was Anil Potti, a cancer researcher who, at the time, worked at Duke University. Potti first fell under scrutiny for embellishing his resume, but the investigation quickly expanded as broader questions were raised about his research. As the investigation continued, a number of Potti's papers ended up being retracted as accusations of falsified data were raised. Eventually, three clinical trials that were started based on Potti's data were stopped entirely. Although federal investigations of Potti's conduct are still in progress, he eventually resigned from Duke.However, Timmer also points out that Potti has since been hired at the University of North Dakota and (perhaps more importantly) has hired an "online reputation management" firm to try to clean up his name. That company has been trying to get "positive" stories to show up higher in searches for Potti's name:
No longer do the majority of top search results for the former Duke cancer researcher detail allegations that he falsified his resume and produced faulty research that has been retracted from renowned medical journals and led to the termination of three clinical trials. Instead, more than a dozen websites and social media accounts created in the months following Dr. Potti's November resignation contain solely positive information about his research and medical experience.Of course, a current Google search on Potti's name shows that the Retraction Watch stories are actually very prominent these days, even beating out that anilpotti.com site that the reputation management firm helped create. Here's a screenshot:
"During his time at Duke, he had a special interest in taking care of patients with lung cancer and contributed to the development of several programs in cancer," reads a section of AnilPotti.com, which does not discuss the terminated trials that a top Duke official has since said should never have been conducted.
Of course, what's not clear is who actually posted the content to NewsBulet.in and what the plan is. But, it certainly suggests some very questionable behavior from someone who wanted the stories about Anil Potti on RetractionWatch to disappear. RW's Oransky is hoping that it's all just some big mistake, rather than an intentional plan to sabotage RW. As he told Timmer: "We can only hope that this isn't an attempt to keep us from reporting on retractions and scientific fraud." Somehow, I get the feeling this story isn't over yet...
In the meantime, however, RetractionWatch has filed a counternotice, and one hopes that as this story gets attention, Automattic will speed up their review process and restore the original stories in a shorter timeframe than the required 10 business days. As of the writing of this post, the originals are still down, which is unfortunate.
Either way, this is exactly the kind of thing that concerns us about making it easy to take down content with copyright claims. It is bound to be used as a censorship tool, because it becomes too easy for many to abuse the process to take down content they just don't like. Considering the ability to hit back at false takedowns is extremely limited, we're just going to see more and more examples like this.
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U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis joined fellow Republican members of the House on the floor this week to discuss the impending fiscal cliff, the failure of the Democratic Senate to put forth a budget and the room still left for compromise. During her time on the floor, Representative Lummis quoted a popular children's tale.
Lummis went on to say that the budget lays out a plan for spending, as well as a plan to sustain the viability and vitality of social security and Medicare and Medicaid into the future. She pointed out that it passed the House and that by contrast, the Democrats have not put forward a budget for over 1,300 days.


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A day after a wide-ranging defeat in court that cleared a path for the Clippers to be sold for $2 billion, Donald Sterling hasn't given up.
"The ruling yesterday only reinforced to him that he has to continue fighting," Sterling attorney Bobby Samini said Tuesday, "and as of 10 minutes ago it hasn't changed."
Instead of an end to the three-month saga, the preliminary decision by Judge Michael Levanas in Los Angeles Superior Court is but one battle, Samini believed, in a war to keep the Clippers.
That fight now centers on 115 words of California's probate code.
Shelly Sterling's victory Monday included Levanas' invoking section 1310(b) of the probate code that allows the sale of the Clippers to Steve Ballmer regardless of any appeal by Donald Sterling.
On the rare occasions when section 1310(b) is granted, it's usually for cases involving guardianship or conservatorship. The section exists to protect people from themselves, said Patrick Goodman, a probate and appellate law expert who teaches at UCLA.
In Monday's ruling, Levanas maintained that not using 1310(b) could inflict significant financial harm on the Sterling Family Trust, through which the Sterlings own the Clippers.
"If Ballmer's offer fails because the court does not offer 1310(b) protection, the trust will lose $400 million in value," Levanas said.
The judge called the potential loss "massive and imminent." Without the 1310(b) order, Donald Sterling could appeal and possibly tie up the case for more than a year.
"It's highly unusual, but you don't often get $2-billion sales coming before the court with a substantial risk that you might lose it," said Kenneth Wolf, a Los Angeles attorney with expertise in probate and trust matters. "Had [Levanas] not issued the 1310(b) ruling, his order would have been effectively eviscerated."
Sterling's legal options may be dwindling, but they aren't exhausted.
There is a way around the 1310(b) order that, if left in place, would allow Donald Sterling to seek monetary damages on appeal for any loss of value to the Clippers.
"That would be really difficult to show given the record price," Goodman said.
In the next week, Samini will petition an appellate court to set aside the 1310(b) order. This will form the next battleground in Sterling's legal struggle that also includes a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NBA and litigation in Superior Court that names Shelly Sterling and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and claims Donald Sterling is the lone shareholder of the Clippers.
Such a maneuver by Samini, which isn't an appeal, will also be accompanied by a request to delay implementation of the 1310(b) order until the appellate court rules.
For the petition to succeed, Wolf said, there has to be a showing of irreparable harm.
"They have a right to do it and it isn't going to work," Adam Streisand, Steve Ballmer's attorney, said Monday.
Goodman sees long odds for success, given the difficulty in convincing an appellate court that the trial court erred and the mistake must be fixed immediately.
"But this is such a novel case, anything can happen," Goodman said.
If that path isn't successful for Sterling, he could try a similar strategy with the California Supreme Court.
Samini also plans to seek an injunction in the lawsuit against Shelly Sterling and Silver to prevent the sale of the Clippers. He called that case "the next frontier" in Donald Sterling's fight.
Sterling didn't attend Monday's hearing and, through Samini, declined comment Tuesday.
During the probate court trial, Sterling testified that he planned to sue the NBA for the rest of his life. Samini didn't believe the loss in court sapped any of that fight from his client.
"It hasn't changed at all today," the attorney said.
Times staff writer Everett Cook contributed to this story.


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DANBURY, CT –-(Ammoland.com)- Redring USA LLC, importer and distributor of the truly innovative Redring optical shotgun sight, is bringing a totally new concept of shotgun sights to the American market.
The Redring shotgun sight was developed for use on any shotgun with a rail. The Redring helps beginners and seasoned shooters achieve better aim on the moving target and hit more targets successfully.
Unlike traditional sights sold on the market, the Redring features smart technology that allows the shooter to immediately take fast and instinctive shots with both eyes open. This sight is not for aiming, it's for fast shotgun shooting. It gives the hunter another reference point to confidently bag the birds with less-to-zero collateral damage to game.
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The long-time head of Vermont's state Human Rights Commission is stepping down.
Sixty-one-year-old Robert Appel will become a lawyer in private practice with a Hinesburg law firm.
Appel has been the commission's executive director since 2001, heading up its various investigations of discrimination cases and representing it at the Statehouse.
He helped a mother challenge an airline that kicked her off a plane in Burlington for breast-feeding her child, and helped a lesbian couple challenge a Lyndonville inn's reluctance to host their wedding.
Before taking the job with the commission Appel served in other state jobs, including as defender general.


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Soul legend Marvin Gaye's eldest son has added a new twist to the family's legal battle with Blurred Lines hitmakers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams by launching his own countersuit against the singers.
Adopted Marvin Gaye III has hired his own attorney and has filed a new suit against Thicke and Williams, claiming they committed copyright infringement on four songs.
His legal action, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, comes on the heels of a countersuit filed by siblings Frankie Christian Gaye and Nona Gaye in October, in which they claimed Thicke and his producer pal had illegally sampled two of their late father's hits.
Gaye III alleges Thicke's summer anthem Blurred Lines was copied from his father's Got To Give It Up, the singer's Love After War features samples from Gaye's After The Dance, and two other songs, Make U Love Me and Million Dolla Baby, feature his dad's work from I Want You and Trouble Man, respectively.
An attorney for the late soul man's son insists all four Thicke tracks "serve as examples of songs so similar to Gaye's songs as to leave no doubt but that they were each wholly dependent for their very creations upon Thicke's brazen copying."
But while Gaye III alleges copying on four songs, he's only bringing copyright claims on Blurred Lines and Love After War.
Thicke, his producer Williams and their collaborator T.I. filed a pre-emptive suit in August, asking a Los Angeles judge to declare that Blurred Lines did not infringe on Gaye's 1977 song.
The trio faced similar claims from Bridgeport Music bosses, who own the rights to George Clinton's band Funkadelic's compositions – they alleged the tune bears striking similarities to Funkadelic's track Sexy Ways.
Thicke recently confessed he was eager to reach a settlement to avoid a drawn out court battle with his idol's relatives, but they reportedly rejected a six-figure sum.
Soul legend Marvin Gaye's eldest son has added a new twist to the family's legal battle with Blurred Lines hitmakers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams by launching his own countersuit against the singers.


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Since it was first announced there has been a wave of people very outspoken about this feature from both sides. People have been arguing the pros and cons of it and some of them are less than rational arguments. So I figured I'd share my own thoughts on it.
First though, here are some facts that you may not know about Real ID
- Real ID is another name for Dingo, if you aren't careful it will steal your babies!
- Real ID promised to buy me dinner, but when the check came its wallet was in its other pants
- Real ID will walk into a room, let one rip audibly and blame it on your dog
- BP isn't actually to blame for the oil spill, in truth it was Real ID. It just blamed BP and ran like hell.
- Real ID is so fast it can outrun the Flash, which oddly enough is why Flash doesn't work on your iPhone
- Real ID assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- I survived Real ID, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt
I figured a little levity was in order for this one, hope you got a giggle out of.
Honestly though there has been a bevy of ridiculous comments about Real ID to the point I don't think I hear this much QQ when hunters are nerfed. It seems most of the arguments against it are based off of misinformation. Posts have been popping up every where about it from small blogs to big blogs accross the globe.
Stoppable had a great post about Real ID yesterday explaining some of the misconceptions about the new features. It's a good read you should take a gander at it. Even Matt offered his two cents on the topic.
Spinks offered a good argument for sometimes wanting to be alone in game and not be bothered by anyone and how Real ID eliminates that. It was one of the better arguments I've read against the inclusion of Real ID and it is definitely worth your time as well. Anna from too many annas has also chimed in on the topic and talked about the opening up of your personal information. It is a well thought out discussion on the negatives of Real ID.
That said I like the idea of Real ID chat ingame. There are actually many reason. First of all is it allows me and the officers in my guild to be more accessible to our guildies. There are times when someone will need an officer but none may be on at that time. As it stands a number of guildies have my cell phone, email, home address, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and so forth in order to get a hold of me when needed. I tend to be a night owl, I'm up all hours of the night, but I'm not always in WoW. I do intend to play a lot of SC2 and you bet your arse I'll be playing Diablo 3. Having a way to keep in touch with guildies and be pegged if I'm needed in game is very nice. Secondly it allows me to stay in touch with friends on different servers and factions. I have friends all over the place, many of my readers here fall into that category. I like being able to send them a whisper and ask what's up. My girlfriend raids as horde on another server and it is nice to be able to send her a message in game just to say hi. I enjoyed using it in the SC2 beta and it worked really well there.
It is not without short-comings though. First of all, right out of the box it is spam heavy. Pop ups, growl notifications, status spam assail you as soon as you enable the feature. This can be turned off in the game settings, but still it is not a friendly first impression. There are memory issues still. Friends running top of the line PC's with gobs of ram and terabytes of storage were getting errors about drive space for processing. This needs to be fixed and fixed fast. There are two key binds to reply to someone now in the default UI. A seperate key for chat reply, and one for whisper reply. Heres the thing though, they don't both work! Chat reply (for chat groups) doesn't work at all. Why not just leave it as one key replies to whispers from Real ID or regular friends and leave the chat like a normal chat channel? Privacy mode please. Even on facebook I can turn chat off and have no one know I logged in. Why can't I do the same here? I can set myself to busy but it's not the same. Blizzard please add a function where I can turn it off when I don't want to be bothered. I mean I accidentally did this last night when I crashed but I would rather prefer a button!
Overall I like it. It is not very different from the battle.net communication we used to track friends back in Diablo 2 (you could add battle.net or user names to see all of their characters) and many of us utilize services like Steam where we can communicate across ANY game in the steam library to our friends, and it was about time that we saw something like this from Blizzard.
I'll end today with a couple notes about security and etiquette
Friend of a Friend: People right now are saying that the ability to see friends of a friend are broken and wrong and invade someone's privacy. The truth is though, besides a name you do not get anything else about the person. You do not see their email or anything like that. In fact, you get more information about friends of a friend from Facebook.
I have to give my email out!?: While the system is designed to search for people by email addresses, you can add other people and they cannot see your email. You can have people add you through friend of a friend and they will never see your email, or simply you can choose not to participate. Either way your information is really only accessible if you volunteer it.
Now I'm going to get spam mail!!!: Well, you may but you wont get it because of this. There are entire companies that do nothing but plug random combination of letters and numbers at domain names offering blanket statements to try and sell you products or click really bad links. Others buy the information from other websites for marketing. Either way I can pretty much guarantee you the Viagra spam email you got had nothing to do with Real ID.
Say who you are!!: A new pet peeve of mine is people adding someone without saying who they are. I've gotten a dozen requests that I have no clue who those people are. I accept that this will happen as my information is highly public thanks to wow.com, World of Matticus and For The Lore. All I ask is that if you're going to send the request tell me who you are. I've accepted many friend requests on FaceBook that just said "hey I'm a reader from xyz you should add me". So my rule is no message telling me who you are, I wont accept the invitation. I will be using this rule for Real ID as well. I mean it's just common courtesy to announce who you are!
We live in a world where our information is readily available for just about anyone if they look hard enough. Take a look at FaceBook, Twitter, and even personal Blogs and Livejournals. We post information about ourselves that just about anyone can see if they want unless we are ultra super secretly careful. Is this really worse than they are? Is this worse than FaceBook ? In the end this is still optional, you can choose not to participate. Simply don't accept any requests and don't send any, and everything goes along as normal. This is not the end of the world. Blizzard is not going to sell your information to gold farmers and spammers (they would have long since done that already if that was the case) and the truth of the matter is your account is in no greater danger than it was two days ago. You should still have an authenticator and you shouldn't respond to those emails from Gnomeregan royalty who just need a little help to get their money out of escrow.
So now that you've had a day with it, what do you think of the new Real ID system?
Special thanks to Thespius and my buddy Doug for the comedic help this morning.


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Story highlights
- New online platforms offer chance for ideas to be funded by the public
- Sites like Zoomaal and Yomken follow crowdfunding model of U.S. sites like Kickstarter
- Educating artisans and innovators of potential of crowdfunding is a challenge says Zoomaal's founder
- Global market for crowdfunding was $2.7 billion in 2012 according to analysts
Things are looking up for entrepreneurs in the Middle East as a new breed of crowdfunding is emerging to help bring life to innovative ideas from the region.
Based on popular U.S. sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo they aim to connect everyone, from engineers in Egypt to creatives in Lebanon, with a new way of funding.
Zoomaal is one such site that allows someone to post a "project" like an album, a book or an invention, which the public can then pledge money to.
Each project must fit into one of the platform's categories and be accompanied by a video, a biography of the project owner and a series of "gifts" to incentivize potential backers to pledge money.
In line with regional sensitivities, banned projects include anything to do with alcohol, politics, violence, religion and pornography.
Abdallah Absi, 21, is the platform's founder who has been involved with tech start-ups since he was 16.
"There are many projects in the Arab world that don't have the right connections (to) fund them," said Absi. "We are trying to market these projects through strategic partnerships."
Currently entrepreneurs from 22 countries across the Middle East and North Africa can post a project on the site. Projects include an album launch, a documentary and a new take on the toothbrush.
Globally, crowdfunding is seeing explosive growth. In 2012, the market grew 81% to $2.7 billion, according industry researchers Massolution. But in the Middle East the concept is only just catching on.
A lack of financial support and, crucially, mentorship is something that Absi believes is holding back creative projects and nascent start-ups in the region.
For Habib Haddad, CEO of Wamda, and one of four venture capital funders behind Zoomaal, the true potential of Arab crowdfunding is the connections and exposure it provides.
"There is definitely a funding gap, but that's not the biggest gap. Access to early-stage money is actually now increasing in the Middle East.
"This kind of platform for the Middle East is something that will push the ecosystem of innovators forward," he added. "It will help democratise creativity."
Absi believes the key to making this happen is education and outreach because some "creative communities are not very tech savvy ... and they don't know about the opportunity they can have from crowdfunding."
Another crowdfunding platform to emerge in the region is Cairo-based Yomken.
A non-profit social enterprise, it aims to link up low-tech manufacturers -- who, in Egypt, are often slum-dwellers -- with artists, scientists, engineers and product designers who can help them innovate in their businesses.
Once a prototype of a new product has been made, it can be posted on the site, allowing customers to pre-order.
Adel El-Dib, 49, is a potter Yomken has helped.
Seven years ago, El-Dib who crafts everything from pots and bowls to decorative earthenware, moved to using cheaper fiberglass instead of clay to make food and water coolers. Studies have shown that inhaling fiberglass can cause lung problems, according to the American Lung Association.
Yomken connected El-Dib with an artist and a physicist to design an eco-friendly clay cooler for food and drinks.
The new design, based on an ancient water cooler known as a "qolah" made with an innovative clay mix, can cool water in 12 hours in summer and two in winter. El-Dib has sold his new product on Yomken.
"I always worked on clay since (I was) 12 years old, but lately given the drop in demand, I shifted to fiberglass.
"The designers brought by Yomken have shown me new designs and I was convinced to try (them). Hopefully, they will bring back the clay industry to the market," he said.
The platform was set up in 2012 by Egyptian Tamer Taha, 24, with funding from the World Bank.
According to Taha, basic manufacturing makes up almost 90% of the Egyptian market, and is increasingly under pressure from other manufacturing bases, especially in Asia.
"We try to work on this link from the open innovation part of the website (to the crowdfunding part) ... to try to market innovative products that are coming from Egyptian minds," he said.
Yomken is a politically neutral organization, says Taha, but the security situation after the recent military coup that removed Mohamed Morsy as Egypt's president did paralyze work.
"We hope the month of Ramadan (the annual month of fasting and prayer for Muslims) will bring all the disputing parties together from their narrow political interests and focus on the nationwide interest of the people and the economy," he said.
"This is what really matters. We believe that now ... it's time for the Arab nations to rise again through science and innovation."


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What is an REO?
REO stands for "real estate owned" property. If a foreclosed property is not purchased at auction, it is typically bought back by the lender. Although the lender is often a bank (the reason why REOs are frequently called "bank foreclosures"), credit unions, mortgage companies and other financial organizations can also lend money to purchase properties -- and foreclose on them if they need to. Since banks and other lenders aren't in the business of being landlords, they will often want to get REOs off their books as quickly as possible, creating some truly excellent opportunities for buyers.
Locating REOs
- Check newspapers for ads from lenders and real estate agents listing REO properties.
- While banks aren't required to release information on their REO properties, it is still a worthwhile venture to ask them periodically for whatever they can provide.
- Network with and frequently contact the person who handles REOs for lenders.
Who handles REOs?
Some lenders will have a real estate agent or broker handle the sale of their REO properties, while others have one or more people, or even an entire department, internally handle them.
Did you know?
A foreclosure and an REO are the same thing -- but REO designates the end of the foreclosure process.
5 things you need to know about REOs
1. Unlike properties that are in pre-foreclosure or being sold at auction, lenders can profit from the sale of REOs. So, while deep discounts are often an advantage to purchasing REO properties, they should not be expected.
2. Prospective buyers of REO properties typically do not have to worry about cloudy titles, back taxes or other surprises, since the lender will almost always take care of them before closing.
3. The condition of REO properties can range from horrific to impeccable, making it extremely important for prospective buyers to have them professionally inspected. TIP: Make sure your purchase agreement includes a clause that gives you a certain number of days to inspect the property.
4. REO properties are sold "as is," meaning the lender who now owns the property will not agree to fix any damages or deficiencies. Most purchase agreements, however, give the buyer a certain number of days to inspect the property and the rite to cancel the sale (or negotiate a lower price) if something they discover is not acceptable.
5. Lenders typically accept less money down for the purchase of REO properties and will also often pay for closing costs and provide other incentives -- so be sure to ask!


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At the very tip of Northern California's central valley and about 10 miles south of Lake Shasta lies the city of Redding, California. With beginnings, dating back to the 1840s, the surrounding area is packed with early Americana and a populace friendly to 20th century automobilia. Proof positive is that Redding has had a dragstrip since 1948, converted from the old Redding Airport and the strip has been NHRA sanctioned since 1955. In association with Kool April Nights, Kool April Drags celebrates the drag racing portion of the weeklong event so participants can bring home the bacon, or get shut down trying. Held on the grounds of the Redding Convention Center, Kool April Nights celebrated its 20th anniversary in '09 and the dates for 2010 are April 14-19, when the event celebrates its 21st year.


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Sports Speakers
There are many benefits of hiring sports after dinner speakers that go far beyond the entertainment that they provide. Choosing from a range of sports speakers for your function can be the perfect accompaniment to the evening and their tales can only enhance what will be a great night for all who attend.
All of the speakers involved have enjoyed illustrious careers in a wide variety of sports and aren't afraid to delve into their rich past to give some incredible insights into the life that they have experienced. In all cases, they are entertainers with a different take on sport and in some cases they have very moving tales of their career that they are more than willing to share.
These speakers can be motivational too and are aware of all the hard work and effort that it took to get to the top of their profession. If you have young people in attendance at your function then they can be inspirational to them by encouraging them to train and practice. Even if those youngsters aren't looking to sport as a profession, after dinner speakers can be motivational enough to encourage them to play the game in the right manner and be the best sportsman that they possibly can.
Including an after dinner sports speaker at your function is the ideal finishing touch and will guarantee better attendance. The stories from their past will enlighten, encourage and above all entertain your guests and ensure that they leave with a night to truly remember.
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Five Recieve Master's Degrees
Five area educators, representing schools and industry, received their degrees in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning from UW-Green Bay this spring. Each graduate completed their professional projects as part of the requirement for graduation. The graduates and their projects are listed below:
Corey Livieri, Teacher, Edgerton School District, "Farming Learning: Bringing Agricultural Education to South Central Wisconsin's Youth"
Susan Daniels, UW-Green Bay graduate, "Discovery Who I Am: A Journey to Empowerment for Oneida Nation Youth"
Robert Fish, Title V11 Teacher, Green Bay Area Public School, "Native Values and Pedagogy in Practice"
Leah Stroobants, Executive Host, Oneida Casino, "Soaring Eagles Workshop – Improving the academic achievement rates of First Nations students enrolled in the Green Bay public education system"
Daniel Terrio, Youth Development Coordinator, Green Bay Chamber of Commerce, "Leadership Development through Service and Project Based Learning"


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Patrick DeGuire
Patrick DeGuire was born in San Diego, CA and started his career in stand up in San Diego, CA. Patrick started performing stand up after losing a significant amount of his vision due to a disease called optic neuritis and discovering laughter to be self therapeutic. Soon after getting started, Patrick won the Improv/ Harrahs National Comedy Club Talent Search. Patrick has appeared on national television numerous times including Comedy Central, 'Que Loco' on Galavision and 'Loco Comedy Jam' on Telemundo among others. Patrick has been heard on the national syndicated radio show 'The Bob and Tom Show'. Patrick has toured/ performed with such comedians as Dave Attell, David Alan Grier, George Lopez and Paul Rodriguez. Besides headlining at the top comedy clubs in the United States, Patrick has also performed for the U.S. troops overseas in Bahrain, Cuba (Guantanamo Bay), Djibouti, Guam, Dubai, Honduras, Iraq, Japan and Korea.
Patrick's material includes the advantages and disadvantages of living in a world with limited vision and the challenges that arise from it. Patrick discusses the obstacles of relationships/ marriage and raising four children. Patrick addresses an assortment of other topics that are insightful and hilarious.


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Hello you all smart/realistic peoples. My first post....
Like George Bush Sr said, Athiests cannot be Patriots, I didn't put that in quotations as I don't have his words in front of me at the moment. But rest assured that got me pissed off and my 'failing' in life being that I hold grudges, am still pissed off. These zealots are the ones that think this country (USA) was based on their damned religion, and hence, since their teeny little minds think their belief in the supernatural is the center of the universe, we Atheists/nontheists must be empty husks, like mindless bags of skin walking around.
The dumbest things I have ever heard of come from the religious and the dumbest people I have known are not only religious, but fanatically so.
He is actually only alleged to have said it. It was reported only by one journalist who claims he said it, but other journalists in the area say they did not hear the statement. It is thus hearsay.
On another note, as widely reported as the alleged statement was, Bush did not deny it either.
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Cardinals enter Sistine Chapel to elect pope
This picture made available Tuesday, March 12, 2013 by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano shows the three sizes of the pope's garments in a room next to the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican. Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There's no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems. The three identical white outfits in small, medium and large for the new pontiff's first appearance on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica are delivered to the Vatican before the start of the conclave and left in a room next to the Sistine Chapel, where the newly elected pope changes into his new clothes. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)


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You can add a virtual data transformation to any type of data view: an LDAP data view, an LDIF data view, a join data view, or a JDBC data view.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Add the transformation to a data view.
$ dpconf add-virtual-transformation -h host -p port view-name \ transformation-model transformation-action attribute-name [parameters...]
The transformation-model can be one of the mapping, write, and read transformations.
The transformation-action can be one of the add-attr, remove-attr, add-attr-value, remove-attr-value, def-value, and attr-value-mapping actions.
Note that parameters might be mandatory, depending on the transformation-model and the transformation-action.
For information about transformation models, transformation actions, and transformation parameters, see Virtual Data Transformations in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
(Optional) View the list of virtual transformations that are defined on a data view.
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Let's start with a stolen photo, shall we? (My thieving is getting worse. Or better, depending on how you look at it.) Here is a photo, which might have been taken by Gill Lewis, winner of the Salford award last week. It was on her Twitter, anyway. And the lady between Jamie Thomson and Josh Lacey is not Gill, but Barbara Mitchelhill, who narrowly avoided that dinner.
Another award is Sefton Super Reads. They have announced their shortlist for the summer, and it's pretty good. The lady above is on it, for instance. And so are some of my other favourites, and some unknowns (to me).
• Ruth Eastham, Messenger Bird
• Fabio Geda, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
• Caroline Green, Cracks
• Barbara Mitchelhill, Road to London
• J. D. Sharpe, Oliver Twisted
• David Walliams, Ratburger
In fact, there are awards absolutely everywhere. Declan Burke could be in for an Edgar for his hard work on Books To Die For, along with John Connolly. I don't know who or what they are up against, but if ever a book and its creators deserved an Edgar, Books To Die For must be it.
While we are in an awards kind of mood, it appears Adrian McKinty is on the shortlist for The Last Laugh for The Cold Cold Ground, which will be awarded at Crimefest later this year.
Finally – in more ways than one – Nick Green's The Storm Bottle is available to buy. That's over three years since I reviewed it, which happened by some odd fluke (me looking into the future, kind of thing). So far it's 'only' on Kindle, but if you only ever buy one Kindle book in your life (although that sounds a bit unlikely, now that I stop and think) this has to be it. The Storm Bottle! Very good book! Sad. Funny. Exciting. Does not end the way you expect it to.
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With US Health Law Debate at Supreme Court, A Look at the State Of Global Health Care (REPORT)
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(HN, March 27, 2012) - As the US Supreme Court takes up a controversial healthcare reform bill - the signature campaign issue of President Barack Obama's 2008 election promises - the fate of US citizens healthcare system remains in the hands of just 9 people.
After two days of hearings at the high court where lawyers on both sides are presenting arguments, the Justices appear closely divided along ideological lines with the majority of questions to the Obama administration's lawyer being about whether Congress had the power to require people to buy medical insurance; the main sticking point of the law.
The court will hear a third and final day of arguments on Wednesday. 26 of the 50 states and a small-business trade group are challenging a law they say would essentially define where the limits would be on US federal power if people opposed to insurance were forced to buy coverage.
The court's ruling on the insurance requirement, which takes effect in 2014 according to current law passed by the US Congress in 2010, could decide the fate of the massive multi-part healthcare overhaul meant to improve access to medical care and extend insurance to more than 30 million Americans.
Outside the venerable Washington, DC courthouse, thousands of people demonstrated for and against the law which many in US politics call "Obamacare". After the three day presentations, the Court is scheduled to take some time, and release its decision on whether or not the law is constitutional sometime in late summer; making the healthcare issue a central campaign theme again in November 2012 US presidential election.
A hard fought US Republican candidate race has been playing out for months between former US state of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, former US Senator Rick Santorum, and US Congressman Ron Paul - all of whom have significant professional experience with the healthcare issue.
But for the US public, the physicians community, and the American insurance industry the delay in deciding where the healthcare system is going is troubling and for many, means the - expensive - difference between life and death.
The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Annual U.S. healthcare spending totals $2.6 trillion, about 18% of the annual GDP, or $8,402 per person according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that a narrow majority of Americans oppose the individual mandate, 51% to 45%, but strongly supported other provisions of the law covering pre-existing medical conditions and allowing young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance plans. Roughly 15% of Americans lack insurance coverage, a factor in life span which contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a year.
In other countries, the decision to create a universal or government supported health care system has been an easier one, long decided upon.
32 of the 33 developed nations of the world have universal health care, with the United States being the lone exception. The following list, compiled from World Health Organization sources, shows the start date and type of system used to implement universal health care in each developed country; and a `universal health care plan' can mean having both public and private insurance and medical providers.
These are in order of date of system: Norway, 1912, Single Payer; New Zealand, 1938, Two Tier; Japan, 1938, Single Payer; Germany, 1941, Insurance Mandate; Belgium, 1945, Insurance Mandate; United Kingdom, 1948, Single Payer; Kuwait, 1950, Single Payer; Sweden, 1955, Single Payer; Bahrain, 1957, Single Payer; Brunei, 1958, Single Payer; Canada, 1966, Single Payer; Netherlands, 1966, Two-Tier; Austria, 1967, Insurance Mandate; United Arab Emirates, 1971, Single Payer; Finland, 1972, Single Payer; Slovenia, 1972, Single Payer; Denmark, 1973, Two-Tier; Luxembourg, 1973, Insurance Mandate; France, 1974, Two-Tier; Australia, 1975, Two Tier; Ireland, 1977, Two-Tier; Italy, 1978, Single Payer; Portugal, 1979, Single Payer; Cyprus, 1980, Single Payer; Greece, 1983, Insurance Mandate; Spain, 1986, Single Payer; South Korea, 1988, Insurance Mandate; Iceland, 1990, Single Payer; Hong Kong, 1993, Two-Tier; Singapore, 1993, Two-Tier; Switzerland, 1994, Insurance Mandate; Israel, 1995, Two-Tier.
System Types:
Single Payer: The government provides insurance for all residents (or citizens) and pays all health care expenses except for copays and coinsurance. Providers may be public, private, or a combination of both.
Two-Tier: The government provides or mandates catastrophic or minimum insurance coverage for all residents (or citizens), while allowing the purchase of additional voluntary insurance or fee-for service care when desired. In Singapore all residents receive a catastrophic policy from the government coupled with a health savings account that they use to pay for routine care. In other countries like Ireland and Israel, the government provides a core policy which the majority of the population supplement with private insurance.
Insurance Mandate: The government mandates that all citizens purchase insurance, whether from private, public, or non-profit insurers. In some cases the insurer list is quite restrictive, while in others a healthy private market for insurance is simply regulated and standardized by the government. In this kind of system insurers are barred from rejecting sick individuals, and individuals are required to purchase insurance, in order to prevent typical health care market failures from arising.
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Kenya says it's captured 11 of alleged al Shabab shopping mall terrorists
With speculation rampant about the nationalities of the gunmen who seized control of a Nairobi shopping mall Saturday and executed scores of shoppers, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared Tuesday that the bloody siege was finally over, with five terrorists killed and 11 suspects taken prisoner.
The Kenyan leader announced that 61 civilians and six soldiers had died during the brazen terrorist attack, the deadliest in the country in 15 years.
The death toll was expected to rise, however; Kenyatta said investigators must now pick through the debris of the Westgate shopping complex – three of its floors collapsed – where more bodies are expected to be found. Dozens of people thought to have been in the mall when the attack began are still unaccounted for. At least 240 people were injured.
"The terrorists and civilians are trapped in the debris," Kenyatta said. "These cowards will meet justice, as will their accomplices and patrons, wherever they are."
The capture of 11 of the suspected attackers should go a long way toward helping authorities learn their identities. Al Qaida's affiliate in Somalia, al Shabab, has claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retribution for Kenya's invasion of Somalia in an effort to crush al Shabab.
But rumors have been flying since Sunday that at least some of the Nairobi assailants grew up outside Somalia, including in the United States – something of paramount interest to officials in countries that have taken in hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the past two decades.
At least 20 men have left Minnesota alone since 2007 to join al Shabab, in what the FBI calls one of the largest recruitment drives in U.S. history by a foreign terrorist group.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said this week that "at least 40 to 50 Somali-Americans" had gone to Somalia to be trained.
Others doubt the authenticity of the reports of Westernized attackers, which originated at a time the Kenyan government couldn't give the exact number of assailants waging terror in the mall.
"Suggestions that British and American nationals were part of the Westgate attackers are to be treated with caution," Valentina Soria, a security analyst at the defense consultancy IHS Jane's, said in an emailed statement.
"It is surprising that Kenyan authorities were able to provide rather detailed information on some of the attackers so early in the investigation," Soria said.
The attack drew substantial attention from U.S. and other intelligence agencies, reports indicate. The command center for the Westgate operations was swarmed with a host of American military officials assisting the Kenyan operation, according to two people who visited the center. They agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk to a reporter. Israel is thought to have provided advice on the counterterrorism operations; the Westgate complex is Israeli-owned.
The scale of death was especially shocking because, unlike most terrorist attacks with such high casualties, no major explosive was used. The attackers exacted their death through gunfire and grenades, killing swiftly and efficiently.
Kenyatta, whose nephew and nephew's fiancee died in the attack, declared three days of national mourning in memory of the dead.
His speech marked an end to the bloody, drawn-out ordeal after much confusion about what was taking place. On Monday evening, the Twitter accounts of Kenya's Interior Ministry and Defense Forces, as well as some local news outlets, declared that the mall had been fully secured. On Tuesday, however, more gunshots could be heard from the mall, where smoke still spewed from Monday's fire.
Analysts speculated that the attack might mark al Shabab's transition from a movement founded primarily to take down a Western-backed government it viewed as a puppet of the despised neighboring Ethiopians to an international terrorist movement set on carrying its violence around the world.
That change was presaged last year when Ahmed Abdi Godane, an al Shabab leader, declared loyalty to al Qaida. This year, Godane emerged on top of the Somali organization after a brutal power struggle that saw several rivals either killed or go into hiding.
If that's true, it would place al Shabab with al Qaida's Yemen affiliate, al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as among al Qaida's most dangerous branches.
Whether that means the group is stronger or weaker is hotly debated.
Ken Menkhaus, a Somali expert who's teaching at North Carolina's Davidson College, recently said that after losing territory and popular support in Somalia, the group was lashing out like a wounded animal backed into a corner. Writing for Think Progress, a blog published by the Center for American Progress, a research center in Washington, Menkhaus called the Nairobi attack an "act of desperation" intended to "provoke a violent backlash against ethnic Somalis by the Kenyan government."
Cedric Barnes of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, which tracks conflicts around the world, said the opposite was true.
The attack signifies that Godane and his global jihad theories have cemented control over the organization, he said.
"Al Shabab is under pressure, but to say that this is a last act of desperation is to misunderstand what Godane has always been," Barnes said.
Rashid Abdi, a prominent Nairobi-based Somali analyst, is even more pessimistic, saying that a new diaspora-led group has been allowed to form a direct connection to al Qaida within al Shabab-controlled areas of Somalia.
"This is a new game, and a new outfit," Abdi said. "This was definitely a broader operation and very sophisticated."
Abdi pointed in part to the al Shabab spokesman for the attack, Abu Omar, who speaks in an impeccable British accent. "This is an extremely sophisticated person who was raised in the West and knew what he was talking about," Abdi said.
How many of the assailants, if any, grew up in the United States and Europe is a question whose answer may help determine whether that theory is true.