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Designed to dive 4-5ft deeper than the standard Series 5, the Strike King Pro Model 5XD Crankbait features a newly designed bill that allows it to get down to depths of 15ft. BASS Elite Series pro, Kevin Van Dam, helped significantly with testing and refining the 5XD, and it also ended up being one of the main baits he used to come from behind in the final Post Season events at Lake Jordan and the Alabama River - and claim the 2010 Bassmaster Angler of Year title. Available in multiple colors, the Strike King Pro Model 5XD Crankbait delivers another proven way to target those deep fish.
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Comments: This is a very good deep crank, one of the very best on the market. It will dive past 15' on 10 pound fluorocarbon, and has a very good action and deflects well off rocks and other obstacles. It's not a huge crank either so it's good for clear water and finicky bass that might find a 6xd a little overkill. The colors are awesome as well. Catches everything from 12 inchers to 7 pounders.
From: Tyler: Grand Junction, CO 5/23/15
Comments: Cheap, dives to 15ft on 10lb fluoro, gets down quick, casts a mile, decent hooks, rattles, good color selection, what more could you want from a deep crank? This bait is responsible for my PB Smallie and I lean on it in the late summer. For some reason I can feel the bottom better with this bait than I can the 6XD as well. Broke the bill on one when a fish came unbuttoned at the boat and the lure hit the boat. Stocking up now!
From: Ryan: East Wenatchee, WA 9/17/14
Comments: I purchased the neon bluegill, gizzard shad, Tennessee shad, and the ever-popular sexy shad colors of this bait and I could not be more pleased. When I am out deep cranking ledges, these will come through for me in big ways. It can take you from catching nothing to catching 5 and 6-pounders in near miraculous fashion. Buy a few of these in colors that suit your fisheries and try them out. If you do any deep cranking at all, you will likely not be disappointed.
From: Matty: KY 7/20/14
Comments: thanks strike king for making lures that are affordable and still catch fish but please charge 3 cents more and put the eyes on with glue that with hold. i threw a 5xd for 2 min. caught a 10in. and shook off an eye so now i gotta hope they come from the right side haha.
From: D: NC
Comments: Sick bait, totally worth the money. I fish on lake conway, hit some deep schools and suspended bass. Caught 7 within 5 minuets all of them keepers. Even caught 2 in one cast.
From: Daniel: Orlando, Florida
Comments: has amazing action to it! Goes down to 15ft easily! Great bait
From: Alex: Detroit, MI
Comments: Excellent bait. I have relied on this bait and the 3XD all summer. They all run perfect or near perfect out of the box. Buy a bunch of them because it is absolutely impossible to get these back into tune if they start to side-wind. And you will be disappointed if you dont have an extra in your box. They stay in tune really well but once they are out they are trash. Strike King has done a great job with these baits, my LCs and Spros are getting very dusty. I don't see any need to change out the hooks on these either, they are big and sharp.
From: Nathan: Pasco, WA
Comments: i have never been into strike king until i got these crankbaits. the first night i fished with them me and my buddy had 16 ppunds in about 2 hours. i have also caught stripers on these baits including a 13 pound hybrid. awsome fight. strike king, keep it up
Comments: Gets down quickly and cast pretty well. About 2/3 run true out of the box. They tune and stay tuned better than Rapala's DT-16 bait. I have yet to achieve 15 foot depth on a cast without my rod under water but I am familiar with the gimmick.
Comments: I was never a crankbait guy until last year. I started throwing these baits and fell in love with them. I am also a hardcore SK fan and I love fishing deep ledges and breaks with these baits.
From: Aeolian: Kalamazoo, MI
Comments: The standard series 5 & 6 baits are killer. Looking forward to this one on Lanier & Guntersville!
From: Curt: Georgia, USA
Comments: Great lure. I'm a crank guy and this crank catches a lot of fish, but if it gets messed up it seems retuning is pretty hard. On extremely long casts old xds will wander. They're cheap and I have a ton of them. A few have also been "bad" out of the box. I can tune other cranks but these have been difficult.
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Skip to comments.Ex-Officer Is First in C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak
Posted on 01/05/2013 4:42:13 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON Looking back, John C. Kiriakou admits he should have known better. But when the F.B.I. called him a year ago and invited him to stop by and help us with a case, he did not hesitate.
Only an hour into what began as a relaxed chat with the two agents the younger one who traded Pittsburgh Steelers talk with him and the senior investigator with the droopy eye did he begin to realize just who was the target of their investigation.
On Jan. 25, Mr. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A. officer to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. The law was passed in 1982, aimed at radical publications that deliberately sought to out undercover agents, exposing their secret work and endangering their lives. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mr. Kiriakou first stumbled into the public limelight by speaking out about waterboarding on television in 2007, quickly becoming a source for national security journalists,
I'm not up on this but if that is true, I hope he enjoys his 30 month honeymoon with "Bubba". He definitely was not CIA material.
The Obama DOJ has prosecuted more leaks than anyone else in modern U.S. history.
Yup. He will WISH waterboarding was his only problem once he meets Bubba.
There is no such thing as a 'relaxed chat' with the FBI or any LEO. The only reply for a request to chat is, "charge me & you can chat with my lawyer."
Had to go find a link I saw about a year ago. Don't talk to the police...
Obama is the one who should be in prison.
I once spoke confidentially to a reporter-—Big mistake, Nothing is confidential to them
Never again. Reporters can KMA they are only a little lower on the snake scale top Lawyers.
Rape is hilarious evidently, who knew?
Should have kept his mouth shut and done his job. You reap what you sow.
Say only 3 things after a self-defense shooting:
1) I was in direct fear for my life,
2) I want to speak with my attorney,
3) That's all I have to say.
Near the end of the article he notes wryly that his fervent supporters now include both the Liberty [University] Christians and an array of left-wing activists.
No, they should share a cell because the guy will probably talk Obama to death. One plausible point of the prosecution is that Obama (and Holder) want to gain some control over the CIA which includes people to the right and left. This guy happens to be towards the left (although it is hard to pin down). It is pretty clear that he blabbed some classified info and was rightfully prosecuted.
Ah. Who said anything about rape?
You did. "Honeymoon with Bubba". Cruel and not funny.
Rape on a honeymoon. That's weird. I guess it's a liberal thing.
He should have known better;
He's headed to a minimum security country club prison in rural PA.
Honeymoon in prison with a dude. THAT is weird.
On Jan. 25, Mr. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A. officer to a freelance reporter, who did not publish it. The law was passed in 1982, aimed at radical publications that deliberately sought to out undercover agents, exposing their secret work and endangering their lives.He should hang.
There has been a total lack of serious investigations and prosecutions re the Intelligence Agents Identities Act since it was enacted (with Ted Kennedy trying to emasculate it to the point of destroying it).
Let's see, related investigations never undertaken
*Kennedy's contacts with Moscow (see Paul Kengor's articles about this attempt to undermine Pres. Reagan's defense policies).
* The concealment of the true DGI/paid agent identify of Chilean Marxist, former Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his ties to the marxist Institute for Policy Studies. One of the biggest intelligence coverups of the century re the US. Lots of leftist disinformation put out to cover Letelier's role as a Cuban agent operating in the U.S.
While technically not an IAIA case, it is actually the opposite, an example of how the media, esp. the Wash. Post, covered up communist operations and agents in the U.S.
Jack Anderson used to do this on a regular basis in his "Merry-Go-Round" column.
* Sen. John Kerry's use of discredited marxists in his attempts to smear the freedom fighters of Nicaragua, while actively supportiner the Sandinistas himself (along with Tom Harkin and Chris Dodd, among others in Congress). Kerry's staff refused to release information on who he hired as smear artists (Porter, Varelli, and perhaps Avirgan).
*Rep. (Father) Robert Drinan (D-Mass) illegally getting into his files and others of the House Internal Security Committee and trying to/releasing some of them. The same for another Massachusetts red, then Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass), a certifiable leftwing nut, like Drinan.
* Rep. Ronald Dellum (D-CA) working with the marxists/Cuban DGI contacts of OC5/PEPIC and Counterspy magazine (Phil Agee and company), among others to expose US intelligence agents around the world (Led to the death of the head of the CIA Station in Greece, Mr. Welch) and assassination attempts on others (who might not have been intell people at all).
* Attempts by Rep. Don Fraser (D-Minn), in 1974, to force US Ambassador Graham Martin to reveal top secret information that could have cost some intell people their lives (I was at that hearing. Fraser was a psychopath and hardcore marxist).
* The exposure of actual or supposed US nuclear weapons storage sites around the world by Bill Arkin, then of the marxist Institute for Policy Studies. IPS was founded by far-left liberals and reds who marched to Hanoi and never returned. IPS was funded by Communist Party USA members and one suspected Soviet agent of influence, and led by many of them plus New Left marxists now employed by George Soros.
Scores of Congressmen/women and Senators worked with IPS on slashing the defense budget, exposing intelligence secrets, and aiding communist governments in Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Angola, among others.
IPS and their congressional followers also spread Soviet disinformation on defense and foreign affairs issues. IPS affiliated groups such as the National Center for Security Studies (NCSS), Center for International Policy, and even the Center for Defense Information (all with the Fund for Peace and IPS connections).
IPS had some serious connections with Moscow through various "peace" fronts and events. The KGB was deep into these operations. See Steve Powell's "Covert Cadre" for some details on these operations. Also the book/study "The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive", 1982, Western Goals, Alex. Va. Other materials by the late Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) were published in the Congressional Record on the IPS, OC5/Counterspy, World Peace Council/US Peace Council (KGB ops), etc.
All these groups tried to expose US intelligence operations and directly or indirectly, those who were involved.
Never a prosecution, even under Reagan. One of his administration's greatest failures.
No prosecutions under Obama for writers and/or organizations exposing Iraqi and Afghani citizens who helped the US to fight the terrorists. Why not?
The record is clear. The Intelligence Agents Identify Act was never going to be enforced, esp. during a Democratic administration.
The Kiriakou case is actually punishment for what he did to get Obama and his group of killers, not because he leaked the name of an intelligence official. Backdoor punishment for "waterboarding" ("torture"). A lesson to others that they are going to get prosecuted.
While he was careless in trusting any journalist, he apparently did not do it intentionally.
If we prosecuted those in the Obama administration who leaked our defense/intelligence secrets to the press, there wouldn't be anyone left to run things.
Bad justice is no justice.
I'm recollecting off the top of my head but when Attorney General Eric Holder went on his anti-CIA crusade 2009-10 he leaked the names of a number of contract personnel. These included two clinical psychologists allegedly working at detainee sites.
As you probably know, Holder is on leave from Covington & Burling where he is a senior partner. Covington & Burling represented, pro bono, approximately 20 Guantanamo detainees. Holder has done everything in his power to move detainees to the U.S. and federal court jurisdiction and has hired a number of detainee lawyers into the Justice Department, giving them access to classified information that can eventually be used to sue the U.S. government for "torture" and "unlawful detention."
In addition to Ted Kennedy's long relationship with the KGB I think he also aided John Kerry's contacts with North Vietnamese envoys. Kerry claims he did not meet Ted Kennedy until he testified before Congress in 1971 as a leader of VVAW. This is absurd. As a teenager Kerry knew JFK and sailed on his yacht. And Ted Kennedy was Kerry's senator since 1962.
I think Ted Kennedy's senate staff stage-managed Kerry's 4-month Vietnam tour in the same way Joe Kennedy stage managed JFK's WWII service.
"radical publications that deliberately sought to out undercover agents"
So just to confirm what this means,
"radical" = traitor working for enemy nation
Obama administration playing dangerous game with intelligence leaks
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/07/obama-administration-playing-dangerous-game-with-intelligence-leaks/#ixzz2HDX2ggII
The statute was motivated by ex-CIA employee Philip Agee who identified hundreds of covert U.S. agents working around the world in the late 1970's. Agee did this through his book "Inside the Company," through leaks to foreign news media and through a quarterly newsletter, Covert Action Information Bulletin, published by some of his associates.
From Agee's 2008 New York Times obituary (he died in Havana):
You can package it any way you want the simple reality is he defected to the enemy during the cold war, said Frank R. Anderson, 65, who worked as a clandestine officer for the C.I.A. abroad from 1968 to 1995. He did everything he could to endanger his colleagues and fellow American citizens.
Mr. Agees efforts and those of his associates, Mr. Anderson said, placed in danger not only Americans doing covert work but also all the foreign citizens who had associated with them, whether as spies or in daily life. Even when it did not result in physical threats, the exposure of spies disguised as diplomats or businesspeople forced the agency to withdraw them and caused costly disruptions of intelligence efforts, Mr. Anderson said.
He failed to ask teacher for a hall pass?
Emailing something classified and later when caught using the "if I'd only known" defense. Sounds like Hillary Clinton only this guy is serving time.
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Augusta National Golf Club, the ultra-elite home of the Masters and worldwide leader in general snobbery, is suing a golf memorabilia collector for trying to sell an authentic Masters champion jacket.
Stephen Pyles, a doctor from Florida, bought Art Wall Jr.'s 1959 Masters prize at an auction last year for the princely sum of $62,000. Pyles told the Atlanta Journal Constitutionthat the purchase was no big deal, and he had owned "six, maybe seven" authentic green jackets in his lifetime. Each member at Augusta National and every Masters champion is given a green jacket, so there are quite a few circulating around the world, and green jacket auctions aren't uncommon. For some reason, the golf club is now taking a stand against the trade of old jackets. When Pyles recently tried to resell his jacket through a Texas-based auction house, Augusta National quickly filed a restraining order against the sale and followed up with a lawsuit.
Augusta National argues that the the club owns every single champion's jacket ever made, and that each jacket is meant to remain in the clubhouse when not in use during official events. The club also alleges that the jacket was stolen by an employee and sold away, which Pyles disputes.
Via the AJC:
"It must be stored on ANI (Augusta National Inc.) premises for use only on the grounds and during the annual tournament. Thus, a champion's Green Jacket is owned by ANI, with a champion having possessory rights when on the premises of ANI."
This statement is somewhat out of the blue, given that a Bobby Jones jacket was sold for more than $300,000 just two years ago. So, in case you were thinking that, with the introduction of female members, Augusta was taking positive steps forward from being a collection of ornery old men, they'd like to formally remind you otherwise.


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Outdoor Movie Night at Carillon Point - Skyfall
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July 13, 2013 -- 8:00pm
Come down early, set up your chair and blanket and enjoy a delicious dinner from one of our great restaurants, then relax and enjoy a late night movie on a huge screen overlooking Lake Washington.
All proceeds from the evening will benefit Hopelink, a local non-profit organization dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency to members of the community.
The movie will begin at dusk; the plaza will be open one hour prior to dusk for seating. Recommended $5.00 donation to Hopelink.
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(c) Every nonresident owner or registrant of a motor vehicle, which is operated upon any road or highway of this state and which has been physically present within this state for more than thirty days during the preceding three hundred sixty-five days shall thereafter maintain security as hereinafter provided in effect continuously throughout the period the motor vehicle remains within this state.
(d) No person may knowingly drive or operate upon any road or highway any motor vehicle upon which security is required by the provisions of this article unless the required security is in effect.
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Skip to comments.Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Posted on 02/22/2013 9:44:29 PM PST by Seizethecarp
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkins lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanies father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Stephanie was then told by a billing clerk that the estimated cost of Seans visit just to be examined for six days so a treatment plan could be devised would be $48,900, due in advance.
About a week later, Stephanie had to ask her mother for $35,000 more so Sean could begin the treatment the doctors had decided was urgent.
The total cost, in advance, for Sean to get his treatment plan and initial doses of chemotherapy was $83,900.
One night last summer at her home near Stamford, Conn., a 64-year-old former sales clerk whom Ill call Janice S. felt chest pains. She was taken four miles by ambulance to the emergency room at Stamford Hospital, officially a nonprofit institution. After about three hours of tests and some brief encounters with a doctor, she was told she had indigestion and sent home. That was the good news.
The bad news was the bill: $995 for the ambulance ride, $3,000 for the doctors and $17,000 for the hospital in sum, $21,000 for a false alarm.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthland.time.com ...
It is a long read and it hammers Obamacare extensively for doing little to address hospital and MD billing abuses, for failing to include tort reform, and for driving up health insurance premiums in the private individual market.
Meanwhile, ObamaCare is meant to drive the price up.
The article goes to great lengths to highlight high salaries for senior HMO adminstrators and lobbying expenditures to Washington DC, but doesn't even mention astronomical costs associated with lawsuits, the incredible amount of paperwork involved with such a heavily regulated industry, plain ol insurance fraud, or why those lobbyists are needed in the first place. Medicine took a wrong turn in the mid sixties with the wholesale insinuation of government into the healthcare industry, and the joined-at-the-hip relationship with the legal and insurance industries, and now the government and its lawyers say to remedy those wrongs, the answer is yet more government involvement. Beam me up Scotty.
If I do remember correctly, healthcare providers charge a premium over and above the actual service in order to provide for those that they serve who do not or cannot pay. I had 20 stitches in my finger back in 1979 and remember that they charged $30 for painkiller (aspirin) $140 for the gauze to wrap my finger. When I called and questioned they said they charged the price of a case because they had to cover their service to those who could not pay. I was a student then and had no insurance, but somehow I was considered the "privileged" that had to pay for those who could not.
Just wait until the government makes it free. Then it gets really expensive.
You got it baby! I dread government on any level being involved with medical care, it's hard enough just dealing with the medical-idiots as it is!!!!
but what I find disingenous is that this couple "had" to go to Houston....for crying out loud, they couldn't find treatment in Cleveland or Columbus, or Pittsburgh?......sounds like they wanted what they wanted and then complain about it....sounds like they knew they could get away with it because granny had a bunch of bucks....
Exactly... I wish I could have done this when I was drop down dead broke poor in 1979! Even then, you did not need to habla... you could just be a broke down in the weeds hippie and get your care for free. I looked like a living breathing person who could pay so they billed me and threatened lawsuits if I did not pay.... oh yeah I paid the stupid bill... $30 aspirin and $140 for gauze to wrap my finger. Sheesh... I couldn't believe this crap back then and now it's 100 times worse!
I worked as a PI for Workers' Comp claims. Why we pay high premiums is the dregs who fraud the system...and the insurance pays out because it's cheaper (on our dime) to litigate. So I watched lawyers write checks to those dregs who came IN using crutches, left skipping out with a settlement just shy of full payout. Everyone happy?
Furthermore, there was no hammering "for failure to include tort reform."
Do the American people really pay such bill? My understanding is that they put "Return to Sender" on the bills coming in.
For example, liberal rhetoric is that the uninsured drive up the cost of ER care. But the truth is that Medicaid recipients make more inappropriate use of ER than uninsured do. And it raises costs for everyone because Medicaid reimburses less than the actual cost of providing services.
Because the ER cannot turn away most people who go there inappropriately (i.e., those who could be treated outpatient) these costs get passed on to everyone else. With millions slated to be dumped into Medicaid next year, I expect ER costs to mushroom.
What a load of gibberish. Healthcare bills are high because 80% of the bill is paid out in court cases. Tort reform in Texas had their healthcare costs drop dramatically.
Then there are the subsidies. You get to pay for illegal aliens (who show up in the emergency room and never seem to pay anything), single moms and their kids, homosexuals and their extravagant healthcare needs.
Only about 14% of the bill is yours.
The article pointed out that a large "non-profit" hospital can have a 25% profit margin. Most large businesses have a 2% to 7% profit margin. I read several years that the profit margin in the medical/pharmaceutical world was around 20%
I do acknowledge that most businesses do not have the research and development costs that are incurred in the medical/pharmaceutical industry... But I also have read that citizens of USA have had to bear the bulk of these front end R & D costs when these pharmaceuticals come to market. The rest of the world does not pay anywhere close to the costs for pain killers and other drugs that we have to pay in USA.
Try checking out "Forbes CEO Compensation" at Google, for what CEOs of some of the big pharmaceutical, medical services, etc. companies are getting paid.
Re: "This couple "had" to go to Houston"
Exactly right.
Time Magazine forgot to tell us something....
The MD Anderson Center in Houston has been ranked the #1 cancer treatment clinic in the USA for at least ten years.
That probably means it's #1 in the world.
The Saudi royal family goes there.
You can imagine what that does to treatment costs for the uninsured.
If Hugo Chavez had gone there, he might have had some chance at beating his pelvic sarcoma - although that's a horrible cancer, and most people do die.
Re: "Return To Sender"
Many people do.
But medical providers then send your unpaid bills to Collection Agencies.
Enjoy the phone calls.
And there goes your credit rating!
Off the top of my head - more than 50% of USA bankruptcies are because of unpaid medical bills.
Tell that to Jeff Head.
Supply & Demand.
If we had the bottlenecks to the supply of toys like smartphones and flat screen TVs that we have to the delivery of medical services then very few people would have these and other toys.
The America Medical Association, coupled with the muscle of various governments and the threats of the Tort industry have greatly restricted the supply of medical services.
Why are routine first aid procedures done in the emergency room at a cost of hundreds or even thousands of dollars? Convert one of the nail salons located in the from of your local Super Walmart into a First Aid Station. Staff it with nurses, EMTs and former military medics/corpsmen. Run it as a business generating the same profit margin that the Sporting Goods, Tire departments or the McDonald's does.
Install a medical triage database system plugged into "Tech Support" to help the senior medical tech decide which cases need to be seen by an MD. We have an excellent medical diagnosis course designed for workers in very remote areas, places where they may be the only one around with reading, communication and transportation resources. One of the other people on campus came to the MD teaching the course with a medical complaint. The doctor turned the patient over to two students, telling them, "This is what we a re here for. Diagnose this man's problem."
A while later the two students & the patient returned, shaking their heads. "We've never heard of it, but we believe that he has TB of the pelvis."
Long story - short, the doctor asked a few questions, then took everyone to the local hospital's radiology department. The patient had TB of the pelvis! The two students who did the diagnosis? Their day job was has sheet rock installers.
Run medical service as a business. Remove the artificial limits on the supply of doctors created my medical schools.
Doctors are treated like 'gods', omniscient, above mere mortals. Yet my doctor spends more time typing into a database than he does examining me or talking with me. Anyone ever hear of "Speech to Text"?
/rant.... for now. :-)
How do you say in Spanish, "I am an illegal alien. I demand free health care"?
These astronomical costs are the very reason I avoid the doctor at all costs. If I have to see one, I usually head to a doc-in-a-box, aka an urgent care center. At least what they bill you will not bankrupt you. Granted, they are limited in what they can do(no setting broke bones, no stitching gaping wounds), but for the basic cold/flu/allergies/sore throat/stuffy nose stuff that won't respond to OTC meds, they get the job done. You're in and out. No hours long ER wait with a waiting room full of even sicker people and no final billing that is more costly than the down payment on my last new car.
Why we pay high premiums is the dregs who fraud the system.
Exactly, but don't leave out the Doctors that add fraudulent charges.
Why are routine first aid procedures done in the emergency room at a cost of hundreds or even thousands of dollars?
Because the health industry can "justify" exorbitant fees if they force you to go to the ER.
And you also read that pigs can fly - you better keep an umbrella with you all the time!
Our greater concern should, and soon enough will be, our QOC, rather than than the cost. To say nothing of our benevolent-- just take a pain pill but not too many while you wither away post 67.5-- govt rationing...far worse than traditional third party rationing to which we have grown accustomed.
Not that the cost of said Obamanative (that's mine) healthcare won't be astronomical, unsustainable. Which will in turn drive even more dire clincial outcomes!
Another commentary on this article, from Karl Denninger:
Soy demasiado perezoso para aprender a español, por lo que la gente me puede decir algo que decir
The people who operate the physical plant aren't the cost drivers. Not by a long shot.
"I read the whole article and never detected even one hammer blow upon the Obamacare carcus!
"Furthermore, there was no hammering 'for failure to include tort reform.'"
You missed the following on page 3 of the article:
"When Obamacare was being debated, Republicans pushed this kind of commonsense malpractice-tort reform. But the stranglehold that plaintiffs lawyers have traditionally had on Democrats prevailed, and neither a safe-harbor provision nor any other malpractice reform was included."
You missed the following on page 4 of the article:
"Steve H. was about to run up against a seemingly irrelevant footnote in millions of Americans insurance policies: the limit, sometimes annual or sometimes over a lifetime, on what the insurer has to pay out for a patients claims. Under Obamacare, those limits will not be allowed in most health-insurance policies after 2013. That might help people like Steve H. but is also one of the reasons premiums are going to skyrocket under Obamacare."
You missed the following on page 7 of the article:
"Millions of plans have annual payout limits, though the more typical plans purchased by employers usually set those limits at $500,000 or $750,000 which can also quickly be consumed by a catastrophic illness. For that reason, Obamacare prohibited lifetime limits on any policies sold after the law passed and phases out all annual dollar limits by 2014. That will protect people like Scott and Rebecca, but it will also make everyones premiums dramatically higher, because insurance companies risk much more when there is no cap on their exposure."
"But Obamacare does little to attack the costs that overwhelmed Scott and Rebecca. There is nothing, for example, that addresses what may be the most surprising sinkhole the seemingly routine blood, urine and other laboratory tests for which Scott was charged $132,000, or more than $4,000 a day."
You missed the following on page 8 of the article:
"Similarly, when Congress passed Part D of Medicare in 2003, giving seniors coverage for prescription drugs, Congress prohibited Medicare from negotiating.
"Nor can Medicare get involved in deciding that a drug may be a waste of money. In medical circles, this is known as the comparative-effectiveness debate, which nearly derailed the entire Obamacare effort in 2009.
"Doctors and other health care reformers behind the comparative-effectiveness movement make a simple argument: Suppose that after exhaustive research, cancer drug A, which costs $300 a dose, is found to be just as effective as or more effective than drug B, which costs $3,000. Shouldnt the person or entity paying the bill, e.g. Medicare, be able to decide that it will pay for drug A but not drug B? Not according to a law passed by Congress in 2003 that requires Medicare to reimburse patients (again, at average sales price plus 6%) for any cancer drug approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. Most states require insurance companies to do the same thing.
"With that escalating bill in mind, Bach was among the policy experts pushing for provisions in Obamacare to establish a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to expand comparative-effectiveness research efforts. Through painstaking research, doctors would try to determine the comparative effectiveness not only of drugs but also of procedures like CT scans.
"However, after all the provisions spelling out elaborate research and review processes were embedded in the draft law, Congress jumped in and added eight provisions that restrict how the research can be used. The prime restriction: Findings shall not be construed as mandates for practice guidelines, coverage recommendations, payment, or policy recommendations.
"With those 14 words, the work of Bach and his colleagues was undone. And costs remain unchecked."
You missed to following on page 11 of the article:
"The hospitals continuing consolidation of both lab work and doctors practices is one reason that trying to cut the deficit by simply lowering the fees Medicare and Medicaid pay to hospitals will not work. It will only cause the hospitals to shift the costs to non-Medicare patients in order to maintain profits which they will be able to do because of their increasing leverage in their markets over insurers. Insurance premiums will therefore go up which in turn will drive the deficit back up, because the subsidies on insurance premiums that Obamacare will soon offer to those who cannot afford them will have to go up."
"None of these suggestions will come as a revelation to the policy experts who put together Obamacare or to those before them who pushed health care reform for decades. They know what the core problem is lopsided pricing and outsize profits in a market that doesnt work. Yet there is little in Obamacare that addresses that core issue or jeopardizes the paydays of those thriving in that marketplace. In fact, by bringing so many new customers into that market by mandating that they get health insurance and then providing taxpayer support to pay their insurance premiums, Obamacare enriches them. That, of course, is why the bill was able to get through Congress."
"Finally, we should embarrass Democrats into stopping their fight against medical-malpractice reform and instead provide safe-harbor defenses for doctors so they dont have to order a CT scan whenever, as one hospital administrator put it, someone in the emergency room says the word head.
"Trial lawyers who make their bread and butter from civil suits have been the Democrats biggest financial backer for decades. Republicans are right when they argue that tort reform is overdue. Eliminating the rationale or excuse for all the extra doctor exams, lab tests and use of CT scans and MRIs could cut tens of billions of dollars a year while drastically cutting what hospitals and doctors spend on malpractice insurance and pass along to patients."
Under Medicare about $2,000 will be paid the $21,000 figure is for the uninsured.
Now I see that each page was so long with 7 scroll-downs for each page and then punching the arrow at the bottom of each abnormally long page to advance to the next... WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THAT???
I stand corrected, but now it looks like this verbose article was almost as long as Nancy Pillosey's stupid law!!!
Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding and for filling in all the info hidden just around the corner with a marker burried at the end of each page.
Furthermore, it now looks even more like a huge pitch for SINGLE GovernMental PAYER and sour grapes against those with the resources, time and patience to navigate the halls of CONgress by the snivelling people that believe that no one should ever profit from treating the sick under any circumstances... ie The British Isles, Canada and Austrailia, et al...
Bottom line is there are too many cooks in this stew and worst of them are crooks with law degrees, as opposed to liberal cooks!!! (aka kooks)
Obviously it works for you.
I can't wait to see what the excuse is when medical care becomes unobtainable for all but the elites. Obamacare was supposed to the cure-all (even though it didn't actually do anything), so government'll eventually have to come up with an excuse for it not working.
The shortage of psychiatrists in SW FL is so severe that they are able to refuse to accept Medicare participation and still fill their appointments with wealthy patients.
So poorer seniors won't be able to "keep your doctor" if he dumps Medicare, which happened in my family on Jan 1, 2013.
When profits are 26% of revenue, they are doing a lot more than charging for those who cannot pay.
Although it is officially a nonprofit unit of the University of Texas, MD Anderson has revenue that exceeds the cost of the world-class care it provides by so much that its operating profit for the fiscal year 2010, the most recent annual report it filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was $531 million. Thats a profit margin of 26% on revenue of $2.05 billion, an astounding result for such a service-intensive enterprise.
In fifty years, it will make little difference if old Martha dies in 2013 or 2018. Either way, Martha will be gone and probably forgotten. However, if in fifty years, taxpayers are still paying for Martha's extra five years, that will make a difference. Right now, our country is becoming flooded with old Marthas.
If old people want to spend a lot of money to unnecessarily extend their miserable lives, it should be their own money. The taxpayer is tapped out.
Expensive, wasteful spending to unnecessarily extend lives should be left up to the individual on a "pay as you go" basis. Pay as you go - and, when you stop paying, it's time for you to go.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. -- P. J. O'Rourke
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
QD: News Every Day--Junk food may cause colon polyps in patients already susceptible to them
Junk food diets were associated with more colorectal adenomas in patients with Lynch syndrome, who are already at a high risk of developing colorectal cancer due to mutations in mismatch repair genes and who develop colorectal adenomas at a younger age, a study found.
Researchers used a food frequency questionnaire to collect dietary information from 486 patients with Lynch syndrome in the Netherlands. Four dietary patterns were identified: ---prudent, consisting of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nonfat or low-fat dairy, poultry, fish and tea with added sweets,
--meat, heavily loaded on meats and coffee and negatively loaded on whole grains, peanut butter, cakes and cookies, and vegetable products,
--snacks, consisting of fried foods and snacks, butter, peanut sauce, ketchup, sweets, and diet sodas, and
--cosmopolitan, consisting of vegetables, fishes, dressings and spreads, and wine.
Results appeared online Dec. 17 in Cancer.
During a median follow-up of 20 months, colorectal adenomas were detected in 58 persons. After adjusting for age and sex, patients in the highest tertile of the snack pattern was associated with an increased risk of colorectal adenomas (HR, 2.16; 95% CI, 1.03-4.49).
Those in the highest tertiles of the other three dietary patterns did not have as much of an association for colorectal adenomas as the lowest tertiles, (prudent pattern; HR, 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.32-1.66) (meat pattern; HR, 1.70; 95% CI, 0.83-3.52) (cosmopolitan pattern; HR, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.61-2.55).
The findings suggest that certain dietary patterns influence the development of polyps in individuals with Lynch syndrome, said the lead author in a press release. "Unfortunately, this does not mean that eating a diet low in snack foods will prevent any polyps from developing, but it might mean that those Lynch syndrome patients who eat a lot of snack foods might have more polyps than if they ate less snack foods."
Lynch syndrome is believed to be responsible for 2% to 7% of the 160,000 new cases of colorectal cancer that are diagnosed annually, according to the U.S. Library of Medicine.
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Type: New Feature
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.9.5, 2.3
Fix Version/s: 2.3
Component/s: Administration
Testing Instructions:
Testing difficulty: HARD. This depends on a response from the server. The best way to test all possible cases is to deploy a fake.php script (attached) and set $CFG->alternativeupdateproviderurl to point to it. To test cron, you may want to execute
delete from mdl_config_plugins where plugin='core_plugin';
to make sure that the first cron execution will actually execute the fetch. Also consider setting $CFG->divertallemailsto so that you catch all emailed notifications.Testing difficulty: HARD. This depends on a response from the server. The best way to test all possible cases is to deploy a fake.php script (attached) and set $CFG->alternativeupdateproviderurl to point to it. To test cron, you may want to execute delete from mdl_config_plugins where plugin='core_plugin'; to make sure that the first cron execution will actually execute the fetch. Also consider setting $CFG->divertallemailsto so that you catch all emailed notifications.
Affected Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_23_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
Pull Master Branch:
Pull Master Diff URL:
This issue tracks the progress on the Available update notifications project. See http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Available_update_notifications for more info.
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- caused a regression
MDL-32685 Plugins overview: actions indent incosistency
- Open
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MDL-32329 Web/CLI installers discreprency about calling all_plugins_ok()
- Closed
MDL-32338 Failing to get updates breaks cron
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MDL-32337 Be more cautious about saying 'your moodle is up to date'
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MDL-34026 Plugin notifications page does not link to the plugins!
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MDL-32339 The new versions layout seems a bit ugly
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MDL-36266 Update notifications email should mention the site in the subject
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MDL-36943 available plugin notification by mail is incorrect
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MDL-37003 Update notification email includes repeated line
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I am re-using the original issue to track this project. The link to Petr's proposal from October 2009 is in the wiki. Adding some watchers who might be interested in this.
I started work on the spec document for this at http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Available_update_notifications
Before we can continue, we need to decide the two design aspects mentioned in the spec: (1) where the primary information is/are stored and (2) how it gets to Moodle sites.
Ping. I was actually expecting sort of flame war here. I just did not want to loose time by designing something in details just to find integrators not happy with the product at the end.
I must admit my +1 goes for the heavy-weight REST server provided by local_plugins and a REST client inbuilt in all Moodle 2.3 sites (with all the external lib and friends). If nobody objects, I will continue designing the thing that way.
Thanks David!
Michael D mentioned an idea which I really like about the potential for us to collect statistics about plugin use via the call to us - he's put it on the spec already (probably such things should be discussed here and be put there by David in future though). It's really good for us to know what plugins are being used out there so we can make better decisions about core vs plugins etc
This affects the design in that we should not be thinking about sending the whole dataset and doing all the processing on the client.
Joining the update notifications to registration is also something we can do to help our overall statistics, in fact, it would make sense if MOOCH in fact was the thing that handled everything (rather than directly querying moodle.org, we could make periodic copies of the plugins data, and moodle data, into some structure in MOOCH).
My thinking here is that we already have to maintain MOOCH and it already has login-less web services set up, so why not take advantage of that?
I just talked with Martin to clarify some points about putting this on MOOCH. Here are the current summary:
- sites must register to MOOCH to see the update notification option
- as sites are registered, they have a ws token, they can call the Moodle web service normally.
- we need to created a new local plugin to implement this
- we need to hack somehow the hub plugin. The hub plugin could detect the new installed local plugin and then add the new local plugin ws functions to the hub pre-build service (this same service that is linked to all site tokens)
- or we don't create a local plugin but implement all this update notification in the hub server plugin (i.e. all hubs will support this update system)
- Of course all this is only in the idea we (will) need more than a simple public script like a worpdress RSS feed
This was discussed today during the meeting and these were the points where developers did not reach consensus yet:
- Requiring MOOCH registration. On contrary to the proposal above, David and Eloy are not happy with interfering hubs into this.
- Providing the list of currently installed plugins during the request. David and Tim objected that there is no need to send the list of currently installed plugins. Just the version information is enough and the response would contain the list of all available plugins for the given version. The processing of the list would happen at the client side (eg it would display just available updates or the list of available plugins to download in the future - without the need to change API of the service!). Eloy and David think that sending the info about installed plugins should happen during the registration only.
Note that we don't have much time for 2.3 development. On the other hand, we don't want to change the API of the service in 6 months again. From my point of view, this is the conceptual question to answer: Should the access to the information about available plugins be public/open (for all clients including non-Moodle apps), or should it be only for Moodle sites, or should it be only for Moodle sites registered at a hub, or should it be only for those registered at MOOCH? Answering this determines whether we can or can't send the list of currently installed plugins.
With regards to my +1 towards heavy-weight REST WS above - my reasoning was pretty selfish. I know we will need this WS for yet another Plugins related project (AMOS/Plugins integration) so this was a nice opportunity to learn something about WS. However, if we decide for the open one-way communication channel (ie Plugins just serving the info about all available plugins without collecting stats), we can make it as a light-weight REST service without auth and friends.
Writing this, I can see sort of compromise solution. Let us imagine API that works both with and without additional query params. So the plain query (GET available plugins) would just return all plugins registered in the Plugins. However, the caller might specify target Moodle version/build/branch and then only filtered plugins would be returned. Similarly, the caller might specify the frankenstyle names of plugins it is interested in and the filtering would happen again.
Into Moodle 2.3, we would implement the client that queries the Plugins and provides the target version and build and currently installed plugins. So we could get some rough estimations of plugins usage world-wide even without matching them with registered sites.
Also note that the API could be used by alternative clients, too. For example a simple JavaScript client that asks for all available versions/branches of mod_book and displays them on skodak's blog page :-p
p.s. nobody came with a solution of what the source of Moodle version itself will be. That is, where will we read the information about available Moodle core update.
OK,so after some thought, even though I did want to use it to encourage registrations, it's not super important.
OK, so how about this (refactoring what I think you wrote above):
1) Super-lightweight REST script at http://moodle.org/plugins/rest.php that can accept optional parameters for Moodle version, Moodle SiteID and plugin names. When it gets those parameters it stores them for our records, and returns just the subset of data that is required. When it doesn't get those parameters it can return everything. And there can be other parameters for different filters (eg by category, reviews etc)
2) A super-lightweight REST script on http://download.moodle.org/rest.php that returns the latest Moodle information. This data comes from an XML file or PHP array with all releases. We can make this the main source of info, and generate http://download.moodle.org from it as well.
3) Moodle 2.3 has two new features. "Check for updates now", and "Check for updates weekly and inform me". Both of these will send the version/siteid/pluginname parameters, and check both of the locations above (1 & 2). The first will link straight to an admintool page (in their Moodle site) that does the check and shows the returned plugins+info and contains links to downloads. The second will do the check in the background via cron and if the result is non-null, then will send a message containing a link to the above admintool.
It might be good to preserve the word REST to be overused: moodle.org/plugins/lastversion.php?moodleversion=XXX&pluginname=ZZZZ&siteid=YYYY
Attaching a screenshot of the Plugins overview page in my 2.3dev. Note the information about the available update.
Publishing the patch for the eventual peer-review of this work-in-progress.
Submitting to Petr for peer-review. Going to improve the dev docs yet.
Attaching fake.php that simulates the server response (usefull for testing and debugging).
"if ($fetchupdates) { require_sesskey(); ...) on admin/index.php page might not work without sessions, but the session if guaranteed to be working after main upgrade/installation only
the rest looks ok to me, +1
Thanks Petr for the peer-review. I just fixed the places he spotted, rebased against the latest origin/master and am vectoring this for the final landing.
Assinging this to Eloy to integrate as I believe he volunteered to do that
Ah, maybe I read too much into David's comments
OK, could be my misinterpretation of this private chat:
(12:48:04) firstname.lastname@example.com/glum: BTW would you like to integrate my patch or shall I ask Petr or shall I leave it to someone else to decide?
(12:48:31) Eloy: I prefer to just integrate it after anyone else peer review.
(12:48:57) email@example.com/glum: ok, I'll aks someone for peer-review
(12:49:03) Eloy:
So it's not that Eloy actually volunteered himself, I just did not give him much of choice The idea behind Eloy integrating this was that he was already involved in the whole machinery (especially the server side). However, it's completely up to you Eldars to decide.
First review and I can't really find anything to comment on.
One thing I wonder out loud about is if it was worth the 'complexity' of introducing the maturity options to this update checks. From my point of view it seems like this is a feature which should be focused only on stable releases since our goal with this is surely to keep moodle admins on stable and secure releases.
My big concern with this change is that we ensure this is well tested before release, the last thing we want is to be 'falsely claiming' everything is up to date.
This is tricky to test since it requires the server components and settings and installed versions etc all to work together. There are no contrib plugins currently reporting support for 2.3 so we also can't test this at the moment. Discussed this a bit with david and perhaps we need to add testing of the update checker as a sort of QA test and explicit areas of testing before the release.
Thanks Dan for the review.
if it was worth the 'complexity' of introducing the maturity options to this update checks
I fully understand this note. I was considering this aspect, too. At the end, "when in doubt, make it an option" approach was followed with default values set to what 99% of sites probably want. Still I believe there are many "more curious" settings in our admin tree (not that it is an excuse to introduce new ones).
And yes, we probably should discuss with Marina if it is possible to open 2.3 as the supported version in the Plugins. Maybe it can't be done before the actual release because the version number is used there, too...
Hi Dan. Thanks for generating the report. Please note that some of the reported problems are not valid IMHO. E.g. I have not found anything in the Coding style that would forbid me to use print_r(). And the "Useless method overriding detected" is actually completely wrong as the overriding is indeed required in the reported case.
As I expressed several times already, there are rules that I violate intentionally as I do not agree with them, mostly for aesthetic reasons (blank line after <?php) or because I have not been told a reasonably good reason for them yet (like the @author and @licence in classes where implicit inheritance works well). WRT to the long lines, I always try to choose between the two evils the one that IMHO serves the code readibility more.
Anyway, the report provides really good feedback on my code syntax. Thanks for it. I'm glad seeing that no review detected serious mistakes in the code so far.
David, I think the 3 cases you expose above are pretty spot:
1) the extra blank line after <?php. It's currently a warning only. Just the recommendation was set to "eat it".
2) the inheritance files->classes (and classes->classes). I think the vast majority of systems I tried performed them auto-magically. I think we could propose that to become also one recommendation (right now it's an error if I'm not wrong).
3) the long line limits were moved some weeks ago so we have up to 180 chars before getting an error. It's warning starting in 132 or so.
Then there are the print_r() and "overrides" ones that I had no idea about them at all. Those need to be revisited for sure, feel free to open an issue.
So I think more or less all us (integrators) agree those are not critical. But others like:
A) missing phpdocs completely in classes and/or methods/functions.
B) indenting
C) wrong spacing/lining after "if/for/try/catch..."
certainly seem to have their point and, progressively, will become 100% mandatory. And current master seems to be a good target to start observing a lot of them.
Just my thoughts... we need to discuss this... my personal vote goes to ignore the 1...n ones but clearly enforce the A-C ones...
The only 'major' issues in the codechecker left where two trivial whitespace problems so I commited a patch to fix and integrated after another review.
Oh no, we are breaking the CLI installer:
Default exception handler: Error reading from database Debug: Table 'ci_installed_680_0.cii_config_plugins' doesn't exist
SELECT name,value FROM cii_config_plugins WHERE plugin = ?
[array (
0 => 'core_plugin',
- line 410 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
- line 872 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
- line 1165 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
- line 1114 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_select()
- line 1205 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_records()
- line 1304 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_menu()
- line 832 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to get_config()
- line 685 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to available_update_checker->restore_response()
- line 1664 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to available_update_checker->get_update_info()
- line 125 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to plugininfo_base->check_available_updates()
- line 285 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to plugin_manager->get_plugins()
- line 680 of /admin/cli/install.php: call to plugin_manager->all_plugins_ok()
Hi David,
Looks like we have a discrepancy with the installers CLI installer is calling all_plugins_ok() where are web installer doesn't seem to.
I came up with a hacky solution for this https://gist.github.com/a7461a8ed43980b0ae5e but really the fact we are doing two different things with the two installers seems more serious problem..
So hoping to have some insight on your thoughts
Unfortunately David is unwell today, get well soon David! So progressing this issue by creating a new issue:
And in the meantime committing my interim patch.
Ok temporary fix has been deployed, with the long term solution to be addressed in
OK I have tested a variety of scenarios and I have found a few issues while testing which are linked here.
These can be addressed separately so passing this test, thanks!
Hi guys. Firstly thanks a lot for the responsible testing of this. I am sorry I was not able to help you much with the fixes, being sick. I definitely agree with Eloy's wise words on the code checker. I'll follow the report suggestions. Should I prepare a patch in a separate issue? Or did Dan fix them?
WRT the installer issue, is Dan's solution really that hacky? The alternative could be to subclass the plugin_manager to something like bootstrap_plugin_manager but for now, there's nothing wrong with Dan's patch.
David: with regard to codechecker, I fixed the two "wrong spacing/lining after "if/for/try/catch..." issues. The only remaining 'major' issues are missing phpdocs on the test classes.
With regard to the 'hacky' solution I only use that term because I didn't know if it was the right solution Otherwise thats fine - although as noted in
MDL-32329 we really need to ensure the two installers follow same path!
The code here has been spread to upstream moodle repositories and mirrors for anyone to use .
Closing, have a good weekend!
Added 4 new QA tests: MDLQA-1549, MDLQA-1550, MDLQA-1551 and MDLQA-1552. I've removed the QA test required flag from this tracker item. If there is any extra coverage anyone would like adding please comment on this issue and re-add the QA test required flag and I'll pick it up.
Available update notifications documentation now available:
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Notifications (linked to from the update notifications page in moodle)
also mentioned in http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Installing_plugins#Plugins_overview and http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Messaging_settings#My_profile_settings
Please shout if anything needs adding or amending.
Re-adding the docs_required label to remind me to add documentation about 'Notify about new builds' setting.
Additional update notification settings now mentioned in http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Notifications#Update_notifications


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December 10 2010 08:23AM
On November 22nd against the Dallas Stars Jonas Gustavsson stopped 21 of the 22 shots he faced to raise his season save percentage to 0.922. Since then he's played six games without stopping 90% of the pucks he's faced.
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At game '6' he took over the load with Giguere lost to a hip injury. He stopped six pucks in the third to hold onto the lead against the Nashville Predators. Two nights later Gustavsson stopped 29 out of 30 against the Devils before losing against Montreal despite stopping 37 of 39.
During that stretch Gustavsson was unreal. He made acrobatic saves, was big in the net and was infuriating opposing shooters. The only goals getting by him were tipped or cross crease passes where he was hung out to dry.
Since then we've seen Gustavsson cool down considerably. In the Edmonton game, for instance, Eberle scored a goal that went through Gustavsson's armpit. Taylor Hall put the puck far side high as Gustavsson got tripped up and slid out of position.
J.S. Giguere is probably done as an NHL goaltender. After last night he sits at an .890 save percentage and he's playing like he's beaten; he's deep in his crease and down early. It means Giguere's groin is still broken or he's slowing down too much and retreating into his crease to avoid moving laterally.
Giguere is here to help Gustavsson though so he's not Vesa Toskala despite his awful statline. It can take time for a young goalie to turn flashes of brilliance into sustained elite play. In that sense Gustavsson's recent struggles are indicative of the Leafs' struggles.
What some people see as inconsistent play could perhaps be better described as the growing pains a young team will go through in the NHL. That they don't put in a good effort every night might be explained by pointing out that the Toronto Maple Leafs rely on a pretty good second line in Grabovski-Kulemin-MacArthur to carry the load every night and let their best scorer dangle in the wind without anyone to play with.
It's rough watching the Leafs but don't turn on the youth on this team. Kessel, Gustavsson, Schenn, Kadri. These are young kids that in other markets would be playing sheltered minutes out of the spotlight. In Toronto their options are to dominate the NHL or be derided as busts.
Gustavsson looks tired; he's not ready to carry an NHL team on his back all season yet. He needs a veteran goalie to help him through the difficult times in an NHL season and to help shoulder the weight of the world. J.S. Giguere seems like a fine guy to do that for Toronto.


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[2]Choi Jeong Hwa, artists' talk, Second Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, September 1996
[3]Choi Jeong Hwa, interview with James B Lee, 'Flim-flam and fabrication: an interview with Choi Jeong-Hwa', Art Asia Pacific, vol 3, no 4, 1996, p 66
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