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Skip to comments.Study: Obamacare Will Lead To Health Insurance Death Spiral (Pelosi knew)
Posted on 08/25/2013 4:03:25 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) A substantial number of young, single Americans have a solid financial incentive to forego the Obamacare health insurance exchanges a trend that could send the federal health care program into a death spiral.
According to a new study from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a large number of single people between the ages 18-34 who do not have children have a substantial financial incentive not to cross-subsidize older, sicker Americans covered under the health care system. Without the younger generation purchasing through the exchanges, the exchanges will quickly dry up.
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The best thing opponents of Obamacare have going for them is Obamacare. The implementation glitches and the ensuing delays have created a perverse system: Individuals must purchase insurance with no out-of-pocket cost cap while employers are under no obligation to provide insurance. Aside from the gross unfairness and the difficulty in rolling out the plans (e.g. exchanges arent set up, there is no guarantee personal information will be protected, the centrality of a corrupted IRS) Obamacares debut is bringing home several unpleasant realities.
"death spiral" is by design. It was planned that way. The goal is "single payer", and a death spiral is a perfect "crisis" from which to present a single-payer solution.
HELLO!!! The IRS TARGETED Conservatines....just like the DEATH PANELS will taget Conservatives and ANYONE WHO DOESN'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!!!!<P.ALL of you Independents BEWARE!!!
Until the day I die, I will vote for whomever I choose, not some politician telling me who to vote for.
When the jobless rate for the youngest workers is approaching 22%, how the heck does Obama think they can afford health insurance? They are living with mom and dad and are lucky to get a part time job, so there is no chance they will be able to pay the bill that Obama and the Democrats have stuck them with.
Of course Pelosi knew..she knew that we wouldn't know unless we pass it.
The problem with the liberals' idea that the failure of Obamacare will lead to single-payer is that the voters are going to be seriously pissed by the substantial rise in health insurance premiums. The DNC has had their bite at the apple, so to speak, and now why should the voters trust the Democrats to muck up the system again?
If the Democrats' plan to achieve single payer went like this:
1. Pass Obamacare.
2. Implement Obamacare.
3. Make sure Obamacare fails.
4. Pass single payer.
then they missed a step between 3 & 4, where there's this thing called "Win re-election."
Obamacare is what happens when the Underpants Gnomes do health care.
What is more, how is adding 30 million people to the health care system without adding doctors, nurses and hospitals going to bring down the price of health care?
What Obamacare does is increase demand, while doing nothing to raise supply. How is the price of health care supposed to go down?
It's about like the open-borders lobby on the subject of household incomes. Household incomes in the US have stagnated for 10+ years now. How is adding a huge new supply of cheap labor going to increase wages, and therefore household incomes?
Or arranging for many more kids to enter college. The government arranges for millions more kids to enter colleges, no increase in faculty or colleges, and the price is supposed to come down how?
On and on and on. There's a whole lot of people in DC, both conservative and liberal, who are peddling very large-scale, yet very simple economic assumptions that cannot possibly be true. In all cases, they're ignoring large scale applications of supply and demand.
In health care, they're all assuming that doing something to permit demand to go up will result in prices going down. That's not how supply and demand work.
In labor markets, the open-borders lobby is campaigning for huge influxes of labor, while peddling the lie that this flood of labor (supply) won't result in prices going down in a job market where demand (new jobs) isn't increasing.
Even trying to roll out "baby steps" has been a miserable failure. There is no way this comes out as planned.
Because monopolies are good, especially government monopolies.
The State's Role
One thing that does not get talked about with Obamacare is that it is NOT insurance.
If you cannot pay the amount the government decides that the IRS will take from you, then you will be placed into your states welfare roles. And if you get sick, and require care, the state will pay...
There is no good side to Obama care and making sure people were covered more than they are now is not what it does.
Note from CNS News
People whose household income is too small to qualify for the subsidy will be put on Medicaid. People whose household income exceeds 400 percent of the FPL will get no subsidy at all.
According to the IRS, which responded to a CNSNews.com inquiry on the issue, a household earning an annual income that is just $1 more than 400 percent of the FPL is ineligible for an Obamacare subsidy, period.
As explained by both the IRSwhich wrote the regulation governing the Obamacare subsidyand the Congressional Research Service, which published a July 31 report on the matter (Health Insurance Premium Credits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), the Obamacare insurance-premium subsidy essentially works as a cap on the percentage of annual income an eligible person is required to pay in health-insurance premiums.
Bottom line here is that this'll be a test case for just how dumb the average Obamadroid is. If low information voters aren't as stupid as Zero's counting on them being, the exchanges won't work. I almost feel guilty that they're going to spend the next twenty years of their lives providing benefits for me, but only almost.
Thirty seconds after the insurance companies figure out they've been thrown under the bus, they'll switch sides.
Therefore, that will leave more money and services for the libs and dims
Or a truly free market where people can choose what coverage they want to purchase; HSAs, tort reform, etc.
Letting states decide their own way to cover indigent like indemnifying doctors who volunteer their time.
So many possibilities; we do not have to accept single payer!
He doesn't think they can afford health insurance, he figures you can afford to buy it for them. The subsidies are coming out of your pocket.
Agree, but how do the Marxist Rats get there? Won't it take take multiple Congressional votes to make that change? I don't see the political capitol that the Rats would need to make the change. They have bought the farm with the majority of the American people just for the ACA.
OCare increases the number of people who have health insurance, but doesn't increase the demand for health care all that much for two reasons.
1. The belief that the uninsured weren't getting health care is wrong.
2. The co-pays built into the approved plans will limit casual usage.
Mostly what OCare is about is redistribution.
I'm pretty sure that's how they get their greedy little hands on 401K accounts. For the children, of course.
The point where insurers switch sides is going to be the crisis point. If OCare can't come up with a way to buy them off in whatever system follows OCare, they'll torpedo it. The "single payer" will either be an insurance company, or there won't be one.
Bingo! You have the correct answer.
1. Pass Obamacare.If the Republicans are clever, they can replace Step 4 with real reform that introduces free-market solutions.
2. Implement Obamacare.
3. Make sure Obamacare fails.
4. Pass single payer.
then they missed a step between 3 & 4, where theres this thing called Win re-election.
Who picked ages "18-34" to study people not buying insurance? What about older healthy people?
My college son visited his NJ friends family. In 2012 they voted for Obama and thought Obamacare was good till reality hit. The friends father almost lost his good union health insurance, his friends mother lost hers as the place she worked at cut her hours to 29. The friends sister just lost her job because the place she worked at want to keep the number of workers below 50. They are pissed and angry at Obama, and probably will sit out of the elections in 2014. They are not ready to vote GOP but will boycott Dems, they basically do not trust politicians. IMHO many Dem blue collar will sit out of the election in 2014. It will help the GOP in short run, but in long run not help because these blue collar voters are available if the right Dem candidate comes along. Biggest challenge to GOP is to win these Dems over. Stop catering to corporations and Wall Street will be a good start. Supporting unabash globalism and free trade without weighing its degree of social disruption against its benefits would be a good place to start. If free trade and NAFTA is sooo good for America, why is the middle class shrinking and incomes stagnated for 10+ years before 2008 financial implosion, while Wall Street and CEO got richer and richer?
I'm pretty sure that's how they get their greedy little hands on 401K accounts. For the children, of course.
This is how "healthcare" will be funded.
The government sets the payment which can go up.
The farther up it goes the more people get thrown to the state.
A certain fixed percentage lose everything.
The more money they want...the more people get thrown onto the state.
Perfect funding source for the medical-industrial complex.
If the fine for not getting insurance is less than the cost of buying insurance they will just pay the fine, THEN when they eventually get sick or hurt, THEN they will go get insurance which the insurance companies are MANDADATED by law to give to them even with a pre-existing condition!
This was COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE
Everything you say about the flaws of Obamacare is correct.
But unpopularity alone won't stop the single-payer freight train coming down the tracks. Once the low-information voters have been shown the "utopia" of eliminating preexisting conditions, there's no going back to the days when insurance companies could operate like, well, insurance companies and not offer a free ride to everyone.
The National Health Service in England is quite unpopular in public opinion polls, with all the horror stories coming from the brutal and decrepit hospitals. But the brain-dead British people, euthanized by big-government, will not give up socialized medicine. Instead the National Health Service is celebrated in Orwellian fashion at the summer Olympics.
The entire premise of Obamacare is that the 18-34 cohort -- which is the least likely to buy health insurance -- would end up paying for either a.) the low income premium subsidies with their tax penalties or b.) the discounted premiums for older healthy people.
Somebody has to pay the freight...and it was 18-34's who were nominated.
Consequently, if they don't cooperate, the scheme collapses into a pile of excrement.
You have 1&2 right but don't you think Obamacare will implode/self destruct from fraud and waste before 3&4 can be implemented?
. This is one time I hope the SHTF!
Do it now!!! Sign the petition to defund Obamacare sponsered by Senators Lee & Cruz!!!
Oh, I think this is coming out exactly as planned. Progressives (Marxists) have always wanted single-payer; and, this is going to get them there.
R candidates get majority of campaign cash from corps... For your suggestion to be viable, we have to crowd out that source. It helps to ONLY donate to individual campaigns.
of course rats are in a similar situation, except replace corps with unions, replace conservatives with blacks/lbgt/etc
Yep. Why is everyone so shocked? This is the plan.
Is that he 0Care game board? Are those all of your choices for *treatment*?
Obama thought delaying the employer mandate till 2015 would delay what the employers do before mid term elections. WRONG! Companies plan ahead and are already gearing up and making announcements to accomodate "Obama no care" now. Companies are also informing employees as to why they are making their decisions. Mid term elections are going to have some ticked off voters.
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Heh heh, you used Republicans and clever in the same sentence...heh heh heh
The government still needs insurance companies to administer the plans, ie create plans, determine benefits, collect premiums. What the Feds want to do is in effect nationalize them, just like the banks. The insurance companies could become a regulated monopoly, like a national utility, with a specified profit.
I think the key is to implode 0-care. This can be done by individuals not signing up for the exchanges and gaming the system when sick. That way, insurance companies will exit the market before they can be effectively nationalized. Yes, there will be a vacuum, but instead of necessarily leading to a total government run system, free market solutions, supported by state initiatives, could fill the void.
It subsidizes old people, in particular, old females, who are the single biggest users of health care in the country.
If you give old women a way to consume more health care, they will.
Let's be serious. The GOP-e can't find their own head, which is currently firmly planted on the dark side of their sphincter muscle.
Let's be serious for a moment, shall we?
The GOP Establishment will never turn their backs on Wall Street and the "free trade" crowd. The GOP Establishment wants to be liked, and they figure that if the press doesn't like them, then at least the mandarins occupying corporate jets and boardrooms will like them and take them grouse hunting at some corporate ranch in the west. The GOP Establishment thinks just the same as the hard lefties in the DNC, they just want to do it to us more slowly.
And the people thinking that Ted Cruz is going to actually do something about it... lemme see, a lawyer with a Harvard background. Yea, I'll believe he really sides with the common man on this when I see him really do something.
Young people are beginning to discover, much to their dismay, that they were beyond stupid in 2008, and even more stupid in 2012. When I talk to some of these stupid young people, I've decided to no longer sugar-coat the issues any more. When I listen to their tales of woe and grief, I just arch my eyebrows and say "Well, you voted for this outcome, so I can't understand your complaints. You asked for this, you got this, so...?"
They look at me as tho I'm stupid. "What do you mean, I voted for this?"
"Well, have you read the actual analysis of what's in Obamacare?"
"Well, there you go. This is all coming as a surprise to you because you voted for Obama and the Democrats, and you got them. Good and hard. You're just too stupid, too lazy, (or both) to read the bill - either before or after it passed - to figure out that that entire 'Affordable Care Act' is one huge transfer of wealth, from you youngsters to old people."
"What do you mean?"
"You're going to be paying far more for your health insurance than if you went into the pre-Obamacare market to buy the same sort of plan. The excess money you'll be paying will be going towards making old people's insurance costs go down, especially the cost of insuring old women. You voted for it, so you must support this idea."
"Oh, and you expected companies to just lay back and take the increased costs. The Democrats (for whom you voted) thought that companies would just implement this instead of moving to part-time labor. That was stupid too. 75%+ of the jobs being created now are part-time jobs. So much for predicting what corporate management would actually do."
"But those companies are making so much money!"
"Yep, they're making soooo much money that they're re-hiring people after the end of the 2008 recession slower than after any recession post-WWII. They're giving warnings on revenue. They're increasing their earnings while the top line is mostly flat by cutting expenses - by doing things like moving people to part-time status to cut down spending on health insurance. Yep, they're positively rolling in money. That's why you didn't have a job when you graduated in 2010, and that's why you don't have a job today. But don't worry, Obamacare says that your parents can add you to their policy until you're 26! That's only, what, two years away now?"
"F... you."
"Yep, nice talking to you, Scooter! You voted for this, you deserve it, so enjoy sleeping in your mom's basement."
I love kids.
The people who I find most amusing are the unions.
The unions were TOLD, explicitly TOLD, by Pelosi, Reid and Obama, that they'd be able to keep their "Cadillac" plans - the type of plans with no deductible, no co-pays, etc.
The unions are now finding out that they were lied to.
That issue could really hurt the Democrats in the next two election cycles, because there's no good way for this clown posse' administration to undo the hit on the unions' health care plans without bringing a lot of other questions out into the open.
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Author of Ed Engoron's Choclatique, Running Press, 2011
Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines. In other languages, its name is a translation of "bread pudding" or even just "pudding," for example "pudín" or "budín" in Spanish.
There is no fixed recipe, but it is usually made using stale or left-over bread, and some combination of ingredients like milk, eggs, sugar or syrup to make custard, along with dried fruit and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace or vanilla. As you might expect, I prefer to add lots of Choclatique chocolate. The bread is soaked in the custard, mixed with the other ingredients and then baked.
It may be served with a sweet sauce of some sort, such as chocolate, whiskey, rum or caramel sauces, but is typically sprinkled with sugar and eaten warm in squares or slices. In Canada it is often made with maple syrup. In Malaysia, bread pudding is eaten with custard sauce. In Hong Kong, it is typically served with vanilla cream or ice cream.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Bake Time: 45 minutes
Ready In: 60 minutes
Yield: 12 servings
For the Sauce:
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup light corn syrup (Karo)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup chopped toasted pecans
2 tablespoons bourbon
For the Pudding:
2 cups whole milk
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup granulated sugar
8 ounce Choclatique Private Reserve Dark Chocolate
8 large eggs
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 pound egg bread, sliced into 1 inch pieces
To Make the Sauce:
- In a heavy large saucepan stir 1 1/4 cups sugar and water over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
- Mix in the corn syrup and lemon juice. Increase the heat and boil without stirring until syrup turns deep amber brushing down sides of the pan with wet pastry brush and swirling the pan occasionally.
- Remove from the heat and pour in 1 1/4 cups cream (Be Careful—The Mixture Will Bubble Up).
- Stir over low heat until the caramel is melted and smooth.
- Increase the heat and boil until the sauce is reduced to about 1 2/3 cups, stirring often, about 4 minutes.
- Remove from heat; mix in pecans and bourbon; set aside.
To Make the Pudding:
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- Combine the milk, 2 cups of cream and 1 cup of sugar in a medium saucepan over medium high heat, stir until the sugar dissolves and the mixture comes to boil. Remove from heat, add the chocolate; stir until smooth. Let the mixture cool for about 5 minutes.
- In large bowl beat the eggs with the vanilla extract to blend. Gradually whisk in cooled chocolate mixture.
- Add the bread cubes and let them stand until bread absorbs some of the custard, stirring occasionally, about 60 minutes. Transfer mixture to a 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Cover with foil.
- Bake until set in center, about 45 minutes.
- Remove the foil to lightly brown the top; no more than 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Serve pudding warm or at room temperature with warm sauce.
ChefSecret: For the bread I like to use stale challah (Jewish egg bread), brioche (French egg bread) or even King's Hawaiian Bread with the crusts removed. In a pinch you can use stale French bread also remembering to remove the crust. Using stale bread give the pudding a little more texture and bite.

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The clues were locked away in rows of 1,500-year-old teeth.
Archaeologists concluded that many of the people buried at the cemetery had died of the plague. Further testing revealed that the bodies were interred sometime in the sixth century, probably around the year 543.
That would make them victims of the Justinian plague, an outbreak named for a Roman emperor who succumbed to it, a plague that killed almost half the world's population.
Many questions lingered about that ancient plague, but one that intrigued scientists was this: Was the strain of disease from that plague the same one that struck Europe in the Black Death, the same one that is still alive in rodents today? Had the Justinian plague, after ravaging half the world, died out, gone extinct — or could it happen again?
The search for those answers would lead halfway around the globe, to a laboratory with tight surveillance in the pine trees of northern Arizona.
The investigation by experts there would be wrapped up with other investigations, of human victims, of rats from Madagascar, of native prairie dogs on the Colorado plateau. And it would depend on those teeth.
"It turns out the teeth are almost like a time capsule for DNA," said Dave Wagner, a biologist at Northern Arizona University. "And the teeth stay intact in skeletons."
Wagner and fellow scientist Paul Keim have devoted their professional lives to understanding a disease most people think of as an ancient memory. But they know the plague is alive and well, across the Southwestern United States. And research could be what stands between the bacteria and another outbreak.
That's why an international team of scientists called in the NAU experts and put them in a room with samples from the teeth from Germany to try to unravel the mystery. What caused the Justinian plague?
"Because plague is a blood-borne pathogen, there would be plague in the teeth of victims," Wagner said. "But it was still like looking for a needle in a haystack."
Tracking a killer
Wagner never set out to become a plague hunter, never imagined himself searching for infected fleas in dying prairie-dog colonies across northern Arizona or tracking rats through the back alleys of Madagascar.
He wanted to study wildlife — emphasis on life — and trained as a wildlife biologist. He was tracking prairie dogs in 1999 when he started seeing more dead rodents than expected and more live fleas. The prairie dogs, he realized, were dying of the plague, a not-uncommon cause of death in colonies across the Southwest.
Wagner's fascination with what was killing prairie dogs led him to Paul Keim, a biologist and researcher at NAU.
Keim had earned the nickname "bioterrorism warrior" in 2001, when he analyzed samples of anthrax sent to government offices in Washington in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks and helped find the man believed responsible for sending the spores.
His detective work grew out of his scientific work studying infectious diseases and understanding how their origins and molecular makeup could help protect public health. Much as an anthropologist might test the DNA of a person to find he had ancestors from ancient Europe or Africa, Keim could analyze a bacteria's molecular structure and figure out where — or, in the case of a bioterrorist, from whom — it came.
Working together at NAU's Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Keim, the center's director, and Wagner, the associate director, have become two of the world's leading experts on the plague. They pick through the pathogen's DNA to learn more about why it has persisted through the centuries and how it could yet kill millions more people.
By charting the genome of the plague bacterium mostly found in animals, breaking its genetic code, researchers can track outbreaks and identify strains particular to a region or to a point in time, however long ago.
"There is fascination with the plague," Wagner said. "It has that history. But the strains we have today are equally capable of causing disease. The difference is how we react to it."
Rodents and fleas
Plague is an infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is most often spread to humans through flea bites. Bacteria carried by the fleas spreads into the bloodstream and attacks the lymph system. As the bubonic plague, it causes fever, headache and swelling — akin to a particularly bad case of the flu, Wagner said.
Left untreated, bubonic plague can develop into the far-worse septicemic plague. Skin and tissues can turn black and die, a grisly hallmark that helped create the term Black Death.
When that infection attacks the respiratory system, the disease becomes pneumonic plague. From there, it can spread directly from one human to another, as scientists suspect it did in the ancient plagues.
Scientists have long believed rodents and fleas helped spark those plagues. Improved hygiene and changes in rodent populations quelled the spread of the fleas, and the disease.
Modern medicine has since turned the plague into a curable disease
"Plague is a dangerous disease," said Keim. "But there are lots of drugs that can work on plague. It's very treatable."
Fewer people realize the same bacteria live on, even today.
The Southwest grew into a hot spot for the plague in this country, Keim said, because the pathogen became endemic among prairie dogs, the native rodents whose colonies dot the high plateaus.
That's where NAU researchers find the plague today.
When the researchers and students plan field trips to a potentially infected prairie-dog colony, they undergo training about how to protect themselves from flea bites or dead rodents. They are examined before the trip and their health monitored after.
"We've never had a single person come down with the plague," Keim said.
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In a lab on the third floor of NAU's Applied Research and Development Building, behind a series of three doors secured with electronic locks and monitored by video cameras, Keim, Wagner and student researchers study the plague, analyzing samples of bacteria from hunting expeditions as near as Lake Mary Road outside Flagstaff and as far-flung as Madagascar, off the coast of southeast Africa.
"Plague is a word sometimes used generally, but what we're studying here is 'The Plague,'" Keim said. "It is still of historical importance. These are events that affected who we are and what we are today."
NAU scientists work with other research institutions and government agencies to better understand the plague pathogen. The campus center is closely aligned with the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute.
Cedar Mitchell, an NAU junior in microbiology, spends part of her time in the lab sequencing the DNA of plague samples. She has helped devise a computer program that would help doctors in Madagascar identify plague strains and perhaps anticipate new outbreaks.
"If they find an outbreak in, say, the highlands and one in a port city, they can see if they are from the same sources," she said. Knowing that could help treat victims or warn people who could be at risk.
"Once you fingerprint everything, you can see what strains are active," Wagner said. "The hope is they can do it in real time. We want to take our existing research somewhere that it can be used."
There is another part of NAU's plague work that Keim and Wagner talk about in less detail. It is part of the reason the lab is so secure and is inspected and tested frequently by federal agencies.
"Plague can be used as a biological weapon," Keim said. "It has been, even back in the time of the Justinian plague."
U.S. authorities believe the Soviet Union was trying to develop an aerosol version of the plague bacteria that could be dispersed as a weapon. It could still be used by terrorists. If scientists could extract and identify DNA fingerprints from 1,500-year-old plague strains locked away in a Bavarian cemetery, perhaps they could do the same with a bioterrorism weapon. That could help point authorities to the source, just as Keim did with the anthrax spores — another infectious bacterium — in 2001.
What scientists hoped to discover in the 1,500-year-old teeth was whether the plague that killed more than 100 million during the Justinian outbreak was a strain from the Yersinia pestis bacterium that caused the Black Death and continues to spread today.
The teeth never actually made it to Flagstaff, in part because the NAU lab has built such a reputation in plague research. To satisfy the standards set in the field of ancient DNA about avoiding contamination with modern-day DNA, the teeth from the Aschheim cemetery were taken to McMaster University in Ontario.
Samples from two individuals were ground into molecules from which DNA could be extracted. Wagner and NAU's genomics center provided the expertise to analyze the DNA and help construct the genome.
"This is the oldest bacterial genome ever produced," Wagner said. "We were able to go back in time and find something that went extinct."
The map of the genome offered an answer, but left some of the mystery intact.
The NAU scientists helped conclude that the strain of plague was separate from the one that caused the Black Death and still exists today. The Justinian bacteria had died and left no descendants. It was, as the scientists say, an evolutionary dead end.
For plague sleuths, questions remain. Why did the Justinian strain die out? Why did the next outbreak not occur for another 600 years? And if the plague is just as dangerous as it ever was, could it explode across the globe once more?
Keim and Wagner say the world is a far different place now. Cities are cleaner. Rats are better controlled. Antibiotics are readily available. And research is helping public-health agencies contain the disease.
"We don't think we're going to see new large-scale plague pandemics," Wagner said. "Not because the organism has changed. It's just as deadly as it always was. But humans have changed."


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Ryan Thomas, who has spent the last seven years at the College of Eastern Utah as president, is resigning from that position and will be gone from the campus sometime after graduation this spring.
That announcement came from the board of regents on Monday afternoon, but the plans for him to leave have been in his mind for some time.
"When we came here, my wife and I discussed the fact that when I turned 55, I would like to go back into teaching, so we decided to stick with the original plan," said Thomas on Monday morning. "Even though we had committed to that as a family this was a hard decision for us."
Thomas came to the college at a time when there was a lot of turmoil on campus. The school had just gone through an administration that a lot of people blamed for numerous problems and the college seemed more isolated than ever from the community that surrounds it. Since that time Thomas said one of his main goals was to grow that relationship and make it better.
"There was a sense of uneasiness between the community and the school and I have worked over the last seven years to help that situation," said Thomas. "That has been an important focus for our entire administration in that time. We wanted both Price and Blanding to feel a part of the college," said Thomas.
Thomas came to CEU in 2000 from Utah Valley State College where he had worked for eight years as the vice president of student services, the dean of computer and business services and the dean of engineering.
Thomas has a law degree from Brigham Young University which he obtained early in his career. After getting that degree he practiced law in Los Angeles, Calif. for a few years and then later ended up in Rexburg, Idaho being the general counsel for Ricks College (now known as BYU-Idaho).
After some time there he became the director of student services at BYU in Provo and stayed there for 12 years before moving on to UVSC. It was during that time that he also received his PhD.
Thomas said the decision to leave was not only based on a plan but also on family ties that are spreading out across the country, particularly along the Wasatch Front.
"Both Ann and I have aging parents in the Ogden area, and some of our kids are there too," he said. "We want to live in close proximity to them if we can."
Thomas has some old ties to eastern Utah and will still feel he is leaving home when he moves.
"My grandfather was a coal miner and my father was born in Sunnyside," he stated. "My father was a foreman at the Castle Gate mine when the big disaster occurred there and that left a real imprint on him. While not all my kids grew up here, we spent enough time with relatives in the area that many of them consider this home too."
One of the things Thomas remembers the best about when he came here to serve as president of the college was the friendliness of the the place.
"A week after we arrived here I was walking through the bakery in a the local grocery store and one of the men working there told me how glad he was that we were here," he said. "That was a good feeling. I felt I was in the midst of friends. There is a warmth here that is remarkable."
Thomas said along with trying to get the community and college to be closer together he feels he has been affiliated with two other notable accomplishments. First was getting the school out of debt. When he came to the school, it was millions of dollars in the red.
"We are completely out of debt now and I feel very good about that," he said.
Second was an accredidation issue he faced right after taking the job.
"In that first year the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools made a visit and pointed out a number of areas in which the school was lacking," he said. "We fixed those things and were able to get back into good standing with them."
Recent developments concerning the possible merger between CEU and USU has been the newest issue to raise its head. Thomas said that that issue had nothing to do with him resigning.
The board of regents had high praise for Thomas, when they discussed the issue in a meeting last week.
"President Thomas has made tremendous contributions to CEU as well as to the Utah system of higher education,' said Jed. H. Pitcher, regents chairman. "We are grateful for his dedication, sacrifice, and committed service to the students, the college and this state. He will be missed."
The state board will announce an interim president for the college by the end of the academic year.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2013 – As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's commitment to encourage the next generation of scientists, USDA Chief Scientist and Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics Catherine Woteki will speak at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Md., on December 9.
Students in the school's Watershed Integrated Study Program (WISP), led by award-winning chemistry teacher Coit Hendley, are creating games about agriculture to educate other young people about where today's food comes from, and ultimately to inspire their peers to get involved in the work needed to feed the world population of the future. USDA plans to support the students' game development by providing expert advice and data resources where needed.
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NHL Lockout Will End When Greed Finally Takes Over
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October 24 2012 08:04AM
Contrary to popular belief, greed has not been the driving force behind the NHL lockout.
No. To date, it's just been business. And in business, you exploit your position to extract the maximum profits the market will bear. You do this either by squeezing out the competition so you have free reign to raise prices, or you use leverage to drive costs out of your supply chain. There is no greed involved. It's just math.
In fact, if greed has a role to play, it will be in saving the NHL hockey season. Here's why...
There is little pressure on the NHL owners to end the lockout until the entire season is on the line. They went through this before in 1994, and they saw the NBA go through it last year. If you can scrape together half a season, the league as a whole will be fine. Especially since none of you took my advice and just gave up on hockey altogether. Junkies.
Anyway, the point is the NHL knows they can ride through a shortened season, but they also know very well that another cancelled season would be catastrophic. This is not 2004 when it was generally acknowledged that the system was broken, and if the NHL had to blow up the league in order to save it, so be it. This time, the lockout has been engineered by the league solely to squeeze costs out of the system, much the same way Wal-Mart squeezes it's suppliers.
Last time it was for survival. This time it's just business. That's where greed comes in.
The league's plan all along has been to maximize the pressure on the players in order to extract as many concessions as possible without having to cancel the season:
They don't want to lose the Winter Classic. They don't want to turn off sponsors. They don't want to jeopardize the new revenue streams. Not based on principle or concern for the league, but because all these things mean cash. And they don't want to go a full year without cash either.
So the key point of leverage for the owners is in late November/early December when the Winter Classic and indeed the entire season is on the line. Until then, the pressure will continue to build disproportionately on the players simply because they have more public exposure:
Unlike the owners, that are safely hidden behind Bettman and Daly, many players are out in public every day facing questions from the media, to say nothing of dealing with friends and family. They aren't seasoned business people. Public discontent will have much greater impact on them than the likes of Ed Snider and Jeremy Jacobs.
By the way, for the Canucks, public exposure at UBC depends on the season:
But back to the owners' ingenious plan.
In order the maximize pressure on the players, the key is to drag out the process as long as possible and ratchet up the pressure on the players along the way.
Here's how I would do it:
1. Keep the process limping along
This means making proposals, as necessary, to make it seem as though you're trying to move forward and reach a solution. At the very least don't cancel another tranche of games without first making a token offer. If possible, include a plan for when the season would start, even though that is irrelevant to the CBA. You're the good guys. Yay.
But always remember to include something in your proposal that is so extreme that it will never be accepted. The make-hole provision in that last NHL offer was a great example:
The NHL's most recent offer made for great sound bites before anyone looked at it with a critical eye. And that's the key to the next step:
2. Control the message
Get your viewpoint out into the media before the NHLPA has a chance to poke holes in it. If you get your story out first, the response is more likely to be seen as spin:
So get your proposal out there in public so that people with little or no context or grasp of the issues can make uninformed snap judgements. Sure, there will be some that see the right through it, but the vast majority, hungry for a solution, will laud your transparency:
When the players finally respond, dismiss their counter-proposals out of hand. The more time you take to deliberate the more legitimacy you give to their offers. So again, get out in front of the message, disparage their response and cast blame.
3. Amp up the pressure
Immediately cancel some more games after they reject or counter any of your offers; even if it's sooner than the deadline you gave to get the season up and running again. It's important to try and link any bad news, like cancellations of more games, with the intransigence of the NHLPA. Given that the NHL has brought in a PR firm with lots of experience in politics, it shouldn't be a surprise that some of the same strategies would be applied here. One of the most common practices when coming from behind in public opinion is to sling enough mud around that everyone gets dirty.
4. Foster dissent
The external pressure from the public will take care of itself after awhile. To really turn the screws, you might want to start creating a little internal dissent. Sure, some of that will happen on it's own, but that takes time:
And just like the owners don't want to get to the point of actually cancelling the season, it's also important not to push the players so far that you get past the tipping point of just how much they'll bend before they break:
But with that in mind, there's nothing like a leaked memo or two to get them thinking. Again, with Luntz on board, it's not out of the question that the NHL might be taking a concept from politics, the push poll, and applying it to a very public negotiation in order to plant a little seed:
I actually think lifting the gag order and then leaking the memo was a genius move. Evil genius, but genius nonetheless.
5. Rinse and repeat
Go back to Step 1 after a couple of weeks and do it all over again. The key is to not let the public furor die down too much. You don't want numbness and apathy. You want drama, outrage, hope, anger, anything but apathy.
This has been the NHL gameplan from the start and they've executed it brilliantly. What was once a clear NHLPA advantage in public opinion has evaporated. The players are now just as likely to be blamed for the lockout as the owners in so far as blame is now apportioned jointly to both parties. Most importantly, the league has essentially coerced the players into giving up 7% or roughly $230 million PER YEAR without having to give up a single concession in return. And that's before the full-season schedule deadline has even passed! Astounding.
So, given the success to date and the time left before the season is truly on the line, I would not be at all surprised to see another round of theatre in mid-November before the owners put a real deal on the table around Black Friday, when greed takes over.
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GC, another insightful and brilliantly articulated POV. Kent if you are reading this please promote GC to "Blogger at Large" so these offerings can be shared with the rest of the Nation. Me thinks GC's anonimity here at CA is wasteful. It would better to be charting for the ON audience so your talents could be appreciated by more than the 5 readers here.
October 24 2012, 10:34AM
CA's traffic is actually pretty healthy - readers here are just less inclined to comment at this point in time.
October 24 2012, 10:36AM
CA is the 2nd biggest Nations blog property (behind only ON) and the most trafficked independent Canucks hockey blog (by a lot). Most of GC's posts get shared across the network eventually, and that will continue.
Thanks for reading. In addition to your refusal to objectify women with some crass Gravatar display, you're also a credit to the wit and intelligence that Oilers fans are famous for.
Kent, " readers here are just less inclined to comment at this point in time."
Oh ya, they are less inclined allrighty. Illiteracy can be debilitating.
Thomas, " the most trafficked independent Canucks hockey blog (by a lot)."
OK, I may have taken license to minimize the actual number of readers. There are at least twice as many as I said. And that's a lot.
Now I did not troll over here to raise the ire of the faithful or call out any unwashed, mouthbreathing, knuckledraggers on the west side of the Great Divide. I merely wanted to share with GC that his work is recognized and read. Hell, even Tinfoil Toque has some intelligent synapse flashes every now and then and I let him know that when the spirit moves me. Thomas, I could warm up to you but you live in Toronto for gawds sake.
The above, of course, is all in jest and I want to say how much I appreciate the Nation Network for being available to all of us on a daily basis. All except those heathens in Ottawa and Montreal who should stay in the abyss....."cold and freezing in the dark" I think someone once said. Thank you for sharing and allowing me to share too.
That "make hole" graphic is hilariously brilliant!
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Also, article is OK.
Good read. Intelligent points, for a canucks fan. ;)
Ah, finally some old-fashioned flaming and trolling...gawd, how I've missed it! Though--it's hilarious we've been reduced to flaming and trolling about our bloggers, rather than the Ben Eagers or Burrows of the world.
On the other hand, GC, I'd like to say, as an early fan, great article again!
October 24 2012, 09:46PM
Great article. Loved it.... A canucks fan you say?
I mean, could use a little work but is ok.
October 24 2012, 09:52PM
CA is the 2nd biggest Nations blog property (behind only ON) and the most trafficked independent Canucks hockey blog (by a lot). Most of GC's posts get shared across the network eventually, and that will continue.
Thanks for reading. In addition to your refusal to objectify women with some crass Gravatar display, you're also a credit to the wit and intelligence that Oilers fans are famous for.
Wait... did you just say you don't like boobs?
I think thats part of the reason I like GC's articles so much, half his pictures kinda look like boobs or cleavage...
One of the best articles I've read on here. I could have used a little exposition on how the owners conned a lot of people, including most posters on this site, that they somehow squared the circle and managed to move directly to 50-50 while honouring contracts. I read a CP story in The Journal Tuesday that is still saying the owners offered the players a 50-50 split. Math is not the strong suit of sports journalists.
Both sides agree that 50-50 is the end goal. The divider is how to get there. The players have told the truth. Unless you refuse to honour the contracts you claim to have signed in good faith you CANNOT move directly to 50-50. Because of some very rich, long-term contracts it will take some time. The owners scam is to defer contract payments and then subtract them from the players' share of HRH, pulling their share into the mid 40s for years. That is NOT a 50-50 split. If you fell for that con I have a great pyramid investment scheme for you. The 55-60% of players with one or two years left on their deals are going to be the ones making those deferred payments from the share of HRR they are forced to give up.
That is why I side with the players. They accept 50-50, which is now the established ratio in NA pro sports, but rightly insist that the owners should first honour contracts they signed of their own free will, but in bad faith, knowing very well what they were going to demand in this CBA. Just like they did leading up to the 2005 lockout. The fact that players earn an average of $2.4 million only means they do not need your sympathy. It does not mean they are not right.
October 24 2012, 10:45PM
I would like to say something but Pouzar99 said it all. Props, kind sir.
October 25 2012, 01:13AM
Excellent work. A very enjoyable read!
October 25 2012, 07:27AM
The NHL 50/50 offer was a stroke of negotiation guenious. It forced the NHLPA into responding, and guaranteed that any counter offer that came off of 50/50 would instantly caste the players into a negative light.
The only part of GC's arguments that I don't agree with is that the 2012 lockout iis not about the NHL's survival? For at least 15 teams, I believe getting costs under control ultimately is a survival strategy. Even billionaires can't loose 10's of millions every single year.
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Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.9
Fix Version/s: 1.9
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It's related to using too much memory (usually these are a get_records type call)
[Fri Feb 15 17:34:26 2008] [error] [client 22.214.171.124] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 100663296 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/html/moodle/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 3004, referer: http://moodle.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=6689
there are a few other areas of the choice code that need a good tidy up, - I'm going to try and spend some time on cleaning it up a bit for 2.0
I'm thinking that call to get_record('user', 'id', $usr->userid);
could be replaced with something like:
get_record_sql('SELECT id, picture, firstname, lastname, idnumber FROM '. $CFG->prefix .'user WHERE id= '.$usr->userid);
as I don't need all the fields back from the user table
..forgot to mention - that patch breaks display of users in the unanswered column.
tidier patch that shouldn't break unanswered column - also cleans up a couple of unneeded calls to has_capability
cleaned up patch and now in HEAD and 1.9STABLE which should improve when not using the unanswered column.
I see the responses are loading now. - did you find where it was causing issues?
No, I didn't. it's working for ordinary users but not for admins...
hmmm.... It will probably be due to the 2 get_users_by_capability calls.. - I'm thinking about restructuring that page, and only using get_users_by_capability for the unanswered column - means it should only need to be called once...
first fix - new version of choice_show_report_link (not tested completely yet, but should be fine!)
function choice_show_reportlink($choice, $courseid, $cm, $groupmode) {
if ($groupmode > 0){ $currentgroup = groups_get_activity_group($cm); }
else{ $currentgroup = 0; }
$context = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_MODULE, $cm->id);
$allresponses = get_records("choice_answers", "choiceid", $choice->id); //get all responses for this choice.
$responsecount = 0;
foreach ($allresponses as $usr) {
if (has_capability('mod/choice:choose', $context, $usr->userid, false))
echo '
';
echo "id\">".get_string("viewallresponses", "choice", $responsecount)."";
echo '
';
...in fact - I think that will actually "fix" it for admin's - still a few performance tweaks to make though, but they might be able to wait for 1.9.1
should be sorted now - feel free to reopen if still not working!
Hi Dan,
Thanks a lot for your work on this issue. However when I test it on moodle.org as an admin, the bar chart of responses is displayed but the view 3000 responses results in a blank page
yeah - that report.php file is pretty bad - Dan P has written an intial patch that tidies it up a bit - will review and try to fix properly tonight!
I'd really like to fix this properly and am half way through a proper patch but I'm not going to get a chance to check it properly until Monday - in the interim I've quickly written this patch, which should work to improve performance, but I won't have a chance to commit anything till monday - if someone else wants to test this initial basic patch before then, feel free to commit it to CVS before we release 1.9!
Here are some numbers from http://moodle.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=158
Displaying view.php as admin:
45.419154 secs
RAM peak: 51.8MB
Included 55 files
DB queries 51810 (!!!!!)
Log writes 1
ticks: 4542 user: 1969 sys: 86 cuser: 0 csys: 0
Load average: 1.60
Record cache hit/miss ratio : 0/8
Displaying view.php as ordinary user:
26.286735 secs
RAM peak: 49.6MB
Included 41 files
DB queries 51805
Log writes 1
ticks: 2629 user: 1792 sys: 69 cuser: 0 csys: 0
Load average: 1.98
Record cache hit/miss ratio : 0/8
Displaying report.php as admin (with patch, thanks, because it runs out of memory without patch):
69.938082 secs
RAM peak: 49.6MB
Included 42 files
DB queries 59945
Log writes 1
ticks: 6994 user: 2128 sys: 463 cuser: 0 csys: 0
Load average: 1.43
Record cache hit/miss ratio : 1/9
There is still a long way to go here (look at all those db accesses for has_capability inside loops). Really we should be able to get all the data with one SQL statement and some joins.
Oddly, there are 4367 active participants in Using Moodle currently, but Choice says there's 8407 responses, so something is wrong.
Originally, the choice module only showed and counted answers from currently enrolled people. I'm guessing the code is still trying to do that (but it seems to be failing to do so accurately).
On the other hand perhaps we COULD let it show just all the choices that have been recorded (back until the course start date perhaps or even a choice start date). This would be bog-simple SQL and fast.
wow! - thanks for posting details on those numbers!
- I'm not too keen displaying "all" choices that have been recorded, it should just show those that have "has_capability" for that course (although that must be failing somewhere.) - I'm trying to seperate out all the calls to get repsonses to one single function that creates an array with all the right stuff. and only call that function once per page (when admin logged in it does it twice on view.php, and report.php is really stupid!
should have something better somtime this morning!
attaching first version of patch for report.php (only really tidies up download of results)
here's a patch that should tidy it up a lot - still room for improvement - but keen to see if it makes much of a difference on moodle.org!
doh - that patch won't work.. give me a bit longer to sort it out properly!
better patch - missed correct creation of array when not using groups.
Current stats: (not much different)
46.523566 secs
RAM peak: 47.4MB
Included 41 files
DB queries 51828
Log writes 1
ticks: 4652 user: 1725 sys: 77 cuser: 0 csys: 0
Load average: 1.81
Record cache hit/miss ratio : 0/2
I'm looking into the code now for a bit. Perhaps we can just get ALL the responses and then cull them down.
I think the main issue is a bug in get_users_by_capability() ! (ie not your fault! Working on it)
> DB queries 51828
> think the main issue is a bug in get_users_by_capability()
MD - is there any path in get_users_by_capability() in 1.9 that causes such insane unbound number of DBQs?
Yep, though this problem is a little from column A and a little from column B.
1) get_users_by_capability() returns ALL users on the site (causing memory limit on moodle.org) when a capability is defined positive for a default role (eg Authenticated users) regardless of the users being actually able to access the given context. So in this case, we were checking for mod/choice:choose in a Choice activity within a course, and the default user has that capability. However you also need to be a participant in that course (moodle/course:view) to actually use that capability, so really we want to check BOTH.
In this case I could just remove that capability from Authenticated User because we don't really need it (and it's not default!). I don't know how it got there.
However this issue could easily crop up on big sites in future.
2) Very small bug I noticed on the way: In the same function there user_lastaccess is JOINed all the time even when we don't really need it (because we specified our own sorting). I will check in a patch for this bit shortly.
3) I've rewritten choice_get_response_data to be much more efficient (it now always uses get_users_by_capability), but then I found that there is a totally unneeded has_capability inside a big loop in choice_show_form, which I'm fixing now.
Should be fast shortly!
makes a bit more sense now! - I was using has_capability as it seemed to be faster than using get_users_by_capability
1.579156 secs
RAM peak: 24.6MB
Included 41 files
DB queries 43
Log writes 1 ticks: 158 user: 45 sys: 6 cuser: 0 csys: 0
Load average: 0.70
Record cache hit/miss ratio : 0/2
Just checking and tidying and it's going in.
awesome! - well done!
will test it completely first thing tomorrow morning!
> DB queries 51828
>DB queries 43
Kudos. That's how Real Men Do SQL.
Thanks Dan (your fixes got us half way there) and Martin for support
Just adding a link to
MDL-13755 which is about the issue in get_users_by_capability()
Wow - it's really fast now! Fantastic work - a big THANK YOU Martin and Dan!


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