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SAINT PAUL, Minn. – In the quarterfinal nightcap of the WCHA Final Five, it wasn't the team wearing green – Alaska-Anchorage – that found themselves with all the luck on St. Patrick's Day.
The Seawolves missed on several quality scoring chances early, let Colorado College build a lead and never rallied, falling 4-2 to the Tigers at Xcel Energy Center Thursday night.
"This was a huge win for us," Colorado College coach Scott Owens said. "We knew it was going to be a difficult game. Anchorage is playing as well as anyone in the country."
Numerous times in the game's first 20 minutes, Anchorage created great looks at the net. The Seawolves outshot the Tigers 7-5 in the first, nearly doubled up CC in shot attempts (16-9) and, if it weren't for a combination of kick-saves and pipes, could very easily have scored two or three times before the first horn sounded.
Instead, Colorado College got tallies from William Rapuzzi and Tim Hall, leisurely establishing a two-goal lead after the opening period.
"I think the difference in the game was early," Anchorage coach Dave Shyiak said. "We had some quality scoring chances where we didn't finish, and they got some puck-luck goals early."
Colorado College had three of their four goals either bounce onto an open stick or go straight into the net after deflections off Seawolves' players, including two of the three goals in the opening 24:39 to give CC a 3-0 advantage.
Once Mickey Spencer finally got Anchorage on the board, the little spark of life that did flicker was quickly extinguished by a Tiger goal in the final minute of the second.
All night, every break the Seawolves seemed to create for themselves was somehow shifted against them. Spencer's potentially huge goal was quickly answered by CC. Three-straight power plays in the third, including almost a minute of five-on-three work, saw nothing materialize as Anchorage spent the majority of its man-up situations retrieving the puck from their own end instead of setting up in the Tigers' defensive zone.
"It wasn't a typical CC-type of game," Owens said. "It wasn't a style of game that we see very often. After a very poor first period, we settled in and seemed to play better."
For Shyiak and the Seawolves, the loss ends what was one of the most successful seasons in Alaska-Anchorage history, highlighted by only the program's second trip to the Final Five in the 18-year history of the tournament.
"It doesn't sit well, and it doesn't feel right," Shyiak said. "If you take time of possession and who outplayed who, I thought we played like we had to play.
Colorado College, who currently sits on the bubble for a birth in the NCAA tournament, plays No. 1-seed North Dakota tomorrow night. The Tigers have only played 11 of 42 games on NHL-sized ice, and knows exactly what they'll get against a gritty, hard-hitting Sioux team in the semifinals.
"North Dakota is a really physical team," Rapuzzi said. "All these teams this time of year play real tough, especially on an NHL sheet. I think [a physical game] will kind of play into our favor a little."


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What is Java equivalent for LINQ?
There is nothing like LINQ for Java.
You can select the items in a collection (and much more) in a more readable way by using the lambdaj library
It has some advantages over the Quaere library because it doesn't use any magic string, it is completely type safe and in my opinion it offers a more readable DSL.
I developed a alternate solution, Coollection. Is simple and focused on the most used actions of iteration over Collections.
Use like that:
from(people).where("name", eq("Arthur")).first(); from(people).where("age", lessThan(20)).all(); from(people).where("name", not(contains("Francine"))).all();
Lambdas are now available within Java 8 in the form of JSR-335 - Lambda Expressions for the JavaTM Programming Language
UPDATE: JDK8 has now been released which contains project lambda. It's worth grabbing a copy of Java 8 in Action currently still MEAP.
Have a read of Brian Goetz articles relating to lambdas for a decent understanding of how lambdas are implemented within JDK8 while also gaining an understanding of streams, internal iteration, short-circuiting and constructor references.. Also check out the JSR's above to get further examples.
I've written a blog on some of the advantages of using lambdas in JDK8 called The Power of the Arrow, also NetBeans 8 has great support for converting constructs to JDK8 which I've also blogged about Migrating to JDK 8 with NetBeans.
You won't find an equivalent of LINQ unless you use the javacc to create your own equivalent.
Until that day when someone finds a viable way to do so, there are some good alternatives, such as
there is a project called quaere
its a java framework which adds abilitiy to query collections
There are many LINQ equivalents for Java, see here for a comparison.
For a typesafe Quaere/LINQ style framework, consider using Querydsl. Querydsl supports JPA/Hibernate, JDO, SQL and Java Collections.
I am the maintainer of Querydsl, so this answer is biased.
you can use scala, it is similar in syntax and it's actually probably more powerful than linq.
LINQ to Objects - JAVA 8 has added the Stream API which adds support for functional-style operations on streams of values:
Java 8 Explained: Applying Lambdas to Java Collections
LINQ to SQL/NHibernate/etc. (database querying) - One option would be to use JINQ which also uses the new JAVA 8 features and was released on Feb 26, 2014 on Github: https://github.com/my2iu/Jinq
JINQ project site: http://www.jinq.org/
See SBQL4J. It's type-safe strong query language integrated with Java. Allows to write complicated and multiply nested queries. There is a lot of operators, Java methods can be invoked inside queries so as constructors. Queries are translated to pure Java code (there is no reflection at runtime) so execution is very fast.
EDIT: Well, so far SBQL4J it's the ONLY extension to Java language which gives query capabilities similar to LINQ. There are some interesting project like Quaere and JaQue but they are only API's, not syntax / semantics extension with strong type safety in compile time.
A more C#-like solution is JaQue. It has both: linq-to-object/xml functionality and a provider model with API very similar to MS LINQ. A simple JPA (Hibernate) provider is implemented. After Java will get closures, it will be elegant as well.
I tried guava-libraries from google. It has a
Seems to be an extensive library for Java. Certainly not as succinct as LINQ but looks interesting.
Just to add another alternative: Java 6 does have a solution for type-safe database queries using the javax.persistence.criteria package.
Though i must say that this is not really LINQ, because with LINQ you can query any IEnumerable.
There's a very good library that you can use for this.
Located here: https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light
Lambdas won't be available until Java 8 though, so using it is a bit different and doesn't feel as natural.
It sounds like the Linq that everyone is talking about here is just LinqToObjects. Which I believe only offers functionality that can already be accomplished today in Java, but with really ugly syntax.
What I see as the real power of Linq in .Net is that lambda expressions can be used in a context requiring either a Delegate or an Expression and will then be compiled into the appropriate form. This is what allows things like LinqToSql (or anything other than LinqToObjects) to work, and allows them to have a syntax identical to LinqToObjects.
It looks like all of the projects referred to above are only offering the capabilities of LinqToObjects. Which makes me thing that LinqToSql-type functionality is not on the horizon for Java.
For basic functional collections, Java 8 has it built in, most of the major non-Java JVM languages have it built in (Scala, Clojure, etc), and you can get add on libs for earlier Java versions.
For full language integrated access to a SQL database, Scala (runs on the JVM) has Slick
As on 2014, I can finally say that LINQ is finally there in java 8.So no need to find an alternative of LINQ anymore.
For LINQ (LINQ to Objects), Java 8 will have something equivalent, see Project Lambda.
It has Enumerable's LINQ to Objects extensions like stuffs. But for more complicated LINQ things like Expression and ExpressionTree (these are needed for LINQ to SQL and other LINQ providers if they want provide something optimized and real), there is not any equivalent yet but maybe we will see that in future :)
But I don't think there will be anything like declaratives queries on Java in future.
There is no such feature in java. By using the other API you will get this feature. Like suppose we have a animal Object containing name and id. We have list object having animal objects. Now if we want to get the all the animal name which contains 'o' from list object. we can write the following query
Above Query statement will list of the animals which contains 'o' alphabet in their name. More information please go through following blog. http://javaworldwide.blogspot.in/2012/09/linq-in-java.html
Check out tiny-q. (Note that you currently can't download it.)
Here's an example adapted the above link:
JaQu is the LINQ equivalent for Java. Although it was developed for the H2 database, it should work for any database since it uses JDBC.
Maybe not the answer you're hoping for, but if some part of you code need heavy work on collections (searching, sorting, filtering, transformations, analysis) you may take in consideration to write some classes in Clojure or Scala.
Because of their functional nature, working with collections is what they're best at. I don't have much experience with Scala, but with Clojure you'd probably find a more powerful Linq at your fingertips and once compiled, the classes you'd produce would integrate seamlessy with the rest of the code base.
An anonymous user mentioned another one, Diting:
There was the programming language Pizza (a Java extension) and you should have a look to it. - It uses the concept of "fluent interfaces" to query data in a declarative manner and that is in principle identical to LINQ w/o query expressions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_programming_language). But alas it was not pursued, but it would have been one way to get something similar to LINQ into Java.
besides of the given ones, one could also take a look at:
Not really a "Linq to SQL" equivalent for Java. but something close to it . Query DSL
There is no equivalent to LINQ for Java. But there is some of the external API which is looks like LINQ such as https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light, https://code.google.com/p/jaque/
HQL (Hibernate Query Language) is very similar to Linq .Net
Scala.Now i star read it , and found it like linq but more simple and more unreadable. but scala can run at linux,yes? csharp need mono.
you can try this library: https://code.google.com/p/qood/
Here are some reasons to use it:

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Hope you got to read my profile of Bacarri Rambo. A little background: I did not set out to report on him dealing with the death of his son. didn't know about it. It was one of those situations where I had planned to feature him this week since he was coming off a two-interception performance against Ole Miss and now leads the nation in interceptions per game. It was only after calling down to Rambo's Donalsonville hometown that I discovered what he had been dealing with in the days leading up to the game and since. And then I wasn't really sure how I was going to handle it. I had to talk to those closest to Georgia's star safety — and, of course, Rambo himself — before deciding how to proceed. In any case, what was lost in the wake of all that was some of the anecdotal information I gathered for the story. So that it doesn't go to waste, I figured I'd just share it here. . . .
Rambo's Seminole County head coach is Alan Ingram. He told me about first discovering Rambo's unique athletic gifts when Rambo came into the high school as a ninth grader.
"He was just a little goober then, a real small guy," Ingram said. "But you could tell right away he was an athlete. And he was fast. I'm an option guy, so I knew I wanted to get the ball in his hands. We played three ballgames and we lost them all. We didn't really have any athletes. So finally I threw him to the wolves at quarterback in that fourth game. We lost that game, too, 7-6, but we played a whole lot better because of him. And he just got better and better after that and we started to win some ballgames."
Ingram said Rambo quickly became a local legend, but he was slow in drawing attention from outside the rural southwest Georgia region. He vividly recalls what first attracted the Bulldogs to his star player, who played quarterback and outside linebacker in high school.
"I was at a coaches clinic and Mike Bobo was speaking. I've known Mike forever, so I asked him, 'when are y'all going to come look at the Rambo kid?. He says, 'can he play?' I said, 'I just happened to put a tape in the mail to you on Friday. You look at it and give me a call back'."
Ingram said the first highlight on the video was of Rambo on defense. Rambo was playing outside linebacker on the far side of the field when an opposing player broke free down the opposite sideline. Not only did Rambo manage to run down the player, he also punched the ball loose from the runner's sideline arm, caught the ball in midair and whipped around and returned it 40 yards in the other direction.
The tape also some offensive highlights, including 14-carry, 388-yard, six-touchdown performance by Rambo in the 2007 playoffs.
"That next Monday, Bobo called me," Ingram said. "Coach Richt and all of the coaches were there with him and they were laughing and carrying on after watching the tape. He says, 'Holy Cow!' Tell him he's got an offer."
Other colleges received the same highlight tape and offers quickly came pouring in, including one from Georgia Tech, which wanted Rambo to come to The Flats and run the option. But Ingram said none of the other schools really had a chance.
"He grew up wanting to be a Bulldog and his daddy wanted him to go to Georgia, too," Ingram said.
About Tech, Rambo told me he was intrigued with the idea of running coach Paul Johnson's spread option, which is very similar to what they were doing at Seminole. However, he said he really did grow up wanting to play for the Georgia Bulldogs. Plus . . .
"I got tired of getting hit. I wanted to hit somebody else."
So that's kind of where I was going with the story — Rambo's nose for the football — before the news of his son's death took it elsewhere. Rambo is enters the Mississippi State game on Saturday with nine career interceptions. The Georgia career record is 16 by Hall of Famer Jake Scott, so he has a way to go to run that one down. Practice update coming soon.
September 28th, 2011
4:23 pm
Wow, shocking. Stay strong Rambo. You have the right coach and fanbase by your side during a time like this. I didn't read the article past "death of his son", cause it doesn't matter. Nothing is worse than a child who has not had the experience of an entire lifespan.
September 28th, 2011
4:23 pm
Oh forgot. FIRST!!!!
September 28th, 2011
4:27 pm
Im praying for you Rambo and your family that God be with you cause He doesn't make mistakes.
September 28th, 2011
4:32 pm
…..This guy is an athlete. Sorry to hear of his deceased son.
September 28th, 2011
4:32 pm
So sorry for your loss. Lean on your teammates and family for support during this time.
Regarding the profile, even being mentioned in the same sentence with Jake Scott at this point in your career is quite the coup.
September 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
Rambo is a special player, in the mold of previous great UGA DBs. Sorry to hear about his son. Rambo, you need to know that UGA fans are grieving along with you and support you all the way.
September 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
This guy has heart and talent. Condolences for his loss. I hope he stays healthy throughout the rest of his career.
September 28th, 2011
4:45 pm
I pray for peace, comfort, and healing for your family, Bacarri. I can not imagine what you have been through.
September 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
a moment of silnece…..
September 28th, 2011
4:53 pm
Praying for you rambo! Lean on the Lord!
September 28th, 2011
4:55 pm
We pray for you and your son, there is another DGD in heaven!
September 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
Sorry for your loss. I wish you would have come to Tech, it would have matched your talents well. I understand that your family and you grew up Bulldog fans and you followed your heart. I have respected you since the Auburn game where you sacrificed your body to make the play. Best wishes until the last Saturday in November.
September 28th, 2011
4:58 pm
Ironic that CMR is telling the fans how to cheer….. too bad he isnt paying that much attention to the football team he supposely coaches……
His record is showing it…….
1- GEORGIA is a combined 0-5 against Top 25 teams in 2010 & 2011 (0% winning ratio)
2- GEORGIA has lost 10 of its last 12 against ranked teams (20% winning ratio)
3- GEORGIA is now 16-14 in its last 30 games (53% winning ratio over past 30)
4- GEORGIA is 7-10 in the past 17 SEC games (41% winning ratio against SEC teams)
5- GEORGIA is 4-5 in their last 9 games going back to last season
6- GEORGIA has won 2 of it's last 4 games. (neither were a powerhouse)
7- GEORGIA has not beaten a Div 1A team that finished w/ a winning record in its last 18 games.
September 28th, 2011
5:09 pm
bugsy, give it a rest. Your comments don't match the article.
September 28th, 2011
5:17 pm
bugsquacher, your a real class act
September 28th, 2011
5:23 pm
Praying for you Rambo. You are a DGD who has given your all to GA from the Auburn game to today.
September 28th, 2011
5:25 pm
No parent should have to bury their child. What a tragedy.
God bless you Bacarri.
September 28th, 2011
5:35 pm
Bacarri, I have prayed for years for my son who is at UGA right now. I will pray for you too. I have always prayed that I might not have to bury him. I am sorry that you never got to pray that prayer. God is using your story now and I pray that He will continue to use you in the future. God Bless You.
Philippians 4:13
September 28th, 2011
5:41 pm
Rambo, I am praying for and your family. I truly know what you are going through. We lost our daughter 3 years ago and the pain will dull, but never goes away. God bless you in all that you do.
September 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
Bacarri, Praying for You and your Family. bugsquacher class act bubby.class act.
September 28th, 2011
6:05 pm
There is always a lot of back and forth trash talking on these blogs between Tech and UGa fans, but this is not the article for that kind of drivel….I will say a prayer for you and your family, Bacarri, that God will help you through this tragic event. Kind of puts football in perspective.
September 28th, 2011
6:15 pm
Praying that your heart will be healed by our Father God in Jesus Christ
The Lord bless you,and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.
God bless you and your family
September 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
GT 79, Very classy. I echo your comments. I am praying for and your family.
September 28th, 2011
6:29 pm
As a parent who knows all too well what the Rambo family is going through, we will be praying for him. He is a well grounded kid in the strength of the Lord so he will be ok. Somewhere down the road, he will discover a reason in God's will.
Stay strong Bacarri. By the grace of God, your heart will grow stronger.
September 28th, 2011
6:31 pm
And bugsquacher, if you can't stay on topic on a blog this serious without spewing your same tired old negative crap, then just stay off the boards dude. Your character and credibility took a hit with that post.
September 28th, 2011
6:33 pm
What a story. Bacarri, we're praying for you! Stay strong, man!
September 28th, 2011
6:33 pm
bugsquacher… you need a need a spelling, and a civility, lesson. we should all remember this next time our boys make a mistake on the field; you never know what a kid is going through.
September 28th, 2011
6:40 pm
@bugsquacher, You need to get something new , every day the same old tired crap. Everyone remembers what a suck year 2010 was. Good luck Rambo , sorry for your loss.
September 28th, 2011
6:44 pm
"god has a plan" huh? Well, his "plan" included killing a innocent child then. When will you idiots wake up and realize that we are all alone on this planet; the death of children happens in every species… its not a plan, its what's been happening for billions of years. Bacarri, I'm sorry for your loss, God din't kill your child, it was nature and has been happening for eons. I'm here for you as a fellow human, when you look at the billions of galaxies out there, remember we all still have each other on this planet, and if things are going to get better, then we are the ones that will make it that way… god has done nothing and will do nothing to alleviate your pain, the death of this wonderful child should clue you in on this irefutable fact.
September 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
@tenndawg, no one is saying God killed his child. The point being made is that God has a plan for Bacarri's life despite this tragedy. Get a clue.
Praying for you, Rambo.
September 28th, 2011
7:07 pm
tenndawg, no one will pity you when you spend eternity in a very warm climate.
September 28th, 2011
7:09 pm
TennDawg, my you burn in hell.
September 28th, 2011
7:10 pm
That's may you burn in hell.
September 28th, 2011
7:11 pm
First off I can't express how sorry I am for your loss Bicarri. As a father of three healthy children, this story has reminded me of my many many blessings and how I need to be thankful every waking moment. Your attitude about life is exceptional and obviously carries over into your actions.After watching the game Saturday I thought you had played some amazing ball.In fact I gave you my personal mvp award.After reading this story i thought you just upped the anty on all future UGA greats and what kind of men they can hope to be.Go dawgs and i'll be rootin' for ya the rest of your career.
September 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
Damn! That's tough. God speed Rambo.
September 28th, 2011
7:23 pm
My condolescences, Bacarri, to you and your family, and I pray you all will someday find peace in the loss of your son, Braylin.
May God bless you, and I hope that you continue playing in tribute to him.
Thank you for your devotion to UGA during this sad time in your life, and best wishes in your playing career.
September 28th, 2011
7:26 pm
Bacarri, My wife and I also lost an unborn son 4 years ago. I can tell you this is the hardest thing ou will ever have to deal with. I can tell you it does get to a point where you can live with the pain and move on with your life. I have a new found respect for you to play with the pain I know you were dealing with.
May God bless you and your family, now and forever!
Georgian by birth, Bulldog by the grace of God!
September 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
@ tenndawg
I pity you.
September 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, Mr. Rambo.
Stay strong!
September 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
That is a very difficult blow for any parent. Keep the faith and Godspeed Bacarri
Also nice to see the class GT fans. I didn't know there were any
September 28th, 2011
7:33 pm
You are certainly entitled to you opinion, since we live in a free country. That said, I do not think this is the proper forum to be giving a lecture to a young man (that just lost his unborn child) on your religious views. Please use some common sense in the future.
September 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
God Bless you, son!
September 28th, 2011
7:40 pm
You'll find that in the midst of a real human tragedy, most all bloggers are pretty classy.
Unfortunately, you'll also find some, like tenndawg, who seemingly have neither heart, nor compassion.
Glad to see you made it back safe from Ole Miss.
September 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
Unfortunately, I know your pain all too well Rambo….may God comfort you both.
September 28th, 2011
8:15 pm
Beast…don't always like what you say on here…..but You are a class act with your comments! Praying for the Rambo family!
September 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
Guys this just shows you that while most of us are extremely passionate about our teams, that for the most part we are respectful and it is just football afterall.
September 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
Ken Malcome is transferring…
September 28th, 2011
8:37 pm
tenndawg is right
September 28th, 2011
9:07 pm
I'm glad I'm not standing near tenndawg cause all them volts from the lightning strike coming his way surely won't be pleasant.
He must be just outside that bible belt in Tennessee….have mercy on his soul.
September 28th, 2011
9:08 pm
….stepping away from John too!


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Women's Health Project: Fact Sheets
- A disproportionate share of the burden of poverty rests on women's shoulders, and undermines their health.
- 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are female.
- Iron deficiency anemia, which is a direct result of malnutrition and poverty, affects double the number of women compared to men.
- Half a million women die unnecessarily from pregnancy-related complications each year, the causes of which are exacerbated by issues of poverty and remoteness.
- On average, women are paid 30-40% less than men for comparable work, which makes it even more difficult for women to overcome poverty than men.
- Socioeconomic change in many parts of the world causes loss of jobs and roles for men. Women are increasingly becoming breadwinners in addition to their domestic and caring roles; but as their earnings are likely to be lower, and child care often suffers, patterns of poverty are easily perpetuated.
- For the poor and near-poor of both sexes, sickness is a catastrophe which can lead to economic ruin.
- Where traditional medicine or healers are available, many women choose these systems first for reasons of cost, convenience, and comfort. Often, these methods do not work and can lead to further health complications.
- Poor families tend to be larger than richer ones, which increases the reproductive and caring burden on women. Adolescent pregnancy is high in poor families.
- Poverty is a significant factor behind stress and depression in women, with domestic violence a frequent contributing factor.
All information was obtained from the Gender, Health and Poverty fact sheet, World Health Organization.
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Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector, who introduced the amendments to the original bill, said customers have a choice and can skip fees if they buy tickets in person. She said she worried about losing musical acts to other venues if Baltimore moved to limit fees.
"It was definitely a dangerous place to go in terms of keeping us competitive for entertainment," she said. "It would have cost us business. It would have cost us jobs."
Councilman Bill Henry, who voted for the amended bill, said he believed the market would determine how high user fees would go.
"Clearly people are willing to pay," he said.
The legislation comes after the council voted in March to allow companies such as Ticketmaster to continue to charge unlimited fees when selling tickets to events in Baltimore. The council approved that bill to counter a court ruling that the fees are illegal under the city's anti-scalping law.
Ticketmaster and its owner, Live Nation Entertainment, have declined to comment on the issue.
Andre Bourgeois, a 50-year-old Inner Harbor resident, sued Ticketmaster and the Lyric Opera House in 2011 after being charged $12 in user fees on a $52 ticket to see singer Jackson Browne in 2009. His hope was that Ticketmaster would be forced to stop charging the fees for events in Baltimore — and would issue refunds to customers who have paid the charges.
According to his lawsuit, Ticketmaster takes in about $1 billion annually from user fees on $8 billion in ticket sales worldwide. The suit does not estimate how much of that comes from Baltimore.
In 2011, Live Nation agreed to pay $22.3 million to customers to settle a class-action lawsuit over delivery fees.


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Gov. Nathan Deal's announcement this week that he would not expand Georgia's Medicaid program because of its expense – even though the federal government says it will pick up at least 90 percent of the tab – brought an array of feedback. Democrats say the Affordable Care Act is a bargain and other states will gladly take the money due us. Republicans counter that the feds can't be trusted to pay and that the state is seeking more creative ways to meet the needs of our uninsured.
By Pat Gardner
If you think we are scrambling now to come up with a workable Plan B to deal with transportation gridlock after the defeat of the T-SPLOST last month, think about this:
There are no options on the table – in Atlanta or Washington – to get as many as 1.3 million Georgians health insurance as fast or as effectively as implementing the Affordable Care Act would.
Georgia is getting a grand bargain under the new health care law. In less than two years the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of the Medicaid expansion and no less than 90 percent after that.
Such a generous level of funding will not jeopardize the state's $19.3 billion budget, as the governor's office had to acknowledge recently.
Turning away our share of the $35 billion slated to come to Georgia through the ACA – funds that will go to other states that will happily use it to expand their Medicaid programs – seems a fool's game. Yet that's what Gov. Nathan Deal said he would do when asked about it by reporters at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
While we play that political game, our people will remain uninsured and New York, North Carolina, Ohio and other states will get to use our taxes to help their working families get the health care they need. Our tax dollars will in fact subsidize our business competitors in Charlotte and Knoxville…and that can't be good for growing jobs in Georgia.
By expanding Medicaid an estimated 650,000 Georgians will no longer rely on hospital emergency rooms to get their care for free but will have access to a doctor in their community. A similar number will be able to purchase affordable coverage for the first time through private carriers selling plans on a statewide insurance exchange.
If we don't implement the new law, the nearly 2 million Georgia adults under 65 will continue to go without health insurance, keeping us near the bottom among states in that dubious category. And this dismal statistic remains in place years after we have tried alternative plans that were supposed to reduce the number of uninsured and control costs.
You may remember some of these — caps on medical malpractice awards, mandated managed-care for Medicaid recipients, the sale of bargain basement, high-deductible plans, allowing insurers to get out of covering some benefits required by the state. It's worth asking how those have worked for us.
Moreover, without the expansion those of us with insurance will continue to pay higher and higher premiums and co-pays because hospitals, doctors and others have to offset the cost of caring for the uninsured.
By some estimates this cost-shift or hidden tax inflates family premiums $1,000 a year. Why wouldn't we want to get rid of this unofficial premium surcharge as soon as we can?
Still, the bottom line is this: Expanding Medicaid is simply the right thing to do. Most of the people expected to qualify under the new eligibility rules are the working poor — Georgians who work in low wage jobs . They still have to pay the rent, buy food and clothing — as well as health insurance — on that income.
They can't afford to wait for a Plan B that doesn't exist. Neither can the rest of us.
House member Pat Gardner, D-Atlanta, represents District 37.
By Sharon Cooper
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states a significant gift when it ruled the Affordable Care Act (ACA) constitutional but struck down the part that allowed the federal government to financially punish states that refused to expand their Medicaid programs.
Thankfully, that change allowed states to continue to have the major say in determining their financial future.
Just as with Georgia families, this prolonged recession has made it necessary for the state to greatly reduce its budget.
With the governor's leadership and the Legislature's hard work, we have made the necessary cuts to balance our budget. Georgia remains only one of eight states with a AAA bond rating, which allows the state to save millions of dollars in bond interest that can then be used to fund critical programs such as education.
The new law's expansion requirements would add approximately 625,000 more Georgians to our Medicaid rolls.
A Kaiser Foundation report estimates the price tag for that expansion would be $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.
Our current Medicaid program already consumes 17 percent or $2.5 billion of Georgia's budget, and its costs continue to escalate.
Given these facts, it would be financially reckless for our state to undertake a massive expansion of our Medicaid program.
Putting aside the steep cost, it is important to understand that access to coverage does not necessarily coincide with access to care.
Georgia has a major shortage of physicians, especially outside metro Atlanta.
Primary care physicians, who play a major role in the delivery of health care, are particularly scarce in Georgia. There are only 74 active primary care physicians for each 100,000 Georgians, making us a dismal 41st in the nation.
Our shortage of all types of doctors places our rank even lower. Georgia also has a deficit of other allied health providers such as nurses and physicians assistants.
Since Georgia already struggles to find physicians to treat patients in our current Medicaid program it would certainly be counterproductive to increase the number of Medicaid recipients by over 40 percent.
Tragically, in the 2,000-plus page ACA, the authors failed to include provisions for increasing the number of students graduating from medical schools and residency programs. By 2025, the U.S. will be short 130,000 physicians.
Georgia is being proactive in addressing this issue by increasing the number of our medical school slots and Gov. Nathan Deal has secured funding for additional residency positions.
Georgia continues to find innovative ways to provide health care coverage for our uninsured.
The establishment of 27 federally qualified health centers in Georgia with 163 service-delivery sites has increased access to cost-effective, patient-centered care.
The Georgia Association for Primary Healthcare estimates that the yearly per-patient cost at one of these centers is $385 compared to an annual expense of $4,510 per Medicaid patient.
We have also passed laws to encourage health care professionals to donate their time in free clinics across the state.
Quality patient-centered care is our goal for all Georgians.
Sharon Cooper, R-Marietta, is chair of the Georgia House Health and Human Services Committee.
September 2nd, 2012
12:47 pm
William Harding @ 2:15 am – The idea of Physicians donating their time is IDEAL but not in the long term will not work. Georgia's Physicians shortage could be wiped way in ONE Legislative ACT. An ACT they would never do because of the Millions of dollars donated to their campaigns and numerous free Lunches by AMA American medical Association,GA-AMA and untold scores of other physician related organizations.
If the Georgia Legislators would JUST give the Authority to the thousands of Licensed Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners the authorization to practice medicine independently in areas of Georgia where there is the greatest need of a Physician related services.
its the same type of primary and some specialty Medical Care that 80% of Atlanta's Insured population now currently receive on a DAILY basis. Think on that the next time any of you got your Physician for medical services. For at least 50% of YOU the physician assistant and the Nurse Practitioner IS YOUR Primary Care Provider.
About another 25% of YOU have not seen a REAL PHYSICIAN in a year or more!
This comment will upset a LOT of people ……..Who are not truly concerned about the Healthcare system. Like Rep. Price,MD (r) & and good ole rep. Phil Gingrey md (R)
they both will tell you this is NOT a good idea! or its impractical! but strange how it is practical and working for millions of Atlanta's citizens, 7days a week for YEARS!
at a cost reduction to GEORGIA insured plans in the BILLIONS!
Shhhhhhhhhh…….. You are NOT suppose to know that!
September 2nd, 2012
2:15 am
Sharon Cooper's submittal to the debate regarding Georgia opting out of expanding the Medicaid program as set forth by the Affordable Care Act is sheer nonsense. Her assertion that Georgia is finding innovative ways to provide health care to the uninsured by establishing 27 "federally" qualified health centers with 163 service delivery sites around the state is incredulous. She further asserts that the Georgia Association for Primary Healthcare estimates that the cost per patient on a yearly basis at one of these centers is $385 compared to an annual cost of $4,510 per Medicaid patient. Wow. If any of this were believable, Georgia should immediately shift all our Medicaid patients to these federally qualified health centers.
First, what is a "federally" qualifed health center? Is it a hospital? A clinic associated with a hospital? A "doc in the box" contracted with the state to provide medical services to the uninsured? Where are they located? Do the uninsured know where they are? Maybe this is why their costs are so low. Nobody knows they exist, so nobody uses them.
Second, what is the Georgia Association for Primary Healthcare? I've never heard of these folks before. Are they a group of concerned health care professionals? A group of doctors? A health care lobbyist organization? A lobbyist organization that specializes in providing bogus information to state legislators so they can submit stupid articles like this?
Finally, Ms. Cooper states the Georgia Legislature has passed laws "encouraging" doctors to donate free time to these clinics. When she says "encouraging", what does she mean? Tax breaks? How many doctors are taking advantage of this encouragement and donating their time?
Here's an idea. Why doesn't our beloved state legislature and governor pass a real encouragement law by donating money to a medical student's education in return for "x" number of years of free service at a health care clinic? This will go a long way to relieving the so called doctor shortage we have in this state. But this would take real leadership on the part of the state GOP, and we all know Republicans won't do anything substantive if it costs money.


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Arutz Sheva
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Arutz Sheva (Hebrew: ערוץ שבע) (Channel Seven) is an Israeli media network identifying with Religious Zionism.[4] It offers online news in English, Hebrew, and Russian. Arutz Sheva offers free podcasts, live streaming radio, a daily email news update, streaming video and 24 hour updated text news. The Israeli government has never granted it a license to broadcast, prompting[who?] charges of government discrimination against the Religious Zionist public. Arutz Sheva sees itself as "the only independent national radio station in Israel" and a counterbalance to " 'negative thinking' and 'post-Zionist' attitudes."[5] Based in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Arutz Sheva is regarded as the voice of the Israeli settlement movement.[6]
In the 1970s an unlicensed radio station, broadcasting from the sea, was launched by Abie Nathan. The station, named Voice of Peace, aired Western music and broadcast peace messages. In response, Israelis opposed to negotiations with the PLO launched their own offshore radio station,[7] Arutz Sheva, as an ideological competitor.[8] Arutz Sheva was founded in 1988 and was broadcast on the Israeli airwaves from the ship MV Hatzvi in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel until being shut down by the Israeli government in 2003. While the broadcast was generated from the ship, the actual studio for Arutz Sheva was in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.[8] The Hatzvi was much larger than most radio ships, but was broken up in 2003.
In 1996, the channel began broadcasting in Russian. In the Russian editorial office worked: Arye Vachnovetsky (chief editor), Semen Kaplan, Alexander Vladimirovich Averbukh, Yana Briskman. Broadcasting in Russian ended in 2002.
Currently the station broadcasts over the Internet from its website, which it has been running since 1995. Arutz Sheva was one of the first-ever internet radio stations and was used as a Beta tester for RealPlayer.
In February 1999, the Knesset passed a law granting a license to Arutz Sheva and absolving it of earlier illegal broadcasting, but this was appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled the law null and void in March 2002. In October 2003, ten employees of Arutz Sheva were convicted of operating an illegal radio station during the period 1995–98, both from inside Israeli territorial waters and from Beit El in the West Bank. The defendants were fined and sentenced to 3–6 months of community service. The prosecution appealed, attempting to get heavier sentences, but were strongly criticized by the appellant court for their handling of the case, and the prosecution was told to drop the appeal or face an investigation into their conduct during the entire trial.[9] Station director Ya'akov Katz (Ketzaleh) was also convicted on two counts of perjury for having lied about the location of the broadcasts.[10] In 2006, Katz was pardoned by President Moshe Katsav. In 2008, Katz became chairman of the HaIchud HaLeumi (National Union) party, and became a Knesset member (MK) in the 18th Knesset in Israel's February 10, 2009 national elections.
Arutz Sheva had a Hebrew frequency and a foreign language frequency (English, Russian, and French). Written news is offered on the websites in Hebrew, English, and Russian. Internet TV news in English and Hebrew. Arutz Sheva is Hebrew for "Channel Seven", and broadcasts from studios located in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Israel National News[edit]
Israel National News is the written news website, managed by Ari Soffer. News editors include Ari Yashar, Gil Ronen, Elad Benari, Tova Dvorin, and others. The site includes news articles, news briefs, videos, op-eds, a Judaism section, an opinion poll, a caricature, and additional sections.
Israel National Radio[edit]
Israel National Radio is Arutz Sheva's English language Internet radio station operating in Beit El. It broadcasts primarily across the Internet, and is simulcast on radio stations in the United States, Canada, and South Africa and affirms its purposes as being to spread the word of Israel to Jews and Israel-sympathizers living in English speaking countries as well as Anglophones living in Israel, and to be the archetypal "light unto the nations".
The station is made up of news on the hour and live and pre-recorded podcasts. These shows include current affairs commentaries, general talk shows, music shows, and Torah shows. The station's slogan is "the only independent news-talk network in the Middle East."
According to professors Shlomo Deshen and Charles Liebman, the radio station promotes right-wing positions.[11]
The podcasts on the station include Tamar Yonah, Yishai Fleisher, The Struggle (with ZFA activist Yehuda HaKohen), Israel Beat (a music program), Walter's World (with veteran broadcaster Walter Bingham), Land Minds (with Dovid Wilner and Barnea Selavan), Temple Talk (hosted by Rabbi Chaim Richman, a rabbi who works for the Temple Institute), A Light Unto The Nations, The Jay Shapiro Show, Torah Tidbits Audio with Phil Chernofsky, and The Aliyah Revolution (co-hosted by Go'el Jasper and Daniel Esses).
During shows, people can phone in on international toll-free numbers or chat with other listeners in a virtual studio chat room.
Arutz Sheva TV[edit]
Arutz Sheva TV offers online streaming television programs with news anchor and producer Yoni Kempinski, Knesset reporter Hezki Ezra, overseas correspondent Eliran Aharon and others.
Arutz 7's popular jukebox offers a wide selection of Israeli, Hassidic & Oriental Music, including selections for Jewish holidays and special events.
B'Sheva newspaper[edit]
B'Sheva newspaper is currently Israel's fourth most widely read newspaper, according to the TGI survey, and holds 7% of the Israeli market. The paper is distributed free to over 150,000 homes weekly. ISRAEL7.com is a weekly French language newspaper distributed in Israel.
Founding organization[edit]
The Beit El Yeshiva is the founding organization of Arutz Sheva and maintains it.[12]
- ^ "Ranking of Hebrew version (www.inn.co.il)". Alexa. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ^ "Ranking of English version (www.israelnationalnews.com)". Alexa. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ^ "Ranking of Russian version (www.israel7.ru)". Alexa. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ^ We Need To Put The Spirit Back Into The People: An Interview with Arutz Sheva's Yishai Fleisher, The Jewish Press, February 2010.
- ^ "Israel legalises religious pirate radios". BBC News. 1999-02-24. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ Shuman, Ellis (2003-10-21). "Politics: After court convicts Arutz-7 of illegal broadcasting, station goes off air". Israelinsider. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ Sue Fishkoff (December 20, 1996). "Station With A Soul". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ^ a b Schejter, Amit (2009). Muting Israeli democracy: how media and cultural policy undermine free expression. University of Illinois Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-252-07693-0.
- ^ [1]; "Arutz-7 Trial Is Over", May 25, 2004
- ^ Israel Insider; "Arutz Sheva senior personnel sentenced", Jerusalem Post, Dec 30, 2003; "Arutz Sheva staff given jail, fines", Haaretz, Dec 30, 2003, [2]
- ^ Shlomo A. Deshen, Charles S. Liebman (1995-02-01). Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel. p. 117.
- ^ "The Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, is a graduate of the Beth El Yeshiva, the organization that founded and maintains Arutz Sheva."Goldstein, Rabbi Warren. "A Passover Message from the Chief Rabbi of South Africa". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
External links[edit]
- Arutz Sheva Israel National News
- Israel National Radio
- Israel National TV
- Israel Jukebox
- Israel offshore radio -History of various offshore stations
- Israel News in Canada
- Arutz Sheva - Israel7 - Russian


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The Wolf Pack girls finish the season at 3-6-1 in the Tri-City Athletic League, 5-15-1 overall, and fourth place in TCAL. St. Mary's, undefeated in league play, and Tokay, 7-2-1, are headed to the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.
Even though they won't head to the postseason, players saw their team get better all season and figure there's a good foundation in place for next year.
"As a team, we were really young. Starting out, our chemistry wasn't always there," senior Kristy Fojo said. "It was hard for me because I was hurt most of the season and didn't get to play much. Toward the end, we pulled it through and did the best we could."
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The Wolf Pack had plenty that worked Friday. The Wolf Pack defense protected the goal and got the ball up field, only to get within a kick or a pass of an open shot and come away scoreless.
"We just couldn't finish," coach Abel Dorado said. "We had six or seven good open shots and just couldn't put them in."
Tokay took a 1-0 lead early in the first half and kept the pressure on West's goal. West sweeper Lewis and goalkeeper Paige Moore protected the goal after that, but the Wolf Pack wasn't able to put pressure on Tokay until the second half.
West's Marissa Tabancura, Natalie Lambert, Victoria Carrera and Fojo made shots on the Tiger goal that Tokay's goalkeeper blocked. West made long passes up the field with Lambert in pursuit, but each time it was just out of her reach or defenders were quick enough to get between the ball and the goal before Lambert could take her shot.
Tokay took another opportunity 30 minutes into the second half with a shot from about 25 yards out and fired the ball into the upper-right corner of the goal to make it a 2-0 game.
Freshman/sophomore: West 2, Tokay 0
The freshman/sophomore game was scoreless until the last 15 minutes. West found its opportunities at the end when Yelda Arghandiwal scored on a penalty kick and Alejandra Reyes scored when Arghandiwal passed the ball in from the side.
The win puts the team at 12-8-1 overall, 7-3 in TCAL, at the end of the season.
"They developed good as a team and kept working hard," coach Brian Ballard said.
The winning year for the freshman/sophomore team is also a good sign for West's future —many of these players will join the varsity team next year, while the varsity loses only a few seniors to graduation.
McNair 1, West 0
Both teams kept up a strong defensive game Wednesday. But a penalty kick in the second half gave McNair the 1-0 advantage and the win.
West had its opportunities to score, but the Eagles were quick to outrun West's drives up the field and deny any chances for clear shots.
"They were just pushing really hard. Our passing was there, but they beat us to the ball," forward Lambert said.
After McNair scored early in the second half, West kept the pressure on the McNair goal until the end.
"Sometimes we lose confidence, but today we just kept it going and we did pretty good. It's probably one of the better games we played," Lambert said.
McNair kept the pressure on West's defense in the first half and outran West when the Wolf Pack tried to bring the ball back on offense. The Eagles had opportunities to score in the first half, including four shots that West goalkeeper Paige Moore blocked or deflected.
West's Lilibeth Torres, Leslie Baires and Lambert also took shots on McNair's goal in the first half, only to see the keeper catch or block their shots.
McNair scored about 12 minutes into the second half on a penalty kick. That was part of an assault on West's goal that saw Lewis block a shot, Moore block another and another McNair shot bounce off the right post.
West responded with Fojo's and Lambert's charge down field. Through a crowd of McNair defenders Lambert got next to the right corner of the McNair goal, Fojo passed to her, and Lambert tapped it in. Officials ruled that there had been a penalty on West before the shot and the goal was no good.
Six minutes later, West got a penalty kick from the left side. Baires shot the ball across the McNair goal, but West players in front couldn't get a clear shot.
Freshman/sophomore: West 2, McNair 0
West's junior varsity squad scored two goals in the first half, both from Sadaf Latifi, one in the 13th minute and another in the 35 minute.
She said that the first goal was a sudden opportunity where she saw that she could score.
"The ball just came, and I saw the goal and took the shot, and it went to the left corner," she said, adding that for the second goal she took a pass from about 15 yards out and shot it over the goalie's head.


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|About the Editors
|Eclectica was founded in 1996 by Tom Dooley and Chris Lott, with Chris providing most of the inspiration and even more of the perspiration. Chris left the magazine in 1998, and after muddling along on his own for a while, Tom found valuable assistance in Julie King. Julie, one of the first Eclectica authors, signed on to help with poetry but soon became a full co-editor. Then Tom and Julie got married! Always a labor of love, Eclectica had become even more so. However, after six years of serving as the Poetry Editor and generally keeping Tom from making too much of a fool of himself, Julie needed time to meet other obligations and devote to her own writing. Fortunately in the meantime, a host of other volunteer editors had joined the Eclectica team, and with their help, the adventure continues.
|Tom Dooley taught middle and high school English for 12 years in Alaska, Arizona, and Wisconsin. A former wrestling coach, gas station attendant, forklift driver, bank teller, and many other things that add up to a total absence of career planning, Tom now has a Masters in Public Administration and has embarked on a career with the federal government. He serves as Eclectica's Managing Editor and Fiction Editor.
|Jennifer Finstrom is Eclectica's Poetry Editor. A former spotlight author, her poetry has appeared in Primavera, Poems and Plays, The Comstock Review, Mythic Delirium, Cider Press Review, and Tar River Poetry, among other publications. She was the third place winner in Atlanta Review's POETRY 2002. Originally from Wisconsin, Jennifer lives in Chicago, where she is writing an epic fantasy novel that should (finally) be completed early this year.
|Anne Leigh Parrish is Eclectica's Fiction Editor. Her second collection of short fiction, Our Love Could Light The World, will be available in June 2013 from She Writes Press. Her first collection, All The Roads That Lead From Home (Press 53, 2011) won the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for best short story fiction.
|David Ewald is Eclectica's Nonfiction Editor. A previous contributor, his work has also appeared in Metazen, BULL: Men's Fiction, Denver Syntax, The Chimaera, and Halfway Down the Stairs, among other publications. His novella Markson's Pier (written with Stuart Ross) was published in Volume XI of Essays & Fictions.
|Gilbert Wesley Purdy is Eclectica's Review Editor. His new book, entitled The Ties of the Railroad Tracks Home: the Poetry of Jared Carter, is available at Amazon.com. He has published poetry, prose, and translation in many journals, paper and electronic, including Jacket Magazine, Poetry International (San Diego State University), The Georgia Review (University of Georgia), Grand Street, SLANT (University of Central Arkansas), The Evansville Review (University of Evansville), Rattle (online), Consciousness Literature and the Arts (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Orbis (UK), Eclectica, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Links to his books appear at his Amazon Author Page.
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A few years later they were joined by their wives, Tosca and Savina. Together they transformed the small "locale" of "ombra and cicchetti" (wine bar with traditional Venetian snacks) into the renowned "Ristorante da Raffaele" known by Venetians and tourists alike. Thus Venice became their adopted city.
The passion they shared for welcoming guests into a place that had high quality in their personnel as well as in the food and drink they served was passed on to their children: Renato, Giovanna, Stefania and Andrea. Today all of them run their own hotels. The "Hotel Ala" is centrally located, and the "Pensione Accademia" has fascinating and suggestive surroundings.
The Pensione Accademia, originally a family residence, became the Russian Embassy between World Wars I and II. In 1950 it became a hotel.
Over time the Salmaso family perceived the artistic and historical value of the palazzo and decided to make it known as one of the most charming hotels in Venice. Within the hotel there are elegant and refined furnishings, rich with pieces of high artistic value. An example is the two columns in the breakfast room, once situated in the "Loggetta" of the Campanile of San Marco, which were sold at auction after the tower collapsed at the beginning of the 900s.With the contribution of their style and mastery, the Salmaso family has made the Pensione Accademia a true jewel of Venice.
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What is art? And why should we care what it is?
An old debate with new relevance. At a time when the value of an idea is paramount, creative programs are being marginalized or eliminated in our education system. Is this a paradox or a symptom of our disassociation from independent thinking because we have reached the saturation point of knowledge?
If our base level of knowledge has out stripped our ability to assimilate it, does creative thinking decrease in the general population (like a glass that has been filled to the brim)?
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Feb 2 2014: New knowledge owes its existence to art and creativity. What can be imagined is the precursor of what will eventually be enshrined in knowledge.
I don't think there will ever be a saturation point of knowledge. It would only ever seem that way because of the apparent devaluing of the imagination that feeds it, from education upwards. I think that's happening right now, and will only lead to a stagnation of knowledge, rooted in the past.
I say this because of my observations of what seems to be of value, and what gets rewarded. We reward The Enlightenment values of logic, knowledge, memory and mechanism. All else gets dubbed as "romanticism", "superstition", "pseudoscience", "fairy stories", "mythology", "metaphysics"... These cheap, conversation-stopping terms only serve to disable a vital thought process that could substantially hasten our quest for knowledge, if only given free-rein. Such thought processes begin in art.
Feb 3 2014: The end results - the point at which knowledge is established - are rewarded, though I truly believe that the creative processes leading up to that end result, are very much devalued. And the further away from science it gets, the lesser the value.
Reductive research programmes are regarded in our secular culture as sacrosanct, on the grounds that anything else would not be science. Reductionist science gets rewarded, even though it deals primarily with the parts rather than the whole.
My view is that the whole needs to be understood first before analysing the parts. The arts are good at revealing 'the whole' to us by stimulating imagination, yet appears to be marginalised and unrewarded - increasingly so in our education systems.
Feb 3 2014: That's interesting, as my observation has been that creative thinkers across fields and those who break through normal ways of doing things are both sought after in the professional workplace and quite often held in awe by the general public.
I am not well informed about the atmosphere in schools in the UK where you are. Arts specifically are a big, visible part of education in the States, with drama productions and music ensembles being very central in the life of the school, whether public or private. But also outside of the arts per se, creative work is highly valued, encouraged, and acknowledged both at school and as a factor in college admissions.
Feb 3 2014: I think that must be where the US and the UK differ Fritzie.
The arts seem to be the poor relation to the sciences in terms of vocational eligibility and as acceptable ways of thinking generally. The mantra from successive UK government education agendas is "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" (no mention of art), all wrapped up in a "top down" style of governance where teachers are very much undervalued and even demonised - especially by our current Education Secretary.
I guess if the education system was run "bottom up" with teachers having a lot more say in what is taught, and to whom, the arts might then have remained safe within the curricula. I'd value your thoughts on that.
Education sounds a lot more enlightened in the States from how you describe it.
Feb 4 2014: The quality of education varies across the country, as curriculum and funding are both decentralized. Literacy is, of course, an objective everywhere, but problem-solving is as well.
In terms of career, only certain artistic avenues tend to connect to "jobs" in the United States as elsewhere. But creativity, flexibility, and the skills to draw ones own conclusions rather than believing what one happens to be told are understood to be dispositions that need to be cultivated to prepare young people for a future full of change.
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Welcome to the first Blog of My Tank!
As with any similar project, this one goes nowhere without a script!
Therefore, this is where we can discuss just that.
Soooo, to start, and to re-hash... here is the song's lyrics:
My tank!
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My tank!
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My tank!
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My tank!
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With that, the basic idea of the video re-visited...
As to "realistic" or "stylized," or "cartoonish" art design, this is open to suggestion. I personally think the video can easily be realistic or cartoon/manga/anime/etc. in style and carry off the intended effect.
The battle "arena" could be any number of things, but it was suggested that it be in an arena that is essentially a massive blast crater with grandstands built into the walls for spectators, team tank "garages" where each tank is housed when in repair or between game sessions, etc.
Each of the three "team" tanks are briefly defined by the song lyrics with:
Tank 1 "Armored Plates": This tank is decked out with defensive material - armor, etc. Not to be bruised by the strike of just any everyday cannon fire...
Tank 3 "Hugest Treads": A powerhouse of bowl-'em-over smash-'em-in-the-dirt steam-roller tank-i-tude.
Tank 4 "I am My Tank!" This tank is the mega-tank: monstrous, stacked with power and armament, the creation of a crazed mechanic-scientist who's own robotic minions went nuts and took down their creator, removed his brain by force, and installed it in the tank, making the Tank and Creator one and the same!
Each of the first three tanks has its own cheerleader "tank babe" female, scantily clad to add a cynical sort of sex appeal edge that is pinned to sports programs, and unique commander, distinctly his own style:
Commander 1: *Extreme Military Figure": Military uniform, this commander shows strongly his/her military nature in image.
Commander 2: Hell-Raising Ruffian: A character from a Mad Max movie, the imagery of Biker-meets-Punk Rocker-meets-Plain Bad-Ass Dude (Dudette)
Commander 3: Open for Discussion: This tank commander could be anything so long as he/she fits the bill of "Tank Commander" for one of the three "team tanks"
Of course, the "Uber-Tank" is built by a character that looks in some way like a Mad Scientist-meets-Mechanical Genius. He gets taken out by his equipment, with only his brain in a jar, installed within the depths of his mad tank creation.
Yes, a lot of this is spelled out in some way, *but the project as a whole is up for discussion and revision."
Ultimately, the goal is to create a crazy, fun and brutal music video between 2 and 3 minutes long. The song itself is 1:55 minutes long, but there will be room for a prelude part which features the demise of the mad scientist and implanting of his brain into his creation.
That said... Let's talk "Script!"
There is room for any ideas. Anything is up for grabs in this whole project.
The main thing is that it works with the song. I have sent you link to the tune for your review.
Is there room for a bit of historical humor?
for some reason the synopsis made me think of the guy in Tiananmen Square in the eighties. a protestor who stood infront of a bunch of big ass tanks.
Talking Prelude!
I threw a task up of the suggested "Script Prelude" for discussion and reworking.
The idea is that the "Uber Tank" is built by a mad scientist who, in a prelude to the main song, gets his brain hacked out by his own "robot assistant(s)", and installed into the Uber Tank... which ties into the final lines of the song... "I am me... I am my tank!"
Thoughts? Ideas? Criticism? Please be open, honest, and don't fear negative feedback. My ego is big, but I can take it ;-)
Another member put forth this game...
Anyone wanting to get a feel for being a tank commander, there's the place! ;-)
Your feedback jives with a colleague of mine that is interested in this project as well.
Do I get to pin a title on you, Carl?
Maybe like a round of Scorched 3D, with inter-spaced views of the commanders taunting/mocking each other? Each tank could be introduced before it fires, with the camera circling as it aligns its shot, cheered on by the cheerleader.
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Hipster is creating a real-time, visual public record of the world's locations.
Using their iPhones and Android devices, people share where they are and what they are doing by sending their friends a photographic postcard. The postcards become permanently attached to the locations they were sent from, and are forever accessible to all those who come later.
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Scientists: 1918 Killer Flu Was a Bird Flu
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The decision to re-create a living 1918 virus was made only after consultation with several advisory bodies, Gerberding and Fauci said. The bug now lives in a level 3+ containment facility at the CDC. Outside researchers are invited to study it -- but only at the CDC lab, and only with security clearance.
"It is unlikely this virus could emerge and cause a pandemic," Gerberding said. "It is important to emphasize we have erred on the side of caution at every stage. We have no intention of releasing this from the CDC any time soon."
Gerberding says that everything is being done to ensure that the bug stays in the lab. But if it were to escape, she says it probably would not rekindle a 1918-style epidemic. For one thing, it's an H1N1 virus, and the current annual flu vaccine contains an H1N1 virus. Moreover, most people have been exposed to H1N1 viruses, so many people would be immune.
None of this, however, means that a 1918 virus on the loose would be harmless. Natural and vaccine immunity probably would make the bug less deadly but would not offer full protection.
"We do not know the extent this [immunity] would protect people from harm," Gerberding noted. "But a pandemic in this context would be unlikely."
Meanwhile, researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md., plan a detailed analysis of large numbers of bird flu isolates. This, they say, will help them track the ongoing evolution of bird flu.


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Definition of 'Pac-Man Defense'
A defensive tactic used by a targeted firm in a hostile takeover situation. In a Pac-Man defense, the target firm turns around and tries to acquire the other company that has made the hostile takeover attempt. This term has been accredited to Bruce Wasserstein, chairman of Wasserstein & Co.
Investopedia explains 'Pac-Man Defense'
This term comes from the Pac-Man video game. In the game, once Pac-Man eats a power pellet he is able to turn around and eat the ghosts that are chasing after him in the maze.
When one company makes an unsolicited and aggressive bid on another publicly traded company, the takeover attempt may not be welcomed by the targeted firm. In an attempt to scare off the would-be acquirers, the takeover target may use any method in an attempt to acquire the other company, including dipping into its war chest for cash to purchase the other company's stock.


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If you ever wondered where all the originality and creativity that Beyonce lacks can be found then venture deeper into the Knowles gene pool. Indeed, that natural ability was gifted to her younger sister Solange, who just released a video for a new song entitled 'Losing You'. Directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz, the 'Losing You' video is the lead offering from Solange's latest album, due to be issued during the coming months. Solange should be commended for keeping her sound fresh and unpredictable. 'Losing You' is a solid effort that channels similar elements to Frank Ocean's writing style with her own quirkiness. Although I would have greatly appreciated another radio-friendly record like her ever so catchy hit 'T.O.N.Y.', Solange gets my respect for being her own artist. So, gold star for her.