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The Seattle Times' Amy Snow Landa, working in partnership with Kaiser Health News, reports: "To get a glimpse of how the two-week-old health-insurance exchanges are faring under the Affordable Care Act, there may not be a better place to look than the Pacific Northwest and its striking contrasts. On the one hand, the Washington state-run exchange, called Washington Healthplanfinder, is widely perceived to be off to a strong start. … Compare that to Oregon, where state officials acknowledge not a single resident has been able to enroll through the website of that state's exchange, called Cover Oregon, because the site still is not fully functioning" (Landa, 10/18). Read the story.
The Chicago Tribune, working in partnership with Kaiser Health News, reports: "As political debate continues to rage over President Barack Obama's signature health careoverhaul, the law already is reshaping health care in the most troubled communities in Chicago and its suburbs. Since 2010, Illinois health clinics have received more than $50 million in development grants under the Affordable Care Act to build new facilities, expand operations, modernize equipment and improve the overall quality of care for the state's poor and uninsured" (Hood, 10/18). Read the story.
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Call Of Duty?: by Joe Heller.
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The Obama administration promised Sunday to enlist experts both inside and outside the government to solve the problems that have crippled healthcare.gov and caused consumers frustration as they attempt to shop for coverage. But some federal contractors worry the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly.
The New York Times: Contractors See Weeks Of Work On Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow to issue orders for fixing those flaws, and some contractors worry that the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly, people close to the project say (LaFraniere, Austen and Pear, 10/20).
The Washington Post: HealthCare.gov's Glitches Prompt Obama To Call In More Computer Experts
The Obama administration said Sunday that it has enlisted additional computer experts from across the government and from private companies to help rewrite computer code and make other improvements to the online health insurance marketplace, which has been plagued by technical defects that have stymied many consumers since it opened nearly three weeks ago. This expanded team has come up with new ways of monitoring which parts of the federal Web site, HealthCare.gov, are having problems and has been taking the site offline for rigorous overnight tests, according to a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman (Goldstein, 10/20).
The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire: 'Tech Surge' Planned To Fix Obamacare Exchanges
The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it was bringing in outside help to resolve some of the technical woes that have beset the federally run insurance exchanges, which the agency acknowledged "has not lived up to the expectations of the American people" (Radnofsky, 10/20).
Politico: Tech 'Surge' To Tackle Obamacare Websites
The Health and Human Services statement didn't explain everything that's wrong, or give technical details about the repairs underway. It outlined some steps being taken to fix the site, including updates with "new code that includes bug fixes." The department also says it's installing monitors to catch parts of the website that are proving the most troublesome for consumers. And it also said it had seen some improvements in wait times and consumer access to the website, the online portal to health insurance exchanges or marketplaces the federal government is running in 36 states (Millman, 10/20).
Politico: HHS Makes Changes To Obamacare Home Page
Health and Human Services officials announced Sunday that consumer-friendly changes have been made to the homepage of the troubled Obamacare enrollment website. The changes to the homepage aim to relieve some user frustration — but it isn't a wider fix to the buggy and crash-plagued signup system (Kenen, 10/20).
USA Today: HHS 'Committed To Doing Better' On Insurance Exchanges
Signaling a shift in tone in acknowledging problems with the launch of the Affordable Care Act website, the government posted a blog Sunday taking responsibility for issues millions of Americans have had trying to sign up for health insurance (Kennedy, 10/20).
NBC News: Damage Control: Administration Pledges Obamacare Enrollment Fixes
As the Obama administration scrambles to rectify the rocky rollout of the online health care marketplace, the Health Department said Sunday that it has enlisted the "best and brightest" to help fix the website's torrent of technical glitches and bugs as the president prepares to address the problems at the White House on Monday. "Our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve HealthCare.gov," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a blog post published Sunday. The blog post also says technology officials have been working "around the clock" to ensure that individuals can create accounts and apply for health care coverage without any digital roadblocks (Welker and Arkin, 10/20).
CBS News: Outside Help Called In To Fix Obamacare Website
The Obama administration has called in additional help from inside and outside the government to fix glitches that have plagued the Obamacare website. Critics say the issues reveal that Obamacare is a bad idea, while the White House says half a million people have successfully enrolled (Pegues, 10/20).
Bloomberg: Obamacare Hustles To End Delays As Deadline Talk Grows
The Obama administration said it has reached out to the "best and brightest" from inside and outside of government to get its health-insurance exchange up to speed, even as it faces another missed deadline for the rollout. The promised debut this week of a Spanish-language version of its website is uncertain after an administration spokeswoman said no date had yet been set for it (Wayne, Armstrong and Nussbaum, 10/21).
The Fiscal Times: Can An Army Of Private Programmers Fix Obamacare?
The Congressional Budget Office established two simple benchmarks for Obamacare to meet in its projections last February: 1) 7 million Americans would receive private insurance through the exchanges; and 2) 8 million more Americans would enroll in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. That means 15 million Americans total would have health insurance coverage. The administration is currently on pace to get a fraction of those projections. Millward Brown estimates that just 36,000 Americans bought insurance through Obamacare during the first five days of the online exchanges. Just 2 percent of the 9.47 million unique visitors to the federal exchange during that period even began the application process. (Boak and Ehley, 10/21).
Fox News: ObamaCare Site Glitches Run Risk Of Turning Off Millenials
The prolonged glitches with the ObamaCare website are frustrating many of the president's most high-valued customers -- the young, tech-savvy generation that helped him win two terms and whose participation is critical to the success of the health care exchanges (10/19).
The Kansas City Star: Glitches Persist In Health Insurance Marketplace Mandated By Obamacare
Would-be health insurance buyers and the merely curious continue to be frustrated by the rocky rollout of the federal Health Insurance Marketplace. Nearly three weeks into the planned launch of this centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, Kansas City area residents, as well as millions nationally, are unable to get enough policy details to make purchase decisions (Stafford, 10/21).
The Fiscal Times: Obamacare Tech Fail May Do What The GOP Couldn't
The myriad of obstacles raise questions as to whether the White House will be forced to push back deadlines and even postpone the tax penalty for Americans who forgo health coverage. "There are so many key technical problems you can't sum them up," said Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a policy and marketplace consulting firm. "I mean, it's [Internet] architectural problems at the front end, it's coding problems in terms of the inefficiency in the way the system works and wastes people's time, and it's screens that freeze. And then connections between insurance companies simply aren't working" (Pianin, 10/21).
The Obama administration reports that about 476,000 applications have been filed through federal and state health insurance online marketplaces but has not released how many people have actually enrolled in coverage.
The Associated Press/Washington Post: About 476,000 Applications Filed Through Obamacare Health Exchanges, Officials Say
Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Obama's signature legislation. However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insurance markets. Without enrollment figures, it's unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projecting by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period (Pace, 10/19).
NPR: Enrollments For The Health Care Exchanges Trickle In, Slowly
The Obama administration's hopes ran high that millions would flock to enroll for health insurance on state and federal exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act. Those exchanges went online Oct 1. The administration projected that half a million individuals or families would enroll within 30 days, according to the Associated Press. But three weeks in, the data suggest the actual number of enrollments is lagging far behind that number (Noguchi, 10/21).
Reuters: Nearly Half Million Apply For U.S. Health Insurance Despite Flaws: Officials
Roughly half a million Americans have applied for health insurance through new federal- and state-run exchanges under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, an administration official said on Saturday. That figure comes as problems with the federal marketplace's entry portal serving 36 states, the website Healthcare.gov, have thwarted consumers from shopping for federally subsidized health coverage and drawn derision from Republicans, who oppose the law, popularly known as Obamacare (Mason, 10/20).
Though the health law came through the most recent budget battle unscathed, its opponents view the problems with the website as a potential opportunity -- both in terms of the fight to derail the law and as an election issue for the upcoming campaign cycle.
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Rollout Problems Hand GOP A New Line Of Attack On Obama's Health Care Law
"Obamacare" escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack — one handed to them by the administration itself. While Congress was arguing, President Barack Obama's plan to expand coverage for the uninsured suffered a self-inflicted wound. A computer system seemingly designed by gremlins gummed up the first open enrollment season. After nearly three weeks, it's still not fixed (Cassata, 10/21).
Politico: Dems Caught In Obamacare Uproar
It's not the GOP that President Barack Obama has to worry about in defending his botched health care rollout, it's fellow Democrats. They voted for the law, sang its praises for three-plus years and still believe in the promise of health care reform. But now they face a conundrum: stay in lock step with Obama and risk their credibility as advocates for the law's benefits or publicly criticize the administration for its recent problems — especially a failure to more quickly acknowledge, and rectify, the major malfunction of its Internet marketplace (Allen and Haberkorn, 10/21).
Politico: Obamacare Wins? See You In 2014
President Barack Obama's signature health care law is now turning into a 2014 election issue, rather than the disastrous defunding fight that led the government to close for three weeks. With the shutdown out of the way, the health care law's problems will take center stage in a way that they didn't while Republicans were stepping on their own message (Nather, 10/18).
CBS News: Obamacare's Rocky Start: Hiccup Or Sure Sign Of Failure?
The circus that attended the shutdown prevented the public and the media from focusing more completely on the website problems that stymied thousands who tried to explore the online insurance marketplace on healthcare.gov. Stories about privacy concerns and technological glitches that might have led evening newscasts, for example, were pushed to the back-burner by the fiscal food fight. But now, with the budget war abated, at least temporarily, Obamacare's clumsy debut is again front-and-center on the political stage. And for Democrats, that could be a big problem (Miller, 10/21).
The Associated Press: Politicians Offer Their Opinions On Rocky Rollout Of Obama's Health Care Law
The new online health insurance markets, the portals to coverage for most of the nation's nearly 50 million uninsured people, have gotten off to a rocky start since their Oct. 1 launch. The law was also central to the budget fight that led to a 16-day partial government shutdown. Politicians had these comments on the Sunday talk shows about the state of President Barack Obama's health care law (10/20).
The Texas Tribune: Addressing Medical Group, Cruz Talks Obamacare Fight
Speaking at the Texas Medical Association's fall conference Saturday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz reiterated that he would do anything he could to defund the Affordable Care Act and emphasized the importance of grassroots advocacy…As a voice for the Tea Party in the U.S. Senate, Cruz has spent weeks rousing grassroots advocates for the fight to defund the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare (Aaronson, 10/19).
PoliticoPro: State Week: Ohio Medicaid Decision Looming
Today's the big day for the Medicaid expansion in Ohio, when a state spending board is expected to vote on Republican Gov. John Kasich's request to expand without the Legislature's support. The request would allow Ohio to tap into about $2.5 billion in federal funds for the expansion over the next two years. If a majority of the seven-member Controlling Board approve the request, expansion opponents have already indicated they could sue Kasich for subverting the legislature's will (Millman, 10/21).
Politico: Medicaid Gap Leaves Obamacare Haves And Have-Nots
April Gomez-Rodriguez hopes Obamacare changes her life. Daniel Hughes says it's like the health law never happened. The difference between them: one state border. ... Gomez-Rodriguez, 32, who works with kids at a behavioral health center, lives in New Mexico, where Gov. Susana Martinez was among the first in the GOP to embrace the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. On Jan. 1, Gomez-Rodriguez and her husband will have health coverage for the first time in years. Hughes, 40, who works in home repair, lives in Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry's staunch opposition to Medicaid expansion and other key elements of Obamacare shut him out (Haberkorn, 10/20).
Medpage Today: More States Expected To Expand Medicaid
For the 26 states that haven't expanded their Medicaid programs thus far, the question going forward isn't whether they will expand but how, state health policy experts said here Friday. A smattering of politics, uncertainty, and budgetary concerns have prevented most states from accepting federal funds to cover individuals making essentially up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, as the Affordable Care Act provides. But slowly more states will buy into Medicaid expansion -- although many will do so through alternative expansion programs, such as using public dollars to purchase private insurance, predicted Genevieve Kenney, PhD, co-director of the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington (Pittman, 10/20).
Doctors in South Dakota are urging lawmakers there to expand the program as well --
The Associated Press: South Dakota Doctors Urge State To Expand Medicaid Program
Fearing a long-term rise in private insurance premiums, South Dakota doctors are renewing pressure on Gov. Dennis Daugaard to expand the state's Medicaid program under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Dr. Daniel Heinemann, president of the South Dakota State Medical Association, told a group of 50 physicians in Rapid City that failure to expand Medicaid could have an effect on all South Dakotans (10/20).
News outlets report on a range of policy issues related to the health law's implementation.
Kaiser Health News: Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies (Gorman and Appleby, 10/21).
The Texas Tribune: Uncertainty In Marketplace Health Plans Concerns Doctors
As consumers weigh coverage options available in the newly launched federal health insurance marketplace, three of the largest medical associations in Texas have raised concerns about the uncertainty of provider networks offered by health plans in the marketplace (Aaronson, 10/18).
Los Angeles Times: Insurer Health Net Overhauls Its Operations Preparing For Obamacare
Health Net Inc. sees a big opportunity in Obamacare. Although some insurers have taken a cautious approach to the Affordable Care Act, the Woodland Hills managed care company is actively seeking to cover thousands of previously uninsured people under the new healthcare system (Pfeifer, 10/20).
In addition, fresh legal tests to the health law will be heard this week --
The Wall Street Journal: Health Law Faces New Legal Challenges
The health law championed by President Barack Obama survived one major legal challenge in last year's Supreme Court ruling, but it will face fresh legal tests starting this week. Federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia will consider whether the text of the statute prevents the administration from offering subsidized health insurance to millions of low- and middle-income Americans (Palazzolo, 10/20).
States are grappling with the realities of the health law: Illinois is using social media to field consumer worries over the rollout of the law even as the law brings more money -- and more stress -- to the state. In the meantime, the differences between exchange launches in Washington state and Oregon are examined.
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Social Media Team In Illinois Tends To Consumer Frustrations With Federal Health Care Website
Inside a command center at a Chicago marketing agency, a small team of social media experts hunkers down to monitor online chatter about President Barack Obama's health care law, answer questions on Facebook from discouraged consumers and post information and advice on Twitter. They are holding down the fort for a $33 million ad campaign planned for Get Covered Illinois, the new health insurance marketplace that's a cornerstone of the law, also known as "Obamacare," in what is arguably the biggest social media campaign rolled out by the state of Illinois (10/18).
The Chicago Tribune/Kaiser Health News: Affordable Care Act Brings More Money, More Stress To Illinois
As political debate continues to rage over President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul, the law already is reshaping health care in the most troubled communities in Chicago and its suburbs. Since 2010, Illinois health clinics have received more than $50 million in development grants under the Affordable Care Act to build new facilities, expand operations, modernize equipment and improve the overall quality of care for the state's poor and uninsured (Hood, 10/18).
The Seattle Times/Kaiser Health News: A Tale Of Two State Exchanges
To get a glimpse of how the two-week-old health-insurance exchanges are faring under the Affordable Care Act, there may not be a better place to look than the Pacific Northwest and its striking contrasts. On the one hand, the Washington state-run exchange, called Washington Healthplanfinder, is widely perceived to be off to a strong start. … Compare that to Oregon, where state officials acknowledge not a single resident has been able to enroll through the website of that state's exchange, called Cover Oregon, because the site still is not fully functioning (Landa, 10/18).
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who is also a candidate for governor, blasted the rollout of the health law in the GOP's weekly address this weekend. Cuccinelli called the implementation of the law a "national embarrassment."
The Washington Post: Cuccinelli Aims Blast At Affordable Care Act In GOP's Weekly Address
Just days after a federal government shutdown triggered by a fight over President Obama's signature health-care law, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II delivered the weekly Republican address with a full-throated blast at the Affordable Care Act. Cuccinelli attacked the new law as the exemplar of big government and called its implementation "a national embarrassment" (Kunkle, 10/19).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: In Weekly Republican Address, Virginia AG Cuccinelli Speaks Out Against Health Care Overhaul
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is speaking out against the federal health care overhaul in the weekly Republican address. The Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate delivered the address on Saturday that coincides with President Barack Obama's weekly radio and Internet address (10/20).
CBS News: Ken Cuccinelli: Obamacare Debut A "National Embarrassment"
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for governor in the commonwealth, warned that the law is already forcing employers in Virginia to drop health-care coverage of employees and their dependents, citing the University of Virginia, which "just announced that it will no longer be able to provide health-care coverage to many spouses of their thousands of employees," and the Fairfax County Water Authority, which blamed the law's taxes for a recent decision to stop providing health coverage to employees. "Everywhere you look, there's more evidence that Obamacare was fundamentally broken even before it started," Cuccinelli said. He also criticized the recent implementation of the law's insurance exchanges as a "national embarrassment" (Miller, 10/19).
President Barack Obama is expected to call the problems plaguing the insurance exchange's startup unacceptable and detail efforts to fix them in an address in the Rose Garden today.
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Obama To Address Health Care Problems; President Said To Find Glitches Unacceptable
President Barack Obama is expected to acknowledge that widespread problems with his health care law's rollout are unacceptable, as the administration scrambles to fix the glitches. Obama was scheduled to speak Monday from the Rose Garden, his first health care-focused event since the cascade of computer problems became apparent. The troublesome rollout of the health care exchanges has been a glaring embarrassment for Obama's signature legislative achievement (10/21).
Politico: Obama To Speak About Obamacare Woes
He will be joined by people whom the White House described as already benefiting from the law, or helping with the outreach for people to understand and sign up for the new health coverage options. The White House has not announced how many people have enrolled in coverage, but some of the people attending the Monday event have done so (10/20).
Reuters: Obama To Call Healthcare Website Glitches 'Unacceptable' As Fix Sought
President Barack Obama will declare the glitches in a new healthcare website "unacceptable" on Monday and outline ways for consumers to sign up for insurance while his team scrambles to fix problems that have tainted the rollout of his signature healthcare law. Fresh from two weeks of budget battles that have consumed Washington, Obama will hold an event at 11:25 a.m. (1525 GMT) in the White House Rose Garden with consumers, small business owners, and pharmacists who have been affected by the new law (Mason and Mutikani).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: For President Obama, A Frustrating Rollout For His Signature Health Care Legislation
Last week, President Barack Obama gathered some of his top advisers in the Oval Office to discuss the problem-plagued rollout of his health care legislation. He told his team the administration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the health care website ready to operate on Day One. The admonition from a frustrated president came amid the embarrassing start to sign-ups for the health care insurance exchanges. The president is expected to address the cascade of computer problems Monday during an event at the White House (10/20).
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is among the people some congressional Republicans want to testify about what some have termed the health exchanges' "failure to launch."
The Wall Street Journal: Health Law's Rocky Debut Puts Sebelius In Cross Hairs
Kathleen Sebelius keeps running into trouble, whether on the road, where she is out promoting the new health-care law, or back home, where she is struggling to resolve the technical woes that have hobbled its debut. Mrs. Sebelius, the nation's top health official, was in Tampa the other day to promote the "online shopping experience" of the federal website where uninsured Americans can now select coverage. Christopher Dawson, who sat to her left at the staged event, had tried for a week to enroll. Like others, he was foiled by "error" messages (Langley, 10/18).
CNN: McCain: Can't Go At Obamacare 'With A Meat Ax'
Responding to calls for the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senator John McCain said "let's have Congressional hearings" over Obamacare's failure to launch. He called the Affordable Care Act a "fiasco." Sebelius will not attend Congressional hearings scheduled to begin Thursday, but McCain said "let's find out who is responsible." "This is just the beginning of the problems associated with a massive restructuring of one-fifth of our economy," he said (10/20).
Politico: Cruz: Sebelius 'Absolutely' Should Resign
Sen. Ted Cruz says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius should resign due to the disappointing rollout of Obamacare. "Absolutely, she should resign. Why? Because the program she implanted, Obamacare, is a disaster. It's not working, it's hurting people all across the country," Cruz said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." The freshman Republican senator from Texas went even further, attacking "grey beards" in his own party when asked whether Sebelius remaining in the administration would benefit GOP attack strategies (McCalmont, 10/20).
Fox News: Administration Responding To Pressure For Answers On Messy ObamaCare Site
On Sunday, Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would testify before Congress about the site, amid a growing call for her to accept requests to speak on Capitol Hill. "Ultimately, Secretary Sebelius will testify," Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, told "Fox News Sunday." The 918-word blog acknowledges the glitches have been "frustrating" for Americans and states roughly 500,000 applications for coverage have been submitted. It also states that healthcare.gov has had roughly 19 million unique visits, which "confirms that the American people are looking for quality, affordable health coverage, and want to find it online." Officials said in the post they have called in additional help to solve the problems (10/21).
CQ HealthBeat: Energy and Commerce Wants Sebelius At Implementation Hearing
The Energy and Commerce Committee wasted no time after the federal government opened Thursday to summon Obama administration officials to a hearing next week on what it calls the "implementation failures" of the health care law. And the panel issued a statement late in the day saying if Kathleen Sebelius had time for Jon Stewart she should make time for Congress (Bunis, 10/18).
Democrats and Republicans aren't just fighting each other, they're also dealing with intra-party squabbles over the latest plan to come together to find an accord to fix the nation's budget woes. The decisions are sure to involve Medicare as a 29-member panel has until Dec. 13 to reach an agreement to present.
Los Angeles Times: In New Budget Talks, Each Side Has A Motive To Reach A Deal
Interest in a big fix for the nation's budget has faded among Democrats because many no longer believe it is necessary or worth the political perils. … For Republicans, the idea of cutting expensive programs for retirees draws support from many party leaders, but divides the rank and file. The GOP has grown much more dependent on the votes of Americans older than 65 and on lower-income whites, groups that want to preserve Social Security and Medicare. Although the politics have shifted as the battered GOP struggles to regroup amid deep internal divisions, the nation's budget problems remain difficult and economically daunting: The country is on a budget trajectory that, while substantially improved from the recent recession, remains unsustainable (Mascaro, 10/19).
The Wall Street Journal: Budget Discord Simmers Among Democrats
But with eyes now turning toward a newly formed budget committee, some liberal lawmakers and groups are worried that Democrats will negotiate cuts to Social Security benefits and other entitlement programs. The president's budget blueprint, which was released in April, proposed slowing the growth of Social Security spending by using a new measure of inflation -- an idea that drew a rebuke from some lawmakers and liberal groups (Nicholas and Nelson, 10/20).
Medpage Today: Tough Medicare Decisions Await Budget Panel
Led by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the 29-member panel has a Dec. 13 deadline to reach consensus, a timeframe that seems optimistic considering the bitter partisan showdown over the health law that resulted in a 16-day shutdown of the government and risked federal default. … In a joint statement, Murray and Ryan pledged to work together to find a way around the automatic spending cuts known as "sequestration" now governing federal spending. "We hope we can reduce the deficit in a smarter way. We hope to restore stability to the budget process and end the lurching from crisis to crisis," they said (10/20).
A selection of health policy stories from Massachusetts and California.
WBUR: What Makes Berwick Run: Spurned Medicare Chief Seeks To Lead Massachusetts
Dr. Don Berwick -- pediatrician, health care improvement guru, Anglophile, Obamacare booster -- has a really, really great bedside manner. He leans in; he listens. He's deeply thoughtful about seemingly intractable problems (Medicaid expansion, for instance, or the way doctors get paid) without being alarming. In short, he's the guy you want in the exam room when your kid falls off the jungle gym. And if you live in Massachusetts, he wants to be your governor. We spoke with Berwick mostly about health care on his way to more far-ranging interview on Radio Boston. In a 30-minute discussion, Berwick talked about the "majestic" Affordable Care Act and compared re-inventing health care to throwing a hat over a very tall wall and climbing over to retrieve it. Here, edited, is some of our (very long) interview (Zimmerman and Goldberg, 10/18).
California Healthline: California One Of Two States Cashing In On New ACA Long-Term Care Funding
The Community First Choice Option, or CFCO, allows participating states to secure an increase of six percentage points in the federal share of the federal-state Medicaid funding partnership for home- and community-based attendant services to beneficiaries who otherwise would need institutional care. California was the first state to adopt CFCO last fall. Oregon followed suit a few months ago, and six other states have either submitted plans to participate or intend to submit plans by the end of fiscal year 2014 (Blasi, 10/18).
The Wall Street Journal: Sebelius On The Run
The Affordable Care Act's botched rollout has stunned its media cheering section, and it even seems to have surprised the law's architects. The problems run much deeper than even critics expected, and whatever federal officials, White House aides and outside contractors are doing to fix them isn't working. But who knows? ... Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday. ... The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle (10/18).
Los Angeles Times: No Way To Run A Health Exchange
The new federally run health insurance exchanges have stumbled badly in trying to sign up customers online, stymied by both design flaws and inept execution. If the website's problems aren't solved soon, they could inflict a greater toll on the Affordable Care Act than the law's opponents have. There's some consolation in the fact that shoppers can sign up over the phone or in person, and that they can enroll as late as mid-December and still have coverage on Jan. 1. But the failures are mind-boggling and inexcusable, especially considering how much time the government had to prepare (10/20).
The New York Times: Obamacare, Failing Ahead Of Schedule
Like the Bush administration in Iraq, the White House seems to have invaded the health insurance marketplace with woefully inadequate postinvasion planning, and let the occupation turn into a disaster of hack work and incompetence. ... But if the fix-it effort moves too slowly, it's possible to envision a worst-case scenario unfolding. If the Web site doesn't work soon, even liberals concede that the mandate would have to be delayed, because you can't very well fine people for failing to buy a product they can't access. And that combination — a hard-to-navigate online portal and no penalty for staying uninsured — could effectively discourage all but the most desperate customers from shopping, which in turn would create an unsustainably expensive insurance pool (Ross Douthat, 10/19).
The Washington Post Wonkbook: One Nation, Two Health-Care Systems
In the last two weeks, Oregon has cut the ranks of its uninsured by 10 percent through Obamacare. They're not the only state seeing huge gains. California has signed up 600,000 low-income Golden Staters for the law's expanded Medicaid, and over 100,000 are in some stage of applying for insurance on the marketplaces. In Washington state, over 40,000 people have signed up for Obamacare. In New York, the numbers are even larger. Kentucky's online marketplace has been a model of glitch-free performance, with more than 10,000 signing up on the first day alone. It's increasingly possible that Obamacare, at least in its early years, will be a success in blue states (and red states run by Democrats, like Kentucky) even as it flails in red states (Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas, 10/18).
The New York Times: Driving A New Bargain On Obamacare
[W]ith all the conflict and vituperation over Obamacare, it sometimes seems that one of the few things Democrats and Republicans agree on is that the law is imperfect at best. And they also agree that it could be improved. Even if a bipartisan deal to create a better health care system seems far off today, it's not too soon to start imagining what a future bargain might look like (Tyler Cowen, 10/19).
The New York Times: Lousy Medicaid Arguments
In other words, the technical problems, while infuriating — heads should roll — will not, in the end, be the big story. The real threat remains the effort of conservative groups to sabotage reform, especially by blocking the expansion of Medicaid. This effort relies heavily on lobbying, lavishly bankrolled by the usual suspects, including the omnipresent Koch brothers. ... Before I get there, a word about something that, as far as we can tell, isn't happening. Remember "rate shock"? (Paul Krugman, 10/21).
Los Angeles Times: Is Obamacare Forcing Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Out Of Business?
Maybe you've heard about the beloved local ice cream company that's been forced to close its doors because of Obamacare? Earlier this week, Newt Gingrich shared the dreadful news with Sean Hannity on Hannity's radio show. It's awful, just awful, the two men agreed, that small businesses are being driven under by the "job-killing" Affordable Care Act. It didn't take me long to identify the company: Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Corp., an Indiana ice cream maker. ... Or to figure out that the Affordable Care Act probably has nothing to do with the business's failure (Robin Abcarian, 10/18).
The Washington Post: Let's Get Rid Of (The Term) Entitlements
Let's drop the whole notion of "entitlement." Just eliminate it. Politicians, pundits and academics who talk about entitlements would then have to name the actual programs and argue their merits and demerits. ... Social Security, Medicare (health insurance for the elderly) and Medicaid (health insurance for the poor) aren't the only big entitlement programs. Here are 12 of the largest in 2012, ranked by the number of recipients, according to the Office of Management and Budget (Robert J. Samuelson, 10/20).
The Wall Street Journal: The Tea Party And The Entitlement Fight
Not appreciated is the powerful new meme Mr. Obama has handed them, which will transform entitlement politics in our country. The new "conservative" position will be to defend Social Security and Medicare, those middle-class rewards for a life of hard work and tax-paying, against Mr. Obama's vast expansion of the means-tested welfare state for working-age Americans. This will discomfit traditional free marketers. They know Medicare and Social Security are generous in excess to the taxes that beneficiaries paid into them (Holman W. Jenkins Jr., 10/18).
Bloomberg: Obama's 'Abuse of Power' Is Hardly Unprecedented
A leading Republican complaint during the partial government shutdown was that President Barack Obama had delayed implementation of the Affordable Care Act for businesses but not individuals. Many party strategists argued that its protest should have been focused on delaying rather than defunding the law. I am skeptical that this would have turned the political drama to Republican advantage. What is more intriguing to me as scholar is the charge that Obama, in giving businesses an extra year to prepare, defied the language of the statute and acted beyond the powers of the presidency (Stephen L. Carter, 10/20).
Bloomberg: Cruz Emerges Stronger From Republican Debacle
In the aftermath of the U.S. government shutdown and a close call with default, there is a political consensus among Democrats, many Republicans, establishment conservatives, business leaders and the inside-the-Beltway commentariat: Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Tea Party members in the House have done grievous harm to themselves and their brand. ... That, however, isn't the way Deedee Vaughters and Bob Vander Plaats see things. "We're winning this argument and now have to go back at Obamacare and getting our fiscal house in order," says Vaughters, a Tea Party activist in Aiken, South Carolina. Vander Plaats, who heads an influential family-values group in Iowa, agrees: "Ted Cruz is a rock star sucking all the energy in the conservative movement. He's making all the right enemies with the Republican establishment, which is taking him to unprecedented heights" (Albert R. Hunt, 10/20).
Bloomberg: Let's Fight Obamacare By Getting Out Of The Way
But did Republican tactics permanently compromise their ability to capitalize on the deeply flawed rollout of Obamacare, and what many analysts (myself included) believe will be its deleterious impacts on the U.S. health-care system? Not necessarily. Republicans can still use Obamacare's failings to their advantage, but it will require a disciplined, realistic approach. And it means recognizing the impossibility of large-scale changes to the law while Barack Obama is president (Lanhee Chen, 10/20).
National Review: Kasich Is Wrong About Reagan
Governor Kasich bases his argument [for expanding Medicaid in Ohio] that he is doing what [President Ronald] Reagan would have done on the fact that Reagan expanded Medicaid when he was president. ... Aside from offering a genuine choice to the states (as opposed to the economic coercion of Obamacare), this expansion had a factor missing from the current debate: abortion. In an era when there were perpetual fights over using public funds for abortion, the expansion assured that pregnant women would not be financially worse off carrying their children to term than they would be if they chose to have an abortion (Edwin Meese III & Robert Alt, 10/21).
And on another subject -
The New York Times: Alarming Abuses Of Medical Credit Cards
Patients around the nation are being victimized by medical credit cards that can lead to financial calamity. These cards, issued by specialty finance companies as well as commercial banks, carry exorbitant interest rates after an initial period of zero interest expires — with heavy penalties for late payments. They are often pushed on patients with modest incomes by health care providers who want to make sure that they get paid, even if some of their patients end up with huge credit card bills they can't afford. Unless strong regulatory action is taken to curb the abuses, financial companies will continue to gouge consumers at their most vulnerable moments, when they are in pain and need medical attention (10/19).
Health Policy Solutions (a Colo. news service): Noise Over ACA Shouldn't Distract Seniors From Medicare Enrollment
If you are an American over 65, you may have questions about the new health care law, what it means for you and what you need to do. The short answer is that very little changes, and most seniors will not have to do anything. Some meaningful changes have already occurred, such as the shrinking of the prescription drug "donut hole," but most of the major reforms in the Affordable Care Act, such as the new health insurance marketplaces and penalties for not having coverage, simply do not affect seniors (Bob Semro, 10/18).
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A Detroit Lions playoff appearance is anything but routine. As such, there likely isn't a viewing habit you'll immediately fall into based on previous years of experience.
I'll admit that the first thought to cross my mind was that I wanted to watch the game all by myself. Trust me, it would be better that way if things go poorly. Eventually I shed my hermit attitude and realized the game would be best spent with a small gathering of friends. What will you do?
How will you take in the playoff game between the Lions and Saints
- Hosting or attending an in-home gathering (41%, 29 Votes)
- Alone, hunkered down in my man room (37%, 26 Votes)
- At a local bar or restaurant (19%, 13 Votes)
- At the Superdome, BABY!!! (3%, 2 Votes)
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Olympic snowboarder Shaun White is known for his long ginger mane, but that signature hairdo is no more. White has previously been on FanSided.com for his run-ins with the law, however, there is some well-deserved praise heading White's way after this latest story involving the gold medalist.
On Tuesday, White decided to chop off his flowing locks for a good cause. White cut off his signature hair and donated it to "Locks of Love."
With the nation still in mourning after the tragic attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it is great to read and see these feel good stories that help us restore our faith in humanity. It was a great act of kindness on White's part.
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Ever wonder how Sumo Wrestlers get their training? Neither have I, but i bet if you did you wouldn't picture a bunch of big shirtless Asian men sitting in a classroom. But you should, well, actually you don't have to. Check out this picture:
Sumo hopefuls spend six month learning their wrestling moves, but then another six in a regular classroom learning calligraphy, sports medicine, the history of sumo, biology, social studies and… traditional singing. I do not know why we've never seen a singing sumo wrestler, but I have a new goal in my life now.
Via Kotaku
It use to be a kid under two went in a special car seat, everyone else wore a seatbelt. Everyone was happy (except those weird guys that like to dress us babies, they were sad that they no longer could sit in special baby seats). But then someone decided kids should sit in special seats until they were six.
Car seats for kids can be expensive. In fact, in recent news we heard about the cop that bought a car seat for a woman instead of giving her a ticket because she was too poor to buy one. But just how much safer is a car seat than just a seatbelt?
According to Freakanomic author Steven Levitt, not much. Check out these stats he dug up:
According to this only about 1% more kids survive in a car seat than just a seat belt. Can that be right? All I know is I didn't sit a car seat when I was six and I didn't die, so that proves everything.
Here's the full Ted Talk from Steven Levitt. Watch and decide for yourself!
It's been a year since the Breaking Bad finale. Since then Bryan Cranston won another Emmy and starred in Godzilla ( he was excellent in that rubber suit). But before he cooked meth, was Malcom's father, or even worked on Jerry Seinfeld's teeth, he did commercials.
A band that formed in 1993, released one album in 1999, is finally going on tour now, in 2014.
How does something like that happen?
Polaris was formed for just one reason, to provide music for the upcoming kid's show The Adventures of Pete & Pete. They wrote the theme song, "Hey Sandy" (which, may or may not be about the Kent state massacre, but that's never been confirmed since it's probably dark subject matter for a song appearing in a show aimed towards ten year olds), and numerous other songs during the show's three seasons.
Besides appearing in the beginning of every episode during the opening credits, they also showed up as themselves playing a song that Little Pete would get stuck in his head and spend the rest of the episode trying to figure out what song it was.
The show stopped production in 1996, but it wasn't until 1999 that an album was finally cut featuring 12 of the songs Polaris wrote for the show. It's not much of a surprise that the album didn't sell well since they probably kind of missed the prime moment to release it. Nonetheless, the album did grow a cult following.
In 2012, Polaris reunited for one night at a Pete & Pete reunion, to which they were warmly received.
Finally, just this year, Polaris released a cassette single (yes a cassette single in 2014) and announced a tour, including a show In Brooklyn that sold out within moments of it's announcement.


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Chicago Tribune has a Story on the Big ALA conference that was held last week. It\'s a pretty cool article that really harps on the \"librarian strereotype\", but covers what librarians are up to in the US in the year 2000, Ebooks, the internet, low pay, better jobs outside the profession, etc....
\"Stereotypes are stereotypes, and whatever the field or profession, it\'s a matter of taking a look at the person as an individual,\" said Kathleen Walsh, Chicago Public Library spokeswoman. \"But librarians are probably some of the most articulate, smart and energetic people you\'ll come across.\" -- Read More
Remember when libraries circulated books and only books. Welcome to the golf club library. From Honolulu Advertiser\"Castillo came up with the concept while talking to his wife about the tool-lending libraries she grew up with in Alaska. \"I thought it was kind of quaint how the community helped each other,\" Castillo said.\" -- Read More
Everyone\'s favorite comic strip is getting an medal. Here is an Article just telling everyone that Charles Schulz will get the medal he always wanted.
\"President Bill Clinton signed a bill Tuesday giving the creator of the \"Peanuts\" comic strip the Congressional Gold Medal, the country\'s highest civilian honor and the one thing that Schulz -- a World War II veteran -- had desired.\" -- Read More
The Post-gazette has a follow up Story on that trouble at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library.
\"Yesterday, Common Pleas Judge Walter R. Little granted a motion reducing the size of the board of trustees of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library from 17 to 12 members and eliminating the position of lifetime trustee.\" -- Read More
RHadden sent in this strong story:
According to
the headlines of the Wall Street Journal,
Goldfarb, a reference librarian in an Atlanta public
library, has posted a
site that names, perhaps, some of the residents of
Cobb County who were
involved in a 1915 lynching of Leo Frank. See his web
site at: leofranklynchers.c
It is a courageous stand, since many of the names
are well known in
today\'s Marietta community, and their descendents are
uneasy at this
spotlight on their county\'s past.
For news information about this historic incident in
Georgia, see the
Cobb Online news at: cobbo
The Wall Street Journal requires an account to see
their article
online. The printed news story is by Carrick
Mollenkamp, \"An Internet
Posting Raises the Ghosts of a Notorious Crime: A
Librarian Names Names in
the Leo Frank Murder; The List in a Family Bible.\"
Friday, June 9, 2000,
page A1 and A12. -- Read More
The Pittsburg
Post Gazette has a Story on the Andrew Carnegie
Free Library in Carnegie. Andrew made it clear he
wanted the library run a certain way, and now they want
to change that.
\"\"If he would have left us some
money to do it, we would have followed his rules,\" said
Carnegie Mayor Bob Heinrich, an ex-officio member of
the library board. -- Read More
My son recently convinced me to read Neal Stephenson\'s \'Cryptonomicon,\' a great read. In the book, some of the main characters try to set up a \'data haven\', a secure location that hosts internet services and is under no government imposed regulations.
He added that it turns out that the people at HavenCo (havenco.com) are setting up a data haven of their own, on the Island Nation of Sealand (A WWII British military installation 6 miles off the coast of England). You can read about the data haven at the first link, and you can read the unbelievable story of Sealand at the second link. -- Read More
Radio Free Europe has this sad article about the fate of Albanian language books in Kosovo\'s libraries.
\"Kosovo\'s libraries lost almost half their books over the last decade to ethnic cleansing. RFE/RL correspondent Jolyon Naegele reports that a new study says many of the libraries were purged of Albanian-language books even before hostilities erupted in 1998.\" -- Read More
You never know where you\'ll find a good story.
Steven Bell found one on Portablelife.com.
This story isn\'t exactly about libraries, but it does give a nice vote of confidence to libraries, and librarians. The author seems almost suprised that a library would have something so useful!
\"I\'ve saved the best for last: The public libraries in virtually every city and in many towns now offer internet access via desktop systems available to the public for free. Usually, you don\'t even need a library card, although the librarian may hold your driver\'s license hostage while you use the system for the allotted time.\" -- Read More
Hadden writes:
An article about Derek de Solla Price
is in the May 18,
2000 issue of Nature. Dr. Price is the
ex-physicist who spoke about
the compounding effects of scientific publishing over
time, and first said
the famous and frequently un- attributed comment that
\"80 or 90 per cent of
the scientists who have ever lived are alive today\"
He also talked about and documented the
doubling of
scientific knowledge every ten or fifteen years or so
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I am proud to announce the launch of my brand new daily column, "Today in History", on astrology.com!
Every day I discuss a major or minor historical event, and some of the transits involved for one of the principle figures in that event. Learn some astrology, learn some history, keep me employed!
Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, & Allen Ginsberg: Time Twins
I have posted a new video, an astrological look at the lives of Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and Allen Ginsberg during the years 1954-1956.
Johnny Cash & Elizabeth Taylor: Time Twins and Mars Retrograde
An astrological look at the lives of Johnny Cash and Elizabeth Taylor, who were born one day apart, relative to the Mars retrograde transit in Pisces and Sun-Mars conjunctions in Pisces.
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Lorenzo Storyboards
I'd post the images here, but the site has a huge legal disclaimer about using the images (and they appear to be the only source out there with these images).
The site also has a lot of information about the Disney short.
For those of you wondering, this was originally going to be a short for Fantasia 2006, but was it cut from the final product. Hopefully it will get released on a DVD sometime down the line, but until then, there's no way to watch the film.
Someone mentioned that it was shown last year at CTN (the year I didn't attend, boo), so maybe that's a good sign.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and the University of Pennsylvania will explore ways to improve the security of commercial projects used by the United States Military, thanks to a four-year $3.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Across-the-board cuts in federal spending have already had "immediate, detrimental effects" on research universities, including losses in personnel, a diminished capacity for purchasing equipment, a drop in productivity and cuts to research programs. And it's having a serious, negative impact on students as well, according to a new report.
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"A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes."
Logical, I know. But before we go pointing the finger and laughing abroad, let's not forget our own homegrown American fellas have bandied about similar nonsense from time to time. I almost enjoy when these guys go there because it reveals just how deeply rooted sexism still is.
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This is what we call scapegoating, children! Can you say that? Scapegoating?
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Religious clerics are always trying to blame natural disasters on the Sin du Jour. They must have a hotline to God no one else has. Must be nice…Now if they could just tell the winning Lotto #s this week…
Sooooo, let me get this straight:
Earthquakes- caused by pacts with the devil for freedom, promiscuous women, LGBTQ, and Deepak Chopra meditating.
Hurricanes, Tornados: "immorality" of many stripes
Glad to know there's so much power in being a queer black female, too bad I can't do anything about becoming Deepak Chopra, oh well, that level of power would really go to my head anyway.
Somebody should show these people an earth sciences book. Natural disasters have been proven to be caused by things like pressure change and shifting plates in the earth.
I mean, what about weather that is usually not deadly but can be destructive? Thunder storms are caused by little sins like women letting out tiny moans when they orgasm? Strong winds are caused by men putting their own dishes in the dishwasher?
And as far as terrorism is concerned, I hope that Jerry Falwell realizes he essentially called God a terrorist. Keep up the good work.
Mmmmmm, fundamentalism. So ignorant it's terrifying.
I learned about this by the event "Boobquake" on facebook. It's a pretty kickass satire.
I'm so hot, I cause volcanic eruptions in Iceland as well
So if I pop a button or two maybe I can get a moderate wind?
I mean, it's overcast today and we could use the breeze.
That's the thinking, Suzann. Stop blaming women's sexuality for natural disaster and let's start harnessing this incredible power to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
'Give us $50000000000000.00 or we're all wearing micro-minis until God buries you in ash. Don't test us! We'll do it.'
Fear. Stupid, superstitious fear. It seems to have a bunch of men all over the world just …quaking, ha! in their boots
Facebook apparently pulled it, as Nik's link opens a Facebook page saying "This event has been canceled."
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River Yachtsmen's League (DRYL)
Von Nieda Picnic
Raccoon Creek B.C., Bridgeboro, NJSeptember 6, 2014
"Pirates on the Delaware" beginning at 1pm til 7pmMenu:
typical picnic fareCost: $20 in advance (on or before
Sept. 1) Contact: Tim Corcoran (
) or W. Garwood (
email@example.com )
Results of the DRYL's 2014 Queen's Pageant
Miss Quaker City YC, Lauren Snarr,
was crowned the 2014 DRYL Queen; Miss Anchor YC, Bernadette
Price, was 1st Runner Up and Miss Yapewi AC, Alison Stewart,
was 2nd Runner Up.Bristol YC - Best Decorated Club
Quaker City YC - Ramblin' took Best Decorated SailboatBYC
- Mamasita took the Best Decorated Power BoatYapewi AC -
Best of Fleet went to 'Other Peoples Kids'
Delaware River Yachtsmen's League:
100th Anniversary!
DRYC member/guests and friends are
cordially invited to the 100th Annual DRYL Banquet on
Saturday, March 1, 2014,
6:30 - 11:30pm at
Cannstatter's German Club,
9310 Academy Road, Philadelphia, PAThe
banquet will include served hot and cold appetizers (during
the cocktail hour, 6:30 - 7:30pm), also featuring
complimentary beer, wine and soft drinks (mixed drinks
available on a cash only basis), plus a memento of this event.
Dinner service beginning at 7:30pm that includes 4 choices of
entrees: Prime Rib, Stuffed Flounder, Chicken Marsala or a
Vegetarian Platter.
Cost is $55 per person including the above listed dinner,
beer, wine, soft drinks, musical entertainment and dancing
plus a 100th DRYL Anniversary memento.
Club Officers/officials are encouraged to wear winter
uniforms; other gentlemen - black tie or suits and ties.
Please Note: Reservations needed on or before
Feb. 10, 2014. For further details and/or
reservations please contact William (Bill) Garwood at
215-947-4987 or email
firstname.lastname@example.com with 1.) name of attendee(s)
2.) dinner entree selection and 3.) details for payment
(check only) for $55 per person listed made payable to
Delaware River Yachtsmen's League.
Excerpted from e.m. Lt. T. Johnson, USCG dated October
30, 3013 to William Garwood, DRYL PAO
Members of the DRYL member clubs and individual
recreational boaters have responded, en mass, to a
recent Notice to Mariners "PROPOSAL TO DISCONTINUE AIDS
TO NAVIGATION (A to N)" concerning the Bordentown
Bar Junction Buoy B (LLNR 4230)" in the vicinity of
Bordentown, NJ with the following results.
Re: Local Notice to Mariners article "NJ - UPPER
DISCONTINUE AIDS TO NAVIGATION" initially published in
the 5th Coast Guard District Local Notice to Mariners
39/13. This update is being sent in response to the
"Discontinuation Notice of the Bordentown Bar Junction
Buoy B (LLNR 4230)"
"Based on feedback from no less than 40 waterway
users, the position and seasonal maintenance dates of
Bordentown Bar Junction BuoyB mark the Upper Delaware
River Channel adequately. The adjacent waterways, which
are not marked with Federal A to N, provide access to
boating clubs (Bordentown Y.C. & Yapewi Aquatic Club)
and a public boat ramp. Hundreds of recreational
boaters operating outside the marked channel boundaries
regularly rely on Bordentown Bar Junction Buoy B (LLNR
4230) to access BYC & YAC and navigate in the vicinity
of a charted sandbar and transit under I-295."
"The evaluation of Bordentown Bar Junction Buoy
B (LLNR 4230) is part of a large-scale waterway
evaluation in support of modernizing local Coast Guard A
to N servicing units' capabilities".
"Thus, to conform to Commandant's lateral marking
requirements, to maintain the conventional direction of
buoyage and to continue to mark the sandbar obstruction,
a solid colored lateral Aid to Navigation will be
established on the approximate former position of the
junction buoy on or about 05 May 2014. This aid
will be a solid Red Nun and be named Upper Delaware
River Channel Buoy 86 (LLNR 4230)".
DRYL Person of the Year, 2013
Ms. Candyce
Neshaminay Harbor Yacht Club
March 2, 2013
Annual Banquet
Cannstatters Banquet Hall, Philadelphia, PA
The League's 99th Banquet was attended by many DRYL
member clubs including DRYC/11 persons; a bevy of member
club Princesses, past Princesses, including Genievieve
Noderer Lynch and Present DRYL Queen Alex Leo, West End
Yacht Club and Queen Lilly of the CBYCA plus several past DRYL
Photo Credit: Byron Campbell, member Riverton Yacht Club
Friday, December 14, 2012
Members of the Anchor Yacht Club in
Bristol handle a defense obstacle used by American
troops during the Revolutionary War. The 28-foot-long
wooden spear is known as a cheval de frise and is
equipped with a sharp iron tip used to puncture the
bottom of British war ships. According to historians, it
is one of only four that have been recovered.
UPDATE: It has finally
found a home and has made its way to East Carolina
University where it will be put on display.
Boating Safety: Tragic
Incident, Lessons Learned?
A recent article in the Phila. Inquirer, July 29th.
edition, reported on a boating accident in the
Hudson River, north of NYC where a power boat, 21 ft.
Stingray, crashed into an anchored barge(with lights).
Several of the boat's occupants died as a result of
their injuries, recovered persons were not wearing PFDs.
With the Delaware shipping channel being deepened,
the use of working vessels could be hazardous to
recreational boaters operating their vessels in the
vicinity of Marcus Hook, PA. and south, especially at
night. Caution is advised in that area!!
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I am in the market for newer freezer very soon to use for 2 main purposes only...1) Fermentation Chamber 2) Cold Crashing
What is the type of freezer everyone uses currently? (Upright or Chest) Why did you come to the decision to make the choice for one over the other, cost not being a factor? I am of the opinion that an upright is easier to load/unload the FV, but a chest freezer would have more room. What say the HBT brethren?
I have both - a chest as a serving keezer and an upright for fermentation. My chest freezer is small - 5.8 cuft - and holds 4 kegs for serving with a little extra room for a few six-packs or yeast starter crashing. My upright is 20 cuft. I like the upright because I can easily get my carboys in and out. I built a little shelf that will hold the weight of a couple carboys. I've had two carboys and three corny's fermenting in there at the same time, and it worked well. you're right in saying the chest freezer is work lo load and unload.
my upright (top freezer) that I use for fermentation chamber will only hold 1 bucket (7.9gal version) or my 13gal dog food container that I use for 10gal batches. I wish I could could get 2 buckets in it.
I've considered opening the top to the bottom so I could build a shelf for a second vessel, but for now I tolerate it.
It really depends on your situation.
For my fermentation chamber I figured like prand that an upright is better, and a chest freezer for keezer.
Also for me space was an issue. I have plenty of vertical space in my garage up to the ceiling, but space on the ground is at a premium only having a 1 car garage. So having a tall and thin stand up freezer was the easy choice for fermentation.
The more difficult thing was finding a frost free upright on craigslist, i wanted a freezer not a fridge for the extra space and easy ability to cold crash and lager at low temperatures without running too hard as most fridges aren't meant to get that cold and hold it...they can but it can stress them. Most upright freezers run their chilling lines through their shelves, which makes them immovable and they are usually at horrible locations that wouldnt allow most fermenters to fit properly. Setting up a free alert on the "Upright Freezer" search on my Local CList though and within a few weeks i found the perfect freezer. Granted I may have overpaid at $100 for a 6 year old freezer, but it was literally exactly what i needed space wise and had no permanent shelves. Also at least around this part in Oregon most people way overvalue their freezers on CL so $100 was a steal...its JUST tall enough to fit two of my 30L Fermentation buckets and a blowoff container, not much else. Built a tiny shelf out of some spare wood my parents had laying around and bam, ferm chamber.
Also having the shelves in the door is nice for bottles. I don't bottle much anymore unless its to take beer somewhere and it doesn't get finished, so it creates a nice place to stash those bottles to keep at sub 70F temp for storage when there's no room in the house fridge.
tdlr; Upright all the way, if your buying used though know it may take longer to find one that doesn't run its chilling coils through the shelves.
I really like my upright freezer. Has a smaller foot print than a chest freezer and I can fit 11 corny kegs in it. Here's the thread on which I based my build.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/upri...1-kegs-371438/
I had a chest and got rid of it for an upright. I can store 2 fermenting buckets in the bottom half and 4 cases of beer on the shelves above. I ferment and bottle condition in it, then move them to my beer fridge once they're conditioned. Also it has a smaller footprint and my garage is already tight.
"He who laughs last..........thinks slowest!"
This thread helped me. I was considering a chest model for fermentation, but now I'm reconsidering that.
I am definitely leaning towards an upright, and like the idea of placing 2 carboys vertically vs. side by side in a chest freezer. The access to the FV would be much easier, plus you can keep an eye on things. This being said, there are so many more chest freezers for sale on CL vs. stand up. (At least in the price range I want to remain at).
Thanks everyone for the input so far.
Be patient, I got mine for $60.00.


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King recently decided to abandon in-game advertising and considering my position with the NativeX Games Task Force (where we collaborate with mobile game developers to increase the engagement, retention, and monetization) this sparked a few questions and discussions in circles of people around me. Why are they doing this? What's their motive? Were players leaving? Did they need a better ad experience? These are all good questions, but before addressing them specifically around King let's look at the two major groups of developers who don't want or like ads. There might be more groups than this, but in my experience most developers fall into these two buckets.
I've encountered several developers who don't want to break the 4th wall in their game design. They've created a story and world where they feel players should immerse themselves, and advertisements would make players aware that this is just a game. I have a hard time believing this in mobile gaming, but I won't argue that point against developers who feel this way.
There are also developers who believe that the game they are creating will be good enough that players will "want" to spend money in game through in app purchases (IAPs). With those developers, I wish and hope that they're right! I would hope that a game could achieve 100% conversion rate, 75% or even 30%. Unfortunately, you'll never have 100% conversion and most developers won't see more than 10% conversion (in a F2P title) just because one word is associated with their game... free. Some consumers have preconceived notions or assumptions with the word free, and game designers/developers will never be able to change how those people feel about the word free.
Lastly in the purist category, there are some developers who think that advertisement revenue cannibalizes their IAP revenue. This can be true, but only if they slap ads into a game without thinking how to "intelligently" integrate advertisements. I can take any game and completely destroy it with advertisements. I think we all can, but you can also increase your game/company revenues significantly with the addition of advertisements too. That is, if you care for more revenue.
The other kind of developers out there that don't use ads are those who have enough cash flow or resources and don't feel the need to include advertising revenue, or any other benefits associated with it. They can "elect" to include ads or not. Most of the time this way of thinking spawns from great success, so it's really difficult to criticize their decision to remove ads because they're obviously doing something right being as successful as they are. If you haven't guessed it yet, King falls under this category.
Many developers think of advertisements as a "necessary evil" in order to make a living out of doing something they love. On the flip-side advertisers believe they are offering a service or product that the consumer values. Which is right? Well that depends on the game/platform and the consumer. Let's look at Hay Day for example. My wife has been playing for over a year, and is level 60-something at the time of writing this. She has never made an IAP. She will never make an IAP. I asked her why and her response was, "because it's free." However, she will watch videos for currency. She actually likes to watch ads for currency. This is a case where a consumer finds value in an advertisement and the developer is benefiting from it as well. Of course on the other end of the spectrum, 20-some year old hardcore gamers who only buy Call of Duty will hate advertisements. (Ok that's sort of an extreme example, but I think you get the idea.)
Not necessarily, but I believe there's a role for advertisements in most games. I've seen the effects first hand from players who won't spend. However, the data at my fingertips from the NativeX network and from the shift I've witnessed in the past few years shows the importance of advertising. However, this is sort of a win-win scenario for King. They're successful so advertising isn't as important, they're getting some press coverage for the announcement and in the eyes of gamers it looks like they're "doing good."
Do I think this stance can last? That all depends on their future success. If they stay on top, or keep releasing hits then yes, but if revenues start declining or they're not meeting expectations then they might reintroduce ads. There's also always the possibility of reintroducing ads back in games that are "sunsetting" so we could always see them pop back into games that aren't in the spotlight anymore.
If you'd like to talk about this or any other games you can find me here at my blog, the NativeX blog or on Twitter.
|Ramin Shokrizade
I only use Facebook for games. When I see advertisements, it is always for games. If I was playing Candy Crush Saga, and there were advertisements, it would most likely be for *non* King games. I could see how this might undermine their retention.
|Rosstin Murphy
Personally, I'm hoping that we're moving towards a world where outbound marketing is a thing of the past, and users can see ads that are relevant to them. As a gamer, I don't mind seeing ads for other games. Even if these are games I'll never play, having an awareness of new games and how they're advertised adds (haha) value to me. I think that in a similar way, as contextual advertising and inbound marketing mature, people will become less annoyed and suspicious, and more accepting of ads, and conversion rates from advertisements will increase.
|Steven Christian
I definitely agree with both comments here.
I can also see how in app advertising can break immersion.
Hell, even product placement within movies breaks immersion for me (especially if the product in question doesn't fit with the world).
However, unlike most people, I don't mind having ads tailored to me.
If someone can show me an ad for a product that I want and that I didn't know about previously, I would be quite happy; unfortunately it hasn't happened yet; Google Ads in particular seem happy to refer me to sites that I have recently visited and already made purchases from, or pages related to something that I was googling last week/month which is no longer relevant to me.
|Daniel Kaplan
I have never understood, actually why games have ads for other's games. Sure, they can get a kickback by installing someone else's game but why not try to make your own game monetize better? Wouldn't that give the developer much more money then sending the player off somewhere else and eventually lose her completely..?
(Also, TF2, HoN, LoL and other F2P games don't have ads.)
|Dimitri Del Castillo
I never had a problem with the ads in Candy Crush. I'd actually get 4-5 extra lives from ads that I didn't watch or muted the sound on. Now I have to wait for my lives to regen like everybody else. The benefit for me is it has curbed my playing time on it now, not sure if that's a benefit for them though.
|Eric Finlay
It's important to note that King is one of the biggest skill gaming websites on the non-mobile webs. Maybe they're going to start trying to bring that functionality to mobile, and this is just a part of the transition. God I hope not, cause that's what I'm working on!
|Lex Allen
The truth is that they weren't able to make enough money on the ads. One of my Flash games has 3,000,000 plays, and I only made $300.00 on it. I couldn't find a sponsor, so I just stuck Mochiads on it.
So, I should have used something else to monetize it, but monetizing a dress up game is NOT easy.
So, it the ads were profitable and significant, I'm sure they would have kept them.
|Daniel Boy
"20-some year old hardcore gamers who only buy Call of Duty will hate advertisements"
Imagine: A player watches videos that advertise guns or drones or dogs before a match. This is "research" and will speed-up her xp-rate.


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Another update in the ongoing saga this week in the Steve Moore, Todd Bertuzzi lawsuit settlement as after the Vancouver Canucks and Todd Bertuzzi's lawyer confirmed a done deal that was reported as false by Steve Moore's brother the Bertuzzi lawyers have replied by saying that the brother of the former Colordao Avalanche player "doesn't know what he is talking about."
Mark Moore came out and told the media on Thursday morning that TSN's report and the Canucks press release were misleading because a complete settlement was not reached despite the Bertuzzi lawyers claiming that the settlement was binding. That led to the lawyer of Bertuzzi coming out this afternoon to say that nothing has changed despite the claims of Moore's brother.
"Mark Moore is not a party to this lawsuit and does not know what he is talking about nor is he very smart to have made untrue defamatory statements such as these," Adair told the National Post on Thursday.
It seems certain that a deal has in fact been reached despite the attempts of Moore's brother to claim otherwise and that both parties will be finally moving on from their lengthy court battle before the trial was set to begin on September 8. That means Bertuzzi, who is a free agent will be able to try to find a team as a 39 year old veteran forward.
Meanwhile Bertuzzi has continued his stance on not speaking about the court case that surrounds his dark moment that has clouded his successful NHL career, speaking to the Detroit Press on Wednesday that reminded the same as the former Vancouver forward declined to speak on the issue.
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re: Breaking Bad Thread (NO SPOILERS OUTSIDE OF THIS THREAD. INCLUDING SIGS & CHATBOX.)
Hopefully this isn't consider bumping since it's the Breaking Bad thread, the greatest fucking TV show ever. So hopefully MrModster doesn't get upset with me since he's a fan of the show also.
But I just read this article that got me a tad interested:
Discovery Channel's reality show "MythBusters" – which re-enacts scenarios from movies, TV and urban legends to test their accuracy with scientific methodology – is filming a "Breaking Bad"-themed episode, a spokesman for the cable network told TheWrap on Friday.
"Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan and star Aaron Paul – who plays meth manufacturer Jesse Pinkman on the series — will be on hand as "MythBusters" stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage put the logic of the hit AMC drama to the test.
No other details, such as when the episode will air, were available.
Back in June, Gilligan said in an interview that he'd like to do a "Breaking Bad"/"MythBusters" crossover.
"I'd dig seeing those guys prove or disprove some of the crazy stuff we've done on 'Breaking Bad'", Gilligan enthused.
While they're at it, perhaps they can get to the bottom of whether that electromagnet episode would have been possible in the real world.
The "Yeah BITCH..... MAGNETS!!" will hopefully be one of the myths that they try. That or dissolving a body with acid in a big plastic drum or see if acid will eat through a bathtub then several floors of a house. Either way, knowing that Aaron Paul will be part of the MythBusters episode is pretty cool. I use to be a fan of the show years ago back in like '04 when they still tested good myths but I will definitely watch this episode whenever it airs. I'm guessing they will air it sometime around the start of the rest of Season 5 in only
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ea you didn't think this through very well
LOL i have a feeling this was on purpose ROFL. Like how Disney adds all that subliminal sex stuff to their movies.
But, of course they did! ;) That's how their minds work.
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