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Another Health Care Reform Myth Destroyed, But The Over All Deception Still Lives
One of the most persistent myths pushed by the health care "reformers" is that if you like what you have, nothing will change. Yes, friends, according to them, you can have something for nothing.
And nothing exemplifies the silliness of the claim than that which says Medicare recipients will continue to receive the same level of treatment they do now, but government will cut $500 billion from Medicare to pay for it.
For those that need it, a new study now makes official the fact that such cuts will indeed change the levels of treatment and benefits Medicare patients will receive. My guess is, this isn't the "change" senior citizens voted for.
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.
The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.
Congress could intervene to avoid such an outcome, but "so doing would likely result in significantly smaller actual savings" than is currently projected, according to the analysis by the chief actuary for the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. That would wipe out a big chunk of the financing for the health-care reform package, which is projected to cost $1.05 trillion over the next decade.
First, what happened to the reported cost of 894 billion when the bill first came out? Now it is being "projected to cost" 1.05 trillion – over the threshold. And, as everyone has been paying attention has said, the supposed savings will come at the cost of Medicare benefits for seniors.
In fact, according to this report, the cuts "would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others". Already low reimbursement rates cut even further would force hospitals and nursing home to reconsider taking Medicare patients at all.
No word if such cuts it will have any effect on this:
The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year.
Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by The Associated Press, show a dramatic increase in improper payments in the $440 billion Medicare program that has been cited by government auditors as a high risk for fraud and waste for 20 years.
Look, there's no question that Medicare, as structured, is going to break the bank. But then whose fault is that? It is and always has been a government run program, and it has about 50 trillion in unfunded liabilities in our future. So obviously that's a program that badly needs reform.
But that wasn't the point of the over all reform, was it? This was the "if you like what you have, you can keep it" reform. The point is that's all a crock of rabbit pellets. This has nothing to do with leaving what exists alone – either on the government side (Medicare or Medicaid) or the private side (public option).
There's more to the story though. The politics of this. What the Democrats in the House have presented is a bill which is so much smoke and mirrors it is embarrassing. Democrats know they have to get the number down in order to sell this travesty as not adding to the deficit. They also know how very important a demographic seniors are. So you have to look at this and ask, "are they really willing to risk their majority by making seniors mad? Are they willing to let themselves be defeated by making the hard decision to cut Medicare programs and effect senior's Medicare benefits?
Of course not. It's one thing to put it in a bill as a device to "balance" your spending. It's another thing to do the actually cutting. And, if the "doc fix" bill is any indication, they have absolutely no intention of doing so:
So, to avoid its own prescribed draconian cuts in Medicare doctors' payments, Congress goes through an annual Chinese fire drill to prevent its goofy formula from being implemented each year. As a budgetary matter, the accumulated cuts now amount to an automatic reduction in physician payment of 21 percent effective next year. That prospect has the professional medical organizations in a tizzy, and they are willing to do anything – anything, mind you- to avoid that fate worse than death, even to the point of formally embracing H.R. 3962, the gargantuan 2032 page House health care bill.
To lure the desperate doctors into bed with the liberals, their big ugly "public option" and all (analogously, a longer prison sentence, but better food and more yard time), the Congressional leadership included a "permanent fix" to Medicare physician payment in the original version of the 1018 page House bill, small increases, no cuts. But they carved it out because its cost made the House health care bill appear too expensive. So, to keep that version "looking cheaper", they created another vehicle (H.R 3961), a companion bill, that would provide for a permanent Medicare "doc fix" at a ten year cost of $210 billion.
Or said succinctly – it's all BS. Democrats not only intend to add to the deficit, they intend it in a big way, all the while telling us all lies about how it all stacks up as smoothly as the world's most accomplished con artist. Is this the "change we asked for?"
The Grey Lady Gets It Wrong Again
Editorializing today, the New York Times says:
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. took a bold and principled step on Friday toward repairing the damage wrought by former President George W. Bush with his decision to discard the nation's well-established systems of civilian and military justice in the treatment of detainees captured in antiterrorist operations.
From that entirely unnecessary policy (the United States had the tools to detain, charge and bring terrorists to justice) flowed a terrible legacy of torture and open-ended incarceration. It left President Obama with yet another mess to clean up on an urgent basis.
Of course this minimizes the arguments to Bush did or didn't follow "the nation's well-established systems of civilian and military justice in the treatment of detainees captured in antiterrorist operations."
In fact there were no "well-established systems" in existence at all as we found out. Anyone who remembers what happened as we began to take in these "detainees captured in antiterrorist operations" knows that no system at all existed. There was a tremendous amount of debate and legal research done to try to determine what sort of status these people should or could be held under. And that's not been established in full to this day.
For instance, the NYT claims that "open-ended incarceration" has been ended by the Obama administration's move. But that's simply not true. As the Washington Post reports:
That leaves up to 75 individuals remaining at Guantanamo who could continue to be held under the laws of war because they are deemed too dangerous to release, but cannot be prosecuted because of evidentiary issues and limits on the use of classified material.
So it appears, given the evidence, that open-ended incarcerations continue. Why? Because we still don't have a comprehensive legal policy with which to deal with these people. As the Obama administration found out when it tried to close Guantanamo, the legal questions were indeed complex and unresolved. And, at least 75 individuals continue to face the possibility of open-ended incarceration because of that – a year into the Obama administrations tenure.
The Times continues:
On Friday, Attorney General Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four others accused in the plot will be tried in a fashion that will not further erode American justice or shame Americans. It promises to finally provide justice for the victims of 9/11.
Mr. Holder said those prisoners would be prosecuted in federal court in Manhattan. It was an enormous victory for the rule of law, a major milestone in Mr. Obama's efforts to close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and an important departure from Mr. Bush's disregard for American courts and their proven ability to competently handle high-profile terror cases.
Well, that's the official spin, I suppose, but my guess is it has more to do with leftist politics than any concern for justice and I think James Taranto has the best take on what is most likely about this move:
As Morris Davis, a retired military prosecutor, argued the other day in The Wall Street Journal, under the administration's plan, "the standard of justice for each detainee will depend in large part upon the government's assessment of how high the prosecution's evidence can jump and which evidentiary bar it can clear." Detainees will get a "fair trial" in civilian court only if their conviction is assured. By implication, that suggests that detainees who go before military commissions will get an unfair trial. Presumably the administration would deny this and say the commission trials will be fair too. But if so, why is such a trial not good enough for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?
The answer seems to be that the administration is conducting a limited number of civilian trials of high-profile terrorists for show, so as to win "credibility" with the international left. These trials will differ from an ordinary show trial in that the process will be fair even though the verdict is predetermined. But people who wrongly think that either military commissions or detention without trial are unjust will not be satisfied with some detainees getting civilian trials–unless, of course, they are simply eager to be impressed by Barack Obama.
I think he's exactly right. These are indeed show trials, considered safe enough (the evidence is overwhelming enough that classified evidence won't be necessary) to ensure conviction. These trials will have little to do with "justice", but they will have much to do with shutting up or at least muffling the leftist base which still isn't satisfied with what the administration has accomplished in terms of closing Gitmo. These trials buy the administration more time.
Note also what Tranto says about the implication that exists concerning military tribunals. The Times says it out loud:
Regrettably, the decision fell short of a clean break. Five other Guantánamo detainees are to be tried before a military commission for the 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole, including Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of planning the attack.
The rules for the commissions were recently revised to bring them closer to military standards. And Mr. Holder cites the fact that the Cole bombing was an attack on a military target to justify a military trial. But that does not cure the problem of relying on a new system outside the regular military justice system. Nor does it erase the appearance that the government is forum-shopping to win convictions. Most broadly, it fails to establish a clear framework for assigning cases to regular courts or military commissions going forward.
The rules revisions the Times cites were cosmetic at best. But note that the editorial doesn't mince words concerning its disdain for the military tribunal. The fact that those being tried before the tribunal actually attacked a military target doesn't stop the Times from claiming "forum shopping" as the key to their continued use.
So let's review – KSM is going to NY for trial. That, supposedly, is a clean break with the awful Bush years and open-ended incarceration and military tribunals. Except it's not. 75 remain in open-ended incarceration at Gitmo. And 5 will face justice in front of military tribunals.
In fact, the only thing that has happened is a couple of show trials, which could just as easily been done in Guantanamo (or if they want a Federal Court – how about Miami), are going to be held in an attempt to "prove" that things have changed.
The Times is obviously fooled into believing that. And, that proves one thing – that politically at least, the Obama adminstration got this one right.
Media Continues To Ignore The Obvious In Ft. Hood Murders
Charles Krauthammer takes on the developing media spin about Ft. Hood murders.
That, of course, is that Hasan's religion had nothing to do with any of this – instead he had just heard so much from returning vets that he "snapped". He, in effect, developed secondary PTSD. Says Krauthammer:
Really? What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
And what about civilian psychiatrists — not the Upper West Side therapist treating Woody Allen neurotics, but the thousands of doctors working with hospitalized psychotics — who every day hear not just tales but cries of the most excruciating anguish, of the most unimaginable torment? How many of those doctors commit mass murder?
It is a pretty untenable and unbelievable attempt to divert attention away from the elephant in the room – the fact that Hasan was a radicalized muslim who proselytized for his religion (something his colleagues heard but neither reported or did anything about), had "SoA" (Soldier of Allah) on his business card and shouted "Allahu Akbar" when he began his murder spree.
As Krauthammer points out the religious aspect of this is something the politically correct crowd would prefer to ignore. Instead they literally invent something to replace it on the fly and in its stead:
Secondary post-traumatic stress disorder, a handy invention to allow one to ignore the obvious.
And the perfect moral finesse. Medicalizing mass murder not only exonerates. It turns the murderer into a victim, indeed a sympathetic one.
And it isn't a recent attempt on the part of the media. Consider this – not even one full day after the massacre at Ft. Hood, Newsweek's Andrew Bast wrote this:
What if Thursday's atrocious slaughter at Fort Hood only signals that the worst is yet to come? The murder scene Thursday afternoon at the Killeen, Texas, military base, the largest in the country, was heart-wrenching. Details remained murky, but at least 13 are dead and 30 wounded in a killing spree that may momentarily remind us of a reality that most Americans can readily forget: soldiers and their families are living, and bending, under a harrowing and unrelenting stress that will not let up any time soon. And the U.S. military could well be reaching a breaking point as the president decides to send more troops into Afghanistan.
It's hard to draw too many conclusions right now, but we do know this: Thursday night, authorities shot and then apprehended the lone suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. A psychiatrist who was set to deploy to Iraq at the end of the month, Hasan reportedly opened fire around the Fort Hood Readiness Center, where troops are prepared for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. And though this scene is a most extreme and tragic outlier, it comes at a time when the stress of combat has affected so many soldiers individually that it makes it increasingly difficult for the military as a whole to deploy for wars abroad.
Not even a full day after the murders, you have the stage being set for precisely what Krauthammer notes – medicalizing (stress, PTSD, victim) the tragedy instead of pointing to the real reason – or even mentioning it.
Fast forward to yesterday and an AP story:
Rising suicide rates and a shooting spree last week by an Army psychiatrist at a base in Fort Hood, Texas, have raised new questions about the effects of combat stress and the state of the military's mental health system.
For most, Hasan's "shooting spree" has raised few questions about the effect of combat stress and the state of the military's mental health system.
Instead it has raised questions about the media's insistence on crediting the obvious for his "shooting spree" and why they're so afraid to confront it? Does combat raise stress – yes, of course it does. It always has. This is nothing new. But given what we've learned, that's not why Hasan murdered 13 people.
Yet, as the AP story shows, that's still the track some in the media prefer over the apparent truth of the matter.
Political correctness. As we've learned now, it kills. Unfortunately, not all of us have learned that as AP, Newsweek and a whole host of other poilitically correct apologists for Hasan's motives continue to prove.
It's Bush's Fault Obama Is Traveling So Much
Dana Milbank does a pre-emptive strike on possible criticism of Obama's globe trotting during a time of domestic economic woe. He notes that the "normally querulous opposition" hasn't said a word about the fact that he's spent 12% of his presidency outside the country and has more trips planned before the end of the year – a record unsurpassed by any president.
Why no criticism per Milbank? Heh … why do you think?
Normally, Obama's wanderlust would be a liability, because Americans care more about the economy than foreign affairs. But the normal rules don't seem to apply this year, largely because Obama's predecessor left the nation's world standing in a shambles. While Republicans may be tempted to criticize Obama for being "intercontinental," as Bush would have put it, "the ability to change the way America is viewed is powerful," a senior Obama adviser said Thursday, "and they are afraid of looking petty."
Polling by the Pew Research Center at the end of Bush's presidency found that 70 percent of Americans thought the country had become less respected in the world (only 5 percent said "more respected"), and most of them thought the decline in standing was a major problem.
"Repairing our image overseas was an important consideration for the public," said Andrew Kohut, the poll's director. Americans have given Obama credit for a "dramatic improvement" in the nation's standing, he said.
Here's an alternative thought for Milbank to consider. The reason the "normally querulous opposition" isn't saying much, and, in fact, is complaining he isn't gone enough (fall of the Berlin wall) is when he's gone he isn't here mucking things up. Or more succinctly, it's to their advantage to have him gone.
On a separate subject, my theory as to why he's going so much has to do with his realization that he is in over his head and as his poll numbers and popularity sink here, he seeks a narcissistic boost elsewhere. One of the main reasons, as some have theorized, he didn't go to Berlin is there wasn't enough about him in the program. Of course that didn't stop him from inserting a totally irrelevant fact that when the wall fell those there at the time wouldn't have imagined the US would have a president of "African descent" in office in his two minutes speech. What that had to do with anything is beyond me but it is another indicator of how self-absorbed the man is. On his Asian swing, as with his other visits to foreign countries, he will indeed be the center of attention. And, of course, issuing apologies as for the US as is his want, he can't help but be more popular than a predecessor who didn't do that sort of thing.
Whether the new "standing" we supposedly enjoy means anything at all really isn't explored in the Milbank column. Apparently if that new standing is based on contempt (and the popularity of a US leader who panders too it) rather than respect, that's fine – just so the numbers are "better" than they were previously. Because that means all kinds of important things to America – like more jobs, a better economy, a resolution on Afghanistan and much, much more.
Tax Facts
Some tax facts from the Tax Foundation [pdf]to ponder while you work toward paying off the government's first claim on your paycheck today.
Fact 1: Not everyone is doing that.
Today, 46 million tax filers have no income tax liability after taking advantage of all of the credits and deductions in the tax code—one-third of all tax filers. Obama's tax polices, such as the "Making Work Pay" tax credit, will increase the number of non-payers to more than 63 million.
Or 63 million won't , as Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation says, have any "skin in the game". Why should they care about tax policy or how tax money is spent?
Fact 2: Not all tax cuts/credits are good.
[T]he most politically popular tax cuts actually give the government more control over the economy rather than less. Even the credits enacted with the best of intentions—such as the $1,000 child credit, hybrid vehicle credit, or adoption credit—are bad tax policy because they attempt to induce people to make choices politicians think are right while rewarding select industries at the expense of others.
Or said another way, we again have government picking winners and losers, which few people would accept as something it should be doing. Politicians use their first claim on what you earn to reward you by not taking it if you do what they want. Is that your idea of the function of government?
Fact 3: High corporate taxes punish workers.
As the new study explains, there is a growing body of evidence that a large share of corporate taxes is really borne by workers—most of whom are not wealthy. Using statistical methods, the new study found that for every $1 rise in state and local corporate tax collections, real wages in that area fell by $2.50 five years later. The reverse is also true: wages rose by $2.50 for every $1 reduction in state and local corporate income taxes.
If wages are depressed in your particular state or locality, check out the corporate tax rate – as we've pointed out for years, corporations don't pay taxes, they pass them on.
Fact 4: US corporate taxes are high.
Average OECD top corporate tax rate: 26.29 percent. Average U.S. top rate: 39.1 percent.
And of course after spending time demonizing corporations as rich and greedy, the present administration and Congress want to raise these taxes even higher. Then they'll have another job summit and wonder why unemployment continues to get worse and wages are stagnant.
Fact 5: The rich actually pay more than their "fair share".
Share of federal income tax paid by top 1 percent: 40.4 percent. Share paid by bottom 95 percent: 39.4 percent.
In fact, the rich pay more than 95% of the taxpayers out there – and the plan is to tap them for even more. Because, of course, they're rich, and that automatically makes them "greedy". Not in the plan is how the government will make up the revenue it plans on collecting with this new tax when the rich do what is necessary to protect what is theirs from the increased government looting.
Fact 6: Tax increases cost nearly twice the revenue raised.
"With every dollar of revenue, the proposed tax hikes cost the economy an extra 86 cents."
Called "deadweight loss" high taxes distort the economy by artificially affecting decisions, such as:
…how much people choose to work by decreasing the financial reward to labor. High tax rates also may discourage savings, affect investment choices, and change the way households spend their money. For these reasons, economists recommend low tax rates and broad tax bases.
But that's not at all what we now have – 63 million projected to be paying no taxes at all, corporate taxes higher than the OECD average and going higher and 1% of the population paying more in taxes than 95%?
If you can't see what's wrong with this picture and where it portends to leave us as we try to "recover" from the recession, then you're being willfully blind. And, if some of this isn't addressed and changed in the upcoming jobs summit, nothing is going to change to improve the employment situation. We have a tax structure that is anti-growth, anti-business and anti-liberty. The unfortunate thing is the present administration and Congress are working on legislation right now which will actually increase the tax burden exponentially and have projected trillion dollar budget deficits for the next 10 years.
How, given the above and the inevitable result of their unconscionable planned government spending spree (and taxes to support it) are we going to "grow" our way out of this?
Is The Locomotive Of "Chavismo" Losing Steam In Venezuela?
Gallup's latest poll says it is:
President Hugo Chavez's popularity among Venezuelans has waned in recent years. Less than half of Venezuelans (47%) in August 2009 said they approved of Chavez' job performance — down from 61% in late 2006 when he was elected to a second six-year term.
That's not a good sign for a
dictator "president for life". And what's even worse is his inability to do much about what is causing that decline but attempt to distract attention by stirring up an existential threat (Colombia).
The reasons for this decline in popularity aren't hard to figure out. Again, Gallup:
This year, 30% of Venezuelans said economic conditions in their city or area are improving, down from 47% in 2008 and 63% in 2007. Electricity and water shortages have become frequent, and violent crime is rampant in much of the country. This year, 23% of Venezuelans said they feel safe walking alone in their areas at night, the second-lowest figure among the 67 countries in which Gallup asked the question.
Politicians, whether socialist or capitalist, are held responsible for their country's ability to provide the basics in life – especially when in the past those basics were cheap and plentiful. And, politicians are also held responsible for providing basic security. In all areas the socialist "Bolivarian revolution" is failing. And, because of actions by Chavez over the years to nationalize many industries, Venezuelans who supported Chavez are now beginning to see his government as more of a threat to them:
Conversely, concern about the heavy hand Chavez has demonstrated in the recent wave of nationalizations may be growing. The proportion of Venezuelans who said people in the country can feel very confident their private property will be respected by the government has dropped to 40% this year, from 52% in 2007. And 44% of Venezuelans currently agree that life is very hard for those who oppose the government, up from 36% in 2008.
As Megan McArdle points out, Chavez was able to paper over much of this when the price of oil was high and revenue plentiful, but at the present price and faced with the fact that because he diverted money from the state run oil company PDVSA to fund social programs, his golden goose is on life support. And Chavez has been forced to impose some unpopular restrictions:
President Hugo Chávez has been facing a public outcry in recent weeks over power failures that, after six nationwide blackouts in the last two years, are cutting electricity for hours each day in rural areas and in industrial cities like Valencia and Ciudad Guayana. Now, water rationing has been introduced here in the capital.
The deterioration of services is perplexing to many here, especially because the country had grown used to cheap, plentiful electricity and water in recent decades. But even as the oil boom was enriching his government and Mr. Chávez asserted greater control over utilities and other industries in this decade, public services seemed only to decay, adding to residents' frustrations.
With oil revenues declining and the economy slowing, the shortages may have no quick fixes in sight. The government announced some emergency measures this week, including limits on imports of air-conditioning systems, rate increases for consumers of large amounts of power and the building of new gas-fired power plants, which would not be completed until the middle of the next decade.
Combine that with growing food shortages and rampant inflation and the picture is not pretty for our boy Hugo. And while his popularity remains slightly north of the critical 50% mark, his job approval rating of 46% portends a fall for that as well. Chavez, like all socialists, is finding out the hard way that they call them the laws of economics for a reason. You just wonder if we'll learn something from his inevitable decline.
A Federal Government That Can Absolutely, Positively Crush Any Business Overnight
Ft. Hood, Hasan And Some On The Left's Tone Deafness
You can't beat the left for not getting the message or understanding the problem, can you:
[Montel Williams, on his Air America program] suggested on Monday that the Fort Hood backlash against Muslims could be so great we would put Muslims in internment camps like the Japanese under Franklin Roosevelt:
WILLIAMS: We pulled something like this back in World War II when we decided to round up all Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps. This is something that I think before we can blink, the [anti-Muslim] rhetoric, Doc, could get out of hand. What do you think?
FRANK FARLEY, psychologist, Temple University: I agree totally. I mean, the possibilities of prejudice and racism and so on are incredible here. You know, we should be treating this as a unique incident and look at the factors involved in this very unique and specific incident, and not overgeneralize. Unfortunately, we tend to overgeneralize all the time. The idea that all Muslims are the same is ridiculous….
Everybody's got their own personal qualities and individual differences and let's just treat this as a very specific incident and try to figure out why this particular person did this particular thing.
WILLIAMS: Absolutely. No matter what it comes out to, at the end of the day, even if it comes out in the last five months and all his anxiety around his impending deployment, he decided his frame of reference was his religion and that was what was giving him, you know, the power within himself to make his stand, that doesn't mean that the religion is to blame.
FARLEY: Absolutely, it's his interpretation of everything, and his interpretation [of Islam] may vary dramatically from his fellow Muslims.
Wow. As much as I cautioned people to give the facts a chance to come out before coming to conclusions about Hasan, this is just an example of some incredible denial going on here. We now have facts – lots of facts – and informed conclusions can be drawn.
And let's deal with the internment camp nonsense. That happened because a liberal Democratic president signed an Executive Order (Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942) which enabled US citizens of a particular national background to be interned (a total violation of their civil rights). Is he really suggesting that because we have a liberal Democrat president again in the White House that history may repeat itself. Or is he as ignorant of history as most and assuming it was done by mean, nasty right-wing types?
Something else that sort of hits me here – if there was no "backlash" against muslims after 9/11, why do these yahoos think there will be one now? Who is it who will be involved in this backlash and why is this incident so different from 9/11 that it will spark the backlash 9/11 didn't? I don't know. But I would think that the American people, who sorted that out the last time, will sort it out this time as well.
Are there prudent steps to be taken in light of what has happened at Ft. Hood as concerns muslim soldiers? Yes. Given Ft. Hood, the Little Rock incident and the fragging incident in Iraq, all involving muslim soldiers or muslims attacking soldiers, I'd say that it would be prudent to screen the reported 3,500 muslim military members (discretely and unobtrusively as possible) given the deadly action of two (as I recall, the left was all for a purge of the military to look for neo-nazis and white supremacists) . And yes that means, given the unique situation our military is in (fighting in two muslim countries) and the possible conflict that may bring to the minds of some who are of the dominant religion of those two countries – that we're "profiling". But then, while it is the antithesis of political correctness, it is the smart thing to do. Show me a compelling reason to screen the rest of the military for those who might be in a similar situation and I'd be for that as well.
Should there be procedures put in place that would encourage the reporting of language or actions that appear to support a radicalized person – be it through religion or ideology? Yes, there should. And the chain of command must be made to take such reports seriously, investigate them thoroughly and act if necessary. Or said another way, political correctness and the fear of being censured if you do report such utterances or actions, must be banned from the military.
Finally, people like Williams and Farley must be pointed out and ridiculed because it is their sort of denial which leads to incidents like Ft. Hood. We all need to grow up a bit, quit taking everything as an insult and understand that your feelings don't take precedence over someone else's life. Yes, we're diverse. Yes, we're an amalgamation of peoples.
However, if you are consistently being bitten on the leg by dogs, you don't go looking for cats or chickens. We have to learn to honestly and forthrightly address the threat. Radical Islam has been attacking us since the embassy takeover in Iran 30 years ago. They are the ones we should be looking for right now – and you're not going to find them among Christian, atheist or Jewish military personnel.
The threat appears to be a segment of Islam that becomes violently radicalized and strikes out at those it considers "infidels". In the case of Hasan that was obviously anyone within reach. And, as experts say, self-generated jihadis are not unusual and are, as we've found out, more dangerous than those with organized connections (those with organized connections are easier to find and track). Given all I've read about Hasan – and it has been a lot – that's what I believe he is. A self-generated jihadi who became increasingly radicalized over the years to the point that he finally decided he must act.
I understand and appreciate the attempts to warn us off of using too broad a brush. That was one of the points of my previous post that generated so much discussion. But it is no longer a secret that there are radicals among the religion of Islam who find it to be their duty to do similar acts to those of Hasan. Pretending Hasan wasn't one of those stretches credulity to the max. The first day of the shootings – yes, a perfectly acceptable argument. We had few facts and much of what was reported we subsequently found out was wrong. However now, given the veritable avalanche of information which has been provided about this man and verified, it is more than a little lame to pretend he might have been something our experience and the facts tell us he's not.
Willams and Farley do a disservice to us all by claiming those who have concluded his religion radicalized him and was the reason he did what he did are "overgeneralizing". Not anymore. Sure it was a "specific incident" as Farley claims, but so was 9/11. And after we learned about each of the radicals who committed that atrocity we found men not unlike Nadal Malik Hasan, didn't we?
What? No Jobs? Let's Talk About It!
Apparently the Obama administration had discovered, 10 months into the presidency, that perhaps jobs are the highest priority for most Americans.
So? So they're going to have a "jobs summit". Yes sir, they're going to get together and talk about it! Because, you know, talking about something always is better than not talking about it, I suppose.
Uh, but not till next month. You know – it's not that important.
And sure while doing something about a problem is much better than talking about it, talking is what this administration does best.
Look at Afghanistan. They've been talking about that for almost 3 months since the commander has made his request. And he's still talking about it.
But back to jobs:
"Hiring often takes time to catch up to economic growth," Mr. Obama said. "Given the magnitude of the economic turmoil we've experienced, employers are reluctant to hire."
Of course they're reluctant to hire – health care is up in the air, cap-and-trade is on the horizon, the government is spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave in Shanghai, it has inserted itself into the business and financial markets to an unprecedented degree and there is no question that taxes are going up – some think dramatically. Why would any business worth their salt be considering taking on new employees or expanding at a time with the future as unsettled as it is?
"We all know there are limits to what government can and should do, even during such difficult times," Mr. Obama said, "but we have an obligation to consider every additional and responsible step that we can to encourage and accelerate job creation in this country."
This said by the same guy who assured us that his "stimulus" package would absolutely cap unemployment at 8%. We're at 10.2% and rising and he's reduced to pretending a smaller number of unemployed submitting applications for unemployment benefits than did last week is "progress". Oh, and using fake "saved and created" numbers.
Of course there are things the government can do to "encourage and accelerate job creation" that have absolutely nothing to do with more spending or extending unemployment benefits. But my guess is those won't even be brought up much less considered. In fact my guess is the cry, led by Paul Krugman and others, is going to be "mo money".
But hey, jobless folks, take heart. They're going to talk about it. Next month. Right before Christmas I assume. Which will naturally delay anything being done till about the anniversary of his 1st year in office [if then]. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we were still waiting on an Afghanistan decision then as well.
Lies, Damn Lies And Government Statistics
Dale brings you up to date on what we're facing on the employment front below. Meanwhile the dissembling about what government is doing continues. The farce of "saved or created" jobs announced by the various government's and agencies as a result of "stimulus" money continues to unravel with "Sheriff Joe" Biden nowhere in sight to call them out on it:
While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started.
Yes, the "Globe" in question is the decidedly liberal Boston Globe, and even it couldn't countenance the nonsense that has been paraded as "fact" in the administration's spin on how well the pork-laden stimulus is working. Some of the specifics it found:
One of the largest reported jobs figures comes from Bridgewater State College, which is listed as using $77,181 in stimulus money for 160 full-time work-study jobs for students. But Bridgewater State spokesman Bryan Baldwin said the college made a mistake and the actual number of new jobs was "almost nothing.'' Bridgewater has submitted a correction, but it is not yet reflected in the report.
In other cases, federal money that recipients already receive annually – subsidies for affordable housing, for example – was reclassified this year as stimulus spending, and the existing jobs already supported by those programs were credited to stimulus spending. Some of these recipients said they did not even know the money they were getting was classified as stimulus funds until September, when federal officials told them they had to file reports.
"There were no jobs created. It was just shuffling around of the funds,'' said Susan Kelly, director of property management for Boston Land Co., which reported retaining 26 jobs with $2.7 million in rental subsidies for its affordable housing developments in Waltham. "It's hard to figure out if you did the paperwork right. We never asked for this.''
In reality, much of the funding has been used for existing projects (and jobs) and to cover state and local government budget shortfalls. But jobs? Not much. And those reporting jobs created? Well many don't stand up to scrutiny:
The community action agency based in Greenfield reported 90 full-time jobs associated with the $245,000 it got for its preschool Head Start program. That averages out to just $2,700 per full-time job. The agency said it used the money to give roughly 150 staffers cost-of-living raises. The figure reported on the federal report was a mistake, a result of a staffer's misunderstanding of the filing instructions, said executive director Jane Sanders.
And the federal agency collecting and reporting all this data? Well they're sure it's just the result of "innocent mistakes". But do they scrub the data in any way before reporting it (i.e. verify if the data received is correct?)? Uh, no. That would actually entail work and the Orwellian sounding Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board would much rather produce positive numbers – unvetted.
Remember this was the administration which promised to make government "cool" again. Well, thankfully, it hasn't. In fact, it is piling up examples of why government is uncool at an amazing rate. And this is just one of many. Its "saved and created" jobs numbers are pure unadulterated propaganda with, as should be obvious by now, no basis in fact. What numbers it has, given what investigations around the country have turned up, are pure fantasy. That, however, hasn't stopped them from issuing them as gospel.
So given that, why again should we trust their numbers on health care or cap-and-trade or just about anything?
Well, we shouldn't – not without a proper look and a sound vetting. But we just don't have time for that, do we? Anyone figuring out why yet?


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Adobe Photoshop Touch now on iPad 2 too
Adobe has released an iPad version of its cut-down, but no less impressive version of Photoshop for tablet devices. We reviewed the Android application back in December and loved it, now Apple device owners can see what all the fuss is about.
Available for the iPad 2 running iOS 5 only (sorry, original iPad owners), Adobe Photoshop Touch is a feature-rich photo-editing app that offers many of the same tools PC and Mac Photoshop users will know and love.
Layers are supported, as are many editing features, and there's a handy new Scribble Selection Tool that allows the user to select and extract objects simply by scribbling on them using the touch screen. It combines with Refine Edge technology from Photoshop to choose the subject matter accurately even when there are soft edges. And Facebook and Google Image Search functionality help find and share images alike.
Not only has David Wadhwani, Adobe's senior vice-president and general manager, Digital Media Business Unit, got a lengthy job title, but he's keen to emphasise that this latest application is very nearly a true PS experience. "Photoshop Touch combines the magic of Photoshop and its core features with the convenience of a tablet, bringing image-editing power to the fingertips of millions of people," he says.
More apps in the Adobe Touch range, including Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, Adobe Ideas, Adobe Kuler and Adobe Proto will be coming to the iPad this year.
Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 is available now on the iTunes App Store for £6.99.
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Hurthue "Hugh" Tarr, 87, of Amarillo died Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel of Memories, 6969 E. Interstate 40, with Richard Dickerson, pastor of Bykota Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Tarr was born in Barney, N.D., and later moved to Amarillo in 1949. He was loved by many and will be missed by his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Florence Tarr, in July 2003.
Survivors include two sons, Jim Tarr and wife, Mandy, of Amarillo and Bobby Tarr and wife, Janet, of San Diego; a brother, Wes of Milwaukie, Ore.; four sisters, Viola, Irene, Ethelda and Marlene, all of Milwaukie; six grandchildren, Carrie, Justin, Troy, Kevin, Magan and Jeremy; four great-grandchildren; and many loving neighbors.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176.
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This is very simple tutorial to explain howto Add,Modify and Delete Users and Groups in Ubuntu (Using GUI)
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Aptlinex addon allows installing ubuntu packages from iceweasel, firefox, galeon or konqueror just clicking on a web link. For this to work, links need to have an url beginning with apt:// This package does not install the packages or download them from the web sites, it just launches apt, passing the package name to install as a parameter to apt.
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I would like to have it on my N1 just because it has Panorama Assist. Anyone know if the app is floating around somewhere, and if it would work on a non-BLUR OS?
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Become A Green Engineer At The Fleet's 5th Annual Family Day!
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At the Fleet's 5th Annual Family Day on June 30th, make your own solar car! Learn about renewable energy and water conservation at our "So WATT" and "San Diego Water" exhibitions.
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"Nice ass…best butt in town", was yelled at me by a group of men, followed by a wolf-whistle, when walking down the Main Street of Angaston. This was a Saturday afternoon and it was humiliating. I pretended not to hear it, although my non-response encouraged more comments.
Somebody in a red Chevy kept making sexual gestures at me constantly.I was walking and the traffic kept them away but a mile away they were harassing me again
A group of young boys on bicycles was blocking the path where I usually run — this is a wide, safe path by a river.
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Je rentrais chez moi le soir avec une copine, et deux hommes nous ont abordées. Ma copine et moi, on ne lui a pas répondu quand il nous a demandé, dans un premier temps, si on pourrait "faire connaissance" et après si on "voulait baiser". Moi et ma copine a continué notre chemin sans répondre, alors il a crié qu'on était des grosses putes en nous suivant quelques mètres. Puis lui et son copain ont quitté la place.
I went home at night with a girlfriend and two men approached us. My girlfriend and I, we did not answer him when he asked us, at first, if we could "get to know them" and then if we "wanted to fuck." My girlfriend and I went on our way without answering, then he shouted that we were big whores and they followed us a few meters. Then he and his friend left.
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Walking down 14th with two of my friends, a man walked toward me in that way they do, where you know they're about to say something disgusting. He didn't say anything, though. He just passed by me extremely close, then turned and started following us. He threw out some "baby… baby"s and we ignored him. His comments became more disgusting, "I love your pussy. It's my favorite." He kept following. He followed us to our front steps (by the time we realized he was still following, we were already on our deserted street), though we told him to stop. We told him no several times. My friend got out her phone to call the cops and the guy finally left. My friend spoke to the 911 operator for a few minutes. We're still seething, and worried about him knowing where we live.
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Heya Hollas!
You'd think that because of Anti-Street Harassment Week things would have cooled down a little in Holla Land for this week…. but you'd be wrong! So much is happening! In general #StreetHarassment news, you've probably already heard about these anti-catcalling signs popping up around NYC, but have you seen this video of a guy interrupting a reporter doing a story on why these signs are important, and arguing that catcalling is actually good? It's pretty wild, and definitely a good reminder of why we need to continue to teach people that street harassment is #NotACompliment.
Back in HQ, our ED Emily May and DD Debjani Roy met with some folks from McGraw Hill to talk about our strategies and goals for fighting street harassment. They all seemed really supportive of our Holla Revolution!
Speaking of which, we're gearing up for Holla:: Rev London which will be on June 23rd! We've already lined up performers and speakers such as Laura Bates from the Everyday Sexism project, Sauna Youth, our ED Emily May, and Hollaback! site leaders from around the world! Grab your tickets now before it's too late!
On Tuesday we released our second vlog as a part of our With Love and Revolution series titled "To Respond or Not to Respond?" Check it out to learn about how to respond to street harassment in a constructive and healthy way and to see the cool dance scene at 4:01. Or checkout this fun GIF that Rebecca from Hollaback! Halifax made for us!
Last but certainly not least, we've launched our new HeartMob Kickstarter Campaign! HeartMob will be an online platform that provides real-time support to individuals experiencing online harassment – and gives bystanders concrete actions they can take to step in and save the day! We think that too many people who have faced online harassment have been driven away from the internet, and we want to make online spaces safer so no one has to leave! For this project to happen, we need to raise $10,000, but even $1 will allow donors early access to the platform and helps a lot! Thanks to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, if we hit our $10,000 goal AND get 250 backers, we'll get an extra $2,500, 500 backers gets us $5,000, and 1,000 backers (fingers crossed) will get us an extra $10,000! That's amazing! Don't forget to check out our new HeartMob Facebook and Twitter pages for updates on the campaign and developments in the anti-online harassment world. We're so excited about this project and can't wait to help make the internet safer!
Now let's check out what some of our sites have been up to…
Hollaback! Atlanta closed out Anti-Street Harassment Week on Sunday with a march to end street harassment! Despite the rain, they still managed to chalk walk AND have volunteers carry their Creative Director Jessica Caldas' sculptural piece Four Letter Word through the city! They even chalked up certain MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) stations based on their MARTA Street Harassment survey responses. That's so cool!
Hollaback! Alberta was featured in Metro News speaking up about harassment on public transit on Tuesday, and on the front cover for their chalk walk on Friday! The actual chalk walk took place on Saturday, and was covered by CBC Télé Edmonton! Read more about it and take a peek at some awesome pics here!
Hollaback! Berlin's Julia Brilling wrote this awesome piece for Freiwilligenmagazin about HB!'s mission to fight everyday sexism and street harassment, what HB! Berlin has done for the movement, and why it's so important to Hollaback!. Way to be a Holla Hero, Julia! Also, while you're here, look at some of these great pictures from Berlin's participation in International Wheat-Pasting Night on Friday!
Keep up the great work and have an awesome weekend, Hollas!
-The Hollaback! Team
Printemps dernier. Je monte dans le bus bondé. Il pile, une main touche furtivement ma jupe au niveau de mon pubis. Je remarque que c'est celle d'un homme et place mon sac devant ma jupe, de sorte qu'il ne puisse pas réitérer -à cet instant je lui laisse encore le bénéfice du doute puisque je me dis c'est peut etre la secousse du bus qui l'a poussé contre moi. Sa main cherche mon entrejambe. Je le repousse, essaie de me dégager. Les larmes montent mais je reste muette. Il change de place.
Last spring. I get into the crowded bus. It stops suddenly, a hand touching my skirt at the level of my pubes. I notice that it is of a man and put my bag in front of my skirt, so it can not happen again -to this moment I let him have the benefit of the doubt because I think maybe the shaking bus drove him against me. His hand looking for my crotch. I push him, trying to free myself. Tears come but I remain silent. He changes position.
A series of ongoing incidents has left me feeling isolated and hesitant to socialise. I am often followed home by a person in a car who will use very degrading language (shouted out of the car window,or a series of hoots to alert my attention) it seems that they want me to know that they are following me as they are in cars and i am on foot (there is often more than one person or different cars),it is difficult to identify then. On a regular basis the car will hoot outside in a neighbouring street always within an hour of me getting home.
the same group have also been spreading rumours within my social circle referring to me with discriminatory references to people who are then discouraged from communicating or socialising with me to the degree that my entire social circle have become misinformed about me (with gossip and lies). For some time now i have been living an isolated existence which consists of receiving verbal abuse and being told i am unworthy of being helped . They often use ethnic and sexual references and paint a picture of 'dirty','slut' and many other references to make it unappealing to reach out. As i cant identify these people they just continue to getting kicks out of making my life like a prison.
After attending a house concert for a collective in my city aimed at improving representation of women and non-binary people in the local music scene, I was unlocking my bike from the tree it was chained to. Two men in a sedan drove by and yelled "Bend over, baby!" at me. I was shocked at their rudeness and cowardice and especially discouraged after being in such a positive environment. Oh, the irony.
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Avis Cook, 91
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Avis Muriel Hamilton Cook, 91, of Cherry Springs Village, Hendersonville, died Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, at her home.
A native of Fabius, N.Y., she had lived in Sarasota, Fla., for 50 years before moving to Hendersonville 10 years ago. She was the daughter of the late Carlton and Ruby Moss Hamilton and wife of the late Edmund H. Cook, who died in 1995.
She is survived by her son, Edmund H. Cook and his wife, Mary, of Palmetto, Fla.; her daughter, Betsy Cookie Johnson and her husband, Hayward, of Hendersonville; six grandchildren, William and Robert Cook, Gene B. Johnson, Laura Moore and her husband, Kenneth, Tamara Johnson and Kelly Johnson; eight great-grandchildren; and a great great-granddaughter.
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Man accused of crushing cruisers found incompetentThe Associated Press | January 09,2013NEWPORT — The Vermont man charged with driving a tractor over seven police vehicles and crushing them has been found incompetent to stand trial.
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"Powering Your Plane" by our very own Dave Prizio is a new book that will help readers correctly install a Lycoming-type engine. It covers each step of the engine installation process, including selecting an engine for your project, firewall construction, plumbing, electrical, preparing for your first engine start, and more. By focusing just on Lycoming and similar engines, such as those by Superior and Continental ECi, the author is able to go into great detail about the types of engine installations that most builders use.Prizio's book has numerous illustrations and photos to help builders maneuver through the challenges and intricacies of engine installation. EAA member Dick Koehler, a Tony Bingelis Award winner for his contributions to the homebuilding community, assisted with the technical editing.Prizio is an experienced aircraft builder, an FAA DAR, and member of EAA's Homebuilt Aircraft Council. His book builds on EAA's easy-to-follow guides written by the late Tony Bingelis 30 years ago, which became the definitive how-to manuals for aircraft building and are still available through EAA.
"Tony Bingelis guided me and inspired me with his writing as I began my first airplane building project more than 25 years ago," Prizio said. "The desire is to work with EAA to build on his wonderful work and update the knowledge and skills needed to safely and successfully complete an airplane.""EAA has long been the leader for information specifically for those who build and restore aircraft, going back to our founder Paul Poberezny, who set the standard more than 60 years ago," said Charlie Becker, EAA's director of chapters, communities, and homebuilt community manager. "This latest publication adds to the long tradition of EAA members helping members by sharing knowledge and information to promote safe and fun flying."The spiral-bound book is available through EAA's online store and is priced at $28.98, with a $5.00 discount for EAA members. It ships for free through April 30. It can also be found at the EAA AirVenture Museum gift shop in Oshkosh.
On March 29 Glasair Aviation of Arlington, Washington, received FAA certification of its much-anticipated Merlin Light Sport Aircraft (LSA).
For nearly 40 years Glasair Aviation has been a world leader in the manufacture of high-end, composite kitplanes, first with its Glasair-series of high-performance low-wing aircraft in the 1980s and later with its high-utility, high-wing GlaStar and Sportsman models. Merlin LSA certification marks Glasair Aviation's first entry into turnkey airplane production. (The Merlin LSA will not be sold as a kit.) The company will target pilots whose desire is to buy-and-fly an affordable, comfortable, all-composite aircraft perfect for recreational flying. Glasair Aviation also anticipates sales to training centers intent on upgrading to aircraft with excellent handling characteristics and the latest instrumentation. Sales will be through regional aircraft dealerships. (Operators interested in establishing dealerships should contact Glasair Aviation directly.) The Merlin LSA will be an entirely U.S.-made aircraft. Further Merlin LSA production is underway with the first customer deliveries expected in third quarter this year.
Extended issue with stories about flying to Canada, EarthX batteries, DIY upholstery, aerial photography, LED lighting, flying to some cool places, an elaborate trailer for a GlaStar, maintenance issues, and much more.
Get it in the File Downloads section.
On the cover: Randi Ernst's Sportsman on floats photographed by Cheri Barr.
The Fly-in at the Independence State Airport, 7S5 is coming up on August 14-16 2015
For details and registration: www.eaa292.org. Ted Setzer will likely be there with his "Setzman." The weather should be in the mid-80s and sunny.
Come and enjoy a weekend in the central Willamette Valley.
Forums on Tube and Fabric, Van's RV12/14, Safety, Vinyl Covering, Aerial Photography, ADS-B, Fiberglass/Painting.
Speakers include:
Vortex generators on RVs – Brian Parris The Genealogy of Fabric Pipers – Clyde Smith Jr. (Also a 3-day J-3/Tripacer seminar 8/11-8/13)Hints and Tips on Aeronca 7 & 11s - Paul Agalioti
Free housing at the Independence Airpark: Preregistration required
Tours of wineries and other local activities
Catered meals Friday evening and all day Saturday -Modern day Prop Development
Craig Catto – Saturday pre-dinner speaker
In celebration of AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, Glasair Aviation is adding the aft seat option to any Two Weeks To Taxi Sportsman order placed before July 26, 2015, free of charge.
The rear facing aft seat is one of the newest options developed for the Sportsman 2+2 and includes:
Glasair's signature Two Weeks to Taxi program has empowered aviators at every level of mechanical experience to build their own aircraft.
Visit the Glasair Aviation website for more details.
*Two Weeks to Taxi build slots are limited, so please contact us as soon as possible to secure your experience.
Arlington, WA - After months of careful preparation, Glasair Aviation's new light sport aircraft, Merlin, took its first flight through the skies above Arlington Municipal Airport Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
Following detailed validation testing, including engine run-up, high-speed taxi, and ground roll lift off, the team at Glasair stood back and watched as Merlin departed the surface of runway 34 with test-pilot Grant Smith at the controls. The flight lasted fifty-seven minutes, as Smith took the plane through a full test flight profile that included validating the engine's reliability, exploring flight control characteristics in flight and conducting standard flight maneuvers.
"While nothing can replace the sheer wonder of witnessing the birth of a child, the introduction and maiden flight of a new airplane design is a close second!" Glasair Development Manager Ted Setzer said. "The 'parents' were all there to witness it, including the Glasair Aviation's flight designer engineer, Chuck Hautamaki, and the entire Glasair Aviation team. Seeing the joy and exhilaration on everyone's faces was as satisfying as hearing the test pilot Grant Smith's, positive comments as he emerged from the cockpit."
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IoT Magic Steals the Show
By Caroline Kvitka-Oracle on Oct 03, 2014
By Guest Blogger Timothy Beneke
Oracle's Java Technology Ambassador Stephen Chin presented the "Internet of Things Magic Show" session before a packed crowd on Wednesday morning at JavaOne. The session made it clear—as has much of JavaOne 2014—that with a little ingenuity, persistence, and a Raspberry Pi, Java developers can easily deploy their skills to create IoT magic shows of their own. Chin emphasized the strength of Java for the IoT space, especially now that the divide between Java SE and Java ME has been dramatically narrowed with Java 8. "Java ME as a language is almost the same as Java SE minus lambdas," observed Chin, "and a prototype of lambdas for Java ME is well on its way. Also, a lot of Java SE APIs are finding their way to Java ME as well."
Fun with Mr. Grabby
He presented a small smart robot, named Mr. Grabby, that resembles a crab with grippers that can be made to remotely grab and carry a white glowing ball. The robot can then navigate its way around tracks laid down in the form of white tape on the floor.
Mr. Grabby is an autonomous robot using Raspberry Pi and other hardware on top as a controller, plus an Arduino board that uses pin mapping and a motor controller. "Programming the pin assignments right is the biggest issue," said Chin. "You use software serial on Arduino, where you take any two soft pins and do the serial protocol manually. It uses line follower software, which captures infrared light off the ground through two lights and two sensors; there is an infrared emitting light and another sensor that picks up the infrared. When Mr. Grabby goes off the track, he knows to compensate and follow the lines."
Chin invited a developer named Mark onstage who successfully took Mr. Grabby around the tracks in a time of 40 seconds. All Mr. Grabby code is available on github.
3-D Printing Magic
Chin then displayed a 3-D printer, which was now busy making a customized bracelet for Mark. The printer has a Raspberry Pi and uses OctoPrint to monitor it remotely. He showed a console that displayed the temperature of the plate and the extruder plus a live video of the bracelet being made.
Software for the printer—known as open constructed geometry software—was designed by Michael Hofer entirely in Java. Hofer leveraged the JavaFX 8 APIs, which now include 3-D support, and built a visual tool for visualizing how 3-D products will look. The code controls space between links, the radius of the sphere, and other pertinent details.
"Printing is done by taking complex shapes and adding and deleting objects from them, so you can delete a bunch of filters from a larger filter to create a space," explained Chin. Chin illustrated ways that the bracelet could be made bigger and smaller as needed.
He closed by showing a timelapse video of the printer constructing the bracelet.


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