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Loan Structure Observations & Associated Risks
Author: Mark Janson
The Federal Reserve recently released the results of its Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. Let's compare those results to the observed lending practices of clients served by BKD's Loan Review Services team—specifically, some 150 financial institutions ranging from $75 million to $10 billion in total assets.
The team's focus is in commercial lending, including commercial and industrial, commercial real estate and agricultural loans, so this article will look at these lending areas. In our review work, we've observed many of the same changes in lending practices noted in the Fed survey. The changes in loan structure and monitoring continue to be discussed by regulators and loan review professionals. Here are five commonly observed changes in loan structure and their impacts on associated risk:
- We are seeing increased use of 30-year amortizations for the financing of apartment buildings and office buildings. Before they became common 10 years ago, 25-year amortizations were frowned upon; in unique circumstances, a 30-year amortization would be seen. In the past 12 to 18 months, our loan review practice has seen increased use of 30-year amortizations. While the principal payback and reduction period on these loans has been lengthened, the repayment risk has increased.
- In response to competitive pressures, many recently underwritten/booked loans now contain limited or no guarantees or have the guarantees rolling off completely once a project achieves a required level of debt service coverage for a designated period of time. The elimination or reduction in guarantees reduces secondary support for many loans and increases associated risk levels.
- Also, 85 percent loan-to-value (LTV) ratios are increasing for all types of commercial real estate loans. During the last recession, when real estate values were on a serious and extended decline, loans made with higher initial LTV ratios often led to higher losses and reserve requirements.
- Financial reporting requirements for many sizes of borrowing relationships recently have been relaxed. For startup businesses, monthly interim financial reporting was common, while we increasingly see requirements for quarterly or semiannual financial statements. Where audited financial statements formerly were required, a reviewed financial statement now is required, supplemented with company tax returns. With the reliance on financial information to understand and evaluate a borrower's repayment ability and financial condition, quality financial information remains important.
- More financial institutions are asking questions on the level and reporting of loan policy exceptions. We continue to observe increased policy exceptions and regulatory scrutiny over the tracking and reporting of policy exceptions. The need for increased exception tracking and reporting appears to correspond with increasing numbers of loan policy exceptions. Often, we hear exceptions are necessary to retain an existing loan at renewal or compete with neighboring financial institutions.
With many financial institutions vying for loan growth, the need to meet or beat the competition with higher LTV ratios, reduced financial reporting requirements, longer repayment terms and fewer guarantees increases the overall risks associated with these loans. Too many of these concessions in a commercial loan portfolio can lead to increased problems if the economy slows.
By tracking and reporting these and other exceptions, bank management can understand the levels of exceptions in their portfolios, and audit committees can understand the increased risk accumulating in the bank's portfolios.
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Police say an ex-convict who fired at officers in the parking lot of a Phoenix convenience store has died in the ensuing shootout.
Police identified the man as 35-year-old Andrew Collins of Phoenix.
They say no officers were injured in the shooting incident around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
[ORIGINAL STORY: 35-year-old suspect dead after Phoenix officer-involved shooting]
Police say two officers were looking for a man wanted for a felony warrant.
A man on a bike matching the description of the wanted person was spotted, but fled the scene and then reportedly fired a handgun at the approaching officers.
[SLIDESHOW: 35-year-old suspect dead after Phoenix officer-involved shooting]
The officers returned fire and authorities say Collins was pronounced dead at the scene.
Records show Collins served eight years in an Arizona prison for convictions of kidnapping and trafficking in stolen property.
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What is Thunderbird?
Wednesday October 9th, 2002
Blake Ross has posted some details about Thunderbird to the Phoenix General forum. Thunderbird (formerly Minotaur) is a lightweight stand-alone mail client that will accompany Phoenix.
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Togore had only been home for about twenty minutes when his father came barging into his house. The visit was not unexpected after all he and his little brother Enzo had made a scene involving Hiko Kari and Tationy Tylo when they were told to stay away from them.
With a snarled tone Kuro had asked, "Where's your brother?"
"I'm not his keeper," Togore responded as he pulled his phone from his pocket. Candy Crush would serve as a pretty good distraction from whatever lecture he was about to be given.
There was a short annoyed sigh that preceded his fathers next words, "I told you to stay away from them…."
Togore cut him off, "Did you?"
"Don't fucking act like a punk Togore. I expect this behavior from Enzo, but you should know better. Now tell me where your brother is."
Sharply his attention settled upon his father as the two exchanged cold glares. It would be Togore that would backdown first as his attention fell once again to his phone. So, much for Candy Crush serving as a distraction as he jumped straight to his contacts and looked for Mikaela's number.
Somehow, he managed to get her to give it to him before she pushed him out of her apartment. She had to go somewhere; something about a family thing. He didn't believe her, but Togore had suspected that had less to do with what she said to him and everything to do with his parental issues.
His family was a mess after all; from the Ishi clan to his father and uncle, there was not a lot of happy childhood memories that warmed the heart especially one as cold and dysfunctional as his was. So, when someone said to him, I have family stuff, he called bullshit even though he often used it himself.
"Well, are you going to answer me?"
His father's question was a loaded one and managed to do exactly what it intended; pull his attention away from his phone. Still, Togore didn't know were Enzo was and as far as he was concerned he didn't much care.
He had been lectured his entire life about how he was the older brother and it was his responsibility to keep his younger sibling out of trouble. Enzo was passionate to put it mildly. Certainly, he went along with most things and did not generally cause a fuss, but when he did all hell broke loose.
Togore was thankful to the little mouse because the conversation with her offered him a brief reprieve from his father, but he knew it was never going to last. He had to answer him, "I don't know where he is. When I left the house he was still here and as far as I know he didn't have any plans."
"So, you are telling me that he was not here when you got back," Kuro had stated and though his words were not in the form of a question, Togore could hear the concern.
"That is what I'm saying."
Togore's focus was being divided and he hated that. It was not as though he couldn't multitask if he wanted to, but he liked to give his undivided attention to one thing only. Right now, he wanted it all to be on the sweet little mouse who continued to text him and that alone made it difficult to hide the change in his mood.
The picture she sent him though with one breast free from her top and that cute little expression sent him over the edge. He could feel it; his entire body came to life. She looked good and he couldn't help thinking how much he wanted to have sex with her again. Togore would drop everything for that which was probably far to obvious because his father quickly asked, "Someplace you need to be?"
"Nope, why do you ask?"
He could feel his father's gaze upon him, "It just seems that you are distracted…"
Togore cut him off, "You stop by unannounced all the time. I don't know why you are suddenly acting concerned because if you really gave a fuck about whether or not I had plans you would just … I don't know, try fucking calling first or is being a decent and normal human being outside the capabilities of the Son of Rin?"
His father didn't respond to his question which wasn't at all surprising as the two stood there in awkward silence. The only companionship and warmth came from the conversation he was having on his phone with Mikaela. The little mouse made him feel normal and it took nothing for a smile to beam ear to ear just reading her messages.
Of course his change in mood couldn't be hidden from his father. So it was not at all surprising when he tried to engage him again, "Something happen?"
With the unwelcome lingering of the Son of Rin it became obvious, he was waiting for the return of Enzo. Most likely, so he could lecture the two of them.
"Why don't you leave. I will have Enzo call you when he gets home," Togore stated.
"I will wait," Kuro responded. With a roll of his eyes he glanced toward his phone and got excited by her question and it would be moments later he would start moving, "Where are you going?"
"To take a piss, want to hold it for me?"
His response clearly annoyed his father as he continued toward the stairs that led to the second floor. Right now, all he wanted to do was masturbate to Mikaelas picture and send one of his own to her. He had not decided in which order until he found himself in the bathroom with the door securely locked.
Tugging down his pants he sat himself on the toilet with his phone in one hand and his penis in the other. He was a little disappointed that he was only semi-erect, but dirty conversations through text messaging was not exactly a turn on for him. Togore liked to feel things; smooth skin, big breast, soft lips.
It was a chore trying to get a decent picture and keep up the conversation with Mikaela. When she told him that she could not be herself, it had resonated. There were dark feelings that hollowed out what remained of his soul and all he could do was change the topic by sending her a picture of his cock.
Instantly, there was disappointment when she did not respond right away and worse yet when she finally did and said she had to go. Togore had heard guys say that plenty of girls talked a good game when it came to dirty texting, but the moment the dick pics were put out there suddenly they backed off. Too real for them? He didn't know, but he nearly dropped his phone in the toilet as he hurriedly attempted to get her to stay.
It calmed him greatly when she responded that she could stay a bit longer. He liked the way she playfully teased him, but the thing that struck him most about the conversation was how easy it was. It didn't feel forced even when they were talking about hiding in the bathroom.
Togore had never shared anything personal like that about himself before. In the beginning his brother would ask him once a week what he was doing in the bathroom for so long, but now Enzo just shook his head and told him to stop ordering the crab. He didn't have to lie to the little mouse and that was a strange and unexpected experience for Togore of the Ishi.
Still, his day was not over and all he wanted to do was get lost in the dirty images his imagination could conjure as he masturbated to her picture. Sounded perfect in his head, but deep down he knew his father was probably still loitering around in his kitchen. The images of Mikaela on her back taking all of him would have to wait, at least until he dealt with his unwelcome guest.
He didn't even make it to the bottom of the stairs before the voice of his brother and his father assaulted his ears. It was heated and the obvious pain in Enzo's tone told Togore that it was not going well, "It wasn't at all like that."
"Oh, you say that now that the damage has been done. I warned the two of you to stay away from them and you couldn't for a moment follow a simple order. They were off limits; I have let the two of you delve into whatever debauchery you like and you cannot even do the few little things I ask of you."
Enzo seemed annoyed as he tried to correct their father, "It was not as though you asked us, you told…."
Togore sighed as he hit the bottom step and forced the conversation to a halt, "There is no point in arguing semantics with the Son of Rin. He doesn't give a fuck as long as we do as we are told."
Kuro's cold gaze shifted upon Togore and he knew there was no turning back now. Anything he said or did would have dire consequences going forward.
"Fuck it," He thought as he rubbed the back of his neck before saying, "I forced Enzo to go and see them. It was my idea. If you want to punish someone, then look no further."
His father did not initially say anything which concerned Togore, but the tension became thick when Enzo spoke up abruptly, "That is not true. I was the one…"
Togore snorted, "Someone like you isn't capable of doing shit on his own. Tugging at my shirt saying big brother this and that. Even the Son of Rin can see that you are a good baby snake. I'm the type they cut the head off…."
"Knock it off Togore," Enzo warned. "This is not going to help …."
"You can't be trusted," His father spoke coldly as he took a single step forward and even though Togore felt certain that the words were directed toward him they made no impact on his mood. This outcome was not entirely unexpected; he always thought that someday he would be known as coessta. An ugly Ishi word that translated to a snake that eats its own kind. Truly, that was saying something because the Ishi only ever cared about the individual over the many.
"Yeah…" Togore stated as he began to move, "Fuck the Ishi. Fuck the Sons of Rin."
"Togore," Enzo shouted his brother's name.
"Don't get dramatic Enzo. Think of it as a vacation; I am. It is going to be nice not having to babysit you all the time. Be a good snakelet and mind the Son of Rin."
Togore did not hesitate to get out there as fast as he could. Certainly, there were drawbacks. All Kuro had to do was go and ask his brother Mikio what happened and it would become clear that he had lied to protect Enzo. In that regard, his younger sibling was probably right. It would make things far worse, but Togore was not about to stand around and be lectured again by the Son of Rin.
Still, he had no idea what he would do now. He forgot the toys he promised, but he picked up the Chinese and found himself inside of Mikaela's apartment. As much as he wanted to have sex with her earlier in the day, his mind was so muddled with nonsense that he had barely taken notice of her in the cute little underwear and tiny t-shirt. "Tiger, your food is getting cold," She whispered.
"Yeah, sorry I am not as hungry as I thought I was."
"Something happened with your dad," She stated almost knowingly and at first Togore thought about not responding or changing the topic. He didn't know what to say, but that didn't stop her from speaking, "Even when you are no longer a kid, parents are still trying to control everything. My mom told me tonight that she is heading back to America. That her mission to save the heathens had come to an end. Before she even said it, I knew what was coming next. I am just suppose to drop everything and return to America with her."
His eyes shifted suddenly as he tried to process what she was telling him. It was not as though Togore knew anything about her. They had never discussed topics of substance. Even though he was confused he managed to ask, "So, you told her to fuck off right?"
"I wish," She said with a sigh. "While my brother talked about how great the news was, I just sat there trying to pretend I was invisible. Then, she looked at me and said, with the loss of your job moving will be easy for you."
"Wait…what?" Togore asked. "Did you get fired because of me?"
Her head bowed as she stared at the floor. As much as he didn't want to believe it, he felt a knot form in his stomach instantly. Togore never meant to cause her harm as the ugliness of his selfish ways hit him. That was about the point she brought him down off the ledge, "No. I got fired because I gave someone one too many chances."
"I don't understand."
"For months now the medicine count has been short. At first it was just one or two here and there, but then entire bottles started to go missing. I realized one of the nurses was pocketing them on my shift. It took me a bit of time to figure out who it was, but a couple of weeks ago I confronted her. She denied it of course. Begged me not to tell anyone without proof because it could ruin her career."
Togore frowned, "So, you didn't say anything?"
"I didn't want to be the cause of her losing her job if I was wrong. So, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. The other day when you came to see me, I had been sent home. After she was caught and confronted by hospital administration, she tossed me under the bus. Told them that I had known all along …. "
"That bitch. She blamed you for being turned in," Togore was furious. "Want me to burn that place to the ground? I will fucking do it."
"No, thank you though."
"So, your moms words were not wrong. You got nothing keeping you here…" Togore didn't know why, but he felt a sting saying that aloud.
"My little brother might jump at the chance to follow our mother home, but I don't. This is not the life I want and never where I thought I would be. No job and my only future prospect is a trip to a nation I don't even remember. This is my home, but …."
"It is going to sound stupid, but I feel like a shitty person wanting to stay. Maybe because they were all so happy and excited at dinner. My mom went on and on about Christmas in the states and how we would be in America within a couple weeks. I kept telling myself that maybe if she said it enough it might actually feel like we were going home and it would be easier. It didn't."
Mikaela seemed exhausted to him; emotionally spent from the conflicting and troublesome turmoil. Her stuff was a lot different from his, but in an odd way it made him a bit happy because his shit didn't seem all that bad in comparison. He never had to worry about losing a job or having to leave his nation; the biggest obstacle in his path was whether he might live to see another day. Not really a big deal when you didn't care about anything.
Pushing away from the wall he reached for Mikaeal's food container. Once it was set aside he did not hesitate to strip himself out of his clothing and climb onto her bed. It probably surprised her as much as it did him, but Togore did not instantly try to have sex with her.
"I don't understand the whole family thing; it has always just been Enzo and I. Really, I never much cared about my own life as long as he was taken care of. So, while he was the calm and sensitive one I got to piss people off and keep the focus on me. It always worked for us and after a while it just became a part of who we were."
"Sometimes, I wish my dad would say I am proud of you or ask me to help him instead of assuming I am going to get in his way. After a hundred and some odd years, I don't see it ever happening. Really, it never mattered much though because I always had Enzo. I don't really know what I am trying to say…."
His words hung there as his attention drifted toward her. Togore was not great at articulating his feelings let alone sharing them. He probably sounded as though he was rambling about nonsense compared to how well she had explained what had been transpiring, "Is your mom religious? You said heathens earlier. What exactly was she doing?"
The little mouse did not respond at first and it was quite obvious she was lost in thought. Togore hated pushing; it was none of his business after all. He was just some guy having sex with her when she would let him. There was little hope she would even answer by how long the silence lingered, "She was teaching Christianity to the Priest at the Anami Seminary."
The lightbulb switched on and Togore realized that Mikaela's mother was one of those people that would be nice to his face and then spit on him the first chance she got. He could understand having devotion, but when you referred to other nations, groups of people, or those that practiced other religions as heathens it conjured up questionable behavior and attitudes of superiority.
"Maybe I should have come for Thanksgiving dinner," He responded absently.
The way the little mouse tucked her hair behind her ear and stared into the distance told him that she probably never once brought a guy like him home. This dynamic was not simple parental control. Her mother was a matriarch; there was no freewill only her wishes.
He hated matriarchal clans. They were always down with the patriarch, but in most cases they were just as bad. Perfect examples were the Zenaku and the Yamada. If it was the will of the queen, the little soldiers would fall inline even if it went against who they were. Sometimes, Togore was very content being part of the Ishi clan and not having to deal with that sort of tyrannical leadership.
Not everyone was a lucky though and it was clear to him that Mikaela had never hesitated to do exactly as she was told her entire life. Inwardly he sighed because he was going to miss the little mouse that rode him with enthusiasm. He supposed he probably would not be the only one considering the boots and bag were still sitting by the door, "Going to tell your boyfriend that you're leaving?"
Togore didn't expect the way she would awkwardly stammer, "Boyfriend?"
Casually he glanced toward the entrance, "Couldn't help noticing the bag and men's shoes sitting there….just figured seeing they are still here that maybe things are not over between the two of you yet."
She made an annoyed sound, "Trust me tiger things are fucking over."
"Oh, why is that?"
The annoyed expression upon her face softened and Togore couldn't help instantly feeling as though he had suddenly become prey as she spoke, "Can't we just fuck. I will let you do whatever you want." He licked his lower lip as he watched her change positions. It was a rather enticing view, but he was far more intrigued by the fact that she didn't want to discuss her ex-boyfriend. Still, no matter how curious he was Togore was not going to turn her down.
Author Note: Mikaela is half American and half Raita clan. Her mother is American. Holidays celebrated in the states such as Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, just to name a few are very important to Dyani (Mikaela's mother) and despite being in the nation of Aslann she continued to celebrate these holidays. We will generally only hear mention of these holidays being celebrated by those of mixed-blood such as Mikaela, her brother Micha, and Sadoo of the Takahashi. They are only celebrated by a small percentage of people in Aslann, less than five percent to be exact.


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Three Different Levels Of Contemporary Theology
For some people, theological interest is like ice cream. You have to lick it quickly before it melts.
You weren't "with it" in the mid-1960's if you hadn't read "The Secular City," or, failing that, at least adopted the vocabulary of Christian seculiarity.
You weren't "with it" soon thereafter if Altizer, Hamilton, and Van Buren -- the so-called "death-of-God" theologians -- weren't as familiar as your favorite double-play combination (Tinkers-to-Evers-to-chance, and all that).
You were dragging your feet if you did not leap aboard the "theology of hope" cavalcade of the late 1960's, with its focus on prolepsis, "the power of the future," even "the future of the future!"
The reform of sociely, the expiration of God, and the vision of a new aeon -- all in five years! But no sooner had we begun to catch our breath when transcendence was back in fashion, with all its works: festivity and fantasy, mystery and mirth, prayer and play. And under exactly the same sponsor that brought us "The Secular City!"
But the activist urge would not die a peaceful death. A virulent life-form, sornewhat akin to the presidential bug. Once it gets into your bloodstream, a former U.S. senator said recently, it can be expelled only by embalming fluid.
Our balloons were no sooner in the air, floating lazily in the reflected glow of the strobe lights, when word came forth that certain late entries in the secularity sweepstakes were to be given a respectful glance; black theology, liberation theology, feminist theology. Affirmative action, perhaps.
But transcendence was jealous of its newly gained prominence, and did not yield ground without a fight. If we were supposedly beyond God as creator, judge, and father, we were not beyond the Devil as possessor, chain-rattler, and mischief-maker. The demonic became delightful.
And if archbishops no longer broke the bread of wisdom, we found Don Juans aplenty to lead us in the Yaqui way of knowledge, with the sacramental assistance of peyote, Jimson weed, and mushrooms.
All of this was enough to frustrate the most diligent observer of the religious scene. Keeping up with theology seems to have had about the same appeal as pushing the rock of Sisyphus up a mountainside -- with roughly the same effect.
What the confused reader has to keep in mind is that theology makes its entry at three different points: the popular-serious, the scholarly-serious, and the journalistic.
By "Popular-serious" theology I mean the kind of work that Charles Davis did so well in the late 1950's and early 1960's while he was still one of the leading Roman Catholic theologians in Great Britain.
I mean, too, the very helpful popularization of biblical scholarship that John McKenzie provided with his pace-setting "Two-Edged Sword" in 1956.
By "scholarly -serious" I mean the kind of work that Karl Rahner and Yves Congar, the two most distinguished Roman Catholic theologians, have done over the past several decades. Strong on history, carefully analytical in method, their books and articles have been models of theological scholarship.
Finally, by "journalistic" theology I mean the kind done at the talk-show and magazine levels. It feeds on publicity and is discernibly commercial, generating book sales and higher TV ratings.
Its practitioners have about the same relationship to academic theology as Dr. Stillman has to medicine. They may interest Johnny Carson, but the rest of the profession is wincing.
It is "journalistic" theology -- whose right to exist I do not challenge -- that gives popular-serious theology a bad name.
Too many otherwise responsible people in the Church make up their minds about "popular-serious," and even "scholarly-serious," theology on the basis of their reading of "journalistic" theology alone.
That's neither reasonable nor fair.


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Since our neighbors are gone, we get to use their pool as we please. So does their daughter. She is over there CONSTANLY with her kids (7 &4), making it really hard to find a time to swim. And then she invites the rest of the soccer moms and we've looked over there and seen 7 or 8 cars at a time parked all down the driveway and on the grass. The funny thing is that if her dad ever found out that ALLLL of those people were coming and parking on his precious grass, he would have a heart attack!!! Anyway, we did get to swim tonight once she left after being there for 4 hours.
I have also been spending the day trying to sort out other people's complications. Here's the deal- Claire likes Bobby but Bobby just likes her as a friend. And in the midst of trying to convince Bobby otherwise, just realized that since yesterday I'm in the same position. But I'm Bobby!! Anyway, I started to see where Bobby was coming from and the whole 'we're friends, I don't want to ruin a friendship' thing actually made since. Because I feel the exact same way!!! But whatever... we'll see how things work out for the both of us.
Tomorrow I am going up to the Smokies with Mom, Sam, and Landon and we're going to our secret amazing swimming place. It's right up near Cade's Cove, but about 3 miles in the opposite direction. It is SO cool. (I'll take pictures) let's just hope we don't see another bear! 3 is enough for me!!
Monday, June 29, 2009
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If you were around in 1973, when Savage Intruder came out, you probably remember the poster: ''She loved him and trusted him . . . until he cut her head off!'' But maybe you didn't go to it because it was playing in ''the bad part of town,'' or else you took one look at the female severed head on the poster and you thought you might throw up.
Now, this movie is a big B-movie trivia item, kind of a cross between Sunset Boulevard and Psycho, starring Miriam Hopkins as an old boozed-up movie star with a face like dried-up spaghetti living in a Hollywood mansion where she throws imaginary parties, bosses her household staff around and plans her comeback. A gigolo hippie shows up one day and gets a job wheeling her around in her wheelchair, but he forgets to put on his job application that he hacked his mother's arm off with an ax because she was ''a lush and a slut.''


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By CHUCK HESS, JR.
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It's a whole new ball game for Augie Bossu this season, but it's the same old story for the Massillon Tigers. They're still a prime target for the skipper of the Cleveland Benedictine Bengals.
Cleveland's defending city champions will help the Tigers open the season at Tiger stadium Friday at 8 p.m. The former East Senate league high school team has gone 9-1 in the past four seasons with the only defeat each time being here at the hands of the Orange and Black.
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"WE'RE APPROACHING this season differently," Bossu said today. "It's something new for us. In the past we have played two or three top teams and let the rest of the schedule take care of itself. Now we believe we have a representative schedule and a tremendous challenge. There are teams aiming for us who have never played us before."


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What Donald Trump Could Do to Obamacare
President-elect Donald Trump made repeated promises on the campaign trail to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care reform legislation, colloquially referred to as Obamacare. But accomplishing that is easier said than done, according to health care policy experts.
Trump has already signaled that he plans to keep certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act — including a mandate that prevents insurers from denying coverage to patients with preexisting conditions and another that allows young people to remain on their parents' plan until they turn 26, The Wall Street Journal reported. Amending the law will be much simpler than repealing it outright.
That said, there are at least three steps Trump could take immediately on Obamacare.
Trump could "drop appeals against last May's federal court ruling that said the Obama administration was illegally paying insurance companies to help keep health insurance costs down for low-income clients" and "stop fighting lawsuits against the mandate that employers pay for birth control for women covered under their insurance plans," NBC News reported.
He could also instruct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to cease any promotion of the open enrollment period for Obamacare, which ends shortly after the inauguration ceremony in January.
But repealing Obamacare will require congressional action — and Democrats will likely filibuster any such effort, even though Republicans retain a majority in the Senate.
Any attempt to eliminate Obamacare will almost certainly be met with resistance by Senate Democrats, who can filibuster the repeal legislation.
Republicans could anticipate that action and leverage it by blaming Democrats for obstructionism in an effort to gain more Senate seats in 2018. If they gain eight seats, it could enable them to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
Republicans in Congress can work, meanwhile, to amend specific aspects of the law through a "budget reconciliation process," Business Insider reported.
"Republicans can adjust only parts of the law that have to do with the federal government's finances. These parts include the funding for Medicaid expansion given to states, subsidies for people who receive their health insurance through the ACA marketplaces, and money for outreach to get Americans to sign up through the exchanges."
Trump included the repeal of Obamacare in his 100-day plan, but experts agreed that the likelihood of achieving this within the proposed timeline is highly unlikely.
In an outline of his health care plan, Trump did include several reform proposals — such as a drug price transparency requirement for insurers — that could presumably appeal to both parties and pass in Congress — but the prospect of a full repeal during his first term in office would demand bipartisan agreement.


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The blog of fantasy author Shanna Swendson. Read about my adventures in publishing and occasionally life.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Adventures in Booksigning
The signing in Tyler was a little overwhelming because there were a lot of authors participating and the store was packed with customers. Crowds tend to stress me out a wee bit so I probably wasn't as friendly and outgoing as I can be at events like that. Then there was the problem of the store not being able to get copies of the new book. The CRM had managed to scrounge ten copies, and six of them had already sold, so I started the signing with a stack of copies of Enchanted, Inc. and four copies of Once Upon Stilettos, which went pretty quickly because a lot of my parents' friends showed up to get their copies. That ended up working out pretty well, though, because all those people milling around the bookstore had never heard of me, so they'd need to get the first book, anyway. Plus, that book is the book of the month for the local NBC station's book club, so it made sense to push it a little more. I can always go back and sign the new book later. The new CRM at that store is a real firecracker. Last year, the store was dead and quiet, but now it's buzzing, and that's great to see. And what a great idea to work with one of the local TV stations to have a book club. That's something more stores/stations should think about doing. Even better that they're willing to read fun books and not the usual book club fare.
Then the next morning I had to get up early and drive back to Dallas in time to sing in the choir for church, and then run over to the nearby bookstore for another signing. That's when the fun began. I'd decided to wear the Infamous Red Stilettos for this signing, but I drive a stick shift, which doesn't work well with stiletto heels (besides, I wouldn't want to scuff them). So, I wear a pair of flats to drive. I got to the parking garage behind the bookstore, then changed shoes, sitting with the car door open so I could put on my shoes and adjust my stockings so the snags (another long, sad story) wouldn't show (and yeah, I know true fashionistas go bare-legged, but my legs are so white they're purple, and those shoes don't work well on bare feet). I'd pulled my car keys from the ignition and had them in my lap, and I guess they must have slid to the floorboard without me noticing. I got my purse and my tote bag full of signing supplies, then got out of the car, shut the door and realized just then that I didn't have my car keys. That was a fun way to enter the store, to walk up, introduce myself as the author signing that day and ask if anyone on their staff was good at breaking into cars. I felt like a total idiot. I've never locked my keys in the car before. I don't get out of the car without having my keys in my hand. And wouldn't you know it, I do it right before a booksigning so that I'm stressed and scattered.
But I wasn't the only one having issues. The bookstore's computer system had gone wonky and wouldn't accept checks or credit cards for a while. The bookstore staff and I decided that the stars must have been misaligned for us that day. They were also nice enough to move the signing table they'd set up upstairs out of the way down to inside the front door, so I got the fun of watching men rearranging furniture for me.
Then I got to enjoy a truly wild coincidence. Not long after we got that table arranged near the front door, a couple walked in. The husband looked at the books on display and said to his wife, "Didn't you review that book?" It turned out she was Andrea Sisco, the reviewer from Armchair Interviews whose quote is on the front cover of Once Upon Stilettos. Her husband was in town for a conference, and they'd dropped by the bookstore on their way back from church. She had no idea I was going to be there. It was great to meet her and chat with her, and she was a wonderful salesperson, going around telling everyone in the store what a good book it was.
Her husband mentioned that he could call AAA for me to get my car unlocked, which reminded me that (duh!) I have roadside assistance on my cell phone. So, thanks to Cingular, I very quickly (like within 20 minutes) had my car unlocked. Of course, wouldn't you know it, I actually had people at my table to get books when they called that they were in the parking garage, so I had to tell everyone to wait a second while I ran back there in my high heels to get my car unlocked and retrieve my keys. I guess it added a little excitement to the proceedings. They had the coolest gizmo for getting into the car. I thought for a moment that it would be handy to have something like that, but then I realized it would have been locked in the trunk, anyway, so it wouldn't have done me much good.
Part of my excuse for being such a space cadet that day was that my head had gone into Book Brain mode. While I was driving back to Dallas that morning, I found myself suddenly mentally writing the first chapter of book four, which involved creating a new character, one I already adore. It was inconvenient timing to have my head go into the clouds, but I won't complain about inspiration striking.
Now I have part of a week at home before I leave for Austin on Friday. I'll get home late Saturday, then I'm leaving for the Romantic Times convention early Tuesday morning. My house is kind of a disaster area right now, and I'm trying to decide whether to try to clean it up a little before I go out of town or let it get just a bit worse so I can qualify for EPA Superfund clean-up money.
4 comments:
- Angie said...
I locked my keys in my car for the first time the morning I was taking the SAT. It does start your day off in the wrong way!
- Shanna Swendson said...
I'm hoping this is one of those mistakes I never make again! I know I'll be ultra paranoid about it in the future.
Well, I am sorry you had such a rough go, but wish I could have been there to meet you. Maybe someday you will make it to California? I just finished Once Upon Stilettos (read it in a day) and loved it! You have such a fun writing style and sense of imagination. Where on earth did you come up with Prozac in the water?
- Shanna Swendson said...
Shhh! Watch the spoilers!!! ;-)
That came from a line in the first book, during Katie's job interview, and I knew right away that it was something that had to happen in a future book.


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The tone is quickly changing and will become ever darker, but illuminated with many moments of grace that will come fast and furious at times. There are lighter moments still though. I think of Frodo, standing there under the stars, so very beautiful, lit by his own self-contained moonlight and what a wonderful marvel that would have been to behold. Here we are also introduced to Sam's love of Elves.
The meat of the chapter though is Gandalf's catechism lesson to Frodo about the Ring and about pity. The orc attack drove Bilbo into the tunnels just in time to find the Ring is termed in the Prologue to this tale to be seemingly an "accident" and the finding of the Ring to be "mere luck". But there are no "accidents" in God's plans. Everything and everyone is carefully placed, even those who are not aware they have been. Free will is not interfered with, but used to God's greater glory as the Great Music continues to play out. Hearts are fashioned so they will respond freely in the fashion God knows from all time that they will. When the Ring leaves Gollum, in response to its master's call, God makes sure Bilbo is there to put down his hand in the dark and find it. He does not stop the call from being sent out from Sauron, but once more, he sends a hobbit to 'intercept' that call as He had with Déagol & Sméagol. It was not Bilbo's choice to find the Ring, nor was it was the choice of the Ring to find Bilbo. The frightened hobbit had no idea what it was or what value it had. It was just a pretty little thing and he found it useful. He was not aware that he was an instrument of the One. Only much after the fact does Gandalf, Frodo and the rest of us learn how fateful that journey in the dark truly was. When Bilbo stays his hand from slaying Gollum, he does not know that he is laying some very important groundwork for the destruction of the Ring, the future salvation of his beloved nephew and heir, as yet unborn, and, indeed, helping to determine the fate of the entire of Middle-earth. He sees in Gollum the pitiable, horrifying condition of one enslaved to sin and realizes in some dim way, that "there but for the grace of God, go I". Because Bilbo extended that pity, Frodo is later able to learn from it when he takes his own journey and extends it himself to Gollum and even more importantly, Sam learns from Frodo to do it, as Faramir had done earlier. When Frodo first meets Gollum, he sees in the wretched, twisted creature the same thing his beloved uncle had: a reflection of who he could become, just as he reflects Bilbo in pity. Another step is taken toward the destruction of the Ring. He has gone from "What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature" to "For now that I see him, I do pity him."
The very fact that Bilbo adopted Frodo as his heir is a moment of grace. Even tragedies have their place in the making of who we are and what we are meant to do. If Frodo's parents hadn't drowned, then there would have been no need for Bilbo to adopt him and make him his heir, and eventually heir to the Ring; no living so very close to Sam; no setting down roots in the fertile soil of that humble gardener's loving heart; no blossoming of that beautiful relationship which is so vital to the Quest that it would have failed without it. It is no coincidence that Sam was born the same year Drogo and Primula were drowned. One sees how each piece fits together in the story. How many threads going back decades did God weave into the destruction of the Ring; how many things He guided to happen just at the right time. It is quite amazing actually. Such threads run through our lives also. It is entirely possible that Frodo and Sam would have still met had Frodo's parents' lived on to a ripe old age and Bilbo still made him his heir upon leaving for Rivendell, but God chose the way and events He did, for a reason and though we may not understand it all ourselves when tragedies interrupt our lives and lead us off in directions we wouldn't have otherwise traveled, we have the comfort that God has allowed everything for a reason and ultimately that good will come of it. We just need to have faith and trust that He loves us far more deeply than we can imagine and wills nothing but what will help us come to Him in His heavenly Home which is the home He wishes for us also.
After discovering that Bilbo lied about how he come by the Ring, Gandalf tells Frodo, "I might perhaps have consulted Saruman the White, but something always held me back." There is no time that God is not actively involved in His children's lives. At the time, Gandalf does not know what prudence held him back from revealing his knowledge of the Ring's whereabouts, nor did he know that Bilbo's ring was the Ring, but he trusts in that "still, small voice" that he heard in his heart.
At Gandalf's behest, Aragorn sought long and hard for Gollum, but in vain and finally on his way home, as he tells the Council of Elrond, "...by fortune, I came suddenly on what I sought: the marks of soft feet beside a muddy pool." Each step is being guided here. We need never to doubt or think that God is not actively, personally involved in our lives. If we are open to His purposes for us, He will guide and guard on the way and reveal bit by bit what we are to do. We need only to surrender ourselves into His Hands, as Aragorn and Gandalf spent a lifetime doing, as Frodo offered himself up to do, though at first he struggles with his vocation and his fear of it.
How many times since he asked "Why was I chosen?" have others echoed him down through the ages with the same protest as he that they were not "made for perilous quests" and have "so little" of heart, wits and courage needed for such grand and dangerous things? Jeremiah, Isaiah, Gideon all protested in one way or another, not understanding at first the call, thinking themselves too young (Jr 4-8), unclean (Is 6:5), too weak (Gideon, Jg 6:12-16). But they all still said in the end: "Here I am, send me" (Is 6:8). They all said as Jesus did during his Agony in the Garden, "Nevertheless, let Your will be done, not mine." (Lk 22:43). They accept they have been chosen and submit themselves to that. Frodo does not realize Who chose him, but he fully acknowledges that he has been chosen, so he is aware, in whatever dim way, there is a Chooser above him Who has selected him. We have been chosen too, each one of us, and the more we surrender control over ourselves to God, the more wonders He can and will work in our lives and we will discover our own unique vocations.
When he is first told of the Ring, Frodo, however, doesn't want to get involved. He most definitely wants the Ring to be destroyed, the danger to be removed, but he doesn't want to be the one to do it. It's very frightening to realize that it's up to us sometimes to be that instrument of God's Will to destroy the evil that has sprung up in our time. No wonder he wishes, as we have all at times, "I wish it need not have happening in my time." Moses resisted his call at first. Jonah fled and had to be swallowed by a whale before he accepted his. It is natural for us to resist what seems to be impossible or incredibly dangerous. We don't like to leave our comfortable lives. Frodo longed for adventures, even for a dragon to come by and shake things up a bit, but he wanted a happy adventure in which he could return happy and whole at the end of it. Destroying the Ring was quite a bit outside his comfort level. Still he learns as we do at times that we may seek adventure, but Quests seek us. By ourselves we can do nothing; with God we can do everything. We can still be broken by our task, but we can be healed by the same One who laid the Cross upon our shoulders and will help us carry it if we let Him. It is not evil that comes from God's Hand, but love, even when it's in the form of the Cross, perhaps even especially then: "The Everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost Heart," says the great Bishop, spiritual director and Doctor of the Church, St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622). "This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with His loving arms and weighed with His own Hands, to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His Holy Name, anointed it with His grace, perfumed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God."But He does not ask us to carry our Cross alone. God understands how weak our wills are, how easily we are overcome at times. That is why He sets others at our sides, for there is strength in numbers and when one is weak, the others can be strong and strengthen the one who is faltering. That is why Sam and all the others, and in the end, Sam and Sméagol alone, were placed at Frodo's side, for he had the greatest burden. "Better two than one by himself, since thus their work is really profitable. If one should fall, the other helps him up; but woe to the man by himself with no one to help him up when he falls down. Again: they keep warm who sleep two together, but how can a man keep warm alone? Where one alone would be overcome, two will put up resistance; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken"(Eccl 4:12). There is no way any one person could have destroyed the Ring. Frodo had many invisible guardians also. We are not alone in our struggles, even if we feel that we are. Jesus had Simon of Cyrene, Frodo had Sam. The saints and martyrs have had others encouraging and strengthening them, even at times Jesus Himself or His Mother. Time and time ago it is shown that "Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam" and a third being was needed for the final victory. When we are terrified to accept the burden that we fear will crush our fragile spirits, we should realize from Whose loving Hand it comes from and when we are bowed under the weight and our strength is failing, there will be others to help and God will not abandon us ever. "Do not look forward in fear to the changes of life," counsels St. Francis de Sales. "Rather look to them with full hope that as they arise, God, whose very own you are, will lead you safely through all things;and when you cannot stand it, God will carry you in His arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. The same Everlasting Father who takes care of you today, will take care of you today, and every day. He will either shield you from suffering or will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations."
Sometimes we need to pass through the fire to be tested and there we will find the strength we didn't know we had. Frodo thought he had "so little" of heart, wisdom and courage but God knew he had a great store of it, as all hobbits do in a crisis. He let the Quest play out as it did so Frodo would know what Frodo was capable of. So He will let our Quests play out so we can discover our strengths. With His help, we will not be found wanting. He will not give us a task that beyond us. He knows what our true strength is and will give us enough grace to accomplish it if we cooperate with Him. Frodo did not fail. He succeeded brilliantly when anyone else would have failed. He was never meant to be Ring-destroyer, since God knew that would be beyond his strength, beyond anyone but Himself. He was present there at the Fire as He had been all along to save Frodo and all Middle-earth when His beloved child's mortal flesh, will and strength collapsed under the terrible power of the demonic. We are not alone. It is sometimes in the darkness that we can best see the light. Even Jesus was terrified of his coming trials, so God perfectly understands that we feel we are not up to our tribulations or what we fear could be terrible. He knows how our heart quails. But Jesus went on, Frodo went on, the martyrs went on. We need to go on. We are guided and guarded the whole way and though the path may indeed become very dark, the Light will always be there with us, though at times we may not perceive it. Things will be much easier for ourselves if we surrender to Him and let Him work through us. "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much," Blessed Mother Teresa said who walked through decades of darkness, faithfully serving her God, though for His own good purposes, He chose to hide His face from her, so she could be a shining example to others of perseverance amidst the terrible night. Frodo is another who has inspired many to walk through their own dark nights. They have all shown by their actions that wisdom of Gandalf's words: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Even after Gandalf tells him of the dangers of the Ring, how it will "possess" and "devour" its bearers and will cause him to fade or become invisible permanently if he uses too often and how he would then walk "in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings", Frodo agrees to guard the Ring "whatever it may do to me." He is terrified by Gandalf's words, but because he doesn't want anyone else to be harmed by it, he is willing to take that harm himself and try to contain it within himself if he can. At this point he doesn't truly understand what those words will come to mean to him, what the terrible cost will be, or that he will be asked to bear the Ring much longer than "for the present" which is all his original plan was until someone better, wiser and stronger than he could take it. But he and everyone else will learn that there is no one else better. Once Frodo accepts his vocation, he embraces it fearfully but over time completely. He's willing to, even expecting to, sacrifice his life. Even before he leaves the Shire, he doesn't expect to return. Though he does physically, he cannot completely mentally or emotionally. He is not the same person. He sacrificed everything for the Quest. In that crucible of suffering, everything was burned away, including his identity as a happy, innocent, carefree hobbit. He is stripped down to naked will and endurance and clothed in grace. It is that innocence and that grace which enabled him to be the Ring-bearer. Though he hopes at first to be able to leave the Ring at Rivendell and be done with it, he still steps forward and volunteers to take the Ring to Mordor to destroy it, and this when he's even more aware of its powers and has already almost died bearing it. We may all think we are unequal to a task looming before us, but God will suffuse us with the strength and grace to accomplish it if we are open to accepting it. Frodo was. He succeeded perfectly as Ring-bearer, which is what he was created to do. He was not created to be Ring-destroyer. That was Gollum's task.
Another lesson that will later bear fruit in Frodo's heart is that he hears Gandalf speak of the small hope for Gollum's redemption that later enables Frodo's own hope and efforts for a "cure" for Sméagol. That pity and the lessons learned from the painful presence of the Ring will also in its time extend to Saruman. Gandalf and Galadriel also attempt to convince Saruman to repent, but no avail. Frodo doesn't want Saruman killed, even after the murderous attack on him at Bag End because even though the cure is beyond them, the Ring-bearer hopes it can be found elsewhere and it won't be if Saruman is killed. These three recognize that a fallen soul must be given opportunities to redeem itself and they are responsible to extend the offer, though, it's up to the fallen whether to act upon or not. That Saruman and Sméagol are both unable to come back, the former because of pride, arrogance and hatred, and the latter because his will was not strong enough, is not the fault of those who made the attempt. Frodo, Gandalf and Galadriel are being their "brother's keeper". It would count toward their credit at judgement that they stretched forth the possibility of redemption. Even though Gandalf considers it, in Saruman's case, to be "dangerous, and probably useless," he also says "it must be done". It was their responsibility to try while there was hope left as it our responsibility to fraternally correct our erring brethren. Even after nearly 500 years as Ring-bearer, there was still a little Sméagol left in Gollum and that is no small wonder. That is why we should not give up trying to help and praying for the cure of those held in the chains of the Enemy. We can always return when we've strayed, though the further into our fall, the harder it will be to rise and return. But "while there's life, there's hope" as Sam says, quoting his Gaffer. We will learn in heaven all the good we did. Perhaps someone was saved only through our prayers who would have been lost otherwise, who somehow found the strength to fight their way back to God, out of the darkness into the light.
Gandalf renounces the Ring at Bag End when both Bilbo and Frodo unwittingly tempt him with it because he doesn't trust himself not to use it if it was in his possession. He is glad when he returns from death that the "deadly peril" of the Ring is no longer something he or anyone else can be tempted to use. Even as Gandalf the White he fears it, perhaps even more so, because his power is greater. Good and strong as he is, he knows he is also weak and that is where his true wisdom and strength lies. It is the wisdom and strength Saruman, his superior, had already abandoned, though no one knows that yet.
Frodo's already growing attachment that will grow to addiction to the Ring is shown here as well.
I love the powerful images also that are here. To name just two, Frodo closing his fist around the Ring to hide it from the dark hand he imagines reaching out to grasp it and him imagining the Fire itself while looking into his own small fire and seeing such great darkness and then coming 'back' to Bag End and being surprised that all is still actually light. He does have a tremendous imagination, doesn't he, quite right for a scribe and lover of tales to have. I wonder if part of his torment though was the Ring taking advantage of that and showing him terrible visions as it consumed him more and more until there was nothing left but itself. It would have done that no matter what but perhaps it would have tormented Frodo more because he had such a lively imagination.
November 4, 2008
One Ring to Rule Them All
This is a blog post written by a beautiful young Catholic lady on the blog "The Road Through Middle-Earth". Her blog is devoted to the works of Tolkien, which she is reading through and then commenting on the chapters and events from the books on her blogs. I have been following it ardently, and enjoy reading her wonderful... meditations. Her writing have made me look at the Hobbit and the Fellowship (the only ones she has been writing about so far) in a entirely new and wonderful way. She has graciously given me permission to re-publish this post that she wrote when she began reading the Fellowship of the Ring. Please take the time to read it, and then why don't you check out the rest of her blog as well?
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The new Okii Systems USB Follow Focus gives the photo and video enthusiast a compact yet powerful device that enhances the capabilities of HD video enabled Canon EOS Digital SLR cameras, including:
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Murdered goes free after judge rules Evidence too damning
Egads...The guy confessed and DNA evidence placed him at the scene of the crime.
What sort of idiotic legislation could possible lead to this lunacy?
Under Section 137 of the Evidence Act 1995 "the court must refuse to admit evidence adduced by the prosecutor if its probative value is outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant."
What that means, is if the a single piece of evidence is so overpowering it would sway a jury from giving a fair trial, it cannot be used.
Sooo.., if the guy is obviously guilty due to a single piece of evidence, you can't use it???
Watch as our civilization crumbles...
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It's Christmas, in case you hadn't noticed. Many people bemoan the commercialisation of the holiday not to mention the fact that it starts about mid-June! Many 'non-Christians', that is to say, those who do not practise and may not even believe in God. Some feel this also undermines the true meaning of Christmas. Most antiquity scholars agree that Jesus, as a person, did exist and that he was baptised by John the Baptist. His nativity, the virgin birth and miraculous events such as turning water into wine (goals!) are somewhat more debatable.
Other religious festivals such as Eid and Hanukkah, for example, can easily pass by those who are not part of a particular religion but Christmas is unavoidable, should you wish to avoid it. Specifically, what does a non-Christian do on the 25th December when all the shops and public transport shut down and even the television is completely taken over by Christmas? Many people in 'normal' industries (ie not hospitality or retail) will have a sizeable chunk of time off over Christmas whether they celebrate it or not. Having said that, there are reports of non-Christians actually volunteering to work certain days so that their Christian colleagues can have the day off. Very Christmas-spirited.
Initial research has shown that a surprising number Muslims and Jews, for example, do take part in certain Christmas traditions such as a family lunch and maybe a tree. Gift-giving is sometimes less common for Muslims as they do this for Eid (the celebration of the end of the fasting month, Ramadan). Tesco recently received complaints about their 2017 Christmas advert because it featured a Muslim family. One wonders whether the complaints were in fact from Muslims as it seems a number do in fact take part in the celebrations especially if they have close friends who are Christian. And why not? There seems no sensible reason why they should not in the spirit of inclusivity.
It's often mentioned on TV shows and in films, mainly American, that a traditional 'Jewish Christmas' involved going out for Chinese food. It seems this is not just a stereotype with reports of Chinese restaurants in America being impossible to get into without a reservation on Christmas.
It is becoming increasingly common for people, including Christians, to volunteer at homeless shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas day. It's a way to put your forced day off to good use by helping those in need.
Pagans have a festival called Yule. To be honest, it sounds rather similar to Christmas and indeed it happens just before. Many think that Christmas was originally a pagan festival which was appropriated by Christians as a way of celebrating the birth of Jesus, the date of which is actually unknown.
So it seems that many non-Christians, which, let's face it, probably applies to many of those who do celebrate, don't actually go out of their way to avoid Christmas at all. They join in in their own way. And why not? They may as well because surely it is literally impossible to ignore it completely. Even if you hide under the duvet, keep the TV and radio switched off and refuse to see anyone, which one atheist (single, surprisingly) did report doing, you are not really ignoring it but allowing it to force you into being a recluse.


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|Recordings of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotor behaviour following targeted ablation of single motorneurons
Chew, Yee Lian; Walker, Denise S.; Towlson, Emma K.; Vértes, Petra E.; Yan, Gang; Barabási, Albert-László; Schafer, William R.
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|Chew, Yee Lian, Denise S. Walker, Emma K. Towlson, Petra E. Vértes, Gang Yan, Albert-László Barabási, and William R. Schafer. 2017. "Recordings of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotor behaviour following targeted ablation of single motorneurons." Scientific Data 4 (1): 170156. doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.156.
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|Lesioning studies have provided important insight into the functions of brain regions in humans and other animals. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, with a small nervous system of 302 identified neurons, it is possible to generate lesions with single cell resolution and infer the roles of individual neurons in behaviour. Here we present a dataset of ~300 video recordings representing the locomotor behaviour of animals carrying single-cell ablations of 5 different motorneurons. Each file includes a raw video of approximately 27,000 frames; each frame has also been segmented to yield the position, contour, and body curvature of the tracked animal. These recordings can be further analysed using publicly-available software to extract features relevant to behavioural phenotypes. This dataset therefore represents a useful resource for probing the neural basis of behaviour in C. elegans, a resource we hope to augment in the future with ablation recordings for additional neurons.
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So most of you know i went into total brain recal. I'm back tho! I log in to see i have 30 followers! It's amazing! when i started this blog i never thought i would see 10! Would love to see 100, or even 1,000! But for now i appriciate my 30 lovely followers i REALLY DO! When i get my typing fingers back i will be updating the blog. I have even been thinking about re-naming the blog! I'm looking for suggestions..So don't be shy throw some idea out there!
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