By Dan Diamond | 05/24/2016 10:00 AM EDT The U.S. obesity rate has increased by nearly 60 percent in the past two decades, and the NFL hits back after a damaging House report. But first: A mental health reform bill is back after months of being stalled in committee. HOUSE E&C TO MARK UP MENTAL HEALTH BILL IN JUNE - After months of being in limbo, the House's major mental health reform bill will get a full Energy and Commerce Committee markup next month, aides tell Pro's Brianna Ehley. It was six months ago when the E&C health subcommittee approved Rep. Tim Murphy's bill (H.R. 2646) after a grueling 10-hour markup, during which lawmakers sparred over patient privacy rights and court-ordered outpatient treatment programs. Cost was also a major issue. Aides said Chairman Fred Upton, Murphy and others are working out controversial elements and developing a manager's amendment that could satisfy most members. More for Pros here:  INSURER DEBT NEARLY DOUBLES - Health insurers' debt levels have nearly doubled since 2011, reaching $6.3 billion in borrowed funds at the end of last year, according to an analysis by A.M. Best Company. The primary driver is industry consolidation, with Anthem's planned takeover of Cigna and Aetna's pending acquisition of Humana poised to further increase debt levels. But Obamacare's exchanges are another major factor. A.M. Best's analysts point out that programs designed to protect insurers entering the new marketplaces typically don't pay out right away. ... In addition, there's been some "timing fluctuations" in payment of direct government subsidies. "Therefore, health insurance carriers offering exchange products had to utilize more of their own liquid funds to pay claims, while recording sizeable receivables for future payments from the government," the report notes. THIS IS TUESDAY PULSE - Where we're still marveling over WSJ's John Carreyrou's track record on Theranos: 16 months investigating the company, multiple lawsuit threats - and despite writing two dozen stories, not a single reporter correction. Theranos, on the other hand ... Tips to ddiamond@politico.com or @ddiamond on Twitter. With help from Paul Demko (@PaulDemko), Brianna Ehley (@BriannaEhley) and Brett Norman (@BrettNorman). NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY: WHERE AMERICANS STAND ON KEY MEASURES - CDC is out today with its latest update of key health measures, and here's a quick look at some of the data points. Obesity: About 30.4 percent of American adults age 20 and older were obese in 2015, a slight uptick from 29.9 percent in 2014. Overall, the U.S. adult obesity rate increased about 57 percent between 1997 and 2015. Smoking: About 15.1 percent of American adults age 18 and older were cigarette smokers in 2015, down from 16.8 percent in 2014. Overall, the U.S. adult smoking rate declined about 39 percent between 1997 and 2015. Coverage: The percentage of Americans reporting they skipped medical care because they couldn't afford it fell to 4.5 percent in 2015, down from 6.9 percent in 2010. See the CDC's National Health Interview Survey:  THE NFL HITS BACK - The nation's most profitable sports league says that Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee got it wrong when they accused the NFL of trying to influence a government study on concussions. According to an E&C staff report, NFL officials tried to quietly persuade the National Institutes of Health to yank a $16 million research grant for Dr. Robert Stern, a prominent Boston University researcher who has been vocally critical of the league and its approach to the dangers of concussions. But while the NFL acknowledges that it raised concerns, it says that the committee's allegations aren't true and the funding decisions were made through appropriate channels. "It is deeply disappointing the authors of the Staff Report would make allegations directed at doctors affiliated with the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee without ever speaking to them," an NFL spokesperson told POLITICO. HOUSE DIPPING INTO HHS MACRA FUND TO PAY FOR ZIKA - That's according to a letter from HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to the House Appropriations Committee, as first reported by the Morning Consult. The House's $622 million package to fight Zika virus is offset with about $352 million of leftover Ebola funding and $270 million of HHS funds - most of which would come from the nonrecurring expenses fund. According to Burwell, the agency had planned to use $108 million in the fund to implement Medicare's new physician payment law. The nonrecurring expenses fund is often used by HHS to support capital investments and other infrastructure items. If the House package stands, it would be the first time that Congress has dipped into the nonrecurring expenses fund to offset other initiatives. Read Burwell's letter:  What HHS says: "The nonrecurring emergency fund supports vital initiatives across HHS," an HHS spokesperson told PULSE. "Secretary Burwell's letter lays out the real potential costs to the American people - and to priorities Congress itself has identified - of an approach to the Zika crisis that robs Peter to pay Paul." E&C MEMBERS LAUNCH PEDIATRIC TRAUMA CAUCUS - The bipartisan caucus kicks off with a hearing at 3 p.m. today. Witnesses include an NIH expert, several children's hospitals and the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma. - Why do we need a pediatric trauma caucus? "We've all seen stories of head injuries, concussions and trauma in professional sports in the news, but most people don't know that this is also a very serious issue for our children," Rep. Richard Hudson, a caucus co-founder, tells PULSE. "In the United States, pediatric trauma is the number one killer of children." ** A message from National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA): More transparency is needed into generic drug pricing and reimbursement rates set by drug plan middlemen. Bipartisan legislation (H.R. 244) would enhance oversight of federal health programs and help ensure pharmacy reimbursement for generic drugs reflects market fluctuations. Visit www.ncpanet.org/pharmacyaccess. ** EMA PULLS "BLACK TRIANGLE" WARNING ON RX SMOKING CESSATION DRUG - A study published last month in the Lancet found that Pfizer's Chantix and other prescription drugs to help smokers quit don't carry a significant increased risk for suicide or less drastic psychiatric side effects. The results prompted the European Medicines Agency on Monday to lift its requirement for a "black triangle" warning on the drug's label - the EMA version of FDA's most serious black box caution. Chantix had been dogged in the decade since it was introduced by anecdotes of violence and suicide associated with its use, but that was undercut by the large scale study requested by the FDA that compared the drug head-to-head with placebo and nicotine patch treatments. Pfizer has said the data show that the black box warning is no longer warranted in the United States, but the FDA has yet to act. Pfizer's release:  LAWSUIT PLAINTIFFS COMMISSION DAMAGING FITBIT STUDY - Back in January, plaintiff's firm Lieff Cabraser filed a class-action lawsuit against Fitbit, charging the wearable tech company with shipping inaccurate heart rate monitors. The plaintiffs received a bit of scientific validation Monday with the unveiling of a study - commissioned by them - that purports to show major inaccuracies with the heart-rate-tracking of Fitbit's Charge and Surge devices, when compared with an electrocardiogram. During exercise, the study claims, the Charge's heart rate differed from the electrocardiogram by a mean of 15.5 beats per minute, while the Surge differed by 22.8 beats. Researchers and users have long faulted fitness trackers for their inaccuracy; for example, some Iowa State professors dinged the industry for their poor calorie-tracking, while bloggers have often taken the devices to task. GATES FOUNDATION CEO: PROGRESS ON KEY HEALTH ISSUES 'SOONER THAN YOU THINK' - In a new letter, Sue Desmond-Hellman writes that the foundation is making dramatic progress in combating tobacco and neglected tropical diseases around the world. For example, Desmond-Hellman cites improvements in fighting "sleeping sickness," a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa and with a near-100 percent fatality rate if untreated. "In 2006, there were nearly 300 cases" of sleeping sickness in Uganda, she writes. "By 2013, that number had dropped to 10. This year, we've seen only four." Read the letter:  BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ON HEALTHY AGING IN AMERICA - The organization on Monday announced new recommendations on how to integrate health care and housing for seniors. For example, the center suggests that CMS launch an initiative to coordinate care for seniors living in publicly assisted housing and scale an existing demonstration to coordinate care at home for frail seniors, given the risk of patient falls. See the infographics:  Read the report:  $34 billion. That's the approximate annual health care cost resulting from seniors' falls. About one in three seniors fall per year. JILL BIDEN IN BOSTON - The Second Lady will visit the PatientsLikeMe headquarters this afternoon, where she will learn more about the company's work to build online patient networks and boost research. She'll also deliver remarks at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center's 2016 One Hundred Gala this evening. ON THE HILL TODAY - Sens. Joe Manchin, Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Angus King, Heidi Heitkamp and Tammy Baldwin will hold a 9:30 a.m. press conference on the introduction of their Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act (LifeBOAT), which is intended to establish a permanent funding stream to provide and expand access to substance abuse treatment. Watch live. CORRECTION - Monday's PULSE said that 30,000 physicians already have participated in CMS's MACRA seminars. While more than 30,000 people have attended the seminars, that number includes more than just physicians. THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF BREAKFAST MAY BE PROFOUNDLY OVERRATED - That's according to Aaron Carroll, who blames misinterpreted research and biased studies for the widespread belief that breakfast is the most crucial meal of the day for personal health. "The bottom line is that the evidence for the importance of breakfast is something of a mess," Carroll writes. "Breakfast has no mystical powers."  WHAT WE'RE READING Inside the top drugmakers' approach to Zika:  Patrick Soon-Shiong, thought to be the wealthiest physician in the world, is becoming a media baron:  Ed Silverman makes the case for cash prizes to encourage pharma to fight superbugs:  Single-payer health care proposals are arguably more popular than ever, and Harold Pollack explores what's next:  Samsung - yes, that Samsung - is trying to expand into the U.S. pharma market with a new arthritis drug:  ** A message from National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA): While approximately 80 percent of prescription drugs dispensed are generic drugs, the reimbursement system for these medications is largely unregulated and a mystery to pharmacists and patients. The lack of transparency also raises questions as to whether drug plan middlemen, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) corporations, are overpaid by Medicare and other federal health programs. Moreover, when generic drug prices spike, PBM corporations are slow to update reimbursement rates, leaving community pharmacies with payments that don't cover costs and unsustainable financial losses. H.R. 244 would increase transparency and facilitate timely payment updates. Learn more at www.ncpanet.org/pharmacyaccess. ** To view online: To change your alert settings, please go to or email was sent to kaplanj@dnc.org by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA To unsubscribe,


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Thanks for flagging this, Akshai. Adding some folks to the chain for awareness. From: Bhatnagar, Akshai Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:37 AM To: Manriquez, Pablo; Garcia, Walter Cc: Research_D Subject: NALEO Latino Voting Rights Report Wanted to flag this report in case it hadn't gone around. Covered on Univision last night too: Noticiero Univisión NALEO has released a report suggesting that more than 875,000 Latinos will face new voting restrictions this November. [Watch ] New Report Finds Restrictive Changes May Make Voting More Difficult For More Than 875,000 Latino Voters in Election 2016 More than 8 million Latino voters-or nearly one of every three members of the Latino electorate-reside in states where they will be without the full protections they had in 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Less than six months before Election Day, NALEO Educational Fund released a new report that found that more than 875,000 Latino voters may find it more difficult to cast ballots this year than in 2012. The findings were released at a briefing in Washington D.C. that featured Former Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and NALEO Educational Fund Executive Director Arturo Vargas. The new report "Latino Voters at Risk: Assessing the Impact of Restrictive Voting Changes in Election 2016" found that the nation's 27.3 million eligible Latino voters will face a very different political and legal landscape in Election 2016 than existed in 2012. Voters lost the protection of a critical piece of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the preclearance process, in the Supreme Court's ruling in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013. "More than 13.1 million Latino voters are expected to cast ballots in 2016. While historic, we know millions more will stay at home on Election Day," said Arturo Vargas, NALEO Educational Fund Executive Director. "To maximize participation among Latinos, we need to be promoting policies that make voting and registering to vote more accessible, and not less accessible, to the nation's second largest population group and all qualified U.S. citizens." Many of the states, counties, and cities that were formerly subject to anti-discrimination review under the VRA have adopted new laws or practices that now make it harder to vote in the years since Shelby County was decided, as have many of the places where underrepresented voters' potential political influence has been growing most rapidly. Major findings from the new report include: * Eight million Latino voters-or nearly one in every three members of the Latino electorate-are vulnerable to restrictive lawmaking and changes in election administration in 2016. These eligible Latino voters live in jurisdictions that have been freed from oversight, in spite of their documented histories of adopting practices that discriminate against minority voters. * Nineteen states created new barriers to Latino participation since 2012. These laws could seriously impede more than 875,000 Latinos who are eligible to vote from participating in the 2016 presidential election. These states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. * States with the greatest Latino population growth were likely to implement restrictive changes. Of the nine states that saw more than a 100 percent increase in their Latino populations between 2000 and 2010, six-Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee-have implemented new provisions since 2012. * Serious obstacles to voter registration are in place in eight states. These provisions can be carried out in numerous forms, including adding requirements for documentation from potential registrants and moving voter registration deadlines up. * States have imposed discriminatory restrictions on voting. Changes from 2012 may make it more difficult to vote both in-person and by mail. This includes the addition of voter ID requirements, truncated early voting periods and changes to absentee ballot policies. * Administrative practices that perpetuate discrimination against Latinos are on the rise.Election administrators have discretion to set aggressive registration list maintenance policies, close or consolidate polling locations, neglect language assistance needs, and more. In order to effectively safeguard against laws and policies that discriminatorily make it harder for Latinos to vote, Congress should enact legislation that modernizes the Voting Rights Act to full strength. Two bills in Congress today would accomplish these goals: the Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 2867 and S 1659 ) and the Voting Rights Amendment Act (HR 885 ). In the lead up to Election 2016, NALEO Educational Fund will continue to operate its toll-free bilingual hotline 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (1-888-839-8682) to ensure Latino voters have information on every aspect of the electoral process, from finding their polling location, to state voter ID requirements, to reporting problems on Election Day. Visit the NALEO Educational Fund website at www.naleo.org/latinovotersatrisk to download the full report. ### About NALEO Educational Fund NALEO Educational Fund is the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit organization that facilitates the full participation of Latinos in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.


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Dear Mr Hasselmann, thanks for the draft position of the ECF. I do believe it is very good first approach to position the needs of a science-based climate policy in the future. I do particularly like the quasi-goal of a long-term 0-emission target supported by the scientific community. However, there are a few amendments I like to propose: a) I do not agree at all that the focus on the short term "dictared by the 10 year Kyoto horizon has tended to obscure longer term issues". In the contrary, if we were to agree on longer-term and deeper targets - what we all want I suppose - there must be a starting point somewhere in the next years. I do agree that the 1 CP targets are moderate and will be diluted by all kinds of loopholes. But given the economic and political nature of this treaty, more is/was not reachable by the international community. I prefer an unperfect agreement coevering the globe (almost!) as a starter over an perfect agreement that will never be agreed upon. And - probably more important - the recent Bonn agreement will give the signal to the main polluters that the atmosphere is not a free sewer any more. At best, they won some time - but the ultimate message is, that the train towards deeper targets has started. This may impact future industrial investment and legislative decision making much deeper than the targets of the 1 CP itself as it provides some basic certainty. Having said this, the next important discussion round on a political level will resume about "adequacy of commitments" of the next CPs. that is the build-in logic of both the treaty and the Convention. Here countries will start to address targets for 2013-2018. Thus, there is an approach to the long-term issues. It is a transient process over time. And, please believe me, almost everyone I talked to in the past who complained about the "short-term" focus of the treaty as opposed to a long-term global strategy had not in mind to strengthen environmental effectiveness - these voices mostly reflected the desire to fully delay any early action after all. And without early action and without short term focus we will never get to the longer-term targets. In short, I believe, a scientific approach should foster the architecture of the KP and that of the Convention and the need for further target-setting processes in the future by all parties - and that is intrinsincally embedded in the process. In that respect, it is probably scientifically correct to state that the "Kyoto reductions have negligible impacts on global warming" but it would be politically naive to conclude that this means Kyoto is only "symbolic". It is much more. b) I have problems with the focus on solar as the sole beneficiary of a 0-emission society. Still, I still like to focus on those measures that are not implemented yet and can provide the bulk of future emissions reductions mostly cost-effectively - that is energy efficiency in its various forms and various applications. And renewables are those who benefit most from energy efficiency as each renewable kWh provides more service, km or goods. Generally, I like a broader approach to renewables. It is not "one takes it all" solar what will save the world from climate change. We need many forms of renewables according to the cultural, political and economical circumstances in the various regions. In some it may be solar thermal power or PV, in others it is off-shore wind, and in many rural areas it may be biomass or geo-thermal energy. And let us not forget the challenge of producing hydrogen from renewable sources as another ultimate fuel. c) How dow we deal with equity? I believe it has to be addressed in one way or the other - and I mean much more than the usual GHG emissions per capita approach. This would include compensation/adaptation funding for poor and vulnerable developing countries - but also how to deal with targets for (certain) developing countries in the next CPs. best regards Stephan Singer WWF International


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Do we just go ahead with this? Mark Paustenbach National Press Secretary & Deputy Communications Director Democratic National Committee 202.863.8148 paustenbachm@dnc.org Begin forwarded message: From: "Miranda, Luis" > Date: May 8, 2016 at 12:30:49 PM EDT To: "weiner@dscc.org " > Cc: "Paustenbach, Mark" >, "Walker, Eric" > Subject: HIT ON MCCAIN TODAY Hi Sadie, we want to hit McCain on what he said today on CNN. Any concerns with the below? SL: Senator McCain: "Oh, I don't know" if Trump should retract "rapists" comment Body: "Oh, I don't know." That was Senator John McCain's response this morning when asked on CNN if he thought Donald Trump should take back his dangerous and divisive comments calling Mexicans 'rapists.' See the exchange below: (Screenshot:  "By refusing to condemn Trump's unconscionable remarks, Senator McCain will own them from now until Election Day. The fact that Senator McCain is supporting Trump and standing by his discriminatory comments about Hispanic-Americans confirms that the GOP is now the party of Trump." -- DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach


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Yes, Maria will call you today to schedule for the week after Thanksgiving. We met on November 1st to discuss the issues listed below, and Greg has been working to develop an ETS solution to our needs since then. I've inserted Greg's agenda from the Nov. 1st meeting with everyone listed in his invitation for your information. We'll be sure to include Barry and Cheryl also. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Appointment----- From: Lewis, Greg Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:49 PM To: Lewis, Greg; Kanani, Pratish; Darensbourg, Joe; Baker, Lee; Prendergast, Pat; Gunn, Cephus; Sullivan, Michael; Geaccone, Tracy Cc: Vo, Hoang; Johnson, Jan; Nelson, Emitra Subject: Updated: Plan, Actuals, Data Warehouse, Adaytum When: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:30 AM-10:00 AM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada). Where: 3AC 18C2 Location is 3AC 18C2. Purpose of the meeting is to set specific objectives for addressing ETS' requirements regarding integration of the data warehouse and Adaytum; plan vs actual variance reporting and current estimate reporting. Agenda: Opening Remarks - 5 min. Greg Lewis Level Setting (bring everyone up to date on where the various components stand) Description of Corp Adaytum direction - 10 min. Joe Darensbourg Description of Data Warehouse's current direction - 10 min. Pratish Kanani Description of ETS Adaytum direction - 10 min. Lee Baker Description of ETS cost center reporting direction (plan vs actual variance reporting) - 10 min. ETS' General Requirements - 10 min. Greg Lewis, Lee Baker Closing the Gap; how do we get there? Diagram the probable data flow - 10 min. Pratish Kanani Identify the requirements open points - 10 min. Pratish & Greg Identify the major milestones and time goals - 10 min. Pratish, Greg, All --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Elaine -----Original Message----- From: Geaccone, Tracy Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:37 PM To: Concklin, Elaine Subject: FW: Actual vs Plan 2002 Maria is setting this up right? -----Original Message----- From: Wiederholt, Patricia Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:00 AM To: Geaccone, Tracy Cc: Perchal, Cheryl; Wiederholt, Barry; Boggs, Phil Subject: Actual vs Plan 2002 Tracy, There is a lot of confusion as to how 2002 Plan and Actual will be linked and how the related variance reporting will be made available. I was glad to hear you would be having a separate meeting to discuss this issue. Would you please make sure that both Cheryl Perchal and Barry Wiederholt are included in this discussion? Thanks!


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Need links for a couple of these. Thanks! SL: Donald Trump was cheerleader-in-chief for a housing market crash so he could make money Body: Yesterday, CNN revealed that Trump was hoping for a housing crash so that he could benefit financially. "I sort of hope that happens," Trump said in 2006 , predicting the 2008 housing crash that cost millions of Americans their homes, savings and jobs. But this wasn't a slip of the tongue - Trump had been cheerleading for a housing market crash and a recession for years so he could benefit financially at a time when Americans were suffering. "Cheerleading for a recession that cost millions of Americans their homes, jobs and savings shows how little regard Donald Trump has for working people in this country. Until Trump releases his tax returns, there's no telling how much he pocketed during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." - DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach 2007: TRUMP SAID HE WAS "EXCITED" FOR A REAL ESTATE BUBBLE BECAUSE HE HAD ALWAYS MADE MORE MONEY THAT WAY 2006: TRUMP IMPLIED PEOPLE WHO TALKED ABOUT A REAL ESTATE BUBBLE WERE ACTUALLY JUST AFRAID OF HARD WORK 2005: TRUMP PRESENTED THE "SO-CALLED HOUSING BUBBLE" AS AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY 2004: TRUMP BRAGGED THAT HE HAD "ALWAYS MADE A LOT OF MONEY IN BAD MARKETS" Eric Walker walkere@dnc.org 732-991-1489 @ericmwalker


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I'm not sure which way to make the old bits call on this: [A] was posted well after [B] was in the archives, but then again, [B] didn't bother with any commentary (new bits). If you two can agree upon who was at fault, penance will be to explain how feedback phase is affected by time lags, and tie that in to the spontaneous generation of "business cycles" in the Beer Game. * -Dave * see also: Explaining Capacity Overshoot and Price War: Misperceptions of Feedback in Competitive Growth Markets in which the scenario 4 (margin oriented tit for tat) seems close to the strategy described in: "game theoretical gandhi / more laptops"


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20020715 Lockergnome Penguin Shell 07.15.2002 PenguinREPORT CAREER SERVICES FROM LOCKERGNOME AND DICE.COM: We've teamed up with Dice.com to bring you a full service I.T. career enhancement solution. Whether you are looking for your dream job or trying to hire talented people, the full-featured career resource center is the place to start. Find your IT talent solution today! You're a good bunch, you Penguins. Today's GnomeVOICE really tells the story better than I can, but I'll give you a quick summary. Through your efforts and compassion, reader Karl Steenblik has found a new electronic home for the Foundation for Children and Youth With Diabetes. I'll let Karl tell you which offered solution suited his needs. But, with the volume of responses his request for help generated, it's almost irrelevant. As I expected, we came together as a community and collectively offered him many viable choices from which to pick a solution that would work for the kids. The global scope of your concern and our collective ability to effect a change has humbled me once again. Just when you start to get a little callous about the 'Net ... Accordingly, I'd like to sketch out an idea with you that can be an ongoing part of Penguin Shell. It's an open discussion, really, about how we can further put our technical skills (be they Linux or Windows skills) to work for a good cause. I'm proposing that we start an organized volunteer effort, based in the Penguin Shell readership, to provide volunteer technical services to worthwhile charitable organizations. First, we need a name that clearly describes our purpose. Next, we need volunteers with the time and ability to lend those skills to a good cause. Finally, we'll need some suggestions as to the charitable organizations that are near and dear to your heart. Or, maybe the organization is one you're already working with - one you're certain can use some hands-on or remote volunteer help. I'll start that ball rolling with a personal organizational suggestions - the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation. Though I don't currently know their technical needs, I do know that the syndrome is very rare - read "research and technical dollars are minimal." I'm sure we can, as a group, provide them a way to fill existing technical holes. That's just a suggestion. Feel free to use the mailto links above to make others. Over the next few weeks, I plan on modifying my current favorite blogging program, GeekLog to pull together a community project area where interested parties can gather, coordinate and discuss whatever this project might become. I'll keep you posted on the details. In one of the earliest issues of Penguin Shell, I told a story about Emperor Penguins - how they huddle together on the shore, knowing that their protection from predators lies in sheer numbers. When one takes the leap into the water, all the others follow; individual involvement for the good of the community. 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Block devices receive data for storage in chunks, generally pre-set sizes of data "blocks." Hard drives are block devices. They'll only write chunks of data to storage. Thus, the problem with shutting down your machine uncleanly. Data intended for storage may not, in fact, have been written at the time your power dies or you hard kill your machine. The system may still be accumulating data up to the proper block size before committing it to the hard drive. Character devices, on the other hand, receive data in "streams," one character at a time. Serial ports are a great example of character devices. They handle data input and output on the fly, rather than filling a buffer then committing the data. The physical nature of these device types goes a long way toward explaining why they handle data as they do. A hard drive has to physically spin up to store or retrieve data. You're actually changing the magnetic properties of the disc surface when you store data. Consequently, a hard drive has to know where there's free space on the disc surface, has to move that area of the disc under the write head and try, as best it can, to group blocks of related data together. Character devices really don't store data as much as they send it off and forget about it. The process is purely electrical rather than electrical and physical. The serial port, for example, sends data in a stream to your Palm Pilot. The storage of the data is actually handled by the Palm itself, not a physical storage device on the computer. There's no need to spin up a drive and account for the data as is necessary with a hard drive. The Palm will also send a signal back to the computer confirming receipt of data. That's an indication that character devices often communicate in both directions, as well. So, when you're configuring block devices in your kernel, you're preparing the system for communicating with a device that will buffer data to a predetermined level, then write that data as a block, changing the physical properties of the hard drive disc surface. Even though that's the highest level view of the process, it still shows how difficult a process physical data storage really is. In the block device section, you'll find many options for physical data storage. When configuring this section, it's crucial to know as much about your existing hardware as possible. What type (brand) of hard drives are you using? What's the interface to the machine - IDE, parallel, etc? Where is the drive located - on the local machine or on a network-connected box? Because the variables are so broad, it's nearly impossible to give you a stock configuration tip that will work for your personal machine every time. I can tell you this - you will have block devices (normally a hard drive and a floppy), and you need to answer as many of the above questions as you can. Find out as much about these physical devices as you can, and the configuration process will be relatively painless. A warning - you'll see more configuration tips like this as the series continues to progress. I'll certainly make hands-on configuration recommendations where possible. There are quite a few areas where I can make such recommendations. However, where the variable set is as broad as block devices, much of the legwork will be up to you. Tomorrow, we'll talk about RAID and multi-device support in Linux. Recommend It! Send us a GnomeCORE tip GnomeFILE rxLinux "The concept behind rxlinux is to centralise configuration and management of multiple Linux servers. New servers can be deployed in minutes. A Web interface is used to build custom ISO CD-ROMs dedicated for specific servers. 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20020717 Lockergnome Windows Daily 07.17.2002 GnomeREPORT FREE COLOR PRINTERS FROM XEROX - $4,500 VALUE Enroll in the Xerox FreeColorPrinters program and get a Phaser network color printer for FREE. Small businesses, schools and non-profits have been participating in this risk free program since 1999. Learn more. Falling asleep at the wheel is no laughing matter. Still, it kinda happened with yesterday's tip. I forgot to mention that the String value's label is "Logging" (sans quotes). That was almost like a cliffhanger, eh? The oversight was totally my fault. I've been thinking about asking Gretchen and Brian to help with future reviews. Don't be surprised if that happens soon. I'm sure you'd welcome a female perspective on this stuff, right? She helped one of our landlords pick a paint color for the "office" wall this evening. Does that qualify her to talk about cool stuff that we find for you on the Internet? You betcha. Let's see how she does with the drapes and rugs. I have a feeling I'll be the one tweaking furniture layout. Shouldn't be too much of an issue - yet. I wonder if Ikea has an affiliate program? I've mentioned how Yahoo Mail's beta is mangling our commas, but did you know that it's also (possibly) rewriting your e-mail? If you send an HTML message to someone who has a yahoo.com account, something may get lost in the translation. Try sending this sentence: "My medieval mocha has an expression to evaluate." Again, be sure this note is sent in HTML format. The results will surprise you. As far as I can tell, they're doing this to stop any scripts from being distributed to their user base. I must credit Marion Schroll for making me aware of the "problem." It's kinda funny, in a weird sort of way. Not that I would want anything I send changed in any way, shape, or form. It begs the question: what next? I mean, where does it all stop? Give them a bit, and they just might take a byte. Censorship is only a stone's throw away. 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John, There has been some email traffic in the last few days to a week - quite a bit really, only a small part about MSU. The main part has been one of your House subcommittees wanting Mike Mann and others and IPCC to respond on how they produced their reconstructions and how IPCC produced their report. In case you want to look at this see later in the email ! Also this load of rubbish ! This is from an Australian at BMRC (not Neville Nicholls). It began from the attached article. What an idiot. The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant. The Australian also alerted me to this blogging ! I think this is the term ! Luckily I don't live in Australia. [1] Unlike the UK, the public in Australia is very very naïve about climate change, mostly because of our governments Kyoto stance, and because there is a proliferation of people with no climate knowledge at all that are prepared to do the gov bidding. Hence the general populace is at best confused, and at worst, antagonistic about climate change - for instance, at a recent rural meeting on drought, attended by politicians and around 2000 farmers, a Qld collegue - Dr Roger Stone - spoke about drought from a climatologist point of view, and suggested that climate change may be playing a role in Australias continuing drought+water problem. He was booed and heckled (and unfortunately some politicians applauded when this happened) - that's what we're dealing with due to columists such as the one I sent to you. Now to your email. I have seen the latest Mears and Wentz paper (to Science), but am not reviewing it, thank goodness. I am reviewing a couple of papers on extremes, so that I can refer to them in the chapter for AR4. Somewhat circular, but I kept to my usual standards. The Hadley Centre are working on the day/night issue with sondes, but there are a lot of problems as there are very few sites in the tropics with both and where both can be distinguished. My own view if that the sondes are overdoing the cooling wrt MSU4 in the lower stratosphere, and some of this likely (IPCC definition) affects the upper troposphere as well. Sondes are a mess and the fact you get agreement with some of them is miraculous. Have you looked at individual sondes, rather than averages - particularly tropical ones? LKS is good, but the RATPAC update less so. As for being on the latest VG analysis, Kostya wanted it to use the surface data. I thought the model comparisons were a useful aside, so agreed. Ben sent me a paper he's submitted with lots of model comparisons that I also thought a useful addition to the subject. As for resolving all this (as opposed to the dogfight) I'm hoping that CCSP will come up with something - a compromise. I might be naive in this respect. I hope you are still emailing and talking to Carl and Frank. How is CCSP going? Are you still on schedule for end of August for your open review? What will be interesting is to see how IPCC pans out, as we've been told we can't use any article that hasn't been submitted by May 31. This date isn't binding, but Aug 12 is a little more as this is when we must submit our next draft - the one everybody will be able to get access to and comment upon. The science isn't going to stop from now until AR4 comes out in early 2007, so we are going to have to add in relevant new and important papers. I hope it is up to us to decide what is important and new. So, unless you get something to me soon, it won't be in this version. It shouldn't matter though, as it will be ridiculous to keep later drafts without it. We will be open to criticism though with what we do add in subsequent drafts. Someone is going to check the final version and the Aug 12 draft. This is partly why I've sent you the rest of this email. IPCC, me and whoever will get accused of being political, whatever we do. As you know, I'm not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish. Cheers Phil IPCC stuff ---- just for interest !!! IPCC ASKED TO COME CLEAN OVER CONTROVERSIAL HOCKEY STICK STUDIES The Committee on Energy and Commerce, 23 June 2005 [2] Joe Barton, Chairman U.S. House of Representatives June 23, 2005 To: Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change C/O IPCC Secretariat World Meteorological Organization 7 bis Avenue de La Paix C.P. 2300 Ch- 1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Dear Chairman Pachauri: Questions have been raised, according to a February 14, 2005 article in The Wall Street Journal, about the significance of methodological flaws and data errors in studies by Dr. Michael Mann and co-authors of the historical record of temperatures and climate change. We understand that these studies of temperature proxies (tree rings, ice cores, corals, etc.) formed the basis for a new finding in the 2001 United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR). This finding - that the increase in 20th century northern hemisphere temperatures is "likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1,000 years" and that the "1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year" - has since been referenced widely and has become a prominent feature of the public debate surrounding climate change policy. However, in recent peer-reviewed articles in Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Energy & Environment, among others, researchers question the results of this work. As these researchers find, based on the available information, the conclusions concerning temperature histories - and hence whether warming in the 20th century is actually unprecedented - cannot be supported by the Mann et. al. studies. In addition, we understand from the February 14 Journal and these other reports that researchers have failed to replicate the findings of these studies, in part because of problems with the underlying data and the calculations used to reach the conclusions. Questions have also been raised concerning the sharing and dissemination of the data and methods used to perform the studies. For example, according to the January 2005 Energy & Environment, the information necessary to replicate the analyses in the studies has not been made fully available to researchers upon request. The concerns surrounding these studies reflect upon the quality and transparency of federally funded research and of the IPCC review process - two matters of particular interest to the Committee. For example, one concern relates to whether IPCC review has been sufficiently robust and independent. We understand that Dr. Michael Mann, the lead author of the studies in question, was also a lead author of the IPCC chapter that assessed and reported this very same work, and that two co-authors of the studies were also contributing authors to the same chapter. Given the prominence these studies were accorded in the IPCC TAR, we seek to learn more about the facts and circumstances that led to acceptance and prominent use of this work in the IPCC TAR and to understand what this controversy indicates about the data quality of key IPCC studies. In light of the Committee's jurisdiction over energy policy and certain environmental issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Committee must have full and accurate information when considering matters relating to climate change policy. We open this review because the dispute surrounding these studies bears directly on important questions about the federally funded work upon which climate studies rely and the quality and transparency of analyses used to support the IPCC assessment process. With the IPCC currently working to produce a fourth assessment report, addressing questions of quality and transparency in the underlying analyses supporting that assessment, both scientific and economic, are of utmost importance if Congress is eventually going to make policy decisions drawing from this work. To assist us as we begin this review, and pursuant to Rules X and XI of the U.S. House of Representatives, please provide the following information requested below on or before July 11, 2005: 1. Explain the IPCC process for preparing and writing its assessment reports, including, but not limited to: (a) how referenced studies are reviewed and assessed by the relevant Working Group; (b) the steps taken by lead authors, reviewers, and others to ensure the data underlying the studies forming the basis for key findings - particularly proxy and temperature data - are accurate and up to date; and (c) the IPCC requirements governing the quality of data used in reports. 2. What specifically did IPCC do to check the quality of the Mann et. al. studies and underlying data, cited in the TAR? Did IPCC seek to ensure the studies could be replicated? 3. What is your position with regard to: (a) the recent challenges to the quality of the Mann et. al. data, (b) related questions surrounding the sharing of methods and research for others to test the validity of these studies, and (c) what this controversy indicates about the data quality of key IPCC studies? 4. What did IPCC do to ensure the quality of data for other prominent historical temperature or proxy studies cited in the IPCC, including the Folland et. al. and Jones et. al. studies that were sources for the graphic accompanying the Mann et. al. graphic in the Summary for Policy Makers? Are the data and methodologies for such works complete and available for other researchers to test and replicate? 5. Explain (a) the facts and circumstances by which Dr. Michael Mann served as a lead author of the very chapter that prominently featured his work and (b) by which his work became a finding and graphical feature of the TAR Summary for Policymakers. 6. Explain (a) how IPCC ensures objectivity and independence among section contributors and reviewers, (b) how they are chosen, and (c) how the chapters, summaries, and the full report are approved and what any such approval signifies about the quality and acceptance of particular research therein. 7. Identify the people who wrote and reviewed the historical temperature-record portions of the TAR, particularly Section 2.3, "Is the Recent Warming Unusual?" and explain all their roles in the preparation of the TAR, including, but not limited to, the specific roles in the writing and review process. 8. Given the questions about Mann et. al. data, has the Working Group I or the IPCC made any changes to specific procedures or policies, including policies for checking the quality of data, for the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report? If so, explain in detail any such changes, and why they were made. 9. Does the IPCC or Working Group I have policies or procedures regarding the disclosure and dissemination of scientific data referenced in the reports? If so, explain in detail any such policies and what happens when they are violated. Thank you for your assistance. If you have any questions, please contact Peter Spencer of the Majority Committee staff at (202) 226-2424. Sincerely, Joe Barton Chairman Chairman Ed Whitfield Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations cc: The Honorable John Dingell, Ranking Member The Honorable Bart Stupak, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations EDITOR'S NOTE: The House of Representatives has also written to National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement, Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Malcolm K. Hughes, and Dr. Raymond S. Bradley, requesting information regarding their global warming studies; see "Letters Requesting Information Regarding Global Warming Studies" at [3] Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- References 1.  2.  3.


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Hey Jordan was this event Hope or DNC: CA476a POTUS San Fran on 4/8? From: Brad Marshall Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:29 PM To: Alan Reed Subject: Fwd: POTUS Travel 4/8/16 San Francisco, CA Was this a Hope event? Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Norine Reingold > Date: April 25, 2016 at 12:27:17 PM EDT To: Brad Marshall > Subject: FW: POTUS Travel 4/8/16 San Francisco, CA Hi Brad, I haven't received the DNC check for $24,468.32 for the POTUS San Francisco trip. Has it been entered in the system? Thanks. Norine Norine S. Reingold Senior Accountant DNC Travel Offset Account 430 South Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Office: 202-743-7486 Fax: 202-403-3025 Cell: 301-922-0679 From: Wright, Beau B. EOP/WHO Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 10:55 AM To: Gottschalk-Marconi, Emily; Lindsey Reynolds; Norine Reingold Cc: Bernstein, Cynthia R. EOP/WHO; Eisenberg, Lynn D. EOP/WHO; Kader, Gabe D. EOP/WHO; Signer, Jordana D. EOP/WHO; Martin, Heather D. EOP/OA; Johnson, Allison L. EOP/OA Subject: POTUS Travel 4/8/16 San Francisco, CA DNC estimated costs for the POTUS 4/8/16 San Francisco, CA trip are as follows: Airfare (per person) $750.96 *Estimated 4 political travelers Helo (per person) $152.91 *Estimated 4 political travelers Advance (includes motorcade/hotel costs) $20,852.84 Estimated Total DNC: $24,468.32


Hi James Thanks for doing this and let's keep it moving as fast as possible. Yes the formatting in places is disconcerting and the line numbering is a bit on and off. I have suggestions for changing two words. Line 13 "severely" to "greatly" Line 79 "more dramatic" to "greater" As they stand, words like those used carry a lot of extra subjective tone that implies "bad" or has a commentary that is not desirable as per Rev 3. I wonder if you should not be a bit more specific in responding to Rev 3 and say what other words were changed in the abstract at least? If it were "word" I would send in a version of the abstract with tracking on. It might make the difference between having the editor approve it and sending it back to Rev 3. Best regards Kevin James Annan wrote: > Dear All, > > I had a reply from Grant, and have made some changes to the paper - > very little of substance, but I've lightly edited the wording > throughout. I also added refs to Newell and Weare, and Angell (not > A+Korshover), which seem relevant. Despite this, I've managed to cut a > few lines off in total. I have also drafted replies to the reviewers > (with their comments appended for reference). > > We do have a 2 week extension agreed, to 11 Nov. However it doesn't > really seem like there is much more that needs doing. More suggestions > are welcome, however, and before resubmitting, *I need an explicit OK > from each author*. > > James -- **************** Kevin E. Trenberth e-mail: trenbert@ucar.edu Climate Analysis Section, www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/trenbert.html NCAR P. O. Box 3000, (303) 497 1318 Boulder, CO 80307 (303) 497 1333 (fax) Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305


>>>>> "J" == Justin Mason writes: J> What about Tibetan Buddhism BTW? They seem like an awfully J> nice bunch of chaps (and chapesses). Yes, them too. When wolves attack their sheep, they coral the wolf into a quarry and then throw rocks from the surrounding cliffs so that "no one will know who killed the wolf" In Samskar, before the Chinese arrived, there had not been a killing in over 2000 years, and the last recorded skirmish, over rights to a water hole, had happened several generations ago. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy - garym@teledyn.com - TeleDynamics Communications - blog: ~teledyn - biz: - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Picasso)


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