MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'gibbs'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:49:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3895868&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fn6mBLZJkmBk%2F Today POLITICO Arena asks: Angry Left Obama’s bête noir? My response: Would the president help himself by making a clearer ideological declaration — as many on the “professional left” are asking him to do? Hardly. POLITICO tells us this morning that those “professionals” lament “the president’s reluctance to be a Democratic version of Ronald Reagan, who spoke without apology about his vaulting ideological ambitions.” One of those professionals, Robert Reich, urges Obama to present “a clear and convincing narrative into which all the various initiatives neatly fit, so that the public can make sense of everything that’s done.” The public is quite capable of making sense of everything that’s been done. It’s doing i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3895868 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:09:18 +0100 3895868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880847&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGdSfhSB0stA%2F As a former conservative (and a former leftist; I got around), I have noticed that the mainstream media often use the term “ultra-conservative” but rarely apply any equivalent term to extremists on the Left.  (I use Left/leftist because I mean to reclaim the term “liberal” for libertarians.)  Evidently, there are no left-wing extremists, only right-wing extremists. But maybe President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs gave the mainstream media a term they can use: “the professional left.”  Venting about these left-wing extremists in his own party, Gibbs said: They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. President Obama has repeatedly stated his preference for a single-payer health care system, ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880847 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:57:14 +0100 3880847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3408360&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxTxCaenBmaE%2F By Ian VasquezToday, the Venezuelan government arrested Guillermo Zuloaga, president of Globovision Television, the only remaining television on public airwaves critical of Hugo Chavez. According to the government, Zuloaga made offensive comments about Chavez (which is against the law in Venezuela) while speaking at a conference of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) in Aruba, where media representatives criticized the Venezuelan regime’s crackdown on freedom of speech. Globovision and Zuloaga have been under constant harassment from the government, and Chavez has promised to close the station. Last July, Cato held a forum in Washington on “Venezuela’s Assault on Freedom of the Press and Other Liberties,” which was to feature Zuloaga. After the event was announced, however... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3408360 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:38:13 +0100 3408360 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366180&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGsheUxAwmCM%2F By Michael F. CannonThe House leadership plans to hold a vote, more or less, on the Senate health care bill this week.  President Obama says he wants to “ge[t] rid of many of the provisions that had no place in health care reform — provisions that were more about winning individual votes…than improving health care.”  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Democrats will “take the pot-sweetening out of the process.”  Yet Democrats have decided to retain the Senate bill’s $300 million subsidy for the state of Louisiana, commonly known as the “Louisiana Purchase,” and other state-specific bribes pot-sweeteners. On ABC News’s This Week yesterday, Obama advisor David Axelrod argued that the “Louisiana Purchase” is not targeted sole... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366180 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:21:14 +0100 3366180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3153661&cid=t_114925_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fbereavement-and-inspiration-guest-post.html This is Sheila's Story of her love for her husband, Gary, pictured here, and of the bereavement and the inspirations that helped her to cope with the loss. Many thanks to you Sheila for emailing your story to me. Excerpts from Sheila's StoryWe had first met at Christian Teen Camp at Nanoose Bay, here on Vancouver Island, in mid July 1972. I was there, with 5 girlfriends as dishwashers, as none of our parents could afford the cost. He was standing quietly in front of the Lodge, with his bike, looking so very shy!I found myself wandering over, just to get a close look, as he was so very handsome. I asked if he was staying, & he replied 'no'. He had just ridden down from Powell River to see this place he'd heard so much about. And as he was working at the Mill there, for his Dad, he'd have to... The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3153661 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:53:00 +0100 3153661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3118855&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Ffl_ix-24x2k%2F By Tad DeHavenThe White House is hinting that its fiscal year 2011 budget due out in February will be “austere.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn’t provide any specifics but recently said that “it will not look as it has in the past.” Well that’s a relief because the FY2010 appropriations process finally wrapped up and spending continues to be anything but austere. The “minibus” appropriations bill signed by the President last week jacked up funding by a combined 8 percent for programs ranging from education to housing to transportation. And that’s at a time when inflation is low. Further, funding hasn’t been passed yet for the president’s recently announced troop surge in Afghanistan, which will cost around $40 billion per year. President Obama will ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3118855 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:28:57 +0100 3118855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800368&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxOw9xtYLqc8%2F Anger about Obama’s many “czars” is rising, reports the Washington Post: On paper, they are special advisers, chairmen of White House boards, special envoys and Cabinet agency deputies, asked by the president to guide high-priority initiatives. But critics call them “czars” whose powers are not subject to congressional oversight, and their increasing numbers have become a flash point for conservative anger at President Obama. Critics of the proliferation of czars say the White House uses the appointments to circumvent the normal vetting process required for Senate confirmation and to avoid congressional oversight. I have tended not to take concern over “czars” very seriously. After all, advisers to the president can’t exercise any power that ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800368 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:18:21 +0100 2800368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389657&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVg1FVpo4Nqs%2F Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee.  She also has been caught on tape explaining her view of a judge’s role.  Reports the Washington Post: As White House press secretary Robert Gibbs put it, Obama is looking for “somebody who understands how being a judge affects Americans’ everyday lives.” Congressional conservatives have reacted anxiously to that qualification, fearing that it means a nominee who is more interested in making the law than in interpreting it. One possible candidate for the seat, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, appeared to walk close to that line in a video that emerged yesterday. Sotomayor would be the first Latino and the third... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389657 Wed, 06 May 2009 12:56:59 +0100 2389657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347787&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWzPAtqLgCZg%2F Michael McConnell went on Fox News Sunday this week, fiercely objecting to the Obama administration’s release of Bush-era memos regarding “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He and three other former CIA directors objected to the release. That common front might draw the memo release into doubt if it wasn’t a given that CIA directors are always going to defend the interests of the CIA. McConnell trotted out the tired “war” on terror metaphor. This framing may be exciting to him and his colleagues, but it is strategic error to address terrorism this way, and the American public chose a presidential candidate last November who campaigned to emphasize hope over fear. Intoning about war did not help McConnell’s case. The heart of his argument was that... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347787 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:21:42 +0100 2347787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255976&cid=t_114925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Flf3PXVeEkP0%2F Through his press secretary Robert Gibbs, president Obama has declared that he will reverse congressional Democrats’ phase-out of the DC Opportunity Scholarships program. The scholarships make private schooling affordable for 1,700 poor DC children, most of whom would be forced back into the District’s broken public school system if it were to end. However — yes, there’s always a however — there’s every indication that president Obama will do the minimum necessary to keep the program going at its current size, and will not help to expand it. This is nevertheless a crucial milestone. There is finally a major national Democratic leader who is beginning to catch up to his state-level peers. Democrats all around the country have been supporting and signing... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255976 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:01:05 +0100 2255976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=814234&cid=t_114925_107_f&fid=35025&url=http%3A%2F%2Frrresearch.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fwhence-gibbs.html I successfully worked out how to command the Gibbs Motif Sampler to analyze the new genome sequences. I've only done it for two of them, because a better option has appeared.A new version of the Gibbs motif software is available. It gives the option of using a 'centroid' sampling method that combines the best sites found in different runs (runs initiated with different random-number seeds), rather than simply taking all the sites identified in the run that had the best score. This has the big advantage of eliminating most of the weakly-matched 'false positive' sites.It took me a few days to work out how to get it running on the computer cluster (the helpful administrator reset some permissions for me). The new release includes a version that runs in the Mac terminal, and I now have that wo... RRResearch blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=814234 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:14:00 +0100 814234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=801409&cid=t_114925_107_f&fid=35025&url=http%3A%2F%2Frrresearch.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Flots-of-gibbs-search-progress.html Yesterday I worked out a way to nudge the Gibbs motif sampler into finding the Neisseria meningitidis DUS (their term for their uptake signal sequence). Even though the DUS is present in Neisserial genomes even more frequently than the H. influenzae USS is in its genome, the sampler couldn't find it without prompting. This may be because it's much shorter than the USS (only 12 contiguous bp vs 22 bp spread over 29 positions), or for some other reason I don't understand.I didn't want to give the sampler a prior file specifying the pattern to look for, so instead I added two lines of fake sequence with a very high frequency of the DUS to the start of the genome file. This 'seed' was enough to get the sampler started on the right motif. Once it's started it has no trouble finding the DUS, and... RRResearch blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=801409 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:39:00 +0100 801409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=795129&cid=t_114925_107_f&fid=35025&url=http%3A%2F%2Frrresearch.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fdo-uss-constrain-protein-coding.html About eight years ago I started collaborating with people with bioinformatics skills on an analysis of how USSs constrain (or don't constrain) the ability of the genome to code for proteins. The project is still unfinished, but it's made a lot of progress. I think I should make one last push to get it done before I dive into doing experiments.Originally I was working with a biophysicist in Taiwan and his excellent graduate student. The student did a lot of nice analysis and was coauthor on one paper with us, but we never got the second part of the work finished (or published). He's since moved on to other things, and the analysis is being redone (new data is available, and we now realize the flaws in the original analysis) by a bioinformatician (bioinformaticist?) working at the National R... RRResearch blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=795129 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:41:00 +0100 795129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675969&cid=t_114925_107_f&fid=35025&url=http%3A%2F%2Frrresearch.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fmotifs-and-elements.html The reviewers of our USS manuscript didn't feel that our Gibbs motif analysis of USSs was much of an advance on the previous analyses. It's true that the motif identified by the Gibbs analysis is very similar to that found by searching for perfect USS cores. But the results could have been otherwise, and it's important to have found this out. So in our revisions we need to do a better job of explaining why the motif analysis was needed.First I should clarify that the USS should be viewed not as a replicative 'element' but as a 'motif'. Both terms can refer to sequences or sequence patterns that are present at multiple sites in the genome but, at least for the purposes of this blog, a replicative element is a DNA sequence whose repeats have arisen by copying and insertion. Transposons and i... RRResearch blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675969 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:07:00 +0100 675969