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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490Tue, 12 May 2026 19:21:35 +0000programmingsciencematlabnaturequickieslanguageactorsappleconcurrentdiyfoodgridcomputingmexseleniumsvntestingtheronadvertsartastrochordscssdataelectronicsguitarhardwarejavascriptlightmacmetricmusicphotoprototyperailsraspirubysnarktortoisesvnurbanwindowsAbsurdly CertainDoubt is an unpleasant condition...noreply@blogger.com (Peter)Blogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-4808817434611074082Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:47:00 +00002021-02-16T16:47:53.183-08:00VL53L0X NIR laser time-of-flight distance sensor with coverThese distance sensors are pretty nice, but most are sold without a protective cover and the makeshift glass or tape covers I tried did interfere with the ranging to some extent. This could be okay with some recalibration of the distance measurements, although for cases of significant interference, e.g. thicker glass tested, the unit would no longer be able to do longer ranges > 1 meter at all. In the end I found <a href="; target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this unit</a> that is very affordable and comes with a nice cover that causes minimal interference.2021/02/vl53l0x-nir-laser-time-of-flight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-6064894780341442731Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:44:00 +00002021-01-13T10:09:46.623-08:00diymetricnatureHummingbird nectar recipe by weight (grams)<p><a href=" resources</a> say 1:4 sugar to water ratio by volume. This translates to about <b>1:5 by weight</b></p> <p>To be more precise: 0.25 cups sugar is 48 g, 1 cup water is 237 g, so the ratio is 1:4.9375 or 0.2025:1 or 16.8% sugar by weight. For my small feeder, I do 30 g sugar to 150 g water.</p> <p>Remember to use only refined white sugar. Online resources say that substitutes (e.g. organic sugar that is a bit darker) may be bad for the birds.</p>2021/01/hummingbird-nectar-recipe-by-weight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-8939597291797253923Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:22:00 +00002016-07-10T14:41:36.341-07:00Smoked trout on a Weber Q1200I recently watched <a href=" Cooks Summer</a> and was inspired to try smoking some trout. I didn't have a bucket handy to do his method, but I have a Weber Q1200 small gas grill, so I wondered if it would be possible to rig something up.<br /> <br /> I came up with the following method. I have repeated this multiple times and have been very pleased with the results. Definitely interested to hear others' suggestions.<br /> <br /> The Weber Q1000/Q1200 are the smallest gas grills Weber makes. For a gas grill, you want wood chips rather than wood chunks to smoke with. I use these:<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="; /></a><br /> <br /> One option I have seen is just to wrap the chips in foil and put the packet directly on the fire. Instead I put the foil in a standard 10 inch Lodge cast iron pan:<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> Cover the pan with foil:<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> Poke holes in the foil:<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> And put the pan on the grill:<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> This just fits inside the Q1200. I heat this on full gas until it starts smoking. (I've also tried heating it on the stove to get it going while I dress the fish, which works fine if you don't mind getting a little smoke inside the house.)<br /> <br /> To prep the fish, just simple salt and pepper and some lemon and shallot slices tucked inside tastes great. I would say the shallot is really key.<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> To cook the fish gently without putting it too close to the heat, I lay it on top of the foil-covered pan. To prevent sticking it helps to oil the foil, or else just put a layer of lemon slices or greens in between the foil and the fish.<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> I then cover the whole thing with more foil to keep the smoke in. Some other cover would be more convenient here, perhaps a large pie tin?<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="; width="320" height="239" /></a><br /> <br /> Cooking time depends a bit. I'm not that interested in slow / cold smoking, so I just leave it at 3/4 gas and close the lid. The built in thermometer says the grill is ~350 F. For whole fish I do this 10-15 minutes each side. You could definitely play with lower heat and longer if you want. Or if you want to get to eating faster you can throw the fish straight on the grill for a minute after smoking is done.<br /> <br /> This one didn't turn out so pretty; not enough insulation between fish and foil. But tastes wonderful!<br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a>2016/06/i-recently-watched-jamie-cooks-summer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-7852262654197423612Sat, 21 May 2016 22:57:00 +00002016-05-21T15:57:02.477-07:00Update 3: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachmentProbably final update to the <a href="; 3D printed design is <a href=";.  (No change to the previous bearing adapter piece design.)  You can also order these designs essentially at cost <a href=";.  The main changes are there are now 3 set screws in the adapter instead of 2, and the square bit has chamfered corners to help it go into the hub a bit easier.<br /> <br /> With the additional set screw, I have been using this piece intermittently for over a year without it wearing out.  Please note that I believe this <i>can</i> put stress on the KitchenAid motor if you are trying to do a very fine grind or if you are using harder coffee beans (e.g. light roast).<br /> <br /> I've been using this with both my larger and smaller Hario burr grinders.  For the small grinder with the pentagonal driver, I found a stainless steel adapter available <a href=";.  There are other sellers with similar items; I don't know whose design was first but this seller is amiable.2016/05/update-3-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-3372827475873767557Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:41:00 +00002015-09-07T23:46:57.392-07:00Mount Auburn Cemetery Map and Key<a href=" Auburn Cemetery</a> used to distribute this map of the grounds with notable monuments marked. Maybe they still do distribute it, but they don't seem to have made it available online. A few other people have posted the map, but I didn't find the key to the notable monuments posted anywhere, so here are both.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div>2015/09/mount-auburn-cemetery-map-and-key.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-4510005144923766435Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:53:00 +00002013-03-11T19:19:54.550-07:00electronicsprogrammingraspiLIRC RasPi remote control configuration for GE Air ConditionerI set up <a href="; so that I can use my RaspberryPi as an infrared remote control. As detailed nicely <a href=";, the process has been much simplified, at least if you're on Raspbian. Note, as I commented there, you'll probably want to add <tt>--listen</tt> to your <tt>LIRC_ARGS</tt> in <tt>hardware.conf</tt> so that you can connect to the LIRC daemon from your home network. This allows you to send IR remote control signals out from the RasPi by connecting from any computer. There's also a nice Android app called Amote, probably there are good ones for iOS as well.<br /> <br /> I found that our Samsung BN59-00857A remote worked fine with an <a href=" <tt>lircd.conf</tt> configuration file for the BN59-00856A</a>. (Actually the 00856 includes a few additional buttons not on the 00857; several of these work for controlling our TV even though they're not on our OEM remote!)<br /> <br /> When it came to controlling our GE air conditioner, I didn't find any existing configuration file. The process of getting a working config file together was a little more involved than I expected, so I'm detailing it here and posting the resulting config (also sent it to the LIRC maintainers, but didn't hear anything back).<br /> <br /> I knew from running <tt>mode2</tt> that raw signals from the AC remote were being received correctly. But I wasn't able to get <tt>irrecord</tt> to pick up the AC remote signals even when forcing it into raw mode. It turns out that the GE AC remote has an unusually long code length, 48 bits, so maybe that was part of the issue. I'm also not clear on whether my <tt>irrecord</tt> was going into raw mode correctly; seemed to behave exactly like non-raw mode so maybe there's a problem with the version built for Raspbian? <br /> <br /> Anyway, to get a config file, I had to pipe the <tt>mode2</tt> raw data to text files and then manually pull the text into a raw conf file and filter out the "pulse" and "space" text (thanks vim). I confirmed that the resulting raw file works for controlling the AC through LIRC. Then I used <tt>irrecord -a</tt> to retroactively convert the raw codes into a more succinct config file. Looking at the various wall mount ACs GE sells, it seems likely to me that these codes will work for any unit since the controls all look the same. (If you have a heat+cool unit then you'll be missing the "heat" button since my AC doesn't have that.)<br /> <br /> Hope it's useful. If you want the raw version of the conf file for some reason, just ping me for it.<br /> <br /> <pre name="code"># this config file was automatically generated # using lirc-0.9.0-pre1(emulation) on Sat Mar 2 14:09:22 2013 # # contributed by Peter Li # # brand: GE # model no. of remote control: # devices being controlled by this remote: All the GE wall mount air # conditioners look like they have very similar controls, so I would guess this # will work for all. It will probably also work for the Heat/Cool wall models, # other than the missing heat button, but I haven't tried that. # begin remote name GE_AirConditioner bits 48 flags SPACE_ENC eps 30 aeps 100 header 3388 1678 one 430 1257 zero 430 412 ptrail 428 gap 40991 toggle_bit_mask 0x0 begin codes on_stop 0x555AF308598F cool 0x555AF3081D8F fan 0x555AF3085D8B tempup 0x555AF308D987 tempdown 0x555AF308198B timeron 0x555AF308D58B timeroff 0x555AF308958F hi 0x555AF308DD83 mid 0x555AF3083D8D low 0x555AF308BD85 sleep 0x555AF3085583 end codes end remote </pre>2013/03/lirc-raspi-remote-control-configuration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-7034811807695419892Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:07:00 +00002013-01-15T14:07:19.724-08:00CDC Infant Growth Curves in Google Docs/Drive SpreadsheetI thought other parents, etc. might find this useful. I copied <a href=" CDC's 2000 Infant Growth Chart data</a> (weight-for-age, length-for-age, head-circumference-for-age, weight-for-length) into a Google Docs/Drive Spreadsheet. I'll probably keep adding to this to give Imperial units and maybe put in charts.2013/01/cdc-infant-growth-curves-in-google.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-6662564898203887541Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +00002013-01-01T14:18:28.693-08:00Update 2: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachmentMore updates to the previous <a href="2012/05/update-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.html">3D printed prototypes</a>. The pieces are available on <a href="; and <a href=";. These pieces were 3D printed by Shapeways in their White, Strong, Flexible material. Screwing the set screws directly into the plastic instead of tapping the holes kept the piece viable for several months before it wore out.<br /> <br /> Managed to get a pretty decent locating fit for a 3/8" x 5/8" x 5/32" sealed, pre-lubricated ball bearing from <a href=";. They have a lot of options in this size. I ordered two to choose from, but only one fit into the printed flange piece easily with just my hand pressure even though they were rated for the same maximum OD and tolerance. So I think the current design is close to the edge of hand pressed fitting for the low tolerance of the current SLS 3D printing process.<br /> <img src="; height="288" width="216" border="0" /><br /> <br /> If you look carefully at the bottom edge of the flange where it contacts the drill adapter, you can see there is a step-wise pattern; this is because I tried to give the surface that contacts the drill adapter a gentle slope to match the slope on the front surface of the drill adapter. It basically works, but the 3D printing leaves this step pattern instead of a smooth slope. Probably not worth the trouble.<br /> <br /> Here's the whole thing assembled. Note that the square driver piece is taking on a healthy coffee color due to the plastic material being porous and absorbing bits of coffee grounds. I've had this piece a while now and it's showing no signs of failing, so I think the 3D printed parts are reasonably successful for medium use. It's also kind of nice to know that the plastic part will fail before you kill the KitchenAid motor if you happen to jam things up some how.<br /> <img src="; height="288" width="216" /><br /> <br /> Here's a picture of the extra 5/8" OD bearing I bought that didn't quite fit nicely. I also bought a 9/16" OD needle bearing to try, but it seemed better to stick to something with less depth and the 5/8" OD ball bearing was a small enough OD to work.<br /> <img src="; height="144" width="123" border="0" />2012/07/update-2-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-8957555705351139733Sun, 20 May 2012 20:23:00 +00002012-07-28T13:46:20.200-07:00Update: DIY Hario conical burr grinder Kitchenaid stand mixer attachment<i>Update 3: <a href="2012/07/update-2-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.html">More updates</a> to the design, particularly housing for a ball bearing in the flange.</i><br /> <br /> <i>Update 2: It seemed like a <a href="; was actually more appropriate, so I am retiring the Google Group in favor of a <a href=" Wikia page</a>. Please join in!</i><br /> <br /> <i>Update: I created a <a href=" DIY Google Group</a> to try to get together some of the handful of people who have been hacking on this. Also posted a listing of known projects.</i><br /> <br /> Substantial updates to the <a href="2012/04/kitchenaid-drill-adapter.html">earlier prototype</a>. Here I've added an adapter flange that holds it in place against the Kitchenaid adapter hub. This was also supposed to house a sleeve bearing but I made the dimensions too tight so that will have to wait for next iteration. Also I found some nice, small, cheap, sealed ball bearings from VXB so will probably design for that instead. The coupling between the square hub and the 3/8" drill shaft is essentially the same as before, only shorter to leave room for the flange. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /><br /> <br /> Here's a video of this version in action. Note that now I'm using it to drive the older Hario conical burr grinder model, rather than the Hario Slim. (We have both, one for home and one for my office. Kitchenaid only at home though ;).)<br /> <br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="; width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /> One advantage of the older Hario is that the coupling from the drill adapter to the grinder is simpler. The Hario Slim uses a pentagonal (AKA 5-point) drive in a small nonstandard size (~3/16"). I tried a 3D printed adapter for that but I don't think the Shapeways "Strong, Flexible" material is strong enough. I'm trying a lasercut acrylic piece next.<br /> <br /> For the older Hario, the situation is much simpler. The drive has a nonstandard shape (cylindrical with flats on two opposite sides) for hand cranking, but it's also threaded as M6-1 so you can just screw something down on top of it. Actually, you can even just clamp the drill adapter directly down on this, as <a href=" did in his original design</a>. I wanted to try something simple and off-the-shelf to avoid clamping directly to the grinder, so I looked for M6-1 coupling nuts that would fit into the 3/8" drill adapter, but unfortunately they are all slightly too large. However, a 1/4-20 coupling nut fits snugly into the adapter (you may have to test a few to find one with clearance) and screws smoothly onto the grinder drive for the first few turns. I don't have any MechE, so can't really tell you the relative benefit of either clamping directly to the drive or screwing an unmatched thread onto it, but as long as I include some washers so that the 1/4-20 is only riding the M6 threads a little way I think this might be a little nicer. An M6@1/4-20 adapter nut or just an M6 with a smaller outer diameter would be ideal but I haven't found such a product.<br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="320" src="; width="240" /><br /> <br /> The <a href="2012/04/kitchenaid-drill-adapter.html">previous hub coupling</a> has already worn out, so it's still not clear whether these 3D printed parts are viable. The first thing to go was the set screw holes; on the failed piece the screws get pushed back through their threads so the coupling no longer grips the 3/8" shaft. But I think the mistake there was to tap the holes and use nylon set screws before switching to steel set screws. On the new piece I just screwed steel set screws through the untapped hole so the fit is tighter and it seems to be holding up better so far. Probably a clamping adapter design would be better, although it would be a tight fit and I'm not sure how well 3D printed plastic would handle that kind of stress.2012/05/update-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-8683607037610019525Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:27:00 +00002012-05-20T14:08:47.478-07:00Kitchenaid drill adapter<i>Update: this coupler has started to fail. See details on the <a href="2012/05/update-diy-hario-conical-burr-grinder.html">update post</a>, as well as a new model. Here are the links to <a href="; and <a href=";, but be aware the current 3D printed plastic material ("White Strong Flexible") is not proven for long-term use.</i><br /> <br /> <i>Update: here's <a href=" video of it in action</a> with the drill adapter clamped directly onto a Hario Slim Burr Grinder. Actually works pretty well as is, so I will put the piece on Thingiverse soon. Lots of refinements planned though.</i><br /> <br /> A while back I had <a href="2011/02/diy-kitchenaid-attachments.html">a brief flirtation</a> with the idea of DIY Kitchenaid attachments, but never really got going on the project. Then recently, jeffkobi posted <a href=" nice Instructable on how to attach a Kyocera manual burr coffee grinder to your Kitchenaid</a> and it rekindled my interest (not least because I own the same model burr grinder).<br /> I really liked jeffkobi's idea of using an inexpensive Milescraft 90 degree drill adapter as the intermediary between the mixer and the grinder. So I've been trying to develop some simple 3D printable pieces to make it easier to couple the drill adapter to the Kitchenaid attachment hub. This is a work in progress and is going to take at least one more iteration to refine, but I'm pretty happy with how it looks so far, so here's some teasers.<br /> <img border="0" src="; /> <img border="0" src="; />2012/04/kitchenaid-drill-adapter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-7977296854708422096Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:30:00 +00002012-03-15T12:34:55.245-07:00matlabprogrammingMatlab internals and in-place editingHere's a couple of articles I wrote for the blog <a href=" Matlab</a>: <ul> <li><a href=" mex in-place editing</a></li> <li><a href=" internal memory representation</a></li> </ul> If you're interested in how Matlab works behind the scenes and/or how to use this information to write more efficient C/C++ mex code, check it out.2012/03/matlab-internals-and-in-place-editing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-6207776588878398397Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:05:00 +00002011-09-17T17:09:27.915-07:00actorsconcurrentmatlabmexprogrammingtheronHOWTO: deploy multithreading on Matlab with the Theron C++ Actors library<em><strong>Preamble:</strong> What follows is a HOWTO guide for getting Theron-2.09 multithreaded C++ mex files built on Matlab. For my general musings on Matlab concurrency and Theron, see the <a href="2011/09/simpler-concurrent-matlab-programming.html">previous post</a>.</em> <h2>Building multithreaded Matlab mex files with Theron</h2> <p>This was pretty straightforward on the Mac, somewhat tricky but not terrible on Linux. I don't have any working C++ compiler with Matlab on Windows thanks to absolutely abysmal support from Microsoft and Mathworks (essentially Mathworks only supports Microsoft and Microsoft's compilers are impossible to get installed correctly). But the notes below may help you get things working on Windows anyway and I added some Windows specific notes at the very bottom. Before trying to get Theron working, I encourage you to write a simple C++ mex program (maybe a single-threaded version of your planned algorithm) and get it built on Matlab first, to confirm that your system is correctly set up for mex.</p> <p>I'm fairly confident most Mac users can get this working. On Linux I have only tested on 2010 and 2011 64-bit versions of Matlab, and there are reasons to fear that earlier versions may have more trouble working. Fair warning.</p> <a name='more'></a> <h2>Building Theron on Mac or other static mex environments</h2> <p>For this discussion, the fundamental difference between Mac and Linux versions of Matlab is how they handle mex compilation. When you mex a C++ source file on the Mac (confirmed up to Matlab 7.12), the system generates statically linked output (a statically linked executable I think, but it could be a static library; it doesn't really matter). On Linux, mex generates a shared library instead, which complicates things significantly when your build depends on the boost_thread library (see below).</p> <p>For now, let's assume you are on a Mac or some other Matlab system that generates static mex files. One way to confirm this is to run mex on something simple with the -v option; this will show the gcc or g++ commands that mex is using. As long as the linking step doesn't include the -shared flag, you're okay.</p> <p>In this case, your first step is to follow the getting started instructions on the <a href=" site</a>: download Theron and build it, linking against your choice of Boost threads library. If you're not sure whether you have Boost threads installed already, you can try the <tt>locate libboost_thread</tt> command, possibly after running <tt>sudo updatedb</tt> if your locate database is out of date. If you don't have Boost threads already, the simplest way to get it is to use Macports. Once you have Macports installed, it's as simple as: <tt>sudo port install boost</tt>. Currently this gives you a very up-to-date boost version 1.47.</p> <p>Theron is currently a little Windows-centric, so you'll need to tweak the makefile a little to get it to build. Theron author Ashton Mason tells me the next release should make things smoother for Gnu (non-Windows) people. First, as detailed in the Theron guide, you need to edit the makefile to point to your Boost installation. If you got Boost from Macports, this will probably look like this:</p> <pre class="brush: bash" name="code"> BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH = /opt/local/include/ BOOST_LIB_PATH = /opt/local/lib/ BOOST_RELEASE_LIB = boost_thread-mt BOOST_DEBUG_LIB = boost_thread-mt </pre> <p>If you want to be able to run <tt>make clean</tt> to start over with the build process, I recommend also changing the following lines:</p> <pre class="brush: bash" name="code">RM = rm -f ... clean: ${RM} ${BUILD}$/*.o ${RM} ${BUILD}$/*.a ${RM} ${BUILD}$/*.ilk ${RM} ${BIN}$/*.pdb ${RM} ${BIN}$/*.ilk ${RM} ${BIN}$/*.exe ${RM} ${LIB}$/*.a ${RM} ${LIB}$/*.lib </pre> <p>I think that should be it, so go ahead and build. If you are only planning to use Theron from Matlab you only need the library, so I would use <tt>make library mode=release</tt>.</p> <p>If all goes well, your build should finish pretty fast and you should now have the <tt>libtheron.a</tt> library in your <tt>THERONPATH/Lib</tt> folder. Now boot up Matlab and try to build a simple mex file. A Theron test program might look something like:</p> <pre name="code" class="brush: cpp">// theron_test.cpp #include "mex.h" #define THERON_USE_BOOST_THREADS 1 #include "Theron/Framework.h" void mexFunction(int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[]) { Theron::Framework theron; } </pre> <p>This looks simple, but actually the call to initialize the Theron Framework involves a fair amount of background stuff getting setup, so it should give you an indication of whether things are working. To compile this from Matlab, you'll need a little more than a simple <tt>mex theron_test.cpp</tt>.</p> <p>Do not put spaces in any of these mex options; no space after the "D". First you need to tell the compiler what Theron function calls look like. You do this by pointing it to the Theron header files with the <tt>-I/THERONPATH/Include/</tt> directive.</p> <p>Next you need to tell mex to pull in the theron and boost_thread libraries. The standard way to do this is with the -L and -l options to the linker, but I find it cleaner to just include the full paths to the library files after your C++ file name; this tells the linker to look through the object files in the libraries when resolving the calls to Theron in your code. I also like using the -v option so I can see exactly what mex is up to.</p> <p>So your full build command should look something like:</p> <pre name="code">mex -v -I/THERONPATH/Include/ theron_test.cpp /THERONPATH/Lib/libtheron.a /LIBPATH/libboost_thread.so </pre> <p>If you got Boost from Macports, then the libboost part above should be <tt>/opt/local/include/libboost_thread-mt.dylib</tt>. You could also use <tt>libboost_thread-my.a</tt> if you want; I don't think it matters much.</p> <p>Did it build? Hope so... Now try running <tt>theron_test</tt> from the Matlab command line. You should see nothing; nothing is good. Now go ahead and code up your algorithm using the Theron tutorial as a guide and enjoy simple Matlab concurrency!</p> <h2>Building Theron on Linux or other shared library mex environments</h2> <p>The process is a bit more complicated for Linux users. The upside is, you probably don't have to worry about getting your own Boost implementation (although chances are you already have one...). The issue is that in Linux, Matlab mex files are built as shared libraries instead of statically linked. This causes two problems. The immediate problem is that Matlab needs you to build Theron with the <tt>-fPIC</tt> option turned on so that it can use the Theron library in a shared build. This is not a big problem; just add <tt>-fPIC</tt> to the <tt>CFLAGS</tt> in the Theron makefile.</p> <p>The second problem is the deal breaker: Matlab uses libboost_thread internally and has its own copy hidden away in its internal distribution folders. Since your mex file got built as a shared library, it will try to pull the boost_thread library in at runtime, and it will find Matlab's version (1_40_0) instead of your external version (1_42_0 currently in apt-get). This causes a segfault.</p> <p>So there are two approaches to solving this. The better one would be to find some way to tell your mex file not to use Matlab's boost_thread. I found <a href=" discussion of this on MatlabCentral</a>, but did not get this working; it seems like it might require rewriting parts of Theron to use <tt>dlopen</tt>; not very nice. I still feel like there should be some other way to get Matlab to behave, but I didn't find it. (For completeness: it does not work to point Matlab's internal boost_thread to an updated one; duh why did I even try that?)</p> <p>So there is option 2: throw in the towel and build Theron against Matlab's internal boost_thread. This works at least for 64-bit Matlab 2010 or 2011, which has boost_thread 1.40.0 internally. I don't know that it will work for earlier or 32-bit versions of Matlab, which I believe use earlier versions. (A very old version of Matlab might not have this issue at all, as I think it was around 2007 that MathWorks started multithreading Matlab internal code in the first place. If you're using a very old Matlab, check the internal distribution folders for libboost_thread to see if it's there. <tt>locate</tt> should be your friend.)</p> <p>Building Theron against Matlab's internal boost_thread is not too hard. The only trick is that Matlab doesn't have the header files in the distribution (at least I didn't find them). So you'll have to <a href=" boost_1_40_0</a> (or whatever version Matlab has internally on your system) and point Theron to those headers. If you use the wrong headers, you'll get segfaults. Theron's makefile should look something like:</p> <pre class="brush: bash" name="code">BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH = /Downloads/boost_1_40_0/ BOOST_LIB_PATH = /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011a/bin/glnxa64/ BOOST_RELEASE_LIB = boost_thread BOOST_DEBUG_LIB = boost_thread ... CFLAGS += -c -Wall -fPIC </pre> <p>(The libboost_thread in the Matlab folder is only the versioned filename, not the soname, so I would have thought you might need to symlink a soname but that didn't seem to be necessary.)</p> <p>If this builds correctly, you should be good to build your mex file from Matlab; the command is the same as above for Mac, except you point it to the internal Matlab boost_thread:</p> <pre class="matlab" name="code">mex -v -I/THERONPATH/Include/ theron_test.cpp /THERONPATH/Lib/libtheron.a /MATLABLIBPATH/libboost_thread.so.1.40 </pre> <h2>Conclusions</h2> <p>This was a little bit of a pain, mostly because of Matlab's questionable decision to use shared libraries internally without (apparently) providing for situations where users build their mex files against the same libraries. The process is especially annoying if you have Mac and Linux machines that both need to be able to build your mex. Some steps would be a little smoother if Theron were less Windows-centric; Theron has a new release coming that should improve on this.</p> <p>I think the current solution is stable, although it's tricky to be locked into the Matlab internal boost_thread version. The benefit is clear. Using Theron to multithread a simple algorithm, I got about 4.5x speedup using 6 cores, and 6x speedup using 12 threads on 6 cores with hyperthreading. This was a simple algorithm that didn't really require an Actors model, but it was great that I could get this done quickly (once I figured out the Matlab setup tricks) and without having to deal with low-level threads and mutexes at all.</p> <h2>Building Theron on Windows</h2> <p>As noted, I have not gotten any Windows compiler to work with mex, so these are purely hypothetical guidelines. If you are building on Windows you will probably find it simpler to use the Windows thread library instead of Boost. So just leave out the THERON_USE_BOOST_THREADS define and it should revert to using Windows threads instead. This means you should be safe from the internal Matlab shared library conflict problem that Linux has. But you may still need the -fPIC option added to your CFLAGS depending on whether Windows mex is setup to create static or shared libraries (I don't know).</p>2011/09/preamble-what-follows-is-guide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-5678648008382962664Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:15:00 +00002011-09-07T17:07:56.529-07:00actorsconcurrentmatlabmexprogrammingtheronSimple(r) concurrent Matlab programming with Theron<p><em><strong>Preamble: </strong>What follows are my (long-winded) musings on the current (Sep. 2011) state of concurrent programming in Matlab. For a specific guide to using the Theron C++ library for Actors concurrency in Matlab, see <a href="2011/09/preamble-what-follows-is-guide.html">the following post</a>.</em></p> <h2>Concurrent Matlab</h2> <p>Matlab is a standard programming environment for scientific calculations. In our lab, we use it for a lot of analysis, especially prototyping new analyses. Eventually, some of the performance critical stuff gets ported over to Java, but we still have plenty of things we need to run that are Matlab-only and need to be fast.</p> <p>As personal computers add more and more cores without improving clock speeds much, there is more and more need for parallelized (AKA concurrent, multithreaded) software. Matlab is not a very popular language for supercomputing, but high-performance clusters also of course demand parallelized software. Matlab has some support for multithreading internally, so depending on which Matlab internal functions you use, you may see significant multicore use on your machine. But there is currently no support for explicitly writing multithreaded programs in vanilla Matlab.</p> <a name='more'></a> <p>One solution is to start multiple instances of Matlab and use communication abstractions like sockets (also not supported in vanilla Matlab) or the file system to interact between the processes. This is an okay solution for coarsely (AKA embarrassingly) parallel algorithms. Several nicely abstracted solutions exist. Matlab's own <a href=" Computing Toolbox</a> with its <tt>parfor</tt> construct for example. Free solutions include the <a href=" package from MatlabCentral FileExchange</a>, and <a href=" href="; from MIT. Multicore and pMatlab both use the file system for interprocess communication. (They have somewhat different abstraction models that make them appropriate for somewhat different styles of multithreading.) One upside to using the file system for interprocess multithreading is that it is trivial to use a network file system to make your code not only multiprocess but actually distributed to multiple machines.</p> <p>But what if you need more finely grained parallelism, for example you want to code algorithms that flexibly break a problem into hundreds of sub-tasks and maximally exploit available hardware concurrency? At present, this seems to require you to either give up on Matlab entirely, or else write lower-level code that links into Matlab. The two methods I'm familiar with for linking lower-level code into Matlab are to write Java, which Matlab communicates with fairly smoothly, or else write C/C++/Fortran and bring it in with Matlab's "mex" functionality.</p> <p>Java core concurrency is established, but based around low level threads and locks. It's a minefield of synchronization issues. There are libraries available for more abstracted approaches, but I haven't worked with them. And if a contained segment of code is <em>really</em> performance critical, writing it in native C/C++ makes sense.</p> <p>So what are the capabilities for writing concurrent C++ and linking it into Matlab? Unfortunately current C++ compilers do not have native concurrency support. But this is expected to change in the not-too-distant future. C++11, the new standard, was approved last month with a new thread library based on the threading in the popular Boost distribution. Unfortunately, the C++11 threading standard looks a lot like Java core concurrency, built around low-level threads and mutexes with no support for higher-level, safer, simpler concurrency abstractions. Luckily, there are libraries available offering concurrency abstractions for C++. The one I'd like to highlight today is <a href="</a>.</p> <h2>Theron</h2> <p>Theron is a concurrency library for C++ based on the Actors model, in which most of the low-level thread/mutex concurrency implementation details are hidden from the user. It is not a strict Actors model based tightly on the academic definition of Actors, but it is in that spirit. It offers an Actors abstraction based on a backing thread pool, so that creating new Actors is cheaper than actually creating new threads, allowing you to trivially have hundreds or thousands of Actors in one program. The pool of worker threads services the Actors efficiently, allowing high exploitation of available hardware concurrency. Actors are also defined to communicate only through message passing and not through shared memory, eliminating most of the booby traps that make low level concurrent programming such a pain. (There are ways to pass shared memory between Theron Actors if you really need to, e.g. if you have large input data structures you don't want to copy into messages. It's then up to the user to ensure that the Actors interact with the shared memory in well defined, safe ways. Nevertheless I have found that the Actors abstraction is very helpful for simplifying concurrent code even if some degree of shared memory is slipped in.)</p> <p>Another nice feature of Theron is that it is designed to allow easy swapping in of different underlying thread models. Currently it has wrappers for native Win32 threading as well as Boost threads. The expectation is that as C++11 std::thread compilers become available, it will be easy to adapt Theron to use the standard threading. Theron also has a very nice website with clear documentation of the simple, powerful API, a clear tutorial, getting started guide, and good user support. Although Theron has historically been somewhat Windows-centric, I was able to download Theron, build it on my work Mac, and get a multithreaded program running in Matlab in about a day. Getting it working in Linux took longer, but I think I have it figured out now too; see next post for details.</p> <h2>Update: libcppa</h2> <p>I recently came across another C++ Actors project, <a href=";. This is much less mature than Theron, and relies on a lot of C++11 features for its core functionality, but it looks interesting. It's hosted on GitHub, so could be easy to dig into despite not a lot of documentation. But Theron is clearly the choice for the time being.</p>2011/09/simpler-concurrent-matlab-programming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-4006703875187495086Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:37:00 +00002012-08-31T11:17:09.293-07:00appleprogrammingBroken Mac OS 10.6 (and 10.7 and 10.8 and...) Java<p>Apple has a pretty lousy history with Java support, but this still surprised me. If you are having trouble getting programs to compile with older Java versions (e.g. for backward compatibility), you might want to take a look in this directory: <tt>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions</tt></p><p>Here's what I found on my OS 10.6 system:</p><pre>lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jun 29 13:37 1.3 -> 1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 11 2010 1.3.1 lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.4 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.5 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.6 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 29 13:37 1.6.0 -> CurrentJDK lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 59 Jun 29 13:37 CurrentJDK -> /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents </pre><p>I kept trying to get Eclipse to compile with 1.5 and kept getting incompatible binaries. Thanks Apple! YMMV, but I found <a href=" post</a> a good guide to getting a <em>real</em> Java 1.5 installation.</p>2011/08/broken-mac-os-java.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667089059273258490.post-3179483813985568577Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:03:00 +00002011-10-06T10:27:04.867-07:00appleprogrammingMac OS 10.6.8 breaks OpenSSL dev compatibility<p><em>Update (2011-07-29): <a href=" Toolkit</a> devs have told me that this is a frequent problem with Mac OS updates. Thanks Apple. So they recommend running with the --without-openssl-header-check flag if you don't want to go to the trouble of actually installing compatible headers.</em></p> <p>If you are trying to build anything that requires OpenSSL on Mac OS 10.6 and have updated to 10.6.8, you may run into the following complaint:</p> <pre> checking OpenSSL header version... 9080cf (OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009) checking OpenSSL library version... 90812f (OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011) checking whether OpenSSL's headers match the library... no configure: error: Your OpenSSL headers do not match your library. Check config.log for details. If you are sure your installation is consistent, you can disable the check by running "./configure --without-openssl-header-check". Also see contrib/findssl.sh for help identifying header/library mismatches. </pre> <p>For some reason, when Apple <a href=" to OpenSSL 0.9.8r to address security issues</a> they failed to update the headers, so now there is a version mismatch (i.e. header version is 0.9.8l but library version is 0.9.8r).</p> <p>If you want to track this issue in more detail, you can find a copy of the findssl.sh script, either on your system somewhere or just find it online. If you download it online, you will probably have to hack the script to find Mac's .dylib shared library files instead of the Linux standard .so files. Alternatively, just try these commands:</p> <pre> locate opensslv.h locate libcrypto.dylib </pre> <p>That should show you where the different versions of headers and libs are respectively. Then you can look inside the opensslv.h file in /usr/include and confirm that it is 0.9.8l instead of 0.9.8r.</p> <p>In any case, the solution seems to be: <ol> <li>Get OpenSSL 0.9.8r from <a href="

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ACA Death Spiral Exploring the likely implosion of the Affordable Care Act Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:43:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 60565990 Even the New York Times Acknowledges the ACA Is Collapsing /2016/10/03/even-the-new-york-times-acknowledges-the-aca-is-collapsing/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:43:14 +0000 /?p=2694 Continue reading Even the New York Times Acknowledges the ACA Is Collapsing →]]> I don’t post here much now that I am on Forbes Apothecary site. But I did want to take note of one development. At long last, and after years of denial and shameless cheerleading, the New York Times has run a lead story acknowledging that the ACA is in deep trouble. Longtime ACA proponents such as Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University, have come to the realization that the law is in deep trouble. “Even the most ardent proponents of the law would say that it has structural and technical problems that need to be addressed,” she said. “The subsidies were not generous enough. The penalties for not getting insurance were not stiff enough. And we don’t have enough young healthy people in the exchanges.” Frankly, although I take no pleasure in the millions of people who are going to be hurt as a result of the ACA’s implosion, I do have a sense of vindication. I warned from the outset that, well-motivated or not, the ACA was not designed properly and that it was extremely vulnerable to a death spiral. I discussed early signs of trouble. And yet people accused me of Chicken Little “The Sky is Falling” syndrome or of not understanding all the brilliant stabilization methods built into the ACA that would let its community rating scheme succeed where so many predecessors had failed. So, the good news is that people can start to focus on ACA 2.0 rather than pretending that ACA 1.0 is working. It will be a huge fight — already the battle lines are being drawn. My one plea is for discussion to be based on reality and transparency. No more magical models that predict whatever the politicians want. No more things like the CLASS Act — remember that — which miraculously let the ACA appear to cost little even when it had zero chance of ever working. Instead, and perhaps this is the part that is sadly naive in today’s American, let’s have a discussion where we actually listen to each other. ]]> 2694 Obamacare Stability Rests On Shaky Risk Adjustment /2016/01/22/obamacare-stability-rests-on-shaky-risk-adjustment/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:35:29 +0000 /?p=2665 Continue reading Obamacare Stability Rests On Shaky Risk Adjustment →]]> Set forth below are brief excerpts from my recent blog entry on Risk Adjustment under the Affordable Care Act that has been posted on Forbes The Apothecary. To read the rest, you’ll need to go to that site. What’s interesting, though, is what happened at almost exactly the same time as I released my Forbes blog entry. New CMS Administrator Andrew Slavitt, whom I noted in the article had actually expressed concern about Risk Adjustment, told Inside Health Policy, an outstanding trade publication, that some changes to the risk adjustment methodology in the draft Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2017 may instead be implemented in the 2016 plan year. CMS’ proposal calls for the 2017 risk adjustment to use a blended rate from earlier years and account for patient use of preventative services. I know that may not be the sexiest announcement ever made, but it’s important. I’m not going to pretend that my blog entry motivated Mr. Slavitt to start looking hard at CMS methodology — although he would be well educated if he started each day with The Apothecary. But, along with his recent actions taken to reduce the ability of insureds to game the Special Enrollment Period, Administrator Slavitt’s critical attention to Risk Adjustment suggest a willingness to take a fresh look at Obamacare implementation failings. The Affordable Care Act originally appeared to promise a choice of plans on the Exchanges across at least two spectra: the amount of cost sharing an insured would have to assume and the degree of choice the individual would have in selecting their healthcare providers. Although this ability to customize both choice and “metal tier” was generally considered a feature of Obamacare, it has turned out to pose significant issues. And here’s why: plans with the greatest degree of choice (PPOs) and the lowest amount of cost sharing (mostly Platinum) are magnets for the unhealthy. So, unless there’s something to neutralize the extra costs to the insurer created by this “magnetic attraction” or unless insurers can simply decline to offer plans with high choice or low cost sharing, the freedom to select a plan in fact becomes destructive. The choice touted by proponents of Obamacare induces a weakened form of an adverse selection death spiral. The whole system may not immediately collapse, but the system’s physics becomes highly unstable. The plans most attractive to the unhealthy become unavailable. The unavailability occurs either because insurers can’t persuade regulators to let them charge the high rates needed to break even or because all but the sickest insured’s won’t buy them at such a price. The most expensive 20% of individual insureds, after all, cost on average more than 60 times as much per person as the least expensive 50%. The Platinum refugees then migrate to the second most attractive plans — in our case often Gold or Silver. (Remember Silver plans have low cost sharing for poor families). But then these plans become disproportionately populated by the sick and can also become considerably more expensive. If there is a point of stability, it is likely to be one in which there is far less choice of physician and far more cost sharing than originally contemplated. Most people might end up in a Bronze HMO. … The stability of Obamacare likely rests significantly on the arcane and challenging technology of Risk Adjustment. Run it poorly in ways insurers can game and look for the market to fall into a Bronze HMO basin of attraction or collapse altogether. Run it without the strictest safeguards for medical privacy and see a mass rebellion from insureds. Obamacare would have a better chance at stability with a diversity of plans if Risk Adjustment worked considerably better than has so far been the case. ]]> 2665 How The Obama Administration Raided The Treasury To Pay Off Insurers /2016/01/19/how-the-obama-administration-raided-the-treasury-to-pay-off-insurers/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:25:29 +0000 /?p=2662 Continue reading How The Obama Administration Raided The Treasury To Pay Off Insurers →]]> As discussed earlier, I have moved most of my blogging on the Affordable Care Act over to Forbes blog site: The Apothecary. Here’s where you can find my latest entry. It’s about Obama administration lawlessness in running the Transitional Reinsurance program. Here are a few paragraphs to whet your interest. To see more, go here. This is about a raid conducted in the murky twilight of the Federal Register. It’s a scheme in which the Obama administration collected less in taxes from health insurers (mostly off the Exchanges) than they were required to do under the Affordable Care Act, created a plan to pay insurers selling policies on the Exchange considerably more than originally projected, and stiffed the United States Treasury on the money it was supposed to receive from the taxes. It’s a different bailout than the Risk Corridors program. That, at least, was originally authorized by statute. This is about a diversion that took place in spite of a statute that explicitly prohibited it. And the consequence of the diversion of funds was to enrich insurers and, probably, to keep more insurers selling policies on the Exchanges than would otherwise be the case. … The transitional reinsurance program as implemented, however, has become entirely unmoored from the statute that created it. It has instead embarked on a progressively stranger course in which two of the most recent diversions were underassessing health insurers to pay for the program and then using the first $2 billion collected not to pay the United States Treasury as called for by the statute but instead to pay off insurers selling individual health insurance policies on the Exchange and, some times, off the Exchange. Indeed, not only has $2 billion from the 2014 money been diverted from the Treasury to insurers but it looks as if at least an additional $800 million from the 2015 money is heading in the same direction. … By combining the two revisions of the original reinsurance parameters, the Obama administration made the program about 40% juicier for insurers . To the cynical eye, this could be seen as one of several administrative cures for the Obama administration’s politically understandable yet completely illegal decision to starve exchange insurers of potential customers who would now, by administrative fiat, often be permitted to keep those dreadful policies that the Affordable Care Act was supposed to eliminate. With foolish campaign promises as the motivation, one illegality begat another. … And now let’s take a closer look at the Obama administration’s legal justification for shoveling money to insurance companies on whose graces the success of Obamacare rests . You can read it above. CMS contended that, because the statute was silent or ambiguous; it gave CMS discretion. According to CMS, the statute used “shall” when it came to the $10 million to be collected for reinsurers in 2014 and used only “reflects” when it came to the $2 million for the Treasury, implying that the collection of money for reinsurers was more mandatory than collection of money for Treasury. Besides, argued CMS, the premium “stabilization” purpose of the ACA would be enhanced by funneling more money to insurance companies. This reading of the statute makes no sense, however. The ambiguity exists only by virtue of ignoring a provision of the statute never even mentioned by CMS its legal analysis. By sending out a specific bill to health insurers and third party administrators to cover the Treasury payments, CMS had clearly collected money under the program in part pursuant to section 1341(b)(3)(B)(iv), the part that requires $5 billion for Treasury. Look at paragraph (b)(4): “Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any contribution amounts described in paragraph (3)(B)(iv) shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States and may not be used for the program established under this section.” But this diversion of funds collected for the Treasury into the hands of the insurers was precisely what CMS now purported to find justification for in the language of the statute. CMS’s argument is particularly strange given the“miscellaneous receipts statute” which says that agencies generally can’t just keep money they collect; rather they must “deposit the money in the Treasury as soon as practicable without deduction for any charge or claim.” ]]> 2662 Why the House Lawsuit Over Cost Sharing Reductions Might Win But Won’t Kill Obamacare /2016/01/19/why-the-house-lawsuit-over-cost-sharing-reductions-might-win-but-wont-kill-obamacare/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:20:01 +0000 /?p=2660 Continue reading Why the House Lawsuit Over Cost Sharing Reductions Might Win But Won’t Kill Obamacare →]]> As discussed in my previous blog post, I have moved most of my blogging activity on the Affordable Care Act to Forbes Apothecary site. Here’s a summary of what is discusses. To see the rest, go here. The most glaring problem with the argument in House v. Burwell brought by House Democrats is that it rests on a false premise: Obamacare could not function unless it provided an appropriation for cost sharing reductions. This is just not true. As I now show, for better or worse, the ACA could function in a very similar way even if no appropriation was made for cost sharing reductions. ]]> 2660 Moving to The Apothecary /2016/01/12/moving-to-the-apothecary/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:55:09 +0000 /?p=2656 Continue reading Moving to The Apothecary →]]> Dear Readers, I’m pleased to announce that Forbes has invited me to write for them as part of their prestigious The Apothecary blog. I’ve taken them up on their offer. It should mean a considerably greater readership. The first post will be up soon. Both it and the post to follow will be, immodestly, among the best I’ve ever written. So stay tuned! My acceptance means, however, that this blog, acadeathspiral, is going to enter a new phase of life. It won’t be dead but it will be quieter. For a while, I’ll simply provide links to the latest Apothecary material. After a few months though, it will either be material that outside the topics on which Forbes wants me to blog, doesn’t fit certain formatting restrictions of The Apothecary or when I’ve “used up” the two blogs per month I am supposed to do for Forbes. So don’t stop periodically checking this site. I want to thank everyone for their readership. I’ve learned a lot writing these entries and hope that you’ve enjoyed reading them. Seth J. Chandler ]]> 2656 If United is losing money, what about big insurers who charge less? /2015/11/20/if-united-is-losing-money-what-about-big-insurers-who-charge-less/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:04:34 +0000 /?p=2602 Continue reading If United is losing money, what about big insurers who charge less? →]]> Earlier this week, United Healthcare, the nation’s largest health insurers, told its shareholders that it would be pulling back on efforts to market its Obamacare plans for 2016 and might pull out of the market in 2017. Eternal optimists about Obamacare have been quick to note that United, although a large insurer generally, “only” covers about 540,000 people on the Exchange. This is about 6% of those who enrolled in 2015. In fact, however, United’s announcement should be a cause for great concern, not just for the half million plus, but for a large number of people purchasing coverage from other insurers who likewise may become intolerant of continued financial losses. To quote Katherine Hempstead,who heads the insurance coverage team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “If [United] can’t make money on the exchanges, it seems it would be hard for anyone.” This entry is about a little experiment. Although United may not be one of the biggest players on the Exchanges, the various Blue Cross insurers most definitely are. And so, what does United’s situation suggest about the vulnerability of Blue Cross insurers? It turns out that there are 38 markets for which we have data on which Blue Cross and United compete for Silver plans, the most common metal level purchased. By market, I mean they both sell the same kind of plan type (HMO, EPO, POS, PPO) in the same rating area of a state. (This looks only at states that use healthcare.gov and thus have their data made available at data.healthcare.gov). So, if Blue Cross sells at least one HMO plan in Georgia Rating Area 7, and a United company likewise sells at least one HMO product in Georgia Rating Area 7, I treat the two insurers as competing against each other. And, if Blue Cross’s premiums tend to be lower than United’s in the competing markets and United is losing money, that might be some evidence that Blue Cross is vulnerable. The chart below shows the result of the experiment. I calculated the median silver premium for Blue Cross companies in the 38 competing markets and the median silver premium for United companies. I then divided the Blue Cross median by the United median. I used a 40 year old adult individual as the basis for the computation, although prior research shows that little turns on the choice of age. The chart shows a histogram of the results. What we can see is that the histogram is skewed to the left: on balance, Blue Cross tends to charge less than United. Sometimes, as in three rating areas in Kansas and two ratings areas in South Carolina, it charges less than 3/4 of what United charges. Does this prove that many Blue Cross insurers place themselves in financial jeopardy by continuing to sell? Hardly. There is a lot more to profitability than premiums even when metal tiers and plan types are the same. Blue Cross may have struck better deals with medical providers. Blue Cross may run a more efficient operation. Blue Cross may be able to attract a healthier risk pool. Blue Cross is raising its rates. Claims experience in 2016 may be different than experience in 2015. And, in some markets, Blue Cross charges more. In Virginia Rating Area 10, Blue Cross’s median is 1.27 times that of United’s. I get it. But still. I’d feel a lot better about other insurers’s prospects if they tended to charge more than one that was encountering financial difficulties. And, yes, perhaps the ACA can shrug off the possible departure of United. We can trot out the words “blip” and “outlier.” But I am not ready to join some academics and advocates in the eternal Obamacare sunshine with a chorus of “nothing to see here.” Maybe there’s not much difference between United’s situation and that of other large insurers. Maybe, it’s just that United’s directors and officers found the courage to sound the warning sooner. ]]> 2602 Bombshell: United Healthcare thinking of exiting Obamacare /2015/11/19/bombshell-united-healthcare-thinking-of-exiting-obamacare/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:26:26 +0000 /?p=2594 Continue reading Bombshell: United Healthcare thinking of exiting Obamacare →]]> Today’s news that United Healthcare is “evaluating the viability of the insurance exchange product segment and will determine during the first half of 2016 to what extent it can continue to serve the public exchange markets in 2017” is a very big deal. United would not be disclosing to shareholders that it might fully or significantly exit Obamacare in 2017 if this was not a significant possibility. United is a major player in the Exchange markets. It sells policies in about 47% of the 395 rating areas serviced by the federal exchange. Moreover, the loss of United could be very harmful to any remaining competition of the exchange markets. A quick study of data from healthcare.gov shows that if one looks at Silver plans in rating areas in which United sells a policy and one looks at all plan types (HMO, EPO, POS,PPO), there are 204 combinations. In 73 of those (about 36%), United is the only insurer, meaning that if no one else steps in to the United vacuum, there will no longer be a seller of that plan type. HMO plans in Alabama rating area 13 is an example of such a market. If United exits, it would appear that there will be no HMOs in that area. In another 59 of those 204 (about 29%) rating area/plan type markets in which United participates, United is one of only two players. An example of such a market is the POS market in Arkansas, rating area 1. There, UnitedHealthcare of Arkansas, Inc. and QCA HealthPlan are the only sellers. This means that if no one else steps in, there will be another large chunk of markets in which there will be an Obamacare monopoly. Moreover, the problems United is evidently facing do not appear to be the result of particularly low prices. The graphic below shows for each of the 204 market-plan type combinations in which United is present, the ratio of United’s its median price for policies to the median of all prices. It shows United prices tend to be fairly close to the median and, if anything, tend to be a bit higher. Thus it will be a challenge to ascribe United’s failures to any sort of extreme pricing — a fact suggesting that either United had problems on the cost side or simply that it is now facing up to a fact that some other large insurers may wish to deny: Obamacare is in trouble. The ACA simply does not work without voluntary insurer participation. There is no public option and their closest cousin, the coops are mostly dead or in financial distress. It surely should work better if there is at least some competition. But insurers don’t voluntarily participate where they think they can’t make money. So, unless United, one of the biggest health insurance carriers, is doing something particularly wrong or has unduly gloomy management, one has to worry about its warning being an oracle of things to come for other insurers. Note In contrast to my usual practice, I have revised this entry fairly heavily during the course of the day. I think it is important to get the information out there and I hope readers excuse some instability in the entry. ]]> 2594 Prices rising, choice declining for 2016 Obamacare /2015/10/31/prices-rising-choice-declining-for-2016-obamacare/ Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:04:36 +0000 /?p=2554 Continue reading Prices rising, choice declining for 2016 Obamacare →]]> Data released yesterday at healthcare.gov shows the beginnings of an adverse selection death spiral that threatens the stability of the system of insurance created by the Affordable Care Act. The data shows that, on plans using the “federally facilitated marketplace” created under the ACA, PPO plans that continued from 2015 to 2016 increased gross premiums an average of 16% and Gold and Platinum plans increased 15% and 21% respectively. HMO plans, by contrast, increased a lesser 8% and Bronze and Silver Plans increased a lesser 12% and 9% respectively. We should thus expect to see in 2016 relatively fewer people purchasing plans that give them a greater choice in physicians or that provide greater protection against medical expenses. The tables below summarize the big picture. The first table shows the mean change in gross premiums between 2015 and 2016 for plans that persisted over that timespan when grouped by metal level. As one can see the more generous Gold and Platinum plans increased at rates considerably higher than the less generous Catastrophic, Bronze and Silver plans. MetalLevel percent change 1 Bronze 12.1 2 Catastrophic 8.1 3 Gold 15.2 4 Silver 9.4 5 Platinum 20.9 mean change in premiums between 2015 and 2016 for 6,699 persistent plans The second table shows the mean change in premiums between 2015 and 2016 for plans that persisted over that timespan when grouped by plan type. As one can see the PPO plan, which offers the greatest choice of doctor, increased at a higher rate than other types of plans. EPOs, which are similar to HMOs but restrict visits to specialists less, increased in gross premiums at a rate far higher than HMOs. PlanType percent change 1 POS 12.3 2 HMO 8.3 3 EPO 12.2 4 PPO 16.5 mean change in premiums between 2015 and 2016 for 6,699 persistent plans The third table combines the first two and shows, for each combination of metal level and plan type, the mean percentage increase in gross premiums between 2015 and 2016. MetalLevel HMO EPO POS PPO 1 Catastrophic 1.9 5.8 6.9 14.8 2 Bronze 11.2 10.9 12.0 16.2 3 Silver 5.8 8.8 12.5 14.5 4 Gold 9.4 16.6 17.1 19.7 5 Platinum 12.2 25.6 7.5 25.9 mean change in premiums between 2015 and 2016 for 6,699 persistent plans Premium increases are only part of the story, however. Some types of plans are not available at any price any longer. The table below shows the percentage of rating areas in 2015 and 2016 containing each type of plan. Notice that the percent of rating areas containing any PPO has dropped significantly between 2015 and 2016; HMOs and POS plans have dropped as well, though EPO plans have become more prevalent. PlanType AVG2015 AVG2016 1 HMO 92.6 88.6 2 EPO 78.3 82.5 3 POS 83.7 75.4 4 PPO 92.5 76.7 percent of rating areas having at least one of these plan types We can also consider the prevalence of competition. The table below shows the percentage of rating areas in 2015 and 2016 containing at least two of each type of plan. Notice that with PPOs, the percentage of rating areas with competition has declined, although it has increased somewhat for HMOs, EPOs and POS plans. PlanType AVG2015 AVG2016 1 HMO 71.3 72.5 2 EPO 66.5 74.0 3 POS 48.2 50.6 4 PPO 76.0 61.0 percent of rating areas having at least two of these plan types The same analysis can be done on the metal levels of the plans available. The table immediately below shows for 2015 and 2016 the percentage of rating areas in which there is at least one plan of the specified metal level. Platinum plans have declined sharply in prevalence since 2015. Now only just over half of the rating areas have even a single platinum plan available even if one were willing and able to pay the higher premiums. MetalLevel AVG2015 AVG2016 1 Catastrophic 74.3 72.2 2 Bronze 91.8 88.1 3 Silver 91.1 89.7 4 Gold 90.9 88.5 5 Platinum 92.7 53.2 percent of rating areas having at least one of these metal levels When it comes to competition, the picture is even worse for platinum plans. In only about a third of the rating areas can one choose between platinum plans. MetalLevel AVG2015 AVG2016 1 Catastrophic 33.5 30.3 2 Bronze 82.5 82.4 3 Silver 85.7 84.6 4 Gold 73.0 73.4 5 Platinum 44.9 34.6 percent of rating areas having at least two of these metal levels Finally, since it seems to be the PPO plans whose prevalence is declining most, we can show the extent of that prevalence according to the metal level of the plan. The table below shows that the Platinum PPOs, the plan probably most helpful to the chronically ill that the ACA was supposed to help greatly, is diminish significantly in prevalence but that Gold and Silver PPOs are diminishing as well PlanType MetalLevel AVG2015 AVG2016 1 PPO Catastrophic 85.8 71.1 2 PPO Bronze 94.9 81.6 3 PPO Silver 94.9 81.6 4 PPO Gold 94.9 81.6 5 PPO Platinum 89.5 53.5 percent of rating areas having at least one of these Platinum plan types Conclusion The data shows that platinum plans and PPO plans are shrinking in prevalence and that the gross premiums for such plans are going up. One might say that this development is not so awful since it leaves in place a market for more basic plans: HMO plans for example or silver and gold plans. Perhaps the government should not be subsidizing individual’s choice of doctors or fostering plans, such as platinum plans, that fail to deter excess medical consumption. Such is not, however, the promise of the ACA or, I suspect, the desires of many of its proponents. Moreover, we are in a dynamic situation. Think about next year when the insurer subsidies are supposed to disappear and when the chronically ill people who were in platinum and/or PPO plans migrate into the next best thing, a gold plan or, if one is available, a POS or EPO plan. Suddenly those plans become vulnerable to adverse selection pressures. And for 2017 we might thus expect to see yet further shrinkage of PPO and platinum plans and greater pressures on everything but the basic Bronze and Silver HMO plans. When that happens, the adverse selection death spiral will not only start biting wealthier purchases or those with chronic conditions, but mainstream America. Private health insurance is fragile. It generally does not well withstand the sort of underwriting regulation imposed by the ACA. The conceit of the ACA proponents was that they had engineered a system — the “three legged stool” so strong that it could resist the almost invariable pressures of adverse selection. If I am right, and regardless what one thinks about the motives of those proponents, we are beginning to see that the engineering was just not good enough. Caveats and further research The computations shown above are based on the number of plans and not weighted by the number of enrollees. This is largely of necessity since the federal government has not been releasing enrollment figure by plan in a clear way (although it may be possible to tease the figures out of rate review submissions filed and collated on healthcare.gov). Although enrollment weighting will likely decrease the average mean premium (less expensive policies tend to be purchased more), it is not clear that enrollment weighting will have much effect on relative premium increases. The figures are also not computed yet on a state-by-state basis, something that I hope to present in a later post. They also contain only data for states whose plans are described in material available at healthcare.gov. Data for states such as California and New York, which have their own exchanges, is not included here and might alter the numbers somewhat. Finally, I present gross premiums here; as I have discussed at length elsewhere, net premium increases may well be higher, particularly where the purchaser wishes to retain a gold or platinum plan or a PPO plan whose premiums are rising even faster than those of the silver plans and the second lowest silver plan. The situation is worst where, due to some willingness on the part of a new entrant to take risk, the second lowest silver plan drops in price, thereby decreasing subsidy levels, but other silver, gold and platinum plans increase in price. Note Programming for this work was done in R using data from data.healthcare.gov and is available on request from the author. Packages used include data.table, tidyR, htmlTable and dplyr. There is a lot more work to be done mining these databases. ]]> 2554 Choose your doctor? Not anymore in Obamacare’s Houston /2015/10/26/choose-your-doctor-not-anymore-in-obamacares-houston/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:25:42 +0000 /?p=2545 Continue reading Choose your doctor? Not anymore in Obamacare’s Houston →]]> The data is not fully out yet, but, if my home area of Houston, Texas (Harris County) is representative, PPO plans that offer the greatest choice of doctors and that provide low cost sharing are extinct, as are POS plans that also offer more choice of medical practitioners. Platinum plans of any sort are on their way to its extinction. In 2015, there were 19 PPOs available in Harris County, 12 from Blue Cross Blue Shield and 7 from Cigna Healthcare. In 2016, according to the preliminary data available on healthcare.gov and released Sunday, there are none. Nor does the matter improve my considering POS plans, which also offer a greater degree of choice of doctor than does an HMO. In 2015 there were17 such plans in Harris County, 10 from Aetna and 7 from Humana. Those are gone too in 2016. So, basically, it is no longer true in Harris County that you have a choice of doctor if you purchase an Obamacare plan. You get what the HMO or EPO gives you. Platinum plans are now almost extinct. In 2015, there were three platinum plans available in Harris County, an HMO and POS offered by Humana and and EPO offered by United Healthcare. According to the preliminary information released Sunday, only the Humana HMO survives. Thus, you can get a plan that has minimal cost sharing, but no longer one that offers great choice of medical practitioners. The Humana POS and the United EPO are gone. Notice what’s missing from the list of plan types? And it’s going to cost you a lot to put yourself in a pool in which cost sharing is low. In 2015, the gross premium for the Humana Platinum HMO (32673TX0640030) was $448 for an individual age 40 (non-smoker). In 2016, the gross premium for the same Humana plan was $551, an increase in gross premiums of 23%. Net premium increases — the thing the insured actually pays — are likely to rise a similar amount for the one remaining platinum plan. The second lowest silver plan — the baseline for computation of subsidies — has increased in price by $34, from $222 in 2015 to $256 in 2016. Consider an individual eligible for a $150 subsidy in 2015. If they purchased the Humana Platinum HMO in 2015, their net price would be $298. If they purchased the same policy in 2016, yes, their subsidy might grow by $34 but their net price would still be $367, an increase of 23%. All of this is the very predictable consequence of a design flaw in the ACA. It heralds an unraveling of the Obamacare market. Who is willing to pay the extra cost of a PPO: generally people w

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:49:30 +0000APOIADORESlutavídeosindígenasCarta do A.I.RREIVINDICAÇÕESACAMPAMENTO REVOLUCIONÁRIO INDÍGENA.noreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)Blogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-3051253196604421215Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:58:00 +00002012-11-16T10:58:14.281-08:00Aldeia da Reexistência<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="225" src="; width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aldeia Maracanã luta contra a destruição da cultura indígena</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> Como podemos viver em um país aonde gastam 3 bilhões de dólares para um evento de 20 dias? Enquanto há anos nossa saúde e educação sofrem com esse descaso. De quem é a competência de vender, dar, retalhar, doar um patrimônio da União. É um crime que lesa a pátria o que eles vem fazendo, destruindo laboratórios de primeira linha.<br />   Os indígenas da Aldeia Maracanã em alerta, estão dispostos a resistir até a morte. A presidente do Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª Região (TRF2), desembargadora federal Maria Helena Cisne, cassou duas liminares que impediam a demolição do prédio onde funcionou o Museu do Índio de 1910 até 1978, bem como proibiam a retirada dos ocupantes do imóvel.<br /> <br /> "Na última sexta-feira, e no sábado, começaram a quebrar os muros do terreno. Afastado aqui da Aldeia. Mas já no terreno. O clima está tenso. Estamos dispostos a qualquer coisa, inclusive a não sair daqui vivos", disse Afonso Aporinã, um dos líderes da Aldeia Maracanã, onde está tendo uma oca da resistência contra o crime cometido contra o imóvel da União.<br /> <br /> Com medo de que a partir da decisão do TRF-2 o governo do Estado tente retirá-los da área neste feriado prolongado, os índios prometem reagir e ficar em estado de sentinela.<br /> <br /> <br /> Antes mesmo de serem suspensas as liminares, na segunda-feira (12/11), a Empresa de Obras Públicas do Rio de Janeiro (Emop) notificou o Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA) para que esvazie, em sete dias, o imóvel que ocupa no mesmo terreno onde está o prédio do antigo Museu do Índio. Ali funciona o  Laboratório Nacional Agropecuário (Lanagro).<br /> <br /> Calamidade pública<br /> <br /> A exigência do Governo Estadual motivou uma nova Ação Civil Pública (ACP) pedida pelo 1° Ofício de Direitos Humanos e Tutela Coletiva da Defensoria Pública da União (DPU). No documento, registrado nesta quarta-feira (14/11) na Justiça Federal, o defensor Andre Ordacgy pede que seja garantido o funcionamento do Lanagro.<br /> <br /> "Desde 2009 discute-se o que será feito com o laboratório, mas até agora não foi decidido onde e nem como o Lanagro ocupará outro imóvel", argumentou Ordacgy. "É calamidade pública o não funcionamento desta instituição e afeta diretamente a população fluminense, capixaba e mineira. Ali operam os serviços de classificação vegetal e animal e de análise laboratorial de bebidas e alimentos. Todos produtos alimentícios que entram e saem do país pelos portos e aeroportos são analisados ali".<br /> <br /> De acordo com trecho do documento onde o MAPA se manifesta, o Lanagro tem por função observar a "questão alimentar confirmando adulterações, fraudes econômicas e alterações físicas, químicas e microbiológicas em alimentos que podem causar morte e surtos epidemiológicos de grandes proporções". O documento prossegue que na proteção do "Território Nacional atuamos auxiliando na identificação de pragas e doenças exóticas que podem comprometer sobremaneiramente o agronegócio brasileiro". Ainda segundo o MAPA, seriam necessários, ao invés dos sete dias impostos pela EMOP, pelo menos três meses para concluir a mudança do órgão par outra localidade.<br /> <br /> Sarney Filho defende Museu do Índio<br /> <br /> Presidente da Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CMADS) da Câmara dos Deputados, Sarney Filho (PV-MA) encaminhou ofício à Presidência da Casa, à presidente Dilma Rousseff e ao governador Sérgio Cabral chamando a atenção para o 'processo de demolição' do antigo Museu do Índio. Nos documentos, o líder do Partido Verde destaca a importância histórica do prédio, e solicita seu tombamento.<br /> <br /> "O imóvel tem um valor simbólico excepcional para os índios e, por extensão, para toda a sociedade brasileira. Para essas pessoas não é somente o 'imóvel onde funcionou o Museu do Índio', mas a antiga casa de marechal Rondon, um marco histórico para os índios brasileiros e para a nossa história. Ele se tornou uma espécie de lugar sagrado para eles. Tanto que, mesmo requerendo reparos nas suas instalações, abriga um pequeno grupo de índios de várias etnias", disse a Cabral, para quem pediu que a demolição fosse revista.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> 2012/11/aldeia-da-reexistencia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-184021278064096862Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:27:00 +00002012-11-14T07:27:49.347-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a></div>                                           Festa do moqueado na Aldeia Maracanã<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="uiGrid mvm" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left; word-wrap: normal;"><tbody> <tr><td class="vTop" style="vertical-align: top;"><span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl" style="font-size: 13px;">O momento é crítico e pede-se a atenção de todos ao chamado das lideranças indígenas da Aldeia Maracanã. Podem comparecer na aldeia preparados com: Barracas, pertences, alimentos não perecíveis, instrumentos musicais, água, cal, tintas, materiais de higiene pessoal, etc. Estamos fazendo uma vivência e intercâmbio cultural.<br /><br />Foi derrubada inconstitucionalmente uma liminar que impedia a demolição do prédio histórico com mais de 150 anos de construção.<br /><br />Estamos nos preparando internamente e estruturalmente par<div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> a receber um grande número de pessoas que estão dispostas a defender esta causa e se juntar a nós num corredor humano.<br /><br />Fiquem ligados a nossa página Centro Cultura Indígena e essa página do evento.<br /><br />PROIBIDO USO DE DROGAS LICITAS E ILÍCITAS NO LOCAL.</div> </span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> 2012/11/festa-do-moqueado-na-aldeia-maracana-o.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-5935659544864871129Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:16:00 +00002012-10-22T06:16:28.590-07:00(Video) Belo Monte em Alta Tensão<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;">Belo Monte em ALTA TENSÃO Parte 2....O Ministério Público Federal alerta sobre os RISCOS do empreendimento Belo Monte. Além dos problemas ambientais causados pela obra, se encontra um questionamento maior, a rentabilidade e o custo final das obras do Belo Monte no rio Xingu... o Procurador alerta dos altos riscos de um projeto se baseando nos estudos e análises de riscos realizados de forma monocrática, apenas para cumprir uma simples formalidade administrativa.. fala da relevância dos riscos financeiros e de seus impactos sobre a economia local e nacional... Belém, Pará, setembro 2012<b>.</b></span><br /> <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;"><b>Assista o video:</b></span><br /> <a href="; 2012/10/video-belo-monte-em-alta-tensao.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-7199594979206517119Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:52:00 +00002012-10-18T12:54:35.387-07:00(Video) Entrevista com o Procurador do Ministério Público do Pará sobre a Hidrelétrica Belo Monte<div id="eow-description"> Setembro 2012, entrevista exclusiva no Ministério Público Federal de Belém/PA sobre os impactos ocultados do projeto da barragem Belo Monte. O Procurador alerta sobre os altos riscos de caos sociais e ambientais na bacia do Xingu. O procurador descreve o histórico do processo de licenciamento, suas dúvidas em relação a eficiência e responsabilidade da obra do Belo Monte... parte 1 de uma entrevista de informação e esclarecimentos... a seguir !!!</div> Assista o video:<br /> <a href=";2012/10/video-entrevista-com-o-procurador-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-956674183153900411Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:38:00 +00002012-10-11T09:59:12.790-07:00(Video) Pescadores do Rio Xingu Vivo<div style="text-align: justify;"> Belo Monte, 22 de setembro de 2012...<br /> Os pescadores do rio Xingu, moradores da cidade de Altamira no Pará, cercam as obras da usina hidrelétrica Belo Monte e fazem um apelo para a mobilização contra as práticas ilegais da empresa Norte Energia. Os pescadores reclamam do não cumprimento das condicionantes, bem como o desprezo que o governo e a empresa Norte Energia estão demonstrando no processo de implementação da obra. Os ribeirinhos, como os indígenas, afirmam ter perdido a confiança no futuro e na sua sobrevivência com o rio Xingu. A luta contra a Belo Monte já dura décadas e foi aprovada pela Fundação Nacional do Índio em 2011, na gestão genocida de Márcio Meira (responsável também pelo Decreto de desestruturação da FUNAI, 7056/09)  Há quinze ações do Ministério Público Federal contra a construção da barragem Belo Monte. A usina Belo Monte ainda está no seu início e há possibilidade de se impedir a sua construção.</div> Assista o video:<br /> <br /> <a href=";2012/10/video-pescadores-do-rio-xingu-vivo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-5616644381240328328Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:55:00 +00002012-09-19T13:44:44.417-07:00Muita terra para pouco branco: quando se fala da Cosmologia da Floresta e seus originários<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hea="true" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a></div>                                           Guerreiros Krahô na tradicional Corrida de Toras......<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><b><u>Muita terra para pouco branco: quando se fala da Cosmologia da Floresta e seus originários</u></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><u></u></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>No dia 11 de setembro se comemora o Dia do Cerrado. E aconteceu em Brasília o VII Encontro e Feira dos Povos do Cerrado. Dia 13 de setembro realizou-se o Grito do Cerrado e a ancestral Corrida de Toras com as etnias Xavante e Krahô, sendo que os krahôs chegaram primeiro na corrida <a href=" pouco mais tarde teve uma audiência pública sobre o cerrado e os Povos que em seu bioma habitam (nações originárias indígenas, quilombolas, famílias rurais e extrativistas).</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>O Movimento Indígena Revolucionário compareceu à audiência pública no Senado Federal e constatou o descaso da parte dos órgãos (in)competentes. A FUNAI, seguindo a sua tradição, mais uma vez NÃO apareceu para a defesa dos Territórios Indígenas do Cerrado.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Como na audiência do Senado, a reunião realizada na Câmara Legislativa do DF, ocorrida no dia 12 de setembro, onde se pensava a Lei para o Marco Regulatório do Cerrado no DF, foi totalmente ignorada pela FUNAI, deixando a deriva os direitos do Território Indígena no DF (Santuário dos Pajés, Aldeia Tekohaw e outras). Houve total descaso da FUNAI em relação à demarcação desta Terra Indígena, localizada no Setor Noroeste, fazendo com que os parentes indígenas tivessem que recorrer ao Ministério Público para buscarem proteção territorial ( <a href="; ).</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A expansão imobiliária em Brasília não tem freios e é patrocinada pelo próprio GDF. Em vez de apoiarem um Encontro para inglês ver (como foi o VII Encontro dos Povos do Cerrado), o GDF poderia ter barrado a construção imobiliária do Setor Noroeste e assim ter realmente preservado o cerrado nativo e o seu bioma (como os indígenas e sua ancestralidade estão fazendo naquele local).</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Nesse Encontro houve uma oficina sobre a Convenção 169 da OIT, organizada pela Comissão Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentável dos Povos e Comunidades Tradicionais (CNPCT), e ministrada pela Secretaria Geral da República, junto com o Ministério das Relações Exteriores (Itamaraty), FUNAI e Ministério do Meio Ambiente. </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">                             Ministro Sílvio e a secretária da República tentam explicar o descaso do Governo Federal </td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <b>A oficina foi coordenada por Juliana Miranda, secretária adjunta da Secretaria Nacional de Articulação Social (Secretaria-Geral) e pelo ministro Sílvio Albuquerque (Relações Exteriores). Além de informar o que é a Convenção 169 e a regulamentação do direito da consulta, a oficina também delineou estratégias de difusão das informações da Convenção 169 sobre o processo de diálogo com as comunidades, as quais faltavam muitos representantes.</b><br /> <br /> <b></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A Convenção 169 da Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) sobre os povos indígenas e tribais foi ratificada pelo Brasil em 2002 e entrou em vigor em julho de 2003. Os países signatários da convenção se comprometem a consultar os povos interessados quando forem previstas medidas legislativas ou administrativas que os afetem diretamente, garantindo a efetiva participação dos povos indígenas e tribais na tomada de decisões. Nós, do Movimento Indígena Revolucionário, denunciamos, na ocasião, que a Convenção 169 da OIT está sendo completamente desrespeitada pelo Governo Federal e pelas empresas privadas. Nós denunciamos que a Convenção não foi aplicada devidamente desde sua ratificação até os dias de hoje, mantendo impunes todas as violações cometidas contra as nações indígenas. Temos como exemplos desses crimes: as construções de hidrelétricas; explorações do subsolo, com mineração em Terras Indígenas, sem consulta prévia aos indígenas; assassinatos de lideranças e guerreiros indígenas; prisões arbitrárias de indígenas; Decreto 7056/09 – que tirou a estabilidade da FUNAI; Portaria 303 da AGU; genocídio dos Guarani Kaiowá; etc. Carlos Pankararu explica ao Ministro Sílvio como a Convenção 169 está sendo totalmente rasgada no Brasil: <a href="; Se realmente o Governo se interessasse em preservar o cerrado, não teria cortado as árvores onde os indígenas do Acampamento Indígena Revolucionário estavam acampados durante os nove primeiros meses do ano de 2010.<a href="; ; <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Nós, do Movimento Indígena Revolucionário, estamos lutando para a preservação do cerrado e seu bioma, sem hipocrisias! Nós não somos contra os projetos de lei de exploração de minérios e sua biodiversidade extrativista em terras indígenas, desde que essa exploração seja feita pelos povos indígenas, através das nossas próprias organizações - já que somos capacitados e não mais tutelados. Queremos a imediata titulação das terras indígenas que fazem parte do cerrado e de toda a cosmologia da floresta deste país. Queremos a imediata demarcação da Terra Indígena Santuário dos Pajés, Aldeia Tekohaw no DF e aldeias de todo o Brasil. Queremos um presidente indígena na FUNAI e indígenas em todos os órgãos que falam sobre os nossos direitos. </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A Cosmologia da Floresta e Wiracocha Cósmica por um cerrado e seu bioma para todos. Ayaya\\\..///</b></div> <br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"> </div> 2012/09/muita-terra-para-pouco-branco-quando-se.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-1875911845066242381Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:59:00 +00002012-06-20T18:59:26.572-07:00Manifesto na Aldeia Maracanã<li class="pls uiListItem uiListLight uiListHorizontalItemBorder uiListHorizontalItem"><div class="clearfix pvm"> <div class="fbInfoIcon lfloat"> <i class="img sp_8hj8ii sx_6aab5f" title="Horário"></i></div> <div class="lfloat"> 17:30</div> </div> </li> <li class="uiListItem uiListLight uiListVerticalItemBorder"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="uiGrid mvm"><tbody> <tr><td class="vTop"><div class="fbInfoIcon"> <i class="img sp_cddb32 sx_ebc211" title="Local"></i></div> </td><td class="vTop"><div class="uiCollapsedList uiCollapsedListHidden" id="u60qqk_3"> <span class="visible"><span>Concentraç</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>ão na Aldeia Maracanã</span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </li> <li class="uiListItem uiListLight uiListVerticalItemBorder"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="uiGrid mvm"><tbody> <tr><td class="vTop"><div class="fbInfoIcon fbDescriptionIcon"> <i class="img sp_cddb32 sx_20addd" title="Descrição"></i></div> </td><td class="vTop"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4fe27bd762e500b20000869"> MANIFESTO ALDEIA MARACA-NÃ<br /> <br /> Se você recebeu esta carta, certamente é um indígena legítimo ou um verdadeiro apoiador das causas indígenas.É com muita insatisfação com o descaso público que trazemos a você mais uma de muitas lutas dos nossos irmãos indígenas, luta esta que<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> estou envolvida de corpo e alma.<br /> Há aproximadamente seis anos o antigo museu do índio foi ocupado por uma frente de resistência envolvendo diversas etnias do nosso extenso pais. Esse grupo de parentes, do qual faço parte, tem entre seus propósito resistir contra os intentos do governo de construir, no prédio fundado por Darcy Ribeiro, um shopping ou estacionamento para o estádio do Maracanã, que fica ao lado.O prédio, que já se encontra em condições deploráveis, foi berço do antigo SPI, Serviço de Proteção ao Índio, que deu origem a atual e ineficiente FUNAI, alem de ter abrigado as primeiras instalações do Museu do Índio, que agora está localizado na Rua das Palmeiras, 55, no bairro de Botafogo.<br /> Parentes, é com muita dor que pedimos o seu apoio, pois aquele chão que outrora foi motivo de algum orgulho, hoje encontra-se na iminência de ser deserdado de todas as nossas futuras gerações. A terra indígena da mata é invadida e desrespeitada todos os dias e agora esse governo corrupto, sem raízes e vazio quer tomar alguns poucos metros de terra indígena no coração urbano da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Não vamos permitir que roubem de nós um chão conquistado com tanta luta! Nós, os integrantes deste movimento de ocupação e resistência, pedimos o apoio de todos os parentes para criarmos o Centro Cultural Indígena Aldeia Maracanã, que abrigará todas as etnias, línguas e culturas e será um ponto de encontro entre todas as lideranças indígenas do nosso pais. Para que a cada dia as culturas e a população indígena seja valorizada, respeitada e inserida na sociedade civil e política.<br /> Queremos convidar aos parentes para uma manifestação pacifica ao redor do estádio do Maracanã, nesta quinta-feira (21/06/2012) às 17:30h. Uma luta sem violência, uma guerra sem morte e uma vitória que possa ser assistida pelas lentes da imprensa nacional e internacional. Os olhos do mundo estão voltados para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Não vamos esconder nossas culturas e sonhos ficando somente sentando em cadeiras de plástico debaixo de tendas, ouvindo apenas palavras. Vamos transformar as palavras em atitudes e os sonhos em realidade. O estádio mais famoso do Brasil e do mundo tem um nome indígena, Maracanã. Parentes, podem ter certeza que a maior parte dos cariocas nem sabe disso. O nome Maracanã vem do tupi-guarani, da palavra MARACÁ. Queremos formar uma corrente em volta de todo o estádio com todos os parente tocando maracá e cantando e dançando seus rituais.Vamos fazer o maior círculo indígena do mundo, chamando a atenção da sociedade civil para os descasos das autoridades para com a memória histórica da trajetória indígena na cidade que abriga este mega evento chamado Rio+20.<br /> <br /> Zahy Guajajara;<br /> Integrante da ocupação indígena Aldeia Maracanã.</span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </li>2012/06/manifesto-na-aldeia-maracana.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-7234043640961004770Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:22:00 +00002012-06-12T08:22:18.765-07:00Carta do Rio + 20<br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">CARTA DO RIO + 20 REIVINDICAÇÕES <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">INDÍGENAS<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Após 10 anos de governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores e, em que pese às inúmeras manifestações, acampamentos, ocupações de órgãos públicos denunciando o serviço público da assistência indígena (saúde, educação e da gestão patrimonial pública indígena), flagrada diuturnamente no crime de violação dos direitos humanos jamais visto na história recente do país contra a população indígena desta parte da América, tendo sido, inclusive, o Brasil, condenado pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos da OEA – Organização dos Estados Americanos, A PARALISAR A OBRA DA HIDRELÉTRICA DE BELO MONTE por desrespeitar o princípio constitucional nacional e internacional da consulta aos povos indígenas antes da pratica de intervenções empresariais ou atos executivos e legislativos que afetem os direitos; interesses; bens materiais e imateriais, não demonstra nenhum sinal de alteração dessa política de aliança do Estado com o capital contra o segmento mais vulnerável e exposto da população, muito pelo contrário, até hoje não implementou a ordem judicial daquela egrégia Corte Internacional; desrespeitou e desrespeita as principais lideranças indígenas do país e nomeou, para presidência da FUNAI uma representante das ONGs que dominam a verba pública relacionada à gestão da assistência indígena e que são as responsáveis pela atual política de assistência. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Nós, cidadãos da cultura indígena, exigimos que o Estado Brasileiro respeite aos direitos relacionados à<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> dignidade da pessoa humana</b>; que atue de forma efetiva para que não haja qualquer intervenção empresarial, legislativa e executiva que impactem nossos direitos, interesses, bens materiais e imateriais e que se houver, que seja antecedida de consulta livre, informada, bilingue e <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">direta</b> sem a intervenção maléfica e maldosa dos gestores da área para aprovação dos interesses econômicos e empresariais em desfavor dos direitos ambientais e étnicos; que a gestão administrativa da assistência indígena seja <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">justa e solidária</b> e que haja <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prevalência dos direitos humanos</b> nos atos relacionados à esta assistência. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"> <a href="" name="cfart225"></a><a href="" name="art225"></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">As nossas reivindicações são direitos elementares e estão relacionadas a um meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado, bem de uso comum do povo e essencial à sadia qualidade de vida, impondo-se ao Poder Público e à coletividade o dever de defendê-las e preservá-las para as presentes e futuras gerações. Nós somos Defensores Públicos de Direitos Humanos ambientais, sociais, religiosos, culturais e de territórios do patrimônio nacional e as nossas práticas e atos estão relacionados às condições que asseguram a preservação do meio ambiente e do seu uso sustentável e isso só será possível através de práticas e atos estatais respeitosos à diferenciação cultural; ao bilingüismo; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>à etnocidade; à diversidade; aos saberes, conhecimentos locais, regionais, étnicos; cosmológicos; à imprescritibilidade; à impenhorabilidade e a inalienabilidade.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Por tudo isso pedimos:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">1) – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça que viola os Direitos dos seus cidadãos indígenas à educação por não ter sido capaz de implementar, até o momento, a escolarização básica de 1ª a 4ª série, bilíngüe; diferenciada e multiétnica;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">2 – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça a inexistência da assistência da saúde indígena diferenciada e multiétnica;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">3 – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça que os Gestores da Assistência Indígena realizada pela FUNAI violam os direitos e interesses indígenas de serem consultados sobre todos os projetos que impactam direta ou indiretamente os seus territórios, bens materiais e imateriais; <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">4 – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça que precariza, terceiriza e contrata cidadãos indígenas na condição análoga a de escravos nas áreas da assistência à saúde e educação através de ONGs que não possuem condições para arcar com os encargos trabalhistas, previdenciários e sociais; <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">5 – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça que inseriu os seus cidadãos indígenas num dos IDHs piores do mundo;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">6 – Que o Estado Brasileiro reconheça que legisla sobre direitos e interesses ambientais, culturais, sociais, materiais e imateriais em desfavor dos seus cidadãos indígenas sem lhes consultar;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">7 – Que o Estado Brasileiro e o do Vaticano reconheçam e a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da República Federativa do Brasil, juntamente com o Pontífice Papa peçam seus devidos perdões e desculpas e assumam a responsabilidade de reparar e indenizar pelas atuais, anteriores (guerra justa e escravidão) e graves violações dos direitos relacionados à dignidade da pessoa humana dos cidadãos brasileiros indígenas e que se comprometam a repará-los e indeniza-los nas mesmas proporções dos danos atuais e pretéritos experimentados e que a CNBB/Igreja Católica retire de seus templos religiosos, prédios, monumentos, livros e demais utensílios as imagens ou referências mostrando o genocídio indígena como algo positivo como no caso da igreja matriz de Porto Alegre onde encontra-se a representação de 4 etnias indígenas cujas cabeças são mostradas na base externa dos fundos da matriz em posição de tortura, com cabeça, mãos atadas e expressões de horror, mostrando os povos nativos como seres inferiores, escravizados e dominados.</span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">8 – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora Presidenta da República determine que seja implementada à decisão da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos da OEA – Organização dos Estados Americanos que condenou o Estado Brasileiro a paralisar as obras da Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte por não consultar aos seus cidadãos indígenas sobre as medidas econômicas/empresariais que impactem, seus territórios, bens materiais, imateriais, direitos e interesses, bem como para adequar todos os atos administrativos praticados pelas três funções do Estado Nacional Brasileiro e todos os entes federativos que violaram e violam direitos e interesses indígenas, bem como a suspensão de todas as intervenções em curso, criando um eixo temático específico na COMISSÃO NACIONAL DA VERDADE cujo foco de estudo seja: As Nações Indígenas e a Ditadura Militar - subsídios para a Comissão da Verdade 1946-1988, bem como a indicação de uma liderança indígena para preencher um dos cargos de assessores que ainda estão em aberto;</span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">9 – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da República adote as medidas necessárias para a demarcação e homologação de todas as TIs já levantadas e estudadas e subscreva o Projeto de Lei de Iniciativa Popular, SUG. 02/2010 que cria o CNDDI – Conselho Nacional de Defesa dos Direitos Indígenas e o Fundo Social Indígena financiado exclusivamente pelo patrimônio indígena e pensado, administrado, dirigido e gerido por este;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <h3 style="margin: 1em 0cm; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 – Que o colendo Congresso Nacional suspenda a Tramitação do Projeto de Emenda constitucional de nº PEC 215/2000 que altera as demarcações das TIs (Terras Indígenas) e do Projeto de Lei n <span class="nomeproposicao">PL 3571/2008 que d</span><span class="textojustificado">ispõe sobre a criação do CNPI.</span><o:p></o:p></span></h3> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">11 – Que a AGU – Advocacia Geral da União crie estrutura específica para a Defesa dos Direitos Indígenas em todos os Estados e DF, objetivando, inclusive, a revogação de possíveis decisões judiciais em seu desfavor; <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">12 – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da República adote as medidas necessárias à entrega de todos os bens, direitos e patrimônios materiais e imateriais reivindicados pelos indígenas junto ao SPU; Ministérios; Empresas Públicas; Economias Mistas; Fundações da União Federal, Estados e Municípios;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">13 – Que a colenda Câmara dos Deputados vote e aprove o <span class="nomeproposicao">PL 2057/1991 que cria o Estatuto do Índio e que garanta as cotas eletivas;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span class="nomeproposicao"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">14 - </span></span><span style="display: none; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-hide: all;">Criação, Estatuto das Sociedades Indígenas, definição, direitos, indio, brasileiro nato, isonomia salarial, organização, natureza social, ação de reivindicação, terras índígenas, costumes, crença religiosa, linguagem, tradição, garantia, bens, administração, patrimônio, concessão, isenção fiscal, tributação, tributos, rendimento. _Garantia, direitos, obtenção, patente de invenção, modelo industrial, utilização, produção intelectual, modelo, criação, índio, nulidade, transferência, carta de patente, proteção, farmacopéia, essencia florestal, exigência, pagamento, obrigatoriedade, vantagens pecuniárias, direito autoral, obra intelectual, música. _ Competência, Justiça Federal, julgamento, processo judicial, causa judicial, índio, colaboração, Polícia Federal, Forças Armadas, Forças Auxiliares. _ Proteção, terras indígenas, reserva indígena, garantia, produção, atividade agrícola, produtividade, preservação, recursos ambientais, ecossistema, meio ambiente, levantamento geológico, direito de lavra, usufruto, recursos naturais, riquezas, estudo de impacto ambiental, pagamento, royalties, compensação financeira, licitação, exploração, lavra de minério, mineração, recursos hídricos, proibição, pesquisa de minério, recursos minerais, local, ausência, demarcação, invasão, conflito fundiário, terras indígenas, isolamento, índio. _ Direitos, exclusividade, indio, garimpagem, faiscação, terras índígenas, declaração, utilidade publica, desapropriação, terras. _ Proibição, remoção, índio, comunidade indígena, ressalva, risco de vida, epidemia, calamidade pública, ad referendum, Congresso Nacional. _ Garantia, reconhecimento, terras índigenas, previsão, processo administrativo, demarcação, caracterização, crime de responsabilidade. _ Garantia, índio, assistência médica, prevenção, epidemia, criação, comissão de coordenação, definição, política, saúde, composição, competência, membros, (Funasa), representante, Conselho Indigenista, Ministério Público Federal, Congresso Nacional, comunidade indígena, sociedade civil, apoio. _ Normas, educação, índio, garantia, utilização, língua, previsão, ensino, língua portuguesa, fixação, currículo escolar, criação, comissão de coordenação, composição, membros, competência. _ Fixação, pena de reclusão, dolo, culpa, crime, genocídio, homicídio, morte, agressão, violência, controle de natalidade, índio, remoção, depredação, meio ambiente, incentivo, conflito fundiário, discriminação racial. _ Revogação, Estatuto do Índio. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Que a egrégia Comissão de Direitos Humanos da Câmara dos Deputados aprove o PDL 2393/10 que revoga o Decreto Presidencial de n 7.056/09 que extinguiu os Postos Indígenas, Administrações Regionais; colocou os servidores indígenas em situações constrangedoras e não precedeu da devida consulta, bem como que a Comissão de Direitos Humanos do Senado Federal aprove o Projeto de Lei de Iniciativa Popular, SUG. 02/2010 que cria o CNDDI – Conselho Nacional de Defesa dos Direitos Indígenas e o Fundo Social Indígena financiado exclusivamente pelo patrimônio indígena e pensado, administrado, dirigido e gerido por este;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">15 – Que as egrégias Comissões de Direitos Humanos das Colendas Câmaras dos Deputados; Senado Federal e a CGU – Corregedoria Geral da União instaurem procedimentos para apurar a prática de crimes, ilícitos <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>administrativos e éticos contra os gestores públicos da assistência indígena: os representantes do CIMI (Conselho Indígena Missionário) lotados no Gabinete da Presidência da República: Srs. Paulo Maldus e o Excelentíssimo Sr. Ministro Gilberto Carvalho; o<br /> Excelentíssimo Sr. Ministro de Estado da Justiça, Eduardo Cardoso e do seu antecessor; do ex-presidente da FUNAI, atualmente responsável pela Educação Indígena no Ministério da Educação, Sr. Marcio Meira; da Presidenta e demais diretores da FUNAI, por serem os responsáveis pela política e execução da atual e criminosa gestão de assistência indígena do Governo Federal, bem como os atos cometidos contra os indígenas que protestaram pacificamente em frente ao Congresso Nacional e Ministério da Justiça, na Esplanada dos Ministérios,<br /> Brasília, DF, no ano de 2010 e a destinação imoral da verba destinada à proteção dos territórios indígenas, ou seja, do fundo PPTAL (Projeto Integrado da Proteção às Populações Indígenas da Amazônia Legal) às ONGs cuja inexistência da proteção leva ao assassinato de diversas lideranças indígenas;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">Criação, Estatuto das Sociedades Indígenas, definição, direitos, indio, brasileiro nato, isonomia salarial, organização, natureza social, ação de reivindicação, terras índígenas, costumes, crença religiosa, linguagem, tradição, garantia, bens, administração, patrimônio, concessão, isenção fiscal, tributação, tributos, rendimento. _Garantia, direitos, obtenção, patente de invenção, modelo industrial, utilização, produção intelectual, modelo, criação, índio, nulidade, transferência, carta de patente, proteção, farmacopéia, essencia florestal, exigência, pagamento, obrigatoriedade, vantagens pecuniárias, direito autoral, obra intelectual, música. _ Competência, Justiça Federal, julgamento, processo judicial, causa judicial, índio, colaboração, Polícia Federal, Forças Armadas, Forças Auxiliares. _ Proteção, terras indígenas, reserva indígena, garantia, produção, atividade agrícola, produtividade, preservação, recursos ambientais, ecossistema, meio ambiente, levantamento geológico, direito de lavra, usufruto, recursos naturais, riquezas, estudo de impacto ambiental, pagamento, royalties, compensação financeira, licitação, exploração, lavra de minério, mineração, recursos hídricos, proibição, pesquisa de minério, recursos minerais, local, ausência, demarcação, invasão, conflito fundiário, terras indígenas, isolamento, índio. _ Direitos, exclusividade, indio, garimpagem, faiscação, terras índígenas, declaração, utilidade publica, desapropriação, terras. _ Proibição, remoção, índio, comunidade indígena, ressalva, risco de vida, epidemia, calamidade pública, ad referendum, Congresso Nacional. _ Garantia, reconhecimento, terras índigenas, previsão, processo administrativo, demarcação, caracterização, crime de responsabilidade. _ Garantia, índio, assistência médica, prevenção, epidemia, criação, comissão de coordenação, definição, política, saúde, composição, competência, membros, (Funasa), representante, Conselho Indigenista, Ministério Público Federal, Congresso Nacional, comunidade indígena, sociedade civil, apoio. _ Normas, educação, índio, garantia, utilização, língua, previsão, ensino, língua portuguesa, fixação, currículo escolar, criação, comissão de coordenação, composição, membros, competência. _ Fixação, pena de reclusão, dolo, culpa, crime, genocídio, homicídio, morte, agressão, violência, controle de natalidade, índio, remoção, depredação, meio ambiente, incentivo, conflito fundiário, discriminação racial. _ Revogação, Estatuto do Índio. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">16 – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da Republica adote as medidas cabíveis para que os Concursos Públicos respeitem o Bilingüismo; a Diferenciação Cultural; saberes e conhecimentos regionais, locais e étnicos para regularizar a situação funcional dos Agentes de Saúde; dos Professores Indígenas e nas demais áreas de assistência indígena, garantindo cotas específicas;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /> <br /> 17) – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da República reconheça aos indígenas a condição de consultores ambientais e Defensores Públicos de Direitos Humanos Culturais, Ambientais e Religiosos para efeito de gestão sustentável e prioridade na participação nos projetos destinados a essa finalidade;<br /> <br /> 18) - Implementação imediata das Resoluções das Conferências de Saúde, Educação, Meio Ambiente e Direitos Humanos relacionadas ao seguimento social indígena e da Lei nº 11.645; <br /> <br /> 19) – Que a Excelentíssima Senhora presidenta da República determine à FUNAI que extinga imediatamente o Projeto DOBES, que privatiza o acesso às Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras, com o Estado Nacional criando obstáculos para a ampla divulgação e estudo da língua e do conhecimento dos Povos Originários, entregando à iniciativa privada estrangeira o mais precioso Patrimônio Imaterial dos Povos Indígenas Brasileiros, o Idioma; devolução imediata da propriedade intelectual das Línguas Nativas Brasileiras (matrizes) àqueles que detêm a sua posse, os falantes (pelo Concurso Público Diferenciado e Bilíngue como forma efetiva de fortalecimento das Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras); </span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /> 20) – Que a e. Comissão Especial da Mineração <st1:personname productid="em Terras Ind￭genas Regulamente" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="em Terras Ind￭genas" w:st="on">em Terras Indígenas</st1:personname> Regulamente</st1:personname> e Regularize a mineração para os indígenas e sob seus domínios e controles e que se posicione CONTRA o PL nº 1610/96 em tramitação na Câmara dos Deputados que regulamenta a mineração para as empreiteiras e mineradoras em desfavor dos indígenas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>2012/06/carta-do-rio-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Acampamento Indigena)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585225950989449275.post-145697557311582013Wed, 16 May 2012 02:59:00 +00002012-05-15T19:59:02.561-07:00SOLIDARIEDADE AO LÍDER TUKANO PEDRO MACHADO<br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SOLIDARIEDADE AO LÍDER TUKANO PEDRO MACHADO, IRMÃO DO CACIQUE CARLOS TUKANO DA ALDEIA DO MARACANÃ<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Os Tukano são um povo do noroeste do Amazonas (conhecida como Cabeça de Cachorro), de cerca de 10 mil indígenas espalhados no Triângulo Tukano. Os Tukano da Reserva Indígena de Pari Cachoeira tiveram contato com a sociedade não-indígena por volta de 1940, com o ingresso do antigo Serviço de Proteção ao Índio (SPI) naquela região. Começou uma longa, duradoura e profunda dor por terem sido prisioneiros, com inúmeras vítimas, exterminação de aldeias, proibidos de falarem a sua língua, de morar juntos nas suas malocas (separaram em cada casa todo o povo indígena), proibidos de realizar seus próprios rituais xamânicos (desrespeito aos pajés, cânticos, mitos, sendo assim condenados por 45 anos) com sessões de torturas, espancamentos, genocídio, etnocídio até que os revolucionários Carlos Tukano junto aos seus irmãos Pedro Machado (hoje no hospital, em estado grave de saúde) e Álvaro Tukano e todo o seu povo dispuseram as suas próprias vidas em grito de liberdade, libertando seu povo de 45 anos dos miseráveis capuchinhos, salesianos e da Ação Católica. Na década de 80 participaram ativamente da Constituinte e fundaram a Federação das Organizações Indígenas do Rio Negro, e várias lideranças do povo Tukano se destacaram como Álvaro Tukano (irmão de Pedro e Carlos) e Carlos Tukano, cacique e representante da Aldeia Maracanã na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0c

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