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A job seeker can create a piece of software with the intent of it being an example of good work. Ideally, the project should look professional and have some useful purpose. The person can then point at it as an example, put it on their resume, mine it for code samples, and if all else fails maybe it'll make money on its own.


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Public Service Electric & Gas is alerting its customers to a scam involving pre-paid debt cards.
A Spanish-speaking individual pretending to be a PSE&G employee will call a customer saying they work for the company's "disconnect collection department," the company said in a press release Tuesday. The person tells the customer that they have an overdue balance and their service will be shut off that day unless they pay their balance using a prepaid debit card.
Customers are told to purchase a Green Dot Money Pak card and put a balance on it and provide the cashier with the phone number of the person who called them.
After the customer provides PSE&G with the card number, the scammer transfers the funds to a prepaid card and cashes it in at an ATM.
Scammers seem to be targeting customers in Hispanic neighborhoods, the company said.
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Donald Trump criticized President Obama on Thursday for not agreeing to release his college records and passport application in return for a $5-million donation to a charity of the president's choice.
The real estate magnate and TV personality announced last week that he was extending the offer to the president, and that Mr. Obama had until Wednesday to comply. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, he extended the deadline to noon Thursday.
After the deadline came and went, Mr. Trump posted a video on YouTube calling it a "very, very sad day for the United States of America." He suggested that the president's snub prevented him from giving $5 million to a group such as the Wounded Warrior Project, American Cancer Society or to the families of victims from the embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya.
"Someday those papers will come out, and people will say, 'You know what? Donald Trump was right,' " he said in a video.
Mr. Obama dismissed the offer during an appearance last week on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," joking that he and Mr. Trump had bad blood dating back to their schoolboy days in Kenya — a jab at claims by Mr. Trump and others that the president was not born in the U.S.
"We had constant run-ins on the soccer field," the president said. "He wasn't very good and resented it. When we finally moved to America, I thought it would be over."


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A few weeks ago I posted a bike, sent to me by a reader, which featured a frame partially constructed from laminated wood. Peter from Velo Vision recently sent me an email and identified the mystery bike as the work of James Coleman, a design student at Loughborough University in the UK. When I first saw the bent ply bike concept, it reminded me of a few thumbnail sketches that I did a couple years ago. The message from Peter reminded me again of the old sketches, so I decided that I would dig them up to share (it has been a while since I posted any of my own sketches on this blog unless you count the three bikes in the header).
I did these thumbnails one day while I was looking at Alvar Aalto chair designs from the 1920's in a furniture book (and in that book is where I found the sketches). You have probably noticed that all of the classic bent ply chair designs take advantage of the flex that is inherent in the material. Laminated plywood is very strong, but it does flex in the direction perpendicular to the individual plys. As I browsed though the pages of chairs from Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and others, I wondered why so many bikes that I see designed from plywood have the material oriented in a way that it does not provide any suspension for the rider. The Jano bike and the Sandwich bike, both of which I have posted before are nice designs, but they are examples of bikes in which the orientation of the plywood would not provide any vertical compliance.
Anyway, my idea was to create a frame from two curved pieces of laminated hardwood so that the frame would have a natural suspension effect. It might even be possible to add a carbon ply in the middle as at least one skateboard manufacturer has done in recent years. As you can see, the sketches are rough and I haven't given the idea much thought since the day I did them, but I think they could be possibly developed into something. There certainly would be several challenges to overcome in the design and development of a bike like this. The plywood "top tube" would need to be wide enough to provide the necessary strength, but at the same time it would need to be narrow enough that knee clearance would not be an issue. The same issue would apply to the Q factor at the bottom bracket and don't even get me started on the chain and seat stays. There would be many other challenges as well, but it would be a fun idea to take further if I had the time. Of course, I probably wouldn't be posting the idea here if I thought it was really worth pursuing (does the world really need another wooden urban bike?). Still, I think there would be a niche market for a bike like this. I could see this bike, with a natural birch ply frame and a Shimano Alfine grouppo, for sale in a furniture catalog like DWR. Maybe I will clean up the sketches and do a quick rendering to post one day; probably not though, so don't hold your breath. Then again, maybe I should do the rendering just for the person who recently left the following anonymous comment; "great. another wood bike. i have news for you- wood is NOT a good material for bikes. enough already!" Yep, this post is just for you.
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Decomposing corpses no big deal for this 13-year-old.
John Pendy has already seen it all on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," the crime show he watches on television every Thursday. What prime time won't teach, of course, is how insects go to work in a very predictable way to dispose of bodies or how they help police solve murders.
So John took a special interest in the flesh flies, skin beetles, maggots, larvae and other bugs on display Saturday at a new N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences exhibit. He was there with his Chapel Hill grandparents, whom he is visiting from his home in Florida.
"It's not scary," John said after circling some canisters crawling with crime scene evidence. "It's cool to see how flies are born and what happens to a body when flies take over, stuff like that."
The name of the museum's show, "CSI: Crime Scene Insects," had alerted people who might not otherwise care much for entomology, the science of insects.
"Oh my goodness, my phones have not stopped ringing," Albert Ervin, the museum's special exhibit and event coordinator, said on the eve of the opening.
A steady stream of people sought out the exhibit Saturday, and museum officials said they were pleased with the attendance.
Ervin encourages anyone to come, including anyone with a weak stomach. While the subject might be gruesome, visitors are spared the most graphic details. Plus, Ervin noted, the show serves a higher cause.
"It's about bringing justice to people who have been victims of crimes," he said.
Forensic entomologists use bugs to answer critical questions such as how long a person has been dead, or where the murder took place.
Because different bugs move in at different and very specific stages of decomposition, they help pinpoint how many weeks or months ago death occurred. Entomologists can also learn that a body has been moved, and perhaps from where, because some bugs live and breed only in certain areas.
Frida and Jose Oporto, visiting the area from Warrenton, Va., for the weekend, paid the $5 special exhibit entrance fees after Frida Oporto heard about the insect show on the news. They took turns visiting the exhibit and watching the kids, ages 6, 4, and 1, in a different room.
"We don't want them to see this," Frida Oporto said, nodding toward a display of plastic bodies in a morgue.
"I don't think we've ever dealt with death yet, and I don't feel ready to deal with it," she said.
It was the flies, not the bodies, that got to her. Oporto wasn't the only one.
Evan Shuler of Hillsborough still plans to solve crimes when he grows up, hopefully for the State Bureau of Investigation. But the 11-year-old knew after Saturday that his work will not involve flies, beetles or any other creatures feasting on corpses.
"I don't like bugs very much," he said bending over a glass box holding 11 different species. "I don't know what part of detective work I'm going to do, but I'm not going to be a forensic entomologist."
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Volunteer fire-fighting is a very rewarding and valuable way to serve ones community. It takes dedication and many hours of training to become a firefighter.
Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department is looking for volunteers to serve the department.
The first step is picking up an application, currently available at the old firehouse, 3646 Mockingbird Street.
The new location is currently being remodeled.
"Many of our volunteers are shift workers," Gyrome Hadnot, fire marshal, said.
The average age of volunteers for the fire department is 21. A background check is mandatory for all applicants.
"Any able-body person is welcomed," Hadnot said. "Everyone is trained the same."
Volunteers fire departments depend on multi-training. Each volunteer is trained for each position in the department from driving the truck to fire hose.
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Hadnot also said there is always something to do around the station when the firefighters are not responding to a call.
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Hadnot has been a firefighter since 1985 and can still recall the first fire he to which he responded.
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Gene Parker is very busy with his breeding business that offers full reproductive services, from collecting stallions and shipping semen, to flushing embryos and foaling out mares. The facility sits upon 65 beautiful acres in Orrum, North Carolina. The facility includes a large show barn, mare motel, laboratory, individual turnout, and large lush green pastures.
"Our breeding business has really taken off, we've got a reputation for taking care of horses, so people like to send them here." Parker Farms is known for the good care of their client's horses, and people know when we're done with them, they can pick them up and go right to the horse show.
Gene Parker makes it a point to show how much he believes in his breeding program at Parker Farms by promoting the offspring of those stallions in the show ring. Gene Parker has been very fortunate to have had several AQHA World Champions and Congress winners over the years.
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Hey Giles
Well i'm at work today, until 10pm-ish! and i'm going to go see the Mighty Minis at Cadwell tomorrow..
I would've been up for Santa Pod though, bummer..
I'm going to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year, the whole weekend but i think i'll have to sleep in the car as the camping is an extra �150!
Me and my mates are attending the Time Attack event at Cadwell in August, then we're onto Nurburgring mid August too!
I'll pop round maybe next weekend, introduce myself if your in, might let you have a go in the S4 lol
Hey up, you off to any shows this year at all?
Just thinking of tagging along really.. I'd like to go to Cadwell this year if anyone is..
You heard of PPC's Mallory Park day?
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Booking photos were released Wednesday of two Rialto men accused of burglarizing homes in Loma Linda and Redlands on Monday Dec. 10.
The burglaries were reported Monday afternoon in the 25000 block of Huron Street in Loma Linda, and in the 700 block of Bermuda Drive in Redlands, Central Station personnel said.
The arrested men, Drameco Kindle, 38, and Almad T. Lothyan, 23, are suspected of other residential burglaries in Loma Linda and Redlands, deputies said.
"Search warrants were served at both suspects' homes in Rialto, and additional stolen property was recovered, which matched that of stolen property taken from other residential burglaries that had been reported in the last 60 days in the City of Loma Linda," deputies said.
"It is believed that both suspects are responsible for numerous residential burglaries in the City of Loma Linda and the City of Redlands," deputies said.
The Sheriff's Department has a large quantity of stolen property that has not been claimed. If you live in Loma Linda, Redlands or the surrounding area, and have been the victim of a residential burglary, contact Detective Wellott at (909) 387-3512.
Kindle and Lothyan were held Wednesday afternoon at Central Detention Center in San Bernardino in lieu of $500,000 bail each, deputies said in an update.
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A coal company says it cannot give a "definitive" response as to whether it may one day try to use the rail bed of the planned Meadow River Rail Trail, a publicly funded project in Fayette and Greenbrier counties. The state has decided to move forward with the project anyway.
"In short, it is possible that the company may have an interest in the future in utilizing the railroad bed ... but it has no present plans to do so," states Bob VanHoose, the manager of Business Development for Xinergy Corp., a Knoxville-based coal company.
The 16.5-mile rail trail is a collaborative effort between the Fayette and Greenbrier county commissions, who purchased the rail bed from CSX last year with the help of stimulus money, a Recreational Trails Program grant from the West Virginia Department of Highways (WVDOH) and the National Parks Service.
So far, $435,000 has been secured for the project, with an additional $300,000 in grant applications currently under review.
WVDOH representatives reported to the Fayette and Greenbrier county commissions at a June 29 meeting that an employee of Xinergy approached an employee of the WVDOH and shared the company's interest in moving coal out of a newly acquired surface mine northwest of Lookout by rail, and possibly using the trail's rail bed.
The Xinergy employee even shared a couple of maps of the rail options under consideration and said Xinergy had already invested $18 million in the operation, according to WVDOH employee Ryan Burns. Burns also said the employee said the company was "willing to invest any amount of money it will take to make this happen."
The WVDOH asked the Fayette and Greenbrier county commissions to investigate.
But in response to a letter of inquiry from Fayette County Prosecuting Attorney Carl Harris about the matter, Xinergy says it does not own, lease or hold any permits for mines in Fayette County.
However, the company says it is considering the possible acquisition and development of some underground mines, which may include properties in Fayette County.
"Any evaluation of the feasibility of utilizing the railroad bed near Nallen would be a part of the commitment by the company to the acquisition and development of any such properties or operations," writes VanHoose.
"As a result, any further comment or commitment ... is premature at this time."
After upper-level WVDOH management examined the company's response to Harris' letter, they recently decided to move forward with the project.
"We perceived something that needed to be investigated and proven that it would be worth the further investment of public money," says Bill Robinson, coordinator for the State Trails Program at the WVDOH. "That was their decision."
Robinson would not comment on why the Xinergy employee may have made false reports.
The next step will be to advertise bids for the construction of one section of the trail between Nallen and Russelville.
Fayette County Commission President Matthew Wender says he feels good about the decision to move forward with the project and discounted the discussion of reopening the railway from the beginning, calling it "all innuendo."
"I think a prudent coal company would have resolved the issue of how to move the coal far before opening up a mine or getting approval to mine," he says.
The section of track is "railbanked," which is "a method by which corridors that would otherwise be abandoned can be preserved for future rail use through interim conversion to a trail," according to the Rails to Trails Conservancy.
If Xinergy or any other coal company were to need to use the rail bed, the trail owner — in this case the two county commissions — would have to allow it.
"But they can negotiate the terms," says Peggy Pings, an outdoor recreation planner with the National Parks Service's Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. "The railroad doesn't get to have it back for free, and I would think that (the commissions) would want to get their money back out of it that they had put into it."
Construction of the trail was originally to be paid for with stimulus money, but was subsequently converted to Transportation Enhancement Grant money, eliminating the pressure of a September deadline to spend the funds.
The project is currently in the running for another $50,000 grant from the Recreational Trails Program and $250,000 from the WVDOH's SAFETEA-21 program.
Wender says he hopes the uncertainty raised about the rail bed's future does not put these applications at risk.
The project has likely lost a construction season due to the investigation.


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Things are looking Grimm on Google.com.
On December 20, Google posted an interactive logo on its home page to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the "Grimm's Fairy Tales," an 1812 publication of a German folklore collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
The Brothers Grimm anthology (then known as "Children's And Household Tales," now commonly known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales") is still in print 200 years after its first publication, and the stories themselves, relatively unchanged, have also endured. A number of the collected tales are today part of the canon of oft-told children's stories, with "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" among some of the most famous.
By the mid-twentieth century, several of the tales had become Disney-movie famous ("Beauty And The Beast," "Snow White And The Seven Dwarves"). More recently, entertainers have turned their eyes to the stories of the lives and talents of the Grimm siblings, who have inspired the Terry Gilliam movie "The Brothers Grimm." There's even a fantasy drama, "Grimm," that airs on NBC.
Like several previous Doodles, including this year's October 15 celebration of Little Nemo, the Brothers Grimm Doodle is presented as an animated story you can click through. In this case, the comic tells the story of Red Riding Hood. And though this tale would normally have a gruesome ending for the wolf, Google brightens up the story a bit by (Spoiler alert!) sending the creature to jail rather than killing it off. Luckily, keeping the Doodle gore-free doesn't make it less delightful.
Watch a click-through of the story in the video embedded at the top of this entry, or play the story yourself at www.google.com.
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One of the great and super nerdy Google doodles, this Jul 23, 2009 logo celebrates the annual Comic-Con conference.
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Jim Henson
On Sept. 24, 2011 Google's homepage featured a medley of Muppets, honoring the 75th anniversary of the birthday of late Muppets creator Jim Henson. On the interactive logo users could play "puppeteer" by clicking on the colored circles beneath each of the characters, which opened their mouths, and the Muppets followed the cursor with their eyes when you moved your mouse. One of the characters would throw his glasses into the air, and another actually ate a fellow Muppet.
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Google's Oct. 12, 2011 doodle illustration featured a brightly colored interactive tribute to artist Arthur "Art" Clokey, who would have turned 90 on October 12. In place of the company's logo, red, yellow, blue and green balls of clay bounced around and sprang to life at the click of a mouse, in an homage to Gumby, Clokey's best known animated character.
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By Mark Gaughan
Buffalo Bills General Manager Buddy Nix said today he thinks his team simply needs to play with more urgency. Nix stopped to talk about the Bills' two-game collapse in between recruiting visits to Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.
Asked what he sees from the Bills' defense when he watches film, Nix said:
"To be completely honest with you, what I see is not enough intensity and urgency. ... And that could be on any segment or as far as any part of our group. But to play defense you've gotta play fast and you've got to play reckless and you've got to play aggressive.
"For some reason, especially in the second half of both games, we didn't do that. We were a step slow reacting. We missed tackles. We didn't get off blocks. When you miss tackles, usually it's one of two things, it's talent or lack of effort. We've seen these guys do it before so I think they can. We gotta get that urgency back somehow."
Does he think the defense is playing tight?
"I don't think that's the case," Nix said. "I think against Cleveland we had a chance to fold when the score got 17-14. But we didn't. We stopped 'em. We got off the field three-and-out. Now you can say that's Cleveland. But they're a good team. They're not as good as these two [New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers], but Cleveland's got good players. So I think it's refusing to lose. Just being determined to compete and not lose the game. Somehow or another we're missing that."
On losing 45-3 to San Francisco: "Thank God that wasn't the last game, and I've got to live with that 'til next year. We got a chance to play Sunday. So let's do something about it."
Does Nix think coach Chan Gailey can get the team focused and back on track?
"I go back to the first year we were here and we lose eight straight games." Nix said. "Then last year we start off big, everybody's patting you on the back and telling you what a smart guy you are, and then all of a sudden you lose seven in a row and you've got absolutely no friends, not even your family. You can't go home.
"And Chan never lost 'em. He's even-keeled. He's the same every day. He's not going to panic. He knows what he's doing. He won't lose this team, either. We will get 'em back. I've got great confidence in that."
Nix on why it was worth trading for Tarvaris Jackson, given the fact he isn't getting practice snaps with the offense because he's the third-string quarterback: "I think when you say worth it, you've got to be talking about a roster spot. It's not anything else. I remember Tarvaris Jackson doing a really good job several different times in this league. We needed some insurance. I've said that before. Our quarterback takes some shots. He'll try to block. He won't slide, you know, so you've got a chance of losing him. And we want more than one option if that happens. I guess that's the best way to put it."
Nix's view of the focus for the team this week: "I think the focus is that we compete, we get our intensity to the point where it needs to be, and then we compete for 60 mintues -- not 30 and not 35, but we battle 'em for 60 minutes and we stay competitive throughout the year. And if we do that, then this will be an interesting season for us, as bad as things seem right now."
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PORTLAND -- Here in the Pacific Northwest many of us long for that "sun-kissed" skin. As a result some people turn to tanning beds or head out into the sun with little or no protection. But doing so increases the risk of one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
In her teens, fair-skinned Ashley Trenner longed to be tan. She said she started using tanning beds when she was in high school.
"If I was out in the sunshine I certainly wasn't using sunscreen," Trenner said.
She continued her love of sunshine and tanning beds throughout her 20's, until one day seven years ago.
"I had noticed a black spot underneath my skin that looked like a pencil lead or a stitch," she explained.
Thinking it was nothing serious, and because she did not have insurance, she decided not to go to the doctor. Within a year it grew to the size of a quarter.
One day while taking a shower it became excruciatingly painful. It was then that Trenner knew she had to see a doctor.
"He removed it," she said. "Two days later the doctor called me back and said, 'Ashley, I have bad news for you: It's malignant melanoma.'"
The cancer had spread into her lymph nodes. She immediately underwent treatment and was cancer-free for three years, until she found a lump.
"I think right that very second I knew what it was," Trenner said.
The melanoma had returned. In the months following, she would go through several different treatments, but the cancer remained and eventually spread into her upper back, liver and lungs.
"My doctor recommended I come down here and see Dr. Curti and to do OncoVEX," Trenner explained.
So every few weeks she travels from her home in Seattle to the Providence Cancer Center in Portland to participate in a research study led by Dr. Brendan Curti.
"This particular treatment that she's currently getting is actually a genetically modified virus," said Dr. Curti.
Doctors inject the virus directly into the tumors which, in turn, infects the melanoma. The goal is to get Ashley's own immune system to fight the infection.
"The hope is that the immune response would be so strong that it will eradicate the melanoma cells however they may be in the body," said Dr. Curti.
He said it was too early to tell if the treatment was working on Trenner. But she remains hopeful and is using her experience to teach others about the dangers of tanning.
"I told my best friend I didn't care if I died, as long as I died tan," Trenner admitted.
As the fight for her life continued, she wished she had never said those words.
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UNIVERSITY PARK — Tammy Goldens son Trent was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 3 years old, but during their time in Hershey Medical Center she has not seen a bill for anything not even a bandage.
Goldens family was adopted by Alpha Sigma Alpha and Lambda Chi Alpha nine years ago, she said Sunday during the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathons family hour and it has been a major boon to the family. Thon 2013 raised $12.37 million for pediatric cancer research, pushing the all-time total past $100 million
Even someone who is blind could walk in here and feel what you guys do for us every single day, she told the crowd late into the 46-hour dance marathon, which is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.
Trent Golden is now cancer-free, Tammy Golden said, adding that she believes the best way to beat cancer is research, and the money raised by Thon is something that greatly aids cancer research.
Family hour is one of the most emotional moments of the weekend, and few dry eyes could be found throughout the Bryce Jordan Center with families sharing their cancer stories and a viewing of the Celebration of Life video that honors the lives of Four Diamonds children who have passed away.
The Goldens were one of four Four Diamonds Fund families who spoke this year and told their cancer stories to the packed BJC and 710 student dancers on the floor.
While the families of Emily Whitehead and Dustin Beaver also told stories of success and children fighting with and on pace to beat cancer, Teddy Mortons familys story was different.
Teddy, who was born with leukemia and only lived 127 days, passed away in 2009 and never made it to a Thon, but his family continues to tell his story and show support for all the other Four Diamonds children.
He was born around Christmastime in 2008, and wasnt expected to live through the first night. He never spoke, could barely smile and slept most of the day, but the Four Diamonds Fund and Thon embraced him and that is something his family will never forget.
We are in awe of everything youve done for our family and families like ours, Dennis Morton said.
Throughout the hour all the Four Diamonds families in attendance were announced and allowed to walk on stage to a greeting of applause from the large crowd.
After the speeches and the video, all attendees in the BJC locked arms, swayed back and forth and sang Angels Among Us to conclude the hour.
Thon has raised more than $10 million two years in a row and more than $100 million overall, but the dancers dance for a cure, not for a celebration. That is something Dennis Morton said will change when there is a cure for the disease.
You will hear survivor story after survivor story, he said, and that weekend we will really dance.
Matt Morgan can be reached at 235-3928. Follow him on Twitter @MetroMattMorgan.


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My name is Bob, AKA DaPieGuy. It is nice to met all of ya. My job is Assistant To The Pastry Chef, my wife.
Anyways I been have back issues since 2004. Kinda hit the wall this year. 2 ER visits with observation hospitalizations. Long story short. Surgery is not an option, unless I could have a spine transplant. There is a problem on nearly every vertebrae. So treatment is Pain Management & Physical Therapy.
I understand about the spine transplant. I've been wanting one for years. That procedure has yet to be perfected. LOL.
Please feel free to ask questions or just vent. We understand.
I don't know where to start other than echoing what Dave said and let you know we're here for you and while we can't fix your back we may be able to help you guide the train to prevent a wreck.
You can't let back pain get out of control as it can and will destroy your life, but Dave is a prime example of someone who taught himself and his spouse to make damn good lemonade out of all the lemons thrown at him.
We dream of being able to help someone make an informed decision that can improve their quality of life so as us anything and we'll give honest answers!
welcome to the support group - we all know the pains you are feeling~~Sorry to hear you are hitting a road block or brick wall - think we have all been there at some point or are still there.
One piece of advise I can give you is to not stop searching for the spine specialist (Orthopedic or Neurosurgeon Spine Specialist) and be sure that you have current MRI AND CT Scan (sometimes CT Scans will show more).
Seeing the right kind of pain management specialist is vital too. I see, and some other members do too, a PHYSIATRIST Pain Management Specialist -
They do go deeper into pain management control based on the patients' needs. I have been seeing mine since 2009 and they are a life saver. I can't tell you how many times since then that they have had me go see my spine surgeon just to get an update on what needs to be done. And they always use the best spine specialists where surgery is always the last resort.
There are other options besides surgery - Spinal Cord Stimulator Implants - where a device is implanted in the mid-upper back that sends a false signal to the brain to say There Is No Pain - there is a sensation that is felt sometimes like bubbles or something running up your spine - but they do let you try it out on a trial basis for 3-7 days. this helps reduce the amount of pain meds taken orally.
Pain Pump Implant - some surgeons will only do this for those that are in dire need - those with chronic pains that will never get better. usually a stay in hospital is needed for 3-7 days to make sure the leads are in the right place and that the mixture of meds is appropriate thereby reducing the intake of pain meds orally is reduced
so research - ask your pain doc - they will help you with this.
Most of us members have completed our profile where you can read our stories by clicking on our name or picture. Hope and pray you can get some relief~~
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~~ Joy ~~
I am waiting on the MRI report it was done last Monday morning. I ended up in the ER again, spent 2 1/2 days in the hospital as they tried again to find something that works.
The neurosurgeons that I saw inform me that the spinal cord is irritated due to narrowing, the major nerve roots by bone spurs. I have several protruding disks but those are inoperable. The entire spine is affected by arthritis.
Everything went to ____ 8 weeks ago. Got up one morning and could barely walk or stand. {OPPS!!! I need to tell you that I had been under treatment for the lumbar region for about 5 years. Took my meds & had no issues. There is more to tell about zee ole back though} The week before this happened I saw my PCP because of a white hot burning pain mainly in my left leg & dragging my left foot. She added a nerve pain med & up my other back meds. Few days later in the ER & 1st stay. MRI, and I am now the guinea pig for Neurosurgery & Pain Management.
Where I am at now:
PT & Pain Management apps this week for revaluation
waiting on apps for EMG & Neurology
Even people with nearly identical injuries don't feel the same pain. Pain is unique to the individual and very subjective. One of medicines most complex puzzles...
Best of luck
My wife is amazing. Even though does not understand what I am going through she stands by me. After all the rages, my lousy behavior towards her, the embarrassment I have caused. When I went to the ER last time the nurse who came in said "oh another junkie" I was having tremors. I flew into a rage walk out the ER & hospital flipping everybody off screaming at the top of my lungs. My wife eventually got me back to the ER where I was sedated.
Now I am terrified of being called a Drug Seeker!! To top everything off my PCP is leaving my healthcare system. Life sure can suck!!!
Keep your chin, tell your wife thank you and keep up the fight!
Your dad will likely never understand as it sounds like he'd rather impress you with how tough he is and expects the same out of you. Seems like you understand your situation so I won't repeat it.
Good luck finding the right help. We're all different and we all fight our own battles, but we do need help. You got your wife and that's huge!! Now you need a good pain doc that you can build a relationship with
You're in my thoughts and prayers.
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Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin talks about commercial real estate and development, including stores, hotels, offices, condos, apartments and industrial buildings.
Nordstrom opening department store at Mayfair mall by 2015
Nordstrom Inc. will open its first full-line Wisconsin department store at Wauwatosa's Mayfair mall in fall 2015.
The Seattle-based company announced Thursday plans to open a 140,000-square-foot, three-level store. It will be on the mall's east side, between Boston Store and Mayfair's six-story attached office building.
"We've heard from customers in the Milwaukee area for years that they would appreciate a store in their community," said Erik Nordstrom, company stores president, in a statement. "We're glad we have an opportunity to serve our customers, as well as those new to Nordstrom, in such a strong location as Mayfair."
Mayfair, owned by Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc., has more than 160 stores and restaurants. Nordstrom would be the mall's third department store anchor, joining Boston Store and Macy's.
"GGP is a terrific partner for us," Nordstrom said. "They operate great shopping destinations with a quality tenant mix. That's important to us in terms of giving customers a reason to shop at one particular location over another."
Nordstrom's "reputation, quality merchandise and exceptional customer service complements GGP's retail strategy," said Sandeep Mathrani, General Growth chief executive officer. "We're excited to provide shoppers with yet another sought-after retail option at Mayfair."
The development will likely include a new two-level parking structure at Mayfair to serve the mall's customers, sources said. The parking structure would be built immediately east of the Boston Store, with the Nordstrom store built north of the parking structure and south of the mall's attached office building.
The Nordstrom department store will be within a short drive of a Nordstrom Rack, which sells lower-priced clothing. It will be the first Nordstrom Rack in Wisconsin.
Nordstrom Rack will be an anchor at The Mayfair Collection, a new retail center that Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate Inc. plans to have open by summer of 2014.
HSA plans to begin construction next spring on the Mayfair Collection. In the project's 23-acre first phase, HSA plans to demolish part of the former Roundy's warehouse complex just east of Highway 45, north of Burleigh St., and create 270,330 square feet of retail space split between renovated warehouse space and new buildings.
The Wauwatosa Common Council recently approved a proposal to provide up to $8.5 million in city funds to help develop the Mayfair Collection. Some of the funds would be spent on demolition, new streets and water mains, an environmental cleanup and burying of utility lines, along with a forgivable loan to HSA.
The estimated value of the project's first phase is $46.6 million.
The surprise announcement also raises questions about the impact on other retail developments, including The Corners, a Von Maur-anchored shopping center which Marcus Corp. hopes to develop in the Town of Brookfield.
I have contacted Von Maur and Marcus executives, and hope to hear back from them soon. Coincidentally, I just finished a story, running Sunday in the Journal Sentinel, about delays in the approval process for a $35 million public financing proposal for The Corners.
We'll have more later at JSOnline.com, and in Friday's Journal Sentinel print edition on Nordstrom's entry into the Milwaukee area.
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wow! didn't see that coming!Hide replies
I didn't either but we probably should have. Usually where there is Nordstrom Rack there is a full line Nordstrom somewhere near by. With Nordstrom rack going into the Mayfair Collection it makes sense to have a full line store at Mayfair. Both will be a welcome addition.
you're 100% correct....
The tenants in the attached office tower already don't have enough parking for their patients and clients. This will only make that worse. Especially during December. Is there a plan in place to make up for the lost parking?Hide replies
i bet they include additional parking....
This is a real coup for Mayfair. As a neighbor, I, too, am a bit concerned about the parking. They did just tear down the medical building on the southeast corner, so that may be part of the plan.
My guess is that they'll build another parking ramp in the lot south of the theater.
There is plenty of room for parking. People in Wisconsin are just don't see parking ramps very often. Question is who foots the bill as these things don't come cheap..
A parking ramp will be fine to replace the lost parking for Nordstroms. But it's the placement of the ramp that concerns me. The one on the south side of Boston Store is simply too far away to be useful. If they build one in the empty lot where the medical building was, it would also be too far away.
They have limited covered parking under the movie theater, but most of that is taken up by mall employees including the mall management. I hope improving the parking is part of the overall plan.
They should make the entire east side of Mayfair into a three story, low rise parking structure with multilevel entrances off of Center and exits onto North Ave. so that all turns are right turns. This would optimize traffic flow.
And to all the people claiming Mayfair is dead...Nordstrom will be a welcome addition to Milwaukee. The mall I still see with the biggest challenges is Southridge. Areas bordering southridge are getting worse not better and as Mayfair cracks down harder on nonsense in their mall, that traffic is going to other malls...mainly Southridge...Hide replies
Mayfair has the highest revenue of any mall in the state.....idiot economic illiterates posting on here do not constitute reality!
With Nordstrom, Mayfair will easily be the premier retail center in the area. Glad to see them invest in the mall!
This is AMAZING news for Mayfair and for all shoppers who care about quality merchandise. Nordstrom has no peer in the Milwaukee market at present.
Will this affect the Von Maur development in Brookfield? Doesn't Von Maur consider themselves very similar to a Nordstrom? Is there enough room in the western Milwaukee market for both stores?
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Nordstrom understands customer first mentality. I worked directly under their former President and learned a ton about growing a loyal customer base through amazing service. Too bad most other retail executives forgot about that part of business...
In 2014 Nordstrom is set to discontinue high end fashion in favor of Kohls style and Packer sweatshirts ;-)
I'm preparing to throw away my I-PASS as we speak...
Too bad it's not at Brookfield Square...much nicer area & more parking, plus you don't have to lose that parking spot to a moviegoer...Hide replies
much nicer area_ what do u mean by that statement?
If two of your three anchor stores are JCPenneys and Sears, you will not get a Nordstroms.
It is not a nicer area, and the only reason there is more parking, is because less people go there. Brookfield Square could NEVER have landed a Nordstrom's!
They're both nice cities, but I prefer Tosa.
Brookield just added soda machines, and Mayfair is adding Nordstrom. Brookfield has a terrible mix of stores that would not compliment Nordstrom...Mayfair does. Too bad there are so many economic illiterates posting on here........
Fantastic!! No more driving to Illinois or ordering sight unseen online.
Great business plan. Considering MKE is so close to the Illinois and Mich. boarder, this might attract people from other states that doesn't have a Nordstrom or it isn't one close to them. I am sure people from all over WI will make trips there.
Can't say I saw this coming.


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Science at FMNH : Ep. 39 - Digital Planet: Antarctica Showcase
This summer, youth who participated in the Digital Planet: Antarctica program planned, filmed, and edited short videos on Dr. Peter Makovicky's 2010 paleontological expedition. These videos highlight the research, science and logistics necessary to excavate fossils in this harsh environment. To learn more about the Digital Planet programs visit the TakeTheField page.
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- Expeditions – Digging for Fossils in Antarctica
- Peter Makovicky
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- Ep. 20 – Antarctic Fieldwork
- Ep. 21 – Polar Dinosaurs
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Snail Love
7 comments:
- Monica Crumley said...
Cute idea. We're spilling over with Legos! Your little snail friend is so cute. I never thought they would respond to people, but your little snail whisperer must be irresistable.
- September 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- Teaching My Little BookWorm said...
so cute! my girls rescued a red eared slider baby turtle he is doing great and we all love him!
hope he heals fast!
- September 3, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- Lee, Jenny, Max, and Bella said...
I just started following your blog and love it! And today about 3 hours after I had read this post, my little 5 year old who loves all little creatures brought me a snail he found in the sandbox! He thinks I am the greatest mom ever because I immediatly started putting together a habitat based on your blog! We now have a little "Luke Skywalker" living in a butter tub covered in panty hose on our kitchen table!
- September 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM
- Jessica said...
That itty, bitty, teeny, tiny snail is the cutest thing I've seen in a long time!
- September 3, 2009 at 10:23 PM
- Tas said...
Oh, that is so lovely. We would have 100 furry caterpillars in a tub if the kids wanted. They are everywhere but I haven't seen snails for a while...
- September 3, 2009 at 10:28 PM
- Val in the Rose Garden said...
That is so cute. What a sweet heart you have.
- September 22, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- Swapna Raghu Sanand said...
That is so very cute!
- September 22, 2009 at 3:05 PM


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Sacha Jenkins-much like rap great KRS One-is hip hip. Sachy-Sach, his sister Dominiqe, and their artistically inclined, Haitian-born mom-dukes, Monart, moved to Astoria, Queens, NY fromSilver Springs, MD in the summer of 1977. Their Philadelphia, PA-reared, filmmaking/Emmy Award-winning pop-dukes, Horace was already living in NYC at the time (100th Street & CentralPark West, to be exact...blocks away from the infamous Rock Steady Park). During the schoolweek, young Sacha spent his post three o'clock days playing stickball and skelly. Then...1980: Sacha was blessed by an elder with an instrument of destruction that would forever changehis life. "PK," a local subway scrawler with some inter-borough celebrity, handed the young boya very juiced-up Pilot magic marker.1988: Inspired by a the International Graffiti Times (a rag published by aerosol legend Phase 2 and David Schmidlap), Sacha would put together Graphic Scenes & X-plicit Language-a zine dedicated to, yep, graf. And poetry. And anti-Gulf War rants. And humor. And towards the end,in 1991, music.1992: Beat Down, America's first hip hop newspaper, is launched by Sacha and a childhood friend have a falling out. Bye bye, Black bird.June, 1994: Ego Trip magazine is born.1996: Sacha writes for Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin. He gets a Writer-At-Large then Music Editor gig at Vibe.Present: In his spare time, Sacha likes to play guitar, collect Planet of the Apes action figures and listen to rap that isn't wack. He's a Leo.In the summer of 1992, armed with his worthless LaGuardia Community College Associate Arts degree, mulatto-born Elliot Wilson attempted to connect with The Source to no avail. Frustrated20and full of half-black rage, Wilson vowed to one day show his smarmy colleagues in the worldof hip hop journalism what a tragic mistake they had made.Befriending fellow W.C. Bryant High School alum Sacha Jenkins and L.C.C. student Haji Akhigbade, Wilson became the Music Editor of the duo's burgeoning rap newspaper, BeatDown. After the trio disbanded in the fall of '93, Wilson encouraged Jenkins to give the publishing game another shot and the seasoned salt-and-pepper duo began to conceptualizeEgo Trip.Wilson soon realized, however, that one cannot eat off props alone. When not contributing toward ground-breaking. When not contributing toward ground-breaking Ego Trip scriptures,he actively freelanced for Vibe, Rap Pages, Rap Sheet, Time Out New York and Paper. In 1995,he endured a brief-but-successful stint as an Associate Editor at CMJ New Music Report wherehe solidified the indie rock trade rag's hip hop coverage.But it was in 1996 that he would enjoy a particularly sweet payback when he was wooed from CMJ to become The Source's Music Editor. During his two-year tenure, he helped propel thealready established publication to the country's top-selling music title.From Q-borough underachiever to Big Willie publishing mogul and now author, Elliot JesseWilson Jr. is a living testament that dreams can and do come true.Toiling for years as a truck-driving production assistant on the New York commercial filmmakingscene, New York University graduate Chairman Mao needed direction. An aspiring DJ, his addiction to acquiring wax had depleted his bank account. But in 1992, his chance meeting with anambitious young publishing entrepreneur/film intern named Sacha Jenkins introduced an absurd solution to these fiscal woes-entering the world of music journalism! Mao began contributing to Jenkins' Beat Down magazine in exchange for complimentary promotional copies of hip hop records. He couldn't believe his luck. Mao eventually exploited this writing scam so well that he actually began earning rent moneywith his new vocation. While becoming a fundamental cog within Jenkins' and partner ElliotWilson's next publishing foray, Ego Trip, Mao enlightened Rolling Stone, Spin, EntertainmentWeekly and Vibe with his critical musings. Amongst his most noteworthy assignments: his guest editorship for Rap Pages acclaimed DJ Issue in April of 1996 and is profile of The Notorious B.I.G. in April of 1997 for the cover of The Source shortly before the rapper's untimely death.Currently Ego Trip's Editor-in-Chief and a Vibe Writer-at-Large, Mao still can't believe he possesses a job that doesn't require him to sweep floors and chauffeur ad agency assholes. When not clocking long-but-gratifying hours at ET's NYC HQ, he can be found in a recordstore near you digging for archival additions to his now 20,000-piece strong record library.Gabriel Alvarez was a long-haired, 20-year-old, L.A.-born Mexican with glasses trying to find a job in 1991. The odds were against him. Nobody wanted him. The only alternative? Intern forgratis at the latest magazine acquisition of Hustler publishing magnate Larry Flynt. Film Threat was a cool, anti-Hollywood, punk rock-type rag that gave the mainstream film press the kind of kick in the ass it needed. Alvarez quickly elevated to the position of Associate Editor.Two years later, however, it was time to move on and Alvarez began working for another Flyntpublication. Rap Pages was a hip hop mag that needed new creative energies to help it realize itspotential. As Managing Editor, Alvarez expelled plenty of blood, sweat and tears and featuredspecial graffiti, DJ and breakdance issues that intrigued a growing readership. Another threeyears later, though, it was time to roll the dice again.His next job opportunity came in 1996 in the enticing form of Ego Trip, and amazingly creativemagazine outta New York City, that made him an offer he couldn't refuse: a Managing Editorposition demanding lots of hard work but no money. Displaying the sage decision-making skillsthat have guided his entire career, Alvarez immediately packs his bags and heads for the Rotten Apple. He begins freelancing extensively for The Source and Vibe. His status as animportant critical voice grows. He even cuts his hair. He couldn't be happier. Or more broke.Alternately known as Asparagus, Prima, Gor-gee, Half-Black, Kinda-Black, Brent Rollins orMilton Reese (depending on the time of day), Brent Rollins, ET's full-time Art Director andpart-time scribe, is the original "Afrocentric Asian, half man/half-amazin'."But whatever he's called, he's called often by the entertainment biz. Before graduating from UCLA with a BFA, Rollins had the fortunate opportunity to cut his teeth designing logos for filmslike Spike Lee's Mo Better Blues and John Singleton's Boyz N The Hood as well as interningat Fattal and Collins Design & Advertising. He punctuated his college career by creating graphicsfor a FOX Network variety show, revamping the identity for TV's historic Soul Train and studying for a French exam all during his senior finals week. C'est incroyable!However, it was his subsequent two-year bid (1994-1996) as Art Director for Rap Pages magazinewhich honed Rollins' talents. Since then, he's serviced clients such as Miramax Films, ICM, A&M,Mo' Wax and SoleSide Records. Along the way, he's also created art for the Pharcyde, TheNotorious B.I.G., Gang Starr, Sir Menelik, Black Star, and The Refugee Project charity organization. Between maintaining the 24/7 grind that has put food on his table and made his momproud, the design veteran continues to champion the maligned and forgotten genre of "weirdo-rap." Big time.
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I cover domestic and world economics from a free-market perspective
Europe's more than half century experience shows that, no matter hard you squeeze them, the rich cannot pay for a big government that guarantees all its citizens "positive rights" to income, employment, health, and retirement. Such an entitlement state – some call it a nanny state — is funded primarily by repressive taxes on the middle class and the working poor. This conclusion is based on hard statistical facts that neither the right nor left dispute. America's Left has kept this fact under wraps and out of sight of voters. It should have been the focus of the 2012 Republican campaign, but it was not.
Barack Obama has been busy creating and expanding an American entitlement state that he promises will be paid for by the rich. The middle class and poor need not worry about tax increases. For the time being, Obama can rely on lenders (and the Fed) to finance the annual $850 billion deficits projected under the most likely CBO scenario. But the day of reckoning will come. At some point, the "bond vigilantes" will refuse to finance the deficit at sustainable rates, and the government will be forced to cut entitlement spending or vastly raise taxes. When that time comes, then ex-President Obama expects the entitlement mentality to be so deeply ingrained that the middle class and working poor will accept their higher taxes with little protest.
If we continue down the road to Obama's Big Government, everyone watch their wallets. The taxman commeth, big time! Judging from Europe's experience, we must dramatically raise income taxes on the middle class, triple social security taxes, introduce a 20 percent federal sales tax, and raise the gasoline tax by $4.00. These taxes are all regressive, which means they fall most heavily first on the poor and then on the middle class.
If you do not believe me, an influential member of the media elite (from the New York Times editorial board, no less), let this secret slip in a remarkably candid admission. (Note his article appeared after the election):
"The experience of many other developed countries suggests that paying for a government that could help the poor and the middle class cope in our brave new globalized world will require more money from the middle class itself….The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the developed world.….. Taxes on American households do more to redistribute resources and reduce inequality than the tax codes of most other rich nations…. Insisting on highly progressive taxes that draw most revenue from the rich may result in more inequality than if we relied on a flatter, more 'regressive' tax schedule to raise money from everybody (!!!) and pay for a government that could help every American family attain a decent standard of living."
The Obama campaign ignored this rather important fact. He offered the voter instead an enticing fable of a European-style nanny state paid for by the rich, ignoring the fact (to cite the Times) that the U. S. already has the most progressive tax system. Obama can soak the rich a little more, but the extra revenue will be meager if anything at all.
Although the media and some moderate Republicans characterize the fiscal cliff as stubborn politicians not playing like well-behaved children, its outcome will set the tone for a momentous tug-of-war over Big Government versus Limited Government. Obama is invoking his presumed electoral mandate to tax the rich, emboldened Democrats insist on taking entitlement reforms (cuts) off the table, and cowed Republicans offer revenue enhancements in return for spending reductions. If the result is the loss of the Bush tax cuts and/or increased spending from currently high levels and no entitlement reform, it will become difficult to reverse the tide toward the nanny state.
With the federal government borrowing 30 to 40 cents of every dollar, we have what The Economist calls the "American schizophrenia" of "taxing itself like a small-government country, but spending like a big-government one." America is in the process of making the momentous decision which government it wants.
If we opt for Obama's Big Government solution, we must eventually find a way to pay for it – and Europe tells us we must raise taxes on the poor and middle class. If we want a Small Government solution, intrepid politicians must do the heavy lifting of cutting entitlement programs back to levels for which a progressive tax system can pay.
Europe's welfare state began in the 1870s as Germany's Iron Chancellor Bismarck dangled entitlements to lessen the lure of Marx's Communist Manifesto. Europe has had a century and a half to find an optimal variant. Its main parties are to our left. They have made every effort to create a nanny state paid for by the rich and failed. Instead, it is paid for by the middle class and poor. A Big Government America will be no exception. Willy Sutton robbed banks because that is where the money is. The middle class pays for the big entitlement states because that is where the money is.
Our liberal Times writer admits that a Sozialstaat paid for by the rich would be too small to provide everyone with a decent standard of living. Only a big nanny state can do the job, and that means taxing regressively the poor and middle class. The U.S. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — "the most progressive program of cash benefits among 22 advanced countries" – has a budget that is only a tenth of Europe's (as a percent of GDP). Yes, the program is progressive, but it should be ten times larger to assure people their universal rights. A small nanny state simply won't do. We must scale up all our entitlement programs and find the means of paying for them.
Europe is now learning that, even with onerous middle-class taxation, it cannot afford its generous entitlements. As Europe is seeking ways out of this mess as we are jumping in.
Let's go from the big picture to the basic facts of official OECD statistics:
Fact 1: The core countries of Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) collect only one third of their revenue from progressive income, profits, and property taxes, while the U.S. collects almost sixty percent.
Fact 2: Europe collects almost two thirds (64 percent) of its revenues from regressive payroll and sales taxes versus 44 percent for the U.S. (The U.S. figure includes state and local sales taxes. Our federal sales taxes are trivial unlike Europe's).
Fact 3: The top marginal income tax rates on Europe's "rich" vary from 41 to 52 percent, while the top U.S. federal marginal tax rate is 38 percent (including the uncapped 2.9 percent Medicare deduction). Forty three states have an income tax which is not included in the 38 percent figure. Europe has a low share of income taxes despite high marginal tax rates at the top.
Fact 4: Europe's top marginal tax rates kick in at middle-income levels (Belgium at $46,000, Netherlands at $72,000, and France at $92,000). Only in Germany does it register at an income level ($326,000) comparable to the United States ($379,000). Europe applies its highest marginal income tax rates to middle class incomes by U.S. standards. The European middle class pays marginal tax rates similar to the highest tax rates in the United States.
Fact 5: Europe's social security tax rates average 43 percent for workers earning the average wage versus the United States' current 14 percent (which includes the Medicare tax). Europe's high regressive social security taxes make taxes on labor the largest source of revenue for Europe's entitlement state.
Fact 6: Europe's national value added tax averages 20.5 percent. Europe's average fuel tax is $3.08 per gallon (not counting the VAT) versus the U.S.'s 18.4 cent federal excise tax on gasoline. Europe collects as much from regressive national sales and gasoline taxes as from progressive income and profit taxes.
Fact 7: If the top U.S. marginal tax rate is returned to the pre-Bush rates, top income earners will face a marginal rate of 42.5 percent, similar to that of top earners in Europe. This top rate does not include state income taxes.
The article should be required reading by every member of Congress and every bureaucrat inside the beltway.
It is a turn off to have a journalist begin an article with such a negative, hostile and impregnable point of view. Many people in this country would be more prone to hear another side of the argument if what is said came out of a more unbiased and more objective stance from the start. It seems that a great many people at the extremes of the political spectrum are more interested in hearing themselves or people who think exactly like them than they are reaching the hearts and minds of a broader array of citizens.I quickly turned from reading this article after I encountered a totally extremist title trashing another point of view before they even got started. Turned off reader
Funny how when you state facts Progressives are offended. You're just lucky she didn't call you a racist. That's their first weapon of choice…
Great article by the way. Very eye opening when explained correctly like Thomas Sowell's article about who is responsible for the current government shut down.
It is really "the Right" which harbors the fantasy that government can magically go on with ever lower taxes. "The Left," (meaning anybody more liberal than the old John Birch Society) realizes that govt benefits require taxes, and working people are happy to pay them. Social Security and Medicare, the two largest "entitlement" programs, are paid for directly by regressive taxes drafted from workers' paychecks, after all.
As to amounts: Neither raising the gasoline tax to $4.00 per gallon nor tripling the SS payroll tax is called for in anything like current conditions.
I don't think that most Americans would object to higher taxes to fund programs that directly benefit the poor and middle class.
Gee I don't remember Obama campaigning on having the middle class pay more in taxes. But you obviously do, inside some alternate universe.
If only the GOP would remember this as they negotiate with themselves. Would you be available to do a radio interview by phone to air live some weekday morning in Scranton PA?
Its absurd to think that government should provide entitlements.
The old adage, "if its to good to be true"
Here's the problem, you take money from the Rich, it goes into Washington, gets devalued, then gets pumped back out into the system.
Not to mention that taxing the rich (primarily those who file there personal income as a small business) get screwed over. Then you have all the taxes between its making and the selling of the product. God knows how much that product would really cost if the government wouldn't keep taking a small piece of the pie. Not to mention regulations cost.
If you want the greatest return on government programs, invert the priority. Meaning, the highest taxes should be paid to the cities, then the state, then the federal government. This way, you gain more bang for your buck, more specific programs, then you get thousands of similar programs, which now become test subjects on what works.
MatthewDougherty – Social Security and Medicare are not primarily funded by "the rich." They are funded with taxes on earned income. In the case of SS, the amount of income that is taxable for the payroll tax is capped at $106,000. In the case of Medicare, a portion of the program is paid by premiums paid by the recipients themselves.
The largest portion of income taxes is paid by, obviously, those with the highest incomes.
As for which level of govt should get the largest portion of taxes: Compare the cost of collection among state, local, and federal govts.


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And now a word about the name of this venture: Runners High. In this case, it's meant to have the dreaded "double meaning" — that is, first its meant to emphasize the word "Hi" to underscore the goal we have to make this site an online hub for runners and fitness enthusiasts in the Greater Cincinnati — and beyond. But, of course, it also involves the legendary feeling of euphoria some runners feel when, well, running. Until recently, there's always been some debate over whether or not such a thing is real.
I've known the truth for 26 years now — since early in the summer of 1983 when I started running before (or sometimes after) work, which at the time was a summer job at the now-defunct Sea World of Ohio. About a year before, my freshman biology teacher at Kent State was always hammering into our heads how aerobic exercise — like running — was the key to one's personal fitness. In other words, it was like eating spinach — something I eventually started doing because I was told I have to.
Mind you, that's merely the reason I started running; the reason I kept running was because I found, amazingly, I liked it. And the reason I liked it was because, the more miles I added, the better I felt. And the better I felt, the more the sensation felt similar to how I'd feel on the occasional "night on the town" in college — only much better, obviously, because the residual pain associated with running was always a "good" pain, unlike that which would follow weekend trips to downtown Kent establishments. I had indeed stumbled into the "Runner's High" — and everything changed for me, for the better.
Jay Kumar, running columnist for the Salem (Mass.) News, has a cool article on the whole "runner's high" thing here:
In the article, Kumar says he definitely feels the "runner's high" and, conversely, a "runner's low" when a few days pass in which he's not able to run. I'm with him on the latter part, too.
How about you? Do you feel the "runner's high" or is running just a way of eating your spinach? Actually, with me, I agree on both fronts since much, much later, I actually tried spinach and liked it, too.
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