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There is a smart, reasonable conservtive discourse in America, but I barely ever see it outside the writing of Conor Friedersdorf and a few other bloggers.
Related thought: if we banned all discussion of politics on for-profit television stations, political discourse in America would improve immeasurably. True? Eh, maybe not, but it was a try.
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Megan asks how liberals know that gun toters at Obama events are militia members. I was going on the information Michael Roston points out, that two of the guys prominently featured on the news were members of the same far-right group, and the guy who did a pre-planned YouTube interview with one of them used to be in a '90s militia.
On the "crazed" question, I think there may be a philosophical issue, in that we largely define "craziness" as a drastic deviation from a norm of behavior. These guys are getting put on TV, and their behavior is eliciting so much reaction, largely because people feel it is a drastic violation of social norms. Obviously you can't take that kind of attitude too far; people speaking in tongues appear to be doing something rather crazy to most Americans, but that form of behavior is a socially protected, defined zone where we allow and want people to feel free to do whatever it is they feel spiritually prompted to do. Carrying a gun to a political rally is different — as is carrying a gun into a church, for that matter.
I'd compare it to the way one would say John Yettaw, the guy who swam across the lake to visit Aung San Suu Kyi, was "crazy": he clearly had expectations about the way other people would respond to his communicative behavior that were completely at odds with the way people actually could reasonably be expected to react. That kind of communicative disconnect really is a typical part of what we think of as "craziness". Obviously, within the circles in which the gun-toting folks move, their behavior is not outside the norm at all. So, again, you don't want to psychiatrize dissent. But it is also true that groups of people can evolve collective expectations about how people outside their group will perceive their behavior that are a form of collective insanity. And to me, the idea that you can not think that someone else ought to feel threatened by the fact that you, a private citizen, show up to a political event heavily armed, is a kind of crazy collective belief that some people on the right have developed amongst themselves over the years. These people are not foaming at the mouth. But the social assumptions they've managed to convince themselves of are nuts.
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Easily the most amusing and hysterical reaction to the news that the CDC may recommend circumcision because it helps prevent AIDS came from the Daily Dish reader who wrote in:
It's my dick. It's my dick. It's my dick. It is no one else's dick but my dick. And I should have the choice to circumcise it when I am old enough to make that decision.
Let me reassure this guy: no one is planning to do anything to his dick. Assuming, that is, that he is more than 8 days old. But with respect to the practice of circumcision, the important point is this: he's my son. Not yours. Parents have the right to decide on medical treatment for their children, presuming such medical treatment is not actively harmful. And parents have the right to include their children in cultural rites and practices, again presuming no harm is done.
In the case of circumcision, the evidence shows that it prevents the transmission of HIV and other STDs. There is some disputed evidence, on the other hand, that it reduces sexual pleasure; and there are some ludicrous and hysterical people claiming that it damages the bond between mother and child. This certainly sounds plausible; we all know Jewish men don't enjoy sex, and have trouble bonding with their mothers. Not.
What, then, of female circumcision? Well, I understand, perhaps wrongly, that there are some forms which are not particularly medically invasive, and which do not entail significant medical consequences. I think that such forms of female circumcision are a matter of cultural practice that should be left up to parents to decide. The more invasive forms of female circumcision entail serious negative medical consequences. Obviously that's not cool. And female circumcision is carried out on girls aged 7 to 12 or even older; at that age, the child gets a vote, too. In any case, this doesn't have much to do with anything, because we're talking about a medical recommendation.
But the main point is that if the guy who wrote the email were circumcised, he wouldn't have written the email. Men who are circumcised don't complain about it. There may be some vanishingly small number of guys who are upset about the fact that their parents circumcised them. It's a weird thing to be upset about. The whole issue of treating this as some kind of mutilation of a rights-endowed human being who should be allowed to decide for himself seems to me like an insane metastasis of the American fixation with individual rights-based ideology. Children are born into families. Those families have cultures and beliefs, and are entitled to make decisions about how their children will be treated, shaped, and raised.
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Are Guns at Protests Really Dangerous? – Megan McArdle .
Megan is right: the people carrying guns openly at anti-Obama rallies probably won't fire them. I don't think we should be complacent about any risk of people shooting each other at political rallies. I am confident that the possibility of a gun being discharged at an anti-Obama rally before the next midterm is greater than 0.5%. That is a risk I don't see the point of tolerating. If Megan wants to take a 100-to-1 bet on that happening — $500 to me if it happens, $5 to her if it doesn't — I'd take that bet.
Megan then asks that we stop calling the gun-toters "crazed militia members". I don't know who used that phrase. But both the "crazed" and "militia member" demographics are highly overrepresented among people who bring guns to Obama rallies, compared to the population as a whole.
The point of the argument, though, isn't really about the likelihood of a shootout. The point is that a gun is an instrument of violence. People who bring guns to rallies may feel they are saying "I have the right to carry a gun, and that is an important value that I feel is part of being an American." But liberals who see conservatives at rallies carrying guns think they are saying, roughly, "I am prepared to use armed violence in defense of my views." And obviously since our views differ, that is a threatening message to get.
The politics of this issue are very heavily bound up with the fact that anyone who carries a gun openly in the US is at least 90% likely to be a right-wing white Christian heterosexual male. If there were large numbers of muscular black guys with Malcolm X or Black Panther Party t-shirts walking down residential streets in Phoenix carrying AR-15s, or lots of Wiccan diesel dykes showing up at anti-Sarah Palin rallies with abortion rights signs and Glocks in their belts, there would be some NRA members who had no problem with that. But the large majority of regular center-right folks who normally support gun rights and oppose Obama would be very uncomfortable with that sort of thing.
In all likelihood we are about to see Ted Kennedy's name dragged through the mire by pathological right-wing sleazebags. Before that happens, I'd like to thank a guy who spent four decades trying to keep phrases like "a fair society" and "economic justice" from completely disappearing from America's lexicon and its conceptual vocabulary. The idea that society could actually be more or less fair is really not so fantastical or revolutionary. In fact, if you stopped most Americans on the street and asked them, "Do you think society should be fair?", they would probably answer yes. But for some reason only a few politicians seem to be willing to run on that bedrock principle, and Ted Kennedy was one of them.
It's only natural that for somebody who believes in fairness, universal health insurance and education are the places to start. I first heard of Ted Kennedy in 1980, when I was in 6th grade, and he ran a primary campaign that challenged Jimmy Carter from the left. The theme of the campaign was that Carter had gone so far towards placating centrist deficit hawks and defense hawks that he had lost any clear focus on what it meant to be a Democrat, to stand for social justice. Kennedy lost the campaign. This is a quote from his concession speech. Remember, it is August 12, 1980.
We cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. So I will continue to stand for a national health insurance. We must — We must not surrender — We must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. Let us insist on real controls over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's wealth.
The President, the Vice President, the members of Congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives catch a little cold, the Capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. We do not get a bill even if we ask for it, and when do you think was the last time a member of Congress asked for a bill from the Federal Government? And I say again, as I have before, if health insurance is good enough for the President, the Vice President, the Congress of the United States, then it's good enough for you and every family in America.
As I just wrote on the Economist's Democracy in America blog, Ted Kennedy could stand up and make that speech today, and he wouldn't have to change a word. It is as true today as it was 29 years ago. Go read the rest there. Meanwhile, it would be really nice if Kennedy's death helped focus Democrats on pushing through the universal health insurance he spent his life trying to achieve.
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Having looked over Megan McArdle's proposal for health care reform, I think I agree with its basic outlines. I agree with scrapping the tax break for employer-provided health insurance. I disagree with the idea of scrapping community rating and guaranteed access. When Megan notes at the end of her post that she might support a universal mandate, for example, I don't understand how it's even possible to have a universal mandate without guaranteed access. How can you demand that sick people buy insurance when private insurers are allowed to refuse to cover them?
Megan's solution for the problem of unaffordable health care premiums for people who are sick, or likely to become so, is a reinsurance system that would reimburse insurers for customers whose costs rise above a certain level, perhaps $50,000 or $100,000, or 10-20% of annual income (lower for lower incomes). This would make it attractive for insurers to insure even people who are likely to get very sick, since their liability will be limited. Presumably when Megan says a "reinsurance system" she means a government-funded reinsurance system, since this is obviously a loss-making enterprise. Alternatively, it might be a mandatory kitty that all insurance companies need to pay into, but that would raise the cost of premiums and be effectively indistinguishable from a community rating system, which Megan says she doesn't want because it pushes up premiums. Anyway, I would be curious to see the numbers. How much would it cost for the government to cover all health care costs that go above a lifetime $50,000 or $100,000 limit, or over 10-20% of annual income? Megan says this would be cheaper than the current reform proposal. I have no idea whether that's true; it does not seem at all self-evident.
The other reason for confusion about this proposal is that Megan says she opposes health insurance reform because she is afraid that once government spending tops 50% of all spending, cost controls on drugs and technology are inevitable, and that will retard innovation. But without an estimate of how much the government would end up spending on her reinsurance program, there is no way to assess whether it wouldn't have the same effect she decries in the Obama proposal.
Megan also says she would means-test Medicare. (And Medicaid, but I don't know what that means; Medicaid is already means-tested.) I'm fine with this in principle but I think it works poorly in practice; means-testing is hard to do, requires more bureaucracy, and creates perverse incentives for the elderly to dump their assets. If you're looking for egalitarian impact, it's more efficient and has roughly the same effect to just raise Medicare taxes on wealthy people, including the wealthy elderly. Essentially you just charge the wealthy more for the service rather than deny them the service. But this isn't a very big objection.
I think the basic thing I'm confused about is: what does Megan see as the goal of her proposed changes? Does she want to make sure everyone has insurance? Is she trying to save costs? Or what?
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Megan McArdle has now provided the Economist with a positive and logically argued program for health insurance reform. That makes her more responsible than any Republican politician in the United States of America. Another way that she's more responsible than Republican politicians is that she states quite openly that she is opposed to universal health insurance. She's trying to do something else with her insurance reform proposals, not achieve universal coverage. I'm not 100% sure I understand what it is that she's trying to do. And a number of things she says on the way to making her case for reform aren't, if I understand correctly, true. But a lot of other things are true, and it's interesting to take a look at the argument.
I ought to respond by looking first at what Megan says her positive program is. The fact is, it's late at night and I don't have time to think that out. Also, it features a resort to some measures, like reinsurance, that I'm not familiar with. I've seen people vaguely make the reinsurance argument before, but I've never seen a plan that relied on it as a way to solve the problem of high premiums for people who are at high risk of illness actually getting far enough along in the political process to sustain serious critique. So I'll have to hold off on that. In the meantime let me just respond to a few of her answers to questions.
First, on the idea that no one has proposed getting rid of private insurance: in fact, a lot of people have proposed getting rid of private insurance (or at least, private insurance that is not essentially a tightly-regulated utility).
Some people have indeed proposed getting rid of private insurance. That is not the bill that is moving through Congress, and it is not relevant. Republicans have manipulated confusion between the actual reform proposal and the British and Canadian systems to deceive the public about the type of reform that is being proposed. Megan is not deliberately misleading the public along those lines. But she is being misleading: she tries to blur the distinction by saying that private insurance under regulated private universal health insurance systems, like Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France, inevitably becomes "a tightly-regulated utility". She doesn't explain what she means by this (insurance companies are pretty tightly regulated already), and she doesn't explain why she feels there is no difference between a government system and a tightly-regulated private utility. Phone and electric companies are tightly-regulated utilities, but surely if the government proposed nationalizing them, Megan would consider that more than a semantic change. What Megan is doing here is assuming the consequent. If she wants to make a case that these reforms eliminate the essential functions provided by private insurance, whatever those are, she has to make that case.
In fact, to a first approximation nearly everyone who is pushing these changes wants the government to guarantee universal coverage. When they are talking to each other, they sell these bills, which none of them much likes, as being another step on the slippery slope to single payer. So it's not unreasonable to fear that that's where we're headed.
It's not unreasonable to fear that that's where we're headed, but the rest of this claim is just wrong. The overwhelming majority of advocates of single-payer support the continued existence of a private industry for supplemental insurance. And a lot of people don't even want single-payer; at this stage most people on the liberal, pro-reform side support a French or Dutch-style system rather than a Canadian one. Even people who want a public plan because they believe it will evolve into a universal program for basic coverage still want to preserve the option for private supplemental insurance. Megan considers such a supplemental private insurance sector to be a neutered joke, but that is her belief. If she wants to argue that case, again, she has to argue it.
Second, the changes will not eliminate perverse incentives. The dominant strategy of an individual in a world with the "strong" public option is to pay the tax surcharge, refuse to buy insurance, and then go on the public plan if you get sick. The weakest bills, on the other hand, simply command people who feel that they cannot buy insurance to buy it anyway, and subsidise some of them.
A universal health insurance plan based on private insurance has to include an individual mandate. That's the way it is. If you want universal health insurance that doesn't have a mandate, you need to go with a single-payer system for basic insurance. If you don't support one of these two options, you are against universal health insurance. And Megan is if I understand it correctly quite openly opposed to universal health insurance. But it's true that the right way to design these systems is to force anyone who doesn't buy private insurance to buy into the public plan, rather than pay some kind of "penalty", so Megan is right that a system implemented the latter way (like Massachusetts') would be flawed.
Third, I'm looking at what happens in countries with these systems. What happens is that they quickly resort to price controls on inputs, because otherwise the costs start marching upward. I think it's reasonable to assume we will follow the price control strategy, which is not, historically, a good way to build a functioning market.
Given that health care in other OECD countries is superior to health care in the US on as many measures as not, and costs between 40% and 65% of what it costs in the US, and that everyone in those countries gets insurance, it would seem that whatever systems they are implementing are in fact good ways to build functioning markets in health care. The health care market is inevitably distorted from the get-go. This is hardly an original observation. It's distorted because most care is paid for by insurers, not patients, and because society implicitly guarantees health care for everyone because society believes in some measure of basic equality. As in other economic spheres, such guarantees drive up prices. Various other measures may be taken, such as price controls, to counteract that distortion. But it's not the regulations that create the distortion. It's the nature of the market.
I actually think that the other thing most people are worried about, rationing, is less likely. America seems to lack the political will for it. But of course that means that costs are going to hit 30% of GDP pretty soon, with a good chance that this will trigger a major political crisis if the government is covering 60% or more of the spending. Those high-end claims driving costs are not for abusive knee surgeries; they're for organ transplants, cardiac care, cancer treatment, and preemies. There are no magic ponies we can ride to painless cost savings.
If there weren't a lot of ineffective care going on in the US, nobody would be opposed to comparative effectiveness research. In fact we know that the counties with the highest medical costs in the country have basically no difference in treatment outcomes from the counties with the lowest medical costs. They're doing more procedures and buying more care, but it doesn't seem to be doing anyone much good in most cases. And we know that the most effective integrated health care organizations, like the Mayo Clinic and the VA, deliver better care at much lower cost than the broader fee-for-procedure private-insured system. If some organizations are doing it better and cheaper than others, that means that there are in fact magic ponies we can ride to painless cost savings. Or rather: there are magic ponies we can ride to cost savings that will be painless for patients. They may involve some financial pain for people who are currently charging too much for useless services.
You know, if I owned a really crappy fast-food restaurant down the street from a McDonald's, and I was providing worse food at higher prices in less attractive surroundings, I might find that my revenues were in trouble. And the question might arise, what should I change? The logical answer would be, let's look at what McDonald's is doing and figure out how to do that. Lately I get the feeling that if I were an American conservative, my answer would be: it's hopeless; either we need to spend more for better ingredients and tastier food, which will drive up prices, or we need to cut expenditures and make our food even worse. There are always trade-offs! American liberals are arguing, you know, not only are there a few other wealthy countries doing health care better and cheaper than we are; every other wealthy country seems to be doing it better and cheaper than we are. If those are magic ponies, the world seems to be full of magic ponies.
Without Explanation, China Releases 3 Activists – NYTimes.com.
Why did China arrest and then release Xu Zhiyong? Xu's legal center was one of the least challenging, most by-the-book human rights law centers in China; while they took on cases that challenged government officials, like the one against the victims of melamine poisoning, they were scrupulous about obeying the rules. Why pick on Xu, rather than on more radical human rights oriented lawyers?
One suspects that we tend to underestimate the degree to which dictatorial regimes make decisions randomly in ways that don't make any sense. We all know that our own democratic regimes concentrate on issues in an arbitrary and politically motivated fashion, that people are treated unfairly for no apparent reason, etc. But for some reason we think that dictatorial regimes are all animated by some secret super-rational plan for preserving their own power that all makes sense if you could just understand what was going on behind closed doors. We thought that about the USSR; it didn't become apparent until glasnost got started that actually the whole thing was a giant incompetent bureaucracy making irrational decisions out of pure incompetence and fear. I'm sure much of what takes place in China is similar.
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Republican Senator David Vitter says he wants to re-import drugs from Canada, at low Canadian prices, because if the US does, then "that system implodes" due to massive US demand. That will end the current situation where US drug consumers are allegedly subsidizing the low drug prices in the rest of the world, where governments negotiate low low prices with the pharmaceutical companies in exchange for market access.
Help me out here: unless I'm missing something, this sounds like it's backwards. There will be implosion, but it'll be an implosion of the drug companies in the US. If the US starts re-importing drugs from Canada, effectively the Canadian market gets bigger. That enhances Canada's ability to negotiate low drug prices with pharmaceuticals companies. A drug company that decides not to meet Canadian demands for low prices, and gets shut out of Canada, will find its competitors now have it beaten out, not just for the Canadian market, but for the massive US re-importation market. This gives Canada's drug price controls board even more power to set the market price. This works the same way that the fact that Hamburg is a huge global center for the coffee trade means wholesale coffee prices in Hamburg are lower, not higher, than those in places where coffee is only sold locally. That's the logic by which certain exchange centers become dominant in certain commodities.
So if we legalize drug re-importation from Canada, what will happen is that the direct US market for drug sales, which is where pharma companies make their big profits, will shrink. And their profit margins will shrink. And at some point they may start to run into severe financial difficulties. Now, it's possible that what will happen at that point is that drug companies will start to insist to other countries that they have to be allowed to charge more, because they can no longer make it up with their profits in the US market. And then there will be some bitter conflicts in drug markets around the world, and prices will ultimately equalize. But that will happen because Vitter's plan has put the squeeze on drug companies, forcing them to contemplate bankruptcy if they don't equalize their global pricing. It's not going to put a squeeze on Canada or force it to "implode"; it will just drive drug prices way down in the US and, eventually, as pharma companies stare at the abyss, force them to push prices up somewhat in Canada, Europe, and Asia. And that's probably why pharma companies oppose reimporting drugs from Canada. They don't want to be forced into that tough negotiation. They like their cushy overpriced US market.
Anyway, unless I'm missing something, I think Vitter's idea is perfectly sound, since it basically turns US drug pricing over to Canada's drug price control board, which will probably negotiate us a good deal. Or am I missing something?
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There's a video that's been making the rounds of an interview with a right-wing anti-health-reform protestor who, shortly after the interview was shot, apparently shouted "Heil Hitler!" in the face of a Jewish man who supports health insurance reform. One thing, I've found, that's irritating with white Christians in America who use insulting vocabulary drawn from conflicts over racism and bigotry that have nothing to do with them, is that there's really nothing you can shout back at them that makes them understand just how offensive they're being; they've simply never had the experience of being a fearful, discriminated-against minority, and they don't have a clue what it feels like. The demonstrative response would be to round them and their families up at gunpoint, shave their heads, load them onto boxcars, let them spend about 72 hours in transit without food or water, unload them and tell them they must choose which one of their kids gets gassed to death immediately, and then say, "Okay, now it would be appropriate for you to yell 'Heil Hitler!' at me." But you can't really do that.
But what really blew my mind, watching the interview with this woman, is that about a minute in, she explains that the reason she's so cheesed off at the idea of illegal immigrants getting health insurance in America (which, obviously, would not actually happen under the House proposal) is that her husband doesn't have health insurance. "My husband doesn't have insurance. I mean, I'm lucky, I have it through my work, but my husband has two jobs — no, he has three jobs, or two and a half. He doesn't have health care. So, you know, it's not a natural-born right." Check out the video, courtesy of TalkingPointsMemo:
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God in Hemel. How on Earth has this basically decent woman been so beaten down by the malign brain-viruses of international capitalism that she has actually got it through her head that because her husband, who works two and half jobs, has no health insurance, the important thing is to make sure nobody else has it either? Why on Earth does she not realize that the point is that her husband deserves health insurance? Whose interests does she think she is serving by making sure that nobody passes legislation that would, horror of horrors, help her husband get health insurance? "It's not a natural-born right," she says. As a factual observation, this is correct — in the US, health insurance is not a natural-born right. Guess what? In the Netherlands, it is! In France, it is! In the UK, it is! In Canada, it is! In Germany, it is! In Japan, it is! In Taiwan, it is! In South Korea, it is! In Italy, it is! In Switzerland, it is! In Sweden, it is! In Spain, it is! In Finland, it is! In Denmark, it is! In bloody Ireland, it is!
But you know who's really crazy? Not her. Me. I got no dog in this fight. I get my health care through the Netherlands. Currently my family (me, the wife, 2 kids) has a worldwide health insurance policy that covers us anywhere in the world, with no deductible, unlimited expenses, prescription drugs, major dental, the works, for under $9000 a year. You can't get that in the States for $14,000; I'm not sure how much it would cost. There are those who insist the reason why European health care is so cheap is that American health care is subsidizing all the innovation. Hey, whatever. You want to believe that, fine; go ahead and keep paying for my cheap health care, Americans! If you feel like you need some excuse to convince yourselves that you should keep paying twice as much as Europeans to get the same care, and the unsubstantiated concept that you are somehow paying for Europeans' health care works for you, then fine. It's got nothing to do with me.
Or that should be my attitude. But what makes me crazy is that I actually care about this whole American debate. It actually makes me furious and sad that this woman has talked herself into the idea that it would be worse if her husband did have a right to health insurance, because then some illegal aliens might get it, too. That actually winds me up. Which is ridiculous. My health insurance situation is great. I'm paying half what I'd be paying the States. I get everything I need. Over in the US there's some bizarre argument going on where insurance companies are insisting that everyone should keep paying twice as much as I do, and that Americans are somehow paying my bills too, and that this, if true, is somehow a reason to keep paying twice as much as I do; and for whatever crazy reason, half of Americans themselves seem to not only believe these insurance company talking points, but have fervently adopted them and are pouring into the streets to accuse Jews of being Hitler in support of them. I should be saying: whatever with your insane bullshit, I live in Holland. Maybe you don't have a right to health insurance, but I do. I should leave it alone. But somehow I can't.


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Anonymous said: This blog lives! I'm so happy.
This blog lives when there are submissions/if I see something I think is relevant to the theme.
It's mostly dead but I'm keeping it up as a testament to that historic moment when a bunch of shitty nerds got mad about a show that wasn't made for them, because for as long as I live it's never going to not be funny or depressing.
EDIT= There's still season 2 which could potentially bring some fresh whining but I think most people have thankfully matured to the point where they realized that the existence of a show they don't like isn't going to kill them, and that anime companies are going to continue shitting out multiple versions of My Little Sister Can't Possibly Be This Horny!!-type dreck every season regardless of how many shows not aimed at them exist.


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SARANAC LAKE — A Saranac Lake woman is facing grand-larceny charges after cashing what police say was a fraudulent check from an online scam.
Saranac Lake Village Police arrested Allison S. Koller on Thursday for cashing the check through her local bank account last April.
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"It was a check sent after someone had contacted her over the Internet. It's real common via Craigslist and other Internet sites that sometimes look to add cash for shipping.
"People get these checks in the mail — they are signed and everything.
"But the game they play is based on the delay in the time it takes a bank to figure out the check is fraudulent," Reardon said.
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An investigation is continuing into whether Koller knew she was being scammed, police said.
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Police said Koller did not admit to sending cash to the check-writer.
Police did not reveal the source of the scam, but Koller, 40, was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony.
Koller could not be reached by telephone. An old phone number in her name now belongs to a different local resident, and her former cell-phone number is disconnected.
Reardon said fake-check scams are common.


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12:44pm Thursday 20th February 2014 in News
BOLTON'S three Labour MPs have given a guarded welcome to the continued fall in unemployment.
Figures for the final quarter of 2013, released yesterday, reveal the UK jobless total at 2.34 million — down by 125,000, giving an overall rate of 7.2 per cent.
In the North West, 277,000 people are unemployed — a fall of 6,000 — but the total is above the national average at 8.1 per cent.
Nationally, the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance dipped to 1.22 million in January, down by 27,000, the 15th consecutive monthly fall.
More women are in work than at any time since records began in 1971, at just above 14 million, the data from the Office for National Statistics showed.
Bolton West MP Julie Hilling said: "The fall is welcome but I have asked the various departments for a breakdown of these figures.
"For example, how many people in work are on zero-hours contacts, on the minimum wage or working eight or 16 hours a week?
"So far they have been unable to tell me.The reality is that we don't know how many of these people are in real jobs.
"If people are still on a phenomenally low wage, we are not taking people out of poverty or benefits."
She said 30 per cent of people using the Atherton Food Bank in her constituency were in work, but still unable to feed themselves, adding: "What we need is a closer analysis of the figures."
Bolton North East MP David Crausby also said it was good news that unemployment was "heading in the right direction".
He added: "It is good news on the back of years and years of bad news. We have got to be encouraged by it but the problem is that inflation is still rising faster than average earnings.
"The fact is that the average worker is still 10 per cent worse off than he was when this government came to office."
Bolton South East MP Yasmin Quereshi said: "Any fall in unemployment is a good thing but I don't think it's enough.
"The government should not be complacent and it needs to do more. There are 900,000 young people still unemployed and 250,000 of those have been out of work for more than year.
"There are also too many people on the minimum wage. The majority of people claiming benefits are working so in reality people are getting no better off."
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 47) -- More than 60 volunteers with the local chapter of the non-profit "Bundles of Love" gathered in a donated space at Assisi Heights to assemble bags of supplies for mothers in need on Saturday.
The women worked feverishly to complete their quota of more than 50 bundles for mothers with newborns. A bundle of love is a sturdy, handmade diaper bag stuffed with the things every newborn needs, like diapers, toys, clothes and blankets.
The Rochester group makes about 400 bags a year for mothers. Their materials come from many places, like big corporations and sewing enthusiasts looking for a cause.
"They're kind of fabric-holics," said Joanne Larsen, Rochester Coordinator. "More than once we've had people who've said, I'm cleaning out my mother's closet could you use this? Of course we can."
These women can turn any scrap of material into a unique, handmade gift all the while thinking of the recipients' needs.
"We have special bundles for military families with a 'thank you'...a 'thank you' for the sacrifices they make," Larsen said. "And we give their baby anything we can find that has red, white and blue in it."
The bundles, valued at more than 150 dollars, will be distributed by social workers, public health nurses and other agencies. For more information about Bundles of Love, visit bundlesoflove.org.
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In the previous installment of the Voices on Project Management roundtable series, we asked bloggers to share their experiences with project management career paths.
This week, they discuss project management talent and business goals. We asked: As a practitioner, what do you think talent management programs need to do to align with organizational strategy?
Marian Haus, PMP: Talent management programs do more than just increase project success rates and reduce project risks. They contribute to employees' professional development. This directly leads to professional satisfaction and contributes to talent retention.
One way organizations align talent management to strategy to gain a competitive advantage through their most valuable asset -- their employees -- is by encouraging them to follow career paths tailored for the organization. This is a win-win. Both the organization and the employees are aware of and support the goals of the applied talent management.
Mário Henrique Trentim, PMI-RMP, PMP: Some time ago, I read the book "Know-How," written by Ram Charan. It unveils the importance of talent management as a driving force for strategic management. We are facing a huge talent gap in Brazil and around the world because organizations didn't do their homework. They should have mapped their employees' competencies and created career paths to boost talent development in-house. Building organizational core competencies involves investing in people.
To align talent management programs with organizational strategy, you have to:
- Set organizational goals
- Identify competencies needed to achieve short- and long-term goals
- Create a detailed map of people's competencies
- Identify and fine-tune career paths
- Develop training, coaching and mentoring programs
- Monitor and review
Lynda Bourne, DPM, PMP: The simple answer is: Yes, of course they do. If you are in the oil industry, you need skilled oil people, not skilled bakers! What's missing in most organizations is the realization that project delivery and strategic project management are core competencies essential to the future development of the organization. Most talent management programs are stuck in the era of the "accidental project manager" and need to adjust to modern reality. Project, program and portfolio management and supporting roles, such as PMO management, are critical skills that need to be nurtured to allow the organization to grow and adapt to deal with an ever-changing world. These skills need to be tailored to the organization's culture and industry, but are definable and can be mapped into career frameworks.
Kevin Korterud: Project managers represent a special case when it comes to talent management. They require a complex mix of talents -- such as understanding high-level business process, executive communications and negotiation skills -- that allows them to be effective as project managers.
Given their broad responsibilities and business impacts in the delivery of projects, project managers need to have their level and depth of talent ready in advance of the implementation of organizational strategy. That readiness will allow them to more quickly and successfully deliver projects, which creates a competitive edge for the organization.


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I assume you have all heard about Manti Te'o and his never-was-alive-so-can't-be-dead "girlfriend." No need to link anything.
Some interesting parallels with IT.
Stage 1: bombshell report is released involving well-known person/people involved in CFB. A detailed report/article is available for parsing and reading and re-reading and debating.
Stage 2: university gets involved by expressing full support and backing of said person/people adding the university to the "target zone."
During stages 1 and 2, there is a media frenzy of writing and opinionating and asking questions and digging for more information and a constant drip-drip-drip of new tidbits of information or rehashing of old tidbits, but always drip-drip-drip including the metastasising of the "sports" story into the "regular" news.
Gist of media "reporting" is that more information is needed; a press conference/interview has been scheduled; everyone is waiting for it.
Stage 3: Press conference/interview cancelled.
Stage 4: all hell breaks loose.
In case you had not heard, Te'o cancelled his interview with ESpin which had been scheduled for today (Thursday). http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/1/17/3886560/manti-teo-interview-espn/in/3648305
A media firestorm has formed.
Did ND learn nothing from IT?


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Please give me access to admin area (send me a message through my profile page) and I'll take a look what's wrong about it. There shouldn't be any conflicts with other plugins.
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Web Special: Occupying the Future, Starting at the Roots
Occupied Urban Farmland in the Bay Area Highlights Privatization of Public
Universities and Corporatization of Public Trust
On Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by children in strollers, dogs, rabbits, chickens, and carrying hundreds of pounds of compost and at least 10,000 seedlings entered a 14-acre piece of land containing the last Class I agricultural soil in the East Bay. Located on the Albany-Berkeley border in the Bay Area, the plot is owned by the University of California Berkeley. By the end of the day, they had weeded, tilled, and successfully cultivated about an acre of the land. By May 14, when 100 University of California riot police surrounded the tract and began arresting the farmers, Occupy the Farm had cultivated around two acres of the plot known as the Gill Tract.
The Occupy farmers have laid out footpaths around cultivated plots, created wildlife corridors, riparian zones, and protected areas for native grasses and a wild turkey nest, and set up a library and a kitchen. They have planted thousands of seedlings of corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, broccoli, herbs, and strawberries, including heirloom varieties from a local seed bank. Other plots have been reserved for agro-ecological research. There's also a permaculture garden for kids on the other side of a gazebo of woven branches where wind chimes tinkle in the breeze.
Restaurants and Race
Discrimination and Disparity in the Food Service Sector
Walk into any fine-dining restaurant in an American urban center and you will observe: white workers serving and bartending; workers of color clearing tables, preparing food, and washing dishes.
Like the segregated buses of the Jim Crow South, the restaurant industry has reserved the best jobs in the front for whites, while workers of color are relegated to the back (unless they are bussing tables in the front). Both restaurant workers and employers admit that this stark divide along color lines is commonly accepted industry practice based on notions of skills, table manners, language ability, and appearance. Thanks to a legal framework that demands proof of discriminatory intent, this obvious form of segregation has existed mostly unchallenged until recently.
With over 10 million employees, the restaurant industry is the nation's second largest private sector employer—just behind retail—and the largest part of the nation's food system. The industry continues to grow rapidly, even as other sectors decline during the current economic crisis, and is considered a gateway of opportunity for immigrants and low-wage workers of color from all over the world. However, research shows that in the country's largest urban areas, only about 20 percent of all restaurant industry jobs provide living wages and benefits. (There are some instances of waiters and bartenders at fine-dining places in urban centers earning between $50,000 and $150,000 annually.)
Food Workers—Wages and Race
Mariano Lucas Domingo traveled north from his home in Guatemala in search of work to support his sick parent. He landed in Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the United States, where he found work harvesting tomatoes. He expected to earn about $200 a week. Then Lucas met two brothers who offered him room and board at their family house, in exchange for a cut of his pay. This didn't seem like a bad deal to Lucas who had no family or friends nearby, and also because the brothers offered to extend credit even when work was sparse.
Lucas spent the next two-and-a-half years living as a captive with other workers in a truck with no water or electricity.1 The workers were forced to relieve themselves in a corner of the truck and wash with a garden hose in the backyard. The brothers locked them in the truck every night, forced them to work even when they were sick or tired, and took away their paychecks. Lucas and his colleagues finally escaped from the truck one night by punching a hole through the roof.2 The two brothers were subsequently arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
This story, unfortunately, is not unusual among the workers who produce our food. While Lucas' experience of being enslaved is certainly a horrific extreme, the 20 million workers employed in the food system earn low wages, work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions, and are unable to collectively organize to demand rights at work. Half of all workers in the food system earned just $21,692 a year or $11.05 per hour in 2008.3 That is well below what a family needs to make in order to sustain two children, according to the Center for Women's Welfare at the University of Washington.4 In a metropolitan area like San Francisco, a family needs to earn around $26.97 per hour just to meet basic needs. In Cleveland, that figure is $20.21 per hour and in Atlanta, it's $18.37 per hour. Close to one quarter of all food system workers live at the federally defined poverty threshold—earning less than $21,200 for a family of four—as per data gathered in 2008.5
Undocumented Immigrants Stand up to Chipotle
In December 2010, 600 workers at the Chipotle fast food chain in Minnesota were fired. Their crime? Working. In the past two years, thousands of others have been fired for the same offense: 2000 women at a sewing factory in Los Angeles, 500 apple pickers in eastern Washington, and several hundred janitors in Minnesota and California, to name just a few instances. Every one of them is a victim of the Obama administration's "softer" immigration enforcement strategy.
The logic is brutal: Make it impossible for the 12 million undocumented U.S. residents to earn a living and send money to their families, and they will deport themselves. What's more, their families will not be tempted to join them in the U.S. because they will not get jobs.
San Francisco Chinatown Restaurant Workers Fight for Fair Employment
Li Shuang Li, 42, had worked at a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown for seven years before she discovered that her boss was stealing her tips. At the time, Li was barely making $900 a month to support her 13- and 11-year-old children and was afraid of confronting her boss for fear of losing her job.
So, Li allied with her colleagues and they collectively raised the issue with their employer, whose ill-tempered response was: "If you want to complain, I'll just fire you!" But the employees threatened to quit en masse if he did not pay them back the tips he owed and he eventually came to a verbal agreement.
Li says she was fortunate to receive her back pay relatively quickly, unlike some other waitresses who were given the run around by the boss until some brought their relatives in to coerce him. Rather than continue working for that employer, Li decided to quit and has been unemployed for three years now.
Farmworkers—The Basis and Bottom of the Food Chain
The recent events in Wisconsin have triggered a reawakening across the United States of a movement that acknowledges the importance of worker rights and of protecting the livelihoods of this country's working class. Historically, however, one group of workers has routinely been excluded from the gains made by the larger labor movement, i.e. farmworkers—the people who weed, pick, harvest, and pack, often in 100 degree weather, while routinely being exposed to hazardous chemicals.
Approximately 700,000 farmworkers reside in California at any given time. Farm employment is unstable and the average farmworker is employed for only seven months of the year (nine months in California). For female workers the employment season is even shorter. Jobs are scarce, even during high season. In California, about 350,000 jobs are available from April to October and 275,000 from November to March. Historically, migrant workers returned home during the winter months. However, with the increased militarization of the border, this practice has become harder and many migrants remain in the U.S. out of fear even in the rainy season when they have little or no income. And although a majority of farmworkers are male, women and children are increasingly crossing the border and entering the workforce, as men can no longer maintain a seasonal migration.
The Second Green Revolution
By Clifton Ross
It may seem hard to believe that the process that brought the head of lettuce to your salad—and all the other delicious components of your organic meal, like the baked potato and the grilled free-range chicken breast—are all a major cause of climate change. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, "Approximately one-third of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by agriculture and land-use changes, with 18 percent of the overall total coming from livestock alone."[1] While organic, free-range, or better yet, vegetarian diets are steps in the right direction, the steps are still circumscribed by a system that guarantees climate change, even in its "greenest" sectors.
Part of the problem is the amount of energy (inputs) required by standard agriculture to produce the world's food: in the United States 7.3 calories of energy go into delivering one calorie of food.[2] From the tractors that break the ground for planting, then return to do the planting and harvesting, to the transport and processing, to the further transport to the supermarket, and all the way to your drive to make the purchase (unless you bicycle and cut a calorie or two off the process), energy is used and carbon produced.
Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
The green jobs conversation most often centers on industrialized sectors that require millions of dollars in capital—from high-tech clean energy to biodiesel. However, the world's basic natural resources—land, water, and farming—are the essential building blocks for combating climate change and can provide immediate avenues to build an equitable green economy. Sustainable agriculture, urban food production, and environmentally sound distribution systems provide opportunity for economic revitalization through true local ownership. Urban planning and policy in the United States should embrace locally-owned sustainable food enterprises as essential to all economic development efforts.
Mandela MarketPlace is a leader in development, application, and assessment of food systems. The organization evolved over the last eight years, first as a project of the Environmental Justice Institute and Tides Center, and then as a nonprofit in 2006 with a mission to strengthen community health, integrity, and identity by providing economic opportunity and empowerment for inner-city Oakland residents and businesses, and local family farms. "We support our community by providing healthy, locally grown produce and educating them about organic and pesticide free food," says Yuro Chavez, West Oakland Youth Standing Empowered (WYSE) team member and Mandela Food Cooperative worker-owner.
Reinventing Food Systems
The entire history of agriculture—humanity's grandest enterprise—occurred during the last 10,000 years; a mere blink of an eye in geological terms. As hunter-gatherers, we were dependent upon each other in a system that demanded social equity for survival. But by producing surplus food, agriculture opened the door to division of labor and the possibility of socially stratified societies in which farmers lost control of what they produced. As farming shifted from subsistence to commodity production in large parts of the world, gargantuan agribusiness corporations came to dominate a global system in which those who produce the food and work the hardest profit the least.
Humans developed farming in an exceptionally wet, warm, and stable period in Earth's climate history. All of our current knowledge of seed saving, plant selection, sowing, planting, growing, and harvesting has relied on predictable seasons and weather patterns. How do we cope in an age of climate change? By the end of this century, climate scientists warn, average temperatures could rise by 4° Celsius (9° Farenheit)––a forecast that likely underestimates the impacts of dangerous feedback loops that are not included in most climate models. Weather patterns are predicted to become increasingly volatile with droughts, floods, and temperature extremes within seasons.
Greening for All
The Right to Access Healthy Food
In a mild late-winter afternoon, fifth-graders at Verde Elementary School in North Richmond squat on soggy ground, poking beans into the dirt with thin sticks. They move on to carrots, marveling at the tiny seeds that get stuck on the palms of their hands. Fava beans, bright yellow and orange calendula, and a whole pharmacy of herbs are flourishing in the garden's rock-rimmed plots.
Last year Verde Partnership Garden produced close to 1000 pounds of vegetables. The students set up a farmers market in front of the school every two weeks. Parents were so eager to buy that they sent orders in with their children, said garden co-coordinator Bienvenida Mesa. North Richmond, like many depressed communities across the nation, has more than its share of liquor stores, but no stores that sell decent, much less organic, produce.


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The Five Biggest Contradictions in Fitness
Its no secret that when people contradict themselves, it has the effect of making the flaws in their actions or statements seem glaringly obvious. But what about when WE ourselves get caught contradicting ourselves by someone else?
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Feingold a No on FinReg
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who did not vote for the Senate version of financial regulatory reform, not believing the bill strong enough, has indicated that he will not vote for this version either. Here is the full text of his press release:
"As I have indicated for some time now, my test for the financial regulatory reform bill is whether it will prevent another crisis. The conference committee's proposal fails that test and for that reason I will not vote to advance it. During debate on the bill, I supported several efforts to break up 'too big to fail' Wall Street banks and restore the proven safeguards established after the Great Depression separating Main Street banks from big Wall Street firms, among other issues. Unfortunately, these crucial reforms were rejected. While there are some positive provisions in the final measure, the lack of strong reforms is clear confirmation that Wall Street lobbyists and their allies in Washington continue to wield significant influence on the process."
Senator Feingold was one of eight senators to oppose the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. Senator Feingold also opposed the Wall Street bail-out in 2008. During consideration of the financial regulatory reform bill, Feingold cosponsored a number of key amendments to ensure that banks are no longer too big to fail, and that depression-era reforms to create a firewall between Wall Street and Main Street are restored, among other critical issues. None of these amendments were included in the final bill, which is why it failed Feingold's test for real reform. Amendments Feingold cosponsored included:
- Cantwell-McCain-Feingold amendment to restore the Glass-Steagall firewall between Wall Street and Main Street
- Senator Dorgan's "too big to fail" amendment, which requires that no financial entity be permitted to become so large that its failure threatens the financial stability of the U.S.
- Brown-Kaufman amendment proposing strict limits on the size of financial institutions
- Dorgan amendment to ban so-called naked credit default swaps, speculative bets that played a role in the economic crisis
- Merkley-Levin amendment to prohibit any bank with government insured deposits from engaging in high-risk finance, like investing in hedge funds or private equity funds
That means Democrats' next best option will be to win the vote of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who did not vote for the original version either.
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Comment posted June 29, 2010 @ 12:37 am
GOD get over yourself, Feingold.
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Comment posted June 29, 2010 @ 4:07 pm
Thank GOD for Feingold. One of the few Dems who aren't completely corrupted by the financial industry.
He is 100% correct in the reforms he is pushing.
Comment posted June 29, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
Question: will Feingold vote to sustain a filibuster, or just vote against the bill?
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