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Can I ask you a question? Are you personally willing to have your taxes raised to pay the salary of an officer at every school in the nation at all times? How much of an increase are you willing to accept?
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Seriously with all the other things we waste tax money on I don't think it should be an issue. I could find a thousand things we could cut to pay for an officer's salary. And if not absolutely would I pay the tiny bit extra it would cost spread out over all the property owners in the district. How do they pay for the officer that is stationed at your school? It sounds like you thought he had good reason to be there. I guess if money is an issue that we could go back to the plan of letting the teachers CC, I have no problem with that plan either.
The school DH works at already has an officer there. He is half paid for by the school district and half paid for by the police department. The taxes here are considerably less than the taxes to the school that I went to growing up that does not have an officer.
He is paid via the sheriff dept. It's actually really helpful in cutting down on some of the crime in the area. All of the intermediate and high schools have at least one deputy (some of them are shared). The deputies get to know the students and can deter crime and solve the crimes the students do commit. They also go to their houses for truancy violations, cite them for various things, etc. It isn't just to look scary standing at the entrance.
I know you are not asking me, but this is one issue I would be more then willing to pay more taxes for. All of the schools that I know of that have police officers on campus are more safe overall (and the kids seem to love it) The school that Dh teaches at is in a VERY low socioeconomic area that does not even have a police district in town. It has so many crime issues that DH spends a large part of his day playing cop. It is on the next school board agenda to start budgeting for an officer on campus and Dh is very happy
The criminals agree. This online list is a win win for them.
Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade.
The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them.
"That was the most asinine article I've ever seen," said Walter T. Shaw, 65, a former burglar and jewel thief who the FBI blames for more than 3,000 break-ins that netted some $70 million in the 1960s and 1970s. "Having a list of who has a gun is like gold - why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?
"What they did was insanity," added Shaw, author of "License to Steal," a book about his criminal career.
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"They just created an opportunity for some crimes to be committed and I think it's exceptionally stupid," said Bob Portenier, 65, a former burglar and armed house robber turned crime prevention consultant.
Professional burglars are always looking for an edge, and like most folks, they read the paper, said Portenier.
"Criminals are always looking for opportunity and words travels through the grapevine—burglars trade secrets and when you see something like that in the paper, that's is something burglar's are going to talk about," Portenier said. "'Did you see in the paper where all these people have guns and their addresses?' and that kind of stuff, they'll say."
While some burglars may use the newspaper's information to avoid guns, Portenier said others will target homes with guns. The newspaper's decision could even lead to legally-owned guns proliferating on the street, he said.
"That's one of the first things we'd check out—guns are on the top of the list of what you want to steal," he said. "They can walk out with a shotgun and a couple of handguns and sell them on the street for $300 or $400 a pop. They can sell them to a gangbanger who ends up killing someone."
"When I first saw that story it kinda freaked me out. If I had a gun if I was a registered legal gun owner and had my information in there I'd be outraged.
And before someone says that the homeowners should have their guns in a gun safe.... my ex had his guns stolen and they just took the whole gun safe.
I wonder if they would have been equally outraged to register this theoretical gun......you know, since it's public record and all.Quote:
"When I first saw that story it kinda freaked me out. If I had a gun if I was a registered legal gun owner and had my information in there I'd be outraged.
Having all of his guns stolen from his home must have been really embarrassing for your Ex, wasn't he a policeman? Did he not go through all that rigamarole that you said policemen went through to hide where he lived so that exact scenario couldn't happen, or what? I guess it goes to show that simply owning guns is enough of a liability to having them stolen, even for a professional like a policeman. Perhaps it would be better if guns had to be locked up at central registers, like in some other countries, instead of in individual homes. Might prevent criminals from getting them.


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I want those of you who still post from time to time on this thread that it is very much appreciated. It keeps me from having a public conversation with myself on line and more importantly, keeps this thread and the case active.
I continue to believe it is vital to keep this active. Someone out there knows the truth in this case, especially the killer(s). We all have our lives and other issues and after four years it would be easy to just shrug and move on. I intend to keep this torch lit as long as is necessary for Tom and Shirlee.
FWIW, I have a few theories about this case but have not formed any firm ones as yet. I think I may have some idea where OPD may be looking; of course I can't post that. Let's carry on- I think it matters more than we know.
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Snick! Thank you for keeping this alive. I will check in more often. I will never forget poor Tom or Shirlee and the people that loved them. I pray for a break... any break soon.
Thank you Snick for keeping this thread alive. I usually just lurk lately when new posts arise because I just don't really have any new theories. I hope there will be a break in this case soon.
I have not been posting much on this case as there has not been anything much to post about. Today I went back over old postings and wanted to throw out one of the ideas that has been percolating in my mind lately; that this murder could have been linked to Tom's activities at the Omaha YMCA.
Tom participated in a basketball league and his father took him to the downtown branch on Saturdays; it sounds to have been a father/son ritual- they would go out for lunch afterwards. I used to live near downtown before my marriage in 1991 and belonged and worked out there for awhile, this would have been in the mid 80's.
I cannot speak for what it was like when they went there. I have not posted much about this before because I do not want to offend anyone. I am very liberal in my social attitudes and supportive of Gay rights. I think however I was not alone in being disturbed by the atmosphere I ran across in the locker rooms. It reminded me a bit of what I have read about some of the bath houses- except there was no overt action. You'd have to be very blind not to sense you were in a sexually charged atmosphere. I quit going there as a result.
I do wonder- did Dr H accompany Tom when changing or showering after the game? IOW, could someone, maybe with a prior history of pedophilia, have hit on Tom? It'd have been easy to have followed them after they left, a perp could have figured out where they lived. Maybe this guy befriended Tom and somehow set up a visit? I'd like to know if OPD ever investigated that?
They so bungled this case at the outset. I believe some old school detectives bet the case on there being some drug thing in Shirlee's family and went down that road while real leads grew cold. I also understand that while they ran checks on car rentals in Omaha around then, they did not do so for nearby locations, not even Council Bluffs! Current investigators could perhaps do worse than to look over YMCA records from about 2007-8 and see if any members had criminal records.
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A homosexual angle? Why Shirlee? Wouldn't Dr. Hunter have been much more protective, especially if he sensed insane, murderous pedophilia? Tom would have had to make someone noticeably angry.
My humble opinion...
And it's a perfectly valid one. Shirlee IMO may have been taken out simply because she was there, I believe she was there at a different time than usual and maybe the intruder meant to see Tom. Dr H might not have sensed anything about such a person, and may not even have been aware of his interest in Tom, Tom for that matter may not have been aware of the interest either. It's easy to imagine someone following them home from the Y and making note of where they lived.
My uderstanding is that Shirlee was attacked from behind and possibly by surprise. Not sure how this fact fits in...
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No idea of the validity of any of this, but there's an unusual amount of focus on Omaha/Western Iowa in terms of various pedophile ring discussions:
it all seems rather far-fetched, but, then again, why the focus on Omaha for these sort of sordid tales? when Snick mentioned downtown Omaha + potential for a pedophile angle, I recalled seeing these a few years back.
I didn't click on the links Saint, however if the youtube videos are what I think they are, Idk how much credit I put into them. The ones I am referring to consist of a man walking around in the Old Market area of Omaha and pointing out places that supposedly contained some sketchy things, he even goes to Hummel Park in N.Omaha. I'm not saying those things did not happen, I just do not have enough information or evidennce.
Which brings us back to the Franklin Credit Union scandal in the late 80's. The former head of that financial institution was accused of running a pedophile ring, and worse and the scandal and accusations led to some very high places in Omaha. It has been largely debunked but I have to say from my past viewpoint as a social services worker here, some of it may have been true.
I am aware of the video where the guy is walking around the Old market area whispering about satanic abuse, etc. Someone a couple years back on one of our threads also posted a link to this. I wouldn't throw it aside, but I'd be careful of giving it too much credence.
It occurs to me that the Hunters and many at CU socialized in circles that included some of the same sorts of people. Please note I am not suggesting any involvement on their part but- in the previous scandal, many accused were people of wealth and success in Omaha.
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I've always thought this case could have sexual undertones. Tom could have easily been duped into something by an older man and then threatened to expose him to his parents or the authorities. To me, this seemed like a preplanned murder of vengeance or fear of exposure to the community.
I've also thought the murderer could have been someone from right there in the neighborhood.
I hate that a murder in broad daylight in a residential area in one of the best sections of town remains unsolved after over four years.
These are my opinions only and should not be misconstrued as factual.
Today Thomas would have turned 16.
I think about how sweet summertime is for a 16 year old boy in Omaha - hanging out with friends, playing basketball at the schoolyard, walking up to eCreamery for some ice cream, swimming at the pool, and getting your driver's license! Experiencing the freedom of a young teen - borrowing the family car, and getting your first summer job. Earning enough money to go to the movies or the pizza place at Aksarben with your buddies. Beautiful, warm summer nights. Watching the fireworks at Memorial.
People are out and about all over the Dundee neighborhood, enjoying the long evenings. How I wish that Thomas was among them! This would have been an awesome summer for him.
"When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Our hearts and prayers today are with Tom's family on this bittersweet anniversary. May God bless them and grant justice for the innocent victims.
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My heart hurt when I read your post until I remembered that Thomas had an even better birthday right where he is. Probably had cake with Shirlee...
Shakespeare is a bit more eloquent! I reread Snick's quote. How beautiful.
I ran across this news account from 2-11 that had some things I hadn't noticed- or realized the importance of- before:
Note the part where local authorities were concerned enough about the security of persons he worked with following his firing that they had security experts check out their homes. That to me speaks volumes about him and that they considered him dangerous and inclined to retaliation.
I wonder where he is today?
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Obviously LE had concerns about this guy themselves.
Hmmmmm, .......... COULD have been revenge.
MB is a bizarre and disturbed individual, the odds seem LOW that the family would cross paths with an entirely different psycho.
It sure seems that the authorities are on to him, but because of his (alleged) profession, he is particularly good at hiding evidence.
Exactly. How many psychopaths would the Hunters have encountered in their lives? Tom probably knew him as one of his father's residents and when he came knocking that day would probably have let him in. Maybe he said he had something to leave for Dr Hunter to sign- who knows. MB is perhaps one of those people who delight in proving to themselves how they can outsmart others. Going to the home of the head of Pathology and getting away with murder woould be a heady accomplishment to that sort of mentality.
I have the feeling LE lost their chance to get this guy. If I were in LE I'd be following up on any murders taking place in areas where he's lived in the past.
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Kevin Kostner as Eliott Ness in 'The Untouchables'
Perhaps it is because he was under suspicion in Nebraska AND PERHAPS THEY KNOW MORE THAN THEY LET US KNOW, that LE feared for his colleagues. Something will eventually catch up with this guy. He'll resurface somewhere, probably as a pathologist,
and commit more errors. I just wish medical schools and pathology departments could be warned.
Let's just hope if he indeed is the perp that he doesn't kill again before he is caught. My thinking about this case has more or less settled on him, but.. I still have a nagging feeling that this may have been a hired hit, paid for by someone close to the Hunter family or at least to one of the boy's parents.
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WOWT here in Omaha is headlining a story they will run on this evenings newscast about this case. I plan to view and then post the gist of what was said- if the past is any indication their website will also carry a story and I will link to that.
The blurb for the story said that OPD is 'going nationwide' so I assume this means they are at long last allowing AMW or Nancy Grace to air a segment on it. This, if so, is wonderful news although it's about three years late. Update later this evening.
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This story just posted on Omaha World Herald website.
Update- I just saw the news story, it lead off the newscast. The segment will air at 8PM CDT on Lifetime the evening of 8-3. Interviews will air with Shirlee's family and apparently with Dr Hunter. The story will apparently reveal some facts not previously released. One concerns Tom's internet presence and someone he was chatting with in the days prior to the murders. More details will air on the license plate seen by wittnesses. It sounds as if the internet angle is where they are going. It sounds like they plan to put out the screen name of the person he was chatting with. I think WOWT will post the segment on theirn site so I will check and link to it tommorrow.
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It will be on America's Most Wanted on Lifetime, you can see the full episode later online.
Link to WOWT story:
I couldn't find any video of the segment from their newscast but the article covers the main points.
'Never stop fighting..never give up'
Kevin Kostner as Eliott Ness in 'The Untouchables'
I wonder if Thomas's screen names have a secret meaning? I really hope AMW will help bring the killer to justice. And I wonder why OPD did not focus in on this lead when this crime first happened? And thank you Snick for keeping this thread alive,

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That's what I've decided as well. I'll still pop into Rebelscum when I feel mischevious. Today's mishchief was starting a thread all about Otter Pops.
I hear you JoshEEE. I think this place will do just fine to trade and collect with others, and discuss all of the lastest collecting topics and new releases. That was originally why I signed up at RS, but it quickly degenerated into heated Republican vs. Democrat battles and flame wars. I'm all for a good political debate, but not at JediDefender Forums. This is where I want to come for Star Wars, and nothing else.


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On Nov, 3, 2014, Jordan, age 28, received a routine flu shot. By the next afternoon, she had lost the use of her arms and legs and it was difficult to breathe. She spent the next month in the hospital trying to recover. Over the past 4 months, Jordan has been through countless tests and doctor visits, but is still searching for answers.
Jordan and her husband Matt were married on June 14, 2014. Originally from Oklahoma, they are miles away from their family and friends in a new home and unfamiliar area. Each morning Matt drives an hour in the opposite direction of his job to take Jordan to work. After working all day, Jordan is often extremely fatigued and Matt has to feed her dinner and carry her to bed, while doing everything for her in the process.
Jordan still needs downtime to find answers and recover, but she has used all of her allotted sick/personal leave. In order to pay the bills, both Jordan and Matt must work.
Please join Eastlawn in helping this teacher! Email either Beth Goff or Marie Roblin for a Chick fil a order form.
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The heart walk to-shirt is on sale for $10 for sizes youth to XL and $12 for 2X and above from your heart walk representative at your respective schools. Deadline to order is Monday, March 16. The shirts will be worn at the heart walk Saturday, March 28 at Beach Park, Pascagoula.
Students in the Pascagoula-Gautier School District are invited to bring their report cards to the Hilton Garden Inn where they will receive a FREE Kids' Meal from the Kids' Menu.
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The lead NYT editorial tells readers that it is surprised and upset by the deflating of the housing bubble. It tells us:
"At times, it has looked as if things were improving, like last year's jump in sales because of a temporary homebuyer's tax credit or the recent rise in new-home sales from near-record lows. But, over all, sales and construction have been flat for two years, while prices, driven down by foreclosures, are plumbing new depths."
Actually no; it never looked like "things were improving" to people who follow the housing market. It looked like the tax credits were temporarily delaying the deflation of the housing bubble. This delay allowed banks and investors to have hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgages, which would be underwater today, taken off their books and replaced by Fannie and Freddie guaranteed loans, through sales or refinancing.
Prices are still close to 10 percent above their trend level, based on either the 100-year long-term trend in house prices or the current price to rent ratio. Neither the NYT, nor anyone else, has provided an explanation as to why we should expect prices to settle above trend.
It is not clear why the NYT would view any delay in the bubble's deflation as a positive development. People who buy houses at prices that are still inflated by the bubble can anticipate losing money on their house. Does the NYT have some reason for thinking it is good policy to get new homeowners into homes where they can anticipate capital losses.
More generally, high house prices amount to a transfer of societal wealth from people who don't own homes to those who do. Since the latter group is much wealthier on average than the former group, why should it be public policy to promote this sort of upward redistribution of wealth?
The NYT's failure to seriously think about the housing market demonstrates an extraordinary laziness that prevents them from clearly understanding the policy implications. The economy will have adjust to a situation where prices return to trend levels. This will mean lower consumption. (Isn't this what everyone wants -- higher savings?) The lost consumption must be replaced in the short-term by government spending, in the longer term by more net exports. The latter will require a lower dollar. This is all accounting identities from Econ 101.
As far as the housing market, a little clearer thought would get policy to distinguish between markets where the bubble is still deflating (e.g. Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston) and markets where prices are likely overshooting on the low side (e.g. Los Vegas and Phoenix). It might make sense to have policies to boost prices in the latter set of cities. It makes no sense to have policies to boost prices in the former.
Finally, the simplest and cheapest way to help homeowners facing the loss of their home is to give them the right to stay in their house as renters paying the market rent. This requires no taxpayer dollars and no new bureaucracy and would immediately help all the homeowners affected. For these reasons, it is a non-starter in Washington.
The Washington Post called readers attention to this shocking item today in an article on a new report from the Government Accountability Office that found stimulus recipients owe $750 million in taxes on $24 billion in stimulus payments. Of course people cheat on their taxes on non-stimulus income also.
It would have been helpful to compare the rate of cheating on stimulus with non-stimulus income to determine if compliance was especially bad with stimulus income. The Internal Revenue Service reported that $345 billion in taxes went uncollected in 2006, more than 4 percent of total income in that year. This suggest that the rate of tax evasion with stimulus funds (@ 3.1 percent) might be somewhat lower than with income more generally. The Post should have included this comparison.
Harvard's Joint Center on Housing, which became famous for its failure to recognize the housing bubble, apparently still has no understanding of the housing market. An article by the Associated Press that refers to analysis done by the Center fundamentally misrepresents trends in the housing market.
It tells readers that:
"From the 1940s until 2007, homes appreciated an average of nearly 5 percent a year, adjusted for inflation. In the past four years, the median price of a single-family home has sunk 37 percent, by $57,500, to its lowest since 2002."
Actually from the 1953 to 1996 house prices just rose in step with the overall rate of inflation according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics home price component (eliminated in 1981) and Federal Housing Financing Authority's House Price Index. The entire increase in real prices occurred during the bubble years from 1997 to 2007. This means that prior to 1996, homeowners had no reason to expect price appreciation in excess of inflation.
The article also tells readers that:
"Before the housing bust, mortgage rates were so low it was often cheaper to buy than rent. That was true a decade ago in more than half the 54 biggest metro areas, according to Moody's Analytics. Today, by contrast, it's cheaper to rent in about 72 percent of metro areas."
This is complete nonsense. House prices have plummeted since the bust and interest rates are lower today than at any point prior to the collapse of the bubble. There is no consistent methodology that would show that the cost of renting has fallen relative to the cost of ownership.
The article also asserts that:
"the median price of advertised rents rose 4.1 percent between the end of 2009 and the end of 2010."
This is misleading because this figure does not control for the quality of the units on the market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics rental index, which does control for quality, rose at just over a 2 percent rate during this period.
[Addendum: A reader has called to my attention the fact that the comments cited in this post may be from AP alone and do not refer to the joint analysis with the Harvard Center that is cited at the beginning of the article.]
Today the good news is that the economy is growing. Let's get out the champagne!
Of course the economy almost always grows. The question that serious people ask is how fast is the economy growing. The answer is that over the last year the economy has grown by 2.4 percent. This is a hair shy of the 2.5 percent growth rate that the economy needs just to keep even with the growth of the labor force. The drop in the unemployment rate that we have seen from its 10.2 percent high point has been entirely due to people dropping out of the labor force, the employment to population ratio has not risen at all since November of 2009.
It is also worth noting Samuelson's choice of experts to promote the good news line about the economy. In reference to the housing market he quotes Ben Herzon of Macroeconomic Advisers saying, "There's a boom out there somewhere, ... it's just a matter of when." It's worth noting that Macroeconomic Advisers was completely dismissive of the idea that there was a housing bubble prior to its collapse beginning in 2006.
The article also cites Mark Zandi's statement that he is optimistic about the economy's prospects for 2012. It is worth noting that the downturn caught Zandi completely by surprise. He has also been consistently overly optimistic about the strength of the recovery.
The Washington Post reports that Portugal is changing its rent control laws at the insistence of the European Union and the IMF because they impede the movement of workers looking for new jobs. While there can be cases in which workers will be reluctant to give up a rent-controlled unit in order to get a job in another city where they will have to pay higher rent, homeownership also can pose the same obstacle to moving.
If there is a price to rent (annual) ratio of 15 to 1, and sale costs average 6-7 percent of the house price, then a worker moving to a new city can basically expect to give up a year's worth of rent to cover the cost of the move.
This article also includes the assertion that employment protection legislation, that prevents employers from firing workers at will, impedes growth. Actually, there has been considerable research on this topic and most of it suggests that these measures have little impact on employment and growth.
The NYT noticed that banks have lots of foreclosed properties and that this is depressing house prices. It warns readers that house prices could fall by 5 percent by the end of 2011.
This piece is bizarrely uninformed about the housing market. First, the decline in house prices is not new. Prices have been falling at the rate of at least 1.0 percent a month since the first time buyers tax credit ended last fall. With prices having already dropped by 2 percent through February, we would have to see a sharp slowing in the rate of price decline for the year-end drop to be just 5 percent.
More importantly, this decline is actually entirely consistent with house prices moving back toward their long-term trend in which they have just tracked the overall rate of inflation. If house prices drop by 12 percent over the course of 2011 they will be just back on this trend.
It would have been useful to readers if this article contained the insights of someone who was more familiar with trends in the housing market.
Most people would consider double-digit unemployment a bad thing, but most people don't run USA Today. In an article on President Obama's trip to Europe, USA Today talks about the economic disaster that has befallen Ireland as a result of its budget cutting and tells readers:
"Financial experts and credit-ratings agencies say the mess is a warning for Obama and Washington lawmakers: Get your fiscal house in order or risk the same fate."
Of course getting its fiscal house in order is what led to the double-digit unemployment in Ireland. Ireland actually had low debt and deficits prior to the collapse of its housing bubble.
By the way, the "credit-ratings agencies" referred to in this piece are best known as the people who rated hundreds of billions of dollars of subprime mortgage-backed securities as investment grade. The "financial experts" were people who could not see the largest asset bubble in the history of the world.
There is no evidence that USA Today spoke with anyone for this article who recognized the dangers facing the world economy before its collapse in 2008. Readers should keep that in mind in assessing the argument it presents.
That's what readers of its front page piece on austerity in Spain must conclude. The piece asserts that Spain's government has no choice but to make major cutbacks to the generosity of its welfare state.
This may be true given its situation as member of the euro zone. However, this is an outcome that is being imposed as a result of policy decisions by the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB, which failed to notice the huge housing bubble in Spain and elsewhere, is deliberately imposing a relatively contractionary policy on the euro zone countries. This is leading to higher unemployment in Spain and other euro zone countries.
The higher unemployment and slower growth resulting from the ECB policy puts more fiscal stress on the Spanish government. The restrictive policies of the ECB are the proximate cause of Spain's fiscal difficulties. The ECB's role in contributing to Spain's financial hardship should have been mentioned in the piece.
The Washington Post Outlook section has a column by former World Bank director Moises Naim calling for change at the IMF in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation as a result of sexual assault charges. It is striking that the piece makes no mention of the bloated pensions received by IMF staff.
The IMF's pension structure allows many of its economists to be able to draw pensions in excess of $100,000 a year in their early fifties. It is remarkable that no major news outlet has ever mentioned these exorbitant pensions at a time when politicians across the country have been screaming about pensions for public employees that average less than $30,000 a year and generally require workers to wait until their 60s before they start receiving benefits.
The high pensions at the IMF might be seen as especially offensive since the institution has been pushing countries around the world to raise the retirement age for their Social Security systems and public sector employees. The IMF also has little basis for claiming that worsening benefits will prevent it from attracting good employees. Its current staff completely missed the housing bubbles in the United States and elsewhere, the largest asset bubbles in the history of the world, leading to enormous suffering for hundreds of millions of people. It would be difficult to imagine being able to assemble a less competent group of economists than the current crew.
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When it comes to reverse discrimination, comments by senior managers may backfire if others perceive them as encouraging racial preferences.
For example, when a high-level executive comments that the organization needs more black employees in management positions, hiring managers could construe it as authorization to bypass qualified white candidates in favor of black candidates with lesser qualifications.
Recent case: Word got around when the director of field operations for the Michigan Department of Corrections announced at a management team meeting that there were not "enough black people in management" and that the shortage should be corrected.
So when Jerry Howell, who is white, was turned down for several promotions, he sued for discrimination.
In pretrial hearings, the Department of Corrections explained that the director of field operations wasn't part of the formal hiring process. But the court allowed the case to proceed. It reasoned that the comments could have been interpreted as marching orders for those with hiring authority. That made it evidence of reverse discrimination.
When the court went on to review how the interviewing process affected candidate ratings, it said it was shocked to learn that subjective assessments of how well the candidates interviewed were weighted more heavily than education or experience. Coupled with the management comments, the court said there was enough evidence for a jury to consider whether reverse discrimination was taking place. (Howell v. Michigan Department of Corrections, No. 06-CV-11841, ED MI, 2007)
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Ok, I am officially registered - no backing out now! I did the 5K at Marathon weekend this year, as well as Expedition Everest. I do wish the course for this would go through the Magic Kingdom so that we could run through the castle too! Who else is doing this with me in 2013?
The original W&D 5k did run through MK. I think the issue for the Mouse is that to get the miles for a 5 k, World Dr in front of Contemporary must be fully closed. That creates lots of guest issues. The AK and Epcot courses do not require any street closures so those are the default courses on property. I believe the RF5K is an Epcot course again. It is still cool to circle the World Showcase with hundreds of other runners early in the morning Have fun at the 5k.
Yup, I did the Family Fiesta 5K this past Marathon weekend. That was my first ever runDisney event and I had a great time. It was really cool to run through the World Showcase. I just wish that it would be a different course for this race - knowwhatImean? I was thinking it would be hard to do, since the parking lot isn't connected at the Magic Kingdom, like it is at the other parks...
DD19 and I are doing it! I'd rather do the 1/2 but it was hard enough to get DD to do the 5k with me. Actually, she really doesn't want to do it but registering her anyway because she will see how fun it is!
Oh, I hope she has a great time, since you are twisting her leg!! I am wanting to see how many Disers are doing the 5K so that maybe we can have a meetup!
Has there been any word on what the theme will be the for 5K? I'm hoping the royal family showcased will be Merida's family We are planning on doing this one with a stroller, so we can stop and meet all the princesses along the way. We did the EE 5K this past year and boy was it hot! Our first Disney 5K was the Mickey's Halloween 5K and started at the TTC and ran around the castle back to TTC. We ran in front of the Contemorary and we all ran on that little sidewalk that goes under "water", it was a tight squeeze!
I have not seen anything about the theme - but Brave would be cute! I also did EE 5K this year and it was more than hot. Bad thing was, so was the water and gatorade - yuck!!
I saw it's a Royal Mickey and Minnie theme, and of course now I can't find the link where I read it. It could very well have been on runDisney's Twitter.
For those of you who have done other 5k's attached to bigger races, what are the crowds like? And what is the transportation situation? I want to register for Haunted Halloween 5K the morning of the Tower of Terror race, but it's also our check out day. If the race starts at 7, what time would it be over? And how difficult would be to get a taxi back and forth to CSR, which of course is not a host resort Thanks!
Anyone have any idea how close this race and the kids races are to being full? My family and I are hoping to participate in these. We aren't staying on site which may be a mistake but we are staying at Bonnett Creek. We won't be booking our room until November/December due to it being a timeshare. I would love to do this as my first half marathon but i'm not quite to that point yet. Maybe next year. This will be the visit to WDW for my two girls, one who will have just turned 4 and the other who will be close to 2 years old.
The 5K and Kids Races are not full yet. I think you have time to get registered. http://www.rundisney.com/princess-half-marathon/ Go to rundisney for more information. You are ok with "staying offsite" if you plan to drive your car to the race. It should not be an issue. The crowds can get large the morning of the race, so give yourself plenty of time. HAVE FUN!!
thanks! I am hoping my girls, especially my oldest will enjoy it. She loves Disney Princesses and loves to run so I hope its a double hit with her.
We ran the Royal Tangled 5K last year and it was a blast! This year we are so excited that it is going to be a Mickey and Minnie theme. Both my DH and my DD 13 said it was the highlight of the trip.
I had not noticed this event before when I registered....They are now having a Disney's Princess Half Marathon Weekend Breakfast. It is described as a re-fuel after the Royal Family 5K. Starts at 7:15am, the race officially begins at 6:30. Depending on what corral I am in to start, I doubt I will be anywhere near the finish line at this time. Has anyone else done this - have they offered this before? Just wondering if it would be worth it - not doing the Pasta in the Park Party for this one....
This will be my first time running a 5k and am so excited to start off with the Disney Royal 5K. Do people dress up for this one? If so, as what? princesses, characters, etc? I really want to come as a character but not sure.....
Just a few more days now until the Royal Family 5K. I am excited for those of you that this will be your first! A runDisney event is really spectacular and all others will fail in comparison! YES - dress up!! Go all out!! It is a fun event. They don't usually sweep the 5Ks, but just don't dwadle. I didn't stop for pictures at the first one I did - am trying to decide about this one. I guess it will depend on my time and what characters are along the course. I am so excited!
Hello all, looking for some advice. We are thinking about doing the 5k next year on Princess weekend prior to getting on DCL later that day. Tell me all about this! It will be me, my daughter and my mom. I have seen reports of having to keep a certain pace and being picked up if you are not keeping that pace. BUT I have seen things where people did this basically at their leisure(for lack of other words), and I don't mean like they took all day or anything like that. My mom has a bad knee and can walk at a pretty good pace, but wondering what happens if she or anyone slows down?! Any info is appreciated! TIA!!
Do not hesitate to do a Disney 5k! Just did my very first one a week ago! Plenty of time to complete it and do not worry about being swept (never saw a sweeper). It is so much fun and there were so many people there with different walking and running abilities. All shapes, sizes, ages and there was a gal walking in a foot cast! I am a new runner and I did the Walk/Run method and did not break any speed records by a long shot, and felt great the whole time. Plenty of people stand in line to pose for pictures and just enjoy the walk. It was so beautiful out! I cannot say enough good things about it Ask any questions you want because I have been talking about little else all week!


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Maybe most people don't think about their belly button, but I think about mine quite a bit. It's an ugly belly button, an outie. Multiple pregnancies have stretched it out and made it squishy and loose, and having kidneys the size of footballs doesn't help with the abdominal pressure. So, it sticks out. A lot. It's annoying. Lately it's *really* been bothering me, and when I brushed against a counter that was belly button height, and thought, "Ouch" when the counter hit my middle, I thought I should maybe mention it to somebody. So I brought it up briefly with Dr. Steinman, who said that it was an umbilical hernia, and probably should be repaired one of these days. I wondered what "one of these days" meant, and I'm thinking maybe "one of these days" should mean "this month". I looked it up on google ('cause that's how I roll), and found some info. It's pretty common, happens in women who have been pregnant and overweight individuals, and surgery carries minimal risk with a short recovery time. So I wonder if I should just go ahead and have it repaired. But then I wonder if I should wait until after I get a transplant, when my kidneys presumably shrink from non-use, so as to alleviate the pressure in my abdomen. I mean, once it's repaired, can it herniate again? It's not like my kidneys are getting any smaller, after all. Anybody have experience with this? The real issue, though, is how many doctors do I have to see to get it done? I've been tossed into this system of healthcare that has, for the most part, treated me pretty well, but I get tired, SO TIRED, of doctors. I don't want to add another doctor to the mix, just for fun. I'm finally seeing a gynecologist for the first time since my daughter was born, because amidst all of the kidney stuff, I just couldn't deal with the lady parts stuff. Throw in the broken foot, the hamstring, and my cataract stuff, and it just makes me want to crawl into a cave and throw things at people who want to poke me with needles to take care of all my stuff. And I know as I get older it's going to get worse. My twin sister has already had her first mammogram AND a colonoscopy. The thought of VOLUNTARILY allowing somebody to shove a camera up my butt and squish my breasts into pancakes while also enduring renal ultrasounds and 2 hour abdominal MRIs makes me want to crawl even deeper into that cave and start banging my head against the wall. (But I won't do that, because I might get a brain injury and need a cat scan. Surprisingly, I've never had one of those.) I think I have too much stuff. |
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Looks like Mr. DD has banished me from cleaning my weapons at the kitchen table. We've been doing that for a couple of years but new rules. I don't mind cleaning them in the utility room during the warmer seasons but in the winter that room is too cold for delicate me at 55-60 degrees. The kitchen table is cozy with the south facing sun streaming in. The only other room warm enough for me is in my basement "green room" where I grow my orchids. It's about 70-75 degrees in there but the humidity is around 60%. I could set something up in there but maybe it's too humid. Oh, we'll, I'll figure something out.
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We are very happy with our purchase. Very roomy freezer w/ 4 sections. Drawbacks: 1. water filter is $50. and has to be changed at least 3 times a year 2. the ice cube bin has a feature where it adheres to the front of the pull out drawer. It works sometimes but mostly not. Not a big deal but it should work all the time. Perhaps the magnet is not strong enough. it is our first automatic ice maker fridge. We love that feature. Easy to clean. large crispers with windows are great. Overall, a really nice fridge.
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I am disappointed. Within a few weeks we had water running under the frig onto our NEW wood flooring. Factory service was quick to come out...turns out there is a FLAW in the design. When it is in defrost mode the water does NOT go into the pan but in to the base of frig & through the vent holes onto the flooring. NOT GOOD. A part to correct the situation is available. (There is a part so someone knows there is a problem! ) My husband has a workshop & is clever, so he helped the repair person create a drain tube until the correct part arrived.....which took almost a week! This refrigerator should never have been delivered without the correction to the faulty design. AND, why do ice cubes sometimes fall on the when we open the freezer drawer??? Would appreciate hearing back from you!
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I bought this refrigerator about 3 weeks ago. The old fridge was larger as this is a counter depth, do I am having to adjust to somewhat less volume. That said the multiple ways the shelves can be arranged is very helpful and allows the space to efficiently employed. The freezer has three levels although the bottom level is squared off so you can't store quite as much as it might seem at first. Again the shelves in the freezer allow for efficient storage. It most certainly seems to run much less that my old fridge (which I expected) but I don't have my first full power bill with it yet so I don't know what the final economics will be. I'm glad I bought this attractive appliance. I can hardly wait to finish my kitchen remodel.
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I love my new refrigerator, the counter depth is perfect, doesn't my my kitchen look or feel small. I'm able to see everything in it.
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I had generally been very happy with this unit's design. Was initially skeptical about the deli drawer but learned to love it. Unfortunatelly I now am also having the clogged freezer drain issue that so many reviews here and elsewhere note for this kitchenaid and related whirlpool models. After it leaked onto my floor, I have been routinely manually defrosting the floor of the freezer.
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We had bought this refrig before kitchen addition had started and we are glad that we had purchased. We started using the refrigierator right before Christmas as the kitchen was substantially completed.
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I like everything about the refrigerator, interior and exterior
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We replaced a 28 year old larger side by side. We lost some cubic feet going to counter- depth, but with the french doors, it is working out quit well. Runs very quietly.
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We love our 3-month-old KitchenAid counter-depth french door 'fridge! Cold filtered water feature inside is awesome -- no more need for Brita, which also saves space. Elegant and sturdy. Good light inside. Definitely recommended.
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Remodeled the kitchen and replaced black appliances with stainless. Like the inside cold water tap rather than on the door.
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We bought this for our new home and we love it. It has great features and looks very attractive. I love the french door opening and also the bottom freezer. I thought the freezer would be too small but it actually fits a lot of food! Having the french door on top allows for big items to fit without a problem. The only thing I wish was different was that it had a finish that did not show any fingerprints. However, it cleans beautifully and is a great refrigerator!
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If there's one number, one test that strikes fear and loathing into the hearts of diabetics everywhere, it's the A1c. Not only is it the main number used to diagnose diabetes, it is the measuring stick wielded
by doctors, CDEs, insurers, and diabetics themselves for evaluating our"control". But are its days numbered?
A1c, according to the American Diabetes Association, is "a test that measures a person's average blood glucose level over the past 2 to 3 months. Hemoglobin (HEE-mo-glo-bin) is the part of a
red blood cell that carries oxygen to the cells and sometimes joins
with the glucose in the bloodstream. Also called hemoglobin A1C or
glycosylated (gly-KOH-sih-lay-ted) hemoglobin, the test shows the
amount of glucose that sticks to the red blood cell, which is
proportional to the amount of glucose in the blood."
So, essentially, it is a measurement of your average blood sugar over a period of 2-3 months.
The biggest problem with this, as any diabetic will tell you, is that blood sugars move around. A lot. A whole big giant ton. So an average blood sugar over a period of as little as an hour could mask a
huge range of values (it would be very easy to have an average blood
sugar over an hour of 100 mg/dl, which sounds like a very good number,
and have a range of 40mg/dl-220mg/dl, which is a lot less desirable).
So if one hour's average can hide so much, how about 2160 hours?
Probably a lot more. So why are we so hung up on A1cs?
Well, humans seem to have a need for standardized comparisons. The world is simply too complex to try to understand it all. In order to make decisions, it's essential to simplify information. The A1c does
that for diabetes. The problem is, while it simplifies things, it does
it in only a marginally useful way. Sure, we can say that someone with
an A1c of 11 is worse off than someone with an A1c of 7.5. But about
the difference between 6.5 and 7.5? Conventional wisdom has it that the
6.5 is preferable (using the generally accepted lower=better paradigm).
But that's not necessarily the case. Karen at Bittersweet wrote a very important post recently on celebrating her higher A1c.
What we all know (but until recently didn't have the tools to measure) is that Standard Deviation is as (or, within a certain range, more) important than A1c. When you only test 6-10 times a day, getting
an accurate Standard Deviation is impossible (especially following the
convention of testing 2 hours after meals, well after most post-prandial
spikes have receded). But with modern CGMS, it's as easy as pressing a
button. While I only have experience with Dexcom software, I'm sure all CGMS (Abbott Navigator, Medtronic Guardian)
have similar functionality. I can easily get my average (mean and
median) blood sugar, standard deviation, highs, lows, and many other
readings. This gives me a far more complete picture than an A1c ever
could. And if I still want an A1c, it's easy to convert my average from my Dexcom.
Now that CGMS are on the rise, and the importance of blood sugar fluctuations are starting to register as more important than blood sugar averages, maybe we will start to see A1c ushered out as the yardstick
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By S.E. Cupp
Last year while campaigning, Barack Obama promised that, as president, he would go through the federal budget "line by line" to make sure it was absent any pork, earmarks, Christmas ornaments, and any other kinds of kitschy euphemisms for special-interest funding.
The masses applauded, and the media swooned. Finally, a politician who would bring the word "No" to Washington.
But with the evolution of this massive $825 billion stimulus package, festooned with all the garish baubles that had been collecting dust in Democrat storage, he has proven himself a bit of a fibber or, at best, a nimble and agile stretcher of the truth. At least, let's all hope so.
Better to believe that President Obama left the crafting of this bill to the Democrats, and gave it just a cursory glance afterward. Because if he really did go through Nancy Pelosi's laundry list of long-term spending requests – line by line – the implications are troubling.
First, there's the obvious contradiction. If he did sign off on every single, incredulous pork allocation in the Tolstoyian-sized tome, well, he's quite simply – and inarguably – not the president he said he would be. By any definition, $400 million for global warming research, $1 billion to bail out Amtrak, $335 million for sexually transmitted disease prevention and $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts is pork. It is the porkiest of pork. It is a grizzled, dripping-wet, sizzling pile of pork chops, wrapped in ham, sprinkled with bacon bits. It is, as Charlotte herself would have put it succinctly, "Some Pig."
And the Democrats aren't even coy about it. In early January, Obama told reporters, "We're not having earmarks in the recovery package. Period." This was not a lie. Earmarks attempt to hide pork-barrel spending, and this bill advertises it with the subtlety of a Super Bowl commercial – inside there's the political equivalent of half-naked chicks, catchy pop songs, chimpanzees and celebrity endorsements at every turn.
But far more sinister than broken promises (after all, it would hardly be the first time a candidate went back on his word) is the very idea that President Obama could have actually gone through this bill and thought, "Let's see how much we can get away with."
Frighteningly, it seems as though this was his mentality. It took the outrage of the media and the general public – ironically, his two most loyal contingents – to tell the president that contraception, for one, is not stimulus. Re-sodding the National Mall isn't either. Arts funding? Still no. And, after continued vigorous defense by Obama's office, those items were eventually dropped.
Did the president really need us to tell him that birth control and a new lawn aren't appropriate items for an emergency stimulus package? He didn't already know that? And would he have left them in otherwise?
President Obama is a pleaser, it seems – a yes-man. He allowed the Democrats to jam 40 years of comeuppance into what he probably wished in his heart was a lean-and-mean engine of economic recovery. And then to avoid being momentarily unpopular, he caved to public scrutiny by scratching the challenged items. That he actually thought he could win Republican support is mind-boggling.
Maybe I've seen one too many Frank Capra movies. In my version, whoever inherited this mess would have stormed into Washington and written an economic-recovery bill themself, instead of jettisoning it off to one party or the other. It would take into consideration the advice of financial advisers and it would reflect the sobriety, urgency and gravity of this dire situation. Any requests for pork barrel spending or earmarks would be immediately – and publicly – rebuffed as partisan, unseemly, inappropriate and greedy panhandling. I can just imagine Jimmy Stewart coming across Nancy Pelosi's outrageous contraception request and saying, "Anybody here that thinks I'm gonna do that, they've got another thing comin'! Either I'm dead right or I'm crazy!"
Instead, it's not just politics as usual, but politics at its worst. Where's the guy who vowed to say "No?" I'm beginning to think "Yes We Can" was more than just a campaign slogan. Maybe it's actually a leadership style.
And Republicans should pay close attention. They are looking to unite around a common message over the next two and four years in an effort to regain strength and rebrand the party. Fiscal responsibility should be that message. If the Obama administration keeps this up, Republicans will have a far easier time winning back voters than originally expected.
We should all want the stimulus package to undergo significant changes as it is navigated through the Senate. For all our sakes, let's hope it looks nothing like its current iteration – I don't even want to know they were once related, in fact. But even if the mind-blowing pork that's in there now undergoes substantial liposuction, we'll still be left with a troubling question: why did it take everyone else – Republicans, the media, and the general public – to tell President Obama what he should do?
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New Delhi, India, 6 January 2014 ― Hughes Communications India Limited (HCIL), a subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, today announced that it has reached a milestone of 10,000 operational VSATs with the Ministry of Finance (MoF) ATM project since the project commenced rollout in September 2012. To increase the penetration of banking services, the Finance Ministry has favoured setting up white label ATMs in the country, as such ATMs will help bring banking services to the most remote places.
Hughes also announced the first ever deployment of white label ATMs in the country, powered by the Hughes VSAT broadband satellite solution. Currently, there are 500 operational VSAT deployments of white label ATMs in various states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.
The Ministry of Finance project is part of one of the largest outsourcing deals in the financial sector, under which the MoF and a consortium of all public sector banks of India have contracted with nine different Multi Service Providers (MSPs) to install and manage a total of 63,000 off-site and on-site ATMs across urban and rural India for an eight-year period. When complete, this initiative is expected to increase India's ATM density by over 60 percent, thus helping meet the goals of financial inclusion and penetration of banking services, ensuring that bank ATM machines reliably deliver cash in the most remote areas and deliver e-government services to citizens directly.
Shivaji Chatterjee, Enterprise Business Head at HCIL said, "India is an under-penetrated ATM market with only 98 ATMs for every 10 lakh of population (1 million). Our focused approach and effort towards financial inclusion helped reach this milestone of 10,000 operational VSATs for MoF. This further reinforces the undisputed leadership of Hughes in the banking and POS/ATM/retail domains and is testimony to the significance of satellite networking that has become the backbone of connectivity for the Indian banking industry."
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redwood roots persisting 15 years?
Is it possible that I am still ripping up fine (1/16" - 1/8") redwood roots from my rose bed, 15 years after my neighbor finally cut it down and killed the stump? They are like the (horror!) redwood roots I struggled with for years, but smaller; same fine, hairlike roots branching from orange ones. But they are growing 1-3" from the surface, in places I dug up two years ago! can severed redwood roots live that long, and still put out new growth?
Keep in mind that a tree's roots usually grow far beyond its canopy. So you might consider other nearby trees. Rough estimates of the size or tree root systems include 1. a radius of at least 2 to 3 times the radius of the dripline and 2. a radius of 1.5 times the tree's height or more.
I am originally from the west coast near the red wood forest. Yes, a cut off root knot can produce new trees. In fact you can buy these knots from trees of mystery. If the roots you are speaking of are getting enough water to remain moist year round it will continue to grow in an effort to grow a tree again. My suggestion is to allow your rose bed to dry out a bit... or move them to a different location and allow the bed to dry out to hard earth state.