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Strecker, on Monday. Mr. Strecker, consulting civil engineer, who designed the plans for the railroad grade ellmina- :lon in Freeport approved -by the Public Service Commission, died af-ar a brief Illness Friday in his home, 67 North Bergen PI. A sol-emn high requiem mass was cele-brated Monday morning in our Holy "Redeemer R. o. Church. The Rev. John J. Madden was the cele-brant, the Rev, John P. Drab, sub-deacon, and Father Rev. MoKelvey, assistant pastor of the Church of Our Most Holy Rosary, Roosevelt, sub-deacon. Burial was In St. Charts Cemetery, Plnclnwn. Honorary pallbearers were Mayor Robert L. Doxsce., former Miyor Oyril 0. Ryan, Walter J. Miranda, Joseph Darcy, 8%h,te superintendent of Public Works, Village Trustees Cord Viebrock and William F. Olacken, E. J. Gould, H. Leon King, his partner in business; Col. William S. Ohapln and Arthur Williams. Others at the service were Village Counsel Martin H. Weyrauch,,John Ettlnger, deputy state superinten-dent of public works; Arthur How-land, chief engineer Long Island State Park .Commission, and Oharles A3&ms, former g?nej6Kn)anager of " Preaches Farewell REV. DAVID G. JAXHEIMER Miss Devereaux to Teach In Liverpool for a Year Miss Elizabeth Devereaux, for 22 years a teacher In the Columbus ave., school, has arrived in Liver-pool in an exchange of teachers between that city and Nassau Coun-ty. She was accompanied by another Nassau teacher. Miss Jessie Davies, of Liverpool, has ccme to Freeport to take over Miss Devereaux's class for the next school year. She was welcomed at an informal lawn par-ty given at the home of Mrs. Virgil L. Dickey, preoldent of the Parent- Teacher Association, 40 Hillside .ave. Rev* D.j Mr. Streclcer was 4x>m in Phila-delphia, 49 years ago, and gradua-ted as a civil engineer from the Uni- (Contlnued on Page Four) Boy Drowning Victim Buried in Greenfield Funds for Funeral Raised* by Appeal If ^ Patrolman Funeral servJoes for Richard Jen-kins, Helen ave., 8-year-old lad who was drowned when he jumped from a rowboat a week ago yesterday, were conducted in Zion A, M. E, Ohurch Monday afternoon by ^' the pastor, the Rev. Louis It. Carper, wit3i burial following in- Greenfield Cemetery. Funds for the funeral were raised through the efforts of Patrolman Joseph Romelka, Director of the Freeport Police Boys Club, as a re-sult of appeals through the press and radio. In three days more than $280 was sent him, covering Che ex-penses af the undertaker. QT suf-ficient additional money .ia taken in, a marker will" be placed at' the grave. " i Jenkins was playing with two other boys, who jumped .from the bout and swam bajckr-hr-Als—lsBtr plunge, he pushed "the "boat as he leaped and was unable to make his way .back. When he did not come to the surface, calls for assistance were Issued and many volunteers jomed-with-tbe-Mrst- Aid- Steads -of the Freeport and Baldwin Fire Departments in dragging the waters of ..Freeport. Creek, just off M421 Road for 'the. body.; . . The search was continued during the night. Early Thursday -mominigj PaitroIman^JRonteikotand^a group 4)f 35''P. STo7^men%ers started'thF search, anew-Using outboard motors taken from P. B..C. racing craft the boys skirted the sJdea of ihe creek in rpwl?oa^K;jfbraJdistance of 'two milAs. Finally Patrolman Romelka discovered .the body In the water jukt oK.the dock in the rear of 151 South'Main: sty -ai&d. brought it to the surface. M&jo^r Eraeat W. New-ton of the JBaivatlon.. Army served h'ot , coffee and t dougimiite-to the searchers for the'boQy. . :" • • ' ?oimg Jenkins is survived by his parehta, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Jenr kins; four'brothers,,two cJ-whom are P. B, O, member*,.and three aisterg. 50 "Soapbox" Drivers Are Entered in Derby r\P*i^*y eMtrJe* Jiava Jboam r to. date for the annual soapbox der-by sponsored by William Clinton Stoiy Post A. L., in co-operation with Jacob Kedenburg prior to the Labor Day midget races at the Municipal Stadium^ starting Mon-day at 1 p. m. More than 76 prizes have been received by Frederick Batcher, who Is In charge for the Legion, and Mr. Kedenburg is matching 'the donations -of mer* chants and others so a bountiful variety of awards will be available. /Before the race gets under way the "cars"-will..be judged and cam-eras awarded to the driver and pusher of the one selected as the best appearing. Entries may still be filed at the Dugout or -the Stadium, but boys must supply the.written consent of Bheir parents before they can be accepted. ZIPPER'S PHARMACY OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Z&pper's Pharmacy, 51 South Grove St., will remain open Sunday after the other druggists In Free-port close at 2 p. m, The telephone Is Freeport 8-0277. On Monday, Labor Day, Whelan's, 64 South Main st., will do likewise. The tele-phone Is Freeport 8-0083, In Farewell Sermon ChHat Church Paator Cites Paul's Words On Leaving Ephesus The Rev. David G. Jaxhelmer. for nearly 20 years pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, who on Sept. 1 will become assistant to the Rev. Dr. Frederick R. Kneubel, president of the United. Lutheran Synod of New York, preached his farewell sermon Sunday morning. One of the largest late summer congrega-tions In the history of the church turned out to hear him' preach, and Pastor Jaxhclmer greeted ench and every one in the Corridor ns they left. All the orgnnizatoas contributed to a fund Jor the purchase of flow-: ors and the rear of the altar was one mass of floral tributes. Taking as his -topic, "A Final Commendation," Pastor Jaxhdlmer preached _from the text, Acts 20:32. "And ^how I commend you to Ood ind to the word of his grace."' "On the way to Jerusalem where ic was to be tried," the soeakcr said, "Paul sent for tho elders of he Church nt Ephesuq to speaK a parting word to them. He had lab-ared and lived among them for three years, a long tlmp for Paul. He reminded them he had. given t)iem an example of 'how a Ohris-tion leader should live and act and preached without fear .or favor the whole counsel of Ood. He had held nothing back that could be prof-itable t» them and at the heart of khe OoapeJ, he preached was 'repen- » Hie 2 Lord Jesus Christ/ Re them of the dangers a Christian congregation would face In the world. And then Paul kneeled down with them and prayed. "This was his parting admoni-tion: 'Now I commend you to Ood and the word of His Grace.' This Is to be my parting sermon as pastor, and I could do no better, than to use Paul's words of advice angr wisdom. I commend you to .Worries of - ."He brought 'U@. hrough. Very soon after coming to Christ jQhurch, the whole- nation was thrown Into the deepest dopreseon In history. With a staggering .debt for such (Continue? .on Page 13) LEADER PUBLISHES SECOND 'BACK TO SCHOOL* ISSUE This la the Reader's second edition of the "Back'to School" paper. Enlisting a student staff, of 26, some of whom arc pictured In this Issue, THE LEADER j%as been privileged t@_oresent articles of timely Interest written by these outstanding students. A few articles and pictures not possible to Include lA this Issue due to space limitations . will appear next week. South Shore Fmishes Close Second In Pout'Cornered Y* C* Swim Meet The youthful swimmer? of the 'South Shore Yacht Olub qamg in a olose second l)68t in.the fowr-comered.meet held in the waters of the ITnqua-Oorinthian Y, "0., &t Amityville,.which cap-tured first honors, on Saturday. The *" victors scored 76 while the Preeport contingent was close be-hind with 70; followed bjr the apd the. Thje early lead While Edgewiater wag sec-. ond about midfway-ln the meet Hbw-ver, South Shore scored heavily in the later events* * *.^ Zhner Woods won the freer@byle for boys 13-14; in ..the' gMs* style, 11-12, Pat St(&enken. and Betty Oonroy took the first two placeo. Don McDuff ee and Don Ohegan did likewise in the boys' free style, 9-10, as did Gail M, Baughey Price in (the same even* for showing what prospecte 'for the futurJ? South. Shore haa "With yptmgatez* coming-OMbugli in floe shape. . ' ^ the girls/ backstmke, 15<47, while 3et?ty Con-boy won the gfrls', 13?i^, backstroke "with Be6y Cpnboy flniahing fourth Paul- Oodboy-r captu Jbr bo» 7-6,'and Nancy Boehmdke repeated in the g4rls* " race for the same ages, TTie South! Shore girls won their; relay race and ^ (the coyo Jiniahed -second. r:It was tMe fihaJ.'inter^lub meet of ibhe season; but there will be ,a meet at South Sliore Monday. Day, when, the prizes won liy will be award? Boya, 15-1?, free atyle, 60 b^r Ed Montel, U-C,Y*C,: aecbnd/. (XNeHI, U.O.Y.O.1 third, Tony Wander-off, E.Y.C.; fourth, JI;g* Boheu, 8.Y.C/ Glrla, 15-17, free atyle^.Bp on Page . 'v.f/ ••a ^% M^^
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Fighting for Themselves, Fighting for the Game
The season is near, but don't lose perspective on the importance of the players' battle in the concussion lawsuit. And meet Kevin Turner, one of its foremost faces
There's only one story today, still. I know the season is three days away, and the concussion case settlement is four days old. But this head trauma issue was the nuclear cloud that hung over the game, and I think there are things you need to know—particularly you who would trash the settlement as being too meager. "Chump change,'' I believe many of you called it on Twitter and elsewhere. We'll have all week, and the bottom 3,500 words of this column, to trumpet the opening of the league's 94th season. This morning, you need to hear the story of 44-year-old former battering-ram fullback and current ALS sufferer Kevin Turner, and of the lead plaintiffs' attorney who woke up more than once at night thinking of Turner, and how men like Turner pushed this case to get settled.
"I have a policy of not getting involved with the plaintiffs in cases like this, whether it's NFL players, ballerinas or regular people,'' Chris Seeger, one of the lead attorneys for the 4,500 former players and estates of former players, told me Sunday night. "I like to keep a level head. But I met Kevin several times. Nobody had a bigger impact on me in this case than Kevin did. I'd wake up at night, sometimes in a cold sweat, thinking about this man and how important it was to him that he provide for his family, that his children get the college education they deserve."
I spoke with Turner over the phone for an hour Sunday afternoon. His voice is often garbled, because amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—known by many as Lou Gehrig's disease—is in the process of robbing all his muscles of their vitality, including the ones that form words in his tongue and mouth and vocal cords. But this was a pretty good afternoon; he'd taken medication to ensure he could be well understood.
Turner is an Alabama boy. He played for the Crimson Tide, then got drafted by the Patriots in the third round in 1992. He played eight years for the Patriots and Eagles, and retired following the 1999 season. He lives in Birmingham now. He is divorced with three children, the oldest of whom played his first varsity high school game ever on Friday night. That filled Turner with pride, knowing his son loved the game enough to pursue it, and now as a sophomore he was playing at a high level.
He knows what you're thinking: How can he let his son play? And how he can he not hate the sport that very likely gave him—such a young man—this cruel disease with no cure?
"It's not complicated,'' Turner said. "I love football. I always will love football. I love football so much I let my oldest son play the game, because I knew he would love it too.''
There are a few reasons this case settled when it did last Thursday morning, with a ruling by U.S. District Court judge Anita Brody announcing the mediated $765 million deal that she still must formally approve. The key points:
The deadline. Brody had told both sides they had until a date in July to reach a settlement. When they went to her at the appointed time nearly two months ago and said they were deadlocked, she assigned a mediator, Judge Layn Phillips, and told each side they had until Sept. 3 to reach a deal. If they didn't have a deal by then, she'd rule, and she told both sides there would be parts of her ruling that could well be injurious to each.
Each side was motivated to settle. ESPN reported over the weekend that Brody "signaled" that she agreed with part of the NFL's argument—that a large percentage of the plaintiffs, those who played from 1994 to 2010, should be omitted from the suit because the collective bargaining agreement precluded them from filing lawsuits over health issues. The players, instead, would have had to file cases with the NFL and go through the regular grievance process. No way they wanted that. The players also were pushing for a quick resolution because many of the sicker ones, Turner included, needed the money now and not years from now when the appeals had been exhausted. From the NFL's side, there was no way it wanted the dirty laundry of stories of team doctors ignoring or minimizing concussions during games aired in depositions before the trial, or in testimony at trial. The NFL didn't know what would or wouldn't be admissible at trial. One rogue doctor or ruthless trainer would have been enough to turn all public sentiment against the league, whether it won the trial or not. And the league was motivated to get the focus on the field, instead of it continually getting pummeled by the bad publicity of a continuing black cloud of head trauma.
The players' side controls the payout pool. This was important to the players. They didn't want the NFL controlling which doctors would examine the players in baseline testing, which would be the base provision for determining how much money each injured player is awarded. And the players' side got accountants and actuaries—professionals who use statistics to assess risk and figure long-term disbursements for huge cash pools—to figure out fair payouts to former players depending on their individual cases. The experts tried to figure a way this payout pool would be financially viable for 65 years, so the last player who could file a claim generations down the road would be one cut this preseason.
It's complicated. But at the end, the attorneys for the players felt they got as much as they could from the NFL before the two sides would have had to appear in front of Judge Brody on Tuesday—at which point the players knew the case could have been weed-whacked if Brody removed all the players who had played since 1994.
So the deal got done: a $685 million pool for compensation (a $5 million individual ceiling for ALS sufferers, $4 million for Parkinson's, $3 million for Alzheimer's or dementia), $75 million to fund baseline testing on retired players to see if they've been cognitively impaired, and $10 million for research. In addition, the NFL will pay lawyers' fees for the plaintiffs, which will likely be $200 million or more. Over the next 20 years, then, NFL teams will pay out about $1 billion, half in the first three years to fund the compensation pool.
Kevin Turner's payout, depending on his exam and findings, will be maxed out at $5 million. When he was asked in confidence by one of the plaintiffs' attorneys about the deal—with all details, including the part about the judge possibly throwing him out of the case because he played during the 1994-2010 time period—he was clear with his desire.
"I told him [the attorney] I was happy with it,'' Turner said. "I really wasn't expecting closure of this within my lifetime, honestly."
I'm told a large majority of NFL owners approved the details of the settlement in conversations with commissioner Roger Goodell in the last couple of weeks. (But it was not unanimous.) And why wouldn't they approve? For about $16 million per team all told in the next three years and $12 million over the following 17 years, nuclear winter was averted. If individual players are unhappy with the amount of compensation and want to file claims, they'll run into some of the best litigators in America, the NFL's, and it'll take years and millions of dollars to fight the fight. So for now, most experts feel the crisis has been averted, and the game will go on.
Seeger was one of the lead attorneys in the Vioxx case that won $4.8 billion from the pharmaceutical giant Merck. He's been down this road before, figuring how hard he can push a giant company. He's heard the criticism of what the players got, and he's hot about it.
"I would love to debate any sane person about this settlement,'' Seeger said. "We plotted how much these players who need the money now and in the future, and who are eligible for it, would need, and we got it. We got it now, not 10 years from now. I've heard the criticism. A pittance … chump change. That is stupidity. We got exactly what we needed for the players and the families who need it most.
"I've seen people say because the NFL has $9 billion in [annual] revenue, that $765 million is too little. Suppose we sued GE, and GE has $50 billion a year in revenue, and we didn't get $50 billion. Would that have been a bad settlement?
"It's easy to sit in the cheap seats and have a conviction that the settlement is no good. You weren't in the game. You just don't know. What I asked myself at the end as a lawyer was, 'Is this enough? Is this enough for Kevin?' ''
Comment on the format (for the entire site) now that it's been 1+ months. Looks like it was designed for the under 10 or over 80 crowd. The large pictures and large boxes and large print give me a headache. I still log on to read MMQB, but I've given up on the rest.
PETER-- I do believe somebody just turned off the switch.. I have a building with vapor lights and they take 20 to 25 minutes to reset. They still have not explained what happened. Since The Super Dome has opened, it has hosted NFL, NBA, AAA baseball, NCAA and high school football and basketball, Monster Trucks, Circus', BMX, Conventions.. The lights going out has NEVER happened before. Besides, if it had been a relay or transformer, the lights would have been out a lot longer. It is not crazy or farfetched that someone, basically, threw the breaker and immediately turned it back on. The lights go out and it takes 20-25 minutes to reset. Just enough time to prevent a blow out and NFL ratings disaster. Like I said, there has not been an explanation of what happened.
"That, by the way, might be the silliest thing I've heard a player say in a long, long time. And that encompasses a lot of silliness. Lewis said he had no facts to back up his accusation, made in the NFL Films' America's Game show, which will be shown tonight on NFL Network. "But,'' Lewis says on the show, "you cannot tell me somebody wasn't sitting there and when they say, 'The Ravens [are] about to blow them out. Man, we better do something.' … " Lewis doesn't need advice from me, but he should have stopped at, "I'm not going to accuse nobody of nothing."....Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the 1958 NFL Championship Game...not that the Greatest Game Ever Played was important to the NFL or anything...but in the '58 game late in the game the TV cable broke...so the entire country was not going to see the end of the game...then...well waddya know...some "person" runs onto the field and causes a delay in the game and the cable is fixed. Yea...the NFL would NEVER ever do something like that. Oh and it was and is widely speculated that that "person" was an employee of the NFL offices in NYC.
9 espresso shots on a Sunday? That can only mean it's the Niner's year! You made the wrong pick, Peter. San Francisco will take home the trophy!
But seriously, you obviously know the game better than most, including myself, but if I may isolate just one part of your selection results, I'll bet my decision-making metric is pretty good.
Can someone please consider Johnny Jolly as comeback player of the year? The dude has been out of the league for 3 years, two of those years spent in jail. He isn't in one of the glamorous positions in football, DT or LDE in a 3/4, but the dude got his life straightened out, made it back to the NFL, and made a 53 man roster at the age of 30. If Michael Vick can win Comeback Player of the Year, why is nobody evening considering Jolly as a candidate? They both did wrong, they both may have been subject to the culture they grew up in, and struggled to escape their past, but if we can heroize a man who murdered animals, why can't we do the same for a man who had an addiction to codeine?
I know Jolly won't win the award, I don't think he should, because his impact to his team is far less than a star QB or RB or CB even, but I think that he should at least be mentioned as a possible candidate, because he offers more as a hero figure and role model than a player coming off a torn ACL does. Maybe Jolly will be a candidate for the Ed Block courage award? Probably not though.
Did Peter actually mention the Chargers? Hell must have froze over.
Peter - any job that requires you drink that much caffeine is probably not a healthy job to have. It's a massively different scale, but in a column all about players hurting their long term health in order to play football I couldn't help but notice your own willingness to hurt yourself for your job.
The truth is that we glorify over-working and working to the point of injuring our health. No matter the profession.
re: Pat White making the 'Skins squad. Keep in mind that RGIII is coming off major knee surgery and has seen no game action AND Kirk Cousins missed most of the pre-season with a sprained foot. I would say that right now White, in addition to being Vick in practice this week, is also insurance. Give them a couple weeks of good health from Griffin and Cousins and either White or Grossman will likely be released. Mpst likely White.
I have a really hard time not only with this story but with the notion that grown men voluntarily playing a violent sport for millions of dollars were somehow duped into thinking that there wouldn't be a price to pay physically down the road? Now Peter King very blindly attaches a sympathy card to the picture by including an ALS sufferer as the poster boy for this entire mess. It is an insult pure and simple. I lost my father to ALS and I've been involved in the ongoing fight for dollars to support research and I can tell you it has nothing to do with concussions, anyone that says it does is preaching junk science for personal gain. It is very sad to see the condition of Kevin Turner and having gone through this with my Dad, he is facing a slow decline to a point where his muscles will no longer serve his purposes and he will die. What Peter King doesn't point out is that ALS is a slow decline and death of all nerve cells that deliver messages from the brain to the muscles and researchers do not know why this occurs, but they've narrowed the scope to include heredity (1 in 10 cases), gene mutation, chemical imbalance of glutamate, and abnormal handling of proteins in the gene cells that become toxic. The irony of ALS, the brain continues to function at 100 percent normal levels so the person becomes trapped in their functionless body but have a fully functioning brain to the very end. To suggest that ALS is triggered by brain trauma is reckless and not supported by fact. This is nothing more than an attempt to gain sympathy for a cause and I'm not buying it. These players have earned big dollars during a brief window of opportunity, they no longer have the ability to earn those big dollars and most of them never planned ahead....this is nothing more than an attempt to hold the league hostage and extort more money to now bail out a majority of former players that are living in poverty. Have you seen any football players today, with everything we know about sports medicine, head trauma, etc., refusing to play in the NFL out of concern for their health in later years? No, they continue to line up and hope and pray that their name gets called on draft day just like they did 30 years ago....and just like they did all those years ago, most of today's players will not put money aside for their life after football and we will continue to see stories of former players that once were cheered by the masses now down and out and somehow we're supposed to feel sorry for them? How about the workers that paid into retirement funds all their working lives then hit 65 and found out their pensions were not funded and they have to keep working to put food on the table....that's a real story. I say, how about these former players going to work or is that beneath them? The real headline should be, former NFL players successfully extort 765 million dollars from NFL.
non football thoughts - one of the reasons they went to the one game wild card is to value winning the division. There were seasons in which NYY and/or Bos and/or Tampa clinched their spots and it was obvious they were trying to get the first round matchup of their choice by fielding an MLB team of September callus.
"Good example of reaching for a guy who never really loved the game. Watkins never played football until he was 22."
I hope you have some greater inside knowledge off his love of the game other than the age he started playing it. If that is what your basing it on, then you really are becoming a crackpot.
I dont see how Watkins was a reach? he was listed on every expert list as a "good" pick. Sometimes these guys just arent good. He was lost in Philly.
too soon to give up on danny watkins. Philly was not the right place. Now, maybe he does wash out....but miami is going to sign him and i bet he sticks. He was too good at baylor.
I'm having a tough time sympathizing with any former NFL player who gets a multi-million dollar settlement for any on-the-job injury - even if the NFL is a multi-billion dollar operation.
Compare this with industrial accidents in the fast food industry. McDonald's employees are far more likely to be seriously injured on the job (with serious burns happening almost daily worldwide). McDonald's is, of course, a much more profitable business than the NFL. However, McDonald's employees are grossly underpaid and get no medical benefits.
It's time to stop idolizing sports players and thinking it's OK for teams to give a contract of $275M for ten years to a single player. It's the fans that get $crewed in the end (Hello pre-season ticket that costs $300!)
Now that the concussion settlement is complete, can we all stop acting like players didn't know getting hit in the head was dangerous?
Re: David Carr being signed.
He ceased to be a viable NFL QB by the end of his 3rd season and 150 sacks. "Happy feet" in the pocket doesn't begin to describe him.
Thank you Peter King for your support of the cause for a cure for ALS. I lost my dad to ALS in 2006. (Marcie Trembulak Margotti)
whats inflation take that $765 million spread over 20 years? This might as well have just been a loan for the NFL teams, they didn't learn anything from it. I would imagine just jersey sales eclipse that number in a short time.
"I hate the one-game Wild Card in baseball. It devalues the 162-game season." Well, the only thing that could "devalue" a 162 game season, is a 162 game season. Ludicrous.
I think the most telling and sad part of this is the NFL will be paying about 200 million to the lawyers. If you have ALS you are capped at 5mil, Parkinson's 4mil, and Alzheimer and Dementia 3mil these are all max amounts and most won't receive near that.
...but the lawyers will get $200 million dollars...just for filing and representing the players....what's wrong here.
A handful of men will receive more than a 1/3 the amount going to a bunch of men with ALS, Alzherimers, etc ($75 mil goes to testing) to treat all these conditions. The rest will be spent on houses, expensive cars, etc...
"thinking about this man and how important it was to him that he provide for his family, that his children get the college education they deserve."
The Turners were doing well before KT played pro ball. I am sure his kids would have gone to college regardless. (I lived in the town he was from, Prattville, Alabama, same HS etc.). Anyone in the US can get financial aid or Pell grants... They knew the risk they were taking just as drivers know their risk in racing.While I am not unsympathetic to the injured athletes, It seems to me it is like an Army Ranger suing the Gov. because they got wounded. Both know the risk and love what they do. not buying it myself, same as people who over spent and wanted a bailout because they could not pay for their house and maxed out their home loan as opposed to living within their means.
An old school New England liberal siding with management? The apocalypse is upon us.
Where's the Peter King Challenge this year can't find it, he made me a ton of money by going against his picks
The math doesn't add to me. 685 million dollars for 4,500 players each one gets $152,000. If 171 get diagnosed Parkinson they will run out of money.
What a surprise, Peter King is carrying water for the NFL on the concussion lawsuit.
Good Morning Peter. Normally I don't read items related to legal issues, but I read your column this morning about the settlement between the NFL and players regarding injuries. Great job. Kevin Turner is someone you root for and I agree that this settlement is best for everyone. I feel it is important for players to get help now rather than waiting years from now for help. Keep up the great work. Love the new format. Peace
The Raiders really tried to trade Kluwe? A punter who failed to win the job for two teams in the past two years? In the NFL, you never spend a draft pick on a punter, much less one that is on a decline. Also, surprised Peter didn't note the Raiders whiff on Tyler Bray. For a team in cap he11 and in desperate need of good drafts, to cut your 4th round pick is pretty awful. Raiders faithful who think Reggie is the answer, you may be asking the wrong question.
OMG. Peter King mentioned the Panthers in a column. The world is ending.
I noted with interest the specific mentions of payouts for those who suffer from ALS and Parkinson's Disease, which seems to indicate an implied causative relationship. I suppose it's possible I missed this somewhere along the way, but is there any solid statistical analysis showing that former NFL players suffer from ALS and Parkinson's Disease at higher rates that comparable segments of the general population? Higher rates of Parkinsonism as a result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy makes some sense to me, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that, but I don't believe there any link has been established between ALS and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or any other trauma).
@FeliciaFitzgerald The example you gave of the contract of "$275M for ten years to a single player" is in baseball, not football. You're talking about the Alex Rodriguez contract. There is no contract in the NFL that is the same as Rodriguez's contract. By the way, in the NFL, contracts are not guaranteed; only their singing bonus is guaranteed.
Otherwise, I agree with your main point. :-)
@BronzeBomber so true I mean what happened to being accountable for the choices one makes and assumption of risk?
@RonAglund Why are you complaining about the injustice of paying lawyers $200M but no the injustice of paying NFL players (who BTW are all 1%-ers) millions of $$$ for potentially on-the-job injuries.
A construction worker that loses an arm will get a $10K settlement if s/he's lucky.
People need to get a grip...
@RonAglund The alternative to working on a contingency basis, where they only get paid if they win or settle successfully, is for the plaintiffs themselves to pay the legal fees as they go along. In the latter case, the deep pockets of large corporate entities, who can afford to stretch out the litigation process until the plaintiffs are bankrupt, means that alot of people who deserved justice would be denied it. Not fair, but reality.
@RonAglund 200 million IN ADDITION to the $$ going to the players will be paid separately to lawyers by the NFL.
@C-Diddy he's always sided with management which is why he gets access. Not saying it's right but that's how you gotta play the game with the NFL (see Playmakers and ESPN).
The minimum salary for a rookie NFL player is $405,000.
Why am I not sympathetic???
@Piedra that's why we have health insurance.
@Piedra The details are scant but all PK mentioned were maximums - no minimums. Not everyone will receive the maximum, obviously.
@JeffWBrown Did he? I skipped that part.
@JeffWBrown The Panthers have been scraping the bottom of the NFL for years now. Perhaps winning a few more games would earn more mention?
Incorrect, CTE can cause Parkinson-like, or ALS-like, or Alzhemier's like disease manifestations, based on where most of the abnormal protein aggregates from the trauma (substantia-nigra- Parkinsons, frontal cortex, diffuse- Alzheimers). TDP43, an abnormal protein, is found in ALS as well as people with CTE who develop ALS (Kevin Turner).
@mystafugee @C-Diddy mysta: That's how you play the game with ANY large corporation - it's NOT exclusive to the NFL.
@FeliciaFitzgerald @Piedra Wow, that's the 3rd time you've said that. It was clear the 1st time.
But that doesnt mean that they develop ALS.
Read all that. Not convinced. Mckee's sample size was only 12, laughably small. What's more, other cases of hers included victims of accidental gunshot while cleaning his gun and another victim dying from a high speed police chase. Even worse for your argument, Mckee concedes..quoting her.."CTE is a neuropathologically distinct" from ALS.
Looks like you have already failed. I'll help slightly and then stop wasting my time.
Step 1: Google "CTE and ALS."
The first hit, the wikipedia article on CTE, mentions the link between ALS and CTE and the research performed on it by McKee's group in Boston. (Reference #59)
Step 2: Using Pubmed, you can search for several articles, done by McKee's group and others.
Step 3: Read the literature and make your own conclusions. You will also need to read about TDP43 in ALS for things to make sense.
I'm sure you will offer the same clumsy causality argument, but the actual contention is that CTE is associated with an ALS-like clinical picture (much like CTE and Alzheimer's-like disease and CTE and Parkinson's-like disease), in some players, Kevin Turner being the most high profile case.
Try as I might, I still can't find ANY evidence that CTE causes ALS. Please provide evidence for your claim.
@a52wkhi Tell that to Kevin Turner- a guy who had to retire early due to head trauma then develops ALS. I'm sure he cares whether you think it's causation or correlation. The NFL certainly didn't, and gave him the highest payout of any of the implicated illnesses (5M).
I'm a pathologist who has followed the story and the medical literature since Dr. Bennet Omalu wrote up his first case of the late Mike Webster having CTE. I've made my own conclusions. I suggest you do the same, then get back to me.
It's the old rule...correlation is not causation.
From CTE, that is.


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has a multi-component tread formed from many individual links. While LEGO has made tread links before, these are much wider, have small cleats on them (should work much better on the carpet), and perhaps hold together better than the old style. More to the point the length of this tread system is very adjustable, leading to variable length treads. Bravo LEGO! I don't have these (yet...), but someone has put up some more detailed pictures up on Brickshelf:
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- peter hoh said...
Oooo. Now I know what's on my Christmas wish list.
Speaking of the fixed length rubber treads, is there any way to get them to turn smoothly? My treads seem to be warped -- well, that's not the right word, but kinked isn't the right word, either. Anyway, the treads cause the vehicle to run in a jerky manner.
Any ideas on how to fix this, or is this just the way it is with LEGO treads?
- Nov 21, 2006, 1:10:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
To "even out" the treads, at least with the old ones, I think you could store them around two of the large Mindstorms "motorcycle" tires for a time, to try to restore a more uniform curvature. I've not tried this with the newer treads yet.
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The unfortunate fact is that when the new rubber treads are installed on hubs in a structure they will memorize the new profile if they sit for a week without being turned.
The new tread links are the way to go. The prospects of adding elements to the tread area is very exciting. The pin holes can then use a wide assortment of different elements and expand the uses of the tread system in some very interesting ways. Makes me wonder if LEGO will create some snap-on rubber elements for the pin holes...it would be a nice addition for use on hard surfaces!
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These new treads look like a great boon for GBC module construction.
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Hehe... that would be why I ordered two immediately... :-)
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Is there a way to buy the new or old treads sepratly, like buy only that? If so, please tell me.
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Last updated at 14:27, Friday, 18 May 2012
THE family of a mum who died after fighting three different types of cancer say they have been inspired by her unbelievable strength and courage.
Clare Hutchinson lost her 13-year battle on Monday morning, at her childhood home in Kirkstone Crescent, Barrow.
The 41-year-old, who lived in Sandringham Close before moving in with her parents for the last nine months of her life, was discharged from hospital the day before.
Ms Hutchinson was taken into Furness General with pneumonia around three weeks ago, as the effects of an aggressive brain tumour and leukaemia took their toll on her body.
It marked the end of an incredible fight for a woman who also fended off bowel cancer three times.
Yesterday her mum, Lorraine Sturgeon, 61, and dad, Paul Sturgeon, 62, paid tribute to their daughter.
Mr Sturgeon said: "She was unbelievable – absolutely inspirational. She never ever complained, she never asked, 'why me?', her attitude was incredible.
"The medical staff called her bizarre – she never conformed to any of the norms.
"She just had a zest for life, and such a strength of character."
Ms Hutchinson was diagnosed with bowel cancer on September 13, 1999, aged 29.
It was a very complicated strain of the disease, and doctors at Furness General Hospital were not hopeful she could recover.
But, having been told there was a new type of surgery that could save her life, her family arranged for her to go to Hope Hospital, now Salford Royal, to be operated on by a pioneering specialist.
The procedure worked and Ms Hutchinson went into recovery – but two years later, the cancer came back.
Again, the brave mum underwent surgery, and it was then that polyps were discovered on her bowels.
They were benign at the time, but later became cancerous.
By that time, Ms Hutchinson was dealing with a far more serious illness.
In January 2007, she was diagnosed with an inoperable tumour, deep-seated in her brain, and was told she had three months to live.
But she began taking herbal remedies ordered from the internet, and continuous scans revealed the tumour was not growing.
Mr Sturgeon said: "The way Clare battled things, we started thinking, 'maybe she can beat this'.
"It got to six months, and then nine months, and I started to think maybe the doctors were wrong."
But in early 2010, Ms Hutchinson began having minor fits, and the doctors revealed that the tumour had grown significantly.
A biopsy showed the tumour was cancer in its most aggressive form, and she was told to go and enjoy her final few months with her family.
But having been told that surgery, followed by a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, would give her up to 20 months, Ms Hutchinson decided she wanted more time.
She underwent a seven-and-a-half-hour craniotomy, for which she was awake while doctors operated on her brain.
Because of the form the tumour had taken, with tendrils reaching into various parts of her brain, they were only able to remove 40 per cent of it.
Ms Hutchinson got through six weeks of combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and started another six months of chemotherapy in early 2011.
But after two months, her blood count became too low for her to be treated.
And after a summer of being constantly monitored to see if it had improved, she underwent another biopsy in August 2011.
On September 13, exactly 12 years after her first diagnosis, Ms Hutchinson was told she had acute myeloid leukaemia.
Her treatment for the tumour put on hold, she began intensive chemotherapy at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Mr Sturgeon said: "They didn't want to treat her, knowing she had only months to live because of the brain tumour, but we knew better about Clare by that point.
"She asked how long she would have, and they said about a week, but she wasn't ready to throw in the towel."
Ms Hutchinson finished her leukemia treatment in February this year.
She had been waiting for her blood count to return to normal to allow her to resume treatment for her brain tumour when she fell ill for the last time. Her funeral was due to take place today at the Holy Family church in Barrow.
The former Thorncliffe School pupil and hairdresser was well known within the town, and especially for the 10 years she spent working at Ken Riley's in Crellin Street.
Mr Sturgeon said: "We've had hundreds and hundreds of people getting in touch with us – I've lost track of all the cards and I've had so many messages on Facebook – from people I don't even know.
"You can't walk through town without being stopped by someone who knows her. Everyone describes her smile.
"When the GP came to certify her death, as she was going out of the door, she said, 'Every time I'm having a bad day, I think of your Clare'.
"That sums her up completely – she was an inspiration to everyone."
Mr and Mrs Sturgeon said their daughter's determination was strengthened by the birth of her first granddaughter.
Millie-Mae was born to Ms Hutchinson's 19-year-old son, Jamie, a year ago on Monday.
Mr Sturgeon said: "Having a granddaughter just kept her going. I think that's what made her last the last 12 months.
"She was desperately looking forward to her first birthday."
It is not just in her beloved son and her granddaughter that Ms Hutchinson leaves her legacy.
Her twin brother, Graham, says his life has been changed completely by what his sister went through.
A former Sellafield worker, he decided to live his dream of becoming a pilot, selling his house to fund the training he had never been able to afford. Mr Sturgeon Jnr, who has now been working for British Airways for six years, said: "When she became ill, I did a lot of thinking, and I just realised that life really is too short not to do the things you want to do. I was so inspired by Clare I just thought, 'I'm going to do it'."
Money raised at Ms Hutchinson's funeral will be donated to the funds for Duncan House, where her parents stayed during her treatment in Blackpool.
The house was opened by Barrow woman, Liz Cassells, to provide accommodation for Cumbrian families with relatives being treated for leukaemia.
Having spent every day of the last 13 years supporting her throughout her ordeal, Miss Hutchinson's family now face a future without the inspirational woman they say changed so many people's outlooks on life.
Mr Sturgeon Snr said: "It's a massive, massive void.
"We'll be totally lost without her."
First published at 13:21, Friday, 18 May 2012
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What a truly incredibly sad story, she had Unbelievable courage and to think people moan about such trivial little things like the weather puts life into perspective.She is at peace now thats the only consolation.
Paul and Lorraine, Claire was so brave for so long and she had the best support from both of you. My heartfelt sympathy to you and the rest of the family, love Margaret
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Having never raced a car in his life, and after seeing others race for just the first time, Dick and his friend Bill Kinchloe loaded up the MG and headed south. By virtue of good fortune and innate driving skill, the pair drove the entire 12-hour race and finished an astounding 8th place overall, ahead of 24 other cars. And they managed this feat while knowing almost nothing about endurance racing.
"During the first pit stop," remembers Dick, "I pulled in and everybody was sitting in the pits having lunch and nobody moved a muscle. It was about a five minute pit stop, I would guess. It was a 12-hour race so we figured what's the hurry, 12 hours is a long time!"
Dick's good fortune and good finish at Sebring launched his racing career. He successfully competed in the MG at numerous events up and down the East Coast during the remainder of 1952. The following two seasons saw him in a Porsche Super, which he drove to consecutive F-Production national championships.
In 1954, while racing the Porsche at Andrews Field outside of Washington, D.C., Dick drove a 1954 Chevy Corvette. A local Chevrolet dealer brought the car out to the event just to demonstrate it, not to race, and he asked Dick to take it around for a few laps.
"I was impressed with the car," remembers Dick, "because it handled very well, comparable to my Porsche and the Jag I replaced it with."
Though he recognized that Chevrolet's little-regarded sports car had the makings of a competitive racer, Dick did have a couple of complaints. "The '54 had the old six-cylinder and Powerglide, which were not really suitable for racing. And the car had very poor brakes, a problem which was not entirely solved for a number of years."


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A new livery and equestrian centre has opened near Workington.
Carol Parker, and daughters, Rebecca, 18, and Rachel, 19, of Tallentire, near Cockermouth, have started the business at Cumberland Lodge, Winscales, where they will offer stabling, riding lessons, horse jumping and show events.
The mother-and-daughter team previously ran the cafe at the Lakeland Equestrian Centre, Dearham, before it was forced to close due to an outbreak of strangles disease – the horse equivalent of foot and mouth.
Mrs Parker said: "There are already 12 horses in the stables despite the fact that the official opening is not until Sunday."
She said they will mark the launch with a day of entertainment, polo matches and demonstrations.
The Lakeland Equestrian Centre officially closed its doors for good this week as a result of the disease, which was found last December, and mounting council taxes.
Sarah Richardson, 22, who ran the livery, said the centre never recovered from the disease which had put the stables and its 20 horses into isolation until it cleared.
Ms Richardson, who began as a stablehand at the centre aged 16, said: "It just got too much. I tried everything but decided I would have to close. "
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about time we had a decent riding school in west cumbria! its a bit of a pain going up into the lakes all the time and will look forward to going here. I wish them all the best
Lakeland equestrian centre HAS NOT shut its doors and we are still open as a livery yard holding indoor jumping and shows,secondly strangles IS NOT the equine equivalent of foot and mouth and thirdly we have recovered from last years strangles and all horses and our yard have a full bill of health!
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Pierson alumni, and current teacher, Sean Kelly was just 14-years-old when his family moved to Sag Harbor from a rural, landlocked town in Ireland. Although, his new home and old stomping grounds were separated by thousands of miles, Kelly says both shared a tight-knit community. This close sensibility allowed Kelly to flourish at Pierson High School and he was soon playing on sports teams and garnering a stellar academic record. Kelly graduated in 1999 and went on to earn a Bachelors degree at Harvard University, but soon returned to Pierson to teach social studies.
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 When Kelly became a member of the high school faculty, he joined dozens of former alumni who currently work for the district as educators, administrators, custodians, kitchen help and school board members. Of the nearly 40 alumni who work for the district in some capacity, many of them say they were drawn to Sag Harbor because of the close-knit school community.
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 "I feel very blessed to work for the school. I always knew that I wanted to invest my life in Sag Harbor because of the location and the community," said Kate Berkoski, a fellow 1999 Pierson graduate and current fifth grade teacher. "Every teacher I had from kindergarten through sixth grade is still working at the school."
 "The teachers really try to do something more than educate. They try to give students an experience," continued Berkoski, referencing programs such as the annual fifth grade Wax Museum and the recent Ellis Island project where children mimicked the journey of turn of the century immigrants.
 Dr. Jon Baer, Pierson's government and economics teacher and a member of the class of 1963, fondly recalls how his English teacher, Helen Muller, inspired him to pursue a degree in education. Dr. Baer, however, pursued this career later in life after spending years in the army, earning masters degrees in education and political science, a doctorate in political science and working for the local radio station WLNG until 2000.
 "It was kind of my dream to teach English because of my teachers from Pierson," contended Dr. Baer. "The school is very cozy and friendly."
 Although Dr. Baer fostered close relationships with a few select teachers, he says on the whole, teacher and student dynamics were more formal in the past, which is noticeably different today.
 "[Now] teachers can joke around with their students. There isn't that barrier and I think it is that sense of community [between teacher and student] that leads to less drugs and violence in our schools," opined Dr. Baer.
 Closer ties between the faculty and students is one change of many, adds Dr. Baer, compared to his experiences at Pierson. Academically, Dr. Baer says the school focused on business and career training electives in the 1960s. During this time, Pierson offered classes in accounting, bookkeeping and typing. Current Sag Harbor Elementary School teacher Bethany Deyermond, who graduated in 1971, remembers learning to balance her checkbook in one class.
 According to Dr. Baer, vocational oriented courses, such as electrical shop classes, were mainly dominated by male students, while woman traditionally attended the home economics and typing classes. Â
 When Terri Federico graduated from Pierson in 1983, the school was just beginning to offer special education courses and the school provided students with little help when applying to colleges.
 "They now make it easier to apply," said Federico, who added that when she was in school Advanced Placement programs weren't offered.
 "Many more kids go to college now than before," said Dr. Baer.
 In addition to better preparedness for college, Kelly added that the school now offers a more diverse curriculum and elective course offerings.
 "I look at what the kids have available to them now with a certain amount of envy. They have all of these amazing extra curriculars, facilities, science labs and the library. There is such a variety of classes. There is an outlet for any individual skill — like sports, art, drama. Each individual can find a way to show their talent. I wish I had had that diverse experience, though my experience was amazing," opined Kelly.
 Kelly says the small class size also gives the school the feel of a private institution, with which Frank Atkinson-Barnes, a social studies teacher who taught at several boarding and private schools before starting at Pierson, agreed. Several of the teachers reported that the number of Pierson students has remained relatively stable throughout the years.
 Although each alumni turned teacher fondly recalls their Pierson experiences, few expected to end up teaching in the district where they grew up. Atkinson-Barnes says he applied to schools very far from Pierson and attended college in Virginia.
 "When I left to go away to college, I don't think I ever thought I would come back to Sag Harbor," remembered Deyermond, though life had other plans for her. After attending college in Pennsylvania and Vermont, Deyermond transferred to Southampton College to finish out her studies and to be closer to her future husband Ed Deyermond, now a village trustee and Southampton Town Assessor.
 Others, like Federico and Berkoski, always had an inkling that their paths would lead them back to the village. Federico didn't stray far and completed the bulk of her studies at C.W. Post and Southampton College. Although, Berkoski attended college in North Carolina, she ended up returning home shortly after graduation.
 Though teaching in the Sag Harbor school district was an unexpected turn of events for several Pierson graduates, many of them say they feel lucky to work for the school.
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Steelers practice update – 11/1Posted by on November 1, 2012 – 3:31 pm
The Steelers were without RB Baron Batch (shin), T Marcus Gilbert (ankle), S Troy Polamalu (calf), and LBs Stevenson Sylvester (hamstring) and LaMarr Woodley (hamstring) at practice on Thursday, but running back Jonathan Dwyer (quadriceps) was back on the field in a limited role.
Running back Rashard Mendenhall (Achilles) also practiced in a limited role, while S Ryan Clark (concussion), LB Brandon Johnson (hamstring) and RB Isaac Redman (ankle) were full participants for the second straight day.
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By jimbuzzella on Nov 1, 2012 | Reply
if we ever get healthy we are going to kick some butt be were ever budy
By William Stamey on Nov 1, 2012 | Reply
very glad tosee some of our players back on line.hope to see the rest real soon we need them all.
By Wayne Edwards on Nov 1, 2012 | Reply
Glad to see Redman and Dwyer in the backfield. If the Giant's run defense is as good as it was against Washington. The running game will have a third 100 yard rusher. Our offensive line has played extremely well in the last two games.
By Sherman A. Johnson on Nov 1, 2012 | Reply
lets go get 7………………….steel dominate.
By steelerfaithful671 on Nov 2, 2012 | Reply
Good to have Ryan Clark ready to go… big diffrent maker against the pass attack.. Running back field gonna pose a problem with Giants front d-Line.. War Steeler Nation…
By david on Nov 2, 2012 | Reply
We are in trouble. Without Woodly we will not be able to generate pass rush and with only 2 backs healthy they will wear out. giants 41 Steelers13
By james pheasant on Nov 2, 2012 | Reply
All we can do is play our best.and let all of our wounded rest.
For all the giants that come to play. let them know we were here today.And in the end we'll stand tall.
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This year, for the first time in probably a decade, I planned to shop on Black Friday.
When the kids were little, it didn't make sense to lose more sleep than I was already losing to spend money we didn't have. Even when you save on deeply discounted items, you are still spending money. Stay home and off the computer and you'll really save.
But this year I liked the idea of stores opening on Thursday for Black Friday shopping.
I know all of you don't agree.
About an hour before I went, I checked nwfdailynews.com for a free listing of store opening times and made the mistake of reading comments posted on the story.
I felt like I'd stuck my hand in boiling oil.
Employees should be home with their family; stores were eroding family values; it was gross and horrible and everyone should boycott stores that opened early.
I don't quite see it that way, so bring it on.
Why was it OK to leave the house at 11 p.m. to queue up for a little midnight shopping, but not to do the same at 8 p.m.? Has the sky fallen? Is our moral compass pointing south? Have we abandoned God, country and family, in that order?
If so, we are in trouble. Because I have never seen so many people out shopping in my life as I did at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Shoppers loved it.
Some were making a night of it, starting at 8 or earlier and planning stops through the early morning hours.
I spoke to a mom of two boys who was enjoying her shopping time at Kohl's, even though a chunk of it was spent waiting in line.
I ran into an old neighbor from Crestview who had a detailed shopping itinerary lined up to carry her through the night.
I marveled that Kohl's shut down its escalators so we would have two routes to stampede up to the second floor when the store opened.
In fact, I felt like a Black Friday tourist, taking pictures of all the oddities Thursday night.
After a couple hours, I was done. My teenage daughters were not. They could have shopped all night, they said. Of course, they weren't the ones standing in checkout lines.
We had fun, though.
We laughed and compared stories.
We pushed away from the dining room table and journeyed out into the night together.
We made memories.
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raisindot wrote:Wow. I wonder if this is unique to European robins.
We gets tons of them up here starting around April and we'll often get four or more wandering around the back yard looking for worms. I've never seen any of them fight with each other or attack anything else. Cardinals I've seen scaring away smaller birds at the feeder. I've seen swallows and crows attacking hawks. Blue jays will attack people if you get close enough. But robins? Not a one!
No one expected the Spanish inquision.whereas over there you tend to have cardinals.
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I upgraded my old and trusty HP Pavilion dv9085 with Windows 8 a while ago, but having a hard time getting it to run properly/stable with NVIDIA drivers installed.
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Over at the Weekly Standard blog, Jeryl Bier raised an alarm on Friday about the rise of food stamp (aka SNAP) fraud. The howler in the piece is that although the headline says food stamp fraud is up 30 percent, you soon realize that the fraud rate only rose from 1.0 percent to 1.3 percent. Bier rightly deserves a ding for a ridiculously misleading use of statistics.
In response to Bier, Jonathan Cohn points out the misuse of statistics and makes the straightforward case for food stamps. That case is old but worth repeating here: food stamps stabilize households and the economy in bad economic times, pull millions out of poverty, and have very low overhead. Also, the program runs quite well!
Beyond Cohn's takedown, I think we should point out that the kind of food stamp "fraud" Bier is complaining about is not even a problem. The USDA calls the type of fraud in question "trafficking," and it basically amounts to individually swapping out food stamp dollars for actual dollars. Despite what you hear, it is not easy to sell food stamps anymore because they are distributed via debit cards. So what people do to convert food stamp credits into cash is take their EBT card to a store, and charge it for purchases they are not making. Then, the clerk pulls out cash equal to what was fraudulently charged, gives it to the food stamp recipient, and usually takes a cut of the cash as well. So it's basically like selecting a cash back option when you buy things with a debit card, except it's illegal and the clerk takes some of it.
Except for the clerk taking some of it, there is no problem with this whatsoever. The problem people presumably have with it is that they imagine that the point of food stamps is to give people food credits, not money. We don't want to just give recipients more cash, only more food.
But check this out: giving people food stamps is basically the same thing as giving them more cash. Suppose I am spending $300/month feeding my family. Then I get on to SNAP and receive a monthly benefit equal to $100. What do I do? Well, I take $100 of my $300 monthly food budget and replace it with SNAP money. Now, that $100 I used to spend on food each month is freed up for me to spend on other things. Because money is fungible, giving me vouchers for a certain kind of spending that I am already doing is no different than just giving me cash.
All trafficking does is short circuit this process. Instead of using the fungibility of money to convert SNAP dollars into actual dollars, a trafficking person just does it directly. There are all sorts of reasons a poor person would want to do this, but more importantly, it's not substantively different from swapping out SNAP dollars for cash in the legally permitted way detailed in the above paragraph.
To be sure, it is horrible that the clerks involved in the trafficking get a cut of the money. If you are going to give poor people money, you want them to get all of it. But if we want to cut the clerk out (and we do), we can do that by allowing people to receive real dollars instead of SNAP dollars in the first place. There is no reason to give someone SNAP dollars if they'd prefer real dollars instead. People labor under the delusion that it ensures the money goes to buying food, but that's an economically confused understanding of how money works.
So ultimately, the problem with Bier's post is not just that it grossly exaggerates the amount of trafficking fraud going on, but also that trafficking fraud itself is totally fine. I don't care about it and neither should you.
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I was at a community yard sale a couple weeks ago and looking through some old newspapers and magazines from the late 1950's. I did not see one article, much less a headline, about millions of people starving to death in this country. How could all these papers and magazines have missed a big story like that? After all, this was years before the 15 food giveaway programs that the government has now, including Food Stamps. What could have all the people been eating if the government wasn't handing out over eighty billion dollars worth of free food every year?
I also noticed in the pictures in those old magazines that there were no fat people. They seem to have showed up after the massive food giveaways were started. Hmmm.
Tue, 2013-08-20 13:48
Food stamps began in 1939 and the obesity epidemic began in the mid 1970s, so your vastly oversimplified causal effect doesn't even hold up. The bigger question is why you feel the need to put down a program that has helped provide food to hungry people for over seven decades and costs virtually nothing. It was originally not even started as a program to feed the hungry, but to increase demand for agricultural produce (which is why it was originally in the Department of Agriculture, not HUD).
Mon, 2013-08-19 15:44
So, "taxed" expects us to believe that because he saw a bunch of magazines from the 50's that didn't mention anyone starving to death, that means it wasn't happening?
How convenient for a wingnut who wants to claim that SNAP doesn't help people because he'd rather make poor kids and old folks (who make up more than half of all recipients) go hungry than go after the real driver of our long term debt--health care costs.
As for poverty and hunger in America in the 50's, a time of post war boom, it's likely that the magazines you saw at the yard sale didn't give a damn about, say, rural blacks, or poor people in inner cities.
Tue, 2013-08-20 09:26
"he'd rather make poor kids and old folks (who make up more than half of all recipients) go hungry than go after the real driver of our long term debt--health care costs."
Yeah I missed the part where he said that. You do realize, right, that it is possible to be against hunger (seriously, is anyone --outside of the Koch brothers of course -- FOR hunger???) but think that food stamps are not the right way to go about it.
Wed, 2013-08-21 00:42
To point out something that is almost always over-looked: While black Americans have been disproportionately poor, the majority of the poor have always been white. The majority of rural poor have always been white -- you know, folks who "work hard and play by all the rules," and therefore cannot be poor within the flawless economic system we have in the US (so we pretend they don't exist). It is not convenient, for a list of reasons, to note this reality. For most of our history, we maintained the myth that poverty was only a black issue, and that it existed because black people are unable/unwilling to engage in competitive work. White poverty has been swept under the carpet because we don't want to admit that poverty might be caused by a grossly flawed, hyper-capitalist economic system. The more you sort through the race issue, the more you understand that those in power couldn't care less about the color of the people they can exploit. And, in fact, Martin Luther King pointed this out when explaining why it's in the best interests of the poor, regardless of color, to unite and push back against those who work so consistently to keep them in poverty.
Tue, 2013-08-20 09:21
Because money is fungible...
It sure is. About a week ago I was at the grocery store and the guy in front of me was wearing a big watch, sunglasses inside, baseball hat (probably around 50 years old) and managed to only grunt responses to the cashier. Anyway, he pays for his food with his food stamp debit card, then pulls out a $20 to pay for his beer (he also bought potato chips, but I can't recall if that was paid for with the cash or food stamps). This isn't the first time I have seen this happen either, with people needing the rest of us to pay for their food but somehow having money for beer (and ridiculous clothing). Lefties, please tell me again what a great program this is.
Tue, 2013-08-20 12:47
Tue, 2013-08-20 14:42
If you don't like that plan how about this one: in our rich nation there is no need for anyone to starve. So we canhave food stamp stores, where people can get beans, rice, potatoes, milk, etc. No need to temp "hungry" folks with sodas and chips and stuff they really do not need. Great idea, right?
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Tue, 2013-08-20 12:43
Mr. Bruenig is laboring under the false assumption that the fraud resides in the stamp/money swap. Wrong. The fraud is in the application for benefits that the applicant does not need, hence is able to swap for money instead of getting food, and taking American taxpayers' money away from people who really are hungry. This is the sort of falsity we've come to expect from the right; I suggest Mr. Bruenig switch parties.
Tue, 2013-08-20 18:11
I don't know anyone who wants to see people suffer, go hungry, naked, or homeless. But to insinuate that we should stop worrying about fraud in any sense, especially when it comes to the use of tax dollars, borders on lunacy.
Fraud is a very real problem within the government bureaucracy known as the welfare program and it must be addressed. Welfare must return to a supplemental assistance program meant to bridge the gap for those losing employment or suffering other confirmable setback.
But don't take the reality of this fraud from me, take it from someone who works within the government welfare program. I'm not advocating the removal of public assistance, just a return to legitimacy and integrity.
Wed, 2013-08-21 01:41
The SNAP programs clients are deserving 98.7 percent of the time. That is an efficiency considered excellent and any effort to further ferret out fraud would be silly.
If you are really concerned about the misuse of taxpayer money on a large scale may I suggest you look at tax breaks that are given to big corporations to encourage hiring and improve the nation's economy. Instead of those outcomes, corporations outsource hiring to other, cheaper countries and offshore companies. Then, the profits made from these "fraudulent " transactions are kept in offshore accounts so they won't be taxed, if they are cagey, by any government and they can keep it all.
I have and have had family both on welfare and foodstamps. They would like nothing better than to have a job that earned them a living wage and made government assistance unnecessary. The way to get people off the rolls is to have an economy that provides a decent living.
Wed, 2013-08-21 12:25
Here's an idea: instead of giving people food stamps, let's just give them MONEY! The assumption is that poor folks will just spend what money they they get irresponsibly. Will they? Give them money. Dismantle this humiliating, paternalistic system. And that might actually be cheaper.
Thu, 2013-09-05 08:00
Mon, 2013-11-11 05:58
Even recycling allures criminals. Thousands and thousands of dollars are lost per year to recycling fraud, such as where criminals unlawfully cash in recyclable containers like aluminum cans in states that pay individuals for it, such as California, Maine and Michigan. How many times have you needed additional information on where to find a payday loan guaranteed acceptance and turned to a web site search on emergency payday cash loans?" Your search is over, all of the info you need is at http://www.MatchFinancial.com.
Fri, 2015-03-13 13:52
I live in a low income area. Some of my family members and neighbors are on food stamps and wic. Unfortunately they don't really need the assistance but take it because they qualify.
One of my cousins gets 50 cents on the dollar for her benefits through a fence and she buys marijuana with the money. A neighbor used the money to make payments on an escalade, my nephew has taken his family to Disney world four times.
The system is highly abused. When I see people using their card at the local grocery they buy ice cream, cookies pepsi, lobster etc... I never see fresh vegetables , grains or fruit.
If they are going to continue this program it needs to be highly controlled like WIC and only certain items should be allowed.
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