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Welcome To The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History
Original post made by Pleasanton Mom, Birdland, on Mar 12, 2010
The Health Care Reform Bill: Welcome To The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History
Michael Snyder | Mar. 12, 2010
Will the health care reform bill that the Democrats are trying to figure out a way to ram through Congress end up being the biggest tax increase in U.S. history? Unfortunately, a close reading of the bill leads to the inescapable conclusion that it will be. You see, the crafters of this legislation were smart. They realized that if they included one huge tax increase in the health care bill it would make headlines all over the country, so they chopped up the taxes into a bunch of smaller pieces in order to make them easier to swallow. In fact, one review of the Senate version of the health care bill identified at least 19 tax increases. When you put all of the tax increases together they add up to the biggest tax increase in the history of the United States. Considering the fact that the U.S. economy is already on the verge of economic collapse, the last thing that the American people need is a massive tax increase. But that is exactly what they are about to get.
So let's take a closer look at some of these taxes....
*In Section 5000(A) of the Senate version of the bill (which can be found here), there is a requirement for all Americans to purchase health insurance. Those who do not obtain health coverage will be hit with an annual tax penalty of $750.
*Barack Obama is trying to sneak a large Medicare tax increase for wealthy Americans into the final version of the health care bill. Under Obama's proposal, individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples who earn over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents. Up until now, employers and employees have each contributed 1.45% of each paycheck to Medicare. But if Obama's proposal makes it into the final bill, wealthy Americans will see their Medicare taxes absolutely skyrocket.
*In Section 9008 of the Senate version of the health care bill, a $2.3 billion excise tax would be imposed on the pharmaceutical industry. This tax would not be based on income. It would solely be based on market share. So even if a company was losing hundreds of millions of dollars it would still have to pay.
*Section 9009 of the Senate version of the health care bill imposes an "annual fee" on medical device manufacturers and importers. Once again, this $2 billion "excise tax" would be based on market share and not on income.
*Section 9010 of the Senate version of the health care bill would also impose an "annual fee" on health insurance providers. This $6.7 billion tax would also be allocated based on market share.
So how much of these new taxes on health insurance companies, drugmakers and medical device manufacturers do you think will be passed on to consumers?
Anyone want to take a guess?
Just because a particular tax increase is not directed at you does not mean that it won't take money out of your pocket.
Let's look at some more (yes, there are more) of the tax increases....
*Section 9001 of the Senate version of the health care bill contains an excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans. In other words, if you have provided your family with the very best in health coverage you get to be taxed extra. This tax is particularly harsh. Section 9001 imposes a 40 percent tax on the portion of insurance premiums exceeding $8,500 a year for individuals and $23,000 a year for family plans. In order to hide the tax, it will be imposed on the health insurance companies who issue the policies. But do you think that they will not pass that cost on to their customers?
So now the American people will be highly penalized for getting really good health care plans.
*Section 9017 of the Senate version of the health care bill imposes an excise tax on elective cosmetic medical procedures. Any voluntary cosmetic procedures will now be subjected to a 5 percent tax. All of those boob jobs are about to get a lot more expensive.
*The House version of the health care bill would impose a 5.4 percent income tax increase on individuals making more than $500,000 and on couples making more than $1 million.
So if you are living the American Dream you are about to pay a lot more for it if the House version of the health care bill gets adopted.
Let's break this down a little bit.
Currently, the top income tax rate in the United States is 35 percent.
If existing Bush tax cuts expire in 2011 as Barack Obama wants them to, the top tax rate will go back up to 39.6 percent.
But this new "health care tax" would jack things up even higher.
Another 5.4 percent would take the highest tax rate in America to 45 percent. That is before any state, local or property taxes are even paid.
Pretty soon it won't even be worth it to work hard in America anymore.
But that is not the end of the tax increases.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers' analysis for America's Health Insurance Plans found that family health insurance premiums would be approximately $4,000 a year higher if the health care reform bill is passed.
Can you afford to pay over $300 a month more for health insurance for your family?
Are you starting to get the idea?
This health care reform bill will be an absolute financial disaster for America. But considering the fact that the Senate version of the bill is 2409 pages long, hardly anyone will ever take the time to read the whole thing.
And yes, the Democrats are likely to tweak things a little more as they try to figure out how to sneak a final version through, but there is now one thing that seems virtually certain.
This is going to be the biggest tax increase in U.S. history.
(The article was published on The Economic Collapse Blog.)
Comments (22)
a resident of Dublin
on Mar 12, 2010 at 11:22 am
Republicans stuck literally on fear. Turns out Karl Rover just a one trick pony.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 11:33 am
Pleasanton Mom,
I believe the article is spot on and is quite scary to say the least. This bill has to be stopped and we/they need to start from scratch (all elected members) and come up with something which makes sense. This bill as it currently stands is just a mess and I would be willing to bet that they way the are trying to pass it would not even hold up in court. No one argues that healthcare reform needs to be done but I think most logical thinkers would agree that this bill is not the way to do it.
a resident of Dublin
on Mar 12, 2010 at 12:46 pm
"$300 a month more for health insurance" - this is a drop in the bucket when evaluating how much you will be paying soon without some kind of reform.
If this bill is the best we can do, then it needs to move forward. The republican party had plenty of years to get this growing problem under control and has really not done a thing. Rates have been going up by something like 10%/year the past decade.
If this bill doesn't work, they can always change it. Personally, I can think of better ways to fix healthcare by modeling it after working systems in other countries, but it would be very unpopular to enact that change, even though long term it would be better for our country.
Something should be done. As a side note, if nothing is done, I'm fine with having a shift of money from the non health care employed to the "health care industry" as you can't put a price on health. I'm not talking about insurance companies specifically but their executives will be one of the beneficiaries along with many other types, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, nurses, etc.
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Rat Turd,
It is 2000 pages of Tyranny.
May there be sufficient numbers of decent people in this Congress who have the wisdom and courage to stop Obama's Marxist destruction of the United States.
We're living a nightmare. November cannot come fast enough.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Pleasanton Mom must have a lot of time on her hands. Plus having the following repeated-ad nauseum-phrases programmed into her F1 and F2 function keys:
"stop Obama's Marxist destruction of the United States."
"We're living a nightmare. November cannot come fast enough."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Nothing new, it's their mantra:
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a resident of Birdland
on Mar 12, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for your thoughts and assumptions about me.
Do you have anything to say about the 19 new Tax increases included in the Government takeover of our healthcare system - effectively the biggest tax increase in our history?
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 12, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Web Link Republican scare tactics to get $$$$$$ from members of TEA PARTY!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Pleasanton Mom,
yes I believe you are correct and November cannot come quickly enough for sure. Have you seen the recent polls? Amazingly low I would say this early in the game. I suspect we are going to have a major shift in leadership in this country and I travel quite a bit and hear it everywhere. Pretty hard to draw any conclusions from California because California rarely represents the views of the rest of the country. As an example I saw someplace where Obama's nationwide job approval was 43% but in California it was 55%. If I were already in office I would start getting my resume polished up.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Today Obama's also working on getting medical coverage for illegals....then all of mexico will migrat here ! ! ! ! ! ! !
We knew he was going to grant amnesty in time to register them all for voting in Nov....that's always been his REelection plan. There is just no end to our losses...as we watch the US disolve before our kids even get to know it.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 12, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Lighten up keeps...how come you don't want to share the USA with residents that need to stay healthy in order to work and keep the economy afloat?
I was under the impression that you, of all people, would be happy that your fellow residents are healthy & happy!
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 12, 2010 at 4:31 pm
This is an article published in the New York Post...
"The overriding goal of this reform is to turn health insurance into a more "egalitarian" benefit that's the same for everyone, regardless of income, personal preference or need. So rules written under President Obama to implement the Obama plan are a sure bet to intentionally curtail anyone's ability to wrap around this national coverage with a supplemental policy or to contract privately with doctors to pay your way out of its limitations.
This is exactly what the bureaucracy's done with Medicare. Doctors accepting Medicare can't contract privately with Medicare patients to bill for services that Medicare doesn't cover. Nor can patients buy added coverage to help plug Medicare's gaps. (The "Medigap" that many seniors now buy are tightly regulated by the government to limit how much they expand on Medicare's basic benefits; they mostly just help defray co-pays.)
In short, beneficiaries are trapped inside the Medicare insurance scheme, just as they'll soon be trapped inside the ObamaCare exchanges. Doctors can't offer benefits not covered by the government plans, and patients can't buy extra insurance to make up for many gaps."
It's Tyranny - a staggering loss of freedom.
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a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 12, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Everybody gets old and sick. Even you, Pleasanton Mom.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Sure hope Obambi and the libs have thought this wreck-in-silly-nation ploy through and are sure they want to set a precedent and use it for non monetary or budgetary bills because they should be careful what they ask for because after they open the door it will be used from now on for anything that the party in power does not want discussed in an open foruum. They need to remember that they will not be the party in power and it will be used against them more than once!
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 12, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I know. I am a breast cancer survivor. I just want our healthcare system to remain free, free from government bureaucrats (whose agenda is completely different from a doctor) telling me I'm not worth saving. The doctor will not have a say. Obamacare limits care for people over 40, and imposes even more severe restrictions for people over 70 - just like the British Healthcare system that it is based on.
I still have both my Grandparents, they are 85 and 87, still so alive and so important to us and to all their great-grandchildren. Obamacare will deny their healthcare until they die. We have so much to lose under Obamacare.
Can you imagine how devastating it will be to have the Government interfere with your medical treatment options? That's not America. That's Cuba, or Russia.
a resident of Downtown
on Mar 12, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Pleasanton Mom,
You copy and paste, right wing
patriot Radical P-Town Tea Party Rhetoric is getting SO old and most intelligent people don't have the "bandwidth" top read this stuff anyways.
"*Barack Obama is trying to sneak a large Medicare tax increase for wealthy Americans into the final version of the health care bill. Under Obama's proposal, individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples who earn over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents. Up until now, employers and employees have each contributed 1.45% of each paycheck to Medicare. But if Obama's proposal makes it into the final bill, wealthy Americans will see their Medicare taxes absolutely skyrocket."
First off, BOTH the Senate and House Bills ARE NOT FINAL, so quoting what if scare tactics fro over a year is a WASTE of time you could be using for real solutions on YOUR part.
Where were you RADICAL in regard to TAX monies when we were LIED to as a Country over invading Iraq, a Country that had NOTHING to do with 911? This really has been the HUGE WASTE of our TAX Dollars and our Countries DEMISE!
BUT, NOI most of the people who think like you PROUDLY support WARS , r rather INVASIONS in which we SLAUGHYTER innocent woman in children in the name of "our freedoms"!!!
Wake UP and smell the Coffee. Investigate. Go on to Middle Ease Web sites, look at Iraqi College level students blogs! Get there REAL scoop and stop consuming POOP!
Thinking here:
"Barack Obama is trying to sneak a large Medicare tax increase for wealthy Americans into the final version of the health care bill. Under Obama's proposal, individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples who earn over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents. Up until now, employers and employees have each contributed 1.45% of each paycheck to Medicare. But if Obama's proposal makes it into the final bill, wealthy Americans will see their Medicare taxes absolutely skyrocket."
Would that be such a travesty that a couple making over 220k was dinged just a bit to help OTHERS? A TON of these people give this money to the BIGGEST Business of all, TAX FREE Christian Churches!
Now let's examine the accountability of some of these holly centers, such as the BOG churck on Hopyard! O.K.?? ;-)
Too little Too late Tea Party! "Christians" Really? Radical RIGHT'S ALWAYS NEEDING to be RIGHT at ANY cost, even at the slaughter of innocent woman and children! "Ding GOD'S "work" in the Middle East? O.KL. Bush and Palin and the rest of you people!
Double standard in the most profound way!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 12, 2010 at 6:03 pm
To Pleasanton Mom:
I am truly glad to hear that you are a breast cancer survivor and I wish you continued good health in the future.
But, having experienced a major illness, I would hope that you would be somewhat sympathetic to others in the same situation.
Do you know other breast cancer survivors who have lost their jobs (or whose spouses have lost their jobs) and have had to pay $400-$800/month *per person* COBRA premiums in order to keep seeing their doctors and ensure their remission is on track? I do. And then, once the COBRA time limit runs out, they then have to apply for insurance. What happens then? The very same company to which they were paying the outrageous $800/month premiums to will deny them coverage, based on their pre-existing condition, *even if they did not have a single treatment or doctor visit in that year*. So they go to apply to another health carrier... same story.
This is not fiction, this is the hard cold reality of what the health insurance companies can do and are doing right now.
If this were to happen to you, what would you do?
This does not only happen in the case of major illness, mind you.A story from my own family: my husband and I are both still employed, thank god, even though our salaries have both been cut by almost 10% in the last year. We have good health insurance for our family through our employers. Yet when our son graduated from college, our insurance no longer covered him. He had a part-time job that did not offer insurance, so until he found a full-time job, we used the expensive COBRA to cover him through Kaiser. During that time, his car was broadsided by a reckless driver and totaled. He was experiencing some back pain due to the impact, so went to the doctor and was prescribed a muscle relaxant for two weeks, had an Xray, and when he went for a follow-up visit, the doctor prescribed a month of physical therapy. Things cleared up and he was fine, and did not have to go back to the doctor for the rest of the year, 10 months. When his COBRA time ran out, he applied to Kaiser for individual health coverage. They denied him, based on that one incident. He applied to HealthNet, same story. No one would insure him because of that, so until 18 months had passed since he had last had physical therapy because someone else crashed into his car, he had no health coverage and we lived with the fear that something would happen to him and we would be bankrupted paying any hospital bills.
The proposed health care reform is going to address cases like this.
In addition, there is nothing in the proposed health care that will cause your grandparents to be denied care, and you do know that. If you deny this is nothing more than a red-flag scare tactic on the part of those opposed to any health care reform, please show the evidence.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 12, 2010 at 6:48 pm
more cut and paste from the person who wants you to think it is from a pleasanton mom.
breast cancer survivor: wait until a job loss causes loss of the group plan.... good luck on getting an individual plan!
elder parents in their 80s: good thing the single payer government run plan called medicare covers them! ideologues never address this issue of the health insurance for the elderly and explain how the "free market" would somehow provide anything for them.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 12, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I have a suspicion that the person that likes to cut 'n paste so many articles is President Obama.
I been had this suspicion for quite some time, it was confirmed by a reliable source at the berry patch this afternoon.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Just curious about whether Pleasanton Mom had thought about the reply above re. pre-existing conditions and the proposed health care reform bill.
a resident of Old Towne
on Mar 14, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Detecting there was something fishy going on, some amateur sleuths went and unmasked Pleasanton Mom to reveal--zoiks!--Karl Rove!
When asked by the sheriff why he was spreading falsehoods about health care reform on online forums, Pleasanton Mom merely growled, "It would have worked, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!"
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 15, 2010 at 7:42 am
I agree with you that we need some reforms. However, the Government Takeover of our healthcare industry is not what you think it will be. They have to lie to trick you into it - hence all the backroom political bribing (of their own people!) that is going on.
We absolutely need insurance reforms - in particular we need a market for those with preexisting conditions to be able to buy health insurance policies at affordable rates, just like people with bad driving records can buy auto insurance. It would be great to be able to buy health insurance in the free market that are not necessarily tied to a job.
One way to do this is to open the sale of insurance policies across state lines to increase the number of companies competing - this would bring down cost of premiums to some degree.
But the real cost of premiums are based on:
- The cost of medical care itself, the cost of high-tech medical equipment, medicines, etc.
- The cost of building in legal protections at every turn
- Government mandates and taxes
All of this is why Health Insurance premiums costs so much. It is NOT because insurance companies are greedy and evil, as Obama says. Obama has to have an enemy, a scapegoat, to order to achieve his bad-for-America agenda. The insurance companies are not hugely profitable. They spend 80-85% of their income from premiums on paying claims, and the rest goes to their overhead costs (their employees) and to profit. Their profit margin is only in the 2% to 4% range. Insurance companies are only the 23rd "most profitable businesses in America". Food industry is much more profitable. Are they greedy and evil too? This article will explain more: Web Link
A much needed reform involves capping the lawyers, so doctors wouldn't have to run so many expensive tests. The tests are not only expensive for the insurance company to pay for, but dangerous for the patient as well. All because of the threat of lawsuits.
While we need some reforms, WE DO NOT NEED A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY.
Their plan is designed to kill the private insurance market, thereby destroying the private property of 80% of the U.S. population. An insurance contract is private property. It is a private business arrangement between an individual and a company which the individual purchases as a means of mitigating financial risk. For this Government to drive my insurance company out of business, and force me into their death-trap Budget-grade HMO based on rationing and denials of care, with limitations for people over 40, and severe limitations for people over 70 is nothing short of sinister. It is Tyranny. It is NOT reform! It's NOT about healthcare - it is a calcuated raw political power grab of 1/6th of the U.S. Economy.
You have to understand the agenda, motives, and character of Marxists to see clearly what is happening. WHY are they not just covering the 10 million people who can't afford insurance policies? Wouldn't that cost the taxpayers billions and billions less?
When Medicare was written into law back in 1965, there was specific protective language that prevented Government bureaucrats from interferring directly in medical decisions. Docs have been allowed to provide treatment as they see fit, without review and approval of a Government panel. This is why people are generally happy with their medicare. BUT in the Government Takeover of our healthcare, the Marxists have specifically removed that protective language. Doctors will be constricted to only what the Government panel says they can do, and will be subject to fines if they provide more care than the Government says you're worth.
Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research (this is the Death Panel). He blames the Hippocratic Oath for the 'overuse' of medical care. How twisted is that! He part of a school of thought that redefines a physician's duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient's needs.
As Emanuel wrote in the Feb. 27, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality of care are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change. True reform, he argues, must include redefining doctors' ethical obligations."
In numerous writings, Dr. Emanuel chastises physicians for thinking only about their own patient's needs. He describes it as an intractable problem: "Patients were to receive whatever services they needed, regardless of its cost. Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life. . . . Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies than were trying to hold down costs." (JAMA, May 16, 2007).
Of course, patients hope their doctors will have that single-minded devotion.
"However, other things are rarely equal—whether to save one 20-year-old, who might live another 60 years, if saved, or three 70-year-olds, who could only live for another 10 years each—is unclear." In fact, Dr. Emanuel makes a clear choice: "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated."
Dr. Emanuel concedes that his plan appears to discriminate against older people, but he explains: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination. . . . Treating 65 year olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not."
Dr. Emanuel has fought for a government takeover of health care for over a decade. In 1993, he urged that President Bill Clinton impose a wage and price freeze on health care to force parties to the table. "The desire to be rid of the freeze will do much to concentrate the mind," he wrote with another author in a Feb. 8, 1993, Washington Post op-ed. Now he recommends arm-twisting Chicago style. "Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda," he wrote last Nov. 16 in the Health Care Watch Blog. "If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration's health-reform effort."
This guy is terrifying! Understanding what Marxism is makes the whole Government Takeover of Healthcare terrifying!
Marxism is in direct opposition to American principles of freedom. That truth is what I filter everything they say, and everything they do, through. They are NOT operating in your best interests. They are laughing at you (not "you" literally). They are laughing at our Constitution. They mean you harm. This is NOT your father's Democrat Party anymore.
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Here is a story I used to tell frequently, but haven't for many years now. It is a true story I made up in 1980 or so. (A true story I made up? Yes. The compelling reason we love stories is that they do not have to have happened in order to be true.)
It was 1860, or maybe 1861, in Minsk, or possibly in Pinsk. Wherever, whenever, there were a dozen Jews who used to get together every Tuesday evening for some good talk.
What did Jews talk about? Why, about what it would be like one day — what, that is, Jerusalem would be like. In exquisite detail, they would imagine Jerusalem, its climate, cuisine and culture. Their elaborate, continuing conversation had long since developed a near ritual character, including its periodic interruption by the one skeptic in the group, a fellow named Berl.
Every few months, Berl would say: "Can't we please, just this once, change the topic of conversation? Really, it's quite tedious by now. I mean, if we're really that interested in what it's like in Jerusalem, why don't we pack up and go? If we like it, we'll stay. And if we don't like it, we'll also stay, and make it into something we like."
To which the others would inevitably respond, "Berl, Berl — don't be so naive. Don't you realize how much easier, and how very much safer, it is to sit in Minsk or Pinsk and talk about what it might be like than to go and confront the reality?"
And Berl, because he was a sociable fellow, would again drop his complaint and join in the talk.
This was, for those times and places, a rather sophisticated group; indeed, they had some non Jewish friends. Once upon a Tuesday, they invited one of their non Jewish friends to join with them, and together they talked until the wee hours of the morning, until, in fact, their guest stood and said: "Fellows, I've enjoyed the evening enormously, but I really must get going. Thanks so much for inviting me, and goodnight."
"Thank you for coming," they replied. "But before you go, we do have one question we'd like to ask." "Please, anything at all," their guest said.
"Our question is…" — here there was an awkward pause, and much clearing of throats — "what we'd like to know is, what do — oh, dear, how shall we ask it?. What do people like you — if you know what we mean — think of people like us — if you know what we mean?"
"Oh," their guest said, "you want to know how we feel about Jews."
"Yes, that's right, you have it. You see, we are usually so isolated, and we have so little opportunity for feedback. You don't mind telling us?"
"No, not at all. I think you're a wonderful people — passionate, generous, literate. I have only one problem with you." "A problem? What kind of problem?"
"Well," the guest replied, "there is one aspect of Jewish behavior that really annoys me. You people seem to believe — why, I can't imagine — that you're morally superior to everyone else. Don't get me wrong — I don't think you're any worse than average. But I can't understand your moral conceit, and I find it frightfully annoying."
To their credit — for they knew it was so — his hosts did not deny the accusation, but sought instead to explain their "conceit."
"As you yourself observed, it's very late, so we can't give you the whole etiology of our sense of moral superiority. We'll explain it instead by way of an example, — a metaphor, if you will: We do indeed think we are your moral betters, and the reason we do is that we don't hunt. You people hunt, and we don't hunt, and that makes us better than you."
Their guest guffawed, and then stormed at them: "You silly, trivial people; of course you don't hunt! We don't permit you to own guns!"
That is where the story ended, or, more accurately, rested. I hesitate to tell the story these days, because I can no longer be certain that those hearing it will get the meaning of "We don't hunt," that those words will resonate as they always did 30 or so years ago.
There is a postscript, however, and it is because of the postscript that I retell this true story. The very next morning, the men came to Berl, the skeptic, and said to him, "Berl, pack up. We are leaving to go up to the land, [there DEL?] to set out to prove that even with guns, we will not become hunters."
And what happened next? They did go up to the land, and what happened is still happening. There are ominous signs; there is ample reason for concern: One recent event is, alas, suggestive: On June 2 — Jerusalem Day — the Jerusalem municipality sponsored and largely financed a mass march in favor of further Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. With police protection provided by the state, tens of thousands of marchers — estimates range from 25,000 to 40,000 — followed Road No. 1 south and west into Sheikh Jarrah and then into the Old City. Most of the marchers were young people, and they marched through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, this through the wee hours of the morning, chanting such slogans as "Butcher the Arabs" and "Death to leftists,", "The Land of Israel for the People of Israel" and "This is the Song of Revenge," "Burn their villages," and "Muhammad is dead."
But I promise you this: The story is not over, not yet; it is still being written, in ink of blood and tears.
Leonard Fein
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Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd.'s copper unit is considering bidding for a Glencore Xstrata Plc (GLEN) mine in Peru and is working with advisers, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are advising the unit, Chinalco Mining Corp. International (3668), on the potential purchase of the Las Bambas copper mine, the people said, asking not to be identified because the plans are confidential.
Glencore agreed to sell the Peruvian copper project to secure Chinese regulatory approval for its $29 billion takeover of Xstrata Plc, which it completed three months ago. BMO Capital Markets valued the asset at $6.5 billion in April, while Liberum Capital Ltd. has estimated its worth at $4.4 billion.
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"I thought it was going to be pretty cold," Pang said.
"It was actually a lot different than I imagined. The weather was great and I was really sold on the campus."
Pang enjoyed his trip so much that he signed to run cross country with the Division I school that competes in the Missouri Valley Conference.
"I loved the whole environment and atmosphere there," Pang said.
"It felt like a great place to study and run."
The Hacienda Heights resident was encouraged most by his father and coach, John Pang.
"My dad really wanted me to go away and get the full college experience," Jason Pang said.
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Jason Pang selected Creighton over UC Santa Barbara and Syracuse.
He just finished a successful four-year career as a member of the cross country and track and field teams.
"I consider myself more of a cross country guy that runs track," he said.
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He won all three of his team's Camino Real League cross country meets, and tied with teammate Joe Magana at the league championships at Santa Fe Dam with a mark of 16 minutes, 44 seconds.
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The Montebello resident signed her letter of intent a few months ago with Division1 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
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Afternoon all, apologies if this has been asked over and over again but I really need some advice.
I did GNR 2 weeks back and really really struggled with the hills. All my traninig runs include a big hill as I live on top of one so have no choice but to run up at least a mile hill to get home. However I'm still really struggling, as soon as I hit a hill my legs go heavy and I lose control of my breathing.
So does anyone have any advice for me? I'm doing Birmingham half in a few weeks and there appears to be a hell of a hill at about 10 miles.
I have a slight mental block when it comes to runs that I want to concentrate on the distance, I'm not a great runner! Do you think going to the gym and doing some interval and hill runs on the treadmill will help? I can do this along side other runs so I won't feel I'm missing out on distance runs.
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If you want to get good at hills - run them.
Can you do loops that include your home hill ? And is it more mental than physical ?
Its only a hill - take smaller steps and keep on running. There should be a nice downhill to make up for it.
I do like speedy intervals on the treadmill. I've never bothered with hill work on them though.
Hi LambesLady
"a mile hill to get home" that can be defeating if you must do that for every run especially if the gradient is steep. . It is too much. Maybe you should only run up the hill once (or twice) a week and walk up at other times as a 'cool down' exercise.. Can you not run down the hill and get home from another direction (a loop)?
Few races will have hills of one mile but many will have several shorter hills. Getting used to shorter hills will improve your confidence. Agree Ucougie about taking smaller steps, lean into the hill slightly and if in doubt slow down a bit. Stay controlled and methodical. Your reward will be on the brow of the hill when you find energy to spare. Many runners' will go at their race pace on the flat and then spoil it all by trying to go faster up a hill thinking the hill will affect their time. Ideally you need to maintain the same pace on the hill.
Hills have a reputation as 'hidden speed-work' because of the additional effort required by your lungs and legs and the endurance spin-off. Make hills your friends!
Good luck in Birmingham.
Thanks both for some really useful advice.
I think some of it must be more of a mental thing than physical and I will keep trying to overcome it.
Martenkay - Its hard to explain but it doesn't matter what direction I run, there is a hill back to my house, a lovely down hill on the way out I do wonder if I'm trying to go to fast in a way compensating because it is a hill. I will try and slow down.
I will keep plodding on!
I found I had to shorten my stride length massively (at least 50%) to get up hills (where I live the average 10K run has about 4-500m of ascent in it) - it feels weird but short steps at 180 cadence meant i could get up them much easier - times not that much slower as well for the same effort. It made the small hills in the GNR no trouble this year, compared to last where I had a much longer stride.
Some good advice given already. I'll add one thing that's worked for me recently... and it's an accidental find.
I've started going to the gym, and a favourite activity is the rowing machine - to get the work out, a bit of cross training, and good cardio. I've been doing a fairly hard 5000m programme.... that takes me about 24 minutes. There's a figure (who knows how accurate?) of calories/hr.... and I try to keep the figure above 750 for the first 4000m then above 900 for the rest. This takes a lot of perserverence as I stare at these figures in front of me.
I've found now that when going up a long steep hill (part of one of my favourite runs), I've fallen into this mental routine, imagining myself perservering on that machine... and it just keeps me going.
Maybe the improved leg strength of using the gym helps, but it does feel like a mental thing.
What helped me was squats (slow down fast and controlled up, 4 sets of 15), and box jumps (4 times 1 minute as fast and high as you can) - mix it up with running. Because there aren't any steep hills around my area those workouts work for me - hills are where I like to pass people in races
I do intervals on the treadmill, and also the random hill programme for 45-50 minutes at a level where the maximum incline is about 6 or 7%. That's helped me. Like RunWales does, I focus on slogging up an incline on the treadmill when I'm struggling up a hill on the road, and it does help to keep me going.
I've got a couple of hills on my run. I pretty much do what Martenkay has said, shorter steps and lean into it a bit. Also use your arms, swing them a little bit more on the hill for added momentum. And it's a case of leaning into the hill, not bending your back.
One additional tip that I could give as well and it always works for me (I always focus quite heavily on me breathing) is that I count my breathing patterns. I literally go for a 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4- pattern. Thats in 1-2, out 3-4. For me focusing on that helps channel my thoughts on the run and helps me overcome hills.


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According to the American Legion, about 80 percent of veterans don't have dental coverage. So some local dentists decided to offer up some free care.
Army veteran Karl Stabler, 30, stood in line for over three hours to receive free dental care.
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New Delhi: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board on Wednesday approved AirAsia's proposal to set up an airline jointly with the Tata group, a Finance Ministry official said. Malaysia's AirAsia, the largest budget carrier in Asia, plans to launch a regional airline in India. The new airline, AirAsia India, will be managed by the Malaysian company and will be based in Chennai.
AirAsia will hold a 49 per cent stake in the joint venture with the third partner being Telestra Tradeplace. India's aviation industry, which has seen continued losses due to high operating costs and regulatory uncertainty, was opened to foreign investors in September, 2012. Foreign carriers are now able to purchase up to 49 percent of local airlines.
No foreign airline has bought a stake in a local carrier since India relaxed investment rules. The UAE's Etihad Airways is in talks to buy a stake in Jet Airways, but no agreement has been reached. Sources previously said it makes more sense for foreign carriers to start an airline with a local partner so they don't have to assume the debt of an existing Indian airline.
AirAsia presently flies to four south Indian cities and Kolkata in addition to 20 countries across Asia and has indicated it plans to slow its overall expansion elsewhere. AirAsia X, the long-haul carrier found by Fernandes, last year pulled out of India due to poor demand and profitability.
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Rudi Oppenheimer, 73, lost both his parents at Belsen just before its liberation.
He was 12.
"The main reason today meant so much for me is because they died there," he says.
Earlier he told a modest gathering at the park's Holocaust Memorial the world had "stood by" and let him be incarcerated "only because I am a Jew".
"I am the little boy who stood at the barbed wire fence at Belsen and saw," said Mr Oppenheimer, who lives in west London.
He was due to fly back to Belsen later - the eighth time he has returned.
"At the moment, I feel fine, but it's when you get there that it hits you," he told the BBC News website.
"When you realise what happened, the memories come rushing back," he said.
'Rewarding experience'
Most of his previous trips back have been with British children and students, as part of his work with the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Immediately before the remembrance ceremony he joined fellow speaker Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks and former soldier Frederick Smith, who helped liberate the camp, in a trust-organised visit to Camden School for Girls.
This is a sentiment shared by his friend Ben Helfgott, 75, from Harrow, north London, a trustee of the educational trust who was also at the ceremony.
He said: "Today's service brought it all back but then I am reminded of what happened all the time.
"I've made it one of my life's missions to ensure that people don't forget - we must learn the lesson so that others don't have to suffer.
"No-one can suffer the way we suffered and it's impossible for anyone to understand but we must get the message across."
'Fitting remembrance'
As well as Mr Oppenheimer and Dr Sacks, who recited a memorial prayer "for martyrs of the Holocaust", the ceremony was also addressed by the head of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson.
Other speakers included Holocaust Educational Trust chairman Lord Janner and president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Henry Grunwald.
Karen Pollock, spokeswoman for the Holocaust Educational Trust, which also organised the ceremony, said the service had been "right and fitting".
She said: "Belsen was the only camp liberated by the British.
"It was the horrific images of Belsen broadcast into the nation's living rooms that first brought the holocaust home."
Open grave
Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was one of the first British soldiers to enter the camp 60 years ago on Friday.
He said: "After we entered the camp, one of the first things we came across was a huge open grave that was almost full of dead bodies.
"There were lots of dead bodies everywhere and the people that were alive were in a bad way. We weren't allowed to leave the camp until we'd been fumigated because there was so much disease around."
Mr Long said it was "impossible to forget" some of the things he saw at Belsen.
"Today has brought things back - these memories stay with you, you can never forget."
He said he agreed with the head of the British army Jackson who, in his earlier address, made clear who he thought of as the real heroes of Belsen.
"I don't believe that those soldiers were the only heroes," Sir Mike said.
"The real heroes were those who suffered so in the camps - what they had to go through is almost beyond comprehension."


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I hope I don't run through a street party today as I'm not running through any streets. There maybe some folks having jubilee picnics or BBQ's but due to the wettiness of the day they will hopefully have changed their minds and just walk the dogs and go home.
I'm not running so no. If people are out having fun then I hope they enjoy themselves, though I see no reason for celebrating the fact that someone has done a pointless job for 60 years with the only qualification being that their father held the job prior to them. I just don't get it.
I'm of a similar view to BDB. I'm bored of the jubilee already. But at least it's pissing down with rain
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He might make a casserole that includes cabbage, potatoes and ring bologna; little eggplant "sandwiches" filled with Fontina cheese; gumbo made with a spice mix he ground himself; or a hot Italian beef dish that includes cumin, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce.
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"If someone is getting married and I think they would enjoy a meal, I give them a gift of food as a wedding present," he said. "I come to their home and I make a gourmet meal. I've also done this for birthday gifts and other occasions."
Foods served at these meals often follow a "foods from around the world" theme, with each course coming from a different country.
He said that in summer he also likes to cook for large groups — sometimes 30 or more — because his backyard abuts the Milwaukee River.
"I've done a pig roast for 100.... I've made 10 chickens on the spit. I've also done 10 chickens and a pig.
"It's fun watching people enjoy a good meal — and I always like a challenge...entertaining gives me the opportunity to make a lot of food," he said.
And he's definitely comfortable cooking for crowds, as he's helped cook at church and charity events over the years.
He started cooking as a teen when he helped feed 300 at church breakfasts, and he is gearing up to help cook for 225 people at a yearly Easter "Eggs and Roasted Potatoes Breakfast" at Calvary Lutheran Church in Thiensville.
He recently talked about some of his favorite recipes and parties.
Q. When you entertain, do you do all the work yourself?
A. My wife, Ann, helps some. Her job is to stall when we have a sit-down dinner and I need some extra time cooking. Then, she comes up with games. She also helps clean up. We work really well together.
Q. Do you remember the first time you entertained? What did you make? Was it a flop or a success and why?
A. The first time living on my own I had my family over for dinner. I was about 21. I served "Gaucho Beef Roast" from the 1984 Milwaukee Sentinel Food Fair and Cooking School cookbook. (It was new at the time). It had ingredients I would never had thought of mixing, but, why not? I knew it was a success from the compliments that evening and because a few days later my mom called me for the recipe. This is what made it so memorable.
Q. How do you get organized for a party? List your three most crucial steps.
A. First I plan the menu, shop and make sure I have all I need. I write down my preparation and cooking schedule, starting with when I want to serve and working backward from that point. I usually start one week before a party, but that depends on the ease of the recipes. I plan further in advance for larger parties.
Q. Other than salt and pepper, what are your three favorite spices or seasonings?
A. I like mixes/combinations of flavors. I always have some favorites on hand from The Spice House. I have learned, however, that there is not a single mix for Cajun, or Mexican, or any other cuisine, so it is always best to make your mixes for each dish or they will all taste the same.
If I had to choose some favorite flavors, they would be cumin, garlic, and thyme or rosemary (fresh basil in the summer). I have to make a plug for pepper because it is rare if I'm not adding pepper to just about anything. I mix black, white, green and pink peppercorns and grind them fresh.
Q. What are all the different cuisines you specialize in?
A. I started with Italian when I first began to cook. It was the easiest and most appealing. I love to cook Cajun, particularly gumbo, but I also like Thai, Mexican, Polish and others.
Q. Your preference: buffet or sit-down dinners? Host cooks everything or potluck?
A. It depends. Summertime and/or large family gatherings, definitely buffet and potluck. I usually do the main course. I like sit-downs for occasions and then I do most of the cooking.
Q. Do you have a favorite cookbook or cookbook author you keep returning to?
A. I have several. I use cookbooks by Paul Prudhomme and one from Jolly Vnuk's called "From Soup to Nuts" (1990) for Cajun; "Sauces and Salsas" by Oded Schwartz (1999); "King Arthur's Bakers Companion" (2003) for breads and cookies. But I really have too many to count.
Q. What would you say are your signature dishes?
A. My favorite is gumbo. My wife likes my crab corn chowder based on a Jolly Vnuk's recipe. I also like my lasagna and anything with grilled or roasted vegetables.
Q. How do you like to dress your table?
A. The table itself is simple. My food presentation, whether it's served on a platter or individual plates, takes center stage.
Q. What are the kitchen utensils you use most?
A. Cast iron or other heavy pots and pans, good-quality sharp knives are most important, and an array of spoons and spatulas, mostly wood and plastic or rubber. Good knives are worth spending money on.
The nomination
Ingrid Wallace, who was featured previously as a Great Host with her husband, Mike, nominated Chris Behrs for a Great Host feature.
She wrote: "Chris incorporates his artistic flair into superb dishes from the kitchen and grill. His curiosity in blending flavors, textures and appearances results in elegant delights for the table. Of note are Chris' black bean soup (and other soups as well), creative salads, steak au poivre and pork shoulder.
"He's not locked into a specific cuisine but makes the most of whatever inspires his imagination. Chris and his wife, Ann, entertain on small and grand scales, from intimate newlywed dinners to family events to huge backyard barbecues."
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If the state Department of Transportation delivers on its promise come July 21 -- to finish the $42 million rebuilding of North Roosevelt Boulevard -- Key West residents can breathe easy for almost two months before the first of four state projects start on U.S. 1.
Starting in September, FDOT will break ground in Key West on the first two projects and wrap up all four by spring 2016.
While residents have grumbled over the ongoing boulevard reconstruction, which includes replacing a crumbling drainage system along with the seawall, some city leaders say the road work is a sign of progress.
"The state of Florida has noticed the infrastructure in the Lower Keys is in desperate need of repair," said City Commissioner Mark Rossi, a business owner who lives off of North Roosevelt Boulevard smack in the middle of the ongoing reconstruction. "We're lucky we're getting it done. For years, we didn't receive the benefits of FDOT money."
From 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, FDOT staff will host a public meeting in Key West to present the construction plans and take questions from locals.
The meeting is set for the Harvey Government Center, 1200 Truman Ave., and the state said attendees may drop by at anytime during the two-hour time slot.
Two projects are scheduled to begin in September, FDOT announced last week: Construction between Mile Marker 3.9 in Key West and Mile Marker 9.7 in Big Coppitt Key and a project on the twin Boca Chica Channel bridges at Mile Marker.
Both road projects will take about eight months.
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1sicklex, let's not be serious here. Back down big guy, it was mostly a joke.
This is a discussion on stock WRX vs IS300 within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; 1sicklex, let's not be serious here. Back down big guy, it was mostly a joke. Ike...
1sicklex, let's not be serious here. Back down big guy, it was mostly a joke.
Last edited by Ike; 08-01-2003 at 03:37 PM.
I was a Lexus salesman and sold and drove many IS-300's. Therew is a BMW dealership in the same complex as us and I have driven several 3 series, not an M and I actually took my 02 WRX in trade from a customer on an IS-300 (at the time it had 9k and was 9 months old and I stole it for 19,000 (fair wholesale)
My 2 cents... The IS is much easier to drive fast than a 3 series. it inspires much more confidence at 85% of its ability then the 3 series does. All the track numbers point to the 3 series being the better car handling wise. But that is with PROFFESIONAL drivers on closed courses. Now I like to think I am the next reincarnation of Alton Senna, but the fact of the matter is I dont know what it is like to run a car on the ragged edge. My fear of wrecking always holds me back. The IS is good for what it is. A good handling, excellent breaking, mediocre powered sports sedan that has unbelievable reliabilty! Try saying that about a 3 series.
All cars have there strong points. Personally I love my WRX. And wouldnt trade it for any of the afore mentioned. (excpet an m-3 which I cant afford)
Cars are always compromises. The IS is good for what it is. It is not a pocket rocket. It is fun, reliable and costs less then a similarly equipped 3. For people who dont worship the alimighty HP god, you know... heathens, it is a good car.
Just my take.
P.S. Im going out back to sacrifice a Chevy 350 to the HP god now.
admit it people, you wouldn't kick an IS300 out of your bed, er, garage if you had the chance...
rear wheel drive, spirited handling, excellent interior design and so-so acceleration. three out of four ain't that bad.
Welcome to our club. In my collective experience, WRX owners are pretty cool to be around, the IS crowd is not half bad either.Originally posted by 1SICKLEX
Cool, I see now. I guess I have been lucky, I have raced and met only cool WRX owners. Most seem to be gearheads.
I am at the cross roads with my car, I'm debating to either continue modding my WRX or sell it off to start a new project with my IS300...decisions decisions....
e46 M3 (new toy)
02 wrx w/257 swap (now sold)
IS 300 5spd w/ NAV (hers)
save up for next year's Supra. I hear it's going to be a monster.
But it may come back without a turbo (a V-8) instead.
Well, I took all the badges off the GS. I could care less. Hell, it could have Toyota on it, a good car is a good car.Yeah, see...from what I've seen of you on the boards, I'd say you're an exception. You like it not just for the "L" on it or its somewhat high price but because it's a sports sedan.Ike slaps me like he does Tina Turner Yeah my bad, i got touchy on the internet (how lame of me).1sicklex, let's not be serious here. Back down big guy, it was mostly a joke.Thank you. The WRX guys that repped at our meet 2 weeks ago were cool. Brought some sweet cars.Welcome to our club. In my collective experience, WRX owners are pretty cool to be around, the IS crowd is not half bad either.I am hearing V-10 as well. Seems a 100k Toyota/Lexus sports car is coming. It may not be the Supra though.But it may come back without a turbo (a V-8) instead
Since the 350Z and RX-8 have gone the non-turbo route, the next Supra will probably do the same.
Allow myself to introduce myself
the Lexus is supposed to have the v-10 according to Road & Track. The picture they show is a bland looking concept car. Oh well, hopefully the supra will look a little better.


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|"Guillaume Frechette" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
|Re: st: FE and groups w/out variation
|Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:56:05 +0000
From: Mark Schaffer <email@example.com>
My recollection is that this was posted by David Drukker (apologies, David, if I'm in correct in
attributing this to you), and the advice was indeed not to drop singleton groups.
It's not clear to me why you would ever want to drop singleton groups. A group with one member is
an observation that still has some information in it. If you throw away that observation, you're
throwing away information unnecessarily.
Another way to put it is to consider what happens when you estimate the fixed effects model after
transforming the data into mean-deviation form, so that all the FEs disappear. The FE estimation
is obtained by simple OLS on the transformed data. After the MD transformation, you can't tell
just by looking at the data which datapoints are several observations from one group, and which
datapoints are observations from groups with just one member; in a sense, after the transformation,
they're all independent observations. You wouldn't want to throw away observations here, since the
attribute that distinguishes these obs (they are the sole representatives of their groups) has been
transformed out of the data.
Quoting Guillaume Frechette <firstname.lastname@example.com>:
> Dear Statalisters: I thought I read on the list not so long ago someone who
> said that when estimating FE one shouldn't drop groups that do not have
> variation (I looked for it in the archive but couldn't find it). Did I
> invent this? At any rate, could someone tell me what is the 'best'
> procedure, keeping all groups or only the ones that have variation, and what
> is the logic for the answer. I would also appreciate it if someone could
> point me to a book or article that spells this out in writing.
> Thanks in advance,
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Alexander Skarsgard Gossip
Alexander Skarsgard gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
BFFs & Boots
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Newly married and pregnant Drew Barrymore, ankle boots over jeans, attended the premiere of Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World last night in LA where she hung out with Diablo Cody because, obviously. Have they worked together yet? It seems like that would be inevitable. As for Drew's other best friend Cameron Diaz, she was also spotted yesterday in ankle boots and jeans, but in New York. Full Story
On True Blood Season 5
What did you think of the season premiere on Sunday? Terrible, right? Even the sex was terrible. And I know I'm not the only person shouting WHO CARES ABOUT ARLENE AND TERRY??? Did they give her a big contract after the first season? Is this about getting their money's worth? Because goddamn that storyline is hurting. Full Story
Ellen's hockey friends
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Ellen Page and Alia Shawkat were at Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals the other night in LA. Click here for a refresher. I was surprised that more than 5 of you cared. Last night Ellen's hockey companion was Alexander Skarsgard. They worked together on a movie. Full Story
Taylor Kitsch buzzed
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You like it? I don't like it. Especially since his hair looked so good two weeks ago at CinemaCon - click here for a refresher. Here's Taylor Kitsch, freshly buzzed, at the LA premiere of Battleship last night. Also attached - Alexander Skarsgard, Liam Neeson, and Brooklyn Decker who is getting completely out-styled by Rihanna every time they step out together. Full Story
Battleship: Big, dumb, loud…successful?
It's crept up on me slowly, but for the last six weeks or so, I've thought that Battleship, the movie based on a boardgame, would surprise people. Sure, it looks big and dumb and loud and it reminds me of Transformers in less-than-flattering ways, but it kind of looks fun. Succeeding in summer is often not so much about quality storytelling or acting but about quality fun. Full Story
Could I love you again?
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Yesterday I got yelled at by fans of Alexander Skarsgard for 1. putting him 2nd to Taylor Kitsch and 2. pointing out his knock-knees. Click here to see. Fans, you see, of anyone, they can never be entirely pleased. Anyway, here's Alexander Skarsgard - FIRST! - with Taylor Kitsch and the cast of Battleship at the Tokyo premiere. Full Story
New week, more TK
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Taylor Kitsch was in Japan this weekend promoting both John Carter and Battleship. We went 4 for 5 last week on Taylor Kitsch photos and posts. Would it be too much to ask to be able to match it this week? Good start so far...As you can see, Alexander Skarsgard has now joined the Battleship cast on the promotional tour having missed a few stops. Full Story
Alex's new girl can get her own jobs
Alexander Skarsgard and Elizabeth Olsen are hooking up. Passing them on the way to the bar the other night I made note of the fact that they were talking and then forgot about it. An hour and a half later they were seated across the room and still talking. He didn't have his face shoved into her neck or anything and there was nothing super suggestive but I do remember thinking it was a long time to be talking to someone when there were so many other people around to hang out and touch base with. Full Story
Happy Valentine's Day with Taylor Kitsch & Alexander Skarsgard
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Where's Alexander Skarsgard?
When Alexander Skarsgard was dating Kate Bosworth, he was papped, easily, several times a month. Have you noticed...now that they're not together anymore, he can slip underground, no photos, no problem. When was the last time Alexander Skarsgard was papped??? I think it may have been back in October, and only because he was shooting on location in New York City. Full Story
Her Life Partner will pose with her
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Kate Bosworth looked really good last night at the Burberry party in LA. I wish this Burberry dress could be part of my life. Desperately. Anyway, Kate brought her new boyfriend, director Michael Polish, to the event. I'm not sure she goes anywhere without him anymore. This must be why she calls him her "life partner". Full Story


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|"Nick Cox" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
|RE: st: RE: Adding confidence intervals to bar graphs
|Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:45:47 +0100
Then there is always the other half of the advice: knit your own with -twoway-. Nick firstname.lastname@example.com Marlis Gonzalez Fernandez > Thanks foir the advice. eclplot does not do exactly what I > need but it is good enough. email@example.com > Check out Roger Newson's -eclplot- routine (-findit eclplot-) - or you > can do it yourself by overlaying a -twoway bar- and a -twoway rcap-. Marlis Gonzalez Fernandez > I have group data and would like to display it on a bar graph with > the > confidence interval (error bars) displayed. > The data is in 4 columns: group, RR, LCL (lower confidence limit), > UCL > (upper confidence limit). > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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