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Six Moon Designs Wild Oasis set up with its front beak extended using a second trekking pole.
At 13 ounces, the Six Moon Designs Wild Oasis is the lightest bug-proof one-person shelter on the market. The design is based on the popular Gatewood Cape, with the same shape and protected area (35 square feet). However, it is not wearable as a poncho like the Gatewood, so the Wild Oasis is a single-purpose shelter. How does its utility and performance compare with the Gatewood Cape?
What's Good
- Bug proof shelter for one person
- Very light weight, only 13 ounces
- Trekking pole support
- High protected area to weight ratio
- Top vent for extra ventilation
- Fast setup
What's Not So Good
- Mesh reduces ventilation
- Velcro closure catches on the mesh and damages it
- Expensive
|2007 Six Moon Designs Wild Oasis
|Three-season, one-person, bug-proof, floorless, single-wall shelter
|30d, 1.3 oz/yd2 (44 g/m2) silnylon canopy; 0.7 oz/yd2 (24 g/m2) no-see-um mesh skirt
Poles and Stakes
|Requires one trekking pole or optional carbon fiber pole for support, plus six stakes (not included)
Floor Dimensions
|Length 105 in (267 cm), width 66 in (168 cm), height 45 in (114 cm)
Packed Size
|6 in x 5 in (15 x 13 cm)
Total Weight
|Measured weight 13.1 oz (371 g), manufacturer specification 13 oz (369 g)
Trail Weight
|Measured weight 14.3 oz (405 g); includes shelter, extender loops, and six titanium stakes
Protected Area
|35 ft2 (3.25 m2)
Protected Area/Trail Weight Ratio
|39.3 ft2/lb
|Carbon fiber pole (1.8 oz/51 g, $25)
Although the design and dimensions of the Wild Oasis are the same as the Gatewood Cape, it's a distinctly different shelter. It's not a dual purpose product (rainwear and shelter) like the Gatewood; rather it's designed to only serve as a shelter, providing bug-proof protection for one person. It has a high vent instead of a hood, and an 18-inch mesh skirt has been added around the perimeter to make it bug-proof.
The Wild Oasis is hexagon shaped, with six corners that are staked out with short (6-inch) extender loops. I followed Six Moon Designs' setup instructions and obtained mixed results. The procedure is as follows: 1) set a trekking pole to 45 inches, 2) lay the shelter out flat on the ground in the desired position, 3) stake the two front outside corners, 4) stake the rear center, 5) insert the trekking pole tip into a grommet at the peak and raise the tent, 6) stake the front center, and 7) stake the two rear outside corners. That process produced the pitch shown below on the left.
Following the manufacturer's instructions yields a pitch shown at the far left. The shelter is 106 inches long and 72 inches wide, but the sidewalls are at a low angle and nearly touch the ground (center photo), which limits headroom and ventilation. Extending the front entry with a second trekking pole (right photo) helps to provide more protected area and ventilation.
I personally prefer a taller pitch for the Wild Oasis, shown here with a 50 inch trekking pole. With a taller pole and extended entry (top left), the protected area measures 98 inches long and 60 inches wide, which leaves less floor space but more usable room due to the extra height. The canopy is lifted above the ground a little more (top right and bottom left), providing better ventilation. The top view (bottom right) shows the shelter's shape.
However, going to a taller pitch requires a different setup procedure: in step three, stake the front outside corners loosely, then insert the trekking pole in the grommet and stand up the front of the shelter, then continue staking as outlined above.
The shelter's 18-inch mesh skirt extends inward (top right) so it can be overlapped with a ground sheet. The front opening in the mesh skirt is secured with two Velcro patches (top right), which catch on and damage the mesh. With the front of the shelter extended (bottom left), the mesh skirt still reaches the ground for bug protection. A tall pitch reduces the shelter length to 98 inches, but it is still ample for a taller person (I'm 6 feet tall) without touching the inside of the tent walls (bottom right).
Field Testing
I used the Wild Oasis on several backpacking trips in spring and early summer where bugs were a definite issue, and am pleased to report that it is definitely bug-proof. After swatting the mosquitoes already inside the tent with my hat, the shelter remained bug free the rest of the night. It helped to overlap the shelter's mesh skirt with my groundsheet to seal the floor, and to use my boots to seal the front entry in the mesh. Protection like this is most appreciated when biting insects are an issue.
The two Velcro patches used to close the front of the mesh skirt easily damage the fragile mesh, resulting in a collection of snags after several trips. A user solution to help mitigate the problem is to make sure the Velcro patches (hook and loop) are attached before stuffing the tent into its stuff sack. However, that's only a partial solution; the mesh will still get damaged from using the closure. A better closure is needed.
Although I pitched the shelter with trekking poles ranging from 45 inches to 51.5 inches, I was never able to raise the sides of the shelter off the ground more than a few inches (see photos above). The mesh skirt is designed and sewn so that it extends inward from the canopy edge (rather than downward), so it lies on the ground where it can be overlapped with a groundsheet. With this design, the canopy can be raised only a small amount without raising the mesh above the ground too much, so variable height pitching is limited. It would be nice if the sides could be raised 6 inches or more to expose more of the mesh for increased ventilation when desired. I tried using longer (12-inch) extender loops on the tent corners, but that didn't raise the canopy above the ground very much more, unless I propped up the guylines with sticks.
Using my tall pitch and extended entry technique, I found headroom and length to be adequate. There were times when the foot end of my sleeping bag got damp from brushing against the tent wall, and my head also brushed against a wet tent wall as well. Overall, the Wild Oasis provides a good deal of protected area for its low weight.
One thing I missed is the Gatewood's zippered storage pocket. The shelter stuffs into the pocket for packing, and the pocket is used for storage in shelter mode. The Wild Oasis comes in a stuff sack instead, so there's no interior pocket to stash eyeglasses and other fragile items overnight.
The Wild Oasis is certainly storm worthy, but it has definite limits because of its single trekking pole support. On one windy alpine evening at 12,500 feet, I staked the shelter to the ground to reduce breezes through the tent, and put rocks on the stakes for insurance. Its hexagonal shape handled a 20 mph wind just fine, but it flapped a lot. A really strong wind would be worrisome.
Summer showers and even extended rains were no problem for the Wild Oasis, if you don't mind sitting out a storm in a confined space. It's important that the perimeter mesh does not stick out beyond the edge of the canopy, because it will draw streams of water inside the shelter. The Wild Oasis is strictly a three-season shelter, and is not intended for use in snow at all. Although I did not have an opportunity to test it, this shelter would probably handle a light snow okay, but would probably sag a lot under the weight.
The tradeoff for bug protection is reduced ventilation and more condensation. Because its mesh skirt restricts ventilation, the Wild Oasis is more prone to condensation compared to tarp-like shelters I have tested. That said, the Wild Oasis is not a condensation chamber. The combination of its high vent and taking advantage of site conditions and available breezes allowed me to minimize condensation much of the time.
A vent at the peak (bottom right) helps to exhaust moisture and reduce condensation.
Interior wall condensation is normal for a single wall tent, especially on clear, calm nights with a large temperature drop. With the perimeter mesh skirt sealed up to exclude bugs, the Wild Oasis is more prone to condensation because the mesh restricts ventilation. For more information on condensation in single wall tents and how to minimize it, see my article on Condensation in Single-walled Shelters: Contributing Factors and Tips for Reduction.
With a taller pitch to maximize ventilation, the Wild Oasis (with the vestibule and mesh skirt closed) is prone to condensation (left), similar to tarptent-type single wall shelters. On this clear/calm/cool night, the shelter developed heavy condensation, starting at about 11 PM where the air temperature reached the dew point temperature (right). Note that the taller pitch causes the condensation to run down rather than drip inside.
For me, the Wild Oasis is an ultralight seasonal shelter, to be used during the bug season in spring and early summer when mosquitoes are a significant issue. In some locations it's bug season all the time, and the Wild Oasis is definitely a good ultralight bug-proof shelter for those areas. However, in other locations, like the Alaskan tundra, any floorless shelter, even one with the features of the Wild Oasis may not be adequate to exclude bugs.
One question that begs asking is: why not simply develop a detachable mesh skirt for the Gatewood Cape? Then one could have the Gatewood's dual benefits of rainwear and shelter, plus bug protection when needed by adding the skirt. The challenge would be to devise a lightweight attachment system that is convenient and bug-proof. Velcro is not necessarily a good solution because it would add too much weight and it snags badly on the mesh. This concept is food for thought, and perhaps our readers can offer some design ideas.
What's Unique
At 13 ounces, the Wild Oasis is the lightest bug-proof single person shelter on the market.
Recommendations For Improvement
- Add an interior storage pocket that doubles as a stuff sack
- Revise the design and instructions as needed to allow for a taller pitch that provides more headroom and exposes more of the mesh skirt for better ventilation
- Design a Velcro-free closure for the front of the mesh skirt


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|February 19, 2013, 08:23 PM
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USA Today Article 2/19/13 - Teachers Should Confront Intruder
So in this mornings edition of USA Today there is a story on Law Enforcement now recommending that teachers confront intruders instead of running or being the victims. In the byline it mentions do so without guns in the school of course. It instructs the teachers to react as violently as possible, including throwing things at the intruder. One LEO states that "We learned from flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11 that sometimes you have to fight for your life"
Maybe its just me but if I am a teacher I am thinking to myself, "Ok, now I have to confront the armed intruder with by bare hands because the politically correct in this world have deemed I get no armed guard for my school or a weapon of my own." Haven't I now been reduced to cannon fodder for the mentally ill?
If fighting for my life or that of my students is now the recommended course of action, quit being an idiot and give me some lead to throw at my attacker at 1000 ft/sec.
|February 19, 2013, 08:35 PM
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While I might catch flak for this, what is indeed happening is that these PC people are realizing that gun/violence free zones dont work. By saying that teachers should fight back, they are admitting that the only way to fight evil and violence, is with an equal force. Them moving in this direction can possibly lead to armed teachers, which is the ideal.
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|February 19, 2013, 08:54 PM
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This comes from the latest advice from DHS and the point is this:
If you are confronted with an active shooter and you can't (1) escape or (2) barricade in a safe place, then (3) FIGHT. Why die in the fetal position begging for your life? Stand up and fight. You may still die but you will do so standing on your own two feet and fighting like a free person instead of being a willing victim.
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|February 19, 2013, 09:28 PM
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The principal and the school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School "confronted" the shooter. Hardly even slowed him down, and they both died. Teacher Victoria Soto didn't "confront" him, she chose to try to shelter her students. Didn't matter -- she was killed, too.
I find myself becoming very angry when I read "advice" such as this being shoveled out to the masses through the media. It really is a conspiracy. And it's shameful that so many people actually pay attention to it. What sane person would see anything to be gained by having an unarmed teacher (many of whom are women, and many of whom are of smaller stature and/or not in peak physical condition) try to "confront" an active shooter?
Yes, we learned a lot from 9/11 and Todd Beamer, but they (USA Today) forgot to mention that Todd and everyone else on that flight died. They prevented the plane from hitting its intended target, but the passengers are just as dead.
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|February 19, 2013, 09:56 PM
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That is pure comedy. Throw a paper clip at him. Or get real serious and throw an eraser, off the chalk board.
How can humans be so stupid.
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|February 19, 2013, 10:08 PM
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Know that were I, or any of those who I raised over the last 45 years, faced with the choice of fight,
or run away to not only leave others to die, but to eventually die myself in some cringing corner...
I would simply go absolutely Berserk.
I have already seen it work.
Sometimes it doesn't.
And you'd be amazed at what one man's actions can suddenly instill in others.
Suddenly it's not just one man anymore.
Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant taste of death but once.
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|February 19, 2013, 11:29 PM
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It's just more "progressive" nonsense, check this out:
And this, from Homeland Security no less!:
WASHINGTON — Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman?
No problem — just grab a pair of scissors and fight back!
That's some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency's Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
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|February 20, 2013, 09:01 PM
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Saw the "Urinate or tell the attacker you have VD" on the news this morning.
Really? How stupid is that? Its been known for years that rapists do not rape people for sex. So how is having VD going to keep a victim from getting maimed or killed?
|February 20, 2013, 09:32 PM
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It's like the "lie back and enjoy it" advice of a few years back, anything but the common sense approach of arming yourself so you can fight back.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that self defense is their own responsibility and arming themselves accordingly, some folks seem to find that troubling.
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|February 20, 2013, 09:41 PM
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USA Today Article 2/19/13 - Teachers Should Confront Intruder
I guess I would fight back, but how much better would fighting be if I actually had a weapon worth a damn.
|February 21, 2013, 08:18 AM
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However, confronting an intruder is NOT exclusive from being a victim. Having a gun is not exclusive from being a victim. Lots of
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|February 21, 2013, 08:40 AM
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Link to the USA Today article dated 2/18/2013:
Yep, some teachers in CT confronted Adam Lanza.
BTW: There was an altercation between Adam Lanza and teachers at the school a day or two before the massacre.
Allow teachers who hold concealed carry permits to pack at school. Silly me, the anti-self defense, anti-gun blissninnies won't allow that.
From the article:
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|February 21, 2013, 09:42 AM
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Thanks for finding the correct story.
Right, so fighting back means you have a chance to forcefully help determine your fate, but does not preclude you from being a victim. With that said, this notion of fighting back is not a new idea. There have been instructional videos on this distributed or shown to various districts for several years. Maybe fighting back is gaining steam.
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|February 21, 2013, 07:06 PM
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Yes, I summarized because I think spending time to look for a weapon is pretty close to a no win scenario. Perhaps a teacher could quickly search the classroom for things to throw at the intruder. The reality is in pre-school or grade school classroom, someone with a gun comes into the room the teacher is going to be immediately surrounded by 28+ scared children. What teacher would leave them unprotected by going to get something to throw? (Oh and things dangerous to adults are usually more so to young children.)
Sorry but your, think fast, look for a weapon approach is flawed. There is no time to do so. Not an expert but it would seem 3-5 seconds at most before bad things start to happen. Only thing I have to throw at the intruder is me. That's what some teachers in Newton did. Not a very successful strategy.
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I just ran through the "Active Shooter Preparedness" online course on the DHS website. It goes into much more depth about before/after stuff, but the basic advice for "during" is still (1) evacuate if you can, (2) hide if you can't, (3) fight back as a last resort if your life is in imminent danger.
Despite a great deal of attention paid to how to prepare for the possibility of such an event: know where the exits are even if you're a visitor, etc. -- NO mention was made of considering, ahead of time, what objects in the immediate area might serve as weapons of opportunity.
I'd conclude from this that the folks who put this together don't really see fighting back as a real possibility, nor do they want to encourage it.
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|February 21, 2013, 08:16 PM
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It seems the term "active shooter" has become vogue. Are there any "inactive shooters."
Never mind, i looked it up. Looks like the term originated with the Dep't of Homeland Security.
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|February 21, 2013, 09:21 PM
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They want you to fight back, but disarm you so you cannot fight back effectively. Liberals are so stupid!
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What's significant here is what may be essentially the beginnings of a paradigm shift.
It's very important and hopeful that the notion of fighting back is, perhaps, starting to gain some traction. We've been becoming too inclined to passivity.
The first step is coming to the understanding that there are times and circumstances when the right thing is for the good guy to fight back against the bad guy. That realization needs to begin to take root. From there we can start talking about the right ways, the right tools, when and how.
But first we need to break through that "violence is always bad, even by good guys" conceptual barrier that seems to have become pervasive in our modern, urbanized world.
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|February 21, 2013, 10:34 PM
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I had a long conversation with a relative of mine the other day. She's an elementary school teacher in a rough district in another state. We started talking about what she could do, within the rules of her district, to protect her children.
First, she decided to place some useful things in her classroom. These are all common objects that absolutely no one would think twice about, not even the kids.
1) There's a baseball bat leaning in the corner near the door.
2) Heavy three-hole punch located conveniently on the corner of her desk.
3) Grownup scissors inside her desk drawer.
Her classroom door has a window in it. She has a stack of black construction paper and some tape right next to the door. If they go into lockdown, she will cover that window after she locks the door.
The door swings outward, so no use getting a rubber door stop. However, she has a paracord bracelet on a high shelf, along with a plan for lashing the doorknob to her heavy desk in case the intruder has a master key to the school.
One wall of the classroom has knee-to-ceiling windows. She has visualized breaking one of those windows with a chair, and has a heavy rug from the classroom that she could throw over the opening to keep anyone from getting cut as they climb out, if they need to flee for any reason.
The kids all know that if the lockdown alarm sounds, the "class monitor" (special kid for the day) needs to pull the big curtains closed while everyone else gets out of sight in the safest corner of the room.
This isn't the same thing as if she had a gun and was prepared to use it, but it's a whole lot better than, "If the alarm sounds, just hide."
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|February 21, 2013, 10:38 PM
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Thanks for sharing that. I'm going to print that and give it to my Mother and ask her what she thinks.
Obviously, not all of that will apply to her classroom, for instance her door swings inward and she only has one window, but the rest of your advice is superb!
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|February 21, 2013, 10:46 PM
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Hopefully, I can add something to this discussion. I am a retired High School teacher with 32 years of teaching. For many years, I kept a handgun and hunting rifle in my truck to go hunting after school. The shop teacher had students bring in their guns to school to do minor repairs(he was a gunsmith) In metal shop, he taught the students how to make knives and black powder cannons. We had a rifle team that practiced after school.(on SCHOOL PROPERTY) For Health class, the health teacher brought in several types of handguns to teach handgun safety. We never had a problem, no shootings, or mass murders of any kind! Since the "no gun zone for schools" laws have been passed, there have been hundreds of school shootings and it seems only to be getting worse. In our school, since the first mass killings at Colinbine, we have had a SRO( School Resource Officer) and that has worked out fine. I am against requiring or expecting teachers to provide security for students, but by making it illegal for teachers with concealed carry permits or hunting licenses to even possess firearms locked up in their vehicles or handy in case of need, the politicians have made us all easy marks for mass killings. Even the smallest penknife, pictures of guns or discussions of guns has become illegal and bad. People are killed every day by cars and we have drivers education and it isn't illegal for students of age with licenses to drive to school! We are allowed to talk about disease and how to keep healthy but not talk about gun safety or even show the do's and don'ts of proper firearms safety. We are not allowed to protect ourself anymore and most schools are soft targets of high interest by mentally ill individuals. Ask the President, are his kids protected by just anti-gun laws or by armed guards? And yes, our school kids are at risk today because sick people know if they get in to a school, they will be able to kill at will. What are we as teachers going to do? Throw pencils at the killers?
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One of our local school districts is adopting the A.L.I.C.E. training model. I've read as much as I can and watched the videos. It makes a helluva lot more sense than anything else out there. The only thing that would make more sense would be to let me actually carry a weapon that I might be able use to defend my students.
To a much greater extent than most mechanical devices, firearms are terribly unforgiving of any overconfidence, complacency or negligence.
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WOW they say teachers make to much money and have the summer off.... They don't work hard enough... Now they want them to be targets for the nut with a bunch of guns and ammo... How could you ask anyone to do something like that..... What is wrong with these people!!!!
I say give a few teachers in every school the training and a concealed weapon and make them qualify 2 times a year like the cops do and there is your security when they are needed to protect our kids in school....
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Leaders across the country are proposing restrictions on public employees' pay and benefits in order to put their budgets on a more sustainable path. The political left's counterattack is that government workers aren't overpaid compared to those in the private economy. Who's right?
Consider a study released last October by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley, which concluded that Golden State public employees "are neither overpaid nor overcompensated." The Economic Policy Institute has generated reports arguing that government workers are underpaid.
These studies are misleading. Public-private pay comparisons vary from state to state, but a full accounting shows clearly that large, union-dominated states tend to overpay their workers. California is a good example.
The Berkeley study begins by studying salaries, where its methods are solid. Using individual-level data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, it compares public and private wages while controlling for differences in age, education and other earnings-related characteristics. Using essentially the same methods, we found that California state and local government employees receive wages about 4% lower than those received by similarly skilled workers in large private firms, which offer the most generous pay and benefits. But if we compare public employees to all private workers, the 4% penalty becomes statistically zero.
Public employees really pull ahead in non-wage benefits. The Berkeley study concludes that counting benefits means that public workers' total hourly compensation is about 2% higher than that of private workers. But our research shows that the study underestimates what public workers receive from pensions and retiree health programs. It also doesn't account for the value of job security in government employment. Once these are noted, the balance tilts clearly in favor of public workers.
The first error in the Berkeley study concerns defined-benefit pension plans. The study erroneously conflated what governments pay into defined-benefit plans with what workers will eventually receive in retirement. So if governments contribute 10% of employee pay to defined-benefit pensions while private employers contribute 10% to 401(k)-type pensions, these studies conclude that pension compensation is equal.
But here's the problem: State and local pensions effectively guarantee employees an 8% return on both their contributions and those made by their employer. By contrast, a private-sector employee with a 401(k) can achieve a guaranteed return of only around 4% by investing in U.S. Treasury securities. Most economists believe governments are foolish to base their funding decisions on the assumption of high investment returns, but the benefits for public employees are guaranteed in any case.
Over a career, the difference between a 4% and 8% return is significant. Using data from California's major pension funds, we calculate that the higher implicit return on public pensions increases the compensation of California's government workers by around 4%.
The Berkeley study's second error is the omission of retiree health benefits. Private workers retire later and relatively few receive retiree health coverage. For those who do, eligibility has been tightened and premiums increased. But almost 90% of state and local governments offer retiree health benefits to employees. They generally retire in their 50s, at which point the government often pays most of their costs, including Medicare premiums and deductibles.
State actuarial reports show the annual cost of California retiree health benefits could top 8% of total compensation. Thus an accurate accounting of pension and retiree health benefits shows that public employees in California are paid about 15% more than individuals working for large private firms (accounting for age, education, etc.).
Another major benefit of public employment is job security. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that, on average, a private worker has about a 20% chance of being fired or laid off in a given year. In state and local government, the discharge rate is only about 6%—and several studies have found that public employees are more risk-averse than other workers, meaning they place particular value on job security. We estimate that government job security is equivalent to about a 15% increase in compensation.
Overall, our research suggests that government workers in California are compensated up to 30% more generously than are similar employees in large private firms. And the California experience is similar to that of other large states with powerful public unions. Elected officials are right to reassess public worker compensation as they try to close their budget deficits.
Mr. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Richwine is a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
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"From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
I'm travellin on, far and wide
But now it seems, I'm just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else"
A lot can happen to a musician in six years: the dedicated ones often improve their dexterity (Cynic), while the lazy ones sometimes see their skills slowly depreciate (Metallica); those that keep challenging themselves through their writing usually develop a greater command over structure (Atheist), while others just keep churning out increasingly slicker products from the same old mold with a terribly cheapening result (Death); and as new influences slowly seep into one's playing style, that style itself tends to shift into exciting—or in some cases, dangerous—territory.
Aghora's "Formless" is a fairly typical album in this sense, as the music clearly shows that main guitarist Santiago Dobles has been studying up on theory and sharpening his chops quite considerably since the last Aghora record, but unfortunately for him, the loss of legendary bassist Sean Malone and the reduced role of master percussionist Sean Reinert really augment all of Dobles' flaws as a guitar player/composer, and in light of this, "Formless" provides little of substance besides a shining example of why theoretical knowledge and instrumental prowess (alone) are insufficient; instead, it is the ability to invoke sounds that evoke specific emotions/concepts and then organize those sounds so that they form a coherent thematic statement of import and originality (an ability that this album—even after multiple, close inspections—clearly lacks) which separates the true musical masters from the failures, wannabes, and wankers.
Fresh off the fingers of five sickeningly artificial instrument tones, "Formless'" first strike never fails to smack this reviewer right in the skull the moment the CD starts spinning (and though Neil Kernon has already proven that he needs to stay the fuck away from producing metal albums, Kernon gets let off the hook for this review since "Formless" is primarily produced by Dobles brothers, Santiago and Gustavo). Mercifully, the Dobles' clean and soloed guitar tones tend to pass by as harmless balls, but unfortunately, this batter's skull seems unable to escape a beating at the horny hands of the remaining instruments, whose hollowed out tones have as much authenticity and resonance as a corked bat stolen from Sammy Sosa's batting practice armory.
Furthermore, like an unexpected rain delay, "Formless'" overlong seventy-minute running time truly makes it a challenge to not get up out of one's seat and storm away in disgust after soaking in the downpour of shit spurred by nu-metal-esque outbursts like "Open Close the Book" (seriously, did someone press a Linkin Park track on the disc by mistake?), or frankly, any time when guitar distortion takes over the album's loudspeaker to announce that the audience is about to be whisked away to the nearest Hot Topic store for an exclusive preview of the upcoming Slipknot album!
Admittedly, these types of over-aggressive, angst-driven guitar riffs were fully noticeable on Aghora's debut, but in truth, they were not nearly as annoying back then, because the music simply was not as guitar-oriented as it is currently, with the main backing instruments (drums and bass) being relegated to a primarily supportive role. Where before, the Seans (Malone and Reinert) were able to create layers of independent rhythm and harmony, here, the bass and drums are just boring background filler with little aspiration for independence, intrigue, or any semblance of innovation, and a bizarre affinity for the kind of cheap, tinny tone that a pre-teen shopper might expect to get out of a Fisher Price instrument.
The above faults might be acceptable if the album's leading instruments (guitar and vocals) had enough musical substance of their own to cover up a rhythm section that's as colorful and contoured as a $10 Wal-Mart rug, but sadly, "Formless'" guitar work is about as interesting as a package of Michaels homemade jewelry, and furthermore, the vocal performance is a far-fucking-cry from what Danishta Rivero treated these ears to on Aghora's debut, as new vocalist Diana Serra shares the same weak, overproduced, whiny-bitch singing style/tone that one would expect to find on-sale in a Wal-Mart CD rack from whatever the fuck flavor-of-the-month "female metal" band is currently swimming in cash from the sperm-stained wallets and patched-out purses that tend to represent the majority of today's record-buying youth consumers.
Because this consumer is still coming off the stupendous spiritual highs of the previous Aghora album, "Formless'" biggest disgrace is perhaps the fact that there is only ONE good riff (which starts at 0:44 on "Atmas Heave") on this entire fucking album, and not only is it is far too reminiscent of something from the '90/'91 Cynic demos, but it even gets played the fuck out by being recycled four or five times through the course of two separate songs (technically, its second appearance in the instrumental "Deadbag" is a minor variation on the first riff, but the two parts are so similar that their affect is almost identical). Only adding to this discouragement is the fact that the rest of "Formless'" guitar work falls neatly into two shapes: first, the "I know how to follow scales and key signatures but couldn't write an interesting or original riff/solo if someone slapped an industrial-strength cracker around my nuts and screamed, 'WRITE OR DIE!'" style that tends to fill up albums by Dream Theater, Symphony X, and their many clones; second, the type of choppy, mosh-happy mallcore riffs that could no doubt convert the typical mallgoth/scene kid into a full-fledged Aghora fan if given a little airplay on MTV2's Headbangers' Ball or a touring spot alongside metal stalwarts like Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, Nightwish, et al.
If there is any consolation to be found in this shameless, fecalpheliac production, it is that "Formless" does seem to show that Aghora—at least, in its current incarnation—are mostly just honest failures (though Santiago Dobles does tend to weave through Wankerville whenever he's speeding along in one of his sparkly guitar solos). But realistically, in music—as in life—all that really matters is the presence of merit, however abundant/lacking it may be, and in that regard, "Formless" is virtually devoid of any substance that might satisfy the thirsts of the demanding listener (aside from its attractive artwork and packaging); that the band members clearly put a colossal effort into all aspects of this release only convinces this customer to avoid purchasing the next Aghora disc, even if its conception takes another six years.


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General Terms and Conditions
Online Store UK (Issued: 3 March 2017)
§ 1 Scope and Parties
These General Terms and Conditions, in the version applicable at the time an order is placed, govern the relationship between HUGO BOSS UK Limited (the "Seller") and the customer (the "Customer"), and apply to transactions at the Online Store United Kingdom (available on the http://www.hugoboss.com/uk/home)and in associated services like the HUGO BOSS App, and when placing an order with personal advice in a HUGO BOSS Store, the "Online Store"). When placing an order the Customer can access the General Terms and Conditions via the links in the Online Store or save them on his computer and/or print them out. As well, when placing an order with personal advice in a HUGO BOSS Store ("Order from Store") the customer can access the General Terms and Conditions via the links. The General Terms and Conditions that apply to the Customer's order will, however, be sent to him separately, together with the contract confirmation when the goods are delivered on a durable storage media (e.g. as an e-mail with a pdf attachment).
The following company provides customer service for the Online Store on the Seller's behalf. The Customer may contact it with questions, requests or complaints:
HUGO BOSS AG, Customer Care, Dieselstraße 12, 72555 Metzingen, Germany, Phone: +44 20 3514 2096 Fax: +44 20 3514 2097, E-mail: email@example.com.
The range of goods in the Online Store is aimed only at consumers of legal age whose habitual place of residence is in the United Kingdom, and who can provide a delivery address there; however we do not deliver to the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, Sark), the Falkland Islands and the Isle of Man. Consumer within the meaning of the statutory definition is any natural person acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside his trade, craft or business.
§ 2 The Order Process
The Online Store merely constitutes an invitation to the Customer to make an offer to enter into a purchase contract for the goods presented in the Online Store.
The Customer may select items from the Seller's range of goods and collect these in a "Shopping Bag"/"Basket" by clicking on the "Add to Shopping Bag"/"Add to basket" button. By clicking on the button "Place order and pay", the Customer makes an offer to purchase the goods that are in his Shopping Bag (the "Order").
The value of an Order of any kind whatsoever (gross value of the goods, including value-added tax, but excluding any delivery or other charges; the "Order Value") may not exceed a value of £ 4,000 and may not fall below a value of £ 25.00. A maximum order quantity of 3 articles per style (same colour and size) applies to each Order of any kind whatsoever. Furthermore, goods will only be delivered in the quantities usual for private households.
Before placing an Order, the Customer can view and amend the details of his Order at any time by clicking on the "Shopping Bag & Checkout" button or on the links to the relevant order details.
After submitting his Order, the Customer will automatically be sent an acknowledgment of receipt by e-mail with a summary of the details of his Order. This automatic acknowledgment of receipt does not constitute acceptance of the Customer's offer by the Seller; it merely documents the fact that the Seller has received the Customer's Order.
A binding contract of sale is first concluded when the Seller accepts the Customer's Order. The Seller is entitled but not obliged to accept the Customer's offer. The Seller declares its acceptance by sending the Customer a dispatch confirmation by e-mail.
If several items are included in an Order, a contract is only concluded in respect of the items expressly mentioned in the dispatch confirmation.
The aforegoing also applies where, due to his selected method of payment, the Customer has already paid the purchase price or given payment instructions before the conclusion of the contract. If for any reason no contract is concluded, the Seller will notify the Customer of this by e-mail (if any part of the Order has been accepted, the Seller will notify the Customer of this in the dispatch confirmation), and refund the Customer the pre-payment without delay.
The Customer's statutory right of withdrawal (see § 7) remains unaffected by the preceding provision.
The contract is concluded in English. The Seller will save a copy of the contract wording (consisting of the Order, any acknowledgement of receipt, the General Terms and Conditions, the dispatch confirmation and the contract confirmation), and forward it to the Customer.
The customer agrees that he will receive an electronic invoice. Electronic invoices will be sent to the customer as pdf-file attached to an e-mail.
A registered Customer can review the status of his orders in his personal Customer area.
§ 3 Delivery, Delivery Times, Availability of Goods
Unless agreed otherwise, the goods will be delivered to the Customer at the delivery address provided. Delivery is only available within the United Kingdom (excluding the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, Sark), the Falkland Islands and the Isle of Man). While placing an order, if the Click and Collect service is offered at the entry field for the delivery address, the Customer may select a HUGO BOSS Store that is located in the United Kingdom. Information about the HUGO BOSS Stores offering a Click and Collect service is provided during the order process. The Seller will notify the Customer of the delivery time, where appropriate, during the order process, and in the dispatch confirmation. Unless otherwise stated, delivery time for standard deliveries will be approximately 2 to 3 business days from the dispatch confirmation and no later 30 days from the dispatch confirmation unless the Customer expressly agrees. Further information about dispatch options, the carriers used and the delivery process may be viewed on the Online Store's information pages.
After the goods have been handed over to the carrier, the Customer will receive an e-mail with a confirmation of dispatch from the Seller and a tracking link allowing him to monitor the delivery status of his Order.
If the Customer uses the Click and Collect service, he may collect the goods in person from the selected HUGO BOSS Store on the delivery date. If the Customer does not collect the goods on the delivery date, he may still collect them during a collection period of 14 days from their delivery date. The Customer may collect the goods during the opening hours of the HUGO BOSS store to which delivery has been made by presenting official proof of his identity or the order confirmation (e.g. as an e-mail on a smart phone). The Customer will receive details of the opening hours of the respective HUGO BOSS Store during the order process and in the dispatch confirmation. The Customer may rescind the contract during the collection period. If the Customer rescinds the contract or does not collect the goods before the collection period expires, we will take the goods back and reimburse the Customer for all payments received from him, including the costs of delivery (with the exception of the supplementary costs resulting from the Customer's choice of a type of delivery other than the economical standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the first day immediately following the last day of the collection period. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless we have expressly agreed otherwise with you; in any event, we will not impose any fee for such reimbursement. Neither the Customer's right of withdrawal nor his warranty rights will be affected hereby.
(1) If the Seller is unable for reasons beyond his control to meet a binding delivery deadline (unavailability of goods, for example, due to failure of the Seller's own supplier to deliver or force majeure), it will inform the Customer without delay and, where applicable, specify a new estimated date of delivery. If the new delivery time is unacceptable to the Customer or the goods are also not available within the new delivery time or not available at all, either party will be entitled to rescind the contract in respect of the goods concerned; in this case the Seller will give the Customer a refund for any payment already made. Any statutory rights of the parties will remain unaffected.
§ 4 Prices and Delivery Charges
The price of the goods shall be as stated on the Online Store at the time the Customer places the Order except in the case of obvious error. The Seller tries to ensure that all prices on the Online Store are accurate but errors may occur. If the Seller discovers an error in the price of a product the Customer has ordered before the contract is concluded, it will inform the Customer as soon as possible to give the Customer the option of reconfirming his order at the correct price or cancelling it. If the Customer cancels, no payment will be taken or the Seller will give the Customer a refund for any payment already made.
All of the prices listed in the Seller's Online Store include the currently applicable statutory value-added tax, but do not include delivery.
The Seller will notify the Customer, where applicable, of the delivery charges as well as of any additional charges, e.g. for gift wrapping, on the order form immediately before the Order is placed. The Customer will bear the notified delivery charges and any additional charges.
§ 5 Payment
The Seller only accepts the methods of payment shown during the order process.
To protect itself against the risk of default in payment by the Customer, the Seller reserves the right to exclude certain methods of payment in an individual case.
§ 6 Retention of Title
The goods remain the property of the Seller until the Customer has paid the purchase price in full.
§ 7 Right of Withdrawal and Cancellation
(1) For goods ordered online or otherwise bought at a distance, Customers have a legal right to:
if the Seller has not yet accepted the Order in accordance with § 2, withdraw an offer at any time without giving any reason or incurring any liability; or•
if the Seller has accepted the Order in accordance with § 2, cancel the order by following the instructions below:
Right of cancellation
You have the right to cancel this contract within thirty days without giving any reason but by simply informing us of your decision.
The time limit for cancellation is thirty days from the day that you acquire, or a third party named by you who is not the carrier, acquires physical possession of the goods.
You must inform us (see below for contact details) of your decision to cancel this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. a letter sent by post, fax or e-mail). You may use the attached model cancellation form, but it is not obligatory. You can also download a cancellation form on our website electronically.
To exercise your right of cancellation within the cancellation period, it is sufficient for you to send a notice concerning your exercise of the right of cancellation before that period has expired.
Contact details for the exercise of the right of cancellation:
To exercise your right of cancellation by letter, please write to:
Customer Care
Dieselstr.1272555 Metzingen
To exercise your right of cancellation by e-mail, please e-mail us at: email@example.com
To exercise your right of cancellation by fax, please fax us at: Fax: +44 20 3514 2097
To exercise your right of cancellation by telephone, please phone: Phone: +44 20 3514 2096
To exercise your right of cancellation by returning the goods, please send them to:
HUGO BOSS Online Store
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DC Wendlingen
Ulmer Straße 171
73240 Wendlingen
Effects of cancellation
If you cancel this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (with the exception of the supplementary costs resulting from your choice of a type of delivery other than the economical standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the earlier of the day on which we receive the returned goods from you or evidence that you have sent them back. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless we have expressly agreed otherwise with you; in any event, we will not impose any fee for such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the returned goods or until you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to us without delay and in any event not later than fourteen days from the day on which you communicate your cancellation of this contract to us (see above). The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of fourteen days has expired.
If you exercise your right of cancellation, the return of the goods except for items that contain hazardous materials or flammable liquids or gases, i.e. Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette, After Shave, Deo Stick, Deo Spray, and Smartwatches will be free of charge for you if you use the return form and the pre-printed return label included with the delivery. Otherwise you will bear the direct cost of returning the goods.
You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods if the goods were handled in a manner other than that necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods. For example, if you have worn a pair of shoes other than to try them on inside and the soles are scuffed. We may reduce your refund to cover the diminished value.
Exclusion of the Right of Cancellation
No right of cancellation exists in the case of contracts for the supply of the following goods. Please note that this not an exhaustive list:–
non-prefabricated goods made on the basis of an individual choice of or decision by the consumer or which are clearly personalised,–
the supply of sealed goods which were unsealed after delivery and are thus not suitable for return due to health protection or hygiene reasons.
The Customer can use the model cancellation form as follows. However, it is not mandatory to use this form.
Cancellation form
(Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract)
To [HUGO BOSS AG, Customer Care, Dieselstr. 12, 72555 Metzingen, Germany]
I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract of sale of the following goods:–
Ordered on:–
Name of consumer:–
Address of consumer:–
As an extension of the statutory provisions:
The Customer can also exercise his right of cancellation by returning the relevant item to the Seller, together with the pre-printed returns label that was included with the delivery, within the time limit for cancellation; no separate declaration is then necessary.
§ 8 Warranties
The Customer has certain rights under the law. These include: (i) that the Seller must have the right to supply the products to the Customer; (ii) that any products supplied by the Seller will be of satisfactory quality, fit for their intended purpose, and will conform to any description, sample or model provided on the Online Store and (iii) certain remedies if a product is defective.
Nothing in these General Terms and Conditions is intended to affect these rights. For more information about your legal rights in the UK contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau or Trading Standards Office. The Seller will only be liable for loss or damage in accordance with the provisions of § 9.
§ 9 Liability
The Seller does not exclude liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or that of its employees or agents.
The Seller is not responsible for losses and damage that the Customer might suffer which are:
- not caused by the Seller's breach of these General Terms and Conditions;
- a side effect of the main loss or damage and which are not reasonably foreseeable by you and us when the Customer begins to use the Website. Loss or damage is reasonably foreseeable where it could be contemplated by the Seller and the Customer at the time of entering this Agreement;
- a result of the Seller's failure to provide the Website (or any part of it) or withdrawal of products from the Website or a result of our refusal to accept an order for any reason;
- caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, virus or other technologically harmful material that may affect your computer equipment, programs, data or other material due to the Customer's use of the Website (including your downloading any content from the Website or any website linked to it);
- failure by the Seller to meet any of its obligations where it is prevented from doing so by events beyond its control (including, but not limited to, fire, flood, storm, riot, civil disturbance, war, nuclear accident, terrorist activity and acts of God).
The Seller's total liability to the Customer for any loss or damage arising in connection to this Agreement will be limited to a maximum of 150% of the value of products purchased by the Customer.
The aforementioned limitations on liability are also valid for the legal representative and agents of the Seller.
The aforementioned limitations on liability do not apply where the Seller has fraudulently concealed a defect or has misdescribed goods or fails to correctly deliver goods.
§ 10 Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
Contracts between the Seller and the Customer as well as these General Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the part of the United Kingdom in which you are resident.
§ 11 Seller company details
HUGO BOSS UK Limited
Registered office: 39 Plender Street, London, NW1 0DT
Registered in England and Wales under registration number 03484933
VAT number GB117230158


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Around the League
Every week, we'll use this space to track players whose fantasy value is improving, declining or uncertain. We're not particularly concerned with hot or cold streaks - all players toss up a 2-for-10 every now and again - unless they're extreme or seem to indicate an underlying problem or injury. Instead, we'll be looking at changes in playing time or role or skill level.
Stock Up
DeJuan Blair, F/C, SAN - Blair has started 15 of the past 16 games for the Spurs, but he didn't really blow up until last week. In his past four games, the rookie out of Pittsburgh is averaging 13.8 points and 14.5 rebounds. The increase in production can be attributed to a spike in playing time, as three of the four games Blair has logged over 30 minutes this season have come in the past week. The Spurs are notorious for resting their veteran stars to keep them fresh for the playoffs, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see extra playing time for Blair become a trend.
Corey Maggette, F, GS - The Warriors have become a three-man offensive unit this month, relying heavily on Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry and Maggette for scoring production. All three have shown improvements, but Maggette has seen the biggest statistical jump. In eight January games, Maggette is averaging 28.8 points while posting great percentages from the floor (58.6) and free-throw line (90.3). With a career-high scoring average of 22.2 points, it's unlikely Maggette can keep up at such high a clip, but the injury-plagued Warriors will continue to give him plenty of opportunities in the short term.
Andris Biedrins, C, GS - Biedrins owners have been waiting for the seven-foot Latvian to show signs of life since returning from a lengthy injury, and he finally did on Monday. In what was easily his best performance of the season, Biedrins nearly got a triple-double, finishing with nine points, 19 rebounds and eight blocks. The Warriors are without Anthony Randolph (ankle) for the next couple months, so Biedrins should see plenty of chances to reclaim his spot as the team's best big man.
Robin Lopez, C, PHO - Suns coach Alvin Gentry tweaked his starting lineup on Monday, inserting Lopez in place of Channing Frye. Lopez responded with a career-high 19 points, seven rebounds and three blocks. Gentry stated that the move wasn't necessarily permanent, but Lopez should get at least another couple looks as the starter after his strong debut with the first unit. He'll never be as good as his brother Brook, but Robin should be a decent source of big man stats as long as he continues to see around 30 minutes per game.
Corey Brewer, G/F, MIN - Is it possible Brewer has finally developed a reliable three-point shot? Over the past six games, Brewer has hit 11 treys on 47.8-percent shooting from downtown. He's averaging 14.8 points, four rebounds and one steal over that stretch. Brewer has been a solid producer in mid-to-deep sized leagues this year, but the addition of a three-point shot would make him worth a look in shallower formats.
Martell Webster, F, POR - Webster has been on a tear this month, averaging 18.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.5 threes through eight games. His boost in production at the start of the month could be due to the Blazers being shorthanded due to injuries, but he has continued producing at a high clip even after Steve Blake and Rudy Fernandez returned to the lineup. Give him a look if he's still available in your shallower leagues, especially if you need help with threes.
Kris Humphries, F, NJ - Not much was made of the Nets' acquisition of Humphries on Jan. 9, but it appears there will be some fantasy fallout. After toiling on the Mavs' pine for the first couple months of the season, Humphries has been the Nets primary big man off the bench the past two games. He has averaged 18 points, 7.5 boards, a steal and a block in those two outings. The 24-year old had an impressive preseason for the Mavs, but he never got much of a chance to show off his skills during the regular season. Expectations should be tempered, but he's a former first-round pick who excelled in college and should be able to post respectable numbers if given the playing time.
Check Status
Brandon Roy, G, POR - Roy has missed the past two games with a strained right hamstring. He wanted to return for Monday's game against the Wizards, but was overruled by Blazers coach Nate McMillan. Roy has been adamant about returning for Wednesday's game against the Sixers, but keep an eye on the situation in case McMillan decides once again that his star player isn't ready.
Kevin Garnett, F, BOS - After three weeks on the sidelines with a hyperextended right knee, Garnett finally appears to be nearing a return. He has been targeting Friday's game against the Blazers for over a week, and all indications are he'll be back on the hardwood that night.
Richard Jefferson, F, SAN - Jefferson missed his first game of the season on Monday, sitting out with lower back pain. He has been ailing from the injury for the past few days, and it could be seen in the box score with his 5.5 scoring average in his previous two games. He's listed as day-to-day and probably won't be out long, but the ever-cautious Spurs won't rush him back if he needs extra rest.
Gerald Wallace, F, CHA - Wallace left Monday's win over the Kings with a sprained ankle, but he was able to return for the final four minutes of the game after the Kings cut the lead to one. "Crash" received treatment on his ankle for 30 minutes after the game and voiced concern about the injury. The severity of the injury is still unknown, so Wallace owners will want to keep a close eye on the situation before committing him to lineups.
Anthony Morrow, G/F, GS - Morrow underwent an MRI on Saturday that confirmed he has a sprained right knee. He's only expected to miss one-to-two weeks, so deep leaguers can stash him and wait out a return, but shallower formats may want to consider finding a replacement for the inconsistent swingman.
Stock Down
Vince Carter, G, ORL - Carter returned from a three-game absence due to a shoulder injury on Friday, but he sure doesn't look like he's at full strength. In seven games this month, Carter is averaging just 7.9 points on 22.4-percent shooting. He's been off from the floor all year, but this current stretch of futility leads us to believe his shoulder is bothering him more than he's letting on. Owners can't give up on the eight-time All-Star, but he should be moved to the bench until he rounds into shape.
Channing Frye, C, PHO - As previously mentioned, Frye was moved to a reserve role as a result of Lopez being named the new starting center. Frye has been one of the biggest surprises of the season, averaging 12 points and 2.3 threes in 31 minutes per game, but his production will take a big hit if his minutes are cut drastically. He's shown in past seasons that he can't help much in fantasy while playing limited minutes, so don't be shy about cutting him loose if he doesn't see significant run off the bench.
Jason Richardson, G, PHO - Richardson was another Sun moved to the bench in the latest lineup juggling down in Phoenix. He was replaced at shooting guard by Leandro Barbosa. Gentry has stated that he will still give Richardson starter-like minutes, but the former Spartan saw just 24 minutes of action in his first game off the bench. Given the inconsistency of Barbosa this season, there's a good chance Richardson still sees plenty of run or eventually reclaims his gig, but his value takes a hit in the short term.
Blake Griffin, F, LAC - Like Greg Oden, Griffin will miss his entire rookie season due to knee injuries. It was announced last week the No.1 overall pick will undergo season-ending surgery on his broken left kneecap. He could still warrant a roster spot in some deep keeper leagues, but all one-year formats should be on the hunt for a permanent replacement.
Beno Udrih, G, SAC - With Kevin Martin now back in the lineup, Udrih's value has taken a sizable hit. In three games since Martin's return, Udrih has averaged eight points and 3.3 assists in 24 minutes. He's clearly the No. 3 guard behind Martin and Tyreke Evans and that won't change unless another injury hits the Kings' backcourt.
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A 24-year-old woman died hugging her boyfriend after a gun he was removing from his waistband discharged, Phoenix police said.
Sgt. Tommy Thompson said the shooting appeared to be accidental but the investigation is ongoing.
The victim is identified as Amanda Mosley.
Mosley was rushed to a local hospital, where she later died.
Thompson said the 18-year-old man removed the handgun because as they were embracing it was causing her discomfort.
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Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Michigan
How long does one have to dispute fraudulent charges on a credit card in the state of Michigan?
Asked on 2/14/13, 1:55 pm
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Thomas R. Morris Silverman & Morris, P.L.L.C.
If you were to not pay the card or ever use it again, you could wait until the card issuer sued you and then you could assert as a defense that the charges are not valid.
If you are going to continue to use the card and pay charges on it, then you should review the terms of the issuance of the card (the "cardmember agreement" or similar document). Under that agreement, there is likely a time limit, say 60 days.
I am not highly confident of my answer and I will be interested to see what another attorney who has actually litigated this issue might say.
Answered on 2/14/13, 2:09 pm
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I am using my credit cards eventhough i know i cant repay them Asked 2/03/13, 10:18 am in United States Michigan Credit, Debt and Collections Law


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A little while back Kevin checked out a game from Lone Dwarf games, the awesome Freddy Falling. When first introduced it was only available for the BlackBerry Storm. Good news - I'm pleased to say it is now also available for the BlackBerry Curve (4.5). More good news - Freddy Falling is currently on sale for only $1.99 up until June 30th (no coupon required). Be sure to check it out if you have a Storm or BlackBerry Curve (4.5) because the game is super addictive.
That's great news for Curve owners and also great news about the $1.99 price for owners that don't already own Freddy Falling, but sucks for owners that have paid the $2.99 price for this really great game.
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More than half a million listeners have deserted the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show under new DJ Nick Grimshaw compared with the same period a year earlier under Chris Moyles.
The BBC believes many of those giving up on "Grimmy" are 30 or 40-somethings who have found his show too youth-oriented and have switched to Chris Evans on Radio 2.
Evans attracted 9.52 million weekly listeners in the final quarter of 2012, up from 8.86 million in the same period in 2011, according to Rajar figures. Radio 2's overall audience rose to a record 15.1 million listeners a week, up from 14.3 million a year earlier.
Grimshaw attracted 6.69 million listeners, down from Moyles's 7.24 million in the same quarter in 2011.
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AMARILLO -- Police have identified the man found dead Tuesday morning outside an Interstate 40 motel as 27-year-old Rory L. Jones.
Police found Jones about 6 a.m. on the ground outside Room 136 at America's Best Value Inn, 3930 E. Interstate 40 after an emergency caller reported hearing people screaming in the area, said Lt. Erick Bohannon, coordinator of the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit.
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Civil Disobedience Comes to Wellness
If HR leaders look closely enough, they should find some valuable lessons in a Penn State professor's call for action.
By Carol Harnett
When I was in seventh grade, my class went on strike -- for a week.
Our action was not the simple ranting of a group of 12-year-olds. Instead, it was a silent protest taken from our energetic teacher's review of history, which included Gandhi's use of passive resistance and Martin Luther King's sit-in movement.
To this day, Mrs. Costello is one of my favorite teachers. She found a way to take 48 boys and girls who sat in six straight lines a la Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline and transform us into inquisitive, independent-thinking young adults.
Mrs. Costello allowed us to redesign the configuration of our classroom. She let us reorder how we covered our daily curriculum. And she succeeded in inspiring us to voluntarily read books like Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. Pretty heady stuff for a classroom packed with students who'd gone through six years of parochial education.
Our classroom life was good, until the school's principal unilaterally decided to move us back to our six straight lines and all that accompanied that configuration. When Mrs. Costello broke the news to us, we requested a meeting with the principal.
I can still remember the principal's single-sentence response when we asked why she mandated the change: "It's time you learned to do as you are told."
By the next morning -- without the benefit of text-messaging and Facebook -- we planned and executed our strike. We silently sat at our desks and, over the course of five days, learned the power of a unified group with a reasonable cause.
And we actually achieved what we wanted by our civil protest -- a line-by-line discussion with our principal regarding each element of the changes we had made in our classroom.
I hadn't thought about that strike for years until I read a blog post calling for civil disobedience by Matthew Woessner, a Penn State political science and public-policy professor, regarding several elements of the university's new Take Care of Your Health Initiative.
Woessner took issue with three key elements in what PSU describes as a wellness program designed to address rising healthcare costs: (1) completion of an online health-risk assessment, (2) agreement to take a preventive physical exam, and (3) participation in biometric screening. If the employee and his or her spouse -- or same-sex-domestic partner -- refuse to cooperate with the program, Penn State will levy a $100 monthly surcharge.
Paychex's Bob Merberg wrote an excellent investigative summary of the issues associated with the Penn State program and Fran Melmed zeroed in on PSU's communication-plan opportunities. Instead of repeating my version of similar points already made, I want to focus on the merits of this protest.
In the weeks that followed Woessner's blog post, several human resource executives contacted me with essentially a single question: How do I avoid something like this from happening at my company?
My best advice is to understand the merits of the policies you're putting in place, be able to clearly explain the wisdom behind the direction you've chosen and give your employees time to become familiar with changes to your programs.
As for the specifics of Woessner's call for civil resistance, Fran Melmed and I had the opportunity to interview both the Penn State professor and Dee Edington -- the recently retired University of Michigan researcher who is an icon in the employer-based wellness space -- on our CoHealth Checkup radio broadcast.
Three main themes stayed with me related to Woessner's comments on the show: the ethics associated with collecting personal data about employees, the question as to whether a financial penalty is a form of coercion and Woessner's desire to understand how each part of the initiative would help Penn State save healthcare dollars.
Ethics and coercion are tough themes to address and go well beyond the space I have available in this column. However, I will attempt to highlight some thoughts to consider.
Woessner questioned whether it was ethical to ask employees or their spouses and domestic partners to answer many questions that are routinely posed on health-risk assessments. The professor's examples included queries about matters such as depression, alcohol use and whether the respondent was ever charged with a DUI.
From a research perspective, there is often an association found between how someone answers one of these questions and healthcare utilization. And, from a pure health-treatment perspective, many of us are concerned, for example, with the number of people with untreated or poorly treated depression.
That said, my ethical concerns escalated this year when I interviewed a well-known healthcare leader in front of a private conference's audience. He explained that the health-management programs his company sold to employers embraced a three-prong philosophy: Complete a health-risk assessment, talk with a health counselor about results that were out of the norm and then "do what you are told." His statement was eerily reminiscent of my elementary school principal.
Woessner made an intriguing analogy between the requirements of Penn State's internal board that reviews academic studies involving human subjects and the health initiative's monthly $100 penalty for failure to fully comply with the wellness program. Specifically, studies or surveys that involve human subjects must be conducted with the participants' full consent and must be free from coercion -- physical, financial or psychological -- of any kind.
What further made this analogy interesting was Dee Edington's assertion that participation in HRAs should be voluntary -- this coming from a researcher who has been involved with the distribution and collection of more than 12 million health-risk appraisals.
While employers have been and are allowed to use incentives and penalties with wellness initiatives, the violation of the survey tool's design -- in this case, coercing participation in HRAs with the threat of financial penalty -- is questionable.
Finally, Woessner was clear that he understood healthcare's rising costs and the financial impact to his employer. He was skeptical, however, as to how participation in a preventive physical exam, HRA and biometric screening would drive down healthcare costs. Woessner and his colleagues were open to meeting with university leaders to learn how each initiative would specifically impact healthcare costs.
As someone with expertise in this area, I would be hard-pressed to find cost savings, or even cost maintenance, associated with each of these programs.
Health-risk assessments are essentially population-health-surveillance tools and, as such, do not produce cost savings. As Peter Mills and Howard Gough pointed out in a column I wrote about multinational health and wellness initiatives, HRAs used with employees who live outside the United States can give employers a snapshot of overall employee health. This can be helpful for health-and-productivity-management programs in countries where healthcare is provided by the government. But, HRAs themselves do not save money, nor do they provide better outcomes.
As David Lui summarized in a blog post this year, "Comprehensive annual physical exams have no scientific value." And, in much the same way, broad-based biometric screening largely does not make sense -- and may even do harm. Neither one is attached to large-scale savings in healthcare costs.
I believe what made Woessner and the Penn State story attractive to the media is the combination of an organization recovering from a scandal (i.e., Jerry Sandusky's imprisonment on child-abuse charges and related probes into PSU's handling of the case) and an articulate university professor talking about ethics, privacy and coercion.
The university's unwillingness to discuss the matter privately with Woessner and others represented a much larger issue than the implementation of a wellness program. As Edington pointed out, wellness programs are better for identifying gaps in the workplace culture than for saving healthcare dollars.
And that may be the real lesson here for human resource leaders.
Carol Harnett is a widely respected consultant, speaker, writer and trendspotter in the fields of employee benefits, health and productivity management, health and performance innovation, and value-based health. Follow her on Twitter via @carolharnett and on her video blog, The Work.Love.Play.Daily.


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Impressed by a presentation at the Home Show, my three girlfriends and I each bought one of these irons. The apparent stellar performance however, did not continue at home. The iron goes from releasing water all over the fabric to burning your hand while attempting to use it. Unlike the demo, ironing one side of a piece of clothing does not remove wrinkles from the other, nor does holding it over buttons to smooth fabric.. None of us is able to hold the iron without a facecloth wrapped around the handle to prevent burning. We will NEVER purchase this brand again and it has become our benchmark for attrocious products. IT IS NOT SAFE.


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Wisconsin: Debt Restructuring Can Be Delayed Until April 15
What's the latest from America's Dairyland? Well, it's the same back and forth. Scott Walker selectively released some emails yesterday designed to show he's acting in good faith, but he's still not really negotiating, and is unlikely to back down. On a conference call set up by the state AFL-CIO today, Rick Badger (really, the Wisconsin guy is named Badger), the executive director of of AFSCME Council 40, said, "If the governor really wants to negotiate he should set a date and time to sit down and meet with us." But that hasn't happened. State Democrats released a new alternative budget repair bill that they say would solve the near-term fiscal problem while removing the non-fiscal "policy pork." Sen. Mark Miller also delivered a letter which laid out the three options for the near future:
With an agreement between all parties, the bill currently before the Senate could be amended. Limited, preliminary discussions have occurred and, as you know, the Senate Democratic caucus would support modifications that restore collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin workers.
Yesterday, Assembly and Senate Democrats offered a clean slate bill that resolves our fiscal issues and accepts the economic concessions workers have offered to make. Taking up this bill would allow everyone to move forward without anyone having to take back votes or cross lines in the sand.
Or, despite overwhelming public support for a negotiated settlement that preserves worker rights, you could keep lines of communication closed.
So far, it looks like we're at three. And the Senate officially put through the $100-a-day fines on missing Senate Democrats, a day after pulling them back. They say they just wanted to change the start date.
But two very significant things happened today. First, speaking on Megyn Kelly's Fox News show, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald admitted that the goal for the budget repair bill was not to fix the budget, but to break the unions and deny funding to the Democratic Presidential candidate in a key swing state in 2012.
FITZGERALD: Well if they flip the state senate, which is obviously their goal with eight recalls going on right now, they can take control of the labor unions. If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions, certainly what you're going to find is President Obama is going to have a much difficult, much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.
Not that this was in question anyway.
However, a much bigger issue that was in question came closer to getting resolved today. You'll remember that Scott Walker put an artificial deadline on passage of the budget repair bill. The deadline was tied to a debt restructuring plan that would save the state $165 million in the near term, basically solving the shortfall in the current budget. Walker said this had to be done by last week, or the savings would have to be realized through other means. That was the impetus for the layoff notices that went out.
Well, well. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau, a nonpartisan analyst, writes today in a memo (via WisPolitics) that the debt restructuring piece does not have to occur until April 15, and that the savings can still be gleaned from it before that point.
The administration indicates that bond counsel is reviewing an option where a prepayment would be made on the amount owed on operating notes, so that the later April 15 date would apply, rather than the earlier March 16 date. Under this approach, the administration would transfer moneys from the cash balances of the general fund to the operating note redemption fund prior to the currently scheduled transfers that would be made to the operating note redemption fund later in this fiscal year. The administration indicates that it is possible that if this early deposit is done, then the later date of April 15 would apply.
If this administrative action would be taken by the Secretary of Administration, it is possible that the earlier timeline could be extended by 30 days. Under this extended timeline, legislative enactment would need to occur in early April, in order to allow time for the debt restructuring transaction to be completed.
This is very significant. This memo completely contradicts what the Walker Administration was saying previously, that they would have to lay people off because of the deadline for debt restructuring. That deadline was actually artificial. And this memo proves it.
What this means is that the "Fab 14" Democratic Senators could stay out of the state for another month and not risk giving up the opportunity for this debt restructuring to take place. Walker tried to use that as a way to get them back to Madison, but it was all a lie.


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They came, they saw, they danced! From celebrating holidays and events to creating awareness about social issues or just for fun, flash mobs have become the in thing at Technopark. Today at Bhavani building in Technopark, it was Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) turn to rock the dance floor, to promote 'Fit4Life', the company's in-house fitness campaign for its employees.
At around 12.30 p.m., the atrium of the building was abuzz as usual with hundreds of techies milling around during their lunch hour, listening to music. Suddenly, the opening drum roll of Shakira's FIFA World Cup 2010 anthem, 'Waka Waka, It's time for Africa', boomed out of the speakers. Two young techies, appearing out of nowhere, did cartwheels onto the middle of the atrium, accompanied by raucous cheers, as the crowd caught on to what was happening. Shortly afterwards, a bunch of other techies, all dressed in black, all of who were until then part of the crowd, also jumped into the game and soon a 100-strong flash mob was on! For the next 10 minutes, the techies danced to a medley of popular dance numbers such as actor-singer Dhanush's 'Why This Kolaveri', A.R. Rahman's 'Rang De Basanti', Somali-Canadian singer K'naan's 'Waving Flag' and of course, the rest of Shakira's 'Waka Waka'. At the end of the demonstration, while two of the dancers mimed various sport such as football, cricket, and basketball, a few others displayed banners and placards that had messages like 'Stay Fit, Be Happy' and 'Sweat, Inspire', and so on that exhorted the viewers to look after their health!
Says young techie Apoorva Dasari, a keen dancer, who came up with the idea for the flash mob, along with a few others: "All of us are trainees at TCS, who joined the company on August 6 this year. And around one-fourth of us studied at Sastra University in Tamil Nadu. So we often hang out together. Many of us play badminton together and are actively involved in the Fit4Life campaign. We thought a flash mob would be a great way to get the message across. We've been practising the routine after work for the past two weeks."
TCS started the Fit4Life initiative at the beginning of the financial year and it is meant for its employees across the world to encourage each other towards fitness. "It aims to improve health and fitness and also develop camaraderie among the employees," says P. Suresh, Global Training Head, TCS.
The event was organised by the Initial Learning Programme team of TCS and Maitree, the employee engagement forum of the company.
Courtesy : The Hindu


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... could be if your wife or sweetheart in the photos wear scanty dress
... forget it, the better result could be that someone have pity of that poor dog having such a master
... forget it, the real climbers think : one more cannibal on this mountain, where (and when) is he going to make is last (+) climb ?
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I can leave to your fantasy further questions of this kind ...
I wish you a Happy new year (full of hikes and climbs on real mountains)