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By Arlene Wohlgemuth, Texas Public Policy Foundation
The most fundamental political divide in Texas, and the nation as a whole, is over how large government should be to best serve the people. Liberals want higher taxes and more government. Conservatives want lower taxes and less government.
The two largest states, Texas and California, are home to 1 in 5 Americans. Demographically, they are more alike than not: in both states, minorities are a majority. Houston just surpassed New York City as America's most diverse city. The Golden State and Lone Star State have diverse economies. Both states have plenty of land, too: Texas is the second-largest state by land mass, California is third.
As much as Texas and California are alike, they differ in their governance.
California's state and local government takes 42 percent more of its residents' income than does Texas. California had the nation's fourth highest taxes as a share of income in 2010, with income taxes hiked to the nation's highest, 13.3 percent, in January of this year. Texas was 45th.
Bigger government is supposed to help the poor, liberals often argue. But does it?
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's new measure of poverty in America, California has 42 percent more people living in poverty as a share of the population than does Texas. California also has the nation's highest official unemployment rate, while Texas' unemployment rate has been at or below the national average for 75 consecutive months now.
To reiterate: a state whose taxes are 42 percent more burdensome so as to fund a larger government has experienced 42 percent more poverty than is found in Texas.
If liberals really wanted to help the poor, they'd attempt to reinforce those things that have made Texas so successful.
Texas lawmakers have a chance to do just that by returning tax dollars to hardworking Texans, improving our economic competitiveness. The opportunity to do so arises because state revenue has soared 12.4 percent over the funds available during the last budget deliberation two years ago. Even with a $7 billion increase in Medicaid spending, driven by federal rules, there is at least $6 billion of additional general revenue available to the Legislature to meet spending priorities.
The economic stabilization fund, otherwise known as the rainy day fund, is growing too, with some $8 billion in the account now expected to expand to almost $11.8 billion by the end of the next budget cycle in 2015. This account was created to serve as a financial reserve when tax money gets tight during economic downturns in order to avoid increasing taxes.
Such a large sum of unspent money tends to attract the attention of politicians, and Texas' is no exception. As a result, there are several bills that propose to spend billions from the economic stabilization fund on items such as water, roads and education. Never mind that water, roads and education are ongoing, routine expenses in the budget and, as such, ought to be prioritized from the billions of dollars of new tax revenue flowing into the state's coffers.
But, rather than spend Texas' economic stabilization fund dry on items that ought to come out of the existing budget, lawmakers should instead be considering a substantial tax cut — a rebate to the hard-working taxpayers of Texas. Reducing the state's portion of the sales tax from 6.25 percent to 6 percent would take Texas to the national average, returning $2.2 billion to the state's economy while cutting the effective state sales tax rate by 4 percent. That, combined with the modest Texas franchise tax relief being considered, might approach the additional $2.8 billion expected to flow into the economic stabilization fund over the next two years. This would finance tax relief while leaving the rainy day fund intact for slow economic times.
A tax cut is especially important now because there are increasing signals of a slowing economy in Texas and America at large. In March, Texas lost jobs for the first time in 17 months. Further, retail sales in Texas slowed considerably in April.
Texas is not immune to the larger economic climate. Cutting taxes improves Texas' ability to attract investment and create jobs, while keeping a robust balance in the economic stabilization fund safeguards Texas state government from the worst effects of a general economic slowdown.
The Legislature should resist the urge to go on a spending spree with Texas' savings account. Instead of growing government spending, we need to set the conditions for prosperity to create more taxpayers.


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Dalian, China, defies the surly stock image of a polluted Chinese city. On a typical weekday, Audi sedans and electric trolley cars glide past upscale restaurants and fancy clothing boutiques in its prosperous downtown. Skyscrapers reflect a blue sky that shows no glaring signs of air pollution. During summer holidays, tourists from Beijing, which lies 500 miles to the west, flock to Dalian's beaches to swim in the Yellow Sea. It is a place known for its affluent, well-educated, and connected citizens.
Like many Chinese cities, Dalian has a vibrant industrial sector featuring petroleum refineries, chemical plants, and factories that specialize in high-tech manufacturing. So last summer, when waves from a tropical storm destroyed a dike guarding the Fujia chemical factory not far from the downtown area, Dalian residents feared that if another storm hit the city's coastline, floodwaters might inundate the chemical plant and trigger a toxic spill. A group of concerned residents hooked up online through the Chinese microblogging service Weibo and decided to hit the streets to raise awareness about the threats the factory posed to their health and livelihoods.
About 12,000 people showed up for the Sunday demonstrations. They marched through the main streets of the city and then gathered on the grass outside a government building to press their case. Some protesters held white sheets with spray-painted red and black letters reading "PX" – short for paraxylene, a feedstock for plastic bottles that is the main product of the Fujia plant. As riot cops patrolled the crowd, the city's top official climbed onto a police van and promised to close the factory and move it away from downtown.
International media swarmed around the story, suggesting that the demonstration, like several before it in other Chinese cities, was another example of how the Chinese are getting increasingly vocal on environmental issues. Foreign Policy quoted a Chinese study saying environmental concerns had led to as many as 90,000 "mass incidents" the previous year. The magazine dubbed Dalian "The New Epicenter of China's Discontent."
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But five months later, when I visited Dalian on a brisk and sunny winter afternoon, a local environmentalist told me that the factory's fate remained unresolved. The paraxylene factory had resumed operations a few months after the August demonstration, she explained, and it was unclear what action, if any, city authorities would take. The event had been a "reasonable action, and the government gave a very reasonable response," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity in a converted apartment that serves as the headquarters for a local environmental NGO. "Now we're waiting to see what follow-up steps the government takes. Our biggest concern is whether or not the government will actually follow up on its promise." She didn't appear to be all that hopeful that city officials would.
Clearly the summer demonstration hadn't been the opening salvo in a months-long, people-powered protest on the order of ones that swept parts of North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States last year. But it's worth remembering that 20 years ago such a protest would have been unthinkable. It used to be that all manufacturing in Communist China was state-owned, and there wasn't much an average Chinese citizen could do to curb or regulate industrial pollution that threatened his or her health. Today the reality is less bleak: Although many factories have strong links to local governments, they are independently owned and somewhat more accountable to the public. Meanwhile, many middle class Chinese who in another era would have been civil servants now work in the private sector, and they are increasingly willing to voice their concerns about environmental issues. And social networking sites make it easier for the urban middle class to speak out anonymously – and organize demonstrations – without fear of police backlash.
China experts say the Dalian incident, like others before it, underscores a green tide of environmental awareness and activism that has been slowly rising across the country since China's infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. They say people in Chinese cities and villages are beginning to take note of the environmental pollution that has accompanied three decades of breakneck economic growth. The rising Chinese middle class is starting to demand the right to enjoy clean air and water, while impoverished farmers are increasingly speaking out about industrial pollution that spoils their crops and sickens their families.
This nascent eco-resistance varies widely across provinces and social classes. Some members of China's educated urban middle class are forming grassroots organizations, filing lawsuits and staging nonviolent demonstration. Villagers in the countryside periodically gather outside provincial offices or clash with police when industrial projects cause egregious pollution. A half dozen experts say that, compared with activists focused on gay rights and HIV/AIDS, Chinese who work on environmental issues have more freedom to raise public awareness about their concerns, and that China's state-controlled press, while far from independent, is devoting increasing attention to environmental issues. But the experts also note that China is a country where vague laws favor polluters with government connections; where most people have uniquely Chinese understandings of civic responsibility and government accountability, or lack thereof; and where environmental success stories are offset by widespread pollution, entrenched corruption, and an onerous bureaucracy that stifles democratic stirrings.
Analysts say while China permits some degree of protesting and activism because it can serve as a kind of "steam vent" for social unrest, it quickly clamps down on anyone who directly challenges the ruling Communist Party. Chinese environmentalists are almost never arrested, and unlike Ai Wei Wei, an outspoken Beijing-based artist who was detained for nearly three months last year on trumped-up charges of tax evasion, they don't generally become high-profile dissidents. Yet well-known Chinese environmental organizers still face government surveillance, and they work under what analysts call a "glass ceiling"– a limit beyond which the government does not permit them to push.
Whether, or to what degree, Chinese environmentalists will be able to break through that glass ceiling is more than an academic issue. As a rising power that has become the factory to the world and is already the globe's number one carbon dioxide emitter, China has an environmental footprint that treads far beyond its borders. People around the world agree that preserving China's biodiversity and reducing its air and water pollution are of international importance, but environmentalists familiar with China's environmental scene say pressure from foreign foundations and NGOs will never be enough to put the country on a more sustainable path. To do that will require coordinated action by Chinese citizens who are committed to environmental protection – even if demanding change can invite unwanted scrutiny from China's powerful central government.
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China watchers say that environmentalists there are far from forming a mass environmental movement that would match such movements in Europe and the United States. China expert Darrin Magee says it's instructive to think of green activism in China as environmentalism with "Chinese characteristics"– a reference to China's embrace of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Although many of the country's leading environmentalists maintain low public profiles, Magee says, they know how to advocate for change and push back against polluters, but in a way that doesn't get them into too much trouble with Chinese authorities. "I don't see a knight riding in on a green horse tomorrow, but nor do I see environmental activism in China being shut down in the future," he told me. "It's a two-steps-forward-and-one-step-back kind of advance."
Chinese environmental activism appears to run along two main tracks. One is the demonstrations that have erupted in recent years across the country, from cities like Dalian to villages like Wukan, in southern China, where villagers gained international attention last year for protesting land seizures. China experts say the urban events are typically driven by an increasingly assertive middle class whose members stage preemptive battles with developers and city officials in hopes of preserving their quality of life. Rural protests are largely driven by farmers who are either suffering from environmental pollution or worried about the consequences of proposed hydropower dams and other infrastructure projects.
The second, and largely separate, element of Chinese environmentalism is the long-term capacity building and NGO development-work that has been underway since the mid-1990s. Many of China's earliest environmental NGOs operated with support from international foundations and US conservation groups like World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy, and they tended to pursue agendas related to wildlife and conservation. Jennifer Turner, the longtime director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington, DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, estimates the current number of registered Chinese environmental NGOs is about 3,000. While many of these groups are conservation-focused, Turner says their agendas are expanding to include legal advocacy and consumer education. There is a China Civil Climate Action Network, for example, and legal-aid style groups like the Beijing-based Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which aids farmers who seek redress against polluters.
A number of these groups work in tandem with government agencies, in some cases acting as quasi extension agents. "Some people have said, 'Oh, it's a weakness of the NGOs that they just try to work with the government,'" Turner told me in a phone interview. "My thought is, let's not be stupid: It is still a one-party state, and in all honesty, a lot of the laws on the books are good laws, and the Chinese government is not a monolith. At the central government level there is a lot of concern to really work on the environment and improve environmental quality." Chinese authorities don't like protests because such activities are a sign of instability, Turner added, and they want to promote sustained economic growth because it reinforces their political legitimacy.
In addition to China's 3,000 registered green NGOs, there are another 3,000 groups that don't bother to fill out the official paperwork.
At a local level, China's green NGOs are beset by a morass of bureaucratic, financial, and cultural obstacles. Local laws typically allow only one NGO to work on a given issue in a given locality. NGOs must also register with sponsoring government agencies, which Chinese environmentalists jokingly call administrative "mother-in-laws." The government also keeps close fiscal tabs on domestic NGOs – especially ones that have foreign backers – and requires many to re-apply for licences each year. The government's general strategy is to "ensure that groups do not exert too much autonomy," writes the China expert Timothy Hildebrandt at the University of Southern California, "and to keep alliances and mission creep to a minimum."
Consider the case of Green Camel Bell, a registered NGO in Gansu Province that is one of eight Chinese environmental groups receiving annual grants of between $5,000 and $20,000 from the California-based NGO Pacific Environment. The eight-year-old Chinese organization's stated agenda – which emphasizes environmental education and sustainable development – looks relatively nonthreatening. But Gansu is a remote province in Muslim-dominated, and restive, western China. Local officials there find the NGO "too troublesome," says the Chinese activist Wen Bo, who is a senior fellow with Pacific Environment, and as a result the group's organizers can never be sure that their license will be renewed the following year. Small wonder that in addition to China's roughly 3,000 registered environmental NGOs, there are an estimated 3,000 NGO-like environmental groups in the People's Republic that never bother to fill out official NGO paperwork.
Yet another challenge is that nongovernmental organizations don't command the same respect in China that they can in Europe and the United States. Donations to Chinese NGOs are not tax-deductible, and in the Chinese language the phrase "nongovernmental organization" can carry a pejorative and vaguely anarchic connotation. "It can very easily be misread as 'anti-government,'" explains China expert Magee, a professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. "The concept (of an NGO) is close enough to 'resistance' that the conflation could easily be made, especially if there are vested interests at stake."
Although Chinese NGOs are severely restricted, it doesn't mean that China doesn't have real environmental activism. Magee points to a 1996 book by the scholars Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li that explores the concept of "rightful resistance" – the process by which people challenge perceived injustices without straying too far from the status quo. The authors write that in rural China some villagers complain about social issues by co-opting Maoist messaging – for example, by accusing local officials of not being "authentic communists," and thereby avoiding accusations of disloyalty. Magee says that in contemporary China activists use similar tactics to speak out about environmental problems. A typical strategy is to petition high-ranking government officials to address a local case, and to layer the appeal with patriotic odes to the Communist Party. It's a "structural conduit," Magee explains, that dates back to imperial times.
Magee and other China experts say green NGOs are only one element in the country's growing and diffuse civil society. Some Chinese activists focus on raising awareness about existing or potential environmental abuses posed by a company, factory, or infrastructure project. A high-profile example is Ma Jun, a former journalist at the South China Morning Post who has earned widespread acclaim for drawing attention to pollution in China. In April, he won the prestigious Goldman Prize after waging an international campaign to pressure Apple to green up its China supply chain. "If he went after a Chinese company the way he went after Apple," says Jennifer Turner of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "he could get in trouble."
Another well-publicized example of this approach to fighting environmental battles is a campaign to prevent hydropower development along the Nu (or Salween) River in the southwestern province of Yunnan. The campaign, which began about a decade ago, was driven by Yunnan activists who opposed a government plan to build 13 hydropower dams on the river, which, along with the Mekong and Yangtze, is one of China's "Three Parallel Rivers" and an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot. By educating local farmers who would be displaced by the dam, and later communicating the farmers' concerns to international supporters and domestic and foreign journalists, Chinese environmental activists ensured that the story reached the central government's ears. Although no massive protests were staged along the Nu, analysts say the savvy, multi-pronged campaign drove Premier Wen Jiabao to announce, in 2004, that Nu river dams would be indefinitely postponed – a decision that many said was an early victory for China's budding environmental movement.
A key organizer of that anti-dam campaign is Yu Xiaogang, a 61-year-old Chinese army veteran who lives in Kunming, the leafy capital of Yunnan Province. Yu runs a nonprofit called Green Watershed out of a converted apartment in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. On the spring day I visited with my interpreter, he greeted us wearing pressed khakis and professorial spectacles. Spider plants sprawled across the office's windowsills, and an indigo batik covered the conference table. The view from Yu's plastic skylight was of other identical apartment blocks.
Yu said that although the majority of Chinese NGOs focus on providing social services, a handful advocate for systemic changes. Because he knows that speaking out on politically sensitive issues like hydropower dams can attract unwanted attention from Chinese authorities, he chooses his battles wisely. "Every NGO in China wants to keep a low profile, but when there is a key moment, if you don't win the battle you may lose the whole war," he told me. "This is why we took the risk to fight."
Yu started fighting the proposed dams by traveling to villages along the Nu River and convincing farmers to get on a bus. He told them he wanted them to meet other farmers on the nearby Mekong – an afternoon's ride away – who had already been relocated for a completed dam project. They climbed aboard, and when the bus arrived at the second village, they saw people sorting through piles of trash on the riverbank. It was the only way to survive, the trash collectors explained, because water from the new dam's reservoir had swamped their rice paddies.
The residents of the first village were shocked. In a scene from Waking the Green Tiger, a documentary about the campaign against Nu River hydropower, Yu tells them, "We hope to come back here in the future to find out what is going on." He then explains, "We're an environmental group and we'd like to help you." Yu later made sure the farmers' concerns, and the threats the dams posed, were widely publicized in Chinese state media. He also helped to distribute an anti-dam advocacy film to rural communities across Yunnan, and arranged for Yunnan farmers to tell their stories at international conferences. After Premier Wen Jiabao temporarily called off the proposed dams, activists pointed to Yu's work as a major influence behind Wen's decision.
Their excitement didn't last. Today, although the Nu River is still running wild, several dams will likely be built anyway, and preliminary construction work is already underway. The online magazine Yale Environment 360 has speculated that the anti-dam fight Yu helped spearhead may have been "a high-water mark – at least for that kind of direct-action campaign in China."
In Kunming, I asked Yu what he and Green Watershed are doing to keep the anti-dam cause alive. He flashed me a firm look and said he couldn't discuss details of his activism if he wanted to keep his NGO running. People familiar with Yu's work tell me that at one point during the Nu River campaign, customs agents at a Chinese airport seized his computer and confiscated his passport. They say he faced such pressures because the Nu River campaign had mobilized villagers and posed a threat to state-connected power companies – and by extension the central government.
The next morning, I boarded a bus for Dali, a tourist city about 200 miles west of Kunming, to meet Shi Lihong, the environmental activist who filmed the anti-dam advocacy film that Yu Xiaogang and others used as fodder for their campaign. I met Shi, 41, at a Western-style coffeehouse near one of the Dali's four stone gates. It was drizzling, and she arrived wearing a green rain jacket. We ordered coffees, and for the next hour, she told stories in English of her former lives working for state-run media outlets and the WWF, and later starting her own grassroots nonprofit, the Green Plateau Institute.
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Shi said she and her husband, the Chinese filmmaker Xi Zhinong, started the NGO because she doesn't think foreign ones are equipped to tackle the nuances of Chinese environmental issues. Running the organization was financially draining, she said, and because her work to save endangered species threatened the interests of a provincial logging industry, it grew dangerous: Locals tried to intimidate her by threatening her at knifepoint and cutting the brakes of her car. "After three years, we realized that our strength lies in the image," she said. Making nature-advocacy films "is the best way to combine our expertise with our passion."
Shi and Xi then founded Wild China Film, a Dali-based filmmaking company that works closely with Chinese grassroots environmental organizations. She said making environmental films allows her to promote environmental messages to a wide audience – Xi has more than 20,000 followers on the microblogging site Weibo – without as many bureaucratic hassles. And in the case of the Nu River campaign, her film served as a catalyst for ethnic minority communities affected by hydropower dams to warn other communities in neighboring valleys about the risks – a rare feat in a poor province where many farmers have no formal education and rarely stray far from their villages.
Later, I realized that Shi's career illustrates the evolution of China's budding environmental movement. Although China's political climate has limited her work as both a journalist and grassroots organizer, over the years she has come to understand the subtle links between Chinese environmentalism and politics – knowledge that enables her to advocate for social change and mentor younger environmental activists without raising too many official eyebrows.
The rain stopped, then started again. Shi sipped her coffee and watched a cyclo driver peddle lazily down the street. She said she thinks it will be 20 to 30 years before China has a real civil society. "Sometimes I'm optimistic, and sometimes I'm also pessimistic," she told me. "But if I was too pessimistic, I would have left China long ago and not come back. At least we still have some space to push."
Mike Ives is a Hanoi-based correspondent for the Associated Press. He last wrote for the Journal about the proposed Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River in Laos.
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On long car trips Mark and I used to amuse ourselves by inventing new color names for clothing catalogs. (This was a separate endeavor from our development of "J. Crew, the movie," which I'll leave for another day.) The colors had to sound almost plausible, which wasn't hard, since names like "blueberry" and "toast" and "mediterranean" were common in late-eighties/early-nineties catalogs. "Mouse" and "Calamine" are two I remember.
Today I read that writer and artist Robin Strober has taken this fascination with color names a step further. She composes collections of paint chips as a poetic evocation of a particular subject, arranging the found language of names between layers of lucite.Posted by EGP at April 13, 2003 10:36 AM | TrackBack
any idea how i can view any more of robin strober's work. i too recently saw photos her work in a magazine and would love to see more of this great work. is she currently showing at a gallery? how can i get ahold of her?Posted by: jc at May 1, 2003 09:58 PM
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PIMCO said Monday that it has rehired Paul McCulley to serve as a managing director and take on a new role as the group's chief economist. McCulley, who worked for the firm from 1990 to 1992 and 1999 to 2010, also will be a member of PIMCO's Investment Committee and will report directly to founder and Chief Investment Officer Bill Gross.
"Paul is an experienced and respected thought leader on macroeconomic issues and central banks, and he will be an important contributor to our investment process," Gross said in a press release.
PIMCO — which lost its then-CEO and co-CIO Mohamed El-Erian earlier this year — could benefit from both new leadership and new investor interest. The bond shop had net outflows of $5.5 billion last month, according to Morningstar, bringing its year-to-date outflows to some $21 billion and its 12-month outflows to $80 billion.
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There are many warning signs of alcoholism. Knowing the warning signs that you or your loved one may be an alcoholic will help you better understand the disease of alcoholism. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism report an estimated 88,000 people die each year in the united states as a result of alcoholism and alcohol related deaths. (Alcohol Facts and Statistics)
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What are the warning signs of Alcoholism
How do I know if I am an alcoholic?
What are the warning signs of alcoholism
Am I an Alcoholic?
What are alcohol withdrawal symptoms?
How do I know if I am an alcoholic?
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What are the warning signs of Alcoholism
There are many warning signs of alcoholism. Knowing the warning signs that you or your loved one may be an alcoholic will help you better understand the disease of alcoholism. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism report an estimated 88,000 people die each year in the united states as a result of alcoholism and alcohol-related deaths. (Alcohol Facts and Statistics) There are many similarities between the signs of alcoholism and the Signs of Drug Abuse. Alcohol is a drug and even though it is socially acceptible alcohol addiction or alcoholism can cause severe health problem and issues in the family.
How do I know if I am an alcoholic?
Believe it or not, alcoholism is, in fact, a medical disease and a serious one. Signs and warning signs of alcoholism and drug addiction vary due to the frequency of consumption and amounts taken in daily. This condition does not affect only the alcoholic, but it will significantly disrupt the lives of their families and friends as well. For many, there may be a fine line between alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
Alcoholism is a serious health issue. Always consult a medical professional. If you or a loved one starts to experience withdrawal symptoms from alcohol seek medical attention immediately. Alcohol withdrawals can cause seizures if not treated in a medical setting such as an alcohol detox or inpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility.
Alcoholism Warning Signs
What are the signs of alcoholism?
- Withdrawal symptoms such as sweating, anxiety, etc.
- Urge to drink but you are more comfortable doing it in secrecy
- Losing interests in prior activities that once excited you
- Drinking has become a priority over vital responsibilities, such as employment and family
- Mood swings and irritability becomes more extreme
- You feel guilty after drinking
- Alcohol is the first thing you consume as you wake up
- Despite financial, health and family matters, alcohol remains your priority
- Being unable to control or stop the amount of alcohol you consume on a daily basis
- Health issues such as liver damage from alcohol
The reality of alcohol drinking is that it is socially acceptable and okay over various parts of the world, which may be one of the reasons why the signs of being an alcohol abuser or a problem drinking many times go overlooked and unnoticed.
Am I an Alcoholic?
Since alcoholism carries a stigma, many alcoholics and their loved ones find it somewhat comforting and rather to justify the fact and rationalize the reality of a drinking problem or they begin to deny signs of abuse, which is a rather dangerous tactic.
Alcoholism – Withdrawal Phase
What are alcohol withdrawal symptoms?
Withdrawal can be a highly dangerous symptom; however, a detox program can assist you with moving past this negative symptom safely. In some instances, the alcoholic may experience one of the most severe forms of alcohol withdrawal referred to as "delirium tremens", this can cause;
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- Hallucinations
- Fever
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- Seizures
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- An uncontrolled shaking of the hands (usually the entire body is affected also)
- Profuse sweating, even in colder conditions
For this reason, heavy drinkers who are interested in ending their battle with alcoholism should seek medical condition. Alcohol withdrawals can be fatal.
Is drinking alone an early warning sign of alcoholism?
If you have a severe drinking problem then you may tend to start hiding or even lying about your habitual drinking in hopes that those around you will not notice and those who have become suspicious will probably start to deter their beliefs and think that there is nothing to really worry about.
Secretive behaviors include:
- Going through the tedious lengths of purchasing your drinks from various stores in avoiding people to get suspicious of your addiction
- Masking your alcohol in your food or coffee
- Drinking alone in your vehicle or in your room
Alcoholism – Lack of Interest
Activities and cherished moments that once excited you may seem to no longer be of a great interest to you once you are sober. You now feel as everything is better while under the influence of alcohol. You may also start to find that often after overindulging in alcohol-related activities, you no longer have the time or enough energy left for your once cherished activities.
Am I an Alcoholic
How do I know if I am an alcoholic?
Alcohol gives both a physical and mental high, in this state, it not only takes over the body of the consumer but it also takes over the mind and affects your judgment.
Signs of an Alcoholic
- Spending excessive amounts of time on drinking and the recovery phase from the effects, such as hangovers
- Using more time and energy looking for new alcoholic beverages
- Consuming and spending more money than normal on alcohol to the point of putting yourself in debt
- Your usual first drink in the morning is one that includes alcohol
- Being only interested in social activities where alcohol is consumed
- Having a preference for only spending time with / going out with family or colleagues that are drinkers rather than those who prefer to stay sober
Alcoholism – Inability To Quit
Having an alcohol addiction poses both a physical and psychological damage to the individual. Many persons that suffer from alcoholism are fully aware of the life-threatening consequences and do intend to quit and some also want to and attempt to reclaim their sober lives, careers, and relationships their battle with the consumption of alcohol has destroyed. However, despite their attempts, it is not as easy as it should be and this is a definite sign of your problem with alcoholism.
Alcoholism – Justifications
Many alcoholics tend to have the same excuse for justifying their issue, "it is a way to escape from the stressful conditions and it helps to soothe negative feelings" such depression, frustration, resentment, anger etc.
These tactics include:
- Drinking when stressed
- Convincing yourself that having multiple drinks will make you feel better
- You only feel normal "normal" or relaxed after a few drinks
- You tend to temporarily forget your problems and stress when intoxicated
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Alcoholism Treatment
What Treatment Programs are available for Alcoholism
Alcohol detoxification when not done correctly poses a greater health risk than other drugs. In this, since your body has now gotten so used to having a high alcohol content, and has become somewhat dependent, a sudden discontinuation of that alcohol consumption will often increase the risk of delirium tremens (DTs).
This may become so severe that an individual can be at risk of losing their life as a direct result of alcohol withdrawal. Hence the need for professional medical detoxification to safely discontinue your battle with alcohol addiction. Depending on if the alcoholic is in denial a family may need to consider an intervention for alcohol abuse.
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From her living room window in Hopkinton, Mass., Judy Keefe can make out the spot where tens of thousands of runners line up every April to run 26.2 miles into downtown Boston, a trek she never quite understood but celebrated anyway.
Journalists, athletes and local luminaries — and generations of friends and relatives — relied on her unquestioning hospitality in the hours before, and during, the Boston Marathon. Every year on race day, they turned her modest wood-frame home on East Main Street home into a combination shelter, operations base and party spot.
Keefe, who grew up watching the race before it became a major international event, asked nothing in return. She saw it as a sort of civic duty, a way to help her community look good, and bring strangers together.
"People did a lot of jogging, but it was always a social event for me," Keefe, 69, said.
The Boston Marathon exerts a strong centripetal force on the region, unifying the city and its neighbors in a daylong rally that is as much about the race as it is a show of provincial pride. Nowhere is this dynamic more apparent than in the homes, businesses and schools that line the route between Hopkinton, in the city's Western suburbs, and Copley Square, in downtown Boston. And at no time is the sentiment more palpable than now, a year after twin bombings rocked the finish line.
Motivated and defiant
The race course is quintessential New England: undulating back roads passing through leafy town commons, tidy old suburbs, wooded preserves, immigrant enclaves, low-slung commercial strips and belts of light industry before confronting the well-appointed townhouses of Brookline and the bustle of Boylston Street.
Most of the outlying communities don't typically think of themselves as part of Boston. But that changes on the third Monday in April, when hundreds of thousands of people spend the Patriots Day holiday — which marks the opening battles of the Revolutionary War — crammed along the route. They cheer and high-five people they know, and many more they don't. They cheer the home they share, and its place in history.
"It's another one of those patriotic, very American, apple pie, baseball kind of things," said Jane Nelson, who grew up in Framingham, a working-class town with its share of empty storefronts. She works at Silton Glass, where every year she roots on runners in a gaudy red, white and blue outfit. "Even though it's 26 miles long, you feel like it's your community. It's bigger than the little town you live in."
This year brings added motivation.
Just after the 4-hour mark of the 2013 marathon, two bombs, allegedly set by a pair of brothers, exploded near the finish line. The attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260, set off a furious four-day manhunt in which a police officer was shot to death, one of the brothers died in a gunfight, and the other brother was found wounded in a Watertown backyard. The Boston Marathon, one of the most prestigious road races in the world, was now infamous as well.
The 2014 marathon, on April 21, is expected to draw 36,000 runners and more than 1 million spectators. Security will be tight, with backpacks prohibited on the route and party hosts urged to be wary of strangers. But people on the route are united in defiant insistence that no one — not even a pair of murderous brothers — will disrupt their special day.
In a way, the marathon represents the end of a year-long grieving process, and the return to a routine.
"I think, and a lot of people I talk to, it's, 'They ticked us off and we got our back up, and there's no way you're going to ruin this for us,'" Nelson, 64, said.
Life and marathon, entwined
A few miles down the road, in postcard-quaint Natick, Brian Donovan recalled his earliest childhood memory: he is about 4 years old, on the sidelines, watching for his father to run by.
Donovan missed him, but before he could get upset, his dad turned around and picked him up.
"It sounds all cheesy and stuff, but that's an indelible moment," Donovan, 39, said.
In later years, Donovan accompanied his father, a state trooper, on a security detail for Johnny Kelley, a Boston Marathon icon who ran the race 61 times and won it twice. They were together at the finish line for the 1982 "Duel in the Sun" between the long-distance legend Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley.
Donovan's father used to tell him that anyone who ran a marathon was a hero. So when Donovan grew up, he began running marathons himself; he has completed seven, including four Boston Marathons.
When he wasn't running, Donovan always took Patriots Day off to watch the marathon. In 2009, he and his wife bought a house on the route. Now they host race-day parties on their front lawn.
"Everyone has the same thing they're embracing, whether you're in Hopkinton or Ashland or you're a student at Wellesley screeching like crazy, or at the firehouse turn," Donovan said. "In any of these places, you just drop everything."
Among his friends and neighbors, Donovan had noticed an urgent refusal to succumb to fear of another attack. The 2014 marathon will represent a "big middle finger to terrorism," he said.
"I think a lot of people are going to be motivated more by, 'You're telling me I can't do something that's actually good, cheer people on? You're telling me I can't do that? Forget that.'"
"This is our race"
Eric Barry is a photographer whose studio faces the route in Wellesley, a well-to-do college town next door. He isn't much of a racing fan, but he feels a sense of ownership with the Boston Marathon, a rite of spring that attracts an international field of elite competitors.
"This isn't the Tour de France where you might watch for a couple of minutes and be like, 'Yeah, this is beautiful' and whatever," Barry, 40, said. "You watch it here because this is our race."
He added: "I don't think I could just go anywhere and watch a marathon. I'd rather watch paint dry. But this transcends the sport. It's the fun, the community, and the people really go crazy when they actually see someone who is beating the odds somehow."
This year, of course, there will be plenty more underdogs to cheer: people injured at the finish line last year, and thousands whose races were cut short.
Molly Tyler, a senior at all-women Wellesley College, is leading the school's effort to make signs for anyone who asks. Each will be posted along the "Scream Tunnel," a pack of hundreds of hollering students that for decades has urged racers to press on as they hit the approximate halfway point of their journey. Requests are way up this year, she said.
"People say things like, 'I didn't get to finish last year, so make this the best sign ever, because I'm finishing,'" Tyler, 21, said.
"Nothing but resolve"
In the hours following last year's bombing, the Newton Fire Department scrambled to find a way to uplift the surrounding neighborhood, which borders Boston.
The department's red-brick Station 2 firehouse at the corner of Washington Street and Commonwealth Avenue was a marathon landmark, a popular gathering spot and a crucial turning point in the race at the base of Heartbreak Hill.
"We gotta do something," Lt. Tom Lopez, a union leader, recalled telling his chief.
By the end of the week, a "Boston Strong" banner hung from the firehouse's facade. It will remain there through this year's race. "That sign is a source of pride," Lopez said.
Throughout the harsh winter, runners training for the marathon have stopped at the firehouse for warmth, or water, or to chat.
Residents, meanwhile, have said they are looking forward to the marathon more than in years past.
"I have not had anybody say to me that they're not going to go to the race," Lopez said. "People say, 'I can't wait to be there.' I hear nothing but resolve."
Driven by memories
Back in Hopkinton, a semi-rural town that feels a world away from Boston, Rick Macmillan pulled out a 60-year-old autograph book in which he's been collecting signatures of marathon runners since he was a young boy. Johnny Kelley's in there. So's four-time champion Bill Rodgers. And three-time winner Sara Mae Berman.
Macmillan, 67, a former Hopkinton fire chief who lives a block or so from the starting line, worries, as he always does, about security. But that won't keep him and his wife from throwing their regular marathon party, popular among runners and race officials and neighbors.
"I'm proud to be a part of it, to maybe contribute as little as we can to keep it going," Macmillan said.
Along with his own marathon memories, Brian Donovan has been thinking about Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy who was standing at the finish line with his family when one of the bombs exploded, killing him. "I was that kid," Donovan said. "Standing there, cheering with an ice cream cone."
Anyone who has been to the Boston Marathon could relate with that, he said.
"How many kids had that same American or Boston kind of experience? We're going to keep doing it. It's not going to go away."
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This Week in Catcher Framing, 9/20
2013 League Leaders
Jose Molina, -24.6 (5259)
Two Molinas on top, with a few other familiar names in the top 10: Chris Stewart (whom I wrote about here and here) Jonathan Lucroy (here, and in every subsequent edition of This Week in Catcher Framing), Erik Kratz (here), and Ryan Hanigan (here and here). And the bottom five:
Welington Castillo, 23.1 (7419)
Ryan Doumit caught about half as many pitches as anyone else in the bottom five, and he still ranks second-worst overall. Classic Doumit. As Sam Miller and I discussed on Wednesday's episode of Effectively Wild, Doumit's teams have a .378 winning percentage in games that he's appeared in, which is the worst mark among active players with a minimum of 800 games played. Obviously, that's not entirely on him—it's not his fault that he was drafted by Pittsburgh, and even with a better catcher, the 2005-2011 Pirates still would've been bad. But Doumit hasn't helped. All of his WARP go away if you factor in framing.
We also have full-season stats for Double-A and Triple-A, using Max's Retrosheet-based estimated framing method. Here are the top five through the end of the minor-league regular season:
Sandy Leon, 24, Nationals: -21.4 (6703)
Leon was called up to Washington when rosters expanded, but he still hasn't gotten into a game. Washington Times Nats beat writer Amanda Comak reported that "pitchers rave about the job he does behind the plate," and for good reason. At the plate, it's a different story: Leon is a career .218/.310/.303 hitter in 510 Double-A plate appearances. Vazquez is a prospect; in May, Zach Mortimer noted that he has a "plus defensive profile," adding, "most scouts I talk to believe he has the ability to play every day." And Murphy is another in a series of strong receivers for the Yankees, who are clearly targeting players who fit that profile.
Also of note: Austin Hedges, who played in only 20 Double-A games but saved 5.0 runs in that small sample. Hedges has a reputation as the best defensive catcher in the minors; you can watch video of his smooth receiving here, courtesy of Jason Cole. The most impressive small-sample minor-league performance belonged to Pirates backstop Ali Solis, who saved 11.1 runs in 29 games split between Double-A and Triple-A. Unfortunately, he hit .179/.231/.214.
The bottom five:
John Hester, 30, Angels: 32.9 (5623)
Hester was over 10 runs worse as a receiver than anyone else in the upper minors. He also hit .237/.307/.391 as a 30-year-old in the PCL. Somehow, that performance earned him a spot on the Angels' September active roster. Pinto was promoted to Minnesota this month after a big offensive year (.309/.400/.482) in the minors, and thus far he's continued to hit. But if he's as bad behind the plate as Max's estimate suggests, then Twins fans still won't get to see a solid receiver while Doumit recuperates from a concussion.
This Week(s) in Jose Molina, 8/22-9/18
Week(s)ly Playing Time: 13 G, 13 GS, 110.0 innings
3. Date: 9/13
Welcome to the AL, Alex Presley. There's a Molina in every league.
2. Date: 9/5
Calhoun is pretty compact, so this looked high for him, if not for C.B. Bucknor. It's especially important for the catcher to make subtle movements when the pitch is up in the umpire's eyes, and Molina does a good job of bringing the ball back down without drawing attention to his actions.
1. Date: 9/10
The farther this one travels, the lower the movement makes it look, so Molina reaches forward to snag the curve while it still sort of resembles a strike.
This Week in Jonathan Lucroy, 8/21-9/18
3. Date: 9/1
As usual, Lucroy's leather shifts less than just about any other backstop's after the ball gets to his glove.
Location: farther outside and lower, with a taller batter to boot. Lucroy has been getting this call for a long while.
1. Date: 9/12
Here he sets up outside and angles his body a bit to present the pitch to the ump, reaching a bit back toward the plate instead of away from the strike zone.
Best Frames of the Week
5. Date: 9/1
Lobaton moves a lot here, and he has to reach back to the center of the zone as he slides toward the corner. He still gets the strike, and Hamilton probably regrets making a rare decision not to swing.
4. Date: 9/10
Like Lucroy with a little more movement.
3. Date: 8/24
I wrote in July that Arencibia had reinvented himself as a receiver, and by the end of August, he had worked his way into the top 20 framers. Here's a good example of his refined receiving technique.
2. Date: 8/24
Maldonado has a wide, stable stance that would make him tough to tip over if you tried.
1. Date: 9/1
Extend a series long enough, and you'll start to repeat yourself; I covered d'Arnaud's receiving skills last month, shortly after which he added this low, breaking-ball strike to his list of trophies.
Worst Frames of the Week
5. Date: 9/16
Jeff Mathis' catching skills usually earn him positive press, but we've seen through the season that snap throws often seem to cost the catcher a strike.
4. Date: 8/28
This is how Hundley got to be near the bottom of the unofficial framing leaderboard.
3. Date: 8/24
Look, sometimes strange stuff happens. Great hitters have extended slumps, aces have ugly outings, and yes, Molinas miss baseballs. It looks like Yadier was expecting the ball to break more.
2. Date: 9/3
Didn't look close to a strike, and evidently the umpire agreed. But Stewart is set up way inside, so when Kuroda misses his spot he has to stab at the ball to keep it from sailing past him. Ignore how it was received, and factor in the parallax effect, and this one probably caught he corner.
1. Date: 9/14
Similar to Stewart's, but even stabbier.
Bonus Worst Ryan Doumit Frame of the Week
Doumit has been absent from behind the plate since late August because of his latest concussion, and Ron Gardenhire said that he "would probably keep his catching equipment locked away the rest of the year." We wish Doumit well and hope he makes a swift, complete recovery, but it would be best for him to return as a corner guy/DH. As far as the locked-up catching equipment goes, it's probably time to throw away the key.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Nathan Aderhold
How does Max's model differ from the OZoneStrike/ZoneBall ratio you'd been using up to this point, besides being a counting stat rather than a rate stat?
Sep 20, 2013 12:20 PM
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They're very different--Max's is a complex mixed-level model that adjusts for count, pitch type, batter, umpire, and other factors. OZoneStrike/ZoneBall is basically counting, without any adjustments. I wrote about the correlation between the two here here, but Max's is the more advanced method.
Sep 20, 2013 15:58 PM
One thing I think I'm seeing, but can't quite tell from the camera angles - on the good frames of low pitches, the catchers start with their glove relatively close to their body, then reach out and down to catch it. On the last Doumit play, he starts with his arm out, then levers it down to catch it. From the POV of the ump, the former would look more like reaching forward into the zone, while the latter looks more like dropping out of it. Might have to take my kid out later and stand behind him to watch what both ways look like from the ump POV...
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In a telephone interview with AFP from his asylum at Ecuador's London embassy, Assange urged that Obama's reelection should not be any cause for celebration.
"It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing," Assange said, adding that he expects the Obama administration to continue attacking and persecuting anti-secrecy activists.
"All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration," Assange said, adding that the Republican party has not acted to try and restrain such excessive activity.
"There is no reason to believe that will change – in fact, the Republicans will push the administration into ever greater excesses," Assange noted.
"The re-election of Barack Obama coincides with the 899th day of Bradley Manning's confinement," Assange said, referring to the soldier, currently being held in solitary confinement in a military prison, accused of leaking thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010 relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yesterday, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that a 2-year-old federal grand jury probe into WikiLeaks is still "ongoing."
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The strike was said to have killed three militants and injured several others, including a child. Local journalists were surprised that the strike was carried out less than 40km from the capital, making it the closest ever to the country's centre of government. Activists condemned the strike as part of Obama's "secret war" on Yemen.
Adam Banron, a freelance journalist based in Yemen, tweeted:
@adammbaron: coming > 24 hours after Obama's reelection, its hard not to see the suspected U.S. strike in sanhan as a message…if not a provocation. #yemen
Yemeni activist Ibrahim Mothana tweeted:
@imothanaYemen: Drone strikes in a "Secret War" by a "Nobel Peace Laureate"! Life can't get more surreal #Yemen
Yemeni Blogger Afrah Nasser tweeted:
@Afrahnasser:"Yes We Can #Drone!" #Obama #Yemen #Somalia #Pakistan
Yemeni doctor Wedad Abood tweeted:
@WedadAbood: @BarackObama 4 more years of #drone strikes killing innocent peoples not to forget women & children #NoDrones #Yemen


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Brisbane beckons for Springboks
July 19, 2010
Australia's Adam Ashley-Cooper celebrates his try against South Africa in Brisbane in 2009 © Getty Images
South Africa travel to Brisbane to face Australia on Saturday and for the third time in as many weeks the Springboks are looking to overturn the weight of history.
The Suncorp Stadium clash comes hot on the heels of their back-to-back losses to the All Blacks at Eden Park and Westpac Stadium, grounds at which, like Suncorp, the Boks have a losing record.
The Springboks hold the historical advantage over the Wallabies with 43 victories to their rivals' 27 since their first meeting in Sydney in 1921 - won 25-10 by the visitors - but they have not won in Brisbane since 1971.
Of the four Brisbane venues previously used for Tests, Suncorp (or Lang Park), Ballymore, the Brisbane Exhibition Ground and the Woollongabba Ground, which is better known as the city's venue for cricket, South Africa have only won at the Exhibition Ground.
Their most recent defeat in the city came in 2009, when the Wallabies were the only side to bloody their nose during the Tri-Nations, winning 21-6 thanks to tries from Adam Ashley-Cooper and James O'Connor.
The Springboks' lowest ebb came in 2006 however, when six Wallaby tries secured a record 49-0 victory. Matt Giteau scored twice for the home side, with Chris Latham, Jeremy Paul, Greg Holmes and Mark Chisholm also crossing the whitewash.
All-time record: South Africa won 43, Australia won 27, drawn 1
Biggest winning margin: SA: 45, 53-8 at Johannesburg, 2008; Aus: 49, 49-0 at Brisbane, 2006
Highest score: SA: 61 (61-22) at Pretoria, 1997; Aus: 49 (49-0) at Brisbane, 2006
Most tries: SA: 8 (53-8) at Johannesburg, 2008, (61-22) at Pretoria,1997, (28-3) at Johannesburg, 1961; Aus: 6 (49-0) at Brisbane, 2006
Longest winning sequence: SA: 7 (1953-1963) and (1969-1971); Aus: 4 (1999-2000)
Most points (individual) : SA: Percy Montgomery 140; Aus: Stirling Mortlock 150
Most tries (individual) : SA: Breyton Paulse 7; Aus: Matt Giteau 9
Most points in a Test: SA: 26 Jannie de Beer at Pretoria, 1997; Aus: 29 Stirling Mortlock at Melbourne, 2000
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Took my j's off and they was in my socks
Stones that big I put them in my watch
Got something for you haters and its in that Glock
(We cooking chickens no flour, We count the money weigh the powder) (x2)
[Verse 1: Young Jeezy]
I got my mind made I wanna be a millionaire
I got my mind made I take them bitches anywhere
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I got a pocket full of phones like I'm Pimp C
What ya know snow or ghetto more like Willie D
I park that lamb in that ghetto well thats silly of me (haha)
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That Mr. Ice Cream, rocky road trip
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I make it back with these blocks I bring the projects back
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I whip it till its upset I make the stove mad
There's so much smoke up in this bitch man I can't see
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WASHINGTON—State spending on prisoner health care increased from fiscal years 2007 to 2011, but it is trending downward from its peak in 2009, according to a new report from the State Health Care Spending Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The report, State Prison Health Care Spending: An Examination, analyzes four key factors driving prison health care costs and outlines strategies states are using to manage costs while preserving health care quality for incarcerated offenders.
The project found that correctional health care spending rose in 41 states from 2007 to 2011, with median growth of 13 percent. Spending on a per-inmate basis also rose in most states during that time, with median growth of 10 percent. In a majority of states, however, total spending and per-inmate health care spending peaked before 2011. Nationwide, prison health care spending totaled $7.7 billion in 2011, down from a peak of $8.2 billion in 2009, after adjusting for inflation. The downturn in spending was due in part to a reduction in state prison populations.
The report also examined the portion of inmates 55 and older, who typically require more expensive care than younger inmates. From 2007 to 2011, the share of older inmates rose in all but two of the 42 states that submitted data. Not surprisingly, states where older inmates represented a relatively large share of the population tended to have higher per-inmate spending.
"While spending began trending down from its peak in 2009, prison health care continues to pose a fiscal challenge for states," said Maria Schiff, director of the State Health Care Spending Project. "Understanding what is driving their state's unique health care expenses will help policymakers manage their systems more efficiently and evaluate ways to contain costs more effectively."
Several characteristics of state corrections systems can affect delivery of health care and increase costs. These include:
The report explores four strategies states are using to manage costs while preserving health care quality for inmates: use of telehealth technologies, outsourcing of prison health care, enrollment of prisoners in Medicaid, and appropriately paroling older and/or ill inmates.
Collection of spending data for this report was completed in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice. Data on the share of older inmates was collected from a survey conducted with the Association of State Correctional Administrators. This analysis builds on previous work by the State Health Care Spending Project, including a 2013 report, which found that correctional health care spending rose in 42 of 44 states surveyed from 2001 to 2008. The report is part of a series examining seven key areas of state health care spending, including prison health care, which will provide a comprehensive examination of state-funded health programs.
In addition to conducting research on prison health care spending, Pew also works with states to advance data-driven, fiscally sound policies and practices in the criminal and juvenile justice systems that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs. A recent report, Max Out: The Rise in Prison Inmates Released Without Supervision, found that more than 1 in 5 state inmates maxed out their prison terms and were released to their communities without any supervision in 2012, undermining efforts to reduce reoffending rates and improve public safety. The report outlines a policy framework to guide state leaders in reducing max-outs and recidivism.
The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Learn more at www.pewtrusts.org.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Learn more at www.macfound.org.


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Volunteers are needed each year to help ASWM with conferences/workshops. Volunteers can assist with conference planning by joining the conference advisory committee and taking on specific tasks; these include organizing concurrent sessions, supervising displays, organizing field trips, and many other tasks. During the conference volunteers are needed to moderate sessions, moderate lunch discussions, load power-point presentations, staff the registration desk and many other activities.
To inquire about volunteering for one of our conferences/workshops contact Laura Burchill.
Scientific/Grey Literature Bibliographies
Wetland managers often do not have the ability to stay up to date on all the peer-reviewed and grey literature available to improve the success of their activities. Examples of bibliographies currently on the ASWM website include the following list.
Wetland Compensatory Mitigation Performance Literature Citations and Links. Does wetland compensatory mitigation work? We have put together this list of literature so that you may draw your own conclusions. Please let us know of any other studies related to this topic so that we may make this list as comprehensive as possible. (2/23/01)
There is a variety of topics individuals could volunteer to develop: wetland restoration, biodiversity and wetlands, importance of headwaters, etc.
If you would like to volunteer to develop a bibliography to add to the ASWM website, please contact Marla Stelk.
Liaisons with Other Organizations
ASWM works in partnership with many organizations. Wetland issues are complex. ASWM values the input of other organizations to help us to identify and support science-based, balanced strategies for conserving, protecting and managing wetlands and related water resources. Currently ASWM has individuals who serve as liaisons between ASWM and organizations such as the Association of State Floodplain Managers and the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Agencies. Liaisons share the priorities, concerns, and related activities between the two organizations and help them identify common issues.
To inquire about volunteering as a liaison, please contact Marla Stelk.
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ASWM is always interested in line art and photographs for web pages and printed material. Line art of wetland plants, animals, landscapes, etc. and photographs of wetlands, wetland plants and animals, people in wetlands as well as pictures of other aquatic resources are needed. Photographs of activities in wetlands that show restoration, destruction, modification, etc. can also help our readers better understand wetland issues.
To inquire about providing line art and photography contact Sharon Weaver.
ASWM is a 501(c)(3) organization and like other organizations ASWM is always working to gain funding support sufficient to carry out the organization's mission.
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Don't worry no one is obligied to do anything, it's not like anyone is getting paid to do anything! You must live in a really remote area if it takes three weeks to get your post mail order.
I am spoilt as I can buy just about any electronic dohickey imaginable, I want from a shop called CPC in Preston. Coincidentally I have managed to meet up with Paul Michell of Michell computing as it turns out he lives up the road from me. Paul is lucky enough to get paid to use Lazarus, he has done some awesome things with his Global Information Managment system program. He has got a 12 GB laptop running Kubuntu containing 4 virtual boxed emulated machines, on one of which he was running Lazarus under emulated windows XP. It really showed off the power of Lazarus and free pascal. I am hoping he is going to help me, to create a cross compiler for the Raspberry pi from linux. In the meantime I am going to work on my lazarus / raspi website, I nearlly have enough useful information inside it to publish it.
I also been a bit distracted as I found the source code for the Colossal cave adventure on the web. I have been trying to get the C version to compile on the raspi, but so far it is refusing to do so.


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This is all down to personal preference, most people tend to go for the 20 inches to allow for the long length when wearing them wavy or curly.
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