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A public pension is deferred income, money earned but not received. Private industry and self-employed may make big incomes up front, but they have to plan for their retirement too. Be it the private sector 401K or the public employees 403b, we all have a responsibility to ourselves to prepare for the later years. Public employees work for less so to speak with the promise of the pension in their later years being there for them after 25-30 years because public employers can not pay equal to the private sector. So whether you earn up front in private industry, self-employment as big money or you earn it as a public employee with little money and a promised pension ( of which most public employees pay into throughout their career) it is an issue of personal responsibility. The fact is we need to have our country's retirees living a safe, healthy, affordable retirement and not be a burden on society. No longer is eating dog food, pushing a grocery cart of rags and sleeping under a bridge at night acceptable for our American Senior Citizens. Would you want that for yourself no matter how hard you worked for 30+ years?
I have been teaching for 36 years, I am vibrant, a teacher mentor, love my job and HS students. If I did not have to worry about money for taxes and cost of living expenses, then I would do my job for free, althogh that is not reality. I have jumped through the hoops of academia, met the requirements of the State, and I take my verbal beatings working in the public sector by keeping and compromising my personal beliefs and opinions to myself; that is what being a good employee is, public or private sector.
Please stop the whinning, we all need to retire with dignity. We all had/have opportunity and talents to succeed, made our choices. It is what you do and choose to do that makes your life what it is.
As is said "We do not die from any one particular disease, we die from the way we led our life." Make positive personal choices for a better day for yourself, because only you can make yourself happy. Choose happiness in your daily deeds and thoughts, life will be much easier. Those who were on the front line earning a pension deserve to receive it, after all they are still paying Federal taxes on a pension. No one gets out of paying Federal income tax.
Hey, Teach,
I'm sure glad you didn't teach me. The first word of every sentence, as well as the single letter word "I" and proper names like America are always capitalized.
Soles are the bottoms of your feet; I believe "souls" is the word you were groping for. It's baby boomers, not "bommers."
Proper punctuation would also be in order. Your last two sentences made no sense at all.
But to address your comments related to the story, the recent stock market crash destroyed the nest eggs of many retirees and of those approaching retirement age. They are not fake old soft-bellied sad sacks but honest Americans who worked hard all their lives and took all the right steps in their efforts to secure a comfortable retirement. The Bush administration crash pulled the rug right out from under them.
I do, however, agree with Mike: unlike the ants who worked hard and planned for their future, the grasshoppers who demanded instant gratification and impulsively squandered their incomes on useless consumer trinkets deserve little sympathy.
Stop blaming George Bush and everybody else but yourself for the mess you are in. If you were a saver and not a consumer of "things", you would be able to ride out this recession, as our parents did during the Depression.
"How did we get here?"
Thank you, George Bush.
Fortunately, I've saved a bunch and, even with the "financial crisis", have more money than I could ever spend.
One right-wing commentator has lambasted the baby-boomers for spending their money, rather than giving it their (grand)children. I earned it, and I'm going to spend it. Woohoo!
kumbaya kumbaya i am teacher and don`t feel sorry for
myself,like these sad soles. what gives ? please teach
baby bommers how to invest like our fathers and mothers
did. this is some sad sack recession blues. we are americans
who stand up for justice, truth, honesty. we are made
of american steel, not a pillar of salt, as is being
portrayed here in. as bill moffitt and jame todd would say
these are some fake old soft bellied pie in the sky americans.
so if we are in our later years. we helped to make mike kelly,
joe lund, pete,and little jeffy, obama americans too.rev. gilenas
is our spiritial leader.
We are seeing evaporation of middle income earners to a loss of at least 40% in this recession.
Working since I was 15 and now 64. Wanting a nice house I upgraded the house in 2008 with an equity line of credit. Then, just as the market a few months later was to drop like a stone. My job tied to commissions took a hit by 50 %. and now a scramble to make payments on mortgage and equity line while the income gets my attention constantly like so many. How did we get here?
Thank God I will have a teacher's pension for retirement!
I am age 63 and retiring in June having taught for 34 years. Even though I just paid off loans for my Batchelor's and Master's degrees and 40+ credits beyond to keep updated in my profession, and I make less than one-third of the salary my 30 yr. old daughter is making working in law....I can retire with a decent pension income to live on.
We teachers don't make much money in public school teaching, far less than our peers in private business, but we DO get a decent pension in retirement and we DO get the reward of feeling that our careers helped to make our world a better place!
Too bad people enjoy the blame game so much. Ted Kennedy and others really have worked to make life better for everyone, but circumstances change not just here but all over the world. We are greatful for having enough food to eat and a home to live in and a retirement system in place. In other countries such as Haiti people barely subsist. We too worry about having enough money to live out our lives, but are thankful for what we do have.
I am now 62 years of age. I have worked hard all my life, beginning when I was 19. Since 2000 I have only been able to work half time due to the need to care for an elderly parent. After 13 years of caregiving and working, I am worn out, and desperately want to retire. Yet now the statisticians are informing us that the early SS retirements (62 year olds), will banckrupt the system if they system if they start drawing at 62. The whole system sucks, folks! I totally blame the long-term politicians like Edward Kennedy, who served in Congress for over 30 years, and must have known that the Federal Government was balancing the books by sucking the Social Security Fund dry. We need to throw out every incumbent until our elected representatives start working to do what's right for generational Americans, not pandering to the growing millions of illegals!
While I feel distressed with losses I am thinking of working no later than 65. We chose to work for less money long ago for a government position with pension that also pays into social security; I also have a 403b as does my wife. We have a paid off mortgage and the only loose canon is health care. My work is trying to take away medical in retirement, so it will be 62 or 65 with medicare for me.


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Sidezoomers vs. Lineuppers
All kinds of driving personalities emerge on the Caldecott Tunnel approach.
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Here is the Caldecott Tunnel Problem. If there's another person with you right now, you may end up raising your voices as you consider it. I'm just warning, is all. The last time I brought up the Caldecott Tunnel Problem among friends, two people who had been a happy couple for a long time started arguing, and then they looked at each other as though something new and disturbing were presenting itself, and when I got up to go, one of them was pounding the table and yelling at her beloved, "But that is so wrong!"
Anyway, the problem. As you know, if you live anywhere in the general territory of the 925 or 510, the three bores of the Caldecott Tunnel run east-west beneath the hills that separate you 925ers from Oakland and Berkeley, where my 510 brethren and I live. If you're driving east-west around here, as you also know, you use the Caldecott; you could go winding over the hills and bypass the problem altogether, but it would take forever, and you don't want to. The stretch of Highway 24 that leads into the Caldecott is pretty, besides, coursing like a river through that cleft in the open hills. There are houses, but the grassland slopes up around them all green-gold and poppy-dotted now, in the waning months of spring.
So here you are, let us say, en route from your house in Walnut Creek to my house in North Oakland, heading west toward the Caldecott at the end of an April afternoon. The geography, what with the long approach and the hills on either side, requires you to focus on the thing that is about to happen ahead—you can see it coming and sometimes from quite a distance, depending on how bad the backup is. You remember, of course, that the trick about the Caldecott is that the middle bore changes direction, by means of signage and mechanically raised cone separators, according to the morning and evening heavy commutes. So if you're westbound at the end of the day, the cars coming in the other direction get that middle bore, which means your half of Highway 24 is being coned off into the one remaining tunnel bore on the right—a four-lane to two-lane funnel.
This is the point at which the North American driving populace cleaves into two camps.
Two-thirds of us, according to calculations I have made while brooding inordinately about this inside my Subaru, are "lineuppers," slowing rapidly from 70 to 30 or 20 or whatever, and taking our places—courteously and patiently, as our mothers taught us to do, respecting the broad tenets of social justice, and the primacy of fairness to all persons on the road, regardless of income or ethnicity or car model or perceived level of personal importance ... where was I? Oh. Sorry. Taking our places at the end of the line, I was saying, the long two-lane line that has formed to the right, creeping toward the two-lane mouth of our tunnel bore. There is still some empty lane space beside us on the left, true, where the cones are gradually closing those left lanes down. But people are already lined up. If we passed them on the left to get in farther ahead, we would be taking cuts.
One-third of us, on the other hand, zoom on by. For purposes of this problem, I shall call them "sidezoomers." (When I raised the Caldecott Tunnel Problem with my father, who is 83, he startled me by suggesting a longer label that included more bad words than I believe I have ever heard him use at one time before.) Sidezoomers have a variety of strategies, each exaggerated by the configuration of the Caldecott but replicated in bottlenecks across the land: There are the ones who zoom by a few dozen cars, angling in when they see a plausible opening; and there are the ones who zoom all the way up to the very top of the coned-off funnel, at which point they thrust their aggressive little self-entitled fenders toward the lineup and nudge themselves in. And there are those who opt for frontage road sidezooming, maneuvering into the right highway lane in order to get off at that pretunnel exit, Gateway, which is supposed to deliver people to the California Shakespeare Theater but happens in addition to parallel Highway 24 for a half mile or so. A sidezoomer can zip along that and get back on 24 at the next entrance, slipping in ahead of the lineup he bypassed on the road. So now he's taking cuts too, but from the right.
And that last exit lane before the tunnel, Fish Ranch Road, also on the right? You can't get back onto the highway once you've exited there, but if you're a sidezoomer, you can slide into the empty exit-only lane, still on the highway but pretending you're leaving, and then you drive and drive right past all the lineuppers until whoops, now at the last minute you've changed your mind, and you're not exiting at all, you're sneaking back into the line.
Not in front of me, though.
Until recently, I had the idea that I was somewhat overwrought about this. I supposed there were not all that many drivers gritting their teeth behind their steering wheels, practicing what Jerry Seinfeld once referred to as the "stare-ahead" while declining to let the sidezoomers in and musing at the same time that this is the problem with modern American capitalism, really, this antiaristocratic all-men-are-created-equal narrative we pretend to cherish while simultaneously celebrating the individual's right to do whatever advances his own interests, without technically breaking the law, Gordon Gekko triumphant over César Chávez, and that is an exit-only lane, you rodent, so no, you are not cutting in front of me unless you look as if you might have a gun in your car, in which case, OK, but you're still a rodent.
I was wrong, as it turns out. There are a lot of people who feel this way.
I know this because a while ago, I began asking around—politely, I mean, trying to avoid adjectives like "bullying" and "lowlife," making inquiries as to who lines up at bottlenecks and who sidezooms. The truth is, I had come to be a tiny bit rattled by uncertainty. I kept studying that empty lane space to either side of our lineup. Something about the physics was not working out. I bought a textbook called Traffic Flow Fundamentals, hoping for instructions as to the technically correct way to enter a lane-drop funnel, but its explanations looked like this:
When k = kj,μ = 0
(vehicles bumper to bumper but no movement):
0 = ∙0 1n (C2 / kj)
So I started consulting professionals on my own: traffic engineers, highway police, queuing theorists. Things got complicated. There was the cultural factor, for example. (I asked one table full of Berkeley graduate students whether they were sidezoomers or lineuppers, winking at the Israeli and the Italian because we all knew which they would be, and they both considered the question thoughtfully until it dawned on them that by sidezooming, I did not mean bypassing slower traffic by driving up the sidewalk.) I learned some of the ways a traffic bottleneck is and is not an open crowd queue, like the kind entering a sports stadium—the speed, the isolating qualities of an auto's steel bubble, the coarsening effect of no-eye-contact anonymity. I learned that the founder of modern queuing theory was a 19th-century Dane whose specific who-goes-first challenge involved the newfangled Copenhagen phone system, which required callers to be sorted and moved along, disembodied but queued nonetheless, in a way that was both maximally efficient and acceptable to all. I learned that Officer Sam Morgan, of the California Highway Patrol, occasionally uses the term "cranial-rectal inversion" when referring to drivers of especially poor judgment, which was one of the most satisfactory things I learned all month, come to think of it. I asked each of these professionals the same questions:
1. If you were inside your personal vehicle, approaching a bottleneck that offered you the options of lineup or sidezoom, which option would you select?
2. Who's right?


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The chilly fall breeze outside calls for my favourite cold weather dish: chili!
I like to pack my chili full of my favourite things: lean ground turkey, roasted sweet potato, black beans, chipotle, and a big kick of flavour.
This is a slightly leaner version of your regular chili thanks to the turkey. The sweet potato also adds some healthy carbs while the black beans bulk up the fiber.
While I keep a stock of chili powder on hand, my favourite way to spice up my chili is with these packs of Simply Organic spicy chili. They save me any worries over spicing my chili when I'm throwing everything into the crockpot in the morning.
The sweet potatoes add great bulk and texture to the chili. I like to roast mine in the oven with a bit of coconut oil before hand and add them in last minute so that they stay nice and firm and don't melt into the chili.
I like to serve up a big bowl with a nice salad, some garlic bread for the Mr, or if I'm feeling ambitious some homemade cornbread muffins. Fall perfection.
- Coconut oil (olive oil will also work)
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- Ground turkey meat *use chickpeas or white beans to make vegan
- 1 large can of plum or choppoed tomatoes
- 2-3 cups low sodium vegetable broth
- I head of roasted garlic (bake for 30 min)
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Geno Smith has been widely rated the top overall quarterback in the NFL Draft for like 3 months, and I think at least half of the mock drafts out there have him going #1 overall, the other half have him going in the top 10.
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We have visited this cafe numerous times on our trips to Montreal Excellent coffees ,breakfast & lunch
We have visited this cafe numerous times on our trips to Montreal Excellent coffees ,breakfast & lunch
We went here twice for breakfast on a recent stay at the Sofitel, on the doorman's recommendation. It is a cute little place for bagels or omelettes and coffee and also has a lunch menu and wine. A lovely atmosphere and very good food.
Wow! wish they had places like that, in the middle of D/T Montreal, in the heart of shopping, advertising types, business environment, etc.. all the fast paced people. 15 feet wide and 100 feet long, chock-a-block full of people all enjoying good food, at a reasonable price. What else do you want in a city that has over 3,500 restaurants... More
They have fantastic freshly made sandwhiches, salades, deserts. My favourite is bison burger and the burger with foie gras on the inside. You can get Portuguese porto or wine by the glass. My absolutely favourite are any salad with a glass of white porto. There are high tops in the back and low tables with low chairs near the front.... More
We've been recently to Café Vasco for lunch, we had heard so much about this place. We took vegetable and bison hambureger plates. The disapointment was huge when we received both meals! They were both tasteless, the vegee burger was disgusting, the meat falling apart, the salads were barely just ok. The restaurant is very compact, avoid the back location,... More
For breakfast or lunch, this café offers a variety of delicious and original meals: omelettes in the morning and sandwiches at lunch time. My favourite sandwich is the one with duck and fig. Service is friendly and efficient and the atmosphere is business casual and hearty.
Love love love this little cafe. It is very small and the menu is in French but the wait staff all spoke English and we had no trouble ordering. We had omelets and fruit and were very pleased. The fruit was so fresh and perfectly ripe and the coffee was great too. I would definitely recommend this place for brunch.
I have been passing in front of Vasco De Gama for some time but never tried the place until last weekend when a friend of mine recommended it for brunches. I loved the experience all together. 1- Location It is located on Peel street in the heart of downtown Montreal and you are bound to pass next to the place... More
This was a great place for us to stop for lunch after hiking to the top of Mont-Royal. We enjoyed a filing and VERY tasty meal. It was international womens day and we also enjoyed a free chocolate. Oh...and a mimosa!
The food and drink here are excellent cafe fare but it is quite small and deservedly popular so it is not over comfortable or relaxing but definitely worth finding. Fight your way in, grab a table and enjoy!!
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We will depart Tswalu on a charter flight (a Tuesday in October) scheduled to arrive at the Anglo-American hangar at JNB at 4:30pm. We then have until 11:30pm before our KLM departure to AMS.
So: What is best/most comfortable use of the interim? I am flying Business to AMS/JFK. Will I be able to check my luggage upon arrival at the airport and if not, can I safely lodge it in the Business Lounge while I go for dinner? (Would like to shrink wrap the checked bags, so perhaps do this upon arrival at the airport?)
Once luggage is safely stowed, the question of dinner arises. A few years ago I had a decent dinner at a hotel within walking distance of the terminal; I am guessing that this was the Intercontinental Southern Sun. I believe their main restaurant is Quills. Would that be a good spot for a farewell dinner? If not, what are the other options for a sit-down dinner in comfortable surroundings; willing to take taxi if great food is at the end of the ride, but perhaps not a great idea to leave the airport environs.
Finally, I've read mixed reports about the KLM lounge; is it a comfortable base to relax for a few hours after dinner? Any tips? I remember a decent bookstore at JNB; any other interesting shopping, perhaps for local goods? Any supermarkets at the airport?
Many thanks.
I am so looking forward to my return visit to this beautiful country!!
Long layover at JNB--nearby restaurant? Luggage?
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Hi ekscrunchy
Can not assist on formal diners at JBH, although the Intercontinental at the airport gets good reviews, but the book store you may be looking for is Exclusive Books. They have an excellent outlet at JBH International. Lots of new releases, African fiction and non fiction and a great magazine selection. Always reach my carry on limit after I have visited.
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How early before your flight will KLM be open for check-in? Perhaps you could direct that question to them. The business class lounges are all past passport control. You wouldn't be able to come back out and going in is dependent on the first question. If you can check your bags or find a place to store them curbside (look at www.bagport.co.za), you could take the Emperors Palace shuttle to that complex. There are quite a few restaurants there, including "Tribes", an African steakhouse and grill that has been recommended to me. I plan to try it out in a couple of months.
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JNB airport shops airside are very good, couple African shops, usual tax free shops and others. Can't remember any restaurants as we were in the VS lounge.
Not sure if you feel you have the time to do this, but the Gautrain from JNB takes 15-20mins to either Sandton or Rosebank where there are lots of shops and restaurants. I would check the schedules for the return as it is off peak time. -
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Thank you so much for responses.
ShayTay: I have stored luggage in the lower level baggage storage area at ORTambo; is that the BagPort storage area, or is BagPort a second option (website does not make location clear)?
Please refresh my memory: How long a walk is it from the terminal to the IC Southern Sun Hotel? Perhaps we could walk to the hotel and store the bags there while we have an early dinner in their restaurant? Does this sound feasible?
I will contact KLM in hope of learning what time we can check our bags.
One fact that seems obvious from all this: Pack lightly enough so as not to be weighed down with luggage too heavy to maneuver! (I need to read that statement again and again!)
Regarding the sending home of purchases: Last time we used PostNet, in Capetown. Is this still the best option? -
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The OR Tambo InterContinental is directly across the street from international arrivals...a distance less than 300 feet.
We've over-nighted there several times before heading out on safari and have always enjoyed our meals at Quills.
We take the Delta JNB-ALT flight and in our experience the check-in desk doesn't open until about for hours before the flight. Could be similar for the KLM-AMS flight.
Air France, KLM, and Delta share a lounge at JNB.
It does get quite crowded in the evenings when people from more than one flight are waiting to depart.
The lounge has an OK selection of small sandwiches, packaged snacks, and drinks. -
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I meant to type: the check-in desk doesn't open until about four hours before the flight.
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Thanks very much! Looks like this may be the best option for us--walk with the bags to Quills and ask them to store our bags (?) while we have a very leisurely dinner. Just to confirm, this restaurant is inside the Intercontinental Hotel, NOT the Southern Sun as I wrote above. Are there, then, two hotels at the airport?
After dinner, walk back to terminal and hope that KLM check-in will be open.
From Shay's comment, it appears that bags MUST be checked before entering the secure area where lounges are located. True (??)
I will be sure to leave room in my carry on for books purchased at Exclusive Books. -
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I agree with ShayTay, go to the website of the nearby 'Emperors Palace' who do terminal shuttles they have a range of restaurants including 'Tribes' and 'Aurelia's' at their D'Oreale Grand Hotel - www.emperorspalace.co.za
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Ekscrunchy, I've never stored bags at JNB... just read about others doing so. Intercontinental Hotel at JNB is a Tsogo Sun property. They also own the Southern Sun properties, of which there is one close to, but not in, the airport. There is another hotel on top of one of the airport parking garages, City Lodge. They don't have a restaurant there, only a coffee shop.
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As momentum builds for the Vikings stadium bill to get votes on the House and Senate floors, critics are having a hard time finding a united effort, as the reasoning for their objections vary.
The $1 billion
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"I would say it's imminent," said Democratic Sen. John Marty of Roseville, a longtime critic of stadium subsidies. "I think they have the upper hand and I think they're more likely than not to get their stadium within the week."
The Senate Jobs and Economic Development Committee approved the stadium proposal Tuesday on a voice vote, the latest in a series of unrecorded votes that kept House and Senate versions of the plan on course for floor votes. And it didn't seem to matter that many lawmakers expressed major qualms about the financing.
At the same time, the committee revised the bill to include more than $40 million to help St. Paul pay off loans related to the construction of the Xcel Energy Center hockey arena and its convention center.
There's been no shortage of maneuvering to line up votes or otherwise keep the effort alive.
"I do think after a while it starts to take on a little bit of momentum and an air of inevitability," said Sen. Geoff Michel, R-Edina, who supported the bill in the committee.
In their pricey lobbying effort, the Vikings have help from big business and big labor. The NFL team also has prominent allies in Gov. Mark Dayton and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who have pushed hard for the proposal to rebuild at the Metrodome site.
Critics, meanwhile, oppose the plan for sometimes very different reasons and are scattered ideologically. That's made it hard to organize pushback, even as stadium supporters start counting heads in anticipation of floor votes soon.
"Those who come up to the Legislature wanting largesse tend to come with a cohesive, united front," said Sen. Dave Thompson of Lakeville, a stadium opponent. "Those who don't want us to do this — it tends to be diverse groups of people that aren't particularly well-suited to the lobbying process."
Thompson, one of the Senate's most dedicated fiscal conservatives, and Marty, a liberal, have rare common ground on the stadium subsidy. They both doubt claims that inaction this year risks the Vikings' future in Minnesota.
The opposition is a patchwork: Critics of gambling, which would provide the state's money for the project; Minneapolis Democrats who fear an added tax burden if the stadium financing scheme falls short; and fiscal conservatives who dislike the state choosing some private businesses for subsidies.
Opponents also include lawmakers from both parties who see it as a handout to wealthy, successful businessman after several years during which the weak economy forced them to cut social programs and slow spending on other state priorities.
"We've been struggling with our budgets the last few years. We're struggling with, How do we take care of little old ladies in nursing homes?" said Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove. "I'm just so surprised we're tripping over ourselves trying to be the hero to a sports franchise."
Limmer and others oppose on moral grounds the stadium bill's expansion of gambling. The plan would let Minnesota charities that operate games of chance to upgrade to electronic versions of some games. The Dayton administration estimates the plan would raise enough every year to pay off construction bonds on the state's proposed $400 million stadium share. But many lawmakers — even some inclined to support the stadium — are skeptical.
"This financing scheme is literally and figuratively built on a house of cards," said Rep. Frank Hornstein, a Minneapolis Democrat. He worried that Minneapolis and Hennepin County taxpayers could be left holding the bag.
Hornstein said he thinks most of the 11 House members from Minneapolis, all Democrats, would vote against the stadium bill. That would repeat a pattern from the passage of the Twins stadium bill in 2006, when nearly every lawmaker from Hennepin County voted against the project but lawmakers from greater Minnesota helped deliver winning margins.
"If your own taxpayers aren't on the hook, it becomes a little easier to support," Hornstein said.
In a test vote, the Minneapolis City Council voted 7-6 to support Rybak's stadium plan. The largely symbolic vote adds the mayor's stadium plan to the city's lobbying agenda and reaffirms to state lawmakers that Minneapolis has enough support to pass the final legislation, the Star Tribune reported.
Rybak has proposed using existing sales taxes to pay for the city's share of a new stadium at the Metrodome site. The city's contribution would be $150 million for construction and $198 million for operations. But the city's chief finance officer said at a public hearing Tuesday that the city's contribution will actually amount to $675 million when accounting for inflation, the Star Tribune reported.
It will take 68 votes in the House and 34 in the Senate to pass a Vikings bill. But the plan probably needs at least a few more than the bare minimum so no one could be cast as the deciding vote come campaign season.
Critics have also questioned the process that's moved the bills closer to floor votes. Backers have tried to avoid hostile committees, and the project is getting more expensive. A provision exempting stadium construction supplies and equipment from sales taxes was removed from the bill, partly to sidestep extra scrutiny from the House and Senate tax committees, which both have strong anti-stadium forces. That raised the stadium's price tag rises by $22 million, according to the state's chief finance agency.
Between the circuitous route and unrecorded voice votes even in sympathetic committees, stadium critic Rep. Joyce Peppin questioned what would happen when the bill actually does get to the House and Senate floors.
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OK, speaking of things that somehow just make you feel better, on this Super Bowl Sunday, fans on both sides of the country are engaging in some odd behavior - sporting unwashed jerseys and fresh facial hair, sitting in that oh-so-special spot. We're talking about superstitions.
Fans and athletes are notorious for them - like Michael Jordan, who'd wear his North Carolina shorts under his Bulls uniform. But as it turns out, superstitions aren't all that odd. Evolution may have hard-wired us to believe in them. NPR's Amy Held reports.
AMY HELD, BYLINE: Fifty-eight-year-old Michael Neapolitan, from suburban Baltimore, is spending this Ravens game day the same way he has for the past few years. It involves football cards from the opposing team, a hot grill, and a group of like-minded friends.
MICHAEL NEAPOLITAN: And I will hold up one card and announce the player's name, and they'll all chant back to me: Burn! And I'll rip it up and throw it on the coals. It's fierce.
HELD: This ferocity began as a way to boost team spirit but then, it turned into something more.
NEAPOLITAN: Then after we had our long home win streak, I said, maybe I've got something here.
HELD: Now, Neapolitan wouldn't dream of losing that something, just like he wouldn't dream of washing his lucky Ravens apparel, down to the undergarments, which he's worn game days for months now.
NEAPOLITAN: This way, you start off in a very comfortable place, knowing that you're doing everything you can possibly do - in the spirit world, if you will - to help your team win: the mojo.
HELD: And over on the West Coast, 30-year-old Kristofer Noceda of Livermore, California, is putting out his own mojo for the 49ers. He's wearing his own, unwashed team gear, and painting his face with what he calls his war paint.
KRISTOFER NOCEDA: I mean, it's funny because it's like, who is this guy? Is he like, an extra for "Braveheart," or something? You know, it's one of those things where I don't care if I look weird, or if I smell funny. It's kind of like, you know, that's the smell of victory.
HELD: And Noceda has to sit in the same seat at the same restaurant, eating the same dish; which he believes helps spur his team to victory.
NOCEDA: Thank you, magic chips.
HELD: Believing in magic, being superstitious is counterintuitive. But it's actually helped us evolve as a species, says Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine. He explains it this way: Millions of years ago, let's say you heard a rustle in the grass. Is it a predator, or is it the wind?
MICHAEL SHERMER: If you think the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator, turns out it's just the wind, that's a superstition. But there's no harm in that. You just become more vigilant. But if you think the rustle in the grass is just the wind, and it turns out it's a dangerous predator, you're lunch. You fail to see a connection that was real, and that's very costly.
HELD: And we're all superstitious, to some degree.
SHERMER: Even scientists, us rational skeptics, it's built into our brains. It's called learning. You think A is connected to B and sometimes, it is; sometimes, it isn't.
HELD: And when it comes to sports, we are especially susceptible to superstitions.
SHERMER: They reduce anxiety in uncertain situations, that gives you a feeling of control.
HELD: Both fans - Noceda and Neapolitan - say if their team wins, they'll take some of the credit. And if they lose, well, the magic just ran its course, and at least they can get those jerseys clean.
Amy Held, NPR News.
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Skype has partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Humanitarian workers in the most remote parts of the world will soon have a new and low-cost way to communicate with their colleagues, friends, and families thanks to an unprecedented partnership between Skype and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
We've developed a bespoke, low-bandwidth version of Skype for use in 120 hardship locations served by UNHCR staff members around the world. Aid workers in these locations are typically separated from their families for months at a time, sometimes with very little notice, and have limited opportunities for communication.
Currently, all UNHCR employees have to pay for personal phone calls. Now, the UNHCR version of Skype provides both free and low-cost voice and video calls over the Internet even when connection quality is poor.
The new software has been tested successfully in Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan and is now available to 1,010 staff stationed in remote locations in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda.
By the end of 2010, we plan for that to grow to more than 2,072 members of staff across 60 UNHCR locations including Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. By the end of 2011, the aim is for Skype to be in at least 80% of UNHCR hardship locations and available to more than 3,000 staff members.
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baertracks said 3 years ago
How can I obtain this version of Skype for use by the medical relief and health development organizations that I am working with in DR Congo?
peterparkes said 3 years ago
@baertracks – thanks for your comment. UNHCR is the first partner to benefit from this low-bandwidth version of Skype for Windows. A large dispersed organization such as UNHCR is an ideal testing environment to evaluate the performance of this software in a wide variety of challenging connectivity networks. At the moment we are focused on ensuring a successful roll-out of Skype to a planned 80 to 85 per cent of UNHCR "hardship" locations before the end of 2011.
As such, it is not currently available to other organisations or the general public to download. It is clear to us however, that others could benefit from the changes and the lessons learned during the evaluation of the software that Skype has developed for UNHCR. Unfortunately, however, we are unable able to talk about our future intentions and can only discuss our partnership with UNHCR at present.
Sorry I can't be of any more immediate help!
reyden15 said 3 years ago
I, too, would like this version when it is available, as it would likely work on my mobile satellite service. Skype video works quite well, with some delay, but phone calls are impossible. Even on my mobile broadband stick, phone calls are often not very good because of a weak signal.
tariq.khokhar said 3 years ago
I'd like to propose that the low-bandwidth edition of Skype be made available to the general public as soon as possible.
I'll approach UNHCR about this too but from my perspective:
* Skype is used every day by individuals and organisations using relatively low-bandwidth, variable latency, and intermittent quality connections. By offering a "beta" release of a low bandwidth edition, users can make a choice to use it and contribute feedback as they see fit, just as with your existing beta releases.
* UNHCR does work that directly saves lives; I'm sure they operate in locations that offer an "ideal testing environment", but you can find these environments elsewhere, in situations that don't have such critical communications needs. I'm not suggesting testing with UNHCR is a bad idea, but doing so exclusively is a missed opportunity.
* The marginal cost of making low-bandwidth Skype available to the general public seems small and the potential benefits seem high. If you're unable to make low bandwidth Skype available to the general public because of the agreement with UNHCR, the agreement is a poor one for both parties. If your response falls under the "not able to discuss the partnership" I find myself frustrated at UNHCR for entering into this kind of agreement.
Critical words aside: this is very welcome news and I wish the development of the technology and the Skype / UNHCR partnership every success.
mohammad.faisal80 said 3 years ago
Dear Tariq Khokhar,
I have read your comments and they are pretty interesting. Do you work for a UN organization?


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"He's more on Buffy's level. He's more… Their vulnerabilities come out, and I don't just mean as characters, but as actors around each other. And that really works"
"Their relationship has clearly been through a lot - much more, in fact, than her relationship with Angel, and you feel that history with these two" ~ Joss Whedon (Chosen Commentary)
I thought this was a sort of romantic image, the two of them. We actually did it with real fire, but their hands were all gelled up and you could tell, so this was added in CGI and it looks beautiful. I thought it was a nice comment on their relationship. But what I basically told [Sarah and James] was: "Play the romance. Be proud of him. Love him when you say you love him. Love her when you say she doesn't love you. Forget about the crumbling world. For that period of time, it doesn't exist." It's a cinematic trick, but it's a necessary emotional one.
— Joss Whedon ("Chosen" Commentary)


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News for TV Majors
Keeping TV Studies students informed of news, views, and reviews about television
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Streaming Confusion
Mike Snider and Roger Yu report that the
explosion in streaming video options
is leading to consumer confusion. Part of the confusion is over why Netflix's streaming collection has
so many gaps
compared to its DVD offerings.
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