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HOUSTON - The evidence is clear in many Houston neighborhoods -- graffiti spray painted on walls, buildings and street signs showing where a gang has carved out its territory. Thousands of gang members are peppered throughout the city and are responsible for thousands of crimes every year.
According to the Houston Police Department, there have been more than 25,000 gang-related crimes committed in the city over the last five years. Local 2 Investigates analyzed HPD's database of gang-related crimes and found no boundaries as to what gang members are willing to do to make money.
"Whatever pays, whatever pays," said an admitted gang member who spoke to Local 2 Investigates. "Robbing, killing, it's all the same, you know, kicking down doors."
"They commit virtually every type of crime," said HPD Capt. Dale Brown, head of the department's gang division. "Our No. 1 concern is gang violence."
Brown added drugs are still the No. 1 money maker for gangs.
"They essentially have taken over the drug trade," said Brown. "The wholesale distribution and the retail sale is pretty much controlled by gangs."
HPD officials estimate there are more than 200 gangs at work in the Houston and surrounding areas. Reports complied by the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Department of Justice estimate the Houston region's total gang population at around 10,000 members.
Brown points out that number may be low.
"Our limitation is how many we can document," said Brown. "We know that our documentation does not represent the total number of gang members in Houston."
Brown had the same comment when asked about the more than 25,000 gang-related crimes documented by HPD over the last five years.
"Do we believe there's more gang crime than that? The answer is yes," said Brown.
Brown said this is why more and more officers and investigators are being trained to spot and document gang members. Pictures, tattoos, street names and any other information officers can glean from talking to known or suspected gang members are entered into a massive database that is accessed by several local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. This database not only helps police chart Houston's gang population, but it also charts where gang-related crimes are occurring. Brown said knowing whether a crime is gang-related is also crucial to stopping violence from escalating.
"You have one incident that may lead to another incident, then you get into retaliation," Brown said.
Brown added when officers begin to see an uptick in violence in certain parts of the city, the area is blanketed by officers.
"When you see gang conflict and gang violence, you will see a very strong response from the Houston Police Department," said Brown.
However, gang members are becoming more reluctant to brag about their affiliation publicly. HPD Lieutenant Stephen Casko said many gang members realize the more open they are about being in gang the more scrutiny they'll face from police. Casko is with HPD's Crime Reduction Unit, which is part of the gang division.
"What's that all for?" Casko asked a man who clearly had gang-related tattoos on his arms and neck.
"Uh, just started drawing on myself," the man replied.
Another man with what appeared to be gang-related tattoos sarcastically replied to Casko's questions, "What, you can't get tatted up?"
"He's been schooled. He knows not to talk," Casko said.
"That's how you get identified -- easily, easily identified," said an admitted gang member. "Mark of the beast."
According to HPD records, neighborhoods off of Highway 59 in southwest Houston are experiencing some of the highest levels of gang-related crimes in the city.
"I'm always looking out my window, making sure my doors are locked," said Michael Fontenot, who lives in an apartment complex near Renwick and Bissonnet. "I try not to talk to strangers."
"I come home at night on the bus. I make sure he steps out and I call him so he's outside watching out for me because you never know what can happen," said Perla Lopez, who lives in the same complex with Fontenot.
Few in these neighborhoods would speak with Local 2 Investigates about gang problems. Most residents waved off our cameras and said they 'didn't want to start any trouble.'
The admitted gang member who spoke with Local 2 also lives in a neighborhood off Corporate Drive near Bissonnet.
"It's something that's never going to go away. It's crazy, but it's never going to go away," the admitted gang member said. "People really playing for keeps."
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Roche and Eli Lilly, two drugmakers racing to develop treatments for some of the least understood brain disorders, may gain the most from a US government boost in funding to fully map the human brain.
The National Institutes of Health is in the planning stages of a massive effort called the Brain Activity Map to understand how neurons actually process information, Story Landis, director of the agency's Neurological Disorders and Stroke division, said today. It may take at least five years to develop the tools needed to map out all this information, she said.
"A lot of people see neurological research as the last great frontier in biomedical science," Landis said in an interview. "There are lots of people looking at individual circuits, this would take the science to a whole new level." Better funding should improve the odds for finding effective Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and autism treatments, which so far have been plagued by failures because much of how the human brain works remains a mystery. There have been 101 unsuccessful attempts to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease since 1998, including recent setbacks by Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Lilly, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
"This attention to neuroscience research is exciting," said Luca Santarelli, the head of neuroscience at Basel, Switzerland-based Roche, Europe's second-largest drugmaker by sales. "Advancements in the understanding of the molecular and circuit basis of brain disorders will dramatically advance the development of treatments for patients." Roche has 16 drugs in development for neurological disorders, including four for Alzheimer's disease and two for autism. Indianapolis-based Lilly is working on 10 neurosciences drugs, while New York-based Pfizer has 11 in testing, including two for Alzheimer's.
The NIH initiative would be akin to what happened with the Human Genome Project, where DNA sequencing was already occurring at a small scale before the project to map the entire human body was started, said George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Personal Genome Project.
While researchers can already track the activity of perhaps 100 or so brain neurons at a time, the new opportunity is to connect those on a large scale and then measure activity at the detail level and the whole brain level, Church said.
"This is about basic technology as well knowledge," Church said in a telephone interview. "We stand at the doorway of a fundamental intersection of nanochemical sensors that can read or write neurons and synthetic biology. It's overripe for this merger." Neuroscience and related fields of biology get about $500 million in funding from NIH and other foundations each year, Church said. The Obama administration plans to make a budget proposal to Congress next month for billions of dollars in spending for the project, the New York Times reported earlier. A spokesman for the White House said he couldn't immediately comment on any budget plans.

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The Washington Times Discovers The "Global Oil Bucket"
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A Washington Times editorial criticizes the Obama administration's June decision to sell 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, stating that the move "produced nothing more than a brief pause in the steady rise in prices at the pump." According to the Washington Times, 30 million barrels is "little more than a drop in the global oil bucket":
The International Energy Agency did its best to help Mr. Obama, releasing 30 million barrels of its own. Though that may sound like a lot, it's little more than a drop in the global oil bucket. Such moves have no lasting impact because oil traders are looking at the big picture. There isn't enough supply to meet the world's demand. Even if consumption has softened in the United States and Europe due to the persistent economic slowdown, the thirst for crude in places like China and India is growing.
So we all agree that the price of oil, and thus gasoline, is determined by a global market? Apparently, the Washington Times only accepts this fact on a case-by-case basis. Just a couple months ago, the Times editorial board declared that Obama was responsible for the spike in gasoline prices:
Worst of all is President Obama's chokehold on fossil fuels. By squeezing off oil drilling, he has driven up gasoline to $4 a gallon, cutting into the economic recovery and threatening the nation with a second recession.
In fact, last month the independent research group Headwaters Economics reported that, far from being "squeez[ed] off," oil and gas drilling activity is nearing a twenty year high. This chart from the Energy Information Administration shows that the number of crude oil rigs in operation is greater than at any point since 1987, when the data begins:
While the Obama administration's temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling decreases oil production in the Gulf to some extent, the effect is not large enough to cause a decline in total U.S. production. After all, offshore oil represents only 32 percent of the oil extracted in the U.S. and the deepwater drilling moratorium did not apply to shallow water or wells already producing oil.
EIA's most recent projections show that "Domestic crude oil production, which increased by 150 thousand bbl/d [barrels per day] in 2010 to 5.5 million bbl/d, increases by a further 50 thousand bbl/d in both 2011 and 2012" [emphasis added.] As the following chart from EIA shows, oil production also increased in 2009 and 2010 after falling since 2001, indicating that you can't blame a decrease in U.S. oil production, much less Obama's deepwater moratorium, for the $4 gas we saw this year.
EIA's longer-term "business as usual" projection also shows "increased domestic crude oil production from 2009 to 2035."
But the specific numbers for U.S. oil production aren't as important in this debate as the basics of the oil market. I could not find a single energy economist who would entertain the notion that U.S. drilling policies are to blame for the spike in gas prices "because of the relative scales involved," in the words of Michael Canes, former chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute.
As EIA explains, "Changes in domestic oil production tend to have only a modest impact on crude oil and petroleum product prices, because any change in domestic oil production is diluted in the world oil market. In 2009, the United States produced 5.36 million barrels per day of crude oil and lease condensate, or 7 percent of the world total of 72.26 million barrels per day."
This point is not controversial among economists. Doug Holtz-Eakin, who served on George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, said recently that "you can't change the oil price very much with the U.S. exploration." Tellingly, lowering prices is not one of the reasons given by the American Petroleum Institute for expanding drilling in the U.S.
Nevertheless, after seemingly acknowledging that oil prices are set by a global market and not by the United States, the Washington Times editorial concludes:
The real solution is to increase production to boost supply. America has an abundance of black gold in places the administration has put off-limits. The very real prospect of $5 gas by Election Day ought to inspire Mr. Obama to reconsider the error of his ways.
EIA administrator Richard Newell explained in testimony earlier this year that "the vast majority of estimated technically recoverable OCS [Outer Continental Shelf] resources" are located in areas that are already available for leasing. Newell also stated that expanding drilling on federal areas would not have "a large impact on prices":
In the short-term, oil markets react to many competing factors in a global context, and it is extremely difficult to disentangle the near-term impact of mid-to-long-term developments in the context of oil markets that see typical daily price movements in the range of 1-2 percent, and much higher fluctuations at times. Long term, we do not project additional volumes of oil that could flow from greater access to oil resources on Federal lands to have a large impact on prices given the globally integrated nature of the world oil market and the more significant long-term compared to short-term responsiveness of oil demand and supply to price movements. Given the increasing importance of OPEC supply in the global oil supply-demand balance, another key issue is how OPEC production would respond to any increase in non-OPEC supply, potentially offsetting any direct price effect.
In other words, increasing U.S. oil production is not a "real solution" to gas price spikes -- contrary the Washington Times' claim. As long as the United States remains heavily dependent on oil, there is simply no way of protecting our economy from volatile oil and gasoline prices, no matter how comprehensively we drill for oil to throw into the global bucket.
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Now that federal workers and services have been victimized, next up is the average American.
How did "We the People" – yes, that means all of you no matter your political affiliation – become so blind to the economic consequences of our increasingly hostile political rhetoric surrounding basic bill-paying procedures? Even with a shaky economic recovery that needs more tender care, our nation may indeed test the plausibility of the U.S. government defaulting on its debt obligations.
Lawmakers may do this, sadly, to prove some lame, relatively small political points. And I say this with all seriousness. It would be an act of self-destruction, but I expect it to happen. The results may be ugly.
Listen to Bill Gross, the bond wizard from Pimco in Newport Beach, who is telling people that a federal debt default would be catastrophic – both for financial markets and the overall economy. Gross, who doesn't mince words, may be guilty of underestimation for once.
The best minds estimate the federal government can pay its bills through Oct. 31. Irony of spooky finance ironies, that's Halloween. It's when the Treasury truly runs out of cash without congressional approval of a new borrowing power. You know, the too-frequent "debt limit" squabble.
Previously, lawmakers have used paying our debts as a minor bargaining chip. Now, I fear, it will be a firm line in the sand – and a marker that will be crossed.
Politics has long poorly meshed with economics. Political risk used to be things like, "What will happen if the government deregulates – or ups its oversight?" Now the game is more like, "What if they're willing to burn the entire place to the ground to gain a few votes?"
Today, politicians on one side of the fiscal debate say they simply want to prevent more borrowing only to be responsible. Their hope is to rein in government spending, expenses that might balloon under new health insurance rules.
The other side says fiscal restraint is indeed a great discussion, but first let's pay the bills. This side will add that this is no way to negotiate – basically, with a gun held to the nation's economy.
The Democrats are correct about the irresponsibility of putting the U.S. financial reputation at risk. Yet I'm guessing they will argue it would be bad precedent to fold their cards now, so they'll allow a debt default in an attempt to remove this ploy from the bargaining table.
The results of this chess match – a government default – will not be a proportionally minor incident, like the partial government shutdown. This won't be furloughed workers, shuttered national parks, delayed IRS audits or fewer bureaucratic processes. Default will a global financial event, and not a happy one.
Now Wall Street and the global markets, tend to overreact in times of crisis, minor or major, real or imaginary. Look at how markets swooned in response to financial problems in minor countries such as Greece and Cyprus. They have nicely recovered since.
But the financial markets will not respond as nicely if the United States acknowledges it has run out of cash, even for dumb political reasons, in the short run and over the long haul.
Let's hope that a default, if it happens, is just a short-lived political scuffle. Pray that the market damage is relatively modest and temporary, other than to the stomach linings of traders and long-term investors.
I cannot see, however, how the U.S. economy would fully rebound from the loss of confidence in the once-absolute U.S. steadfast willingness to pay. That kind of psychological hurt to the U.S. financial reputation may hammer everything from your savings to your portfolio to your paycheck.
The only solution that might end this ongoing series of trumped-up fiscal cliffhangers is for one political party to win a huge political advantage from the fallout of one of these calamities. That political victory would have to be so decisive that no one else would dare push the economy to the brink for political purposes again.
Well, at least for a few years, as we know memories are short.
So I suggest you watch where your money is and how it might react to the worst-case scenario of a deep, self-inflicted wound. At the same time, go out and heartily support whatever political party you think is right in this debate. Hope your party wins big.
Because Washington's once-favored gridlock, I fear, is going to become a messy train wreck. Worse, we could repeat the disaster a few more times.
In this scary game of political cliffhanging, you will be the collateral damage.
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Man, 28, killed by falling tree during thunderstorm
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 9:38 a.m.
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OCALA — A 28-year-old Ocala man was killed during a thunderstorm on Monday afternoon after a large oak tree crushed the car in which he sat.
Christopher Harris was in the driver's seat of a black Mitsubishi in the driveway at his home at 2316 NE 10th Court as a strong thunderstorm passed over the area just before 4:30 p.m., said Ocala Police Department Maj. Dennis Yonce.
Strong gusts accompanied the torrential rain. The combination caused an approximately 50-foot oak to weaken enough that it was uprooted.
The tree, located in the front yard of a neighboring house at 2326 NE 10th Court, fell parallel to the home, crushing a green Hyundai in that yard and then the Mitsubishi in which Harris sat.
"We heard a loud boom. We thought it was a lightning bolt, but then we looked out and we saw the tree fell and Chris' little brother was running out of the house screaming, 'Someone call 911. He's dead,' " said Angel DeRosa, who lives across the street from the two homes.
Ocala Fire Rescue arrived three minutes after the call was first received, said Assistant Fire Chief Brian Stoothoff.
Harris was pronounced dead at the scene.
Monday evening, Harris' grieving family gathered in front of the home. His grandparents arrived and embraced other members of the family as they sobbed together.
Harris' mother was traveling from Inverness to the scene on Monday evening.
"The mom moved not too long ago and Chris took over the house," said DeRosa, who said Harris was hardworking and traveled to Gainesville every day where he worked at a bar.
"I feel so bad for his family," she said.
The same storm brought about an inch of rain to Gainesville and gusts of wind up to 33 mph. Some hail was reported north of Micanopy in the Wacahoota Road area and in other areas of Alachua County.
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Price downs Yanks with 12th quality start
Lefty allows one run over seven innings; Loney hits go-ahead homer
NEW YORK -- David Price resides on a different planet these days.
On Tuesday night, the Rays' ace posted his 12th quality start of the season by limiting the Yankees to one run in seven innings to lead Tampa Bay to a 2-1 win at Yankee Stadium.
The Rays have won four straight. Since June 11, the Rays (37-49) are 13-7, and they are 5-1 on the current 11-game road trip to remain 9 1/2 games behind first-place Toronto in the American League East.
"We've been playing really well," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "You have to pitch well to beat [Yankees starter Hiroki] Kuroda today and David did. The bullpen was very good. We got enough runs. ... Just a normal game, great pitching and we got enough points. That's how we win it."
Price moved to 7-7 on the season while striking out nine and lowering his ERA to 3.50. He has struck out 63 batters over his last 46 2/3 innings and bettered his mark against the Yankees to 10-5 with a 3.72 ERA in 23 career starts.
Rumors of Price being traded before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline are still prevalent. The ace wants to stay put, so the only thing he can control is what he does on the mound, which is convincing.
"I love that," Maddon said. "Stay here David. Pitchers and players like David make managers much smarter."
Price refuses to allow trade rumors to be a distraction.
"I just play baseball," Price said. "That's my job. My job's not to worry about what's going on in the front office or on anybody else's team. My job is to go out there to give us a chance to win and that's what I try to do."
Meanwhile, the offense scored just enough against Kuroda to win.
Matt Joyce opened the fourth with a single to the opposite field off Kuroda and made a hustling play to advance to third on Evan Longoria's single to left. One out later, hot-hitting Logan Forsythe singled through the middle to give the Rays a 1-0 lead.
The Yankees answered when Derek Jeter doubled off Price to lead off the bottom half of the inning and moved to third on Jacoby Ellsbury's single to center. One out later, Ellsbury got caught in a rundown trying to steal second. Shortstop Ben Zobrist's throw hit Ellsbury in the back, allowing Ellsbury to reach second and Jeter to score the tying run.
"I'm gonna miss seeing Jeter out on the field, but I'm not gonna miss him in the box," said Price of the retiring Yankees captain. "I feel like if I had a lineup full of 40-year-old Derek Jeters, I might not make it through the fifth. It's tough, man. He is who he is, that's what makes him special."
James Loney homered off Kuroda to lead off the sixth, which turned out to be the winning margin.
Kuroda allowed two runs on nine hits and a walk while striking out seven, but he came away with his sixth loss of the season.
"[Price] did what he usually does," Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner said. "He stays out of the middle of the plate, and when he misses middle it's 95 [mph] up in the zone and hard to get on top of that. He's just a real good pitcher, and right now we're not doing a good job as a team of putting together at-bats. It's a shame, because Hiro pitched really, really well. It's basically a wasted start."
Jake McGee pitched a scoreless eighth before Maddon went to deposed closer Grant Balfour to pitch the ninth.
Maddon's reason for going with Balfour originated from Balfour showing good stuff in Monday night's win and the fact he spotted Balfour walking through the hotel lobby with his grandmother.
Balfour walked Carlos Beltran on five pitches to start the inning. He then recovered to strike out Brian McCann looking to bring Brian Roberts to the plate.
Roberts homered Monday night to send the game into extra innings. This time he flew out to center field before pinch-hitter Kelly Johnson walked, leaving the Yankees' fate up to Yangervis Solarte. Balfour ended the drama by retiring him on a groundout to first for the third out of the inning, preserving the win and earning his 11th save of the season.
"He needed to do that tonight," Maddon said. "He needed to do that for his own mental edification, stability.
"Moving forward, for us to really make a really loud noise this year, everybody's got to do their job. Everybody's got to participate. You can't just lay it on one or two guys and think that it's going to work fine for the whole year. It doesn't work that way."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Although they are considered long shots, the New York Giants remain in the hunt for All-Pro fullback Vonta Leach, who said late last week he would make a decision on where he will sign sometime over the next two weeks. In addition to the Giants, six other teams have expressed interest in his services, including his former team, the Houston Texans, and the Miami Dolphins, with whom he visited shortly after being released by the Baltimore Ravens.
"I feel great," Leach told The Daily Reflector on Friday. "I know I can play in this league and I've got some teams that are courting me. In the next two weeks, I know where I'll be playing."
The Giants inquired with Leach almost immediately upon his release and later discussed possibilities with his agent, but due to their tight salary cap situation, it appears as if they'll be outbid by teams with much more available cap space. And although Leach has had the Giants on his radar in the past, he seems to be leaning in the direction of his former team, the Texans.
The one luxury the Giants do have on their side is that they're a "win now" kind of team, whereas other teams like the Dolphins are not. And since Leach is looking at this as if it will be his last NFL contract, they might have a fighting chance. Might, of course, being the keyword.
"There are a lot of teams out there that want me, about seven teams," Leach said. "Me and my agent are going to take our time and see what's the best fit for me. I'm probably going to play three more years before I hang it up."
Chances remain slim-to-none, but anything is possible.
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RICHMOND, Texas - Two people posing as utility workers stole a safe from a man's home, investigators said.
Richmond police said a man and a woman traveling in an unmarked white SUV pulled into the driveway of a home in the 1700 block of Magnolia on Wednesday.
Investigators said the pair told resident Stanley Smith that they worked for CenterPoint Energy and they needed to check a meter in his back yard. The man was wearing a CenterPoint Energy cap but neither had any type of CenterPoint Energy identification displayed, officials said.
"He said he was with CenterPoint Energy and they were going to put a new smart meter in," Smith said. "His partner wanted to go back and see where the meter was and how the lines ran because they were going to replace the lines, too."
Smith went into the back yard with the woman while he thought the man stayed with the SUV. She looked at the meter for 10 to 15 minutes, police said.
When Smith went back inside his house, the SUV was gone.
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Conservative media revive "death panels" yet again with new, false target
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER, JOCELYN FONG & JUSTIN BERRIER
The conservative media are now labeling the Independent Medicare Advisory Board created by the Senate health care reform bill a "death panel," even though the board is explicitly prohibited from "modify[ing] eligibility," "restrict[ing] benefits," or "ration[ing] health care" and its recommendations can be overridden by Congress. In falsely declaring the existence of "death panels," right-wing media figures have previously pointed to the House bill's end-of-life counseling provision, out-of-context statements by Obama administration adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, general "rationing" purportedly instituted by the legislation, and nonbinding mammogram guidelines.
Conservative media settle on new target for "death panels" attack
Weekly Standard: "Paging Sarah Palin: the death panel is unkillable." In a December 21 Weekly Standard blog post, John McCormack wrote that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) "pointed out that the Reid bill declares on page 1020 that the Independent Medicare Advisory Board cannot be repealed by future Congresses" [emphasis in original]. McCormack further wrote: "For any fearmongers out there tempted to call an unelected body that recommends Medicare cuts a 'Death Panel,' let me be clear. According to page 1004, IMAB proposals 'shall not include any recommendation to ration health care' -- you know, just like the bill says there's no funding for abortion. Paging Sarah Palin: the death panel is unkillable" [emphasis in original].
Fox Nation: "Reid Bill: Future Congresses Cannot Repeal 'Death Panel.' " On December 22, the Fox Nation linked to McCormack's Weekly Standard post with the headline: "Reid Bill: Future Congresses Cannot Repeal 'Death Panel.' " From the Fox Nation (accessed on December 23):
Morris: Medicare Advisory Board "is really the death panel that Sarah Palin was talking about." From the December 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
MORRIS: The Medicare Advisory Board you speak about is a particularly dangerous thing, because it's going to set up for Medicare only -- for the elderly only -- protocols and standards of care where they are going to be saying no, you can't give this person a hip replacement; they are too old; and no, you can't treat this person with colon cancer with the best drug available. I know it increases his chance of dying but it's beyond the cost parameters that we are prepared to allow. And this will be done by this federal board which is really the death panel that Sarah Palin was talking about. That's an oversimplification, but the basic concept isn't far wrong.
Palin calls Medicare Advisory Board a "rationing 'death panel.' " In a December 22 Facebook post titled "Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel," Palin asserted that the advisory board "is a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients -- also known as rationing." She added that "Democrats are protecting this rationing 'death panel' from future change with a procedural hurdle" and wrote:
Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call "death panels" the "lie of the year," this type of rationing - what the CBO calls "reduc[ed] access to care" and "diminish[ed] quality of care" - is precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor.
In fact, board is not a "death panel," and provision prohibits "modifying eligibility," "restricting benefits," and "ration[ing] health care"
Independent Medicare Advisory Board is specifically prohibited from rationing health care or modifying benefits. According to the legislation, when the "projected per capita growth rate under Medicare" exceeds "the target growth rate for that year," the board is required to "develop and submit" to Congress a "proposal containing recommendations to reduce the Medicare per capita growth rate to the extent required by this section." But the legislation explicitly states that the board may not include recommendations to "ration health care," "restrict benefits," or "modify eligibility criteria." From Section 3403 of the Senate health care bill:
(ii) The proposal shall not include any recommendation to ration health care, raise revenues or Medicare beneficiary premiums under section 1818, 1818A, or 1839, increase Medicare beneficiary cost sharing (including deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments), or otherwise restrict benefits or modify eligibility criteria.
Congress has authority to reject board recommendations. The bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enact the board's proposals, unless "Congress enacts legislation pursuant" to the procedures laid out in the bill.
CBO confirms advisory board provision "would place a number of limitations on the actions available to the board, including a prohibition against modifying eligibility or benefits." In its December 19 analysis, the Congressional Budget Office found that the advisory board provision "would place a number of limitations on the actions available to the board, including a prohibition against modifying eligibility or benefits":
The legislation also would establish an Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would be required, under certain circumstances, to recommend changes to the Medicare program to limit the rate of growth in that program's spending. Those recommendations would go into effect automatically unless blocked by subsequent legislative action. Such recommendations would be required if the Chief Actuary for the Medicare program projected that the program's spending per beneficiary would grow more rapidly than a measure of inflation (the average of the growth rates of the consumer price index for medical services and the overall index for all urban consumers). The provision would place a number of limitations on the actions available to the board, including a prohibition against modifying eligibility or benefits, so its recommendations probably would focus on:
- Reductions in subsidies for non-Medicare benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans; and
- Changes to payment rates or methodologies for services furnished in the fee-for-service sector by providers other than hospitals, physicians, hospices, and suppliers of durable medical equipment that is offered through competitive bidding.
The right-wing media's ever-shifting explanation for creation of "death panels"
CLAIM 1: End-of-life counseling provision in House bill creates a "death panel." The term "death panel" originated with Palin's statement on her Facebook page that under Democratic health care reform, "my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel.' " Palin's spokeswoman later clarified that Palin was specifically referring to the House bill's "Advance Care Planning Consultation" provision. Over the following days, conservative media figures widely adopted Palin's "death panel" term or advanced or expressed support for her assertion. Numerous media outlets subsequently debunked Palin's claim that the provision, which provides for voluntary, Medicare-subsidized end-of-life counseling sessions, created a "death panel." PolitiFact.com named Palin's statement the 2009 "Lie of the Year."
CLAIM 2: Palin "death panel" claim actually concerned Dr. Emanuel's purported position on rationing. Palin subsequently wrote in an August 12 Facebook post:
My original comments concerned statements made by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor to President Obama and the brother of the President's chief of staff. Dr. Emanuel has written that some medical services should not be guaranteed to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. ... An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia." Dr. Emanuel has also advocated basing medical decisions on a system which "produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."
In a August 24 New York Times article, Jim Rutenberg explained that in a paper Emanuel wrote in 1996 for the Hastings Center bioethics institute -- which Palin cited in her Facebook post - Emanuel "laid out what he called a growing consensus among competing political philosophies about how a society should allocate health care services. In clinical terms, he said that consensus held that those who 'are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens' should not be guaranteed the same level of treatment as others." Rutenberg went on to report that "Dr. Emanuel said he was simply describing a consensus held by others, not himself."
CLAIM 3: "Rationing" makes the entire bill a "de facto" death panel. Following the debunking of Palin's original claim, the right-wing media suggested that while the House bill did not contain actual "death panels," it would have the same effect as a "death panel" through "rationing" of end-of-life care: a "de facto death panel." For example, Fox & Friends featured a discussion with Morris about a column he wrote in the New York Post alleging that Democratic health care reform proposals amount to "one giant death panel." During the segment, on-screen text read: "Defacto Death Panels? Obama Plan Could Result in Rationing." Glenn Beck also said on his Fox News show that "[t]he death panel isn't a firing squad. Sarah Palin made a point -- I guess you could say in an inflammatory way. But when you implement a government health system, as they have found out in the U.K. and everywhere else on the planet, you are left with no other choice. That's just the way it is. Rationing is inevitable, and they know it." Rush Limbaugh and Mark Steyn also adopted the claim that the entire bill amounted to a "death panel."
CLAIM 4: Mammogram guidelines are a "death panel." On the November 18 editions of their respective radio shows, Beck, Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity all linked a task force's recommendation that fewer women younger than 50 receive regular mammograms to the widely debunked smear that Democratic health reform bills include "death panels." On November 19, Palin said that the recommendations are evidence of "the death panels of government bureaucrats." But the task force's recommendations are not legally binding. Moreover, the task force encouraged policymakers to include additional considerations and "individualize decision making to the specific patient or situation." In a Nightly News report on the task force recommendations, NBC chief medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman stated: "It's important to remember that these new recommendations from this independent task force are just that -- they're recommendations. They don't mandate any changes in who should get mammograms and when."
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I have a database table that contains a varchar field that stores the times players have taken to complete a game. The times are effectively decimals but are stored in the database as varchars. I was given this populated database by my client.
I need to query the database to pull out a list of the top 100 lowest times however I do not want more than one result for any user.
Here is the code that I have tried but it is not working. What it appears to be doing is creating a list of the users who scored the lowest scores in the correct order but not displaying their lowest score.
Note the field fbname is a unique facebook id which identifies unique users.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please
$sql = "SELECT *, MIN(CAST(scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ))) AS f1 FROM score_t GROUP BY fbname ORDER BY f1 LIMIT 0 , 100";
I have figured what is required is that the results use the value of f1 instead of scoreTime but not sure how this is done. Any help appreciated.
not sure what you're saying here
note: any time you use the dreaded, evil "select star" together with GROUP BY, you're gonna have a bad time
Thank you for the reply Rudy.
It appears that the result set includes the wrong value for scoreTime but the correct fbname.
I could amend my code to remove the evil "select star" as follows:
$sql = "SELECT fname, lname, fbname, MIN(CAST(scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ))) AS f1 FROM score_t GROUP BY fbname ORDER BY f1 LIMIT 0 , 100";
My query seems to pull out the correct order in terms of who got the lowest scores but it does not pull out the lowest score for each of these users. So whatever value of scoreTime is being returned in the results is wrong for some reason.
So basically if I use the following to trace the results
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($mysql_result)) {
echo $row['fname'];
echo $row['lname'];
echo $row['scoreTime'];
echo "
";
I am getting the list of names in the correct order i.e the first name on the list is the person who had the lowest score however the score displayed is not their lowest score
If I use the following
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($mysql_result)) {
echo $row['fname'];
echo $row['lname'];
echo $row['f1'];
echo "
";
It does display the correct lowest score for this user. So I need to amend my query so that echo $row['scoreTime'] displays what $row['f1'] is displaying
Really would appreciate any help with this
So I need to amend my query so that echo $row['scoreTime'] displays what $row['f1'] is displayingMaybe like this?
, lname
, fbname
, MIN(CAST(scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ))) AS scoreTime
FROM score_t
GROUP BY fbname
ORDER BY scoreTime
Although I don't see why you couldn't change your code to use $row['f1'] instead of $row['scoreTime'] ?
It may be helpful to see the code that was given to me by the other developer however this code appeared to display multiple results from the same user
$sql = "SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE * , CAST( scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ) ) AS f1
FROM score_t t
WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT NULL FROM score_t h
WHERE h.fbname = t.fbname
AND CAST( h.scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ) ) < CAST( t.scoreTime AS DECIMAL( 30, 2 ) )
ORDER BY f1,lname
The reason I can't change my code is that it sends the results as follows:
$mysql_result = mysql_query($sql, $link);
$rs = array();
while($rs[] = mysql_fetch_assoc($mysql_result))
$false = array_pop($rs);
echo json_encode($rs);
Thank you very much guido2004 - your code seems to work perfectly.
Many thanks


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HOUSTON - Record highs were tied or broken at Intercontinental Airport, Hobby Airport, and in Galveston on Monday, and more heat is on the way.
Highs reached or exceeded 100 degrees with heat index values hovering between 105 and 110 during the hottest part of the afternoon.
Tuesday's high should be near 102 in Houston and between 95 and 100 along the coast. Heat indexes will again push 110 in the afternoon.
There will be some relief as an afternoon sea breeze begins to kick in by mid-week. That should keep temperatures in the 90s, but it will also increase humidity levels for the second half of the week.
Drink lots of water and take plenty of breaks if you're doing anything strenuous outside this week.
"You want to avoid liquids with a lot of caffeine or sugar because that's just going to accelerate the body fluid loss," said Porfirio Villarreal with the Houston Department of Health and Human Services.
Wear light-weight, light-colored, breathable clothes to help stay as cool as possible, too. Exercising early in the morning or late in the day in order to avoid the hottest part of the day is also recommended.
In Wiley Park in the Fourth Ward, Local 2 saw kids finding the perfect place to stay cool -- at a splash pad.
The experts said it's a good idea to closely watch the young and the elderly because they are the most vulnerable in this hot weather.
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People who exhibit signs of heat stroke should do the following:
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- If someone is seizing, protect them from injury, but do not put anything in their mouth
There are several steps that can be taken to prevent heat-related injuries:
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Maybe it's the sense of mounting frustration that makes certain tech repairs so memorable. It's hard to forget the pressure of working on a problem that should be fixed quickly, but the solution slips from your grasp longer than expected. One attempt after another fails, until -- finally -- the pieces fall into place. A few years ago, my tech team racked our collective brain to solve such a puzzle.
At the time I worked at a steel mill. We deployed four cranes that had computers with touchscreens and custom applications running on them to allow the operators to identify which piece of molten steel they were moving. Our systems had to track every segment of steel going down the line and were dependent on the operators in two locations to positively identify each piece.
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These cranes -- and their accompanying computers -- were in motion much of the time and exposed to extreme temperatures, shock and vibrations, electromagnetic interference, and metallic dust. Regular maintenance was required to keep the systems working properly. However, any maintenance had to be scheduled for when the crane was parked and not in use because the equipment had to be carried up several flights of stairs and across a catwalk to reach the crane.
On some occasions, emergency repairs or observation had to be performed while the operator was using it, though there wasn't much space inside these moving cranes for two people to work in.
One day, we started having problems with the network connection in a particular crane. The computer's network connectivity would be lost for a short time, restored, then lost again -- repeatedly -- until at some point there was no longer any connection.
This specific overhead crane contained a car battery for power, which was kept charged via an electrical contact with a rail that ran adjacent to the crane. Equipment in the crane was then powered via a DC-to-AC converter. For network connectivity, the computer had a CAT-5 cable connected to a wireless device inside the crane.


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I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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It's time to discover the beating heart of the 'Rainbow Nation'. Book a flight to Cape Town with Qatar Airways and you'll uncover a city that's vibrant, full of life and one of the most welcoming and embracing locations on earth.
This diverse and exciting metropolis captures the spirit of Africa in music, dancing and some of the most extraordinarily beautiful natural surroundings. From Table Mountain to the hustle and bustle of the Waterfront and the oceanic splendour of Table Bay, fly to Cape Town and experience one of the most exhilarating and entertaining cities in the world.
Don't be alarmed if you hear a boom at midday during your trip to Cape Town; this is just the noonday gun up on Signal Hill, one of the most popular locations for visitors who want to get a panoramic view of the city and surrounding countryside. At 350m high, its summit gives you an uninterrupted vista that stretches for miles. Originally the lookout point for Cape Town's early settlers, Signal Hill is now part of the Table Mountain National Park.
Throughout the city you'll be spoilt for choice when it comes to attractions. You can choose from The Castle of Good Hope (the oldest colonial era building in South Africa) through to the Bo-Kaap Museum, the exquisite art collection at the South African National Gallery, or the tranquil beauty of the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
To discover more about South Africa's most famous son and what inspired him to become such a prominent campaigner for peace and justice, visit Robben Island where you can see where Nelson Mandela spent nearly three decades incarcerated as a political prisoner. However, if you do want to visit the island then it's best to plan ahead well in advance, as tickets are snapped up quickly.
South Africa is well known for its array of leisure activities – from safaris to spot some of Africa's most iconic animals, to the adrenaline-pumping experience of swimming with sharks off the coast. During your trip to Cape Town you should take a cable car ride up Table Mountain to fully appreciate the astonishing views on offer.
One truly spectacular way of seeing the entire region laid out below you is to take a helicopter trip that flies over the city and Table Mountain and then down to Table Bay. If conservation interests you then guided tours will introduce you to the region's baboons, or take you deep into the bush at the Aquila Game Reserve.
For theatre lovers the Armchair Theatre puts on some eclectic shows, while the Masque Theatre gives you a more traditional African cultural experience.
Cape Town is renowned for the quality of its food. Seafood is particularly good here and the best restaurants for this are located on the V&A Waterfront. Long Street has many fine dining venues and up-market cafés, or if you're looking for a quieter spot, head for Lower Main Road in Observatory, away from the crowds.
Dishes to try while you are visiting Cape Town include linefish such as yellowtail, cape salmon, kingklip, kabeljou for seafood lovers, and for meat-eaters the local game such as eland and springbok.
When travelling to Cape Town primarily for shopping, you'll find that the best outlets for designer goods and labels are in the many malls of the city; Bayside Centre, Blue Route Mall and Cavendish Square are amongst the best of these. On the slopes of Table Mountain, the V&A Waterfront is a hugely popular entertainment and shopping area, or try Greenmarket Square for a more eclectic mix of local crafts, jewellery and clothes for an authentic momento of your trip to Cape Town.
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Visa restrictions for entry into the country will depend on your country of origin, length of stay and whether your trip is for business or pleasure. So before you fly to Cape Town please check the visa and passport requirements.
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NEWTOWN, Connecticut - The father of a 6-year-old victim in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting offered love and compassion Saturday not just to other families who lost children, but to the suspected gunman's family.
Robbie Parker lost his daughter, Emilie, in the tragedy Friday. She was the family's oldest child, shot down by rifle fire in her classroom.
"She is an incredible person, and I'm so blessed to be her dad," said Parker. "She was the type of person who could just light up the room. She always had something kind to say about anybody."
State police said evidence collected at the school and at the home of the person accused in the shooting, Adam Lanza, 20, indicates the motive for the shooting.
Robbie Parker offered compassion for Lanza's family as well as the others who's children died in Friday's shooting.
"It's a horrific tragedy, and we want everybody to know our hearts and prayers go out to them," Parker said. "This includes the family of the shooter."
Adam Lanza was reported by former classmates to be a troubled young man. He was an honor-roll student, but a loner at Newtown High School.
"When people approached him, (he) didn't talk much," said one of Lanza's former classmate's mother, Jeanni Pasacreta. "Dressed in military clothes or black."
Lanza's mother, Nancy, has been described as an avid gun collector who often took her son shooting.
Her sister, Marsha Lanza, said she'd also fought for years with the local school district over his education.
"She eventually wound up home schooling him, because she battled with the school district," said Marsha. "In what capacity, I'm not certain. If it was behavior or learning disabilities, I really don't know."
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2012 RTW
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Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2012 Ready-to-Wear
Only four looks, yes... But four looks I would die to wear.
Diane always designs her clothes so that there is enough sexy, elegance, trendy-ness, timelessness, and class. But always to the point where it never becomes too much, and that is because she designs for a Woman and we all know a Woman will be more confident if she is comfortable.
For this, and for DVF as being an incredibly fun and warm person, I admire her forever. xx
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number 1 and 3 are very nice!ReplyDelete
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I love the 1 and 2. Amazing. That chain bracelet adds such a beautiful touch to the second look. It's a great take on a LBD.ReplyDelete
Her designs are usually pretty flawless. Not that any of these fit the bill on this, but when I was looking at the overall collection it seemed several pieces were so valentines day appropriate. For some reason, I was really enamored of the idea of having an outfit by her just for a romantic holiday. How perfect would that be?ReplyDelete
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her clothes always have such a class and elegance, and at the same time make you look drop dead gorgeous and sexy. The lady is gifted for sure! ;-)ReplyDelete
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Jenny Jones launched Great Britain's medals bid at Sochi 2014 on Sunday with a breakthrough bronze in the women's snowboard slopestyle.
It was Britain's first medal on snow at a winter Olympics, Alain Baxter having been stripped of his skiing bronze from Salt Lake City in 2002 for an alleged doping offence.
Bristol-born Jones, at 33 the oldest of the 12 finalists, drew on all her experience to make her final run her best of the Games and was rewarded with a score of 87.25.
That briefly put her top of the standings, and although she was overhauled by Finland's Enni Rukajarvi (92.50), who took silver, and gold medallist Jamie Anderson (95.25), she survived an agonising wait for the final two finalists to complete their runs to clinch bronze on her Olympics debut.
Jones was considered a medal chance at the first ever snowboard slopestyle event, but her hopes appeared slim after she failed to qualify automatically for the final on Thursday. However, she earned her route to the showpiece event with a third-placed finish in the semi-final on Sunday morning.
Jones was lying fifth after the first run in the final, but a near flawless second attempt paved the way for a medal.
Jones was the second competitor down and after landing her run she could only watch and wait.
"'I knew I was going to drop (from gold medal position) but I didn't know how far," Jones said. "There were so many more girls.
"When the last girl went, I just went 'Oh my God, oh my God, I am on the podium'. I am just so happy. I feel absolutely ecstatic, I'm so chuffed to have made it on to that podium.''
The bronze medal was a richly deserved reward for Jones, who exploded on to the scene in 1999 by winning the first of five British Snowboarding Championships.
Jones has gone on to win gold in the prestigious Winter X Games on three occasions, but has had to fund herself by taking a variety of odd jobs, including working in a cardboard factory and a doughnut shop.
''It feels ridiculous, I still can't actually believe it,'' she said. ''I just thought 'Oh my goodness, it's gone my way today', and I couldn't be more grateful.''
Jones wrote another a bit of history with the timing of her bronze win. Landing it on day two meant it was also Britain's quickest medal at a Winter Games, beating a bobsleigh gold on day four of at Innsbruck (1964).
Team GB chef de mission Mike Hay led the tributes to Jones, hailing what he called "a fantastic accomplishment" that represented "a great moment for our entire delegation", and added that the rest of the British team were "proud of Jenny and delighted to see her have this special moment".
Slopestyle team-mate Aimee Fuller tweeted: "Tears of Joy as our girl stomps it and smashes it into 3rd!" and skeleton gold medal favourite Lizzy Yarnold was similarly inspired. She said: "It was so exciting, it brought tears to my eyes."
While Jones was savouring her medal exploits, British team-mate Callum Smith finished 62nd in cross country's men's skiathlon at the Laura Cross Country Ski and Biathlon Center.
Smith, who was the fifth youngest athlete in the field for the 30k event, clocked a time of one hour, 17 minutes and 37.1 seconds.
"My race was pretty tough," said Smith. "It was okay but maybe not my best performance ever. I started off pretty hard and I think maybe that was a little bit of a mistake. I was therefore pretty tired for the last 10km.
"I was just trying to stick with the leaders for as long as I could. I was isolated for a while but I don't think that makes it harder. You can ski at your own rhythm a bit.
"I would have definitely have liked to have been in the top 60. It was certainly not a bad race, it just wasn't my best."
Amanda Lightfoot finished 75th in the women's biathlon 7.5km sprint in a time of 24 mins 48.9 secs with two missed targets in the prone and one in the standing, missing out on her bid for a top 60 finish to qualify for the 10km pursuit.
"I will have a bit more of a build up towards the individual," she said. "I will have a bit more training leading up to it and hopefully it will go really well. I am psyched actually; I can't wait for another race."


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From Occupying Banks to Building Community
Occupy Seattle Tents packed next the farmers market on Sunday, October 30th. Photo by chadswaney.
Over the last week Occupy Seattle has been steadily building strength. And while actions like bank occupations, disrupting CEO talks and celebrating bank transfer day have grabbed national headlines, the camp at Seattle Central Community College has flourished.
Dozens of tents are packed in tight, the kitchen is bustling, the information booth is stock full of literature and other resources. This week there will be many events that continue to build that community: dance parties, multi-media nights, quilting (to support Rise and Decolonize!), meditation, guerrilla composting, teach-ins, and much, much more.
And there will of course be more actions: On Wednesday, a UAW sponsored Chase Bank Action; on Thurdsay, a rally for Port of Seattle Workers; and on Friday, a Veterans Day Parade.
However, before we march headlong into the future, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the last week. What follows is the Statement of the Bank Occupier of November 2, 2011 that was written by the five folks who went into the Chase bank branch on Broadway and E. Thomas in Capitol Hill, locked down, and shut down the bank for 2 hours. OccupySeattle.org hasn't been able to post their statement until now, but it is definitely worth your time:
Statement of the Bank Occupier of November 2, 2011
We, independent members of the Occupy Seattle movement, are occupying this Chase bank to interrupt business as usual. We are here to show you that the polished, sanitized spaces of our day-to-day lives are places of horror. Banks don't simply add arbitrary fees to debit cards or double your interest rates. They perpetuate poverty. They drive homelessness, and with it joblessness and the denial of healthcare. They force people out of homes through sub-prime lending and foreclosures, gentrifying neighborhoods in their wake by investing in real estate and construction firms that build condos and drive up market rates. They help make your "up-and-coming" neighborhoods whiter and wealthier and dispossess everyone needed to make them so. And for those who operate at the margins of society, committing victimless "crimes" or trying to save themselves and their families from starvation, banks are there to dehumanize them when they land in a private prison or get locked up in a immigrant concentration camp, like Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center (its extensive human rights abuse courtesy of Wells Fargo). All while executives reward themselves with millions for lives they have ruined and will ruin again, for a bottom line written in blood.
This movement isn't just about bailouts. It's not even about CEO salaries, corporate taxation, or campaign finance reform. The extremes of social and economic injustice most people experience today existed way before the recession, before Citizens United, and before executive pay skyrocketed in the last half-century. It's about a culture. It's about the logical consequences of capitalism. It's about what those of us who grew up in America have heard since day one-the strong survive, the cream rises to the top. But the strength of those on top rests on the backs of millions who were never given a chance to achieve, the cream stays white, and the playing field is never even. It's about the expectation your value value as a person lies in your ability to drain money out of other people, and not in your ability to pursue your dreams in solidarity with fellow dreamers.
We refuse to live in a world in which power matters more than human lives and transactions more than relationships. We refuse to live in a world where survival-"getting a job"-means increasing the wealth of our bosses. We refuse to live in a world, in a country that never outgrew slavery-only sublimated it to the point we don't recognize it, because its whips and chains have been replaced by redlining and unaffordable healthcare, or else hidden in the prisons that warehouse the people of color once enchained out in the open. We refuse to live a world that inevitably confers privilege to upper-class, straight, white men, as it does under the rule of capital and the perpetual indentured servitude of the oppressed. We refuse to live in a world where we are accountable to anyone than our interdependent equals. We refuse to live in a world where we are anything other than absolutely free.
Live your desires. Join us. This world is ours-all of ours-and don't let them tell you anything different. We will build it together.
In solidarity with you in your own struggles,
Occupiers of Seattle
Our Purpose
We, participants in Occupy Seattle, have independently chosen to occupy, to put our bodies on the line in order to shut down a location of Chase Bank.
Chase Bank, the corporation that owns it, and the system that it represents, act to defend and fortify the 1%. They enable the river of wealth from which the 1% drink, they make the flow of wealth from the many of the few possible and profitable. Chase Bank and every other bank make obscene profits from massive foreclosures and the suffering of people throughout the US and the globe.
Banks uphold and enable a rotting system. Both democrat and republican parties and the governing bodies they manage have proven incapable of solving this crisis; they've proven incapable of meeting the needs of people; they've proven incapable of stopping the mechanized domination of other nations and people. Rather than serve us, politicians serve the 1% and their system.
The list of grievances of the 99% is practically without limit.
Our occupations have proven once and for all:
Mic Check! [Mic Check!]
The world [The World]
Does not [Does not]
Have to [Have to]
Be this way! [BE THIS WAY!]
Banks are not only responsible for crisis, poverty, and extreme wealth inequality but they are also working directly against the Occupy movement. The day after the NYPD "kettled" and arrested 700 New York occupiers, the Chase bank donated 4.6 million dollars to the New York City Police Foundation-the largest in its history.
We are occupying this bank and risking our safety in order to show you, the people, we are fighting for a world without banks, without poverty, without the wealth of the world owned by a tiny minority. We are out to change the whole planet. Starting. Right. Here.
Today the call from Occupy Oakland goes out: "General Strike!" We stand with them. Occupy together. Occupy the world.
"Welcome" Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan CHASE, to Seattle this Wednesday!
On Wednesday, November 2, 2011,, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase will be visiting Seattle. Chase collected billions in bailouts while giving millions in bonuses to executives like Dimon, laying off thousands of Washingtonians, and forcing families out of their homes with predatory lending.
Let's show him that what Seattle really thinks of banksters like him!
We'll be taking on Dimon with some awesome events:
1pm: Meet at Seattle Central Community College – 1 hour speak out.
2pm: March and action at a major bank.
4:30pm: Meet at Westlake Park to make signs and other preparations for march
6pm: March from Westlake Park to the Sheraton where Mr. Dimon will be speaking.
Occupy Seattle believes that Chase bank and Jamie Dimon are complicit in the collapse of the US economy and the ongoing economic injustice in our nation today.
The list of injustices is long. Here is a short sample:
- While the majority of Americans saw their incomes decrease in 2010, Dimon received a 1,500 percent increase in compensation to $20.8 million.
- Dimon believes that foreclosure is a form of magnanimous "debt relief" that leaves the former homeowners "better off" than they were before. As he said in May 2011, "…Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is."
- In 2011, Chase agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges.
- In March of 2010, Chase agreed to pay $75 million in fines and forfeit $647 million in fees to settle federal regulators' charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business.
- In October 2010, executives at Chase confessed to signing tens of thousands of foreclosure documents without reading them.
- In 2009, Chase reported a profit of $11.7 billion, more than twice its profit for 2008, the year the bank received a federal taxpayer bailout of $94.7 billion.
- Adding insult to injury, Chase admitted in January of this year to overcharged more than 4,000 active-duty military personnel on their home loans.
The action is also in solidarity with the planned General Strike in Oakland. Let's make November 2nd one to remember! Please RSVP and invite all your friends to this Facebook event:


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 28/10/2013 (1394 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
With the way things have gone this season at the quarterbacking position, it makes perfect sense the pivot traded away seven weeks ago would put together his best body of work in the last four years at the helm of another football team.
In case you missed it on Friday, Buck Pierce came off the bench for the B.C. Lions and single-handedly propelled them to victory over the Edmonton Eskimos.
Pierce ran the football for first downs and touchdowns. He threw blocks downfield on multiple occasions to spring his ball carrier, and instead of taking sacks he escaped and improvised with shovel passes. He hit his receivers in stride and in only three quarters of work, he led the Lions to four scores on his first five possessions.
In short, he was everything the Bombers wanted and needed him to be this season, but he was somewhere else.
In fact, it was such a convincing performance, you didn't have to wait long for the threads to appear on the Internet, questioning why this team traded away the best quarterback on the roster in the first place.
Before we start second-guessing ourselves, though, we must first address the audacity of Wally Buono, former head coach and current GM of the Lions. When the Bombers initially landed Pierce from the Leos, after the 2009 season, Buono had seen enough of Buck. Due to a legacy of injuries and trauma he incurred in B.C., he publicly questioned not only whether Pierce should be playing professional football at all anymore, but parted ways with him without any compensation.
Fast forward a couple seasons, and after beating Pierce -- and us -- in the Grey Cup in 2011, Buono watched Pierce struggle with both his health and his on-field performance in 2012, and again in 2013, including a stanza where he fell to the bottom of the depth chart.
So what did Buono do? Naturally, King Midas traded for the QB that three years ago he gave up for nothing, and, of course, it is working out perfectly and making him look like an even bigger genius than his reputation already suggests.
So why the sudden change of heart by Pierce's old ball coach? Because Wally no longer needs Buck to be what Winnipeg needed him to be.
Buono has three pivots in B.C. he knows can play. One is his franchise QB who is hurt (Travis Lulay), another is the work in progress (Thomas DeMarco), and Pierce is now the stop gap. Buono doesn't need Buck to start 18 games for him, or even play every quarter in the games he does play. He needs Buck to be a temporary measure when the situation calls for it, which he did so very elegantly in the Lions last win.
Add to this mix a better offensive line, superior wide receivers, running backs, and coaching, and Buck is certain to look better than he ever could have here.
As we all know, when Pierce is a healthy Buck, he can play with most anybody. And when you don't need him on a week in and week out basis, and only use him in spurts, he is the perfect guy for the job. When you ask him to be your No. 1 for 18 weeks, like Winnipeg was forced to in 2010 through most of 2013, he has shown he won't be able to withstand the rigours of a full season of hard knocks.
Going into the final week of the regular season, where it seems like the Bombers are forced to choose between a badly hurt QB, and just a bad QB, it is salt in a festering wound to see a player that wanted to stay here, play so well somewhere else.
While many of us wish Buck the best, and even hope that he goes on a tear with the Lions and wins a second Grey Cup, the Bombers need a Travis Lulay and a Thomas DeMarco on their roster before they can ever entertain the idea of having a player like Pierce again.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and the days following game days in the Free Press.
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