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The No. 1 rule of fencing stolen property: Don't announce on national television that you're fencing stolen property.
A San Marcos couple made more than $100,000 by stealing toys and selling them on eBay. Last fall, they bragged about it on an episode of "Dr. Phil." Turns out the feds watch TV, too.
Matthew and Laura Eaton, 34 and 26, were arrested Friday, and pleaded not guilty to federal charges stemming from the shoplifting spree on Monday.
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The couple appeared on the "Dr. Phil" show last fall to share their story, aided by a video of their three small children accompanying them on a three-day shoplifting binge.
But what Matthew Eaton called "easy money" on-air got a lot harder when the Secret Service and the San Diego Regional Fraud Task Force searched their home and seized toys, a car and other belongings.
The couple stood silently wearing the white jump suits and blue slip-on shoes issued to them by the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego, where they spent the weekend in jail.
They were arrested Friday at their Leslie Court home, according to the North County Times.
Each was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce, a violation of federal law, and faces between 27 months and 37 months in prison if convicted, federal prosecutor Nicole Jones told the paper.
According to the show, the couple has been stealing for at least six years.
Talk show host Phil McGraw said in the episode that the couple's children -- who were shown in a video chronicling what the couple described as three-day shoplifting trip -- were ages 4, 2 and 1 when the show aired in November.


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Navy Seaman August Provost III was killed one year ago today.
The 29-year-old sailor from Houston, who gay and out to family and some co-workers, was brutally murdered at the sentry station at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego, on June 30 2009. Provost was shot three times, had his hands and feet bound, his mouth gagged, and body burned. The shack also was set on fire. The Provost family later told the media the military initially did not tell them this was a homicide and also neglected to reveal the manner of death.
Provost had confided to his family that he was harassed and ostracized for at least a year because he was gay and black. Provost's sister suggested he tell a supervisor—unfortunately not an option for gay and lesbian servicemembers due to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Despite the torture and brutal murder, the military maintained from the beginning this was a "random act of violence" and there was "no evidence" to believe it was a hate crime.
Petty Officer Jonathan C. Campos, who was served in Provost's unit, was arrested the night of the murder and charged almost one month later. Campos was accused of a bizarre, month-long crime spree that included murder, solicitation of murder, drugs and weapons violations. The military investigation was sharply criticized by family members and several members of Congress, most notably Sheila Jackson Lee, who later called for a congressional investigation. It never happened.
Campos committed suicide in the brig at the Camp Pendleton on July 31. The military later admitted that Campos was under video surveillance because he'd made two previous suicide attempts. The surveillance was allowed to lapse. The military announced it would "investigate".
David Badash at the New Civil Rights Movement: 'The circumstances surrounding this murder are ghastly, but the Navy's response [is] ghastly as well. The military [investigation] is evidence that the military cannot possibly be trusted to police [or] investigate itself when it comes to gay soldiers and gay rights. Which leads us to ask how the military will handle integration of openly gay and lesbian servicemembers into its ranks."
Will we ever learn the truth about Seaman August Provost's murder?
Rod 2.0's complete coverage HERE.

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Our unemployment rate may be dipping, but many U.S. families still struggle to make ends meet. Doing more with less requires tough decisions about household expenses, and many pet owners face the possibility of losing their pets. Fortunately, there's a network of resources available to keep pets and their people together. Here are a few options if you need help — or an opportunity to help if you can lend a hand.
Pet food
When Ann King created Save Our Pets food bank in 2008, she had a hard time convincing friends of the need for pet food banks. But how times have changed. We probably all know at least one friend or family member who has faced economic challenges, and King has seen her idea spread across the country.
"More and more, we still have people coming who are living in their cars with their pets," King says. "They've been evicted; rather than giving pets up, they're staying in their cars with them."
Check SaveOurPets.com to find a pet food bank in your area. Some traditional food banks also are beginning to carry pet food, or provide resources in your area. It also helps to call local breed rescue groups for recommendations.
Want to help? King offers tips on starting a pet food bank in your community. She notes that securing a steady supply of pet food can be the biggest challenge. You also will need plenty of storage space for that donated kibble. It's a great project for schools to tackle. Also, consider donating to animal shelters, breed-specific rescues or food banks. A little smart coupon action also helps.
Stephanie Nelson (aka "The Coupon Mom") recommends that shoppers contact their favorite companies and ask for coupons. When you buy one and get one free, set aside the second item for donation.
"We keep a charity box in our garage," she says. "Give them the free bag. You don't have to be extreme to give to charity."
Routine vaccinations prevent pets from contracting deadly — and very expensive — diseases. Shop around for low-cost vaccination clinics. Petco's VetCo program offers low-cost vaccinations in 20 states. Many county animal control offices also offer deep discounts to residents. As temperatures begin to rise, check your local paper for event listings that include low-cost shot clinics. Also, be honest with your vet about the need to cut costs. Based on your pet's age and lifestyle, you may be able to avoid some vaccinations or try the three-year rabies vaccine.
Want to help? Spread the word. Use community newsletters or Facebook pages to keep neighbors informed about upcoming shot clinics or nearby facilities that offer deep discounts.
Kittens and puppies cost money. Forget trying to sell them for a profit. North Shore Animal League's SpayUSA notes that more than 70,000 kittens and puppies are born each day — so the market is flooded. Unaltered pets also face behavioral and health issues. Males are prone to roam in search of a mate, while females run the risk of developing breast cancer or uterine infections, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA.org).
Check with you local animal control about low-cost spay/neuter services. In a partnership with PetSmart Charities, the ASPCA lists facilities on its website. North Shore also supports a spay/neuter program with 1,000 locations nationwide.
Want to help? Download educational flyers from North Shore's SpayUSA website to share with family, friends and neighbors. Ask your vet to consider joining the growing network of low-cost spay/neuter facilities. Or, consider volunteering with a nonprofit organization in your community. In a previous column, I offer tips on supporting your favorite charity without writing a big check. Most nonprofits will tell you that elbow grease is a treasured commodity.
"We need people power," says Ralph Hawthorne, manager of the Pets for Life program in Atlanta. "A lot of people, armed with information, will have their pets spayed or neutered. But the No. 1 problem is transportation."
Established in 2011 by the Humane Society of the United States, Pets For Life offers food, obedience training, vaccination clinics and vouchers for spay/neuter services — with the goal of keeping people and pets together. The program targets underserved communities within Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Hawthorne says that the unemployment rate in some of the communities is double the nation's unemployment rate.
"We are helping people in a time of need," Hawthorne says. "It's easy to say, 'If they can't afford the dog then they shouldn't have the dog. But the pet is part of the family."


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2000 MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA. Drawing and Painting.
1995 BA, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. History and Studio Art.
solo exhibitions
2011 The Womb-Womb Room, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, December 17, 2011 – January 23, 2012. Collaboration with Channing Hansen. www.nightgallery.ca
2010 Bodies, Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA September 18 – October 23. www.honorfraser.com/?s=past&eid=34
2008 A.D.D.G. (Aux Dehors des Guillemets), Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA, September 13 – October 25. www.honorfraser.com/?s=past&eid=16
2007 "FOCUS: Alexandra Grant," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, April 26 – August 13. Curated by Alma Ruiz. www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=376
2004 Homecoming, Gallery Sixteen:One, Santa Monica, CA, March 20 – April 18.
ongoing projects
The Love House with Watts House Project. Watts, CA. www.wattshouseproject.org
selected group exhibitions
2013 Postscript, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada. June 21 – September 2, 2013. www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2013/Summer/Postscript–Writing-After-Conceptual-Art.aspx
2012 Postscript, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO. October 12, 2012 – February 3, 2012. www.mcadenver.org/postscript.php
Pages, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA. October 13, 2012 – January 13, 2013. www.williamsongallery.net/pages/
Niki de Saint Phalle, Tirs: Reloaded, Here is Elsewhere Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, January 26 – February 27.
2011 Word Is, Cal State Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, October 1 – October 22.
Baker's Dozen III, Torrance Art Museum, July 16 – August 27. www.torranceartmuseum.com
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, May 6 – June 4. www.harrislieberman.com
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), curated by Franklin Sirmans and Christine Kim, March 13 – July 4. www.lacma.org/art/ExhibHuman.aspx
2010 Five from LA, Galerie Lelong, New York, December 16, 2010 – February 5, 2011, www.galerielelong.com
39 Now, Curated by Sophia Louisa, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles, November 17 – December 17, www.dencontemporaryart.com
Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010, El Paso Museum of Art, November 20, 2010 – February 13, 2011, www.elpasoartmuseum.org/exhibitions.asp#biennial
The Artist's Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, October 31, 2010 – January 31, 2011. www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=440
California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, October 24, 2010 – March 13, 2011. www.ocma.net/index.html?page=current#California_Biennial
"Bodies," as part of Four Projects, Haunch of Venison, New York, CA. July 7 – August 28, 201o. www.haunchofvenison.com/en/#page=newyork.current.four_projects
2009 Not Los Angeles, curated by Zachary Kaplan & Aandrea Stang, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA. September 26 – November 28. notlosangeles.tumblr.com
OVER/FLOW, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA, September 15 – November 5.
Fantastic LA, Illinois State University, University Galleries, September 22 through November 8.
2008 From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Opens September 18.
Microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York. July 10 – September 13.
Argument de la Diagonale, Betonsalon, Paris, France. May 31 – July 27. www.betonsalon.net/spip.php?rubrique56
2007 READ ME! TEXT IN ART, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, December 9, 2007 – February 24, 2008.
Double-Take: The Poetics of Illusion and Light, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, December 20, 2007 – May 11, 2008. www.contemporary.org/past_2008_01.html
Text Messages, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, June 14 – August 15.
Drawn In: Drawing in Residence Phase III, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, January 13 – March 10.
2006 Draw A Line, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, June 21 – September 1. www.artleak.org/drawaline.html
Flourish, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, June 2 – July 29.
Labirinti, Amelia: la Fiber Art al Centro, Biennale di Arte Tessile Contemporanea, Museo Archeologico di Amelia, Italy, July 1 – 17.
Painting fiction, fiction painting, the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, May 20 – June 17.
2005 Conceptual Writing, Van Ackeren Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, KS. March 4 – April 4.
2004 Northwest Territories, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, August 8 – October 14.
Freewall, Kellog Gallery, CalPoly Pomona, Pomona, CA, March 11 – April 10. www.csupomona.edu/~jzellen/freewall
"page space," Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening February 28. www.superbunker.com/machinepoetics/page_space/show_machine.html
Encoded, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, January 10 – February 14.
2003 Painting by Letters, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 15 – January 10, 2004.
Open Haus, Haus Gallery, Pasadena, CA, September 7 – October 4.
Mind's Eye, SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 9 – September 7.
CCAC Alumni Exhibition, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July 9 – 25.
LA Black and White: Beauty Stripped Bare, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, April 26 – May 25.
2002 unDRAWN, unusual approaches to drawing, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, November 16 – December 21. www.oversight.com/brewery/undrawn/
Reading Room, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, August 30 – December 14.
Wall Space 2, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 13 – May 4.
irrational propositions, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March – April.
maps & charts, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, January. davidfrackman.org/maps_and_charts_tyler_Q12002.html#
2001 Drawing in Residence, Wintergarten Gallery, Vienna, Austria, September.
2000 evictions,160 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA, June.
MFA Show, CCAC, San Francisco, CA, April 13 -23.
1999 Index, with Anthony Discenza and Adrian van Allen, CCAC Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September.
curatorial projects
2009 5 Senses/107th Street, for "Not Los Angeles," FOCA, Los Angeles, CA. notlosangeles.tumblr.com
2004 Lucid/Ludic, Mt. Saint Mary's College Gallery, Brentwood, CA, September 12 – October 9.
2003 Domesticity, at the Snivling Sibbling, Los Angeles, CA, April 11 – May 17, 2003.
2002 unDRAWN, unusual approaches to drawing, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, November 16 – December 21.
2000 invisible ccac, San Francisco, CA, June. (A critical investigation of the new "beta" space of CCAC's San Francisco campus.)
2010 "Image/Text," Salt Lake Art Center, March 22.
2009 Mesa Redonda/Round Table, 4 Women Artists Discuss Text, University of Barcelona, November 11. www.ub.edu/cdona/actos/artistes09.pdf
Santa Monica Museum of Art, A Collection of Ideas: Building the Love House: Using Art for Social Change in Watts. Tuesday, September 29. www.smmoa.org/index.php/programs/group/0
Alexandra Grant and Dan Rothenberg in conversation. Moderated by Michael Joyce. Symposium: "Are We Talking To Anyone But Ourselves?" PlayPenn, new play development. Philadelphia, Friday July 24.
2008 THE WORD IN LA: Panel Discussion with Artists Robbie Conal, Alexandra Grant and Lezley Saar: Fowler Museum at UCLA, February 3.
2007 Visiting lecturer, Swarthmore College, PA, November 11.
Visiting artist, Cal State Long Beach, CA, October.
Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, March 13 + 27. 2005
Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, Theory and Practice 4 class, October 27.
2004 Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, Theory and Practice 5 class, October 11.
"The Wordlessnessless of the Meiteneinander," with Michael Joyce, &NOW Conference, Notre Dame University, April 5-6.
"The Wordlessnessless of the Meiteneinander," with Michael Joyce, CalArts Graduate Program in Writing, Valencia, CA, February 25.
2010 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2007 Durfee Foundation, ARC Grant for project at Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Support from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, for "Wallpaper (la escalera al cielo)," 2007, a digitally-printed wallpaper to be installed at MOCA, April – August.
awards received
California Community Foundation, Mid-Career Artists' Award, 2011.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 2011.
California Community Foundation, Artists' Cover Award, 2007.
Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1999.
public collections
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
Grunwald Center, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA


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Yesterday's win was totally "Rays Ball"
Way to go guys!
Way to prove myself and a few other voices around the Rays Republic that some of this team might have already packed their bags after Saturday night debacle and headed home, at least in their minds for the season. Way to reclaim your manhood and show some fire and gumption after a game like that…….purly inspiring to me right now. Seriously, the way some of you came off the field after that game on Sat night, your faces gave a bad impression that some of you might be shutting your game down and waiting until Spring to show us more awesome hit and scoring chances.
But as always, you guys had the last laugh. And I am totally okay with being wrong or even apologizing for doubting you for a second. I have to admit, I am a bit proud of all of you for coming out and taking that Sunday "getaway" game like that. For too long this season those series ending game or "getaway" games have been one of the perils of 2009. And because of that plight, the plane ride home after some of these road trips have not been a happy time together for the Rays. But to put a big black "W" stamp on the last game of the last road trip in that fashion is only a motivator towards bigger and better results in 2010.
And that is one of the area that the Rays will have to focus on to again re-assemble and re-group for next season. Getting this team back towards a road .500 mark will be one of the biggest rebuilding porjects in the offseason for the Rays. Those road wins translate quickly into a realistic chance at a division or even a playoff berth for the team again next season. One of the deciding factor in the Rays fall from grace in 2009 has been their road record, which pales in comparison to 2008.
But in hindsight, yesterday when this team took the game to the Texas Rangers in the last two innings and played inspired Rays baseball, it was a sign to all of us that the pride and the power is still very much a part of this Rays ballclub. Standing up and taking on the tasks at hand is a positive step for this team towards regaining their stride for the top echelon of this league.
But above all, when you took the final innings of that game to the Rangers, you won on your collective sweat and heart alone. You not only avoided a series sweep, but a seasonal sweep of all the Rays game splayed at the Ballpark at Arlington this year. And that was huge! For some reason this hot and humid stadium has been an albatross to your Rays team in 2009. But you not only exorcised that dang demon, but you put a stake right through its heart by taking down this team late in the game and then taking down their confident closer in the end.
And you got to love that beautiful bunt down the First Base line by speedy Fernando Perez when they even knew it was coming. And Perez put the ball in a perfect spot to get the RBI and extend the inning. Not only did that one play help score a winning run, but to keep the inning going with a possibilities for more runs was tremendous. Sure there were a few negatives attached to this game as it unfolded, but they were quickly forgotten like piece of paper in a windy day. The win is the thing. To take that last road game of the season , then get back on the plane and take it with you is huge. Now you just have to use it as an example that this team can grow and get better on the road in 2010.
Who knows why the road became such a odd stranger to the Rays in 2009. It could be something as simple as the opposition just getting better and the Rays staying with their happy medium for some reaon on the road this year. But in essence, it just could be a simple fix by translating another mindset for the team in 2010. We saw Rays road trip Traveling Parties dressed in wild Cowboy gear, finely pressed all-white outfits, and the "Johnny Cash" inspired all-black ensembles get on their bus at Tropicana Field with high spirits and great team building moments this season.
But for this 2009 season, the trips on the road have all ended. No more Westin-type hotels, the bevy of room service plates and foods, or even the assembling of teammate eager to get a shot at playing on any of the portable Playstation 3's set up in their rooms for a simple distraction during the long night away from St. Petersburg and your homes. Maybe the team needs to do the "Stadium Tours" in2010 of each stadium the visit. Get into a different frame of mind on the road, to relax, be together and get out and about and put a different feel to the road routine.
So when you finally disembarked from your charter flight last night at the St. Pete/Clearwater airport, it might not have felt like a winning road trip, but you did leave the state of Texas with a winning attitude on the plane. And even though some of you have memories of coming home last year at this time to a bevy of screaming maniacs and fans within the concourse of the airport, it is mostly silent last night. But that easily could happen again in 2010 with a little tweaking. That moment doesn't have to feel like a mirage,it was a special moment held in time by so many of us in the Rays Republic that we truly want to see it again……..and the sooner the better (lol).
But this season we have to leave the road trip memories alone for now. Forget the Rookie hazing during the last road trip, or even the silence of the trip back from Boston not so long ago. For their is hope that the plane was a bit rowdy last night, and all of you were celebrating the moment, knowing that for the last 7 games you will not only be sleeping in your own beds, but also hearing the cheering and noisy fans of Tropicana Field. So rejoice in the fact you came off the road as winners, and take that momentum and thrust it into these last 7 games to bring another special moment for all of us in 2009.
I know the season is beginning to run together for some of you, and the pains and aches are barking like guard dogs, but hopefully the cheers and the emotions within this dome for the next 7 nights will thrust you again into feeling like it is April again for a few games. To end this season on a glorious note would not only be great for each of you individually, but as a team, the bonding agent by winning can be so invigorating it can become even more addictive in 2010. You know we will be there 100 percent for you for the next 7 games, so why not come out as strong as you did against those pesky Rangers in those late innings last night and take the next 7 games to not only post a plus .500 season, but to set a standard for the 2010 Rays to follow.
Before the first pitch last night, a few of you looked like you were waiting for October 4th to come so you could dismiss this season and prepare for the next one. But do not discount the fact that to stop playing "Rays Ball" now would damage this team and their fan base further than you can ever imagine. To simply want to be "shut down" even within your own mind could
ruin some of the fragile fabric set out in front of you with this fan base. This area has seen teams quit on itself before in a multitude of sports, but this years Rays team should never be a part of that sorted history.
The excitement of Rays baseball over the next 7 games can be the best advertising for the team over the Winter months. To go out fighting in every game, taking defeat and turning it into victory, and smiling all the way is a beauty way to celebrate this season.
You know where I am going to be for all 7 games.
You know how I am going to act for those 7 games.
I only ask that you too take that Rays pride and the strong character you have displayed for the last 155 games and throw it out loud and proud now. Then we all can celebrate as you take off those game-worn jerseys and put them on the backs of fans' following that Sunday matinee.
From there it is off to where ever you call home for the Winter. To go home to family, friends and routines that you follow in the offseason. I know for some of you it has been a long, hard road, and it might be your last season in this team's uniform, but wouldn't it feel a bit more special, a rays of light on a darkened sky if we can take this thing to the house the next 7 games and thrust onward and upward?
I know when I went home after a victory in a game when I was playing ball, it always made the drive feel better if we won.
It always made me see things in a positive light, and it always made me proud to be playing the game.
Simple things can propel this team again back into the spotlight.
Rays Baseball circa 2009 still has a few special moments hidden within itself. Still has some thrills and exciting baseball crammed into the cubbyholes and the halls of the Trop. This season is growing to a close fast, but the next 7 games are also the last things we will remember of this season. To go out with a huge bang would be tremendous not only for the team, but could also boost the excitement and the anticipation of the Spring for the rest of us. See you guys in a few hours when we can begin the road to the end…………..with a victory.
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Yesterday was without a doubt one of the best wins this year for the Rays, yes they've had walk offs, but to come back in the 8th and 9th at the end of the last road games with no post season hopes shows that they are still in it to win and that makes it special…
Outside the Phillies Looking In
I love your enthusiasm for your Rays and your writing! You never know what you will see in the last games. look at Andy LaRoche today, he almost had a cycle but still had a fabulous day wtih 5 hits, 6 RBis and 2 homeruns. I am gald for him. He was brought thru the Dodgers organization. Yeah, we got spanked today :-(
Its always fun when you win huh? Like last night for ex. the Indians won 9-0. It seems that the Indians will win just that game for the whole rest of the season. Probably too. ;-) They are looking poorer than the Pittsburgh Pirates right now, ooh (*haymaker)
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Nothing builds confidence more than going late into a game then coming out and smacking another team in the mouth with some timely hitting.
It was the right place for that to happen because of the dominating nature of the Texas team in their stadium.
But that was the perfect ending to the game and visualized the struggles and the stride this team can make if they are motivated.
Rays Renegade
that is something else you have to accept at this time of year too.
Sometimes you might be seeing a prospect or a player play their last game this time of the year for your team.
You never know what will happen in the off season, or what trade could happen.
Look at the Rays in the Winter of 2008. No one really expected that Edwin Jackson would not be pitching here, at least of all going to a AL Central team.
I always seem to take the last few games as a last curtain call for some of the guys because you never know what the team has in store for them.
Rays Renegade
The Pirates were one of those teams I was really excited to see how they played out in 2009.
I did not expect the Fire Sale to go to the lengths it did, but it exposed a nice second layer of prospects and future stars for that team.
They might be the biggest team to watch this winter in terms of adding pieces to compliment their rotation and young stars.
They could be a nice underdog for 2010.
Rays Renegade
You'd make a great coach, Renegade. That was a really inspiring pep talk. I hope Rays fans will follow your lead and take a positive attitude (and the positive play by the team) into the off-season with them.
Cliff – I too doubted that the Rays would come back to win the game on Sunday. I'll admit – I was floored! Congrats to the team for showing that they still know how to fight!


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Fresh on the heels of news that Google+ is still formulating its plan for businesses, Facebook released its "Facebook for Business," a guide for small businesses on how to use the social network.
The guide gives step-by-step instructions for setting up a page, engaging the community, and of course, promoting a business by buying Facebook ads. The new guide is interesting because it comes at the same time Google+ is still creating plan for businesses and restricting Google+ to individual users, GigaOm reported. That means that Google+ is also terminating business accounts when it finds them. (Businesses must sign up with Google+ to get on a waiting list.)
So is it a surprise that Facebook suddenly enters the picture with its welcoming business website? Not really. Facebook has embraced business for a while now and is always looking for ways to increase ad revenue. Google+, on the other hand, still hasn't come up with a business policy, much less an ad network, yet. We understand that's part of Google+'s charm, but its users have to know that its clean, ad-free interface is likely only a phase.


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Bin Laden's Death, One Year On
The killing of Osama bin Laden marked a significant achievement in America's long war against al Qaeda. Yet, following last year's Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it became clear that disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al Qaeda did not require the occupation of distant lands. Indeed, even in the absence of the terrorist leader's death, the sad and simple truth was that the protracted wars of occupation waged in 9/11's name were an enormous drain on American taxpayers and counterproductive to the goal of stopping terrorism.
Certainly, bin Laden's killing does not mean the end of al Qaeda, but it does provide another reason to bring our ongoing sacrifice in blood and treasure in Afghanistan to a swift end. Moreover, Americans should be circumspect about planners in Washington expanding the War on Terror to distant enemies in Pakistan, Yemen, the Horn of Africa, and elsewhere. Al Qaeda and its associates have always been manageable security problems, not existential threats to America that require endless war by remote control.
The lesson of 9/11 and its Saudi terrorist financier is that would‐be terrorists have reduced their dependence on specific base camps and physical havens. They can plan, organize, and train from virtually anywhere in the world, from Kandahar and Hamburg to Malaysia and Los Angeles. Indeed, the very al Qaeda terrorists responsible for 9/11 not only found sanctuary in poverty‐stricken Afghanistan, but also in politically free and economically prosperous countries like Germany, Spain, and the United States. In this respect, policymakers and prominent opinion leaders must stop conflating the punishment of al Qaeda with the creation of stable societies, particularly when propping up corrupt and illegitimate foreign governments and waging counterinsurgency campaigns distracts from the conceptually simpler task of targeted counterterrorism measures to find and eliminate terrorist threats.


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Introducing NLU's improved degree evaluation system
Now it's easier than ever to check your progress toward your degree, online, at any time that's convenient for you. We've recently improved our degree evaluation system, CAPP (Curriculum, Advising and Program Planning). Follow the steps below to check it out and experience the new, friendlier layout and even clearer presentation of degree requirements.
- Log in to your NLU Portal at my.nl.edu.
- In a new browser tab, go to www.nl.edu/degreeevaluation and select either the PowerPoint or PDF instructions.
- Follow the step-by-step instructions to experience CAPP.
- Repeat each term. CAPP is constantly updated, so you can see your progress toward your degree in real time! And CAPP is a convenient way to check your final grades each term.
If you have any questions about using CAPP or your progress toward degree, please contact your academic advisor.


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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
That famous quote often is attributed to Margaret Mead. The noted anthropologist witnessed plenty of grass-roots advocacy efforts in her time, living through the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement and the demonstrations that ended our nation's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Grass-roots advocacy still can make a difference. And today a not-so-small group of thoughtful, committed citizens -- your 105,900-member Academy -- is working to make a change that will benefit you and your patients.
Without congressional action on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, physicians face a nearly 27 percent reduction in Medicare payments on Jan. 1. Additionally, the Budget Control Act's sequestration provision would cut the Medicare payment rate by an additional 2 percent.
So if Congress fails to act in the next six weeks, Medicare payments will drop by nearly 30 percent. This would present a crisis not only for physicians but also for patients, whose access to care would be jeopardized by such significant cuts.
In early October, AAFP Board Chair Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., asked members to contact their legislators in Washington and urge them to stop the scheduled cuts. As of Nov. 12, more than 600 Academy members had responded by sending nearly 2,000 letters to members of Congress.
Also this fall, FamMedPAC -- the Academy's federal political action committee -- made it possible for family physicians to meet with their legislators to talk about family medicine and the harm these payment cuts would cause. For example,
- F. George Leon, M.D., of Waldorf, Md., met with Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.;
- Carla Kakutani, M.D., of Winters, Calif., and Jeannine Rodems, M.D., of Soquel, Calif., met with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.;
- Jerry Harrison, M.D., of Haleyville, Ala., met with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; and
- Ron Waldridge, M.D., of Shelbyville, Ky., and James Middleton, M.D., of Munfordville, Ky., are scheduled to meet with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Nov. 16.
On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, AAFP leaders were in Washington to meet with staff from the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Physicians' Caucus. In those meetings, AAFP President Jeff Cain, M.D.; President-elect Reid Blackwelder, M.D., and Stream asked for a one- to two-year extension of the SGR formula with a differential payment that increases primary care fees during that one- or two-year period. The extension would allow time to find a permanent solution to the flawed Medicare payment system.
Now this grass-roots campaign is entering its second phase, and the Academy once again is asking you to contact your legislators.
Two years ago, the Academy surveyed members about what then was a scheduled 25 percent payment cut. At that time, 60 percent of respondents said they would stop accepting new Medicare patients if such a cut became a reality, and 70 percent said they would limit Medicare appointments. More than 10 percent said such a cut would force them to stop seeing patients altogether.
Now the scheduled cuts are even larger, but your stories can influence what happens next if you are willing to share them.
Tell Congress how these payment cuts could limit access to care for some of our most vulnerable populations, including the elderly and disabled.
Tell Congress how such cuts threaten your ability to retain staff, order supplies and equipment, and even keep your doors open.
For example, a solo practice receiving $95,000 in Medicare payments this year would receive $28,000 less next year if these cuts take place. A small group practice receiving $285,000 in Medicare payments would experience an $80,000 reduction.
We cannot afford to let this happen to our practices and our communities.
After years of lobbying by the AAFP and other stakeholders, members of Congress are well aware of the problem posed by the SGR. Tell them it is time to do something about it. Contact your legislator.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. - Tom Izzo put it best.
"It doesn't get any better or bigger than this," the Michigan State coach said.
Izzo's fourth-ranked Spartans will host the No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers - led by his former assistant and good friend, Tom Crean. Tuesday night's game marks the first time two top-five teams have met at the Breslin Center.
It's the third matchup of top-four teams in college basketball this season, and the second for Indiana, which beat then top-ranked Michigan. It's just the fourth with a pair of Big Ten teams since 1997, according to STATS LLC.
First place in the Big Ten - and perhaps top seeding in next month's NCAA tournament - will be at stake with four games remaining in the regular season after this matchup.
And to add to the hype, former Michigan State great Magic Johnson is scheduled to work the game as an ESPN analyst.
"What I'm going to preach to my guys is, these are opportunities that 99 percent of America never get to be a part of," Izzo said.
While Izzo is embracing the significance of the showdown, Crean insisted he won't even mention what is on the line when he talks to his players.
"It's another very big game and right now at Indiana, and I'm sure it's this way at Michigan State, every game is a big game," Crean said. "Not just because it's a great league, but because of where you sit in the league and where you sit nationally.
"Our guys have played in quite a few of these types of games and we've been in some tough environments. There's no question that the environments will be incredibly exciting."
Crean would know, because he was on Izzo's bench in East Lansing from the 1995-96 season - Izzo's first as a head coach - through 1998-99, when the Spartans went to their first of three straight Final Fours.
Izzo said coaching against his former colleague is a little like Crean's brothers-in-law - John and Jim Harbaugh - competing on opposite sidelines earlier this month in the Super Bowl.
"I don't like doing it," Izzo said. "They didn't like doing it. But I thought John Harbaugh had a great line, �The only thing that could be worse than this is if one of us didn't make it.'"
The Hoosiers were expected to be great - ranked No. 1 in the preseason - and they have been with center Cody Zeller, guard Victor Oladipo and forward Christian Watford leading the way. They've won three straight since losing by two points at Illinois and eight of their last nine games, including a closely contested victory over Michigan State last month.
"Indiana is playing at a level like no other," Izzo said. "They've sustained it the whole year, which, to me, is one of the most impressive things you can do."
The Spartans, without All-America forward Draymond Green, were expected to be in somewhat of a rebuilding mode. Ranked No. 14 in the preseason, they got their first quality victory by beating Kansas and have steadily climbed in the poll by winning five straight and 11 of their last 12 games thanks to a balanced offense and stifling defense.
"Their team is good, and they've been good for a long time," Crean said. "To look at what they're doing now and say, �Wow, they're doing such a good job,' would discredit what they did in November, December and January."
On Jan. 27 at Assembly Hall, Oladipo had 21 points, seven rebounds, six steals and three blocks to help the Hoosiers hold off Michigan State in a 75-70 win.
Crean said he expects Oladipo to play Tuesday, three days after he limped off the court with a sprained left ankle in the first half of a win against Purdue and sat out the second half.
Michigan State freshman guard Gary Harris, an Indiana native, said the Spartans will try to stop Oladipo from doing what he does best.
"He guards on the defensive end and gets them going offensively in transition," Harris said. "We just have to be smart, especially on the offensive end because he plays the passing lanes."
The Spartans don't anticipate Travis Trice playing for the first time since he suffered a head injury last month, taking away a backup point guard who played a career-high 30 minutes and matched a career high with five assists when Keith Appling was limited by fouls at Indiana.
That will make it even more important for Appling to stay on the floor. Like Izzo, the junior point guard isn't hiding how fired up he is about the game.
"That's why we came here, to compete for Big Ten championships and potential No. 1 seeds in the tournament," he said. "I definitely embrace it and I think that's one of the things that will help us play harder."


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A roundup of some of the more unusual happenings around the country, as reported by GateHouse newspapers.
$4,600 found in shoe box returned ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Treasures Galore doesn't use "finders keepers" as a motto in its business model. Not when it comes to money, anyway. Sure, employees of the Rockford thrift shop sometimes find a crumpled-up $1 bill in a pants pocket, maybe a forgotten $5 inside a book. But nothing like this "has ever happened before," store owner Cindy Collins said. Employees at the shop follow a routine procedure, looking through customers' goods to gauge their value for resale. So when workers found $4,600 in cash in a box piled with shoes, returning the money was their pleasure. Owners said a local woman, who had come to the store to sell some of her deceased mother's old belongings, never knew the money was there. The Register Star agreed to withhold the woman's name for safety reasons. She came to the store with three garbage bags full of clothing and other items about two weeks ago, owners say. She also brought in a box full of shoes, said Collins' daughter, Stephanie Cordonnier, who examined the goods. It was while searching through that box that Cordonnier found a bank book containing 46 $100 bills. "I just came to a stop," Cordonnier said. "It was kind of emotional for me because it was the holidays and she just lost her mother." `He's urinating all over the place!' Man arrested twice for tinkling in public FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Police say a Framingham man was arrested twice over the weekend for crimes involving when and where he decided to answer his call to nature. Mark A. Thompson, 45, was first arrested Friday at 5 p.m., and then Sunday at 2:54 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said. The first incident occurred at the MetroWest Medical Center's Framingham Union campus. Police went to the hospital for a report of an out-of-control patient in the emergency room. ``They went in and they could hear a loud, yelling voice, coming from a room,'' said Shastany. ``A nurse quickly exited the room, and she said, `He's urinating all over the place!' The officers entered the room, and there was an angry security guard who complained that Thompson had urinated on him." Thompson, who was drunk, was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct, Shastany said. He was released later that night after posting $40 bail, but he had another run-in with police on Sunday. Officer Phil Hurton went to Hollis Street for a report of a man urinating in the street. He recognized Thompson, who has been arrested at least four other times in Framingham this year. ``Two witnesses said Thompson came up behind them on Hollis Street and asked them for cigarettes. They said no,'' said Shastany. ``He then took his pants down and started urinating right in front of them, onlookers and children.'' A murder of crows HORNELL, N.Y. -- While city police are using scare tactics to shoo crows from roosts in Hornell, someone else may have taken up murder to rid the area of the birds. Region 8 state Department of Environmental Conservation personnel are investigating what happened to a number of crows found dead at two sites on Upper Glen Avenue. Wildlife Technician Marty DeLong bagged six each at the two locations, checking on a report he received Wednesday afternoon. The bagged birds have been sent to the DEC pathology laboratory in Albany for a determination on the cause of death. "From what Marty says, it looks like they might have been poisoned or died of natural causes, and they died in the roost area," said DEC Environmental Conservation Officer Tom Flaitz, adding he was unsure of the exact number found at the sites. "It could have been treated bird seed or fertilizer, the birds might have eaten something that was poisonous." If the birds were poisoned, the person who may have done so could be facing punishment by the DEC. While it's legal to hunt crows - though not inside city limits - Flaitz said poisoning is not. Teens deny breaking in to school van, but – oops! – police see them with the evidence FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A Framingham teen tried to hide the evidence of breaking in to a van in a school parking lot and vandalizing it, but police said it was too late. The officers had already seen the 16-year-old boy playing with a freshly stolen fire extinguisher, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said. Officers Jaime Lewis and Paul Patriacca were on routine patrol when they drove through the Juniper Hill School parking lot at 11 p.m. when they saw a car parked with three teens inside it. Next to the car, they saw a fourth teen holding a fire extinguisher that had been discharged onto the ground. ``The teen turned and saw the officers and jumped into the car and it started to drive away,'' Shastany said. The officers pulled the car over, and when they got to the car, they saw the teen in the back seat trying to shove the fire extinguisher underneath the seat. When questioned, the teens in the car said the fourth boy had taken the fire extinguisher from one of the 15 Accept Transportation vans parked in the Jocyln Avenue school parking lot. ``One of the van's interior lights were on, so the officers looked inside of it and it was white,'' said Shastany. ``The suspect had discharged the extinguisher in the van. The whole interior, from front to back, was white. The powder from the extinguisher was fresh and it looked like smoke." Missouri man pulls pocket knife on pit bull at vet office NEOSHO, Mo. -- An incident last Saturday where a man drew a pocket knife after a pit bull allegedly threatened him at a local veterinary office has resulted in no charges as of yet. The incident occurred about 10:30 a.m. at the Animal Clinic. According to Neosho Police Chief Dave McCracken, a man and a woman (their names haven't been released) were standing in line at the clinic with their pets, waiting for a vet. What happened next isn't exactly clear, McCracken said, as versions of the incident conflict. The man said the woman's pit bull lunged at him. The woman said it didn't. Either way, the dog was apparently on a leash. "(But) there's that fear of pit bulls, you know," McCracken said. An argument ensued, wherein the man flashed a standard-sized pocketknife. Whether it was to protect himself from the pit bull or was an act of aggression toward its owner is still being investigated. "The owner of the dog believes they were in danger, or were in fear at least, of the knife," McCracken said. "So we're just looking into it more. We've got a possibility that charges could follow from this, but at this point there's none." Man locks prostitute in apartment, she stabs him FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A Framingham man was charged with kidnapping a Dorchester prostitute on Monday when he locked her in his apartment to keep her from leaving, while she is charged with stabbing him to escape, according to police. Both Oleg Yeliseyev, 69, and Kasandra Combs, 21, were arrested when he chased her from his 1550 Worcester Road apartment onto Rte. 9 after the 8 p.m. incident, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said. Police received several 911 calls from both the apartment building and people driving on Rte. 9 a little after 8 p.m. When they got there, they found Combs standing behind the guard rail on Rte. 9 west, while Yeliseyev, who had blood on his clothing, standing near his car, which was parked near the woman. ``She was crying and she said she had stabbed the guy (Yeliseyev) with a knife,'' Shastany said. Combs said she was a prostitute and had been picked up by Yeliseyev three times in the past. He picked her up Monday and brought her to his apartment in Framingham, where they had sex. At one point, she used his phone to call her 2-year-old daughter. When she hung up, Combs said Yeliseyev became angry. ``He accused her of calling some male friends to come and rob him,'' said Shastany. ``She became frightened and tried to leave, but he wouldn't let her.'' The two fought in front of his apartment door, with Yeliseyev refusing to leave. Combs told police she had a knife and she took it out of her purse and stabbed him in the arm and ran out, with him in pursuit. GateHouse News Service


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In year two of his "re-brand" Lipscomb head men's golf coach Will Brewer revamped his squad by signing five freshmen and adding a transfer from Pepperdine University.
"The freshmen we have this year are stronger than what we have recruited in the past," Brewer said. "We feel like top to bottom we are much stronger this year."
Brewer has put in relentless effort over the past year to get the Lipscomb brand noticed across the nation. His dedication has paid off by adding players with a higher ranking than ever before.
Leadership for his young squad will come from four seniors, Tyler Leroy, Nathan Mueting, Ryan Terry and Dustin Wilder.
In his first year as head coach, Brewer dropped his team's national ranking by 50 and finished the season at #189. In year two he hopes to reach double digits.
"I would like to have a much improved ranking by spring," said Brewer.
The Bisons finished eighth in the Atlantic Sun tournament last season and they hope to improve in 2013-14.
"We have to make a lot of progress in some competitions," Brewer said. "I do believe if we start off well and get some confidence and momentum it will carry us through the season.
"I hope these guys surprise me and they might, because the guys are committed."
The five freshman Brewer inked ranked anywhere from 300-800 nationally. Four of the five ranked in the top-36 in the state of Tennessee coming out of high school.
Dowling Armstrong was a two-time state champion in high school. He was highly recruited by Mississippi State and Ole Miss of the Southeastern Conference. He will challenge early and has a bright future in the Purple and Gold.
Sydney Chung will also challenge early as he was the 2012 TSSAA high school champion. Chung was the highest rated signee with a national ranking in the 300-400 range.
Stoney Crouch was highly sought after by schools of the Ohio Valley Conference. He was among the top-10 in the state of Tennessee.
Mikey Feher and Joshua Enderle will push for playing time in the fall.
As a transfer from Pepperdine, Caston Roberts will help this team push for postseason play. Playing two seasons in southern California, Roberts competed in 11-tournaments and played 32-rounds.
He left with a 77.25 stroke average. Shot a career best 2-under 69 in the first round of the Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational his sophomore season.
In the first tournament of 2013 the Bisons will travel to Edwardsville, Ill. to play in the Derek Dolenc Invitational. Sunset Hills Country Club is a 6,645 yard par-72 course spread across 170 acres.
The Invitational will be a 12-team field with an 8 a.m. shotgun start on Monday. In two days the teams will play 54-holes, 36 on Monday and 18 on Tuesday.
In year two of his "re-brand" Lipscomb head men's golf coach Will Brewer revamped his squad by signing five freshmen and adding a transfer from Pepperdine University.


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What are the implications for indigenous or place-based cultures facing the imminent and gradually destructive processes of climate change? There is a significant amount of literature that suggests the most vulnerable, natural resource-dependent groups of the world will disproportionately experience the harmful effects of climate change. Less developed countries and their indigenous populations are largely agricultural, dependent on the land for subsistence and economic livelihoods.
Like air pollution, climate change is transboundary. Despite a nation's involvement or lack thereof in catalyzing global warming, the subsequent ecological problems will affect all people and all nations. Species extinction and sea level rise are encumbrances borne by the entire globe, but more so in the developing world, where the contributions to atmosphere pollution have been the smallest, even negligible (excluding "more developed" economies, such as those of India, China and Brazil). The cumulative effects of climate change on water supplies and farming systems, and the habitability of such areas, will provoke drastic economic, political and cultural impacts by broadening the divide between those who can afford to adapt and those who do not have the money, knowledge or time to do so.
On the other hand, victims of climate change are potential agents of solutions, leadership, climatic wisdom and untapped contributions to Western science. Through the increasingly popular anthropological method of collecting traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in climatically vulnerable areas, scientists and anthropologists have slowly recognized indigenous groups as possessors of information critical to the study of climate change.
According to natural resource use scholar Bikret Ferkes, Traditional Ecological Knowledge is defined as, "…a cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and with their environment." TEK has become an asset to climate change research, collected largely by anthropologists; it provides a local, qualitative scale of analysis for questions about weather patterns, animal migrations and adaptation strategies. Creating links between local and global conditions offers a wider range of knowledge and, therefore, a more comprehensive toolkit for understanding the biosphere.
Quantitative/biophysical data not only neglects to describe accurately the complexity of interactions between humans and the climate, but its methods can fail to record key climatic features. A study performed by anthropologist Andrei Marin, dedicated to gathering weather information from nomadic herders in Mongolia, found long-term climate trend analysis ignored extreme yet short-lived weather events, such as droughts and dust storms. Local understanding of climate was seen to contradict larger scale meteorological records, which neglected the fact that combinations of short-lived yet more frequent events drastically affected the nomadic lifestyle. The study also concluded that a pastoral way of life better lent itself to the collection of accurate climate data: Nomads gathered environmental knowledge over larger areas and with finer spatial clarity – providing more detailed descriptions of these areas – whereas weather stations only registered infrequent point occurrences of weather patterns.
Many communities are potential libraries of ethno-botanical information and can make invaluable contributions to conservation policy by sharing taxonomic knowledge and ecosystem management approaches. Such communities are in a position to provide much-needed innovation in the fields of biotechnology and modern medicine – information that could perish with certain vulnerable plant species, language or diminishing cultural practices.
Those place-based people who have historically dealt with regular climatic disturbances in relatively harsh environments can also suggest innovative agricultural techniques that can bolster food security. By monitoring adaptation strategies among indigenous peoples and organizing a system to disseminate such information, disparate cultures could empower one another. The exchange of sustainable technologies between regions with similar agroclimatic and socioeconomic conditions would provide support for farmers coping with similar disturbances.
Some argue that climate change adaptation research should take into consideration cultural frameworks advocating environmental ethics. Values such as respect, sharing, reciprocity and humility characterize systems of traditional ecological management that seem to operate sustainably in many contemporary communities including American aboriginal, African and Pacific Island groups.
Perhaps most importantly, the anthropological collection of TEK can play a role in helping indigenous peoples advocate for their rights, legitimize land ownership and apply for adaptation aid, as not all communities have the experience or platform to pursue collective political action. In places where civil society and advocacy are lacking, assistance may be required to aid those particularly vulnerable to the repercussions of climate change.
Though full of potential benefits, the illumination of TEK should not be considered a replacement for Western science, but rather a means of verifying information derived from global, biophysical reports and augmenting human defenses against climate change. It should be remembered that neither indigenous nor scientific communities produce consistently uniform or infallible knowledge. Generally, however, indigenous peoples have sustained harmonious relationships with the landscape for millennia. By putting into practice ecological knowledge embedded in their culture, they have many times actually increased local biodiversity. The need to collect and disseminate these traditions with proper compensation for such knowledge is urgent; globalization has prompted the urbanization of younger generations, and the impending death of elders means critical indigenous knowledge may be lost forever.
It remains to be seen whether or not people can combine resources quickly enough to expose and mitigate inequalities resulting from climate change. Such a dilemma inspires another anthropological question: What are the implications of inhabiting a rapidly warming planet where experts needed for understanding and adapting to climate change have yet to be consulted?
To read the full article written by Altaire Cambata, please visit Izilwane.org.
Berkes, Fikret. "Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management."Ecological Applications 10.5 (2000):1251-1262.
Mauro, Francesco, and Preston D.Hardison. "Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities:International Debate and Policy Initiatives." Ecological Applications 10.5 (2000):1263-269.
Marin, Anderi. "Riders Under Storms: Contributions of Nomadic Herders' Observations to Analysing Climate Change in Mongolia."Global Environmental Change,Adaptive, Adaptive Capacity to Global Change in Latin America (2010):162–176.
Thomas, David S.G. and Chasca Twyman."Equity and Justice in Climate Change Adaptation Amongst Natural-Resource-Dependent Societies." Global Environmental Change 15 (2005):115-24.
Wisner, Ben. "Climate Change andCultural Diversity." Editorial. UNESCO 2010:130-40.


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The Chuck Wagon was in Brooklyn last night to do color commentary for the Knicks-Nets Toilet Bowl, and since he's a man of the people, he decided to take the subway to the Barclays Center.
Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch was along for the ride, and captured the video above. Chuck's in good form, cracking jokes with passengers and responding with a wry, "It don't matter, man," when asked if he's picking the Knicks or the Nets. It's also pretty adorable how he insists on holding onto not one but two safety bars throughout the ride.
On another note: What the hell is up with this video, Deitsch? This shit is in portrait mode and shaky as hell. That's a double fault, my friend. We expect more from you.


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Clean Energy Makes Big Strides, but Just How Sustainable is the Growth?
Global investment in clean energy capacity expanded by 5 percent in 2011 to $260 billion. The growth comes despite the considerable drag from economic crisis in Europe and weak growth in the U.S.
The new research, compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, was announced yesterday in New York at United Nations headquarters building, site of the Investor Summit on Climate Risk & Energy Solutions.
Up from $247 billion in 2010, last year's rise in spending on clean energy capacity offered reasons for optimism along with rising cause for concern. Note that this data includes spending on renewable energy technologies, but not advanced coal, nuclear or conventional big hydro.
The good news: Spending has quintupled in the past seven years, with outlays for solar power leading the expansion -- soaring by 36 percent to $137.5 billion during 2011.
And in the global horse race for green energy leadership, the U.S. regained its lead over China for the first time since 2008. U.S. spending hit a record, at $55.4 billion, up 35 percent, as investment in China rose by just one percent to $48.9 billion.
"The performance of solar is even more remarkable when you consider that the price of photovoltaic modules fell by close to 50 percent during 2011, and now stands 75 percent lower than three years ago, in mid-2008," Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a statement.
But lurking behind those big numbers are worries that U.S.' resurgence in 2011 may turn out to be the lunge that precedes a stumble. Spending in the U.S. was buoyed by a big surge of stimulus funds, originally set aside in the 2008 stimulus bill, that will taper off sharply in the year ahead.
"The U.S. jumped back into the lead in clean energy investment last year," Liebreich added. "However before anyone in Washington celebrates too much, the U.S. figure was achieved thanks in large part to support initiatives which have now expired."
As those incentives shrink, the global wind and solar industries are set to consolidate. Supply in both the wind and solar markets exceeds demand significantly, leading to bankruptcies and pullbacks. In the solar space, Solyndra is the most visible, but one of a growing number of startups that crashed under pressure from falling solar cell prices.
Dominated by mature conglomerates such as GE and Siemens, the outlook for wind is dimmer than for solar: Global investment fell by 17 percent to $74.9 billion. To try to compete with lower-cost Chinese manufacturers Vestas, the world's largest producer of turbines, yesterday announced it was shuttering a factory, and cutting 2,335 jobs, or about 10 percent of its staff.
Of course, oversupply means lower-cost energy systems for buyers. And even as subsidies are declining in the wealthy West, non-financial policy support remains resilient. In the U.S., renewable portfolio standards in 29 U.S. states represent a $400 billion investment opportunity, as other states finalize similar commitments.
Meanwhile, stepped up subsidies in emerging markets -- especially Brazil and India -- are upgrading energy services to virgin markets. Spending in these areas will replace some of the investment that is retreating in North America and Europe, said Ethan Zindler, Head of Policy Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Financial innovation remains a weak spot, however, especially in the U.S., where clever capital solutions could help fill the gap left by shrinking federal subsidies. Given the multi-billion dollar scale of many clean-energy investment projects, there's been a dearth of the sorts of high-efficiency financial instruments that can bundle up batches of projects, and finance them at low cost in public markets, Zindler added.
There have been some promising precedents -- such as PACE loans and solar lease-to-own programs. But nothing has yet emerged to substitute for large-scale, multi-billion federal subsidy programs. Proposals such as green bonds or a national infrastructure bank are stuck in the starting gate, said Zindler.
Institutional investors, meanwhile, are hungry for more diversified ways to put money into greener projects. "Investors need diversified, sustainable strategies that maximize risk-adjusted returns in a volatile investment environment," said Ceres head Mindy Lubber, which directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling about $10 trillion.
The retreat of subsidies may enhance the competitiveness of products and strategies already honed to deliver higher efficiency and energy savings, said Marc Vachon, vice president of ecomagination at GE. He added that GE's ecomagination product line is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the company, having already generated $85 billion in revenues to date.
The event saw the release of two other reports of note for folks following investment trends in green business and clean tech:
• Global investment consultant Mercer issued a new report showing how leading global investors, including the nation's largest public pension fund, CalPERS, are integrating climate change considerations into investment risk management and asset allocations. The report, "Through the Looking Glass: How Investors are Applying Results of the Climate Change Scenarios Study" comes on the heels of a Mercer report last year showing that climate change could contribute as much as 10 percent to portfolio risk over the next 20 years.
• Deutsche Asset Management also released a new report, "2011: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly," describing generally mixed results on climate investments and policy in 2011 but projecting long-term growth in cleaner energy markets to continue. Positive trends included China and Germany's continued low-carbon leadership, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's issuance of new rules on hazardous air pollutants, Australia's new carbon legislation, and Japan's commitment to supporting the deployment of more renewable energy.
The report also highlights negative trends such as the weak performance of cleantech public equity stocks in 2011 and the expiration of several U.S. federal renewable energy incentive programs, including the "highly successful" Treasury Grant Program that expired Dec. 31, 2011. The report noted that the TGP program, in 2 1/2 years, leveraged nearly $23 billion in private sector investment for 22,000 projects in every state across a dozen clean energy industries.
Last but not least, a plug. If you, like me, have concluded that the "end of coal" is all but inevitable to prevent catastrophic climate change, check out this remarkable presentation -- which ended with a standing ovation -- by Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO at yesterday's summit.
Trumka, a former miner, spoke with passion about how the "end of coal" message is landing on the ground in blue-collar coal country, even as he acknowledged the dire need to address climate risks and build a low-carbon economy.
His message is cause to reflect on how labor's interests are often misunderstood and under-represented in climate policy discussions. Where coal miners see their jobs, housing values, and culture imperiled, it's no surprise that the politics of climate change become hard to swallow -- no matter how chaotic the climate change signals may be. The same labor issues vex the proposed XL Pipeline, about which Trumka says labor remains divided, and natural gas fracking as well.
Read the transcript here or watch his talk below, starting just before the 14-minute mark. It's well worth the 15-minute running time:
Wind turbine photo CC-licensed by Samuel Stocker.


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Only Pocket God creators Bolt Creative could work the Friends theme song into a trailer for a game update about spreading a plague and burning the corpses of pygmies.
Pocket God Episode 46: Germs of Endearment is now live, giving the players' pygmies access to the Plague Room, an incredibly ill-advised playroom containing a fountain that spews disease. Do not go into that room, I repeat, do not go... you're going into that room, aren't you? I guess I shouldn't expect much from someone that willingly visits Apocalypse Island.
Thank goodness there's also a fountain that spews the cure for the plague. Both the plague and the cure are contagious, so it's a race against time to see... you're already dead, aren't you?


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The DS is a great little gaming machine. It has a camera, two screens, Wi-fi and some clever built in tools. However, it is a gaming machine and without specialist software it's pretty hard to squeeze any education use out of it. I've been lucky enough to get to try out this hardware as part of a MOLENET project in the UK which exploits mobile technlogy for education. I had 16 new DSi Nintendo machines to use with my English language and Maths students. In this blog I'll talk about just one function of the DS – its ability to instantly connect with other machines around it.
Instant Chatrooms
A great feature of the DS is that it can connect and chat with other DS machines – see the picture on the right. This is a lovely piece of built in software, you can type or draw something and then 'send' it to up to 15 DS machines that are logged into the same chatroom. This doesn't require connection to the internet and has great potential to be exploited in the classroom.
Set Up
I gave my students a DSi each and asked them to go to the 'sytem settings' > page 2 > profile > username'. Here, they had to change the name of the device to their own name so everyone could see who wrote each entry. I didn't allow nicknames unless this was a name that everyone used for this student. I then asked students to click on the box with a smiling face on the main menu 'Chat' and then choose 'Chatroom A'. Everyone had to write 'hello' to show they were there. I also had my own DSi logged into the chatroom so I could follow what was happening, give feedback and also contribute if necessary.
The first obvious use is spelling, ask a student to spell a word and they can instantly spell it and send it so you and the rest of the class. I tried this in my intermediate English class and asked them to spell twenty of the most commonly misspelt words in English – click here for this list. I've done lots of spelling tests but this was much more fun and students could get feedback on their answers straight away. There was also and element of pressure, everyone was able to see if you had spelt the word wrong and so, some weaker students waited till stronger ones had written the answers and the sent it to the group – they could then copy the answer as their own. This backfired on a couple of my students as one of the cleverest decided to write an incorrect spelling on purpose which they copied.
Short Answer Questions
I've used short answer questions in internet chatrooms as a computer lesson before – click here for the blog, so I used the same lesson here and asked students to write down answers to quick, kind of pithy questions like 'When did you last cry? Why?' 'Who do you most admire?' and 'Tell me a lie about yourself.' (which isn't a question – but it asks for a response). I also asked some stupid questions like 'What did you have for your breakfast?' and 'What animal would you be?'. These were designed to generate fun for the class but they also had a more serious side. I noticed that most students were desperate to answer quickly and with good answers that were correct and/or funny proably because the whole class could see their individual response. As well as generating written English the quiz also generated a great deal of talking, asking for clarification and also follow up comments on individual answers.
Getting students to have conversations with each other on the DSi chatrooms seemed the logical next step. This time, I asked students to go to the 'sytem settings' > page 2 > profile > username' and change the name of their machine to something that noone else would be able to guess – this could be 'Student 1' or 'student 2' or something more strange and memorable like 'flower' or 'blue'. Importantly, they were not allowed to tell anyone their name. I then secretly put students into one of the four chatrooms on the DS by passing them pieces of paper with the letter of the chatroom they had to go. I have twelve people in my class and so there were three people in each chatroom. I gave students five minutes to chat to each other and guess who the other people were in the chatroom. Iasked them not to shout out their answer, but write the names of the people in the chatroom and their real life names on the paper I'd given them.
This was a fun lesson as students asked each other questions, gave each other false answers and pretended to be someone else. Whilst there wasn't any specific focus of the lesson, dexterity in English reading and writing (and speaking) was tested to its full capacity in a meaningful way. Everyone enjoyed the task and not everyone guess correctly the other people they were talking to. I aim to try this on a group of teachers and find out how they get on.
One to One
I decided to spend a bit of time using this function with a very low level ESOL learners to practise not only reading and writing but also speaking. Both the student and I found this to be a very useful and rewarding way of teaching writing on many different levels. So much so that I feel this issue needs it's own blog – click here to read this. I also decided to try using the DS to help my five year old son with his reading and writing – this deserves its own blog – click here to read it.
The chatroom is a real joy to use, as you write onto the DSi screen you can hear the soft sound of chalk onto board, the layout is clean and easy to use and although there aren't any other colours to use apart from black and multi-coloured it's got a real doodly feel to it. More able and younger students instantly fell into using it by trying out all the functions without asking questions, very much in the mold of Prensky's digital natives and older as well as less able students tended to be slower. All of the groups I worked with enjoyed using the technology and it did help to make the classroom more dynamic and motivational.
– As I said with the PSP, charging up 15 DSi machines is a pain. Also, the battery life is too short!
– The classroom activities were very definitely a 'once a month' task. Students would quickly get bored of the chatroom function if it was used in the same way every lesson, however it does have a place in one to one or low level ESOL teaching where the benefits would be massive.
– In group activities the strongest and most able are the studenst who have the most to say. Anyone who is slow might not be able to keep up and runs the risk of not being able to participate, however with the correct classroom management this could easily be avoided.
– There doesn't seem to be a way of keeping the comments made. It would be great to keep a word doc. of the things said and who said them. This would be particularly useful for the conversations lesson that I did.
– There are only four chatrooms. I wanted to split my students into pairs and send one half of each pair into different rooms, they would have to use written English to communicate with each other. I have 15 students and there are only four chatrooms avaliable on the DS machine.
Robin Hood Primary School in Wakefield are also using the DS to teach. Click here for their blog.
Japanese schools using the Nintendo DS. Click here for the blog.


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From one point of view, President Barack Obama's invocation of the hoary "77 cents" myth regarding the relative earnings of women and men was a shallow and cheap political pander. Democrats, eager to maintain their advantage with women voters, stoke grievance. It's the same playbook they've used to solidify their standing with black voters -- suggest whenever and wherever possible that Republicans are racists. It's crude, offensive and libelous -- but effective.
Yet Obama fancies himself an intellectual. Campaigning against Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia, the president chastised the Republican for challenging climate change, saying, "It has to do with what's true. It has to do with facts. You don't argue with facts." Many in the press and in progressive circles regard this president as a bit of a thought leader.
So it's remarkable that he is willing to betray how out of touch he is with social science by peddling the decades-old and utterly outdated idea that our great challenge as a society is ensuring women equal pay for equal work. He could not be more dated if he were issuing calls to improve phonograph needles.
Conservatives like Christina Hoff Sommers, Charles Murray and Kay Hymowitz, have long been drawing attention to the declining fortunes of boys and men in American society. They have been joined recently by nonconservative scholars and researchers as well.
A paper by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology economists, "Wayward Sons," published by the center/left think tank Third Way, outlines the startling decline in the fortunes of moderately to poorly educated men over the past several decades. The title of the opening chapter is direct: "Women Gain Ground, Men Lose Ground." Starting with the cohort born in 1951, a gender gap in high school completion has opened up and continues to grow. More girls than boys are graduating from high school.
The college picture is even starker. Whereas the high school graduation rate for males has stagnated (while women's has improved), college attendance for males has declined while women have advanced. "Females born in 1975 were roughly 17 percent more likely than their male counterparts to attend college and nearly 23 percent more likely to complete a four-year degree." Young women are also more ambitious and have higher hopes for their futures than young men.
Much attention has focused on the decline of blue-collar jobs over the past several decades, and "Wayward Sons" duly acknowledges that the loss of low-skilled jobs to automation, globalization and de-unionization may have contributed to the notable decline in wages suffered by less educated men in the past several decades. But the puzzling fact is women with equivalent levels of education have not suffered the same income declines, nor have women's labor force participation rates declined as men's have. While men's wages have declined for all but the most educated since 1979, women's wages have increased for all but the least educated. Women's income gains have far outstripped men's at every level of education, particularly among college graduates ages 40 to 64.
"Wayward Sons" considers the possibilities -- are women better at the tasks a highly information-rich economy rewards? Is the loss of brawny jobs to blame for men's falling labor force participation and declining earnings? Each theory gets a hearing.
At length, the authors come to the elephant in the room: the dramatic change in family structure since 1970. In that year, 69 percent of black men without a high school diploma were married. By 2010, only 17 percent were. The marriage rate among non-college attending whites and Hispanics has declined precipitously as well.
The link between family composition and child welfare is well-established. What "Wayward Sons" adds is data on the differentially harmful effects of fatherlessness on sons versus daughters. "Growing up in a single-parent home appears to significantly decrease the probability of college attendance for boys, yet has no similar effect for girls." Boys from such homes "are 25 percentage points more likely to be suspended in the eighth grade than girls from these households, whereas the corresponding gender gap between boys and girls from households with two biological parents was only 10 percentage points."
A vicious cycle is clearly underway. Poorly educated women do not find marriageable mates among low-earning or jobless young men. Women then raise children alone and handicap their sons more than their daughters, and the cycle repeats itself.
The collapse of the marriage culture is arguably the "defining issue of our time." Neither men nor women thrive without marriage, but men and boys seem to suffer more. Fatherlessness is driving income inequality, child poverty and declining mobility. But Obama is manning the barricades on "equal pay for equal work" -- a matter addressed by Congress in 1963.


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In Sarah Ruhl's latest play, Stage Kiss (directed by Jessica Thebus),two ex-lovers are thrust together after not having seen each other for two decades, when they both audition for -- and get a starring role in -- a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, One Last Kiss. In the play, She (Jenny Bacon) is cast as an upper-class woman, Ada, who has her true love, Johnny (played by He), re-enter her life. While they initially attempt to keep their relationship a strictly professional one, it quickly becomes clear that given their history, and the parallels that exist between the storyline of One Last Kiss and their own lives -- which is precisely what contributes to this blurring of the line between stage and reality -- that this will not be an easy task.
Soon enough their professional relationship becomes a romantic one. In short order He leaves his girlfriend, Laurie (Erica Elam), and She leaves her husband (Scott Jaeck) and her teenage daughter, Angela (Sarah Tolan-Mee), so that they may be together and rekindle that romance that they (perceive) they once shared.
While their relationship starts off well enough, it doesn't take long for them to realize that for all the good times they reminisced over, their relationship was not quite as perfect as they chose to remember it. In fact, they realize, their real relationship and the idealized or romanticized version that they made up in their minds differ greatly. In truth, when they were together as twenty-somethings, they had many fights, many of them rather serious. Theirs was ultimately a toxic relationship, which is why she chose to leave him all those years ago.
It is once She recognizes this that she seems to come to the realization that she has been chasing after something that never really existed between the two of them and never would, ignoring (it could be argued) that which she had with her husband, a mature relationship. She grew up and had a family, while for He time seemingly stood still. He is, as She says, a Peter Pan-type, refusing to grow up. Upon realizing this, She begins to miss her husband, something she admits to him, and wants to go back to her old life, to her husband and daughter.
It is interesting to note, as was alluded to in the Goodman's own publication, OnStage, how much the relationship between He and She affect their performance in One Last Kiss. Watching them it is obvious that what goes on offstage impacts what they do onstage. At first, when they find out who has been cast opposite them, those intimate scenes seem extremely awkward.
As a more intense, intimate relationship between them develops offstage, those scenes become much more intense. At one point he even tells her that he's more worried about kissing offstage than on, since onstage there's someone to direct them and tell them when to stop. As their relationship begins to fall apart, those scenes become even more awkward than they were initially, to the extent that She threatens to leave the play. Ultimately she doesn't, but does refuse to act, which leads to some pretty hilarious improvisation in the play within the play.
Personally, I cannot recommend this production highly enough. Stage Kiss is an absorbing study of identity and relationships, one full of wit, wisdom, and insightful observations -- and is one of those shows that is a must-see.
Stage Kiss is currently running at the Goodman Theatre (in the Albert Theatre) through June 5, 2011. Showtimes are as follows: Sundays at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM (except no 7:30 PM on Sunday, May 29th), Tuesdays at 7:30 PM (no performances on May 3 and May 10), Wednesdays at 7:30 PM, Thursdays at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM (except no 2:00 PM on May 5 and June 2), Fridays at 8:00 PM, and Saturdays at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM (except no 2:00 PM on April 30 and May 14, and no performances all day on May 21st). Post-show discussions with members of the Goodman's artistic staff and the cast take place after performances on Wednesdays and Thursdays. There is no charge to attend post-show discussions and no reservations are required.
For the most current performance dates and times, to find out more about the production, or to purchase tickets, please visit the Goodman Theatre website, www.goodmantheatre.org. To purchase tickets by phone, call the box office at 312-443-3800. Group tickets for 10 persons or more are also available by calling 312-443-3820. The Goodman Theatre is located at 170 N. Dearborn St. in Chicago.
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A friend of mine is back. Actually, I use "friend" lightly. I'm a huge fan and I'm thrilled that he is back blogging and WordPressing. ColdForged is the mastermind behind some of my favorite WordPress Plugins, Enhanced Post View WordPress Plugin and Paged Comment Editing Plugin, Image Headlines Plugin, and Spelling Checker for WordPress, among others.
I'm on a campaign to have his Enhanced Post View WordPress Plugin become integrated into the core of WordPress 1.6. It's THAT good.
After doing battle with several servers with the growing popularity of his site and plugins, health problems, and other evils, ColdForged closed down his site and took a break. I was heartbroken. He's recently made a comeback and I wish him all the best and hope that the amazing plugins and programming code he's been so generous with for the WordPress Community will continue.
Welcome back, ColdForged!


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There is no requirement that the more than 2 million residents enrolled in the state Medicaid health insurance program for the poor must be enrolled in an HMO. The voluntary program, started in the 1990s, has not been popular and has resulted in less than 160,000 patients enrolled in managed-care plans.
Largely because enrollment has never been made mandatory, more than a half-dozen plans have exited the business in recent years. Harmony Health Plans, a subsidiary of Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans Inc., has remained, and has from time to time pushed the idea as a way to save the state money. Other plans, too, are looking to expand into Illinois and would also like to see mandatory enrollment.
HMOs have long argued that restricting doctor and hospital choices to their networks makes them a cheaper and more cost-effective alternative to fee-for-service Medicaid. HMOs would also provide disease management and assign patients a primary-care physician to encourage preventive care and reduce the number of poor people seeking care in the more expensive hospital emergency room.
Neither Harmony nor WellCare would comment for this story. The companies, however, have John Wyma as their lobbyist in talks with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office. Wyma was Blagojevich's chief of staff when the governor represented Chicago's Northwest Side in Congress and remains a major fundraiser for the governor. Wyma did not return calls seeking comment.
HMOs have told staffers in the governor's office that they would like a way to prove that mandatory managed care works and that a pilot program would be one way to do that, according to a source close to the governor.
The state would start with a pilot program that would require Medicaid patients in two contiguous counties to join HMOs, according to pending legislation that was tucked in a so-called budget implementation bill and has passed the Illinois Senate. Neither county was disclosed.
The bill's fate is uncertain in the Illinois House.
Although the current Medicaid program requires patients to sign up for a specific physician under a form of managed care known as primary care case management, there is no requirement that patients sign up for an HMO.
Doctors and hospitals have long opposed forcing Medicaid patients to enroll in HMOs because they believe it would threaten patient access to medical-care providers. They also say HMOs have no proof their program saves money.
"Because Illinois Medicaid payment rates are so low and the base rate has been frozen for the past dozen years, savings have already been squeezed out of the Medicaid program," said Ken Robbins, president of the Illinois Hospital Association.
Hear Bruce Japsen on WBBM-AM 780 at 6:21 p.m. and 10:22 p.m. Mondays and 11:20 a.m. Saturdays.