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When Matthew Arnold keeled over, in April, 1888, while hurrying to catch the Liverpool tram, Walt Whitman managed to contain his grief. "He will not be missed," Whitman told a friend. Arnold reaffirmed all that was "rich, hefted, lousy, reeking with delicacy, refinement, elegance, prettiness, propriety, criticism, analysis." He was, in short, "one of the dudes of literature." Whitman probably figured that his own gnarly hirsuteness would save him from becoming a dude. He was wrong, and therein lies a lesson for all hardworking scribblers: stick around long enough, develop a cult following, gain the approval of one or two literary dudes (in Whitman's case: Henry James, Ezra Pound, and F. O. Matthiessen), and you, too, can become respectable.
Of course, it's one thing for a poet who contains multitudes to become a literary dude; it's another for writers who deal with lawmen, criminals, private detectives, spies, aliens, ghosts, fallen heroines, and killer cars. Such writers—commercial and genre novelists—aim at delivering less rarefied pleasures. And part of the pleasure we derive from them is the knowledge that we could be reading something better, something that, in the words of Arnold, reflects "the best that has been thought and said in this world."
For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good. You could either go to an amusement park or trundle off to a museum, ride a roller coaster or stroll among the Flemish Masters. Genre writers were not exactly unmindful of this. In 1901, G. K. Chesterton, the creator of the plump, priestly sleuth Father Brown, lamented, "Many people do not realize that there is such a thing as a good detective story; it is to them like speaking of a good devil."
But good devils make for good company, and, in time, bookish people did begin to speak of them. In 1929, the eminent Milton scholar Marjorie Nicolson, the first female president of Phi Beta Kappa, described a dinner party rescued from the brink of dullness when the desperate hostess asked a distinguished scholar to name "the most significant book of recent years." The great man replied, "I never can make up my mind between 'The Bellamy Trial' and 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.' " That, you can imagine, got the room buzzing.
Nicolson's point was not that Agatha Christie is better than George Eliot but that readers who seek out mystery novels are looking to escape not from life but from literature, from the "pluperfect tenses of the psychical novel." Nicolson was speaking on behalf of those intellectuals who, "weary unto death of introspective and psychological literature," simply yearned for a good story. Edmund Wilson, however, didn't buy it. He was irritated by the giddy approval of highbrows like Nicolson, and, in 1944, published an article in this magazine that contained some disparaging remarks about the mystery genre. To Wilson's surprise, he received more passionate letters than his criticisms of the Soviet Union ever elicited—so many, in fact, that he felt compelled to revisit the case a few months later.
The result was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?," which dispatched the genre's big guns with seignorial aplomb: Dorothy Sayers's "The Nine Tailors" was "one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field"; Margery Allingham's "Flowers for the Judge" was "completely unreadable." Reading mysteries, Wilson concluded, "is a kind of vice that, for silliness and minor harmfulness, ranks somewhere between crossword puzzles and smoking." He admitted that John Dickson Carr had a descriptive gift and that Raymond Chandler wrote well, though he remained "a long way below Graham Greene." Chandler wasn't pleased. "Literature is bunk," he retorted, propagated by "fancy boys, clever-clever darlings, stream-of-consciousness ladies and gents, and editorial novelists"—in other words, a bunch of literary dudes.
Nonetheless, it was a senior literary dude, W. H. Auden, who pointed Chandler canonward. In "The Guilty Vicarage," his sin-soaked defense of the detective story, Auden decided that Chandler's "powerful but extremely depressing books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art." Although properly gratified by Auden's estimation, Chandler protested that he didn't know what to make of it. He had studied the classics at the Dulwich College preparatory school, in London, and regarded himself as "just a fellow who jacked up a few pulp novelettes into book form."
For all that, it was Chandler's blend of stylish wit and tough-guy sentimentality that made it easier for the commercial writers who followed. If you were good—maybe not Chandler good, but good enough—you could find a booster among the literati. In 1965, Kingsley Amis compiled his "James Bond Dossier," and six years later Eudora Welty gushed over Ross Macdonald's "Underground Man" on the front page of the Times Book Review. In 1989, fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser books were treated to a laudatory piece in the Book Review by the esteemed critic and biographer R. W. B. Lewis, and, more recently, the Times ran a feature on Lee Child. Indeed, scores of novelists in a variety of genres—P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, John le Carré, Donald Westlake, Charles McCarry, Henning Mankell, Dennis Lehane—routinely receive glowing writeups in major newspapers and literary venues.
The doyen of thriller writers, however, continues to be the Detroit-based novelist Elmore Leonard. Leonard began publishing in the nineteen-fifties and since then has produced at least one novel every two years. Hollywood discovered him before the book critics did ("3:10 to Yuma," "Hombre," and "Valdez Is Coming" were all adapted for the screen), but in short order Leonard's cut-to-the-chase dialogue, intelligently spare narrative, tight-lipped heroes, and offbeat villains had reviewers tripping over their own superlatives. In 1995, Martin Amis dubbed him "a literary genius who writes re-readable thrillers," and who "possesses gifts—of ear and eye, of timing and phrasing—that even the most indolent and snobbish masters of the mainstream must vigorously covet." It seems we have reached a point when Robert Graves's words about Shakespeare can be applied to Leonard: the remarkable thing about him is that he is "really very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." Does this sound like a guilty pleasure?
Praise can be seductive, and writers who ordinarily would not reach for literary laurels may start hankering after them. But if a writer of a romance or a mystery succeeds in deepening her narrative does the guilt disengage from the pleasure, and is the pleasure any the less for it? Writers like P. D. James pride themselves on rejecting the very conventions of detective fiction that appealed to Marjorie Nicolson. In 1981, James enlisted the Times Literary Supplement to make her case: "The modern detective story has moved away from the earlier crudities and simplicities. Crime writers are as concerned as are other novelists with psychological truth and the moral ambiguities of human action." James's point is well taken, but for many genre practitioners there is a danger in earnestness. Nothing bogs down a pulpy tale faster than real-life feelings about real life. The weakest parts of Robert Parker's violent but often charming Spenser novels are the soul-searching conversations between the detective and his shrink girlfriend Susan Silverman. The dialogue makes your head explode, and not in a good way.
Skilled genre writers know that a certain level of artificiality must prevail, lest the reasons we turn to their books evaporate. It's plot we want and plenty of it. Heroes should go up against villains (sympathetic or hateful); love should, if possible, win out; and a satisfying sense of closure and comeuppance should top off the experience. Basically, a guilty pleasure is a fix in the form of a story, a narrative cocktail that helps us temporarily forget the narratives of our own humdrum lives. And, for not a few readers, there's the additional kick of feeling that they're getting away with something. Instead of milking the cows or reading the Meno, they're dallying somewhere with "Fifty Shades of Grey."
So, despite the best efforts of literary theorists, the concept of guilty pleasures, although wobbly, seems to be holding firm. NPR currently airs a "My Guilty Pleasure" segment, where "writers talk about the books they love but are embarrassed to be seen reading," and where the novelist Gary Shteyngart turned up one day to riff on the post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel "Zardoz." Although he admitted that he couldn't quote a single sentence from Jane Austen, he managed to rattle off lines from "Zardoz," such as "Stay close to me, inside my aura."
Probably a few well-respected writers can recite passages from genre novels, and some may recognize the following:
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. . . .
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.
It's a pretty good story, too, about an infant raised by gorillas: a big guy, six feet three, two hundred and forty pounds, knows how to handle a knife—maybe you've heard of him? He was created in 1912 and appeared in twenty-five sequels, twelve or thirteen of which I read when I was around twelve or thirteen. Had I been any older, I think I would have known that this is writing as a form of silent-film acting, no more believable than the conspiratorial smiles and exaggerated frowns of hammy vaudevillians. The passage I've cited is the opening of Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan of the Apes," whose centennial is being commemorated by the Library of America's publication, this year, of the original pulp novel.
The All-Story, the magazine in which Burroughs's novel first appeared, was called a pulp not because it was citrusy but because it was printed on cheap, untrimmed wood paper. But, if you wanted juicy, that's where you headed, because that's where many genre writers earned their bona fides. Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, David Goodis, H. P. Lovecraft, and Philip K. Dick wrote for the pulps, and all, not coincidentally, have been ordained by the Library of America. One hardly requires more proof of the insidious plot: writers we once thought of as guilty pleasures are being granted literary status. The man whom Rudyard Kipling (hey, didn't he also write about some kid in the jungle?) accused of having published a book so that he could "find out how bad a book he could write and get away with it" is now a literary dude. Despite the turgid prose, the wooden dialogue, and the fact that the apes exhibit more complexity than the humans, the Tarzan novels have become a solemn cultural fixation. "Tarzan of the Apes" is both "prelapsarian fantasy in its conceit and Emersonian fable in its reach," Gerald Early confidently asserts in "A New Literary History of America." Not only that, but the "Tarzan story of man in a state of nature leads to a kingdom no less powerful than that of Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' " Evidently, one man's Cheetah is another man's Satan.
The guilty-pleasure label peels off more easily if we recall that the novel itself was once something of a guilty pleasure. In the mid-eighteenth century, there was a hovering suspicion that novels were for people not really serious about literature. Instead of laboring over "An Essay on Man" or some musty verse drama, readers could turn the pages of an amusing French novel or even one by Richardson or Fielding. Unlike works of moral or religious instruction, novels were diverting. Of course, if they proved too diverting, how good could they be? Hence Dickens, with his enormous audience, was considered by many of his contemporaries to be more of a sentimentalist and a caricaturist than a serious artist.
Modernism, of course, confirmed the idea of the commercial novel as a guilty pleasure by making the literary novel tough sledding. Far from delivering easy pleasures, modernist fiction could be an exercise in aesthetic and psychological subtlety; it was written not for people with time on their hands but for those willing to put in the time to master it. Indeed, fiction in the age of modernism became as much identified with literature as poetry or plays, and its complexities required a new class of expert readers, a secular clergy capable of explaining its mysteries. Serious fiction was serious business, and a reader might tire of it.
George Orwell was such a reader. His essay "Good Bad Books," which takes its title from a coinage by Chesterton, is his apologia for admiring "the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished." Orwell had two kinds of good bad books in mind: the first consisted of "escape" literature," having nothing to do "with real life"; the second, although concerned with real life, was "quite impossible to call 'good' by any strictly literary standard" and proved "that intellectual refinement can be a disadvantage to a story-teller, as it would be to a music-hall comedian." Orwell admits to enjoying Sherlock Holmes, Raffles, and "Dracula," but can't take them seriously. He seems positively heartened by the thought that such books remind us "that art is not the same thing as cerebration," that, in effect, intelligence could be a hindrance to writing fiction; otherwise, every intelligent critic would be capable of writing a readable novel.
Today, the literary climate has changed: the canon has been impeached, formerly neglected writers have been saluted, and the presumed superiority of one type of book over another no longer passes unquestioned. So when Terrence Rafferty, in the Times Book Review last year, expressed disappointment with a novel that tried and failed to transcend the limitations of its genre he caught some flak.
For Rafferty, the book demonstrated the difficulty of finding "an expressive equilibrium between 'literary' fiction and genre fiction." Literary fiction, he went on to say, "allows itself to dawdle, to linger on stray beauties even at the risk of losing its way." That was enough to rankle Ursula K. Le Guin: "The distinction Mr. Rafferty makes between literary and genre fiction, though cherished by many critics and teachers, was never very useful and is by now worse than useless." The presumed dichotomy also irks Lee Child, the author of a popular series of books featuring the ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. Child is indignant that thrillers might be considered peripheral to literature. "The thriller concept is why humans invented storytelling, thousands of years ago," he told an interviewer. "It's the only real genre, and all the other stuff has grown on the side of it like barnacles." And—who knows?—Trollope might have ceded him the point. A writer who can deal with murder, barbarity, and horror—with "tragic elements"—is, Trollope argued, "a greater artist and reaches a higher aim than the writer whose efforts never carry him above the mild walks of everyday life."
But, as is often the case with efforts to recognize and raise up the formerly downtrodden, a spirit of revision can lead to overvaluation. Yes, there's something to be said for John D. MacDonald's 1960 noirish thriller "The End of the Night," but one has to wonder at the lavish generosity that led Stephen King to proclaim it among "the greatest American novels of the twentieth century," one that "ranks with 'An American Tragedy.' "
King doesn't want to be a guilty pleasure. Having mastered the horror genre, he started contributing, in the nineteen-nineties, to small prestige journals like Antaeus, and in 1996 he received an O. Henry Award for a story published in this magazine. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him its medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. At that point, King had published forty books, including the well-received "On Writing," but not everyone was convinced. Harold Bloom fumed that King was a writer of "what used to be called penny dreadfuls." The fact that the National Book Foundation judges "could believe that there is any literary value there or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own idiocy." In short, Bloom was annoyed that King had become a dude of literature.
Although dudehood seems to be conferred nowadays for durability as much as for merit, comparisons needn't be invidious. Consider two novels—one literary, the other a mystery—that begin, not far apart in time, on a railway platform:
It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.
By the step leading up into the sleeping car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small lean man, muffled up to the ears, of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward curled moustache.
It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully.
For mystery buffs, no further clues are needed: the sentences open Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express," still in print after nearly eight decades. Christie's writing is like that of many others in the field: practical, no-nonsense, bordering on cliché, with a faint didactic hum. The scene is set, a tone is established, and nothing, one feels, will come between us and the story.
Now another train station:
The two young men—they were of the English public official class—sat in the perfectly appointed railway carriage. The leather straps to the windows were of virgin newness; the mirrors beneath the new luggage racks immaculate as if they had reflected very little; the bulging upholstery in its luxuriant, regulated curves was scarlet and yellow in an intricate, minute dragon pattern, the design of a geometrician in Cologne. The compartment smelt faintly, hygienically of admirable varnish; the train ran as smoothly—Tietjens remembered thinking—as British gilt-edged securities.
The second passage introduces Ford Madox Ford's four-decker novel "Parade's End." Ford also has a story to tell, but he'll take his time about it, unfurling complex sentences in a series of dependent clauses, with an eye toward the unique ("minute dragon pattern") as opposed to the generalized detail ("pink-tipped nose"). Christie's language wants us to settle in; Ford's demands that we pay attention (varnish is admirable, but who knew?), which, of course, puts any serious writer at risk—style may not be the man, but it surely makes us notice him.
The typical genre writer keeps rhetorical flourishes to a minimum, and the typical reader is content to let him. Readers who require more must look either to other kinds of novels or to those genre writers who care deeply about their sentences. Raymond Chandler, for one, professed not to care "a button" for the hardboiled form, yet he wanted to write good hardboiled fiction. To do so, he downplayed plot and concentrated on "experiments in dramatic dialogue . . . what Errol Flynn calls 'the music,' the lines he has to speak."
Still, he knew that certain expectations must be met, since it's the formulaic nature of genre writing (variations serve to underscore such expectations) that keeps us coming back. The reason that Wittgenstein eagerly awaited his monthly copy of Street & Smith's Detective Story is the same that prompted Nadezhda Mandelstam to ask visitors to bring her Agatha Christie's latest. Neither one was after startling revelations about nature or society; they simply wanted the comfort of a familiar voice recounting a story that they hadn't quite heard before. Call it a vice (Edmund Wilson does), call it an addiction (Auden's word), a guilty pleasure in book form simply means time off from heavy lifting or heavy reading. Auden, in truth, didn't do Chandler any favors by admonishing prospective readers that Chandler's books should be "judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art"—because it's only as models of escape literature that they work as art.
Everyone ought to get away once in a while—especially if you're the President. But when Barack Obama bought some books on Martha's Vineyard last August a writer for the National Review seemed put out that they included a trilogy of sinewy crime novels by Daniel Woodrell: "While there is nothing wrong with that per se, not every presidential reading selection is worth revealing to the public. Bill Clinton, for example, used to love mysteries, but he did not advertise the titles of what he once called 'my little cheap-thrills outlet.' "
Apparently, we're still judged by the books we read, and perhaps we should be. Preferring Ken Follett's "On Wings of Eagles" to Henry James's "Wings of the Dove" is not a negligible bias. Nonetheless, we shouldn't sell short the likes of Follett, or, for that matter, Ross Thomas (the smoothest of thriller writers), John Grisham, James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, Robert Crais, or George Pelecanos, all of whom consistently deliver entertaining works in serviceable prose. Such writers have a gift that is as mysterious to nonwriters as plucking melodies out of thin air is to nonmusicians. Plotting, inventing, creating characters, putting words in their mouths and quirks in their personalities—it all seems pretty astonishing to me. The prose may be uneven and the observations about life and society predictable, but, if the story moves, we, almost involuntarily, move with it. And, if we feel a little guilty about getting so swept up, there's always "The Death of Virgil" to read as penance. ♦

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Why do tea partiers flock to Santorum, given his voting record?
WASHINGTON — Supporters of the tea party movement, the grass-roots conservatives who've been relentless in demanding tough, lean budgets, are rallying behind Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum — but Santorum's record suggests he's hardly one of them.
His support among tea party Republicans is surging, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, which labels him the clear favorite of the influential group.
Yet while Santorum was a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, he was hardly the kind of die-hard fiscal conservative whom movement followers crave.
"His record contains more than a few weak spots that make us question if he would resist political expediency when it comes to economic issues," said an analysis from the Club for Growth, which promotes fiscal conservatism.
Added Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, "There are places you can say yes and places you can say no" as to whether Santorum is a rock-solid fiscal conservative.
The former senator, Meckler said, is "a relatively average Republican. His votes change from year to year depending on whether it's an election year. I'd say he's a relative conservative on taxes."
In a nationwide poll taken last Wednesday through Sunday, Pew found that among Republican and GOP-leaning voters, 42 percent of tea party backers preferred Santorum. Rival Mitt Romney was far behind at 23 percent.
But questions about Santorum's fiscal background — questions the Romney and Ron Paul campaigns are raising daily — suggest that Santorum's support is going to be tested severely as the campaign moves into Michigan and Arizona, which hold primaries Feb. 28.
Santorum's fiscal record is certainly more conservative than that of most lawmakers, and he's consistently supported major tax-cut legislation. But his record has some significant blemishes from the purist-conservative perspective.
Santorum most angered conservatives with his backing of the expensive 2003 Medicare prescription-drug program, which is expected to cost about $68 billion this year alone. Santorum told CNN last year that his Medicare vote was a mistake, because the program wasn't paid for.
His vote for the 2005 highway bill — a $284 billion measure that was loaded with earmarks, including the infamous Alaska "Bridge to Nowhere" — also outraged conservatives.
Santorum has been a consistent supporter of earmarks, the local projects that members of Congress insert into legislation. Taxpayers for Common Sense, which tracks earmarks, estimates that in Santorum's 12 years in the Senate and four in the House of Representatives, he got at least $1 billion in projects.
"He's not in the pantheon of great earmarkers, but he certainly played the game," said Steve Ellis, the group's vice president.
In addition, Santorum voted many times to raise the federal debt ceiling and for Amtrak funds.
"By most standards, he's a conservative. The problem is this isn't the (normal election) year by most standards. This is the year that Republicans are looking for purity," said Terry Madonna, the director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Pennsylvania's Franklin & Marshall College.
"They want a candidate who has no flaws, no transgressions, no walk-backs for true conservatism. That's the nature of the debate right now. A lot of conservatives are afraid that they'll elect another appeaser who'll sell out the true conservatives and the conservative movement."
The Club for Growth described Santorum's record as "mixed." The National Taxpayers Union, which promotes fiscal conservatism, found that Santorum was more willing to slash spending when he wasn't facing an election.
"This is the record of solid stances on tax issues and many but not all spending issues," said Pete Sepp, a vice president of the group.
Sal Russo, a co-founder of the Tea Party Express, is a veteran California Republican strategist. He said that many people said they didn't support the tea party movement until they learned it was primarily for fiscal responsibility. "Then they support us overwhelmingly," Russo said.
He also said that tea party support for the various GOP candidates had "seesawed" throughout the campaign, though he pointed out that "Romney's been a consistent second choice."
Meckler, of Tea Party Patriots, said Santorum was doing well among tea party backers because of his conservative stands on social issues, such as abortion or gay marriage.
Meckler also said that tea party backers were still looking for their perfect conservative, but that they realized they wouldn't find one among the current GOP candidates.
"None of them are pure conservatives," he said. "They understand that in this election, they're not going to find this."
Ron Paul site with list of Santorum's big-government votes
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MADISON, Wis./KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Two top Federal Reserve policymakers expressed discomfort on Thursday with the U.S. central bank's easy monetary policy, in comments suggesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may face more dissent this year.
In remarks that stamped her as a hawk on the Fed's policy-setting committee, Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George warned that the Fed's near-zero interest-rate policy - aimed at boosting the economy - could spark inflation.
"A prolonged period of zero interest rates may substantially increase the risks of future financial imbalances and hamper attainment of the 2 percent inflation goal in the future," she said in her most extensive remarks in a year on policy.
"Monetary policy, by contributing to financial imbalances and instability, can just as easily aggravate unemployment as heal it," she said in a speech in Kansas City.
That stance is hardly representative of other influential officials at the central bank, including Bernanke and the vice chair, Janet Yellen.
Their view was more closely captured by comments from Narayana Kocherlakota, who noted inflation was forecast to remain below the central bank's 2 percent target for the foreseeable future, even by the Fed's own estimates.
"This forecast suggests that, if anything, monetary policy is currently too tight, not too easy," he said in remarks in Minneapolis.
Last month, the Fed voted to keep up asset purchases at an $85 billion monthly pace to lower borrowing costs and spur hiring. It said it would continue that policy, called quantitative easing, until it saw substantial improvement in the labor market outlook.
U.S. central bankers also pledged to hold interest rates near zero until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, provided inflation does not threaten to rise above 2.5 percent.
George will cast her first vote this month on monetary policy since taking the helm at the Kansas City Fed in October 2011, while Kocherlakota is not a voter this year.
"The latest remarks from Kansas City Fed's Esther George have cemented the presence of a hawkish dissenter on the FOMC in 2013, with Richmond Fed's (Jeffrey) Lacker passing along the hawkish torch," said Gennadiy Goldberg, U.S. strategist at TD Securities.
Lacker was the lone dissenter on the Fed's policy-setting panel last year.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, who votes as well this year on U.S. monetary policy, also warned about the potential for inflation, although he noted that inflation was so far running under the Fed's 2 percent goal.
"It is a very aggressive policy and it is making me a little bit nervous that we are overcommitting to the easy policy," he told reporters after a speech to the Wisconsin Bankers Association in Madison. "We are taking risk."
As Fed officials mull when to reduce or end the asset buying - some, including Bullard, say that could happen this year - the debate may focus on potential inflation as well as the outlook for the economy.
On the latter front, George was decidedly more downbeat than Bullard, saying she expected the U.S. economy to grow just above 2 percent in 2013, while unemployment falls about another half percentage point.
Bullard sees growth at 3.2 percent this year and next, he said Thursday, and sees the jobless rate dropping to 6.5 percent - the Fed's threshold for rethinking its low-rate policy - by the middle of next year. The U.S. jobless rate in December was 7.8 percent.
Kocherlakota predicts U.S. gross domestic product will expand at an annual pace of 2.5 percent in 2013 and 3 percent next year, estimates that put him on the weak end of Fed policymakers' forecasts.
"This growth will do little in terms of returning the economy to the historical trend," Kocherlakota said in prepared remarks to a Minneapolis Fed event. "Consistent with this slow output growth, I expect unemployment to continue to fall only slowly."
Minutes from the Fed's December meeting suggested George, while definitely on the hawkish end of the central bank's policy views, was not alone.
They said several voting FOMC members were concerned about possible risks to financial stability from the Fed's prolonged stimulus policies.
Additional reporting by David Bailey and Pedro da Costa; Editing by Peter Cooney


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CARSON, CALIF.(June 7, 2013) - Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer announced at the outset of yesterday's final press conference that he expects The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., to be sold out for the exciting fight card headlined by Marcos Maidana vs. Josesito Lopez this Saturday, June 8 on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING live on SHOWTIME® (10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT).
"The venue has 8,279 seats and there are only about 800 seats left on sale so we definitely will have a sell-out," Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions said. "That shows that cumulatively this card is the single best card we have had here in Carson."
"I was talking with my good friend Dan Beckerman, the President and CEO of AEG and he was telling me that there has only been one event in the history of boxing here in Carson that has been a sell-out and that was the Antonio Margarito fight in 2007 against Paul Williams. Whenever there's a fight in Carson it always elevates the crowd and the fighters. It's a hotbed for boxing, has been called the mecca of boxing in Southern California and I agree with that," Schaefer continued.
"I think that week after week (Executive Vice President and General Manager, SHOWTIME Sports) Stephen Espinoza is kicking ass at SHOWTIME. There's only one brand in boxing right now and that's SHOWTIME, the undisputed leader in boxing."
In what is expected to be a non-stop action slugfest in the 12-round main event, hard-hitting Marcos "El Chino" Maidana (33-3, 30 KO's), of Margarita, Argentina defends his WBA Intercontinental Welterweight Championship against "The Riverside Rocky'' Josesito Lopez (30-5, 18 KO's) of Riverside, Calif.
Two additional 12-round battles top off the Golden Boy Promotions promoted event. In a classic puncher vs. boxer matchup, exciting Alfredo "El Perro" Angulo (22-2, 18 KO's) of Los Angeles, meets classy Cuban Erislandy Lara (17-1-2, 11 KO's) of Houston, Texas for the vacant WBA Interim Super Welterweight World Championship and Demetrius Hopkins (33-2-1, 13 KO's) of Philadelphia, Penn. takes on undefeated Jermell Charlo (20-0, 10 KO's) of Houston, Texas for Hopkins' USBA Junior Middleweight Championship and Charlo's WBC Continental Americas Super Welterweight Championship.
Matchups for the SHOWTIME EXTREME telecast (8:00 p.m. ET/PT) include undefeated Yoshihiro Kamegai (22-0-1, 19 KO's) of Sapporo, Japan taking on former World Champion Johan Perez (16-1-1, 12 KO's) Caracas, Venezuela in a 10-round clash for the vacant WBA International Welterweight Championship, former USC football player Gerald Washington (7-0, 5 KO's) of Los Angeles facing veteran Sherman Williams (35-12-2, 19 KO's) of Vero Beach, Florida in an 8-round heavyweight battle and (time permitting) 2012 U.S. Olympian Joseph "Jo Jo" Diaz Jr. (4-0, 2 KO's) of South El Monte, Calif. squaring off against Rigoberto Casillas (8-10-1, 6 KO's) San Diego in a four/six round junior featherweight battle.
Remaining tickets, priced at $150, $75, $50 and $25, plus applicable taxes, fees and services charges are available at AXS.com or by phone at 1-888-9-AXS-TIX (1-888-929-7849), as well as The Home Depot Center Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. PT). VIP Suites are available by calling 1-877-604-8777. For more information on group discounts or VIP packages, please call 1-877-234-8425.
Here's what the fighters and their trainers said Thursday at The Home Depot Center:
"If Lopez is willing, this is going to be a total toe-to-toe slugfest from start to finish. Fans know what they're going to get from me. I come to brawl.
"For me, all my fights are very, very important. This fight is very important because a win means I keep progressing. I need to win so I can keep fighting higher-rated opponents.
"I've been in this position before, so I'm used to fighting on my opponent's home turf, but I've been training in Oxnard for three months, so I am pretty acclimated to the area. Working with my trainer Robert Garcia has been great.
"I'm very excited. There's no pressure. To me, the pressure is on Josesito. The fight is in his backyard.
"I want to thank my team, Golden Boy and SHOWTIME for this opportunity. I am very well-prepared. Come Saturday, we will do everything that we've worked on in camp.
"Lopez' promoter (Ken Thompson) says I'm going to get knocked out. Words are easy, but it won't be that easy. It's very easy to talk as a spectator. Let him (Thompson) get in there."
"We're definitely going to light up the city on Saturday night.
"I'm ready and very well-prepared for what will be the most difficult fight of my career. It'll be great to have the fans behind me. I fight to please the fans. That's my style. I want to put on a show, but I know I have to fight smart.
"This will be an all-action fight with the two best welterweights in the world going at it and trading their best shots. I'm not going to predict a knockout, but I don't see how this fight can end any other way.
"These kinds of fights bring out the best in me. Maidana is one of the most dangerous guys out there, but I'm ready to prove myself again. As a fan, I am excited about this fight. Even before the fight was signed I knew this would be a great fight.
"This is such a great opportunity for me. Moving up to fight at 154 pounds against Canelo Alvarez was also a great opportunity, but that wasn't my weight class. I feel stronger and taller at 147. Going into this fight, I feel like I did before I fought Victor Ortiz. I know I need to get Maidana's respect and the way to do that is to fight him. I'm really looking forward to Saturday."
"I want to thank everybody involved for this opportunity. I've always wanted to fight a great Cuban fighter. I never had the opportunity before, but now I do. I know some people were surprised that I took this fight, but I've always wanted to fight the best. Why fight a guy who isn't ranked?
"I've worked extremely hard for this. I'm ready to fight. Lara is a great boxer with a lot of skills. I know I can't let him dictate the pace or fight his fight.
"If you want to know how I'm going to do it, how I'm going to make him fight my fight, buy a ticket or tune in on SHOWTIME. Whether he comes to fight, or comes to run, I'll see him in the ring on Saturday."
"I'm very happy to be in this fight against Angulo and I want to thank America for the opportunity to fight this Saturday.
"I've done tremendous work and I'm ready to fight. I'm focused on this fight and only this fight. Angulo is a good, strong fighter, one of the best in the division, so there is no way I'm taking him lightly. This is a great fight for fans, a chance to see two of the best 154-pounders in the world.
"The key in this fight for me is to work and put consistent damage on him. I want to be the clear-cut winner of every round.
"This will be the fourth time in my last six fights that I am fighting a top-10 contender. I keep proving myself fight in and fight out."
"I've been down this road before. I just have to be me, fight aggressively and fight my fight. At this stage of my career it's do or die.
"This will be Charlo's toughest fight. No one has ever tested him like I'm going to test him. I'm ready to show the fans the very best of Demetrius Hopkins.''
"Fans can expect a good action fight. I'm preparing for a great fight and a great performance. You get out of boxing what you put into it and I work very hard. I'll be ready for anything he has to offer.
"On paper, this looks like possibly my toughest fight. We'll see how it turns out on Saturday.
"I feel like I'm on the verge of really making a big move; my twin brother, Jermall, too. It was an honor to spar with him during camp.
"On Saturday, I'm going to do what I do. I'll be aggressive, I'll box, I'll do whatever it takes. I'm coming for a knockout but I'm ready to go 12 rounds. A victory keeps me right on track. At the end of the day, you will know who I am and want I stand for."
"This is my third fight in the United States and first in Los Angeles. I've been training in Las Vegas for the last five weeks and I had a great camp. I'm looking forward to having the best performance that I can.
"Even though I'm Japanese, I hope you'll be rooting for me on Saturday."
"I'm very excited, well-prepared and I'm coming to get the victory. I don't know too much about my opponent except that he comes well-regarded. I'm ready.
The important thing is to give the fans a great fight. That's what it's all about."
"I'm very excited about fighting for the first time on television. I've worked hard. I want to get to the top. This is the next step.''
"It's going to be awesome fighting on Saturday night and I'm really looking forward to it. This is a great card for Los Angeles and I'm excited to be part of it. I know I'm going to have a lot of fans supporting me and I can't wait to be able to showcase my skills in front of all of them.
"Casillas has a lot of experience and some good knockouts, but I'm ready to outbox him and put on a show."
ROBERT GARCIA, Maidana's Trainer
"We're going to be ready for a war because that's what this fight will be. Josesito has tremendous heart, a tremendous chin and is always in such good condition. We have to be ready for 12 hard, brutal rounds.
"With Maidana, we've been working on using his jab a lot and going side to side, but we also have to be realistic; we might not have a chance to use any of that. We may just have to go to war because that's what Lopez brings. We're prepared for whatever we have to do inside the ring."
HENRY RAMIREZ, Lopez's Trainer
"It's been a long camp and we're ready to go. This entire card is stacked from top to bottom. Both of the main event guys are warriors in the ring. Maidana is a big puncher and Josesito has that never-say-die attitude.
"This is the best venue in Southern California for boxing. There's no bad seat in the house. There's going to be more than 8,200 loud fans watching this fight on Saturday night."
VIRGIL HUNTER, Angulo's Trainer
"With Alfredo it's really about his conditioning right now. You're looking at a guy who was incarcerated for seven months. He was unable to workout or exercise or do anything physical. That leads to a lot of deterioration, especially for a prizefighter. Then you have the mental side of it where you have the head guy telling you you'll never get out of there.
"The concentration has been with the conditioning. You can't teach much if he's not in the condition to apply it, so the conditioning has been first and foremost and our priority."
RONNIE SHIELDS, (Lara and Charlo's Trainer)
"We've trained very hard and are ready. This is what we do for a living so of course we're ready.
"Erislandy Lara is a boxer, that's what he does. I think he's going to surprise Angulo with the way he can punch. He's a pure boxer. Angulo says, 'He should be a man and stand up and fight.' That's what he wants. He wants to fight his fight. I'm sorry to tell him that he's going to have to fight our fight.
"Jermell Charlo is just such a hard worker. He shows up to the gym everyday ready to work. He's trying to hone his craft and he asks a lot of questions. He trains the same way each time, regardless of who it is. It doesn't make any difference. He loves to fight the best guys out there. Demetrius (Hopkins) is the next guy we have to go through to get to the next level."
Maidana vs. Lopez, a 12-round fight for Maidana's WBA Intercontinental Championship, is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Corona and AT&T. The tripleheader will take place on Saturday, June 8 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. and will be televised live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT. The event can be heard in Spanish using secondary audio programming (SAP). Maidana vs. Lopez is presented in association with Goossen Tutor Promotions and Thompson Boxing Promotions. Also featured will be a 12-round showdown between all-action warrior Alfredo "El Perro" Angulo and top rated super welterweight contender Erislandy Lara for the vacant WBA Interim Super Welterweight World Championship which is presented in association with Blue Wave Group and a 12-round fight between veteran Demetrius Hopkins and unbeaten phenom Jermell Charlo for Hopkins' USBA Junior Middleweight Championship and Charlo's WBC Continental Americas Super Welterweight Championship. Preliminary fights will air on SHOWTIME EXTREME at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).


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Next time you're out to eat, you might want to think twice about leaving that parsley on your plate. It's not just a pointless garnish, eating it following a meal is actually the perfect way to freshen your breath sans a toothbrush. Thanks to parsley's high chlorophyll content is is known to be a great natural cure for bad breath. The chlorophyll it contains is detoxifying, antibacterial, and deodorizing – quite the combination!
We had some friends over this weekend and I oddly offered them a glass of water and few sprigs of fresh parsley. I was just being silly, but they both ate all of the sprigs and even seemed to enjoy it to some degree. I think it definitely made their brief visit more memorable and now they're in on this natural remedy, as are you!


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Remarkably self-assured
Geneva is a city with very little to prove. Take a beautiful natural setting, add well-heeled citizens and a touch of civic pride, a huge number of international organisations, throw in handy access for some of Europe's very best skiing – and you have the kind of place that you could happily spend longer than a long weekend.
Geneva's shopping isn't all watches and cuckoo clocks. Bargain hunters must head to Plaine de Plainpalais on a Saturday where the second-hand market sells all types of bric-a-brac, including books, clothes and antiques. Foodies can marvel at mountains of fresh produce, meat and cheeses at La Halle de Rive's indoor food market (Boulevard Helv�tique 29) whilst Globus department store (Rue du Rh�ne 48) is good for a browse, with homewares, fashion and an extravagant food court – home to an oysters and champagne bar – all under one roof. If money's no object, plan a visit to Bong�nie (Rue du March� 34), the designer department store housing a great selection of international and home-grown fashion brands.
Food & Drink
Reflecting Geneva's international denizens, the city's restaurant scene is overwhelmingly diverse. It pays to do your research here, as price isn't always indicative of quality. For pan-Asian fare and delicious sushi, head out of the centre to Pak�pak� (Rue Vautier 43) in Carouge. Pizza options abound but trendy types will enjoy the cool warehouse stylings of La Fumisterie (Rue des Noirettes 21). Le Rouge et Le Blanc (Quai des Bergues 27) is a charming riverside wine bar serving excellent wine and tapas. For something a little different, try La Tour du Molard (Place du Molard 20), a great spot for an aperitif located in a 16th-century tower.
The Swiss art world descends upon Geneva every January for one of the biggest art fairs in Europe. Even if you're not an art aficionado, a visit here will have that 'collecting' muscle twitching.
Bol d'Or Mirabaud
Lake Geneva is the setting for this spectacular boat race, where nearly 600 sailboats race the full length of the lake and back at top speeds in a bid to win the Bol d'Or. Cheer from the banks, before settling in with a glass of wine and picnic and getting ready for the celebratory after-party ahead.
F�te de la Musique
This three-day festival is a must for any music lover, as Geneva rings out with the sound of daily free concerts in the city's parks. Genres range from jazz to classical and everything in between.
As HQ to some of the world's biggest organisations, hotels in Geneva can be on the expensive side, catering mainly for business travellers, but the situation is gradually changing. At the top end is five-star Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva (Quai Du Mont Blanc 19); come for the Lake Geneva view, stay for the great service. Guests at Hotel Warwick (Rue de Lausanne 14) next to the train station are right in the thick of the action, whilst those on a smaller budget should try a stay at the aptly-named Hotel Central (Rue de la R�tisserie 2) where rooms are basic but clean and simply decorated.


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Day's Best: New consumer database highlights health care cost differences
A database created collaboratively by Colorado foundations gives consumers a powerful new tool to check out the price of various health care procedures.
The Colorado All Payer Claims Database is exactly the type of thing that will help people become more informed consumers of health care and has the potential to bring down costs.
Need an MRI? The bill could vary as widely as $297 to $1,261 depending on where the imaging procedure was conducted, according to a blog post by Post reporter Michael Booth.
If a consumer had limited benefits but multiple options, wouldn't they be interested in places offering the service at the lowest cost? We think so.
At this time, the database doesn't attach names of institutions or doctors to the costs, but developers say that's coming, and we're glad. Also included will be quality ratings, which also will be quite useful.
Such a database could be of great utility to consumers who want to be informed about health care costs. Kudos to the Colorado Trust and other foundations for funding its development.


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Fringe Ratings Report: ABC Late-Night Programming
Week of January 28, 2013
ABC is Late-Night's No. 1 Network in Adults 18-49 on 14 Weeks This Season
ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Runs Neck and Neck with "The Tonight Show"
in Adults 18-49, while Beating the NBC program in Adults 18-34
"Nightline" Improves ABC's Year-to-Year Total Viewer
Performance on All 4 Weeks in its New Time Slot
ABC Late-Night (Monday - Friday)
In its fourth week of its new lineup of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" at 11:35 p.m. and "Nightline" at 12:35 a.m. (week of January 28, 2013), ABC stood as the No. 1 network in late-night in Adults 18-49 (786,000), taking the top spot on all 4 weeks with its new lineup. Overall, ABC has ranked No. 1 in 14 of 19 weeks this season in young adults.
· ABC's new late-night lineup posted gains over the Net's performance on the year-ago week for the 4th week in a row in Total Viewers (+1% - 2.232 million vs. 2.204 million) and for the 3rd time in 4 weeks in Adults 18-49 (+3% - 786,000 vs. 766,000).
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" (M-F 11:35 p.m.)
On average through its first four weeks at 11:35 p.m., ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" stands just 69,000 Adult 18-49 viewers from NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (994,000 vs. 1.063 million). In fact, "JKL" slashed its young adult gap with the NBC program by -85% versus its gap during the same four weeks last year (-69,000 vs. -470,000). "JKL" outdelivers CBS' "The Late Show with David Letterman" by 154,000 Adult 18-49 viewers (994,000 vs. 840,000).
ABC's "JKL" is the No. 1 broadcast late-night talk show in Adults 18-34 (362,000), topping "The Tonight Show" by 10% (330,000) and "The Late Show" by 33% (272,000).
Four weeks into its new 11:35 p.m. time slot, ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is up over its performance at this time last year by 66% in Total Viewers (2.836 million vs. 1.707 million), by 51% in Adults 18-49 (994,000 vs. 658,000) and by 53% in Adults 18-34 (362,000 vs. 236,000), standing as the only late-night broadcast talk show to improve year over year in all 3 Nielsen measures.
"Nightline" (M-F 12:35 a.m.)
For the week of January 28, 2013, "Nightline" drew 1.548 million Total Viewers, 690,000 Adults 25-54 and 512,000 Adults 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research. "Nightline" outdelivered CBS' "The Late Late Show" by +135,000 Total Viewers, by +45,000 Adults 25-54 and by +46,000 Adults 18-49.
For the 4th week in a row in its new time slot, "Nightline" improved on ABC's performance in the time period on the same week last year by double digits in Total Viewers (+16%) - 1.336 million on w/o 1/30/12.
On average in its new time period, "Nightline" ranks No. 1 among Total Viewers, ahead of both NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson."
Late-Night (Week of Jan 28): TOTAL VIEWERS A18-49(000)
Source: The Nielsen Company, Live + Same Day National Program Ratings for weeks of 1/28/13 & 1/30/12 or as dated. Most Current - First 4 Weeks of 2013 (1/7/13 - 2/3/13, "JKL" and "Nightline" are excluded on 1/7/13) and First 4 Weeks of 2012 (1/9/12 - 2/5/12). Comparisons based on 000s.
ABC Late-Night = "JKL" and "Nightline"; CBS Late-Night = "Late Show" and "Ferguson"; NBC Late-Night = "Tonight Show," "Fallon" and "Carson Daly."


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The Top Market Predictions for 2013
Could the fiscal drag be bigger for the U.S. in 2013 than Europe? J.P. Morgan Cazenove released a note to investors Monday, providing market predictions for 2013. MarketWatch's David Weidner and Christopher Noble discuss the UK investment bank's advices. (Photo: Getty Images)
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The TSA may not be privately concerned about the average flier's desire to hijack the flight he or she is boarding, but that hasn't dissuaded it from continually ratcheting up the invasiveness of its pre-boarding procedures. Between the spilling of breast milk/baby formula and the casual groping of toddlers, attractive women and anyone with a visible medical condition, the TSA has "brusquely and barely competently invasive" nailed down.
But that's just what's going on between the airport exit and your departing flight. The New York Times reports that there's an entire level of pre-boarding screening going on well before you hit the airport.
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.At what point does someone "who poses no risk" start feeling offended the TSA is doing deep read on his or her financial and employment background? The TSA already has the PreCheck program, which allows fliers to pay money to reclaim civil liberties removed by the agency's security theater.
While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers' data for domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied only to individuals entering the United States…
It is unclear precisely what information the agency is relying upon to make these risk assessments, given the extensive range of records it can access, including tax identification number, past travel itineraries, property records, physical characteristics, and law enforcement or intelligence information.
Those who haven't joined this select group are still receiving very thorough vetting (even when flying domestically) but without gaining
The T.S.A. has emphasized its goal of giving 25 percent of all passengers lighter screening by the end of next year, meaning they can keep their shoes and jackets on, wait in separate lines and leave laptop computers in their bags.While we're all waiting for a one-quarter of travelers to start breezing through security, the extensive background checks will continue on all fliers, with the collected data being shared indiscriminately with other government agencies and private businesses.
Much of this personal data is widely shared within the Department of Homeland Security and with other government agencies. Privacy notices for these databases note that the information may be shared with federal, state and local authorities; foreign governments; law enforcement and intelligence agencies — and in some cases, private companies for purposes unrelated to security or travel.If you're one of those unlucky travelers who receive the algorithmically-generated "please extensively search this flier" designation (or return home from a trip to find your voicemail full of calls from collections agencies), there's not much you can do about it. There's an official "Traveler Redress Inquiry Program," but as we've noted before, it's low on functionality and long on officious uselessness.The TRIP provides minimal details in response to inquiries, if it can be bothered to respond at all. Those on no-fly lists (or those that suspect they might be) receive letters that refuse to "confirm nor deny" the inquirer's inclusion on this super-secret list.
For instance, an update about the T.S.A.'s Transportation Security Enforcement Record System, which contains information about travelers accused of "violations or potential violations" of security regulations, warns that the records may be shared with "a debt collection agency for the purpose of debt collection."
Add the TSA to the long list of agencies gathering tons of data on Americans simply because they have the technology and the opportunity. Supposedly this invasion of privacy will pay off in an incremental speed improvement at airport security checkpoints sometime in the next year or two. The resulting payoff in increased security will continue to hover right around nil for the foreseeable future.
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So last week I received a package from Singapore. My PixaRoll photos are here! Hehe, I had to cover my address with digital washi tape (from Pugly Pixel).
The photos took two weeks to arrive at my home. I assume it's because I ordered again 3 days after my first order and they just shipped the 2 batches together to save costs. But nonetheless I am very impressed with how they all turned out. Even though some of the photos were low res (that was my fault, I used an iPod), they still looked really good. I am a happy customer right now! And you know what? It was worth the wait.
So here they are, a bunch of 4"x4" photos from my travels. I'm planning to redecorate my room, with Travel/World/Jetsetter as my theme. I just love and want to travel both locally and abroad (hey, nothing bad with dreaming, right?), and I will most likely stick these photos on my wall along with my other lomo photos that I took a few years back.
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Put simply, a public plan would be something akin to Medicare -- a government-administered insurance plan that consumers could choose to purchase if they were unable to buy private insurance, or perhaps even if they preferred the public plan over the private insurance products available.
It's important to know that this is not a new concept. In fact, similar plans exist today in many states -- with some key differences. Mostly, the state-run plans are designated "high-risk" insurance pools and are restricted to individuals who have been rejected or are unable to find insurance in the open market, usually due to pre-existing conditions. This "adverse selection" ensures that only the sicker, more expensive patients enroll in this plan, which results in the plan premiums being much much higher than is typical in group insurance products. Ironically, the consequence is that most individuals who need the insurance are therefore unable to afford it, and the state plans usually wind up terribly underutilized.
The public plan in the proposed market reforms differs only in terms of the overall insurance environment. Since insurers, hypothetically, would be required to charge all applicants the same price (which is called "community rating") and they would not be allowed to reject people with pre-existing conditions ("guaranteed issue"), the higher-risk individuals ought to be able to find affordable insurance from a variety of sources, private or public. The absence of adverse selection should ensure that the public plan is no more expensive than the private products available.
At least, in theory. There are a large number of people, myself included, who are skeptical that the public plan will not suffer from adverse selection. Insurers have a great motive to select only the healthiest, most profitable patients to cover. Currently, they are able to do so easily and directly: reject those with pre-existing conditions. Under guaranteed issue and community rating, they will have to be creative in finding ways to get the young and healthy to choose their plans, but I do not doubt that they will do so to some degree. The consequence of this is that the public plan should eventually become loaded with sicker patients and burdened by higher premiums. this would produce a self-reinforcing cycle as patients fled the public plan to cheaper private plans. Eventually, it would wind up like the small, expensive, and underutilized state high risk pools.
The other possibility is that the public plan will have some advantages due to lower overhead, executive compensation, provider networking, lack of profit motive, etc, which will lead to the public plan being cheaper, and thus patients would prefer the public plan and shun the private insurers.
This is the possibilty which strikes fear into the hearts of the insurance lobby and their allies on the Hill. Republican leadership has opposed this public plan, citing that it would "create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition. [...] Ultimately, we would be left with a single government-run program controlling all of the market. This would take health care decisions out of doctors and patients and place them in the hands of another Washington bureaucracy." Just today there was an article in Modern Healthcare citing the opposition of Blue Cross/Blue Shield to the public plan: "innovations would be impossible if they had to compete with a government-run plan."
The premise of this opposition is, however, based on some self-contradictory logic, and on an assumption that the public plan will have Medicare reimbursement rates. If the goverment-run plan turns out to be an NHS-style nightmare of byzantine rules, rationing care, and bureaucratic interference in the doctor-patient relationship, wy would patients choose it? Seems to me that the marvels of competition would ensure that patients would shun such a system and flock to the consumer-oriented private insurance plans.
Even if the public plan is somewhat cheaper, consumers who have the ability to make free choices will pay more for access, for free choice, and for services. If a government-run plan is something as terrible as conservatives take as an article of faith it will be, then it should not represent a competitive threat to the private insurance industry.
The nice thing about the public plan option is that it is just that, an option. Consumers will be free to choose. If it turns out to be better, then that will force the private insurers to improve their service, improve their quality, to innovate in health care management -- or die. According to the BC/BS CEO, the private market has always been more innovative than the government. Great! If so, then the competive pressure applied by a public plan will spur that innovation that will help all of us. It's a grand experiment, and we'll pit the two against one another an see who wins -- or, more likely, how they settle into a relationship of dynamc tension, neither prevailing, but co-existing.
It's unfortunate that the right seems to be digging in their heels over this, because there is a point of negotiation which might get lost. If they simply refuse, and force the democrats to ride roughshod over their objections, it is likely that the left wing will create a public plan that does have inherent advantages over the private sector. Namely, it will either use Medicare reimbursement rates or will have the authority to unilaterally set rates. If the GOP came to the table as good-faith bargaining partners, they could agree to the public plan's inclusion with the contingency that it have no power to drive down the rates, but have to compete on fair terms with other insurers. But their brinksmanship, all-or-nothing approach threatens to miss the opportunity to craft the public plan in a way that would be advantageous to all stakeholders.
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had mine for over a year and used most days, the tabs are still intact. only problem I had is the colour running.
Altura's Ergofit range of clothing is designed to be body-hugging - either for comfort, style or aerodynamic reasons - and these short-fingered cycling gloves (or mitts) are no exception.
To create the close fit, the mitts have a Lycra back, and a stretchy synthetic leather palm. Although they're close-fitting, they're not too tight, and are very comfortable to wear. The material along the outside edge of the thumb is softer, for wiping glasses, forehead or nose (but ideally not all three).
There's no mesh anywhere, which means they might feel hot at the height of summer, but they'll be fine for most of the year - until you need full gloves.
The most noticeable feature, compared to many other mitts, is the wide elasticated Lycra band around the wrist. This seems to give additional support in the wrist area, and adds to the overall comfort, so ideal for longer rides, but without any Velcro tabs, these mitts take a long time to get off.
There are some little tags on the top of the two middle fingers, to provide something to grip on when removing the mitts, but they feel a bit flimsy and I wouldn't bet on them lasting long - though they are holding up so far.
But any niggles I have about removing the mnitts are outweighed by the pads on the palm. In fact, there are three separate pads: along the inner side of the palm, across the base of the fingers and on the lower thumb. They're made from a dense gel and once again add to the overall comfort. I've used these mitts on a couple of long-distance rides on some fairly bad roads, and the pads easily absorbed most of the shocks coming up through the bars.
When it comes to sizing, the Medium I'm testing certainly feels snug on my average size male hands. For a bit more freedom, you might prefer a Large, but that kinda defeats the purpose on a glove that's designed to be a close fit. A bit more room inside would however make the glove easier to remove.
These mitts retail at £29.99 - and you can find them for £25 or less in bike shops and on-line. Not cheap, but for the level of comfort they provide, it's a fair price.
The test pair is black and red. They're also available with the backs of the mitts in white.
Very comfortable close-fitting mitts, at a fair price. Hard to take off though.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Altura Ergofit mitts
Size tested: Medium, red
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Altura website is succinct, and explains the mitts have: 'Stretch lycra back panels, Lycra laminate cuff, Multi layer pre-shaped synthetic leather palm, Low profile anatomically positioned proGEL palm pad.' So there you have it. Short, sweet and to the point, and nothing to argue about from this reviewer.
Seams look good, and stitching is tidy, even round the tops of the finger holes where fraying can sometimes occur
The pads absorb shocks well and make these mitts very comfortable indeed.
Too early to say, but first impressions are these mitts will last a long while if looked after. The only doubt comes from the tight fit that makes the mitts tricky to remove. Hauling on the fabric puts strain on the seams.
Did you enjoy using the product? yes
Would you consider buying the product? yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? yes
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I usually ride: an old Marin Alp My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Experienced
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