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- Eric Hazelle
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A stepped minimum wage
In the U.S., minimum wage has come up again. If it is raised, employers say they'll have to lay off minimum wage workers to cover the extra expenses. Proponents say it will give minimum wage workers a "living wage".
How about this? Have a stepped minimum wage. (The following numbers are just for discussion sake, not proposals for definitive compensation.) Let's permit kids age 14-15 to get work permits, for something like Macdonald's, or Walmart. They'd be allowed to work, say, 15 hours a week flipping burgers or stocking shelves and getting, say, $6 an hour. It would give them an income, teach them to handle money, contribute to their family, and they'd be able to work as long as their school work didn't suffer.
When they turn 16, increase their hours and pay to 20 and $7 an hour. Again, subject to school performance. At age 18 permit full-time employment as long as they've graduated from high school at $8.50 an hour, unless they're married and have a family, then give them the proposed new minimum wage. (What is it? $10.50 an hour? Anyway.)
From there, put percentages on the number of employees in each category an employer could have. Say a MacDonalds could have 20% 15 year olds, 20% 16, 20% 18 and so on. Tweak the numbers so they'd be paying no more than what they're currently paying.
Benefits; kids off the streets and productively employed, contributing to the family's income and learning working skills. A system that employers of minimum wage workers could support, and not be out extra money.
As I say, this is just for discussion; tweak the numbers, percentages and ages to get a workable plan, then see if congress could go for it.
Gail .
Mar 17 2013: The problem with setting minimum wages without also setting maximum wages is that the disparity of wealth grows so vast that minimum wages increase at a slower pace than maximum wages increase, so the dollars are worth less. It's a cruel hoax that harms many as it gives them false hope. Disparity of wealth limits your ability to climb into higher economic realms.
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Jean Marr
Mar 26 2013: Instead of having a minimum wage, maybe we should have a maximum wage. What if there was a law that the highest paid employee in a company couldn't make more than 100 times per hour more than the lowest paid employee? What if we used taxes (!) to pay for health care instead of tying it to work? What if we tied % profit allowed to wages? What if we allowed all people a minimum standard of living? My real point isn't that we should do any of these things individually or exclusively, but that we need to expand the conversation from minimum wage to societal needs because the minimum wage is clearly not enough.
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Ray Givler
Mar 24 2013: Oh, boy. This is not a discussion point for anyone who believes in liberty (which, in part, means free markets). Labor is a market, and prices must reflect the relative scarcity of the skills being offered. One can goof around with numbers and percentages as much as they want and it all boils down to the same thing - a bunch of needless regulations trying to manipulate a market. "as long as they've graduated from high school" - no. A high school diploma does not guarantee any skills (since people graduate without even being able to read), so it cannot guarantee any minimum money. Also, even if it guaranteed skills X,Y, and Z, there is not necessarily a market for those skills (as evidenced by all the kids with college degrees with no market). So a minimum wage will ALWAYS cause additional unemployment unless it is set below the fair market value of the labor, in which case there is no point in setting a minimum wage in the first place. Come on, TEDsters! Read Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt - a free .pdf is out there. Please think critically about the ideas that you hear or read in media or the classroom.Mar 23 2013: Unless we live subsidized lives our work has to add value to receive any payment. If we can work we are paid a proportion of the value added by our work.
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If our work fails to add sufficient value to support our lifestyle, we have to find some other work or improve our competence for higher value work.
Such is our incentive to understand our strengths, study to change our brains and skills and to work smart at our art or service for others. Imagine our country supporting those who cannot work without these incentives.
Eric's stepped minimum wage proposal would require a government bureaucracy so large to administer it even more of our wages would be consumed in running it.
Mar 24 2013: In Australia we've had this system for 50 years or so, and in that time we have gone from being a minor player to being the 12th largest economy on the planet.Mar 20 2013: "Minimum wage laws simply reflect the deeper problem of the voting public deceiving itself into believing it can legislate natural laws of economics out of existence." -Setzer
Here is the best adjustment to the minimum wage. A flat $0.00 NO quotas NO tinkering by people who don't even live in the town of the employer's location.
James Clary
Mar 31 2013: The best way to raise the minimum wage is to completely do away with it. Allow the market to determine what it can afford to pay people and still make a profit. The most effective managers of American business are those that are in it. Most of the lawyers and intellectuals that fill the halls of Congress and live on Pennsylvania avenue have no clue what it is like to own and operate a small business. Neither do a majority of the population; most have never done so. "Working" in a small business and "owning" one are completely different and sadly most "employees" have no clue in regards to the copious requirements, in both time and capitol, to conceptualize, open, and operate a business. The "everyone gets a trophy" generation that represents a great number of our young workers right feel that a certain standard of living or wage is due them simply because they are able to draw a breath when they awake each morning. The idea of outworking your peers to advance is seldom evident anymore.
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Our economy continues to show anemic growth due to over-reaching government interference, not because government has not done "enough". Unfortunately, we'll never really know the heights of productivity and innovation the American economy could reach were it allowed to flourish under a model suggested by the likes of Thomas Sowell or Milton Freidman. The claws of tyranny and regulation are already sunk way too deep into the tissue of American business.
As one who owned and operated a successful business from 1989 until 2007 and now works for someone else, I can't imagine opening another business in the current political/economic climate. I'm not alone. More and more people who once owned small businesses have gotten out and will not jump back in unless political winds were to bring us a Congress and Administration that pledged to repeal many of the cumbersome regulations that hamper growth, do away with the minimum wage, and replace our current tax system in favor of a flat tax.
Apr 16 2013: The minimum wage was instituted during the great depression. I'm not sure what your 'everyone gets a trophy' comment refers to. It isn't like a minimum wage job is much of a reward. Furthermore, if we allowed the market to pay as little as possible and still attract a warm body, who would buy our output? The workers
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Mar 23 2013: Numerous studies and basic economics show that if you raise the cost of something, less is used. The whole idea of raising the minimum wage is based on the idea that large numbers of bread-winners are paid minimum wage. Our own census data shows that is not the case. Young people and the unskilled are paid the minimum wage as are part-time workers. These people are not heads of households. As these folks develop skills they move up in salary. IRS studies have shown that people do not stay in the minimum wage category or any other category over 10-year periods. There is a constant movement to higher wages as people gain experience ending when retirement causes income to fall. The impetus for raising the minimum wage is to support Union claims for increased wages. "If unskilled labor gets a raise our members deserve one too".
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Mar 22 2013: See this is where we lost capitalism, Why should somebody that got married or graduated be guaranteed a wage higher than some one that hasn't. Maybe we should guarantee $25 an hour for someone that has a bachelors degree. Should it not be what he/she is worth to the company and them selves for what they get paid. I don't agree with minimum wage because it doesn't help the poor obtain a "living wage". It interferes with business and the markets, people hire less making less wealth in are community for everybody including the poor. More Jobs equal more production which equals more wealth. With wealth the conditions of living will rise across the broad from poor to wealthy. There will always be inequality, we were born unequal with different skills and different families. Inequality has more to due with wealth mobility than minimum wage and we need to find out why we have lost are wealth mobility in the US and I bet government has something to do with it!!!
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Apr 2 2013: Practically speaking the most efficient way to subvert the trickle down effect is to kill the person at the top and take his stuff. Not a bad option when the equilibrium wage lowers the standard of living below the care one would receive while incarcerated. Just a thought.
Apr 6 2013: Well that's what happens when we get more government, inmates and lower income citizens live better than the hard working lower middle class. We need less government power in are markets from schooling to prison. But yet some people think the government needs more power. They haven't learned that the government is the corporations. Are government is sold all the time, and it will always be for sale. The only way to fix the problem is to limit government powers by voting.
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Mar 16 2013: Sorry Eric but this idea doesn't work any better than the minimum wage law.
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The reality is that the only real way to assign a value to a service is to see what someone will pay for it. If the wages are artificially high the work will be off shored or the owner of the business will do with out the extra help or maybe introduce automation.
If the goal is put people to work? Then just get rid of the minimum wage entirely. And quit subsidizing workers with government assistance.Mar 17 2013: Maybe some of you trust politicians more than me. Why did we collapse the wage structure? Why would politicians want to take Alexander Hamilton off the ten dollar bill? The father of tarriffs was right. Enough of pointy headed economics professors. Let's bring back what works. See Ravi Batra's book The Pooring of America.Mar 16 2013: i imagine the poor guy right before his 16th birthday, desperately trying to find some job to help out his family, but not finding, and his current employer is not going to pay 7 bucks, and employing a 15 years old instead. he will hate your idea.
Mar 17 2013: but your also forgetting that you get what you pay for as age increases so does the maturity level. but also the cost of training new employees. also if a company want to hire just kids they will get what they pay for and probably wont be in business long
Mar 17 2013: on an average. but this particular kid did not grow in his capabilities according to your prescribed rate. he could find a job for 6, but not for 7. bad luck for him. expect him to show up at your front very angry.
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Mar 16 2013: You would then need a lot of people in the Department of Labor with a lot of calculators to oversee this system. In other words - bureaucracy.
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Why not let the free market decide the wage that each job is worth, and eliminate the minimum wage altogether?
Mar 17 2013: I am an under skilled worker and I hate when they raise minimum wage. Because then me and others like me are back to where we started grrrr. They should do away with it its a self correcting problem if employer wont pay enough the employes will go somewhere else or go back to school. Raising minimum wage solves nothing. Nothing. Because as soon as it is raised business raise there prices so that there bottom line dont change. All it does is devalue the dollar. And pretty soon the peso will be worth moreMar 17 2013: ...because it is not working to cause people to receive the fair amount of money that reflects the value of their work products and services. Incompetent CEOs are earning 350 times what the worker is earning and making stupid management decisions that cause companies to fair. Then, suddenly, they start believing in socialism or communism and want the poor and middle class to bail them out of their incompetence so they can continue to be overpaid and receive bonuses they do not earn. It's called JUSTICE. Let's inject some of that and some TRUTH into the system. Maybe then it will start working to benefit everyone.Apr 16 2013: Many people devalue the work of high school students. "Let's lower the minimum wage for high school kids, because they don't really need the money." This may be true for a privileged few, but for many student workers, they need the money for their families, or to help them save up for college-related expenses. Instead of making second-class citizens out of our young people, we should teach them that hard work is rewarded.Apr 15 2013: Not very much in favor of a step minimum wage. Most 14 year olds will out work a 25 year old in a minimum wage job. That 25 year old didn't utilize their opportunities to improve and move up from a minimum wage. People are paid what they are worth to their organization in terms productivity and intangibles.
We do have severe problem of under employment in this country. Raising the minimum wage will make it worse. I have always held the belief an organization should have the bare minimum employees and compensate them well because they are the most productive people you can get.
If you don't like your compensation, go find a place that will pay you what you think you are worth.Apr 8 2013: James Clary nailed it. The government has limited us in so many aspects of our lives already. We didn't get to be the great nation that we are by rewarding ALL particpants. To manage a stepped minimum wage would require companies to devote more of their resources to the administrative tasks. Enough already. If people don't feel adequately compensated, they will find other employment. There are laws in place to prevent/discourage discrimination; the government needs to stop micro-managing our lives and our businesses. People's pay should be determined by what they contribute to the bottom line but that's apparently against the law.
Apr 16 2013: So, for example, if a business decides to pay women less money than it pays a man for doing the same job; the government should 'stop micro-managing'? If businesses really paid according to a workers contribution to the bottom line, that would be fine. Unfortunately, that can be difficult to measure, and in practice discrimination influences outcomes.
The US became a great nation by allowing the poorest among us the opportunity to build a better life. The minimum wage is a part of that social contract, as are laws that ban child labor, and provide free public education to all of our kids.Apr 6 2013: so just winging on a thought when minium wage is increased shortly there are the cost of living goes up they cancel each other out but the only one making more out of it is the government because higher pay means more for them in taxes right? so by the government raising minium wage is like them giving them selves a bonus like the banking indurstry
Apr 16 2013: Many economists believe that businesses will absorb the additional cost in most cases without raising prices. For example, Corporations are making record profits, and can afford the increased costs. The minimum wage has stagnated for so long, that it is nearly useless in many labor markets as employers pay above the minimum.Apr 2 2013: You cannot pay some one less money for the same work, regardless of age.This is what is called prejudice towards age .
Apr 9 2013: I don't remember that in the Bill of Rights. The stickiness in your statement comes from your use of the term "same work". As an employer, should I be allowed to pay someone more who is a more helpful, kind, supportive team mate than another? Pay should be based on a worker's performance, not just in actual output, but in their overall attitude and support of the company. Of course, most people with cheerful dispositions would never complain they aren't getting paid enough because they probably are. If not, they get another job. That is how a "free market" works.Mar 31 2013: The issue, at least in the United States, is not those under the age of 18 working. It is those over 18 that are un or under - employed and working at minimum wage. A stepped wage sounds like a wonderful idea, but when you look at 10 - 20% unemployment, depending on which numbers you use, then the minimum wage is not very helpful when you raise it. An increase is still nothing for those not working.
Now, a better plan might be to step your support for those who are working at minimum wage. Include insurance and such for support as most minimum wage jobs provide no insurance, time off, or benefits for the employees. That is where most people can't catch up or get ahead. They are spending every dollar of their paycheck just to survive. The addition of basic benefits would help many of these folks to maintain or get ahead in their daily lives.Mar 28 2013: Look people who make only the minimum wage are an economic sink if we look at it in a thermodynamics sort of way. Can't raise the minimum wage - Are you saying we are all failures and education doesn't pay?Mar 28 2013: it's a good point to start with. keep in mind that a minimum wage only costs employers money in the first week. the very next day all their customers have more money in their pockets which means their sales go up. this also means that any time someone can be employed for less than someone else, the whole economy suffers - if a 15 year old is employed at $7 an hour, this means that someone else isn't employed at a higher rate, which means there is less disposable income in the country as a whole, which means less sales for american businesses. the rich would like gullible people to believe they create jobs, when that fact is that it's customers who create jobs.Mar 26 2013: Great idea! Kids should be allowed to work at 14 or 15 a few hours a week, getting experience and money handling skills. As they get older the allowable hours per week should increase as would the minimum wage. The real world is the best teacher. A lot of kids want to work at these ages to begin earning some money.Mar 25 2013: True, Australia climbed while the economies of other countries fell. I've seen nothing to attribute this disparity to a stepped minimum wage.
Mar 25 2013: I agree there is no evidence to suggest that the stepped minimum wage is responsible for the economic success but it does show that a stepped minimum wage doesn't instantly destroy your economy like many tedsters seem to think.
Mar 28 2013: Too small of a sample test, Pedro come on you are a man of science aren't you?
No it is not instant but it surely is a lowering of the VERY people you purport to help.
Do I really have to teach you remedial economics. Sad to say that is my lot in life, learn the heathens which way is up.
Mar 28 2013: Can you give me an example of a country where the introduction of a stepped minimum wage system resulted in calamity. Irealise my assessment is based on one result from one country, but that's one more result than any of the nay sayers have produced. Yes Pat I am a man of science and science tells me that even insufficient evidence is better than no evidence.Mar 28 2013: Ok Pedro
Oh here is one, this county called the United States, through the Davis Bacon act, please peruse the words of a couple of the smartest fellers I know the Sowell man and Walter E (not jazz musicians but economists) the facts are there but you won't hear me anyway so I'm not going to go to much trouble on this.
Apr 2 2013: All your problems would be solved if you could just get dem boys to work for nuttin like in da old days.Apr 2 2013: Nope them fellers have learned me plenty.
What they are saying indicates a very real problem with the minimum wage you are so proud of.
You are trying to divert my point, hopefully most will see through your digression and it's dubious intent.Mar 24 2013: Kids should play! Teenagers should look for themselves! beacuse job life is a dull life, your first years on this world are the years you are going to remember are the ones that are going to define you, should we work on those days?Mar 23 2013: I agree about having a stepped minim wage but that is what we have but they keep changing it does any one know why? When I started working it was 2.65 then I got raises that is the steps in my wage hence steeped wages? The bottom should never change its the upper that should change. If my employer feels that he is better off firing me and hiring someone with no experience to save a few bucks that is up to him but experience and refining my ability's is saving him money and over all cost because it would take 2 people to do my job. Even the CEO's that are making 300 times my pay must be worth what they are getting paid because there still there and still getting paid they stole thousands of dollars from my personal retirement plan in a manipulated scare market and then on top of that also forced me to bail them out with my tax money because I would have never bailed them out "they can all burn in H _ _ L" and are not in jail??Mar 21 2013: Good, valid question but it needs MUCH more research...There is one minor fallacy in your opening statement....The implication that employers can not afford to pay a living wage...The problem is that over the past 35 years while we as a nation have seen incredible growth in worker productivity the wages and Bennes paid those workers have remained static or lost ground. If (for example) the MINIMUM wage of 1968 had kept pace with inflation and productivity it would now have to be over $22.00 per hour. The other hidden fallacy is that corporations can't afford to pay higher taxes.. The Corporations are lying..They absolutely CAN afford both a living wage and the higher taxes but it would cut their profit margins from double digits to the old (1980s) standard of 3% to 6%...THAT is what the wage fight is about from the corporate perspective...that is also why the past 6 administrations have allowed unfettered illegal immigration...it drives wages down...Mar 20 2013: As long as money is involved, nothing will ever work.
Why not get rid of money and then all jobs will be of equal value and each person will be of equal value?
All the work currently done will still need to be done and everyone can participate in working at something.
Just because a job is some form of menial labor doesn't mean it isn't necessary.
All the things, chores, activities and efforts humans put forth into living are equal in value and importance and can be done by more humans sharing more of the work load instead of long hours, added stress and dog-like competition to survive.
Everyone needs to survive and all can survive and thrive not if, but only when we are all equal.
That is how we create equality by making all our job-like endeavors of equal value.
Still, because we are human, curious, creative, daring and so on, we will still desire, seek, learn, teach, build and do all the things we already are doing but doing mostly because we are struggling to survive.
What we see in societies around the world that is negative behavior and actions, is not because that is our human nature but it is because so many are not getting their needs met and survival kicks in with all its strength.
That is natural and there is nothing wrong with surviving and we humans can do this differently if only we could seriously think in a different state of consciousness.
I call that state, "sanity."
Most cannot because they are not sane.
They can only think 'round and 'round in the circles they've been given as a form of consciousness.
They are asleep and boxed in, so they can't think or imagine outside the box.
Thus, all the talk revolves around all the same old methods, tweaked anew, and the same old philosophies which are openly failing.
Things don't........"get done".........because of money.
Things ...........don't get done".....because of money.
Nothing costs money.
Everything costs people.
Mar 20 2013: That would pave the way to communism because it would create a disincentive for work; you'll call me crazy and I'm not smart enough to understand your utopia. I live in the real world where no one is equal, we're all different, unique, and have abilities others do not. We are born equal but achieve different results based on actions and motivations.
Which is why America has the most robust and innovative economy in the world because people are rewarded for their talents and hardwork.
Mar 21 2013: First of all, please don't try that sad old method of demonizing and dismissing with one word. That word is communism. Your use of the word implies I am suggesting that, as far as I am concerned. The world has never had a communistic system that didn't involve money, hence any system involving money becomes corrupt because of money, not because of theory. And the corruption is in practice and that is reality.
No money does not create a disincentive for work, which is disingenuous of you to say that. Not having a monetary system means humans could finally go about solving their problems because it is money and always has been money, that stands in the way of solving them. Read this again until it sinks into your programmed brain.
Things don't........"get done".........because of money.
Things ...........don't get done".....because of money.
Nothing costs money.
Everything costs people.
No we are not born equal but so what? We parse out value and worth to individuals based on birth, country, belief, luck, greed, occupation and many other features that increase inequality and widen the gap between our common bonds.
All jobs are of equal value because we humans need them all done. Thus, everyone can contribute and survive while we produce all we need for everyone's survival. That is what people are trying to do for Christ's sake and you think, what? that it is somehow wrong, immoral, of lesser value, not worthy of dignity, or comfort, or lack or worry? The list could go on.
And don't leave out how Americans hard work involved stealing a country and stealing the resources of other countries so they could "realize their dreams". Americans have worked hard at killing other peoples, invading and destroying democracies forever, and then using their advantage to keep the rest of the world poor as best they could. They have contributed more pollution, more use and waste of earth's resources and use the threat of terror on their own citizens.
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Mar 24 2013: your basing your idea on everybody getting along perfectly. government is a useful tool. but only without corruption. maybe fight corruption instead of infrastructure. a.k.a. "money"
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there are too many problems in the world stemming from other issues (mostly morality issues) to be blaming it on "money" start at the base of the problem then work out of it.
a house with a weak foundation will always have a weak foundation no matter how you make it look.
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Mar 21 2013: Essentially what you're describing is communism and while it sounds all wonderful and utopian,in practice it has been anything but. Worker disincentivization is just one of many problems. Another major one is that communism historically has led to dictatorships, violence, and war.Mar 21 2013: agreed with the two statements above.
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this would effectively limit a lot of research, organization, and job motivation.
besides the whole America Paragraph.: "Which is why America has the most robust and innovative economy in the world because people are rewarded for their talents and hard work." America is so far from getting it right.
minimum wage issue is not the problem. maximum wage difference increases productiveness minimally while it massively separates the country into inequality. From this stems some of America's oh so obvious problems.
please watch this talk if you don't believe it.
Apr 16 2013: Commenting on your ABOVE above statement. The one 2 comments up.
Money causes corruption.
If someone has it they want more of it.
The government is corrupt because of many business owners decide to take up
politics as a hobby. And then they lobby. And they protect each other. Business, HUGE ONES, monopolizing ones, give government what it needs to keep going. Money. Government in turn gives protection to make even more money. MONSANTO IS THE PRIME CANDIDATE FOR CORRUPTION OF GOVERNMENT USING CROOKED BUSINESS.Mar 18 2013: I love this idea, and it seems like such an obvious solution. Thanks for suggesting it!Mar 18 2013: We had a similar system in the province of British Columbia, Canada. There wasn't any restriction on how many people with the "training wage" could be in a company. It also wasn't tied to age but general work experience. If it was the employees first job, the employer could pay them 6 dollars/hour instead of 8 for the first 500 hours of employment. This had the effect of making teens feel like they had to work off those hours before they could leave home or go to college, since they would not be able to afford to on the training wage. Some companies really exploited it and it was a little to close to child labour for some people's liking. It eventually became politically unpopular and was removed.Mar 18 2013: That's exactly how the system works in Australia. The country where the GFC didn't happen.Mar 17 2013: Being a father of twin 15 year old boys I like your idea if nothing else it gets there lazy ass off the couch and away from the computer. As it is now they want to work but cant there straight A students and also want to get there drivers license but they also need money for that. There stuck because of old laws and bureaucracy times are different now then they were during the child labor laws when people had to have there kids work just so that the family could eat and live. We need change according to the times.
Mar 21 2013: AMEN! this! I too think its an AWESOME idea.
And the original poster did state "tweak the numbers to get a workable plan" So, I am sure that kid who works well would have an opportunity to make more during their lower amount of pay, if he/she is doing better than the coworker who isn't doing that good of a job (how it is in the real world)
they have taken away all of our kids activities for after school and then don't allow them to work to prepare for their future. Their school lunches are now being catered by fast food companies and they have nothing to keep them active, this is one of the reasons the teenage obesity rate is through the roof.
My older kids had parks and rec (after school activity, held at the school, they are 25, and 26.) my son in the striped shirt, who is 17, does not and has not had this, it has been cut due to funding. He is an Aspie and his socialization skills would have really been developed had he had that kind of program.
So I am totally with the Original Poster on this. (I am also in Phoenix)


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The daily adventures of a mom of 12 who loves to run and is training hard to see just how good I can be.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Easter!
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- BabyWeightMyFatAss said...
Happy Easter to your family!
- April 8, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Cory Reese said...
What a great picture. Happy Easter to all of you also!
- April 8, 2012 at 9:53 AM
He has risen! Jesus Christ has risen! We serve a risen Savior! Praise the Lord! Happy Resurrection Day to your family!
- April 8, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Jen@runfortheboys said...
Love this!!! Was so hoping to see a pic of your babies today :) Happy Easter to you all.
- April 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM
- Running Mommy said...
Thank you for sharing your journey! I got my May Runner's world and was excited to see you in it! Even though I don't know you, I was excited to share your story with my kids-saying mommy reads her blog. I hope you and your family had a great Easter!
- April 8, 2012 at 2:19 PM
- Caroline said...
LOVE this picture!!
Happy Easter!
Joyeuses Paques!
- April 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- i Run said...
What a beautiful family! Thanks for sharing. Soulfood!
- April 9, 2012 at 1:27 AM
- misszippy said...
I love this picture. Your family is a rainbow of beauty!
- April 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM
- Kristin Miller said...
Beautiful family! Happy Easter to you and yours!
- April 9, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Hi Erin- I wish you or another reader would address this issue: My periods are so heavy; it would be horrible if I was running Boston and it fell on the first or second day of my period; it just wouldn't work out due to the heavy flow. I have to plan my marathons around certain times of the month... ughhh. What do you or other female runners do concerning running and your menstrual cycle?
- April 9, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Laura said...
What a great family picture! Happy Easter to you all, too!
- April 9, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- lindsay said...
happy easter! everyone looks great!
- April 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- Full of Love said...
What a great looking family! They are all so grown up!
- April 9, 2012 at 9:14 PM
- Kathy said...
Wow, just found your blog! What an amazing family!
- April 10, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- YTT said...
I was a long-time follower of your family blog, which was a huge inspiration to me, and just had to say I can't believe how big your kids have gotten in the time since you made it private. Shorty is absolutely transformed. You were so generous to share them with us for so long.
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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Ryan Vogelsong continues to prove that his 2011 cinderella season was no fluke.
The 34-year-old tossed seven stellar innings of one-hit ball and a four-run seventh inning helped the San Francisco Giants earn their 11th consecutive home win over the Oakland Athletics with a 4-0 victory in the second test of a three-game interleague set.
Vogelsong (2-2) fanned five, walked one and threw 62 of his 97 pitches for strikes. He has now surrendered one earned run or less over his last four outings and lowered his ERA to 2.27 on the year.
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Originally taken by San Francisco in the fifth round of the 1998 MLB Draft, Vogelsong struggled to a 10-23 mark over his first six MLB seasons. He then spent time in Japan and Venezuela and began 2011 with his sixth minor-league club in as many years. But he finally got his big break last April when he replaced the injured Barry Zito.
Vogelsong flourished. He made the All-Star team and finished fourth in the National League in earned run average (2.71) while registering a 13-7 record.
Seth Smith slapped a single to right with one out in the fifth inning to account for Oakland's lone hit of the game.
Tyson Ross (2-4) was charged with two runs on seven hits and four walks in six-plus frames for the A's, who have dropped four of their last five.
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"Obviously Bob (Melvin) felt that there was no way that the ball hit him and that was a big part in the game because it's a low scoring game at that time. Any break for either team right there really has the momentum to probably win the game," Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson said.
Grant Balfour replaced Ross on the hill and walked Gregor Blanco on four pitches to load the bases with none out. Brandon Crawford struck out looking before Melky Cabrera lifted a sacrifice fly to right-center, which brought home Burriss.
Buster Posey followed and laced a ground-rule double to right-center, which plated Vogelsong for a 2-0 edge. Angel Pagan then slapped a single to center, which pushed across Blanco and Cabrera for a 4-0 lead.
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It's always a mistake to read the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl during breakfast (or at all for that matter), but his column today was particularly gag-inducing:
Last Tuesday, Israel faced the fallout from a Palestinian family of five perishing in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli strike against militants firing rockets at an Israeli town…For months now, Israel has been mired in an unwinnable war against Hamas and allied militias in Gaza, who fire missiles at civilians in Israel and then hide among their own women and children, ensuring that retaliatory fire will produce innocent victims for the Middle East's innumerable satellite television networks.
Yes, an Israeli air strike kills five civilians and Israel is the primary victim. Indeed, Hamas is ultimately responsible for every Palestinian casualty, including presumably the more than 900 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security forces since 2000.
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A St. Mary�s sheriff�s deputy had �no choice� but to fire gunshots killing a California man last month outside his Wildewood home, the county�s elected prosecutor said Friday outside the courthouse, as he awaits an autopsy report and the sheriff�s office continues its own investigations.
Sheriff�s Cpl. Michael George remains on administrative leave with pay, the county sheriff said Monday at his headquarters, as detectives and internal affairs officers conduct separate inquiries into the death of 38-year-old Stephen Robert Wycoff. The sheriff said that Cpl. William Rishel, another deputy accompanying George, returned to work on Saturday.
Detectives reported last week that the two uniformed deputies went to Sugar Maple Court shortly after 2 a.m. on Sept. 29 in their marked patrol vehicles on a report of a disturbance, called in by someone who told dispatchers that they heard yelling in the condominiums� parking lot.
An obituary last week for Wycoff described the decorated Army veteran as an active church member who loved singing and playing hymns and memorizing Bible verse. But the prosecutor said the caller�s account of what Wycoff was doing, and evidence at the scene, suggested a sudden change in character that preceded a violent attack on the two lawmen.
�Apparently, he was off his medication and just flipped, ... threatening to kill Americans and set the pages of what we believe was a Bible on fire,� St. Mary�s State�s Attorney Richard Fritz (R) said after a briefing on the police investigation. �We think he may have been burning the Constitution and pages of the Bible. Later, they found the scraps.�
The Rev. Chad Laird, a brother-in-law of Wycoff and the pastor of Truth Bible Church, said Tuesday at his office in Hollywood that the slain man suffered from mental illness, and his family wants an independent investigation of the matter by Maryland State Police. Laird said that law officers gave the media and a judge issuing a search warrant conflicting accounts of the matter, that the unarmed man was shot just outside his door and that police cursed and waved a gun at his father as they made him stay inside the residence for almost four hours.
�We know Stephen made some mistakes that night,� Laird said. �Were they enough to warrant the death penalty? Did Cpl. George have the authority to make that decision himself — [as] judge, jury and executioner?�
Given Wycoff�s love of his country, family and God, �the last 30 seconds don�t define his life,� Laird said. �There is a lot of contrast� with his alleged actions during the last few minutes of his life.
Laird said that questions remain about a police account that �in 30 seconds, Stephen was Tased, pepper sprayed, [involved] in a struggle and killed.�
Fritz said that the two officers initially asked Wycoff questions to determine if he was the person they had been called to check on.
�The guy just went wild on them,� the prosecutor said, and Wycoff began by �kicking the breath out of� Rishel, before he started �just whaling� on George as the pepper spray the officers tried to subdue their attacker with wafted over all of them.
Wycoff outweighed George, the prosecutor said, and George felt that he was on the verge of being knocked out before he took out his police gun and fired three times — striking Wycoff in the chest, stomach and groin.
Laird said that Wycoff was angry about �bullying, intimidation ... and people making fun of him� at a store where he worked as an inventory associate, and that he was outside his home expressing that anger when he got home after his shift.
�He was yelling to himself, but was that a crime? Stephen was not committing a felony,� the pastor said, adding that the later affidavit to search the residence indicates that the police made the initial contact with Wycoff, as opposed to him confronting them.
�He was not someone [who would] go pick a fight,� Laird said. �He doesn�t have a history of being an aggressor. He�s a fearful person. He was retreating back to his home because he was afraid. You have an unarmed man, shot to death four feet outside his door.�
Detectives report that Wycoff died at the scene, and that both deputies were treated at MedStar St. Mary�s Hospital for injuries from the confrontation, and were released.
Fritz said that Wycoff was a schizophrenia patient, and that police found an unloaded pistol and clips loaded with ammunition concealed in his vehicle.
�This may well have been a person looking for a place to happen,� the prosecutor said. �It�s tragic when a human life has to be taken, but under the circumstances, the police officer had no choice.�
Sheriff Tim Cameron (R) said his agency�s investigations will determine the force continuum that the two officers used, including their reliance on the law-enforcement equipment they had.
�We can determine what was deployed in what manner,� the sheriff said.
Laird said that Wycoff and his father moved from Colorado to St. Mary�s last March, and that the family�s concerns include how police are prepared to deal with people who have mental health issues.
�Does that mean that they�re in more danger of being shot to death than anyone else?� Laird asked. �I don�t think Cpl. George and Cpl. Rishel came there to execute Stephen. They were doing their job. They have a hard job. I think they found themselves in a very difficult situation. If there was excessive force, we don�t want another family to go through what we�re going through.�
Laird said the family doesn�t want to jump to conclusions about what happened, and is not looking for financial gain.
�Christ calls us to forgive,� he said, but �anytime there is a taking of life, there should be an accounting of why that life was taken. Our goal is not money. It�s the truth. It should be all of us toward the truth.�


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A major source of PCR cross-contamination is carryover of PCR products in subsequent amplification reactions. One way to minimize such contamination is to include dUTP and uracil-DNA N-glycosylase in PCR. Here, we demonstrate this method with GoTaq® DNA Polymerase and suggest a protocol for routine laboratory use.
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PCR can detect trace amounts of target DNA, making it sensitive to DNA contamination, especially from previously amplified PCR products. A common method to minimize PCR cross-contamination uses dUTP and uracil-DNA N-glycosylase(a) (referred to as UNG or UDG)
. This method involves two changes to basic PCR: dUTP is incorporated into the amplimer instead of dTTP, and the PCR mix is pretreated with UNG, which is subsequently heat-inactivated during PCR. UNG selectively degrades uracil-containing DNA, thus removing any PCR product contaminants and allowing amplification of only the target DNA.
GoTaq® DNA Polymerase is a proprietary formulation of Taq DNA polymerase that gives robust amplification; when used with the Green GoTaq® Reaction Buffer, you can go directly from PCR to gel analysis without adding sample buffer. This study tests the compatibility of the GoTaq® DNA Polymerase and Green GoTaq® Buffer with dUTP incorporation and UNG treatment.
The β-actin target was successfully amplified in the first round of PCR by GoTaq® DNA Polymerase using all concentration ratios of dUTP:dTTP tested (Table 1 and Figure 1). When 200µM dUTP was used without any dTTP, the amplification was inconsistent (data not shown). We used the highest concentration of dUTP that consistently gave strong amplification (175µM dUTP + 25µM dTTP; Figure 1, Lane 5) for further testing.
To assess the ability of GoTaq® DNA Polymerase to incorporate dUTP, reactions were set up with varying ratios of dUTP and dTTP at a final total concentration of 200µM (Table 1). Thermal cycling conditions were: 35 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 30 seconds, annealing at 55°C for 30 seconds and extension at 72°C for 30 seconds. After PCR was completed, 5µl of product was run on a 0.8% agarose gel. Lane M, PCR Markers (Cat.# G3161); lane 1, 0µM dUTP:200µM dTTP; lane 2, 100:100; lane 3, 125:75; lane 4, 150:50; lane 5, 175:25; lane 6, 200:0; lane 7, no-template control.
The conditions used in the second round of PCR ensured that no amplification would be seen if UNG successfully degraded the uracil-containing amplimer. As shown in Figure 2, no PCR product was seen when the uracil-containing product (175µM dUTP + 25µM dTTP) was treated with UNG and amplified (Figure 2, Lane 3). An amplimer resulted when UNG was left out of the reaction (Figure 2, Lane 2).
To test the ability of UNG to degrade the uracil-containing GoTaq®-amplified PCR product in the Green GoTaq® Reaction Buffer, we performed a second round of amplification using UNG treatment and a trace amount of product from the first round of PCR. Uracil DNA Glycosylase (Invitrogen, Cat.# 18054-015) was used according to the manufacturer's recommendations: PCR conditions were modified by an initial 10-minute step with 1µl of UNG incubated at 37°C and a final 72°C soak after thermal cycling (see Figure 1). A volume of the first PCR was chosen to ensure the amount of genomic DNA template from the first reaction would be below the limit of detection for the conditions used in the second reaction (data not shown). The PCR was performed in a volume of 50µl, and an aliquot of 5µl was run on a 0.8% agarose gel. Lane M, PCR Markers (Cat.# G3161); lane 1, no-template control; lane 2, amplification without UNG treatment; lane 3, amplification with UNG treatment.
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appicchato wrote:By this line of reasoning, it would seem, that to be in accordance with Vinaya, a monk would have to eat some of everything...a reference please for why the Buddha put forth the rules 'precisely to keep monks from choosing...'
I'm referring here to plates on the floor, or a table, not what is put in one's bowl...
I would expect you would know the Vinaya better than I would, Bhante. My understanding, and I my be mistaken, is that there isn't supposed to be plates on the floor or table but that food is to be offered by a lay person directly into the monk's bowl. I read this in a talk by a monk... I will try to find it. The bit about not choosing... again I will have to think about where I read this.
And yes, this discussion of monks and vegetarianism, while interesting, is completely off topic for this thread. I am wishing to specifically discuss whether and how "buying meat" constitutes "urging another to kill". Monks do not buy meat.


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Sebastien Buemi will once again act as Red Bull's test and reserve driver during the 2013 season.
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