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In the weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, there has been much discussion of the impact the Haitian diaspora in the United States and the remittances they send to family members will have on the nation's recovery. According to Kristin Johnson, Ph.D., author of the IPC report, Many Happy Returns—Remittances and their Impact: How Money Sent Home by Migrant Workers Helps the American Economy [1], the remittances Haitians receive will be extremely important to their recovery process. Furthermore, the money that leaves the U.S. in the form of remittances will be used by Haitians to purchase U.S. exports. Over half of Haiti's imports originate in the U.S., and the states with the most Haitian immigrants also have large export markets in Haiti. In this way, the remittances that immigrants in the U.S send abroad have a positive impact on the U.S. economy and trade.
There are approximately 535,000 Haitians living in the U.S.
- Florida has the largest Haitian population -- 46.4% of Haitians in the U.S. live in Florida. 24.1% live in New York; 7.6% live in New Jersey, and 7.1% live in Massachusetts.
Haitians remittances to family members in Haiti constitute a significant part of the Haitian economy.
- Haitians in the U.S. have maintained ties to their families in Haiti, and the Haitian economy has become increasingly reliant on money sent by Haitians living abroad. Approximately one in five households in Haiti receives remittances.
- According to Haiti's Central Bank, Haitians send approximately $1 billion per year to Haiti, which is more than a quarter of the country's GDP. Remittances are an increasingly important source of income to Haitians; total remittances are larger than the total annual foreign direct investment and annual revenue from exports.
Impoverished Haitian families use remittances for basic everyday needs.
- The majority of Haitians who receive remittances are very poor. The World Bank found that 55% of remittance-receiving households do not have any other income.
- Remittances sent to Haiti are largely spent on the provision of basic needs: housing, food, clothing, and medicine. A survey conducted as part of a World Bank study found that remittances recipients primarily used remittance income to purchase food and household goods.
Haitian remittances are used to purchase goods from the U.S.
- The US has a positive trade balance with Haiti, indicating that Haiti purchases more imports from the U.S. than it exports to the US. Between 1990 and 2009, between 50-60% of imports into Haiti originated in the United States.
- Rice, wheat, and meat products comprise the largest dollar amounts in terms of exported goods.
- Florida has both the largest Haitian born population in the United States and the largest share of Haiti's export market. In 2008, nearly 24% of Haiti's exports from the United States came from Florida. Haiti was Florida's 37th largest export market in 2008, ranging in value from 34th to 37th between 2000 and 2008, with the 2004 dollar value of these exports reaching $223,241,000.
- New York ranks 6th in total US state exports to Haiti, realizing $34,677,000 in exports to Haiti in 2008.
- New Jersey is 10th largest state exporter to Haiti, with $22,157,000 in export revenues.
- Massachusetts ranks 22nd in state exports to Haiti, with $3,550,000 in export revenue.
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18 Feb 2013 7:49 AM #31
OSX, I just got it working! It was the $PATH variable that wasn't set correctly it appears.
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Thanks anyway It was a real struggle, the last problem was actually my fault. But beginning a project with Sencha like this is not a lot of fun. I was directed to SenchaSDKTools first, that didn't work at all. Took me way to much time, but hey... it's working now
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We know change is good—but when our aesthetician tried to coax us from our square nails to rounder ones, we balked. But she promised that smoother edges would help stave off nail cracks and tears, so we yielded to her file. She rewarded us with a soothing, hot-cream cuticle treatment and an arm-and-hand massage with Bliss's signature lemon-and-sage-scented lotion. And the change was well worth it—we haven't had a split nail since.
Los Angeles: Manicures
930 Hilgard Ave.
9390 Little Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills
This popular Beverly Hills spot offers organic and natural treatments based on holistic Chinese remedies. Though our service veered somewhat from its description (we didn't get the green-tea soak), our manicurist devoted 20 minutes to shaping our nails, trimming our cuticles, and massaging mineral-rich lotions into our chapped hands. From now on, we'll head to the Hills to be spoiled.
2913 Main St.
Santa Monica
Spa at Four Seasons Los Angeles
Genia Gregorian
300 S. Doheny Dr.
You don't come to the Four Seasons Spa for cutting-edge polish colors or wacky lacquers. You come to drop a shoe size. At the newly opened luxurious facility, Gregorian, who's been manicuring celebrities (like Juliette Binoche and James King) for 25 years rubs, files, and exfoliates haggard cuticles and the thickest of calluses until they disappear. When the smoke clears, you'll have the hands and feet of a newborn. Gregorian's vigorous postoperative rubdown is fabulous, but your feet will be tender for a day or two.
Georgyanna's Place
Georgyanna Giardini
323-655-5046; 888-655-1390 (for products)
After working as an in-house manicurist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital for 25 years, Georgyanna set up shop in her house near Beverly Hills. Geena Davis, Jennifer Lopez, and Toni Braxton have all been buffed in her back garden. She's just launched her own line of products.
2911 W. Sunset Blvd.
At this modest salon, we were tended to by two technicians: one for our hands and another for our feet. In rapid succession, they soaked, filed, scrubbed, and massaged. After 35 minutes, we had beautifully polished fingers and toes—and a week later, both were still chip-free.
Golden Nail
Natalie Ngo
9877 S. Santa Monica Blvd.
We don't live in Beverly Hills (except in our dreams), but we felt right at home there after a visit to this family-operated salon. Ngo entertained us with friendly repartee while she sculpted our nails to perfection. We enjoyed our conversation so much that we decided to prolong it by staying for a pedicure. Before we left, we promised to return soon—but our polish hasn't chipped once in two weeks. At this rate, we might start to get homesick.
Golden Nail
Christine Ngo; Sarah Tseveg
Manicure and pedicure, $40
9877 S. Santa Monica Blvd.
Beverly Hills is the first place we'd look for a top-notch nail salon—and the last place we'd expect to find a bargain. But that was before we visited this family-operated gem. Ngo neatened up our cuticles and filed away every ridge while Tseveg simultaneously got to work on our feet, scrubbing away our calluses and treating us to a generous toe-to-knee massage. Both applied polish without a smudge and sent us on our way with pristine nails that remained chip-free for two weeks, exceeding our expectations— but not our budget.
8627 Sunset Blvd.
This Sunset Plaza salon employs "nail cultivists" schooled in owner Jessica Vartoughian's all-natural system. Appointments take an hour, which may be why these manicures last. And where else can you see regulars Nancy Reagan (with her Secret Service agent), Jodie Foster, and Gina Gershon? After a hangnail and cuticle cleanup, our manicurist filed our nails and massaged our hands with cream before slipping them into thermal mittens. Another staffer soaked our feet in a menthol-chamomile bath, trimmed our toenails with an angled clipper, exfoliated our skin with an almond-scented scrub, and massaged our feet and calves. We understoond why so many women have had standing appointments here for 25 years.
8627 Sunset Blvd.
For a place that attracts such a highbrow clientele, Jessica Nail Clinic is decidedly low-key. There are no personal televisions, plush chairs, or rose petals floating in the footbaths—just meticulous grooming. Our manicurist began by filing our nails, pausing every few minutes to measure each tip against the others. Next, she gently pushed back our cuticles with a cool vibrating tool. The service might not have included any bells or whistles, but our glossy red polish got plenty of attention on its own.


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Come on mate, you're so close to a treble! City could slip up against Bolton and Fulham I think, and that away goal against Malaga puts you in good stead for the return leg.
Come on mate, you're so close to a treble! City could slip up against Bolton and Fulham I think, and that away goal against Malaga puts you in good stead for the return leg.
Great thread here!
The race for the title is so close, you will have definitely earned it if all goes your way.
Nah, you will not win it, concentrate on Europe mate.
Thomas Lewis' Career - May 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
Well we gave it our best shot, but eventually we came up just short. We won excellently against both Stoke Aston Villa, but by the time we faced Everton on the final day of the season the title was really beyond us as we needed both Manchester clubs to lose, and a twelve goal swing in our favour. As it happened we played excellently at Goodison Park but just couldn't find the net, also both United and City won, so whatever we did was irrelevant.
Still, it was a good final month of the season, and rounded off an excellent campaign pretty nicely.
Europa League
We may not have won, and thus went out on aggregate 2-1, but I can't complain with how we played. Against one of Europes great sides historically, we put in a super performance, and completely dominated them. As with the game we played on the last day of the Premier League season against Everton, we just couldn't find the back of the net. I was disappinted, but proud.
A full end of season review will follow either later today or tomorrow.
Well done on 3rd place mate, your getting closer to the title charge! Lets hope next season can be more kind to you
I think you have unfinished business and need to win the Premiership, then think about moving. But that's my opinion, it's up to you
Thomas Lewis' Career - Season 2014/15 Review - Swansea City
Premier League
Results 1 - Results 2 - Final League Table (3rd, automatic Champions League place)
After last seasons sixth placed finish, I was just hoping for a season of consolodation; finishing eighth or above would have been a very good season. What we achived this term is something I never imagined. And yet having said that, I can't help but think what might have been had a couple of those draws being turned into victories. Maybe next season we can go a step further.
FA Cup
Eliminated in the 4th Round
A pretty dismal effort. Against Championship side Wigan we were poor in the original tie and the replay, yet somehow got through. We were the same against Sunderland, and they thoroughly deserved their victory.
League Cup
For the second season in a row we lifted the League Cup. We may not have had the most difficult of runs in the competition this year, but our performances were nonetheless professional in the sense that we kept getting the job done. The final against
Queen Park Rangers was just the same; not a classic performance, but we got the job done and lifted the trophy.
Europa League
Eliminated in the Semi-finals
A brilliant effort by us in our first European campaign. Along the way we had some amazing wins; the victory in Leverkusen, and the 4-0 victory at home to Panathinaikos. We were quite unfortunate in the semi's to be honest, and who knows what would have happened if in the first leg Scott Sinclair had scored from the penalty spot to make it 2-0.
Our season in the Europa has certainly whetted the appetite for the Champions League.
Other Info
Transfers - Finances
(Some released players are cut off the top of the "Players Out" section)
Alot of transfers were made before the start of the seaon and fair few came in during January aswell. We built well after our debut season in the Premier League and the squad has been taken to the next level. Of the loan players signed in January I'm not sure if I will keep any of them, but in the cases of Tafer and Toulalan I have until January 2016 to decide as they joined on year long deals. Special mention goes to Stefan Savic; one of my lesser signings, he was an absolute rock in defence, forming a great partnership with Ashley Williams.
Financially we had a very good year despite a net transfer spend of £10.25million. We earned over £14million from our league position, and a fair bit of prize money from the Europa League. Next season we should perform even better with the Champions League revenue that will come our way.
Top 3 Players
Danny Welbeck
I can't believe I was so indecisive about signing him. Bought as a striker, he actually played upfront just three times all seaon, and was utterly devastating at AMR. If he does half as well next seasn, I'll be relatively happy. For £3.3million he was a snip.
Henri Lansbury
Signed for £2.7million after a successful loan spell in our first season in the Premier League, he really stepped things up this term and became our creative force. Lord knows how he is yet to get even called up to the England squad.
Scott Sinclair
Another good season from Sinclair, if not quite as good as his previous campaign. He scored more goals but the assist dried up somewhat, and he had a shocker this term with his penalties. Still, he got some crucial goals, and as a knack of turning up in the big games when it counts.
Papiss Cisse would have been in this list with his superb return of 27 goals from 43 appearances. But he was fairly inconsistent at times, as his avergate rating of 7.15 suggests.
What Next
Well stick with Swansea and look forward to next seasons Champions League campaign is the most likely scenario. I can only see my self being tempted away by a big club abroard. I won't be moving in England, that is for certain.
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Congrats on your fine season mate.
Shame about Europe though.
Was a very good showing (bar the FA Cup) throughout the season,keep up the good work.
Great season!!! Looking forward to your European adventure next term.
Very good challenge anyway.
Awesome season, well done. Looking forward to a) Your Champions League progress b) Your next batch of transfers - you seem to have an eye for good bargains and have a similar transfer philosophy to me.
Brilliant season, looking forward to seeing your side in the Champions League next season, good luck dude.
Not going are you?
Who are Tammeka?
Great rise in Europe.
King Kenny .
I know. Its just sad to see Dalglish depart on the game.
Thomas Lewis' Career - Season Preview - 2015/16 - Swansea City A.F.C
Board Expectations
Premier Legaue: Finish in a respectable league position
FA Cup: Reach the sixth round
League Cup: Reach the quarter finals
Champions League: Enjoy the experience
Personal Expectations
Premier League: Finish in a European spot - be it Champions League again or the Europa League
FA Cup: Just do better than last seasons abysmal fourth round exit
League Cup: A place in the semi-finals
Champions League: Errr I'll let you know when the group stage is drawn
Transfer: £34,365,519
Wages: £712,994 (Currently spending £650,431)
Balance: £15,820,820 (Up £12,560,472 from last season)
A corking budget for us to go and improve the squad with. We've yet to sign a player ahead of the new season, so I'll see what needs improving upon for the challenges ahead this term. Our balance has improved alot, and with Champions League revenus to come it will only get better.
By the end of the window I expect there to be a few new faces on the list above, mainly technically accomplished players aswell as I'm trying to advance my tactic to a more passing style. During my time at Swansea we have had to play counter attacking style, but now we have moved forward, I feel the need to freshen up the style. Hopefully the changes will yield a more Barcelona style of play.
I will post my transfers and revised squad list on the eve of the new season.
Looking at your squad, it's good without containing any real worldbeaters. This makes your achievements all the more remarkable, for me. You're doing a cracking job.
You have a very solid squad and with a couple of signings you can really push on.
I think that that is the one thing i, dare i say it, regret about last season - that one player who is a bit special and can give us that extra something when we need it. Had the side had that, i think the title would have been ours.
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It's a sham that your challenge for the title fell apart in the final weeks, but still a massive improvement over the season beforehand. Hopefully you can consolidate a place in the top four whilst putting up a good fight in the Champions League. Be interesting to see if you can make it a hat-trick of League Cups.
The travel alone. Pfft.
Be a nice place to get away from Swansea though
Thomas Lewis' Career - Preseason - 2015/16 - Swansea City A.F.C
A fair bit of transfer activity over the summer, and indeed most of it on good players who came cheaply. Regarding the two main sales, John Fleck never really did it for us on a consistent basis so a profit of £5.5million in just 18 months was terrific. And Younes Kaboul lost his place last term because of the form of Ashely Williams and Stefan Savic, and with Danny Wilson joining, I didn't want a back-up player on £30,000 p/w.
The ones who have come in can definitely help us move forward.
Emiliano Sanchez
A young, exciting looking wideman, his dribbling and crossing could be a valuable weapon if/when he gets his chance in the side.
Signed on a free following his release from Barcelona, Rafinha is a bit of a gamble, but on a free transfer he can hardly fail.
Sergio Canales
On the trasnfer list at Real Madrid, I couldn't resist him for just £1.2million. His technicals are great, and his creativity and flair could really give us a spark.
Paul Pogba
Pogba was available for trasnfer for just over £2million. He has stalled somewhat due to a lack of first team football at United, but he is another good passer of the ball and a risk free signing having come for such a small fee.
Danny Wilson
Costing the same as Pogba, Danny Wilson is likely to be an important part of the side.
Nestor Schmidt
Wow. Our record signing by some way came in on transfer deadline day and really looks excellent. Hopefully this is the man who can lead us to glory. Frighteningly good for just 21 years old.
As usual not many preseason games, and to get the confidence up I just played a couple of simple teams before playing against the MLS Allstars. Not a game I sceduled, but rather we were chosen to play in the Pepsi All-Star game, and duly won 4-0. It may be just a preseason game, but it's a trophy that still goes down on my CV!
The big kick off is fast approaching, and we open up with an away game at Bolton Wanderers.
Thomas Lewis' Career - August 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
A good little start to the campign, taking seven points from a possible nine. Against Bolton we were superb, and Rafinha was great on his debut getting a goal and an assist. The only disappintment was the late consolation goal we let in. The game with QPR was easy - we dominated and should have won by more, but our finishing left alot to be desired. Goodison park is always a tough place to go, and the point could be very important in the latter stages of the season.
Champions League
The draw for the group stages has been made, and my goodness have we been handed a tough group;
I'll be perfectly honest and say that I can't see us getting through to the 1st knockout round, and finishing third and dropping into the Europa League may be the best we can hope for. Nevertheless we'll give it our best shot.
Some nice signings there. Pogba is a shrewd signing and Schmidt looks fantastic.
Nice start to the season but ouch!!! Thats a tough group in Europe.
Got a good competitive side though.
Good start to the season,that is a very tough CL group,hopefully you can claim at least 3rd place in it.
As for Europe, maybe it's not as hard as it seems......
Thomas Lewis' Career - September 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
September took on the same pattern as August; two wins folloed by a draw. The differences came in the fact that ur two wins were magnificent, and the draw extremely frustrating. As superb as did play against Spurs, we were also sloppy. From being 3-0 up after 37 minutes, we were left hanging on after they clawed two back. Thankfully Danny Welbeck calmed the nerves in the 93rd minute. The City performance was the perfect away performance; we sat back, played on the counter, and made sure we took our chances to run out 3-0 winners. The West Ham thing was annoying. We had 64% of possession and totally dominated them, especially in the opening period, but one mistake straight after halftime let them equalise, and after that we couldn't break them down. Still, we are in a good position after six games.
League Cup - 3rd Round
Not a great performance, but it keeps us in with a shout of winning a third League Cup in a row. In the next round we go to Championship opposition again; Newcastle United.
September 2015 Continued
Champions League
A very good start to our Champions League campaign. We played very well in the Ukraine and thoroughly deserved our win. Against Barceloan we played very well without creating alot of chances. They did the same, and the 0-0 draw was a fiar result. To be on four points after two games is a very good start. Next up, Milan come to The Liberty Stadium.
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Great result against Barcelona .
To limit them to just four chances is great work. If you can get four or five points in the remaining games you stand a great chance of getting through.
Promising start in the CL.
Still going to be tough - next up is a double header against Milan, whereas Barcelona have two against Metalist which i expect them to take six points from. In all honesty i'd be delighted with two draws against Milan just to give us a chance going into the final two games.
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Thomas Lewis' Career - October 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
A terrific month for us, and one that earned me the Manager Of The Month award. Agains Fulham we lead very early on, but found ourselves 2-1 down at the break. In the second half we hit back though, and Rafinha got the winner with 15mins to spare. The West Brom game was another in which we had to come from behind, and that man Scott Sinclair did what he always does - comes up with something when we are struggling. The 2-0 win over Stoke was as comfortable as it looks. We dominated with 60% of possession, and 17 attempts to there 8 - it should really have been more. And at the end of the month against Villa it was again Scott Sinclair who turned up when we needed. After an hour we were struggling at 0-0, but he then put in a great ball for Welbeck to score, before grabbing a brace for himself, one either side or Villa's goal.
So we have moved top, but in November we have some tricky games; Blackburn (A), Chelsea (H), Liverpool (A), and Arsenal (H).
League Cup - 4th Round
A good win for us away at Newcastle, with both Scott Sinclair and Papiss Cisse maintaining their good goalscroing runs throughout October. Next up in the quarter finals is Sheffield Wednesday, again away from home.
October 2015 Continued
Champions League
Another good performance in the Champions League, and much like the Barcelona game it was probably a fair result. The most pleasing aspect was that we had more possession - 57% to 43%. The difference to this game and the Barca one was the chances we created - had we been a bit sharper infront of goal we could have won.
Next up is a trip to the San Siro.
Last edited by tomtuck01; 29-03-2012 at 17:13.
Some great results pity you didn't sneak a goal against Milan. Going very well in the league, I think you might grab a trophy this season.
Excellent October . Despite coming so close to beating Milan, that is a very good point. You are by no way disgraced in your first Champions League season.
Great record .
Very strong run.
Thomas Lewis' Career - November 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
Strange sort of month really. We remain unbeaten - a run that now stands at 41 league games, but a return of six points from a possible twelve is far from Championship form. Still, we got a good win at Blackburn and a draw at Liverpool this month, and kept cleansheets in three of our four games. We also snatched a good point at home to Arsenal after trailing 2-0.
Up next, just a trip to Old Trafford.
November 2015 Continued
Champions League
We followed up earlier home draws with Barcelona and Milan with an excellent away draw in Milan to aid our chances of progressing into the next round. At home to Metalist we gave another good performance and thoroughly deserved our 2-1 win.
We head to Barcelona for ur last group game, knowing that if we avoid defeat we will be into the next round. Easier said than done though.
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Least your unbeaten in the league which is more then Utd can say.No matter what the result,you've done well in your first Cl with Swansea.
A very solid month in the league based on your opponents. Another brilliant month as well in Europe. Looks like you really annoyed Milan based off the yellow cards . Good luck in Barcelona.
As for Milan, just look at possession stat - we kept it well. No wonder they got frustrated.
Good luck against Barca, a similar result to last time would be nice.
You never do Tom, you never do!!!
Looking fantastic in the league and in europe Keep up the good work and I believe you can overcome United!
Now go all the way!
I'd personally take the first one. Although I wouldn't go until the end of the season if possible.
Well I delayed the offer from Inter for a week in the hope that it would then allow me to delay again until the end of the season. But it didn't, so I rejected the offer - I am still a Swan!
It wouldnt have felt right if you left Swansea after your first Champions League season. The end of the year would have been a good time to leave but Inter can stuff themselves .
Thomas Lewis' Career - December 2015 - Swansea City
Premier League
A very month for us in the league with four wins from four at home and two very good away draws. The draw at United was tempered by the fact that Nestor Schmidt was injured and ruled out for three weeks just at a time when we needed him most. But we got by without him and Jonny Howson really stepped up his game. We resorted to the old guard upfront for most of the month, and Papiss Cisse didn't disappoint and really found the goalscoring touch. The win against Bolton at the end of the month was most pleasing though as we came from behind, and the three players that scored all ended their goal droughts.
League Cup - Quarter Final
Not a great performance against the League One opposition, but we scrapped over the line and into the semi-finals thanks to Danny Wilsons goal. In the the semi-final we face we Ipswich, a side which caused us problems in the league earlier this season.
December 2015 Continued
Champions League
What a great achievement! We had a few scares in the Camp Nou, but on the balance of things I think we thoroughly deserved our draw. To dominate possession in that manner away t Barceloona earned us a draw on its own, and when Lionel Messi is getting booked for persistent fouling you know you're doing something right!
It was truly remarkable group stage for us, and lets hope our Champions League adventure can continue in the 1st knockout round against Porto.
Last edited by tomtuck01; 31-03-2012 at 09:17.
Still going very well in the league and I do hope Utd crack under pressure.Well done on qualifying from the group in the CL,best of luck against Porto.
An excellent month and a remarkable achievement to make it through the group stages .
Thomas Lewis' Career - January 2016 - Swansea City
Premier League
A poor month for us, drawing all three of our games as United won their three to move six points clear of us. The only upside was that the draw against Tottenham meant we have now beaten Arsenal's record of 49 games unbeaten. I would post a news story about this, but for some reason there hasn't been one pop up yet!
Up next we have home games against Manchester City and Fulham.
FA Cup - 3rd And 4th Rounds
A good couple of wins from us. The Norwich game was obviously closer than I would have liked, (Scott Sinclair got the winner in the 91st minute), but they are up in the playoff spots in the the Championship, so it was never going to be an easy game.
In the fifth round we have another away game, this time to Old Trafford to face Manchester United.
January 2016 Continued
League Cup
A third League Cup final in three years awaits us in late February after a stunning second leg performance against Ipswich. We were off the pace in the first leg, and were probably a touch lucky not to lose. In the second leg though we outstanding and completely ripped them to shreds.
In the final we face Manchester United, who defeated Everton in their semi final.
Transfers In
Josh McEachran
The deal for McEachran was arranged back in November, but when he arrived he was injured and is therefore yet to appear for us. What he will bring to the side is hopefully another young creative option.
Carlos Vela
Signed on loan for a year from PSG for a fee of £1.2million, my hope is that Vela can pop up with a few goals to fire us towards trophy or two this season. At times we have struggled for goals this term, but Vela's finishing and composure could be invaluable. We have the option to buy him for £4.6million.
Players Out
Emiliano Sanchez, who only joined in the summer, has gone already. He hadn't settled to life in England and asked for a move. Fiorentina paid £2,5million for him, and hopefully he prefers life in Italy.
Danny Graham also departed the club this month, heading to Bolton for £800,000. I hope he gets the regular football he deserves at the Reebok.
Last edited by tomtuck01; 31-03-2012 at 19:48.
You certainly like the League Cup dont you . Nice signing in Vela as well.
Not something to complain about though. Man Utd will give you a tough game, but I think you can win it.
Thomas Lewis' Career - 2015/16 - Swansea City
League Cup Final
How We Got To The Final
The Final
vs.Manchester United
Wow. Just wow.
I see Welbeck had no trouble finishing off his former club.
Thomas Lewis' Career - February 2016 - Swansea City
Premier League
Three wins out of four would normally constitute a good month, but given Manchester Uniteds recent form, it means that we have slipped further behind them in the title race. The wins agianst Man City and Fulham were excellent - both games we completely dominated. West Ham was the same, except we couldn't score and they did - in the fifth minute of injury time. That defeat put an end to our unbeaten league run, which was an incredible 52 games. We bounced back though with a hard fought win at Stoke to keep us just about in touch with United.
FA Cup - 5th Round
Well we played well and the game was a real battle, but on the balance of things they probably just about deserved it. We did however get our revenge eight days later in the League Cup final.
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February 2016 Continued
League Cup
A truly remarkable performance. To dominate in such a fashion against United was simply brilliant. We have now won the Leage Cup three times in a row. As SRL88 said, I seem to like this trophy!
Champions League - 1st Knockout Round, 1st Leg
Well heading in the second leg in Portugal it's advantage us. It is slender, but we got to Portugal with a lot of hope after how we played in this leg. We limited Porto to just six attempts on goal, (none on target), and had the majority of the possession. Hopefully we can put in a similar performace in the Estadio do Dragao and extend our Champions League run even further.
Last edited by tomtuck01; 31-03-2012 at 23:06.
Brilliant in the League Cup, I always feel kind of bad if I thrash the team I support in real life. Going well in the league but it could be tough to get past Man United, I find unbeaten runs are usually ended by a team I would expect to beat easily. Good luck in the next Champions League match.
That was quite an incredible unbeaten run in the league! And a great record in the League Cup!
Good luck with the rest of the season, I'm sure you'll be happy enough finishing second?
The league isn't over and done with. It's still winnable.
I approve of the League Cup result . Fantastic result!!!
Woah 6-1 thats a brilliant result
Slender against Porto but the advantage is yours.


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I assume it is partially because they are good generalizations of polynomial rings, but what makes this generalization better than graded algebras or other generalizations of polynomial rings?
The best answer I've ever been able to come up with is that the class of noetherian rings contains the classical number rings $\mathbf{Z}$ and $\mathbf{R}$ and is closed under the formation of polynomial rings, localization, completion, and quotients. So it contains many of the rings you will come across in ordinary situations (whatever that means). It also has the advantage that the definition is tractable enough that if someone hands you an explicit ring, it's not out of the question to try to work out from scratch whether it's noetherian. If you're the kind of person who likes abstract fields, then they're also included.
On the other hand, I don't think of it as a truly fundamental concept, like say finite presentation. But there is no denying its convenience. If you need to avoid some infinitary phenomena but you still want a broad class of rings, it's often hard to beat noetherianness. It's also quite good in situations where you're too lazy to work out exactly what finiteness conditions you care about.
I am not entirely sure what you have in mind when you contrast being noetherian to being graded. These belong to different aspects of being a ring. It's kind of like saying "He came in a hurry and [in] a winter coat".
Also, graded algebras are actually natural objects in algebraic geometry. That's where projective schemes/varieties come from.
Anyway, let me say something possibly useful, too: I believe that the truly important notion is being finitely presented. See the original definition of coherence. If you accept that, then one can say that the importance of being noetherian is that being finitely presented follows from being finitely generated and it is inherited by both quotients and subobjects.
I'd just like to briefly add that Noetherian rings can be surprisingly non-geometric. In particular, they can fail to be excellent. Thus
Of course, excellent is just a hodge-podge of conditions that avoid these particular pathologies (and avoid these after some standard operations).
The usual rings (finite type over a field or $\mathbb{Z}$) are excellent, as are complete local rings. However, it can be hard to prove that an arbitrary ring is excellent.
Roughly, Noetherian schemes are (locally) given by finitely many equations, and this makes it possible to make inductions on the number of equations. Also, it fits very well to the classical intuition for algebraic varieties.
To be more precise, a more fundamental concept is that of a morphism of finite type $X \to S$. For a fixed $S$, these make up a category, but it is not so well behaved and there are quite some subcategories such as the category of abelian schemes which behave only well if you assume that $S$ is, say, locally noetherian. On the other hand, you can also consider the category of morphisms of finite presentation $X \to S$ and it turns out that quite often this is more natural since now you can drop any finiteness conditions on $S$. The reason is, roughly, that here $X$ is described by finitely many equations, and that these equations also satisfy only a finite number of relations, the latter being important for reduction and induction arguments in the spirit of the Five Lemma. If $S$ is noetherian, we get the latter for free and that is the reason why you often just assume it.
I study mainly modules and abelian groups, but even I find the Noetherian property useful. For me, probably the main feature lurking in the background is that submodules of a finitely generated $R$-module, $R$ Noetherian, are finitely generated. This fact also allows us to conclude that a finitely generated module over a Noetherian ring $R$ is finitely presented. For a finitely generated module over an arbitrary ring, we always have the exact sequence $$0 \rightarrow K \rightarrow R^n \rightarrow M \rightarrow 0$$ where $K$ is the kernel of the map $R^n \rightarrow M$ that sends the standard basis elements of $R^n$ to the generators of $M$. We say $M$ is finitely presented if $K$ is finitely generated. If $R$ is Noetherian, this is automatic.
It is also nice that when $R$ is Noetherian, any finitely generated $R$-module has a primary decomposition.
Facts like this are standard fare in commutative algebra. Now it has been a good while since I've done much algebraic geometry, but if memory serves, when decomposing an affine variety into irreducible subvarieties, one uses a primary decomposition of the ideal$I$ of the variety (in the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over the field underlying the affine space; this field is usually assumed algebraically closed). But the ideal $I$ turns out to be equal to its own radical, so the primary decomposition involves only prime ideals, and each of these corresponds to an irreducible (affine) variety, each being a component of the original variety.


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47 million uninsured.
Bracing figures from the Census Bureau: 47 million Americans (15.8 percent of the population) lack health insurance, up from 44.8 million last year. And the number of uninsured children rose for the second consecutive year--after years of steady decline. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Most of the problem with health insurance were traceable to the continued erosion of employer-based healthcare coverage. The percentage of people covered by employer plans decreased to 59.7% of the population in 2006, down from 60.2% in 2005.
Of particular concern, the number of uninsured children rose for the second year in a row, after a long period in which it had been steadily declining, thanks to the expansion of government health coverage. More than 600,000 children joined the ranks of the uninsured in 2006, a change that the Census Bureau called statistically significant.
"The increase in the uninsured rate [for children] can be attributed to the decline in private coverage," said David Johnson, chief of the Census Bureau division that produced the statistics.
The news about uninsured children comes as the Bush administration and Congress are deadlocked over a plan to renew and expand a popular federal-state partnership that provides health insurance for children of the working poor. Known as Healthy Families in California, the State Children's Health Insurance Program insures about 6 million children nationally. But it will expire Sept. 30 unless President Bush and Congress can come to terms.
Bush has proposed a small increase for the $5-billion-a-year program, one that independent analysts say will not be enough to maintain the current levels of coverage. A Senate-passed plan would cover about 3 million more children over five years, while a House version would extend coverage to 5 million more children. Bush has vowed to veto both bills.
Yesterday, the New York Times editorialized on the subject:
The challenge to the White House and Congress seems clear. Theupward trend in the number of uninsured needs to be reversed becausemany studies have shown that people who lack health insurance tend toforgo needed care until they become much sicker and go to expensiveemergency rooms for treatment. That harms their health and drives upeveryones health care costs.
The most immediate need is toreauthorize and expand the expiring State Childrens Health InsuranceProgram. It has already brought health coverage to millions of youngAmericans. It should be reinvigorated to bring coverage to manymillions more.
Not to worry, the American Medical Association (AMA) is on it, as its recent ad campaign, "Voice of the Uninsured," makes clear. Last Thursday, the New York Times ran a heartstrings-tugging full-page ad from the AMA. "One out of seven of us doesn't have health insurance," its headline announced. "But we all have a voice. And a vote." Below that headline was a photo of a middle-aged black woman holding a stethoscope up to her mouth as though it were a microphone. And at the bottom of the page, the campaign's Web site: VoiceOfTheUninsured.org. Sounds positively empowering, doesn't it?
"One out of seven Americans is uninsured," the Web page repeats. "This isn't just a statistic. It's a tragedy." Indeed it is, so why would the AMA's proposals (PDF) track so closely with President Bush's inadequate plan? Laden with reassuring verbiage emphasizing the importance of "freedom," "choice," "security," the AMA's ad campaign seems to be a rather impressively executed bait-and-switch.
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Perhaps someone could set me right on this, but it seems that every time I hear or see a piece on this subject (the NYT, PBS, NPR, and so forth) the question is examined as if it belongs purely to the United States, implying that we have nothing to learn from any mere foreigners on the subject. But somewhere there must be a book (or even a long article) that looks at comparative health care systems and the ways in which they are paid for and the kind of care they give. Switzerland, I believe, has a combination of public and private (insurance company) funding as we do, but manages to do it better and spend far less. Why? Are there other places do the same?I would very much like to find something that asks what the Canadians (for instance) or the British or the French or the Italians (the last named ranked at the top in a recent comparison I heard about) or others do right, and what they do wrong, and what we can learn from both their successes and failures. Does such a work exist? Mary Ann Glendon's Abortion and Divorce in Western Law is a splendid example of this kind of comparative study, breaking out of our commonly constricting American parochialism. Perhaps someone has done similar work for medical care, but I don't know about it, and I don't hear either the media or the candidates raising the subject. Any suggestions?P.S. I was delighted to read about Italy's ranking, since a month and a half ago a new grandchild appeared in Florence. Our daughter told us that her hospital and doctors were very, very careful to give the baby the whole battery of tests for anything that might even be possibly wrong (not that there was), because it's well known that all Americans sue obstetricians at the drop of a hat. Gunboat diplomacy, in other words, with the trial lawyers at the helm. How nice that our country has such a awe-inspiring reputation in the world. Makes one proud.
To add insult to injury the plight of the uninsured is seen as a great market for lenders. Captitalism unchecked?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/business/30medloan.html?_r=1&ref=today... are studies and they show that the US spends twice as much while not as good as some industrialized countries. And look at all that support for Kucinich. (in the comment section)http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/15/1198/Is Kuchinich the only one with courage to take on the insurance companies?
I think the only solution from an efficiency and equity point of view is a single payer system. We've been talking about this on Vox Nova for a while now. I made the initial argument here: http://vox-nova.com/2007/06/26/health-care-reform-in-defense-of-single-p...
Insured Americans already gripe that their health care is dictated by insurance companies--and it is. You either accept the treatment your plan provides and go without the rest. Unless you're a multi-millionaire and money is no object.Universal health care will give some Americans (especially those without insurance) better care. Some (those with very good plans) will be worse off. Because businesses aren't going to support private insurance plans when they have to pay taxes to support a universal plan.The devil will be in the details, as we saw from the hash Hilary Clinton made of her effort to improve the situtation.I'm not sure it's necessary to go to other countries, whose economiies are very different from ours, to see what works and what doesn't. States and localities--even individual hospitals--have experimented with a number solutions for the un- and under-insured.A couple of years ago, the New York Times ran a cover story about a Catholic hospital which absorbed the care of its most difficult diabetes patients, who tended to use the emergency room. Providing them Cadillac care for their illness was incredibly expensive, but kept those patients out of the ER and ICU, which were even more incredibly expensive.There is a small community not far from my town where a retired GP has organized a group of physicians who staff a pro-bono clinic. A friend with complicated neurological ailments couldn't afford insurance coverage, but was able to get care on a sliding scale. The docs in the clinic cut a deal with one of the local hospitals to provide lower-cost services for the clinic's patients.One of my son's doctors has a special rate for uninsured patients.Michigan has long had coverage for children in families that are above the poverty/Medicaid line, but below the ability to pay top-dollar premiums. Kids are fairly cheap to cover.A local grocery store chain provides free antibiotics to any customer. It's increased consumer loyalty and helped them compete with the Rite Aids and Walgreens.Some drugs retain their potency after the "expiration date," and could be reserved for needy patients.It might be a good idea (and I can't believe I'm saying this, as both a liberal democrat and someone who has lived through a horrendous period of being uninsured) to let the local and state experiments continue.On a national scale, wider, cheaper--or even free--access to preventive care measures might be a good first step most people could agree on. Physical therapy and carpal tunnel splints have kept me off the operating table. Relatively inexpensive testing, lifestyle changes and simple monitoring have kept my kid out of the ER and hospital for his asthma. Sorry for the length of the rant. But I just don't think that Americans are philosophically ready for universal health care. And I'm not sure our economy--given our emphasis on national security, shot-gun diplomacy and loss of lucrative blue-collar jobs--could sustain it.Small steps that make big differences are the key, I think.
Jean: you aver that this country's economy cannot afford universal health care.How in the name of God can we NOT afford it? Look at what we have today .... a disgrace throughout the "first" world and an allegedly Judeo-Christian country. If 47+/- million people rely on an ER as their medical plan, look at what someone is paying! If the employers are bailing out of healthcare like it is the plague, the taxpayer will end up paying one way or the other. At least let's devise a form of care and coverage that gives us more affordable, comprehensive coverage for those who are adrift without coverage.When I retired I came face to face with the cost of the losa of my group plan's coverage. It wasn't pretty, folks!As far as Americans not being philosophically ready for universal healthcare, are they philosophically ready for the future which can only be worse? To play off of an old saw: A Democrat is a Republican who has lost his/her health plan coverage.
Jean is absolutely right on this. We, as a nation, are not ready or willing to fix this problem on a grand scale.First, we have to look at what the actual problem is. Many of the 47 million uninsured are uninsured by choice. That is something that is rarely discussed. For example, there are many well-employed young people who when given the choice of paying a $300 a month premium (even if subsidized by an employer) and having more money for a nicer car or apartment, choose not to get the insurance. This doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people who have trouble getting health care, but that the "uninsured" isn't a very accurate gauge.OK Joseph - leave aside that the military healthcare system is barely capable of handling what it is already responsible for - suppose we do this. I will tell you now that most Americans wouldn't put up with it. This is where Jean is right on point. A socialized or single payer system must have built in restraints and scarcity. I spent 42 years under the military system. It's a good system, but now that I am out and using private insurance I can tell without a doubt the private system is more responsive to me as a patient. I never once got to pick my doctor. If you got one you didn't like, you might be able to complain and get assigned another - but you still never picked the replacement. For chronic issues, you might wait weeks and weeks for tests and procedures that I can now schedule in a week or two. You might be taking a medication for months or even years, and suddenly your doc changes it not because something else is better, but because the new pharmacy contract carries only the new med because it's cheaper and the doc has to write a justification why you need to stay on the old more expensive med and he won't - say hello to a whole new set of side effects - I know, it happened to me.Yes, there are millions of Americans who would benefit from a single payer system, but there are millions more that would suddenly have to deal with artificial scarcities and regulatory restraints that would be completely alien to them.
Jimmy, I'd love for us all to have free, universal health care tomorrow.I've written to legislators, voted for candidates who advocate for health care reform. But even when elected, they do nothing. I feel like I need a trip to the ER from beating my head against a wall. Practically speaking, I just don't think we have the national will to do anything about it on a grand scale. There are too many other problems, real and concocted, that take up energies elsewhere. Incrementally, I think we could do better. And I think, incrementally, is how things will improve. Believe me, I'm not looking at this like an uninvolved outsider. Two close friends died of cancer in their 40s of cancer, both leaving children at home. Both families had fairly good health care to begin with, but once you can't work anymore and pay the premiums, you're not only dying, but dying in debt.I know couples who are un- or underinsured who say they'll simply divorce if one becomes catastrophically ill just to protect the family assets.Just to keep it all Catholic, what are parishes willing or able to do to help alleviate these scenarios? A spaghetti supper is nice, but it's a drop in the bucket if you're on experimental chemo.
Maybe the govt. could require every able-bodied male and female between ages 18 and (X) to serve on active duty for a minimum of (X) years. In return, every extended family member --- parents, grandparents, in-laws, etc. --- (as well as immediate family) would be automatically enrolled in the military's healthcare system.This way, Georgie gets his troops for Mideast deployment and folks, uninsured and underinsured, get their healthcare coverage.To save money, however, coverage would cease in the event of a military fatality in the family."If ya' can't beat 'em, join 'em --- er, the military, that is!":)
Jean wrote,"Just to keep it all Catholic, what are parishes willing or able to do to help alleviate these scenarios? A spaghetti supper is nice, but it's a drop in the bucket if you're on experimental chemo."This is the most sorrowful scandal. I remember helping people in parishes and they were surprised that I was helping them. I said what am I hear if not to help. Oh I forgot the Sacraments. Catholic Charities is a shield for many parishes and dioceses whose pastors and bishops live better than the upper middle class. Catholic parishes do make sure the poor will always be with us.
There's an old saying: "An once of prevention is worth a pound of care."It's true. The moral right of every person to reliable, quality healthcare notwithstanding, single payer universal healthcare is the smart way to go from a strictly economic point of view. The truth is that in America the taxpayers already foot the bill for the healthcare of the uninsured in the form of expensive, unpaid Emergency Room visits, when patients present with serious, advanced complications. It would be a lot cheaper for taxpayers to pay for the 47 million Americans without insurance to have access to regular primary and preventative care, than to pay the even greater costs for the care needed when sicknesses or conditions become life threatening. Comparatively speaking, the US gets very little return on every dollar spent on healthcare relative to other countries that allow everyone access to primary care.
Not to beat a dead horse here, but we get free legal care in this country if we're accused of a crime because it's enshrined in the constitution.There is no corrollary right to medical care. Morally, I agree we have an obligation, but the federal government's been wrangling about where that obligation starts since the Truman administration. Anybody living on the shifting sands of Medicare/Medicaid knows how much depends on which way the wind is blowing politically.In my experience, you can get further trying to pull something together on the local level with hospitals, pharmacies, doctors, etc. One really easy way even a poor parish could help out would be to pick a saint's day--let's say St. Rocco the Hospitaller or St. Martin de Porres--and ask for a second offering of pharmacy vouchers to be kept on hand for people who need them.Another way is for churches to pool resources. In my town, if you want anything done, you call up the Methodist ladies. Need a wheel chair? Respite care? Hot covered dish? 12-hour turnaround, max. Those are the people who ought to be running our national health care system. As a Methodist lady, I'm surprised Hilary didn't cotton on to that!
The American Cancer Society announced yesterday that it will focus its 15 million a year advertising budget of the fact that cancer cannot be prevented unless the uninsured can get preventative care. By the time they get to emergency rooms the cancer is too far advanced.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/us/31cancer.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&..., good ideas on how churches can help. I'll give you a better one. Give the Christmas collection in every church to the uninsured. Traditionally, the Christmas collection goes to the Pastor personally. The reward of loyalty?This is so little known that one cannot even google it. Now you will.
Sean's experience with the military's health care system is probably what we could expect from a national health system in America. Pretty crummy care.Other countries can make it work, and they can make it work better than our military. The reason is that they have the will to do it. Americans don't. They haven't for 50 years, and they don't now.So, I think it's more productive to try to find common ground. And clearly there is some (or Hell has frozen over) where a conservative like Sean and liberal like me might be able, if we lived in the same community, to kick around some ideas that might help people we live and work with.FWIW, I don't know how many kids opt out of their insurance programs, and Sean doesn't provide stats. These kinds of claims strike me as a wish to believe the problem really isn't that bad rather than any hard evidence of the severity of the problem.OK, I'll shut up now.
Jean,I think you're way, way off on the will of the American people:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/opinion/polls/main2528357.shtm... times, they're a-chanin. And while I find it inspiring that the Methodists and other churches--sorry, ecclesial communities do that kind of work, they'll never be able to take on the health-care crisis in the United States. Bill, thanks for pointing out the Times story on the American Cancer Society. The article makes no mention of the fact that the AMA ad campaign is about more than simply raising awareness. Bad reporting.Not all VA hospital care is substandard, although a lot is. There were a few stories about this earlier this year. I'll try to dig them up. And I don't know that there are figures for how many spoiled rich-enough kids opt out of health insurance in favor of a plasma TV (it's tempting), but can the total be anywhere near that of those who simply can't afford it? And I have news for Sean: the health-insurance industry is built on "artificial scarcities." That big, bad hobgoblin Health Rationing is already running the game--he, or she, usually goes by another name: medical director.
Jean: I don't think that a lot of Americans were philosophically ready for the New Deal or Civil Rights Act to be enacted, either. But the then-sitting President and Congress acted as they should and this country took a major turn for the better.If the Democrats in positions of power would only stop being crypto-Republicans and push for universal health care, i.e., "do the right thing," we would have it.You are right about the churches, too. How much money has been lavised on exquisite appointment to buildings in our parishes that could have been put to better use? Here in the Diocese of Oakland we are spending close to $200 million (!) on a new cathedral complex. Talk about extravagance in an area of relative poverty here in the Bay Area!Yes, our new Cathedral will be beautiful and, yes, God deserves the best --- blah blah blah. But I don't remember Christ telling us that we would find him in buildings, appointments, clerical drag, etc., but, rather, in each other.
The whole thing about the necessary rationing of health care under single payer is a MYTH. Sure, if you do it on the cheap, like the UK, there is rationing. But there is virtually no rationing in France, which has an excellent health care system, and still manages to provide health care for almost half the cost in the US, with substantially better outcomes (the reason is simple: there are no middlemen "insurance companies" to gobble up the resources). As it is, there is substantial rationing in the US. The 47 million without insurance have limited access to care. Remember too that the leading cause of personal bankruptcy is unpaid medical bills. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund shows that only 47% of U.S. patients could get a same- or next-day appointment for a medical problem, worse than every other country except Canada. And 40 percent of Americans stayed away from a doctor last year for cost reasons. In short, there is substantial rationing in the US, it's just that there are no firm statistics on it. European countries do keep these statistics, and they are preyed on by opponents of "socialized medicine".
I really am sorry to keep butting in here, but I feel that the conversation isn't really going deep enough.Morning, the French have a wonderful system because they have different national priorities. It would be interesting to do a federal budget analysis on a per capita basis to see exactly what the French have decided to live without (or live with, in the form of higher taxes) to make their system work. Moreover, the cost of health care here could be even higher, even if we followed a French spending model, if the average American is sicker than than the average French person.Grant, I guess I see a difference between opinion and will. Everybody wants the feds to fix the system (which might mean a variety of things), but the poll doesn't dip into what people would be willing to sacrifice in order to do so. A more revealing survey would look at national priorities and ask people what they're willing to do/give up to accommodate a single payer system, as suggested above. That's the crux of the biscuit the polls don't really get at.Jimmy, I don't disagree that health care should be a right, but I think political and economic realities are different from when Johnson signed civil rights legislation and rolled out the Great Society programs. I hope I'm not a bigot, but I no longer believe the government can run a decent health care program on a long-term basis. I think the erosion of Medicare benefits is a good case in point. A federal health care system doesn't mean you're out of the woods. It simply means you get care as long as Congress decides it's politically expedient to provide it.
Jean:Total health spending per capita in France: $2,401. In the US: $4,497. Public health spending per capita in France: $1,824. In the US: $1,989. When people talk about the cost of single payer, and its impact on the public finances, they forget that the cost is being borne already. Whether you pay in taxes or in premiums does not matter at the end of the day. What matters is the total you are paying, and what you get for it.
Jean,I don't have the time to look it up now Jean, but not long ago there was a poll that explicitly asked Americans whether they would be willing to pay higher taxes if it meant universal health coverage. Something like 60 percent said yes. That constitutes a major shift in thinking on this issue. Morning's Minion is right: the gov't can't do anything right complaint doesn't hold much water with me, considering what a bang-up job the bloated private insurers are doing.
Medicare has its problems but, unusual for a federal program, it is tons more efficient than private health systems. And Mirabile dictu, the Medicare staff is so much better trained than people at Aetna, Oxford, etc.We spent over 150 billion on Iraq in a war not willed by the American people. Conservative and too many liberal leaders, yes.Health care is a breeze. Lets just get it in motion.
Grant,Of course people say they want universal health care. The question is will those people who have very good and relatively inexpensive (for them) health care be willing to either pay more through taxes or have less responsive care etc. to make sure everyone else gets theirs? Just like Teddy Kennedy loves alternative energy sources until someone wants to put windmills in his view.
Sean, So those people are too stupid to know better, then? Is that what you're saying? Can you leave the dime-store Kennedy bashing out of it, please?
Morning, yes, you pay in premiums or you pay out-of-pocket. If you pay out-of-pocket, you wait until you're in bad shape and it costs you more, and if you can't pay, then you default and the insured pick up the costs, which the companies pass on to the premium payers. Insurance companies are essentially gambling operations, and the house never loses. But let me ask you if the figures above reflect two things that keep European health care costs lower.First, doctors in Europe make a lot less money per year because they don't have to pay off crushing student loan debt. Their educations are subsidized. Is the cost of educating doctors at public expense reflected in the figure above?Second, European governments that operate national health care programs heavily regulate drug prices. Glaxo and Pfizer offer European countries meds on the cheap:http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/545322Is the difference between what we pay for a drug and what Europeans pay for the same drug (which amounts to our subsidy for the European system) reflected in your figures above?More to the point, are Americans willing to regulate drug companies? I think we can look at the cushy little agreement between the feds and the pharmeceuticals not to negotiate for lower prices for Medicare patients to find the answer to that.The notion that the business of America is business runs deep in the American psyche, and it's reflected in our national spending priorities. It will not change overnight, and trying to change it with a sledge hammer at the federal level is going to spawn threats from companies to send jobs overseas, raise costs, and blah blah. People will get scared, and it will all fail miserably. Chipping away at the problem at a more local level, allowing states and localities to prove they can come up with something American that works--or to point out why they've been able to make more gains because of market forces--is the only way you're going to change that attitude.
Morning's Minion:I think your heart is in the right place. Still, you should be a bit more careful so as to avoid inaccuracy (i.e, the claim about medical bankruptcies, which is simply not true, see http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Zywicki070717.pdf), or overselling your point. For example, you claim that "there is virtually no rationing in France, which has an excellent health care system, and still manages to provide health care for almost half the cost in the US, with substantially better outcomes (the reason is simple: there are no middlemen "insurance companies" to gobble up the resources)."Then, however, you point out that our government already spends more money per capita than does France! ($1,989 to $1,824.) Thus, it's practically a logical necessity that your analysis is missing something big here. If the only reason that healthcare costs more in the US is those big insurance companies getting in the way -- as you suggest -- then what explains the fact that US *government* spending is higher? And, for that matter, is there any way that we could squeeze the entire American population into Medicaid and Medicare, and have the government costs go DOWN to France's level? That seems incredibly unlikely; as people like Paul Krugman have pointed out, Medicare is already administratively efficient, and it's impossible to imagine how Medicare could save money if you doubled or tripled its population coverage. Thus, as a logical matter, there must be some very significant difference that you are missing. Perhaps there is a lot of rationing in France of which you are not aware; perhaps France pays doctors in peanuts; perhaps Frenchpeople aren't as lazy and gluttonous as Americans, and hence don't need as much healthcare; perhaps American doctors are too likely to overmedicate and perform unnecessary surgeries (this certainly goes on); perhaps there's something else that we don't know. But there must be some very important reason -- other than insurance companies -- that explains why our *government* (outside the realm of insurance companies) already spends MORE than France yet provides coverage to many fewer people.
In other words, while it might be a very good idea to adopt France's system here in the United States, I'm not sure that it's very useful to claim that France does a good job of covering everybody and for half the cost, and thereby imply the Pollyannish proposition that the U.S. could save 50% of medical expenditures if it adopted France's system. After all, you yourself suggest that there is rationing right now in America but not in France. Thus, how is it that we would save so much money if we adopted France's system and encouraged more people to use the healthcare system more often (no more rationing)? Who knows, maybe healthcare costs here would RISE by 50%, especially if we left in place all the other factors that cause U.S. healthcare to be more expensive (doctors' salaries, unnecessary surgeries, bad eating habits, etc.). It might be money worth spending, but it seems naive to ignore all of the factors that affect healthcare costs other than the bare fact of who writes the check.
Sorry for joining this debate late, but I have a few questions.Are we assuming that the only strategy in public health care is to require that people give up access to private health care? Or are we assuming that people who wish to remain in private health care would have to agree to also fund public health care via extra taxes? I find the latter state of affairs much easier to argue for than the former.Early on, Jean wrote that businesses will not pay for private care when they are required to pay taxes for public care. Why is there an assumption that public care will be financed through business taxes? Providing health care has never been a natural responsibility of business. The system we have is a historical accident, due in part to the one time power of unions. If there remains a market for private care, businesses could still offer private coverage as a perk, and wealthy people could buy it with their own money. But businesses could also get out of the heatlh care business altogether without seeming like heartless goblins.I simply do not understand the following conclusion: mediocre health care that is available to anyone is somehow worse than tens of millions not having any health care at all. Again, though, I am still assuming that a private health care market could continue next to a public health care system. While such a system would certainly produce unequal health care, this does not concern me much. We have very unequal health care now. If we maintain the inequality, but get a lot more people into doctors for preventative and chronic care, even after long waits, then I'm all for it.These are genuine questions from one who has not had time to explore all of the public policy issues.
Joe, I didn't mean to imply that businesses would shoulder the whole (or even bulk) of the cost for a universal health care plan. Only that biz taxes are likely to go up with individual taxes, and "disincent" businesses to provide health care benefits. Granted, many small businesses are yanking their health care plans even now, and if there were a universal plan it wouldn't matter. But it could be used to justify lay-offs to offset a tax increase.I'm sure Grant is right that there is a study out there somewhere that shows Americans are willing to pay more for universal health care. But legislators don't really know what the tipping point is--how much would Americans be willing to pay and what would they expect for the money? And until legislators know that, they won't risk implementing that kind of program. Congress is not know for its collective guts, as the mess in Iraq should prove.Implementing a sliding scale payer plan is a lot safer for politicians; it doesn't diddle with what's in place, and it helps them figure out, incrementally, where the tipping points are. Gradually increasing the safety net, particularly with state and local programs to find out what works, is going to help more people than working on a great big federal plan that completely overhauls the system and makes everybody nervous.I thank Grant for bringing it up and providing the new info about the AMA's plan.
Jean:You raise good points. Yes, as well as subsidizing insurance companies, the US system also subsidizes drug companies (why can't we shift the debate in this direction away from the "socialized medicine" bogeyman?). Just look at Medicare, a perfect natural experiment. In the late 1990s, the government tried to entice people to leave traditional Medicare for private plans. The government paid a fee to the HMO, instead of doing it directly. Welcome, middleman! Not suprisingly, this turned out to cost 11 percent more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare. But, for ideological reasons, the administration continues to push this model.Enter Medcaire part D, a piece of legislation written by the drug companies, for which Billy Tauzin was richly rewarded. Possibly due to embarrassment with the earlier model, this time, traditional Medicare is not even allowed participate. You join a private plan, and the government sends a subsidy. Oh yes, and the government is not allowed to negotiate (again, this is not "socialist"-- it is a perfectly reasonable negotiation based on bargaining power). So, long story short-- the subsidy to drug companies also keeps health care costs high in the US. Of course, there are many arguments about why you should not reduce drug prices, related to innovation etc. Don't believe those arguments either; see here: http://vox-nova.com/2007/07/25/national-right-to-life-committee-is-cluel... made another good point on doctor's income. Yes, it is indeed higher in the US, but the problem is somewhat subtle. The problem is that the current system is biased against primary care, and favors high-earning specialization. GPs account for over a half of doctors in Europe, but less than a third in the US. I think, from the point of view of subsidiarity, we need to focus more on primary care, and the personal relationship between patient and doctor. We don't have that with a system of ER-based primary care coupled with extremely expensive specialist care.
I retired from working at a biopharmaceutical company. Years and millions of dollars go into research, development, manufacturing and marketing of new drugs.That being said, the final product comes into profitability very quickly (assuming that it is good enough to catch on with the doctors, who are essentially bribed to push the pills) and the profitability thereafter is almost obscene. Of course, one the patents expire and generic versions are available, profits diminish. But, by then, some serious money has been made.


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Large portions of this game are now defunct, making the game itself defunct.
1.) There once was a reason to enter raids, now there is not. None of the raid reward cards are relevant anymore. Even hephatat and hover pods are obsolete. Then heracles and longshot gave people a reason to go after raids again – but even they are looking less relevant. Now there's little to no reason to enter raids…a big portion of the game just defunct.
2.) There once was a reason to obtain mission/achievement reward cards. Remember when raksha was unstoppable if it activated? Yeah…now it's crap. You might say the current event reward cards are an exception, but that's a grand total of 2-3 exceptions (and they're not really mission/achievement rewards). Further, the reward cards for the latest batch of missions truly suck. So…mission/achievement reward cards are now defunct.
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3.) Missions – missions are now defunct since there's really no reason to grind them for anything.
4.) Gold – gold is defunct since most gold-buyable packs are 90% outdated.
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The Goliad plant will have gas processing capacity of 200 million cubic feet/day. It will become part of the DCP Eagle Ford system providing Eagle Ford producers one-stop service from the plant tailgate to Gulf Coast market centers. The Goliad plant is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2014.
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This is great (and so is design-by-contract)! Thanks Daryl.
Will this be included in VS2010 or will it be a seprate extension?
How does this handle contracts in the "if-then-throw" form?
interesting did we just get a sneak preview of intellisense in b2 or was that some custom addon btw? :O
The intellisense is some sample that Daryl installed on his machine.
I wonder if it is or someday would be possible to interrogate a method about its contracts at runtime, so the caller could ensure compliance before actually invoking the method? E.g. before sending big batch of data over the wire for pre-processing and loading into a database in one transaction, I get an abstract code tree from the transformation service that represents all or at least some of the checks and run them locally and perform corrective actions proactively.
This will be a separate download that will be part of the Code Contracts installation. We hope to get it out in the next release, but we'll have to see if it is ready or not.
This is something we've talked about, but haven't started work on. It might even be that a component could register its contracts with a component framework so that if there's a failure, the framework could check the contracts and assign blame properly. (Not as good as your idea of proactively preventing the problem, but another use of the same facility.)
Thanks Mike. It sounds like registering contracts with the framework would be the core enabling technology for proper blame assignment and proactive failure prevention. It almost can be read as you guys are planning start working on that
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For the second time in less than a year, more than 2,000 runners from 14 states participated in a 24/7 relay from Santa Monica to Boston to support survivors of the Marathon Bombing. One Run For Boston, a non-stop, cross-country relay to support the One Fund Boston, began March 16 in Santa Monica and ended April 13 in Boston. Two-thousand runners are expected to participate by the time the relay reaches Boston. The relay�s aim is to raise $1 million to help support the survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
Participants ran 336 stages in 28 days totaling 3,300 miles across 14 states. Some of the runners taking part in the relay were at the Boston Marathon in 2013 and saw the tragedy unfold first hand. Others have never been to Boston and yet were touched by what happened and felt moved to show their support. Their commitment to the One Run For Boston relay is testament to the sense of community among runners and the resolve among many to be part of something positive which aims to overshadow acts of terror. The final stage, crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Sunday afternoon. Runners were be cheered on by victims and families of the Boston Marathon bombings, as well as, fellow runners from other stages and supporters of the One Run for Boston cause.
Walpole runner Mary Abplanalp participated in the last leg of the One Run For Boston because, like most around this area, she was touched deeply by the events on April 15, 2013.
"As the city has dealt with the aftermath of the bombings now for a year, my desire to continue to support the One Run for Boston cause is as strong as ever. When the bombings happened I was sad and angry," she said. "As the year anniversary is upon us, I am still sad about the events of last year, but am so proud of the Boston Strong movement that has swept across Massachusetts. I felt compelled, once again, to participate in the ORFB as a way to show my support to all those affected by the bombings. I find it inspiring that over 2,000 people from across the country and beyond have come together to support our city and tell us that we are not forgotten and that we have inspired others to join in the healing process. I salute all of those men and women who will lace up on April 21, 2014 to show us all that they truly are Boston Strong."
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Hull City have sacked manager Nick Barmby after less than six months in charge.
The news follows a disciplinary hearing into comments made by Barmby suggesting the club lacked ambition in the transfer market.
In a long statement, Hull's vice chairman Ehab Allam said: "The reason for the dismissal relates to certain comments made by Nick in recent interviews. The comments concerned were wholly misleading and implied that the board had not made funds available to Nick to strengthen the first team squad during the January transfer window.
"Such is not only completely untrue, the comments made by Nick contradicted the board's publicly stated position that funds would be made available to Nick during the January transfer window.
"As stated in previous interviews, the board accepted every transfer request from Nick and in fact actively encouraged him to strengthen the squad should he feel it was necessary."
Allam added: "The club feels that it has treated Nick entirely fairly and in the same way that it would have treated any other employee in the same situation."
Last week it was reported that the club had suspended him over comments he made about the club's financial situation.
Barmby won 13 of his 33 matches at the KC Stadium, as the Tigers finished eighth in the Championship, seven points off the play-off places.
Hull sacked director of football and former chairman Adam Pearson last week, with the owners terminating his consultancy role "without notice and without compensation". Pearson was described by Barmby, in his controversial comments, as "the heart and soul of the club".
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What's the main logical or doctrinal basis that is put forth by those Christians who don't believe in the existence of God? I mean, in the Bible Jesus spoke of God the Father many times, so how do they logically explain their belief that God doesn't exist?
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What's the main logical basis that is put forth by those Christians who don't believe in the existence of God?
As an alternative to "Christian Atheism" as a belief system, there is another interpretation here of a Christian who does not believe in God, which is the "cultural Christian". This was reminded to me by a comment on the question referring to "Jewish" as both the adherents and / or the society - but is has been identified that this is very genuinely the case for Christianity too. This obviously is not based on a scriptural position, but on society and observation; there really are a large number of people who will identify (when asked in passing) as Christian, by which they mean (typically) they have been raised within Christianity, but don't really believe in it as such (and don't typically attend a church or worship, except maybe things like "saying grace" at mealtimes through habit and expectation).
This may be tied to the fact that to say "no, this is not what I believe, and I shall separate myself from it" can sometimes take a lot of effort and energy, jeopardise friendships and relationships (and humans are social creatures) and prospects (perhaps impacting business relationships). It can also cause friction within a family, etc. I can fully accept that it may be a lot easier to just "go along with", since that takes no effort (not even church attendance etc) - especially if their stance one way or the other on the matter is not of huge importance for them (compared with, say, more pressing needs like feeding the family and paying the bills). There are also sometimes additional factors if they want to get their kids into a particular school (alarmingly common), where rocking the boat may cause complications.
So - looked at from that perspective, the cultural Christian (in reality, not a true believer) is a very real phenomenon. This is not, however, a Biblical basis - it is, simply, an observation on the complexities of
(removed "modern", as there is no reason to suppose this is in any way new)
Based on an example of proponents of Christian Atheism, the logic behind a 'Christian' who does not believe in God/god, seems to be:
"I can call myself Christian if I strive to be like the ideal (and not real) concept of Christ. I do not have to believe in the divinity or divine origin of Jesus or Christ."
I don't know that there's a "main" (in the sense of "universal and accepted by all atheist Christians") one, but I can certainly speak for myself:
The assertion that "[believing] in the divinity and/or divine origin of Jesus Christ" is the "definition of 'Christian'" is not one I accept. It is my position that the Christ is an ideal, and that it is a mistake to identify the Christ with Jesus personally. Jesus was but an imperfect manifestation of the Christ. Thus, we do not necessarily need to accept everything Jesus said. Much of what he did points us in the general direction of the Christ, but it remains to us to separate the wheat from the chaff and continue fleshing out our understanding of the Christ and Christness. Jesus's importance comes not from his supposed literal divinity, but as the originator of the tradition of Christ-seeking in which I consider myself to be working within. While many of those Christ-seekers, I believe, made grievous errors, the ultimate goal is still the same.
This Christ is an ideal, an example we should strive for, because by living in this ideal manner as exemplified by the Christ all people can live among themselves without destroying one another (thus, the Christ is very literally our savior, by showing us how to avoid our own destruction).


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What is the most convenient way to read definitions of in-memory symbols when we don't have the source files?
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FillingTransform. Does Mathematica provide any way to do this?
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In general, @Jacob Akkerboom is correct: one cannot usually view the source code for arbitrary Mathematica functions. In this particular case, however, we find an exception.
By doing:
we observe a call to
reveals a number of checks on the arguments and setup for a call to
then the complete implementation becomes visible. Although I won't reproduce that here for obvious reasons, the basic idea is a combination of