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There's a poll some of you may find interesting:
Should micros have their own type?
The poll is on the GC.com forums.
There's a poll some of you may find interesting:
Should micros have their own type?
The poll is on the GC.com forums.
Thanks for the heads up. I voted not to add another cache TYPE, although I'd love to see a new cache SIZE between micro and regular...
did anyone see the new size meter on GC.com I think it is the best thing I've seen It tells the size of the cache on the list page.
If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!
I like the idea, but I wish they had filled in all the spaces to the left of the dot, too. For example, on a regular-sized container, fill in the first and second dots, as well. It would make it easier to see the size at a glance...Originally Posted by arkansas_stickerdude
That's not a bad idea G. What about those "other" types that are on the far right? Like virtual and other? Should the first 4 be left blank and just that box filled in?Originally Posted by Gaddiel
You really should post the suggestion in the thread about the icons:
I've found that they're always open to suggestions and quite often they'll actually use the good ones. (Including the size on the cache page was a suggestion)
I took your advice and posted the suggestion. Thanks for reminding me!Originally Posted by southdeltan


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The Lady Bisons entered this week ranked 25th in the Ultimate Softball Coaches website poll. They received 10 votes for the top 25 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Poll. They received one vote for the top 25 in that poll the previous week. This week the Lady Bisons also received their first votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll. They received eight votes.
Lipscomb coach Kristin Peck is taking all of the attention in stride.
"It's a really neat thing for our program, the whole athletic department and the university to be recognized in this way," Ryman said. "I'm very excited with what we have done so far.
"We are clicking on all cylinders. Our defense is playing strong. Our hitters have been outstanding so far; even off of the bench we have had some big key hits. The pitching has been right on cue as well.
Ryman knows that the most challenging portion of the schedule is still ahead with Evansville at home followed by a spring break trip to Hawaii where they will play multiple games with Hawaii and Cal-Berkeley. When they return they open the Atlantic Sun Conference portion of the schedule with home doubleheaders against ETSU and USC Upstate.
"Other coaches who have paid our team compliments say we are playing with a lot of swagger right now," Ryman said. "They can see the confidence that we play with.
"We have to continue to play that way. We've got to play our game and not be intimidated by anybody we play against. Getting votes for the top 25 should reemphasize that."
The Lady Bisons are 18-1, winning their last 16 games. They have shutout opponents 11 times.
"We have to take care of things this week and then go to Hawaii really knowing that we belong and that we can compete there are well," Ryman said. "If we can do that is going to give us a big boost going into conference play.
"We have to go out there with that swagger that people keep mentioning in context with our team. As soon as we stop being aggressive and sit back on our heels a little bit is when teams are going to jump up and get us."
Fast starts have been crucial for the Lady Bisons.
"We have to bring that intensity and bring that aggressiveness right off the bat," Ryman said. "We have to put the pressure on other teams right away. That characterizes out team. We have to keep doing what we do."
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Sunny Longordo
Senior Director of Sales Analytics
Millions in savings and smarter pharmaceutical marketing tactics
Janssen Pharmaceuticals optimizes marketing for up to 30% lift
Conventional wisdom says the best way to drive pharmaceutical sales is to blanket doctors with promotional activity. But Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. knows better. Instead of focusing on the 80 percent of physicians who most often prescribe a class of drug, Janssen Pharmaceuticals uses predictive analytics to study the habits of a smaller group. The result: cost savings and a 20-30 percent increase in marketing channel lift.
Janssen Pharmaceuticals markets leading treatments for arthritis, pain and HIV. Like all big pharmaceutical companies, Janssen Pharmaceuticals runs a tight race to earn back its research investment in compounds before losing patent protection.
"We have to be more targeted about how we do things,'' explains Sunny Longordo, Senior Director of Sales Analytics.
Rx for saving more than a million a year
For years, Janssen Pharmaceuticals hired outside firms to develop physician targeting lists for product promotion. Those lists highlighted the top 80 percent of individual prescribers for each drug category. Sales reps decided which doctors to visit based on the list and at each stop, they handed out the same drug samples, vouchers and event invitations.
Yet, the Sales Analytics team remained skeptical of that strategy.
"We knew we had the skills in-house to do it more efficiently and inexpensively," Longordo says. "And, frankly, we knew we could do it better.''
Their instincts were right. Today, Janssen Pharmaceuticals builds those lists in-house – automating part of the process – for a savings of $4 million a year, Longordo says. "We've doubled the business that we support with zero outside budget and no additional staff," she adds.
Prescribing a better marketing model
After Janssen Pharmaceuticals started building its own physician lists with SAS®, it began developing more complex and accurate propensity scoring models.
Now, the company can segment its different marketing programs to customize the way it reaches each physician. Some physicians are more likely to prescribe if they have samples or vouchers to give patients; others prefer to learn more about the drug from an expert speaker first.
With such insights, Janssen Pharmaceuticals has reduced – by nearly half – the percentage of physicians it details. Now, sales reps know precisely which doctors to visit and what exactly to offer each one. "We use fewer sales people to achieve the same coverage,'' Longordo says. "And we don't waste a doctor's time, because now we understand how often each doctor really needs to be seen.''
Further, Janssen Pharmaceuticals can now accurately predict which tactics – samples, vouchers, access to experts – will provide the greatest return for each specific product. The goal for the Sales Analytics team is to increase widespread use of these new capabilities amongst all brand teams and a broader set of marketing tactics.
We find the real value of analytics in those little decisions we have to make every single day.
Sunny Longordo
Smarter, more effective consumer marketing
Janssen Pharmaceuticals has discovered the value of analyzing consumer populations by geography for insights that prove especially useful when launching a new product.
Historically, Janssen Pharmaceuticals blanketed large population centers with marketing dollars and waited to see how consumers would respond. Now, Janssen Pharmaceuticals takes a smarter – and more reliable – approach. Longordo's team can predict where demand for a new drug will be greatest – with impressive accuracy and results.
"The specific locations we suggested they focus on show a 75 percent growth rate versus 15 percent in average areas,'' Longordo says. "These insights will allow for differential resourcing plans to be put into place for each brand and marketplace."
Working the data
Making decisions at that level of detail requires a lot of data. To build its propensity models, Janssen Pharmaceuticals pulls together anonymous IMS sales data; census data; physician demographic information; call center activity; CRM data on samples, sales calls and other promotional activity; and managed care data.
"So much of the value we get from SAS is through data manipulation," says Jason Sapp, Janssen Pharmaceuticals' Senior Manager of Management Science. "SAS can manipulate any kind of data feed into an arrangement that works with all our other data sources.''
Models support critical decisions
In the months preceding a drug's patent expiration, its maker typically boosts marketing spending in an effort to maximize returns before cheaper generic competitors go on sale.
Using SAS, Janssen Pharmaceuticals makes wiser decisions about when to halt marketing.
In one instance, Janssen Pharmaceuticals discovered that a drug with a soon-to-expire patent would show a net gain if marketing ceased nine months ahead of expiration.
"We stopped offering samples, and we cut in half our sales force dedicated to that product," Longordo says. "It was a counterintuitive decision, but it paid off. It was a shining moment."
SAS also helps Janssen Pharmaceuticals devise creative, effective strategies when it unveils a new product that is the only commercially available treatment or cure for an ailment. "We look at data from similar launches to discern the best marketing approach," explains Bob Kelly, Janssen Pharmaceuticals' Director of Promotion Optimization. "We use a surrogate of the market to prioritize the market and segment the customers appropriately."
Winning over the skeptics
At first, the sales team was skeptical of Janssen Pharmaceuticals' analytics-driven approach to marketing. Buy-in followed early successes from Longordo's team.
Now, most of Janssen Pharmaceuticals' marketing teams look to Longordo's team to uncover those "aha! moments" that inspire greater returns on leaner budgets.
Smart day-to-day decisions prove the value of analytics, Longordo says. "We have our analytic homeruns,'' she adds. "But, like any organization, we find the real value of analytics in those little decisions we have to make every single day."
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EPA Awards $400,000 in Brownfields Assessments Grants to the City of Irving, Texas, to Improve Public Mobility and Access
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(DALLAS – May 24, 2012) The city of Irving, Texas, will receive two $200,000 grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The community-wide hazardous substances grant funds will be used to inventory sites contaminated or potentially contaminated with hazardous substances and conduct five Phase I and two Phase II environmental site assessments. Petroleum grant funds will be used to perform the same environmental site assessments at sites with potential petroleum contamination.
The city has focused its brownfields redevelopment efforts within the targeted community that is encompassed by downtown Irving "Heritage Crossing" and the adjacent Irving Boulevard (Highway 356). The city's targeted community encompasses approximately 2,500 acres and 50 brownfields sites.
The "Heritage Crossing" project plan is for mixed-use, transit oriented development that capitalizes on the Trinity Rail Express (TRE), a commuter rail system operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) that connects downtown Dallas and Fort Worth. The South Irving TRE/DART rail station is located on downtown Irving's Main Street.
Redevelopment of the Irving Boulevard Corridor will enhance and support the adjacent downtown Irving "Heritage Crossing" improvements. Recommended roadway design improvements will function to slow traffic through the downtown area to be compatible with pedestrians using the South Irving TRE/DART rail station.
There are an estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites in America. In 2011, the EPA's brownfields program leveraged 6,447 jobs and $2.14 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funds. Since its inception, the EPA's brownfields investments have leveraged more than $18.3 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding from a variety of public and private sources that have resulted in approximately 75,500 jobs. More than 18,000 properties have been assessed, and over 700 properties have been cleaned up. Brownfields grants also target under-served and low income neighborhoods – places where environmental cleanups and new jobs are most needed.
The EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and communities around the country clean up and revitalize brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
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Police always are immediately concerned when they are dispatched to a scene where an individual is intent on harming himself, but a worst-case scenario involves the desire to entice police to use deadly force.
Police always are immediately concerned when they are dispatched to a scene where an individual is intent on harming himself, but a worst-case scenario involves the desire to entice police to use deadly force.
Sunday's drama played out in exactly that fashion when a Cheboygan County Sheriff's Deputy was called to Black River Trail in Grant Township at 4:39 p.m. for a 35-year-old male who was said to be suicidal. The caller told 911 Dispatch the man was becoming violent with his parents and wanted the police to kill him. Deputies enroute were advised that the subject was leaving in a vehicle, had weapons — possibly a machete — and other knives.
Deputy Darren LaChapelle was the first to arrive on the scene and say the suspect vehicle heading down Black River Trail towards Black River Road. LaChapelle stopped his patrol vehicle to block entrance to Black River Road and saw the pick-up traveling toward him at a high rate of speed. With the patrol vehicle's emergency lights on and LaChapelle backing up to lessen the impact, the pick-up struck the police car head on and pushed it onto Black River Road and into another vehicle traveling southbound.
LaChapelle was able to exit his vehicle and was confronted by the man, who was yelling at the deputy in an aggressive and threatening manner demanding that the deputy kill him. A taser was employed to stun the man and take him into custody. The machete and knives were found in the truck.
The four occupants in the second vehicle, a family from Burton, Mich., included two 12-year-old girls who were transported to McLaren Northern Michigan at Cheboygan and released after treatment for injuries they received.
Clarmont said that Michigan State Police are conducting the traffic crash investigation while the criminal investigation will come from his office.
"The prosecutor has been notified and charges could be as high as attempted murder depending on the outcome of the criminal investigation," Clarmont said.
The driver of the truck remains unidentified pending arraignment in 89th District Court.
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The latest 12" release from Dubconductor music label featuring vocals from Cornell Campbell and Wayne McArthur.
Cornell brings us his smooth vocals and conscious lyrics with 'Crisis', and Wayne provides a tuff anthem entitled 'Festival Warrior' on the flip side.
You can listen to/watch the promo mix right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ip_AB-xzXg
Available now in our online dubshop: http://dubconductor.com/shop/dcm003/
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Here's a very noisy video of it being dropped at oulook festival by Iration Steppas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUQPKFZ-cIw


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An April 5 wedding is being planned by Lynzee Alworth and Brett Cornell, both of Louisville, Ky.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Terri and James Alworth of Parker. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Sandy and Bill Cornell of Hopkinsville, Ky.
The future bride is a 2001 graduate of Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School. She received a doctorate from the University of Tennessee in 2010.
She is the director of pediatric audiology at the University of Louisville in Louisville.
Her fiance graduated in 1997 from Hopkinsville High School. He earned a doctor of pharmacy from the University of Tennessee.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tesla Motors Inc. and Facebook Inc. seesawed Monday following a selloff in momentum stocks last week, while Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. soared after announcing that it had accepted a buyout bid from Mallinckrodt PLC.
Tesla TSLA, +2.78% fell 2.1%. Tesla, the most high-profile among momentum stocks, fell into bear-market territory after falling more than 20% from a record high of $265 in February.
Facebook FB, +0.35% which also tumbled into bear territory after dropping 4.6% on Friday, initially opened higher but then fell into the red and then recovered to rise 0.5%.
Netflix Inc. NFLX, +0.41% another stock commonly viewed as a momentum play, also swung back and forth across the flatline to rise fractionally after a 4.9% slide on Friday.
Kellogg Co. K, +0.08% shares rose 2.1%. The stock spiked late last week amid market speculation that the cereal maker may be a target of a takeover, according to Bloomberg News.
Questcor Pharmaceuticals US:QCOR jumped 16% on news the firm would be bought out by Mallinckrodt MNK, -0.14% The deal, valued at roughly $5.6 billion, will give Questcor holders $30 a share in cash and 0.897 Mallinckrodt shares. The joint company will be 50.5% owned by Mallinckrodt stockholders and 49.5% owned by Questcor shareholders. Shares in Mallinckrodt were up 9%.
Genworth Financial Inc. GNW, +0.00% shares shed 4.2%, among the worst S&P 500 losers. A class-action lawsuit on behalf of institutional investors was filed on Friday for buyers of Genworth shares between Feb. 3, 2012 and April 17, 2012, according to law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd.
MannKind Corp. MNKD, -3.93% shares slumped 9% after the therapeutic diabetes products maker said the Food and Drug Administration had extended a review of its insulin drug, Afrezza. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act will expire on July 15. An FDA panel backed the drug last week, sending shares soaring.
Other notable S&P 500 losers are Teradata Corp. TDC, -1.34% Valero Energy Corp. VLO, -0.24% and Fossil Group Inc. FOSL, -6.00% which were all down over 4%.
Tickers to watch
PFE: Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.93% shares were down 3.2%. The pharmaceutical company said Sunday that it achieved the primary endpoint of its breast cancer drug Palbociclib, in combination with letrozole. But analysts at MKM Partners maintained a neutral rating, noting that the result wasn't significant.
WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. WWE, -0.20% shares skidded 14%. The stock was battered after Barron's pointed out that World Wrestling Entertainment is at risk of revenue cannibalization as content made available via online and from the network compete with live matches.
MU: Micron Technology Inc. MU, -2.80% shares fell for a fourth session, losing 3.7%. The chip maker last week released strong quarterly results but Doug Freedman, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, downgraded the stock's price target to $27 from $28 on Thursday. "Strong February quarter results but margin outlook appears concerning given quality issues that could be challenging cost downs. MU should be viewed as a restructuring story at this point given its many moving parts," he said in a note.
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Every now and then, you come across things that make the internet worthwhile. So yeah, there's this whole genitalia length comparing competition going on between Adobe and Apple, where both companies are actually arguing, with straight faces, which of the two is more open (which to me comes across as Mario and Zelda arguing over who's less of a sell-out). Luckily, though, there's the internet to make us laugh.


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Women Are Better Than Men!
Why is Dan Abrams, the legal guy from TV, writing about women? I've been repeatedly asked this question, and it's entirely fair. After all, as a perennially single man, I can offer no valuable relationship guidance to men or women. But I'm a lawyer. I examine evidence, and I believe the evidence on the sexes is clear: Women are evolving faster than men. Education, espionage, gambling, hedge-fund management—data suggests that you now outperform us at alls these things (and that when the going gets tough, we should seek out female doctors, cops and loan officers). Consider the research; I think you'll agree that I have proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that women are better than men.
Women Handle Rocky Relationships Better
Only time can heal your broken heart, just as time can heal his broken arms and legs. —Miss PiggyThe cliché is that girls devour empty calories and mope endlessly when their relationship hits a rough patch, while "emotionally bullet-proof" men move on and watch the game already. But research shows it's guys who suffer more during a bad relationship. Sociologists found that a strained romance had a greater impact on men's feelings of self-worth than on women's. Why? Young men don't turn to people for supprt the way women do, making it harder for them to cope with difficult feelings. Faced with relationship hurdles, women tend to choose the more effective solution—friends, family and the willingness to cry on shoulders—over sucking it up and trying to convince evernyone that they're "cool with it."
Women Are Better Drivers
I like to drive with my knees…. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on the phone? —Sharon Stone
Accidents must be the result of some "woman driver" applying makeup at the wheel, right? Bam! Another myth shattered. Women are actually better drivers than men. One study showed that male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, and another found that over a five-year span, 80 percent of New York City crashes in which pedestrians were seriously injured or killed involved male drivers (and no, it's not that 80 percent of all drivers are male). What makes women better? They're more careful, experts say. It's a difference so stark that it translates into lower insurance rates for your gender. Seems fair, doesn't it?
Women Tolerate Pain Better (and Men Bitch About It More)
Beauty is pain…. But we women are tough—we have babies and all kinds of stuff. —Body Waxer Lisa Smith
The chest-waxing scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin is hilarious for guys to watch—and painful. Turns out, women may "take it like a man" better than guys. Researchers believe women experience more pain throughout their lifetime (and not just during waxing or childbirth; it could have to do with how your brain is wired) and, as a result, you may have come to handle it better. A study of recent military vets found women soldiers were less likely to report pain than their male peers. More proof comes from the show MythBusters, in which subjects were asked to hold their hands in freezing water: The women lasted 19 percent longer. So while boys cringe for poor Steve Carell, women probably just think, Been there, done that. Didn't cry.
Women Are Better Cops
Marge, you being a cop makes you The Man! Which makes me the woman—and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which, as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing. —Homer Simpson
Toy badges may not be on most little girls' wish lists, but maybe they should be: Studies show that women cops may be more trustworthy, less corruptible and less likely to rely on physical force than their male counterparts, making them better at defusing violent situations. Governments are taking notice. Lima, Peru, is teeming with crime and has a police corruption problem, as does the Russian city of Volgograd. Both governments devised the same solution: Hire women. The downside of this trend for you ladies? With a female-dominant force, it'll be tougher to B.S. your way out of speeding tickets. (Oh, wait. You don't get as many tickets as guys do. Never mind!)
Women Are Better World Leaders
A journalist once reportedly asked Winston Churchill for his thoughts on the prediction that in the year 2000, women would rule the world. "They still will, will they?" Churchill grunted.
What if women did run the world? According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, we'd all be a lot happier. When people rank men or women as superior in traits deemed "very important or absolutely essential" to leadership, the results are blindingly one-sided. In seven out of the eight attributes, including honesty—considered the most important for politicians—respondents described women as equal to or better than men, usually by a large margin. If you ask me, the results are in: Women are poised to rout men in the politics of the future.
Women Are Better at Gathering Mushrooms in a Remote Part of Mexico
I hate women because they always know where things are. —Voltaire
In one (yes, very real) study, villagers gathered mushrooms in the Mexican countryside while being tracked by GPS. Both men and women collected the same amount of mushrooms, but the men walked farther and expended 56 percent more energy—making their work far less efficient. (The guys had set out in search of distant mushroom jackpots; the women were content to pick closer to home, gathering every mushroom they saw.) This is the sort of behavior that has led researchers to conclude that women are better hedge-fund managers, investors and even gamblers: Men take big risks, often striking out. Women, meanwhile, stay on course to patiently get the most out of the landscape, whether it's a mushroom patch or a board meeting.
The way I see it, the phrase "Behind every great man is a great woman" is misleading. A truer truism is that behind every great man is an even greater woman—and in most cases, she ought to be out front.
Dan Abrams is the founder of Abrams Media Network. His new book is Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else.


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Skip to comments.4.7% Mexican Unemployment: uided sympathy for illegals harming Mexico, costing American jobs
Posted on 01/29/2013 1:50:02 PM PST by Moseley
Mexicos unemployment rate dropped to 4.7% of the working age population in September 2012, according to the Financial Times, October 19, 2012. Yet misguided sympathy is causing the loss of U.S. jobs. The emotional appeal that illegal aliens would suffer if sent home is the central driving force of the illegal immigration debate.
Make no mistake: Illegal aliens will go home. The only question is whether they will go home only after the United States Government has gone bankrupt, the economy has collapsed, and there are no more jobs or whether the U.S. will come to its senses. In fact, illegal aliens have another country to go home to. U.S. citizens will be left holding the bag.
Americas last remaining hope to avoid national disaster is to drastically grow our economy with millions of new jobs. Tax revenue would dramatically increase. Wages would rise. Federal spending would cut itself as fewer people need government financial assistance. Sending illegal aliens home has now become a question of national survival. Everyone in the U.S.A. will suffer.
Yet the U.S.A. is bleeding jobs because we feel strangely sorry for citizens of other countries even though they are breaking our laws. Illegal immigration is a curious paradox of sympathy for trespassers contrasted with no sympathy for unemployed Americans.
The actual facts contradict the emotional fluff driving calls for amnesty for illegal aliens.
First, the average Mexican salary is $6,143 per year. http://www.worldsalaries.org/mexico.shtml However, in local buying power $6,143 equals $49,574 per year of lifestyle within the Mexican economy. Outside of tourist traps, the cost of living is about 12.4% of what the same lifestyle costs in the U.S.A. According to the International Monetary Fund, $1.00 converted into pesos will buy the equivalent of $8.07 in local purchasing power within Mexico. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/implied-purchasing-power-parity-ppp-conversion-rate-imf-data.html
Second, the Mexican economy is stronger than the U.S. economy: Mexicos economy grew by 5.4% in 2010 and 3.85% in 2011 according to the CIAs World Fact Book. Historically, from 2000 until 2012, Mexicos unemployment rate averaged 3.68 % reaching an all time high of 5.93 % in May of 2009 and a record low of 2.22 % in November of 2002, reports Trading Economics. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/unemployment-rate
So going home to live in Mexico is simply not suffering. The U.S.A wishes we had 3.68% unemployment. Furthermore, trespassers who have worked in the U.S.A. have gained skills and work habits, including English, that would give them superior job opportunities when they return home to the countries of their birth.
Amnesty advocates talk as if the Earth is flat, and the world stops at the USAs borders. So if we deport trespassers they will fall off the edge of the Earth into outer darkness where they will be eaten by dragons. Around 97% of the worlds population lives beyond our borders. Most of the worlds jobs are outside the U.S. Leaving the U.S.A. is not the end of the world.
Third, by contrast, the suffering of American citizens is totally ignored. About 12 million unemployed U.S. citizens are suffering poverty, worry, fear, and loss of self-esteem. Millions more suffer under-employment and the loss of their dreams. Do you think it is a coincidence that an estimated 12 to 20 million foreigners are illegally taking jobs at the same time that 12 million citizens are out of work?
A Pew Hispanic Center study http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/tag/pew-hispanic-center/ found that native-born that immigrants are benefiting before native-born workers from the slow-paced economic recovery. Between June 2009 and June 2010, foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs, while U.S. workers lost 1.2 million jobs. In fact, many minorities including Hispanics are being hurt the most.
Blacks are suffering 14.1% unemployment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August of 2012. The U.S. unemployment rate of 7.8% measures only those actively seeking work. A record 88,839,000 Americans age 16 or older are not even trying to find a job an increase of 8,332,000 in President Obamas first term reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fourth, we are told these are jobs Americans wont do. In fact, a majority of the workers in all job categories are U.S. native-born citizens, but four. The Center for Immigration Studies reports that 23.6 million native-born American citizens work in the exact same jobs as immigrants. Clearly Americans will do those jobs if paid a decent wage. Americans are doing those jobs now.
There are only four job categories in which most workers are immigrants. Yet 47% of those working in even those jobs are native-born citizens. CIS found that 75% of janitors are native born citizens, 65% of groundskeepers and landscapers, 58% of taxi drivers and 55% of maids and housekeepers. So the only job that an American wont do is one in which the employer is ripping people off.
Fifth, increasing salaries to fill job vacancies is a core precept of economics. That is the free market system. Pure economic theory demands that wages must increase until supply and demand come into equilibrium. If employers are not attracting enough workers, it is an unavoidable truth that that wages must increase until supply equals demand.
Sixth, some argue that open borders are key to prosperity. Yet note that Mexico enjoys 4.7% unemployment and a booming economy despite Mexicos very severe, restrictive immigration laws and harsh enforcement. What if the U.S.A. simply copied the same restrictive immigration policies and strict enforcement that Mexico has?
We need a more fact-based and logical approach to illegal immigration. Mexico needs its most industrious citizens to reform and build up their own society, to benefit everyone. Thats how the U.S.A. became what it is (once was). Mexico is rich in natural resources. Mexicos hardest-working citizens need to stay in Mexico, demand reforms, and build a prosperous Mexico. If they take a cheap short-cut, everyone in their country suffers.
If compassion is the issue, Mexico with its 4.7% unemployment and booming economy should be giving back assistance to the U.S.A. with our 7.8% unemployment and our government $16.4 trillion in debt.
But above all, we need to start having compassion on the unemployed in America. They are the ones for whom this country is actually responsible. What kind of person walks past a neighbor who is actually hurting to help a foreigner who really isnt?
This isn't about Mexico, this is about fundamental change in America.
30 million illegals is some 50 new primarily democrat congressional districts and all the costs, pork, earmarks, entitlements, and liberal votes associated with them.
This is about ending the America we have known, burning the constitution, and transforming us to marxism.
Yup. But there are too many voters and others who feel bad — wrongly — for illegal aliens.
Mexicans should feel sorry for us with our 7.8% unemployment.
I've always believed that Mexico should be paying us an indemnity for taking in their people that they don't want in their country.
If that's good enough for Israel it's good enough for us.
Well, the good news is that we won't be securing the border, so all of us can probably find jobs there...
If the uneducated unskilled undocumented enter the workforce on a basis equal to that of citizens they will not be hired. Those makeshift Big Box store labor exchanges will go away too.
Charles posts on BIZ PAC REVIEW "I work in construction. I was told by the immigrant group to get out of thier country. I have watched my diocese build centers to put them to work in construction. They whould not hire me, a parishioner and American because it was for them. Training as an electrician is my third career training. Other countries took my manufacturing jobs. My marine service work was taken by them. Now we even import prebuilt buildings. In the January issue of Forbes magazine this practice is discribed as eliminating the expensive electrician. Apparently a living wage is now considered too expensive. When there is nothing left for much of society to care about society breaks down. Then how will the rich be able to protect thier wealth!"
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StopWatch is a Fortran 90 module for measuring execution time of program segments. Measuring execution time is an important part of software development, especially for benchmarking and performance tuning. Unfortunately, Fortran has never supported the measurement of execution time, except through non-portable vendor extensions. Fortran 90 introduced a subroutine for measuring wall clock time, but overlooked the more desirable CPU time. It is anticipated that the next Fortran standard, Fortran 95, will include a CPU time subroutine, but it does not break the time into ``user'' and ``system'' time like many CPU clock routines, and the standard still does not guarantee that either the wall clock or CPU clock routines will necessarily contain clock information. Moreover, direct use of the routines can be unwieldy, requiring multiple variables to keep track of returned values, differencing the returned values, and conversion of the values to useful units.
StopWatch is designed to be a portable, easy-to-use means of measuring execution time. It supports the wall clock, CPU clock, a breakdown of the CPU clock into user and system times, and returns all times in seconds. It provides a simple means of determining which clocks are available, and the precision of those clocks. It is written in a style that allows it to be used with the subset languages ELF90 and F, as well as full Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 compilers.
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Hawks Name Quin Snyder as Assistant Coach
ATLANTA --The Atlanta Hawks have named Quin Snyder as Assistant Coach, Hawks Head Coach Mike Budenholzer announced today. Snyder joins Atlanta from CSKA Moscow, where he spent last season as an assistant coach.
"Quin is an excellent addition to our staff. He has a very strong knowledge of the system that we will implement and his extensive experience will enhance the development and knowledge of our players," Budenholzer said.
Prior to his stint in Russia, Snyder worked as an Assistant Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers (2011-12) and Philadelphia 76ers (2010-11). From 2007-10, Snyder was Head Coach of the Austin Toros (the NBA Development League affiliate of the San Antonio Spurs), recording a 94-56 (.627) mark, while leading the Toros to three straight playoff appearances and the 2008 NBDL championship game. He was the 2008-09 D-League Coach of the Year.
"I am excited to join Bud's staff with the Hawks," Snyder said. "They are creating a system and a culture that I strongly believe in and have seen its success. I look forward to being a part of the organization and contributing to our players' every day improvement."
Snyder got his first head coaching job at the University of Missouri, where in seven seasons, he led the Tigers to a 128-96 (.571) record, and four NCAA Tournaments including an Elite Eight appearance. He is also a former assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers and at Duke. The former Duke guard (1985-89) played in 136 games over four years with the Blue Devils, averaging 6.2 points. He is a native of Mercer Island, WA.


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Afternoon Shift
Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller knows a thing, or 7, about winning
Full disclosure: I am a former Wildcat. But that's not usually something to boast about amongst sports fans—unless you happen upon a group of Keyshawn Johnson fans. Or, in a slightly less dated scenario, you find yourself surrounded by "lax heads." That's the endearing term used to describe the sizable group of loyal fans who turn up at Northwestern University women's lacrosse games. Of course, it's a lot easier to remain faithful to a team when they're winning—and this team wins a lot.
Last Sunday, the Wildcats out-laxed Syracuse in the NCAA championships. Playing in the title game has become something of a routine for the Wildcats—this was their eighth consecutive appearance and seventh win in the final. Lucky number seven sealed the team's dynasty and head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller's rightful reign as its adored queen.
When Amonte Hiller first inherited the team, it was far from a kingdom; in fact, when she arrived in 2001, women's lacrosse was a club program. She was tasked with reviving the team's varsity status and luring talent to the Midwest. That was no small feat considering that for more than five decades, the East Coast dominated college lacrosse. According to Sports Illustrated, when the Wildcats first won the title in 2005, it was the first time a program—male or female—from outside the Eastern time zone won a national championship.
Amonte Hiller is, herself, a product of the East Coast machine. She was a four-time All-American and a two-time Player of the Year at the University of Maryland. She was in her hometown, working as an assistant in at Boston University, when Northwestern approached her for help. She was skeptical about leaving the seaboard but her older brother, Tony, just happened to be the captain of the Chicago Blackhawks at the time—so at least she had a place to crash. Soon she embraced the role of the underdog and got to work. She famously promised her first freshman class that she would lead them to a championship—and sure enough, that class won the school's first title their senior year.
The success of the team during Coach Amonte Hiller's tenure has been credited with increasing the visibility of Northwestern's entire athletic program and fan base; a fan base that includes Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Eddie Vedder, all of whom called to wish the team luck before last Sunday's game (please take a moment to image those three watching a game together—grooming each other's odd facial hair while kicking around ideas for a Vitology-flavored Gatorade).
Coach Amonte Hiller is quickly becoming a celebrity in her own right: In October, she will be inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame for her performance as a player at Maryland, the Big Ten Network recently named her a Big Ten Coaching Icon and after last Sunday's big win, she's just one title shy of tying her former Maryland coach, Cindy Timchal, for the most NCAA championships.
She's not just pushing her peers, she's propelling the sport. In a recent column for the Chicago Tribune, David Haugh wrote that he does not "consider it a coincidence that the number of Illinois high schools offering girls lacrosse has increased from 21 to 41 since Northwestern won its first title."
And it was no coincidence that Afternoon Shift was interested in learning more about the highly-decorated queen of lacrosse. Fresh off her team's most recent title win, Coach Amonte Hiller joined Steve Edwards for an extended chat.


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OK I've come to acknowledge that most people were upset about the fact that L dies in death note some go as far as to claim that he faked it.
now here's what i want to know "why?", why do people get so upset over his death I don't get it i personally put it at one of my favorite parts of the series. I will admit the light Vs. L half was (in my option) was the better half of the anime. Yes i know I'm gonna here it from fans of near and mellow for that.
also im not gonna hide the fact that i hate "L" the reason for my hate is simple and can be explained in one word "Misa" for those who are confused its because of how he treated Misa that i hate him (the Torture to the point of her begging for her death). she was in my option the best developed person in the entire anime.
Here is my challenge to L lovers out there give me a good reason to care about his death half as much as you do.
In an instant we echo, and our hearts meet, IMPACT CROSS!
You mean 'in my opinion', not 'in my option' right?
Well, coming from a L fan / not really a Misa fan who watched Death Note around 3 years ago, it's probably since due to the fact that he gets killed so suddenly, suddenly forcing us to these two new characters out of the blue, which isn't really all that nice to the other L fans, especially when there has been so much tensions and climaxes between Light and L before his abrupt death.
No offense, but Misa gets no where as near character development as the other main characters... but then, it's your own opinion, so yeah.
L˥ is a box
also like omg guys
kira is not going to be played by zac efron anymore hes gonna be played by justin beaver i read it on ann guys
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edit update LL cool j is going to play L
ill tell u wat really happened
Chuck Norris round housed kick L into Near and Mello
My face when I have no face.
Ok so L tortured a murderer Oh NO!!
...How Funderfull..
I heard that it was supposed to end there, but because it was so popular, more storyline was created. I don't know if that's for both the manga and the anime, cuz I never read the manga.
I'm sure if it did end there it wouldn't have been as abrupt an ending as if you just stopped watching after episode 25, but I'm pretty sure Near and Mello weren't originally supposed to be part of the story.
I was actually more upset that Light died than L.
My thoughts, never to be erased. My pain, never to be forgotten.
Misa is a horrible character. She follows Light around like a dog slavishly and makes him her life when he has no love for her. When she gets the Death Note she kills people not out of some duty she has of changing the world, but just because she wants to meet Kira. She's annoying stupid and clueless. Hell, Ren (one of the better characters)
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gives up her life for Misa just for the brat to stay alive and annoying.
As for L. He is not an entirely white character. Though far better than Light he still uses techniques that legally go beyond the law. However, he was a way more likeable character by a longshot than Misa. He had personality, quirks, as well as the intelligence that drew me to him. Seeing him work things out and get closer and closer to the truth was way more fun than watching Misa get led around like a pet. Also considering what Misa did to those people when she tried to contact Light including innocents like TV anchors, I feel L's crimes don't compare really.
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His death, while inevitable, was one of the sadder parts of the anime for me.
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Chuck Norris round housed kick L into Near and Mello
XD XD XD omg lol, your sooo right, if you slow it down and pause you can see L eating his boot!! XDDDD
When life gives you leamons, make orange juice, and just fuck logic.
In my opinion, I though L was a really great character (My favorite in the series to be exact ). In addition to having great intelligence , he also had his cute little perks, like his love for sweets for example. I actually found his death to be very sad, even if it was potentially inevitable. Aside from the fact that he wanted to bring the wrongdoings of kira to justice, although he might not have showed it much, he also cared about his team's safety and well-being. He put his own life on the line for the whole cause.
And another thing, I personally don't think Misa was a well-developed character. The only motive that was behind her actions was just her obsession with Light(Kira). She had no real goal. Some of the innocent people that she killed was just for her own selfish benefit to meet Kira. Basically, she was just an annoying lap-dog that Light would constantly bend to his will. A puppet.
Always craving sugary sweets :3
Warning please don't take it too personally but.........
OH no you did not just say that Misa was the most developed charater She is beyond simple that its moronic. A weak simpleton who clings onto a male because she has no original thought and her only virtue is that she's cute.
Misa to L " I love light because ummm... i love light"?!? How can you stand her she drives me nuts. >O<'
As for you question I think people are upset because you are lead to beleive that L is the best of the best in detective work so you can't imagine someone else catching Kira. It's like if you killed Sherlock Holmes. No matter how good Watson is he's no replacement. Same goes for N and Mello. Like you stated the best scenes where with L and Kira. Plus I don't want to sound like I'm on team Kira but two people ganging on one psycho kinda sad>>> it like the bad guy was being bullied. lol
I think that... Misa is a very developed character. To say that a character is or isn't developed is to judge the depth of their personality, but it's possible you just don't understand that depth because your own personality is different than Misa's.
Someone else might say the same thing about you, like what was said about Misa, see? It's just because that someone doesn't understand you.
So... I don't think anybody is simple or moronic or shallow or has an undeveloped personality, even characters on TV. You need to step into other people's shoes in order to understand them, and logically, you can never do that completely.
And I was sad when L died. I was sure he faked it. But now I think he really died... like a sacrifice in order to help Near and Mello win. But then, I was really really sad when Light died, too. To say that L shouldn't have died is wrong, because the story is how it is. But I think his character is fabulous how it is... and even when he treated Misa badly, he is the type of person who does what needs to be done, as well as he can-- because he was trying to reach a solution (catching Kira). Reaching that solution required going as far as he could to question Misa. He didn't see any other way to do it.
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|From top left: Summerhill House Hotel; view from Rainforest Day Spa; outdoor hot-tub; balcony (with hot-tub at very end).
This weekend I enjoyed one of the best massages of my life, at the Rainforest Day Spa. (The others, if you're interested, were from Elaine Butler Doolin and at the Hotel Barsalini on the island of Elba!). Rainforest is set in the grounds of the picturesque Summerhill House Hotel, close to the charming wee village of Enniskerry in Co. Wicklow.
Though it's just 30 minutes outside Dublin, it's surrounded by the gorgeous greenery of the Wicklow mountains, which can be enjoyed at leisure from the spa's balcony and outdoor hot-tub. I went with friends for a belated birthday treat and we opted for the Rainforest Renew package at €99 each, which included a Swedish back massage, Yonka facial, brow shape, mini manicure and use of the sauna, steam room and hot-tub.
The facial felt a little rushed, the mani and brow treatments were grand, but the massage was really something special. Though it lasted just half an hour it felt much, much longer and left me feeling deeply relaxed and, yep, renewed. It was administered, somewhat unusually in Ireland, by a man, the very efficient Daniele, who thoroughly smoothed all of the kinks and tension out of my back and shoulders.
He encouraged me to focus on three things: breath (and I could match his breathing or set my own pace), touch, and releasing tension. Very quickly I fell into what was almost a meditative state and when the treatment was complete I could have slept for hours.
It's worth keeping an eye on the special offers on their website and I'll also be checking out the specials offered by the Summerhill House Hotel; we've already agreed that next time, we're definitely staying overnight!
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Second-year Georgia College head softball coach Jamie Grodecki is proud to announce seven early signees for the 2013 season. The newest Bobcats all hail from high schools in the state of Georgia.
A pitcher and utility player, Erin Thorn (Johns Creek, Ga.) attends Johns Creek High, where she earned All-State from two different organizations in 2011. Thorn hit .427 with seven home runs and 24 RBI playing primarily third base. The 7-AAAA Region Co-Player of the Year, she also had 14 doubles and 11 stolen bases in 15 tries. A two-time All-Region choice, the Georgia Dugout Athletic Club Academic All-American plans to major in nursing.
Infielder Kristen Brooks (Brunswick, Ga.) hit .386 with six doubles, 10 stolen bases and 14 RBI for Brunswick High this season. She was a Wendy's High School Heisman nominee, and earned First Team All-Region all four seasons in high school.
Marietta, Ga. native Marisa Boyette was signed for her work in the circle at Pope High. The all-time winningest pitcher in Pope High history, she posted a 1.74 career ERA. Named to the All-Region First Team in 2011, opponents hit a paltry .178 against Boyette last season. She was a member of the 16-uA Runners up at the ASA Nationals.
West Laurens High's Abi LeRoy (Dublin, Ga.) joins the squad as a pitcher and utility player. The All-State First Team pick was also the AAA Region 2 Player of the Year, and runner-up for AAA Pitcher of the Year as a senior. In her junior season, she was named Region 4AAA Player of the Year, First Team All-State and was runner up for State Player of the Year while hitting .510 with 35 runs, 17 doubles, 21 RBI and 11 stolen bases. An honorable mention for both All-State and All-Middle Georgia in her sophomore year, she hit .472 during another All-Region season. The Region Pitcher of the Year as a freshman, she was added to the Georgia Dugout Club "Players to Watch List". She plans to major in nursing. LeRoy joins batterymate Danielle Knight in the recruiting class for GC.
Catcher and infielder Lacey Najafi (Suwanee, Ga.) was a member of the 2011 Georgia Dugout Club All-State Team during her senior year at North Gwinnett High. The former All-Region and All-County pick led her team in RBI. She plans to major in physical therapy.
Becca Olson (Evans, Ga.) hit .462 for Evans High, driving in 30 and ripping four doubles. A three-time All-Region First Team selection, she pulled in a trio of All-County honors as well. Her squad advanced to the Elite 8 State Finals in 2008 and 2009. Slotted for an infield spot, Olson only struck out five times in 100 plate appearances.
Catcher Danielle Knight hails from Dexter, Ga. and played high school ball at West Laurens with fellow recruit Abi LeRoy. A four-time All-Region pick, Knight was named to the All-State First Team her final two seasons. In 2011, she hit .459 with 11 home runs and 54 RBI, scoring 46 runs and slugging .885. She was named the Region Offensive Player of the Year, as well as earning spots on the GADC and GACA All-Star Teams. Knight is the school's all-time and single-season recordholder in home runs. She plans on majoring in pre-med.
The 2012 GC team hosts its season-opening tournament, the Bobcat Bash, starting with a doubleheader against Queens University Saturday, Feb. 4 at 1 p.m. Catawba College and the Peach Belt Conference's Georgia Southwestern State University will also join the two-day event.
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CHATTANOOGA, TN --A former Tennessee college student convicted of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail during the 2008 campaign is asking for probation. But federal prosecutors are recommending an 18-month prison term for David Kernell. His sentencing is set for Nov. 12 in Knoxville.
His attorney, Wade Davies, says in a motion that probation is justified, partly because of the 22-year-old former University of Tennessee student's youth.
A jury in April convicted Kernell on charges including unauthorized access to a protected computer and destroying records to impede a federal investigation. The maximum possible prison sentence is 20 years.
The former Alaska governor and her daughter Bristol testified that the hacking caused them emotional hardship.


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While active city employees are paying a portion of their health care costs, taxpayers are picking up the full tab for their retired counterparts. And, from what some members of the administration are saying, it could be that way for a long time to come.
The issue of health care co-payments for retirees came up during City Council hearings on Mayor Scott Avedisian's proposed $283 million budget. In response to questions, City Personnel Director Oscar Shelton put the cost of retiree health care benefits at about $8 million.
When Ward 9 Councilman Steve Merolla learned retirees aren't sharing the cost of health care, as active employees do by contract, he did some simple math. He said if retirees had the same level 20 percent co-pay, the city would save $1.6 million, which, he suggested, could be turned over to schools. Avedisian's budget would level-fund schools with $118.6 million in city revenues. Schools have asked for an additional $3.8 million from the city.
"Retired employees are not paying into health care and that's not fair," insisted Merolla.
Schools also provide health care benefits for retirees, however, school retirees are faced with the same conditions as active employees, meaning they also have a 20 percent co-pay. The overall cost of retiree health care for teachers, administrators and school workers is $1.3 million.
Ward 4 Councilman Joseph Solomon suggested the city impose a health care co-payment on retirees.
City Solicitor Peter Ruggiero said that is an option, adding, "I don't know if it's sustainable." He reasoned the action would most likely be legally contested, to which, Solomon observed, a lot of money is at stake.
"We have to be proactive," Solomon said.
Asked for additional information last Thursday, Shelton explained that not all retired municipal health plans are the same. But, regardless of the differences, they all are more generous than what is offered by the school department.
Apart from no co-payment, municipal health care benefits are extended to the retiree's spouse. That is not the case for school retirees. Also, within the last five years, the city has included a provision in its contract providing a "medi-gap" payment that averages about $160 a month to cover Part B deductibles from Social Security when retirees go on Medicare at the age of 65. That benefit is currently costing $590,000 a year and promises to increase as retirees age. No such provision is provided school retirees.
Shelton provided the following breakdown of retirees receiving health care and the cost: 165 police retirees under 65 and three over 65 collecting the medi-gap for a cost of $2.5 million; 151 firefighters under 65 and 12 over 65 for $2.4 million; and 130 municipal retirees under 65 and 308 over 65 for a total of $2.3 million. [The three add up to $7.2 million, not the $8 million Shelton estimated during the budget hearing.]
Shelton imagines there will be a time when the city negotiates a health care co-payment for retirees, but he sees that going forward and not applying to current retirees. The reason is that those retirees were promised those benefits as active employees and reducing them could be legally contested. He points to the case of retired policeman Al Hagenberg, who won his suit for the city to pay medical benefits. Furthermore, he points out, the union does not represent retirees, so it would be impossible for the union to reach a contract requiring a retiree co-payment from already retired workers. In fact, no group represents retirees, so conceivably, multiple suits could be brought against the city if retiree benefits were changed.
What about the city taking its chances?
"I can't count on the money [the savings with a co-pay] when I don't know what the courts are going to do," he said.
Rosemary Healey, director of human resources and legal counsel for the school department, said the department pays 50 percent of an individual health care plan for teachers and administrators with 20 years of service; that increases to 100 percent of a family plan for those with 30 years in the state teacher retirement system. Non-teacher retirees at age 62, and with a minimum of 25 years of service, get family plan coverage until they reach 65, at which point they go on Medicare. All retiree health care benefits cease for school employees once they are 65 and eligible for Medicare.
Healey said school contracts state that retirees are subject to the same conditions of active employees. That meant, when the committee unilaterally imposed a health care co-payment on Warwick Independent School Employees (WISE), that co-payment applied to retirees. Neither the union nor the retirees contested that change.
The committee did the same thing with the teachers, but when they took the committee to court, they backed off. In the following year's contract, the committee won the 20 percent co-pay and it applied to the actives and the retirees.
"All negotiators worth their salt know it [retiree benefits] is a black hole you never get out of," Healey said.
She said that many school districts in the state at one time provided lifetime health care to retirees but have since gotten out of them.
Sheldon said the city faces a different set of issues.
"You don't want 65-year-old cops and firefighters, but you can't come out and say that because it's discrimination," he said. But on the whole, as the numbers indicate, police and firefighters are retiring sooner and at younger ages than municipal employees. This means they are on city health care longer until they go on Medicare.
As for retiree co-payments, Shelton said, "People think this is the big answer." He doesn't argue that it would "be good to have," but only sees it happening by revamping future benefits.
The alternative, he admits, is what Providence and Cranston have done. He thinks that would be difficult for Warwick to pull off, as Warwick is not in the "dire" situation that those communities faced.
Well asked the retiree's to help out the city. Are the retiree's such horrible people that unless the city is going to go bankrupt they won't help the city out. The city is going to become central falls if we don't get ahead of this. The current workers are giving, the taxpayers are giving, the schools are giving, the retiree's have a good relationship with Avedisian. It's time for them to give.
Well, well, it seems the schools are much better at handling/negotiating health care benefits for retirees with respect to how it impacts taxpayers than the city is. if I read the article correctly, that was negotiated into their agreements at some point. Yet the city, by the comments above as well as their actions, seem to think that it's all but impossible for them to do that. Hmm. So i guess we just eat those exploding costs for the next couple of decades until the current hires are into a copay type of system. Oh, wait.. that hasn't been negotiated yet. No one expects or wants to have 65 year old officers or firefighters, that's not the issue. Providing healthcare to retirees for free is the issue. i guess we just have to wait until these cost thoroughly swamp the budget and we become a Providence or Cranston. Until then, we'll keep talking about how it can't be done because we're not like Providence or Cranston.
Well said Dave, well said!
Cranston's OPEB (Other Post Employee Benefits) lifetime healthcare are, I belive around $50 million. Warwick's is close to $300 million. Pension liability is also greater in Warwick. All together Warwick liabilities are over $1 biliion.
So which city is really in worse shape?
Mark my words, in about three years time when all employees are demanding raises (they won't go another 3 years with zeros), federal grant for the newly hired firefighter expire, pension costs and healthcare costs continue to exploded, the Category 5 Storm will finally have hit Warwick straight on.
And Avedisian will be gone. On to a new taxpayer funded job at the state level. The next mayor will get to come in and pick up the pieces.
We can not wait until we become Central Falls, Providence and Cranston. We need a leader who is WILLING to reach out to the retirees and ask the question. Explain that we don't want Warwick to end up in the same situation as Central Falls and potentially have our retirees lose half or more of their well earned pensions. We need to take care of our retirees and taxpayers by getting them to the table now rather than waiting. It takes a leader.
This ladies and gentlemen, is why I do not like Unions
Patrick, sadly no one in this administration and the Council leadership team of President Donna Travis and Finance Committee Chairwoman Carmella Vella-Wilkinson will not provide that leadership.
In fact what you just described, the kick the can into the future approach is Mayor Avedisian's and the council leadership strategy.
When I retired, the contract stated I would not pay co-pays and my family would receive benefits until age 65. Now Solomon and others think they should just impose co-pays. I will sue and demand attorneys fees. No one represents me. You cannot negotiate with me. Contract law is contract law. The idea that Solomon and others would break the law 'and take our chances' is enough for a judge to add penalties to the city in any lawsuit. Go ahead, make my day.
And we are no way near Central Falls. Bob Cushman is like chicken little. If you want to do this legally, negotiate now for future retirees and stop the 'bleeding'.
DB109, That's what the retirees said in Central Falls when Judge Flanders asked the retiree's to take a cut. And when they said no he filed for bankruptcy. Hubris got the best of them and cost their city dearly. Public unions need to be outlawed. Cities and towns would be healthier and city workers would be happier.
I love your unabashed greed, I got mine, stick it to the new guys. Your not even smart enough to be ashamed of your selfish greed, or your contempt of our workers today.
Is Dave Barry code for something else with the initials DB?
Active workers going three years without a raise and employees paying more for healthcare then those retired, municipal retired employees have not received a COLA in 5 years and it could be 10 more before they get one, the amount of dollars allocoted to the equipment, tools, vehicles needed to do the job for our police, fire, DPW workers getting older and older with no plan to replace them on a consistant basis, family services, youth services eliminated from the budget , the school deparment buildings still 8 years later not in compliance with fire safety codes, building failing, roofs leaking, strret crumbling, school budget allocated only $500,000 more in seven years while tax dollars to pay for retiree benefits have increased by $16 million and -----
over 52 cents of every new dollar collected for the city budget since 2004 going to pay for retiree costs; and the city doesn't have a problem Dave Barry?
Thank you Patientman for your spot on comments.
To see the number paste this link into your browser Dave. Pay particular attention to how every other area except retiree benefits have been cut in the city and school budget.
Mr. Cushman, keep fighting the good fight. In time, hopefully soon. the current workers will see that we're looking out for them, the retiree's and the city as a whole. We need to reverse the cities course or our tax base will dwindle to the point where you have the wealthy living on the water surrounded by a sea of foreclosed homes and shuttered business's. The rallying cry shouldn't be "we are no way Central Falls". It should be "What can we do to protect the city, our children and our grandchildren. It's not to late. Mr. Howell take your head out of the sand. Do your job and be remembered as a daring investigative journalist. Because right now your just Scott Avedisian's in house p.r. firm.
greedy union terrorists care for nobody but the person in the mirror. don't care about their own kids, grandkids, anyone but that person staring back at them. They'd sell the sidewalks, roads, buildings, parks everything if it meant keeping the gravy rolling.
It is amazing that you folks continue to label retirees and union workers as 'terrorists', 'greedy', and worse. As if we ever did anything illegal. As if the mayor and city council were unaware of what was in these contracts. Amazing. The union did what it exists to do. It negotiated the best deal for its employees concerning wages and benefits. That is what it exists for. For years, we took no raises or nominal raises in exchange for great benefits. Now the benefits, through no fault of ours, cost losts of money. Will you increase my pay that I gave up in exchange for reduced benefits? What will you give me to get what you want? That's a negotiation. The politicians made the mess, you won't clean it up on my back. You dolts have fallen for the politicians trick of turning the taxpayers on the citizens while ignoring them. They did this. Make them pay.
Dave here is my answer that I wrote in an 2011 Projo op-ed to your claim that the union leaders our not responsible for the current conditions . I will repeat it for the sake of others to read:
Organized labor now is laying the blame for the condition of the pension plan on past and present political leaders. What union leaders don't say is that they endorsed and supported most of these politicians in exchange for their passing laws that defined current pension benefits.
To make matters worse, labor also supported scheme after scheme by politicians that let employees manipulate the system: allowing enhanced benefits through the purchase of pension credits, enabling questionable disability pensions, receiving retirement benefits after only 20 years of work. Granting lifetime health-care benefits and unrealistic compounded cost-of-living adjustments only escalated today's problems.
Yet Rhode Island's labor leaders have never accepted responsibility for their failure to monitor the health of the system. And by brainwashing public-sector employees into believing the system was infallible, they also ignored any problems. It was only a matter of time before the system's faulty structure was exposed.
Now labor leaders won't accept reform because it exposes their culpability. So, instead, they point fingers and resort to the despicable tactic of personally attacking those for trying to fix it.
Labor bosses have seen the warning signs for decades. But, instead of being partners in acknowledging the problem, identifying corrupt costly policies and proposing solutions to fix them, they and their ethically conflicted political supporters put some caulking in the leaks, slapped on a fresh coat of paint and masked the rotting structural problems for decades more.
It was bad enough that the state and its cities and towns have, for years, been redirecting budgetary resources from all other programs in an attempt to stabilize the system. The fact is, current state and local employees are now paying the price with sub-par equipment and staffing, and, along with taxpayers, paying for retirement benefits for former employees that they themselves will never realize.
Organized labor leaders bear much of the responsibility for these conditions.
We need not hesitate to fairly criticize, and justly tarnish, the reputation of labor leaders. These union bosses still pretend to have been the guardians of the public-employee pension system. The truth is that they are ultimately responsible for its failure.
The real "scam" and "lies" perpetrated upon all Rhode Island citizens are the promises of unsustainable benefits by the union bosses.
The union bosses are so well compensated they never want to lose their job. So negotiating pensions that they know aren't feasible will keep them on top and the membership happy. Can you envision a world where a union boss says "we don't envision a scenario where this is a viable plan". No its gimme gimme gimme and gimme more. Guess what the can has been kicked down the road and here we are, at the end of the road. Mr. Barry, I would be expecting a call from the mayor's office very soon.


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Today and Thursday's Sports Calendar and Upcoming Area Events
Thursday. LSU vs. St. Joseph's at Old Spice Classic at Orlando, Fla., 7 p.m. (Radio: 96.7-FM; TV: ESPN2)
Today. Nicholls vs. TBA at Great Alaskan Shootout.
Today. The H.L. Bourgeois Thanksgiving Basketball Camp will be held from 9 a.m. to noon today at the school. The camp is open for boys and girls ages 7 to 13, and campers will receive instruction from the boys and girls coaching staffs and players. Registration is $50, and all campers get a camp T-shirt. Checks should be made payable to H.L. Bourgeois and include a phone number.
Thursday. The "Run 4 the Health of It" race series, sponsored by Advance Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, L.L.C.'s J C Advance Foundation, will hold a 10K race at 8 a.m. on Thursday. For information, call Kayla Henninger at 985-448-5888 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saturday-Sunday. XLR8 Sports Club, located in the Southland Mall, will host a two-day Thanksgiving baseball camps Saturday and Sunday. Camp 1 times are 9 a.m. to noon each day and Camp 2 times are 1 to 4 p.m. each day. They will focus on arm care and off-season conditioning and hitting. The cost is $70 for one camp or $120 for both and members receive a 25 percent discount. For information, call 985-262-0082 or visit xlr8sportsclub.com.
Monday-Dec. 20. The Terrebonne Parish Recreation department will start registration for its 13- and 14-year-old basketball leagues next week. The registration will last from Monday through Dec. 5 and Dec. 9-12 at all area gyms from 5-8:30 p.m. Registration will also be held at the TPR office, located at 876 Verret Street in Houma, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday through Dec. 20. A birth certificate is needed for all first-time applicants, and a fee is charged. For information, call 873-6584.
Dec. 2-Jan. 24. The Louisiana Baseball Academy will begin its winter pitching workouts session from Dec. 2 to Jan. 24. The sessions, which cost $250, will take place every week on Monday through Friday except for Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. There are 36 total workout dates, which all last a hour. The times are for Session 1 (5:30-6:30 p.m.), Session 2 (6:30-7:30 p.m.) and Session 3 (7:30-8:30 p.m.). LBA is only accepting 24 players per session, which are for players age 9-and-up. To watch video of some of the workouts, go to http://www.lbabaseball.com For more information or to sign up, send email to email@example.com.
Dec. 14. The Ross Mullooly Project — Outrunning Cancer 5K-1-mile fun run, raffle, silent auction and blood drive will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 14 at the Houma Courthouse Square. For information, contact Monica Mullooly at 876-6070.
Dec. 14-15. Former Major League Baseball player Jack "the Ripper" Clark will host an instructional baseball camp at XLR8 Sports Club at the Southland Mall in Houma on Dec. 14-15. The camp is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, and the cost is $125 per camper. XLR8 members get a 25 percent discount. Clark spent 17 season in the majors with the Giants, Cardinals, Yankees, Padres and Red Sox from 1975-1992. He had 340 homers, a .267 batting average, 1,180 RBIs and was a four-time all-star.
Space is limited to 50 participants and each will receive a camp shirt, an autographed picture with Clark and lots of baseball instruction. For information visit www.jacktheripperclark.com, www.xlr8sportsclub.com or call 985-262-0082.
Dec. 28. The "Run 4 the Health of It" race series, sponsored by Advance Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, L.L.C.'s J C Advance Foundation, will hold a 15K race at 8 a.m. on Dec. 28. For information, call Kayla Henninger at 985-448-5888 or email her at email@example.com.
Dec. 28-29. Terrebonne High's volleyball team is hosting a Christmas volleyball tournament on Dec. 28-29 at the Dularge Gym. The tournament will feature four divisions of play in women's noncompetitive, women's competitive, coed and men's competitive. Each team will compete in desired division. Pool play will consist of two 25-point sets, and bracket play will be the best of two out of three matches. The tournament, which is $100 per team, is open to all ages. For information, call Terrebonne volleyball coach Craig Hamner at 688-5225.