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'He was as tough as they come'
Though, he might give you a different description now.
"I'm just an old retiree that plays a lot of golf," said Phillips, now 73.
The simple statement — meant as an introduction into a complex, rich history of life, love and sports — is followed with a broad smile and good-natured laugh. That's just the type of person Phillips is. An outgoing, likeable person who his friends say was one of the fiercest competitors they played with.
A track, basketball and football standout at McMinnville High School in the late 1950s, Phillips went on to compete in two sports in college before settling down into his career as an educator and coach. For his many accomplishments while a prep athlete at McMinnville and the following years of professional success, Larry Phillips, McMinnville Class of 1959, is one of this year's inductees into the McMinnville High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Larry Phillips was born on April 30, 1940 in Colorado to Vern and Elsie Phillips. Before he was too old, Phillips, his parents and his brother, Chuck, and sister, Bev, moved to Ontario, Ore. Vern sold John Deere Tractors for a local outfit, and Bev was a surgery nurse. The family lived on a small farm outside of town.
On the Columbia Plateau, Phillips did what a lot of young boys did. He played outside for most hours of the day, competing with Chuck (who was eight years older than Larry) and his friends. Basketball was a favorite, but other sports all found their way into the mix.
"Everything was always the world championship," Phillips said.
Phillips said he gravitated toward basketball in grade school, playing on some traveling teams, but a chance introduction to the high jump while visiting a neighbor set in motion what would become Phillips' most successful sport. Phillips said he was visiting Doc Savage, a local coach who would go on to have success at La Grande as a football coach. Savage built a high jump standard on his property, and Phillips spent time over there learning how to jump over the bar using the "scissor method." This was pre-landing pads and the Fosbury Flop, when high jumpers would leap headfirst over the bar and land with their backs on a well-cushioned pad. All Savage did to cushion the landing area was to till the dirt.
"You'd jump over the bar and land on the hard ol' ground," Phillips said.
Gaining acceptance
Phillips' dad heard of an opening at the John Deere supply store in McMinnville in the fall of 1954, and moved the family to the west side of the state. By then, Phillips' older siblings had all graduated from high school. It was two months into his eighth grade school year, and he knew no one.
Sports helped break the barriers of being the "new kid." Phillips said he doesn't remember much of his first year living in McMinnville, though some of the kids in his class had strange dark brown stains on their hands that he just couldn't figure out.
"Well, of course, I had never seen a walnut or hazelnut orchard before," he said. "Some of my classmates' hands were stained from working in the orchards picking the nuts."
The following year, Phillips — now over 6-feet tall — entered high school, and there was no question that he fit right in. His class elected him freshman class president.
"I loved high school," Phillips said. "I was so well accepted by the kids, and they treated me so nicely. It was just a really good experience for me."
Gary Bracelin, a fellow classmate and standout athlete at McMinnville, said Phillips was well liked.
"He'd be the one dancing with the girls at lunch when the music was on," Bracelin said. "He was very charismatic.
"Everyone wanted to be around him."
Bracelin, Phillips and fellow 1959 graduate Don Carlson all became fast friends. The three formed the backbone of a supremely athletic and successful class that excelled in sports. Bracelin and Phillips played football, basketball and track together. Carlson split off in the spring to play baseball.
"Gary was the tackle on the football team, and I was the end," Phillips said. "In basketball, I was the center and he was the forward. Then in track, he did the throwing events and I did the jumps and hurdles. Most of the year we were around each other."
Mostly what Phillips remembers of his playing days comes from outside the confines of a football field, basketball court or cinder track.
"We were really friends," Phillips said. "We would go over to Donny's and have BB gun fights or on days off head down to Sweeny's and have a doughnut and Coke.
"We did a lot of stuff together. We were just all really good friends, and I think that's in part what made it so much fun for all of us."
Probably no one knew Phillips better as a person and an athlete than Bracelin from the years they spent side by side competing for the Grizzlies.
"Larry could make every team he played for better than it was without him," Bracelin said. Bracelin, who went on to compete in college at Oregon State in track and was also inducted into the Mac Hall of Fame in 2012, said Carlson and Phillips were the best athletes in the class.
"He was probably the best athlete in the class," Bracelin said.
Bracelin has one story in particular that he thinks about when Phillips' name comes up. In the fall of 1954 right after Phillips moved to town, Bracelin and some of his eighth grade friends were playing basketball in the park. There was a fence near the court that he said was just over waste high.
"Here comes this kind of tall, gangly kid wearing corduroy pants," Bracelin recalls. "He took a couple of steps and easily jumped over the barrier."
A bevy of success
Phillips will be the first to tell you basketball and track were his two best sports, but he was a good football player as well. He didn't make the varsity his freshman year, but from his sophomore year to his senior year, Phillips played offensive and defensive end for the Grizzlies. Carlson played quarterback and Bracelin anchored the line.
The Grizzlies made three straight state quarterfinals — including his sophomore and junior years — but Mac's dominance ended after an undefeated 9-0 season crashed to a halt in 1957 when Mac lost 34-13 at Springfield. In Phillips' senior season, the Grizzlies were 8-1-1 with an ugly tie to Newberg keeping Mac from making it back to the playoffs.
Phillips was a starter his last two years of high school and was listed at 6-foot-2, 155 pounds on the roster printed in the Sept. 8, 1958 edition of the Daily News-Register. He caught a few touchdown passes that year and was selected to the 1958 TYV All-Star team as a tight end.
"For his size, he was as tough as they come," Bracelin said.
Phillips said he played football because all of his friends were. He had never played organized football before playing on the junior varsity his freshman year, but Phillips characterized his mindset thusly:
"I was just the kind of guy who stuck his nose in there."
The Grizzlies also enjoyed quite a bit of success in basketball during Phillips' high school days. The Grizzlies qualified for state his sophomore season. Throughout their years in high school, Carlson ran the point, Bracelin was the bruising power forward, and Phillips was the athletic center.
In 1957, McMinnville lost to Grant by eight points in the first round of the championships at McArthur on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene. The Grizzlies rebounded with a 72-43 thrashing of Redmond in the consolation quarterfinals and a 17-point win vs. Albany in the consolation semis. Mac lost to Klamath Union by 21 in the consolation finals and finished the season 18-7.
The following year, the Grizzlies were back at Mac Court under coach Eldore Baisch after a 14-8 season. The Grizzlies were bounced in two games, losing to Pendleton and Springfield— their nemesis from that fall's football playoffs. Phillips and the Grizzlies again made the championship tournament at Mac Court in the spring of 1959, but again, Mac lost in the first round. This time North Bend sent the Grizzlies to the consolation rounds. After a seven-point win vs. Bend in the quarterfinals, Medford sent Mac home.
Phillips was a First-Team All-TYV selection after averaging 14.1 points per game in league contests and 12.3 rebounds. Just prior to the start of the AAA Boys Basketball Championships in Eugene in the March of 1959, Phillips received a Western Union telegram at school from his sister Bev and her husband Bill:
"Congratulations on being picked on the first string all-conference basketball team. Hope you are as proud as we are. Now let's make it all the way in track. -- Bev & Bill"
Phillips excelled in track. He lettered every year of high school for track coach Don Maybee, running the high and low hurdles as well as competing in the high jump and long jump. Apparently, though, running the hurdles took some getting used to.
"At our first track meet my freshman year," Phillips said, "Coach Maybee said I was going to run the high hurdles. I was scared spitless. If I remember right, I think after the first four hurdles, I was in the lead. I was like a jackrabbit out there. Then I started hitting hurdles. I hit every hurdle to the last one, then I fell down and crawled across the finish line."
Phillips would improve greatly in the high hurdles to the point where he set and re-set the school record in the high hurdles his sophomore, junior and senior years.
"I had two ways to go," Phillips said. "I could get mad and quit and never hurdle again. But my thing was, I was so mad to think that some sticks stopped me from hurdling that it made me decided that I'm going to win this thing, and they're not going to win."
Phillips, whose brother Chuck was a jumper at the University of Oregon, broke the school high jump record his freshman year at 5-feet, 10.5 inches. He won the district meet, which he would do every year he was in school. He reset his school record the next season at 6-1, and added to that his junior year, setting a TYV district record of 6-2.75.
Phillips qualified for the state track meet every year of high school, scoring points in his final three years in the hurdles and high jump.
Bracelin is convinced if Phillips competed just a few years later when Dick Fosbury pioneered his now standard "flop technique" at Oregon State, he would have jumped even higher.
"If Larry would have been around during the Fosbury Flop era, he would have added a lot of inches to his high jump."
Changing careers
After a brilliantly successful high school career, Phillips was recruited to play basketball and track at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He said he probably would not have gone to college if it weren't for his parents packing up and moving from Ontario.
"Once I got to McMinnville, it was never ever, 'What are you going to do after high school,'" Phillips said. "It was always, 'Where are you going to college?'"
He went from playing center to playing guard, but Phillips found success in the spring. From 1959 through the spring of 1961, he was a standout high jumper. Phillips broke the L&C school record his freshman year (twice) and set a district record.
Phillips was selected to the First Team of the NAIA All-American Track and Field team in 1960.
Then a change of majors from business to education saw Phillips transfer from Lewis & Clark. He spent the fall of 1961 with the National Guard, training at Fort Ord in California. In the winter and spring of 1961-62, Phillips spent some time at the University of Oregon before landing the next year at the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth.
Phillips played one more year of college basketball in 1963, but he met his future wife, Shirley, who was also a student at OCE. The couple was quickly married and soon after their first child was born.
"That stopped all the nonsense," Phillips said with a laugh.
Phillips worked full-time as a bartender in nearby Independence and after graduating, his new family moved with him to Mt. Vernon outside of John Day, Ore. where he began his teaching career. Stops at Silverton and North Marion soon followed before they finally settled in Southern Oregon in Coquille. There, Phillips' six kids grew up and all graduated from Coquille. He coached girls basketball, boys basketball and football for a time, but his true mainstay and passion was track. Phillips was the head track coach at Coquille from 1971 to 1994 when he resigned. A year later in 1995, Phillips retired.
Now Phillips is back in McMinnville, playing golf regularly with a senior men's club out at the Bayou Golf Course. Shirley died three years ago from cancer, but he said now he has 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren to keep him company.
Reflecting back on his days as a young, spry athlete in McMinnville, Phillips said he will always remember the great friendships he made and how his classmates treated him when he first moved. Fifty four years after they graduated, Bracelin confirms what Phillips thought.
"He was the real deal," he said.


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2008 Nobel Prize winner and New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman discusses the history of the American "middle class," and argues that growing income inequality may threaten its existence.
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Welcome to our meeting of the Commonwealth Club. I am Ralph Baxter and it is my pleasure to welcome that all of you to tonight's program. This is the first in a series of programs that we and Orrick are sponsoring with the Commonwealth Club. As series we call the Aha speaker series in which we will bring our speakers here to the Commonwealth Club from all over the world with different perspectives from this different disciplines to share with us their thoughts about developments and events in the world events and developments that are shaping out future and we will shape and are shaping our present. Tonight we are delighted to have as our first speaker in the series Paul Krugman. Paul does not require much introduction, but let me say a few things before I turn the podium over to him. Paul Krugman was educated at Yale as an undergraduate and got his PhD from MIT and he is now the Professor of Economics in International Affairs at Princeton. Of course he perhaps better known for his Op-Ed columns in the New York Times, but he writes much more broadly than that. Paul Krugman has written twenty books. He has authored more than 200 papers in professional journals and of course now has his most recent in "The Conscience of a Liberal" in Publication. And tonight Paul will talk about the book and his views of Economic Inequality and Political Change in America. Paul. Hi all, good evening and I may cough at some point during here, I think allergic to these times we live in I think something anyway so even hear some of that sorry, but that was not stays that was real. Okay - okay as I am really going to talk about the book "The Conscience of a Liberal", and it's a it's a book that's newly out, its I was last time I was on book tour it was a book that was the most part a collection of columns and they were reactions of the time we were in, this time I have try to figure out how we got to where we are and is there a way out? I guess it's the way to put it, I have actually had some I know there is some disappointment in in reviews or comments by relatively conservative people saying there isn't a whole lot of Bush bashing in this book, I guess the answer is saying when they have done that and I am trying to figure out where we go next. And so let me let me tell the at the core of of what is on my mind and that is in my book. There are I would say two from my point of view two great puzzles about America. Now I am I am a baby boomer grew up in the society of you know, the 50s and 60s. And it was we thought that society was in many ways that sort of end state, we are we are a mature country god, it was a broadly middle class society, it was a poverty problem that which which actually getting a great deal of attention but they weren't are a lot of very rich people and there was a broad equality of economic conditions among very among most of the population. It was also a society which had a relative despite all the term of the 60s and into as a politics there was a there was a - a strong center. There was a lot of agreement about basic principles about what what our government was for. What the shapes of society are to be? And there was a real possibility of bipartisan action, so if you look at the major legalization of the time, something like Medicare was created with a lot of votes from both parties next with some oppositions from both parties but it was really a there was a there was an ability to co-operate to get things done, and it all went away. And there are from my point of view these two great puzzles one of them is economic, what happened to middle class America, the other is political, why have the politics gone the way they have and let me just talk for a second about the the economic puzzle first and then which then least to the political puzzle. So the economic puzzle is this, there is a debate among economists about whether the typical family, the median family has experienced again in a standard of living in income since the since the early 1970s where you can you can cut it back in four various ways. Median income is up but that's entirely because more spouses are working, and you can go back and forth and we are measuring prices right, they didn't have DVD players you know, so on the out come of that debate is not important. What's stunting is the fact that it's even debatable. Go back and we are talking about 35 years. The the end of the great Post-War Boom is usually dated to 1973. In 1973 there were no personal computers, no internet, fax machines were extremely expensive things that basically only major news organizations had. There were the ships were unloaded by guys toting big bags of stuff, no free containerization, no barcode scanner, they were vastly richer, more productive society we were then we were in a in the early 70s and yet we are not sure its within the realm of argument, where the typical family has has gained any thing. How is that possible? The answer of course is that there were huge, huge gains at the top of the income distribution. A few people got much, much richer and that took all or almost all of the gains. We talk about second Gilded age referring back to the era of the Robber Barons, and that is not a metaphor, its not hyperbole, its not exaggeration by the numbers the distribution of income in the United States in 2005 almost exactly matched what it was in the 1920s. So it may be not quite the the age of J.P Morgan although but but certainly the great Gaspi we are certainly fully back to levels of inequality that was not been seen since since the the 1920s, it's a it's an extraordinary thing. So first question is how does that happen? How was it possible for inequality to grow that much? And I will talk about that in a moment. Second question is why hasn't the political system had a bad clash against that? If you if you have told somebody just in the abstract look we are going to see a tremendous concentration of income at the top of the of the spectrum, stagnation of wages from most workers over a period of several decades obvious explosion of great wealth. You might have expected in fact standard political theories which lead you to think that that there would be a demand for you know, there would be a pressure to raise taxes on the rich and provide stronger social safety net, that you know, that might even have expected to see here we long make a second coming you know, soak the rich but at least you would have expected some kind of political back clash against that. In fact on the contrary, the trend of our politics at least until very, very recently has been towards in the opposite direction that the Republican Party has become increasingly a party of lower taxes lower tax rates on on the people with high income, deregulation, privatization of parts of the of the social insurance system and has by and large one more election than it has lost, so the political trend is actually went to the right when you might have thought that growing inequality would post to the left so, how did that happen? Okay when I argue in "The Conscience of a Liberal" is first of all that a lot of the increase inequality is in fact a political at its root the politics drives economics. Now this is not the way economist run I am a card carrying economist may be the revoke going to license here. But this is not the way economist are supposed to think except that most economists will looked hard at the long term developments in inequality are driven in this direction. And let me give you a few things that people may not be aware of. The first is the middle class society I grew up in did not evolve gradually. You might think that there was a - you know, there was the era of the Robber Barons and then gradually America turned into the America of Ozzy & Harriet what ever. That it gradually evolved into this middle class society. That is not what the data or you know the available story tell us. What they tell us is in fact that far as we can tell the Gilded Age lasted right through the 1920s. America on the eve of the new deal was very nearly as unequal as it had been in the 1890s. And that the middle class relatively egalitarian society was created in a very short period of time between the late 1930s and the end of World War II. The economic historians call that the great compression as the income difference got compressed. And its its as important a story about 20th century America is the great depression if we all know that, that was much less told and you look at what happened and it was the Roosevelt Administration to the whole set of policies but all of them equalizing, much higher tax rates on the wealthy higher corporate tax rates approve union organizing environment who had a explosion in union membership tripling of of the share of the work force, the minimum wage, social security, unemployment insurance. All of these things and then the process accelerated because during the World War II, there were extensive government controls on the economy which were used in a way tended to equalize incomes. All this created a middle class society in a period of not more than about seven or eight years. Now you might have thought well okay but you know, this all artificial especially the stuff during the war so you know, we go away as soon as peace time return, but it didn't turn out that once you create institutions, norms expectations are relatively equal society that tends to persist. So the income distribution is relatively middle class society that was created by the new deal persisted for more than a generation after World War II. Then it started to come apart, and you see this dramatic increase inequality not quite as fast as the great compression but its just dramatic increase starting around 1980 which in itself is kind of an interesting date because that's Regan come to the White House and it turns out, that the well the increase in inequality in the United States is unique to the United States. So other advanced countries have not seen anything like it. The closest thing you can seen to the US to this un-equalization that has taken place in the United States is in Britain during the Thatcher years which again it's self a little bit revealing. And nothing remotely, just look at the charts and we are you know, we are off the charts in terms of the languish in equality and many of the things that we take for granted as well this is the way the things work in the modern the late 20th early 21st century economy, turn out to be special to the US. So one example I would like to use is the decline of the union movement. We all know that unions are out molded and you cant you know, it's a global competition and all that, except well here is a comparison people don't know, in the 1960s Canada that's about the country there they we tend to they almost speak the same language, but anyway they in the 1960s Canada and the United States had roughly the same percentage of their workers in Union by 30 percent in both countries today Canada still has almost 30 percent of it workers in Unions. In the United States its sound to by eleven percent and much less than that its in the private sectors its heavily and public sector thing left so the de-unionization was not something that happened because the global economy because Canada faces the same global economy we do was same that happened here, and how did they happened? Well when you look into it closely discover that it was political basically Ronald Reagan above all though it started before him to clear to open season for union investors, if you during the during the 1980s about one in every 20 workers who voted for union was illegally fired. And the reason sure we are less of an industrial society but there is no one know the reason why giant service sector companies, you know, the iconic corporation of the 60s was General Motors, the iconic corporation of today is Wal-mart, there is inherent reason why this company should not be unionized in fact similar enterprises are in the rest of the world but because the shift was service economy took place in a environment in which politicians the dominant political forces said it was okay to bust unions in the way that we had in people had in the 1920s, we have we have the dramatic decline in unionization in the united states so it is not and you know, and intern has all kind of ramifications for the income distribution. So I can talk about it and some link but but there is a lot of reason to believe the politics has driven this dramatic increase in inequality. Sure technology is there, globalization is there but its it is very largely political. I should say one more thing there is a view on inequality that you hear all the time, which is what's all about the increase demand for skills for education in the modern world economy. You know, and there is no doubt something to that but if you actually look at the numbers the huge growth in depravities has not been between the college educated and the non-college educated. Yes people with college these have done better than people without, but most of the increase is among people with a lot of education, so that most dramatic statistic high school teachers tend to have post graduate degrees and so do H fund managers. And thus we all know the highest last year the highest paid H-fund manager in the United States made an amount equal to salaries of all 80,000 New York City School teachers for the next three years. So this is its not education that is driving this its not it's not that simple. Politics, why haven't we had a back clash, well or part of this way how was it been that people how was it been that that during this period of rapid increase inequality we have seen the top tax rates for in a back when that socialist Dwight Eisenhower was president the the top tax marginal tax rate was 91 percent and it was 70 percent too much of the of the 60s and 70s as now 35. Our capital gains tax rate is being cut from 28 to 15, and so in down the line. That the tax rates that apply most heavily to the people who have been been the big beneficiaries who are going inequality have been cut, social programs have been eroded where was possible although social security and Medicare are there. How is that possible - but why has politics moved to the right? Well that is a two part story. The first is the change in the Republican Party, you can actually measure positions, democrats are not or have not be until the recently significantly to the left where they have been to start. Was Bill Clinton to the left of John F Kennedy not not that not in a visible way. And Republican Party has moved a long way to the portrait as because it was in effect captured by something that I call movement conservatism was not actually my name - it was the movement conservatism themselves call it. You know, there is a conservative yes Virginia there is a vast right wing conspiracy, but but its not its not hidden it's not secret. It's a just a overlapping set of institutions that create a lot of incentives to follow what announced to a party line. So what that's institution in the whole range from the Heritage Foundation to Fox News you can various see - you are very clearly sees what cohesive, you look at a lot these institutions you asking where does the funding come from. And in the same five or six large right wing foundations come up again and again, it's really you know, there it is cohesive movement. They wont really tell you otherwise, but although I I have always thought that the obsession with George Soros on the right comes partly from the fact that they think there must be a sinister billionaire organizing things because after all that the way things work on their side, but the okay- the how does it take over well a lot of it you know that the personal incentives are quite strong. So you look at a what - look at the tale of two republican senators who lost their seats last year. Lincoln Chafee I believe got a one year teaching appointment at Brown and he would you know Lincoln Chafee was an old was a an Eisenhower republican essentially. Go back Eisenhower Eisenhower said if to people who are he have wrote a famous letter to his brother revealed after his death that talking about people who fought to roll back to new deal, people would thought that you can get rid of social security and unemployment, insurance in all that and he said they have a tiny minority and they are stupid. But in fact today we have a republican party most or the the key institutions movement conservatism actually believe and try to do exactly that so had fund raising letters from the Heritage Foundation will say that you know, you will never forget connect the dots. The the our goal is to undo the new deal on the great society in other words its basically self security and Medicare that these these are these are early and these are bad institutions like they want to roll this back. The so if you are not a - if you are republic isn't in the movement conservative well there is much there if you are so the other one is Rick Santorum and merely there was a program created for him to head at a right wing Think Tank the New America's enemies program and so there you are with you know, this is the - some of my progressive friends called "wing-nut welfare" but anyway the you know, this is a whole set of incentives very strong, Now its none the less. This would not this kind of hard line right position seized the republican nomination for Barry Goldwater but then went down to terrible defeat and and when the republicans dig at the White House under Richard Nixon Nixon was not actually in many ways good Nixon governed as a liberal. Its not clear Nixon didn't seen to had much of any ideology except that he should be running things and then it was a it wasn't until but what Nixon did what made it possible of this to who to change America it was the ability to win elections and so the question it has to be if you have what is essentially an anti-populist a elitist economy philosophy that is taken over one of America's two great parties during time of rising inequality, how it that can win elections? And the answer actually is that it has never done so by running on the economic ideology. Economics is what it's about, you actually ask what this Heritage Foundation care about, what do the - what does management really want? It is about economics is about trying to roll things back. It is a Grover Norquist do people know the Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Action the the we like him in a way he is the great anti tax cut enforcer somebody pointed out that that Grover Norquist is sort of like a James Bond villain who explains that length in evil plans so we could like to quote him the quote everyone uses the one about getting the government down to the side where you can drown it in a bath tub but the one I was liked as he one asks what he wants he said he wants to get America back to the way it was before Teddy Roosevelt and socialist came in so undue the 21st okay but this is and this you know this is this is but we are not talking about some crank we are talking about somebody who actually until - until last November was part of the republican process of debting people got lobbyist appointments you know where a central part of the whole mechanism. Okay, how does this win elections? The answer is by running other other things? So in some ways the 2004 election was a perfect illustration, Bush wins the election by being America's defender against gay-married terrorists. And then you know, barely have the networks called the elections and he says and now our first priority is to privatize social security, which came as kind of shock to lot of people who have voted for him, but that's fairly typical. All right and when I looked in some detail at the political history it turns out that although there are chapters telling weapons of mass destruction, but the but it turns out that the core of it although national security clearly swung the 2002 and 2004 elections, and actually the tough much less important. The enduring source the ability of a move in conservatism to win elections has in fact not been that it has been raised. The centrality of race to the American political story was not something I expected to find when I began working on this book but it just becomes overwhelmingly clear once you start to do the do the work so let me give you a story on a statistic and then we will talk about it bit more the story is as when Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act he turned to his Bill Morris who was then his young of the age and he said we just give in the south to the GOP for my lifetime and yours and that appears to actually had been right that a sort if you look to an extraordinary extend on what is happened in American politics can be see as the success of Richard Nixon southern strategy amazing amount that once you take account of just five words southern white started voting republican there isn't much left over to explain. So here is my statistic, from Larry Bartels in the in the politics department, the we all another white males have turned on the democratic party have left a democratic party and there is whole list of reasons given for that but its not exactly true unless you add a additional word which is its really just southern white males who have left the democratic party. In 1952 of non southern white males 40 percent voted democratic in 2004 39 percent they are all I have heard about alienated work in class borders and in the country once you take it account great southern switch there is nothing left to explain nothing much happened to destroys you seen about evangelicals are very large they are not entire but they alert the just about the southern switch. Because there are lot more evangelicals in the south almost everything else boils away. Now I said southern wise switch might not be might not be about race, thank you. Yeah, this is - I am sorry that the you may never get the end of the story, we will whether I can get there. One of the reasons for thinking that it is aside from sort of the the obvious timing, and the answer actually of course is to the politicians very clearly sought to use race as a way to win elections. So that when in some ways Nixon famously had the southern strategy and it is a lot of in it they hadn't the legacy of the Nixon Administration in our politics remains very strong often in in terms of the individuals, so Dick Cheney gets started in Nixon administration. People forget that Roger Ailes head of Fox News was Richard Nixon's media guru, so this is direct line to send that that Carl Rove was Lee Atwaters disciple that the Lee Atwater had the famous late in life interview where he said talked about using race in politics, and where we said there is something along lines up you used to say nigger nigger nigger, now we say taxes and welfare, but - it's the same message. But more specifically one of the key figures in "The Conscience of a Liberal" is Ronald Reagan who is a you know really I think probably we haven't figure in that changed America but not in the way that the hagiography, you have seen Ronald has made. The real Ronald Reagan was a - certainly there was a harshness to it. If you read the famous 1964 speech that made Ronald Reagan a national figure and that extraordinary thing to read partly because of the sheer means spiritedness of it so he makes fun of John F Kennedy having said millions of Americans go to bed hungry every night and saying they were probably holding a diet. But what he found what Reagan found was the way without being explicit to play to these racial divisions and fears. So he didn't talk about race, he talked about welfare cheats, he talked about welfare queen driving her cadillac that never existed but that became a central story in his campaign. And in 1980 when he began the Presidential campaign, he did not begin the campaign with the speech on tax cuts. He did not can begin the campaign with the speech on communism he began the campaign by going to Philadelphia Mississippi where the three civil rights workers have been murdered and giving a speech on states rights and it was you you know it was a shot out to to as clear as could be. And now if continued to you will think think about really wrote in 1988 campaign. This this strategy continued to work people have asked me do I think that Ronald Reagan was a racist do I think that George H W Bush was racist and the answer is no not at all there I think what they were about is economics where its about is lowering tax rates at the top and privatizing social security but race has been the way that elections had been won. Okay, so this is the happy book "The Conscience of a Liberal" is actually a happy book because I think that this is very nearly over. That the that this whole process is in its last throw I guess that I would say and there are a couple of reasons one is that if you look broadly at how Americans think about about issues there is actually been the pronounced liberal trend in American public opinion over the past decade you can see that in all kinds of issues but it was one of interesting things I used to - I shouldn't use the word liberal in the title of every book because people are not liberal and true. If you ask people are you liberal, not very many people say they are, but if you ask people do you think that the US government should guarantee health insurance to everybody? Overwhelmingly they say yes. You say would you be willing to pay somewhat higher taxes for that. And you only lose a few percentage points even there. So people actually are quite in favor of strong, safety in that, strong government taking care of people that the divisions that have exploited so well. I think on losing there I have more in that I think I think you can document that they are losing their effectiveness not gone but those in their effectiveness. For one thing on race we are becoming a more diverse country quite simply the Latino and to some extent the Asian vote are just transforming the demographics of the electorate in the way then that means that you can play racial politics the way it used to, but that there is a more fundamental I think more uplifting reason we are just a better country, racism has much diminished. You look I like to look at some of the hot button issues calls they are not really about politics may direct sense but give you a sense of how people think, so what do you think of inter-racial marriage? And in 1978 more than 50 percent of the public said no, it's unacceptable and not more than 36 percent said it was okay. Today 77 percent think its fine. So we've changed in that respect. I thought the defining moment of the 2006 campaign the - the real tell-tell movement was the Macaque incident. George Allan actually California yuppie but reinvented himself as a as a southern good ol' boy burst into a a you know, a racial, an obscure racial slur against a young American man of south Asian decent, so there you get the increase diversity who was you know, trailing him with a video camera for the for the web campaign. That the racial insult that's nothing new in American politics. What is new is that Americans won't stand for it, Virginians won't stand for it, we are not that country anymore. So that's a a transformation in the kind of country we are which suggest that there is a huge opening now for a big change in direction. Where does that change in direction start? Well health care. Health care is the health care is the is the great unfinished business of social insurance the Welfare State in United States, in no other advanced country do citizens worry that they may not be able to afford necessary medical care. And no other advanced country do they worry that they might be bankrupted, destroy financially by expensive medical needs. And so we can afford that but then there is this amazing fact that United States measures to spend far more on health care than in any other advanced country and yet and yet not cover people and all of the things that you have heard about how terrible find health care systems are are almost entirely fabrications and particularly there were couple of foreign systems that that are slightly more generously funded ones, French system, the German system that are terrific, the quality is every bit as good as the best you can get here and and they cover everybody and they do it at less cost. How is that possible our system is wildly inefficient. The system of you know, our goal almost everybody at least says that they think everyone should have health insurance. And yet we have a private insurance system that spends a great deal of money trying to find people was I put it you know, its not its an archive trying to find people who really need health insurance so as to deny them that insurance it's a trying to you know, its business. You have to find the height you don't want to cover the high risk cases, which is why Medicare has over head of about three percent of its budget, and private health insurance companies have over head that's about 14 percent of their budget. The truth is we are actually a little known fact. In the United States the Medicare and Medicaid already pay more medical bills than private insurance companies do. The reason you might say more the most people have private insurance yes but think about who Medicare and Medicaid cover. The elderly who are much more expensive, so the fact is we are already in terms of the dollars and cents, more than half way to having a National Health Care System but the trouble is we leave large numbers of people uninsured and and it doesn't work. So we can if we can get the health care reform that in itself is a big plus for the for the American public, and it also has political implications. So one of the funny things I found is I am I am actually in total agreement with on one thing with William Kristol the Weekly Standard. It during the failure of the Clinton health care initiative in the early 90s Kristol wrote a famous memo to republicans saying our goal is not to improve this plan it is to kill it. And the reason was that if Universal Health Care plan of any form was passed that it would reinvigorate liberalism. They would reinvigorate that the the notion of Welfare State and he was right, and if we can get it then it will change it change the whole translation, makes a lot of other things possible. And and amazingly optimistic state of mind these days because I look at the political scene and I see these possibilities. I will I will give you a dose of pessimism in a minute, but you know, just that just you know, I haven't completely lost my mind. And you look at the political scene and certainly the possibilities there is a much more progressive mood in the electrode than we are seeing for I become big on on political size measure some of the the electrode appears to be more liberal than it has been since early in the 1960s. And the the democratic on health care which I think the issue number one, the democratic candidates have all more or less converged on a an approach that I think will work, which is not a immediate jump to Medicare for all, but is in fact a compromise of transition that is pretty good that would allow with a moderate amount of additional revenue revenue can get not by a massive tax increase but simply by allowing some of the Bush taxes to expire would allow you to produce a system that would cover everybody and would put private insurance companies in competition with a public plan that that would in fact go a long way. It's not the perfect system but good enough. So we actually I would sometimes I would have pinch myself because remember its less than three years ago we probably going to lose social security seen like a desperate uphill fight to stop the privatization of of the core of the new deal. At this point the all of the leading democratic candidates present were actually pushing for a are at least advocating a possible serious well designed plan for universal health insurance, which you could imagine actually happening in the first term of the next president that's an amazing transition. Now it is a big there are also many big ifs, first of all you know, elections who know what will happen in the election. Anyone who is absolutely certain you know, it hasn't it shouldn't be, in a bigger issue that I do worry about beyond that or or and certainly another issue is is we will if we do have a president a democratic president will he or she actually follow through. During the Gilded age and we are living in a second Gilded Age, the democrats who are living near the white house tended to be what we were called at the time Bourbon Democrats which was democrats who were very nearly as much in the pocket of the Robber Barons as the as the republicans of the time, not quite but very nearly so I sometimes I say I actually wrote this some time in a time is that we hope we are about to elect another FDR. We might be about to elect another Grover Cleveland, which we would be deeply disappointing if that's what happens. But it's a amazing turn we are we are not I think the last time I spoke to this group would have been probably four years ago and it was for someone of my views I think for for everyone it was a really grim time and it was terrible feeling that the things have gone wrong and of course many things have gone wrong but the but things are better and the the trends are going in what I see as the right direction, the things we feared, the terrible wrong term we feared America might take didn't happen, this has in fact turned out to be the country that I I hoped it was and I am feeling so optimistic that's probably I probably should see a doctor. Thank you.

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It's here. The 2017 Ford GT is being delivered to owners and this supercar, although Ford doesn't call it that, is all it has been touted to be and more.
Enthusiasts around the world have been following the Ford GT since the surprise introduction of a show car at the 2015 North American Auto Show in Detroit.
Designed in the basement of Ford's Detroit Design Centre as a well kept secret, the GT has a strong Canadian connection. The Ford GT was designed as both a race car and a road car.
The development and testing of the race car was performed on the racetrack at Calabogie Motorsports Park near Ottawa by MultiMatic, a Canadian Company based in Toronto but with worldwide holdings.
MultiMatic is also building the road versions of the Ford GT on their dedicated 135 person assembly line in Markham, Ontario and only 1000 of these cars will go to selected buyers over the next four years.
To own a Ford GT, it takes some financial means, starting with a starting price tag in the mid $400 grand U.S., but it takes a lot more than just money to get one of these cars.
Prospective buyers had to apply to purchase one and part of the application process included personal information on community and charity involvement, public profile and the reasons why you wanted to purchase the vehicle.
One of the Canadian owners, Richard L'Abbe, an entrepreneur and racing enthusiast from Ottawa, couldn't be a better choice.
L'Abbe is a soft spoken, modest and enthusiastic owner with many accomplishments. He is a partner of Calabogie Motorsports Park and a co-founder and former president and CEO of Med-Eng Systems Inc., an international leader in explosive ordinance disposal equipment.
He is also a member of University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Endowment Fund advisory committee, which encourages entrepreneurship among budding engineers and creator of the Richard L'Abbe Makerspace at the University of Ottawa — a unique invent-build-play space that fosters innovative creativity among students, faculty and the public.
He is also a talented racecar driver and admires the GT for its technology.
L'Abbe showed us some of that technology with a ride in the GT around the Calabogie track. Starting the car, the 3.5-litre Ecoboost V6 has a wonderful exhaust note, subdued but compelling.
Ground clearance is 120 mm but switch into Track mode (one of 5 modes that modify electronic, mechanical and aerodynamic settings) and the GT instantly drops 50 mm and the rear wing pops up from the body about 200 mm for increased downforce.
For street use, there is also a high setting that increases ground clearance by 50 mm from the Normal ride height to clear driveway or roadway irregularities.
The suspension, designed and built by MultiMatic utilizes both torsion bars and coil springs, operated by a hydraulic actuator and damped by their electronically adjustable DSSV (Dynamic Suspensions Spool Valve) dampers.
In Normal mode, the suspension is sprung by both the torsion bar and coil springs in series. This provides a smooth and comfortable ride, especially when combined with the superior damping of the DSSV shock absorbers.
When in Track mode, a hydraulic actuator compresses the coil spring, lowering the car and springing the car only with the torsion bar for a firmer spring rate.
In High mode, the hydraulic actuator releases both coil springs so they add to the spring force of the torsion bar and raise the car to its maximum height.
The DSSV damper design has been used by Formula 1 cars, and other extreme performance cars such as the Camaro ZLE 1SE. Using dual spool valves instead of spring-loaded flapper or disc valves, the shock absorbers provide smoother and more accurate damping with less heat build up in the shock fluid for consistent damping. The electronic adjustablity of the damping on the Ford GT adds even more versatility.
The rear wing module deploys in Normal mode at 144 kph for increased stability and is always raised in Track mode. During braking, the wing will tip dramatically to increase rear wheel downforce so the handling remains balanced while braking.
On the lower side of the wing, two flaps can raise to expose the 'Gurney' lip (named for renowned race driver Dan Gurney) , a small lip that raises from the rear of the wing to change the wing profile for more downforce.
This only touches on the technology designed into the 2017 Ford GT, technology that will be passed onto other Ford products. Beautiful to look at, the Ford GT really is a super car that is capable of use every day on the street.


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By Hilary Russ
(Reuters) - New York City's top financial officer and possible contender for mayor in 2013, John Liu, proposed on Thursday tax hikes for big businesses and an end to Madison Square Garden's $15 million annual property tax exemption.
The proposals by New York City Comptroller John Liu include tax hikes on private equity firms, which would help offset his plan for $500 million in tax breaks and lowered fines for 90 percent of the city's small businesses.
Liu is expected to vie for the Democratic mayoral nomination for the election in November 2013.
The city could end tax breaks for big companies - more than $250 million of which were handed out last year, Liu said.
The city could also eliminate its $15 million annual property tax exemption for Madison Square Garden, the indoor arena in midtown Manhattan that's home to the New York Knicks basketball team. Madison Square Garden has been exempt from paying taxes on real property since 1982 under New York state law.
The arena is owned by The Madison Square Garden Co, which also owns the Knicks and other professional sports teams. The company also owns Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon Theatre and others venues, as well as television networks.
Liu also proposed examining tax breaks for special interests. Insurance companies, for instance, have not paid the general corporation tax since 1974, at a cost of $300 million annually to the city, he said.
Private equity firms could also start paying the unincorporated business tax for carried interest or gains from assets being held for investment. The exemption costs New York City about $200 million a year, Liu said.
Liu's package would use the revenue generated by those measures to offset his plan to ease the tax burden for small businesses.
He proposed ending the city's general corporation tax for all businesses with liabilities under $5,000 -- about 240,000 business in the city, or 85 percent of those that currently pay the tax.
His plan would also reduce some fines, as well as exempt businesses that make less than $250,000 in annual income from the city's unincorporated business tax.
The proposals would have to be approved by the governor and state legislature after a request by the city council.
The city is facing a possible $2.7 billion gap in fiscal 2014 that could grow to $3.8 billion the following year, Liu said.
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Teaching Context Clues
Lesson 1 of 9
Objective: SWBAT use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in an informational text.
Big Idea: Context clues: Which are helpful? And, how do we use text features to help us determine the meaning of a word?
Summary and Context
Today, my students will practice the vocabulary strategy of using context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words. I am using specific sentences from African-American Inventors to teach this skill because it is a story in our anthology that we are reading as a grade level. Its rich content allows allows me to choose different types of sentences. I invite you to select a text with various sentences to choose from in teaching this skill.
There are different ways to teach students to understand words. Today, I am having my students practice context clues in an engaging way. I will start with the students on the rug reviewing the three different vocabulary strategies I am teaching them: context clues, word structure, and apposition. After reviewing, I will practice a particular process for context clues so that students later on can practice it independently.
There is a role for direct instruction. My modeling of using context clues is an example of direct instruction. I am using this method because this is a challenging topic and process for my students. Applying context clues is not just about looking at the words in the sentences; it is also about keeping in mind the surrounding sentences, the paragraphs on the page, and any relevant text features that may add meaning to the word. For my students to be able to do this on their own, they benefit from much practice.
Lesson Opening:
I start with students on the rug and share the objective. I introduce the three different vocabulary strategies: Context Clues, Word Structure, and Apposition:
- Context clues: The strategy of context clues helps students to notice/use the other words in the sentence to figure out the meaning of the word. I also help them take notice of the other sentences, text features: pictures, photographs, maps, captions, etc. to help in figuring out the meaning of the word.
- Word Structure: Word structure is about teaching students to notice prefixes, suffixes, root/base words and any other part of the word that is worth analyzing.
- Apposition: Apposition is a strategy that helps students notice the definition of a word right after the word. This strategy is most helpful in social studies and science textbooks.
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Practicing Context Clues
At their tables students will be using the following materials: white boards, felt, and their markers. I will be using the overhead projector to show a transparency I made of the sentences I will be using to practice the context clues. I have chosen these sentences from the text we are reading, African-American Inventors. It is important to provide practice within a text and in isolation. This practice will help them understand how to use context clues.
I model to make concepts as concrete as possible for my English Language Leaners. The process of modeling involves the following steps:
- I have them read the sentences with me aloud.
- Then, I ask, "What is the underlined word in the sentence?"
- Next, I reference the context clues as the strategy we are using to figure out what the word means.
- Afterwards, I ask, "What words in the sentences(s) give me clues about what the underlined word could mean?" If there are students who are ready to answer, I let them share, but at this stage, I am not expecting them to do so.
- I proceed with writing some words down on the transparency, and, in between each word or phrase, I write the plus symbol. This + indicates that we are adding all these words to figure out the meaning of the highlighted word.
- At the end of the sentence, I write an equals sign (=). The reason for this is to show them these words add up to a particular meaning.
I repeat this process with each sentence. I have five sentences to practice this skill. I may or may not use them all. It depends on how quickly the students pick up the skill, and it depends on whether they are getting tired/antsy. If that becomes apparent it is better for me to move on. I can come back to practicing with them another day and time.
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Now that I have practiced with them, I give them a word for them to practice the process independently. I developed a graphic organizer for them to use to do this. They will use our process to analyze the word invent. I have chosen a word that has plenty of context clues, including the text features: photographs and captions. I want them to use the content of the whole page for them to provide their own definition of the word invent. In this case, the content supports this process, and that is why I chose this word and this page. As they finish, I will be having them read their definition to me, and then I will give them feedback.
*Please note: While it may seem this word is an easy word, it is not easy for my students. I also know that this is the first time they are going through the process, so I feel it is best not to use too difficult of a word. You should pick a word that seems right for your class.
I work with a small group of students who need more scaffolding at this time of the year. They need help identifying the context clues. I need to give them step by step instruction. I feel it is important to make this process an interactive one so that they do most of the work: things is a clue word. Our conversation serves the purpose of coming up with a collective definition of the word. This small group of students benefit much from this direct instruction.
Here are examples of those students working independently:
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Sharing With Whole Group
We use this time to debrief our learning about using context clues. I have the students do a think-pair-share, and then I have a few share with the whole group.
This time allows me to ask the students whether we met the objective and bring closure to the lesson.


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Gerardo Bravo Garcia, Avian Flu Series, 2006, Oil & Gold Leaf on Canvas -
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This blog is based on the World Development Report 2014: Risks and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development, which discusses pandemics in Chapter 8 on global risks.
Pandemics do not start in a vacuum. A staggering 2.3 billion infections by zoonotic (animal-borne) pathogens afflict people in developing countries every year. Some pathogens become capable of easy human-to-human spread, like AIDS, flu, or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The diseases harm health, nutrition, and food and income security. The poorest are hit the worst, as they tend to live with livestock or near wild animals in settings where animal disease incidence is high and public health standards are low.
This zoonotic disease burden persists because of weak veterinary and human public health systems that fail to detect diseases and allow them to spread. The onset of pandemics is thus shaped by human action. Any country's failure to stop contagion early at its animal source can cause a pandemic in today's globalized economy, which is interconnected by trade and travel.
A severe flu pandemic would more than double the total burden of disease, but other impacts would be even more costly. Economies would suffer from worker absenteeism, cascading disruptions in goods and service markets, and human reactions to fear and rumors, which can spread faster than the disease itself. Recently declassified U.S. government planning documents characterize the impact as a global war. Poor countries, especially fragile ones, may be least able to cope.
What does it take to prevent a pandemic? The main cause of pandemic risk is low capacity of veterinary and human public health systems. Bringing them up to meet minimum international standards requires only modest resources: $3.4 billion a year for all developing countries, compared with the current level of barely $450 million. The expected annual benefits of robust systems are at least $37 billion, more than 10 times the costs.
Pandemic risk is undermanaged. Prevention and preparedness tend to be sidelined, especially in the health sector, where the responsibility often rests. Health authorities focus on immediate problems and do not readily work with veterinary authorities to prevent diseases of tomorrow or coordinate society-wide preparedness and plans for continuity of operations in key sectors.
Why such neglect? The economic and social impacts of contagion are often ignored, so the total risk is underestimated. Recent experience shows how wide this gap can be. The 2003 SARS outbreak, which killed about 10% of the 8,000 people it infected, caused $54 billion in economic damage (mostly canceled travel, lost retail trade, and associated cross-border economic shocks). A severe flu pandemic could cost 4.8% of global gross domestic product (GDP), or more than $3 trillion, triggering a global recession. Recall that four flu pandemics occurred just in the last 100 years, and other pathogens with pandemic potential continue to emerge, so in any year the probability of pandemic onset is not zero.
The international community has not yet expressed its demand for pandemic risk reduction by adopting explicit goals but instead resorts to emergency responses that are costly and contain the threat only temporarily. Because risk governance is not backed by resources and authority, numerous weak links persist in global defenses against contagion. To stop contagion, it is essential to act early, at the source, and quickly. Early warning requires cooperation from communities. If farmers who report disease are punished by having their livestock destroyed without compensation, they will hide disease from the authorities. Fearing trade and travel restrictions, countries may hide diseases, facilitating their spread.
Governments with resources try to protect their own populations by spending large amounts on ex-post measures (e.g., vaccines, masks, and antivirals), although prevention at the source of the threat has much higher benefit-cost ratios. In particular, the promising One Health approach to reducing disease risks through bridges between animal and human health services is underfunded and too often dismissed by human health policymakers. This is surprising since 75% of pathogens that cause human disease are now zoonotic, and the burden of zoonotic diseases on the poor is a formidable obstacle to eliminating poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
The international community has already eradicated two devastating scourges: smallpox in 1979, and rinderpest (cattle plague) in 2011. Rinderpest, with its high fatality rate, decimated herds and economies for centuries. The campaign against it catalyzed the founding of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 1924.
Intergovernmental cooperation, science-based strategies, mass vaccination, and surveillance were among the elements behind these successful campaigns. The disease risk was reduced to zero. The benefits are lasting and already outweigh the control costs many times over. Coordination among strong public health agencies broke the chain of transmission of SARS. Faced with the H5N1 avian flu threat, the international community rapidly mobilized and deployed $4 billion for zoonotic disease control and pandemic preparedness. This impressive multisectoral response to a global public health emergency focused on prevention, but it dissipated when the threat left the headlines.
The young and future generations face far worse odds of experiencing a pandemic than present-day adults. They stand to benefit substantially if governments were to set a goal to reduce pandemic risk. The goal would empower international organizations to raise risk awareness and motivate prevention and preparedness; provide relevant knowledge, capacity building, and technical assistance to developing countries; assess the performance of national veterinary and human public health systems and their collaboration; and mobilize resources for strengthening these systems.
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Background Paper for WDR 2014: Pandemic Risk
Report: People, Pathogens, and Our Planet: The Economics of One Health
Connecting Sectors and Systems for Health Results
Thank you for this
Thank you for this fascinating blog. Has the World Bank done any research on the reason why the needed public health investment has not already happened? Investing $3.4 billion in order to earn $37 billion. It seems like a no-brainer to me!!! But I am not a banker. :) seriously, what is the reason?
If we do not invest in this public health and One health, then the bottom 6 billion - the world's poor -- will suffer many premature deaths and illness.The rich will always survive so they could for that reason be less concerned about preventing a pandemic.
The World Bank could invest this money itself, and make an enormous profit?
Thank you for the thanks and
Thank you for the thanks and the comments. The reasons for lack of investment in public health, though the returns are highly attractive, are complex. Poor governance and lack of government accountability are probably the most important ones. And I agree that the poor in developing countries would be disproportionately hard-hit by pandemic impact.
The cost-benefit ratio of
The cost-benefit ratio of bringing the human and animal public health systems is incredibly high when compared to the vast majority of alternative investments in just about anything. The writer has done us a real service by summarizing arguably the most important part of WDR 2014. It would be foolish if the these findings are not followed through. To keep the focus on the crucial importance of public health services, one of the goals of the next batch of MDGs should include the goal of reducing pandemic risks.
I agree with you. The
I agree with you. The benetit-cost ratio is so high for several reasons, including: (1) there are weak links in the system, so the "last-mile" investments in public health capacities have extraordinarily high returns; (2) cooperation between veterinary and human public health systems is inadequate, so investment in this weak link also has high returns; (3) contagion spreads exponentially so there is a huge benefit to early action to contain it; and (4) there is now much scientific knowledge about contagion (how to detect and diagnose and contain) and how it spreads but this knowledge has not yet informed policy making and allocation of resources. As for the post-MDG goals, the background paper has some ideas about the kind of goals that could make sense. Goals are useful if they translate into incentives for the various actors to work together and start to close the dangerous gaps in defenses against pathogens.
The title says it all:
The title says it all: Diseases Without Borders. This is a global public good, just like reducing carbon emissions. The payoff to organized action is huge (as is the cost of inaction).
It's good to see the World Bank take a lead on this issue, since it can't be left to private markets. The World Bank is the perfect agency for doing this, given its multisectoral mandate and global reach.
These issues have been ignored in favor of more attention-grabbing health interventions with much lower payoff for health outcomes.
Developed countries made these low-cost public health investments with high long-term payoffs. It is in their interest to ensure this is done across the world, to avoid the costs of pandemics to their own lives and economies.
Dear Monica, thank you for
Dear Monica, thank you for the comment. It's puzzling that reduction of pandemic risk is not "attention grabbing." Perhaps a better analogy than with investments in health services that can tangibly improve lives today, is to consider defense against contagion as national defense, which enjoys strong political and popular backing over time, with stable funding. On the other hand, the huge economic, societal, and health benefits of pandemic prevention are there and in principle should be sufficient to justify the modest investments...
Agree with the commenter that
Agree with the commenter that it is strange that this much needed public health investment has not already been made. Such a small investment for such huge gains.
Thanks! It is strange.
Thanks! It is strange.
A very nice summary of the
A very nice summary of the issues.Thanks you.
Occurrence of Pandemics
Occurrence of Pandemics points poor or ineffective global public health practices as outbreaks turning into epidemics are indicative of local ineffective or poor public health practice. As several diseases donot have borders golbal investment in strengthening public health practices is a must. Life is precious. It cannot be measured through economic loss alone. Prevention of epidemics needs large investment from private/public sector for newer diagnostic tools and vaccines. Some profit throgh manufacture or use of those is immaterial.World bank itself should not engage. World Bank should support strengthening of public health system and not get involved in profit making buisness.
Thank you for you comment.
Thank you for you comment. If the international community were to decide that pandemic risk should be reduced, then the main role for the Bank would be in supporting the investments in veterinary and human public health systems, to bring them up to WHO and OIE performance standards, and contributing to coordination at global, regional, and country levels. There is also a potential Bank role in promoting multisectoral, whole-of-society preparedness to respond. Neither of these groups of activities would be profitable to the Bank, but they would generate substantial benefits for all Bank members.
Thanks for sharing, a very to
Thanks for sharing, a very to the point publication. After working on the crossroad between human health and animal health, mainly in China for the past 10 years, I see no other option than a common approach in prevention and control of emerging animal diseases, especially in Asia. What I also experienced is the lack of interest of the emerging animal protein producers in participating in such an approach. After all, the producers carry large costs in case of large-scale outbreaks.
If raising awareness and increasing biosecurity would be rewarded by making it possible to insure the direct and indirect financial losses, preparedness planning, risk education and early detection would become an economic value in itself, like it is when you take a fire insurance as an example. As long as preparation is done on the basis of National guidelines, followed poor implementation and control because of the costs, bio security at farm level remains undervalued.
Pandemics in the past had
Pandemics in the past had killed millions. It comtinues to kill thousands but what is important now is the global economic loss affecting trade and travel. Revised IHR is in place, Whether same will prevent or reduce pandemics only future will tell because still in many countries effective public health infrastructure is not in place to deliver IHR efficiently.Bank is currently supporting Disesae specific control/elimination/eradication activities in many countries. For effective delivery of these activities at the country level instead of supporting disease specific infrastructure alone focus needs to be on overall public health infrastructure throgh an effectibe public health policy involving all thge relevant sectors and opening up one window for public health delivery.


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Ok. Well like mentioned earlier, I have disputed via letter, phone, and in the branch with BOA and all they did was pass me off and turn their back on me.
I could send something to the CA asking for proof as I already disputed with BOA and it is not a valid charge - however they have not been resonsive either to my enquiries.
I mean, they have not called or sent a letter to me once in the 9-10 months they have owned the account. You would think if they had a $15,000 account unpaid they would be a bit more proactive *rollseyes*
I am convinced they are just boosting the value on my CR to really hurt my scores and hoping I will pay SOMETHING to just get it off my report knowing BOA has not been cooperative and that $15,000 current debt really hurts my score..
Actually as far as hurting your scores, the amount doesn't hurt. FICO will score a $15 collection the same as a $15,000 debt.
I do agree, I figure they would come after you too.
I have been told and seen on credit applications that my "amount in collections" is too high..and this is my only significant one in collections (I have one $400 one I need to fight)
These guys are going to keep reporting this $15k and growing debt every single month..but I dont know how to stop them.
Maybe report them for reporting false amounts since they are obviously adding higher then allowed interest and fees? Then they would ptobably continue to post just the $8k balance...
They are up to something if they have doubled the amount yet made no attempts to collect it...
It does make a difference under manual review.
To who?
To whoever pulls your credit.
Yes, I have noticed - several times I have lost lending and was told it was solely to do this $15k account..
Apparently I a not the only one they are doing this too, looking at sites like RipOffReport and pissed consumer - many people have stated that they have also doubled their balance in a very short amount of time and had no luck getting it removed...I just want this off my report as it's the crutch to my credit right now...
I just filed two complaints about the CA to the FTC. One for the false information they are reporting and one for their debt collection practices. I know it probably won't do anything or cause any action - but I am literally at a loss for what to do in getting this huge problem removed..
I just lost an important loan due to solely this account again
Does anyone have any suggestions other then what has already been stated.
Disputing with both CA ad OC have gone nowhere - disputed with 3 bureaus and no result.
Filed reports with FTC and no response.
On my credit report with equifax for the CA it shows:
Date Reported: 01/2013
Date Assigned: 01/2012
Creditor Classification: Banking
Creditor Name: BANK OF AMERICA
Account Owner: Individual Account
Original Amount Owned: $8,004
Accounts Number: XXXXXXXX
Date of 1 st Delinquency: 09/2007
Balance Date: 01/2013
Balance Owned: $15,019
Last Payment Date : N/A
Status Date: 01/2013
Status: D - Unpaid
Comments: Consumer disputes this account information
Does anything on this entry look not right? Anything I could use to help get this off my report?
Since it is showing the first deliquency was 09/2007 does that mean this would roll of my report on 09/2014? Does this mean both the OC's report and the Collection Agency?


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Safety equipment guidelines. Wear rubber gloves when working on energized equipment, and put them on before coming within reach of the energized parts, removing them only after you are entirely clear of these parts. Never roll down or turn the rubber gloves inside out. Wear leather protectors over the rubber gloves. And never wear two pairs of gloves.
You should test rubber gloves and other rubber protective equipment at intervals not to exceed the following.
• Rubber gloves (every six months);
• Rubber blankets (every year); and
• Rubber line hoses and hoods (every year).
You should mark the date of the testing on this protective equipment.
Store these insulating and protective devices on a flat surface in areas free of oils, chemicals, and other detrimental materials.
It's a good idea to "air-test" rubber gloves before starting work on energized equipment or circuits by grasping the glove's cuff at opposite points and twirling the glove. With the open end held closed by one hand (so the air inside can't escape), squeeze the glove with the other hand to force air into the thumb, fingers, and palm. Hold the glove to your ear and listen for escaping air, making a thorough inspection for holes or thin spots. You can also hold the inflated glove under water and check for air bubbles. If the glove is defective, tag it and replace it.
If the work requires that one hand be free of covering, you should still wear a rubber glove on the other.
You should always wear hard hats, especially when working directly under other workers. Standard hard hats must have a degree of insulation resistance to protect yourself from accidental contact with electrical circuits and equipment at relatively low voltages (less than 2200V). Electrical workers, especially those involved with transmission or distribution line installation and repair, should wear insulating safety helmets or all-purpose protective helmets proof-tested to more than 20,000V.
Use hand tools with insulated handles on energized low-voltage equipment (600V or less). Many models are available with insulation levels up to 1000V. Discard and replace any hand tools with broken, nicked, or cracked insulated handles.
Because you never know when an accident will occur, proper use of safety equipment on energized and de-energized circuits just might save your life.


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