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Two years after a bail bondswoman was shot to death outside a Columbia apartment complex, the man she had arranged to collect money from the day she died was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the killing, according to State's Attorney spokesman Wayne Kirwan.
Dominque Davon McDonald, 23, of Columbia, was sentenced in connection with the Sept. 1, 2011, slaying of Nichole Bernadette McNair in Howard County Circuit Court on Thursday, Sept. 19 by Judge Timothy J. McCrone.
McDonald, who was convicted in May, will serve 30 years for second-degree murder, 20 years for a gun charge and five years for a second gun charge.
According to Kirwan, McCrone delivered the sentence based on McDonald's criminal record and the "heinous nature" of the crime.
"When he (McDonald) has been out (of jail or prison), he has a complete disregard for the laws, mores and morals of society," said prosecutor Claude deVastey-Jones at the hearing. "At some point there has to be a consequence, to the fullest extent of the law, to protect society from this defendant."
Kirwan said the daughter of McNair, Nicole Parrish, said McDonald "took away the most important woman in my life."
McNair was found suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest and was transported to Howard County General Hospital, where she died. Investigators believe that McDonald arranged to meet McNair on Hayshed Lane to make a payment on money he owed for bail posted on his behalf in an unrelated case.
Following his sentencing, McDonald pleaded guilty for violating his parole in connection with the incident. He was sentenced to a three and a half year prison sentence, which will be served consecutively to his 55-year sentence.


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Chissano's Inaugural Africa Leadership Prize
Chissano, a former revolutionary who fought against Portuguese colonialism, ruled the southern African country from 1986 until 2005, winning praise for his sound economic policies in a country that was once one of the poorest in the world.
[Africa News Update]
Mozambique's former President Joaquin Chissano won the first Mo Abraham Prize for Achievement in African leadership today.
The $5-million prize - the world's largest individual award - was presented by former United Nations Secretary-General Koki Annam at a ceremony in London's city hall.
Chissano, a former revolutionary who fought against Portuguese colonialism, ruled the southern African country from 1986 until 2005, winning praise for his sound economic policies in a country that was once one of the poorest in the world.
Chissano, who celebrated his 58th birthday today, was not in London to receive the award. Mo Abraham, a Sudanese-born telecommunications entrepreneur, set up the award as a way of encouraging good governance in a continent blighted by corruption and a frequently loose adherence to democratic principles.
Annam, who stepped down as UN secretary-general at the end of 2006, told Reuters earlier this year he expected the prize to make African leaders more aware of their records on human rights and democracy.
Winners will receive $5 million over 10 years and then $200 000 each year for life, with another $200, 000 annually for "good causes" they espouse.
In contrast, the Nobel Peace Prize, which Annam won jointly with the United Nations in 2001, pays $1.5 million.
Chissano, a former leader in the FRELIMO guerrilla movement which fought Portuguese rule in Mozambique for decades and helped to bring it to an end in 1975, was only the second person to serve as president of Mozambique.
A quiet man, Chissano showed his negotiating skills when he concluded a peace deal in 1992 to end a 16-year war with Rename rebels, laying the foundation for his country's first multi-party elections in 1994.
He won acclaim for stepping aside after 18 years in power, when he could have stood for a further five-year term, saying his decision would create political space for democracy to thrive.
Since leaving office he has been a special envoy for the United Nations, working on resolving conflict in northern Uganda.
While highly regarded for the role he played in reviving Mozambique's economy, Chissano has also received criticism for his close friendship with Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe.
Chissano was best man at Mugabe's wedding and his links with the Zimbabwean date from Mugabe's time in Mozambique during Harare's struggle against British rule.
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30 december 2009
When my niece got married they asked me to design the wedding announcement. I had lots of different ideas to show them. This is a selection of the designs I made for them. To yellow and blue one is the one they picked.
29 december 2009
Lewis' first room
Engaged to be married
28 december 2009
Pills and powders
These paper boxes look almost too beautiful to match their purpose. They're boxes to carry medicine in, pills and powders. So different from the paper bags the pharmacies use nowadays! I googled the pharmacist's name, but I got no results.
24 december 2009
Good old memory
During the wintertime we snuggle up and play a lot of games with the kids. One of their favourites is memory. I love these old drawings!
23 december 2009
Turning 75
Last year my father turned 75 and my mother wanted to surprise him with a party. I made the invitiations and used old postcards for the design. My father originates from Breskens, a small town with a fishing port. My father collects old postcards from that town so this design was truly inspired by him!
22 december 2009
Make a wish
About a year ago we visited the Musée du président Jacques Chirac in Sarran, France and I came across this piece of persistence. In Asia, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures and is said to live for a thousand years. The other picture I found on the internet, it shows how The Thousand Origami Cranes has become a symbol of world peace. Great isn't it?
My new year's resolution should be to fold a thousand of these birds...
By the way, the museum is worth a visit if you're ever in the neighbourhood.
21 december 2009
Naked dino
Every time I post a collage I'm inspired to get my scissors and glue and create some new ones! However, I need a lot of time and space to make that happen.
birth announcement
Birth announcements have come a long way! This one looks so formal, nowadays the cards are much more joyful.
19 december 2009
ho ho ho, merry xmas!
I'm always in doubt whether or not to make my own christmas-cards. I'm never really inspired but I decided to make a design anyway.
18 december 2009
Untitled doodle
16 december 2009
This little guy is very fragile. I bought him at a yardsale in Los Angeles. Together we flew all the way to the Netherlands. Mind you, he was armless when I found him!
I think he used to be part of a footballteam, a table footballteam.
Learning Turkish?
While going through my small vintage graphic design collection I stumbled upon this cirkle. I had forgotten all about it. It looks so well thought out! I don't know how old it is but it looks pretty ancient. I think it children use this in school to learn words. Maybe somebody knows what it is? Enlighten me!
Since last week I own an iPhone and I love my latest asset! So do the kids... This is the first drawing I made with the TypeDrawing app.
15 december 2009
Flip de Beer
Once a year we have a houseguest who sleeps over for one or two nights. He is called Flip de Beer and the pre-school children are supposed to take care of him. The parents are expected to make a report of this special occasion.
14 december 2009
A day at the beach
I love this old postcard, greetings from Zandvoort. The postmark date says 13th of August 1929. Those were probably the early days of recreation!
12 december 2009
On my desk
I have created a witches circle on my desk at work. Thanks to Albert Heijn and of course thanks to my colleagues!
I'm not the world's best 3-dimensional designer, nor the most creative, but I sometimes attempt to make something for my kids. I made this one for Lewis just before he was born.
11 december 2009
Mila's friends
Of course Mila is a friendcollector as well. I made her a friendbook last year. She started in a new class, with new kids so she 'needed' a new book. It's great to see how enthousiastic the children react!
9 december 2009
European cheesegirls
This is a great example of early information design. The arrows show how to fold the 'girls'. The girls are part of a collection.
I bought these at a Waterlooplein-fleamarket in Amsterdam. It's always great to discover little gems like these.
8 december 2009
7 december 2009
birds of a feather
6 december 2009
Greetings from...
Can't remember where and when I bought this one. I love it! It shows how the children used to dress in the region where I was brought up.
5 december 2009
Doodling away
Tonight was 'pakjesavond' in the Netherlands. Sinterklaas has left! He's sailing back home. 'Till next year!
Best design ever
My most favourite design ever is the London Underground map.
I bought this one in a small antiqueshop in St. Ives (Cornwall, UK). This map dates back to 1972, almost as old as I am...
Although the map is updated yearly the design is unbeatable! (the map below is the most recent one, which I downloaded off the website transport for London).
3 december 2009
Poor Pepper
Pepper gets dressed up a lot. She hates it but she's always noble enough to let us take the pictures. Immediately afterwards she shakes everything off. However, she's always quite taken with the necklace 'cause that's the only item she leaves on. A real lady knows her accessories.
Ugly but cute
One of my first illustrations I did with a collage. I'm not a very good illustrator so by using the collage-technique I can still make quite nice pictures. I never use Photoshop for my collages, I do them with scissors and glue.
2 december 2009
two-headed duck
I've used this collage in my birthdaycalender. It's quite small in the layout so I decided to show it in a post. I'll show the birthdaycalender another time. I'll have to photograph it first.
1 december 2009
showing persistence at art college
This poster was part of an assignment I did at Art College (St. Joost in Breda). The poster is about 70 x 100 cm and painted by hand. Imagine the persistence I had back then!
Lewis' friends
New kid on the block needs a book to collect his friends, right?! So I designed this book for Lewis, he's very prood to have his own book. He's a very enthousiastic 'friend-collector'!
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Vote Fraud Cost Obama N.H.
As reported by a watchdog organization called CheckTheVotes.com (see below), Obama garnered 38% of the votes counted by hand, followed by Clinton with 34%, Edwards with 17% Richardson with 5% and Kucinich with almost 2%.
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If the fix is in, it doesn't matter whether Barack Obama really deserves to be the Democratic nominee, he'll never get a fair chance to compete for the presidency.
Debates about whether the Junior Senator from Illinois is Black enough or whether whites will be willing to vote for an African-American are moot so long as the sanctity of the ballot box can't be guaranteed.
The problem is that the Diebold Corporation is at it again, and the voting machine company appears to be already in the process of quietly perpetrating the mother of all vote frauds. In case you forgot, Diebold is the manufacturer of the electronic tabulator which counted the majority of the votes in the last two U.S. presidential elections.
I first called for the United Nations to monitor polling places all across the country after Diebold's wholesale disenfranchisement of Blacks in Florida decided the controversial 2000 race. And I reiterated that demand in 2004 after irregularities in Ohio put Bush back in office for another four years.
Now, judging by what went down virtually unnoticed in New Hampshire on January 8th, we're again in dire need of U.N. observers during the 2008 primary season, just to give an the democratic process a chance to unfold untainted by fraud.
For, while the punditocracy has been busy dubbing Hillary Clinton the "Comeback Kid" and attributing her surprise victory to women rallying to her support in the wake of her eyes welling up on camera, no one's looking for a more plausible explanation than that overly-publicized Muskie moment.
The cold hard truth is that on the night of the New Hampshire primary, all the scientifically-conducted exit polls had predicted an Obama two-digit win. Given the +/-4.5% margin of error, this means it wasn't a question of whether Barack would win, only by how much. However, everybody forgot that Diebold would be counting the votes electronically in 81% of the state's precincts, while the other 19% were being tallied by hand.
And wouldn't you know, when the results were announced, there was a statistically-significant difference between the tallies based on a paper trail and those recorded by Diebold's machines?
As reported by a watchdog organization called CheckTheVotes.com (see below), Obama garnered 38% of the votes counted by hand, followed by Clinton with 34%, Edwards with 17% Richardson with 5% and Kucinich with almost 2%. By contrast, Diebold's tabulations had Clinton finishing first with a whopping 40%, while every other candidate had lower percentages than in the hand-counted districts.
The computers had Obama dropping to 35%, Edwards to 16%, Richardson to 4% and Kucinich to 1%. Does it seem suspicious to you that all the candidates but Clinton did worse when the votes weren't verified, especially in the wake of the precedent of the prior Diebold debacles? Unless an outcry is raised, and steps are taken immediately to monitor the electronic tallies in the upcoming primaries, it is readily apparent that the only Democratic machine Hillary will need to prevail is the one programmed by Diebold.
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All this snow we've received over the last two weeks, reminds me of growing up in New Jersey.
I'm not claiming to be Mr. Pro Rally, but did goof around a lot in the snow back then. Cars, dirt motorcycles and mountain bikes. Snow time was play time. My friends dad also had a snowmobile. We'd take that out, him on the snowmobile, me on a dirt bike behind him – riding in the compressed snow.
I lived about a 1/4 mile from Lake Hopatcong (largest lake in NJ), so lots of snowmobiles buzzing around the neighborhood when it snowed. I also took it as an excuse to roost my dirt bike all over the snow covered streets. From whatever reason, I never ventured out on the frozen lake. We did buzz around a nearby pond when frozen – my friend on a '70s BSA MX bike, complete with studded tires. Me on a 1979 Suzuki RM125, no studs – on ice.
Lots of car sliding around also – head to the empty mall parking lot (or something similar) and slide all over. One time, pal and I used two light poles as course markers to create our own flat track course. Him in a ancient Volvo wagon, me in my '74 Ventura. Raced around, sometimes side by side, sideways in the turns. Just like the drifting competitions you see now - except with crappier cars and no crowd.
I used to take the Pontiac Ventura and plow into snow banks on purpose. Car would overheat after awhile from all the snow pressed into the grill. Wheels would actually be out of balance from snow smashed into the rims. I once mangled my exhaust system on a frozen snow bank. Another time, cracked the radiator by hitting some frozen ruts at speed. Almost rolled it once, by hitting a ice covered parking lot at high speed – then slid across to the dry section – sideways. Tires chirping, hopping sideways stop. Car actually pulled to the left after that, must have completely knocked the steering out of alignment.
Later, with front wheel drive Fiats at my disposal – lots of snow stupidity. I had a set of snow tires mounted once, it was like owning a cheap rally car. Huge fun. I'd plow through snow so deep, the front bumper would knife through the powder.
The blurry pictures, from 1980 - from a 110 camera (remember those?) - me on my 1979 Suzuki RM125, old friends Todd Mazzola and Kevin McGatha on a pair of Maicos (remember those?).
Person getting some serious snow air is Todd. He was a pretty damn good rider, as was Kevin. The half cut off shot is Kevin. The yellow bike is me, # 267, my old motocross race number. The place was a popular riding area at the time, known as Mine Hill Pits. A few hundred acres of old mining area, semi-woodsy and laced with trails. This was back in the day of open access and little complaints. A fun era.
I remember the day we took these pictures, as well as other snow rides and adventures. Great memories and riding my mountain bike in the snow today, brings me back there.
Dirt bikes, mountain bikes, snowmobiles, skis, snowboards - your choice - all a good excuse to be a kid again.


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FIVB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Mazury | 1 - 7 July 2013
Chen Xue and Zhang Xi complete fight back to win world title
Chen Xue and Zhang Xi needed six match points, but lived up to their status as first seeds by lifting their first major title when they beat Britta Buthe and Karla Borger in the women's gold medal match at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013. The Chinese pair beat the German duo 18-21, 21-17, 21-19 to add the gold medals to the bronzes they won at Rome 2011 and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and become the first Asian side to be crowned world champions. More
Dreams come true for China
"This is my dream come true", China's Chen Xue said after winning the first world title for China with Zhang Xi. "This is a very important win for us", she said. "And the audience gave us a lot of power." The Chinese had a slow start this week at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013. The 2011 bronze medallists lost one of their pool matches but ended up with the gold medal after all. More
Borger and Buthe inspired by best
Karla Borger and Britta Buthe were disappointed to miss out on winning the women's gold at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships on Saturday, but felt pride in becoming the first European women's team to win a World Championships medal. The Germans were unable to capitalise on a match point at 14-13 in the tie-break against Chen Xue and Zhang Xi before the Chinese let slip five of their own and then won with the sixth for a 2-1 (18-21, 21-17, 21-19) victory in one hour, one minute. More
Men's preview - Ricardo and Alvaro out to dethrone fellow Brazilians
Ricardo Santos and Alvaro Filho will be out to reach the men's final at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, but will need to knock out defending champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego on Sunday to do so. The teams know each other well; Emanuel and Ricardo were partners for a number of years and won the 2003 World Championships and the 2004 Olympic gold. At Rome 2011, Alison and Emanuel beat Ricardo and his then partner Marcio Araujo in the gold medal match. More
Men's review - Germans aiming to match illustrious compatriots
Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik roared into the men's semifinals at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 with a win over Brazil's Evandro Goncalves and Vitor Felipe on Saturday. The German pair beat the Brazilians 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) to set up a semifinal with the Netherlands' Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen on Sunday. More
Borger and Buthe first Europeans to reach women's World Championship final
Karla Borger and Britta Buthe keep on writing history this week. After becoming the first German team to reach the final four of a women's FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship, they are also the first European team to ever play in the final. So far it has only been US or Brazilian teams that played for the women's world title, but at the Mazury 2013 edition both USA and Brazil are missing. More
Semenov and Evandro duel crucial to last 16 clash
Konstantin Semenov and Evandro Goncalves, two of the tournament leaders will go head to head in the men's last 16 at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships on Saturday. Semenov has been a powerful presence at the net and leads the way with 11 blocks over 30 sets in the tournament, including nine in his and Yaroslav Koshkarev's win over The Netherlands' Daan Spijkers and Christiaan Varenhorst. More
Sunday sees the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 come to a close with the men's semifinals – the Netherlands' Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen against Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik of Germany at 12:00 followed by an all Brazilian clash between defending champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego against Ricardo Alex Costa Santos and Álvaro Morais Filho at 13:00. The bronze medal match will take place at 17:00 before the final at 18:00.
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07.07.2013 21:25:40
Dutch delight as Brouwer and Meeuwsen claim gold Stare Jablonki
07.07.2013 20:49:31
Number one in so many ways
07.07.2013 20:27:58
Brouwer: anything can happen when you are in a flow
07.07.2013 20:14:28
Alvaro happy to learn from the master on road to Rio
07.07.2013 19:07:33
Dutch duo make history to claim world gold
07.07.2013 14:56:37
Volleyball stars united with Special Olympics Athletes
07.07.2013 14:48:12
Ricardo and Alvaro upset defending champions to reach the final
07.07.2013 11:51:03
Numbers don't lie for Borger and Buthe at World Champs
06.07.2013 21:04:23
Borger and Büthe inspired by best
06.07.2013 20:47:50
Dreams come true for China
06.07.2013 19:22:18
Chen Xue and Zhang Xi complete fight back to win world title
06.07.2013 17:29:38
Ricardo and Alvaro out to dethrone fellow Brazilians
06.07.2013 17:19:04
Germans aiming to match illustrious compatriots
06.07.2013 14:48:41
Borger and Buthe first Europeans to reach women's World Championships final
06.07.2013 09:57:00
Semenov and Evandro duel crucial to last 16 clash
05.07.2013 22:15:40
Women's semifinalists and men's Round of 16 confirmed
05.07.2013 21:39:09
End of the dream for Vanuatu
05.07.2013 21:35:05
Borger and Büthe make history reaching the final four at the World Championships
05.07.2013 20:31:25
Lili and Seixas standing between favourites and final
05.07.2013 19:11:03
Kadziola and Szalankiewicz carrying a nations hopes
05.07.2013 18:45:36
Dalhausser and Rosenthal stay on course at World Champs
05.07.2013 10:01:48
Laciga sees young teams going far in men's World Champs
04.07.2013 20:18:15
Men's Round of 32 fixed, women advance to Round of 16
04.07.2013 20:09:36
Drawn on the fourth of July
04.07.2013 20:09:12
Austrian pairs set to meet in round of 16
04.07.2013 19:08:08
Ludwig and Walkenhorst knock out year's leading side
04.07.2013 18:30:40
Spain's Herrera and Gavira upset Brazil to win the pool
04.07.2013 11:12:55
"Experience, technique and solid team play - still viable in the long run" - Pires
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Italy coach Nick Mallett has responded to criticism of his decision to play flanker Mauro Bergamasco at scrum-half for Saturday's Six Nations opener with England by calling up veteran Calvisano scrum-half Paul Griffen for next weekend's visit of Ireland.
Bergamasco survived to the break at Twickenham after directly contributing to England's three first-half tries from Andy Goode, Harry Ellis and Riki Flutey and now Mallett has taken the decision to restore Griffen to the squad for the first time since the World Cup in 2007.
Griffen, born in Dunedin, New Zealand, comes in as Italy are nursing injuries to regular No.9s Simon Piccone, Pietro Travagli and Pablo Cannavosio, although Giulio Toniolatti performed admirably following his introduction on Saturday.
"I said before the game the responsibility was mine," said Mallett after his mistake in selecting Bergamasco. "I thought of replacing him after 25 minutes but out of respect I left him on the field. No-one likes to concede tries but I would like to say that Mauro has the support of all the team."
Bergamasco, who has 70 caps for the Azzurri, will likelty return to his usual position on the openside flank for next weekend's game. Mallett has also called up Ulster lock Carlo Antonio del Fava into his squad for a game against an Ireland side flying high after their opening day success over France at Croke Park.
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CAIRO // Cairo airport officials say Egypt's top Muslim cleric cancelled a visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of its monarch when he discovered that senior delegates travelling with him were assigned economy class seats by their Saudi hosts.
The officials said Sheik Ahmed Al Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar - Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning - angrily disembarked from a Saudi-bound airliner shortly before takeoff today and instructed his delegation to follow suit.
Al Tayeb was assigned a first class seat.
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Allahpundit notes that Governor Scott Walker will make no major media appearances today — but that's because he made his major media appearance yesterday. (We're major in the Twin Cities. On Saturdays. Trust us.) Seeing as how Walker will spend his day on the campaign trail rather than in a television studio, I've clipped out the 10-minute interview from yesterday's Northern Alliance Radio Network broadcast on AM 1280 The Patriot. Mitch Berg and I talked with our neighboring state's chief exec as he toured Hudson, Wisconsin on a busy campaign day:
In other campaign news, voters have returned a large number of absentee ballot requests, hinting at a presidential-election level of turnout, but could also cause a delay in reporting the results:
More than 182,000 Wisconsin residents have requested absentee ballots or have voted early in a local elections office, according to the latest figures from the Government Accountability Board, the state's elections watchdog. Those are just the numbers GAB can track.
Elections officials expect the number to top 200,000, nearing a record for a statewide election.
City of Madison elections officials had issued 16,145 absentee ballots by late Friday afternoon, with more than 800 stopping into the city clerks' office to cast an early ballot on the last day.
Typically, most absentee ballots are cast in a clerk's office, as many as 75 percent, according to the GAB.
It's that other 25 percent that could decide the political fate of embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker, his Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a lieutenant governor's race and four state GOP Senate seats.
Absentee ballots, to be valid, must be postmarked by election day. Those ballots will be counted up until the close of the business day next Friday.
If the election is close, as many expect it could be, the straggler votes could turn the outcome.
In 2010, there were 2.132 million votes cast for governor, so this would be close to 10% of that number, and in a special election may well exceed 10% of the final number of votes. I'm not sure who benefits most from absentee balloting. Of late Democrats usually do better in absentee voting, getting union help in organizing that part of the GOTV effort, but Walker raised a huge amount of money and had an organization in the field long before Barrett could start spending money. I'm pretty sure I know who benefits from the requests in Madison, though, and it won't be Walker.
Barrett may have other problems to deal with today and tomorrow. Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continued its investigation into crime reporting in the city of Milwaukee and the systematic miscoding of crimes that led to an artificial decrease of the violent crime rate under Barrett's tenure, and it turns out that the city didn't even code violent assaults on police officers that left them injured as violent crime:
The Milwaukee Police Department misreports aggravated assaults as lesser offenses – sometimes even when its own officers are seriously injured in the line of duty, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.
In March, an on-duty Milwaukee police officer was attacked and suffered injuries that sent him to the hospital for treatment. Police arrested the perpetrator for felony battery, but reported the incident to the state and FBI as a "simple assault," which will not be counted in the city's 2012 violent crime rate.
The same thing happened in an earlier case, from March 2011.
In May, a Journal Sentinel investigation found more than 500 serious assaults that were misclassified by the department as lesser offenses from early 2009 through February. The review identified an additional 800 cases that follow the same pattern but couldn't be verified with available public records. Copies of those incident reports have been sought from police through an open records request.
An analysis of the department's recently re leased March crime data found more than 30 additional cases that follow the pattern of underreporting. The new misreported assaults also include felony child abuse cases and misdemeanor battery cases in which victims were threatened or injured with dangerous weapons.
Be sure to read the whole report. The MJS found 160 cases of felony child abuse that were underreported as simple assault, for instance, rendering them in the FBI data as non-violent crimes. It's highly doubtful that the police themselves were making those decisions, and the large scale of the misreporting strongly suggests a concerted effort to reduce the reported violent crime rate in the city.
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Like Speech, Warner's thriller Inception also picked up four Oscars -- for cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects. And Sony's Social picked up three key awards -- adapted screenplay, score and editing. But ultimately Speech, which began the night with a commanding 12 nominations, dominated in the final awards of the night, which guaranteed its coronation. Although there were ten movies in play in the best picture race -- for the second time in modern Oscar history -- the pundits created a season-long narrative in which Social was pitted against Speech. Social, the critics' favorite, was characterized as the hipper, cutting edge choice for its behind-the-scenes account of the creation of Facebook, while Speech was painted as the safe and traditional option. While Social appeared to be the early favorite, dominating the year-end critics awards, and claiming the Golden Globe as the year's best drama, Speech then rallied and took home a steady string of guild awards, including top honors from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. In the end, Speech, which dramatized King George VI's efforts to overcome a debilitating stammer, could be viewed as one in a line of best picture Oscar winners in which a singular man triumphs over adversity -- like 1998's Rain Man and 2001's A Beautiful Mind. Social is more akin to zeitgeist-defining movies like 1967's The Graduate, 1975's Shampoo and 1996's Jerry Maguire, whose anti-social heroes find themselves at odds with the world around them. None of those movies were rewarded with the ultimate prize, either. PHOTOS: Oscars 2011 red carpet As the winning producers accepted their crown, Iain Canning thanked Hooper and the movie's trio of lead actors, calling them "our acting royalty"; fellow producer Emile Sherman acknowledged that the relatively low-budget $14 million movie was a "huge risk" as he tipped his hat to the Weinstein Co.'s Harvey and Bob Weinstein -- the risk paid off handsomely for the various companies that backed the film, which has grossed more than $245 million worldwide; and refusing to give up the stage even as the music began to swell, Gareth Unwin called the win "a boyhood ambition come true tonight." Firth, who was nominated last year for A Single Man and whose ultimate victory was something of a foregone conclusion, was self-deprecating in a tony British manner, as he accepted his Oscar. "I have a feeling my career's just peaked," he said before eloquently paying tribute to the movie's writer Seidler, "whose own struggles have given so many people the benefit of his very beautiful voice"; director Hooper "for immense courage and clear-sightedness"; and his own wife Livia "for putting up with my fleeting delusions of royalty." Taking the stage to the music from Swan Lake, the pregnant Portman composed herself as she accepted her best actress Oscar and began by expressing her appreciation to her parents. Citing directors who had championed her such as Luc Besson and Mike Nichols, she moved on to hail Swan director Darren Aronofksy as "a fearless leader, a visionary." And she thanked the movie's choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, with whom she is expecting a child, for giving "me the most important role of my life." Hooper, a first-time nominee, breathed a huge sigh of relief when the best director envelope contained his name. Just two weeks ago at Britain's BAFTAs, he lost the directing honors to Social's David Fincher. "This is an extraordinary honor," he said before going on to thank his stars, Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, writer Seidler and the film's producers. He reserved special acknowledgment for his mother, who first spotted Seidler's material at a play-reading and called to alert her son, telling him, "I think I found your next film." Added Hooper, "the moral of the story is listen to your mother." Leo won the first acting award of the evening for her performance as fiercely controlling mom in The Fighter. The veteran actress immediately established another first as she blurted out a bleeped-out F-word amid her flustered acceptance speech. First, though, she had to wait for presenter Kirk Douglas, who milked opening the envelope for all it was worth. "Pinch me," she said to Douglas as she accepted her Oscar. "Wow...mine..for me?," she vamped, as Douglas told her, "You're much more beautiful than you were in The Fighter" before he was escorted to the side of the stage. Her Fighter costar Bale was named best supporting actor for taking on the real-life character of ex-fighter-turned-addict Dicky Eklund. Referring to Leo, the sometimes volatile actor said, "I'm not going to drop the f-bomb like she did. I've already done that plenty before." Instead, he thanked director David O. Russell and gave a shout-out to Eklund, who stood up and waved from his seat in the audience. Aaron Sorkin, who was clearly the odds-on favorite in his category, claimed the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the fast-talking Social, adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires. As he began his acceptance, Sorkin noted that the great Paddy Chayefsky won a writing screenplay 35 years ago for another movie with the word network in the title. He also offered extravagant praise to the film's director Fincher, saying, "David Fincher made this movie and he did it with an ungodly artfulness." Seidler's victory in the original screenplay category for Speech was equally expected. "My father always said to me, I would be a late bloomer," the writer said as he began his remarks before concluding, "I accept this on behalf of all the stutterers around the world. We have a voice, we have been heard, thanks to you, the Academy." When it came to best score, the Social vs. Speech rivalry tipped in favor of Social and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who collaborated on its uniquely moody score. Reznor, a rock musician, said the Oscar was "humbling and flattering beyond words." The movie, which cut relentlessly between a series of legal depositions, also rose to the top in the editing category, where Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter shared the prize. Disney's Alice in Wonderland led off the trophy parade as it took home the first award of the evening, the prize for art direction. Production designer Robert Stromberg was visibly nervous as he took the stage with set decorator Karen O'Hara. In his rush into a litany of thank yous, he referred to his Disney bosses as "Iger and Ross and Bailey," referring to Robert Iger, Rich Ross and Sean Bailey, reserving most of his thanks for the movie's director Tim Burton. Alice's fantasy world also resulted in an award for its costume design, the third such Oscar that Colleen Atwood has won, and she also hailed "the singular Tim Burton." Wally Pfister took home the night's second trophy for his cinematography in Inception. It was the fifth nomination and first win for Pfister, a longtime collaborator of director Christopher Nolan, and he acknowledged that fact, saying, "Nothing I did would have been possible without the incredible vision of my master Christopher Nolan." When it came to sound, Inception executed a double-play: It earned the prize for sound editing, which went to Richard King, and for sound mixing, which went to Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick. The film, full of elaborate imagery, picked up its fourth Oscar when it proved victorious in the visual effects race. Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb all came to the stage to accept their prize. PHOTOS: Oscars 2011 show moments Even though presenter Cate Blanchett shuddered, "That's gross," after watching a clip from The Wolfman, in which Benicio Del Toro turns into the title character, the movie still took the prize for best make-up. The award was shared by Rick Baker (collecting his seventh Oscar win) and Dave Elsey (accepting his first). Pixar's Toy Story 3, directed by Lee Unkrich, claimed the Oscar for best animated feature, while the corresponding prize for best short animated movie went to the Australian-made The Lost Thing and its creators Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. Expressing his debt to Pixar founders John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs, Unkrich called Pixar "the most awesome place on the planet to make movies" and thanked audiences who "embraced a movie about talking toys that hopefully had something very human to say." Toy got further airtime when Randy Newman got his second Oscar (on his 20th nomination) for the movie's tune "We Belong Together." Newman resisted a winner's natural inclination to recite a long line of thank-yous since it wouldn't be "good television" and also since, he admitted, "I've been on this show any number of times, and I've slowed it down every time." Strangers No More, which looks at a school in Tel Aviv that is attended by children from 48 countries, earned the prize for documentary short subject, which was accepted by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. The prize for best live-action short subject went to God of Love, which focuses on three musicians in a love triangle, directed by Luke Matheny, whose thank-yous included one to "my mother, who did craft services for the film." Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, who were previously nominated for the Iraq War documentary No End in Sight, both won their first Oscar for their new feature doc Inside Job, from Sony Pictures Classics, a look at the worldwide financial crisis of 2008. Ferguson interjected some politics into the ceremony as he began his acceptance by saying, "Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after a horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong." Job's win did mean, however, that one of the night's great mysteries went unanswered. Was Banksy, the mysterious graffiti artist who was nominated in the same category for directing Exit Through the Gift Shop, in the audience? Who knows? Susanne Bier's Danish feature In a Better World was named best foreign-language feature. The film ranges from a refugee camp in Sudan to a Danish provincial town, where two boys strike up a friendship as they confront local bullies. Thanking the Academy, Bier also tipped her hat to SPC and its two co-heads Michael Barker and Tom Bernard for distributing the film in America. For the ABC broadcast, originating at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, the show's producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer aimed to give the show a fresher, more youthful look, recruiting James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who appeared amid a high-tech set that used a series of "projections" to shift from one historic setting to another. 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How do you brew your coffee? I use a Chemex (a glass carafe that looks kind of like an Erlenmeyer flask) and Amanda uses a French press. There are practically as many ways to brew coffee -- moka pot, Aeropress, the good old percolator, cold brew, and more -- as there are Starbucks in Manhattan. But no matter how you get your morning cup of joe, there are simple steps you can take to make sure you're getting the most out of your beans.
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2. Grind FreshSometimes the daily grind isn't such a bad thing after all. Ground coffee stales quite quickly, so it's best to grind anew for each brew. The moment you grind, the natural oils in the coffee begin to evaporate. You want to capture that moment! And grinding beans for a pot of coffee doesn't take much longer than bringing your water to a boil. Speaking of which...
3. Go Off-BoilBrew your coffee using water that's 195–205°F. Don't worry, there's no need to pull out a thermometer -- once the kettle has boiled, turn it off and wait a minute, just until bubbles stop forming. Boiling water will scorch your coffee, and hey, nobody likes to get burned. On the other hand, water that's too cool will fail to extract many of the best flavors your coffee has to offer.
4. Give it a RinsePaper coffee filters benefit from taking a nice hot bath (don't we all?). Before you brew, fit the paper filter into your brewer -- whether you use a Chemex, an Aeropress, or a percolator -- and pour hot water through the filter into the brewer to rinse it. Rinsing will both remove the papery taste of the filter and pre-heat your brewer so that it better retains its temperature. Just remember to pour that rinse water out before adding your beans to the wet filter!
5. Try it BlackWhen you're brewing with really good coffee (whether it's Craft Coffee or anything else) challenge yourself to give it a go without any milk or sugar. We think you'll be surprised how good your coffee tastes "au naturel" -- we've seen some of the most die-hard half-and-half addicts become black coffee converts. It's all in the beans!
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* download [http://archlinux-stuff.googlecode.com/files/vtune-linux-9.1-arch.patch.gz patch]
* download [http://archlinux-stuff.googlecode.com/files/vtune-linux-9.1-arch.patch.gz patch]
* unpack VTune and patch its scripts
* unpack VTune and patch its scripts
* install rpm from [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24605 AUR/rpm4
* install rpm from [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24605 AUR/rpm4]
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Revision as of 20:40, 31 October 2012
VTune Amplifier XE 2013
Follow the instructions for 2011. If you see errors while building the driver, it may be because intel is using deprecated functionality subsections. In the following sections, lines beginning with "-" indicates code that should be removed, lines beginning with "+" should be added.
Missing asm/system.h
Edit lwpmudrv.c as follows:
-#include <asm/system.h> +#include <linux/version.h>
Implicit declaration of this_cpu_read
Edit eventmux.c as follows:
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
kmap_atomic and kunmap_atomic deprecated
Edit vtssp/user_vm.c as follows:
-this->m_maddr = kmap_atomic(this->m_page, in_nmi() ? KM_NMI : KM_IRQ0); +this->m_maddr = kmap_atomic(this->m_page); -kunmap_atomic(this->m_maddr, in_nmi() ? KM_NMI : KM_IRQ0); +kunmap_atomic(this->m_maddr);
VTune Amplifier XE 2011
Starting with update 7 of the VTune Amplifier XE 2011, you can now use it on Linux 3.x and hence on Archlinux, even though the latter is not officially supported. See also: VTune on Archlinux
Installing VTune
Using the following HOWTO you "install" VTune locally and can run it. Vtune requires a kernel module for all functionality. Nevertheless, VTune in user mode is very powerful and comes with lots of possibilities for profiling. Have fun!
- download VTune Amplifier XE 2011 (there is a free version for non-commercial use on linux)
- unpack the tarball
- install libpng12 from AUR
- install libjpeg6 from AUR
- install rpmextract from extra repo
- install linux-headers from core
Now to "install" vtune:
cd vtune_amplifier_xe_2011_update7 find -name "*.rpm" -exec rpmextract.sh {} \;
Kernel module:
- Create the group vtune and add yourself.
- Build and load the driver in /opt/intel/vtune_amplifier_xe_2011/sepdk/src/
./build-driver ./insmod-sep3 -g vtune
- Add your license file to /opt/intel/licenses/
You can now start vtune:
For ease-of-use I suggest you move the ./opt/intel/vtune_amplifier_xe_2011 to your homefolder or similar and add a symlink to the amplxe-gui binary to one of your PATH folders or similar.
VTune 9.1
Installing Intel VTune 9.1 on Arch Linux
Installing VTune
- download VTune
- download patch
- unpack VTune and patch its scripts
- install rpm from AUR/rpm4
- do rpm --initdb
- run VTune installer
Installing driver
(VTune does not work on my 2.6.31 kernel, so you may be need to install kernel26-lts)
- download driver patch
- copy the driver sources from /opt/intel/vtune/vdk/src to a new directory and patch them.
- do ./configure and make
- if your build fails with 'the frame size of 1140 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes', append -Wframe-larger-than=2048 to EXTRA_CFLAGS in Makefile
- cp vtune_drv*.ko /lib/modules/misc/vtune_drv.ko # copy the module to the kernel modules directory
- depmod -AeF /boot/System.map26 #rebuild module maps and resolve symbols
- modprobe vtune_drv #activate the module
- As of kernel 2.6.31 there was an api change, find_task_by_pid_ns() cannot be found. The only recourse is to downgrade your kernel to 2.6.30 or to wait for Intel to update the driver source code. If someone has a patch that resolves the issue you can post it here.


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Prosecutors have charged a Kansas City teenager with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting and robbery in September.
Landrain D. Miller is also charged with armed criminal action in the death of Timothy Riley. Riley was killed on South Benton Avenue on Sept. 26.
According to court records, a woman found Miller in her back yard after the shooting. She said he appeared distraught and told her that he had just shot someone who fought back during a robbery. Police said they took Miller into custody Thursday and he said he shot Riley by accident but fled with his wallet.
Riley's family said they were not sure why he was in that area, but they believe the gunman was trying to take advantage of him and rob him. They said Riley, who stood less than 5 feet tall, had the mentality of a child.
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The Tom Fool, a six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up, was
carded as the ninth race on the 11-race card and has a scheduled post
time of 4:34 p.m.
Head Heart Hoof, who has raced for a plethora of trainers during
his lengthy career, was transferred to Rudy Rodriguez in the fall and
in his first start for his new
trainer finished second in a conditioned $30,000 claiming race in
October at
Belmont Park.
After winning a starter handicap in November at Aqueduct, he made three
straight stakes appearances, fading to third in the Valley Forge in
at Parx Racing before rattling off victories over Aqueduct's inner
track in the True and Blue overnight stakes in January and the Toboggan.
In the Toboggan, Head Heart Hoof contested the pace in second
from the outside post, opened a two-length lead in the stretch after
dispatching the other front-runner
and staved off Johannesburg Smile's late bid to win by a diminishing
half length.
Head Heart Hoof drew an outside post once again in the Tom Fool as he will be leaving from post 9 in the field of 10.
"The [outside] post helped him last time," said Rodriguez, who
trains the gelding for a partnership headed by Michael Dubb. "He likes
the inner track, which is why he's
running his best races now. We're lucky to have him around."
Cornelio Velasquez will ride Head Heart Hoof, 5-1 co-third choice on the morning line.
Johannesburg Smile, a two-time restricted stakes winner, seeks
his first graded stakes score after just missing in the Toboggan. The
versatile New York-bred was claimed
by trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole for $100,000 out of a
route victory in January at Aqueduct. In the Toboggan, his first start
for his new connections, he left from the rail post, tracked the pace
inside, split horses with a furlong to travel,
and just failed to overtake Head Heart Hoof.
"I think it's easy to say if you flip-flop post positions that
maybe he would have run better, but I think he ran as well as he could
first time back off the claim,"
said Michael McCarthy, assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher. "The horse
came to us in great shape and he's been in great shape. We're looking
for a better draw and a better result. He's healthy, he's happy, and he
had a good work the other day. We'll play the
hand we're dealt. [He can run] from three-quarters to a mile and a
sixteenth, and he's a horse who, like Caixa [Eletronica], will let us
pick some spots and have some fun."
Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez takes over aboard
Johannesburg Smile, also 5-1 on the morning line. The 6-year-old drew
post 4.
The Pletcher stable will also be represented by Heart Butte, who
has won a pair of stakes around two turns. The Tom Fool will be his
first start since he was third in
the John B. Campbell Handicap a year ago at Laurel Park. Chris DeCarlo
will ride Heart Butte, 20-1, from post 5.
One of the newcomers is Sherry Parbhoo's Off the Jak, who took
the Sunshine Millions Sprint for Florida-breds by three-quarters of a
length in January at
Park. He enters the Tom Fool off a fourth in
his turf debut, the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint on February 2. After
breaking slowly, Off the Jak made a mild rally to finish 5 ¼ lengths
behind the winner.
"Off the Jak has been doing great since the Sunshine Millions,
and last time I put him on the turf because I have another good
sprinter, Trinniberg," said trainer Shivananda
Parbhoo. "I'm trying to run the two of them in difference places.
They're both front runners; if one of them was a closer, it would be OK
[to run them against each other]. [Off the Jak] didn't run badly on the
turf, but because this race in
New York was available I decided to run him there. I'd like to run in
New York, and I'd like to think he has it in him to run in
New York. I actually want to keep him on the turf, but it's too long until the next big race on the turf."
Willie Martinez will come in from
Florida to ride Off the Jak, 6-1. They'll depart from post 8.
Godolpin Racing homebred Consortium, who was briefly on the
Triple Crown trail in 2012, comes into the Tom Fool off three straight
optional claiming starts at Aqueduct.
Third in his comeback race in November and beaten six lengths when
second to Big Business in December, he cleared the first allowance
condition on January 9 when he stalked the pace and drew off to a 2
¼-length victory.
"The time before his last start was his second race off a long
layoff, and he hooked a nice horse in that allowance race," said trainer
Kiaran McLaughlin of the December
optional claimer. "Those horses haven proven they're tough horses. We
ran well, but David Jacobson's horse [Big Business] just beat us. We
didn't think any less of [Consortium] after that race. He came back and
ran a big race. This race is a step up, but we've
always felt he's this type of horse."
McLaughlin added that he hopes the Tom Fool serves as a springboard to the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap on April 6.
Consortium, 10-1, will leave from post 6 with Eddie Castro aboard.
The Tom Fool attracted a pair of shippers from
California in Comma to the Top and Smash, who were respectively installed as the top two choices on the morning line.
Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, and Kevin Tsujihara's Comma to the
Top, a Grade 1 winner going long as a 2-year-old, now races
predominantly in sprints and will be making
a quick turnaround in the Tom Fool. He won an off-the-turf renewal of
the Grade 3 Daytona in December at Santa Anita, then was fourth in that
venue's Grade 2 Palos Verdes in January and third in last Saturday's
Grade 2 San Carlos.
"I can't remember ever [running a horse in a pair of graded
stakes within a week]," said trainer Peter Miller. "It's unorthodox, but
he's a unique horse. The owner asked
me how [the horse] was doing [after the San Carlos],
and he was eating well and his energy level was good. [The owner] then
asked if there was any reason for us to not go [to the Tom Fool], and
I said there wasn't. He's not your average horse, and there aren't a
lot of big races for sprinters."
Joel Rosario has the call aboard Comma to the Top, 3-1, from post 2.
Smash, second in the 2011 Carry Back at Calder, returned from an
11-month absence to finish fifth in the Grade 3 Vernon Underwood on
December 2 at
Hollywood Park.
Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert for Kaleem Shah, the 5-year-old
will be making his second start off the layoff in the Tom Fool.
"He just gets a little jarred up," said Baffert of Smash. "He's a
very small horse. We've freshened him up. Hopefully, he'll run well and
like it there. He always runs
well off the bench. We've got to get these horses separated a little
Irad Ortiz will ride Smash, 7-2, from post 10.
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Manadonese Chicken Rica with Basil is the signature dish from Manado, Indonesia. It is the most popular dish among spicy addict. Combined with basil leaf it will enhance your appetite.
I found this recipe online and it came out really good!
1 whole chicken
Ground spices:
13 curly red chilies
15 big red birds eye chilies
8 cloves shallot
7 cloves garlic
5 candlenuts
1 inch turmeric
1 inch ginger
Other spices:
1 inch galangal, smashed
2 lemongrass stalks, smashed
5 kaffir lime leaves
3 bay leaves
3 bunches basil
flavor enhancer
1. clean the cut chicken. Boil and bring to cook. Put aside.
2. Stir-fry the ground spices.put in the galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and bay leaves. Continue stir-frying until fragrant.
3. Put the chicken in, continue cooking until the juice runs out. Taste if the flavor is good. Stir in the basil leaves.
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In the ongoing quest to crack the lock box of health pricing, a nonprofit group hopes to exert some big-business pressure.
Late last year, the Catalyst for Payment Reform issued a statement calling on plans and health providers to provide more data to enrollees and do it in a consumer-friendly format that breaks it down by hospital or physician. Self-insured employers also should be allowed to share their claims data with an outside vendor if they prefer to develop their own cost-calculating tools.
"I think what we have done by issuing our statement is to put the health care industry on notice that barriers to price care transparency are not going to be tolerated much longer," says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of the San Francisco-based organization, which has primarily Fortune 500 members including FedEx Corp., General Electric Co. and Safeway Inc.
For decades, employers and consumers have maintained that health care violates common economic principles by forcing people to choose care without knowing much about its true cost.
Delbanco argues that several factors are changing those dynamics, most notably the significant shift into high-deductible health plans, with workers frequently paying the first several thousand dollars out of their wallets. In 2012, 19 percent of insured employees were covered by a high-deductible plan with an attached savings account—either a health savings or health reimbursement account—compared with 8 percent in 2009, according to an annual survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.
National plans from companies like Cigna Corp. and United HealthCare Services Inc. have started introducing more sophisticated pricing tools in the past few years, says Ted von Glahn, senior director at the Pacific Business Group on Health. In 2012, the business group compared cost calculators for six major insurers.
The best tools don't just provide a hospital-by-hospital comparison for a particular procedure, such as the cost of knee-replacement surgery, von Glahn says. They also incorporate all related charges, such as anesthesiology, hospital stay and rehabilitative care. But these comparison charts can contain blanks when hospitals or doctors decline to participate, he says.
Doctors and hospitals, jockeying in a competitive marketplace, are naturally not eager to part with a pricing chart, says Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a Rand policy analyst and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
"It will have to be external forces that force the issue," he says.
Mehrotra helped author a study, published 2009 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, in which 353 hospitals were contacted by fictional uninsured patients, asking for a price estimate for three common procedures. (A 2006 law required the release of prices upon request to uninsured patients.) Just 1 in 4 hospitals, 23.5 percent, responded and provided at least some cost specifics.
In some states, state legislatures have gotten involved. A new California law prohibits any insurance contract with a health provider to include a so-called gag clause, which prevents the disclosure of pricing information.
Mehrotra says he agrees with the underlying Catalyst belief that big employers can wield considerable influence given their investment in health care. But he also describes himself as "a bit cynical."
To date, he says, "We have not seen much experience in the health care system where they have effectively leveraged that power."
Will employees use the data? It's still early, von Glahn says. But he predicts that high-deductible users might be particularly price-sensitive with less costly and risky procedures, such as lab work or imaging tests.
"They are not on the hunt for the best surgeon in the Western United States, right? They think, 'Just give me the X-ray.' "
Charlotte Huff is a writer based in Fort Worth, Texas. Comment below or email email@example.com.