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What do you do if your employer doesn't match contributions in your 401(k) at all? Should you just go with your own retirement plan?
As the saying goes, not so fast! Last week I talked about how many employers match your contributions to a 401(k) plan—often dollar for dollar or 50 cents on the dollar. This is free money. But it's not the most important part of a 401(k)—it's the dessert not the main course.
Like I said last time, the two most important things about a 401(k) plan are 1) it is simple and automatic and 2) it is tax-deferred. None of that changes if the plan lacks a match. So in my view, for the vast majority of Americans who have one, the 401(k) is the place to start.
I want to flesh out why the simple and automatic is important. Say you take a new job and they have a 401(k) with no match. If you fill out the paper work, sign up to contribute 6%-8% of your before tax salary, and pick investments, it is set it and forget it. After that you'll be investing a little bit at a time—usually every two weeks or once per month. The pros call that dollar cost averaging, and it helps you buy more when the market is low and less when the market is high.
On the other hand, if you don't fill out the 401(k) paper work and think, "Instead I will do this on my own," you are going to have to set everything up by yourself. For most people, that's like starting a diet or redoubling their exercise. We want to do it, but often we don't or we procrastinate.
What if I don't like my plan? Should I walk away from my 401(k)?
As a general rule, I don't think people should walk away from a 401(k). These days most 401(k) plans are in really good shape. Years ago costs and quality were sometimes an issue, but there were lawsuits over the years so employers have gotten religion over them and brought their A-game.
But, even if you are in the rare situation that your 401(k) has some mediocre choices, not all of the investments in your 401(k) have to be amazing for you to enjoy good returns. You really only need a few of the investments in your portfolio to be good to have a lot of success. Find the best options, make sure you are diversified, and go with them. Figuring out which investments are worthwhile is easier than you might think. You can spend an hour on Google and go from being skeptical about your to realizing that it's a great retirement tool.
Does that mean that it would never make sense for someone to pursue a different option?
While I love the 401(k) and really believe that it works for people, there are situations where it would make sense to go in a different direction. When you change jobs, it often makes tons of sense to switch to an IRA. The average American goes through 11 jobs in their lifetime; can you imagine trying to keep track of ELEVEN different plans? When you switch jobs, you can roll old 401(k)s into an IRA—ONE IRA. What you want to do is put your rollover IRA with a fund supermarket such as Fidelity or Schwab. Once the money is there you can select a diversified mix of funds with low fees and strong long-term performance.


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As summer nears, many Hasidic communities in Brooklyn are beginning to prepare for holidays in New York's Catskill Mountains, long the preferred destination for religious families looking for a reprieve from urban life.
Yet amid the rolling green hills and low-slung bungalows, live ticks — tiny creatures that have infected many vacationers with Lyme disease, including members of the religious Jewish community.
Several Hasidic women in Brooklyn suffering from Lyme disease have recently formed a support group called Yesh Tickva, a play on the Hebrew phrase for "There's hope." The women have met a handful of times to share medical and emotional resources.
They also plan to spread awareness about the disease, ensuring that Hasidic city dwellers understand the danger of tick-borne illness and how best to protect themselves. The group's plans include placing advertisements in local papers warning about the disease and speaking with doctors, camp mothers and members of Hatzolah — the Hasidic volunteer ambulance service — about symptoms.
"Because I'm on the road to recovery, I felt a responsibility to give back to my people," said Chumy Klughaupt, the founder of the group. "Who knows how many people are suffering, running from doctor to doctor. With this awareness, we can save their lives."
"All it takes is one minute," said Rachel Isaacson, a 54-year-old grandmother from Boro Park and a member of Yesh Tickva. "It doesn't take weeks or a day. All you need is one nasty tick with a lot of diseases."
Lyme disease is caused by bacterium carried by ticks, which is then transmitted to humans through a bite. Because of its varied symptoms, the infection can be difficult to diagnose. While some may develop a rash following exposure, the most common symptoms are severe fatigue, poor sleep, trouble with concentration, lightheadedness, irritability, headaches and joint pain. Left untreated, Lyme disease can affect the nervous system.
"Often, if you find that you've seen a doctor and you still are ill with some kind of chronic condition, it's worth looking again at Lyme disease, even if your tests don't show it," explained Daniel Cameron, an internist and epidemiologist in Mount Kisco, New York. Cameron has been treating Lyme disease since 1987 and has seen thousands of patients who have become sick from ticks.
Isaacson went to "at least 15 doctors" before a close friend recognized that her symptoms were similar to those of her sister, who suffers from Lyme disease. In the summer of 2003, Isaacson had visited her children in Sullivan County. Two weeks after returning home, she developed flulike symptoms and began having trouble breathing, gastrointestinal distress, and numbness and tingling in her extremities. She described feeling "extreme brain fog" and as though "she was solidified with cement."
Rachel G., a 37-year-old mother of three from Boro Park, was sick for roughly 15 years before receiving her diagnosis of Lyme disease. (She asked that her last name be omitted for privacy reasons.) After the birth of her first child, she went to Monticello to recover and spend time with her mother. Upon returning to Brooklyn, Rachel G. began having crippling migraines, which persisted for years. She also experienced recurring urinary tract infections, bronchitis and inflammation of multiple joints.
"My life was literally put on hold," she said. "It came to a point that the headaches were so severe, I used to get seizures from them." She went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for her seizures, which by then were occurring almost daily. There, she was diagnosed with nonepileptic seizures. But Rachel G. wasn't getting better.
"I was a 28-year-old, and I was taking more medication than an 80-year-old grandmother," she said. Only when Rachel G. read an article in Binah, a weekly magazine for Jewish women, about a young community member afflicted with Lyme disease did she realize that this was likely the culprit. A New York City physician later diagnosed her with Lyme disease; she is now undergoing treatment.
The Catskills, which comprise Sullivan, Ulster, Delaware and Greene counties, is known as "tick central." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011 there were 256 reported cases of Lyme disease in Sullivan County. However, Cameron suspects that the vast majority of incidents are not reported, and so the number is likely 10 times this amount. There are no statistics on Lyme disease in the Hasidic community.
"It's a region for which I would probably use the word hyper-endemic," said Kenneth Liegner, a physician in private practice who treats Lyme disease. "The lower Hudson Valley is one of the biggest hotspots for Lyme in the country, if not the world."
In Brooklyn, Yesh Tickva hopes to educate the Jewish community on how Lyme disease can pose a serious threat to one's health.
Isaacson described last summer as "an epidemic" due to the mild winter, which allows ticks to arise from their dormant state earlier than usual. She recounted how she received phone calls daily from community members worried they may have contracted a tick-borne disease in the mountains.
Rachel G. believes all parents and physicians should be aware of Lyme disease when their children return from camp.
"I think it should become mandatory that a part of the well visits [checkups] after the summer should be Lyme testing, and people can get diagnosed right away," Rachel G. said.
But primarily, the group provides support to those battling the illness. The first meeting included members of the Orthodox community suffering from Lyme disease, and caregivers of those with the illness.
"In our community, there is so much support for everyday life," Rachel G. emphasized. "If anyone is diagnosed with cancer, there's an organization that will set them up with insurance…. There's a spina bifida support group. There's an infertility group going through [in vitro fertilization]."
"For most of us in Yesh Tickva, we have been similarly incapacitated as cancer patients, although without the benefit of a support system," Rachel G. added. "I was lost, and no one understood me. Yesh Tickva is about finally belonging somewhere."
"We all say, 'Maybe God will answer our prayers, we will all be healed, help the people the way we needed help,'" Rachel G. said.
Danielle Schlanger is a graduate student at Columbia University. Her freelance work has appeared in The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, Business Insider and The New York Times's blog on Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
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Acthar is a prescription medicine for people with severe acute and chronic allergic and inflammatory conditions affecting different parts of the eye. This can include the front part of the eye such as the cornea and iris, or the back part of the eye such as the optic nerve and retina. Acthar is injected beneath the skin or into the muscle.
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- "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."
- —Fred Weasley joking about Troll language.[src]
A Troll is a magical creature of prodigious strength and immense stupidity. In fact, they are so stupid that they actually had a wizarding exam failing grade named after them.
Physical DescriptionEdit
Trolls generally reach a height of about twelve feet and weigh up to nearly a ton. Troll whiskers have magical properties, and are sometimes used as wand cores.
They are dangerously violent and incredibly aggressive, and then engage in unpredictable behaviour; a bit comparable with giants.
Trolls originated in Scandinavia, but are now found all across Europe.
Trolls, similar to Acromantulas, have a taste for human flesh, but enjoy to take it raw, and are not that fussy about what they eat.
Society and CultureEdit
Troll language is nothing more than simple grunts that only Trolls seem to be able to interpret, though skilled magical multi-linguists such as Barty Crouch can understand them. Trolls understand only a limited number of Human words, and some smarter ones can be skillfully trained as security Trolls. Professor Quirrell had a gift for communicating with Trolls, and then used it to set one loose in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 in an effort to steal the Philosopher's Stone.
A Troll was Quirrell's contribution to guarding the Philosopher's Stone.
Artemius Lawson was an outspoken advocate for the strict restraint of trolls. He thought it was wrong to allow them to roam free, stating that "they were creatures who weighed a ton, but had brains the size of a bogey".
There are four different types of Troll, each with its own highly unique set of physical differences.
- Mountain Troll
- Forest Troll
- River Troll
- Part-Troll (apparently)
A sub-type is the Troll of Nadroj, a kind of troll with disporpotionate hands.
Security trolls, the smartest troll specimens, are skillfully trained to guard several wizarding locations.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Troll is the lowest grade that one can receive during their O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. examinations.
- In the Philosopher's Stone book and PS1/GBC game, there is a room with a troll that belongs to Professor Quirrell. However, in the film, this scene was omitted.
- In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Ron Weasley draws a picture of a troll and describes Gregory Goyle as one.
- In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, "Security Trolls" are made in the last parts of the game. They are shown to be watching the library, and will end the game if they catch the player. To distract them, Ron must throw a Dungbomb around one. If close enough, the Troll will walk towards them. Humourously, when a Troll walks to a Dungbomb, they seem to lose sense of the player.
- Harry Potter once speculated that Marcus Flint has some traces of Troll blood in him; however, this might be simply to insult Flint's stupidity and appearance.
- When Ron Weasley was captured by Snatchers in 1997, he told them he was Stan Shunpike, due to them not looking very intelligent, and even speculated that one of them might have been part-Troll, judging by his odour.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, if someone casts a spell at a security troll, they can create an expansive wave in self-defence.
- Troll whiskers may be used in wand cores, though they are considered inferior to the Supreme Cores.
- There is some contradiction as to the ability of trolls to perform magic. In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it states that trolls have no magic powers other than their naturally enhanced strength. However, one of the questions on the Wizards' Ordinary Magic and Basic Aptitude Test, when taken with information on the Patronus Charm from Wonderbook: Book of Spells, implies that both hags and trolls can use rudimentary magic.
- After the details of the Sorting ceremony were revealed in 1991, Ron stated that he was going to kill his brother Fred, who had suggested that the test to get into Hogwarts involved wrestling a troll.
- Though often derided as stupid, trolls are obviously intelligent, or at least sapient, beings. This is seen in their wielding of weapons, dressing themselves, and their attempts to domesticate other beasts (such as graphorns). This indicates that trolls are early to mid Stone Age in terms of culture, and probably possess intelligence comparable to early cavemen.
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- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
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- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Deleted scene) (Mentioned as Hairy Troll)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (As a bad nickname)
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- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
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VANCOUVER — Jack Gill was beside himself.
"Parker's not coming,'' he said. "He thinks there will be problems.''
Ryan Parker is a Boston Bruins fan, and he had watched the previous six Bruins-Canucks games in a little corner in a little bar called Dentry's that Gill owns in a little Vancouver neighborhood called Point Grey.
This is not downtown. Think West Roxbury. Anybody wearing a Bruins jersey downtown, on Granville Street? They're asking for it.
But here, hard against the University of British Columbia, with all the cafes and bookstores and yoga studios, it is almost genteel.
There is nothing genteel about hockey in Vancouver.
It's hard to be a Bruins fan anywhere in this town. For the first few games, Canucks fans tolerated Parker and the few other guys who had the nerve to wear the black and gold to Dentry's. At first, they were a novelty. Then they became a nuisance.
"They sat in the corner and didn't say much,'' Jen Perkins, the waitress, was saying. "When the Bruins scored all those goals so fast in the first period of Game 6, they couldn't help themselves. They were excited. Everybody else in here wasn't.''
Gill was born in England to Indian parents. But he is, like every other immigrant in this immigrant town, a hockey nut. Last night, he was wearing a Canucks jersey.
"I hate wearing this thing,'' he said. "I'm a Red Wings fan.''
It is a very weird thing, figuring out hockey loyalties here.
"Parker's an awesome guy,'' Gill said. "He's a teacher. And he stays after school to talk to all the East Indian kids, the kids whose families are from Punjab, because he knows they have it tough when they go home and they're not doing well in school. He's a Toronto guy, but he's a Bruins fan. I love him. And it kills me he won't come out.''
Gill prides himself on running a joint where anybody's welcome. Canucks fan. Bruins fan. Any fan.
"I really wanted Parker to be here,'' he said. "He just worried things would get out of hand, especially if the Bruins won.''
Call him, I said.
Gill handed me his cellphone, and this is what I said to 31-year-old Parker: "Look pal, I know where you're coming from, but I am the only guy from Boston in this joint right now. I need some backup.''
Twenty minutes later, Parker and his beautiful wife Katie walked in.
"You?'' Geoff Wildbur said. "Again?'' During Game 6, Wildbur, a Michael Moore look-alike, was merciless in his mocking of Parker and the other handful of Boston fans who had the temerity to venture out to cheer on the Broons.
But last night Wildbur had a confession.
"I grew up in Toronto too,'' he said. "I was a Maple Leafs fan.''
Wildbur and Parker looked at each other. You could almost hear the violin music. But the moment passed and then they just sneered at each other.
"What kills me,'' Wildbur said, "is the Bruins have more Canadians than the Canucks do.''
He realized what he said and then he said, "Don't put that in the paper.''
When Patrice Bergeron scored the Bruins' first goal, Parker stood up, pumped his fist, and kissed his wife.
Wildbur ordered another beer.
Don Cherry, the former Bruins coach, came on the TV during the intermission, dressed in a jacket that looked like something you'd put on a picnic table. "He's the only good thing you guys in Boston ever gave hockey,'' Wildbur said.
When Brad Marchand scored the second goal, Wildbur ordered some nachos.
When Bergeron scored the third goal, Wildbur ordered me to be kind.
"This is ridiculous,'' he said. "The Canucks have outplayed them in every facet of the game.''
Except scoring.
Parker was smiling and second-guessing himself about coming out in public with a Bruins jersey on in a place called Vancouver.
They came in slowly, one after another, period after period. Bruins fans, summoned by cellphone, by a power higher than them. As the minutes ticked down, and the Canucks fans folded their arms, the Bruins fans emerged, like dandelions after a spring rainfall.
When it was over, Parker stood up and kissed his wife deeply. He turned to Wildbur and shook his hand.
And when Zdeno Chara skated around with the Cup, Wildbur stood up and said, "Give it to Thomas, give it to Thomas.'' When Tim Thomas got the Cup, Wildbur stood up and cheered, because, in the end he is a hockey fan, and he knew the guy who most deserved to hoist the Stanley Cup held it in his hands.
Losing is lousy. Losing to Tim Thomas is stomachable. Even in Vancouver.
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The family of shooter Jared Loughner have barricaded themselves into their home.
A man's severed head is found behind a New Jersey church.
Watching too much TV can damage your heart.
A mysterious green blob is photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
South Korean director Park Chan-Wook shoots a movie in its entirety on an iPhone.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to increase efforts and release more documents.
Chicago joins the creepy world's-end deal with a massive fish die-off of their own.
Apparently, this newly released document proves OJ Simpson's innocence?
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AscenDance Project climbs out of "America's Got Talent," into Chautauqua Auditorium
Boulder is home to plenty of rock climbers, so why not a dance company inspired by it?
AscenDance Project, which relocated from San Francisco to Boulder in 2012, will perform its improbably athletic, inherently choreographic dance at Chautauqua Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11. And if the company's name sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that.
AscenDance Project was featured on "America's Got Talent" in 2010, and while they didn't go all the way, their "dance-climb fusion" did net national attention, landing the unique company in various magazines, newspapers and websites.


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NEW YORK — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has changed his voter registration in New York state from Republican to unaffiliated to preserve his option of running for president as an independent.
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, said Friday that Trump could enter the race if Republicans fail to nominate a candidate who the real estate mogul believes can defeat President Barack Obama.Video: You're hired? Gingrich visits Trump (on this page)
Cohen told to NBC News that Trump would consider his position "after the finale of 'The Apprentice' in May of 2012 if he is not satisfied with the Republican nominee for president." (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of NBC Universal and Microsoft. "The Apprentice" is broadcast on NBC.)
Cohen said that Trump's decision would be fast, as he needed to begin the process to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states.Story: GOP: Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry fail to qualify for Virginia primary
He told NBC News that Trump already has a game plan, as well as individuals identified in states to help begin the process of getting him on the ballot.
Trump filed his voter registration paperwork Thursday, Cohen added.
He said Trump probably would use his substantial wealth to even the playing field with Obama's re-election campaign.Video: Trump: I'd consider an independent run (on this page)
The move was disclosed 10 days after Trump announced he would not moderate a planned debate among 2012 Republican presidential candidates. All but two candidates declined to participate in Trump's proposed event.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Texas Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Representatives Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann had said they would not attend the planned Trump-moderated debate. Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum had agreed to take part.
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Humor me, dear readers, today I'm going to do a little cross-pollination.
Every Friday, as some of you may know, I write a food post for a hyper-local (there's a weird new compound word) site called Berkeleyside.
The site is run by a trio of smart folk. Both Tracey Taylor and Frances Dinkelspiel, who invited me on board, write regularly for The New York Times. And fellow founder Lance Knobel, also a writer, seems to know a thing or two about the techno end of things. I admire what they're doing, and in less than a year they've built a large, loyal, and growing following. The site's readership rate climbs more than 50 percent each month, they tell me.
Ethical epicurean Michael Pollan, for one, likes the site. "In a remarkably short amount of time, Berkeleyside has become indispensable," says the Food Rules man.
All good. So I contribute the occasional post, usually on edible issues, and I've carved out a niche on Fridays doing a Q&A with a local food figure in a column called Berkeley Bites.
To date I've profiled a dozen people.
Best-selling cookbook author Mollie Katzen kindly agreed to kick start the column. I've chatted with Ari Derfel and Eric Fenster, who recently opened the hottest restaurant in town called Gather, interviewed The Jungle Effect author Daphne Miller, who's new to the East Bay, and included pithy snippets from urban farmer-author and bio-diesel worker-owner Novella Carpenter. These people may be familiar names to you.
I'm also interested in giving a voice to folks who aren't usually in the media spotlight. I've introduced readers to Anchalee Natasiri, who owns a neighborhood Thai restaurant that serves authentic eats. Anand Chokkalingam, a UC Berkeley cancer epidemiologist who turns out wickedly good artisanal chocolates, has also been in the mix.
This week's subject, Berkeley Unified School District cooking instructor Tanya Henderson, is another such example. It occurred to me that even though these interviews are with people talking about local food, many of their interests, concerns, and comments resonate with readers far beyond the boundaries of this gown town.
Take Tanya. She teaches school kids about healthy eating and she just happens to work in a district considered a national model in the school food movement. So I figured my school food peeps might want to hear what she has to say.
Here's what I love about writing the column:
- I learn something new at each interview. Just this week, Amy Murray, the executive chef of two Berkeley restaurants, the decade-old Venus, a beloved haunt for many locals, and the recently launched Revival Bar + Kitchen, told me about a great little under the radar cafe in walking distance from my house. Stay tuned for details.
- There's a small town feel to the column, even as it deals with big picture ideas. And there's often six degrees of separation between readers and the local identities I profile. Turns out chocolatier Chokkalingam's kids went to the same preschool as a friend's kids. And, of course, since Berkeley is home to the Gourmet Ghetto, anyone involved with food is tied to Alice Waters, if you trace their connections back far enough.
- People here are passionate about growing, preparing, cooking, selling, and eating food. What's not to love about that? So are many readers, of course, so I feel I have a captive audience, eager to eat up what folks in the food world have to say about all things edible.
Don't just take my word for it, stop by Berkeleyside on Fridays and take a look for yourself. Pending posts include an interview with the gal who coined the term locavore, a chat with the executive chef of a new restaurant poised to revitalize the city's downtown, and a conversation with the chap who runs the city's beloved farmers' markets.
And feel free to suggest Berkeleysiders you'd like to see in the line up.
"Won't you run out of people to profile?" someone recently asked. To which I wanted to answer: "Are you insane? I could write one of these a day until I die and still just skim the surface of all the peeps with something illuminating to say about food here."
All of us have a connection to food and every one of us has opinions about all things edible.
Wouldn't you agree?
[Berkeleyside sunset banner: Dana Graves, Photo Tanya Henderson: Pia Novales-Cook]
Many of my Berkeley Bites posts, including this week's interview with Tanya Henderson, are republished on Civil Eats.
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GAO notes differences in efforts to weigh costs and benefits of requirements under a 1969 law.
The 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, which introduced the country to the "environmental impact statement," has been enforced by multiple agencies with little data on the costs of analyzing its effects, according to a roundup by the Government Accountability Office.
"Agencies do not routinely track the cost of completing NEPA analyses, and there is no governmentwide mechanism to do so," GAO wrote in a report published Tuesday on the landmark law that guides the permitting process for roads, bridges and smaller development.
"According to agency officials, information on the benefits of completing NEPA analyses is largely qualitative," auditors wrote, noting that assessing the benefits of federal environmental requirements "is difficult because the monetization of environmental benefits often requires making subjective decisions on key assumptions."
The chief benefit of analyzing NEPA actions is public transparency and participation in decisions, agencies note.
The report on a law that has long been resisted by the business community was requested by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee, and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass.
The dearth of governmentwide information on costs and benefits of analyzing NEPA was confirmed by officials from the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency and others.
The Energy Department tracks limited cost data associated with NEPA analyses, GAO noted, using payments to contractors that conduct NEPA analyses. The median cost for analyzing an environmental impact statement -- the most exhaustive and least common option among NEPA requirements-- was $1.4 million from fiscal 2003-2012.
By far the most common NEPA requirement, a categorical exclusion, accounts for 95 percent of agency actions under the law, but its costs are not tracked, the report found, though they are clearly less than that for an environmental impact statement.
The Defense, Interior and Transportation departments do not centrally collect information on NEPA analyses, allowing component agencies to collect the information, the report found, whereas Energy and the Forest Service within the Agriculture Department aggregate certain data.
That data includes NEPA-related litigation, in which the federal government usually prevails, GAO noted—for example, in 2012, the government won 24 of 28 cases in U.S. Appeals courts. "Although the number of NEPA lawsuits is relatively small when compared with the total number of NEPA analyses, one lawsuit can affect numerous federal decisions or actions in several states" and have a far-reaching impact, the report said.
"Complicating the determination of costs and benefits," GAO wrote, "agency activities under NEPA are hard to separate from other required environmental analyses under federal laws such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act; executive orders; agency guidance; and state and local laws."
Though auditors made no recommendations, agencies generally agreed with the report's observations.
An example of the private-sector's attitudes toward NEPA emerged last September at a Senate hearing discussing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Energy Institute President and CEO Karen Harbert said, "Federal and state environmental statutes such as NEPA, state siting and permitting rules, and a 'build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything' -- BANANA -- mentality, routinely are used to block the construction and expansion of everything from transmission lines to power plants to pipelines."
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Food Field Trip from San Francisco: Tomales Bay Oyster Company
I've long sighed in envy when friends in California describe their weekend plans. "We're going camping in Marin." "I'm having an early night because I'm going surfing in Pacifica tomorrow morning." "We're not sure, but we're thinking a little Sonoma wine tasting?"
But when Lauren proposed a Sunday field trip outside San Francisco when I was visiting last week, I wasn't sure I'd heard her correctly. "After we get burgers at Marin Sun Farms, why don't we just go up to Tomales Bay, bring some beer, do some oyster shucking?"
Oyster shucking? "Yeah, it's just an hour drive or so once you're over the bridge. Tomales Bay Oyster Co. has a little setup, a bunch of picnic tables right on the water. You bring a cooler of beer, buy a huge bag of oysters, rent a knife if you need it, and just hang out and eat..."
Cheap oysters, BYO beverages, beach setup, water views? I can't imagine anything much more idyllic. So here, a look at one of the cheaper, more fun ways I know to knock back a few dozen oysters.
Drive up Highway 1 to Tomales Bay Oyster Company
Find the oyster-seller under the tent.
Choose your prey. (I'm a big fan of the smaller Golden Nuggets.) Rent a knife, if you need one. Pick up lemons and hot sauce, if you didn't bring 'em.
Ice them down as you're shucking.
Oysters, beer, lemons, knives: good to go.*
* And iPhones Instagramming. We see you.
Get your shuck on. Depending on the amount of beer you've brought and the general coordination of your party members, you may need a designated shucker.
It's an open picnic area, so you're not confined to straight shucking if you want. Barbecue away, if that's your thing!
And enjoy.
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Sweet Machine and I were discussing yesterday the Dan Savage-style "I lost weight by overcoming disordered (binge or compulsive) eating, so diets totally work!" argument. I pointed out that, by that logic, dieting also works to make you gain weight, since anorexics who normalize their eating patterns are generally able to regain and maintain their previous weight. Sweet Machine joked that we should change our refrain to the subject line of this post: "Diets totally work to make you fat." And I laughed, and then I was like "well hell, diets DO totally work to make you fat!"
Brian at Red 3 wrote about this yesterday, when he was receiving a lot of emails saying things like "well what about the fact that people never used to be fat":
There is something that our population has been exposed to for the last few decades which has been shown to induce weight gain.
Dieting. Nearly every fat person in this country has been on a diet. Most probably have dieted for most of their life. Not only do most people on diets gain the weight back, most gain back more than they lost. As our diet culture has expanded, its gripped more and more people who'd have never dieted before. And at younger and younger ages. I can't tell you how many fat people I've seen bemoan how they thought they were huge when they were young, but looking back realize they weren't much more than average. As fat has been hyper-stigmatized, its directed people into a system which has only ever proven useful for making people GAIN weight. You want to know why there are so many fat people around? How about blaming diets for once instead of doing everything possible to blame everything else.
Of course that's leaving aside the fact that people certainly DID used to be fat, and that the actual average weight gain has been about 15 pounds over the last 25 years. But Brian is right on here: if there's anything all fat people have in common, it's a history of trying like HELL not to be fat. Insofar as there are more fat people than there used to be, I see no reason why gluttony and moral failure is more likely to be at fault than the obesity panic itself.
Okay, so the fact that people have gotten fatter as anti-obesity hype has gotten louder is merely a correlation — like the correlation between fat and ill health. The causation could run the other way, like everyone seems to think it does; the panic could be a reaction to so many Unacceptable Bodies running around. And while nearly everyone reading this blog would be able to attest to the fact that dieting makes you fatter in the end, that's just anecdotal evidence — the other side has that too.
But consider this: We know that eating more cannot make you permanently fat if you're physiologically inclined to be thin. We also know that fat-shaming and teasing from family members increases teen's chances of eating disorders and simultaneously doubles their chances of being overweight. And finally, we know that dieting permanently alters metabolism, regardless of how fat you were to begin with and how much weight you lost — meaning that once you've dieted, eating the same amount of food will now make you fatter. (The link is to one of the first studies with that finding, but there are lots more — here's a recent one.)
Imagine, then, a population in which there is no genetic or other physiological predisposition towards fat. Everyone is roughly 5'5″ and between 120 and 150 pounds. (If we're going to throw out predisposition in weight, we have to throw it out in height, or it's just too silly to contemplate. And the BMI doesn't discriminate between genders, so neither will we.) Over time, portion sizes increase; food insecurity is reduced and replaced with improved access to low-quality, high-additive food; sedentary jobs and social activities rise in popularity. In troll parlance, everyone becomes a lazy glutton.
Now imagine the same population (remember, we're totally laying aside genetic and physiological size predispositions, because we're being deliberately simplistic). Over time, the physical ideal becomes smaller and smaller, although the average size does not. More people are shamed and teased for their size at earlier ages. A large percentage of the population starts restricting food intake even before puberty. Dieting and shame become lifelong projects, and prerequisites for moral value. Every so often, the physical and psychological ramifications are too much, and people go back to the calorie intake they used to have before extreme restriction. Sometimes they also overeat because semi-starvation has made them so obsessed with food.
Read the above links, and tell me which population you think would be more likely to gain permanent weight. Which one will have a greater number of fat people — the population where naturally thin people eat more, or the one where naturally thin people permanently fuck their metabolisms through cycles of disordered and restrictive eating?
Cliff Notes version for anyone who couldn't be bothered to read the links: it's the second one. In the first population, people can gain weight with difficulty if they're eating vastly more than they need or want, but their metabolisms will speed up and they will need more and more food to maintain that weight. In the second, they will need less and less every time they diet, and any normalization of eating habits will lead to weight gain.
Now, naturally, things aren't nearly as simple as the above scenarios. For one thing, there is variation in people's natural body size and shape, and not everyone functions like the naturally thin subjects in the study Kolata discusses (though everyone's energy expenditure is permanently slowed by dieting — except apparently those with anorexia nervosa, but I haven't checked up on that). For another thing, I'm sure that in real life there are naturally thinner people who are constantly taking in energy far in excess of what they need, and who just eat more as their metabolisms speed up to compensate. And there are naturally fatter people who stay thin by eating less and less as they need less and less to survive. Both are disordered patterns, though as it happens one is seen as morally virtuous, the other as morally corrupt.
But even in this fictional, simplified universe in which everyone's inclined to be thin, interspersing dieting with normal eating is more likely to make you fat than simply eating more. And we're living in a complex universe, where you can be born with a tendency to gain and hang on to weight, and where even a small deviation above "normal" (not the same as average!) weight makes you more likely to experience teasing, forcible restriction, and lifelong cycles of dieting. And once that's happened, normal eating — and yes, fat people eat the same as thin people overall — is going to make you gain weight. In other words, the more likely you are to be fat, the more likely you are to be made even fatter by dieting.
It may not be as simple as "diet culture makes everyone fat." These things are never simple; we wouldn't have over 500 posts on this blog if they were. But in this case, correlation and anecdotal evidence match up with research. For the "fatties eat too much and don't move enough" hypothesis, they just don't.


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Billboard.com invited Korean pop stars Wonder Girls to perform for their "Mashup Monday" video series, and put the song choice up to a poll. The winner, with 47 percent of the vote, was B.o.B and Bruno Mars's "Nothin' On You"! Read the story at Billboard!
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(P)retirement's new frontier
Study focuses on city's young creatives - economic saviors or slackers?
Published by the Portland Tribune, Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Written by Peter Korn |
The key thing to understand about Evan Jones is that he doesn't lack ambition. It only looks like he does.
A Southeast Portland resident, Jones, who moved to Portland 15 years ago, admits he isn't ambitious in the traditional sense. A software engineer who possesses a number of talents, he has a very on-again, off-again work record. A few years of making big bucks writing code for Apple, then off for six months. An animation studio job followed by months of traveling.
Jones, 34, has a word for his lifestyle: pretirement. Or, to borrow a phrase from author John McDonald, Jones is taking his retirement in installments. When the money gets low, he takes another job.
But Jones isn't lazy in his between job pretirement phases. He is, in fact, usually very busy in his home office programming computer-controlled machines that can carve out three-dimensional structures.
"My ambition is to be able to do things I love and make enough money for a comfortable life," Jones says. "I have no desire to be running a million-dollar business."
In a roundabout way, Portland has staked much of its economic future on young, college-educated people who have moved here, the so-called young creatives who supposedly will lead the city to an economic renaissance.
Portland has for years attracted these young creatives at an incredible rate. Economists have been saying that they are exactly the type of new residents that helps a city develop new ideas and new jobs. They'll start businesses, the thinking goes, and those businesses will grow and employ people.
A new study to be released Sept. 19 by Portland State University professors Jason Jurjevich and Greg Schrock reveals just how many young creatives such as Jones have been coming here.
The study is called — with a nod to IFC's "Portlandia" — "Is Portland Really the Place Where Young People Go To Retire?"
Jurjevich developed a "demographic effectiveness measure" that basically grades cities on their ability to attract and retain young people with college degrees. Portland ranks No. 2 nationally, behind only Louisville, Ky.
Underemployed by choice
Thirty years ago, one in four people moving to the Portland area had a college degree. In 2010, according to Jurjevich's study, three of four new migrants held a degree.
Portland's ability to attract and retain young, college-educated residents during a period when the city lost jobs has the PSU researchers scratching their heads.
For more than 50 years, Jurjevich says, people in this country consistently have moved to places where they were more likely to get jobs. Not now, and not in Portland. Jurjevich calls it "a new frontier in migration patterns."
Those new migrants are coming to Portland and staying despite the fact that they are making 84 cents on the dollar compared to college grads in other U.S. cities. On average, a college-educated young Portlander makes about $8,000 less per year than a counterpart in Seattle doing comparable work.
The PSU report notes that young college-educated Portlanders have an unemployment rate 20 percent to 30 percent higher than the average for the nation's 50 largest metro areas.
The educated young are coming to Portland, the PSU study suggests, for the cheaply obtained quality of life.
Which makes it unsurprising that the young creatives aren't proving to be the economic engine the city had hoped. Multnomah County ranks second to last in job creation among 194 metro-area counties in the West during the past decade. Since 1997, Multnomah County has lost more than 26,000 private-sector jobs.
All of which raises the possibility that Portland, in attracting young creatives coming for the lifestyle, and not for jobs or earning potential, has attracted the wrong young creatives. Maybe the young creatives who are going to start new businesses and create jobs for others have settled in Seattle and San Francisco.
It's possible, says Evan Jones, who estimates that four out of 10 of his social circle in Portland are underemployed — working at jobs typically below their education level. Some, he says, are stuck at "dead-end clerical jobs" and can't find employment that matches their education, but stay because those jobs allow them to live and enjoy Portland's lifestyle amenities.
Others, like him, are underemployed by choice.
Which isn't to say Jones is devoid of a sense of the traditional ambition he eschews. He isn't sure how he and his friends will feel when, for example, some of them decide to start families after having disregarded careers in their 20s and 30s.
He's enjoying his on-again, off-again lifestyle for now, but wondering.
"My simultaneous fear is that we'll all look back 10 years from now and find we were in the middle of an aesthetic experiment," he says.
No desk jobs
Daniel Casto, Jones' roommate, says he knows plenty of unambitious people in Portland. Casto, 23, moved to Portland a little more than two months ago from Ohio. He's been working as a waiter/cook/counter person at a Vietnamese sandwich shop. So far, his English degree hasn't translated into a better- paying job.
Casto is convinced there is some self-selection taking place among the educated young who move to Portland.
"I know plenty of young people who are all very excited about their real-life jobs at desks doing things," he says. "Those aren't the young people moving to Portland."
Portland has the perfect setup for lifestyle-oriented young people, according to Casto.
"The thing about moving here is, why would you want to work at a desk all day when you can come here and live very happily on $1,500 a month, eating the best food you've ever eaten and hanging out at the coolest bars?" he asks.
Casto says that traditional ambition even carries a social stigma among Portland's young creatives. He and Jones agree that talking about a business degree in an eastside bar would be "really uncool."
"If I'm going out to meet people socially, I don't play up the idea that I'm trying to be industrious and find a super good job," Casto says.
A few entrepreneurs
In fact, the PSU study reveals that the young creatives moving to Portland have a disproportionate number of liberal arts degrees, and a lack of business degrees.
Local economist Joe Cortright, who for years has been a promoter of the young creatives-as-economic-engine theory, isn't worried about all this. In fact, Cortright says the new PSU study is all good news. He's still banking on the educated migrants, and he doesn't think they are particularly unambitious or lazy.
Cortright says Portland has a higher than average rate of people working or looking for work. It also has a high rate of people, such as Casto, working below their education level. But Cortright says that's a plus because employers here don't have to dumb down their jobs as much.
Eventually, Cortright says, Portland's growing pool of underemployed educated workers will convince companies to relocate here.
As for the possibility that Portland's young college graduates aren't ambitious, Cortright points to the city's high self-employment rate — 9 percent compared to 6 percent nationally for young people.
Portland is full of "lifestyle entrepreneurs," Cortright says. The food cart industry is a prime example. He calls food carts "the very best business incubator I have ever seen. It lets people try out ideas at very low cost and at very low risk."
And Cortright isn't concerned about the possibility that Portland's cooking school graduates are choosing to open food carts, which generally employ one or two people, while in other cities they might be dreaming of opening restaurants that employ dozens.
"It is really only a few entrepreneurs who are going to create the big job-creating firms," Cortright says. "You never know who they are, so you have to have an environment where it's really easy for lots of them to try out ideas."
Cheapest generation?
It's also really easy for lots of them to enjoy a good life at relatively little expense, says Dillon Mahmoudi, who co-created the Badass index and map. Badass rates Portland neighborhoods for the type of unique qualities that make the city appealing to young creatives — pinball machines, food carts and access to bike lanes among them.
High ratings on the index correlate with an inexpensive lifestyle. That wasn't intentional, Mahmoudi says, but might have been inevitable.
"When you move to Portland, you change your lifestyle," he says. "What you need is far less."
Mahmoudi and his wife moved during the recession from Austin, Texas, where both had solid jobs, to Portland, where they had no immediate prospects. Now she's got a job and he's a grad student at PSU, they sold their car and bought backyard chickens, and they "feel so much richer," according to Mahmoudi.
Friends from Austin and Atlanta have visited, and one couple is moving here under similar circumstances next week. A second couple will arrive in January. They've seen what many other young creatives have discovered, Mahmoudi says.
"Ambition isn't only whether or not I'm going to start a company," he says. "I am seeking a better life for myself."
Living on less might be feasible, or even admirable, for Portland's young creatives, but it has a price tag for everyone else, says economist John Tapogna, president of ECONorthwest. When people find cheaper lifestyles, it still doesn't cost any less to maintain schools or a police force. But tax revenue for those institutions drops.
ECONorthwest has been hired by the Portland Business Alliance to study why the city's college-educated residents earn less than counterparts in other cities. It could be lifestyle choices, or it simply could be not enough jobs to go around.
One theory, Tapogna says, has it that car-sharing, bike commuting and collective living are all part of a large-scale, new emphasis on less materialistic living among young adults. If Millennials truly are the cheapest generation, as a number of economists have suggested, Portland's young creatives might not become the job creators on whom the city has been banking.
Happier here
Meanwhile, Claire Cummings is set to arrive in Portland Sept. 21. Cummings, a San Diego native, knows all about Portland after having spent four years at Lewis & Clark College. She graduated last year, couldn't find the right job here, and moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked 70 hours and more each week creating a food policy council for Montgomery County, Md.
Cummings, 23, characterizes herself as "very ambitious and career-driven." Yet she's moving back to Portland for the lifestyle, the shorter work week and what she calls "the value system." She's found a two-year fellowship from a Palo Alto-based company that will allow her to research food policy issues while living here.
Cummings is looking forward to getting back to her favorite Portland coffee shops and the rock gym for workouts. And she's certain, despite the city's seductiveness, that she isn't going to lose her drive.
"Here's why," Cummings says. "I love my job, and I love that the company cares about my well-being. I don't think I'm going to be any less ambitious by being in Portland. I think I will be happier being in Portland."
by: TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT - Engineer Evan Jones (top) relaxes while getting some computer work done in his yard, practicing what he calls 'pretirement.' He wonders if Portland's young creatives have lost, or redefined, ambition.
The key thing to understand about Evan Jones is that he doesn't lack ambition. It only looks like he does.
by: TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT - Dillon and Jenny Mahmoudi chose a frugal Portland lifestyle, complete with backyard chickens, over steady incomes in Austin, Texas. Dillon co-created the Badass map, which ranks Portland neighborhoods based on their access to unique (and inexpensive) lifestyle amenities enjoyed by young adults in Portland.
by: TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT - Daniel Casto, a recent arrival from Ohio, takes full advantage of Portland's night life. Casto's part-time job at a sandwich shop supports his Portland lifestyle as he searches for better work and applies to grad schools this fall.
by: TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT - Millennials enjoy Portland's music scene while dancing on stage to Girl Talk in Pioneer Square last week during MusicfestNW. An abundance of free and cheap entertainment has served the city in attracting young, college-educated migrants and a new PSU study shows they are staying, so far, despite earning less than they would elsewhere.


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hope this helps.