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(MCT) — ST. PAUL, Minn. — Three months before U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens died when suspected Islamist militants stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson, in Libya under the auspices of the American Bar Association to advise on rebuilding the country's justice system, paid a courtesy call to the U.S. embassy in Tripoli.
Stevens, Anderson remembered in a recent interview, gave his visitor a sobering security rundown. Still, the ambassador encouraged Anderson to get out and mingle with Libyans. The judge recalled noticing how little protection the embassy in Tripoli had compared to those in other restive countries he'd visited on similar bar association assignments.
Anderson said that he and Stevens, a lawyer by training, developed a quick rapport and spent more than hour in a broad discussion that ran from constitutional law to the collapse of the police force in Libya. Stevens was well aware of the perils that surrounded him, Anderson said, but he was adamant that good diplomacy meant getting out of the fortresslike U.S. compounds that dot the Middle East.
"He was really upbeat, enthusiastic, about the potential for the future," Anderson said. "His optimism was almost tangible, but I don't think it was Pollyanna or rose-tinted. He knew the risks."
In Washington, debate over the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks continues to rage, centered largely on whether the Obama administration and its ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, attempted to mislead the American public about what was known when she appeared on a series of Sunday morning talks shows five days later. The administration has since gone quiet, preferring to wait for the findings of a governmental review board that's investigating the incident.
The partisan nature of the wrangling infuriates Anderson, who calls Stevens "an American hero" and who in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks wrote an essay for The Huffington Post website in which he defended Stevens for reaching out to Libyans in ways that were unconventional for American envoys, who more often are cloistered in heavily guarded compounds such as Baghdad's notorious Green Zone.
A first draft of the essay had to be toned down, Anderson said, because his anger overshadowed the points he wanted to make about Stevens' legacy.
"He was not careless. He was not cavalier. He was realistic, but he made some very pragmatic decisions," Anderson said. "We will always have people who take risks on behalf of our country because they think it's worth it."
Since then, Anderson has become more contemplative about Stevens' take on security and finds himself mulling his own conduct in Libya: a senior American jurist cruising Tripoli streets in an ordinary car with a local driver — without bodyguards or weapons.
"You're there doing good, and because you're doing the right thing, you feel a certain kind of immunity," Anderson said. "Well, that's not the way it is, of course."
It was easy to feel welcome in Libya, Anderson recalled, despite signs of declining security. Just a week before his arrival in June, a disgruntled militia seized control of the Tripoli airport. But Anderson decided to stick with his plans, and he felt vindicated when the passenger next to him on the plane into Tripoli thanked him for American support in the NATO intervention that was vital to the rebel victory over former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The gratitude was even more remarkable, Anderson said, because of the man's story: The fellow passenger was an oil worker whose brother, a physician in Colorado, had flown back to Libya to fight with the rebels and was killed by NATO forces, who'd mistaken his unit for regime loyalists because they'd just captured a government tank.
"He'd lost his own brother, and he said, 'Our country is grateful because so many other people would've died if you hadn't intervened,' " Anderson recalled.
The American Bar Association, sponsor of the courts-building initiative Anderson was there to work on, had a representative meet the judge at the airport and take him to a compound where American oil workers had lived during Gadhafi's era. It was all but deserted, with just the Scottish manager and a handful of other guests still present. Anderson said there was no security, save for some coils of razor wire and a front gate. He could hear gunshots ring out at night.
Security wasn't much more advanced at the U.S. embassy, which Anderson entered after driving down an alley and through a gate. It was a far cry from the layers of security checks he'd encountered while working on similar legal initiatives in El Salvador and the Philippines. Anderson said he'd shrugged off the embassy's vulnerability as "a work in progress."
"I'm not critical of it. My impression was, 'I've seen better,' but, gosh, they'd only been there a short time," he said. "We're trying to win the hearts and minds of these people. Is it worth the risk? Yeah. We're not selling our military power."
Anderson was supposed to spend half an hour with the ambassador, but it stretched to double the allotted time as the two talked law, security and Middle Eastern politics. He said Stevens was worried about the struggle to build a police force. The ambassador didn't like that so much of the policing was falling to the militias, former rebels who'd refused to disband and disarm after Gadhafi's fall. Anderson said Stevens described tribalism and the proliferation of loose weapons as other threats to democracy building.
Anderson said he'd asked Stevens directly whether he was safe as an American visitor to Libya.
"He said, 'Yeah, you're pretty safe if you exercise caution, don't go out at night and avoid certain neighborhoods,' " Anderson recalled. "He said, 'It's dangerous, no question. But use common sense and you'll be OK.' "
Anderson and Stevens said goodbye with plans to meet again in October, when the judge had hoped to return to check on the progress of the justice system. Anderson said he'd followed the ambassador's advice about being cautious, but he couldn't help sneaking in a little sightseeing at Libya's historic attractions.
"This is from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli," Anderson said. "Could I not walk around the castle in the Marine Hymn?"
Anderson didn't make it to Benghazi. He ran out of time before he could visit the eastern cradle of the revolt, a place for which Stevens had a particular fondness.
"He came into Benghazi when it was under siege," Anderson said. "Stevens prevented a lot of deaths there, and I think he knew that and thought he would be safe, that friends would make sure the word was out and he was protected. And, of course, it didn't work out like that."

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10 Tips for Ride-Alongs
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4) Don't Touch!
Most officers will give you a tour of the car when you start the shift. They'll show you the radio that is their lifeline to communications. As the officers and tele-communicators in PoliceLink-land know, the dispatcher is an important person to the responding law enforcer. If they are in trouble, the radio is the conduit for getting help.
Don't play with the radio or change the frequency channel. Officers are very protective of the controls in their "cockpit." If they do instruct you to call for help, or you have to do so when they can't, press the button on the side of the microphone for a moment to allow the repeater to kick in. Then talk clearly and succinctly. Let go of the button to allow the dispatcher and other units to talk. Be sure to know which is the radio microphone and which is the public address (P.A.) mike.
And while we're at it, don't touch the radio to change the station or CD. Depending on departmental regulations, some officers with take home cars are able to install satellite radio, CDs, and other audio devices. The same goes for the in-car computer. This is their mobile office and they spend eight, ten, twelve plus hour shifts in this environment. They have preferences on how things are arranged and will not appreciate a visitor altering things without being requested to do so.


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A player in my live fantasy draft picked 4 RBs in the first 4 round (you can only start 2 in this league, no W/R flex). He gloated about it because 'everyone'll have to trade with me to get good RBs.'
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The day after the draft, this guy trades me Marshawn Lynch (his first rounder) and Anquan Boldin for Vincent Jackson (my seventh rounder) and Denarius Moore.
So instead of just picking a great player in the first round, he got Vincent Jackson for his first round back. And we swap WR3s.
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1. Flowers Earns SEC Honor
Arkansas defensive end Trey Flowers was named Southeastern Conference defensive lineman of the week Monday.
Flowers was recognized by the conference after recording three tackles for losses, two sacks and a forced fumble in the 34-14 win against Louisiana-Lafayette last Saturday. He led an Arkansas defense that held ULL to 274 yards, collected four sacks and forced two turnovers in the win.
"The thing about Trey is that he reminds me of my man (former Wisconsin and current Houston Texans defensive end) J.J. Watt in that he gets stronger as the game goes on just because he goes so much harder than everybody else," Bielema said. "There toward the end, he was just kind of having his way with people. And that is what I think you will see show up more than ever."
Flowers' biggest moment came two plays after Arkansas committed its only turnover. Louisiana-Lafayette had the ball near midfield and trailed 20-7, but Flowers helped the Razorbacks protect the lead.
He beat ULL's left tackle, hit quarterback Terrance Broadway and stripped the football. Linebacker Austin Jones recovered the ball and the Razorbacks marched downfield to score a touchdown, opening up a 20-point lead.
Arkansas named Flowers his team's defensive player of the week for his efforts.
"He consistently was around the quarterback making plays," Arkansas defensive coordinator Chris Ash said. "He was doing a great job in the run game with his gap and playing the quarterback on some zone reads. He really stood out to me."
2. Injury Updates
Two key players suffered injuries during the season opener, but Bielema was optimistic both will be available for Saturday's game against Samford.
Running back Jonathan Williams suffered a shoulder stinger in the first half, but returned after the break to finish with a game-high 151 rushing yards.
"He's a little bit sore, but it shouldn't be an issue moving forward," Bielema said.
Safety Rohan Gaines left in the fourth quarter after his left leg whipped into teammate Darius Philon. The knee injury will keep Gaines out early this week
"We hope to get him back midweek and hope to have him repping and practicing and to be ready for Saturday," Bielema said.
3. New Father Mitchel
Arkansas cornerback Tevin Mitchel had seven tackles Saturday, equaling linebacker Jarrett Lake for the team lead against Louisiana-Lafayette.
Bielema said he was really impressed by the junior's performance because of another reason: Mitchel became a father Friday.
Bielema said Mitchel was not with the team Friday, but did rejoin them late that night as they prepared for the opener. Bielema said Mitchel was smiling "ear-to-ear."
"To play the way that he did, to me, says a lot about him," Bielema said. "I know he's a guy that's got a lot of talent. In the past he might've been up and down. Really, there was just one point in fall camp where he and I had a discussion about, hey, you've got to handle this better than that because he had been Mr. Consistent."
4. Extra Points
Bielema believes center Travis Swanson will thrive in Arkansas' offense this season and the senior disappoint in the opener. In fact, Swanson even surprised Bielema by recording 16 knockdown blocks. Bielema described the number as "absolutely insane." … Freshmen WR Melvinson Hartfield and S Korliss Marshall did not play Saturday, although Bielema said both were "prepared." Bielema said the timing wasn't right and both still could "get involved in some special teams." … Bielema said Arkansas will dedicate the first 15 to 20 minutes of individual drills in practice this week to correcting mistakes. "If we're tight ends and we couldn't block the D-ends on a certain play, I want to see that in your individual work," Bielema said. "If you're a running back that had loose ball security, I want to see an emphasis on that." … S Davyon McKinney wasn't with the team for the ULL win. Bielema said McKinney's grandfather died last week and the funeral was held Saturday.
— Robbie Neiswanger • Arkansas News Bureau


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Down_With_Buffalo, 16 May 2007 @ 8:29am
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Team Tutorials, 16 May 2007 @ 8:38am
FlamebaitEvery post that you guys mention H1-B is sure to set off a flame war. I am usually against foreign workers taking y job, but the comment you made about "better for us then against us" makes some sense. However, the point is that American workers are losing jobs either way. So I guess we choose the lesser of two evils?
markus, 16 May 2007 @ 9:37am
Re: Flamebaitsurvival of the fittest my friend
Ray, 8 Sep 2011 @ 1:57am
Re: FlamebaitEven better idea. Force them into contracts whereby they have to work for a U.S. company or corporation that develops products that keep the patents they make for 4-10 years, depending on the degree they acquire. This way, by the time they go back to their countries, we will be ahead of them as far as technology and they can then be behind our innovation that their brightest minds created.
Ray, 8 Sep 2011 @ 1:57am
Re: FlamebaitEven better idea. Force them into contracts whereby they have to work for a U.S. company or corporation that develops products that keep the patents they make for 4-10 years, depending on the degree they acquire. This way, by the time they go back to their countries, we will be ahead of them as far as technology and they can then be behind our innovation that their brightest minds created.
Steven, 16 May 2007 @ 8:45am
Waiting for evidence.I keep hearing that having foreign workers take jobs in the US is taking jobs away from Americans. I have yet to see anybody provide any evidence.
Maybe they do, although I doubt it, but some evidence rather than baseless claims would be nice (of course most of these arguments wouldn't get very far without the baseless claims).
Steevo, 16 May 2007 @ 9:23am
Re: Waiting for evidence.You want evidence?
Take a look at this:
about programmer Michael Emmons, who worked for Siemens ICN in Florida.
The company imported Indian workers to sit at the fired American's former desks, and do their jobs.
Not as employees, but as contract employees hired through an Indian agency.
The agency paid their salaries back in India, they made no money in the US, but were paid "expenses" which were then tax free.
So here you have people living here in the US, using our roads, sewage system, police services, etc. Paying no taxes whatsoever since they made no money here.
The company had to pay no social security or medicare taxes as they did for their American workers. They saved a bundle, even if the salary were the same (but I'm sure it's not).
That's a distortion of the way the system is supposed to work. Outrageous.
Admittedly these are seemingly another flavor of work visa, L1, but who really cares if the company can get rid of the Americans and replace them with foreigners that they save money on. And suck money out of the social security and medicare system so those of us that are left paying taxes have to make up the difference.
SailorRipley, 17 May 2007 @ 10:50am
Re: Re: Waiting for evidence.And if you (have) read the article above, it clearly says: "And, certainly, it looks like some politicians are looking to crack down on the abuses of the program."
Your example, just like any example of that sort, is not an argument against the visas, but against abuse(s) of the program, because guess what...it IS an abuse of the program...that doesn't make the program bad, it just makes the way it is (not) regulated/checked on bad
Steevo, 17 May 2007 @ 6:33pm
Re: Re: Re: Waiting for evidence.Your example, just like any example of that sort, is not an argument against the visas, but against abuse(s) of the program, because guess what...it IS an abuse of the program...that doesn't make the program bad, it just makes the way it is (not) regulated/checked on bad
I completely disagree. If the visas can be used like this and abused, they should be done away with.
The issue here is the true purpose of immigration. Why do we have an immigration system?
It's not so people can come here from another country in the third world and send money back to keep their family from starving.
It's not so people who don't like where they are can come here and have a better life.
It's not so companies can hire workers for much less than people who own homes and cars and have a family and a life can afford to work for.
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 9:27am
Re: Waiting for evidence.The fact that those jobs will not be filled by Americans. If they weren't there, then an American would have a job. Its not like these jobs magically appear in the foreigner's presence and disappear if they aren't there. Every job a foreigner has would have to go to an American if there was no H1-B program. How can they *not* be taking jobs away from Americans?
Granted, I'm somewhat neutral on the subject, but there's no way you can make an argument that its not taking jobs away from Americans. There's a finite number of jobs. If they're filled in by people with H1-Bs then they can't be filled by an American.
You're obviously not in the tech sector. If you are, you need to brush up on your math and logic skills.
Jason, 16 May 2007 @ 2:02pm
Re: Waiting for evidence.Evidence? Go check the unemployment numbers for the sector...
bshock, 16 May 2007 @ 8:49amHow very wise and even-minded of you to dismiss widespread corruption by noting briefly that "it's true that some companies abuse the system." Perhaps you're one of those neoconservative geniuses who believes that government oversight and control is what's holding back real prosperity in the U.S. Congratulations on how that plan worked in Russia and Iraq.
Lewis Salem, 16 May 2007 @ 9:06am
Fabrication.Many of these people are not highly trained. Many of them have fabricated resumes and lower bill rates. I don't blame them, many times their resumes are inflated by contract houses. I have experienced this first hand.
Beefcake, 16 May 2007 @ 9:20am
Re: Fabrication.Yeah, like no native-born American engineer ever falsified a resume, and the posers are pretty quickly weeded out anyway, regardless of their nation of origin. What it boils down to is if you want the strongest tech sector in the world, you need the strongest people in the world. If you can't compete, blame your own education.
I suppose Yao Ming took away an NBA position from an American too.
Jason, 16 May 2007 @ 2:06pm
Re: Re: Fabrication.But you aren't building the strongest tech sector in the world, because none of the developers are yours to claim!
Loving the warped logic in the article AND in the comments...
Hulser, 16 May 2007 @ 9:17am"Companies that hire H1-Bs are supposed to pay them the prevailing wage for that job, so it shouldn't be possible to use it for "cheap" labor, as many imply."
But even if you pay an employee based on the prevailing standards, this doesn't account for unbilled hours. Whether someone is getting paid by the hour or a salary, there is an incentive for the employer get as much out of the employee at the lowest cost. For someone who is on an H1-B visa, this may mean undue pressure to work extra hours that are not accounted for in the employee's wage or salary. So, on paper the H1-B visa may be getting the prevailing wage, but when you look the per hour cost, they could actually be making much less.
As a side note, I would generally agree that the abuses should be addressed before deciding to revamp the entire system, but I just don't think the counter argument to the "cheap labor" issue is completely valid.
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 9:24amThis is the same problem as everywhere. When you have a rule like the H1-B caps, it blocks the forthright people following the spirit and letter of the law, while letting in a bunch of resume lying bottom feeders. You can't keep out the people you dont want without also keeping out the people you do want--government is incapable of casting a narrow, precise net. The system will be gamed.
BeeBee, 16 May 2007 @ 9:31am
Microsoft and H1-B"Companies that hire H1-Bs are supposed to pay them the prevailing wage for that job" is showing ignorance of the facts. Gates is a promoter of more H1-B visas, but lies about the reasons. See
In other words, he claims to pay them prevailing rates, but in reality only 3.3% got the normal rates. The other 96.7% received rates lower than average.
In short - proof that H1-B visas is used to get cheap labor, because US employees are too expensive.
Overcast, 16 May 2007 @ 9:42am"Perhaps you're one of those neoconservative geniuses who believes that government oversight and control is what's holding back real prosperity in the U.S. Congratulations on how that plan worked in Russia and Iraq."
Russia and Iraq's problem is FROM years of government control....
The US isn't a great nation because of government control, but rather from a lack of it. The whole reason this country was founded was to escape government control.
But the government will always take care of us...... huh?
Bill Gates, 16 May 2007 @ 10:02amOnly lawyer could understand why engineers get upset when they get fired and replaced by H-1B workers then have to suffer the indignity of training their replacement to collect severence.
Yeh, it shouldn't be possible to abuse the system but the American Immigration Lawyers Association makes sure the law is designed to that it can be abused with impunity.
Let's change the law to allow anyone licensed to practice law in another country to practice law in the U.S. on an H-1B visa. Then let's see of the lawyers would support the H-1B program.
DCX2, 16 May 2007 @ 10:02am
CompetitionOf course, if they keep all these smart, skilled foreigners working at foreign companies, and those companies put the American companies out of business, it seems like there are a lot more jobs to lose.
Last time I checked, competition isn't about putting people out of business, but driving innovation.
My memory is a bit hazy...but...I think I see something...about Japanese auto-makers creating competition for American auto-makers...
noname, 16 May 2007 @ 10:15amHow about you prepare yourself better than those people? That way you can't be replaced. Make the company you work for depend on you and you would be good to go. bye.
Person, 16 May 2007 @ 10:31am
Not a level playing fieldWhat you don't get is that competition and innovation is devalued compared to short term profits in CEO and board member's pockets. It's not about technical achievements or skills...it's all about greed. People don't often talk about it but there is a real fear by many non-tech people of technology. Small minded people fear change...and technology is all about constant change. They know they need it but they disrespect the people in their organizations who know something about it. So all of you who think you are sitting there absolutely irreplaceable due to your "innovation" and superior knowledge...CEO's consider everyone replaceable if it boosts up their compensation package. As far as the outlook for laid off tech workers, in the US conversely if you do search for a job at a lower rate then your experience and education would indicate you are looked at with suspicion and won't be hired. As for this boost to the Indian economy, might take time but eventually this will all hit India too when someone figures out an even cheaper way to do things than to hire Indian technical workers.
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 10:38am
Horrible planHaving no cap on H1-B visa's and green cards is about the stupidest idea I've heard of in a long time.
Just look at what has taken place at the low end of the job market. With weak immigration enforcement, the market has been flooded with cheap labor. Americans in many of these sectors have to compete with foreigners who will work for next to nothing. This has caused an actual DECREASE in wages for people in these jobs. You always hear "Americans won't do those jobs.", but what you don't hear is the entire sentence...."Americans won't do those jobs....FOR SLAVE LABOR WAGES."
Without a cap, the same thing will happen on the upper end of the job market. Our system will be flooded with foreigners who want to work here. Of course they will get the "prevailing wage" because the market with be filled with people to fill the job. That will cause wages to stagnate or actually decrease.
Businesses will support it because it helps their bottom line. They don't actually care about employees....Not when they can "care" about someone else at a lower rate.
Ikey Benney, On Outsourcing US jobs and Foreign Wo, 16 May 2007 @ 10:38am
Foreign workings working for US CorporationsThis is an insightful article.
The issue is that if all the US jobs are outsourced to overseas' countries and the remaining ones are given to foreign workers, what will be left for US citizens? This is the real issue.
Ikey Benney
BillGod, 16 May 2007 @ 10:50am
here's my problem with itThe original article was referring to a company like WiPro. My former employer bought into WiPro and they sent several developers over and they started working there. After a year 100 employees in the company were "let go" due to "lack of funds" and all their jobs were sent overseas.. to whom??? WiPro! The come in and latch into your company then since you already have a working relationship with them start to attack customer support / IT / development. Next thing you know several of your friends are working somewhere else. Only to find out 2 years later that the company ended up having to bring back several people and drop WiPro all together due to lack of communication and a 12 hour time difference. I have several friends that have come from India, China, Russia and work here under these conditions. Thats fine with me. Its evil companies like WiPro that should never be a loud to come into this country.
Instructor, 16 May 2007 @ 10:56am
Illegal H1-b sweatshop
I was the token white guy in an H1-b sweatshop run by a contract agency. I wasn't paid all that well, but in 2002, any job was better than no job. And I was paid substantially more than any other person working there, simply because I was a US citizen, and had some recourse -- they couldn't deport me. It was perhaps the most depressing job I have ever held in my life.
Most of those Indian and Chinese H1-b workers routinely put in 16-hour days -- on straight salary, with no insurance or other benefits (I found that out because, among other things, I had an active insurance license at the time, and I got many questions about health insurance from those people). The reason I was eventually fired (I wasn't actually fired, but they made it worth my while to quit) was for "setting a bad example" and "negatively affecting morale", from an incident that occurred around 4:50 on a Friday afternoon. The supervisor (let's call him 'Ganesh') waddled in an announced that there would be a mandatory staff meeting at 6:00. As I got up to leave, I told 'Ganesh' in a not-so-quiet voice that if he wanted me to attend a meeting, he would have to arrange for it to happen during my contract-specified working hours. There was an audible gasp from the H1-b slaves.
Here's what life is like for the H1-b's that worked there: Oh, you want to complain about having to work 40+ hours of unpaid overtime every week? Try to find an attorney that will take the case, and good luck taking any legal action at all in 30 days, because your ass is fired, and you have 30 days to leave the country before we arrange to have you deported. Oh, and you won't be getting any last paycheck -- now get out.
To reform H1-b, you would simply need to make the H1-b 'portable', so that an H1-b who found a job intolerable could go elsewhere without getting deported. However, the folks that pushed H1-b into law were SPECIFICALLY opposed to exactly that idea (which was actually proposed).
Your ramblings about the 'benefits' of the H1-b program indicate to me that you have no clue what you are talking/writing about. H1-b is pure domestic job destruction, solely for the purpose of depressing wages.
Nick, 16 May 2007 @ 11:03amI've been IT recruiting for the past 10 years. For a good 3 years after the tech crash (01) US workers were available in abundance. Right now if I can find a qualified US IT worker I'm very happy. We need more American IS/CS and engineering college grads, period. Instead American kids seem to be getting degrees in either something very generic, like "Business Administration" or something completely worthless in the marketplace like "women's studies" or basketweaving or whatever.
In the meantime, I'm having to fill jobs with "foreign" workers more and more (GC and/or H1). But you know what? In general they are hungrier and better educated.
I say bring the best and brightest in, and encourage our own to start getting educated in areas that matter.
sam, 16 May 2007 @ 6:57pm
Re:hey nick...
funny you should post... i know a guy in the san jose area. he's got a strong engineering/software background, with an mba.. he can't find a project/product mgr function... he's in his 40's.
the entry level jobs think he's going to run if a better one comes along, the more experienced jobs seem to be too narrow in what they're looking for.
he was actually told by a headhunter to 'dumb' down his resume!!
so, where are all these jobs that he keeps seeing out here...
if i hadn't seen it/witnessed it myself, i woudn't have believed it. but i'm starting to side with the people who are saying that if a US guy is available, then the US guy should get the job 1st...
Wabewalker, 16 May 2007 @ 11:06am
It cuts both waysOne thing often overlooked by the proponents of H-1B's is that the workers are practically indentured servants; they end up trapped in their jobs until they find someone willing to pay for their VISA transfers, and that rarely happens.
The old joke about stealing away a married man ("Honey, there are two types of men in the world: those that always leave their wives, and those that never do") applies to hiring H-1B's too. Employers are not going to hire an H-1B that is gainfully employed; but the only way an H-1B can stay is to remain employed. Thus, he's trapped in his job no matter how demeaning (and in one case, criminal) it is. They cannot even change roles within the company without it being considered a status violation.
I've known a handful of H-1B's and they run the full gamut in terms of intelligence and skill. But I have never met one that didn't feel stuck in his position. That's the appeal for corporations; not the wages (yes, they are lower, but not by much), not the skills, but the virtual enslavement. The recent boom in startups has dramatically increased the churn in the big tech companies, and that's embarrassing to report to the stockholders.
Citizens are allowed to work at-will, and that gives them mobility that ruins corporate planning. It's very disconcerting when you are trying to meet a deadline and half your development team quits to form a start-up.
If the government were to give H-1B's better, less expensive mobility options and longer periods to remain unemployed, the advantages would disappear.
Steven Leach, 16 May 2007 @ 11:11am
H1-BI worked for a company that was bought out by an Israeli company , and they sent all of the new software projects to Israel. So us software engineers set up another company and provided a similar product with a different database, and were sued out of existance by our original company. My opinion is let the people come here and work.
I currently work for a company where 3/4 teh software engineers are Master or PhD people, and they program/engineer no better than people with the same amount of experience, they just happen to know something in a very narrow field, and they WANT TO KEEP ALL US CAUCASIANS OUT !!!!
So while I am happy to have a job, I can tell you the mentality of the fedulism is very rampant in the minority population which includes these H1-B graduates. I am in constant fear that I will lose my job, simply because I am not from their countries, and so am suspected by these superior graduates. The fact that I have 3 master's degrees from Stanford, and USC and have 20 years experience seems not to give them any pause that I might actually be able to help and be productive. I am just kept around to satisfy the government requirements.
Oh well I have a paying job, and after being laid off from another company maybe I am being paranoid, or maybe I am not.
erinol0, 16 May 2007 @ 11:12amFisrt off, I'm an software engineer, and I too want to keep my job (and good salary). But the problem here is the same as with anything else that Mike brings up on Techdirt.
Things are always changing, and you can't count on the system to stay the same. We get angry at the RIAA and MPAA for wanting to eliminate threats to their business model. No one likes them, or cares about them. We all want them to adapt and innovate in the market or just go away.
Why should it be different for engineers? We, too, need to adapt to the market. So, to all the great individuals who have created innovative solutions to your employer's problems I say create an innovative solution to your own problems.
Jason, 16 May 2007 @ 2:16pm
Re:Lol - any suggestions or are they going to be just as ambiguous...
Something like "If you don't want to be poor, then be rich!" type stuff...
Great stuff Aristotle
angry dude, 16 May 2007 @ 11:15am
Mike's cluelessness"Your ramblings about the 'benefits' of the H1-b program indicate to me that you have no clue what you are talking/writing about."
Relax dude,
Mike is well known for being clueless whether he talks about patents or tech immigration...
Mike, give it up, dude - it's just getting ridiculous
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 11:22am
American EducationIt is to bad these hiring companies don't put some money into the American Education system so that they can guarantee a future work force. I have always thought someone like Microsoft or Cisco should open their own schools for K-12. This would ensure that they have an up and coming work force to hire from.
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 11:24amIf their were insufficent skilled workers to fill all of the tech jobs available at fair-market wages, then the author would be correct. If 100% of foreign workers were comming to the US bringing with them higher skill levels than native workers, with the intent of becomming citizens, the author would be correct. If, given the above, these workers were also retaining their earnings in the US and not subsidizing families and investments in their home countries in preparation for their eventual return, the author would be correct.
Sadly, the author has apparently contracted "political correctness"
The poster of WAITING FOR EVIDENCE is correct. The H1-B program's only practical affect is to unfairly shift the supply demand matrix in the technical arena to create a buyer's market for services, thus if not effectively lowering wages and benefits short term, preventing wages from adjusting upwards to their true, market driven, value long term while effectively reducing the tax base both long and short term, as well as removing significant revenue from the national economy (the majority of foreign workers send a good portion of their earned income overseas). This is pretty much the opposite of the way a capitalist market is supposed to work. And by so doing it creates a disincentive for improvements in the educational system and work ethic of native workers.
And it is not just the IT field that is being affected. In all of the applied sciences lower wage foreign workers are being brought in under special work visa's in order to displace higher paid and more experienced american workers. At the same time the US education system is being diluted to the point where we can not produce the workers needed, and by lowering the number of slots open to US workers, we drive down students incentives to train for those positions.
And, as to those workers being "highly skilled", or "posers being weeded out early", this is by and large incorrect.
Rather than expend resources proping up an unnecessary H1-B visa program that subverts the very economic system we hold up as an example to the rest of the world, we need to turn those resources back into our education system.
Perhaps the US should heed the wishes of Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and other great former leaders and return to an isolationist, America First, agenda.
Re:If their were insufficent skilled workers to fill all of the tech jobs available at fair-market wages, then the author would be correct.
Hmmmmmm. Let's see, IT unemployment is at its lowest in ages and companies are having a difficult time hiring:
Meanwhile, wages are up:
Which would suggest (as you point out) that I'm correct. So why is the rest of your article saying I'm not? You've got me confused...
The H1-B program's only practical affect is to unfairly shift the supply demand matrix in the technical arena to create a buyer's market for services, thus if not effectively lowering wages and benefits short term, preventing wages from adjusting upwards to their true, market driven, value long term while effectively reducing the tax base both long and short term, as well as removing significant revenue from the national economy
I see. So you prefer it when these foreign workers work in their home countries, build up companies that knock US firms out of business, so that the US gets none of the benefits and loses many more jobs?
You are extremely confused about how both capitalism and markets work. It is not a zero-sum game. Having a job for a smart foreigner does not mean a job is lost for an American. If the foreigner can create economic growth, that can create many more jobs. Having the smartest people working in your country for your companies is the best way to create that growth. Forcing them out is the best way to destroy value.
Perhaps the US should heed the wishes of Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and other great former leaders and return to an isolationist, America First, agenda.
Yeah, because the history of protectionism is that it destroys economies. That's *just* what we want.
Himey, 16 May 2007 @ 6:02pm
Re: Re:Mike,
I'm a regular reader of Techdirt and I've noticed that "not a zero-sum game" has become quite the buzzword around here lately. For many things, this is very true. It is probably even true in this case.
However, the stance you're taking is great if you look at it like you're a politician or one of the greedy CEO's of one of these companies who is trying to line his pockets and squeeze out every last dime for the fatcat shareholders.
The rest of us are all grunts out in the field. We're seeing it...We're living it. We are the ones feeling the pinches & pressures.
Sure....Wages are up and unemployment is down. Wages might be up even more if it weren't for the H1-B Indians keeping the average wage down. I'm sure you'll say that would force many of the jobs offshore to India. I'm fine with that because I'm confident that most of those jobs will come back when management finds that the talent pool isn't as skilled as ours and it really isn't any cheaper to do substandard work on the other side of the world.
Now before anyone tells me to go read the book "The World Is Flat" let me state that I have. I also think it is mostly a load of crap. I don't agree with the author that we should basically give up on any job that can be done remotely and wait for the next magic industry to just appear and give us all new jobs.
Re: Re: Re:However, the stance you're taking is great if you look at it like you're a politician or one of the greedy CEO's of one of these companies who is trying to line his pockets and squeeze out every last dime for the fatcat shareholders.
The rest of us are all grunts out in the field. We're seeing it...We're living it. We are the ones feeling the pinches & pressures.
Indeed, I'm not saying it might not be painful, but, honestly, what's your solution? It's to sit tight and wait for the Indian competition to your company to force it out of business? How does that help you?
You even admit it's a non-zero sum game. You even admit that hiring is tight. You even admit that wages are up. So why are you complaining?
Himey, 16 May 2007 @ 6:39pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:The "solution" is probably way to long to address here and would take a whole series of articles like the Economics of Non-Scare Items articles that you guys have done.
This is just one of many problems that have the US in a pretty messed up position. We still have the strongest economy in the world, but that will change within our lifetimes. I'd say that it is pretty likely that we could fall out of the top 3 within the next 50 years.
The world is in for some BIG changes over the next couple of decades and I don't think any of them will be good for the US. All of our current policies...from economics to military to foreign relations...are leading us right down that path.
Inviting your competition into your work place and training him how to do your job doesn't seem like the smartest competitive move on our part. It may show short-term gains for the US economy, but will hurt us in the long run.
IronChef, 17 May 2007 @ 1:02am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:If you have a moment, check out all the real basic questions that start coming through some of the Google & Yahoo Groups on advanced ERP skillsets like ABAP programming, MM, and other SAP-related topics.
Hi to experts,
i have a doubt.
1. how can we define a 'client' in SAP..?
pls, be send me the reply immediately..
If one doesn't know basic terminology about SAP, please step away from the production system immediately.
A few weeks ago there was a round of emails about lying on resumes, and how it was substantiated as "ok" by the community.
The trouble is that as a nation, we don't want to take the $7.00/hr jobs, and we also don't want the $150/hr jobs. One doesn't pay enough, the other is "too hard."
While maintaining the lead in tech is a great feat, we should start teaching some of these server-based ERP, and other technology in HS. Apparently in Germany, SAP is a part of high school curriculum.. We're so behind it's not even funny-- We're so lazy, now insourcing labor... Imagine that.
Anonymous Coward, 17 May 2007 @ 7:59am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Check the grammar and punctuation on the majority of these questions and it becomes clear that the petitioner is not a native speaker of English.
Also, short term foreign workers do not equal long term strengthening of the economy. If the H1-B's were tied to permanent immigration AND extremely limited ability to tranfer income earned here overseas, then maybe Mike would be correct.
Also, using your own prior articles as evidence that your current article's assumptions are correct is, well,
Foreign Worker, 16 May 2007 @ 6:03pm
Re: Re:Well SaidI completely agree with Mark...The world is changing...My US friends let's build a bright future together...God bless America and rest of the world.
tracker1, 16 May 2007 @ 11:53am
How about a salary floor for H1Bs?I think there should be a salary floor of $80k/year or $55/hr for H1Bs, simply because the stated purpose is to fill a need that is under-served... this would prevent a lot of the abuse in places that bring in H1Bs simply to replace local/native employees.
Frankly Speaking, 16 May 2007 @ 11:59am
You must be kidding!!! Do you work for the AmericaFirst, you don't define "prevailing wage". Wages, in the marketplace are a range, not fixed amount and H1's get paid at the bottom of the range. This eventually erodes the range and mathematically becomes "cheap labor." You are also too late. This is not a discussion about what could happen; it's already happening. The salary range for most positions has been eroding for many years due to this. You just don't know it. Translation: you are not qualified to even write this article.
Second, the abuses are everywhere and all companies have found loopholes and un-audited ways to hire illegally. GE replaced me and others with contractors from Birlasoft. Birlasoft hired an Indian who had been under contract, let go, sat around the U.S. for over 9 months and then got a new H1 contract w/Birlasoft. He should have been deported. Birlasoft should not be hiring H1's from within the US.
Third: To allow no limits on H1's would make big busisness wet their pants. They know that H1's won't complain, will work 80 hour weeks, and can be done as contractors so no HR issues. IF you remove H1 limits, the so-called "prevailing wage" will drop even further as companies use the lowest dollar amount they can get away with. It follows that U.S. workers will have to accept jobs at H1 wages.
Lastly, H1's are a modern day version of servitude. I would see 8 or more pile out of a van every morning (and that's just one of many vans) from their 2-3 bedroom apt where they live in bunk beds.
You getting this??? Wake up a**hole!!
Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2007 @ 3:31pmIMO, The problem with mixing unlimited H1-B visas and the software development industry, is that there are no industry standards for competence. I could have stopped by the local community college and picked up 4 or 5 guys better than the H1-B people I work with. The company doesnt care because the H1-Bs are willing to work for peanuts, and there are a ton of them. Its a lot EASIER (and cheaper) to hire H1-Bs in bulk than to slowly build a team of US folks willing to relocate to your office.
There are always thousands of Indian guys willing to _say_ they can develop software ready to jump on site at a moment's notice. The companies that sponsor them are, in my experience, VERY loose with credentials. Most of them seem like they spent a few months at DeVry learning how to code then jumped on a plane.
Brandon, 17 May 2007 @ 12:51am
All of the H1-B visa engineers I've worked with arWhile I'm sure that some of these first hand anecdotes about H1-B visa sweat shops are true, let me tell you my first hand anecdote about working with H1-B visa engineers.
All of the H1-B visa engineers I've worked with are better engineers than you.
The company I work for has practically unlimited hiring of engineers, as long as they are excellent. And we hire hundreds of them a month. And we don't really care where they come from, as long as they speak english and they have excellent technical skills. We know they have excellent technical skills, because our interviews are amoung the most challenging.
And if we can't get the H1-B visas to have them work here, we'll hire them overseas in other countries where we can get visas for them. Or even in their home countries.
I can tell you first hand that if there were no H1-B visas, we wouldn't hire you. They aren't taking your job, they're taking a job you can't have.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you are qualified, you just haven't tried, or maybe you insist on living somewhere where there aren't good engineering jobs. In either case, they still aren't taking your job.
Yes, its a bitch to compete against the best and brightest in the whole world, and not just in the US.
I don't know what the solution is, how to prevent the abuses you've seen, but provide me with the best engineers regardless of nationality.
smartypants, 17 May 2007 @ 6:06am
Time to cull the dead woodCompetition is good and it will allow companies to cull out the incompetent, lazy and hygiene-challenged co-workers we all have to work with every day.
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•••• Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, which released "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" in February, is in financial hot water with the state of Rhode Island. Taking cash from the state to move from Massachusetts seemed like a good idea when the company was projecting huge sales from its games. Instead, 38 Studios can't pay its employees or pay the state back. Yikes. [The Boston Globe]
•••• Wired ran a gorgeous preview with lots of screens of the Unreal 4 Engine, which could be the backbone of next-gen console games. I gotta come clean, I'm totally ready for a new console. When, damn you?! When?! [Wired]
•••• "NHL 13" boats "the biggest change to the franchise since 'NHL 07'" with True Performance Skating, a physics enhancement that includes over 1,000 new skating animations. It's unclear whether it's the quality of the teams that make them or how well the sports lend themselves to video game adaptation, but "NHL" and "FIFA" are just head and shoulders above the rest.
•••• Zynga's stock price took a nose-dive with Facebook's IPA, and at one point NASDAQ actually had to freeze trading of the mobile and social game developer. [Techcrunch]
•••• "Diablo III" had its share of problems in its week. You know, in case you hadn't heard. [PC Mag]
Tweet of the Week
"SHOCKED to learn that none of the password security questions asked when installing Diablo III involve women, love or relationships." - @agentbizzle
Blowing Off Steam
The mishandling of "Diablo III's" launch is something that benefits Blizzard in no way whatsoever. They've acknowledged it, apologized for it and seemingly done their best to correct the errors, lag issues and server overloads that players experienced in the first 48 hours of the game being live. I don't have it in me to be mad at someone for these things. If you feel cheated out of that gaming time and disappointed with your "Diablo III" experience, I suppose it's your right to tweet angry things and leave 0/10 ratings in protest.
What I can't see anyone defending is the fact that the server issues need to exist in the first place, because "Diablo III" is more or less a solo-oriented experience. If constant connectivity weren't required to play the single player game, there would be a lot less to worry about on release night, wouldn't there?
The always-on digital rights management that being connected to a server provides protects Blizzard against game pirates and the lazy people who patronize them. It also allows Blizzard to monitor and keep above board the newly-sanctioned Real Money Auction House, which could become a nightmare if corrupted (and not in a cool way).
To me, it feels a little bit like buying a single-player game these days is like buying a phone at a reduced price with a two-year contract. Sure, Apple will let you buy an iPhone with no contract that you can do whatever you want with, but you're going to pay full freight for it (currently starting at $649).
Blizzard could certainly work the cost of piracy into the price of a game that lets you play it offline. For a title that people have been waiting a decade for, if the game is anywhere near good, people will pay it to experience it server-free. It's really unfortunate that DRM needs to be so intrusive and connectivity-dependent, but until high-speed broadband flows like tap water, this is not a great solution.
Really Important video
Embattled but loved "Community" on NBC is no stranger to exploring video games through its characters, especially Troy and Abed. Last night the show took it to new extremes with the episode entitled "Digital Estate Planning." Creator Dan Harmon is a big video gamer, often tweeting about "Skyrim" and "Minecraft," so it's not a surprise how well-executed the episode was. The fake game the players traverse through has elements of many classic 8-bit RPGs and side-scrolling adventures. There seems to be a pretty heavy "Zelda" vibe going on as well. Even if you're not a fan of the show, do yourself a favor and watch the episode. If you love video games, you will absolutely be floored.


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Research for Sex Work is a publication intended for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policymakers. It is published annually by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and is governed by an Editorial Board consisting of sex workers, staff of support organisations and researchers. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher or the donors.
The first seven issues of Research for Sex Work were published by VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Since 2004, the resource has been published by the NSWP. Research for Sex Work explores a different theme in each edition. Previous issues focused on peer education (1998), appropriate health services (1999), empowerment (2000), violence (2001), migration/mobility (2002), human rights (2003), ethics in health care and research (2004), law enforcement (2005), money (2006), sex workers' rights (2008), pleasure (2009) and violence (2010).
Research for Sex Work continues to offer its unique mix of articles from sex workers, sex work projects, and researchers; this invaluable combination provides insight from diverse perspectives.
Each edition of Research for Sex Work is produced in partnership with an NSWP member, under the guidance of an editorial board. All submissions are reviewed by sex workers – making it truly peer-reviewed by experts in sex work.
The 13th issue of Research for Sex Work is on the theme "HIV and Sex Work – The view from 2012" and was released on December 17, 2012.
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- Editorial (Laura María Agustín)
- Anti-Pornography Crackdowns: Sex Work and HIV in China (China Sex Worker Organisation Network Forum)
- Living With HIV: How I Treat Myself (Told by Diputo Lety to Elsa Oliveira)
- Men At Work: Male Sex Workers, HIV and the Law (Brendan Michael Conner)
- Blaming Disease On Female Sex Workers: A Long History (Tiphaine Besnard)
- Working With the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Empower Foundation Thailand)
- Sexual-Health Outreach in Machala, Ecuador (Asociación '22 de junio' and Colectivo Flor de Azalea)
- Promoting Sex Worker-Led Research in Namibia (Matthew Greenall and Abel Shinana)
- The Tide Can Not Be Turned Without Us (Cheryl Overs)
- Gay Parties and Male Sex Workers in Nigeria (Kehinde Okanlawon and Ade Iretunde)
- No Condoms as Evidence: A Sex-Worker Campaign in New York (Audacia Ray and Sarah Elspeth Patterson)
- 'The Space Which Is Not Mine': Sex Workers Living With HIV/AIDS in Venice and Edinburgh (Nicoletta Policek)
- Female-Condom Use in Zimbabwe, Cameroon and Nigeria (Winny Koster and Marije Groot Bruinderink)
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Sustainability: Less Talk - More Engineering
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In the last five years, sustainability and energy issues in general rose from obscurity to dominance in both the popular and technical press. In the process, the definitions, goals, and pathways seem to becoming more confused rather than more focused. This presentation discusses sustainability broadly and solutions specifically, focusing on recently developed comparatively efficient and inexpensive solutions. The most essential points include the following:
- The reputation of a lethargic and stagnant energy industry is largely a mischaracterization and has been for several decades. In reality, changes in the industry, specifically environmental improvements, are dramatic and very hard won.
- The challenges of the past pale in comparison to those of the future. There has never been a greater need for capable, well-trained, and innovative engineers in the industry.
- While renewable energy is essential and its expansion is important, solutions that rely entirely on renewable resources will require miraculous technology development.
- There is ample opportunity for solutions that involve continued use of some fossil energy.
- Ultimately, sustainability is going to require all of the following: increased renewable energy, increased nuclear power, better fossil energy, and a change in lifestyle.
- The leaders that can accomplish these goals are possibly among today's students and have a perhaps unprecedented challenge ahead of them.
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The Navy has committed to improving the living quarters for its enlisted personnel as part of its overall "Quality of Life" Initiative. In order to accomplish this objective quickly and cost-effectively, two public/private venture (PPV) pilot projects are underway, in San Diego and in Hampton Roads. The goal is to provide safe, secure and well-maintained housing accommodations with a particular focus on housing sailors E-1 through E-4 with fewer than four years of service. This project involves the privatization and improvement of seven existing buildings and the construction of approximately 2400 new bed spaces in the Hampton Roads area.
The Department of the Navy is able to provide its men and women with the best housing the marketplace has to offer. Through the Navy`s "Homeport Ashore" program, the goal is to provide quarters ashore for Sailors. Through these unique initiatives and a solid partnership with the U. S. Navy, HomePort Hampton Roads (HHR) is able to provide a forward-thinking housing program for enlisted Sailors.
In order to join us, you will need to bring a copy of your LES, your orders, a request CHIT signed by your Commanding Officer, and a completed application to the Bachelor Housing Central Check-in office located in O-22 (Groshong Hall).
The future of military unaccompanied housing for the U. S. Navy is now open. Be a part of it!


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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is set to join the ranks of celebrity sports team owners by purchasing a minority stake in his native Tennessee's Memphis Grizzlies.
The SexyBack hitmaker has agreed to become a shareholder in businessman Robert Pera's syndicate to buy the National Basketball Association (NBA) team, according to CommercialAppeal.com.
Pera agreed in principle to take over ownership of the Grizzlies in June (12) for a reported $350 million (£218.75 million), although the deal is still subject to approval by the NBA's majority owners before it can be made official.
If the deal gets the green light Timberlake won't be the first star to buy into an NBA team - rap icon Jay-Z is co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets and Will Smith has a stake in the Philadelphia 76ers.


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The Coeur d'Alene area is surrounded by dozens of lakes left behind by the glaciers of the ice age. There are more than 55 lakes within easy driving distance of Coeur d'Alene, but none more scenic and full of activities than Lake Coeur d'Alene itself. There are many fun lake activities from boat rentals, to paddle boarding, to eating at The Buoy Food Boat.
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