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As work on Beth Israel Medical Center's new alternative treatment facility nears completion, one big question looms in the mind of Dr. Woodson Merrell. As the executive director of what will formally be known as the hospital's Center for Health and Healing, he wonders just who will foot the bills.
More specifically, Dr. Merrell worries that most insurance companies will balk at paying for health care that still isn't considered mainstream. That would force patients to dig deep into their own pockets. "We don't want to be an elitist center where the care is all fee-for-service for people with big disposable incomes," says Dr. Merrell. "We want to be a model center that provides care to the full socioeconomic spectrum."
That will be a tough prescription to fill. Currently, neither Beth Israel nor other local hospitals -- ranging from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which just this month opened a dedicated outpatient facility for alternative care, to New York-Presbyterian -- has any clearer a vision as to who will cover alternative treatments.
The fact is that when it comes to services such as acupuncture, massage therapy, hypnosis and biofeedback, most insurers refuse to pay for most of them.
In fact, directors of complementary care centers complain that it's tough to find an insurer that includes more than one or two of these services in a standard benefits package.
Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, director of the mechanical assist device program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, is keenly aware of the problem. He regularly refers patients recovering from heart surgery to his hospital's 5-year-old complementary care program for pain relief. The rub is that their insurers rarely reimburse them for that care.
"Many insurance companies in the New York area are losing money, and I don't think that they're looking for more ways to spend," concludes Dr. Oz. He also notes that in spite of what those insurers' ads seem to promise, "they are denying payment for most claims I see submitted to them."
Oxford Health Plans Inc., one of the largest health maintenance organizations serving New York, is an example. It recently launched an advertising campaign touting its alternative care provider network, with practitioners ranging from acupuncturists and chiropractors to massage therapists and yoga instructors.
What may not be obvious from the ads is that Oxford isn't necessarily paying for that care. Instead, it offers plan members a list of licensed practitioners who have been approved by Oxford.
Reimbursements with referral
If subscribers receive treatment from these providers, they get no reimbursement, says Dr. James Dillard, medical director for alternative medicine at Oxford, based in Norwalk, Conn. They get the discounted rate that Oxford has negotiated.
Oxford members wanting to get some repayment must either have been referred by a physician or have an alternative medicine rider tacked on to their standard package of benefits. Even with that, though, only chiropractic and acupuncture are covered for New York area members.
"People think that they are entitled to services they don't get because they don't read the details of their insurance policies," notes Dr. Dillard. "There was a lot of misunderstanding of our program at first, but our payment policy is very specific."
At Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, coverage for chiropractic, acupuncture and biofeedback is provided under some but not all of its plans. The treatments must be deemed medically necessary and be offered by a licensed provider, says a spokesman for the Manhattan-based insurer.
Currently, Medicare beneficiaries aren't covered for acupuncture treatments, but Beth Israel's Dr. Merrell has not given up hope. He intends to apply for grants from government and private sources to fund an acupuncture study at the center that might lead to a broadening of coverage.
Dr. Merrell also is looking to partner with insurance companies on studies to identify which therapies have the best outcomes for specific conditions. He hopes the list of alternative treatments that get covered will be expanded once insurers see the potential benefits.
Drugs don't grow on trees
"It's a no-brainer that most herbs and vitamins are less expensive than pharmaceuticals," says Dr. Merrell. "Insurers will definitely pay for alternative treatment if it works and it's cheaper."
Generally speaking, cancer patients seem to have a better shot at reimbursement for alternative care than do other types of patients. Barrie Cassileth, chief of Sloan-Kettering's integrative medicine service, notes that many practitioners treating cancer patients report that their patients who submit bills for acupuncture, massage therapy and mind-body therapies find a check in the mail from their insurers.
"No one has a clear idea of what is reimbursable and under what circumstances," says Ms. Cassileth. "In many cases, we find that patients don't even try to get reimbursed."


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Nearly half of the world’s population is at risk for malaria. Malaria is a disease that is caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. Currently available treatments for malaria target the parasite, which results in an increased resistance against those treatments. This means that, in the long run, treatments that target the parasites alone are not ideal for treating malaria. The increasing resistance to current malaria treatments shows that there is a need for a malaria treatment that focuses on increasing the host’s defenses against the parasites.
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Taylor Swift can afford to keep up her Starbucks habit. The 21-year old, currently circling the globe on her Speak Now World Tour, is making more money than all of her country peers, according to Billboard.
Billboard compiled their list of the top income-earners from 2010 based solely on U.S. earnings, including record sales and tours. According to their data, Taylor earned a whopping $20,730,431 last year. The country phenomenon is just about $10 million behind music's top earner, pop phenom Lady Gaga, who raked in $30,556,342. Bon Jovi sit at No. 2 with $30,441,776 in 2010 earnings. Roger Waters takes the third slot, with $24,489,675. The Dave Matthews Band came in at No. 4 with $23,942,353, while Justin Bieber rounds out the Top 5 with $22,492,565.
Taylor isn't the only country star who celebrated the end of 2010 with a larger wallet. Nashville residents take over the Billboard list from No.s 12 - 14, with Brad Paisley making $13,955,990, Carrie Underwood right behind him at $13,501,387 and Tim McGraw only a few thousand behind her with $13,494,737. Rascal Flatts made it into the Top 20, coming in at No. 16 with $11,958,021.
Other country artists on Billboard's list of top earners include Toby Keith and Lady Antebellum making more than $9 million each. Retired duo Brooks & Dunn went out with a bang last year, making more than $8.5 million, while touring partners George Strait and Reba McEntire both adding over $7 million to their bank accounts. Finally, Sugarland wraps up the list, coming in at No. 39 with more than $4 million earned.
Tim McGraw was also recognized by Billboard for as having one of the top tours of 2010, while Taylor earned the honor of 'Top Package' for the Billboard Touring Awards. See her international concert schedule here.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland Mayor Jean Quan made history in January when she became the first Asian American woman to lead a major U.S. city. Less than a year later, the Democratic mayor is quickly losing support on all sides of the political spectrum, mostly over her handling of the city's violent Occupy Wall Street protests that drew heavy scrutiny.
Quan's critics say she has struggled to formulate a coherent response to the Occupy encampment that has overtaken the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall for the past few weeks. Police dismantled the camp last week before Quan allowed protesters to return a day later.
"It was sort of remarkable that she was able to alienate both sides," said University of San Francisco political scientist Corey Cook of Quan's relationship with protesters and police. "She has no friends at this point."
The "Occupy" movement, which began six weeks ago in New York City to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality, has spread to cities large and small across the country and around the world. Demonstrators have spent weeks camped out in parks, wearing at the patience of city officials — even those like Quan who have expressed some level of support for their cause.
Quan, 62, a former school board president and city council member, was surprisingly elected mayor last year, succeeding Ron Dellums. She defeated the heavily-favored front-runner, former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, in a narrow race thanks to the city's ranked-choice voting system.
Since then, Oakland's city attorney and police chief have both quit over philosophical differences with Quan and dozens of residents have recently signed a petition seeking to recall her.
But Dan Siegel, Quan's unpaid legal adviser and longtime friend, says she's doing an admirable job under the circumstances. Siegel, who teamed with Quan and her husband in the fight to create an ethnic studies program at the nearby University California, Berkeley in the 1960s, said the mayor hasn't gotten enough credit for balancing a budget, working with local unions seeking some concessions and hiring a reputable new city administrator.
"These are not ordinary times," Siegel said. "It's difficult, but that's what she signed up for."
Quan told reporters last week that being mayor definitely has been challenging.
"This is a pretty complex job, so I have to take everybody into account," Quan said.
Quan said she and the city support the Occupy Oakland movement and its planned general strike Wednesday, when protesters plan several large gatherings through downtown, culminating in an early evening march to the Port of Oakland.
City offices are to remain open Wednesday, but City Administrator Deanna Santana said workers can use vacation or other paid time off to participate in the strike.
Quan said she hoped Wednesday's strike would be peaceful and that she was working with police to ensure the protesters' issues are "front and center."
"The pro-99 percent activists — whose cause I support — will have the freedom to get their message across without the conflict that marred last week's events," Quan said in a statement Tuesday. "Although getting the balance right is never an easy task, in Oakland we are committed to honoring free speech and protecting public safety."
Despite Quan's vocal support for the Occupy movement, protesters heckled and booed her when she tried to speak to the group last week, sending her retreating into City Hall.
"You need a true leader. This is all too much for her. It's not her time," said Ken Houston, an Oakland resident who owns a local construction business and has spent several nights at the Occupy encampment.
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A Philadelphia burger spot famous for its outlandish offerings is now serving what’s potentially its biggest calorie bomb ever.
The weather is officially frigid, but here’s where to thaw out by the fireplace (or pit!) in Philadelphia.
There are a few restaurants in the Philadelphia area that can almost sate my hankering for Cuban cuisine when it strikes. Here’s where to go for a taste of an island that’s so close, yet—sadly—so far for most of us.
Rustic, cozy and/or covered in twinkling lights. Here are a few suggestions for where to wine and dine in the Philly area if you’re in need of that holiday spirit.
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These Philadelphia restaurants are serving up decadent Thanksgiving-inspired specials both before and after the holiday. Gobble gobble, my friends.
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The Deep-fried Twinkie Burger is just the latest offering from PYT, which is already famous in Philly for its rotating selection of oddball (and potentially heart-stopping) burgers.
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Head just 15 minutes northwest of Center City for an all-day foodie festival, followed by five days of discounted dishes at more than 20 restaurants.
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Center City Restaurant Week returns for its tenth anniversary this September, and here’s what you need to know to take advantage of it!
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Hi Timo, that's a real pity... I am in favour of going ahead with the
call tomorrow if only to get an update on how far we are on different
important tasks and to kickstart the work on a detailed plan with
mini-deadlines to get the website ready for launch on Tuesday December 4th.
On 09/25/2012 12:44 PM, Timo Lange, LobbyControl wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> unfortunately I won't be able to take part in the call tomorrow. An
> opportunity for an important meeting has come up and this will keep me
> busy until at least 5 pm.
> Nina will be out of office as well, so I do not really know if it's
> better to reschedule or not. If you think rescheduling is too much of an
> effort, go on with the call and make some good notes to keep me up-to-date.
> Sorry, Timo
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Barbara Harris has become, quite by accident, a missionary seeking to prevent the births of drug-addicted children. Talk to her detractors and they don't see her work as anything close to noble. The 47-year-old California mother is the founder of CRACK -- Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity--and its controversial program that dangles a $200 reward for any drug addict--woman or man--who agrees to undergo sterilization or take long-term birth control.
Harris said the goal of the non-profit organization is simply to provide an incentive for drug addicts to stop having children whom they do not want, and more importantly, cannot care for.
In the wake of publicity about CRACK, which opened a Chicago chapter in July--one of only a handful in the United States--a flood of calls came in to the non-profit agency's toll-free line. The calls were largely supportive, by many definitions, but Chicagoans by far have been more critical, accusing Harris of eugenics and comparing her to Hitler.
In the interview that follows, Harris talks about her controversial program.
Q. How does someone who never intended to be an agent for social change become the leader of a controversial movement that offers cash to drug-addicted women who get their tubes tied or addicted men who get vasectomies?
A. Well, my husband and I had had six sons and we decided at one point we wanted a girl so we thought we would adopt. We got a girl at 8 months old, but when she was born she had crack, heroin and PCP in her system. Four months after we got her, the social worker called, and our daughter's biological mother had had another baby. A year later we received a call and there was another. And a year after that there was another one. I thought, "Why not keep them (the siblings) together." We ended up adopting four out of eight drug-addicted babies from the same woman. And I just got fed up about it all. I thought there must be something we can do.
Q. So where did you get the cash-for-birth-control idea?
A. Actually, C.R.A.C.K. wasn't founded on that program. I actually started C.R.A.C.K. in 1994, outraged at my own experience that women addicted to drugs could just keep having babies. And there was no penalty for these women--only for society, which was paying for the child's care and possibly the later consequences. So I and a California assemblyman drew up legislation in 1995 which would make it a crime to have drug-addicted babies. The woman would have a choice of jail time or drug treatment. The most important part of the legislation, however, was court-ordered mandatory long-term birth control. Eventually, the legislation died.
Q. So what was your next move?
A. Well, there was some desperation, really. And then I thought `How can you get an irresponsible drug addict to use birth control?' Money. What motivates a drug addict? Money.
Q. And it was as simple as that -- you just scraped together some money and started paying women to be sterilized?
A. Actually, I got a $400 donation from an attorney who works in children's court out here in California--she sees these women coming in with seven, eight, nine kids. I already had the idea and she gave me the start-up money. In the beginning, I paid a lot out of my own pocket for phone bills. But as we put up billboards and spread the word, we started getting some donors. Dr. Laura Schlessinger gave us $5,000.
Q. How old are the adopted children and are they aware their adoption led you to this volunteer work?
A. The kids are 9, 7, 8 and 6. I think they know their mother was addicted to drugs and couldn't care for them, and I think they have a very limited understanding of my volunteer work. Look, if I thought this whole thing would send us in to some kind of time warp and take away my kids, whom I love, obviously I wouldn't be doing this. The fact is, I love them, but there's not enough kids out there who are in the same situation, who have someone else who can step in and take care of them because their biological parents can't.
Q. And what do you say to those people who say this is unnatural selection or selective breeding.
A. I'm just really fed up with that. These people have already had numerous babies by the time they come to us--and that's another point, they come to us.
Q. How about people who say you are cold-hearted about the women themselves, how your agency and the program don't address the addicts' problem: drugs.
A. We're already spending billions on drug treatment every year--those people (critics) act like there's nothing being done for those people. While they're fighting the battle to keep people off drugs, we can make sure they don't have drug-addicted babies.
Q. Much of our discussion has centered on women--how much interest have drug-addicted men shown?
A. Well, we've had plenty of inquiries from men. But once they find out what they've got to do, we don't hear from them again.
Q. Have you ever had a drug problem or used illegal drugs?
A. I've probably tried marijuana a couple of times, but sometimes I wish I had been an addict so I could relate to people.
Q. You repeatedly say many people don't have a good understanding, a good insight about the addict. What have you learned in taking calls from women who inquire about the birth control program?
A. You know, I get really tired of hearing people say we're dealing with women who don't know what they're doing when they agree to be sterilized. So I talk with the women, ask them, "Do you ever have moments in the day when you know what's going on? Because these other people act like you totally don't know what's going on." And they just laugh and say, "Yes, I know what's going on."
Q. You said you're not sure how it will evolve, in terms of programming outside the cash for birth control, but what is the future of C.R.A.C.K.?
A. We hope to become a nationally recognized organization with a chapter in every major city, like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving).
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text: Jesus Freak Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead By Sara Miles (Jossey-Bass; 192 pages; $21.95) You don't have to be a Bible scholar to know that Jesus hung out with the wrong people - lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, crazy people. But knowing that is not living that. Many if not most churches have some kind of ministry reaching out to those people, but most Christians (and non-Christians) like to keep a comfortable distance from the poorest of the poor. Not Sara Miles. This former journalist is the founder of the Food Pantry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, where they set up the food bank at the altar and don't make many distinctions between sharing a loaf of sourdough and Holy Communion with the Body of Christ. Miles is out with a memoir about her life and ministry. It's titled "Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead," and it is a book that manages to be inspiring without sentimentality - serious and funny, sacred and profane. Jesus may have been the original foodie. Many of the most important events in his life happened at the dinner table or some other spot where he and followers multiplied loaves and fishes or turned water into wine. "Anywhere there's food," Miles writes, "spirit and matter intersect." (That's a short and powerful sentence. Please read it again and reflect.) Miles divides her book into three parts. Part One is the feeding, where the author knows of what she speaks. The book slows down in Part Two, where Miles wanders and starts repeating herself. This reader started losing interest and wondered how she was going to pull off the miracle finish in Part Three, the section about raising the dead. Pardon the expression, but Miles nails it. Her closing story is about Laura, a dying woman who lived in the housing projects on Potrero Hill. She stumbles into the church after misreading a sign for a workshop on "Sacred Dying." Laura thought it said "Scared Dying," and she was scared of dying - not so much for herself but out of concern for who was going to watch over her teenage son. His name is Gabriel. Laura meets a woman named Gloria at an AA meeting. They become lovers. Laura is an obese woman, so heavy that after she dies in her apartment in the projects, the mortician and his assistant need lots of help getting her body onto a wobbly gurney and out the door. Miles winds up directing the operation. "Let's try lifting again," she tells the crew. "Raise, now." Gloria adopts Gabriel, along with Laura's little Chihuahua, and Laura is raised from the dead. "I could see Laura alive in Gloria," Miles writes. "In whose small, dark, unremarkable body she looked, uncannily, like Jesus." There are a few annoying moments in this book. This reader got tired of Miles calling Jesus "the Boyfriend." It was cute only the first time. She gets a bit heavy-handed making political points about Proposition 8, which challenged the legality of gay marriage in California. But in the end, with the story of Gloria and Laura, Sara Miles pulls it off. She raises the dead, and "Jesus Freak" finishes with amazing grace.

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Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, appears to be focusing on the full Senate as the primary venue for writing the new farm bill rather than hashing it out in committee.
Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, has been expressing frustration at his inability to win agreement for significantly revamping the farm bill to make it more conservation and energy-oriented than the legislation passed by the House last July.
Speaking with reporters on his weekly telephone conference call Tuesday (Oct. 2), Harkin was asked about support in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry for “significant” cuts in direct payments, the fixed payments made to all farmers with program crop acreage bases.
“Well, I would say there's never been much support for a significant cut, but I do find some broad areas of agreement for across-the-board reductions that would include cuts in direct payments,” he said.
“Plus, keep in mind, one big hurdle will be getting a bill out of committee. When we get to the floor, a number of senators just don't feel good at all about these direct payment programs. You can anticipate there will be a number of amendments on the Senate floor to revise the direct payment system.”
Asked about earlier reports he wanted to reduce direct payments by $4.5 billion, Harkin said that figure was no longer in play. “We're not looking at anything like that now; that was just my starting point,” he said, adding he now favors a reduction as low as $1 billion to $2 billion.
Noting the ag committee had held four meetings on the farm bill in recent days, Harkin said the committee is “beginning to rally around a basic framework that makes sound investments in our national priorities, provides strong policy and moves our country forward.”
He said the new investments the committee wants to make in agriculture will come from a variety of funding sources, including the Senate Finance Committee tax package.
“I've been in contact with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, and he has indicated the package in his committee will provide additional resources to meet our farm bill funding shortfall,” Harkin said.
The finance committee tax package is expected to provide $9 billion in new funding for agriculture, including $4 billion to $5 billion for the permanent disaster program that Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, has been championing in recent months.
Harkin reportedly opposes a permanent disaster program but may have to accept it as the price of receiving the additional funding, the remainder of which, he said, would go to conservation, energy, rural development and specialty crops.”
Any permanent disaster program would be separate from the revenue counter-cyclical program that Harkin says he supports. He said his chairman's mark may give farmers the option of enrolling in a revenue-based CCP rather than the current price-based counter-cyclical program.
He also expressed some frustration about opposition to increased spending for conservation programs, including the Conservation Security Program he wrote into the 2002 farm bill.
“The forces are at work to cut out conservation funds,” Harkin said. “I can't believe it, but, then again, we'll have to see what happens on the floor — and in the conference committee (that will be held to reconcile the House and Senate farm bills).”
The chairman said he's concerned that maintaining funding for all the conservation programs — from the CSP to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program — is at risk. “But it isn't going to happen on my watch,” he said.
Harkin said he wants another $1.6 billion to spend on the Conservation Security Program.


MPG Awards 2018: Girls Rock
This year’s MPG Awards took place right in the the middle of a snow storm; ‘The Beast from the East’ met 'Storm Emma'. But the good and the great, bar a few who sadly couldn’t make it due to the snow, gathered once more at the grand Grosvenor House on London's Park Lane for the annual MPG Awards, this year being its 10th anniversary.
Those 10 years have seen legends such as Youth, Dave Stewart, Chris Blackwell, Geoff Emerick, Trevor Horn, and Sir George Martin pick up awards, with attendees showing support for all within their industry. Headliner, as ever, was incredibly proud to be Media Partner for this fantastic event.
To start off the night, legendary producer, Tommy D, sponsored the reception, serving up cocktails created with his whisky brand, 808. As usual, there was a great vibe, people bumping into old faces, and meeting and greeting the new.
The Music Producer’s Guild have been keen to highlight that this year, a quarter of the nominees were women, which is a huge success, and can only be a sign of things to come.
After everyone took their seats, BBC Radio 6 Music’s Shaun Keaveny took to the stage to be the night’s host. His intro was funny, and self deprecating, and it was clear he understood his audience, regaling us all of tales from his musical past.
Pride of place we had Catherine Marks, picking up UK Producer Of The Year following on from her 2016 win for Breakthrough Producer. Last year, she worked with Mercury Prize shortlisted band, The Big Moon, as well as The Amazons, and St Vincent, amongst others. It was heartwarming when she was announced as the winner, as you could feel the support from the audience at having a female win this accolade.
This year’s Inspiration Award went to Imogen Heap, not only an exceptional artist for the past two decades, but an innovator and inventor of Mycelia, a blockchain technology platform aiming to bring fairness and sustainability to the music industry, as well as the mi.mu gloves, that upon wearing them, enable the user to automate sounds and effects through movement. Imogen has also composed the score for JK Rowling's theatre production, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, which will begin its journey on Broadway next month.
The MPG Award For Outstanding Contribution To UK Music presented by PPL went to Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, the production duo who have worked on albums across a wide variety of artists: Morrissey, Madness, and Elvis Costello to name but a few.
Double BRIT-winner, Stormzy, made a guest appearance to give Manon Grandjean her award for winning Recording Engineer of the Year, having worked on his number one album, Gang Signs & Prayer.
Mark ‘Spike’ Stent won Mix Engineer of Year - the last 12 months alone saw him working with Justin Bieber, Muse, Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, and Grimes; Self-Producing Artist Of The Year, sponsored by Spitfire Audio, went to Dave Bayley from the band Glass Animals; and Breakthrough Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Genelec, went to Marta Salogni, who has engineered for The xx, Frank Ocean, and BRIT-nominee, Sampha.
As usual, the event went smoothly, with delicious food and drink, and there was a good turnout at the after-party that continued into the wee hours in the Grosvenor's Red Room. Thank you MPG, and see you again next year..!
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"I believe that everyone has stake in the development of the youth. Education is the modern civil rights movement and these children that we work with represent the future of America."


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Agustine Lizama and his long-time girlfriend
On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting and alarming story about a man who was a witness to a gang murder and, at first testified as to the shooters’ identity in front of grand jury, then got spooked and—to use the term favored by frustrated cops and prosecutors—he pissed backwards.
But when the case came to trial, with a phalanx of gang members glaring at him in open court, Mr. Roe changed his story, testifying that he had heard the shots but never saw who fired them. The two suspects were acquitted.
Now Mr. Roe is the criminal defendant, facing up to three years in prison for the sin of being scared silent…… His is one of a small but growing cadre of cases nationally in which angry and frustrated prosecutors are turning the tables on witnesses who recant.
Getting witnesses to testify in gang trials has become a huge problem nationwide, and nowhere is the problem greater than in Los Angeles.
The subject came up in a dramatic way just last week when I guest lectured at a class at the UCLA School of Public Affairs taught by my friend, Jorja Leap who, in addition to being a terrific pal, is an international expert in crisis intervention and trauma response—and Antonio Villaraigosa’s policy adviser on gangs.
Anyway, Jorja made her class read my gang book, and wanted me to give her students some kind of follow-up talk. To make things a bit more interesting, I asked three of the guys I know who work at Homeboy Industries to show up too and be part of the lecture.
The three men—Joseph Holguin, Agustin Lizama, and Luis Perez—are all in their early 30’s and all former homeboys with fairly harrowing personal stories to tell. I also know them to be extremely dynamic and articulate. So when they arrived at the lecture hall, I simply turned the floor over to them, and stood back to watch the show.
They got up and talked, one after the other, about their respective pasts—about horrifically traumatic childhoods, about the lure and familial comfort of the gang, about when they’d been shot, or shot at. They described the horror of seeing young friends shot and killed, talked about time spent in jail or prison, about struggles with drugs and/or alcohol….and then they each explained how and why they’d been able to climb out of the downward trajectory their gang pasts had predicted, to finally begin to build lives with promising futures.
All three spoke with passion, intelligence and candor about where they’ve been, what they’ve done wrong, and how good it feels to finally be doing things right.
The last of the three to speak was Augustine—a bright, gentle man who’d been one of the stars of the poetry project I wrote about earlier. (Actually all three were involved, in one way or another.) Agustine talked about how he’d had his hand shot off at the forearm when he was 12-years old. How he’d been stabbed at 13.
And then he told a story I’d never heard before.
Agustine told how when he was 16, he’d happened, purely by accident, to be in the general vicinity of a gang murder. The police never found the real shooter but instead arrested sixteen year-old Agustine for the crime.
Agustine said that, although he had nothing whatever to do with the murder, he’d been close enough to see who had actually done the shooting.
“But I couldn’t snitch,” he told the lecture hall full of UCLA students. “And they were going to try me as an adult. So,” he said softly, “at age sixteen, I was prepared to go to prison for the rest of my life for something I didn’t do, rather than talk. That’s how it is when you’re in a gang.”
Agustine was locked up for two and a half years while he fought the case, eventually taking it to trial. As luck would have it, he drew a decent public defender and beat the murder case. Obviously, it could have easily turned out otherwise.
After the guys finished their personal accounts, the spellbound UCLA students peppered them with questions for another half hour. Finally, when the class was nearly over, a young woman stood up and asked the group one last question:
“What if a homeboy came to you for help and advice,” she asked, “and, like Agustine, he was accused of a murder he didn’t commit? What would you tell him to do?”
The three homeboys glanced at each other. It was Joseph who stepped forward first. “Unless I knew I could move that person out of state to a, like, really safe place, like Missouri or something, I don’t think I could advise him to talk.” The others nodded. “I’d say the same thing,” said Augustine. “I’d try to find a way to get him very far away, or it just wouldn’t be safe. Seriously. It just wouldn’t.”
What the guys didn’t say is that, when it comes to a homeboy—or a former homeboy— being a witness—”snitching”—isn’t just a risk, it something that is almost guaranteed to have mortal consequences. And the scariest threat of retaliation isn’t from the homeboys or the gang members on trial. The real fear, for someone who’s ever been in a gang, no matter how peripherally, is of retaliation from the Mexican Mafia.
To illustrate, let me tell you one more story.
About ten or fifteen years ago a young homeboy I knew quite well—a 16-year-old— was shot in the back in a gang incident, and it appeared that he was going to die. Since he figured he was dead anyway, and he was pretty unhappy about dying at such a young age, when LAPD officers came to interview the homeboy, he blurted to them the name of the gangster who’d done the shooting.
But then he didn’t die. He recovered.
Naturally, the cops and the D.A. dragged the young man to trial to testify against his assailant. But at that point, he did what the guy in the NY York Times story did,. He said he couldn’t remember. And the shooter beat the case.
But the damage, from a “snitching” perspective, was already done.
Eventually the paperwork from the original police investigation filtered into the jail system (as, for some reason, it always does)…and the EME put what is called a “green light” on the young homeboy— meaning a death sentence. Worse, they told his own homeboys it was their job to carry out the deed, and if they didn’t there would be….consequences. The whole gang would have a “light.”
Father Greg Boyle heard through the grapevine about the boy’s dilemma so (with my help, as it happens) conspired to get the kid away from East LA to stay with a middle-class family in another part of Los Angeles. Eventually he managed to leave Southern California altogether. After a few years, the issue blew over. Now he has three kids, a great wife, a fabulous job and has recently purchased a house.
But, as with Agustine, the story could have gone a very different direction. I still remember the times when it was unclear if the kid would live through the weekend—just for saying who tried to kill him, and then retracting it.
So, as I listened to the pretty college girl ask the former homeboys that very smart question, I couldn’t help but silently turn the same question on myself: If young homeboy I knew and liked was arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, and he knew who actually did the deed, what would I advise him to do?
Sadly, I didn’t have to deliberate for even a second.
I’d tell him I’d help him find a good lawyer.

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German Wage Growth Concerning
The euro slipped on Friday morning as the dollar gained momentum due to the Fed's decision to taper. The common currency traded at $1.3627 at 4:00 GMT on Friday morning.
On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve announced that it had decided to begin tapering at its December policy meeting. The decision surprised some who were expecting the bank to wait until March of next year to begin cutting down on its $85 billion per month bond buying plan. The bank will trim its monthly asset purchases by $10 million.
Markets reacted relatively calmly to the news without any major crises. The Fed promised to maintain a low interest rate for as long as needed, and assured investors that the US economy was strong enough to stand on its own.
In Europe, troubling German data put pressure on the common currency as well. The Wall Street Journal reported that earnings in the bloc's most powerful nation grew by only 1.3 percent, and the figure adjusted for inflation worked out at just 0.3 percent growth.
The data was troubling to investors who were already worried about the bloc's struggle with inflation. Wage development is considered a good indicator of inflationary pressure, and Germany's slow wage growth could suggest that deflation is a real threat.
Labor reforms implemented by former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder encouraged Germans to take lower paying, part time jobs over the past decade.
Now, while the unemployment rate has fallen considerably, wages have suffered. Since German data is usually pulling along periphery eurozone members, many worry that Germany will not be able to lead the rest of the region through deflation worries.
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The skit opened as a parody of "Fox & Friends" with Heidi Gardner as Ainsley Earhardt saying hello to President Trump, who she suggested was laying in the Lincoln Bedroom tweeting with an egg McMuffin on his chest.
Trump later called in to "Fox and Friends" from his bed in the White House, telling the co-hosts, "If you're wondering why I'm so out of breath it's because I'm doing my p90X workout" as he tossed a McDonald's wrapper off the bed. Written by Rep. Devin Nunes, the memo frames the FBI's investigation into Trump's ties with Russian Federation as a biased, deliberate attack on the president.
A ditzed-out Strong responds: "There are no real jobs here, you know?" Hicks said. "Everyday feels like when a group of strangers suddenly works together to push a beached whale back into the sea". "Now you are the White House Communication Director".
The hosts then shower an avalanche of praise at Trump, calling him greater than Julius Caesar and saying that his State of the Union speech was the greatest speech in US history.
Tonight's show began with a spoof of Fox & Friends, and the biggest issue on deck was the newly-released FISA memo.
Baldwin as Trump then said that a lot of people, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, said that his State of the Union speech was incredible and better than Martin Luther King's "I Dream of Jeannie" speech. He then spoke out about the Devin Nunes memo, calling it the "greatest memo since the Declaration of Independence", even though he hadn't read "either one of them".
Trump then encourages the hosts to back his claim about his State of the Union speech viewership, before asking them, "Who's the most innocent guy in the whole wide world?"
"Daddy needed that. He needed that", he tells them after taking a swig of Diet Coke.
Football Moment that Left us Speech-Less.
With an 11- 0 score at the end of the game, Germany started the Shanghai Women’s World Cup with a world record win. Women’s World Cup 2007 Germanys women’s team opened the World Cup with a bang against Argentina.
Mark Salling cause of death undetermined following autopsy
In a statement, he says that even if he made some mistakes in the past which he regretted, he was a creative, gentle person. The 35-year-old was found 9am Tuesday morning near a riverbed beside an equestrian centre just six miles from his home.
Janet Yellen appointed fellow at Washington think tank
But Fed officials are still committed to moving slowly. "Everything is pointing to a more aggressive Fed this year", Zandi said. She will be succeeded by Jerome Powell , a Fed board member whose nomination as chairman the Senate approved 84-13 last week.


CHARLESTON W.V. (LOOTPRESS) – The West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association and the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, two of West Virginia’s oldest advocacy groups for oil and natural gas, have merged into the Gas and Oil Association of West Virginia.
This merging of the two trade organizations, which was announced on Monday, has resulted in a supergroup, known as GO-WV, that will better promote the industry and companies that provide the closest link to everyday users.
The company will be headed by the former executive director of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, Charlie Burd, and will include more than 600 members representing multiple industries that benefit from oil and natural gas.
Having been established for more than 100 years, the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association represented large players in the oil and natural gas industry, while the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia represented mostly smaller producers.
In 2008, the interests of both companies began to overlap with the introduction of a technology that combined horizontal drilling and fracking. This is was the same year that West Virginia started to become a major player in the natural gas industry.
The greater access to natural gas sparked the growth of pipeline transport and plastic manufacturing and lowered heating prices for consumers in the state. Within time, natural gas even began to replace coal as a source of combustion for electric power plants, lowing emissions.
“From an environmental perspective, when you stop and think about how much we have reduced our emissions, it is a phenomenal phenomenally great thing that we’ve made that we’ve been able to do that,” Burd explained. “It comes from better technology in emission technology, but it also comes from the fact that we are producing tremendous amounts of natural gas from much fewer wells.”
Today, West Virginia is the fifth-largest energy producer and has the fourth-largest natural gas reserves in the country. In 2019, the state was the sixth-largest natural gas producer in the country, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Additionally, in 2019, West Virginia produced 16 million barrels of oil, which has not happened for over 100 years.
According to Burd, the natural gas industry has generated more than $2 billion in severance tax revenue and $2 billion in local property tax in the last 12 years.
Burd said that it didn’t take long for the two organizations to realize that they were “seeking literally the same type of regulatory, environmental, and safety considerations.”
“When you have two groups that are so locked into doing the same thing as at the Capitol and other places, doesn’t it make sense that maybe we look to see if we can’t become one association? We were two organizations that were tracking parallel.”
Burd stated that “GO-WV” was the perfect acronym because it describes the direction in which the company wants the state to go: forward.
“GO-WV: with natural gas for future power generation, production, for downstream manufacturing and petrochemical advancements, job creation and…enhanced investments in exploration and drilling and those types of things. Of course, we will be promoting the pipeline construction projects that give us outlets for the gas we produce here in the state to take it other places, particularly in the East,” he shared.
GO-WV is still developing its legislative agenda, and will continue to work on furthering the consolidation of the two companies, branding and easing drilling regulations for the next several months.
The new Biden administration, which stands against fracking, could be a cause for concern; however, Burd has chosen to focus on the strength of the industry and educate the Biden administration about the benefits of the oil and natural gas industries.
“We’re very optimistic that we’ll be able to work with the new administration and make them be convinced of the importance of, not just being energy independent in this country, but being energy dominate.”


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A GIGANTIC hairball – measuring four foot in length – has been removed from the stomach of a four-year-old boy in India after he could not stop eating his own locks.
Sivam Kumar was in pain for months before a doctor in New Delhi found the monstrosity and eventually diagnosed him with rare ‘Rupunzel Syndrome’.
Unbeknown to his parents, Sunil Kumar and Munni Devi, their child had been sneakily chomping down on his hair, causing the hair ball to form, which later made him vomit and not be able to eat properly.
He was so malnourished that he could only digest water.
It was only when his stomach became so bloated the couple took action and sought medical help.
When he was finally examined doctors found the four-foot hair ball inside his stomach, which had also spread to his small and large intestines.
His father, Sunil Kumar, 36, said: “He used to cry all the time but he couldn’t explain to us what was wrong. We took him to many doctors but they found nothing.
“When a CT scan eventually revealed a big hairball I was shocked. I just couldn’t believe it.”
“We immediately took a CT scan and that’s when we found a big entangled mass in his abdomen.
“There was very little gas in the abdomen area. The hair had spread in the stomach and travelled into his intestines. When we opened his stomach a 4 ft hairball came out in the exact shape of the stomach.”
Kumar’s family have now shaved their son’s head so he won’t be tempted to eat his hair again.
“I am not leaving Sivam alone for even one minute now,” Munni added. “We have to make sure he doesn’t do this again.”
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The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon Francis Okiye, has said he is yet to decide whether to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) like Obaseki or remain.
Speaking to journalists to mark his one year anniversary as Edo Speaker, Okiye, however, said Obaseki can remain governor of the state without belonging to any political party.
He said the Governor is yet to formally inform him of his resignation from the APC but that he has not considered resigning from the ruling party.
The Edo speaker said, “I know that our electoral law does allow for independent candidacy so that the governor without a party in a state can sponsor himself in an election within the manifesto of his electoral campaign, he can administer the state.
“To the best of my knowledge, a governor without a party has not committed an offence that we would begin to raise questions within the polity.
“He enjoys the constitutional rights to resign from one party to join another. It is not in contradiction to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Members of the Assembly are not running a joint ticket with the governor and within the constitutional allowance, you know that the governor has the right to move from one party to another.
“In this circumstance, I can speak for myself that as a Speaker, I have not been formally communicated that the governor has moved from the party (APC). So, the issue about who is going with the governor or not is not being discussed.”
He said in the last one year, “12 bills were received adding that two were passed into law while four are at different stages and four assented to”
The removal of the legislative leaders was allegedly carried out in the private residence of a very influential chieftain of the party who is still in the Obaseki administration.
But a councillor who does not want his name mentioned said “We are not aware of any impeachment, our signatures were forged into a document and three of our members went to the house of a leader of APC who is not even from our local government but in government and purportedly removed the leader and his deputy.
“The allegation is that we are not loyal to the chairman who is supporting Governor Obaseki”
But when contacted, the chairman of the council, Hon Destiny Enaulele denied allegation of such development.
He said, “I am not aware of such, we operate independent arms of government but I have been informed that I have a letter from the legislative arm which I have not even seen”.


What kind of circular saw blade is best for safely cutting aluminium?
I have some long sections of aluminium, actually hip beams from a dismantled conservatory, that are roughly T-shaped and 40 x 70 mm in section. As they are very rigid I plan to cut these to a standard length to use them to support shelves in my garage workshop.
I don't have a chop saw, mitre saw or band saw, but I do have cordless Dewalt DCS391N circular saw (takes 165mm diameter blades). I'm thinking I could cut them relatively safely with this if I clamped the pieces in a cross-cut jig, and if I had the right blade.
From what I've read, I think I should use a blade with a low tooth count, a low kerf width and a low or even negative rake angle. But how low is low? And what kind of problems will I get if the blade is too thin?
My local retailer stocks these two 165mm Dewalt tungsten carbide-tipped blades and claims they will both cut aluminium, but which is better and why?
- 36 teeth, 1.5mm kerf, +3 degree rake
- 18 teeth, 2.4mm kerf, +10 degree rake
UPDATE: this is the kind of jig I intend to use to keep the work secure and the circular saw aligned, but my jig is wider to make it easier to clamp the work on both sides of the cut. (Source)


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Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour has praised Meghan Markle’s “inspiring” royal style.
The fashion icon revealed some of her favourite looks worn by the Duchess of Sussex during her appearance at the Women in the World summit on Thursday.
Here are the outfits which have gained the seal of approval from Wintour.
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The world has been fascinated with Meghan Markle’s style ever since she became a member of the royal family in 2018.
From fans trying to replicate Markle’s $630,000 maternity wardrobe, to the constant comparisons to Kate Middleton’s look book, the public can’t wait to see what the Duchess of Sussex will wear next.
Now, the latest person to be hit with “The Markle Effect” is none other than Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour.
While speaking at the Women in the World Summit on Thursday, Wintour called Markle’s “modern” style “inspiring”— and she even shared some of her favourite looks worn by the duchess.
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In a video of the event obtained by MSN, Wintour was asked by former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown what she thought Meghan is bringing to modern fashion right now.
“Well, I think obviously that she has her own style, and has looked fantastic,” she said.
She went on to praise Markle’s choice of designer, Clare Waight Keller, for her Givenchy wedding dress in 2018.
“I thought her choice of Clare for her wedding was amazing, and I think, more importantly, obviously her style is fantastic.”
Markle even helped Keller to design the iconic wedding gown.
Sketches of The Duchess of Sussex’s #RoyalWedding dress, designed by Clare Waight Keller, have been released. The Duchess and Ms. Waight Keller worked closely together on the design, which epitomises a timeless minimal elegance referencing the codes of the iconic House of Givenchy. Ms. Waight Keller designed a veil representing the distinctive flora of all 53 Commonwealth countries united in one spectacular floral composition 📷 Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy
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Carlos Campos’ clean, ultra-modern designs are all about breaking down the barriers between Latin American traditions and classic American sportswear. For Spring 2018, he found additional inspiration in the minimal designs of Mexican architect, Luis Barragán’. In a season of ubiquitous 90’s nostalgia, Campos’ collection is focused on the future. His pieces are vastly monochromatic and minimal with heady geometric designs. Most are pared down to an almost monastic “less is more” philosophy with strong architectural cuts enhanced by energy-driven geometric motifs. The vibrant color palette in electrifying hues of vibrant reds, and cobalt blue are a subtle homage to the 1920’s Bauhaus movement rendered in playful color blocked patterns, yet the designer manages to integrate a hint of sporty cool into an otherwise futuristic collection.
The proportion play is key- crisply tailored, yet oversized, and just roomy enough to complement any body type. Wearability is crucial; “It’s a reflection of how people’s lives really are,” says Campos. Perhaps the strongest component behind the collection is that Campos doesn’t necessarily have to alter any of the garments specifically for women, yet women like Danielle Cooper are discovering the brand in droves. From jumpsuits to power suits, to anoraks and rain jackets, anyone can easily wear any of the pieces.
Behind The Scenes at Carlos Campos Spring 2018 Men’s Show
Carlos Campos’ Modern Design Philosophy
They say the best designers design for themselves and this is certainly true of Carlos Campos. His father was a tailor back in Honduras who made uniforms. This seems to have impacted Campos’ own design aesthetic as well as his philosophy. “I wear the same thing all the time, but add some pop of color now and then… It’s a philosophy I’ve always stuck to for both my personal style and my designs. But sometimes my girlfriend says, ‘Can you please just stop wearing that shirt,'” explains Carlos of his daily uniform. He’s on to something though; in an era of jam packed schedules, the most vital pieces in our closets are also the most versatile—hence the popularity of the jumpsuit. Campos re-engineered the classic jumpsuit into a loose fitting, relaxed silhouette in a striking color blocked pattern. The result is an easy to wear uniform that can carry you through any day of the week.
If you like this post, see more Carlos Campos: Carlos Campos Fall 2017: Seasonless Menswear