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On the other hand, Bob Sutton reports on research suggesting that by forgetting some of this stuff we can easily find on-line, we might be improving our capacity to remember important stuff that is not available on Google . Next, a trio of offerings about coaching . Buffalo Business First explores the world of Life Coaching , one branch of the profession. Be Excellent blog reports on an International Coach Federation study of coaching for small businesses, and concludes that "coaching is one of the four requirements for achieving lasting business excellence." In spite of that value, Seth counters that you might not be coachable , and gives you a list of symptoms to check yourself against. Having trouble making that call? Dave Opton suggests you might be suffering from "fear induced lethargy" and prescribes a good dose of information to break the logjam. Anna Farmery is a confused customer , as am I in the situations she describes. 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Thus, we are pleased to submit our very own, very unofficial Silicon Valley Moms Blog Pre-Election Poll [ CLICK HERE] for anyone who would like to be counted. Join us in sharing your opinions anonymously. We'll try to compile information from our poll as it comes in, to assess how Silicon Valley moms and others respond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://massemailmarketing.peremail.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazon lists "metrosexual" as a category of gift recipients, mixed in with "Dad," "Mom," "Pet" and "Business &lt;a href="http://hardtofindtools.pcfindout.com"&gt;hard to find tools&lt;/a&gt; Associate." 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I've known for a while that the Denver band was coming to town tonight with the Bravery, but June of course snuck up on me, so I'm headed to see them this evening only knowing that after two or three spins I enjoyed their album. I have to say though, it's kinda refreshing to not have a set-in-stone opinion of a band when heading into a show; I'm a firm believer that a live performance is just as important as recorded material so I'm crossing my fingers that they wow me tonight. 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Their sound is slightly more aggressive dance-punk, which has drawn comparisons to early stuff by The Rapture, and here's a taste: " Handshake Heart Attack " Also on the bill tonight are The Bravery and The Cinematics .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lowcostcallconferencing.percall.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lindsay Pfeffer, 21, Merrick Built to Spill’s “You in Reverse” starts off with a bang with the upbeat “Goin’ Against Your Mind” and glides &lt;a href="http://homelesssheltersoftware.thehomelessguy.net"&gt;homeless shelter software&lt;/a&gt; ts way into a smooth blend of indie-style woe and strumming guitars. It hits the mark with “Liar,” which boasts drawling lyrics like “Mother Nature’s disposition/she don’t mind/she don’t care” and a backdrop of full-bodied acoustics. This solid album seems to follow the ups and down of a full day--energetic in bursts and sleepily sending the listener off with the hum of a waning electric guitar. 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She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://howtoinstallwatersoftener.pcuninstall.net"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft and College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of healthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology is driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all &lt;a href="http://happymothersday.happy411.com/happymothersday"&gt;happy mothers day&lt;/a&gt; hat long until there's no money left over for anything else. Mitchell's solution... is, in a nutshell, better healthcare for the rich.... "A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a picture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in which the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's pre-tax income in the previous year. Insurance would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down &lt;a href="http://merchantaccountcreditcardservices.411merchants.com"&gt;merchant account credit card services&lt;/a&gt; or the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless has requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. I have a post almost finished, but I'm having internet connection problems tonight and &lt;a href="http://neighborhoodpredators.411neighborhood.com"&gt;neighborhood predators&lt;/a&gt; 'm not sure how soon I'll get too frustrated to continue and shut down the computer for the night. Fortunately, the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , opened tonight, so let's make this a Harry Potter movie thread. For starters, anyone who's already seen it or who sees it over the next couple of days, what say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down? How are the new cast members, particularly Helena Bonham Carter? How does this one compare to the previous Potter films? Everyone else, favorite movie? Favorite actor? Alan Rickman and Snape fans, feel free to open up your fan club again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft and College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of healthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology is driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all that long until there's no money left over for anything else. Mitchell's solution... is, in a nutshell, better healthcare for the rich.... "A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a picture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in which the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's &lt;a href="http://curbramp.rampster.com/curbramp"&gt;curb ramp&lt;/a&gt; re-tax income in the previous year. Insurance would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept &lt;a href="http://pctechniciantraining.pc411.com"&gt;pc technician training&lt;/a&gt; he guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here comes Fall! (And &lt;a href="http://staminaproductsinc-dot-.naturalstamina.com"&gt;stamina products inc.&lt;/a&gt; he attendant Santa Anas.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seduction &lt;a href="http://earthsatelliteview.perview.com"&gt;earth satellite view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7321580005916345764-4054908527977976605?l=ckekadya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/feeds/4054908527977976605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7321580005916345764&amp;postID=4054908527977976605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4054908527977976605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4054908527977976605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/2007/07/here-comes-fall-and-united-colors.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321580005916345764.post-4362648096223387671</id><published>2007-07-14T09:58:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T09:58:51.150-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started &lt;a href="http://benettontreviso.wwwbenetton.com/unitedcolorsofbenetton"&gt;united colors of benetton&lt;/a&gt; etting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless has requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. I have a post almost finished, but I'm having internet connection problems tonight and I'm not sure how soon I'll get too frustrated to continue and shut down the &lt;a href="http://blogvideo.blogbooster.com"&gt;blog video&lt;/a&gt; omputer for the night. Fortunately, the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , opened tonight, so let's make this a Harry Potter movie thread. For starters, anyone who's already seen it or who sees it over the next couple of days, what say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down? How are the new cast members, particularly Helena Bonham Carter? How does this one compare to the previous Potter films? Everyone else, favorite movie? Favorite actor? Alan Rickman and Snape fans, feel free to open up your fan club again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had &lt;a href="http://payperclicksearchengine.perclick.com"&gt;pay per click search engine&lt;/a&gt; een for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless has requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. I have a post almost finished, but I'm having internet connection problems tonight and I'm not sure how soon I'll get too frustrated to continue and shut down the computer for the night. Fortunately, the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , opened tonight, so let's make this a Harry Potter movie thread. For starters, anyone who's already seen it or who sees it over the next couple of days, what say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down? How are the new cast members, particularly Helena Bonham Carter? How does this one compare to the previous Potter films? &lt;a href="http://tradeshowpromotionalgiveaways.supergiveaways.com"&gt;trade show promotional giveaways&lt;/a&gt; veryone else, favorite movie? Favorite actor? Alan Rickman and Snape fans, feel free to open up your fan club again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not &lt;a href="http://howtoinstallwatersoftener.pcuninstall.net/howtoinstallawatersoftener"&gt;how to install a water softener&lt;/a&gt;  nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seduction &lt;a href="http://happymothersday.happy411.com"&gt;happy mothers day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly, my son and I are off on retreat . With a degree of caution, I confess this will not be a Christian retreat. It is a Zen Buddhist retreat, in Derbyshire. A Vietnamese Zen Buddhist retreat. I am being sent there by the Saturday Times, so it is half work, half holiday. It began as a freebie, then the organisers carefully explained to me the philisophy behind the concept of "dan". Something similar exists in Islam, and it is comparable to tithing in Judaism and Christianity. Clearly it would not be within the spirit of the retreat to stand by our rights to claim our freebie, even given the page or so of free publicity they will be getting in return. (Picture by Sylvan Mason ) So The Times is making a donation. It is almost unheard &lt;a href="http://merchantaccountcreditcardservices.411merchants.com"&gt;merchant account credit card services&lt;/a&gt; f in newspapers for some journalists actually to pay for a holiday, but if it was going to happen to anyone, it was going to happen to me. Religious journalism is possibly the only vocation in national newspaper journalism where the spiritual rewards exceed the material ones. So why did I choose an obscure Zen Buddhist retreat when I was given a choice of any? I didn't. It chose me. My one stipulation was that I should be able to take my four-year-old son. It is possible that there are family-friendly Christian retreats, somewhere, but none of them had offered places to Times journalists for our retreat supplement. As one expert on Christian retreats explained to me: "Most people go on those retreats to get away from their children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly, my son and I are off on retreat . With a degree of caution, I confess this will not be a Christian retreat. It is a Zen Buddhist retreat, in Derbyshire. A Vietnamese Zen Buddhist retreat. I am being sent there by the Saturday Times, so it is half work, half holiday. It began as a freebie, then the organisers carefully explained to me the philisophy behind the concept of "dan". Something similar exists in Islam, and it is comparable to tithing in Judaism and Christianity. Clearly it would not be within the spirit of the retreat to stand by our rights to claim our freebie, even given the page or so of free publicity they will be getting in return. 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(And the attendant Santa Anas.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7321580005916345764-4362648096223387671?l=ckekadya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/feeds/4362648096223387671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7321580005916345764&amp;postID=4362648096223387671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4362648096223387671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4362648096223387671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/2007/07/actually-i-did-not-bail-him-out.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321580005916345764.post-4660357453608717506</id><published>2007-07-14T09:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T09:58:04.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft and College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of &lt;a href="http://benettontreviso.wwwbenetton.com"&gt;benetton treviso&lt;/a&gt; ealthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology is driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all that long until there's no money left over for anything else. 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"A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a picture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in which the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's pre-tax income in the previous year. 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It is almost unheard of in newspapers for some journalists actually to pay for a holiday, but if it was going to happen to anyone, it was going to happen to me. Religious journalism is possibly the only vocation in national newspaper journalism where the spiritual rewards exceed the material ones. So why did I choose an obscure Zen Buddhist retreat when I was given a choice of any? I didn't. It chose me. My one stipulation was that I should be able to take my four-year-old son. It is possible that there are family-friendly Christian retreats, somewhere, but none of them had offered places to Times journalists for our retreat supplement. As one expert on Christian retreats explained to me: "Most people go on those retreats to get away from their children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. 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Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft &lt;a href="http://neighborhoodpredators.411neighborhood.com"&gt;neighborhood predators&lt;/a&gt; nd College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of healthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology is driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all that long until there's no money left over for anything else. Mitchell's solution... is, in a nutshell, better healthcare for the rich.... "A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a picture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in which the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's pre-tax income in the previous year. Insurance would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here &lt;a href="http://curbramp.rampster.com"&gt;curb ramp&lt;/a&gt; omes Fall! (And the attendant Santa Anas.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly, my son and I are off on retreat . With a degree of caution, I confess this will not be a Christian retreat. It is a Zen Buddhist retreat, in Derbyshire. A Vietnamese Zen Buddhist retreat. I am being sent there by the Saturday Times, so it is half work, half holiday. It began as a freebie, then the organisers carefully explained to me the philisophy behind the concept of "dan". Something similar exists in Islam, and it is comparable to tithing in Judaism and Christianity. Clearly it would not be within the spirit of the retreat to stand by our rights to claim our freebie, even given the page or so of free publicity they will be getting in return. (Picture by Sylvan Mason ) So The Times is making a donation. It is almost unheard of in newspapers for some journalists actually to pay for a holiday, but if it was going to happen to anyone, it was going to happen to me. Religious journalism is possibly the only vocation in national newspaper journalism where the spiritual rewards exceed the material ones. So why did I choose an obscure Zen Buddhist retreat when I was given a choice of any? I didn't. It chose me. 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Insurance would...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7321580005916345764-4660357453608717506?l=ckekadya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/feeds/4660357453608717506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7321580005916345764&amp;postID=4660357453608717506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4660357453608717506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7321580005916345764/posts/default/4660357453608717506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ckekadya.blogspot.com/2007/07/felix-salmon-deploys-me-as-weapon-in_14.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321580005916345764.post-8334168751133420515</id><published>2007-07-14T09:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T09:57:20.915-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft and College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of healthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology &lt;a href="http://benettontreviso.wwwbenetton.com/benettontreviso"&gt;benetton treviso&lt;/a&gt; s driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all that long until there's no money left over for anything else. 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He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can &lt;a href="http://blogvideo.blogbooster.com"&gt;blog video&lt;/a&gt; eel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless has requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. 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"A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a &lt;a href="http://howtoinstallwatersoftener.pcuninstall.net"&gt;how to install water softener&lt;/a&gt; icture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in which the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's pre-tax income in the previous year. Insurance would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless has requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. I have a post almost finished, but I'm having internet connection problems tonight and I'm not sure how soon I'll get too frustrated to continue and shut down the computer for the night. Fortunately, the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , opened tonight, so let's make this a Harry Potter movie thread. For starters, anyone who's already seen it or who sees it &lt;a href="http://happymothersday.happy411.com"&gt;happy mothers day&lt;/a&gt; ver the next couple of days, what say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down? How are the new cast members, particularly Helena Bonham Carter? How does this one compare to the previous Potter films? Everyone else, favorite movie? Favorite actor? 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It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. 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Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. 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With a degree of caution, I confess this will not be a Christian retreat. It is a Zen Buddhist retreat, in Derbyshire. A Vietnamese Zen Buddhist retreat. I am being sent there by the Saturday Times, so it is half work, half holiday. It began as a freebie, then the organisers carefully explained to me the philisophy behind the concept of "dan". Something similar exists in Islam, and it is comparable to tithing in Judaism and Christianity. Clearly it would not be within the spirit of the retreat to stand by our rights to claim our freebie, even given the page or so of free publicity they will be getting in return. (Picture by Sylvan Mason ) So The Times is making a donation. It is almost unheard of in newspapers for some journalists actually to pay for a holiday, but if it was going to happen to anyone, it was going to happen to me. Religious journalism is possibly the only vocation in national newspaper journalism where the spiritual rewards exceed the material ones. So why did I choose an obscure Zen Buddhist retreat when I was given a choice of any? I didn't. It chose me. My one stipulation was that I should be able to take my four-year-old son. It &lt;a href="http://benettontreviso.wwwbenetton.com"&gt;benetton treviso&lt;/a&gt; s possible that there are family-friendly Christian retreats, somewhere, but none of them had offered places to Times journalists for our retreat supplement. As one expert on Christian retreats explained to me: "Most people go on those retreats to get away from their children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Felix Salmon deploys me as a weapon in an internecine struggle with his fellow Portfolio magazine writer Russ Mitchell Kevin Maney by blogging a piece of our coffee yesterday at Strada, at the corner of Bancroft and College, in Berkeley: Finance Blog - Market Movers by Felix Salmon: How to Deal With Rising Healthcare Costs - Portfolio.com : Russ Mitchell weighs in on the subject of healthcare today, and specifically the problem that healthcare technology is driving prices up so far and so fast that at present rates it won't be all that long until there's no money left over for anything else. Mitchell's solution... is, in a nutshell, better healthcare for the rich.... "A real menu of health care packages, so people can choose from a variety of programs matching their needs with their ability to pay, from basic Mazda to luxury Mercedes. Employees (and the government, for the uninsured) can decide what packages they'll provide for how much."... By coincidence, I'm in Berkeley myself right now, and took the opportunity to have coffee yesterday with Lance Knobel and Brad DeLong.... Brad painted a picture of people having spare eyeballs and kidneys stored... in a hospital basement... to... replace the existing ones if they failed for whatever reason.... I'm sure I'll get the details wrong, but in a nutshell, Brad would like to see a health insurance plan or plans in &lt;a href="http://blogvideo.blogbooster.com"&gt;blog video&lt;/a&gt; hich the deductible is very large: 20% of any individual's pre-tax income in the previous year. Insurance would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. 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Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, &lt;a href="http://tradeshowpromotionalgiveaways.supergiveaways.com/promotionalmousepads"&gt;promotional mouse pads&lt;/a&gt;  did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. It's not a nice place and for once I can feel a bit sorry for my son (though he seems none the worse for wear--not too much risk when everyone ' cept the guards is in lockdown). Jim My son has a bit of a story to tell in terms of him not having committed any real act that was unlawful on the night in question but unbeknownst to him his long-ago-lost State ID card started getting used by his "friend" Jose Joe who, on the night in question got stopped with an unregistered car and used Jim's my son's ID while Jim was right there in the car! LOL! Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and regular reader merciless &lt;a href="http://howtoinstallwatersoftener.pcuninstall.net"&gt;how to install water softener&lt;/a&gt; as requested another Harry Potter post to start a new Harry Potter thread in the comments. I have a post almost finished, but I'm having internet connection problems tonight and I'm not sure how soon I'll get too frustrated to continue and shut down the computer for the night. Fortunately, the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , opened tonight, so let's make this a Harry Potter movie thread. For starters, anyone who's already seen it or who sees it over the next couple of days, what say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down? How are the new cast members, particularly Helena Bonham Carter? How does this one compare to the previous Potter films? Everyone else, favorite movie? Favorite actor? Alan Rickman and Snape fans, feel free to open up your fan club again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up being his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). What complicated things for him--not me :) was that the Cook County jail was on lock-down for the weekend due to multiple escapees...in multiple escapes. 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Then a very old warrant for underage drinking ( Jim My son is currently 2 weeks from his 23rd BD) popped up on the new, improved backgroundchecker and the warrant's so old that whammy! huge bond--but as Jim my son cheerfully relates--the girl in the car--the girlfriend of the friend who had been for some time apparently using Jim's my son's ID in order to pass for 21, she had five! old warrants and got nailed for a $5500 cash bond. She's still cooling her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://merchantaccountcreditcardservices.411merchants.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did _not_ bail him out. He had lots of people stepping in but it ended up &lt;a href="http://neighborhoodpredators.411neighborhood.com"&gt;neighborhood predators&lt;/a&gt; eing his gf's cousin. Gobs of money was collected on the $1200 bond to get him out within a few more days (I owed him about $125 for taking care of my "tab" at the store so I paid him). 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