Your Tax dollars at work .......again.......

[JustRalph]

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/09/22/census-party-time-in-vegas

Census Party Time in Vegas
By Paul Chesser on 9.22.10 @ 1:58PM

The CBS affiliate in Denver reports that the Census Bureau paid about $100,000 in airfare, meals and hotel for 140 of its administrators in the West to gather at a Las Vegas luxury hotel to confer on "lessons learned." Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, saw it differently:

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http://spectator.org/blog/2010/09/22/census-party-time-in-vegas

Census Party Time in Vegas
By Paul Chesser on 9.22.10 @ 1:58PM

The CBS affiliate in Denver reports that the Census Bureau paid about $100,000 in airfare, meals and hotel for 140 of its administrators in the West to gather at a Las Vegas luxury hotel to confer on "lessons learned." Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, saw it differently:
Even if there were benefits to an in person gathering, not a good idea to do it during these times, especially not in Las Vegas.
I notice all the Youtube videos in the Spectator article were "removed by user" Smart move.

[newtothegame]

U.S. Has Spent $1.39 Million on Study Surveying Married Tajik Migrant Workers in Moscow, and Interviewing Some of Them, Their Wives, Girlfriends and Prostitutes
Friday, September 24, 2010
By Dan Joseph (http://cnsnews.com/source/75173)

(CNSNews.com) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent $1.39 million over the last 3 years on a study that involves surveying a group of married Tajik migrant workers in Moscow, and interviewing some of them, their wives, girlfriends and prostitutes.

According to the description of the study on the NIH Web site, the research was developed in order to address “the major global health problem of HIV prevention amongst married male labor migrants in Central Asia and the public health risk for an AIDS epidemic in Tajikistan.”

“The study focuses on married men from Tajikistan working in Moscow and their risks for acquiring HIV through having sex with female sex workers and then transmitting the infection to their wives or female sexual partners,” the description (http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7893044&icde=5453826) said.

"The specific aims of this study," the NIH abstract for the grant says, "are: 1) To characterize how labor migration of married men under extreme conditions shapes masculine norms and schemas and HIV risk and preventive behaviors; 2) To characterize how women (wives, regular partners, sex workers) and their perceptions of HIV, femininity, and masculinity impact male migrants' HIV risk and preventive behaviors; 3) To assess the current and potential roles of the organizations involved with married male migrants in responding to HIV and in mitigating masculine norms impacting men's sexual behavior; 4) To build an empirically based model for preventing HIV amongst married male migrants that will help to develop programs and policies focused on heterosexual men and masculine norms.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/75736