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This article reports on the measurement and valuation of the output of the household production of childcare. This includes all care given by parents, family members, friends and focuses on the numbers of children looked after, rather than those giving the care. It is the first in a series of articles to update the full household satellite accounts (HHSA) for the UK. The methodology remains under development and any estimates reported here, or in forthcoming publications, should be considered experimental and interpreted with caution.
In 2002 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the first Household Satellite Account (HHSA) for the UK, which measured and valued the unpaid goods and services produced by households (ONS, 2002; Holloway, Short & Tamplin, 2002).
Following the publication of the Report by the Commission for the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2009) there has been fresh interest in valuing household production. As such, as part of the Measuring National Well-being programme ONS is currently updating the HHSA which measure household production in the UK. The value of informal childcare is the first of the eight HHSA modules to be updated.
Household production is all unpaid goods and services produced by households in the UK. Conventional National Accounts measurements, such as GDP, do not fully take into account of these goods and services. However, if these goods and services are paid for they are included as part of the National Accounts. For example, if I were to iron my own clothes this service would not be included, however, if I were to pay someone to do it for me it would.
The HHSA provide a means by which the influence of changing patterns of unpaid work on the economy can be measured. The information will also be of use to policy makers who need to take significant amounts of unpaid work into account.
This work falls outside the scope of the UK National Accounts. This is because the inclusion of all activity which is productive in the economic sense but which does not have a monetary value, would swamp the monetary flows, obscure what is happening in the markets, and reduce the usefulness of National Accounts data for analysis. HHSA is therefore separate from, but conceptually consistent with the UK National Accounts.
The HHSA extends the National Accounts boundary to include all activity that could be delegated to another person. This activity is divided into several principal functions providing housing, transport, nutrition, clothing, laundry services, adult care, child care and voluntary work. The approach being taken by the ONS is to focus on the outputs of these principal functions.
The methodology remains under development and any estimates reported here, or in forthcoming publications, should be considered experimental and interpreted with caution. ONS welcomes comments and feedback on all aspects of the methodology used and the assumptions made, and seek suggestions for further/alternative data sources. A more detailed description of the methodology and assumptions made can be found in the appendices of this article.
As most of the childcare carried out by household members or their networks (family members or neighbours) could be delegated to another person, it is deemed to be part of the productive role of households.
The definitions of formal and informal childcare vary between different surveys and projects. Definitions of formal childcare can vary from including only childcare that is registered and paid for (for example registered childminder places for the under 8's), to also including care which is formalised by payment but unregistered (for example unregistered childminders and nannies).
Reflecting this, the definition of informal childcare can also vary. Informal childcare is often defined as unpaid care. This usually refers to care given by family members such as grandparents and siblings, as well as friends; but does not usually include care given by parents. Alternatively, informal childcare can be defined as care which is unregistered even if paid for, so paid babysitters and unregistered childminders could fall into this category. This is still referred to as informal care because the arrangements are not formalised with contracts or employment rights.
The HHSA definition of informal childcare is all care which does not involve a monetary transaction and therefore includes the childcare of parents and other family members. It is the total amount of childcare required (total number of children in the population multiplied by twenty four hours a day) less any formal childcare, defined as all paid childcare, whether it is registered or unregistered.
Within this definition of informal childcare we have not tried to distinguish between physical acts of supervision or help and the building of parent-child relationships, which obviously cannot be delegated. By using a residual approach to estimate informal childcare we are accounting for all the time a child needs supervision. This supervision can be 'active' or 'passive'. Passive care includes the time when an adult may not be directly interacting with the child, but is still responsible for them. The important point is that if no unpaid carer were available, a third person would have to be paid to take their place. Therefore passive care is part of the productive role of households and is included in our estimates. One simple way of distinguishing between passive and active childcare is to look at waking and sleeping time. If we assume a child under 5 sleeps for twelve hours, we can say that 50% of their childcare is passive, and so on.
As children get older, some of them are left unsupervised for varying amounts of time. An allowance has been made for this, so that the amount of informal care is reduced for older children.
Formal childcare is all childcare which involves a monetary transaction and total hours of formal childcare can be affected by several factors – the duration of time that children spend in childcare, the total number of children who attend formal childcare and the total number of children in the population. However, as the time spent in each type of formal care is assumed to remain constant over the period, the changes actually reflect changes in the uptake of childcare places and the population size.
The number of children in the population will affect some formal childcare places more immediately than others. If the population increases, the number of school places will increase. Provision for the under 5's will be more sensitive to changing preferences, changes in the labour market and/or changes in government policy.
Overall, the number of children in the UK has fallen 4.1% between 1995 and 2010. This is reflected in estimates of formal childcare hours for the UK. Formal childcare per child for children aged 5 to 15 has remained relatively stable, increasing 4.5% over the 15 year period. However, formal childcare per child for children under 5 years old increased substantially, and was 36.4% higher in 2010 than in 1995. Relative to this, population growth has been slower (in 2010, there were just 0.6% more children under 5 years old than in 1995).
Despite a substantial increase in formal childcare of those under 5 years old between 1995 and 2005, on average, children under 5 years old spend much less time in formal care than those 5 to 15 years old.
|% change 1995-2010
|Under 5
|5 - 7
|8 - 10
|11 - 15
This is in line with government policies in the early 2000's encouraging under 5's into formal childcare. Over the same period, the percentage of mothers in employment also increased (ONS, Mothers in the Labour Market, 2011).
|% change 1995-2010
|Under 5
|5 - 7
|8 - 10
|11 - 15
Reflecting movements in the population and formal childcare, informal childcare hours per child remained relatively stable in the late 1990's before falling. Overall, between 1995 and 2010 there was a fall of 1.4%. This was driven by falls in informal childcare of those under 5 years old, particularly between 1995 and 2005.
Chart 2 looks at the ratio of informal to formal childcare. This shows that in the 10 years between 1995 and 2005, there was a considerable change in the ratio of informal to formal childcare for the under 5's. In 1995, total annual hours of informal childcare was 16.9 times greater than formal childcare. By 2005, this had fallen to 12.7 times greater. Since 2005 the ratio of informal to formal childcare of those aged under 5 has remained more stable and was 12.1 in 2010. By contrast, the ratio for all other age groups has remained relatively stable over the whole period. This highlights the movement away from informal childcare in the home towards formal childcare for children of pre-school age.
The services provided by a live in nanny have been deemed the closest market equivalent to the services provided by parents and other informal carers, so their rate per child hour has been used to value informal childcare. The wages of live-in nannies have been taken from the Professional Nanny/Nannytax Annual Survey, which gives average wages by geographical area and for the UK.
Chart 3 shows there were sharp increases in average wages between 1995 and 1996, and between 1998 and 1999. While there are likely to be many factors which have contributed to this growth, one of the key influences could have been the introduction of the National Minimum Wage. A shortage of nannies may also have contributed to higher wages. More recently, the wages of nannies have also been affected by the recession, with little growth evident since 2008.
The averages conceal a huge degree of variation, particularly regionally; as such we have used the average wage for 'other cities' (i.e. excluding London) to value informal childcare. Additionally, the wage used to value informal childcare has been adjusted for payments in kind – a nanny is often paid in accommodation, food and sometime additional perks such as the use of a car. Finally, nannies do not charge for their services by the hour or by the child, therefore we have assumed that on average a nanny works a 48 hour week and looks after an average of 2 children. Obviously, the estimation of the value of informal childcare is sensitive to these adjustments and assumptions.
We consider both gross and net wages. The value using a rate based on gross wages is equivalent to the cost to households were they to employ a nanny to provide the childcare they give. The value based on net wages is the equivalent of what informal carers would receive were they to be paid the same rate as nannies.
Table 3 shows the value of informal childcare using both gross and net wages. It shows that for both methods of valuing informal childcare, the result is a substantial increase between 1995 and 2010. However, these values of informal childcare do not take account of inflation and this rise is against a backdrop of a fall in informal childcare hours. As such we can conclude that the increase in the value of informal childcare is driven by an increase in the price of childcare.
|Billion hours
|Informal Hours
|Value - Gross
|Value - net
This can be broken down by age groups, which shows that all age groups experienced an increase in the value of informal childcare and in all cases this was driven by an increase in the price of childcare. In both the 5 to 7 age group and the 8 to 10 age group, this was partially offset by a slight reduction in the number of informal childcare hours.
The valuation of informal childcare is equivalent to either 18% or 23% of GDP (in current prices) in 2010 depending on the rate used. Using gross wages (representing the cost to households were they to employ a nanny to provide the childcare they give) informal childcare is valued at the equivalent of 23% of GDP in 2010, an increase from 16% in 1995. Using net wages (representing what informal carers would receive were they to be paid the same rate as nannies) informal childcare is valued at the equivalent of 18% of GDP in 2010, an increase from 15% in 1995.
Chart 4 shows that between 1995 and 2002 the value of informal childcare as a percentage of GDP increased, reflecting the increases in the value of informal childcare through this period. However, since then informal childcare as a proportion of GDP has fallen slightly again.
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There are two possibilities for measuring household production, to measure inputs or outputs. Measuring inputs focuses on the time spent on productive activities and relies principally on time-use data. This usually takes the form of a diary, which the survey respondent is asked to complete, giving information about their principal activities throughout a 24-hour period.
The alternative is to attempt to measure outputs, this is the approach being taken by ONS. The output method values what the household produces, for example the number of children cared for or the number of meals prepared. This is important because it is often easier to value outputs than inputs, particularly when there is a market equivalent to the service being produced. Output measurement is also more consistent with the way the rest of the National Accounts are constructed and reflects household productivity. It may be possible to construct a historical series using this approach, even in the absence of time-use data. Outputs can be estimated through surveys that specifically request this type of information.
An estimate of gross unpaid production is obtainable by multiplying the volume of output by an appropriate market value or price. This in itself is problematic due to the difficulties in applying a market price or wage rate to outputs without any information on the variation in quality between households. The methodology is essentially the same for all of the principal functions except voluntary work.
The development of the UK Household Satellite Account was the first attempt to estimate the volume of outputs for each of the principle functions and to produce a value for total household production based on this approach.
The remainder of this annex will look at the estimation of household production of childcare (one element of the household satellite accounts) using the output approach.
As most of the childcare carried out by the household members or their networks (family members or neighbours) could be delegated to another person, it is deemed to be part of the productive role of households. ONS have not tried to distinguish between physical acts of supervision or help and the building of parent-child relationships, which obviously cannot be delegated.
The HHSA definition of informal childcare is all care which does not involve a monetary transaction. It is the total amount of childcare required (total number of children in the population multiplied by twenty four hours a day) less any formal childcare, defined as all paid childcare, whether it is registered or unregistered. However the estimates do not include some paid care which takes place, but for which ONS has been unable to find any data. This includes care by babysitters and au-pairs, as well as out-of-school clubs and holiday play schemes for children over 8 years old.
As children get older, some of them are left unsupervised for varying amounts of time. An allowance has been made for this, so that the amount of informal care is reduced for older children. There is limited hard data on the actual amount of unsupervised time. If, in fact, the assumptions ONS have made lead to informal childcare being underestimated (i.e. including too much unsupervised time), this will be offset to some extent by the unmeasured formal care which has not been included.
By using a residual approach to estimate informal childcare ONS is accounting for all the time a child needs supervision. This supervision can be active or passive. Passive care includes the time when an adult may not be directly interacting with the child, but is still responsible for them. The important point is that if no unpaid carer were available, a third person would have to be paid to take their place. Therefore passive care is part of the productive role of households and is included in the estimates.
Information on different types of formal care has been collected for each UK country. This mainly takes the form of the numbers of childcare places available, and in all cases ONS have assumed 100% take-up of places. The requirement for and use of formal childcare varies for children of different ages, so the places have been allocated to the following categories:
Age Group 1: under 5 years old
Age Group 2: 5 to 7 years old
Age Group 2: 8 to 10 years old
Age Group 4: 11 to 15 years old
As formal childcare availability varies by the time of the year, the year has been split into four types of day:
Weekend = 104 days
Week Day School Day = 180 days (36 weeks x 5 days)
Week Day Working Holiday = 28 days (4 weeks x 5 days plus 8 bank holidays)
Week Day School Holiday = 53 days (12 weeks holiday minus bank holidays)
The estimates for each age group, by time and type of day, have been aggregated to obtain a figure for the total number of hours spent by all children in the UK in formal care in any one year.
As for the original estimates produced in 2002, for each separate type of day and age group, assumptions were made about the length of time the various types of childcare provision were available. ONS continue to review the assumptions and would welcome any information on further sources to inform this process. Although the length of time the various types of childcare provision is available may change over time, the HHSA assumes this to be constant. Full details of the assumptions made about each type of formal care can be found in appendix B.
ONS assume those children in foster places and children's homes are cared for 24 hours a day all year round, with the exception of attending school for 6.5 hours a day. Similarly, full time boarders are assumed to be in formal care 24 hours a day on school days and at weekends. Weekly boarders are assumed to be in formal care 24 hours a day on weekdays in term time. This means that for some individual children ONS may be double counting the total number of hours spent in formal care; for example, a foster child, a child living in a children's home or a boarder may attend other formal care activities (such as holiday play schemes or out of school clubs). Due to this double counting, the total number of formal hours may be slightly over estimated; this will result in an underestimate of informal hours.
Assumptions have also been made in order to divide the geographic data between the three different age groups. If the data is already broken down into different age groups from the ones outlined above, then the data is prorated using the UK country and year specific population age structure. If only the total number of children in a care category is available, then the proportion in each age group from the England data has been applied to the total numbers. Finally, if data is split down into the age groups for only some years, then the average split between the age groups has been applied to the years when only the total is available. Missing data points have been estimated by predicting the trend between existing data points.
To ensure a consistent approach across all four countries of the UK the population estimates were taken before any adjustments for the 2011 Census had taken place. Therefore at this stage the population estimates are not consistent with the 2011 Census.
ONS estimate the volume of informal care by subtracting the hours spent in formal care, plus an allowance for the hours a child aged 12 to 15 may be left unsupervised, from the child population multiplied by the total number of hours in a year. As with formal care, the total hours of informal care can be broken down by age group and time, and type of day.
The assumption about the time children aged between 11 and 15 spend unsupervised is critical in calculating informal hours, and is perhaps the most difficult to support with hard evidence. To estimate the number of hours spent in informal care, the number of hours a child is left unsupervised, plus the hours spent in formal childcare activities, needs to be subtracted from the total population hours. This time unsupervised by adults could be when a child is spending time with their friends, being looked after by an older sibling, or when they are on their own.
The data available for when children are left unsupervised by their parents is very sensitive to reporting errors. This is due to social norms and beliefs about the amount of time children should spend alone. A survey carried out by Kids Club Network in 1997, sponsored by Nestlé, estimated that 6% of children return home to an empty house. A similar survey (the Make Space Youth Review) conducted by 4Children in 2007 suggests that an estimated 34% of all teenagers return home to an empty house. The sensitivity of the issues suggests that there is under-reporting by parents. Because of the lack of data about the length of time left unsupervised, ONS have started from the working assumption outlined below.
In the HHSA ONS have assumed that no child aged 11 or under is left unsupervised and that 10% of 12 year olds, 20% of 13 year olds, 30% of 14 year olds and 50% of 15 year olds spend time without adult supervision. In every case, ONS have not included any allowance for time spent unsupervised during four weeks holiday plus Bank Holidays. These assumptions can be interpreted as a mix of two extremes. ONS could say that 10% of children aged 12 are left unsupervised all the time. ONS could also say that out of 337 days (365 days minus four weeks paid holiday of parent/carer minus eight days bank holiday) an individual 12-year-old would spend a total of 10% of their time unsupervised.
As the unspervised time figure shows, for a 12 year old, this unsupervised time could typically include an hour in the morning before school, plus an hour and a half after school (e.g. walking themselves to and from school), plus being left unsupervised by an adult between 8.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. in the school holidays while a parent is at work. This scenario assumes no time unsupervised in the evenings or at the weekends. For a 15-year old, the assumption includes the same times of day as a 12 year old, plus additional hours after school on school days, in the evenings in the school holidays and at the weekend. Informal care in the HHSA is therefore care of children by adults, as care of children by other children is included in the assumption of time unsupervised.
As mentioned earlier the requirement for and use of informal childcare varies for children of different ages, as well as by different times of the day and different days of the year. It is possible to value all informal hours at a single market price or to take into consideration the time of the year, time of the day and the age of the child. Because ONS is valuing the output of childcare, i.e. the number of children cared for multiplied by the total time in a year when they receive this care; the market price must also be a rate per child.
The services provided by an employed live-in nanny are deemed to be the nearest market equivalent to the services provided by parents and other informal carers, so their rate per child hour has been used to value informal care. The wages of live-in nannies have been taken from the Professional Nanny/Nannytax Annual Survey, which gives average wages by geographical area for the UK.
However, the averages conceal considerable variation. For example, the Nannytax survey shows that for live out nannies in 2010, the net weekly wages was £490 in London, but just £360 outside of London and the Home Counties. ONS have used the average wage for other cities. i.e. excluding London.
A live-in nanny is paid not just in wages but also in accommodation and food, with some nannies receiving additional perks such as the use of a car. Because of this the live-in nanny wage rate is lower than the daily nanny rate. The Nannytax survey gives data for both live in nannies and live out nannies, with a difference of £110 per week in net wages in central London in 2010.
ONS have made an adjustment for payment in kind, comparing the live-in and daily rate for nannies working the same number of hours per week. This results in an upward adjustment to the net wage rate of 8.5% and the gross wage rate of 10%.
Nannies do not charge for their services by the hour or per child. ONS have assumed that the average live-in nanny works 48 hours a week looking after an average of two children. This information is used to adjust the gross and net weekly wages.
There are several ongoing methodological challenges which ONS will continue to develop while updating the accounts. Of primary concern is the use of the 'time-unsupervised' assumption; this assumption could be tested by examining whole household data in the 2000 Time Use Survey and estimating time spent unsupervised by age. Additionally, the alternatives for pricing passive care will be investigated.
ONS acknowledge the advantages of using time-use data to complement the output approach. The main advantage of using time-use data is that socio-demographic information can be applied to the data to answer question's such as 'who is providing informal childcare?'. The data sources used in the UK accounts, at present, do not allow linkages to be made between the outputs of household production and types of individual. This question can be addressed by looking at time-use data, such as the UK Time Use Survey from 2000, allowing the comparison of relative contributions of different socio-demographic groups.
It is also possible to make assumptions about the amount of time children of different age groups are asleep, and therefore the childcare is passive rather than active. By splitting informal care into passive and active care, different prices can be applied reflecting the different valuation of passive and active care.
Household Satellite Accounts - Valuing Informal Childcare in the UK uses a vast array of data sources. Full details of the data sources used and assumptions made can be found in the reference table (55.5 Kb Excel sheet) accompanying this appendix.
This article is published as part of the ONS Measuring National Well-being Programme.
The programme aims to produce accepted and trusted measures of the well-being of the nation - how the UK as a whole is doing.
Measuring National Well-being is about looking at 'GDP and beyond'. It includes headline indicators in areas such as health, relationships, job satisfaction, economic security, education, environmental conditions and measures of 'subjective well-being' (individuals' assessment of their own well-being).
Find out more on the Measuring National Well-being website pages.


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M. Storari
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A. Vidal
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E. Giaccherini
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L. Marrone
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M. Isla
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S. Giovinco
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M. Amelia
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P. Mexès
Seemed more interested in riling the Juve ranks than in actually defending and was extremely lucky not to have received a red card in a bizarre first-half performance.
I. Abate
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F. Acerbi
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M. De Sciglio
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R. Montolivo
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P. De Ceglie
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A. Pirlo
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M. Vučinić
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B. Traoré
Brought on at the end of the second half, and was badly caught out by a swift break that led to Vucinic's strike.
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WDEL Blog: Allan Loudell
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Ted Cruz's dad even more incendiary than the son
Rafael Cruz, father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) addressed some of the G.O.P. faithful in Colorado last week, and some of the details have started to emerge.
From The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, in turn, linking to a Colorado political blog...
Posted at 8:54am on October 2, 2013 by Allan Loudell
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Wed, Oct 2, 2013 12:32pm
Palin was demonized for talking about "death panels" in the ACA... which DO exist but of course aren't actually called out by that name...it's something much more Orwellian-sounding.
The elderly Babyboomers better wake up as they are seen as burdens on the rest of the country's economy and add to the costs of ACA and costs to Social Security. When SS was first instituted, the life expectancy was much lower than our current American life expectancy... I think the average age of death was around 63.
Also, I don't know what the president's relationship is with God the Father/Son/Holy Ghost but do know that he (and his administration) continue to side with and arm the Muslim Brotherhood (rather than aiding the Christian Coptics or Egyptian military in Egypt), and are supporting/arming Al-Qaeda in Syria.
Wed, Oct 2, 2013 8:07pm
Who says Ted Cruz is incendiary? He happens to be a very fine gentleman, thank you!
Wed, Oct 2, 2013 8:17pm
Rafael Cruz isn't saying anything that I haven't been saying right here on this blog for the last two years. The ultimate agenda of the Obama health care scam is to exterminate the elderly once they're no longer "useful".
Wed, Oct 2, 2013 9:03pm
I'll bet ya Ted Cruz knows when Elvis's birthday is!
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 9:32am
Here's an interesting take on Ted Cruz from someone here:
"Cruz was right. The strategy may disembowel the Democrats. How can they not pass a bill that puts people back to work? The Senate will collectively or individually pass the individual bills, leaving the funding for Obamacare, dead in the House. If the Senate doesn�t pass the unrelated bills, they become the objects of terror.
Cruz will become the next House Speaker. He was able to achieve what Boehner was not. There is now nothing that Boehner can do. It is finished�."
Allan Loudell
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 9:36am
Except Cruz can't become House Speaker for the simple reason that he's a senator... not a U.S. representative...
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 10:36am
Cruz's old man comes from the fascist Cuban elite that supported Batista, got in bed with the Mafia and U.S. sugar and tobacco interests, and since took over South Florida. Marco Rubio is another example.
The Cruz's are the Havana branch of the Ewing family. Funny all these right-wing Machiavellian types are somehow connected to the oil business.
His qualifications for president are in doubt. He was born in Alberta and his father was not (yet) a U.S. citizen, although his mother was (born in Wilmington).
Churchill talked about the "great English-speaking peoples." The U.S. may not qualify for that club much longer. The Spanish are evil. The inquisition. The armada. Brutal dictatorships. Latin America remains in the middle ages. And now they are exporting it all to the US.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 11:34am
Allan, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5 of the US Constitution reads: "The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."
They can choose anyone, not necessarily an elected member of the House. Never have done so, but they could.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 11:41am
Allan, good catch. As one commenter on the original piece made, was that it is not required that the Speaker of the House be a member of the House of Representatives... That little know fact gets coverage every two years the House Speaker's position is up for grabs... The Speaker is whomever the House chooses to vote for...
But Cruz has out-maneuvered Boehner's control of the party. Since that post, I have outlined how Boehner needs to take it back, if anyone is interested.
Allan Loudell
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 11:42am
I would make this analogy: That would be like the Roman Catholic Church's College of Cardinals reaching OUTSIDE the cardinals - and even outside the ranks of the bishops - to a simple priest, for the next Pope. After all, technically ANY Catholic male is eligible for the Papacy; would just be ordained and elevated in one fell swoop.
Okay, okay... It's slightly more imaginable that Tea Partiers in the House would reach out to Cruz to be Speaker. But practically speaking, he'd give up his Senate seat? Or serve in BOTH roles? Hey, wait a minute: He'd need to be on the Presidential campaign trail before long, so he'd barely have time for EITHER role.
Allan Loudell
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 11:46am
BillS. That is very Balkan how you used the Armada to bash America's Hispanics..... I guess we should declare a fatwa against something interpreted as malicious said 1200 years ago...
Allan Loudell
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 11:48am
The Spanish Armada sailed in the 1500's... so not exactly 1,200 years ago!
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 12:02pm
John Boehner has been a lousy House Speaker and now a leaked email reveals Boehner worked behind-the-scenes with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep Congress�s Obamacare exemptions.
Boehner needs to be replaced!
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 12:59pm
Sorry, my bad. I didn't know anyone would make that connection. I was referring by that date to the word Balkan, in which we lampooned those fighting each other over insults that took place 1200 years earlier. "Yo mama has a mustache!"
You caused me to think of what could possibly constitute a Spanish Armada 1200 years ago, and the closest thing I came with was Hannibal's crossing from Africa... Can anyone with a better knowledge of ancient naval history offer up other contenders?
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 1:02pm
Earl. That was no secret. Boehner is a moderate who is very attuned to the economic benefits Obamacare will create for America. Why do you think that bill was written by the insurance companies? That is why, instead of being replaced by Ted Cruz, he should claim the Republican mantle and run for President in 2016.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 1:29pm
NBC has chosen to side with Obama. This clip has been in their hands for days, and was released today...
It shows one of the idiots responsible for the shutdown, lambasting a park ranger for closing the park to veterans. He tried to make her apologize. She didn't succumb to his pressure, but onlookers all jumped down his throat...
No, Mr. Congressman from a TEA PARTY district. YOU, YOU, not Harry Reid, ARE THE REASON THIS PARK IS SHUT DOWN...
The video shows that what we really do see on our TVs is not the reality. From this clip it is obvious that most American people absolutely HATE, with a vitriolic passion, all Tea Party congressmen. (In India, they would be treated as untouchables....) In fact, never in America, at least during my lifetime - now since the Vietnam War, have Conservatives been so reviled by such gigantic majorities of the American people.
One wonders... why NBC and other agencies did not show such footage from other meets, showing how reviled the Tea Party really is.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 2:03pm
Just heard... The "do not call" registry is shut down... Open season on junk calls.... Anyone can call now, even if formerly banned.
Thanks Tea Party people....
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 2:05pm
And it begins to crack... Good-bye Tea Party.... See Ya....
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 2:11pm
Even Tea Party congressmen now are running for cover... See How They Run....
This is from one member who called for making the stand against Obamacare just last Friday.....
This is like that part in a children's show where the bad guys get run out-of-town... even as an adult, you get all happy to see good win out over pure evil... lol.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 2:18pm
We now see a not-so-subtle message to all Americans now stuck with ACA how "Dear Leader" feels about you...
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 2:45pm
No one but you, Earl, can take that seriously... Using the same formula, your name Earl Grey really means...."darki pew" .. you segregationist church-goer you....
Just shows you how desperate Republicans are becoming, now that they can finally see they have lost every election for the next generation... ha ha ha...
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 3:37pm
" After all, technically ANY Catholic male is eligible for the Papacy; would just be ordained and elevated in one fell swoop."
I'm getting bumper stickers printed: LOUDELL FOR POPE.
Look forward to sardines on Fridays.
I used to love those Erroll Flynn movies with the Spanish as stand-ins for the Nazis, sending spies against Queen Elizabeth, capturing Errol and his crew and making them galley slaves, building their armada in secret while trying to trick the Queen into dismantling her navy...
And the armada was 425 years ago, 1588.
A real journalist would have given the date, not just the century. (July 21-28).
The pope declared the sneak attack on Britain a crusade and Spanish troops were given indulgences. Many need them. Since a storm (not the British) destroyed most of the Spanish ships and killed most of their seamen. So much for the pope's influence on the weather.
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 4:13pm
kavips...sorry but I'd place money on that being intentional. Somebody was probably LOL when they made up the number ;)
Thu, Oct 3, 2013 8:55pm
If the GOP loses the House in 2014 due to the shutdown, then it won't be on my conscience when the Democrats finally drag the country to hell in a handbasket.
Fri, Oct 4, 2013 12:05am
Wow, that means it was exactly 200 years between the Armada and the beginning of our Constitution.
Fri, Oct 4, 2013 8:20am
kavips: Only if you average. Adopted 1787 (199 years). Went into effect 1789 (201 years).
200 years later:
1987: Iran Contra. Ronnie's biggest lie since he did commercials for Chesterfield cigarettes.
Premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation
1989: Daddy Bush makes first state visit to Japan. Does not barf on prime minister this time.
Berlin Wall comes down. Ronnie takes credit (like the rooster who thinks his crowing causes the sun to rise).
Fri, Oct 4, 2013 2:50pm
BillS. I too was surprised by that date. The source chose to use the 9th state's ratification as the set point, which was New Hampshire on June 21, 1788. I've included the link because I learned something (twice in one day). The vote totals were not all overwhelming in favor of joining; some states were squeakers...
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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Preliminary results show two suspicious letters sent to a Downtown Spokane post office on Wednesday were laced with ricin.
The American Postal Workers Union said one letter was addressed to the Spokane Post Office; the other was addressed to a federal judge in Spokane. Both letters were postmarked May 14.
The organization added there is no reason to believe any employees are at risk from handling the letters. Union leaders said the results show the ricin was not in a form that could be inhaled or ingested.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider ricin to be one of the deadliest toxins known to man. The poison is found naturally in castor beans and the plant is readily available. Castor beans are typically processed to make castor oil according to the CDC. Ricin can be made from the left over waste material.
The Seattle division of the FBI confirmed Thursday it is aware of threatening letters sent to a postal facility. However, FBI leaders refused to confirm whether there was ricin found at the post office and does not know of any other letters that were sent to Spokane.
"The FBI is working with law enforcement partners including USPIS [United States Postal Inspection Service] to investigate the source of the letters," said FBI spokesperson Ayn Sandolo Dietrich.
Law enforcement agencies are continuing to assess and address potential threats but are not aware of any other letters.
The post office facility is still open but operating with appropriate precautions.
Health officials said it would take a deliberate act to make ricin and use it to poison people. People can be exposure could through the air, food or water according to CDC experts. They warn that a small amount can shutdown someone's organs and cause death.
Castro beans do have legitimate medical uses. Scientists have studied their ability to suppress cancer tumors.


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Charles Edward Ives
1874 - 1954
Charles Edward Ives, Danbury born and raised maverick composer, cared little for the musical styles and fashions of his day. He cared even less for music critics. He was fond of saying that pretty music was for pretty ears, and he had no regrets that his music was not considered ôpretty.ö Not until 1939, twenty years after he stopped composing, did the American public become aware of his music. Acceptance came much later.
Charles Ivesĺ first and most influential teacher was his father, George, a Civil War band leader, who introduced him to the concepts of polytonality and multiple meters. Young Charles grew up listening to his fatherĺs bands marching up and down Danburyĺs Main Street and was greatly influenced by his fatherĺs frequent musical experiments. One popular anecdote recounts the occasion when several of Georgeĺs bands marched to Elmwood Park from different directions, simultaneously playing marches in different meters and keys. Another tells of Georgeĺs experiments with quarter tones, which were inspired by the out-of-tune church bells of the First Congregational Church next to his home.
George Ivesĺ musical innovation and the sights and sounds of the Danbury area had a powerful impact on young Charles and contributed to his unconventional approach to music writing.
Charles Ives began composing at a young age. In 1888, he played his composition ôSlow Marchö at the funeral for Chin-Chin, his cat. Some people say Chin-Chin was a dog! Charles was fond of using fragments of music familiar to Danburians. Patriotic music, hymns and marches figured prominently in his compositions. He combined fragments of this conventional music with the unconventional compositional techniques he learned from his father. The result was uniquely American and uniquely Charles Ives.
His music did not meet with acclaim either in Danbury or anywhere else in the United States. Europeans, however, were very curious about Ives and everything American. Renowned Austrian composer-conductor Gustav Mahler, during his tenure with the New York Philharmonic, reportedly happened upon a copy of the Third Symphony (Camp Meeting). He brought the score back to Europe in 1911 with the intention of performing it, but died before doing so. Several published sources,
|however, report that the symphony was indeed played in Munich. The score Mahler took has never been recovered.
In the early 1930ĺs, American conductor Nicholas Slonimsky premiered several of Ives orchestral works in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston to unreceptive and hostile audiences. Subsequent performances in Cuba and Europe, funded by Charles Ives, were met with enthusiasm. Success in Europe lent Ivesĺ music a modicum of respectability here in the States. Gradually, his music began to be performed in American concert halls and slowly, over the years, the public began to understand and accept the music of Charles Ives.
Ivesĺ interest in Transcendentalism and the Concord Four ľ Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau ľ is evident in the Concord Sonata and its accompanying literary work ôEssays Before A Sonataö published in 1919. In creating a unique musical style, Ives may have been influenced by Emerson who wrote: ôůimitation cannot go above its model. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.ö Ives was a weekend composer, deliberately choosing to make a living selling insurance rather than music. Perhaps he suspected his music would not sell. Ives subscribed to Thoreauĺs words from Walden, ôůinstead of studying how to make it worth menĺs while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.ö
In 1918 Ives suffered a serious illness and stopped composing shortly afterward. He continued, however, to extensively revise his compositions while concentrating on making a living in the insurance business he co-founded with Julien Myrick in 1907. Ever the innovator, Ives became well known in the industry for introducing new concepts such as estate planning. In 1930 he retired, a very wealthy man. Ives obviously had no reason to sell his baskets.
Charles Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his Third Symphony. Over the years, his ôgrand and glorious noiseö has gained popularity and a large following. The centennial of his birth was widely celebrated, and his music is now played to appreciative audiences. Such celebrity would have been inconceivable to Charles Ives during his lifetime!Nancy F. Sudik
Executive Director, Danbury Music Centre
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Pictures: Weekend Fun: Annual Cardboard boat regatta
This year's race is this Saturday. Here are pictures from last year's Williamsburg Jaycees third annual Cardboard Boat Regatta at the Watermen's Museum on the Yorktown waterfront.
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Pictures: Cardboard boat regatta
Crowds gathered on the beach to cheer the handmade boats that raced and sometimes sunk, to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Virginia Peninsula.


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The nose evolves to more pronounced dry fruit and nuts with vanilla undertones.
The palate is present and initially quite dry with the long clean finish typical of Leyrat cognacs.
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Blogger Brooke McLay from Cheeky Kitchen shares a fun recipe for push-up pops. Mini chocolate brownies fit perfectly with Betty Crocker® frosting in these adorable push-up cake pops. Deliciously easy!
Learn to make this recipe with our how-to article.
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Leave the vanilla frosting as is, use chocolate frosting, or tint vanilla frosting yellow or red to add autumnal variety to your push-up cake pops.


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Revolution 2012: It's Time To Rise
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i was 10 when kennedy was murdered by corporate america along with military industrial complex. they killed his brother too along with king.


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46 U.S. Code § 41305 - Award of reparations
(a) Definition.— In this section, the term "actual injury" includes the loss of interest at commercial rates compounded from the date of injury.
(b) Basic Amount.— If the complaint was filed within the period specified in section 41301 (a) of this title, the Federal Maritime Commission shall direct the payment of reparations to the complainant for actual injury caused by a violation of this part, plus reasonable attorney fees.
(c) Additional Amounts.— On a showing that the injury was caused by an activity prohibited by section 41102 (b), 41104 (3) or (6), or 41105 (1) or (3) of this title, the Commission may order the payment of additional amounts, but the total recovery of a complainant may not exceed twice the amount of the actual injury.
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SPOKANE -- The Mike Leach era at Washington State finally reached the football field on Thursday with the opening of spring drills.
Leach, who previosly led Texas Tech to ten bowl games in ten seasons, was hired in November to bring his high-powered passing attack to Washington State, which posted a 9-40 record over the previous four seasons under fired coach Paul Wulff.
Washington State has 47 returning lettermen and 13 starters back from last year's squad that finished 4-8.
Thursday's practice was the first of 15 for the Cougars this spring. They wrap up drills with the annual Crimson and Gray Game on April 21st at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane.


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Ad for Jay's concert at times square ^^
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Rookie female soloist Ailee earns her way into the Top 10 with her track "Heaven," an emotional R&B ballad with a melody that recalls Bruno Mars' hook on the Bad Meets Evil track "Lighters." An American-born Korean, the vocalist has made a name for herself with her YouTube covers and TV appearances in both the U.S. and Korea. Her big moment came with her first place on Korean television show "Singers & Trainees" with a cover of Beyonce's "Halo" (which the song sounds somewhat similar to). The beautiful harmonies on the verses (no doubt helped by her training with mentor, Wheesung, who's also on the chart at No. 25 with "Road of Tears") and the catchy, repetitious "heaven" hook make this one likely to stick around for a promising new act.
Another American-born Korean, big time solo male act Jay Park, makes his way to the Top 10 too at No. 9 with "Know Your Name." A sonic combination of Euro-electro pop and R&B, the club banger has a production that wouldn't sound out of place with on a Jay Sean or Jason DeRulo album. With a lot of English lyrics in the track, perhaps the song could make its way to their ears? The song kicks off with underground rapper Dok2 spitting some raps before Jay (Park, not Sean, keep up) takes over the track. Yet where Jay Park may have other male vocalists beat is in the dark department with Jay showing off slick solo moves and tight choreography with his dancers.
I love that "Demon" jumped from its debut #43 last week to #20 this week and it's not even a KPop song plus it's all English! Congrats Jay!
I find this truly amazing! An Asian American at the top of this new Billboard chart called… UNCHARTED! Congratulations Traphik!!! Also congrats David Choi for making the list too! Awesome of Billboard to create this!
love this one too!
read the billboard.com article —> http://www.billboard.com/events/watch-jyj-rock-billboard-1004130704.story#/events/watch-jyj-rock-billboard-1004130704.story
love it! congrats on performing for billboard.com.


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Former customers may be entitled to one last withdrawal of assets.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Customers of now-defunct Washington Mutual may have one last withdrawal coming their way. Millions of dollars in accounts dormant at the time of the bank's 2008 demise are making their way to states' unclaimed property offices.
- Bing: Biggest bank failures
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which oversaw the seizure of WaMu -- the nation's largest bank failure -- and subsequent sale to JPMorgan Chase, handed over nearly $251.4 million to the states this summer. Oregon, for example, received some 27,000 accounts containing $3.85 million.
Washington Mutual's millions represent a substantial jump in the states' unclaimed assets, estimated earlier this year at a collective $32.8 billion.
Losing your wallet can disrupt your life. Here's how to prepare for that eventuality.
This post comes from Jim Wang at partner blog Bargaineering.
In this inaugural post in the Financial Contingency Plan series, I want to discuss one of the most common financial disasters -- losing your wallet.
Whether you carry a money clip, an actual wallet, or an entire purse, losing it is one of the most demoralizing financial events that can happen to a person. Your wallet is a compartmentalization of your financial identity and contains your driver's license, your cash, any credit and debit cards, your photos, insurance information, and other financial tidbits.
This is what you need to do to prepare for and recover from a lost wallet.
Now that it's legal to use your phone on any compatible network and with your choice of software, one question remains: How the heck do you do it?
This post comes from Dan Schointuch at partner site Money Talks News.
Thanks to a set of rules issued by the Librarian of Congress (.pdf file) you can now jailbreak and unlock your cellular phone without violating copyright law -- good news for anyone with an iPhone and a distaste for AT&T.
Put simply, jailbreaking and unlocking allow you to use your phone on any compatible network while installing whatever software you'd like.
If you're like me, your immediate reaction was total elation -- I can ditch AT&T!!! -- followed quickly by the mounting dread of knowing that every person you have ever come into contact with is about to ask you how to jailbreak a phone. Not good. So, in an effort to get ahead of the oncoming swarm of help-me's, here is everything you need to know to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone.
For these struggling towns, the object is to put vacant lots back on the tax rolls.
The Nebraska town where the first homestead was filed nearly 150 years ago once again has free land on a first-come, first-served basis.
Beatrice, a collection of 12,000 souls in the southeastern part of the state, is not the only U.S. city or town offering free or nearly free land in the hopes of turning vacant city-owned lots into tax-producing properties, The New York Times reports.
It's also not the first time local governments have offered such deals. But, while earlier deals were intended to entice new residents and revitalize dying towns, these offers, the Times says, are in response to budget shortfalls caused by the brutal economy.
Here's where you can find these deals:
Bloggers detail the deals at national chains. One suggestion: Give your kids a budget and let them decide what to buy.
This may be good news to moms (and dads) and not-so-good news for the youngsters: It's time to think about going back to school.
The school supply sales are in full swing this week, and shopping now may save you some bucks over waiting until the week before school starts, when many items will be back to regular prices. Waiting for the sales tax holiday may pay in some states, but stores that want to lure you in sooner may offer better discounts before the tax-free week.
Labor Day is just around the corner. Where to travel for bargains.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
A cheap summer getaway is still within reach, even with just weeks to go before Labor Day. Cruise lines, hotels and tourism groups are cutting prices and adding promotions to handle consumers' spending and travel cutbacks.
- Bing: Find travel deals
Hotel rates fell over the summer from an average $140 a night near Memorial Day to a current $130, says Genevieve Shaw Brown, a spokeswoman for booking site Travelocity. It's a small change, but one that indicates more properties are offering bigger deals as summer comes to a close.
The catch:
The potential for trouble is so great that you should think twice -- or thrice -- before lending (or borrowing) money.
This post comes from J.D. Roth at partner blog Get Rich Slowly.
Ah, relationships. Without other people, money management would be easy. Easier, anyhow. But love, family, and business relationships tend to make people do things they know they really oughtn't.
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On March 15, 2012, the American chapter of the International Association of Art Critics(AICA-USA) announced the winners of its annual AICA Awards honoring artists, curators and institutions for excellence in art exhibitions of the previous season (June 2010-June 2011). The University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach was recognized for "Best Show in a University Gallery" for its 2010 exhibit Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg. Two exhibits were chosen as winners in each of the 12 categories, and were selected by the 400 critics and other art experts who make up the association's membership. The University Art Museum shares its recognition with the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Of the 24 awardees, only 3 California museums or galleries were selected – the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a Los Angeles commercial gallery – Regen Projects, and the CSULB University Art Museum.
Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg, the winning exhibit, was shown at the University Art Museum (UAM) from September-December, 2010. It was curated by UAM Director Chris Scoates and Elizabeth Anne Hanson, a graduate student in the CSULB Art Department.
"To be acknowledged in the 'Best Show in a University Gallery' category is so meaningful," Scoates said. "The award, however, really goes to the entire UAM staff, who worked exceptionally hard to realize this important exhibition. For a small museum, this big award proves, once again, that we punch well above our weight."
The show, which ran at the UAM from September 9-December 12, 2010, was an in-depth survey and a tribute to the artist Michael Goldberg (1924-2007). Goldberg's body of work began in the 1940s with blunt, decisive, geometric shapes of primary color, and grew into a more gestural approach in the years that followed. He pushed the boundaries imposed upon second-generation Abstract Expressionists for more than 50 years. An abstract painter of the New York School, Goldberg was highly influenced by the works of Willem de Kooning, Arshille Gorky, and Clyfford Still. The award-winning and critically acclaimed exhibit spanned six decades of his prolific career, and included over 30 large-scale paintings and works on paper, including four seminal works from the UAM Gordon F. Hampton Collection.
"That this exhibition should be honored – as it has been by the AICA – speaks to Goldberg's impact on a post-war, and distinctly American approach to painting," explained Hanson. "This retrospective holds particular significance because it was the first to consider his place in American art. It is exciting to know that the UAM and CSULB can claim this tremendous honor."
Christopher Miles, Interim Dean of the College of the Arts at CSULB added, "What this award demonstrates, beyond acknowledging an excellently curated exhibition of work by a significant but under-exposed artist, is what great things can happen when an entity like the UAM dovetails with the academic mission of the university." That Elizabeth Hanson, while still a student, was able to collaborate with UAM Director Chris Scoates to produce an exhibition of this caliber exemplifies how well the UAM functions as a workspace and lab for students in our Art History and Museum Studies programs, and the high level of training students are getting in these programs.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony at the Asia Society in New York on April 2. Both Chris Scoates and Elizabeth Hanson will be in attendance, representing California State University, Long Beach.


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This soup is made in minutes. We enjoy it with Herbed Dinner Rolls. Add a salad for a complete meal that's really tasty! —Sharon Ullyot, London, Ontario
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 3/4 cup chunky salsa
- 1/2 cup canned whole kernel corn, drained
- Dash hot pepper sauce
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- In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Cover and microwave on high for 2 minutes or until heated through. Pour into four serving bowls; drizzle each with lime juice. Sprinkle with cheese and green onions. Yield: 4 servings.
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