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Packt is pleased to announce the release of Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop, a tutorial style book that focuses on all the powerful big data tasks that can be achieved by integrating R and Hadoop. This book is available now in print, eBook, Kindle and select library formats. The print book comes in at over 238 pages and is competitively priced at $49.99, whilst the e-book and Kindle versions are available for $25.49
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Vignesh Prajapati, from India, is a Big Data enthusiast, a Pingax consultant and a software professional at Enjay. He is an experienced ML Data engineer. He is experienced with Machine learning and Big Data technologies such as R, Hadoop, Mahout, Pig, Hive, and related Hadoop components to analyze datasets to achieve informative insights by data analytics cycles. His professional experience includes working on the development of various Data analytics algorithms for Google Analytics data source, for providing economic value to the products. He also contributes to the R community by developing the RGoogleAnalytics' R library as an open source code Google project and writes articles on Data-driven technologies. Vignesh is not limited to a single domain; he has also worked for developing various interactive apps via various Google APIs, such as Google Analytics API, Realtime API, Google Prediction API, Google Chart API, and Translate API with the Java and PHP platforms. He is highly interested in the development of open source technologies.
Big data analytics is the process of examining large amounts of data of a variety of types to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and other useful information. Such information can provide competitive advantages over rival organizations and result in business benefits, such as more effective marketing and increased revenue. New methods of working with big data, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, offer alternatives to traditional data warehousing.
Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop is focused on the techniques of integrating R and Hadoop using various tools such as RHIPE and RHadoop. A powerful data analytics engine can be built, which can process analytics algorithms over a large scale dataset in a scalable manner. This can be implemented through data analytics operations of R, MapReduce, and HDFS.
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Milwaukee Music Video: See Klassik's new video for "Anything"
Jazz-inspired local rapper Klassik (Kellan Abston) is already up for some choice RadioMilwaukee Music Awards - for solo artist of the year and catchiest song of 2012.
Now if he had released the music video for that catchy song contender, "Anything," just a tiny bit earlier, guaranteed he would have gotten a best music video nom.
It's an engaging visual treatment for the song, which has Klassik playing the track on his iPod for a girlfriend in a loft over a glass of wine, before the scene transforms into a moving painting, using a rotoscoping technique similar to "Waking Life."
The video was written, directed and animated by talented local Xavier Ruffin and according to the credits is based on a true story - although presumably Klassik didn't magically transform into a cartoon in real life.
See the video below. You can also download the track for free here.
And you can see if he picks up any of those RadioMilwaukee Music Awards, and see him perform at the local music showcase, at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St., next Wednesday.
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Investors: Be Wary of Herd Mentality
Smart asset allocation and timely rebalancing helps investors avoid falling prey to herd mentality.
It appears the Delphinian oracles have emerged from the modern day temple of Apollo—Wall Street—to share their wisdom. What is their sage advice? Sell your stocks and hunker down in a more defensive position.
The numbers are in: employment growth is down, housing prices are down, manufacturing is down, we have debt problems at home, and there are debt problems abroad. The financial pundits have come forth to offer their counsel, and like well-behaved cattle, the mooing masses have left their fair pasture and are being herded through the rancher's gate to some unknown but new destination.
[See 50 Best Funds for the Everyday Investor.]
The herd mentality is well researched and highly documented. It is easily seen in investing through the cyclical frenzied buying (bubbles) and frantic selling (crashes) of the stock market. These sudden swings are rooted in irrational investing practices and driven by emotion—greed in bubbles and fear in crashes.
New economic data is acted upon within seconds by portfolio managers armed with cutting edge rapid-response technology. These "in-the-know" active managers move the market. The media then reports. Articles grace the front page of national publications and prime-time television. Jim Cramer starts banging and bonking his toys while he yells out "sell, sell, sell," and the frenzy is afoot.
[In Pictures: 6 Numbers Every Investor Should Follow.]
Our current market is characterized by plenty of mooing these days. Six straight weeks of market losses have not been seen since 2002, and have pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average below 12,000 after an exuberant eight-month run in which corporate profits and share prices soared. Just when retirement accounts of ordinary Americans began to look healthy again, bang—we are thrust back into dark times.
And boy, does this type of news preach! This is when the herd really gets moving. Investment advisers are inundated with bleating customers asking to be moved into defensive positions. With herd-like agility, these investors have a knack for timing the lows with perfect precision. Never mind the fact that the system is rigged to slaughter the slow moving cattle that seem to always make their move a bit too late. Still, year after year, these retail investors are easily rounded up for the slaughter by the pros that know how to make a real profit.
Investors forget that stocks do not rise steadily over time. They do so in a rather abrupt series of fits and starts with a few days of large gains sprinkled randomly throughout the year. According to finance professor H. Nejat Seyan, if you missed the 90 best-performing trading days from 1963 to 2004, your annual returns plummet from 11 percent to 3 percent. Indeed, you would need to be an oracle to accurately pick the 90 best days out of 14,694!
[See the top-rated Vanguard, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price funds from U.S. News.]
Suffering from collective irrationality, these investors are like sheep without a shepherd, lacking any sense of long-range vision and guiding principles to anchor their portfolio management. They are unsheltered, exposed, and ready to become prey. They are ships without moorings. Their portfolios are tossed to and fro in the market's choppy seas.
The first lesson of Wall Street is to exploit mass-market psychology by acting in a contrarian fashion. Studies by economists and psychologists have found that investors are most influenced by recent events—market news, political events, earnings—and ignore long-term investment and economic fundamentals.
As a retirement investor, you have a few clear and simple choices. You can enter the active management fray and compete with the big dogs, you can follow the masses and fall prey to the bloodletting, or you can rise above it all by rooting your investment philosophy in proven science and long-range planning. Buy low-cost funds, embrace basic global asset allocation, and rebalance your best-performing assets with some of your worst-performing ones. In turn, you can rule your portfolio with long range and academically proven principles, and invest effectively with peace of mind.
Steve Beck is cofounder of MarketRiders, an online investment advisory and management service helping Americans invest for retirement. MarketRiders gives investors greater peace of mind knowing that they are leveraging the best thinking of Nobel laureates and the investing methods used by the world's most elite institutions and wealthiest families. MarketRiders is on the investor's side, helping reduce investment costs and risks, and increasing retirement savings.


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"Thoughtful People Would Listen"
When Doug Dickey spoke, thoughtful people would listen.
The first five years of Dickey's coaching tenure at Tennessee, there was a 1-point win on each side (11-10 Alabama in 1966 and 10-9 Tennessee in 1968), an 11-point win (19-8 Alabama in 1964 and 24-13 Tennessee in 1967), and a 7-7 tie in 1965.
So, when Tennessee knocked off Alabama off Alabama 41-14 in 1969, his final year at Tennessee, Dickey enjoyed the victory, but made this intriguing statement.
"It was a good one, but not quite as satisfying to me as the win in 1967. I can't think of a more important win for me or the Tennessee program," he said, "than the one over Alabama in 1967. It was a turning point in our program. Without a doubt, it made a statement that we were doing okay, after a bad lull."
There's something about those streak-breaking victories.
No doubt about it.
If you were there or if you were a Vol fan, you'd have a hard time picking between the two games.
The best parts about the 1967 game were the drive to open the game, led by Bob Johnson and Albert Dorsey's three picks in the fourth quarter.
The best part of the 1969 game was Steve Kiner and Curt Watson's exploits on the field and... the airplane that flew a banner over Legion Field reading "This Is Big Orange Country.
Talk about "swagger."
As there any "swagger" extant today in Zip code 37996, in the near vicinity of the buildings named after Brenda Lawson, Bob Neyland, and B. Ray Thompson?
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Portal - PC PS3 XB360
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Cheats Walkthrough Quick Strategies Achievements (Orange Box) Achievements (Still Alive) Other
Portal is a unique 3D puzzle game. You use a portal gun to maneuver through a series of rooms specially constructed to test your ability to use portals to their maximum effect.
The portal gun shoots out two portals: an entrance and an exit. Walk through one portal and you'll come out the other. Proper placement of the portals is a key aspect of the game. Momentum is conserved when passing through the portals, which allows for surprising aerial maneuvers. Fall through one portal and you'll fly out the other. Figuring out how to use these unusual physics is part of the fun of the game.
If you're looking for information on how to get through one of the rooms or past an obstacle, take a look at the Portal Walkthrough.
Portal 2 was released on 19 April 2011.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Florence A. Foster Easterby passed away on Saturday, April 6, 2013 in Odd Fellow and Rebekah Health Care Center. Born in Lockport on September 16, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Willard and Mary Johanning Emerson.
Florence worked as a payroll clerk at Harrison Radiator for 25 years, retiring in 1988. She enjoyed dancing, traveling, reading, camping, hiking and playing cards, especially bridge. Florence was a member of Club 60 and Grace Episcopal Church.
She was predeceased by her husbands, Gordon M. Foster, who passed away in December of 1972, and Albert Easterby, who passed away in February of 1996; her step-son, John Easterby; and brother, Willard Emerson, Jr.
Florence was the mother of Paul (Becky) Foster of Lockport, Susan (Donald) Kinyon of Virginia; and step-mother of Pauline (Richard) Ehle of Rochester; step-mother-in-law of Yvonne Easterby of Buffalo. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and her dear friend of 80 years, Norma C. Peterson.
Friends may call on Monday from 4-8 PM in Prudden and Kandt Funeral Home, Inc., 242 Genesee Street, Lockport, where services will be held on Tuesday morning at 11 AM. Interment will be in Wrights Corners Cemetery. Memorials to the Care Fund at Ridgewood Bible Church or to the Newfane Food Pantry would be appreciated by the family.
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When it comes to education, high expectations and a collaborative effort lead to great achievement.
Strong evidence exists in Marion County, where five schools — East Dale Elementary School, White Hall Elementary School, Fairview Middle School, Monongah Middle School and Fairmont Senior High School — are among the 64 in West Virginia attaining exemplary status. Only the top 10 percent of public schools and career-technical education centers and programs in the state earn this recognition.
The Office of Education Performance Audits, which is under the West Virginia Board of Education but separate from the Department of Education, has been naming exemplary schools for 12 years.
"This is based upon a weighted index that looks at the proficiency of students in all schools in West Virginia in the areas of reading/language arts, mathematics and social studies," said Dr. Gus Penix, executive director of the office. Attendance at the elementary and middle school levels and graduation rates at the high school level are also part of the process.
"These schools have worked extremely hard to see that the students are performing well," Penix said.
Marion County Superintendent of Schools Gary Price believes there has been a tradition of excellence established in the local school system.
"It is always gratifying to see that we had a number of schools recognized as exemplary schools as we have had in the past," Price said.
The leaders of the honored schools take pride in the accomplishment and spread the credit.
Fairmont Senior has been recognized for eight straight years.
"We are proud to represent the Fairmont Senior High School attendance area and our community as an exemplary school," principal Chad Norman said. "Our teachers and our students and our parents have put a great deal of effort into student achievement."
He also gave credit to the elementary and middle feeder schools and support provided by the Central Office of Marion County Schools and the Marion County Board of Education.
Fairview Middle School has achieved exemplary status three years in a row and six out of the past seven years.
"I'm very proud of what the students have done, and my staff," principal Steve Rodriguez said. "It just shows the effort that the kids put into the test."
The staff works to prepare the students for WESTEST2 throughout the year, Rodriguez said, noting that parental support is critical.
Monongah Middle School has been honored for two years in a row.
Principal Steve Malnick said Monongah Middle has high expectations for everyone, including the principal, teachers and students, to do their best. He praised the entire faculty for working together toward the common goal of giving the students the best education possible.
"It is a great community as well," he said. "I'm happy to be here myself."
East Dale Elementary has a tradition of earning exemplary status, said Rockie DeLorenzo, who joined the school this year as principal. He said the school has been successful because of the family atmosphere and the collaboration from all parties — the parents, teachers and students.
"Everybody works to achieve excellence," he said. "It's truly an honor, and the honor goes to the whole school."
The exemplary recognition is another honor for White Hall Elementary, which was one of only eight schools in the state to be named a West Virginia School of Excellence this past year.
"I have witnessed excellent teaching," said Karen Rhoades, who is in her first year as principal. "The students are always engaged. The teachers, they are really on task. The students here are such good students."
She said White Hall Elementary has gotten a lot of support from the parents, the Parent Teacher Organization and the community.
"They make it work here," Rhoades said. "It's such a positive place."
These schools set the bar high and rely on strong teamwork to meet their objectives. All involved deserve credit for the exemplary recognition — an honor that is earned and not given.


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I really did drop out to become a dad. It`s so much fun having the little knuckleheads around.
I couldn`t go anywhere. I had my hair pulled and my clothes ripped off of me several times. To this day, people still recognize me. I`m still fighting the image I have from The Blue Lagoon (1980).


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A regionalized police force for the Forest Hills area has been debated for years. It has created more talk than action, but we're pleased that the idea at least hasn't been permanently mothballed.
Six years ago, a plan included a half-dozen municipalities making up the Forest Hills School District. That try never took hold.
This time around, the townships of Adams and Summerhill and the borough of South Fork are mulling entering into a study on a regional force.
Hopefully, the latest effort, made public last week, will make more headway.
We would expect the state Department of Community and Economic Development will be a player in any study. The department has the expertise and funding to help make things happen. It also can help answer questions the municipalities and their residents are sure to have:
* How much would a combined force cost per capita?
* What would the officers' salaries be?
* How would the manpower be distributed?
* Who or what would oversee the force?
We believe the time is ripe for a regionalized force that has the promise of better police protection for fewer overall tax dollars.
As in the case of a study currently looking for roots in several northern Somerset County municipalities, there's nothing lost by talking.
"We had a meeting ... and it seems we've got a bit of traction now," David Knepper, executive director of the Forest Hills Regional Alliance, told our Justin Dennis. "Municipal officials have expressed interest in moving forward."
Knepper added that he already has started laying blueprints, but with an awareness of the financial concerns that snagged the project the last time. The earlier try also got hung up on unionization of officers on two of the forces. That issue hasn't gone away.
The Forest Hills alliance includes the three municipalities plus the rather-smallish Ehrenfeld, Wilmore and Summerhill boroughs.
As this latest effort unfolds within their alliance, we urge leaders of the latter three to at least stay abreast of what is happening. Certainly, DCED could answer any questions they might have.
Who knows? They might realize that being patrolled by a large force could benefit their residents, too.
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Government Law Section Gives Foundation $3,000
SC (Oct. 8, 2012) – The Government Law Section of the South
Carolina Bar contributed $3,000 to the
South Carolina Bar Foundation. The gift will support the
Children's Fund and the Disabled Lawyers Fund.
"The enormous benefits provided by the
Foundation, through its various programs, are exemplary,"
said Timothy C. Winslow, chair of the Government Law
Section. "On behalf of the Section, we hope that this
donation will assist in some small part for the continuation
of these worthwhile programs."
The Section's governing Council and members
have committed to the goal of making an annual gift to the
The Government Law Section of the South
Carolina Bar furthers the improvement and development of
legislation pertaining to state and local governments and
seeks to simplify and improve administrative and judicial
procedures in the field of government law. The Section also
provides programs for lawyers who represent clients before
government entities, works with related groups to sponsor or
publicize programs of mutual interest and sponsors an
electronic mailing list for members.
"Though we continue to deal with depressed
IOLTA revenue, the mission of the Foundation remains
unchanged. We have a responsibility to support our grantees
whether or not IOLTA is having a 'good year.' This gift
comes at the perfect time and will help the Foundation
provide critical resources that are changing lives daily,"
said Shannon Willis Scruggs, the Foundation's Executive
The South Carolina Bar Foundation, the Heart of the Bar,
funds the advancement of justice by improving access,
education and accountability. Since 1987, the Foundation
has allocated approximately $43.8 million to various
legal-related organizations that work on behalf of the
justice community. Last year alone, Foundation grantees
assisted more than 10,200 low income South Carolinians in
need of legal services, 450 homeless men and women and 390
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Who are the Herdmans? That's a complicated question, yet the story about them is sweet and simple. We are introduced to the Herdman clan in the book "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" written in 1971 by Barbara Robinson. Below is the synopsis posted at the Barnes and Noble website.
Hey! Unto you a child is born!
The Herdmans are absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie and steal and smoke cigars (even the girls). They talk dirty, hit little kids, cuss their teachers, set fire to Fred Shoemaker's old broken-down tool house, and take the name of the Lord in vain.
So no one is prepared when the Herdmans invade church one Sunday-and decide to take over the annual Christmas pageant. None of them had ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation — the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating — has a lot of people up in arms. But the actual pageant is full of surprises for everyone, starting with the Herdmans themselves.
Even though the book was written in 1971, it continues to be a photo image of today's world; especially the world of a neighborhood that had soon overlook bad behavior. The Herdman kids clearly needed help but it wasn't until this motley-sibling-crew crashed the annual Christmas pageant tryouts that the community stepped forward.
As I teach in my creative writing classes, rich characterization will allow a glimpse into the world of others and take the reader to unexpected places. These characters press this story forward in a mighty way, as if the reader is riding a shooting star.
There's Ralph, the oldest, unkempt and aggravating, but not the leader of the clan. No, the leader is definitely Imogene, eleven-years-old, loud-mouthed, and super inquisitive. Imogene is followed by stair-steps: Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys – ages 7 to 10. The Herdmans wander unsupervised throughout the community. The teachers at the local elementary school dread the Herdman name, like the plague.
The theme of the story is redemption – that there is hope for the worst of us. You see no one had bothered to tell the Herdman kids the true Christmas story. It was when they entered the front door of the local church, thinking there would be free refreshments, that they were introduced to Mary, Joseph, the angels, shepherds, wise men, and the baby Jesus – the greatest story ever told.
As we read, we are caught up by the innocent and awe-inspiring reaction experienced by these unruly, dirty, and underhanded kids. Kids whose momma worked double-shifts at the local factory, just to stay away, even when she was offered a large amount of money by a local gentle soul, the momma said she had rather work than take the money. Indeed, unwanted kids – avoided by everyone, even the church, until that fateful night of pageant tryouts.
Yes, it was when the usual pageant crowd unwillingly showed up: the preacher's kid, who always played Joseph, the little blonde, who was casted as an angel each year, and the shepherds in bathrobes — on and on and on. It was humdrum until the Herdmans arrived on that night.
This children's book is a must-read each Christmas season and as well I encourage you to read the true Christmas story as recorded in Luke 2. Then imagine you are a ten-year-old and hearing it for the first time. Oh, if we could all be more like the Herdmans, the world could once again be innocent and sweet.
(Luke 2: 1-6) And it came to past in those days … and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea unto the city of David which is called Bethlehem to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn…and his name was called JESUS.
Anne McKee is a writer and storyteller. Visit her website: annemckee.net


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Every year, millions of children sit down to make a wish list for Santa, hoping he will make all of their Christmas dreams come true.
But what if Santa actually wrote back? The United States Postal Service is now accepting "Letters From Santa," a program that allows any person to play Santa by sending a letter signed by Saint Nick to any child.
According to a postal service news release, "The 'Letters From Santa' program helps parents fulfill the dreams of their own children."
Instructions to send a letter from Santa:
- Write a letter to your child from Santa Claus and sign it "From Santa." Put the letter in an envelope addressed to your child with the return address SANTA, NORTH POLE.
- Ensure a First-Class Mail stamp is affixed to the envelope.
- Place the envelope into a larger envelope, with appropriate postage, and address the larger envelope to:
- Your letter "from Santa" will be mailed back to your child, postmarked from the North Pole.
- "Letters From Santa" must be mailed to the Anchorage, AK postmaster by no later than Dec. 10. Santa's helpers in Anchorage will take care of the rest.
Locally, letters can be dropped off at the post office at 10174 Austin Dr., and 9805 Campo Rd. #165 in Spring Valley and at the USPS at 8064 Allison Avenue in La Mesa.
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A parolee suspected of committing dozens of Bay Area robberies using a chrome revolver has been charged with 37 felony counts in San Mateo County Superior Court.
In the most serious case, Ricky Renee Sanders, 34 -- known as the "chrome revolver bandit" because of the silver-barreled revolver he allegedly used in some of the holdups -- is accused of shooting a store clerk while robbing a PetSmart store in San Mateo on Oct. 8, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
The employee was shot in the leg and survived, but suffered a severed femoral artery, prosecutors said.
Investigators believe Sanders is linked to as many as 30 armed robberies or attempted robberies in at retail businesses around the Bay Area. The crimes include holdups at BevMos in Redwood City, Colma, Menlo Park; a GameStop in San Carlos and Colma; a PetCo in San Bruno; and businesses in San Francisco, San Jose, Daly City and Fremont,
prosecutors said.
Sanders after he allegedly left a fingerprint at a San Jose PetSmart store during an armed robbery on Oct. 30, according to the district attorney's office.
Sanders appeared in court to be arraigned Wednesday on 16 counts of robbery with a firearm, five counts of attempted robbery, six counts of assault with a firearm, nine counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of mayhem.
As a third-strike defendant, Sanders faces life in prison if convicted.
He is expected to enter a plea in court in Redwood City on Tuesday.
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Kenner, the home of all those who flee!
"The Great and Terrible Hurricane Ivan"
The past few days has been a experiment in preparation. As some of you may know the great and terrible Hurricane Ivan finally hit the Gulf Coast last night. Our humble little town battened down the hatches, covered the windows and "hunkered" ( the current word of the meterological world) down preparing for the worst. I took my son and 2 dogs and moved to the safety of my father's house in Baton Rouge. For two days the Weather Channel had us prepared for the second coming. The hurricane was going to come up the Mississippi River and flood Lake Ponchartrain which in turn would tumble over it's banks and levees and fill the streets with water. Mayhem would commence, many would die in their attics, snakes would come out of the toilets and general mayhem would ensue.
Now the real story, woke up this am in Baton Rouge, nary a raindrop had fallen nor a tropical storm force wind had blown. My son, dogs and I headed back to our beloved home to find.............. (ominous music...) a bunch of pine needles down, and and a few broken branches!!! The sky is a glorious blue and not a drop of rain has touched the ground! So ends another near catastrophe in little Kenner. The moral of the story is: Don't take this *** lightly, one day it will be will be the real deal and you could drown in your attic!!!! LOL


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Seating Options
When you're traveling overnight, comfort is key. In the first class sleeping compartment of the Paris to Moscow route, we've never forgotten that. These trains have comfortable first class compartments; each made to induce a good night's sleep (or two). These compartments have 2 beds and are made to accommodate a maximum of 2 travelers. (Please note: These compartments are not gender specific and do not need to be booked in full. So if you are a single traveler who books a double, you are not guaranteed to be placed with a roommate of the same sex.)
Grand Class Single Compartment
Private sleeping compartment with a wash basin, en-suite shower & WC, individual reading lights, and linens.
Grand Class Double Compartment
Private sleeping compartment for two people with upper-lower berths, a wash basin, en-suite shower & WC, individual reading lights, and linens.
Meals & Concessions
When you're on an overnight train, you rest better with a full belly. We've made sure this train has everything you might want. There's a restaurant car between Belarus and Moscow where plentiful but inexpensive à la carte choices are the order of the day. Prefer even less formality? There's always the buffet car for fast, casual service. Here you'll find light dishes, snacks, and hot and cold beverages available for purchase. In the morning, first-class travelers get an included breakfast served in their compartment (and requiring confirmation at departure).
On Board Services
Each first class car of the Paris to Moscow route has a dedicated staff of two that will help prepare your compartment for the night, as well as answer questions and provide any assistance you require.


text: SAN FRANCISCO — On Aug. 4, "Ansel Adams at 100," the first major retrospective of the photographer's work since his death in 1984, opened at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by John Szarkowski, director of the department of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art from 1962 to 1991, the show commemorates Adams' centennial (he was born Feb. 20, 1902) and offers a fresh interpretation. Now as famous for posters and postcards as for fine art, Adams is something of a pop figure. But Szarkowski sees him as an important Modernist and an artist of profound vision.


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- Posted Date: 13/09/13
International Opportunity – Kuwait
Our client is a private healthcare group, backed by one of the largest and most stable financial institutions in Kuwait. The organisation provides the finest medical facilities in the country. The group's strategy is based on providing a comprehensive concept of Healthcare Services that not only depends on establishing Hospitals and Medical Centres, but also extends to training and education.
This JCI accredited hospital offers Services such as Paediatrics, Cardiology, General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Urology, Gastroenterology and Endoscopic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine and Diabetes, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dermatology and Venereology, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Beauty Therapy, Radiology and Medical Imaging, and Anesthesia and Preoperative Evaluation.
Following four years of exceptional success, the organisation has been consistently expanding its premises, and is currently equipped with ultra-modern infrastructure, avant-garde technology, advanced equipment, courteous staff, and a dedicated and compassionate medical team that lives up to its motto 'Care and Cure'.
The Private Healthcare Group are launching a new, unique, luxury health proposition, which is currently under construction by the stakeholders. It was conceived as part of their clear vision and ambition to provide a well-rounded Service offering to the people of Kuwait. The new medical pavilions' emphasis will be on the highest quality and delivery of Healthcare, marking a paradigm shift in Clinical Service offering across Kuwait.
As a result of the expansion of Service and Operations, the Group are seeking to appoint:
- Head of IVF
- Head of Ophthalmology (Refractive)
- Plastic Surgery Consultant
- Urology Consultant
- OB/GYN Consultant (Laparoscopic Surgery)
- Paediatrics Consultant
- Cardiology Consultant
- Maternal Consultant
- Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant
- Bariatric Surgery Consultant
The Private Healthcare Group offers competitive tax free packages, plus other benefits including housing allowances for their expatriate staff.
Location: Kuwait
Kuwait, in the cradle of one of the most ancient corners of the world, is best described as a city state. From its water sports to its enticing architecture, expatriates from around the world are discovering the delights of Kuwait. The burgeoning capital, Kuwait City, is like a magnet: with more than 10% of the world's estimated oil reserves, Kuwait is a leading exporter of petroleum and has used some of the enormous profits for social improvements.
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When our own Duncan Cooper described Walls' "Sunporch" as "party ready," I was like, YEAH RIGHT DUDE WHAT PARTY ARE YOU GOING TO? A HANGING OUT PARTY? And then I dumped an entire keg of beer on him and gave him a swirly. After I was done bullying him, I took a step back and listened to their new album Coracle (out right now on Kompakt) in its entirety, and realized that he actually wasn't wrong. The album is an exercise in world building where, when "Sunporch" comes in three tracks in, it becomes pretty clear that, yeah, this is totally a hanging out party, and in Walls' world of perpetual sunrises and pastel colors as music, a hanging out party is the most raging party around.
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It has sat dormant on Phillips Street since its closure in 2005, but Wickford Elementary School may soon see a resurrection. The North Kingstown Town Council was treated to a feasibility study and possible plans to convert the old elementary school into a joint town-school administration building.
Edward Rowse Architects devised two options to rehabilitate the school, one at $6.9 million and another at $7.4 million. The latter of the two would feature more enhancements and include a larger addition to the third floor.
Both plans would have the town departments (including the town clerk, water department, town manager, and building officials office among others on the first floor and school department on the second floor. According to Jim Partridge of Rowse Architects, the school departments would see a reduction in space size if they were all put on the second floor. Department of Public Works Director Phil Bergeron stressed, however, that some these departments could be moved down to the basement level where the School Committee would holds its meetings and where much of the storage space would be located.
Morphing the building into a handicap accessible facility will also prove costly, as Rowse proposes adding at third story addition to the west side of the building that would contain an elevator, making the third floor handicap accessible. According to Partridge, the roof would also need to be replaced to cut down on leaks and to provide more efficient insulation.
Would expand the parking lot into what is now the basketball courts and part of the fields behind the school, totaling 100 parking spots.
Possible cuts to these options would be opting for repair of the buildings windows rather than full-out replacement.
"They are reparable, but there are costs associated with that," said Bergeron.
According to Bergeron, these cost-cutting measures are "certainly in the range of $1 million."
The facilities subcommittee will now review the study and return to the Town Council with its own findings in approximately two weeks.
Though site of Rhode Island's first public school, the current structure of Wickford Elementary School was built in the 1920s with an addition in the 1950s. The building closed after the 2004-2005 school year following a year of heavy cuts and school reconfiguration.


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BizCover makes it easy for small-businesses to get a range of quotes from trusted insurers online. Buy online, and you can be instantly covered with access to your insurance policy documents. You can rely on us to help you find the policy that is right for your business.
By creating the first online business insurance portal in Australia, if not in the world, Bizcover has streamlined the process of taking out business cover. BizCover has developed its own business insurance search engine that allows clients to instantly compare, select and buy the best policy to suit their needs, online and from a single website, and within a few minutes.
BizCover searches Australia's leading insurers offering professional indemnity insurance, public liability, business insurance, management liability and now cyber liability.
Founded in 2008, BizCover is the online face of Mega Capital, a well-established insurance broker specialising in professional risks cover, chosen as the second fastest growing company in the Business Review Weekly Fast 100 in 2005 and also made the list in 2006.
We specialise in:
- Professional Indemnity Insurance,
- Online Public Liability Insurance
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Compliance and Complaints
BizCover is an Authorised Representative of Mega Capital Pty Ltd and we subscribe to the General Insurance Brokers' Code of Practice.
We strive to ensure that our service commitment to you is in accordance with the General Insurance Code of Practice for the Lloyd's insurance policies covered by the Code. A copy of the General Insurance Code of Practice is available here General Insurance Code of Practice. This extends to our handling of customer complaints. This PDF file contains our Complaints and Disputes Policy. Lloyds also have a brochure with information on how to make a complaint specifically for clients who hold a Lloyds policy. This brochure can be downloaded here.


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Green Isle Conference & Leisure Hotel is a large property that presents a wide selection of rooms for your perusal. A 3-star rating promises a superb level of quality in Dublin. It won't be hard for you to visit Edmondstown Golf Course from here.
Everybody staying at Green Isle Conference & Leisure Hotel has access to a restaurant, a bar/lounge and a smoking area, which are all present on-site. An indoor swimming pool, offered by this accommodation, guarantees fun if you love swimming. Favorable services here are a luggage storage, a late check-out option and a wedding service. Your work environment here is complemented by the presence of meeting rooms. You can be assured that this is a suitable place to get your work done, as a conference space is included as part of the business facilities. This accommodation counts 270 rooms. If you want to come by your own means of transport, you could be interested in free parking.
Useful in this climate, air conditioning is provided in the rooms of Green Isle Conference & Leisure Hotel. A housekeeping service is provided in each of the welcoming rooms here. Convenient and reassuring, wireless high-speed Internet access (complimentary) allows you to maintain contact with the outside world from the comfort of your room. The rooms that have a bathroom also come with a complimentary toiletries set. This hotel's rooms are provided with a coffee/tea maker.
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Rudy Simone covers 22 common areas of confusion for someone dating a female with AS, including advice from her own experience and that of other couples. She talks with humour and honesty about the little things that might be different from a relationship with a neurotypical woman and discusses first dates, sex, and even having children. more »2012, Paperback: £9.99/ $16.95
Keywords: adults, alexithymia, anxiety, Asperger syndrome, bullying, cognitive behavioural therapy, communication, counselling, creativity, depression, diet, emotions, employment, families, gifted and talented, giftedness, health care, high functioning autism, mental health, mental illness, obsessive compulsive disorder, parenting, personal hygiene, relationships, resilience, self esteem, self harm, sensory issues, sex education, sexual abuse, sexuality, sleep, social skills, teenagers, tics
Offering rich insights into what Asperger's is like for the child, this compassionate book will empower parents and teachers, enabling them to nurture the child's strengths and work towards a happy and promising future. The book is packed with strategies, insights, and points to remember in order to address common areas of difficulty. more »2011, Paperback: £13.99/ $19.95
Keywords: adolescence, anger management, anxiety, Asperger syndrome, autism, bullying, challenging behaviour, child development, child psychology, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, communication, counselling, depression, education, emotions, families, gifted and talented, giftedness, mental health, mental illness, occupational therapy, parenting, pastoral care, play, relationships, resilience, savants, school phobia, self esteem, sensory issues, social skills, special education, speech and language pathology, speech and language therapy, teenagers, transitions
This three part film follows Phoebe Caldwell as she works with children. It charts their journey from initial rejection to intimate interaction. Phoebe demonstrates how, by using the child's own body language and sounds, a 'conversation' can be developed with children who are unable to use conventional communicative methods. more »2010, DVD: £17.66 + VAT = £21.19/ $39.95
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Courtney Stodden Introduces Her Long-Lost Sister 'Courtina'
February 20th, 2013 8:55pm EST
Courtney Stodden posted a bizarre new video to her YouTube page this week, revealing that she's got a long lost sister (who speaks an unknown language) named Courtina.
Following in the footsteps the likes of Sasha Fierce, Mimi, Ziggy Stardust, and Slim Shady, Courtney revealed her own alter-ego this week with a post to her Twitter page.
"Meet my sister Courtina," she wrote, along with a link to YouTube and her new video.
"It's so sweet to be reunited with my long lost sister Courtina!" she exclaimed in the video's description.
The 18-year-old singer/model/actress/reality show star has been known for her self-promotion via social media; and now the wife of 52-year-old actor Doug Hutchison has donned a brown wig (she actually looks better as a brunette) and her usual lack of clothing, jiggling her cleavage back and forth across the screen as she reveals she "discovered" her long-lost sister in a magazine.
Related: Courtney Stodden, Celebrity, Video
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Photo Credits: Courtney Stodden via YouTube
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Japan why ?
I wont direct link to the store (it has 18+ items in there even the other pic has something that looks a bit rude in it)Yes, for the cute and poignant price of ¥3600 (USD$33), you get a schoolgirl costume. And some lotion. And something (with batteries included!) they're calling a "roter", but which looks (at least to out child-like eyes) like a milkshake blender.
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Goldschmidt to lead NFL's UK sponsorship division
The National Football League (NFL) has appointed Alexandra Goldschmidt as the new sponsorship manager at its London office as the organisation continues to focus on expanding in the UK.
Goldschmidt, the former senior project manager at London & Partners, the British capital's events and promotional agency, joins a team headed up by NFL International's UK commercial director Ben Dunn.
Having worked on previous events in London such as the Badminton and Gymnastics World Championships, the Uefa Champions League Final and the NFL's annual International Series games at Wembley, she will now collaborate with the NFL's new and existing commercial partners with a view to developing new partnerships and increasing the organisation's UK footprint.
"Having worked with the NFL around their International Series games for the last three years, I have seen them go from strength to strength," said Goldschmidt. "With regular-season games confirmed until 2016, and the move to two games this autumn I am delighted to be joining them at such an exciting time."
Dunn added: "We are delighted that Alex has joined the NFL commercial team in the UK. Her experience of London and the events sector will be incredibly valuable to us. The momentum of the NFL in the UK has never been stronger as we work to deliver two sold out International Series games at Wembley in 2013.
"The ultimate ambition of the League is to determine whether London can host a franchise that competes in the NFL. There are tremendous opportunities for existing and new partners around the fastest growing spectator sport in the UK, and Alex will be instrumental in delivering these."
The NFL's current portfolio of UK sponsors includes: Budweiser, PepsiCo, Visa, Barclaycard, Chrysler, Virgin Atlantic, AON, Marriott, Papa John's Pizza, Nike, New Era, EA Sports, and Thomson Sport.
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Dear Editor,
Thank you for allowing us to say Merry Christmas to all our military. We want to thank them and let them know they are in our daily prayers .
To all Gold Star moms and families, I pray for peace and comfort. And to all the Blue Star moms and families, we share one common bond having loved ones oversees for Christmas.
Merry Christmas to each of you and we pray for a safe 2014.
Tony and Karen Marzo, Coarsegold.


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Machinery and Equipment (M&E) Sales Tax Exemption
We are in the process of updating this web site. Our hope is that it will become easier to navigate and easier to find answers to your questions. Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions to make it better by emailing the Equipment Inventory Office.
Effective October 1, 2004
Machinery and Equipment Tax Exemption (M&E Exemption) - Equipment purchased for certain University research and development activities may qualify for a sales tax exemption allowed under RCW 82.08.05656, known as the Machinery and Equipment Tax Exemption or "M&E Exemption." The exemption may be applied towards purchases of fixtures, equipment, and support facilities that are an integral and necessary part of pilot scale manufacturing or used directly in University manufacturing or research and development activities as defined in RCW 82.63.010 (16).
Note: Items with a total cost of $1,000 or more may qualify for this exemption. The M&E Exemption, does not tie the tax exemption to the University of Washington's capitalization threshold of $2,000.
Research and Development - Activities performed to discover technological information, and technical and non-routine activities concerned with translating technological information into new or improved products, processes, techniques, formulas, inventions, or software. The term includes exploration of new use for an existing drug, device, or biological product if the new use requires separate licensing by the federal food and drug administration under chapter 21, C.F.R., as amended. The term does not include adaptation or duplication of existing products where the products are not substantially improved by application of the technology, nor does the term include surveys and studies, social science and humanities research, market research or testing, quality control, sale promotion and service, computer software developed for internal use, and research in areas such as improved style, taste, and seasonal design.
Tangible University Property - Equipment with a useful life of more than one year with ownership/title to the University of Washington.
Used Directly - To be considered "used directly" in a manufacturing operation or research and development operation, the machinery and equipment must:
- Act upon or interact with an item of tangible University property;
- Convey, transport, handle, or temporarily store an item of tangible University property at the manufacturing site;
- Control, guide, measure, verify, align, regulate, or test tangible University property;
- Provide physical support for or access to tangible University property;
- Produce steam or mechanical power for, or lubricate machinery and equipment;
- Produce another item of tangible University property for use in the manufacturing operation or research and development operation;
- Be integral to research and development as defined in RCW 82.63.010.
Best Practices for M&E Purchases
Since M&E purchases require pre-approval, the only systems in which M&E purchases are allowed are the eProcurement or Non-Catalog modules of Ariba or, as a last resort, PAS.
A vendor should not allow an M&E purchase to be made without the M&E Certificate presented up front. The Procurement Card and both the Non-PO Invoice and eReimbursement modules of Ariba are "post purchase" payment methods and therefore pre-approval is not available.
Effective 5/1/2009, equipment purchases are not allowed using the Procurement Card.
Effective 11/1/2013, equipment purchases are not allowed using the Non-PO Invoice or eReimbursement modules of Ariba. M&E object codes will still be visible in these modules, but they should not be selected. If M&E codes are used, the order will be rejected to the department. Eventually, the M&E codes will be completely removed from these two modules of Ariba to eliminate confusion. However, due to programming efforts and competing priorities, this will be a future phase.
Process Overview
To qualify for the M&E Exemption, equipment must:
- Have a useful life of more than one year;
- Be used more than 50% annually on qualifying research; and
- Have an acquisition cost of $1,000 or more.
Principal Investigator and Department should:
Ensure that all criteria for the exemption are met. if an exemption is taken on an item that is later deemed by the Washington State Department of revenue to not qualify, the department will ultimately be required to pay the tax along with penalties and fines.
Submit the purchase request using the correct object codes. The exemption will only be taken on items with:
- Proper M&E object codes
- A sufficient M&E statement detailing the type of research to be performed and the desired outcome. The location of this comment varies by method of purchase. See below for specific locations:
- eProcurement - In the item detail screen, it will ask:
- Is this item Equipment? - Check the yes button.
- Is this M&E item? - Check the yes button and a box will appear for the M&E statement.
- PAS - Comments section of the order
- Non-PO Invoice - Effective 11/1/2013, M&E purchases cannot be made using the Non-PO Invoice module of Ariba. Please use the eProcurement or Non-Catalog modules of Ariba.
- eReimbursement - Effective 11/1/2013, M&E purchases cannot be made using the eReimbursement module of Ariba. Please use the eProcurement or Non-Catalog modules of Ariba.
- Procurement Card - Effective 5/1/2009, M&E purchases cannot be made on the Procurement Card. Please use the eProcurement or Non-Catalog modules of Ariba when possible, or PAS as a last resort.
- eProcurement - In the item detail screen, it will ask:
Note: If during the useful life of the asset, it is determined it will not be used 50% or more on qualifying research, the department will be required to pay the tax due.
Equipment Inventory should:
Review and approve requisitions and M&E statement in the comments section of PAS and eProcurement purchases.
Respond to vendor questions regarding allowable exceptions.
Assist department in applying the M&E Exemption.
Procurement Services should:
Place orders.
Work with vendor to ensure tax is not included on invoices with purchases qualifying for the M&E Exemption.
Review the M&E Exemption when paying the invoice.
Deduct the tax from payment to vendor where appropriate.
Tax Office should:
Assist Equipment Inventory in applying the M&E Exemption.
Research unique purchases over $100,000.
M&E Statement Examples
This gives examples of both acceptable and unacceptable statements.
Qualifying Research Programs
This describes programs that will often qualify for the M&E Exemption as well as those that do not qualify for the M&E Exemption.
M&E Equipment Examples
This gives examples of equipment that has and has not qualified for the M&E Exemption.
M&E Object Codes
This lists and describes the various M&E Object Codes.
M&E Recharge Center Guidance
This provides guidance specific to recharge centers who purchase equipment under the M&E Exemption.
Frequently Asked Questions and Unique Situations
This section details frequently asked questions and unique situations that the Equipment Inventory Office and the Tax Office have worked through related to the M&E Exemption.
eProcurement - Required Manufacturer's Sales and Use Tax Exemption Certificate
PAS - None, unless the vendor requests an official certificate after the purchase. PAS collects M&E purchase data and sends a mini-M&E certificate to the vendor with the purchase orders and on the check remittances. If this mini-certificate is not sufficient documentation for the vendor, please complete the Manufacturer's Sales and Use Tax Exemption Certificate.
Optional - Some departments choose to collect supporting data related to M&E purchases. The format for this varies by department and is for internal use only.
RCW 82.08.02565 Exemptions - Sales of machinery and equipment for manufacturing, research and development, or a testing operation - Labor and services for installation - Exemption certificate - Rules.
RCW 82.63.010 Definitions


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Salem, NH — Annette M. (Lalumiere) Auricchio, 77 of Salem, NH passed away on December 19, 2012 at Baker Katz Nursing Home, Haverhill, MA.
Born on January 1, 1935 in Haverhill, MA to the late George and Gilberta (Gauthier) Lalumiere, she graduated from St. Joseph's School in 1948 and St. James High School, Class of 1952.
Mrs. Auricchio was employed at Raytheon, Western Electric and waitressed at many local restaurants. She was also a member of All Saints Church and St. Anne Society of Haverhill, MA.
She enjoyed trips to Foxwood's Casino, playing cards, making puzzles, knitting, and trips to South Carolina to see her son and family. She so enjoyed her family and friends.
She leaves two sons and daughter-in-law, Stephen Auricchio of Amesbury, MA, and David & Patricia Auricchio of Somerville, SC; a daughter, Nancy Auricchio and her companion, Kevin McKenna of Seabrook, NH; two sisters, Yvonne Houston of Haverhill, MA and Cecile Smith of Salem, NH. She is also survived by four grandchildren, Justin Whitman, Tiffany Hanks and her husband, Jayson, Adam Garlington, and David Auricchio and his wife Kayley (Sullivan); two great grandchildren, Devon and Joshua Hanks and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her daughter Lou-Anne Auricchio who died on April 28, 2008.
Because she offered her body to science, there will be no services at this time. A mass will be held at a later date at All Saints Church, Haverhill, MA. Arrangements are under the direction of Berube-Comeau Funeral Home, 47 Broadway, Haverhill, MA.
Donations may be made in her name to Merrimack Hospice, 360 Merrimack Street, Building 9, Lawrence, MA 01843.


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Making a Gift Through Your Will
February 18, 2014
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How To Give Through Your Will
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The fallacies in this reasoning are obvious.
A more nuanced version of this argument has been made by other critics — for example the supply-side pioneer Lewis Lehrman, who said, "I have five children. I have a vision of the future. Keynes had no children and no interest in getting involved in any relationship which might make possible their procreation. He was inherently short-run in his viewpoint." Some Austrian economists have made the same argument.
But I think that there is a bigger issue here than guilt-by-sexual-association or even the ways in which marriage and family connect us with the future. Keynes' sexual ethic was just a small part of an overall life orientation.
He and his fellow members of the Cambridge Apostles were firmly committed to an agenda of overthrowing every element of the Victorian society from which they had sprung. The rejection of thrift, or of any economic principles at all were of a piece with the rejection of any system of objective truth, any objective moral code, any form of theism and old-fashioned notions about standing up to the Germans, whether under the Kaiser or later under the Führer. In other words, the whole societal order was to be overturned.
G.E. Moore attacked traditional philosophy and theology, Lyton Strachey's job was to use literature to debunk Victorian principles of self-restraint, and Keynes was to demolish classical economics, sound money and the virtue of thrift. The sex was only a part of it, and probably a subordinate part of it as well.
The apostles were committed to an ideology of the superiority of male intimacy over male/female intimacy not because they were born gay (many of them lapsed into heterosexuality once they were away from the club, some members having feigned homosexuality in order to be included in the group,) but because they saw all of Victorian society, which they hated, as a coherent whole. The salient point here is that they were not men who spent their professional lives following the evidence wherever it led: They had decided where it was all going to lead by their sophomore year of college! They chose the men they would be early in life and went about justifying that decision for the rest of their lives.
I kept expecting to find an actual economic argument in there somewhere, and never did. You've gone from "gay is bad" to "rebellion is bad". That's progress, I guess, but it still has no relevance to the substance of economic theory.
Keynes's theory was a reaction to the Great Depression, which hit Britain as hard as it did the U.S.. Keynes was a restless thinker who showed a proclivity to change his mind and abandon earlier positions. His General Theory was not driven by his lifestyle or literary tastes, but was the end result of a process of meetings with British treasury and various academics like himself who were called upon to address the serious economic problems of the day.
That Keynes did not take himself that seriously can be adduced from his observation that after having breakfast with a group of American acolytes that he was the only non-Keynesian of the group.
Keynesian policy is hardwired into our fiscal policy as a recession and declining tax revenues do not interrupt spending on defense, social security, medicare and most other government programs. The ensuing increase in government deficits are supposed to act as "automatic stabilizers." The problem we face today is that Keynsian policy may be an appropriate initial reaction for preventing a sharp contraction or financial crisis that would lead to a depression, but it does not lead to long-term economic growth. It would have been interesting to see what Keynes would have thought of the Robert Mundell prescription of sound money and loose fiscal policy in the form of reductions in marginal tax rates.
Keynesian ideas are whats wrong with the US and have gotten us where we are today.
Hello Mr. Bowyer,
I am not so opposed to Keynes' ideas as I am to the purposes his devotees have used them in economics and economic practice, especially in public finance.
Keynes' ideas and insights provide a foundation, though a poor one, for moving the enterprise of economics forward. There is a place for government, especially in a recession, to improve the nation's condition. There is a place for borrowing as the expedient.
It would be absurd to say that Keynes' efforts sprung from a malicious design. When one sees blight, which the 30′s were, a charitable person is always induced to help. Most will tend to immediate needs. A few will direct their minds to searching for and remedying the underlying causes of such disorders and calamities.
The problem with the Keynesian system is that there is no controls over public expenditure and the lengths that governments will go to raise taxes. Devise and implement those controls, and Keynes' ideas look pretty good.
How does one control public expenditure?
The answer is remarkably simple.
A grain is contained within the simple proof below. But for unfathomable reasons to me anyway, none seem interested.
Gary Marshall
The following is a short proof which nullifies those supposed interest savings garnered from the use of Taxation.
The costs of borrowing for a nation to fund public expenditures, if it borrows solely from its resident citizens and in the nation's currency, is nil.
Why? Because if, in adding a financial debt to a community, one adds an equivalent financial asset, the aggregate finances of the community will not in any way be altered. This is simple reasoning confirmed by simple arithmetic.
The community is the source of the government's funds. The government taxes the community to pay for public services provided by the government. Cost of public services is $10 million.
Scenario 1: The government taxes $10 million.
Community finances: minus $10 million from community bank accounts for government expenditures. No community government debt, no community government IOU.
Scenario 2: The government borrows $10 million from solely community lenders at a certain interest rate.
Community finances: minus $10 million from community bank accounts for government expenditures. Community government debt: $10 million; Community government bond: $10 million.
At x years in the future: the asset held by the community (lenders) will be $10
million + y interest. The deferred liability claimed against the community (taxpayers) will be $10 million + y interest.
The value of all community government debts when combined with all community government IOUs or bonds is zero for the community.
It is the same $0 combined worth whether the community pays its taxes immediately or never pays them at all.
So if a community borrows from its own citizens to fund worthy public expenditures rather than taxes those citizens, it will not alter the aggregate finances of the community or the wealth of the community any more than taxation would have. Adding a financial debt and an equivalent financial asset to a community will cause the elimination of both when summed.
Whatever financial benefit taxation possesses is nullified by the fact that borrowing instead of taxation places no greater financial burden on the community. However, the costs of Taxation are immense. By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and government excess for the negligible fee of borrowing in the financial markets and the administration of public debt.
I call governments "half-Keynesian." My recollection is that Keynes advised governments to run substantial surpluses in good times so as to have savings to spend in bad times. Our government spends like a drunken sailor in bad times. When the good times come, … it spends like a drunken sailor. When reality catches up (it is fast approaching), the Fed will do what all other governments have done: monetize the debt. They know it's a bad thing & there will be much rending of garments, but it will be the least politically painful alternative. We all know — though the Democrats deny — what demographic will be the principal victim.
Please note that my book Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Shaped Modern Economics is published by W.W.Norton in October.
Professor John B.Taylor of Stanford and the Hoover Institution says that: "Nicholas Wapshott brings the Keynes-Hayek fight of the 20th century back to life, making the clash both entertaining and highly relevant for understanding economic crises of the 21st century."
Read an extract at: sites.google.com/site/wapshottkeyneshayek/
Nicholas Wapshott
Fascinating article. The idea that people adopt their world view early in life, a worldview that has its tentacles permeating into almost all areas of their life is probably a common one. Our previous Prime Minister Helen Clarke (NZ), I believe was a another example of this. I better go buy some gold.


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The Glenview Police Department got a call Friday morning about a possible weapon sighting near West Lake Ave. and Milwaukee Ave., according to a Village of Glenview press release.
Police advised Glenbrook South officials to keep students on campus during lunch periods as a safety precaution and to prevent traffic congestion in the area while the report was investigated, the release says. No formal lock down order was made, and the situation wasn't considered a danger to the school or surrounding community.
Glenview police completed the investigation by 11:30 a.m., determining the initial report appeared unfounded, and open lunch privileges were returned to GBS students, according to the release.
Class schedules at GBS continued uninterrupted during the nearby police investigation, according to an email from GBS principal Brian Wegley.
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- Author's Note: Todd Searcy, football star and honors student at Geneva High School from 1979-1983, decided to divulge the story of his journey as a gay athlete because he wants to share what he has learned about how to cope and survive, with the hope of helping others. This is the second of a three-part series. —Martha Quetsch
After graduating with honors on a football scholarship from the University of Illinois, former Geneva High School star linebacker Todd Searcy lived in Chicago with high school friend Jeff Hill. Hill played football with Searcy at Geneva High School in the 1980s and said the two of them had a great time during the year they shared an apartment.
"There's nothing like being in your early twenties and in the city," Hill said.
Despite being Searcy's roommate and close friend, Hill had no idea that his friend was gay because Searcy continued to live the "dual life" he led in college, keeping his sexual identity a secret.
After living in Chicago, Searcy was a frequent visitor to San Francisco, where for the first time he met other athletes who were assumed heterosexual simply because of their prowess on the playing field. It was a reassuring time for him.
"I didn't feel I was alone anymore," Searcy said. "There were (gay) people just like me, football players, rugby players."
But he still kept his sexuality a secret from most people. In his twenties, Searcy entered into a discreet, same-sex relationship. By then, the gay community had become more aware of the risk for HIV, which could lead to the deadly illness the Center for Disease Control labeled AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in 1982. Searcy and his partner were tested for AIDS, and neither tested positive.
Little did he know, his HIV test had been falsely negative because the virus had not yet gestated.
Searcy didn't find out until 2003. That year, he had not been feeling well and was always extremely tired. So, he went to the doctor, who ordered a battery of tests, including one for HIV. Searcy was not worried that he might have HIV because of the negative test in 1993 and because he had protected himself from the virus since then.
"There is no way in hell I thought I had it," Searcy said.
But, Searcy tested positive for the virus and likely had contracted it 10 years earlier.
"I was shocked," he said. "My viral load (amount of HIV in the blood) was approximately 250,000. What I heard was basically, 'You are dead.' "
A viral load of more than 100,000 is extremely dangerous and if the CD4 test—which assesses the strength of the immune system—result is under 200, AIDS is indicated, Searcy said.
"I was at about 35 to 50 on the CD4," he said. "I knew what the numbers meant."
That is when Searcy decided he had to tell his family the secret he had been keeping for so many years.
"I was done lying. 'I'm out,' I told myself, 'I'm just not going to lie anymore,' " he said.
Searcy had told his mother, Mary Ellen, three years earlier that he was gay but did not tell his father, Merl.
"My dad comes off as gruff," Searcy said. "He's kind of like Archie Bunker. He's not used to gay people."
As it turned out, when Searcy told his family about his health condition in 2003, his father was accepting right away.
"My dad said, 'We'll take care of you,' " Searcy said.
"I will say, the transformation was amazing," Searcy said. "I thought he'd be mean, he'd be mad. All those things flipped upside down for me."
Despite his parents' and most other family members' acceptance, Searcy said it was a weird, stressful period.
"In one day, they found out I had HIV, had AIDS and was gay," Searcy said. "It was not an easy time. My entire family did the death watch."
Searcy was so ill that he moved in with his parents in Sahuarita, AZ. He was taking antibiotics and other medications to fight HIV and AIDS-related illnesses and "got as sick as a dog."
"I was allergic to everything," Searcy said.
One antibiotic caused severe nausea and fatigue, but he had to take it to fight potentially fatal infections his depleted immune system could not combat.
"It's like chemo. It's terrible for anyone," Searcy said. "You use it as a last resort. They needed to pull out the big guns to keep me alive."
Searcy depended on his mother to give him injections of Procrit, which helps create red blood cells. He was not eating, he was frequently vomiting and his energy level was so low he rarely left the house. Searcy spent most of his time alone in his room at his parents' house. Medications he took caused his skin to turn purple and his body to itch. He soaked in oatmeal all day. One drug he took caused him to hallucinate.
"I felt like I was going crazy," Searcy said. "I basically didn't want to live."
- The final segment of this three-part series, "Tackling AIDS," will examine Searcy's current life and outlook.
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A rush-hour motor vehicle accident on Route 10 in Morris Plains sent two people to the hospital early Thursday evening.
Morris Plains Police, Morris Plains Fire Department and the Morris Minute Men Emergency Medical Service were on the scene at 1767 Route 10, a shopping strip that includes Smashburger, Dunkin' Donuts, Sprint and Coldwell Banker Realty.
Shortly after 5 p.m., a Nissan Sentra traveling eastbound on Route 10 flipped over and slide into the parking lot, according to two Sprint employees who witnessed the incident.
"We heard the car braking; it was a screech," Melwyn Cespedes said. "We walked over and within a second, looking through the window, we saw the car turning. It was flying into the turn like it was a drag race, and it couldn't handle it.
"The car hit the corner of the median, then just flipped and slid across the grass and into the parking lot," Cespedes continued. "We rushed out and tried opening the door. We could hear a little girl screaming in there, which made the pressure worse. Finally we [were able to get] the door open and helped pull the door open."
The two were taken to the hospital. The extent of the injuries was not immediately known.
Cespedes' co-worker, Ian Husbands, said helping the victims was their only thought at the time.
"A lot of people came to help," he said. "A guy from Coldwell Banker, a guy who drove by and called 911. ... It was really fast, maybe about three minutes, before the police and the emergency responders came.
"We just did what we had to do, what anyone would do in that situation. If I were in that situation, I'd want someone to come and get me."
The "guy from Coldwell Banker" declned comment, saying that any credit should go to the emergency responders. With him was an elderly woman who said she was the driver of the vehicle. The woman spoke only broken English and said she was too shaken to comment.
Police and fire officials did not immediately release information regarding the accident.


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'Draft Hillary' Effort Targets S.C., Nevada
National bid to replace Obama is an uphill struggle.
The national effort to dump the president in 2012 in exchange for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is turning to South Carolina and Nevada as their best targets to get her on those states' primary ballots.
Up first is a fight with, Mark Hammond, South Carolina's Secretary of State, over a rule banning write-ins on next Saturday's ballots. If that doesn't work, the effort will turn to getting her name in the Nevada caucuses.
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"We are going to take our fight to write in Hillary Clinton to the South Carolina Secretary of State, and if necessary, to the South Carolina Supreme Court," said Steve Rosinski, creator of the national petition to draft Clinton. "We feel that South Carolina voters must be given a choice in this democratic process. Otherwise, it will be just another case of voter disenfranchisement," he said.
Rosinski is pressuring Hammond to change the rule. He is threatening to sue if Hammond doesn't act.
The write-in plan may not work. The South Carolina Democratic Party's presidential primary occurs during the individual counties' precinct reorganization meetings, and those are skewed to only include Obama. "By attending the precinct reorganization meetings, you are voting for President Barack Obama, since he is the only candidate on our ballot," the state party's website states.
Rosinski has already been rebuffed by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton, who is stepping down after Obama's first term ends.
On his petition, he argues that only Clinton can get elected in the current anti-Obama political climate.
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In his petition to the DNC, he writes:
We, the undersigned Democrats, want a new Democratic nominee for President who can win in 2012. We are convinced that the only person with the national stature, experience, and high enough approval ratings who can win the general election in November of 2012 is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mr. President, we thank you for your service. However, we must ask you to do the right thing for your Party and your country and step aside, much like Lyndon Baines Johnson did in 1968 when he read the writing on the wall as to his own chances for victory. Renomination is not mandatory, nor is it a right. It is a privilege granted by us, 'We the People.' On faith, the Party and the nation gave you a chance as a newcomer with little experience to lead us out of the wilderness of recession. We must now ask for the keys back to the party and to the White House.
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