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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Mr. Cantor: Good afternoon. Welcome. Today, I have with me the Republican Policy Chairman Tom Price, the Gentleman from Georgia. Obviously, we had a very busy week last week and are preparing for another one ahead.
As I have said in here for several weeks, we have, as far as the spending fight is concerned, three bites at the apple. We actually have two of those bites this week. One bite is the here and now, the decisions we are making as far as how we are going to spend the taxpayer dollars for the rest of this fiscal year with the final vote on the CR which will be on Thursday. Then, we have a second bite at the apple, which pertains to the Ryan budget proposal. That will be on the floor Thursday and Friday with the final vote on Friday. That speaks to how we project to spend taxpayer dollars off into the future, the next fiscal year and beyond. Then lastly, we will, in due time, have the vote on the debt limit, and that vote has to do with cleaning up the spilt milk or the mess in terms of the fiscal mismanagement of the past, and that is what that vote is about.
As for this week, this is about the CR vote on Thursday and the budget itself. Chairman Ryan and his Budget Committee have done a terrific job putting together a plan that reflects our vision on how we, number one, address the biggest problem facing this country which is the debt challenge. How do we manage down that debt and begin to get our fiscal house in order? We all know the facts. This government borrows nearly 40 cents of every dollar it spends. That has amounted now to a $14 trillion debt bill. You can't sustain that. Nobody can sustain that. So the budget lays out a proposal as to how we are going to manage down that debt.
At the same time, this budget is about growth. Central to that growth message is our plan to engage in a robust debate on tax reform. Dave Camp and his Committee are already holding hearings to look at ways that we can broaden the tax base and lower the corporate tax rate, so that we can see the growth occur that we need in order to get this country back on a path for folks to get back to work.
The budget, in terms of trying to manage down the debt, speaks specifically to entitlement reform, and it speaks especially to entitlement reform as it relates to Medicare and Medicaid. As most people know, these are the real cost drivers not only in the private sector going forward but certainly in the government and the governmental arena. And that is why we chose to focus on these. There is a fundamental principle that we are abiding by in terms of our prescriptions on entitlement reform. We say that we are going to protect the seniors of today and those nearing retirement.
So in other words, everyone 55 and older will not see their benefits or the programs change. It is for the rest of us, all of us 54 and younger, who have to accept the fact that these programs, if they are going to be around, are not going to look the same. We want them to be around because we care about those who need our help. We want a safety net in place that actually is there for people who need it, not for those who don't. Overall, this budget takes a look at the entitlement programs, melds that with some fiscal restraint on the discretionary side, and then proposes fundamental changes to our tax structure so we can increase competitiveness and see businesses start to grow again in this country and jobs created.
Now, there has been a lot of discussion about where the President is versus our budget coming out of Chairman Ryan's committee. It is curious to me some of the coverage that has been out there about the President. And I know some have written and stated that, 'Oh, well the President has outsmarted us because somehow he forced us to go out first and now he will put his plan out there in response.' I look at it differently. The President called for Bowles Simpson. In fact, after Bowles Simpson issued its report, the President then had to put forward his own budget proposal. He failed to even respond or look at the Bowles Simpson report. So why is it that he didn't embrace Bowles Simpson the first time and now, this week, all signs indicate that is what he will do is embrace Bowles Simpson?
Again, it is a question of leadership. Which President, which White House is it? In the same way, you have seen all of the accolades and the credit being claimed by this White House about coming to a point to actually cut spending, as if that it was their idea somehow. Well I think all of us know for the last two months, this President has had to come kicking and screaming to the table to cut spending. I mean, we started this season with the President advocating a spending freeze on the discretionary side. That is zero savings. By the passage of this CR, we are going to see now $78.5 billion not being spent this year because of our actions. Now, again, this number is in relation to the President's proposal.
I know that many of you have covered his vote as a former Senator when he said he would never support a debt limit increase. Now, they have admitted his mistake on that and said, well, we need to increase the debt limit. Similarly, on the issue of taxes, the President and the White House like to talk a lot about being bipartisan and agreeing that it wasn't a good thing to raise taxes on anybody. But I suppose what we will hear tomorrow night is exactly the opposite: that they are now ready to violate the spirit of this agreement that they had signed with us in December. Again, the question is, what can you really believe out of this White House and where is it that they are trying to lead this country?
Lastly, as we look ahead, again, to that third bite at the apple, the debt limit increase vote is looming. We expect to have that over the course of the next several months and we are already engaged in this discussion. The Treasury has put an outside date on that some time in very early July. And I have said before and I will say it again, let me give notice to the White House that blindly raising the debt limit without implementing real reforms is irresponsible and will simply burden our children with more debt. And we Republicans are not going to go along with it.
So with that, I want to turn it over to the Chairman of the Policy Committee Tom Price.
Mr. Price: I want to thank Leader Cantor for his leadership and for asking me to join him here today.
I want to step back just a little bit and just say how positive and exciting that this Congress has been because what we are talking about is decreasing spending, not increasing spending. And when you think about the previous at least two Congresses, all we have heard about are increases in spending. So I think it is important to appreciate that the tone of the debate, the tenor of the debate, the direction of the debate has all changed because of the leadership of House Republicans. And it is very exciting to be a part of that.
Eric mentioned the 2012 budget, and I just want to concentrate on just a few items on that. This is what it is all about. This is, as Chairman Ryan has described, a choice of two futures. Clearly, the red is bad and that is the President's path. That is the President's path, to spend up to 800 percent of gross domestic product by the federal government within the lifetimes of many of you in this room. Ours is the green path. That is what gets us on the path to financial viability, financial sustainability and a balanced budget. I am privileged to serve on the Budget Committee as well and the 2012 budget that we will propose this week, and I believe will pass under the House, has wonderfully positive reforms in it, especially in the area of Medicare and Medicaid and the directions of tax policy.
In terms of Medicare, as the leader said, what we will do is propose saving it for the individuals currently in Medicare and those in and near retirement, the same program that already exists. But for future generations making it so that it is viable so that we save Medicare for future generations, which is what the President and his party have not done. And we do so in a way that makes it so that individuals are able to have the kind of health coverage that they want for themselves as opposed to the coverage that the government wants for them.
In terms of Medicaid, we would put in place the kind of solution that actually saved the welfare program in the mid nineties, with a Democrat President and a Republican Congress by block granting Medicaid to the states which gives predictability for the federal government but also greater flexibility and choices for states so that they can cover their indigent population in a way that makes sense for them, not necessarily that responds to the dictates of Washington.
Then, finally, recognizing that we can't get on this green path to a balanced budget by just cutting spending here at the national level, the federal level. We need to grow the economy. And the way that you do that is to incentivize the job creators out there and we would do that through a variety of mechanisms not the least of which is fundamental tax reform, positive tax reform that would make our business tax, corporate tax competitive in the industrialized world where it is not now and broaden the base for a much flatter tax system.
So I am honored to be joining my leader today, and I look forward to the conversation and questions that we will have.
Q: Mr. Leader, Chairman Jordan has come out against the bill and he says that it is not going far enough. I am wondering if you think it is a good deal over all and how many Republicans you think will drop out of supporting it.
Mr. Cantor: I think the spending bill this week reflects the best deal we could have gotten. Speaker Boehner went in, against all odds, and actually got the President, the Vice President, and Harry Reid in the Senate to go along with spending cuts. Again, let's compare that to where they were in the beginning of this Congress. They were for zero spending cuts. Listen, I know that Jim Jordan and others are frustrated. I am frustrated too. The House position was $61 billion. But this is the best deal we could have gotten given the situation that we were served up by the Democrats being in charge of the Senate and White House.
Q: Mr. Leader, there is a little confusion over how the Planned Parenthood and the health care law will work. I guess the Rules Committee is meeting today to work on that. Does the House actually have to pass stand alone measures and then send them to the Senate? And will there be an up or down vote?
Mr. Cantor: There will be two up or down votes. One on the issue of the funding of Planned Parenthood and the other is the funding on the issue of ObamaCare and the repeal of ObamaCare.
Q: But will the House have to do that first?
Mr. Cantor: Yes. The House will send to the Senate enrollment corrections that will then be voted on up-or-down in the Senate.
Q: That that means they don't need 60 votes to pass?
Mr. Cantor: That is correct. (Please note: Leader Cantor misspoke, the Senate will require 60 votes on these enrollment resolution items.)
Q: Mr. Leader, the Medicare reforms you propose in the budget would sort of phase in a system where seniors would be kind of in an exchange with subsidies, and to a lot of us in the room, I think that it sounds similar to the ObamaCare law. Why is that an okay system for retirees but not a good system for the rest of
Mr. Cantor: Again, I don't think that there are that many similarities, the way you suggest, as far as our proposals to reform Medicare and ObamaCare. If you are talking about Medicaid as far as how we are going to treat Medicaid, we are talking about block granting the funds to the states in order for them to be able to deal with their indigent population and the health care needs the way they know best. We also are giving the states, in our proposals that will come out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, but according to budget instructions, our proposals will allow Governors to put in place cost control mechanisms.
For instance, Mitch Daniels from Indiana, has put in place the ability to have health savings accounts in the Medicaid program. There are other options available for states and much more flexibility for our states to be able to control costs and not have all the mandate coming from Washington with the inability to actually achieve efficiency while trying to deliver care.
Mr. Price. If I could touch on the Medicare issue because I think that that is an important question. What we do, is what the President has called for and so many of our friends on the other side and that is, don't you think that seniors ought to have the same kind of health coverage as Members of Congress? The program we would put in place is one that essentially mirrors the federal employee health benefits program and a series of premium assistance for seniors who are not able to have the financial wherewithal.
Q: Now you indicated that the debt limit debate might last several months. Does that mean that you expect it to last beyond the May 16 deadline that Treasury has put forward saying we are going to hit the ceiling?
Mr. Cantor: I think Treasury, if I am not mistaken, has put out a notice that says that there is a window within which we have to act in order to avoid the eventual default of this country on its debt. And I believe that that outside deadline is early July.
Q: So that is your deadline is early July?
Mr. Cantor: Well, according to the Treasury.
Q: Steny Hoyer said today that the pairing the debt limit vote with other reforms that are more controversial would be a violation of the Republican pledge to separate out controversial provisions and not pair them, attach them to must pass legislation. What is your response to that?
Mr. Cantor: I think that there is maybe a misreading of our pledge in terms of what Mr. Hoyer's take is and what we intended in our pledge. What we have said always is, we didn't agree with the so called Gephardt rule, which basically attempted to hide Members' votes on increasing the debt limit. We understand it is a very serious vote with consequences on either side. But what we are saying is this, again, going back to the notion that this is about fiscal mismanagement of the past and cleaning up the mess. What we owe to our constituents is a guarantee that we are not going to let spending get out of control again. That is why we are talking about making sure that this vote is going to be connected with real reforms necessary to ensure a better result going forward.
Q: And I guess to add to that, what they are asking there, when you talk about it is "connected," you had said in the fall that you and this was the quote "would advocate a straight up or down vote on the debt limit." When you say "connected," do you mean that this would be a package of things or that your debt limit vote is contingent upon a couple of things that
Mr. Cantor: Again, the context within which we made that pledge for an up or down vote is in relation to what used to be the norm around here, which was hiding that vote in some kind of rule. And as you know, that vote used to come really in bringing up a rule. And it was an inherent action you were taking within the rule. But to the outside observer, it was just a rule vote. We said, no, we are going to be transparent. We are going to be holding ourselves accountable. That is what an up or down debt limit vote is.
Now, if we can get the President and Harry Reid and frankly Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer to go along with us now, before we get to that vote to put in place budget process reforms, discretionary, mandatory caps, entitlement reforms, fantastic. But again, I would suspect, given what happened last week, we are going to be in a struggle. We are going to be in a robust debate with this White House and Harry Reid to try and get to a place where we can all agree that we shouldn't be letting the spending get out of control again.
Q: Sir, on tax repatriation, how optimistic are you of a deal this year? That is one of the major issues. And one of the CEOs at the Roundtable always said that we were like the least competitive of all the developed countries. And would you be considering some kind of a one time windfall for those who bring back profits into the United States from abroad?
Mr. Cantor: First of all, Dave Camp and Tom Price, who is on the committee so maybe he wants to speak to it, but Dave Camp is actively engaging in broad-based tax reform hearings and discussions. I am in full favor of that. I also know that the lack of competitiveness in this country comes from our tax rates being too high, as well as the lack of a territorial-based system that we have which penalizes our multinationals based here. And that brings up the need for repatriation and to look at ways that we could bring back that capital by inducing or providing incentives through a lower rate, through a window. Again, depending on where we end up, I am very much in favor of bringing the $1.2 trillion estimated to be out there back to this country because, as I have said before, that is money you don't have to print and can help towards wealth and job creation in this country.
Mr. Price: There is a pretty good consensus on the Committee. The question is whether or not that would be one time or whether it would be a permanent change. But there is recognition that in order to get this economy rolling again, getting that money back here without tax liability would be of great benefit?
Q: Are Republicans going to continue to push to defund Planned Parenthood if this amendment fails this week and the 2012 budget and debt limit, will that be a part of the debate?
Mr. Cantor: Where I think that we have consistently been is, we believe very strongly that government dollars shouldn't be used to fund abortion. I believe that is where the majority of the American people are and we will make sure that we continue in the spirit of the Hyde Amendment government-wide.
Q: On the long term CR, do you believe that that is going to create jobs? Steny Hoyer just now said that he thinks it wouldn't result in the loss of as many jobs as the $61 billion worth of cuts would have created. That is what the Democrats have been saying. What is your take on that?
Mr. Cantor: Overall, what we are saying is, we have to create an environment now where we are projecting a plan to manage down the debt of this country. That is the biggest problem we are facing. It impacts global investors' confidence in this country. It impacts the value of our currency. And long term, it impacts the future of our kids. That is why we are saying we need to address that. This long-term CR is putting those words and promises into action. So if Steny wants to say we are going to threaten jobs, you have got to ask your question, "How is it smart for this government to go about spending money and hiring people it can't afford to?" That is where his perspective comes from. And you ought to ask the question, "How is it good policy for us to be doing that?"
Q: Can I follow up to my colleague's question about the CR? So do you need the Democrats then to get the bill passed on Thursday?
Mr. Cantor: We will pass this bill on Thursday. And from every indication that I have, there is strong Republican support for this CR.
Q: Mr. Leader, you have dragged the President kicking and screaming to the budget discussion, but he is here now. And he will be here tomorrow again. If he embraces Bowles Simpson or something close to it, is that positive in your view even though it has taken him too long, as you have led or Mr. Ryan has led? Would that be a positive development if he got behind that? And is a bipartisan effort in the Senate something that you see as positive to getting towards a resolution? Because they are going to suggest things that are more to the center than what Mr. Ryan would have suggested.
Mr. Cantor: Look, the discussion and focus on how we deal with our debt, specifically bringing it down and reducing it is a good one. Now, you mentioned the Gang of Six in the Senate. When the Senator from my state, Mark Warner, was out with Saxby Chambliss talking about their proposals and Bowles Simpson, I said the fact that they are out there talking about it is good. Now, Senator Warner and I just disagree on one major factor, and that is he believes we ought to raise taxes to get this economy going again and I don't.
Mr. Price: I wouldn't cede the center to tax increases. I think the center of this country is that they don't want any tax increases. They recognize that the government spends too much and it is time to get government spending under control.
Q: Mr. Leader, if I could just follow on an earlier question. You said you have strong Republican support. But do you need Democrats and will you ask for them?
Mr. Cantor: We certainly will always ask for them. Again, I think Mr. McCarthy, as the Whip, is, as you know, charged with that responsibility. From the discussions I have had with him, he has indicated there is strong Republican support and that we are going to pass this bill with Republicans.
Q: With just Republicans?
Mr. Cantor. Again, I am not close enough to the vote count to know. So you will have to ask Mr. McCarthy.
Q: The Democrats are saying the 2012 budget gives them a gift, that you are voting on it, that you are bringing it to the floor, that a lot of your Members are going to vote on it. What do you think the politics of it are? And it is not going to become law, most likely, and it doesn't look like the Senate there is a lot of daylight between the Senate and House on that. So how is that good politics for your Members to take that up, 2012?
Mr. Cantor: The budget vote?
Q: Yes.
Mr. Cantor: Again, all this needs to be implemented through authorizing legislation. Once the outline of the budget is to take effect, either by the Senate joining us, or our putting that in place so that we could go about enforcing those limits. I think it demonstrates that we are really trying to be honest with the people that put us here, and the math doesn't lie. We have a debt in this country that we are not going to be able to live under if we continue on the same path. The extreme position is to continue doing what we are doing. So we put in place a plan that actually responds to that problem. Again, it is being honest with the people. I think that is what America wants us to do right now. We care about getting this country back on track. We care about making sure that this economy starts to grow again. We care about the people who are out of work who need a job. That is why we are doing what we are doing. And again, it demonstrates, I think, a totally different political dynamic now and we are trying to lead in a very difficult environment.
Q: Mr. Cantor, you have no worry that pending the 2012, when the taxes for, you know, 250 and above which President Obama wants to see done away with, do you guys want the tax keep, as I said before, in December? That is going to be a very volatile political issue on the debt. I mean, it increases the deficit by $4 trillion. You are comfortable with that? You are comfortable with planning on that in an election year?
Mr. Cantor: First of all, we have already settled that question last November. It wasn't that long ago when the President then came around to our side once the election occurred. He is the one who agreed that we shouldn't be raising taxes in a difficult economy. Okay? So what we are saying is this, yes, you can't get this country back on track and manage the debt down with cuts alone. We need to grow this economy. That is why we are talking about tax reform that starts with broadening the base and lowering rates. We have to worry about global competitiveness. If we don't create a better environment for jobs and for businesses to grow here, we are not going to have it.
Q: But in 2012, you don't look at the critical issue of debt when you are allowing for these things
Mr. Price: Look at the numbers in the budget. It is over $600 billion in a decrease in the deficit on our budget compared to the President's budget. Over the 10 year window, it is $6.2 trillion in savings compared to the President's budget. So these are real numbers. This is what the American people want us to do. They want us to lead, and that is what we are responding to.
Q: Mr. Cantor, you talk on one hand I am just trying to get a sense of this whole debt ceiling, where we are, about the need to bring reforms forward. But then you talk about the gap between you and Warner and the gap between you and Bowles Simpson. It seems difficult, given what we have just been through relatively minor in the grand scheme of things how there is going to be this grand bargain reached. Even if it is 3 months, doesn't it seem difficult at best to agree to?
Mr. Cantor: Sure. This is all difficult stuff. None of it is easy. We understand that. But I go back to the simple notion of what the people who put us here and what they expect. And what they expect us to do is to try to make the right decisions and not repeat the same mistakes. That is what the debt limit vote is about, not making the mistake again of letting spending get out of control. Look, if you are a family that has a budget issue and you have maxed out your credit cards, what do you do? Well, if you need to extend the limit and your bank or your credit card issuer will actually let you do that, you have to be able to demonstrate that you are not going to dig the same hole for yourself again. That is what we are talking about here, making sure we stop digging the hole of debt and reverse that trend. We need to do so in a way that demonstrates and puts on the books some brakes so that Congress doesn't get out of control again with spending.
Q: Mr. Leader, just getting back to the revenue aspect, this weekend with your statement about you expect Obama to suggest raising revenues raising taxes, CBS said earlier that we are getting the lowest amount of revenues as a percentage of GDP since like 1950, 14.4 percent. Why just completely put revenues off the table? I mean, why not allow some flexibility there?
Mr. Cantor. It goes to your assumption of where those revenues come from. If you believe you can raise taxes and that doesn't have consequences on people and entities that we are relying on to grow the economy, then your question and the implication of your question would hold true. What we believe is, we have got to grow this economy. That is how you increase revenues as a percentage of GDP. There needs to be an all out effort to understand how we are going to do that. We believe strongly you do that by creating an environment for the private sector to put capital at risk and to grow. You don't sit here and just operate from one side of the government ledger and say we just need to fill that, because it is fictional.
Q: There is concern on the debt limit, Mr. Leader. The debt limit has been raised at least 10 times since 2001. How much additional debt are you willing to authorize?
Mr. Cantor: Again, I think my response to the question is just going to lie on the fact that we are only talking about even doing this if we can be assured there are guarantees in place that the spending doesn't get out of control again. What the American people are expecting us to do here is to do what they would do.
Q: When do you actually tell us what those reforms are going to be? For several months, you have talked about this being the second bite of the apple.
Mr. Cantor. Third.
Q: When are we actually going to learn?
Mr. Cantor: The third. The CR, budget, debt limit.
Q: Okay. Third bite. Bring apples next week.
Mr. Cantor: You got it. There will be Virginia apples here.
Q: You always bring us peanuts from Virginia.
Mr. Cantor: You want wine?
Q: Sure.
Q: When are we going to learn what the reforms are, the structural reforms? Is this going to be the Ryan budget? Is this going to be parts of the Ryan budget? When does this debate really engage?
Mr. Cantor: All the things that we have talked about need to be considered here. One certainly is spending caps both on the discretionary spending side and the mandatory side. There are other proposals out there to balance the budget, constitutional amendments and then some. I was just with Senator Mike Lee last night and he indicated they have a bill over there. I haven't taken a look at it, but I understand that it has got a lot of these provisions in it. All these are what we need to consider and come up with a way that we can be focused and be able to stand behind our promise that we are not going to let the spending get out of control again.
Again, just to put the White House on notice, we are not going to go blindly raise the debt limit, like Mr. Hoyer is advocating, without guarantees in place that spending doesn't get out of control again.
Q: But you don't need an agreement on a budget resolution to go along with the debt limit? It can be pieces if those pieces are satisfactory? It doesn't have to be a budget agreement?
Mr. Cantor: Again, the focus here on the debt limit is guaranteeing that spending doesn't get out of control again.
Mr. Price. Structural changes.
Q: Does that include Medicare and Medicaid, things like that?
Mr. Cantor: Again, I have said it includes all kinds of considerations. Again, we have got to come to a point where we can be credible in saying that spending is not going to get out of control again.


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In his 25 years of service to the Shoreline Fire Department, John Nankervis has seen his share of people in life-threatening situations.
But Wednesday night, before 14,000 baseball fans at Safeco Field, Nankervis was slated to throw out the first pitch as the receipient of the Medic One Foundation's 2012 Spirit of Team Play Award.
And he was just a bit nervous.
"It was a little nervewracking to be honest, but it was fun," Nankervis said. "It was quite an honor. I was touched by it all."
Nankervis was nominated by his coworkers, who believe that he exemplifies the integrity, teamwork, and compassion that bestows this honor, according to Medic One.
Nankervis, now 46 years old, started his career as a volunteer firefighter for Shoreline Fire, was later hired by the Redmond Fire Department, before transferring to Shoreline where he's been ever since.
He went through the paramedic training program at Harborview Medical Center in 1988 via Medic One. In 1997, he became a medical services officer, a supervisory position which he still holds.
He also held a administration position for five years, a desk job, but he decided six years ago to go back on the front lines taking calls as a paramedic in the field because he felt he was too young to be in the office most of the time.
"I get the most enjoyment when I'm out taking care of people and teaching," he said.
The "most impactful" calls, Nankervis said, are when someone is clinically dead and suffering from cardiac arrest and the paramedics are able to bring them back to life.
Nankervis recalled one call that especially stuck with him from 10 years ago.
An 18-month old girl had fell into a backyard fish pond and drowned near 185th and Fremont. He was first on the scene and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, on the girl who had suffered cardiac arrest. He worked on the girl for about 35 or 40 minutes, an extraordinary amount of time, before she finally got a pulse.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — In September 1985, the finance ministers of the major industrial nations met at the Plaza Hotel in New York and agreed to intervene in the markets to depreciate the dollar against Japanese yen and the German deutsche mark. The thinking was very simple — only by acting together could the world's central banks get the currency markets to move in the way they wanted.
This week could see the start of something similar — coordinated stimulus programs around the world.
Why? Because the threat of currency wars makes it very hard for any central bank to act by itself. If any single bank cuts rates or prints more money right now it will be automatically accused of trying to lower the currency — and launch a damaging round of competitive devaluations.
But if they all act together, they have a chance of achieving the stimulus they want.
Bank of Japan may not go as easily as expected
Investors hoping for the yen to continue its months-long slide against the dollar don't expect much help from the Bank of Japan.
Just as in 1985, finance ministers and central banks have a big incentive to coordinate their actions. That doesn't mean they will — but it makes it a definite possibility, and one that investors need to take account of.
This week sees a crucial series of rate-setting meetings. The Bank of England will set rates for the U.K. against a backdrop of a flat-lining economy. In Europe, the European Central Bank will set rates against an even worse background.
Meanwhile, in Japan, the newly installed Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda will hold his first rate-setting meeting, with an explicit mandate to throw every kind of stimulus possible at the Japanese economy to get inflation up — and end two decades of stagnation.
The Federal Reserve won't set rates this week, but it is perfectly possible for key policy makers to signal more stimulus is on the way by making some speeches about the case for another blast of printed money.
• Unemployment sky-high and rising in Spain
• Matthew Lynn: Global chaos, gold bullishness
• Lynn: How Thatcher would play the crisis
• Come on, ECB: Tell us what you really think
There is certainly a case for more action. Whether central banks can drag economies out of a debt crisis by pumping yet more debt into the system remains to be seen. The fact is, most central bankers believe that it is possible. After all, it is what they have been doing for the last three years — and they don't show any sign of changing their view.
With economies either flat, or else heading back into recession, the case for more stimulus is surely compelling.
That is certainly true in the three big economies outside North America: the euro zone, Japan and the U.K.
The euro-zone economy is in dire trouble. Even without the crisis in Cyprus and the threat of fresh elections in Italy, the raw data is terrible. In France, retail sales are now sliding faster than they are in Italy. Consumer spending was down 0.6% across the euro zone in the latest quarter. Bank lending is falling sharply, and industrial production is diving across the periphery.
That all points to a full-blown recession later this year. The euro zone's interest rate of 0.75% is hardly eye-wateringly high by historic standards. But in these strange times of near-zero rates around the world, it leaves scope for a cut.
Japan is hardly in any better shape. The economy shrank in latest set of quarterly statistics released in February for the third quarter in a row. Nor is the U.K. In the latest quarter it managed to eke out a meager 0.4% growth, and it will struggle to expand by more than 1% this year.


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New Report on GOP Primary Contenders Says Only Ron Paul Would Reduce the Federal Debt
For years, polls have shown that a majority of the country ranks rising federal debt and deficits amongst its top political concerns. Indeed, there's some indication that such concerns are on the rise: A Pew poll released in January of this year, for example, reported that 69 percent of the public considered the budget deficit a priority, up 16 percent from the previous year.
Over the course of this year's primary, all of the GOP candidates have paid lip service to the idea of tackling the debt. But according to a new report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, only one candidate's overall combination of tax reforms and spending cuts would actually reduce the total federal debt over the next decade. That candidate is Ron Paul.
CRFB's estimates indicate that Ron Paul's policies would reduce the debt by about $2.2 trillion by 2021 under an intermediate-debt scenario, which interprets the candidate's policies in a way that assumes neither extremely aggressive nor particularly lax policy and implementation choices. Under the same scenario, Rick Santorum's proposed policies would lift total federal debt by $4.5 trillion. Newt Gingrich's plans, taken all together, would hike federal debt by about $7 trillion.
Mitt Romney's headline numbers are better than those posted by Gingrich and Santorum, but only in the sense that they are less bad: CRFB estimates that the former governor's policies would lift the debt by $250 billion by 2021 relative what it would otherwise be.
But Romney's proposals are missing the sort of detail necessary to really know how they might work. His campaign has suggested it will close a number tax loopholes in order to help fund tax reform, but hasn't said which ones. And although he's named targets for domestic and defense spending reductions, he hasn't said exactly what he'll cut in order to achieve those reductions. (As I've noted before, we have a better idea about how Mitt Romney will not cut federal spending than we do about how he would.)
How is it that Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich would end up increasing the federal debt? It's pretty simple, really: They would cut taxes, but wouldn't cut spending to match. Santorum's policies would reduce spending by a little more than $2 trillion, but would cut taxes by $6 trillion. Gingrich would cut slightly more in spending—about $2.7 trillion—but would cut taxes by $7 trillion and actually add $1.6 trillion in spending to overhaul Social Security, among other policy changes. Romney's vague plans score better, but wouldn't reduce the debt, and would probably push it slightly higher than it otherwise would have been.
Ron Paul, on the other hand, would cut taxes, but he'd cut spending even more. His tax cuts would reduce the tax burden by $5.2 trillion; meanwhile, he would reduce spending by $7.2 trillion.
(These numbers are produced under what the report's authors call a "realistic baseline," which includes policies that are not currently law but are expected to eventually pass, like the extension of the Bush tax cuts, are included.)
Overall, it's simple enough. Everyone likes tax cuts, but big tax cuts paired with far smaller spending cuts aren't likely to reduce the federal debt. Spend more than you take in during any given year (as we currently are, to the tune of a trillion bucks or so), and you have a deficit. Those deficits pile up over the years, and give us the federal debt. This shouldn't be too hard to grasp, but only Ron Paul seems to have figured it out.
The knock on the candidate comparison is that Ron Paul's plans aren't realistic. But letting the debt continue on its current unsustainable trajectory—or rise by trillions, as Santorum and Newt likely would—isn't realistic either. At a minimum, Paul's plans show the kind of policy changes that will be necessary in order to both cut taxes and take a big chunk out of the federal debt.
There are two major takeaways here: First, while candidates understandably like to talk about tax cuts, when it comes to the federal debt, it's the spending cuts that matter. Second, the remaining trio of conventional GOP presidential wannabes—Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich—aren't serious about cutting spending, or about truly improving the nation's long-term fiscal path. They're invested in the rhetoric of debt reduction, but not the policies that would make it happen.
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Only Ron Paul Would Reduce the Federal Debt
What's the old bit about proving the obvious by obscure means?
It's a foolproof assertion, as he'll never have the chance to prove it.
Unless a few more percent of the population turns out to vote for him in the remaining primaries.
What's he have...3 delegates so far? Maybe 10? He needs to have over a thousand.
Clearly you have not been turning out, as me and my wife have, at mass precinct meetings, and becoming the GOP's only delegates (as have thousands of others!)
Actually, Paul is second in number of delegates so far. Paul supporters are doing the right thing by getting those spots across the nation. Some people are just too asleep to understand anything except what the media tells them. Brainwashed.
The only place he can prove it is in Congress. Presidents have no vote in the size of the budget. Well, they have one vote and that can be overridden.
Good luck getting a supermajority on anything as contested as a budget. The solution is a President that will veto anything that isn't balanced. The problem is that the American people are too stupid to see that this is a shortcut to balancing the budget if done right, not "shutting government down".
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CRFB's estimates indicate that Ron Paul's policies would reduce the deficit by about $2.2 trillion by 2021 under an intermediate-debt scenario...
Did you mean the debt here? Because plenty of current plans would reduce the "deficit" by similar amounts over similar time spans, but that is just a word game that means the deficit would be reduced by $200 billion per year on average. The terminology is so abused these days it's important to be clear.
Yes. My mistake. Text fixed.
Newt Gingrich's plans, taken all together, would hike federal debt by about $7 trillion.
True Conservatism FTW!
Yeah, but think of all the great moon bases our grandchildren's money could buy.
Well, I certainly don't want to spend my money on a moon base.
He's a compassionate conservative.
That means he's a big government liberal who opposes abortion.
i luv it when paul stumps these guys.
paul previously said wealth always migrates upwards w unsound money.
last nite paul told santorium that immoral conduct gave rise to the pill, not vice versa.
*frothy said nada*
Best comment was when Paul called out Santorum as a big spender who just went along to get along, which is the problem with DC in a nutshell.
Got some cheers, too.
Conservatives may squeak about debt and deficits, but their true priorities are abortion, conquest, and gays.
They say they want to cut spending, just as long as it doesn't cut the military or affect retirees. Or teh childrenz. Or, well, anything that might result in someone losing their job or their check.
What you fail to realize is that the Sodomists in Iran will be better off after we depose that Regime. The girlie Men of America would do well to support Actions that relieve the Burdens of the divers sexual Deviants in the several less tolerant Lands of that Region; unless they have only Concern about their own Advancement.
Why do only Crackpots capitalize every Noun and Some Verbs when ranting about Their Private Fantasies?
It makes them feel like Founding Fathers, writing in archaic English.
only ron paul can get to the troof behind 9awevven too! and the chem trails!!
The knock on the candidate comparison is that Ron Paul's plans aren't realistic.
What's not realistic about cutting spending back to FY2007 pre-bailout levels?
And why do the majority of Republican voters who say that the deficit is their top concern vote for candidates other than Ron Paul, as exit polls have shown in every state?
And why do the majority of Republican voters who say that the deficit is their top concern vote for candidates other than Ron Paul, as exit polls have shown in every state?
Long answer: Revealed preference v. stated preference.
Short answer: They are lying.
Short answer: They are
lyingidiots. FIFY.
Because that sounds a lot better than saying their top priorities are abortion, killing Muslims, and abortion.
I'm totally pro-life. Unless you are Arabic. Or Muslim. Or just don't like America. Then I will personally make it my goal to kill you as soon as I can.
Great. Now, if we could just get past his 9/11 conspiracy theories, his racist newsletters and his 5 minute explanations of why the U.S. is the cause of all of the problems in the world we could get him elected to dog catcher somewhere.
we could get him elected to dog catcher somewhere.
If you left this at noting that he hasn't won a state, you'd have a better argument. However, he is currently elected to Congress, which is more than "losing by 18 points" Santorum can say. Or "permanent Presidential campaign" Romney. Or "resigned the Speakership in disgrace" Gingrich.
"If you left this at noting that he hasn't won a state, you'd have a better argument. However, he is currently elected to Congress" John Thacker
Nice catch, it's even more damning, a postion lower than dog catcher.
Howard Zinn is dead--how could he possibly be running for President?
What an idiot you are, a video where Paul is blowing off a truther is proof that he is a conspiracy theorist? Ha where did you go to school? Cuba?
More like blowing a truther. He's agreeing and suggesting that he would be more vocal except that he has other things to worry about right now.
What kind of Paulian are you? Cuba is only an evil, scum-sucking dictatorship because of U.S. foreign policy. Just like Iran, North Korea, etc.
You've got to spend more time reading the newsletters.
Che your comment is dead, still beating a pile of powdery news letter bones that used to be a dead horse I see.
What Paul 9-11 stuff?
Racist News Letters Opened up!
More to follow.
Che & other un-researched Paul detractors, continuing:
Ron is not against Israel-
Jews for Ron Paul, by Walter Block
More coming.
Here ya go-
Jewish economists say end foreign aid.
Is Ron anti-Semitic? No.
che, almost done.
Why we had 9-11,
NY Times:
OK, this will be have to do for now.
So you like Ron Paul except on foreign policy,
Jews for Ron Paul, by Walter Block
There is a lot more, but I am taking up a lot of space.
You Spooky Dude Homer Simpsons are easy to refute. All you do is post fringe media talking points. Only the badly uniformed or enemies of the US believe your regurgitated bilge water jive.
Well, duh.
if we could just get past his 9/11 conspiracy theories
I challenge you to provide proof of this.
Why does Ron Paul hate children, old people, and kittens?
To know them is to loathe them.
"I challenge you to provide proof of this." -- Sam Grove
che even you link is dead, that was not much in the way of proving Ron is a 'truther' or supports the idea.
Here is a much better, more accurate video. Ron gets off the Phony Fox moderator's gotcha 'birther' issue & back to the debate.
Ron did a nice job of staying civil & accurate.
I'm with Tim O in response to your link & the way you hope we twist it in our minds like you did in yours.
I give your attempt disingenuous a total fail.
And another barf for good measure. :-)
"How is it that Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich would end up increasing the federal debt? It's pretty simple, really: They would cut taxes, but wouldn't cut spending to match."
So basically, it's the policies of Bush-Cheney, continued.
This kind of deficit-reduction discussion -- without any context of recession or economic boom -- is nutty, but typical these days. But if that's the way it is now, why aren't people talking about how Clinton inherited record deficits and left office with surpluses?


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BENSON Neal Hollis Bartholomew, 73, died April 15, 2014, at his home surrounded by loved ones after a 12-year-long battle with glucagonoma, a rare form of pancreatic cancer.
Neal was born September 29, 1940, in Benson, the son of Clyde and Florence (Munger) Bartholomew. He graduated from Fair Haven High School in 1959, and married the former Betty Anne Colvin on October 25, 1971.
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What will happen to Kodak Gallery if Kodak goes bankrupt? I have almost 20,000 pictures saved online thru the Kodak Easyshare software and in the Kodak Gallery. I sure hope I do not lose my pictures if they go bankrupt or out of business. I do have them backed up with Carbonite, but I don't know how I would manage the pictures and my albums if Kodak would close their sites.
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It seems Richard Hayes (Letters, March 12), like many liberals, would like to limit or silence the speech of conservatives so that liberals without opposition can promote their imaginary problems and problems over which man doesnt have control. Then our out-of-control government can meddle even more in every aspect of our lives.
Conservatives offer solutions, but liberals dont listen. Observe the Sen. Harry Reid, liberal-controlled Senate for instance. Liberals often employ cute one-liner inaccuracies to belittle a writer, thereby casting aspersions on anything the writer writes instead of discussing the issues with which they disagree.
Id rather have one foot stuck in the 50s and other in the Tea Party, as Hayes claims, than be in bull up to my neck. But hes wrong. Both my feet are stuck firmly on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And Im not moving regardless of what nonsense liberals produce from their fertile imaginations and feel-good proposals.
Liberals are often inaccurate. I dont have the space here to provide the many examples. I will continue to write as long as I am able, the paper allows me to and liberals produce their bologna. May I suggest to Hayes if he doesnt like my letters, dont read them!
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South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback Connor Shaw will not start Saturday, head coach Steve Spurrier told ESPN.
Dylan Thompson will start for the Gamecocks against the East Carolina Pirates.
Shaw suffered a bruised shoulder in South Carolina's season-opening win at the Vanderbilt Commodores on Aug. 30. Thompson played in Shaw's place, but he did not complete a pass in three attempts. Shaw was 7 for 11 with 67 yards and one interception. Shaw also rushed for 92 yards in the 17-13 win.
Shaw was injured in the second quarter against Vanderbilt after taking a helmet to his throwing shoulder. After three series with Thompson under center, Shaw returned, visibly in pain.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that Shaw could "barely lift his right arm" and would miss a few days of practice. The AP then reported Friday that a decision on Shaw would likely be withheld until just before kickoff, and Spurrier maintained that Shaw would not play if he were in any pain.
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NORTH FORT MYERS: Detectives discovered four and a half pounds of pot inside the dashboard of a car during a traffic stop in North Fort Myers Tuesday.
Deputy Frank Trestka pulled over a 1997 BMW after noticing it was following another car too closely on Interstate 75 shortly after 9 p.m, according to a Lee County Sheriff's Office report.
Trestka met with the car's occupants, Alejandro Benitez-Vazquez, 22, and Jorge L. Ramirez, 19, and smelled marijuana coming from inside the car.
"I immediately noticed marijuana- a raw odor coming out of the car," said Trestka.
The men were traveling from Miami to St. Petersburg.
During a search, the detective discovered the car's airbag had been removed.
Trestka's K9 Cole alerted to the presence of marijuana.
That's when investigators found four bricks of pot weighing a total of four and a half pounds inside the dashboard, where the air bag should be.
They then determined that Ramirez was wanted on a Pinellas County warrant for failing to appear in court on a traffic charge.
Both men were arrested and taken to Lee County Jail for booking.
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It starts with a look at some of the implications of global urbanisation. What opportunities and problems does it create? What does it mean for business? What about the pressures on our food chain and water supply? Lloyd's Register has talked to senior management at Larsen and Toubro about India's urbanisation challenges and examines the rise of Singapore -- an urbanisation success story.
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All the freebies are now 64 bit (triple binary- 64/32/ppc). Including the old ones that aren't next gen algorithms. You can check- Get Info in the finder shows a creation time of day as well as a date, for the 64 bit ones.
Next gen freebies! These are all recoded with antialiasing, making them Version 2. In pretty much every case it altered the sound and behavior- sometimes radically, like with Slew, which went from a grunge-maker to a very effective glare-reduction plugin at a stroke. This also includes Channel2- Channel has always been very popular, the new version is a LOT better and even features a dead-control bugfix :)
Average is a utility plugin for filtering. It averages adjacent samples, and adds the remaining fraction as a 'leftover' sample so you can smoothly fade between values. It uses all the Airwindows audio tricks like noise shaping to the 32-bit floating point buss, to be the best-sounding moving average you could possibly have! Truly an audiophile moving average, inspired by the need to preview Pono moving-average playback processing.
MineSpace is a quick ambience creator that runs dual-mono and adds just a tiny bit of reverb at varying size/space! It's for video post, not to replace real reverb plugins, and is set up to add subtle air and distance without being particularly noticeable.
AQuickVoiceClip is for recordings such as gamer LPs, where the performance sometimes yells into the mic and completely blows it away into clipping. It subdues the HF hash while retaining clarity when not clipping, and contains a highpass that works with the anti-clipper code. It's not a 'un-clipper' but it tames the distortion a bit.
BrassRider is by request of a friend of mine, who said to call it 'Andy' and that everyone would know what that meant. Put it on drum overheads, and it will ride up cymbal crashes, while ignoring drum hits.
Channel2, the classic mix buss and individual channel analogifying plug. Better than ever and still totally free!
Channel3. Yet another round of patient work on the antialiasing and basic tone of the plugin!
Chorus2 uses technology from Console2 and a little Haas effect in the positioning of the delay tap to produce silky fat chorusing without flangey overtones. Good for fattening pads without sounding obviously modulated!
Clip is antialiased hard clipping, nothing more. This is basically the bare-bones freebie loudenator- the simplest, cleanest of them all.
Clip2 is the same, with improved antialiasing as with Channel3, and a new slider that lets you bring the 'ceiling' down on the sound, rather than boosting it. By request from a user who wanted this behavior.
DCOffset is for when you have DC content screwing up other plugins- some like reverbs and ToTape don't like seeing DC one bit. This is another handy utility plug.
Density2, a very warm overdrive. It's sloppier about overs than the original- if you push it, be ready to keep turning down the gain.
Digital Black 2, the ultimate guitar gate for djent or anything staccato- ridiculously fast and articulate, this is the one you want if you're making heavy guitar sounds ITB.
Drive2, a gutsier, edgier overdrive. Slightly better behaved about overs than Density, but neither are as precise with them as the non-antialiased ones.
DustBunny was an accident, and people asked me to keep it! It fuzzes out the audio not unlike a phonograph needle with lint stuck under it.
Ed Is Dim. (read it backwards!) Two plugins, one to convert to mid/side and one to convert back. Put ANY OTHER plugin in between. Try Pressure2, or Density2! Match the trim settings (defaults to direct conversion) or adjust them to tweak mid/side levels!
Fireworks Reverbs, which is a newer set of reverb impulses for convolution reverbs. Contains a lot of really killer sound design and special effect impulses! This is zipped AIFF files, so it is usable on a PC if you can read AIFFs. If you'd like to install them in Logic as presets (Mac only, uses installer), thank Mini-Dan from Gearslutz for this installer which gives you the same reverbs, built into the Space Designer preset menu!
Flanger2 was the first freebie to use the concepts introduced in Console2. You can do both jet-fighter 'center cancel' flange and fat additive flange, and you can get audio-frequency sweep rates- plus, it can work as its own kind of distorter. Good for automating crazy dancefloor meltdowns!
Floor is all about bass guitar and kick drums- you can sculpt and tighten the lows in a very useful way, and/or throw in midrange impact. Like Density2 and Drive2, but suggests more lows when used to control subsonics.
Mudslide is one special setting on DubSub, to celebrate the magic of the P-bass! It's the ideal thick, solid, articulate yet totally dull bass tone for driving a track from the backline. My gift to bass players!
MultibandDistortion is just what you'd think- instead of just highpassing the signal, it splits it, and distorts each band separately, and recombines them in a strange matrix with a stability control. Separate hardness controls on each band, very flexible.
PhaseNudge is a free allpass for phase rotation, such as matching dissimilar mics or adjusting the upfrontness of a track. Higher values rotate the attack farther back behind the body of the sound.
Pressure2, an early vari-mu compressor design revamped with the antialiasing. Very slick, capable of startling effects, again don't expect really precise overs control...
Slew2, just the slew section of what's now in Channel2. Very different behavior- on a meter, the original will just convert highs to noise and eventually choke them off. The new version will not go to silence at all, but slams just the 20K range down really strikingly when things get too fizzy, leaving everything else untouched. Incredible behavior for a freebie, way way more useful than version one, and this is what's in the new Channel.
SlewOnly and SubsOnly are utility plugins to use with Voxengo SPAN, in Density Mode. That will give you the best 'VU style', sense-the-loudness-of-the-track, metering, and when you put one of these utilities in front of SPAN, it's calibrated so equal levels will give you appropriate amounts of extreme highs and subs. If the levels are out of whack, your balances are also out of whack. Can also be used for extreme sound processing.
All of the following plugins are free. (and older, legacy freebies.) They are for you to use as much as you want, on personal or commercial projects, forever. It's also important to mention that these are also demos for the pay plugins- they're built on the same code base, so if they work on your host then so will the pay ones. In many cases the freebies are every bit as good as the commercial ones! They are my way of making sure that I'm not forgetting to be generous and support the struggling artist. If I do that, then I can deserve to be supported in turn through people buying other stuff.
AcousticBass, convolution modeling of acoustic bass
Airwindows Impulses, which is not a plugin but is a set of reverb impulses for convolution reverbs
Amps is all six Airwindows amp plugins for free. Buy Cabs or use them with a speaker convolution impulse- these are pre-speaker.
CabSVT, the ultimate bass guitar plugin
Channel, the classic mix buss and individual channel analogifying plug. Back to the original formula by popular demand!
ChannelEQ, a basic four-band fixed-frequency EQ which passes bit-identical output when set flat
Chorus, a taste of the Airwindows modulation effects for free
Crystal, the colorless but still fully functional version of the Character plugs, free!
Density, a very warm overdrive. Warning, extremely high gain at high settings!
Digital Black, a special gate which defaults to 16 bit noisefloor and can gate different sounds with different degrees of staccato.
DitherDemo, which shows you how dither works (truncation, flat, TPDF, and Airwindows special dithers) up close and personal!
DitherTo is Chris's personal choice for the ultimate dither to 16 bit, and the ultimate dither to 24 bit- different one each time- and FREE to benefit the industry (dither is not a huge market segment, frankly)
Doubler, just what it says. Another slick Airwindows pitch-shifter freebie.
Drive, a gutsier, edgier overdrive.
Flanger, more Airwindows modulation magic for a really sweet, airy flange
Flutter, which includes a stereo version, sounds fantastic, but doesn't have working delay compensation, so it's free too.
Fracture, the 2008 Airwindows Xmas present for lovers of ugly sound everywhere :)
Gate, formerly for sale here, in a simplified but still amazing-sounding version
Nikola, an attempt to do the sound of an audio Tesla Coil. NASTY!
Pressure, an early vari-mu compressor design
SampleDelay, the only sample delay with negative delay, allowing you to nudge things slightly ahead of the beat, as well as behind.
Silhouette is a specialized plugin that takes a track and replaces it entirely with noise shaped to the exact dynamic profile of the track- use it to tell if you have a beat or just an over-compressed mess ;)
Slew, just the slew section of what's now in Channel.
SpacedOut is just the 'aliased Myspace monitoring' section of SpaceOdyssey, might also be good for low-fi old school sampler sounds in conjunction with Slew.
Stereo Chorus, the stereo version of Chorus. Modulates both channels! Feed with mono or dual mono.
Toybox, a manual FIR filter! Suitable for sample averaging or constructing unusual tiny impulse responses.
Vibrato, which can be set with vibratos so fast it becomes ring modulation, and can do two frequencies at once- try doing chimelike sounds or similar effects.
Dual Mono Verbs, my first reverb attempts. Dual Mono is unusual- it's not a realistic room sound, but it sits in the mix in a special way. Replaced by Space as a commercial product, all Verbs buyers get FarSpace/NearSpace free now that Verbs is a freebie :)
Wah is the definitive Airwindows style plugin. It's a wah pedal. Really- try it. Unlike anything else in software- it sounds, feels and reacts like an analog wah pedal.
All those are free and I want you to have them, whether or not you're able to get the commercial plugins too. Enjoy!


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A new mixed-use apartment building planned for downtown Kent is much closer to construction following approval of several variances from the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals Monday night.
The board granted three variances to developer CollegeTown Kent LLC, a subsidiary of Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties, for 'Building C,' a mixed use retail and residential building planned for the southwest corner of the South DePeyster and Erie streets intersection.
Board members cited the small size and unusual topography of the building site in granting three variances, which permit the new building to stand taller than city code allows and loosen requirements for how close the building is to the public right-of-way.
Variances approved allow the building to stand 61 feet tall at its highest point — one foot higher than the 60 feet maximum — and to stand further back from Locke Lane, the alley bisecting the redevelopment block in which the building will be constructed.
Adam Branscomb, project manager for Fairmount Properties, said developing the building has proven challenging given restrictions created by the small size of the building lot.
The goal of the project, he said, was to build "the preeminent residential address" in downtown Kent.
"This is an apartment building that won't have any peers in the market place," Branscomb said. "When you look at the small acreage of the site, you have certain elements which, in order to create abuilding that everyone can be proud of, we felt were necessary to be included, such as short-term parking spaces."
Loosening one of the two frontage requirements for Locke Lane sets the building back enough to allow short-term parking spaces so tenants can unload groceries and other items in temporary spaces close to the building before parking their cars elsewhere.
"Without them it would be difficult to lease the building," Branscomb said of the short-term spaces.
The latest design shows the building stands exactly at 60 feet tall, which is the maximum height permitted in the downtown district by city code. Originally, the project required a more than 2 feet variance, but value-engineering and other changes lowered the overall height to meet city code.
Kent Community Development Department Director Bridget Susel suggested the board grant a height variance to give the project some leeway in case of unforeseen difficulties incurred during construction.
Susel said the project met nearly all of the city's zoning and building requirements despite the challenges presented by the small lot and steep grade of the site.
"Building C is a critical piece in the redevelopment project," she said.
The board granted a 1-foot variance for the height in addition to granting two setback variances.
Zoning board chairperson Elizabeth Howard said the size of the lot and topography presented practical difficulties and hardships if the building were to adhere strictly to city code.
"That is a tough area to build," board member Dave Mail said.
Bricco, an Akron-based Italian restaurant, will occupy all of the first floor of the five-story building. The restaurant is about 7,000 square feet total. A total 32 apartments will be spread out with eight on each of the upper four floors.
Branscomb said Fairmount Properties has already sent out to bid the general trade construction work for the site, and the developer has applied for a foundation permit for the building with the city.
"The last item to accomplish before we hold a formal groundbreaking is these three variances," he said.


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AUSTINBURG — Bea M. Fleming, 82, of Ashtabula, Ohio, died Sunday, April 14, 2013, at the Austinburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Memorial service will be 11:30 a.m., May 5, 2013, at the Memorial Garden of the First United Methodist Church, 4506 Elm Ave., Ashtabula.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church.
The Ashtabula Home of Fleming & Billman Funeral Directors, Inc., 526 W. Prospect Road, Ashtabula, is in charge of arrangements.


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With a name like Glitter Dick, a band isn't likely to get much commercial airplay. However, as Albuquerque's newest glam-trash group, Glitter Dick is on everyone's lips. Figuratively speaking, of course.
This week we listened to Xiu Xiu, White Fence and Frankie Rose.
On Saturday, April 7, the 2bers shares its fourth studio album, DIG, with the world, but it's not merely a release party. The hip-hop duo—BlesInfinite (Luke Hale) and Eph'Sharpe (Collin Troy)—has been a Burque mainstay since its creation in 1999. With DIG the songwriters/MCs/producers wanted to mark the occasion with something beyond the typical celebratory function.


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After close consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing guidance to same-sex married couples on the benefits and services to which they are entitled under current laws and regulations.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which governed the definitions of "marriage" and "spouse" for all federal agencies. However, there remain certain provisions of federal law governing veterans' benefits and services that, like DOMA, define a spouse as a member of the opposite sex. In September 2013, the U.S. attorney general announced a directive to cease enforcement of those VA-specific definitional provisions.
Another provision of the law governing VA requires the department to look to the place of residency rather than the place of celebration to determine whether a veterans' marriage is recognized for the purpose of VA benefits. This statutory requirement to look at the laws governing marriage in the place where the veteran or veteran's spouse resided at the time of the marriage, or at the time they filed their claim or application, precludes the VA from recognizing certain same-sex marriages. Since the Windsor decision, the VA has worked with the DOJ to develop guidance to process claims and applications for same-sex married couples while still following the statutory requirement to look to the place of residency.
The VA is committed to treating all veterans and their spouses as equally as possible under the law. Importantly, the administration within the VA will aim to apply the same level of scrutiny to all veterans' marriages, regardless of whether it is a same-sex or opposite-sex marriage. VA will therefore process claims and applications involving same-sex marriage in the same manner that VA processes claims based on opposite-sex marriage without any additional scrutiny or development.


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