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The Columbus Dispatch borrowed from a Wall Street Journal editorial to forward the unproven assumption that the Obama administration delayed the employer mandate in an effort to prop up the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual market. But evidence shows the market was considered stable prior to this delay.
In a February 21 editorial, the Dispatch, which is no fan of the ACA, cast the Obama administration's decision to delay the employer mandate -- which, when enacted, will force companies with more than 50 full-time employees to provide subsidized health insurance -- until 2016 as a bid to save the law from failing and "to shore up the fiscal underpinnings of the health-care exchanges," a theory it pulled from a Wall Street Journal editorial that advocated for the repeal of the health care law:
And what's behind this latest change? Many immediately saw it as another move to protect Democratic lawmakers who are up for re-election in November from the fallout of the health-care mess.
The Wall Street Journal last week offered another reason for the delay: to shore up the fiscal underpinnings of the health-care exchanges. The Journal points out that "people are supposed to be eligible for subsidies (to buy insurance on the exchanges) only if their employers don't offer insurance. Since the White House is releasing many more businesses from the mandate's obligations, many more people will suddenly qualify to join the exchanges."
This would improve the demographic balance needed to ensure that the health-care law is fiscally sound, because the law relies on charging healthy people more for health insurance in order to subsidize the costs of those who are sicker.
However, experts considered the insurance market stable at least a month before the Obama administration issued the delay. As The Washington Post's Wonkblog noted on January 14, the risk of a "death spiral" was over:
The risk of a "death spiral" is over. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that if the market's age distribution freezes at its current level -- an extremely unlikely scenario -- "overall costs in individual market plans would be about 2.4% higher than premium revenues." So, in theory, premiums costs might rise by a few percentage points. That's a problem, but it's nothing even in the neighborhood of a death spiral.
The Columbus Dispatch claimed that unemployment insurance [UI] benefits create a disincentive to work to attack President Obama's recent call to extend them into 2014. However, multiple economists have found that unemployment benefits are not disincentives to work during economic downturns, and that not extending them will hurt the economy and result in job loss.
Almost all of Ohio's leading newspapers ignored a new poll showing that Ohioans overwhelmingly support action on immigration reform, even as House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced a decision on November 13 that effectively reduced any chances at reform this year.
A poll conducted by Harper Polling on behalf of three pro-reform organizations -- including one that counts News Corp (Fox News' parent company) president Rupert Murdoch as a co-chairman, and another that exclusively supports GOP candidates -- found that 74 percent of Ohio residents surveyed feel the immigration system is broken and that another 72 percent support an immigration proposal with a path to citizenship. The poll also found that 68 percent of respondents support a plan that would grant legal status to undocumented immigrants and citizenship to those who were brought to the country illegally as children.
On November 13, the Cleveland Plain Dealer was the only major daily Ohio newspaper to report these findings, despite Boehner's pronouncement that day that he would refuse to allow negotiations between the House and the Senate on an immigration reform bill. As the Washington Post noted, the decision dealt "a significant blow to the prospects of comprehensive immigration reform by this Congress."
Several local media outlets published editorials and opinion pieces highlighting and praising CBS' faulty 60 Minutes Benghazi report. Now that CBS has apologized and withdrawn its report, will local media follow suit?
On October 27, CBS' 60 Minutes aired a report highlighting comments from security officer Dylan Davies, who went by the pseudonym "Morgan Jones" and said that he was an eyewitness to the September 12, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. After several inconsistencies surfaced in Davies' statements about the evening, CBS pulled its report, apologized to viewers, and said it would "correct the record" on the next edition of 60 Minutes.
Immediately following the 60 Minutes report, various local media outlets across the country published editorial and opinion pieces hyping the report and heralding it as evidence that President Obama and his administration were lying about the attacks. At least six local media outlets, including The Columbus Dispatch, The New Hampshire Union Leader, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Washington Times, The Charleston Post and Courier, and The Boston Herald, all hyped the CBS report with one outlet calling it a "damning report" while another said the administration's "coverup [is] being exposed." Pittsburgh Press writer Jack Kelly published a piece in the Post-Gazette claiming the report was "noteworthy for the new information provided -- in particular the interviews with 'Morgan Jones' and [Lt.] Col. [Andrew] Wood."
The 60 Minutes report reinvigorated the widely debunked myth that there are "lingering questions" about the Benghazi attack and continued to push a right-wing media narrative that the Obama administration has engaged in a cover-up in response to the attacks. The pervasiveness of the myth even hit Congress as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threatened to hold up presidential nominations until questions surrounding Benghazi were answered.
Now that CBS has retracted its report, will local media outlets who also injected this misleading myth into their opinion pages do the same, or will they continue to rely on debunked information that misleads their readers?
A Columbus Dispatch editorial attacked parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by regurgitating popular myths and misconceptions, including the falsehood that many companies are cutting workers' hours due to the employer mandate, that young and healthy Americans are choosing to not pay for health insurance, and that the role of "navigators" is limited to only assisting with enrollment, despite evidence showing none of these claims are based in fact.
The conservative Columbus Dispatch has long been a force in local and state politics in Ohio. But in recent years, the newspaper's parent company has become a virtual media monopoly in Ohio's largest city and state capital, controlling not only the daily newspaper, but two radio stations, a television outlet and a long list of other weekly, monthly, and regional news sources.
"It's a one-newspaper town," said Dominick Cappa, editor of Columbus Business First, one of the few local publications not owned by the Dispatch. "They have the TV station, a radio station. Are they powerful? Hell yeah they're powerful because they have those outlets."
And the Dispatch's owners have used that media muscle to promote conservative causes and candidates, in particular the state's Republican governor, John Kasich. Publisher John F. Wolfe, CEO of parent company Dispatch Printing, and his wife, Ann, have spent more than $100,000 seeking to elect Republicans in state and out, with three dollars out of every ten going to Kasich's coffers.
The Dispatch's news reporting is the pride of Ohio; in recent years the paper has repeatedly been named the best newspaper of its size by the Associated Press Society, and its reporters typically clean up at that organization's annual awards presentation. In 2012, John Wolfe himself was given a special recognition award for "exemplary service to print journalism."
But critics say that the recent expansion of Dispatch Printing has created a near-monopoly in central Ohio, and point to the way the paper's editorial board has shielded Kasich to sound a note of alarm.
The increasing influence of the Wolfes comes during a period in which several right-wing moguls have been seeking to use mainstream media outlets to influence the political debate.
In December Media Matters profiled financier Douglas Manchester, a major Republican Party contributor who purchased the San Diego Union-Tribune and used it to cheerlead for right-wing politics and his own business interests. More recently, David and Charles Koch, major funders of the conservative movement, have reportedly considered buying the Tribune Company's eight regional newspapers -- which include the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune -- as part of their plan to shift the country to the right by investing in the media. Manchester has also considered buying the Tribune Company.
The Kochs also financially support the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a non-profit organization whose websites and affiliates provide free statehouse reporting from a conservative perspective to local newspapers and other media across the country.
The Wolfes' stranglehold on central Ohio's media grew substantially last September when the Dispatch Printing Company took over Columbus Media Enterprises from American Community Newspapers. That purchase added 12 specialty magazines to its arsenal, including Columbus Monthly and Columbus CEO, and Columbus Bride; Suburban News Publications, a string of 22 community weeklies that were subsequently merged with the company's 22-paper ThisWeek Community News group of weeklies; and The Other Paper, a feisty alternative weekly that had been known as a Dispatch watchdog.
Dispatch Printing already owned a variety of specialty publications including Columbus Alive, Columbus Crave, Columbus Parent, and Capital Style, along with two radio stations, the local CBS television affiliate (WBNS-TV), Ohio News Network Radio, which provides regular newscasts and sportscasts to 73 radio stations statewide, and Consumer News Services, a marketing company that distributes insert fliers via direct delivery bags.
Columbus has three other network television affiliates: WCMH, the NBC affiliate owned by Media General; WSYX, the ABC affiliate, and WTTE, the Fox affiliate, both owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.
But critics say that those outlets amount to little more than window dressing. "There is no competition," said Gerald Kosicki, a 26-year professor of communications at nearby Ohio State University. "You do only now have one voice. That is a concern to people."
The Cincinnati Enquirer has failed to mention efforts by conservatives in Ohio to strip funding from Planned Parenthood in the House budget.
Since Republican House lawmakers introduced a substitute bill on April 9 that included the anti-Planned Parenthood measures, several other Ohio newspapers mentioned the proposal to effectively block federal funding for women's health services provider, which could lead to a loss of about $1.7 million. The Akron Beacon Journal penned an editorial attacking the House bill for its planned cuts and The Columbus Dispatch followed suit with an editorial that called for the proposed cuts to be "stripped from the budget." The Cincinnati Enquirer has not produced original content on the stripping of funds, but has published two Associated Press articles which mentioned the plan to strip funding for the women's health organization.
This is the third time this year Ohio Republicans have attempted to strip Planned Parenthood of its funding. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer pointed out, the legislature is attempting to "reprioritize" federal family planning funding to make "Planned Parenthood and other stand-alone family planning providers the lowest priority in getting federal funding." The article further explains that out of the 37 clinics operated by Planned Parenthood in the state, only three provide abortions and that it is illegal to use federal funds for abortion procedures:
House Republican foes of abortions rights inserted language into Gov. John Kasich's mid-budget review bill that would strip Planned Parenthood of up to $1.7 million in federal funding controlled by the state Department of Health.
The language added by GOP abortion opponents, which mirrors a separate bill that sits in committee, reprioritizes federal family planning funds in a way that makes Planned Parenthood and other stand-alone family planning providers the lowest priority in getting federal funding.
"Clearly, the intent of this legislation is to make sure the federal funds are exhausted before Planned Parenthood has the opportunity to apply for it," said Gary Dougherty, state legislative director for Planned Parenthood. Dougherty [said] Planned Parenthood would lose about $1.7 million.
Dougherty said only three of the 37 family planning centers run by Planned Parenthood provide abortions, and noted that it's illegal under federal law to use federal funding for abortions.
In lieu of giving the funds to Planned Parenthood, the bill would give crisis pregnancy centers top priority for funding. As CityBeat, a Cincinnati news site, explained, the money would be used primarily to fund abstinence-only services. However, a 2013 report by NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio found that crisis pregnancy centers exhibit a "pattern of using medically inaccurate information and scare tactics" with their patients.
The Columbus Dispatch endorsed a proposal to make filing a petition for a referendum harder, only two years after a ballot measure shot down an anti-union law the paper supported.
In 2011, Ohio's Republican majority enacted Senate Bill 5, which drastically restricted the collective bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio. In the aftermath of the bill's passage, a petition was successfully established to get the bill overturned using the referendum process for the following election. The bill was overturned by an overwhelming majority in a victory for Ohio public workers.
The Columbus Dispatch's editorial board came out in favor of the anti-union law, continually reminding readers it supported restricting union's rights. The paper initially took the line that it supported the premise behind the bill but called for a compromise on collective bargaining before the referendum, Issue 2, was established. However, after the deadline to fix the bill passed, the editorial board wrote another editorial in support of Issue 2 and reminded readers the day before the election that it endorsed Issue 2.
Now, two years after the defeat of Issue 2, the editorial board has come out to support a measure that would make it more difficult to get referendums on the ballot. The Dispatch endorsed a recently enacted bill which would limit the amount of time a group has to get an issue on the ballot, giving them only 10 additional days to collect more signatures if the petition is not granted the first time. From the Dispatch:
While one can debate exactly what limits are reasonable, a uniform limit does not violate Ohioans' right to place issues on the ballot, it simply ensures that all are subject to the same rule.
Reasonable limitations on the petition process protect us from chaos.
The Columbus Dispatch is criticizing journalists for not informing readers about a liberal group's vested interests and involvement in the state's political process, even though the paper has spent years obscuring the origins of the American Legislative Exchange Council and downplaying the group's influence in the state.
In a February 27 editorial The Columbus Dispatch wrote:
The ability of various interest groups to have a say in politics is a critical to our democracy. But just as voters should be aware of who is funding political ads, they should be informed of the vested interests of those groups that are cited as sources of commentary.
Policy Matters Ohio, with offices in Cleveland and Columbus, often is quoted in news stories as a "research firm" and as a liberal or "progressive" think tank in news stories concerning tax and budget issues. That description, though, doesn't give a full picture of an organization that has a direct interest in steering public money to labor groups, which in turn are big-money supporters of Democratic politicians.
The Dispatch's argument is disingenuous however, since the paper has failed to cover and conduct the same research for organizations heavily involved in state policy such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
From January to October 2011, the shadowy right-wing organization had its hand in 33 bills in the state, nine of which became law. ALEC's ties in Ohio run deeper than merely crafting bills. According to ALEC's internal talking points, Gov. John Kasich, who was actively involved in ALEC in multiple capacities before becoming governor, "helped mold ALEC in its formative years" and was photographed at an ALEC event in 2010.
In 2012, ALEC was responsible for several pieces of legislation in Ohio, including a bill that weakened protections for victims of asbestos exposure, a bill which attempted to loosen firearms laws, and a bill seeking to prevent disclosure of certain ingredients in fracking fluids to the public.
ALEC also has a role in pushing big business' influence with legislators in Ohio. According to the Center for Media and Democracy's ALEC Exposed project, 41 legislators in Ohio are ALEC members. The money ALEC receives from businesses and conservative organizations goes to bringing these legislators to ALEC conventions where they can "rub elbows with rich, out-of state potential donors ... and to build similar relationships with ALEC's state corporate members."
Despite ALEC's influence and major ties to the state, The Columbus Dispatch only discussed ALEC in 7 news stories since January 1, 2011, according to a Media Matters search. When they did cover ALEC, the organization was either not identified or described as a "conservative" or "a conservative think tank that raises money from corporate and other interests to pay for legislators to meet with businesses" -- monikers that barely scratch the surface of what the organization really does.
While it's important for newspapers to disclose the ties behind organizations that have an influence on policy in the state, The Columbus Dispatch editorial board is picking and choosing which organizations should receive such scrutiny -- apparently aiming to disclose information only about the ones it disagrees with.
Ohio media reporting on Gov. John Kasich's (R) new education funding plan neglected to inform readers that the plan funnels millions of dollars in increased spending to private schools and charter schools whose operators have donated millions in campaign contributions to Kasich and Republicans in the state legislature.
The Akron Beacon Journal reported on the Kasich plan's significant enrichment of private school operators and the charter school management industry (emphasis added):
The $8.5 million expansion in the first year represents a 7 percent increase in allocations for vouchers. Based on the average voucher cost of $5,997, the additional funding could afford scholarships for more than 2,800 children by the end of the budget cycle in 2015.
The budget also expands funding for charter schools, adding an additional $100 per pupil for facility improvements at the privately operated alternative schools. That's an additional $11.9 million for charter schools based on the Beacon Journal's projection of 2011-2012 student enrollment figures.
The Beacon Journal didn't mention that the additional $11.9 million for charter schools represents a significant return on the investments of for-profit charter school operators who have helped fund Republican campaigns in Ohio for years. One such operator is David Brennan, whose White Hat Management is among the largest for-profit charter school operators in the state. Brennan and his immediate family contributed over $430,000 to Ohio Republicans in 2010, including $46,000 to Kasich's gubernatorial campaign, according to a Plunderbund.com review of state campaign disclosures. Brennan and another for-profit charter school operator, William Lager, have reportedly funneled over $4 million to Ohio Republicans since 2001.
Ohio's largest print news outlets -- including the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dayton Daily News, Toledo Blade, and the Beacon Journal -- not only ignored the financial connections between Kasich's charter-friendly plan and his campaign donors, they also failed to note that the charter school industry is receiving this boon despite consistently performing well below Ohio's traditional public school districts. Recently released report cards for the 2011-12 school year indicated that "while 92 percent of the state's public school districts scored effective or higher...only 26 percent of charter schools did."
Brennan's White Hat Management has a particularly poor record of academic success, according to reporting by NPR.org. NPR's examination found that for the 2010-11 school year, no White Hat school in Ohio earned higher than a "C" on the state report card, and most received a rating of "D" or "F." White Hat was also sued by the schools it manages for pocketing "at least 95 percent of the schools' tax funding."
Nevertheless, White Hat stands to benefit from Kasich's new plan. Unfortunately, Ohio's parents and students are not benefitting from adequate media focus on Kasich's continued financial conflicts of interest.
Ohio's largest newspapers ignored the influence that gun lobby campaign contributions and the American Legislative Exchange Council may have had in pushing forward a bill that would that would loosen firearms regulations in the state. The proposal, which closely resembles ALEC model legislation, would allow gun owners to bring firearms and loaded clips into the parking lots under the state Capitol and require the recognition of out-of-state conceal carry licenses.
The Columbus Dispatch described Ohio House Bill 495, which has been pushed forward by an Ohio Senate committee:
House Bill 495 essentially would treat concealed-carry licenses like drivers' licenses -- if you have one in another state, it would be recognized in Ohio.
In addition, the bill would allow people without concealed-carry licenses to now carry loaded ammunition clips in their vehicles, so long as they are stored in a compartment separate from the unloaded gun. It also would allow people to bring their guns to the Statehouse or the Riffe Center parking garages on Capitol Square, as long as the guns remain in their vehicles.
The bill, pushed by the National Rifle Association and other Ohio pro-gun groups, also says that a concealed-carry licensee no longer has to demonstrate competency when renewing the license.
Current Ohio law bars those convicted of misdemeanor offenses of violence and drug offenders from obtaining concealed-carry licenses, and require applicants to demonstrate firearms safety competence. As many other states have no such requirements, residents of those states who would not be eligible to earn a license if they were Ohio residents would gain the ability to legally carry concealed if House Bill 495 were passed into law.
While the Dispatch noted that the gun lobby was pushing the bill, they failed to point out that this 'push' took the form of significant campaign contributions to one of the bill's sponsors, Ohio House Majority Whip John Adams (R), who is "the top recipient of gun industry money in Ohio's current legislature," according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Public Campaign, a group dedicated to reducing the role of special interest money in politics.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer fared no better in exposing gun lobby money. Its story quoted Senate President Tom Niehaus (R), who is responsible for bringing the bill to the floor, as supporting the bill. But thousands of dollars in political contributions to Niehaus from, among others, the NRA and the Buckeye Firearms Association, were omitted from the Plain Dealer's article.
Equally egregious is the fact that both publications completely omitted the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy conservative organization behind the passage in many states of "stand your ground" laws that became infamous in the wake of the shooting death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin earlier this year. House Bill 495 closely resembles ALEC model legislation, the "Concealed Carry True Reciprocity Act," which states:
A person licensed or permitted to carry a firearm in any state whose laws recognize and give effect in that state to a license or permit issued under the laws of the State of {insert state} shall be authorized to carry a firearm in this state.
Twenty-three co-sponsors of House Bill 495 are or have been members of ALEC, including Adams, who chairs the group's Ohio arm. Two members of the Senate committee who approved the bill on Wednesday are members as well.
What's more, the Dispatch and the Plain Dealer reported that the Senate committee's initial proposal would have prevented Ohio universities from banning guns on campus, but this language was narrowed after concerns from officials at Ohio State University. The papers failed to mention that ALEC and the NRA have teamed up in the past to push for laws allowing firearms on campus, even after mass shootings devastated Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University.
The Columbus Dispatch published an article discussing a new proposal to drug test welfare beneficiaries, failing to point out that drug testing laws are expensive, medically unsound, and have previously been found unconstitutional. In addition, reports indicate that welfare recipients are no more likely to use illicit drugs than the rest of the general population.
Top Ohio newspapers failed to adequately highlight the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) influence on recent asbestos legislation in the state.
On December 4, the Ohio Senate passed an ALEC-inspired bill that curbs the ability of asbestos victims to file lawsuits for damages. From Legal Newsline:
A bill meant to stop the duplication of asbestos lawsuits has passed the Ohio state Senate.
The bill, which passed the Senate by a 19-14 vote, would require anyone to reveal all asbestos claims filed by them or for them. If they don't do so, the person could face perjury charges. The bill made it through Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. It passed the House in January.
Critics, however, say the measure would slow legitimate claims. And they say the bill would make Ohio the first state with such claim restrictions even though Ohio is among the states with the biggest backlog of asbestos claims.
The Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Enquirer both failed to link the harmful asbestos bill to ALEC in their original reporting, despite it being covered in other states and nationally. Only the Columbus Dispatch ran an original story that noted the piece of legislation was an ALEC model bill, while the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Dayton Daily News published AP versions of the story that briefly mentioned ALEC. None of the stories highlighted the several legislators who supported the bill who are also known members of ALEC.
Ohio has the 8th highest rate of death in the nation from mesothelioma and asbestosis with 1,328 total mesothelioma and asbestosis deaths from 1999 to 2008. Ohio is one of several states to pass an ALEC inspired bill attempting to limit the damages victims of asbestos exposure can seek. This year alone, legislation attempting to curtail victims' rights has been passed in Michigan, Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. The Minnesota legislature also passed an ALEC inspired bill, however it was vetoed by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (D).
In 2001, ALEC and manufacturing company Crown Holdings, Inc. jointly crafted model legislation which attempted to limit the amount in compensation victims of asbestos-related diseases received from companies who exposed their workers to asbestos. Coverage of the model bill in Minnesota from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune revealed that this "national effort" was being undertaken by the "$8 billion can manufacturer to shield itself from costly asbestos lawsuits." Even the general counsel to Crown Holdings, William Gallagher, announced in testimony before the Michigan House Judiciary Committee that the laws passed in other states were based on ALEC model legislation and urged Michigan to enact a similar law.
Unsurprisingly, several legislators involved in the crafting of the Ohio asbestos bill are or were members of ALEC. A Cincinnati Enquirer article -- while completely omitting any ALEC mentions -- cited several legislators who sponsored and voted for the bill including the bill's originator Rep. Louis Blessing Jr., Senate President Tom Niehaus, Sen. Bill Seitz and Sen. Bill Coley. All four have known ties to ALEC according to the Center for Media and Democracy's project, ALEC Exposed.
Despite the many news reports and facts linking this bill to ALEC, Ohio newspapers generally failed to produce original content which makes the link. The Cincinnati Enquirer published a piece of original content that made no mention of ALEC. The Dayton Daily News published one original news story which did not mention ALEC. In addition, the Daily News published two AP stories on the bill, but only one of which made the ALEC connection. The only paper to run an original story mentioning ALEC was the Columbus Dispatch which, buried at the bottom of a story on legislative action banning Internet cafes, wrote a short blurb on other lame-duck legislative action:
Following a spirited debate, the Senate approved House Bill 380, which is aimed at victims of on-the-job asbestos exposure who try to pursue two avenues for damages. It would require workers to disclose all asbestos claims they have filed. Critics say it would block legitimate claims. The bill is based on model legislation from the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council. The bill passed 19-14, with four Republicans, including Sen. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus, joining all Democrats in opposition.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer and Dayton Daily News both ran an AP version of the story that referenced ALEC at the end of the story:
The bill stems from model legislation developed by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which has drawn attention for the entree it's recently gained at statehouses through efforts including opulent, corporate-backed conferences not always subject to normal disclosure rules.
None of this coverage -- the original content as well as the AP article -- mentioned the direct and extensive links between the bill's sponsors and ALEC, even when mentioning those legislators in their reporting.
Ohio papers are not alone, however. When the ALEC asbestos bill was passed in Michigan neither of the state's two biggest newspapers covered the connection.
Deputy editorial page editor Kevin O'Brien used his weekly platform in the pages of The Cleveland Plain Dealer to parrot national conservatives by encouraging the Republican-led House of Representatives to continue its policies of obstruction and explaining that people who voted for President Obama are either socialists or consider the president to be a "fun fad."
In his November 7 column titled "It's twilight in America," O'Brien also argued that Obama is "bent on [America's] fundamental transformation" -- a prospect furthered by a "rogue Congress" that passed the president's healthcare bill in spite of "what was then popular." O'Brien called on the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to continue acting as a "firewall" of obstructionism. He wrote (emphasis added):
For the half of America that understands the peril in which their country stands, the House remains the firewall, just as it has been these last two years. And for at least two more years, the House will not let us down.
It all seems the perfect recipe for gridlock, and gridlock probably will seem to be the result.
But in this presidential term, nothing as healthy as gridlock will be achieved, because Barack Obama's re-election changes everything.
Absent a miracle, the president will achieve the fundamental transformation he desires for America.
The passage of Obamacare by a rogue Congress that ignored what was then the popular will has put this country on a course toward socialism and a different popular will.
Given the chance to change that course with this election, Americans -- by a very thin margin in the popular vote -- declined.
O'Brien also attempted to explain to readers exactly why voters would have chosen Obama over GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (emphasis added):
Some declined because they just don't see a problem. For young voters, especially, Obama is a fun fad -- a celebrity president who promises them all sorts of wonderful things that are either free or that someone else will pay for. Many of them will come to their senses when they realize they're permanently worse off than their parents, but that will take time.
Some declined because they actually see socialism as a desirable outcome. They have been fed the progressive line from kindergarten through graduate school, and they believe it sincerely. They also plan to be among the elites who, in a more enlightened country, will make the decisions for the rest of us. To them, Obama is a kindred spirit.
Some declined because a bigger, more activist, more paternal government benefits them directly, either by employing them or by providing for them in other ways. Mitt Romney may not have been right about their numbers -- his off-the-cuff reference to 47 percent of the population was a little high -- but he was right about their existence, their political priorities and their strength in the voting booth.
But I think most declined because they're simply afraid of what lies ahead. Rather than facing the problems of incipient fiscal calamity and sociocultural rot, they opted for more reassurances from an Obama-led Washington that all will be well if we just tax more and spend more.
O'Brien's message to Ohioans echoes the themes national conservatives have been pushing since Election Night -- to encourage more GOP obstruction and to explain away Obama's re-election by dismissing half of the electorate as wards of the state or people who just want "free stuff."
Meanwhile, editorial boards at Ohio newspapers in nearby Columbus and Toledo argued that the president won re-election because Republicans followed the conservative movement too far to the right. From the Toledo Blade:
Republicans must step out of the shadows of the party's far-right wing. If the Tea Party continues to dictate the Republican Party's platform, the GOP not only will fail to broaden its base, but also will continue to alienate traditional, more moderate Republicans.
And the Columbus Dispatch noted:
Now it's time for responsible Republicans to take their party back from the fringe that loses them elections. It's not true that Republicans needed better candidates. They had excellent contenders. The problem was that the electable ones couldn't leap the lunacy barrier erected by the right wing.
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, major media outlets whitewashed many of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's extreme positions, including on abortion, health care, and the situation in the Middle East. In doing so, these outlets aided Romney's efforts to remake himself as a moderate politician.


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Prior to joining CNBC in 2002, Olick spent seven years as a correspondent for CBS News.
Olick began her career as a local news reporter at WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine; WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and KIRO-TV in Seattle. She joined CBS in 1994 as a New York-based correspondent for the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "The Early Show." She also contributed pieces to "48 Hours" and "Sunday Morning." During that time, she covered such stories as the World Trade Center conspiracy trial and the Boston abortion clinic shooting.
In 1995, Olick was assigned to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent. In the three years she was there, she covered all forms of natural disaster, including the crash of TWA Flight 800, the JonBenet Ramsey murder mystery and was the exclusive correspondent for the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. During that time, she also took a temporary assignment in CBS' Moscow bureau, where she chronicled the brief presidential campaign of Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1998, Olick was reassigned to the New York bureau and then immediately posted to Bahrain for the buildup to a possible second Gulf War. A year later, she went to Albania to cover the U.S. military buildup during the conflict in Kosovo.
Upon her return, Olick was reassigned to CBS' Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat. During Campaign 2000, Olick covered the Senate campaign of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and later joined the Bush campaign as a special correspondent for "The Early Show." That fall, she was named Supreme Court correspondent; her first case was Bush v. Gore.
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I want to address an issue I mentioned yesterday which generated a lot of reader mail. I wrote: "You can't do a stated income loan anymore, and you can't do 100 percent financing." I was actually quoting a mortgage expert I had spoken with earlier who was trying to make the point that despite the Fed rate cut, lending standards today are far tighter than they were just six months ago.
On days like this I think it's important to go back to the ol' mortgage primer and figure out exactly what all this news means to you, to your mortgage, to your home equity line and to your home's financial future. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the 30-year fixed is not tied to short-term treasuries.
The home builders appear to be stuck, unwilling to say that anything is going to get better any time soon. The National Association of Home Builders puts out a monthly "sentiment" index, and so far it's been stuck on the very low end for a very long time. They are not anticipating improvement until at least the second half of 2008.
The biggest lender isn't going under, but it is going under new ownership, and as goes Bank of America, so goes Countrywide. Call it the "clean-up of Countrywide." Here's the difference: Countrywide was the everyman lender, out on the street, dealing with brokers, correspondents, promising everyone...

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We've spent quite a bit of time on the blog so far talking about online marketing strategies for business, how to use forms of social media and so on. This post is slightly different, as we want to talk a bit about the environment, and what we've been doing to make the GWS Office a more eco-friendly environment. We hope we can offer some tips to others o this very important subject, and perhaps you can tell us what you've been doing to make your office a greener place.
- Office Design. When we moved to our new offices, we worked with a very talented local interior design company Design Rock who specialise in sustainable interior design. As a result of this connection we made the decision to install bamboo flooring throughout our new space, an all-round fantastic alternative to hardwood, and to decorate using organic atmosphere purifying paint. As bamboo is a grass (actually the fastest growing woody plant on the planet) it only take 3-5 years to mature enough to be made into flooring (as opposed to the 20 years a tree would take), which means it is much more sustainable. Moreover, bamboo is a better choice for flooring in general as it is one of the hardest natural materials available. The paint that Design Rock recommended contains silicates that permanently absorb and neuralise pollutants (air in homes and offices can be 70 times more polluted than outside, and contains a mix of solvents an chemicals, such as formaldehyde from carpets, furnishings etc). Both choices look great and give our office a smart, modern look.
- Energy Consumption. More recently we made the decision to switch our old flourescent lighting to LED. Lights using LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) are highly efficient as they produce more light per watt than incandescent bulbs, can be very small, light up very quickly and have up to 6 times the useful life of flourescent lighting (they are also less toxic as they don't contain mercury). With a help of a loan from The Carbon Trust, and the supply and installation know-how of Bristol-based company M&P Illuminations, we made the switch. as a result our offices are brighter and instantly more energy efficient. Other ways in which we try to reduce our energy consumption include: using window blinds to reduce the impact of direct sunlight on office temperature; during the recent hot weather we have been opening windows in our offices rather than having air conditioning on all the time; and because we all ask one another when we make tea or coffee, we tend to only boil the amount of water needed each time.
- Recycling. As most businesses know, the idea of a paper-less office is appealing but rather more difficult in practice. In order to lessen the impact of all the paper that we don't want to keep and can't reuse, and because of the importance of securely disposing of paper with confidential information on it, we get all our used office paper collected and recycled by Shred-It, a paper shredding company that is passionate about the environment. All the paper they shred is baled up and taken off to be recycled into a wide variety of paper products. We've used them for over four years and strongly recommend them.
- Reusing. One of the most basic things a company can do in terms of reusing is to stop providing plastic disposable cups for its employees to drink from and replace them with glasses and mugs. Other ways of reducing waste that we have adopted are: printing documents on both sides of the page; eliminating the use of envelopes with plastic windows in the post we send out; and al our calendars are electronic.


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A geothermal heat pump, like an air source heat pump, moves heat from one location to another. But unlike an air source unit, it exchanges heat with the ground instead of the outdoor air. This enables it to operate more efficiently, as the temperature of the earth more than 5 ft. below the surface is nearly constant all year round, being warmer in the winter when the heat pump is absorbing heat from it, and cooler than the air in the summer when heat must be released into it.Geothermal heat pumps have a heating efficiency rating called the coefficient of performance (COP). The COP is the number of watts of heat energy the unit can move into the house for every watt of electricity consumed. New systems have COP's between 3 and 4.5. The unit can operate at this high efficiency level every day of the year.A COP in the 4-4.5 rang equates into heating cost savings of 30-75%. The savings vary depending on your current systems efficiency (you can save more if you're upgrading from an older natural gas system or even more so if you currently use heating oil) and the electricity rates in your area (electricity is cheapest in the Northwest and most expensive in the Northeast.) Unlike with an air source heat pump, savings do not vary much depending on the winter climate.Add air conditioning and save on water heating as well
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We've got one Obsessive-possessed Fan here. Haha! Goodluck with your Fantasies, get a Real man.
I agree with everyone on here about Henry Cavill...he is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! These two do not look alike at all...Henry does look a lot like Matt Bomer from "White Collar", though...another hottie.
basically the eyes are about it.
Nothing even remotely similar. How stoned was the people putting this list together?
to someone who doesn't know who either person is- they look exactly alike. they are the male look alike version of minka and leighton
They must be legally blind AND high.
Really. it's just their eyes that look the same..
come on Henry Cavill is a HOT 10 and Heyden looks like a ten year old boy :P
[img]http://www.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/02/A-Henry-Cavill-340_254.jpg[/img]now this is what i call a fucking handsome man...
i do wear glasses..and i can see quite well with them..and i still think henry cavill is cuter...and regarding the whole "cavill will make the lamest superman ever" ..i don't deny it..he might.. but at least we get to see him in tight red undies looking as delish as ever..don't know how you'll look in them manga boy.. repugnant perhaps?
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They do a very nice job, super friendly staff! Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!
My Westie loves this place! They do such a wonderful job on her grooming, we won't go anywhere else. Pam the owner takes great care of all the animals that come through the door and they have always greeted us in a friendly manner. Most importantly to me is how clean they keep the shop. I have never been concerned about leaving my dog there.
I've been going to La Pooch for a couple of years now and have always had great experiences. My Cocker Spaniel always comes back not only looking great, but smelling great as well. It's expensive, but well worth it.
"We take our Corgi to La Pooch. We always receive awesome service and Toby comes home happy and unstressed unlike PetSmart where he'd come home so stressed we worried about his health.
La Pooch is awesome!"
I find all of the reviews highly suspect since if you read all of them, the owner's name is on one where it was written as if from a client. Not too smart.
Dogs love coming here. They are doing a great job
As always we had another great haircut and look great. Thank you for your great services and passion for our anumals.
We moved 35 miles away from La' Pooch Salon, I had to come back to see Pam, she is the only groomer I will see. Thanks Pam for a wonderful groom every time
Always a good job and on time... Go Pam!!
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Apr 30, 2013, 06:38 AM | #1 |
Buying a Macbook from another country off Ebay
Hey everyone,
So I live in New Zealand. And where I live, Apple products are very expensive (even more so than normal). I looked on Ebay and found many brand new 13' rMBP's for about $400NZD less than on the NZ Apple store, even after $100 shipping. I was wondering if there would be any major problems with purchasing something like this from a location in the US. I assume there might be an issue regarding warranties but I am not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks. |
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Apr 30, 2013, 06:44 AM | #2 |
What about import tax, don't know how much it is in Kiwi land but I guess it's not 0%.
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Apr 30, 2013, 06:44 AM | #3 |
Heres the laptop I was looking at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-2012-App...item43bafbaad7
Does anything look dodgy? |
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Apr 30, 2013, 06:47 AM | #4 |
100% positive feedback so that is OK, think the shipping is a bit steep though.
Don't they charge import tax there? Edit: I myself would never buy an expensive item like that on Ebay |
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Apr 30, 2013, 07:55 AM | #5 | |
Even in your own country. Buying from a foreign country just makes the risk so much bigger. On the other hand, I wouldn't ship to a foreign country either; the seller can expect exactly the same problems. |
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Apr 30, 2013, 10:51 AM | #6 | |
But the place I am originally from is small, most of the country can be reached within a 1-2 hour drive. |
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Apr 30, 2013, 11:10 AM | #7 |
The last sentence is my opinion, too; personally, I'd never buy anything that expensive from e-Bay. In your position, I would grit my teeth, and would pay the full price, knowing that the warranty is sound, and the purchase is perfectly legitimate. In other words, you are paying for peace of mind......
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Apr 30, 2013, 12:35 PM | #8 |
Ok, if you live say in Luxembourg then Belgium or Netherlands doesn't quite count as "foreign country".
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Apr 30, 2013, 12:38 PM | #9 |
One thing I did not see mentioned is the power adapter you may need to purchase a local version to power/recharge the machine. All depends on the plug standard used in your home country vs the country you are buying from as most chargers will automatically handle the difference in the voltages around the world, plug on the end of that adapter different story.
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Apr 30, 2013, 06:13 PM | #10 |
You really need to check the situation with import duty and taxes in New Zealand. Don't imagine for one minute your MBP may slip through the net, it won't!
Other than this I agree with the sentiment of most who have posted above. It's an expensive item and a substantial risk. I wouldn't do it. |
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Apr 30, 2013, 09:46 PM | #11 | |
I bought plenty of things on Ebay, as far away as China and the US, most of them just a couple of $, most expensive was a phone from the US which was around $50, if something happened I would loose little, never happened though. I choose 100% positive feedback and sellers which have sold 1000s of articles. |
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Apr 30, 2013, 11:13 PM | #12 |
Thanks everyone for the replies! I actually completely forgot about import tax as I never purchase anything even remotely this pricey from overseas.
It works out to still be slightly cheaper buying from overseas even with shipping + tax but, you are right, it could be quite risky. As far as warranties go, would I still be able to repair the laptop under warranty if I took it into an Apple retailer in NZ? |
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May 1, 2013, 02:04 AM | #13 |
Have you thought of going to Australia or getting it from Australia I don't know if that would be cheaper or same price as New Zealand?
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May 1, 2013, 06:11 AM | #15 |
What about a refurb MBA from the apple online store. Sometimes they have good deals. If any are available though.
13.3" Macbook Air 2011, 1.7GHz, 4 GB RAM, 128GB flash storage; Apple Iphone 5 16GIG Black. |
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May 1, 2013, 06:16 AM | #16 |
I think that might be my main option at this stage. There is a refurb rMBP 13" for a good price in there at the moment but I am thinking about holding off for the Haswell retina laptops. But getting a Haswell refurbished 13" rMBP will be very difficult.
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May 1, 2013, 07:05 AM | #17 | |
Oh okay. Whats your MBA going to be used for mainly if you dont mind me asking. I am not sure on the difference between processors like Haswell etc. However sometimes even the current new and current refurb MBA's might suit your needs.
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May 1, 2013, 04:12 PM | #18 |
My rMBP will be used for nothing heavy, probably will have 10-15 tabs open, iTunes, excel and guitar pro open most of the time. I just would like the added graphics performance of Haswell so I can at least play a few older games every now and then.
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The ASOS Crop Trousers in floral print
I wish I had fabricated today's OOTD. I would have loved to have worn these lurid trousers with my rose gold thin strapped heels and a loose tee, deliberately tucked into the waistband in an effort to appear nonchalant.
This might still happen in the future but for the purposes of this post this is how I actually wore them - "plebbed" up with some flats and a blazer in an effort to shroud the loudness. And these trousers are loud.
They are from ASOS and not something I would typically gravitate towards but since my printed trouser dalliance in the summer I am now open to wearing brights on my lower half. I also felt a bit of a strange pull towards them when I saw them on the website with three strands of thought flashing through my mind:
* Graphic floral print
* Slightly ombre finish
* Bright colours
= "add to basket"
In real life I would describe them as a "Monet" - a little bit of ugly up close and little bit beautiful from far away.
Just to warn you my love for the floral trouser doesn't stop here either - I got a pair from Topshop that are slightly more subdued and wearable. If you kind of like the idea of patterned trousers then I would start with those - the palette is much more seasonally appropriate - Link!
Trousers: ASOS - Link!
Shirt: ASOS
Blazer: ASOS
Jeez alot of ASOS there...
Shoes: Tory Burch - Link!
Bag: Celine
Sunglasses: Celine
Nail polish: Gelish Shake It' Til You Samba
Perfume: Etat Libre d'Orange's Divin'Infant (more on that brand later...)
I have done a bit of makeup shopping recently, although it's just a very restrained purchase of one bright lipstick and one base product from MAC.
They have finally promoted Face and Body foundation over here and that always brings back good memories for me. Seeing as my Chantecaille is officially done and I don't have any other foundation products that give me good vibes at the moment, I thought it was worth a trip down memory lane. I am quite excited to use it tomorrow actually :)
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the more subdued pair is pretty incredible but we're <3 the pair you've styled for this look!!! bright, vibrant, and beautiful!!!
xo. c & v
cake & valleyLove the trousers, the print is so fun!
Keep calm and carry lipstick.I LOVE these pants! Beautiful. xx
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PlantFiles: Gray Dogwood, Grey Dogwood
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Changing site name and tagline
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I have just installed silverstripe on my server and I'm currently in the process of moving content over. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to change the site name and tagline. Where do I need to go to change it?
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Welcome to the Forums!
In 2.3 you have to edit the template files in themes/blackcandy/templates/Page.ss.
In 2.4 (currently in rc) you can customize these options in the CMS on the SiteConfig page you should see when you login.
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Thanks man! Where can i get the current rc while we are at it?
Edit: Nevermind. I found it.
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Basic question, but what does the "Site Tagline/Slogan" field actually do?
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Hiii my friends. I wanted to post last night but was chatting with my mom and then my best friend on the phone for an hour and a half! I am usually not a phone person, so it was completely out of the norm for me, but it felt really good to connect with people from home after a long day at a new client …. even though it meant that my Turbo workout was accomplished from 10:30-11:30pm. I am a tired girl today.
The new location is going pretty well. I try to stay pretty upbeat and positive on the bloggy – that's half the reason I write on here, to remind myself of all the good things in my life – but this travel SUCKS. In Memphis, our client was less than 30 minutes away from the airport. Here, we are over 2 hours away, and we lose an hour thanks to time zones :( This means 2 things…. 1) we work more on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to make up for the insane amount of travel we do on Monday/Thursday (I worked around 11 hours today) and 2) we are in the middle of nowhere. At least "nowhere" is near a river with some pretty bluffs… I'm anticipating some pretty drives once the leaves start to turn. Plus, there's a Starbucks! Coffee with Pumpkin Spice flavor + pretty trees = happy mornings.
Our hotel is decent, too:
I especially like the good workout mirror Last year, when I was addicted to group strength with my roommate Alison, we would try to get to class in time to get "good spots" where we could check ourselves out in the mirrors. Haha… is that vain? I blame it on liking to check my form, but really I just like to check out the gun show while I work it.
Staying on a good exercise schedule here is definitely going to be a challenge with the longer days during the week, but as always, I'm keeping it flexible and fitting in what I can, when I can. The food sitch is also going to be a little questionable… we didn't do a snack run to the grocery store this week, but I think we will in the future since the drinking water here is seriously sketchy. Having snacks will improve my food choices, and I packed some LARA bars and Kind bars this week until we get a better routine worked out.
We found an *awesome* little cafe-type lunch spot already, where there are about 6 different things I would like to try on the menu. I had a yummy California turkey sandwich (avocado!! of course) yesterday, and I'm looking forward to trying some salads and the veggie hummus wrap. Already 1000% better than every lunch choice I had in Memphis. We ate out for dinner at a random Irish pub the first night, and an equally random brew pub tonight, but last night I had a decent bowl of pasta with whole wheat noodles, chicken, pesto and pine nuts:
Whole wheat noodles as an option… all is not lost. I've been sticking with egg white veggie omelets with no cheese so far for breakfast, which is another 1000% improvement from the kinda-sketchy hotel breakfast with pseudo-wheat bread in Memphis.
Of course… all the whole wheat noodles in the world couldn't make up for being on my own couch with my hunk-o-love, but I received my favorite email of the week ("It's time to check in!") a few hours ago so it's almost weekend time
More updates to come on my adventures in the nondescript Midwest… Hope you are all having a fabulous week <3
P.S. Any workin' girls out there… check out these shoes my grandma got for me (hi, Grandma!):
Not only are they super cute, they are literally the most comfortable work shoes I've ever owned. They are Bandolino and I love them. Just had to give you the heads up if you are looking for super cushy shoes for work (I've been getting *serious* blisters since I started working in July from all my flats so I'm in love)… and had to give a shoutout to my grandma for buying me presents <3


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Both my offices are a mess during the move, but one benefit has been the discovery of numerous "notes to self" that had been buried in one pile or another. To wit, a sampling:
When I go into the grocery store for this or that, I always buy the New Hampshire Union Leader and The New York Times, and read them the next morning. "But by the time you read it, the news is already more than a day-and-a-half outdated," friends and relations say aghast.
Sometimes I even save the papers and a magazine or two for camp, which requires another day for planning, packing, doing last-minute writing and chores and just getting there, which, to put it mildly, is a hike. And then I can enjoy reading the now 2-day-old news on the porch and save the papers for starting the fire on the next trip up.
But in truth, there's nothing bad. The cusp of the season is a fine transition to relish. I'll welcome winter as the embrace of an old friend. The landscape is tired and needs a rest, and so we simply adapt to moving upon it in different ways.
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Ms. Boyle is a Director, the President, and Chief Executive Officer of Satori. She is also a co-founder and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Takara Resources Inc., and additionally, she continues to sit as a member of the board of directors of Nevada Exploration Inc. Ms. Boyle is a former securities lawyer who has been working at founding or re-organizing early-stage junior resource issuers, and developing various growth strategies. Formerly, Jennifer was a founding director and Executive Vice President of Canadian Royalties Inc. (1997 to 2006) and co-founder and Executive Vice President of Golden Valley Mines Ltd. (GZZ) (2002 to 2005).
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Mr. Kilborn is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Satori. He has nine years of finance experience, having held progressively senior positions at Canadian subsidiaries of two U.S.-based investment banks as well as well as a mid-market Canadian private equity firm. Mr. Kilborn has broad financial experience, including debt and equity capital raising and mergers and acquisitions advisory.


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Public Spending and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
Using annual data, this paper studies the time series evidence regarding the effectiveness of government spending. Crowding out appears more prevalent in the face of variation in government spending in advanced countries. Private consumption and inflation vary more closely with government spending in developing countries.Download Info
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- Basic rate taxpayers need a rate of 3.39 per cent to gain benefit in real terms, increasing to 4.51 per cent for higher rate taxpayers
- Only 14 savings accounts now beat inflation BUT it's still worth moving your money
Today's announcement by The Bank of England that The Consumer Price Index (CPI) has remained at 2.7 per cent means that savers need to be proactive and move to an account paying better rates in order to limit the impact of inflation on their money, according to analysis by MoneySupermarket.
To beat inflation, basic rate tax payers will need an account paying at least 3.39 per cent to gain benefit in real terms from their savings, increasing to 4.51 per cent for higher rate tax payers, and 5.41 per cent for 50 per cent tax payers.
No easy access accounts currently beat the effects of inflation while 13 easy access ISAs and one fixed rate ISA that beat inflation. However, with the current average savings rate currently at 0.26 per cent, the majority of savers can still switch to much better deals and reduce the impact of inflation.
Kevin Mountford, head of banking at MoneySupermarket.com, said: "The high cost of living has had a major impact on UK household budgets, and today's news that inflation remains at 2.7 per cent, will be unwelcome news for savers, especially in light of the low number of savings options available that beat inflation.
"It is important savers don't give up, though, or get put off, and prepare to switch if they are not currently on the most competitive deal. With the majority of savings sitting in accounts paying a derisory rate of interest, most savers will still benefit from switching to market-leading deals, even if the rates on offer don't beat the eroding effect of inflation. Limiting the impact of inflation is vitally important at a time when you will struggle to find accounts that beat it, especially if you cannot lock money away for the longer term or have already utilised your tax-free allowance. It is also important to check your rate if you signed up to an account offering a bonus rate, as there are many deals coming to an end shortly, meaning you could be left on a very uncompetitive rate.
"As we approach the end of the current tax year savers should utilise products such as Cash ISAs to take advantage of the tax-free benefits they offer. Savers should also consider looking at alternative products such as offsetting savings against mortgage borrowing or peer-to-peer lending as the returns may be more favourable."
Cash ISAs Account Minimum AER Provider (Terms & Conditions Deposit 3.10% Notes Apply) Coventry BS 60 Day Notice ISA (2) GBP1 months Includes 0.60% bonus for 12 withdrawals subject to 60 days' notice First Trust Bank Cash ISA GBP50 3.10% N/A Newcastle BS Big Home Saver ISA GBP1 3.02% For those saving to buy a home Stafford Railway BS Cash ISA GBP1 3.00% N/A First Direct Cash ISA GBP1 3.00% For 1st Account holders only Vernon BS Regular Saver ISA GBP25 3.00% Local restrictions apply Withdrawals subject to 30 days notice Beverley BS Cash ISA GBP500 3.00% Existing customers only Newbury BS 90 Day Cash ISA GBP20,000 2.85% Withdrawals subject to 90 days' notice HSBC Cash e-ISA GBP1 2.75% Existing customers only Marks & Spencer Advantage Cash ISA GBP100 2.75% N/A Marsden BS Direct Cash ISA 30 GBP4,000 2.75% Withdrawals subject to 30 days' notice Marsden BS Members Reward ISA GBP10,000 2.75% Existing customers of (Issue 1) at least 5 years only Sourced by http://www.moneysupermarket.com 15.01.2013 Fixed Rate Cash ISA Account Provider (Terms & Conditions Apply) Minimum Deposit AER BM Savings 3 Year Fixed Rate ISA GBP500 2.80% Sourced by http://www.moneysupermarket.com 15.01.2013
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MoneySupermarket.com compares (at 27th Dec 2012)
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Our customers
We help our customers to save money on all of their household bills by providing a free, easy to use online service so they can compare a wide range of products in one place and find the product most suited to their needs. Our size means we are able to offer our customers exclusive, market-leading deals, including some they can't even get direct from providers.
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By having considerable volumes of informed customers actively looking for products and ready to purchase, we offer our providers an efficient and cost effective customer acquisition solution across all of our channels. This enables our providers to target their marketing spend in an effective and completely measurable way.
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Gluten Free Vegan Baked goods?
Does anyone know a place to get (preferably good) gluten free vegan cookies, cakes or other desserts? I'm good at making desserts that are either gluten free or vegan, but both is a tall requirement. Berkeley/Oakland area preferred, but SF or Walnut Creek areas could also work.
Gluten Free and Vegan cookies:
I tried the Ginger Spice cookie at Philz Coffee (see photo). It was OK, not great, compared to a traditional cookie. I don't know how it would rank within the subset of gluten free and vegan.
Flour chyld in Novato. I know, it's kind of out of the way. However, they do sell at a stall at the San Rafael Farmer's Market on Sundays. And you may want to call them and find out what other farmer's markets they sell at.
Really good desserts, especially Little Black Dress torte made with bittersweet chocolate, brandy and espresso. Well worth the caloric hit to the waistline!
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