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T.J.Maxx opened on May 3, 2012 in the newly completed Ward Village Shops and will offer a smarter shopping option to those looking for great deals. Conveniently located within walking distance of the Ward 16 Theatre, and popular Ward Centers shops and restaurants like Dave & Buster's, Kua'Aina Sandwich, Marukai Market Place and Nordstrom Rack, T.J.Maxx will incite a fashionista frenzy in the already bustling Kaka'ako area.
"We are thrilled to welcome T.J.Maxx as our first tenant in Ward Village Shops," said Bobbie Lau, general manager of Ward Centers. "Ward Centers is a premier shopping, dining and entertainment center for residents and tourists, and the addition of T.J.Maxx is a great fit for our unique complex of shops and restaurants."
Ward Village Shops, located at 1170 Auahi Street, is Ward Centers' most recent addition that began with a new parking garage which accommodates more than 700 cars. The completion of the parking lot was the first phase of a multi-million dollar redevelopment project for The Ward Village Shops block. Dedicated to providing easy access to customers, the parking complex has several entrances to the garage and stores, and has incorporated alternative fuel vehicle parking spaces.
The Ward Village Shops and parking structure complex is a beautiful structure in itself. T.J.Maxx will occupy 36,000 square feet of the new state of the art building complete with oversized elevators for shoppers and goods. A large glass wall creates a feeling of openness in the store and utilizes natural sunlight. Customers entering from Auahi Street can admire the illuminated exterior wall and a new courtyard plaza which has water features and lush landscaping. At the ground level of the new building, an additional 30,000 square feet is available for a future tenant.


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Philadelphia-Style Hoagies with Peppers and Onions
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Calories | 635 |
Total Fat | 23g |
Saturated Fat | 9g |
Cholesterol | 92mg |
Sodium | 1,380mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 67g |
Dietary Fiber | 5g |
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Protein | 42g |
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Serves: 4
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 20 min
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- 2 teaspoon(s) olive oil
- 1 large onion, cut in half and thinly sliced
- 1 medium green pepper, thinly sliced
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) coarsely ground pepper
- 1 package(s) (17-ounce) fully cooked pork or beef roast au jus, sliced, reserving juices
- 4 (about 4 ounces each) 8-inch soft hero rolls , each split almost in half
- 8 slice(s) (4 ounces) Provolone cheese, thinly sliced
- Preheat broiler. Meanwhile, in nonstick 12-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion, green pepper, salt, and black pepper, and cook 15 minutes or until vegetables are very soft and browned, stirring occasionally. Stir in sliced meat with its juices and cook about 2 minutes until heated through.
- Spread rolls open and place, cut sides down, on large cookie sheet. With broiler rack at closest position to heat source, toast rolls about 1 minute or just until browned. Turn rolls over and toast cut sides 2 to 3 minutes longer, until browned.
- Place one-fourth meat mixture with pan juices in each roll. Top each with 2 slices of Provolone, overlapping slices if necessary. Place sandwiches in broiler and broil about 30 seconds or just until cheese melts.
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Throughout history the Lord of the harvest has continuously used student mission movements to take the world evangelization effort into strategic new directions. From Paul's ministry at Ephesus in the Lecture Hall of Tyrannus-the local university that trained a small band of students who took the word throughout all of Asia Minor-to the counter-culture uprising of disenchanted upper-middle class young people of Italy that raised up over 200,000 young missionaries within 50 years of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, to the Student Volunteer Movement of the last century, recruiting and preparing qualified people to serve as missionaries has always been a monumental task facing the church.
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The World Outreach Committee and the College Ministries Committee are partnering to ensure that our church calls, equips and sends this generation of young people into the mission field. More than 100 EPC young people gathered at Urbana 2006 in St. Louis to learn how the EPC can help them obey God's calling on their lives. A number of summer short-term mission opportunities are being made available to college students, providing an opportunity to explore their calling and to become familiar with the EPC as a sending agency. We desire to make the Great Commission known to all students touched by EPC college ministries and to support students in every way possible as they seek to respond to God's call.


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Reston, Virginia, October 30, 2012— MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that that the Supreme Court of Texas recently denied a borrower's petition for review in Robeson v. MERS. In her complaint, the borrower alleged that the non-judicial foreclosure by lender MidFirst Bank was invalid because at the time MidFirst sent the foreclosure notices, MERS had not yet assigned to MidFirst its interest as the beneficiary of the deed of trust.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2006 CRACK FOUND IN BEACHWALK FORCE SEWAGE DIVERTED TO EMERGENCY BYPASS The emergency bypass sewage system that was installed in "When we launched the emergency bypass project in May, I announced that it was the City's top priority," said Mayor Mufi Hannemann. "Now we can see why. Had we not already installed the emergency pumps and pipes, we'd be facing another crisis today." The crack was discovered by crews that were excavating around the 42-inch reinforced concrete pipe, near the Beachwalk pump station, on "The small amount of wastewater that escaped when the main was exposed has been contained within the pit," said Craig Nishimura, deputy director of the Department of Design and Construction. "Fortunately the emergency bypass is already in place, and we're putting that into service now so we can get on with repairs and completing the bypass." An estimated 15,000 gallons of wastewater escaped into the pit and was pumped back into the pump station, in what is classified as a contained spill. In order for repairs to be performed, wastewater that normally would go through the pump station and force main will be diverted to the emergency bypass system, which consists of a series of pumps and temporary plastic pipes along the The Beachwalk force main was built in 1964, more than 40 years ago, to carry almost all of the wastewater from Waikiki and several surrounding neighborhoods under pressure toward the next pump station at Ala Moana and ultimately to the Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Beachwalk force main ruptured in March after weeks of heavy rain, and because there was no alternate or backup at the time, the City was forced to divert 48 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the The City immediately went to work on the Beachwalk Wastewater Emergency Bypass project, just in case the force main broke again. That project is more than half-completed, with the installation of the emergency pumps and temporary pipes, including a section that's submerged in the bottom of the canal. Phase two of the project involves reinforcing the soil under Kaiolu Street with a process called jet grouting, and then installing two permanent underground pipes to replace the existing force main. Those pipes will be installed using a process called microtunneling, drilling horizontally from a pit on the mauka side of the The crew that found the crack in the force main was excavating a pit in preparation for removing and replacing a section of the existing force main, just outside the Beachwalk pump station. That work was scheduled to begin next week, and would have required diverting wastewater to the emergency bypass in any event. "We'll just move up our timetable on that particular job," said Nishimura. The emergency bypass is expected to be in operation for two months, he said. The state Department of Health has been notified. Water samples are being collected along the Ala Wai to ensure no spill goes undetected. That's part of a monitoring plan for the emergency bypass operation. For more on the Beachwalk Wastewater Emergency Bypass project, see the website at www.beachwalkbypass.com or call the project hotline at 808-203-5777. -30- Media contact: Craig Nishimura, Deputy Director of Design and Construction, 523-4716 Jim McCoy, Hoakea Communications, 543-8374 |
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Defendant John Francis Holtsinger is charged with Securities Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Money Laundering.
DES MOINES, IA – John Francis Holtsinger, age 52, of Ottumwa, Iowa, has been arrested and charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
The indictment alleges that Holtsinger solicited investment funds from individuals around the State of Iowa. He represented that he would use those funds to make investments, but actually used most of the money to pay living expenses, take trips, access web-based "dating" sites, and for other personal reasons. He is alleged to have received at least $493,000 from investors between December 2009 and February 2011, over $335,000 of which he used for purposes other than investments.
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I subscribe to both your magazine and The New York Times because I value a balanced and diverse perspective on world affairs; this review, however, reeks of your bias and the reveals the blind spots it entails.
You begin with the obligatory reminder in any discussion of capitalism's failings: don't forget, kids, socialism is eeeevil! You then continue with the buzzwords of "freedom" and "economic growth" and note that capitalism requires failure. Surely it does. Hence the problems when our institutions are too big to fail without bringing the economy down with them; THAT, sir, is the problem, not any alleged control by some runaway State. How can these authors (and apparently your concurring reviewer) blame "vast expansion of government" with any intellectual honesty when we in the US have repealed Glass-Steagall and allowed the resulting financial megaliths to leverage themselves at ridiculous ratios? When you want to speak of "costs to society" that "distort the system," how about our bank bailout? So much for moral hazard, as those much wiser than me have noted.
Mr Zingales' got my hopes up with his call for a more explicit tie between capitalism and morality, only to dash them again. As if the corporate crooks being "shamed" was penance enough for the havoc they have wreaked. Oh, those poor fellows! Yes, I know The Economist is against "banker bashing" (thanks for some excellent coverage of the LIBOR scandal anyway, by the way; I did admire that, though I had to laugh that you felt compelled to keep reminding your readership that bankers are still good guys). Evidently Mr Zingales would hold those with far less power to an equal standard of "public shaming." Please consider that the people walking away from underwater mortgages have been suffering and will suffer further from their actions, on a level that those with golden parachutes will rarely if ever experience, no matter how much of their bonuses are clawed back. It would be right to have a higher standard of accountability for those who abuse their power by making and repackaging toxic loans, seeking to create profits from phantom wealth instead of lending money sagely and temperately to those who would use it to create real wealth. (Far from being punished, they got away with a slap on the wrist.) Lenders do bear responsibility for the loans they make, do they not? Or is this expanding State that you fear just going to have to pick up the tab next time that happens?
There is truth to be found on both the left and the right, but this review did a good job of burying both underneath right-wing articles of faith. I've been an ordinary American who figured I benefited under capitalism, but the obvious bias in articles like this make me fear that I've been misled. If the fiscal elites really need to worry about a resurgence of (democratic) socialist sympathy, it is because of the consequences of their own actions and not because of any active left-wing movement, at least not here in the United States. But now that you brought up the S-word, some parallels come to mind: the powerful elites of the Party tried to hide inconvenient truths that threatened their dogma, and the financial world does precisely the same thing. How chilling.
As long as I don't have to listen to right-wing talking points and instead hear people truly willing to address the faults caused by phantom wealth creation and the abuse of power at the top of the financial world, I'm willing to keep an open mind about a regulated, ethical capitalism. But as a subscriber to your magazine, you could inspire me to change my mind yet.
"borrowers who walk away from mortgages merely because their value exceeds the value of the underlying property."
Is Mr. Zingales as eager to see punishment and shame rain down upon corporations that default on their bonds in order to weasel out of the contracts they have signed? Lenders have a moral responsibility to their backers to evaluate credit risk and collateral so that there is some margin of safety to the loans they make. Otherwise they serve no purpose and are expecting to be paid for taking no risk, doing no work, exercising no judgment, for nothing. It doesn't work that way.
From your review it sounds as though Zingales blames government exclusively for the egregious explosion of corporate welfare America has seen during the period of Republican dominance since 1981. Does he imagine that government dreamed up these subsidies, handouts, and competition-restricting regulations with no input from the businesses and professions that have benefited so richly from them? Opening up education to private competition will provide another huge opportunity for regulatory capture and looting of the public purse, but free-market fundamentalists still cannot see it. The government is not a separate entity that exists in a vacuum and imposes its will on poor, unsuspecting businesses innocently minding the store. Corporations exert enormous influence over the government at every level, influence that can only increase as the Citizens United travesty injects previously undreamed of amounts of corporate money into our elections.
Perhaps ordinary citizens are less enamored of the American political-economic system as we observe our future being sacrificed by a money-dominated system in which our voices are only as loud as the size of our wallets.
The comment "Washington is on a trajectory that leads to Rome" is acute in several ways. Not only is the USA nearly as corrupt and inept as Italy, but also the USA is heading in the same direction as the Roman Empire: it is rotting from within. The main difference is that while Italians recognize their polity is rotten to the core, Americans by and large still believe they are living in a Disney world of mom-n-apple-pie. The gulf between perception and reality is greater here than in any other country with which I am familiar. Whether or not a greater awareness of reality by the population would lead to any kind of meaningful change, however, is debatable. The rot is almost certainly too far advanced, pervading as it does nearly every aspect of society.
Haven't read the book yet, but am saddened to think that the bizarre Anglo-Saxon model of "prosperity" is still widely accepted as the only alternative to communist-style economies.
In Switzerland we have a market economy AND protection for people who fall on hard times - often divorced women and their children, but not only these. We have a work ethic AND an enjoy-life ethic. Here, you don't have to be in the top 1% in terms of either intellect or business acumen to have a good life. Having lived here for 24 years, I wouldn't live in the US or UK again for any reason (ok, maybe a gun to the head ...)
And now I will order the book, just in case.
I may be missing something but it seems to me that the author and many commentors are missing a rather fundamental point.
What we have in the U.S. (and most of the West) is a system BASED on capitalism, but one that also combines aspects of other systems to create a system that works in the real world.
For example, it seems pretty obvious to me that modern capitalism can only work with government regulation. (The steady state of a purely capitalistic system is monopoly). Like Goldilocks: Too much regulation sqaushes the system, but so TOO does too little regulation.
Likewise, the social safety net is essential to a modern capitalist-based economy. That safety net has its roots in socialism. Western countries are like engineers: we have tried to take the best of various systems and create approaches that minimize the negatives.
I think we'd all be better off if people gave a little less attention to the dogma, and a little more attention to tuning the existing system.
There are many smart folks here, folks who understand the details of economics better than I. I'd appreciate your input/thoughts. (Just spare me the politics please).
It was the reductio ad absurdum of the Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism that failed, and those who saw that failure building were not few.
Otherwise, the reports of capitalism's death have been greatly exaggerated.
It's astonishing that the remedy advocated by both authors to a disaster essentially caused by unbridled capitalism is to remove the last reins of government regulation.
I agree with your views. Would like to add a related point - i.e., short-term objectives versus long-term goals. The current (US-dominated) capitalist model relies on the valuation of companies in the short-term. This model relies on quarterly earnings reports - these reports determine the stock price, the credit rating, borrowing costs, management remuneration/bonuses, etc. Consequently, management is forced to adopt short-term strategies, particularly pushing higher sales targets. Society would be better off if companies were judged on long-term strategies, including their carbon footprint, corporate social responsibility. Sounds a bit like socialism??
How is the collaterised debt crisis related to government bureaucracy exactly?
Lack of insight and regulation coupled with an eye for a quick profit is widely accepted as the cause, but I'm one of those people who haven't figured out it's all the evil government bureaucracy's fault...
"Mr Zingales has written an elegy to the America he found when he moved there 24 years ago...Much of the (negative) change (since) is a direct result of the vast expansion of the state through complex subsidies and anti-competitive regulations."
There has been a reduction in all kinds of regulations over 24 years, and a shrinkage of the state -- except in the past five years as a result of the crisis. In fact, the market has, over the years, taken over jobs that were previously handled by families (child care) and governments (Medicaid and Medicare managed care). And rules such as anti-trust have virtually ceased to be enforced.
What has happened is that as the government retreated, business has been captured by a limited number of power players, and an executive class operating as a self-serving cartel, driving the economy toward pre-capitalist oligarchy. That's not what the theory says will happen. Who come directors aren't trying to squeeze down executive pay to increase dividends? Where are the new large banks?
The new oligarchy has gotten around the invisible hand.
That's right, get rid of minimum wages and outsource jobs to developing nations so you can liberate the masses from grinding and cruel poverty, hopefully the successful will be able to pay US citizens 1$ a month and maximise their profit. Not sure who will be able to buy their products but at least that will be a kick to those stinking power hungry collectivists...
Hmmm. I knew that what I wrote would be interpreted by some as "bragging".
Nonetheless: a bit of research will show you that there is plenty of fortune-hiding and tax-dodging in the City of London itself, in the Isle of Man, in the US state of Delaware, and so on and so forth.
Switzerland is the whipping-boy of the masses who don't know about all the others. After all, one enemy is so much more understandable and attackable than a multitude, especially when some are to be found within your own borders.
The man in the street in Switzerland is not a fat-cat rich bastard. He or she has a strong work ethic and an equally strong sense of fairness. The average citizen here still trusts the Swiss Government not to screw up. Sometimes (Merz vs. Ghaddafi) they do. But on the whole, our government's policies are not the train wreck that Britain currently is. So we now have a competitive advantage by having stayed neutral doing WW2 and beyond? That's life. In Britain we had other advantages during the same period.
I am British (as well as Swiss) and truly regret that the man in the street in England, Scotland (or do they no longer count?), Northern Ireland and Wales have to live so precariously, and can no longer count on their elected representatives.
No country is perfect (d-uh! breaking news) and no government is without hidden agendas and its own Realpolitik. All I am saying is that there ARE ways of governing that do not rely on the dog-eat-dog ethos the UK has so slavishly copied from the USA - another country where the average citizen is struggling to attain the lifestyle his/her parents took for granted.
I subscribe to Margaret Thatcher's view that:-
a) Capitalism has increased the living standards of millions over
many years. All sections of the wealth spectrum have improved.
So-called Inequality is a natural by-product of the process. It
does not represent a looting of the "poor" by the "rich" but a
manifestation of the operations of the free market.
b) The only way to reduce Inequality is to reverse the process and
make all sections of the wealth spectrum poorer. In other words,
those who are calling for less inequality are calling for the
"poor" to be made poorer.
Let me add my 3 cents worth:
1. About money: the financial markets now seem to control the world's economy. The derivatives market is worth 700 trillion US$'s and that is about 7 times the nominal GDP of the whole world. In my opinion "money supply" is overrated. I think of the financial world as the lubrication (engine-oil) that is needed to let the economic engine run smoothly, but the more fundamental driving force (the fuel) should be elsewhere (these über-powerful credit rating agencies would have no idea what I am talking about!). In my opinion, given the 7 billion (US billion!) human beings all wanting to get rich (like Warren Buffet), there will be a fight for basic resources, such as fresh water, food, energy etc. In spite of "globalisation" etc., the world is still divided into nation-states. In my view, it's not ony about "sustainability" (given time humans will always find more efficient technology) but more about the speed that humans are changing the natural environment (and that has to do with globalisation)
2. About work: technological advances will change the nature of work for most humans (Marx, Keynes, ... are obsolete). The main problem is to share the amount of work that needs to be done to "sustain" a given society at a "comfortable" economic level ("weniger arbeiten damit alle arbeiten" (work less so that everyone works) is my motto!) To be unemployed is more than not just having enough income (there is always a bit of social security in most countries), but more importantly, you start feeling like a "loser", an outcast. It's psychological and hence a political problem. If indeed 99% of the population really feels like that, there will be social unrest, if not "revolutions" and the 1% wouldn't like that either.
3. About morals: I think people confuse moral values with religion too much (especially in the US). Children learn such things, not just from their parents or the Church but mainly from the social environment in which they grow up. A lot of students tell me that they know it's wrong to cheat but that's how you succeed (which means making a quick buck) nowadays and they are taught to "optimise" or "maximise" profits with the least amount of investment (intellectually or morally speaking). If you can "rip off" someone else and get a good grade without having to work hard, isn't that a WallStreet-smart move? Return on your investment or ROE. It's all about the "METRIC" man!
The apologists of capitalism, are trying to convince themselves (as well as their suffering populations) that what ails the planet at the moment is not "real capitalism" The similarity between these characters, and 20th century communists that accused the USSR of betraying the "true communist" ideal. The fact simply was that under the conditions that the Russian revolution found itself, what the communists managed to build, was the only communism possible given the circumstances. The case of global capitalism today though, is a bit different, it is the product of a world-wide historical process numbering several centuries the world over. Not only can we claim that today's capitalism is the real thing, it is also capitalism in its truest, most perfected form.
I have not read Prof. Zingales' book, but based on this review it sounds like another author who does not fully grasp the economic rationale for the deductibility of mortgage interest.
If my son and I sold our respective condos to each other and we each took out a loan for the purchase, and then we each rented from the other party (the new owner) thereby continuing to live in the same place, the interest on those loans would be deductible as business expenses. Just like anyone else who owns rental property with a loan outstanding.
The mortgage interest deduction means we don't have to bother with all that rigamarole to just get treated the same as landlords and renters. And if the mortgage interest deduction is eliminated or cut way back, you'd best believe those kinds of things will start up real fast.
The idea that the mortgage interest deduction is only a tool to increase home ownership is a political oversimplification, to put it mildly. That is just a way of turning it into a soundbite, but misses the real financial rationale. Yes, it encourages ownership, but by keeping the playing field level, not by tilting it.
Now, plenty of room for reasonable people to disagree on all this, but I suggest that if one ends the mortgage interest deduction one should also end the deductbility of interest on any loan used to purchase housing that will be rented, as well, and just stop subsidizing housing through the tax code. The final incidence of those tax changes is something to think about, too--lower values for all residential property, probably higher rents, etc., but needing careful study.
The problem with Capitalism occurs when creation of the nation's MONEY is acquired by the private sector; The invisible hand will no longer guide markets to efficiency. Capitalism was good when every person got to vote every day with their wallets; that can only happen with sound money. Ron Paul (running for U.S. president) is a strong supporter of capitalism and explains how the ability for banks to lend unlimited sums of money to whom they see fit, distorts the equilibrium of supply and demand. This is the big problem with capitalism: Banks being able to lend out money which they don't have.
If we let socialists determine the floor and capitalists the ceiling, this world will be a better place.
In other words, let State ensure a certain minimum standard of living which everyone is assured of and this will be the floor beneath which nobody is allowed to fall.
From this floor, let merit and ability decide how much higher someone can go or in other words let capitalism have full play above the floor and this space socialists shall leave to the capitalists.
What bizarre article. The author seems to understand capitalism except he missed the fact that capitalism is about as natural a method of trading value as breathing is. Humans have always placed value on products, objects and labor for the ability to trade it for other products, objects and labor. The is nothing moral or immoral about capitalism. The immorality comes into play when politicians and freeloaders attempt to siphon off capital for their own purposes, whether power or welfare.
The other strange thing is to mention police or military as something not quite capitalist. Those two services and very few others are in fact capitalist and trading for value. Were a business man or each individual citizen to try and defend the country with private militias we would be back to feudalism at best. It is in fact less expensive to pay a government to form the military and defend the country. Also, considering the risk being defended is the loss of all capital in all forms, the spending is well worth it. The same with police of even a justice department. Attempting both by each person attempting to DIY would result in total chaos.
Capitalism has its own checks and balances. All of the bad stuff attributed to capitalism is not capitalism. It is socialism being forced into a capitalism economy to start siphoning off resources. Monopolies have only occurred with protection from government. The only rich people in a capitalism economy who live on the backs of others would be the politicians, government workers and welfare freeloaders who steal money from those who make it to take it for themselves, a highly immoral action.
Other factors that might keep a person who tries unsuccessful would be non-sense society places on people, such as the claim a college degree is the only path to success, which is completely false. Or the massive amounts of regulation it takes for someone to try something new. As it stands now, I cant even hire guys to work on my house because any individual I hire, I have to buy government controlled workers compensation insurance and this rule is there to let the government take some money in that insurance and then force me to use contractors who I dont want to pay for. This means a guy who might be skilled enough to do some work for me, cant offer his labor.
All in all the article is off base, we dont need morality in capitalism, that is like saying guns kill people not the person who pulled the trigger. All capitalism needs is the people involved to respect the rights of others and when those rights are infringed upon, such as fraud or not paying for services or labor, then the perpetrators get incarcerated. Thats it.
Everything else attributed to capitalism that is considered bad or immoral, is not capitalism, it is the effect of the politicians and their socialism.
I tend to think that this question will very soon become mute because the very thing that makes capitalism succesful is what will also make it unnenessary; to always be striving for maximum efficiencies. With technology expanding exponentially how long will it be before even developing world labour is more expensive then robotics? This is something that has been threatened since mechanisation first appeared but I truly believe that on the cusp of a techonology as revolutionary as 3d printing human labour in many areas will become unnecessary. And when most of the world is unemployed (as the two dominant sectors are manufacturing and agriculture which are the sectors mostly likely to be mechanized) then what purpose will there be of organizing economic activity around capital (which few will have) as opposed to resources (which all will still need)?
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News broke Monday that Binghamton University will begin a nationwide search for a new head coach for the women's basketball team after Nicole Scholl was informed she would not return for next year. Scholl has been a coach at BU for the 15 years, the last 6 as head coach. In her time as a head coach she has amassed a 68-115 record, including this season's 5-25 finish and last year's 6-24 mark.BU Athletic Director Patrick Elliott said that the main reason for her dismissal was the team's record and on-court performance. He did say that losing out on recruits to conference opponents was a factor, but more of a minor consideration.
Elliott added that it was a tough decision to make because Scholl is a "real class act," and "gave her heart and soul to this university." The coaching staff and players were informed of the decision on Monday as well.
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Turkish trade patterns shift with political dynamics
Economic bonds are affected by fraying relations in some cases, but are more resilient than might be expected in others.
By Erol Ertemer for SES Türkiye in Istanbul -- 06/03/12
The shifting geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East -- most recently centred on Syria -- are redefining Turkish economic relations. Events in Syria are aligning Turkey's economic and political policies with the oil and gas rich Gulf states, while Iraq and its autonomous Kurdish region have moved to the forefront of Turkey's economic policy in the Middle East.
A driver stands next to the trucks lined on the Turkish-Syrian border in southeastern city of Kilis, Turkey. Declining trade with Syria is being offset by increases elsewhere. [Reuters]
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The conflict in neighbouring Syria has put a near halt to Turkey's cross-border trade after years of steady growth. Before the uprising, Turkey viewed Syria as the gateway to its economic expansion in the Middle East, going so far as to envision forming a customs union among Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Syria, the so-called "Shamgen" or the Levant Quartet.
"Turkey's trade might have slowed down with Syria, but still Iraq could well compensate for the loss," said Tarik Bozbey, head of the Mediterranean Exporters Union. Last year, Turkey's bilateral trade volume with Iraq reached 9 billion euros (21.2 billion lira). Turkey's total exports to Iraq rose to 6.4 billion euros (14.1 billion lira) by the end of last year, ranking Iraq as Turkey's second biggest export destination after Germany.
Nearly 80% of the exports to Iraq went to the region administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Occasional sharp rhetoric and cross-border strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq have not stopped Turkey from becoming the biggest foreign investor in the KRG, tying the vital region to Turkey.
One of the clearest signs of the melting ice between Turkey and the KRG was the January visit by Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, accompanied by a large business delegation. The minister spoke Kurdish while addressing a group of Kurdish businessmen, saying "Arbil mala mine ji" which means "Arbil is also my home."
"Turkish businessmen are supported by both KRG authorities and Turkish officials to do business with Iraq," Bozbey said.
According to him, the Turkish government, which opened the way to trade with Middle Eastern states, could also create new alternative markets for Turkish exporters, despite the Syrian turmoil. "The Turkish government will find a way to do business with some alternative countries; we are not dependent on Syria," said Bozbey.
Even Turkey's business relations with Israel have not been affected by the sharp deterioration of political relations. Turkey's bilateral trade volume with Israel broke an all-time record of 3.38 billion euros (8.5 billion lira) last year, compared with 2.59 billion euros in 2010 (6 billion lira) and 1.95 billion euros (4.5 billion lira) in 2009, according to official data.
Businessmen agree that while the Arab spring might have hit Turkey in places like Syria and Libya, in the long run Turkey stands to economically benefit from its support of the protest movements.
According to the ministry of economy, comparing the first 11 months of 2010 with 2011, Turkey's exports to the Middle East increased 19.6%.
"Turkey's move, in line with the Western world, to support protestors demanding freedom was a right move; it will bring more benefit to Turkey [in the long run]," Ersin Takla, chairperson of the Turkish-Libyan Business Council at the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, told SES Türkiye.
The biggest shift may be in the increasing wave of political and economic contacts between Turkey and the Gulf states -- especially the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia -- that see eye-to-eye with Turkey on Syria, are concerned over Iran, and are strategically aligned with the West.
Iranian support for Syria, differing views over the future of Iraq, rising tensions between Iran and the West, as well as the bitter rivalry between the Gulf States and Iran throughout the Middle East are contributing to a recalibration of Turkey's policies.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey have become closer than ever, as the Gulf country remains the only country which could increase production capacity and feed Turkey's need for oil, especially if it is ever to reduce reliance on Iranian energy, which accounted for nearly a third of Turkey's crude oil imports last year.
According to Necdet Pamir, a former board member at the World Energy Council Turkish National Committee, Turkey may be unable to resist pressure from the West to eventually cut economic ties with Iran.
"In such case, Saudi Arabia remains as the only alternative for Turkey," he said, noting that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both strategic partners of the United States.
Moreover, Turkey's close ties with Saudi Arabia can also be seen in the defence industry. According to the Union of Turkish Defence Exporters, Saudi Arabia topped the list of Turkish defence exports with 302m euros (708m lira) last year.


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Civic leaders in Glasgow say aliens would receive a "warm and peaceful welcome" if they were to visit the city.
They say they would draw upon internationally established protocol in the event of the arrival of extraterrestrial beings.
The revelations emerged as Glasgow City Council disclosed one of its more unusual Freedom of Information requests, reports The Scotsman.
A member of the public asked: "As mankind continues to advance and head out into the stars we are undoubtedly going to attract the attention of whatever lifeforms are out there. I'm curious to know what provisions have been put in place for our inevitable encounter."
Dr Kenneth Meechan, head of information, said the city would refer to international agreements such as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and protocols established by the STEI Committee of the International Academy of Austronautics.
"We note that Glasgow covers around 0.008% of the world's population and 0.00003% of the total surface of the earth/0.00012% of the land area," Dr Meechan said.
"On a purely statistical basis, we therefore consider it unlikely that aliens, should they land on earth in the next five years, will initially land in Glasgow.
"Glasgow is of course a vibrant and exciting city for visitors and has been awarded any number of accolades by national and international travel guides.
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Microsoft announced Friday night that computer enthusiasts will have a while longer to get their hands on the beta version of Windows 7.
In a blog posting, Microsoft said that the test version of the operating system will be available for download through February 10. Previously, Microsoft had said that the OS would only be open through late this month.
"We are at a point where we have more than enough beta testers and feedback coming in to meet our engineering needs, so we are beginning to plan the end of general availability for Windows 7 Beta," Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc said in the blog posting. "Because enthusiasm continues to be so high for the Windows 7 Beta and we don't want anyone to miss out, we will keep the Beta downloads open through February 10th."
Those who start the download process before February 10 will have until February 12 to finish the task.
The deadline applies to the general public, while members of Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN developer programs will continue to have access to the code, LeBlanc said.
CEO Steve Ballmer announced the beta of Windows 7 during his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7. After a slight hiccup , Microsoft made the code available on January 10.


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After a tense and hard fought campaign against Republican candidate Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama is projected to win re-election in the 2012 presidential election, NBC News reports!
His path to victory was made clear when he was called the projected winner of key battleground states Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. These three states pushed the president over the needed 270 electoral votes!
Obama was declared, by NBC News, the projected winner of Ohio and the election after polls had closed on the West Coast. The president's victory was due, in part, to his holding on to a series of Democratic strongholds, defeating Mitt's efforts to take back states he had won in 2008 and make inroads into traditionally Democratic strongholds, like Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
After the race was called, President Obama e-mailed supporters to thank them for their hard work and support: "I'm about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first. I want you to know that this wasn't fate, and it wasn't an accident. You made this happen. You organized yourselves block by block…And when it wasn't easy, you pressed forward. I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started. But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place. Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests. There's a lot more work to do. But for right now: Thank you."
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Those of you who voted for Obama are so deceived by his lies. He will do nothing but bring this country down, Just like he's been doing the past 4 years. We won't have a free country by the time he is done with it. All he will do is allow the Muslims to come over here and take over this country. They have him on record telling the Russian President "Just wait until I get re-elected. I can't do anything now, so just wait until I get re-elected." I can't believe you people would chose someone like that to run our country. And for those of you who voted for him, MARK MY WORDS, he will ruin this country, and you will regret voting for him by the time it's all over. Those of you who voted for him are so ignorant. And by the time Obama's done with this country, it will no longer be a free country. Just wait and see.
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Even though I'm Canadian I'm so glad to see that Obama won! he is so real and honest. He is bringing good change for America. I\m so happy that pretentious prick of a morman didn't win, America would have been a scary place when he started changing laws and pushing his religion onto all Americans. Yeah obama!
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The questions that News will not answer
PUBLISHED: 13 Apr 2012 00:06:00 | UPDATED: 05 May 2012 07:31:22PUBLISHED: 13 Apr 2012 PRINT EDITION: 13 Apr 2012How The Australian responded to The Australian Financial Review's reports raising questions about parent company News Corp's corporate governance in light of claims that Operational Security, a unit within News's pay TV encryption subsidiary NDS, promoted hacking of rival pay TV companies' security systems.
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Two and a half weeks ago The Australian Financial Review and the BBC Panorama program reported on a secretive arm of News Corporation.
Operational Security, a group composed of former police and intelligence officers and hackers employed by technology company NDS Limited, was reported to have promoted piracy of News Corp's pay TV rivals in undercover operations across the world, including Australia.
Panorama had filmed former NDS hackers confirming that software coding keys for pay TV rivals had been provided to piracy websites, including The House of Ill Compute, covertly run by NDS.
Days later, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch used his Twitter account to call the reports "lies and libels" and said News was preparing to "hit back hard".
It was the signal for a torrent of outraged responses by News Limited's national daily newspaper, The Australian.
Central to the responses was the allegation that the AFR's reports were motivated by commercial rivalry. They said there was not a shred of evidence, while at the same time NDS's lawyers have been demanding that the 14,000 NDS emails which underwrite the reports (some of which have been posted online at afr.com) be hidden from view.
Two weeks later, the core issues raised by the AFR have not been addressed; the questions go unanswered. The AFR has been putting them to NDS, and later News Corp, since last August. They have declined to answer. One of NDS's few responses was a two-line email which began, "We are surprised by the tone of your questions."
The central thesis of the AFR articles was that Operational Security moved in a secret world where its operatives were never called to account, never needed to explain. And today there is still no accounting.
Instead NDS executive chairman Abe Peled has made public comments, claiming that the allegations have been "tested to destruction" in US courts, where NDS was "vindicated" in a 2008 trial in which its accuser, satellite broadcaster EchoStar, was forced to pay $19 million "damages".
But NDS was not vindicated and it did not receive damages. A California jury found against NDS on three of six charges, and the judge ordered a permanent injunction against NDS in a fourth.
NDS succeeded in persuading the jury not to award damages. The trial judge awarded $5 million legal costs against NDS, but the Appeals Court reversed this and instead ordered EchoStar pay NDS $18.9 million in legal costs.
The fact remains that five of the largest satellite broadcasters – EchoStar and DirecTV in the US, Canal Plus and Sogecable in Europe, and MEASAT in Malaysia – were so convinced that NDS had promoted piracy that they separately lodged lawsuits against the News subsidiary. On each occasion they claimed NDS's actions cost them upwards of $1 billion.
Two of the lawsuits died of attrition, the other two ended when News bought the company, or parts of it.
Was all of this just the work of jealous competitors, as NDS has always claimed?
Pay TV piracy has become deeply embedded in Australia. The real question that News has not addressed is: what was Operational Security's role in kickstarting that pirate culture?
Why did OpSec's Avigail Gutman protect a Sydney hacker from 1999 through to 2000, providing him with piracy materials in her anxiety to ensure he developed a hack for the security smartcards of NDS's rival, Irdeto, used by Austar and Foxtel?
That might not have been illegal at the time, but why did she then ask her colleague Ray Adams to obtain confidential telephone records of the same hacker, which, as she told Adams, was against the law?
And why did NDS use its own pirate website, The House of Ill Compute, to publish keys to unlock security smartcards for OnDigital, Austar and other rival broadcasters?
And then there is the $40,000 paid out through the budget item OpSec had for "payments to police informants". Who got the money, and what was it for?
These are simple questions.
News Ltd has had two responses.
The first approach was to ask those who were not there.
News Ltd chief Kim Williams said: "I saw no evidence" in his years at Foxtel. But he arrived two years after the events in question.
Geoff Cousins "never heard anything remotely like the allegations", when he ran Optus Vision. But, as he said, he had left two years before the events.
Former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski was wheeled in ("It never occurred as far as I was concerned"). Days before he had told the AFR that, given the relationship with News at the time, "frankly, not too much would have surprised us".
News Ltd's second tack has been to answer the wrong question. It first suggested the AFR alleged that Foxtel was privy to OpSec's moves, and second that this was a grand plan to influence the sale to Foxtel of Austar 12 years later. This is to confuse the long-term effects of helping piracy get a foothold, with intent.
Michael Speck, described by The Australian as a piracy expert, explained the logic of NDS's reported operation in a taped interview with The Sydney Morning Herald's Lia Timson:
"I can't speak to the specific allegations, however, there is [an] element of convenience – element of convenience in pirates focusing on your competitors rather than yourself.
". . . This appears to be very low-level activity by an isolated pocket of executives. Um, and to a large extent the minutiae of their activity would have gone unnoticed by – by those around them."
Piracy operations were about trying to understand your criminal opponent: "In the past, clearly – clearly, that has presented an opportunity for some to overstep the mark." It was highly unlikely to occur now.
But a week later, when he spoke to The Australian, Speck gave a different account. There was no logic to the alleged operations, he said: "It looks like a complete beat-up."
Asked about his change of views, he said his earlier comments had been "hypothetical".
The obvious person to ask for comment would be Tom Mockridge, head of Foxtel at the time, before he went on to head Sky Italia, which is also now embroiled in a criminal trial of a hacker and an anti-piracy expert, both of whom were on the NDS payroll.
There is no suggestion that Mockridge, now running News International in Britain, knew about these activities – that's the point of running a covert operation, and Foxtel and Sky Italia were the victims in these cases.
However, the new head of Foxtel, Richard Freudenstein, has waded in to dismiss the reports. He was in London at the time, but unlike Williams, he had met members of the Operational Security team. As well, the team was partly funded by BSkyB when Freudenstein was its deputy chief executive.
Freudenstein makes a number of innocuous appearances in the emails from 1999 to 2002 in correspondence with OpSec UK chief Ray Adams.
BSkyB executive Sharon Southwell-Gray oversaw the relationship with OpSec. The money BSkyB provided to OpSec to fight piracy included half the budget for the fund for "payments to police informants".
But Freudenstein told the AFR this week: "I was not the executive responsible for the Sky/NDS relationship in relation to management of piracy and I have no knowledge of the payments referred to in your email."
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WHAT CAN YOU DO?If you already filed your taxes:If you have not filed your taxes:
If you bought a home in 2008 and used the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit, follow these suggestions.
No additional action is required. All you can do is wait and visit www.IRS.gov for refund updates. Click "Where's My Refund?"
"Married filing jointly" couples - in which only one spouse received the tax credit for 2008 - should file one Form 5405 showing the Social Security number for the taxpayer who received the credit.
When a joint-filing married couple is repaying the homebuyer credit that both partners claimed for their purchase in 2008, file two Forms 5405, one for each taxpayer Social Security number. Then, make a repayment for each form based on half of the total credit received by the spouses.
Maria and Mychal Hamilton enjoy their Victoria home.
The house has three bedrooms, character and a big yard for the kiddos, the 28-year-old mother said.
The couple bought the property in June 2008 after years of renting or living in cramped conditions with family.
To help fund repairs and the down payment, the Hamiltons used the federal First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit, a government incentive in the form of a $5,900, 15-year, interest-free loan.
Now, an Internal Revenue System software glitch, which is linked to the 2008 tax credit, is causing massive tax refund delays for the Hamiltons and hordes of other U.S. taxpayers.
"I appreciate the homebuyer tax credit, but if I'd known it would be this much trouble, confusion and delay, I wouldn't have used it," Maria Hamilton said.
The family of five is owed a tax refund this year that would cover the mortgage for 10 months, Hamilton said. But the refund is already about two months late.
Hamilton filed her taxes in early February expecting a refund a few weeks later, she said. When the deadline rolled around, the refund check was not deposited.
She received follow-up letters from the IRS promising near-future deposit dates, but each time, the money failed to appear.
The IRS acknowledges refund processing issues exist.
"The IRS regrets this delay for impacted taxpayers," Lea Crusber, a Houston-based IRS spokeswoman, said via email. "We are working quickly to resolve this issue and update our systems within the next few weeks, which will allow us to process these impacted returns."
The IRS says the glitches affect a small percentage of tax returns, primarily involving repayment of the 2008 tax credit. This is the first year homeowners are required to begin repayment.
The following people are those most affected:
"Married Filing Jointly" taxpayers who received the tax credit on a 2008 home purchase.
Taxpayers who received the credit and are now reporting the sale or disposition of their home.
Taxpayers who received the credit and are trying to pay back more than the amount required, which is typically $500 per year.
Each year, the IRS routinely struggles with processing issues that affect some refunds. Even so, Crusber said, the agency through mid-March processed more than 66 million returns and issued 59 million refunds. The refunds total $178 billion.
"The IRS does not currently have a definitive date for when these changes will be complete, although it will be in April," Crusber said.
This promise likely offers little solace to the Hamiltons, who have watched other refund timetables come and pass.
Additionally, the refund delay adds salt to fresh frustrations. Many of those who must pay back the 2008 tax credit were irked when Congress, a year later, increased the tax break amount and removed the requirement that first-time homeowners pay it back.
"When we had the opportunity to buy a house, it was like, 'Oh, God, thank you.' This was going to be our home," Hamilton said. "Now I wonder: 'Are we going to have this same problem again next year?'"


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