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The Shaving
The Shaving The following story has unashamedly been pinched from Hampshire Woodturners Association newsletter. Once upon a time there was a really sad One drink lead to another and he found his woodturner. He had no interest in life other than interests widening. Eventually she invited him woodturning. Even his wife acknowledged this to her flat to advise on the best sort of light pull fact and had learnt to live with it. How he had to go with her décor. stirred himself long enough to get married was a mystery to her but that was a long time ago. When they got there he realised that it wasn't Still, she had got security, for he was not the lights she was pulling but by then he didn't without means and he never looked at other care. As he undressed he found a wood shaving women. She also had freedom since he took in his navel. Embarrassed, he discreetly hid it in little notice of what she did or where she went his hair and they continued with a night of or with whom. So she was not unhappy with her passion. life but she was fond of her husband in spite of He crept away in the early hours, wondering everything and sometimes she felt guilty. what to say to his wife. He was not skilled in the art of subterfuge and decided on a plan of the On evening she spoke to him. It took several utmost cunning. He would tell the truth! She attempts but eventually she got through to him would never believe him and think that he was and said "I'm worried about you. You spend all just trying to embellish a thoroughly boring your time in the workshop. You need some evening. She was still out when he got home variety in your life. Why don't you go out with and he had just poured himself a large scotch to the lads on Friday? They always used to meet at settle his nerves when she came in. the Turner's Arms didn't they?" "Well", she said, "did you have a nice time?" "Oh I don't know, I've got to make 5000 light She smiled in sympathetic disbelief as he started pulls by Tuesday. I really can't afford the time." to recount what had happened when she noticed "Forget the turning for one evening will you?" the shaving in his hair. Well this went on for some time and eventually "You lying toad" she screamed. "you came back he agreed for a bit of piece and quiet, fully as soon as I went out and spent the evening in intending to return to his light pulls as soon as that workshop again didn't you?" she had gone out, as she always did on a Friday. He went out on Friday nights regularly after that The Turner's Arms had changed somewhat. His and he always carried a shaving with him. His mates were nowhere to be seen. In fact he wife never believed where he had been and soon couldn't see very much at all it was so dark, and stopped asking. he sat there at the bar feeling out of place when a woman sat on the next stool. And they all lived happily ever after "You look miserable, why don't you buy me a ………more or less. drink and tell me your troubles?" she said. So he did and proceeded to tell her about his light pulls. She seemed very interested. He was not accustomed to such interest in his activities so he went on, and on. studied in detail the number of leaves on plants "The Divine Proportion" and petals on flowers, the ratio present in the Some thoughts on Design By looking at the work of others, such as ancient pottery designs, antique furniture, last years growthpatterns of many things – the woodturning winners, inspiration may be found mathematical precision of a spiral formed on a in many places shell and the curve of a fern, for example, .There is nothing wrong with copying, it's a concluded the presence of a "Divine great learning process and aside from great Proportion", and from these things derived the wood turners you would be joining the ranks of Golden Mean or Golden Section. such Masters as Rembrandt, Michelangelo and A treatise by Vitruvius titled "De Architectura" Leonardo da Vinci to name just a few, and the established standards for the proportion of many present day artists who took and still take columns, rooms and buildings. their easels and paints into art galleries around It was based on the concept of the ratio between the world to copy the work of the Masters two parts of a whole, where the proportion of before them. the smaller to the larger is equal to the larger to the whole. (Phew!) Although it is a very hackneyed phrase "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" there is truth in it. Both the Greeks and the ancient Egyptians used Although it's doubtful that you could explain in the Golden Meam when designing their temples any detail, just why you consider some things to and monuments. Many artists used the ratio be ascetically pleasing and others not, it is a fact when laying out their paintings. Artists and that we, as creations of nature have an inherent, architects alike, discovered that by utilising the though not always understood, oneness with ratio 1:1.618, they could create a feeling of things around us. order in their works. New scientific discoveries are still being made today how this ratio takes For instance, Leonardo da Vinci together with its place in the nature of things. others of his time, developed the first scientific studies of the human anayomy. It was You may ask, "What has this got to do with discovered that a person's head for example, if woodturning?" Well, whilst there are many uses measured from the chin to the crown, is one for this rule of proportion, too many to go into eighth of the height of the whole body and that here, one conclusion that can be made is that it the navel is five eights of the whole body from could be a pleasing proportion for a bowl. the ground. The distance from the foot to the Bringing the figures 1: 1.618, to 5 : 8 makes knee is one half of the length of the leg and the them easier to use. So for example, in this whole leg is one half the length of the whole instance a bowl 200mm in diameter would feel body. The shoulders are two eights wide and the just right if it was 125mm high. Or 200mm high distance from fingertip to fingertip of the and 125mm in diameter. outstretched arms is equal to the total height of The eye however, may be tricked by halving one the body. of these measurements; this is an alternative when struggling to obtain a blank of the suitable And so on and so on, but prior to that, in the size. first century B.C. the ancient Greeks who What ever you do, do avoid having a proportion of 2 : 1 A very special thanks to Trevor Elliott, Nico To be continued next month. Swart and Brian Edwards for all the help and guidance afforded me over these past few years. Member Profile : 9 : Terry Tessendorf Sanding and Finishing on the Lathe Mount Croix, Port Elizabeth. A couple of tips on sanding and finishing off on the lathe, pinched from "Turnings", the newsletter of the Married to Rhona. Western Cape Woodturners Association. Studies: Institute of Bankers Exams after When sanding on the lathe, always remove the tool matriculating at Dale College in King Williams rest from the lathe. Town. Don't use new sandpaper to finish sand your work; its sharp grit can leave rings on the wood. Before using new sandpaper, rub it together. Rather than holding A happily retired chappie as from 1st January sandpaper still, move it back and forth on the turning piece, perpendicular to the rotation of the piece. 2003 after completing 37 years of service with To sand coves and tapers, cut a narrow strip of the Standard Bank of S.A. Ltd, having worked sandpaper and strengthen its back with a piece of in the following centres:- King Williams Town, transparent or plastic electrical tape. Held taunt, this Alice, Tarkastad, Knysna, Bloemfontein strip will reach down into tight coves and beads. Regional Head Office, and thereafter, Cathcart For long tapers or flat surfaces, use a sanding block. Or fold sandpaper in thirds and place steel wool or and Fort Beaufort Branches as Branch Manager. felt between the sandpaper and your fingers (to I was the transferred to the Regional Head office protect your fingers from friction heat). in Port Elizabeth as a Credit Manager for the Before applying finish to straight, tapered or gradual last seven years of my banking career. contours, stop the lathe, and use fine grit sandpaper to My hobbies are woodturning, fishing, lightly finish sand with the grain. Finishing on the lathe allows you to apply a quick and caravaning, gardening and outdoor life even finish. For best results with oil finishes, apply it generally. both to the wood and to the sandpaper. While the piece turns, the sandpaper will mix with the finish, I have been keen on woodwork since school sealing the pores of the wood. Follow the same way where unfortunately I was only able to take tube protection as with lathe sanding. If you plan to stain your work, remember that over woodworking as a subject in standard six due to polishing the wood with tools or extra fine sandpaper me wanting to follow the accountancy stream. will close the wood's pores. Pine is most susceptible I therefore started collecting tools and wood to over polishing, to the point that resin is drawn out from an early age. And acquired an Emco Star and prevents stain from soaking into the pores combination machine while we lived in Knysna . some 23 years ago. It was only after meeting Trevor Elliott that I was introduced to the club and developed a love ABF Tip for woodturning. It is therefore due to this gentleman exposing me to the perils of When temporarily removing a piece from the chuck: e.g. woodturning which resulted in certain purchases for examination, replacing it in the chuck is open to potential problems of concentricity. being undertaken at Strand Hardware. Some three years ago I purchased a Rockwell lathe and To make sure of an accurate return, make a pencil mark disposed of my ever faithful Emco Star. on the work opposite a known permanent mark on the chuck.
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Comment: Re:Is this really a problem unique to devs?? (Score 1) 347
Comment: Re:Ha (Score 1) 45
I was pretty damn impressed, and pretty much every common day object I searched for, I got pictures back with that in it, very accurately. Screw manually tagging pictures (all the rage a couple of years ago), a computer just goes through and classifies them. Everyone else didn't see it as a big deal -- "so what, they figured out a light brown shed". Without really realizing the sheer amount of computing horsepower and sophistication that went into something like that.
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Comment: Re:How do you get 1Tbs in 100MHz of BW? (Score 2) 71
Now, if you've been thinking about implementation details, you realize that the fundamental question is: "how do I know that I'm at half power instead of full, or my phase has changed?". Well, there's basically a synchronization period -- you listen to the stream for long enough to kind of know where you are at. Some streams also send synchronization patterns periodically. The next issue then is "what happens when my signal fades, or my signal bounces and the phase gets screwy". The answer then is in algorithms and multi-hypothesis guesses as to how the channel medium is acting. Lots of math there, but no matter how good you get more highly advanced tighter packed schemes are going to be more vulnerable to things like signal fades, etc and then also take more time to get back up to speed because you need more symbols flying by you to sync up to where you are at. But you can push them at a higher rate, so you gain some of that back. You end up wit ha constellation that you synchronize to, and then to make it more complex, Fourier tells us that if the bigger phase/amplitude change you have per bit period, the more bandwidth you occupy. So, actually, sub-dividing the phase/amplitude helps you generally occupy less bandwith, but you can also get tricky where the constellation is adaptive in such a way that you minimize amplitude/phase changes for each bit set transmitted, making you occupy even less bandwidth. But that's one more thing for the receiver/transmitter to keep in sync....
As you can see, this gets incredibly complicated quickly. It's a very math heavy field, with lots of very neat, clever tricks to make it all work seamlessly. These guys just figured out how to maintain coherency, etc at higher frequencies, which is fairly notable, but this march is expected to carry on as we get faster processors, higher performance amplitude/phase modulators, and low noise devices we can keep packing those bits tighter and having more points on the constellation.
Comment: Re:Question! Shouldn't multiplexing be priority? (Score 2) 71
There's definitely more to it than that in a typical cell site (including other ways to add more users), but at some point you have to deal with physics. You have a certain amount of bandwidth at your frequency to use, and no matter how clever you get, there are thigns like noise, interferers, limitations on the sophistication of hardware you can put at cells or in phones, the laws of physics, etc. You hit hard limits pretty fast. One of the main reasons Verizon and some of the US networks went to CMDA was that at the time you could pack in more users per channel, because you weren't limited by timeslices, you were limited by SNR (more users effectively increased the noise floor since their codes wouldn't correlate), so you could get some pretty impressive numbers of users per cell, making deploying a network cheaper. Newer 4G and advanced 4G waveforms are kind of an interesting combination of an optimized waveform that's TDMA based, but has some similar features to other networks.
This high speed is relevant, because you usually can use some of the techniques to divide up the bandwidth effectively to get more users per cell -- you can have smaller timeslices to transmit if the amount of data you can transmit in that timeslice is massive. The maximum amount of data passable over a link is kind of an industry standard metric for how much capacity a given channel can handle. It's easier to grok than channel capacity, etc
TLDR: We're trying our damned best to multiplex as many users as possible into a cell site. The more that you can get in one site, the cheaper it is to operate and deploy networks, so tens of millions of dollars annually is spent making it better, and the strides that have been made are pretty darn impressive. But we still have work to do!
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If you run at single digit margins you have absolutely no ability to invest in development.
I agree with you in general, but to be fair that 24% margin is *after* all of the R&D, internal investment, etc, etc. So they could keep everything at the same level, which is among if not the highest in the industry, but 20% drop in price and still make 4%. This is true profit -- after everything else has been paid for -- if it was just an amortized profit per product without all the external costs wrapped in, then yea, 24% is not very healthy to begin with and 4% would put the company out of business.
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Oddly enough, those same group of people don't take their vast meteorological knowledge to places like the national weather service where it could be put to better use.
Quoted for truth.
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But in the commercial space, every single person on an assembly line could benefit from this -- the F-35 has projects and computer vision systems to overlay work instructions, rivet patterns, and check whether they're in there right. You have to design the assembly line around not obscuring the projectors that are telling you what to do. Making it on the operators face, but doing the same job would be a massive boon. Police officers recording interactions. Medical professionals pulling up charts, etc. There are a couple of very viable commercial uses that they should use to survive and refine over a couple of generations until the tech gets to the point of being able to be packaged into a consumer friendly package. Honestly, spin off a small lean company to keep it alive in the commercial sphere for 5-10 years and then absorb back into the mothership.
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Comment: Re:I hope they succeed, but... (Score 2) 426
I hope that this effort of GM's succeeds at least well enough for them to continue R&D into EV's, but there are 2 significant problems I see that they'll need to overcome: First, they'll need a high-speed charging network that will allow for long-distance road trips...Second, the established dealer network has no interest in selling EV's.
I've always had this question, and I think that I know the answer (that the Big 3 aren't serious about EV's yet). There are dealerships *everywhere*, and they're large and have service bays. If any of these Big 3 were interested in EV's it wouldn't take much to help turn dealerships into quasi supercharger stations, where service and maintenance can also be performed. Heck, battery swaps too if the tech gets there. I think that once the Big 3 finally come full bore into EV's that the dealership network is going to have to be key to their strategy. Dealerships are independent, but if they help out and come up with the right incentives to put solar panels on dealerships and install fast charging stations, they could effectively cover all of the US in charging networks very, very quickly.
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I'm all for data driven stuff; although Psychology is a tough one -- it's incredibly hard to effectively account for all the variables, and I think that she may be reading into the data bit much, as can happen in the field.
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I use the Keurig for when I have multiple people wanting something. I like my coffee incredibly strong, so most people don't drink my french press coffee. But with the K-cups, they can get coffee, tea, whatever without me having to expend any extra effort. Makes hosting people easier than reworking my fancy coffee setup for 12-18 cups of coffee.

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Should I repot my blueberries or wait
I have a couple questions about repotting blueberries.
1. I just bought some blueberries from Home Depot in little 1gal-ish containers. But the plants are flowering and fruiting now. Should I put them in a larger pot or wait till the end of season.
2. I bought a pot 15 in wide, can I put two plants in one pot, at least for the season while they are small.
The varieries are sunshine blue, biloxi, and pink lemonade. Sometimes the pink lemonade gets knocked over in the wind. Thats why I was thinking of moving them to larger pots but dont want to ruin the crop.
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hitler used the children, too...
its the oldest trick in the book
parade children out to make his point where he can't make it legitimately through the congress or the American people
this REALLY makes me SICK to think he would use the children as his shield where his ORATION FAILS
i think we should parade out those children KILLED by the bush/obama drones
i think we should parade out those children in today's America that are on psychotropic ssri's
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Rick Charlesworth, Roelant Oltmans sing different tunes about HIL
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- Patna High Court stays Nitish Kumar's election as JD(U) legislature party chief
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They are a part of it but renowned coaches, Ric Charlesworth and Roelant Oltmans, differ about Hockey India League's benefits in the struggling host country which finished 12th at the London Olympic Games.
Four-time Olympian and former Australia skipper Charlesworth, the coach of the fifth-placed Mumbai Magicians, is not sure whether it would help Indian hockey as HIL.
"I don't know. It's hard to say. The young players would get experience, but this is not like international hockey," said Charlesworth who guided the Australian men's team to the titles in the 2010 World Cup, Champions Trophy and Commonwealth Games.
On the other hand, his counterpart with the Uttar Pradesh Wizards, celebrated Dutch coach Oltmans, sung praises about the USD two million prize money league saying it would certainly uplift Indian hockey.
"One of the reasons for this league is for the improvement of Indian hockey. I am not saying too much about it, as you know, until after the league when I will face my new job (as technical director of the Indian men's team).
"The players will learn a lot and that's very important for the future of Indian hockey," said the 58-year-old Oltmans, who was the coach when the Netherlands won the men's hockey gold in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
"Everyone in India should be really proud about this fantastic league. These matches are really of international standards and that is really good for everyone.
"(In HIL) Young players are playing with top players every team has top players...Indians as well as foreigners and I think it's tough. We have made 22 journeys, 22 flights.
"We (would) have 14 matches in 4 and half weeks, so you can imagine what that means. Still these players are able to put up a performance like this today, I am proud of them," said Oltmans after his side knocked out the Magicians with a 1-0 margin of victory.
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High-energy compounds are needed to create more powerful and safer explosives. Sarah Houlton dons her hard hat to investigate
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The group, led by Yi Tong, from the Beijing Institute of Technology, prepared detonation nanodiamonds by detonating a mixture of TNT and RDX in a closed metallic chamber. Detonation nanodiamonds are known to have excellent mechanical properties, including high thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity, whilst being chemically reactive but also environmentally benign. RDX was coated with different proportions of nanodiamonds to try to stabilise the explosive. This is important as you don't want explosives to detonate if they are accidently heated when in storage.
By studying the thermodynamics of the resulting composites, the group found that nanodiamond coatings of between 1/7 and 1/5 of the mass of the RDX led to composites that were more stable than RDX alone, but that were more reactive than composites with thinner coatings. They also found that increasing the nanodiamond ratio to more than 1/3 of the mass of the RDX hindered the decomposition of the material.
'A key aspect of energetic material formulation is the compatibility of the individual ingredients, which affects the explosive handling safety and long-term storage viability,' says Jennifer Gottfried, an expert in nanodiamonds and energetic materials at the US Army Research Laboratory. 'The discovery that thicker nanodiamond coatings hinder the decomposition of the RDX will have important implications for the development of nanodiamond-coated energetic materials.'
The future challenges for this work include testing the detonation performance of these composite materials and understanding how impurities might affect their performance.
This paper is free to access until 20 August 2014. Download it here:
Y Tong, R Lui, T Zhang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/c4cp02237h
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Location was great. Breakfast was excellent. Kd river cruise dock was right in front of the hotel-- really convenient.
Front desk staff were efficient but not extremely friendly and welcoming. No swimming pool.
Comfortable room, great location
soon as I got there, asked to extend my stay,booked a massage for same day. When arrived to salon,they didn't have me scheduled for one.they didn't extend my stay when I told them too. Didn't clean my room when asked too. Didn't fix the broken curtain.
The staff was friendly and accomodating. The view was fabulous.
The hotel staff was nice.
Very poor WiFi connection in the room, amd the room was very warm with no good way to cool it. No air conditioning provided. Didn't sleep very well there.
Good location, easy access to train station, comfortable rooms.
Portions of the building can be noisy at night (street noise), when requesting an iron for the 3rd time, the front desk simply told me maybe all the staff was busy and shrugged off the service request. I left with wrinkled clothes.
Clean and modern, easy to use room facilities. Easy to access from the train station.
Free internet access which is speedy enough for watching websites and reading news but no good for skype or multimedia
Small fridge with drinks (chargeable) which can accommodate a few small additional items.
Public transport (which is extremely effective) free during the stay to the hotel and steps away from the hotel entrance.
Staff friendly and helpful.
Access to the parking facility not clearly signposted and charged additionally at 15 euros a day - this is not clear when booking via Kayak (hotel probably not responsible for this).
Visitor has to choose between the noise of the air conditioning and the noise of the traffic if opening the windows.
No facility to brew a cup of tea or coffee in the room.
Speedier internet access available at a charge (not tried if really better than the free one).
My favourite part about the hotel was the free breakfast, it was amazing.
The location was not ideal, located at the top of a very steep hill and a good 20 minute walk to the down town area. Also the hotel itself was confusing to navigate.
Fantastic breakfast included!
No shower curtain and water went everywhere.
When we arrived on a Sunday evening, the front desk didn't have our reservation. (It turns out that Kayak didn't process the booking to the Crown Plaza until after business hours on Friday).
As soon as we showed our Kayak booking confirmation, the Evening Supervisor was very apologetic and found us a room as quickly as he could. His colleague ordered us a portable crib for our 6 month old son, and we were on our way to our room.
Soon after we arrived in the room, a housekeeping staff member arrived with our crib and he also provided us with a bottle of still water for the baby. That was a nice touch.
The breakfast that was included with our rate was spectacular. The restaurant staff was very classy and courteous and the food selection and quality was great.
This hotel will be our preferred location when we travel again to the Rhein-Main area.
Only two days but visit was good and will return my next trip to the area.
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The idea of virtualizing a function and then separating its management functions and them putting them under programmatic control has gotten quite a bit of attention in the market over the last year. We've heard about software defined networks, storage, and even whole data centers. Is support of only x86-based systems and their workloads enough?
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POP Montreal is returning to Montreal this year from September 19 - 23. The initial lineup was revealed and it includes Grizzly Bear, Gang Gang Dance, David Byrne, Tim Hecker, Julia Holter, I Break Horses, Hot Snakes, Dirty Three, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Cate Le Bon, Bertrand Burgulat (!), and more. The full initial lineup is listed below and many more announcements to come. Early Bird tickets are on sale until June 30, when regular sale begins.
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Our family decided to go to the Bunya Mountains for a short break, so I brought my bike and did some exploring of this beautiful part of the world.
I've been camping before, and I've done multi-day bike rides before, but I've never done both. "Bikepacking" is "Backpacking" on a bike, and it's completely new to me.
Here's the story of my first attempt. I've included a summary of my discoveries at the end of the article.
Liz and I recently took advantage of the Queens Birthday long-weekend to have a short holiday up in the mountains near the Border Ranges
We're out exploring the beautiful Border Ranges and Mount Barney for the next couple of days.
Here's a sneak preview of some of the amazing scenery around here.
I took the family to Gus Beutel Lookout on the weekend.
It's a breathtaking spot on the edge of the Great Dividing Range between Hampton and Esk. On our way home from Toowoomba, we decided to take the scenic route rather than battle all the roadworks on the Warrego Highway.
My daughter Laura and her partner Ken are visiting us from Scotland for a few days, so I thought today would be a good opportunity to enjoy some on-foot exploration of the Glasshouse Mountains.
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Date — 28 March, 2014
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by Beppe Ambrosini, Brand Manager of IWC Italy.
The new home of IWC is located on the Piazza San Marco.
The 60 selected guests invited to the grand opening had the opportunity to visit the boutique inside one of Venice's historic palaces.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the guests moved on to the elegant Club del Doge restaurant inside the Gritti Palace.
The dinner was accompanied by the performance of Gabriella Compagnone, a sand artist.
Venice, 28 March 2014 – Swiss luxury watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen inaugurated its second boutique in Italy yesterday. The new home of IWC is located on the Piazza San Marco, the beating heart of one of the most famous and beautiful cities in the world, Venice. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by Beppe Ambrosini, Brand Manager of IWC Italy, and witnessed by a group of selected VIP guests.
Following last year's opening of its first Italian boutique in Rome, IWC Schaffhausen has now also opened its doors in Venice, in the heart of the city's Piazza San Marco. The newest addition to IWC's expanding retail network is situated at a prestigious address, opposite the famous bell tower of St Mark's Basilica.
"We are honoured to officially inaugurate our Venice boutique in one of the most famous squares in the world. We invite our guests to indulge in our fine watch collection in this historic and beautiful building," commented Beppe Ambrosini, Brand Manager of IWC Italy.
—Piazza San Marco 43, 30124 Venezia
The 60 selected guests invited to the grand opening, among them representatives of Venetian cultural, economic and business life, had the opportunity to visit the boutique inside one of Venice's historic palaces, dating back to the 16th century, and to admire its original architectural characteristics. The historic features of the building have been respected, maintaining the original vaults, frescos and the staircase by Venetian architect Mario Venturini dating back to the 1950s. "We are pleased to celebrate the opening of our second Italian boutique in Venice, a city known worldwide for its architectural beauty and its immense cultural and artistic heritage that continues to make it a sought-after destination for international tourism year after year," added Georges Kern, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, hosted by Hannes Pantli, member of the IWC Board, and by Beppe Ambrosini, Brand Manager of IWC Italy, the guests moved on to the elegant Club del Doge restaurant inside the Gritti Palace, one of the oldest and most renowned hotels in Venice. Here they had the chance to watch an exclusive live cooking show by chef Daniele Turco from the celebrated Gritti Epicurean School. The dinner was accompanied by the performance of Gabriella Compagnone, a sand artist known in Italy and throughout Europe, who enchanted guests with her talent of combining music with sand images that change and evolve in a process of constant transformation.
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To honor the Tribeca Film Festival® and support its nonprofit affiliate, Tribeca Film Institute (TFI), IWC will auction a unique timepiece – the Portofino Monopusher Edition "TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2015" Unique Piece – and therewith introduces a new complication to the company's watch collection portfolio. Read Article
Against the exclusive backdrop of the renowned Goodwood Members' Meeting, IWC Schaffhausen unveiled its new Ingenieur Automatic Edition "AMG GT". Read Article
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Step outside to unwind on the sand beach. At Le Sereno, pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa or have fun in the sun with activities like snorkeling and scuba diving.
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This luxury hotel also offers an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a garden. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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A complimentary breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Le Sereno Restaurant - This beachfront restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Bar Sereno - Onsite Cocktail bar.
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a private beach, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Horse riding/rental on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Tennis lessons on site
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, The Spa at Le Sereno. Services include deep-tissue massages, Swedish massages, massages, and facials. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including reflexology.
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Reflexology
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Massages
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 1, Pet maximum weight in kg is 5
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- A 5 percent city/local tax will be charged
- Deposit: EUR 100 per stay
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 115 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 115 per night
We should mention
Reservations are required for spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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There's little doubt that the environmental activist wing of the DFL isn't concerned about protecting the environment as much as they're concerned with killing industries. That point is illustrated perfectly in this LTE:
The proposed Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Superior National Forest because of copper/nickel/precious metals mining projects was an incredible waste of time brought to everyone by extreme environmentalists.
While we are pleased that U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials finally put a stamp of common sense on this issue by saying there is no need for such a far-reaching environmental impact study, here's what they should have also said to the environmentalists who sought it: "Why are you wasting our time and money to even have to consider this. It's a frivolous request."
The PEIS would have been a duplication of what is already being done as far as an environmental impact statement for the PolyMet project near Hoyt Lakes and what will be done for the nonferrous Twin Metals project near Ely and Babbitt.
And the environmentalists who sought the PEIS know that. But they don't care. They just want to harass and try to delay good projects, which will get the toughest and most stringent review of any mining venture ever in Minnesota.
This isn't surprising. It's part of the environmental activists' tactics. The goal isn't to win cases. The goal is to keep bringing lawsuits until the company surrenders. Don't take my word for it. Take it from Gov. Dayton's first MPCA commissioner. Here's what he wrote after wearing the investors down:
Along with our allies at the Izaak Walton League of America, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Wind on the Wires, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Fresh Energy argued, first in South Dakota, then before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), that the new plant was a bad idea. Our message was simple: The utilities had not proven the need for the energy, and what energy they did need could be acquired less expensively through energy efficiency and wind.
We kept losing, but a funny thing happened. With each passing year, it became clearer that we were right. In 2007, two of the Minnesota utilities dropped out, citing some of the same points we had been making. The remaining utilities had to go through the process again with a scaled-down 580-megawatt plant.
I titled that post "Attrition, not litigation." Time has moved on but the environmental activist wing of the DFL remains the same. They still trust in the tactic of wearing companies down until they surrender. They still oppose the miners' way of life. They still want the miners' votes. They just don't want the miners' agenda.
Technorati: Programmatic Environmental Impact Study, Superior National Forest, Environmental Activists, Paul Aasen, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, US Forest Service, Izaak Walton League, DFL
I'm not the world's best predictor but some things aren't predictions. They're sure things. I wrote this post to lay out the statistics indicating that the Dayton-DFL cigarette tax increase would hurt Minnesota's convenience stores. That prediction took less than a month to come true:
"Petro Serve USA" CEO Kent Satrang says the shift to North Dakota was almost immediate. Satrang says the convenience store industry lobbied the legislature for a smaller tax increase.
I wish I could say that these businesses weren't getting hurt but I can't. Thanks to the Dayton-DFL cigarette tax increase, they're getting hurt. Don Davis' article highlights the situation:
Recent news reports of cigarettes being smuggled into Minnesota come as no surprise.
Dale Erickson, general manager of Henry's Foods in Alexandria, told Governor Mark Dayton in a March 2013 town hall meeting in Moorhead that a proposed cigarette tax increase would mean Interstate 94 "will become a black market highway" as cigarettes taxed at a lower North Dakota rate would show up in Minnesota. "There is no way to trace the cigarettes," Erickson said.
Erickson and convenience store owner Frank Orton told Dayton that they would lose business to Fargo, North Dakota stores that collect smaller taxes. "Minnesotans could drive across the bridge to Fargo and buy their cigarettes for $18 less per carton," Erickson said.
The Dayton-DFL 'solution' is as foolish as their tax increase is hurtful:
[S]tate officials say they need $1 million to improve their tobacco law enforcement. Officials say cigarette smuggling costs the state $2.6 million in tax revenues.
Repealing the cigarette tax would help these small businesses that are getting hurt. Unfortunately, that isn't an option with the DFL. Republicans should refuse to spend a penny on additional "tobacco law enforcement" by saying that we don't need to tie up the courts with these prosecutions.
If I were writing the title for my LTE on Gov. Dayton's pay increases to his commissioners, I'd title it 'The immoral Bakk-Dayton pay increase' because that's the perspective they should be viewed through. Here's my conclusion to the LTE:
Meanwhile, nobody is talking about how the DFL commissioners are overpaid. Myron Frans got a $35,347 raise after telling the Legislature electronic pull tabs would bring in $35 million of tax revenue per year for the Vikings' stadium. Last year, it generated $1.7 million. Frans was just off by 95 percent. In the private sector, Frans would've gotten fired. In the Dayton administration, he got a 40 percent pay increase.
Last week on Almanac, Mary Lahammer interviewed a gentleman who studies salaries. This gentleman, whose name I've forgotten, insisted that people with that many employees and that many responsibilities in the private sector would be "presidents, vice presidents or CEOs" and that they'd "get paid twice as much as they're making" in the public sector.
Let's examine that statement. The first assumption is that public sector commissioners get scrutinized like private sector CEOs, presidents and vice presidents. They don't. Once commissioners are confirmed, they're there until they leave for a consulting job or they screw up like April Todd-Malmlov.
That leads to the first unanswered question: where's the expectation that upper level management in the public sector are really good at their jobs?
That leads to a second assumption, which is that the incentive for doing a job right in the private sector exists to the same extent that it exists in the public sector. That's the wrong assumption. It's wrongheaded thinking. If a CEO makes a big enough mistake, the company he works for loses money, perhaps lots of money. There are consequences to making bad decision in the private sector.
Those consequences don't exist in the public sector. When Myron Frans totally botched it with the e-pulltab revenue estimate, the money didn't come from his pocket. It came from taxpayers' pockets. Not only didn't he get terminated, he got a $35,000 raise and a new job title.
Incompetence and corruption are tied to each other. In Frans' case, one led to the other. It's immoral for a commissioner that incompetent to not get fired. It's despicable that a commissioner that incompetent got a raise. If Frans were a moral man, he'd tell Gov. Dayton that he didn't earn the money.
Frans won't do that. He'll just keep collecting paychecks he didn't earn. Shame on Frans, Dayton and Bakk for being that disinterested in protecting the taxpayers' hard-earned money.
There's little doubt that the feud between Tom Bakk and Mark Dayton is personal. When Gov. Dayton picked Tina Smith as his running mate, he essentially told Sen. Bakk that he was picking her to be the next governor. That's a job Tom Bakk has coveted for years. He'd checked all the boxes. He's been loyal to Gov. Dayton. That loyalty and water-carrying apparently didn't mean much to Gov. Dayton of the Metrocrat Party. When pushing turned into shoving, Gov. Dayton shoved the Iron Range aside and picked Smith.
This editorial is right that it's personal. It's wrong in stating that Sen. Bakk took a courageous stand:
And that's why the Iron Range and all of Greater Minnesota are extremely fortunate at this time to have Sen. Tom Bakk of Cook as Senate Majority Leader. He took a politically courageous stand to get an amendment tacked on to a stopgap spending bill to delay a bad political blunder by the governor — extremely high commissioner raises in one chunk, not even phased in.
Sen. Bakk didn't make a courageous decision. It was a political decision that did nothing. It sounds courageous to delay the commissioners' pay increases. It's the option Sen. Bakk chose instead of taking a principled stand against overpaying these commissioners.
Friday night on Almanac, they aired a segment with an HR type talking about how justifiable it is to pay these commissioners their new salaries. When this HR type said that commissioners were "like presidents, vice presidents and CEOs", I got irate. When I wrote this post, I highlighted Myron Frans' incompetence:
For those that don't remember, Commissioner Frans was the person who accepted as Gospel fact that e-tabs would produce enough revenue to pay off the state share of the Vikings stadium. He was off by a paltry 95%.
In the private sector, Commissioner Frans would've gotten fired within minutes. In the Dayton administration, Frans received a $35,000 raise. Yesterday on At Issue, Tom Hauser highlighted the fact that those $35,000 a year raises were more than some Iron Range families make in a year. That's on top of the fact that these commissioners were already making six-figure salaries.
On that same program, former DFL Chairman Brian Melendez said that these commissioners have lots of responsibilities and, therefore, deserve their salaries. What he didn't say, though, was that these commissioner did a good job.
If Sen. Bakk wanted to do something truly courageous, he should've submitted an amendment that repealed those pay raises. This was Sen. Bakk's attempt to look like he was doing something without doing anything.
That doesn't take courage. That just requires fawning media attention.
Technorati: Tom Bakk, Mark Dayton, Pay Raises, Commissioners, Myron Frans, Electronic Pull Tabs, Vikings Stadium, DFL
Michael Brodkorb's article is insightful in that it highlights this week's vote to delay Gov. Dayton's decision to raise Gov. Dayton's commissioners' pay was a sham:
Let's set the stage for Bakk's tour de force performance. In 2013, the Minnesota Senate passed legislation – supported by Bakk – which would allow the Governor of Minnesota to set the salaries of commissioners. Dayton supported the legislation and said in a statement, "I have lost outstanding employees because someone else could offer them salaries 50 percent or even 100 percent higher than state government."
After the legislation was passed, the commissioners received salary increases in 2013 and 2014. I could not find any public comments of concern about the salary increases from anyone, including Bakk. In January, Dayton again exercised the authority granted to him by Bakk and the Minnesota Legislature and he set salary increases to commissioners in 2015. But this time, Bakk cried foul.
As Michael said, this is political posturing. Last night on Almanac, the DFL's panelists (Ellen Anderson and Ember Reichgott-Junge) attempted to downplay the Bakk-Dayton fight. The Senate vote is phony but the Bakk-Dayton fight is serious.
Here's hoping that the House passes the Senate bill without amending it. That way, the bill goes immediately to Gov. Dayton's desk, where he's promised to veto the bill. After the legislature gets Gov. Dayton's veto letter, they should immediately bring it up for a vote to override Gov. Dayton's veto. Article IV, sec. 23 of Minnesota's Constitution lays out the procedure for overriding a governor's veto:
Sec. 23. Approval of bills by governor; action on veto. Every bill passed in conformity to the rules of each house and the joint rules of the two houses shall be presented to the governor. If he approves a bill, he shall sign it, deposit it in the office of the secretary of state and notify the house in which it originated of that fact. If he vetoes a bill, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated.
According to this webpage, the bill originated in the Senate:
Senator Bakk moved to amend the Cohen amendment to S.F. No. 174 as
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When Gov. Dayton vetoes the bill, Sen. Bakk will have a real decision to make. He can either drop the subject and be exposed as proposing the amendment to provide political cover on an unpopular subject or he can schedule a vote to override Gov. Dayton's veto. Most importantly, the DFL majority in the Senate will be in jeopardy because the DFL will be exposed as not being particularly bothered by Gov. Dayton's pay increases to his commissioners.
This was a show-and-tell vote. It was a freebie. It helped DFL senators look like they were doing something without actually doing something. Sen. Bakk's amendment didn't repeal Gov. Dayton's authority to raise his commissioners' pay. It just delayed part of the pay increase Sen. Bakk and the DFL legislature gave to Gov. Dayton. After all, Gov. Dayton's commissioners had already received part of their raises long before last fall's election.
Technorati: Tom Bakk, Mark Dayton, Veto Override, Minnesota Constitution, Commissioners Pay Increase, DFL, Election 2016
Sen. Bakk's controversial amendment to an emergency spending bill has put him in a precarious political position. This article includes some Bakk quotes that indicate he knows he's put himself in a delicate position:
"If the governor signs the bill he can do whatever he wants to do. All we did was suspend it for a five-month period. I believe the data we'll see will support what he did," said Bakk. "In a vote of 63 to 2, it's obvious people want to see the information. We have some questions to ask. But I don't doubt for a minute that every single penny is supported by the data he has."
There's no doubt that Sen. Bakk knows the commissioner pay raises aren't popular. With the Senate up for election in 2016, he can't afford to look too supportive of Minnesota's public employees. At the same time, he can't distance himself too much from Minnesota's public employees because they're a significant part of the DFL's base.
It's impossible to know if Sen. Bakk's amendment has permanently damaged his already-contentious relationship with Gov. Dayton. It isn't impossible to know if it's done significant damage to their ability to work together in the short-term:
"I am confronted with two hostile bodies of the Legislature, one with a leader I believe I can trust," he said, referring to GOP House Speaker Kurt Daudt, "and one I know I can't trust" he said of Bakk.
It's only fitting that the relationship between Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk are frosty considering the fact that International Falls is part of Sen. Bakk's Senate district. Carly Melin didn't miss the opportunity to walk the tightrope:
Rep. Carly Melin, DFL-Hibbing, said although she supports more competitive pay raises, the increases Gov. Dayton is proposing are somewhat concerning. "I'm not necessarily opposed to any governor making pay raises for their commissioners, but I think we were caught off-guard by the height of these pay raises," said Rep. Melin. "Most people in private and public sectors don't get a thirty-percent pay raise overnight.
That's a fine job of walking the tightrope between taxpayers and the people who support the DFL with their checks and their GOTV work.
Gov. Dayton is pitted against Tom Bakk, a fellow Democrat, in a spitting fight over Gov. Dayton's pay increase for commissioners:
Gov. Mark Dayton erupted in anger Thursday in a dispute with the DFL Senate leader over a weeks-long controversy surrounding pay raises the governor gave to his cabinet. "To have a majority leader of the Senate come in and stab me in the back and blindside me is absolutely unacceptable," Dayton said.
Dayton's ire came after Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk led the Senate in voting to suspend the salary increases for state commissioners. All but two members of the DFL-controlled Senate voted with Bakk in favor of the proposal. The friction between the Capitol's two most powerful DFLers threatens to cast a cloud over the rest of the 2015 legislative session. The two have tussled before, but Dayton indicated Thursday that their relations now were beyond repair.
Dayton said Bakk, a former ally, has proved himself untrustworthy because he brought forth the salary smackdown without any warning. "I'm confronted with two hostile bodies of the Legislature, one with a leader I believe I can trust (Republican House Speaker Kurt Daudt) and one I know I can't trust," Dayton said. "I certainly learned a brutal lesson today that I can't trust (Bakk.) I can't believe what he says to me and connives behind my back."
My initial reaction is "Wow!" My next reaction is 'That's what happens when a spoiled brat gets criticized.' From a strategic standpoint, I hope Speaker Daudt brings the Senate bill up for a vote ASAP. When Gov. Dayton vetoes the bill, then the legislature should vote to override Gov. Dayton's veto.
If House Democrats vote to sustain Gov. Dayton's veto, Republicans could use that in their 2016 campaign, arguing that the DFL is in the pocket of the government employee unions and not in the favor of the taxpayers. It's a perfect wedge issue.
More importantly, it's a positive issue for Republicans because they'd be on the right side of the issue.
Dayton said he will no longer negotiate with Bakk without witnesses.
Bakk declined Thursday afternoon to comment on Dayton's rebuke but earlier in the day said he had spoken to the governor Wednesday about the options the Senate might have regarding the salary increases. Bakk, DFL-Cook, indicated one of the options he mentioned was delaying the pay hikes through June. "I laid this out," Bakk said.
I don't doubt that Sen. Bakk and Gov. Dayton will work together on the budget. That being said, I'm certain that Gov. Dayton's relationship with Sen. Bakk will be icy:
Dayton said he would veto the entire funding measure, which his administration had requested, if it comes to him with the Senate's salary-suspension intact. The governor said, unlike the House plan, the Senate proposal would negate his legal authority to increase commissioners' salaries. He accused Bakk, who ran for governor against Dayton in 2010, of meddling in his administration.
"The people already voted and they gave me the authority last fall," Dayton said. "The balance of power is the legislative and executive branch."
Gov. Dayton is right. This has been voted on. In fact, here's a list of DFL senators who voted to give Gov. Dayton that authority:
Sen. Bakk voted to give Gov. Dayton the authority to raise these salaries, then voted to delay those pay increases. Patricia Torres-Ray and Sandy Pappas voted to give Gov. Dayton the authority, too. The difference is that they voted to not strip that authority from Gov. Dayton.
Gov. Dayton's justification for his pay increases is a novel approach:
Gov. Dayton's documents show Hennepin and Dakota County administrators make more than Minnesota's highest paid Commissioners, who earn $154,000.
Hennepin County's top administrator earns $194,750; Dakota County's administrator, $165,776. City managers in St. Louis Park, Edina, Woodbury and Eden Prairie all make more than top state commissioners.
So do Department directors in Minneapolis, Bloomington and Hennepin County.
Here's a partial list:
St. Louis Park Manager – $162,240
Edina Manager – $157,602
Woodbury Administrator – $157,227
Minneapolis Public Works – $156,997
Bloomington Public Works – $156,148
Hennepin County Transportation – $156,000
Eden Prairie Manager – $155,584
In Plymouth, the City manager makes $142,800, about the same ($144,991) as the Minnesota Commissioners of Administration, Agriculture, Civil Rights, Commerce and Labor.
Apparently, Gov. Dayton's justification for overpaying his commissioners is that poorly run cities and counties are overpaying their employees even worse. Here's the job description of the Hennepin County Administrator:
The county administrator makes recommendations to the county board, implements its policies, provides leadership to the organization and assures effective delivery of county services.
That's worth $200,000 a year? That's insulting. Further, cities and counties that overpay their administrators, directors and managers have to pay for that somehow, most likely with higher property taxes.
That means Gov. Dayton is justifying his pay increases by citing city and county employees that are driving up cities' and counties' property taxes. Further, where's the proof that these cities' and counties' employees are actually doing a good job? That's got to be part of the discussion, doesn't it?
I won't even get into that with Gov. Dayton's commissioners. Myron Frans is the highest paid commissioner at $154,992. Frans is the corruptocrat that accepted the gambling lobby's estimate that e-pull tabs would bring in $35,000,000 per year, which was supposed to pay for the public's share of the Vikings stadium. The estimate Frans approved fell just $32,600,000 short of what was needed. Based on his incompetence-to-salary ratio, we'd need to pay commissioners $500,000 a year, not $155,000.
Finally, if these cities want to pay their employees these salaries, then it's time to question whether they need LGA.
Technorati: Mark Dayton, Myron Frans, Hennepin County Administrator, Pay Raises, Property Tax Increases, Dakota County Administrator, Accountability, DFL
Terry Stone's LTE highlights what's wrong with how transportation issues get settled. Here's what happens that inevitably leads to chaos:
Currently, state transportation planning is done by various counties, cities and the Met Council. Then the Metropolitan Airport Commission, the Port of Duluth, the Port of St. Paul and a slug of lobbying groups chime in. Minnesota Department of Transportation and the University of Minnesota have their own ideas and the Legislature has theirs. The federal government uses money to push its own agenda. Intelligent planning for efficient pipelines and safe, efficient railroad infrastructure are largely left to the private sector.
When the transportation suggestions from this gaggle of transportation planners hit the Legislature, the lobbyists descend upon St. Paul like a hungry horde of locusts. Frequently, the special interests with the most effective lobbyists end up with the transportation projects they want.
What could possibly go wrong with so many people wanting their slice of the transportation pie? This isn't a failure of too few dollars to meet Minnesota's transportation needs. It's that there's too few dollars to fund the special interests' wish list items and too little time spent prioritizing Minnesota's transportation needs.
Why isn't the DFL putting the highest priority on fixing Minnesota's roads and bridges? Why is the DFL paying any attention to increasing transit funding? What proof do we have that transit ridership is increasing dramatically?
The DFL had complete control of Minnesota government in 2013 and 2014. They could have created a state planning agency to develop a plan for building and funding transportation intelligently. Instead, they chose the politically expedient status quo. Now we are being herded and asked to believe that only massive tax increases can allow Minnesota to perform a core function of government; building and maintaining roads and bridges.
I'll just add that we're being railroaded into thinking that our transportation needs have dramatically increased since the DFL held total control of government in 2013-2014. In 2008, Steve Murphy pushed through a massive tax increase that was supposed to solve this problem. At the time, Sen. Murphy bragged that he wasn't "hiding anything. There's lots of taxes" in his bill.
At the time, the DFL, with Sen. Murphy leading the way, told Minnesota that our roads and bridges were crumbling and only a massive tax increase could fix the situation. It's 6 years later and the DFL is telling us that our roads and bridges are crumbling and only a massive tax increase will fill the potholes and fix Minnesota's bridges.
When I went back to my original post about Sen. Murphy's quote, I noticed something that I'd forgotten. Sen. Murphy wanted the gas tax increased, then indexing the gas tax with the CPI. Before another step is taken, the first thing that needs to happen is determine what Minnesota's transportation needs are. I'm totally disinterested in what's included in the lobbyists' wish lists. I'm just interested Minnesota's roads being in good repair and Minnesota's bridges being safe.
This is great advice:
It's time to think twice before buying into this transportation panic scenario. The Minnesota House has a thoughtful, calm plan to fund roads and bridges without raising a dime of new taxes. The plan deserves our careful consideration.
The DFL's manufactured transportation crisis should be ignored. The DFL had the opportunity to fix Minnesota's highways and bridges last spring when they controlled all of the levers of political power. They didn't get it done. In fact, they adjourned several days before the constitutional deadline.
It's time to focus solely on roads and bridges. Everything else is a nicety.
Technorati: Transportation, Met Council, Metropolitan Airport Commission, MnDOT, Tax Increases, Lobbyists, Mark Dayton, DFL