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Washington, D.C. -- The National Labor Relations Board recently announced the appointment of NIU College of Law alumna Melissa Olivero ('97) of Peru, IL as an administrative Law Judge in its Division of Judges. She transferred to the Board from a similar position with the Social Security Administration. One of only 40 such judges in the country, she has authority to docket, hear, settle, and decided unfair labor practice cases nationwide.
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The economies of Canada and the United States are similar because they are both developed countries and are each other's largest trading partners. However, key differences in population makeup, geography, government policies and productivity all result in different economies.
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In Canada total tax and non-tax revenue for every level of government equals about 38.4% of GDP,[1] compared to the U.S. rate of 28.2%.[2]
A significant portion of this tax differential is due to spending differences between the two countries. While the US is running deficits of about 4% of GDP,[3] Canada's Federal government posted a budget surplus of around 1% of GDP per year from the mid-1990s until 2008, and is projected to enter back into a surplus by 2016.[4] The deficit patterns and indebtedness of Canada's individual provinces vary like they do in the US among different states. Considered in a revenue-neutral context, the differential is much smaller - Canada's total governmental spending was about 36% of GDP[5] vs. 31% in the US.[3] In addition, caution must be used when comparing taxes across countries, due to the different services each offers. Whereas the Canadian healthcare system is 70% government-funded, the US system is just under 50% government-funded (mostly via Medicare and Medicaid); adding the additional healthcare-spending burden to the above figures to obtain comparable numbers (+3% for Canada, +7% for the US) gives adjusted expenditures of 38–39% of GDP for each of the two nations.
The taxes are applied the same as well. Canada's income tax system is more heavily biased against the highest income earners, thus while Canada's income tax rate is higher on average,[citation needed] the bottom fifty percent of the population is roughly taxed the same on income as in the United States. However, Canada has a national goods and services tax (GST) of 5% on most purchases, while the U.S. federal government does not, increasing the tax burden on Canadian low-income earners due to the proportional nature of a sales tax. Canadian GST does not tax food and other essentials and a GST rebate for low-income earners mitigates regressiveness.[6]
In addition to the 5% GST levied on most purchases, some Canadians also pay a provincial sales tax at a rate that varies by province and can be as high as 10%. In Ontario, for example, where the provincial sales tax (PST) is 8%, consumers must pay a total of 13% sales tax on top of the purchase price. (It should be noted that Ontario has eliminated both the PST and GST, replacing them with harmonized sales tax, or HST, of 13%, which changes the sales tax on some items.) There are some purchases which are PST exempt, such as children's clothing. In the U.S., most states impose a sales tax, and cities and counties are often permitted to levy taxes as well, which can exceed 10% on purchases but realistically average at about 6-8%. Five U.S. states do not have any sales tax imposed.[7] The Canadian province of Alberta and all three territories have no provincial or territorial sales tax on top of the GST.
Government Spending[edit]
Government spending at all levels (federal, state/provincial and local) has traditionally been higher in Canada than the United States. In Canada, government spending as a percentage of GDP peaked at 53% in 1992. Since 1992 spending has steadily declined in Canada to just below 40 percent in 2008.[8]
Spending in the United States fluctuated narrowly around 34-38 percent of GDP over the same period.[9] However, starting in 2008 US spending has turned sharply upwards to reach an estimated 42.7% of GDP in 2009[dated info] and stabilize at that level.[citation needed]
Social programs[edit]
For its higher taxes Canada has a larger system of social programs than the United States. This includes having a national broadcaster in the CBC, a largely government-funded health care system, and having all major universities receive partial government funding. The United States, however, does have most of its major universities subsidized by state government. The US also has two national public broadcasters which receive partial government funding, PBS (television) and NPR (radio).
The greatest difference in social programs is in health care. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. Government spends as much on health care, 7% of GDP, as the Canadian government does,[10] and total healthcare spending is much higher - 14.6% of GDP in the US vs. 10% in Canada.[11] Canadians, however, receive better care to those Americans who receive treatment, and result measures.[12] The Canadian health care system is said by some also to be attractive to employers, as in Canada health care is mostly paid through employee income taxes, while in the United States most companies choose to extend health benefits to full-time employees. Many employers in Canada do offer employees some additional medical coverage, for non-necessary treatments, and for pharmaceuticals which are not universally covered by the government-paid health insurance system. The most common complaint regarding the Canadian system are the long lines and waiting periods that have appeared for minor and non-life-threatening procedures over the last 15 years, since the introduction of widespread cuts to public funding. Separately, a number of medical tests and screenings are not covered (or due to increasing costs, are no longer covered) by the Canadian health system, forcing patients to pay for these services out of their own pockets. For these reasons, some relatively wealthy Canadians undergo treatment at private healthcare facilities at their own expense, either in Canada, in India, or in other nations[13] to avoid waiting for medical treatment, joining "medical tourists" from many nations, including the US.[13] Despite these sporadic problems, Canada's healthcare performance has been of higher quality on most factors.[14][15] Efforts were made to reduce wait times by many provincial governments in the 1990s and 2000s, in an effort to improve care. Furthermore, healthcare coverage is universal for Canadians, and transferable outside a home province within Canada. In the United States, however, the most common complaint is that approximately 50 million people are uninsured, and thus do not have access to even the most basic healthcare services which Canadians have access to. This puts a burden on the emergency room services in the States and causes increases in healthcare costs significantly.
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The United States has since the Sherman Anti-Trust Act been strongly opposed to monopolies. In Canada this has been far less of an issue, and Canada has never had rigorously enforced rules against monopolization, and in certain situations the government has even encouraged monopolies. However, the Canadian government is more willing to interfere in the operations of large, integrated firms where they appear to be acting against the public interest, offsetting in part one reason that American law prevents large-scale monopolization. Historical transport policy led to the promotion of one railway operator & one dominant flag carrier and the promotion of bus carriers through the suppression of other bus-like services. In telecommunications policy, oligopoly conditions are reinforced through the actions of the Canada Radio and Telecommunications (CRTC). Foreign ownership has been banned in Canada's cell phone market (Though one Egyptian-owned entrant, WIND mobile, has led to a possibility of a liberalization of telecommunications) Banking policy has been regulated through Bank Acts passed by Parliament.
Fiscal and monetary policy[edit]
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Canada is generally forced to follow American monetary policy quite closely, any large difference in interest rates could quickly lead to large problems for the Canadian economy. The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada both staunchly believe in fighting inflation while neither aggressively pursue policies of full employment. One difference that has emerged recently is that while Canada is still hewing closely to the balanced budgets policies of the 1990s the United States has moved into a heavy deficit, a policy both countries followed in the 1970s and 1980s.
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In Canada prices have long tended to be higher. This is partly because of structural issues in Canada such as low population density[dubious ] and harsher weather,[dubious ] and partly due to Canada's tax system, which depends more heavily on sales taxes relative to income taxes than the US. This has contributed to phenomena such as cross-border shopping. Since the early 1990s this has not been the case[according to whom?], as the Canadian dollar had fallen low enough[vague] that it more than made up for price differences.[dubious ] Today prices are somewhat lower in Canada for at least one item: the Big Mac Index shows that in January 2006 a Big Mac cost $3.15 in the States and only $3.01 in Canada [16] (both figures in USD). In October, 2007 a strong Canadian dollar rose to parity with a weak American dollar, benefiting Canadian travelers and consumers. However, this was not favorable to Canadian manufacturers and exporters who do most of their business south of the border. As the economic conditions decayed in 2008, a flight to safety in the American dollar and lower prices[quantify] for Canadian commodities[which?] reversed some of the growth in the Canadian dollar relative to the American dollar.
Canadian workers are estimated to be 82% as productive per hour as their American counterparts.[17] The industries with the largest productivity advantages for the U.S. are the manufacturing (particularly electronics and computer), finance, and service sectors. Industries where Canada is more productive than the U.S. are the construction and natural resources sectors with Canadian workers achieving 129% relative productivity.[18]
The productivity gap had been even larger in the 1950s but the difference has been narrowing, aided by the elimination of the smaller market problem through free trade. The gap was still closing somewhat in the 1980s but at a much slower pace than in the 1960s. From 1961 to 1973 labour productivity rose annually by 3.3 percent in Canada and 1.7 percent in the United States. From 1973 to 1995 productivity growth was 1.1% in Canada and 0.8% in the United States.[19]
The productivity gap began to widen again in the 1990s, particularly in the manufacturing sector. By 2000, this was called Canada's "Excellence Gap" by the Chief Economist of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters.[20] The United States has the second-highest productivity of the G8 countries,[21] while Canada's is 5th based on the 1997 estimate.[22]
Five main reasons for the productivity gap: the lower capital intensity of economic activity in Canada; an innovation gap in Canada relative to the United States; Canada's relatively underdeveloped high-tech sector; less developed human capital in Canada in terms of proportionately fewer university graduates and scientists and engineers in research and development; and more limited economies of scale and scope in Canada.
Organized Labor[edit]
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Both Canada and the U.S. follow the Wagner Act model of regulating trade unions and collective bargaining, though legislation regulating organized labor principally falls under provincial jurisdiction in Canada. That North American model differs significantly from patterns of organized labor found in other developed countries.
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For several decades Canada typically had reported its unemployment rate as somewhat higher than the US rate. For example, in June 2008 the reported unemployment in the US was 5.5 percent and 6.1% in Canada. However, a closer examination reveals that the two countries measure the unemployment rate differently. Craig Riddell, a University of British Columbia economist, found that a 0.9% difference was caused by the differing measurement systems.[23] Statistics Canada has also acknowledged this, and it now publishes a second unemployment rate using the same methodology as the Americans. Using the American methodology, the June 2008 Canadian unemployment rate was 5.3%, which was 0.2% lower than the American rate.[24]
Prior to the identification of the difference in methodologies, some politicians claimed that higher income taxes, restrictive labour laws, unions, universal healthcare, and greater unemployment benefits in Canada were causing a higher actual unemployment rate. However, when unemployment insurance and welfare were sharply cut in many parts of Canada during the 1990s there was little gain in employment relative to the Americans. Others attempted to explain the reported difference in terms of the large number of seasonal workers in trades such as fishing and logging who are unemployed for a portion of the year.
Balance of trade[edit]
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While the United States has in recent years had a large trade deficit, Canada had for several decades maintained a trade surplus, which turned to a deficit since 2006.[25] The Canadian surplus had been almost entirely due to trade with the United States. Canada has trade deficits with Europe and Asia, just as the Americans do. In 2005, Canada exported about $109 billion worth of goods more than they imported from the U.S. With the rest of the world, Canada had a trade deficit of $47 billion creating an overall surplus of some $62 billion.[26]
Although wealth is more highly concentrated in the U.S., the median (50th percentile) worker has essentially the same purchasing power in each nation. In terms of purchasing power parity, the most recent statistics from the IMF has Canada (US $35,494) lower than that in the United States (US $43,444).[27]
In the late 1990s, the GDP gap widened. In this period, GDP increased by 5% annually in the United States, and 2% in Canada. Earlier, it had been narrowing between 1961 and 1995. However, it was closing at a much faster rate in the 1960s than the early 1990s. From 1961 to 1973, real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 5.5% in Canada and 4.0% in the United States. From 1973 to 1995 it was 2.6% in Canada and 2.3% in the USA.[28] Canada was not hit as hard by the economic downturn in 2001, however, so cumulative growth in real GDP has been almost exactly the same amount in each country over the last 15 years.
Standard of living[edit]
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The United Nations Human Development Index ranks the United States (fourth) higher than Canada (eighth).[29] Other independent groups, such as the Economist have ranked each of Canada's four largest cities as better places to live than any American city. In their 2005 ranking, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa ranked within the top 10 livable cities while the highest-ranked American cities, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, were tied at 26th place.[30]
Canada ranks higher than the U.S. in statistics such as life expectancy (80.22 years in Canada versus 77.85 in the U.S.) and lower regarding infant mortality (4.75 Canadian deaths per 1000 versus 6.50 in the States). Both countries rank highly with 99% literacy rates. The United States has more major consumer goods per capita than Canada. For instance, while Canada had only 297 computers per 1000 people in 1996, the United States had 403.
Average income is slightly higher in the United States. However, as of 2009, Canada's median family income surpassed that of the USA by approximately 10%. In terms of racial disparity, United States African-Americans and Hispanics have a lower standard of living than the rest of the population; in Canada, Aboriginal peoples and Black Canadians are disproportionately likely to live in poverty, although these groups represent 25% of the US population and only 6% of Canada's. In both countries, recent immigrants tend to have lower earnings than more established residents. Canada's French-Canadians also used to be a poorer group, but since the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s this has been partially remedied.
The United States measures poverty, while Canada does not have an official measure (see Poverty in Canada#Measures of poverty in Canada), although Statistics Canada measures something called the Low-Income Cutoffs, the statistical agency repeatedly states that this is not a poverty measure (it is an income dispersion measure like the Gini coefficient). In the United States the poverty line is set at triple the "minimum adequate food budget." When a common measure is used, such as that of the Luxembourg Income Study, the United States has higher rates. The LIS reports that Canada has a poverty rate of 15.4% and the United States 18.7%. [3] In both countries lower incomes are found in those most affected by poverty include single-parent families and single elderly people.
It may be said the cost of absorbing lower skilled, poorer workers in the US skews comparison studies downward for the United States[31] (see also Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States). In recent years, what otherwise would have been a reduction in the low-income cutoff, was more than offset by the impact of immigration. According to a 2003 study by Statistics Canada "The rise in the low-income rates in the three major Canadian cities, and in Ontario and B.C. during the 1990s in particular, was largely concentrated among the immigrant population. Basically, low-income rates have been falling over the past two decades among the Canadian born, and rising among immigrants."[32] A more recent January 2007 study by Statistics Canada explains that the low-income rates of new immigrants has deteriorated by yet another significant amount from 2000 to 2004[33] (see also Economic impact of immigration to Canada).
Home ownership[edit]
While home ownership rates in both countries are very high compared to worldwide (or even developed countries), Canada has a slightly higher level of home ownership at 69.0%[34] versus 65.3% for the United States[35]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Index of Economic Freedom 2009: Canada". 2009.
- ^ "Index of Economic Freedom 2009: United States". 2009.
- ^ a b Total Revenues From All Levels Of Government Drop To Lowest Share Of Economy Since 1968, 1/15/04
- ^ "CBC News Indepth: Budget". CBC News.
- ^ Consolidated government revenue and expenditures
- ^ Fellows, C. Michael et al. Economic Issues: A Canadian Perspective. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997) 217.
- ^ http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/sales.pdf
- ^ Reducing the size of government
- ^ Great Right North
- ^ Rising Health Costs U.S. health care: expensive and less effective at keeping people healthy
- ^ "CBC News Indepth: Health Care". CBC News.
- ^ http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/health.aspx
- ^ a b "CBC News Indepth: HEALTH CARE". CBC News.
- ^ http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Press-Release-USA.pdf
- ^ http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/field/field_pdf/Library-reading-list-international-health-care-comparisons-Jan2013.pdf
- ^ [1]
- ^ Measuring the Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap: Industry Dimensions
- ^ Measuring the Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap: Industry Dimensions
- ^ http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1997/12/pdf/salgado.pdf
- ^ Microsoft Word - Excellence Gap.DOC
- ^ New Page 2
- ^ http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/pics/pr/livstand.pdf
- ^ Microsoft Word - Can-US unem 2003.doc
- ^ Scoffield, Heather. "Unemployment levels fall below U.S. rate" The Globe and Mail. June 6, 2008
- ^ Merchandise trade of Canada, balance of payments basis, seasonally adjusted — Constant dollars, 2002
- ^ Imports, exports and trade balance of goods on a balance-of-payments basis, by country or country grouping. Statistics Canada.
- ^ List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- ^ [2]
- ^ "HDR_2010_EN_Table1" (PDF).
- ^ "Vancouver is 'best place to live'" BBC News, Tuesday, 4 October 2005
- ^ The Impact of Immigration on Labour Markets in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, Statistics Canada, Update on Family and Labour Studies, May 2007, URL Accessed 26 May 2007
- ^ The rise in low-income rates among immigrants in Canada, Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, Statistics Canada, June 2003, URL accessed 20 September 2006
- ^ Chronic Low Income and Low-income Dynamics Among Recent Immigrants, Statistics Canada, January 2007, URL accessed 30 January 2007
- ^ "Stats Canada".
- ^ "US Census" (PDF).


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Sally Thornton Thanks Fund
27 June 2013
As a special thank you for all that Sally Thornton has given to our World Centres and WAGGGS, we have established the Sally Thornton Thanks Fund in her honour.
'I have had the time of my life working, living and sharing in the World Centres. It has been an amazing journey and I thank every one of you who has been on the journey with me. I am immensely proud of all that has been achieved with my teams at Sangam and here at Our Chalet and feel very fortunate to have called both World Guiding homes my home. The years spent learning about life and what is important while in exotic India and the past 4 years spent in the pristine but challenging mountain beauty of Switzerland have been a not to be missed adventure!' -Sally Thornton
This fund will be used to provide scholarships to girls and young women all around the world to come to Sangam. We want to spread the Sangam Spirit...join us!
Watch the launch of the Sally Thornton Thanks Fund.
You can donate in several ways-
- Bring your donation with you on your next visit to Sangam.
- Donate online.
- For US Citizens, donate through World Foundation for a tax deductable donation.
Share the attached flier (found in the upper right corner) and help us spread the word about this great initiative.
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Diane White - 13 June 2013 - 8.57PM (GMT)
Happy Birthday to you, Sally---delighted that you have made it all the way to Sangam to celebrate--thanks for all your leadership--especially at Our Chalet these past four plus years. Take care and enjoy! Cheers!
Helen Hargreaves - 13 June 2013 - 1.24AM (GMT)
What a wonderful recognition of Sally's great contribution to Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting. This fund will provide great opportunities for girls and young women who would not otherwise be able to meet, share and learn with members from all over the world. Congratulations and best wishes for the launch. And Happy Birthday, Sally!
Ruchira Jayasinghe - 12 June 2013 - 5.23PM (GMT)
What an honor for an outstanding World Centre Manager! I had the opportunity of meeting Sally at Sangam during Sangam's 40th Anniversary and then at several events around the world. Thank you very much for all you have done and I really really appreciate it. All the Best Sally and Keep Up The Good Work!
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Anne Rise - 12 June 2013 - 1.11PM (GMT)
Definitely I will join if the time fits my weekend schedule. Anyway, I will be thinking of both the world centres and especially Sally on her birthday - and I am looking so much forward to spending some days at Baby Chalet in the week to come....
Sue Cunnold - 12 June 2013 - 1.10PM (GMT)
Happy Birthday, Sally! The Thanks Fund is a very appropriate tribute to you. We all thank you so much for your years of tireless service at both Sangam and Our Chalet.
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BLOOMSBURG — As the rest of the world is reacting to the apparent beheading of an American journalist, so are people in our area.
Newswatch 16 stopped by Bloomsburg University to speak with journalism students about the situation.
Some students at Bloomsburg University say they may want to work overseas when they graduate. Some of those students say they look at the overseas journalists as heroes and are devastated to learn another one has apparently been killed.
News of a video showing the apparent beheading of another American journalist was especially disturbing to those hoping to become reporters someday.
Journalism students at Bloomsburg University call it a tragedy.
"I saw the face of the guy that got beheaded and it was really unsettling. It looked terrifying. I can't imagine what he was feeling," said junior Nick Cellucci.
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Stokes and Cellucci are journalism students in Bloomsburg University's mass communications program. They both say they were shocked to hear reports of Sotloff's beheading.
"They're our voice over there. They're our information. They do a lot for us and it's just, not everyone is built to do it, so the people that do do it are very strong," said Stokes.
The students we spoke with say they have mixed reactions about working overseas about journalists.
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Purchasing a ticket for this program entitles you to complimentary access to the Exhibition Hall.
Creator of more than 3,000 designs for furniture, lighting, interiors, packaging, fashion, graphics, exhibitions, and brand identities, Karim Rashid has worked to democratize design and bring it to all aspects of everyday life. His colorful, future-pop objects are ubiquitous—his curvy Garbo trash can for Umbra has sold more than 7 million. He has repeatedly won the Red Dot Award for product design, with more than 300 awards in total.
Rashid has put many of his design ideas into the books he's written, which include Sketch (Frame Publishing, 2011), featuring 300 hand and digital drawings selected from the last 25 years; KarimSpace, with 36 of Rashid's interior architecture designs (Rizzoli, 2009); Design Your Self, Rashid's guide to living (Harper Collins, 2006); Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005); and two monographs, Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World (Rizzoli, 2001).
In this conversation with Debbie Millman, Rashid talks design, and books about design, covering everything from the Dirt Devil to "Digipop."
Debbie Millman is president of the design division at Sterling Brands and the host of the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet, "Design Matters with Debbie Millman," (now featured on DesignObserver.com), which received a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. She is the author of five books on design and branding, most recently, Brand Bible (Rockport Publishers).
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Kuggen, an office building in Gothenburg, Sweden is coated in bold shades of red and unlike any sustainable building you've ever seen before. Inspired by both cog wheels and the saw-toothed edge of a leaf, the circular building was designed by Winngårdh Arkitektkontor and is composed of six floors each skewed to the south to provide shade for the floor below. A high performance facade and efficient window placement are combined with solar power on the roof as well as a moving photovoltaic shade screen on the top floor. Aiming for energy efficiency and a cool place to hang out, the office building serves the Chalmers University community and includes public meeting space and a coffee shop too.
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Hotel for corporate suites
This motivated them to create a hotel where every recurring visit would be a completely different experience in an attempt to break their drudging routine. Every suite would have a different floor plan and spatial arrangement.
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A big space defined by communist block of flats, urbanism for the 80, rigid and alienated. On the other side of the boulevard, a sea of houses. A space crowded between important streets that are intersecting in a place known as Munci square.


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Who wouldn't want to bust out a sick beat? Here we have an example of a cats ability to get into everything. Cats are curious little animals who love moving objects. Those spinning turn tables are far too interesting for your cat to ignore. Who knew combing cats and turn tables would result in such …
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Santa Claus is coming to town
What's Obama coming back for???
Mo free phones, cheese & gift grab bags from da gubment... LMAO!!!!
Psst....It's not 'really' Santa, it's one of his "helpers."
You guys lost, move on
Porch Puppy is right let's give Obozo the same treatment the leftists gave G.W. Bush.
Look, guys, we got enough political stuff from summer on. Can we NOW give it a rest??? PLEASE????? HO, Ho Ho.
Its Christmas Time coming up. The twinkies and Ho,Ho's are gone, so I would like to HEAR Ho, Ho, HO somewhere. Not political stuff. Please???
Jingle Bells and some snow would be nice for a change of pace. Even a fake Santa or two, even if I can't afford a lot of presents under the tree. But I have heard and read enough about politics to last me for awhile, at least until May, ok? Thanks so much. Ho, Ho, Ho to you all. And Merry Christmas or Happy Hanika (pardon my spelling please)


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More than our public universities, more than our private colleges, the backbone of higher education in California is our community colleges.
The 112 campuses and 71 off-site educational centers in our state serve an astounding 2.6 million students. Nationwide, just as much as the California State University and University of California campuses, this system has been the envy of every other state. What is more amazing and what many Californians probably don't know -- it's our birthright, after all -- is that as superb as the community colleges are, the tuition there is also the lowest in the nation at about $1,380 a year.
Even so, fully 40 percent of the students attending community colleges have their fees waived. It's not just the poorest students who get this break -- a student from a family of four earning up to $90,000 annually can qualify for the fee waiver.


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The members of the fashion-challenged Reno Sheriff's Department sport their "Miami" garb. From left: S. Jones (Credric Yarbrough), James Garcia (Carlos Alazraqui), Trudy Wiegel (Kerri Kenney-Silver), Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon), Clementine Johnson (Wndi McLendon-Covey), Raineesha WIlliams (Niecy Nash), Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong) and Traivs Junior (Robert Ben Garant).
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Our forgotten unemployment debt
Most North Carolinians are painfully aware of how grim the ongoing recession has been for our state. However, few know about our oppressive Third World debt owed to the federal government for money borrowed to pay benefits to unemployed workers.
The Tar Heel State owes a whopping $2.4 billion to Washington. In an era of multi-trillion dollar federal debt ($16 trillion and counting), North Carolina's problem may seem small. Don't be fooled. Our unemployment insurance debt represents 12 percent of the total state budget! Even worse, until now there was no plan to pay off the debt.
Fed's "Offer You Can't Refuse"
For the last several years, unemployment insurance bills piled up and politicians were happy to kick the can down the road. Of course, you cannot ignore any problem forever. To no one's surprise, Uncle Sam came knocking and wanted his money back—and he was willing to break knees to get it. Our federal "Godfather" made us an offer we could not refuse: the debt would be extorted from North Carolina businesses with usurious charges on unemployment insurance rates.
Just how would the federal payback plan have worked? Employers normally pay $42 per employee, per year to fund the unemployment insurance system. To get their money back, the Feds required a rate increase on employers of an additional $21 per employee, per year until the debt is paid off. The huge size of our debt also triggers an additional 20 percent surcharge on employers. With sinking employment rates and the disincentives the plan places on businesses, North Carolina might never pay off its debt under this schedule.
How Did It Get This Bad?
Before going any further, it is important to understand how we got into this situation. Prior to Republicans taking control of the General Assembly in 2010, the rule for managing the state budget was to spend every dollar and borrow money in good years. In bad times, the rule was to spend every dollar, borrow everything possible and raise taxes. Virtually no money was saved and placed into rainy day funds and there was no preparation for or expectation of the Great Recession and the mass unemployment that followed. With our state's incredible debt load, we cannot even issue bonds to pay the bill. The result is the mess we have today. The inability to repay the debt or even borrow ourselves out of the problem should surprise no one.
Republicans to the Rescue
There is no easy fix for the dilemma in which we find ourselves. However, the Republican leadership in the General Assembly has come up with a workable solution. Business groups, nonprofits and stakeholders immediately bought into the plan, understanding that some arrangement is necessary to stop the strong hand of the federal government from crushing North Carolina businesses.
The comprehensive proposal, made public last week, will make North Carolina's unemployment system solvent by 2016, thereby removing one of the largest impediments to job creation and economic growth. The plan requires employers to pay an additional .06 percent in state unemployment taxes and expands the scope of the existing 20 percent surcharge, directing that all the money be used solely for repayment of debt and interest to date. Government employers and nonprofits that choose to reimburse benefits, rather than pay the unemployment tax, will be required to maintain a one percent reserve.
North Carolina workers are also asked to help solve the problem. The plan reduces some benefit levels, bringing them more in line with neighboring states. Under the reforms, the maximum duration of benefits will be reduced from 13-26 weeks to 13-20 weeks, with the duration of benefits tied to the unemployment rate. Additionally, weekly benefits will be based on the average of the last six months of work, rather than picking the highest three of the last twelve months, as is currently done. This should encourage more hiring by North Carolina employers.
Planning for the Future
If only someone had acted responsibly years ago, this crisis could have been avoided with a rainy day fund to draw upon. The good news is that the Republican plan also looks out for future generations by requiring a significant rainy day fund of several billion dollars. Generations of North Carolinians, yet unborn, will thank us. As Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard's Almanac, "A stitch in time saves nine." Too bad the Democrats who were in charge of our state for over 100 years never planned ahead.
• Thom Goolsby is a state senator, practicing attorney and law professor. He serves on the Finance and Commerce committees in the N.C. Senate.


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The surging New Mexico Lobos bring in the New Year with a daunting challenge as they visit the nationally-ranked and undefeated Wake Forest Demon Deacons Saturday afternoon. Tipoff is 2 p.m. Eastern Time (noon Mountain) from Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. KRQE-TV in Albuquerque will pick up the feed from Raycom/Jefferson-Pilot and televise the game live throughout New Mexico. The two schools will play in The Pit next year.
UNM is 7-3 and has won five straight - all at home - after an 82-63 decision over Penn State Monday in the championship game of the Comcast Lobo Invitational. It was head coach Ritchie McKay's 100th career win.
New Mexico is enjoying its longest winning streak - and best start - since an eight-game run during the 2001-02 season. The Lobos began 10-3 two years ago. New Mexico's seventh win last year came in the 16th game of the season, Jan. 25, against San Diego State.
Wake Forest is ranked No. 5 in this week's coaches' poll, No. 6 by AP. The Demon Deacons are 8-0 after pounding North Carolina A&T 91-67 on Tuesday. WFU is also 1-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, edging North Carolina 119-114 in triple overtime in Chapel Hill on Dec. 20.
Through games of Dec. 30, Wake Forest was leading the nation in scoring, averaging 92.1 points a game. All five Demon Deacon starters have double-figure scoring averages. New Mexico is allowing just 59.4 points to rank in the top-30 in the nation in scoring defense.
Wake Forest has won 21 straight home games and is 101-6 all-time at Joel Coliseum against non-ACC competition. The Deacons' last home loss was to Duke on Feb. 21, 2002.
New Mexico is playing a road game for only the second time this season, and its first outside of the state. UNM lost 67-48 at New Mexico State on Dec. 3. Including neutral sites, the Lobos have dropped 18 straight games away from Albuquerque, the program's longest drought since a 29-game skid from Jan. 10, 1957 through Dec. 29, 1959. The Lobos' last road win was Jan. 28, 2002 at Colorado State (70-64).
The Lobos are looking for the school's 1,200th win since the first game was played on Feb. 2, 1900. UNM is 1,199-949 in its 101st season. New Mexico is 781-454 since the 1962-63 season, an average of almost 19 wins a year. The Lobos have been to postseason play 26 times during that span.
The new-look Lobos have been essentially full strength since Dec. 21 when midseason transfers Troy DeVries (Portland State) and Danny Granger (Bradley) became eligible. In four games, the 6'8" Granger is averaging 20.5 points and 9.0 rebounds, including Most Valuable Player honors in the Lobo Invitational when he had a season-high 26 points and a Mountain West Conference record eight steals against Penn State. Granger had 16 rebounds against New Mexico State, the most caroms by a Lobo since the late Patrick Dennehy pulled down 17 against Alcorn State on Dec. 1, 2001. DeVries is averaging 12.5 points and 5.0 assists in the four wins, including 12 assists against Coppin State, the best individual total in 12 years.
UNM VS. WAKE FOREST / RANKED TEAMS / THE ACC - It's the third meeting between New Mexico and Wake Forest with each team previously winning on its home floor. UNM took a 76-71 decision at The Pit in the championship game of the 1988 Lobo Invitational. WFU won 72-65 in the second round of the 2000 postseason NIT.
New Mexico has a 47-106 all-time record against ranked teams. That breaks down to 34-48 at home, 10-50 on the road and 3-8 on neutral floors. The Lobos won their most recent game against a ranked team, defeating 22nd-ranked Utah 76-69 last season in The Pit. The last time UNM played a team ranked No. 6 or higher was Jan. 20, 2001 at Stanford. The No. 1 Cardinal won 75-44.
UNM is 3-4 in its last seven games against ranked foes. Included in that total is a 70-68 triumph at No. 2 Arizona on Dec. 21, 1999, halting the Wildcats' 37-game homecourt winning streak.
The Lobos are 2-6 against current members of the ACC. They are 1-3 versus Florida State, 1-1 against Wake Forest and 0-2 against Virginia. UNM has lost three straight games to ACC teams - once to Wake Forest and twice to the Cavaliers - since the win over the Demon Deacons in Albuquerque 15 years ago.
MORE ON THE DEMON DEACONS - WFU was 25-6 last year and won the ACC regular-season title at 13-3. The Deacons lost to Auburn 68-62 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Four starters return from that team.
Head coach Skip Prosser is 219-97 in his 11th year as a head coach, including a 54-19 mark in his third season in Winston-Salem. He is 33-3 at Joel Coliseum and has led the Demon Deacons to the second round of the NCAA Tournament each of the past two years. This is Prosser's first meeting against New Mexico.
Prosser came to Wake Forest after seven seasons at Xavier. The Musketeers advanced to postseason six times, including four trips to the NCAA Tournament. Prosser's first head coaching job was in 1993-94 at Loyola (Md.). He took over a team that had gone 2-25 the previous year and led them to a 17-13 record, an MAAC Tournament title and the school's only appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
Through games of Dec. 30, Wake Forest ranked 2nd in both the Sagarin ratings and CollegeRPI.com.
Hulking sophomore center Eric Williams (6-9, 275) leads five Wake Forest players averaging in double figures at 18.0 points a game. Opponents are shooting just 30.3% from 3-point and WFU has 11 players averaging at least 10 minutes a game.
HEAD COACH Ritchie McKay - Ritchie McKay is in his second season in charge of Lobo hoops and his eighth year as a collegiate head coach. He was named UNM's 18th head coach on March 28, 2002. McKay is the son of the late Joe McKay, who was a three-year letterman at guard for the Lobos from 1961-63.
McKay had previous stops at Portland State (1996-98), Colorado State (1998-2000) and Oregon State (2000-02). He has a career record of 100-110, 17-21 at New Mexico. McKay is 13-10 in non-conference games while at UNM, 13-6 at The Pit, 0-4 on the road. This is his first meeting against Wake Forest.
While at Mountain West Conference member Colorado State, McKay led the Colorado State Rams to the NIT in 1999.
FIVE AND COUNTING - The Lobos have won five straight games by an average of 20.6 points and did not trail in any of those contests. On Dec. 8, UNM and Sacramento State were tied at 47 with 9:39 left in the game, but the Lobos went on to win 77-63. The last time New Mexico fell behind was Dec. 6 against Texas Tech. A 3-pointer gave the Red Raiders a 59-57 lead with 2:20 remaining, a game they won 67-58.
TALK ABOUT A DISADVANTAGE - The addition of Troy DeVries and Danny Granger against Coppin State gives New Mexico 10 players on scholarship, the most for a Ritchie McKay-coached Lobo team and the highest number since 11 were available for Fran Fraschilla during the 2001-02 season. Freshman Sean Phelar is also on scholarship, but he is expected to redshirt this season. The NCAA allows a maximum of 13 scholarships.
UNM took the floor against Coppin State on Dec. 21 with nine scholarship players, the first time it had more than eight available since Nov. 25, 2002 - a span of 34 games.
New Mexico started the 2002-03 campaign with nine players on scholarship. However, in the second game of the season, senior guard Senque Carey suffered a career-ending injury, leaving UNM with just eight players on aid. After Michael McCowan quit in late-February, the Lobos finished the season with just seven on scholarship.
Also, for the first time since McKay took over at UNM, the team is now starting a power forward who is taller than 6'5". The 6'8" Granger and 6'9" David Chiotti are the Lobos' starters in the post. Jamaal Williams (6'4") was the starter at that position last year, while Alfred Neale (6'5") started there five times this season.
DEFENSE DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED - The Lobo defense has made giant strides compared to last year's team:
* UNM allowed 73.2 points last year, the highest average in 16 seasons, and opponents scored 70 or more points 17 times...through 10 games this season, the scoring defense is a stingy 59.4 ppg and only one team has surpassed 70 points against UNM...Portland scored 77 in the third game of the year
* Opponents are shooting 38.4% from the floor, and the Lobos have already held six opponents to less than 40% accuracy this season...they did that only five times all of last season when foes converted 47.7% of their shots, the highest percentage since the 1984-85 season (48.1%)...UNM has limited four of its last five foes to 38% shooting or lower
* New Mexico held Northwestern State to just 24.2% (15-62) shooting from the floor, the lowest by a Lobo opponent in six years when Yale shot 23.1% (12-52) in the championship game of the 1997 Lobo Invitational
PENN STATE RECAP / NOTES - Danny Granger scored 26 points and Javin Tindall hit six 3-pointers to lead New Mexico to an 82-63 win over Penn State in the championship game of the Comcast Lobo Invitational. Granger was named Most Valuable while Tindall and teammate Alfred Neale earned spots on the all-tournament team.
New Mexico captured its holiday tournament for the 27th time in the 39-year-history of the nation's fifth oldest in-season tournament.
The Lobos hit a season-high 16 3-pointers from a season-high 32 attempts. Tindall, who scored 20 points, matched his season high for 3s. Versatile seven-footer Jan Jagla scored 22 points to lead the Nittany Lions. Jagla, held scoreless through the first 15 minutes, scored 16 points in the final 5:06 of the first half to get Penn State within 42-33 at the break.
UNM never trailed in the game after Tindall connected on four straight 3-pointers. His last two came in the midst of an 11-0 run that put the Lobos in front 17-4. A 3-pointer by Neale gave the Lobos a 33-15 lead with 5:56 left in the opening half.
Jagla's scoring burst got the Nittany Lions back into the game and Penn State got within 46-41 early in the second half after DeForrest Riley-Smith hit a pair of 3-pointers and Marlon Smith made a short jumper. New Mexico then pulled away with a 13-0 burst that included consecutive 3-pointers by Granger, Troy DeVries and Tindall.
* New Mexico continued a recent trend by jumping out to a big early lead for the fifth straight game...UNM led 22-6 nearly nine minutes into the game and later stretched its first-half lead to 18 (33-15) at the 5:56 mark...the Lobos led Sacramento State 15-4, Coppin State 26-5, New Mexico State 31-9 and Northwestern State 21-5 in the first half...Penn State battled back however, using a 13-2 run to close to within 7 at the 2:14 mark...the Nittany Lions trailed 42-33 at the half
* The Lobos hit a season-high 16 3-pointers on the night, equaling the fourth-best effort in school history...UNM last hit 16 versus Sacramento State on Dec. 19, 1998...the school record is 18...the Lobos connected on 8 of their first 14 from 3-land in the first 14 minutes...UNM extended its streak to 406 consecutive games hitting a 3-pointer, the 11th longest run in the nation
* One night after having his 14-game 3-point shooting streak snapped (0-2 3-pt. FGs), Javin Tindall tied a career-high with 6 threes on 12 attempts (also a career-high)...Tindall finished with 20 points, his fourth game scoring 20 or more this year after posting a single-game high of just 18 last season...Tindall scored 12 points on 4-4 3-point shooting in the first five minutes of the game after scoring a total of 12 points in the past two games combined....Tindall also pulled down a career-high 5 rebounds
* UNM forward Danny Granger led New Mexico in scoring for the fourth straight game, finishing with a season-high 26 points...Granger also notched a career-high 8 steals (7 in the second half), which ties for third on the UNM single-game charts...Marlow White was the most recent Lobo to get 8 or more thefts, notching 8 vs. BYU on Feb. 4, 1995...the school record is 10 by Phil Abney in 1979...New Mexico recorded a season-high 12 steals as a team
* Penn State's 20 turnovers were the second-most by a Lobo opponent this year, two under San Francisco State's 22 miscues in the season-opener...UNM scored a whopping 40 points off the Lions' turnovers
* Lobo forward Alfred Neale recorded a career-high 7 assists, including 6 in the first half...Neale's previous best was 4 vs. New Mexico Highlands
* New Mexico had four players score in double figures for the second time this year (4 vs. Portland)...the Lobos also had two players (Granger - 26, Tindall - 20) score 20 or more points for the second time this year (Chiotti - 24, Tindall - 22 vs. Sacramento State)
LOBOS IN THE NCAA RANKINGS - Through games of Dec. 30, New Mexico ranks 10th in the nation in 3-point FGs, averaging 9.3 a game. The Lobos have canned 10 or more treys in a game six times this year. They were 5 of 26 (19%) in their only road game of the season so far, at New Mexico State on Dec. 3.


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Nov. 21, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. - Twenty-one University of Georgia senior football players will be honored in a pre-game ceremony prior to the game against Georgia Tech on Saturday. Kickoff for the Bulldogs' regular season finale is set for 12:01 p.m. with the contest to be televised nationally on ESPN.
The 21 seniors to be recognized are: Taylor Bradberry, Winder, Ga.; Marlon Brown, Memphis, Tenn.; Luis Capella, Augusta, Ga.; Sanders Commings, Augusta, Ga.; Scott Eichler, Oakwood, Ga.; Reuben Faloughi, Martinez, Ga.; Ty Frix, Calhoun, Ga.; Michael Gilliard, Valdosta, Ga.; John Jenkins, Meriden, Conn.; Abry Jones, Warner Robins, Ga.; Tavarres King, Mount Airy, Ga.; Jamie Lindley, Savannah, Ga.; Ricky Lowe, Duluth, Ga.; Bacarri Rambo, Donalsonville, Ga.; Ben Reynolds, Bainbridge, Ga.; Christian Robinson, Norcross, Ga.; Dustin Royston, Royston, Ga.; Richard Samuel, Cartersville, Ga.; Branden Smith, Atlanta, Ga.; Cornelius Washington, Hephzibah, Ga.; Shawn Williams, Damascus, Ga.


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One feature that makes this flashlight app very unique and useful is that you can switch it on by shake your phone! Great!
EXCLUSIVE! No need to unlock the screen to get your Torch App, just let the light be in one go!
Just shake your phone from the unlock screen to activate the LED flash light. This Torch App is incredibly simple, useful and practical.
- Lighting via LED flash
- Lighting with the screen as lighting source (compatible with all phones without LED)
- Ability to configure the colors of display lighting
- Widget to automatically activate the torch (LED flash or screen)
- Ability to turn on the LED light flash from the unlock screen by shaking the phone
The feature "shake to light":
- This mode is active only when the unlock screen is visible, does not consume the battery.
- Works only with LED torch mode and not with display lighting mode
- Works with the original unlock screen of your phone, may not be compatible with alternative "home" screens