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Wonkbook's Number of the Day: 74. That's the number of months it took for the economy's number of private-sector jobs to reach its pre-recession peak in January 2008.
Wonkbook's Chart of the Day: Private-sector payrolls have now topped their pre-recession peak.
Wonkbook's Top 5 Stories: (1) Digesting the jobs numbers; (2) how Obamacare has dropped uninsured rate; (3) Affordable Care Act's new challenges include friendly fire; (4) climate communications breakdown; and (5) more on the Fort Hood fallout.
1. Top story: What you need to know about the March jobs report
A Goldilocks jobs report — at least with the top-line numbers. "Employers hired 192,000 people in March, and the unemployment rate stayed pat at 6.7 percent, according to the government's latest jobs report. That's pretty much exactly in line with expectations, though not quite the early spring bounce that many were hoping for after a bleak winter.... This is what some economists see as a Goldilocks jobs report: not so strong that the Fed will speed the tapering of its monthly bond purchases, not so weak that the Fed will suspend the tapering. In the markets, that means just enough to keep the rally in the stock market going, but not so many to trigger a sell-off in bonds." Matthew Philips in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Beyond the top-line numbers. "The report also included another piece of good news: The average workweek edged up by 0.2 hours to 34.5 hours in March. The increase helped offset declines over the past three months that some economists feared signaled fundamental weakness in the labor market. However, average hourly earnings slipped 1 cent to $24.30 in March after spiking 9 cents in February." Ylan Q. Mui in The Washington Post.
5 takeaways from March's jobs report. Kathleen Madigan in The Wall Street Journal.
Highlights from the jobs report. Sarah Portlock in The Wall Street Journal.
5 signs the job market may be accelerating. Josh Boak in the Associated Press.
Charts: The jobs report in pictures. Chad Stone in The Huffington Post.
Benefits expired, but the labor force dropouts haven't surged. "The main reason for the flat unemployment rate was a surge in the labor force -- the number of people working or looking for work. The labor force jumped by more than half a million people in March, following a sizeable jump in February. After many months of people giving up the job search, that could be an indication more people are coming off the sidelines and back into the labor force. The development may be especially surprising given the expiration in extended unemployment benefits in late December." Phil Izzo in The Wall Street Journal.
More good news in the job report — sort of. "We've recovered! The country now has more private sector jobs than it did before the recession, surpassing its previous peak. That was in January 2008, when there were 115,977,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey of businesses. Last month, the bureau announced Friday morning, there were 116,087,000. High fives all around. Actually, no. Many of the comparisons of the pre- and post-recession economies leave out one significant detail: we're not just trying to get back to where we were before the bottom dropped out. We're trying to get back to where we would have been. Keep in mind that we have 15 million more people now than we did then, an increase of 4.6 percent." Shaila Dewan in The New York Times.
The long view: A long way to go to achieve pre-recession robustness. "'Growth-wise, in terms of the economy and the labor market, we think 2014 will look a lot like 2013 and 2012 did,' said Guy Berger, United States economist at RBS Securities. 'In all likelihood, we will see average monthly job gains of a little north of 200,000 this year.' While that pace of job creation would gradually bring the unemployment rate down, it would take until nearly the end of the decade before the labor market returned to the level of robustness that prevailed in the mid-2000s, let alone the 1990s." Nelson D. Schwartz in The New York Times.
Temp jobs are surging as firms contain expenses. "The economy is creating jobs. But how many of them will endure? The 'short-term' staffing industry is enjoying a long-term boom, with temps accounting for more than one-tenth of all job growth since 2009, according to government data." Damian Paletta in The Wall Street Journal.
The near-term political fallout: How this report hurts the Democrats. "Democrats were fervently hoping for a bigger number. Because if they don't get faster growth soon, they could wind up trying to hold off Republicans this fall while fighting the triple threat of an unpopular president, an unpopular health care law and a stagnant economy that has left voters grouchy and pessimistic. Experts say even a single good jobs number wouldn't be enough. And the March number...was hardly a blockbuster. It will take months of stronger employment gains and increases in take-home pay to lift the grim national mood. Democrats, fairly or not, will get nearly all of the blame if the economy sinks back into the mud -- and time is running short for them to get credit for any improvement." Ben White in Politico.
On the surface, though, Democrats seemed happy. They touted filling the 'Bush jobs hole.' Michael McAuliff and Arthur Delaney in The Huffington Post.
Why the report keeps the Fed's bond-purchase 'tapering' on track. "Key data points were largely consistent with the Fed's view of how the economy is evolving. A healthy payroll employment gain of 192,000 in March, taken together with upward revisions to hiring estimates for the two previous months, suggest the labor market is strong enough to tolerate the Fed's slow retrenchment of its bond program. A one-penny drop in average hourly earnings for all workers and an unchanged unemployment rate at 6.7% support Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's conclusion that wage and inflation pressures aren't building and interest rates can stay low for longer." Jon Hilsenrath in The Wall Street Journal.
Other economic policy reads:
Life without jobless benefits: Watching, searching and praying. Tamara Keith in NPR.
Senate panel votes to extend temporary tax breaks. John D. McKinnon in The Wall Street Journal.
Obama is poised to sign executive order on equal pay and contractors. Bill Chappell in NPR.
VINIK: Report serves as validation for idea of slack in the labor market. "As the labor market tightens, employers will have to raise wages to compete for scarce labor. Economists have been debating for months the tightness of the labor market. The argument centers around the long-term unemployed and the millions of workers who have dropped out of the labor force. One side believes that the long-term unemployed have become disconnected from the labor market, as employers will very rarely hire them. In this case, the short-term unemployment rate, which has already returned to its pre-recession level, is a better indicator of the state of the labor market. The other side argues that the unemployment rate is not representative of the labor market and that many discouraged workers will begin searching for jobs again as the economy recovers. This jobs report bolsters the second theory, as wage growth actually fell slightly in March. This indicates there is still slack in the labor market and the Fed's loose monetary policy will continue to bolster it." Danny Vinik in The New Republic.
CASSIDY: Inequality and the jobs report. "The jobs report also provides a wealth of information about how different populations are doing -- serving as what might be called a distributional indicator. Given the increasing attention to inequality in our public debates, it is surprising that this aspect of the jobs report doesn't receive more attention each month....So, rather than trying to further parse the payroll numbers, let's look, for once, at the distributional data in the report, which shows that a great deal of variation and inequity are persisting, despite the over-all improvement. The recovery has been real for some groups, particularly those with college educations and whites who aren't trapped in extended spells of unemployment. But, for other groups, including the long-term unemployed, African-Americans, and young adults who aren't in college, finding work remains a formidable challenge, and finding a decent job is even harder." John Cassidy in The New Yorker.
WOODHILL: Report shows need to focus on incentives, not stimulus. "Hopefully, Friday's 'Employment Situation' report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will drive a stake through the heart of the Democrats' push to revive extended unemployment insurance benefits. The 0.39 percentage point increase in labor force participation since extended benefits expired in December is the largest seen for any calendar quarter since 2Q1984. And, the increase in total employment (Household Survey) during the first quarter of 2014 was the biggest quarterly advance in 14 years. These two results directly contradicted the expectations of Keynesian economists, who predicted that the end of extended unemployment benefits would slow job growth (because of lower consumer spending), and induce jobless people to exit the labor force." Louis Woodhill in Forbes.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The decline of work? "In a normal economy, the employment and jobless rates have an inverse relationship: When one rises, the other falls, and vice versa. But in the current economy, the unemployment rate is falling but the employment rate has fallen too. What's going on? In a word, former workers are leaving the economy or sitting on the sidelines. The labor force participation rate, which measures the active portion of available workers not including drop-outs, now stands at 63.2%, a level last seen in August 1978. That's around the time the late Steve Jobs founded Apple....Many attribute the decline of work in America to the wave of Baby Boomers heading into retirement and the fact that the population at large is getting older. Studies show this is part of the story, though that is also a problem if those workers are retiring earlier because they lost a job and can't find a comparable one....This decline in work has lasted so long that it deserves more economic study. Hiring usually accelerates in a recovery, Americans see more job opportunities and rejoin the labor force. But we can speculate about why this time is different." Editorial Board.
COWEN: Automation alone isn't killing jobs. "Although the labor market report on Friday showed modest job growth, employment opportunities remain stubbornly low in the United States, giving new prominence to the old notion that automation throws people out of work....Driverless vehicles and drone aircraft are no longer science fiction, and over time, they may eliminate millions of transportation jobs....How afraid should workers be of these new technologies? There is reason to be skeptical of the assumption that machines will leave humanity without jobs." Tyler Cowen in The New York Times.
BLOOMBERG VIEW: Don't try calling this jobs market normal. "The headline number in today's employment report -- 192,000 nonfarm jobs created in March, bringing the three-month average to 173,000 -- suggests that the U.S. recovery is on track to bring the labor market back to normal, albeit gradually. Try telling that to the millions of people who are still suffering in the purgatory of long-term joblessness....The government's goal should be to limit the damage. That means consolidating federal jobs programs and experimenting with creative ways to boost morale. It also means extending unemployment benefits for those still searching for work, even if some of the money goes to people who have given up." The Editors.
Top opinion
WILL: A tax reformer's uphill push. "The Sisyphean task of tax reform should be tried only by someone who will not flinch from igniting some highly flammable people -- those who believe that whatever wrinkle in the tax code benefits them is an eternal entitlement. Tax reform's Senate champion is Ron Wyden, the affable, cerebral and tall Oregon Democrat....A serious Republican reform plan has been produced by Rep. Dave Camp, who is retiring from Congress but will probably be succeeded as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee by Paul Ryan, who has a wholesome monomania about promoting economic growth. Conservatives should rejoice that the Senate's most important chairmanship, that of the Finance Committee, has come to Wyden, whose progressive credentials are impeccable but who says: 'We like expanding the winners' circle.' And who believes that economic growth of 4 percent is not only feasible but urgent." George Will in The Washington Post.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hypocritical tax cuts. "What's particularly outrageous is that the bill calls for the government to borrow the entire $85 billion cost of the two-year reinstatement. That is not just imprudent but hypocritical....Assuming that the tax cuts are renewed repeatedly -- a safe bet -- their cost over a decade will run to hundreds of billions of dollars. In effect, they will "give back" more than half of the revenue from the fiscal-cliff deal of 2012, when tax rates were raised on very high income taxpayers. There are useful provisions in the new package. But it is unconscionable to borrow and spend on behalf of corporate America while rejecting even a modicum of prudent borrowing to address the unmet needs of ordinary Americans and the nation at large." Editorial Board.
NOCERA: On Michael Lewis's crusade. "There is always something just a little frustrating about reading a Michael Lewis book. On the one hand, Lewis's core point -- whether it is that left tackle has become the second most important position in football ('The Blind Side'), or that the stock market has become rigged by high-frequency traders, as his new book, 'Flash Boys,' claims -- is almost always dead-on. His ability to find compelling characters and tell a great story through their eyes is unparalleled. He can untangle complex subjects like few others. His prose sparkles. On the other hand, there usually comes a point in a Michael Lewis narrative when it all starts to feel just a little too perfect....The arrival of 'Flash Boys' has put a more important question on the table: whether high-frequency traders have been given an unfair advantage that needs to be dealt with. Lewis's answer is clearly yes, and 'Flash Boys' is both clear enough and persuasive enough that Lewis's millions of readers are likely to agree with him." Joe Nocera in The New York Times.
RHEE: Opt out of standardized tests? Wrong answer. "Opt out of measuring how well our schools are serving students? What's next: Shut down the county health department because we don't care whether restaurants are clean? Defund the water-quality office because we don't want to know if what's streaming out of our kitchen faucets is safe to drink? Tests serve many purposes: They chart progress. They identify strengths and weaknesses. They help professionals reach competency in their careers. All these measures are critical to improving public schools." Michelle Rhee in The Washington Post.
McMANUS: Is Obamacare too big to fail? "When Obamacare's first open-enrollment period ended last week, the tally was impressive: 7.1 million Americans signed up for insurance on federal and state exchanges by the March 31 deadline, several million more signed up for Medicaid and a whole lot of under-26 Americans got covered by their parents' plans. That doesn't mean Obamacare is guaranteed to succeed. The program still faces a series of difficult tests -- most important, keeping costs under control so insurance premiums don't soar in coming years. And the program is certain not to be universally popular with its participants. Just think: Millions of newcomers to health coverage are about to join the rest of us in those frustrating battles with insurers. But the enrollment numbers do mean that the main argument Republicans hurled against the law -- that it was doomed to collapse -- is looking weaker than ever. They also mean that Democrats now have a chance to shift the healthcare debate from whether the law should be repealed to how to improve it. Recent polls have found that between 53% and 71% of respondents (depending on how the question is worded) favor keeping the law and fixing it." Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times.
MARCUS: The real danger behind the 'McCutcheon' ruling. "The risk posed by the ruling, in which the chief justice wrote the plurality opinion, is not as much its immediate impact but the implications of its reasoning in demolishing an already rickety campaign finance structure. McCutcheon's critics wail that it clears the way for wealthy individuals to plow millions into political campaigns. Um, but where have they been? The opportunities to write seven- and eight-figure checks were plentiful before the ruling. The difference that McCutcheon makes is that mega-donors have previously had to conduct their political spending indirectly, through super PACs or other entities that do not write checks straight to candidates or parties....The immediate repercussions are less than some overwrought critics claim....The real risk lies in the conservative justices' seemingly deliberate obtuseness to the real world of campaign contributions -- in particular, their cramped understanding of what constitutes the kind of corruption or risk thereof to justify campaign finance legislation." Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post.
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN: Why won't pro-climate Republicans speak up? "Americans are more climate-skeptical (if that's the right term) because the U.S. has a two-party system with one party dedicated to climate skepticism. Most people follow trusted opinion leaders, at least on those issues where they have little personal stake and little personal expertise (which means most issues for most of us). Views on climate change probably are reinforced by the rise of the partisan media in recent decades. But Rush Limbaugh and Fox News aren't even necessary for most Republicans to disagree with the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists; all it takes is for voters to tend to accept what high-visibility Republicans are saying. What's harder to answer is why movement conservatives have accepted that view, and why the rest of high-visibility Republicans go along." Jonathan Bernstein in Bloomberg View.
DOUTHAT: Health care without end. "So you think now that enrollment has hit seven million, now that the president has declared the debate over repeal 'over,' now that Republican predictions of a swift Obamacare unraveling look a bit like Republican predictions of a Romney landslide, we're going to stop arguing about health care, stop having the issue dominate the conversation, and turn at last to some other debate instead? You think it's over? It's never over. I mean, O.K., it will be over in the event of a nuclear war, or a climate apocalypse, or if the robots eventually rise up and overthrow us....But for the foreseeable future, the health care debate probably isn't going to get any less intense. Instead, what we've watched unfold since 2009 is what we should expect for years, decades, a generation: a grinding, exhausting argument over how to pay for health care in a society that's growing older, consuming more care, and (especially if current secularizing trends persist) becoming more and more invested in postponing death." Ross Douthat in The New York Times.
ACKERMAN AND AYRES: Obama needs to put his money where his mouth is on campaign-finance reform. "Although the president has speechified against the court's decisions in the past, his actions tell a different story....If the president is to be taken seriously, it's time for him to make campaign finance a centerpiece of the upcoming campaign. Despite appearances, serious reform remains possible within the new limits set out by the Roberts court. Obama should take full advantage of the chief justice's explicit recognition that the 'appearance of corruption' serves as a compelling rationale for controlling contributions. This provides a meaningful roadmap for concrete reforms that will call a halt to the rise of plutocracy in American politics." Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres in Slate.
David Letterman interlude: Featuring "The Simpsons" couch gag.
2. How Obamacare is cutting the uninsured rate
Number of Americans without health insurance reaches new low. "The share of Americans without health insurance has dropped to the lowest level since before President Obama took office, according to a new national survey that provides more evidence the healthcare law is extending coverage to millions of the previously uninsured. Just 14.7% of adults lacked coverage in the second half of March, down from 18% in the last quarter of 2013, the survey from Gallup found. The survey results, which track with other recent polling data and enrollment reports, indicate that about 8 million people have gained health insurance since September. That figure takes into account any losses in coverage the law may have brought about by the cancellation of health plans that did not meet the new standards. Gallup's survey highlights a historic expansion in coverage unparalleled since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid half a century ago. It also undermines critics' persistent claims that the law has done little to expand health insurance." Noam N. Levey in the Los Angeles Times.
Explainer: The CBO's Obamacare enrollment estimate is more complicated than you think. Glenn Kessler in The Washington Post.
About that Medicaid expansion: Enrollments boosted by 3 million. "More than 3 million people have enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program since October, according to new data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Friday. This is the first time the Obama administration has reported actual enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP since the Oct. 1 start of enrollment. Previous CMS reports have provided numbers for those determined eligible for the programs, which is different from actual enrollment. CMS reported Friday morning that total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment since September grew 8.3 percent in states that expanded their programs for low-income residents, five times higher than the 1.6 percent enrollment increase that non-expansion states saw over the same time." Jason Millman in The Washington Post.
Not surprisingly, states that embraced the Medicaid expansion have seen the largest increases in enrollment. "It's one more sign that the health care law is reducing the number of Americans without insurance significantly -- although it doesn't tell us by how much or whether, at year's end, the reduction will live up to original projections. It's also one more window into our growing geopolitical divide -- between the part of America where officials are trying aggressively to help poor people get health insurance, and the part where officials are not....Taking advantage of flexibility following the 2012 Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, a large swath of mostly conservative states have opted not to expand eligibility. As a result, millions of low-income Americans living in these states remain with no viable source of comprehensive coverage. The story is different in states that have expanded Medicaid." Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic.
Explainer: The Republicans' plan to cut Medicaid, explained. Sarah Kliff in Vox.
Another reason the uninsured rate is declining: The individual mandate. "California officials often cited the high demand for health insurance in explaining this week's last-minute surge for Obamacare. But some of the people who waited in line for hours this week said another big reason was to avoid paying the health law's penalty for being uninsured." Soumya Karlamangla in the Los Angeles Times.
Explainer: So, now you have health insurance. How do you make the most of it? Lisa Zamosky in the Los Angeles Times.
Seniors are fine with 'team care' approach to Medicare. "Increasingly, the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly as part of the Affordable Care Act is moving to a system that rewards doctors and hospitals for working together to improve care. By contracting with entities known as accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, the providers use a team approach that can involve lower cost providers and allied health professionals to provide seniors with more attention while at the same time keeping them healthy and out of more expensive care settings. A new national survey of adults 65 and older from the John A. Hartford Foundation about 'team care and the medical home' shows 27 percent say they get this kind of care right now, they like it and it has improved their health. The openness to new models debunks theories by some in health care who think patients only want to see a doctor for all their health care needs." Bruce Japsen in Forbes.
Republicans quietly agree to fix for health-care law they hate. "At the prodding of business organizations, House Republicans quietly secured a recent change in President Barack Obama's health law to expand coverage choices, a striking, one-of-a-kind departure from dozens of high-decibel attempts to repeal or dismember it. Democrats describe the change involving small-business coverage options as a straightforward improvement of the type they are eager to make, and Obama signed it into law. Republicans are loath to agree, given the strong sentiment among the rank and file that the only fix the law deserves is a burial." David Espo in the Associated Press.
Other health-care reads:
Explainer: Five things about states with problem-plagued exchanges. Jennifer Corbett Dooren in The Wall Street Journal.
Obamacare shows how Obama is pulling a reverse Reagan. James Oliphant in The Atlantic.
Even small medical advances can mean big jumps in medical bills. Elisabeth Rosenthal in The New York Times.
Babies interlude: They taste lemon for the first time.
3. The next challenges for the health care law, including some friendly fire
Some Democrats fight Obama over Medicare Advantage. "More than two dozen Democrats are fighting the Obama administration over planned cuts to private plans offered in Medicare, tied in part to the 2010 health overhaul, which could divide the party on health care in the run-up to this year's midterm elections. The cuts to Medicare Advantage insurers, which are expected to be included in planned 2015 payments to be unveiled Monday, have drawn increasingly vocal opposition from Democrats who fear that insurers will use the cuts to justify higher premiums or fewer options for enrollees. Other Democrats defend some of the cuts as needed changes. As part of the Affordable Care Act's roughly $700 billion in Medicare savings over 10 years, lower payments to Medicare Advantage insurers are supposed to bring them in line with spending under traditional Medicare. The health law used some of those savings to help pay for its expansion of insurance coverage." Kristina Peterson and Anna Wilde Mathews in The Wall Street Journal.
Will Obama's employer mandate survive? "Allies of the administration are questioning whether the requirement for businesses to provide insurance will ever be implemented, given the drumbeat of opposition from industry groups. On Wednesday, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he thinks the mandate will be scrapped. 'It's a small part of the law. I think it will be one of the first things to go,' Gibbs told a healthcare gathering in Colorado. The White House on Thursday insisted that its former spokesman was wrong and said the mandate would be phased in, starting in 2015. That hasn't quieted skeptics, who question whether it would be better for the administration to simply delay or undo the mandate altogether." Elise Viebeck and Justin Sink in The Hill.
Can Democrats change the politics of health care? "The president asserted that the debate over repealing the law is now over. Republicans dissent, but there's little question that the GOP's goal of dismantling the law becomes increasingly difficult. For Obama and the Democrats, however, that also will mean that when problems arise in the health-care system, whether involving cost or coverage, critics will blame them -- fairly or not -- for the law's complexity and the clumsy hand of government. The substantive debate ahead will challenge Republicans most. Democrats contend that the progress that has been made in signing up so many people will force Republicans to temper their message of repeal and instead focus their energies on changes in the law. Outright repeal, they argue, is not only unrealistic, particularly as long as a Democrat is in the White House, but less and less appealing politically. Republicans recognize that." Dan Balz in The Washington Post.
Dancing interlude: Dance-off between New York cop and street performer.
4. Why more reports and data actually deepen the political divisions on climate change
Climate divide heightening, as reflected by responses to release of U.N. report. "The divide between advocates and skeptics over whether to do something about climate change is widening, with both sides growing more certain of their convictions. A report this week from the United Nations warning of dire consequences from greenhouse gas emissions made headlines around the world and spurred calls for action from environmental groups. But the report landed with a thud in Washington, where both Democrats and Republicans clung more tightly to their positions about the prudent policy response to climate science....Experts and lawmakers broadly agree that climate change has become a more polarizing issue during President Obama's time in the White House." Timothy Cama in The Hill.
Quotable: "I would have been shocked if this would have caused anybody to change what they thought. If people are persuaded by evidence, they would have been persuaded long ago." -- Andrew Dessler, professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University. Timothy Cama in The Hill.
Some insight as to why: More information has the opposite of the desired effect. "There's a simple theory underlying much of American politics....It's what we might call the More Information Hypothesis: the belief that many of our most bitter political battles are mere misunderstandings. The cause of these misunderstandings? Too little information -- be it about climate change, or taxes, or Iraq, or the budget deficit. If only the citizenry were more informed, the thinking goes, then there wouldn't be all this fighting. It's a seductive model. It suggests our fellow countrymen aren't wrong so much as they're misguided, or ignorant, or -- most appealingly -- misled by scoundrels from the other party. It holds that our debates are tractable and that the answers to our toughest problems aren't very controversial at all. The theory is particularly prevalent in Washington, where partisans devote enormous amounts of energy to persuading each other that there's really a right answer to the difficult questions in American politics -- and that they have it. But the More Information Hypothesis isn't just wrong. It's backwards. Cutting-edge research shows that the more information partisans get, the deeper their disagreements become." Ezra Klein in Vox.
PURDY: Does tackling climate change need the politics of the impossible? "It's starting to feel like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could keep issuing its reports from here to eternity. The Fifth Assessment Report, released just in time to avoid April Fool's Day, continues a steady trend: our knowledge is increasing, just about everything that matters is getting worse, and all we can realistically hope to do is soften the edges of a slow-moving catastrophe." Jedediah Purdy in The Daily Beast.
Obama administration challenges draft of forthcoming report as too conservative. "U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is concerned that a crucial United Nations report on climate science may be too harsh in assessing the cost of fighting global warming....'The discussion of the economic costs of mitigation is too narrow and does not incorporate co-benefits of action,' U.S. officials wrote in a submission to the UN, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg. They said including only one side of the equation 'unnecessarily skews the information.' The comment refers to 'global consumption losses' identified in the report of as much as 4 percent in 2030, 6 percent in 2050 and 12 percent in 2100 as a result of action to protect the climate, according to a draft leaked in January. State Department officials are pressing to factor in improvements to public health and lower energy costs from increased efficiency that would happen if fossil fuels were limited. Those would offset the price to be paid for switching over to cleaner forms of energy such as wind and solar and paring back on lower-cost fuels such as coal." Alex Morales in Bloomberg.
Context: IPCC meeting in Berlin this week to hash out final part of 3-stage report. "After concluding that global warming almost certainly is man-made and poses a grave threat to humanity, the U.N.-sponsored expert panel on climate change is moving on to the next phase: what to do about it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, will meet next week in Berlin to chart ways in which the world can curb the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet. It is also trying to give estimates on what it would cost. In the third report of a landmark climate assessment, the IPCC is expected to say that to keep warming in check, the world needs a major shift in investments from fossil fuels -- the principal source of man-made carbon emissions -- to renewable energy." Frank Jordans in the Associated Press.
Wind power cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, industry report says. "The growth of wind power in the United States is putting a significant dent in emissions, according to a forthcoming report from the American Wind Energy Association. Wind generation avoided 95.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, which is equivalent to taking 16.9 million cars off the road. That's a 4.4 percent cut to power sector emissions, when compared to the level of emissions that would have been generated if that power had come from fossil fuels. Wind proponents say that's evidence that the wind industry is playing a major role in meeting U.S. emissions goals." Kate Sheppard in The Huffington Post.
Other energy/environmental reads:
U.S. taps new energy sources, and potential geopolitical clout. Jackie Northam in NPR.
Feds hope $5 billion settlement a lesson for polluters. Elizabeth Shogren in NPR.
Interior Dept. says offshore drilling tests could begin this year. Tim Devaney in The Hill.
So happy it's baseball season interlude: Fan brings new meaning to "can of corn" catch. (Note: Your Wonkbooker is an Indians and Cardinals fan.)
5. More on the Fort Hood shooting's fallout
Shooting revives debate on mental illness. "Last week's shooting at Fort Hood has reopened a debate about guns and mental health in the U.S. as lawmakers and public officials once again tackle the question of whether more can be done to address the rising threat of active shooter incidents. The most recent incident, which involved an Army specialist who was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, is the third shooting on a U.S. military installation in the last five years. It is also the second that involved a gunman with mental health problems, the other incident being the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard last fall. There is widespread agreement among both lawmakers and defense officials that soldiers returning from war need more attention paid to their mental health as well as their physical health." Rebecca Kaplan in CBS News.
As well as base security. "The April 2 shooting at Fort Hood also highlights the need to bolster security at military bases, lawmakers and officials said. 'I don't think you can ever 100 percent secure a military base from something like this happening, but I do think it requires a review, a re-analysis of the force protection policies that we have at our military installations and see how can we better secure them,' Representative Mike McCaul of Texas, the chairman of the House homeland security committee, said today on 'Fox News Sunday.' McCaul said that the military should consider hiring more police and allow senior leaders to carry guns on bases." Greg Giroux and Miles Weiss in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Mullen: More guns on bases not the answer. "A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff argued Sunday against calls to relax gun restrictions on the nation's military bases in the wake of last week's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood. During an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' retired Adm. Michael Mullen said security protocols must be revisited in light of the rampage, but that he opposes 'routinely allowing arms on any military base in the country.'" Benjamin Goad in The Hill.
The Fort Hood shooting and wars without end. "One of the cruel realities of veterans killing one another is that each act robs the community of the very thing -- camaraderie --many veterans miss most when they come home from a war zone. The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq were always, in military parlance, 'unconventional' or 'asymmetric' wars that defied traditional formations; the lines on those battlefields, thousand and thousands of miles away, were never clear. Wednesday's tragedy at Fort Hood shows, unfortunately, that those lines may now run through the middle of America, and that these veterans could find themselves waging unconventional war -- unrelenting psychological and emotional skirmishes -- still for decades to come." Nicholas Schmidle in The New Yorker.
Fort Hood rampage sparks calls for more post-combat mental health exams. "Service members returning from combat should be subject to more thorough mental examinations, Rep. Tim Murphy said Sunday in response to last week's shooting spree at Fort Hood. The Pennsylvania Republican, a clinical psychiatrist in the Naval Reserves who treats soldiers with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) said the military should beef up its evaluation of troops returning from overseas." Benjamin Goad in The Hill.
This week: President Obama to attend funeral for Fort Hood victims. Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.
Other national security reads:
State Dept. warned against releasing CIA torture report. Josh Rogin in The Daily Beast.
Kerry says Mideast peace talks need 'reality check.' Anne Gearan and William Booth in The Washington Post.
Animals interlude: Big cats play with toilet paper.
Wonkblog roundup
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Facing Obamacare deadline, more young people signed up in March. Jason Millman.
These congressmen want to tear down the wall between church and state. Christopher Ingraham.
Metro areas where blacks and whites have very different employment prospects. Emily Badger.
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Medicaid enrollment up 3M, higher in expansion states. Jason Millman.
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New GOP push for immigration reform blocked. Ed O'Keefe and David Nakamura in The Washington Post.
FDA nutrition label shift expected to face pushback. Georgina Gustin in Roll Call.
How public-health advocates are trying to reach non-vaccinators. NPR.
GOP confident about Paul Ryan 's budget. John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman in Politico.
Common Core turns business leaders against Oklahoma GOP. Claudio Sanchez in NPR.
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- Year: 1980
- Mileage: 101,000
- Color: Red
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1980 Land Rover DefenderBeautiful Defender. Excellent condition for this 1986 Land Rover Defender 90. 101,000 miles on it; which is very low for a 1986 Defender. Shows some scratches and normal dings, but nothing major. Original frame, new suspension parts plus all of the following is new from 2016:
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Stupid freaking remote severs. Stupid freaking Hyper-V. Now I got to wait for the thing to get fixed by the tech support people.
Why the hell am I working on Sunday?
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Apr 11, 2010 at 3:46 UTC
Sorry man :(
What happened to your Hyper-V server?
Apr 11, 2010 at 3:53 UTC
Was trying to route some public IPs over to the private internal network via ISA. Flipped to the wrong NIC and it all came crashing down. Can't ping it. The host doesn't have a remote KVM I can connect to, although I can get one ordered and installed by Tuesday. Power cycling the server does nothing.
At least my servers are complete and installed. Friday's fun of the AD enviornment not properly creating the default user at least worked on Saturday. So once the server comes back up, the only thing I have to do is fix the network somehow. Add to the fun is the hosting company is using funny subnetting, so I am not sure what goes where.
Apr 11, 2010 at 5:26 UTC
OK, tech support went ahead and fixed me up. Just pulled the plug on the NIC that went nuts, fired up the other one. Went the cheap and easy way to route, RRAS on the host server, NAT to the private network. Ain't about to try ISA any more with Hyper-V. Just have to map the IPs across, which should be pretty straight forward. Stupid, STUPID Hyper-V virtual network stuff.
Now, to finish up my installs of Sharepoint 2007, 2010, and SQL server.
Apr 11, 2010 at 8:27 UTC
Sounds like a 'greaaat' way to spend a Sunday....
Good luck the rest of the way!
Apr 11, 2010 at 10:52 UTC
but we know your pain it happens to the best of us. Don't fix what ain't broke.
Apr 12, 2010 at 9:10 UTC
Hope everything is still working for you today and you enjoyed that beer yesterday.
Apr 12, 2010 at 9:23 UTC
Sad part is that this is something Vmware does easy as pie. I was trying to do it that way, by spawing a new virtual mahcine and assigning it a physical NIC to the real world and a virtual NIC to the private network. The way Hyper-V does it's networking is goofball in comparison. Just had to rethink the way it works.
I'm in the middle of making a writeup on it. Hopefully others will learn from my pain.
Apr 12, 2010 at 11:40 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
If you get HP Proliants you get ILO which gives you remote access without KVM hardware. :) Enterprise systems to the rescue.
Apr 13, 2010 at 10:20 UTC
I got Dell's with DRACs.
This is with my host in Montreal for a guy I do work for. The IP KVM is a feature they turn on for only a day. You can get a dedicated KVM, but it's $75 a month.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when you don't have full control over the hardware. Found out what the problem was when this happened again. One of the NICs had info on it that was getting reenabled after reboot. They completely disabled the NIC now, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will find its way back on. Since I can't do massive changes to the box, I don't know what is going to happen next.
Oh well, as long as my Hyper-V environment stays up, I couldn't care less.
Apr 13, 2010 at 11:23 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
DRAC should be able to handle that too. Did they maybe not plug in all of the cables for your server? Maybe you need more enterprise class hosting. Let me know, we have a datacenter in Toronto that doesn't have any problem giving us our out of band management for free.
Apr 13, 2010 at 12:01 UTC
The DRACs are on my local servers here. The remote server, from iweb.com, is one of their big ass generic servers.
Aint too bad in the grand scheme of things. Very powerful servers for not a lot of money with a big ass pipe to boot. That's the main thing we needed, something to host somewhere where we could have a VM network setup for what we needed.
We thought about just buying some 4U unit and slapping it in a datacenter somewhere, but this process is much cheaper for us.
Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Cheaper if downtime isn't a concern ;)
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The problem with the above, however, is that I can only take it so far. Meaning, psychology is a great mapping tool, but if I'm ever to get off the merry-go-round of my mind I must find a way to transcend the story, enter the body, and make conscious connection with something much deeper. Enter meditation.
Author Jeffrey Rubin shares a similar perspective. He and his new book, The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and Finding Love in an Insane World are the topics of this recent Huffington Post by Jesse Kronbluth. Rubin, who applies a psychology and meditation hybrid, has found that meditation helps to quiet and focus the mind. In doing so, unconscious psychological material is more freely able to come into consciousness.
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Beautiful 200 year old stone farmhouse, completely renovated to ensure easy living with open-plan downstairs and garden eating/playing/relaxing areas. Providing all the comfort and privacy for a perfect Mediterranean beach or poolside chill-out hideaway. Perfect for families with children or a couples retreat.Minutes from beautiful bustling market town of Thuir, yet tucked away in peace and quiet of the countryside, surrounded by peachfields and views of the Canigou and Alberes Mountains and foothills. Toddler/child/wheelchair friendly with private, secluded and safe private pool and garden. Plenty of comfy sofas, chairs, hundreds of books and recent-release films and DVDs, state of the art and high quality kitchen equipment together with an eclectic art and music collection, luxurious bedlinen and all the extras you don't want to pack (hairdryers, towels, toiletries, books, inflatables, toys) makes for the most relaxing and comfortable of holidays. Thuir is famously visited for its medieval walls,streets, pink marble pavements, shops, restaurants and lazy day cafes.
I moved to the Languedoc from Hampshire and Sussex in 2001, with my two small sons. They are both bi-lingual and culturally and socially at ease in both countries. I am sad about the British referendum vote to leave Europe as we have had such a wonderful, life-enhancing experience as guests free to settle in a country other than our own.
I came here to paint and write and have done everything but (tiling, grouting, pointing, digging, scrubbing and driving a tractor) but it has been an amazing journey of discovery for me. Now my children are grown-up I am going to take the time to explore and enjoy this beautiful area of Catalonia as our Summer guests have been doing for years. At last!
Amanda Rozier purchased this villa in 2001
The wonderful thing about this area of France is that you can fly here from the UK in under two hours and yet when you get off the plane (and even now I experience the same thrill) you feel and see the difference in the light and the temperature.
The sky is blue and cloudless and immense and the light is so bright. Bright enough to need sunglasses during the day and to create the dramatic sunrises and sunsets that feel so exotic they are almost unreal!
At the height of the summer we stay near the pool and enjoy the cool shade of the house and
This area is so full of geographical and historical treasures.
The beautiful coast, Cote Vermeille,or Emerald Coast due to its crystal clear colour)has attracted such artists as Matisse (whose grandson, Paul, recently stayed at our house!) and Dali, is beautiful for swimming, snorkeling or just visiting, steeped in art history right down to Barcelona (only an hour and a half's drive).
The mountains (if we get up at 8 we can be on the ski slopes by 9 in the morning) and the dramatic sandstone hills remind me of the Grand Canyon in miniature. The dramatic gorges for rafting and body rafting (no thanks!) and the gently undulating hills covered in vineyards producing over 70% of all French wine.
I will never tire of waking up and walking out onto this beautiful uplifting landscape!
"We arrived from Manchester with two small children, tired, thirsty and hungry. Within minutes of arriving, the kettle was on, the beer was chilled and most of us were in the pool."
"It was a very hot day when we arrived (from Toulouse) and we were greeted with a Magnum each and a bottle of wine chilling. All the basics were already there (tea, coffee, fresh milk -bliss - bread and cheese) so that we didn't have to immediately go out again to the shops. Our whole stay was punctuated with little kindnesses like this. We will definitely recommend it to our friends."
"Staying at the 'Mas' was extremely relaxing. Like a home from home. The huge TV, fabulously comfy beds and ready-inflated toys in the pool meant that we really did feel at home in this beautiful house. The children amused themselves with all the films, toys and books and our little girl, who is 3, actually slept better here, despite the heat, than she does at home in her own bed! Thank you for a wonderful holiday!"
When someone says "a real home from home" you don't always believe that is what you are going to find. But we absolutely loved the house with its exotically Mediterranean garden and the cool, tranquil atmosphere of the farmhouse hidden among so many fruit orchards. The house was discreetly packed with all our favourite films and books and many we enjoyed for the first time during our visit. The beds and sofas were comfortable, the bathrooms elegant and the kitchen had as much in it as my own kitchen at home, if not more. The bikes were an added bonus and we loved exploring the Catalan town of Thuir and eating outside on still-warm late summer/early autumn evening. Amanda was most generous having supplied us with masses of information about beautiful beaches and places to visit through the Pyrenees and down towards Baynols and the Spanish Coast. What a beautiful place to live in and to visit.
We enjoyed a wonderful and relaxing holiday in this beautifully restored farmhouse, and would most definitely recommend it to friends and relatives. We received a very warm welcome from Amanda, accompanied by a refreshing glass of chilled wine for the adults, and home made lemonade for the children. She had prepared a starter food package for us, as we arrived late in the evening, and the house was immaculate from top to bottom. Imaginative decoration in tandem with all practical necessities ensured that we felt completely relaxed within minutes of our arrival, and even managed a midnight swim in the charming pool before bedtime ! Given that our 6 children are aged from 6 to 14, we were worried that they might become bored in such a tranquil environment, but the wide range of local activities, such as the marvellous markets and child friendly restaurants, as well as Amanda`s surprise treasure hunt for the children (!!) ensured a busy and fulfilling programme, interrupted by delicious local produce and excellent local wines. We can`t wait to go and stay again !
One of my dreams had always been to have a relaxed, happy and restful holiday with my family all around me – and this dream came true last summer with the most wonderful fortnight in Amanda's gorgeous farmhouse and grange. My husband and I, our four grown up children and their partners and three lovely little grand- daughters (aged 4, 2 and 18 months) had the holiday of a lifetime. Amanda, our lovely host, had kindly given up her home in the grange, immediately adjacent to the farmhouse, in order to give us the space we needed to enjoy each other's company ( and also escape for a quiet read or nap when the little ones were rambunctious!). The setting is just wonderful – mountains in the background, peach orchards and fields around – and the farmhouse and grange have every kind of home comfort we could have wished for. We spent happy meal times around the huge table under the shade of the mulberry trees, enjoyed cooling off in the lovely pool, played ping-pong and boules and enjoyed the space and freedom the farmhouse and grounds offers. The children had a smashing time playing and splashing in the pool and enjoyed the huge collection of toys and books Amanda has collected. The adults enjoyed the local wines over dinner outside once the tiddlers crashed out after their exciting days. We explored the pretty local town of Thuir and ventured further to wonderful Collioure , but mostly just enjoyed chilling at the farmhouse. Amanda was a wonderful host, warm and friendly and full of ideas and advice about special places to visit. We still talk about our wonderful holiday and we will certainly be back – next time with more grandchildren as two on the way in 2017! I couldn't recommend this lovely place more warmly.
After my initial inquiry I was warmly greeted in email by the lovely Amanda. When we eventually met, the greeting was warm friendly and my girls were made to feel like princesses... she catered for our every need and I knew we would enjoy our stay. Needless to say it was fabulous .... with a real home from home feel and all the usual home comforts plus the added luxury of our own private terrace and pool... both completely essential in the heat of the French summer. Great access to local towns, beaches and the mountains... utterly perfect. Can't wait to come back soon.
Super-stylishly presented, super-comfortable, and well kitted-out holiday farmhouse, pool and garden in this beautiful corner of France. In mid-Sept the pool was still warm enough to swim, and then dry off under the pretty mulberry trees with a glass of the excellent local wine. Sheer bliss! Everything about our stay exceeded our expectations - thank you Amanda, and for making us feel so very welcome. We'll be back!
We had a wonderfully relaxing stay at the Catalan mas in September and came home thoroughly energized although we miss the beautiful clear blue skies and sunshine.
The house was not like a normal rental villa. More like a "home from home". We loved all the personal touches and attention to detail. My teenagers loved having all the up-to-date movies at their finger tips while my husband and I were happy to take ourselves off and explore the beautiful beaches and coastal areas which are perfect for hiking.
We loved Salvador Dali's house in Cadaquez (thank you Amanda for the many brilliant recommendations by the way). We loved the Dali museum at Figueres and we loved the picturesque port of Collioure where we were able to wander and shop and have lunch in the sunshine without any crowds of tourists.
All in all we cannot recommend this house for its comfort and position between the mountains, seaside and so close to some fabulous unspoilt parts of Spain, just 20 minutes away.
Perfect for Artist/Nature-Lovers/Bird Watcher/Beach-Going/Poolside Retreats, Couples Retreats and Family Get-Togethers alike.
The Catalan Mas is perfectly positioned slap bang in the middle of the moutains and beaches of Catalonia, making it an ideal centre for art groups or painting holidays. The owner is herself an artist who is very happy to organize informal trips to local sites of artistic merit and interest. The picturesque vineyards, rocky coastal coves and snow-covered mountains provide endless creative inspiration for small accompanied trips, aswell as beautiful places in which to sketch or just soak up the artistic history and organic Catalan flavour:the old fishing port of Collieure, made famous by the Impressionist french painters, such as Matisse, the picturesque Spanish fishing Port Lucat, at Cadaquez,was home to Salvador Dali, the Dali Museum in Figueres and Ceret Museum of Modern Art, founded by Pablo Picasso and many fascinating galleries to be found in Perpignan (including the '500 Metres from the Centre of the World', which refers to the words, used by Dali himself, to describe the city's old railway station, which he decorated).
The house is between 20 and 40 minutes comfortable drive from a wide range of beaches along the Mediterrean coast. Choose between long sandy stretches of beach such as Argeles, St Cyprien and Canet Plage or quieter, smaller beaches, such as Le Racou and Collioure. Or drive along the old coastal road and the corniche towards and over the Spanish border, with its tiny coves and out of the way but excellent little tapas bars, restaurants and cafes all the way to Dali's home at Port Lleucat.
To get to the Mas you have the choice of 5 airports, all served by UK budget airlines. Perpignan airport is closest, just 20 minutes drive door to door from the house (Ryanair, Easyjet and FlyB). Second favourite is an easy 40 minute drive to Gerona in Spain (Ryanair). Toulouse is an easy 2 hour drive, Montpellier 90 minutes drive,Bezier and Carcasonne (Ryanair and Easyjet) an hour. Barcelona Airport is now only one hour from Perpignan via a scenic new TGV train taking an hour or is a very beautiful and comfortable 90 minutes drive away. Some of our visitors choose to spend a few days in this cultural, colourful city en route to us.
Thuir is a beautiful medieval market town, just 5 minutes drive from the house. The breathtaking fortified medieval town of Castenou, which has won the Prettiest Village in France award over several years, is just 5 minutes drive away and lovely for cool evening walks and drinks or supper, sitting looking down over the stunning valley below. Historically and aethetically-fascinating Cathar fortresses and monasteries, gorges and canyons, archeological sites such as the Caves at Tautavel (where the oldest human remains in Europe have been found) and areas of outstanding natural beauty, such as the ephemeral sandstone natural outcrops, sitting like natural sculptures of a scaled-down Grand Canyon of Les Orgues, at Ille sur Tête are between 20 and 40 minutes drive away depending on how much you get side-tracked... The livelier, more bustling city of Perpignan, with its tradition in art (Picasso and Dali are famously among the many creative visitors drawn by the incredible light of the South of France), music, food and folk festivals throughout the summer months, is 20 mins drive from the house.
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Thuir, with its pink marble pavements, is itself a place where visitors come to wander around and admire the medieval streets, shops, restaurants or just to sit and watch the world go by at one of the many street cafes. The saturday market with its choice of wines, olives, bread and cheese, is still where a lot of locals do their weekly shop. There is a good selection of restaurants and cafes, 4 butchers, an excellent fishmonger (try the freshly-caught 'seche de calamar'), several boulangeries, chocolate and cake shops and a wide selection of places to buy gifts and treats. (There are also 3 banks in the town!) Perpignan, Gerona and Figueres are all great for shopping, or further afield you could bathe in the thermal baths at St Thomas (1 hr). Diving, snorkelling, kayaking and rafting are just some of the water sports available in the area (30 mins to an hour by car). There is also the outdoor watersports centre of Aqualand,just 30 mins drive, for those with energetic children or teenagers.
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Changeover is at 4pm each Saturday during Summer months (although flexible during the rest of the year in order that you might benefit from some of the low-cost flights available from the UK). The house must be vacated by 10am on the last day which we would ask our guests to respect in order that we can ensure the house will be in the same good order that it was in when they arrived themselves. We are happy to make suggestions for child-friendly beach clubs with all day food service, delicious seafood, shower facilities easily accessible from the motorway and Perpignan airport for all day waits if your arrival means you might be hanging around waiting for access to the property here.
Additional Guests:
Any additional guests to the house that are added after the time of your holiday booking will be charged an 'additional person supplement' of £20 per person per night to cover extra laundry and cleaning costs. We ask that wherever possible you could give us final numbers at the time of booking to avoid additional costs to you and last minute organizational nightmares for our cleaning team.
Traveling with Pets:
Well-behaved and house-trained canine companions are welcome at an additional weekly charge of £70 to cover extra cleaning costs.
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The breakfast, nice and polite staff. Nice beds, marble bathroom. The temperature, too hot in the room. Tobaccosmoke got inside the room via the ventilationsystem and via the open door to the balcony, because other guests were smoking just outside.
close to nearest cities; nice lobby; worse than other hotels of the same network poor reception service and help; old and not to clean common spaces and rooms; inaccessible sauna hours
Good access from highway, parking, good breakfast,
Price was very fair. Seems to be well located for local attractions. Decoration was tired. Wanted to stay a 2nd night, but price had doubled because of trade fair.
The kindness of staff
Very good restaurant - and breakfast buffet
No special remark. Our stay over for one night was without a problem. Restaurant menu may have some ' normal ' items for younger kids. The food was never the less excelent.
convenience very very noisy. We have stayed there before but the noise was unbearable this time inside the hotel and from the trains and motorway
The only comment I have about the Hotal is the rooms was very hot and you had not way of cooling the room down
Good value for money, in a quiet area of Recklinghausen, in between some sport clubs. Okay for 1 or 2 nights if you have to be in the area. I would not recommend for longer stays or holidays. Good free parking facilities. Surroundings not very attractive, limited in-house facilities.
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This Residenz Hotel is a combination of a retirement home and hotel which gives it a strange atmosphere. Breakfast and dinner were very nice.
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i liked everything about the hotel!!!
Very friendly staff, good wellness ctr, big well designed rooms, easy to find, overall very happy with my stay.
Large sized room Internet WIFI connection is too expensive!
lovely setting and beautiful hotel. We were placed in the rooms in the old stable block, bit of a maze to get there but once you did room was excelent. Breakfast was good an eat in the restaurant (which is not the largest). All staff were excelent and most speak good english. The only down side toi the hotel is the golf club attached which does mean the the car park which is not very big does get full, we managed to bag the last parking spot on all 3 times we returned to the hotel. Plus the chuirch in the town does ring every 15 mins and on the hour lets you know the time.However i would have to admit that you dont always here it
The staff were friendly & acommodating @ all times. The surroundings were beautiful ,the golf facilities were very good,unfortunately we did not take our clubs as it was hard to obtain a tee time prior to travelling. The room were huge & the bed luxurious. The breakfast service was a little slow but we were last to breakfast most days.
Nice castle style hotel. The breakfast buffet is good at staff was very polite. Fresh eggs are made when ordered. Noise from people in other rooms, no sound proof doors/walls. Dirty carpet in the room A hotel of this type should have spa/fitness/pool, but these features are missing.
Very lovely setting, couldn't fault the hotel, very good value.
Castle and atmosphere Wait staff could have been more friendly
Staff were extremely efficient & friendly Fod & drink excellent The church bells on a Sunda morning start at 6am & continue on the hour,make sure you have plenty of Weissbeer the night before!
Very beautiful castle, in an ideal situation to visit the area of Munsterland and its castles. Very nice room in the central building of the castle, comfortable and spacious. Excellent dinner, breakfast and service. Easy to park and free of charge! Better information on the location and services related to the fitness facilities and swimming pool is needed.
Very nice location. very compliant staff. good food and variety. Moat was very nice and main building. facilities very good The on line system not carrying out requests!! The room should not of been advertised superior as it most certainly was not. Even as a three star I am unsure it would fit that description. Should of been informed that the double bed was two beds put together as my partner and I being a young couple in love found making love an obstacle course as the beds kept spliting and us falling through!!! Had I known I would of booked one double bed not two odd sized beds put together. I am not sure whether I would stay again because of the room I would like to see what better rooms were on offer.
Great atmosphere, extreme friendly staff
Very special place Humidity in the room
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the large room they provided me for three people
This is the best Best Western I have been to, beautiful building, nice room with big bathroom, very close to city centre. Full parking space in front of the hotel.
The friendly people which are workin there
very nice and helpfull staff. Nice to wake up with the 'old fashioned' sound churchbells that rang from various towers in the village,
breakfast, styl, location not free internet very bad, not kettle in the room,
Nice location - right in the center of the city, well-manured staff. I really enjoyed my staying there.
very friendly staff very nice,clean room
Very friendly and helpful staff. Fantastic location close to all shops and places of interest in Recklinghausen. Restaraunt was managed seperate from the hotel, and we were not able to charge the evening meal to our room account.
This hotel location is very suitable for travellers - the center of the city, near large shops, stores and restorants. The rooms are very noisy - there is the bad soundisolation.
The staff were really lovely - very kind when we had to check out late because my partner was ill. The breakfast was great. The bed was really comfortable and the room was very clean. Only something small - would have loved to have tea/coffee making facilities in the room!
A city hotel offering value for money to the business man.
very clean and comfortable room which was of a good size. 4 minutes walk from the railway station yet in an area which is decent and quiet. The room and bath were nice and although simple not basic. Good value hotel. none.
The evaluation for the hotel in consideration for the fare is good. If I want more convenience, I should pay more.
Good location in the city centre, close to railway station, public transport, shops, restaurants etc. Parking directly in front of the hotel. Staff was kind and helpful. I had requested a room at the front side, but was given a room at the rear side of the hotel. Changing over was no problem, however (it was extremely quiet over the weekend I was there). Hotel surroundings have gone down quite a bit over the past few years, with many shops closed or for rent.
in de center of city.
Both the quality of the evening dinner and support from the hotel staff was excellent
Clean, comfortable hotel next to the Church. The bells in the morning where unexpected but not unpleasant. Food was good with an excellent breakfast.
The owner is nice,this is my second time to live there. they gave me the better room than last time.
friendly staff, but obviously run on a budget.continental breakfast was just adequate with insufficient bread rolls.
Very quiet place Nothing
The quietness.
Extremely polite and forthcoming staff. The kitchen was servicing a special event when we arrived; nevertheless we have been offered an excellent lunch. The dinner was also excellent, the cuisine of this hotel is remarkable. It is very clean, well maintained and the place is very quiet. Nothing that we did not like; the hotel is a bit far from the city, but one enjoys the nature.


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PATIENTS at Whipps Cross Hospital have demanded 'ridiculous' hospital car park charges are reformed, after the Scottish Parliament voted to abolish fees in all NHS premises north of the border.
Visitors to Whipps Cross Hospital currently have to fork out £2 to use a space for up to two hours with prices rising to £15 for a full day.
But critics claim that it is the needy who bear the brunt of this 'stealth tax on the sick'.
Mum-of-three Pat Ilett, of Thornwood Close in South Woodford, has seen her mother, father and partner all die at Whipps Cross in recent years and still has to visit there regularly to receive treatment for a persistent hip problem.
She said: "It's ridiculous. I don't mind paying a token charge of 50p if is goes into the NHS, but it's wrong to be charged 50p every half-an-hour for the time you visit.
"Sometimes you can turn up for a 2pm appointment but still be waiting ages afterwards and have to pay for it all.
"Paying also means that there should be a properly maintained car park with a security guard going around to make sure your car isn't vandalised."
The Whipps Cross hospital trust earned £552,000 last year from car parking, but some other hospitals around the country are earning even more, with Southampton University NHS Hospital Trust topping the league with £2.4 million.
Car park charges at Goodmayes' King George Hospital start at £1.60 for three hours but that rises to £15 for an entire day.
Health Service minster Ben Bradshaw played down the likliehood of charges being abolished in England, saying it was not a sensible use of limited resources to subsidise car parking at hospitals for everyone.
He added: "In England, hospital car parking charges are decided locally by individual trusts to cover the cost of running and maintaining a car park."
A spokeswoman for Whipps Cross said it had no plans to scrap car park charges.
She added: "Car parking income helps to fund road and pavement resurfacing and marking, improving and renewing street lighting, safety improvements such as pedestrian crossings, road marking for ambulance and disabled bays, maintenance of car park surfaces, provision of external CCTV camera systems and improving cycling facilities for staff and visitors to the trust.
"The trust has concession payment arrangements for the relatives of long stay or very ill patients, hardship cases, cancer and renal patients and their relatives or carers."


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Our Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bars are probably in my top 5 favorite desserts. I love every gooey layer of those things! Now that it's Fall, I love to find ways to turn some of my favorite recipes into something a little more festive for the season. With a few changes to our classic cookie bar recipe, these beautiful bars were born!
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- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
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- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
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Vincent "Jim" Basile of Roxbury Township died Monday, Feb. 26, 2001, at Morristown Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 77. Born in Netcong, he lived in Port Morris before moving to the Kenvil section of Roxbury Township 45 years ago. He served in the Army Air Corps in England and France during World War II as an ammunitions handler. Mr. Basile was employed as a foreman with Hercules Powder Co., Kenvil, for 3 8 years before retiring in 1981. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2833, Kenvil, the Ever Young Seniors of Roxbury, the Dover Bowling League and the Flanders Golf Club. He was a past member of the Roxbury Colts Club, the Roxbury Republican Club and the Netcong Sports Club. He was an avid fisherman, bowler and golfer. His brothers, Angelo and Michael, and his sisters, Emma Togno and Mary Esposito, died previously.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Arlene Johnson; a son, James V. of Mine Hill Township; two daughters, Roxanne Wallace and her husband, David, of the Long Valley section of Washington Township and Lori Aquilino and her husband, Nicholas, of Hopatcong; a brother, Natalino Basile of Netcong; two sisters, Virginia Romano of Netcong and Julia Shenesky of Phoenix, Ariz.; a granddaughter Leigh An n Wallace and grandson Ty Aquilino; and many nieces and nephews.
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AIB Roast Row: Interesting Anti And Pro Tweets By Celebrities
The recently held AIB Roast has been in news ever since it went live on Youtube. The first time of its kind in India, AIB Roast, also called AIB Knockout was hosted by Karan Johar, while Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor were the guests to get roasted.
AIB Roast has been trending on Twitter since much long for the hype it created and now two more hashtags related to AIB Roast or AIB Knockout has been trending, 'AIBNationalShame' and 'WeStandByAIBKnockout'.
After the show became available on Youtube, AIB Roast created a huge wave of controversy for its adult verbal content. While, several celebrities enjoyed the show applauding its 'good sense of humour' on Twitter, some others ridiculed the same calling it 'vulgar'.
All the celebrities, including Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor on AIB Roast stage along with the AIB members, were seen cracking adult jokes on each other. While, the jokes appeared super funny to some, the same words seemed to be vulgar and cheap to some others.
Now, with a debate already gearing up on Twitter with hashtags 'AIBNationalShame' and 'WeStandByAIBKnockout', several celebrities expressed their opinion on the show.
Here is a compilation of several celebrity tweets on AIB Roast or AIB Knockout hosted by Karan Johar with special appearance by Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor. Also check snaps from the show...
Rajkummar Rao @RajkummarRao
#AIBKnockout @thetanmay OMG you guys are amazing. What a spectacular show put together. Big Congratulations to all of you at AIB.
SOPHIE CHOUDRY @Sophie_Choudry
By makin an issue out it, #AIBKnockout has become even more popular😋 Incidentally,I find the corruption I read about everyday more offensive
Sir Ravindra Jadeja @SirJadeja
#AIBRoast proved that Deepika's Cleavage Controversy and Sonakshi's KRK Controversy was Totally Publicity Stunt. AIB National Shame
Twinkle Khanna @mrsfunnybones
Thank you @arjunk26 @karanjohar for making me collapse with laughter seeing the roast &k-jo they were killing you:) #mustwatch #AIBRoast
Huma Qureshi @humasqureshi
Unreal!Can't believe I missed it live @thetanmay @mojorojo @gkhamba @RanveerOfficial @arjunk26 @karanjohar killed it #AIBKnockout #madepic
Kamaal R Khan-KRK @kamaalrkhan
Now @SunnyLeone is more respected girl than all those girls who were sitting n laughing for crap, Ghatiya n Wahiyat Jokes of #AIBKnockout
Satyadeep Misra @satyadeepmisra
An unfortunate case of eats, shoots & leaves or am I being too kind to @ashokepandit ? What say @karanjohar?? #AIBKnockout
Shashank khaitan @ShashankKhaitan
#AIBKnockout ... That was hole-arious... Give it up for @karanjohar @arjunk26 @RanveerOfficial @RajeevMasand @thetanmay ...
TANUJ GARG @tanuj_garg
Unoffensive,sanitized,correct.#AIBKnockout is none of these&that's why itdelivers the hardestknock @mojorojo @thetanmay @gkhamba @awryaditi
Sanjay Jha @JhaSanjay
#AIBRoast is what we all need; an ability to laugh at ourselves is a state of self-actualization. Bhakts, Sanghis, BJP acolytes can sulk!
Pritish Nandy @PritishNandy
I support the @AllIndiaBakchod roast. We need more such. Those who disapprove need not watch them. @RanveerOfficial @arjunk26 @karanjohar
Pooja Missra @PoojaMissra
I think we all should condemn #AIBRoast which was full of forceful Filth,dirt & abuse! I hope they get some sense & sanity prevails over
Sonakshi Sinha @sonakshisinha
So nice to see twitter is filled with such angels who point out hypocrisy n never use foul language n have nvr laughed at dirty jokes (haw)
Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin
@karanjohar Very few wil realise the amount of guts n integrity needed 2 endorse AIB .tht u did nd wth the class u did I wanna touch ur feet
Deepika Padukone @deepikapadukone
The #AIBKnockout is the coolest funniest show I have EVER witnessed!@AllIndiaBakchod @arjunk26 @karanjohar @RajeevMasand


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NEW YORK – When politicians around the world tell the story of global warming, they cast it as humanity's greatest challenge. But they also promise that it is a challenge that they can meet at low cost, while improving the world in countless other ways. We now know that is nonsense.
Political heavyweights from US Secretary of State John Kerry to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon call climate change "the greatest challenge of our generation." If we fail to address it, Kerry says, the costs will be "catastrophic." Indeed, this has been the standard assertion of politicians since the so-called Stern Review commissioned by the British government in 2006.
That report famously valued the damage caused by global warming at 5-20% of GDP – a major disruption "on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the twentieth century."
Tackling climate change, we are told, would carry a much lower cost. The president of the European Commission promised that while the European Union's climate policies are "not cost-free," they would amount to just 0.5% of GDP. Indeed, politicians of all stripes have reiterated the Stern Review's finding that global warming can be curtailed by policies costing just 1% of world GDP.


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Greetings all
I just started using the Purchases section and want to upload all of my invoices onto it. For that I have to ask two questions.
- The purchases were not made today and need to be backdated. Is there a way to go about this other than putting in a "default" value?
- Is there anyway to get more info in there? I have the invoice number, Purchase Order and most important the line info (each item purchased in the invoice)
If anyone has some imput or maybe an add-on which will do this, I would be greatly appreciative
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Oct 26, 2010 at 8:48 UTC
click purchases,
goto settings
goto advanced.
Nov 4, 2010 at 11:26 UTC
Hi Daren,
If you click the 'edit details' link for a purchase (on the purchases page), you can specify the purchase order number. The other fields can be added by creating custom attributes under Settings > Advanced & International Options > Custom Attributes. Once created, they will appear in the 'edit details' area for each purchase (and also on the "new purchase" dialogs).
For your backdated purchases, would importing older purchases from a CSV file solve this for you? We are currently looking at the best way to help people get older purchases into the system in the easiest way, so any feedback would be appreciated.
Nov 18, 2010 at 1:33 UTC
Greetings Eric
Sorry for the late reply. The old purchase orders are yet to be entered into a PC and therefore will have to be handled manually.
I will look into what you said here about the custom attributes and report back with the outcome
Many Thanks
Nov 18, 2010 at 7:10 UTC
greetings Eric
After re-reading ur message I realised that it did not cover what I was looking for. I am interested in adding MORE info to the purchasing section. I need to store the PO number, Invoice number and Item number (multiple items on the invoice). I need to figure out how to allow the system to let me store this info.
Nov 29, 2010 at 12:20 UTC
Hi Daren,
If you expand the purchase using the 'add more details' link, you'll see a place to enter the PO number. For the Invoice number and Item number, please follow this how-to which will describe how you can create new custom attributes on your purchases. After creating the custom attributes (depending on how you name things), you will end up with something like the following picture (shows both a new purchase dialog and an expanded purchase row containing the new custom attributes):
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Lighting Design
The last few years have witnessed exciting and radical changes in lighting design in domestic, commercial and urban environments. Technical innovations, creative developments and new expectations including the need for environmentally friendly technologies and the implications in design, considerations are made as to the artistic value, emotional and social impact of interior lighting. Led by the vision of Architecture for urban and domestic space, the career of the lighting designer has taken centre stage in the design process and has become a highly inter-disciplinary experience. Participants will study the most recent trends in the profession; that cover areas from light sculptures to commercial lighting systems produced in series, as well as new innovative lighting and sustainable lighting solutions applicable to projects of Lighting Design. Week 1
The history and context in the way we live and the study of the contemporary trends will form the initial introduction to the course. By studying the way in which artificial light has been applied history and particularly by architects and designers of the XX century, participants will gain a significant understanding of how we see the future. The course will analyse light perception: natural and artificial, mood and technical resolution. Participants will be introduced to the lighting project: interpretation of a brief and the creative proposal of a project and the definition of the necessary technical drawings to represent a project of lighting design. Week 2
The second week will look at new technologies with particular reference to advances in bright light sources: halogen, incandescent and fluorescent lights, LEDs, and optical fibers. Participants will look at the influence on design of Artistic trends: shows of Light Art/artists' installations at the Hayward Gallery, London and Artist's lights, Turin. Showroom visits in the field will include Artemide-Cini & Nils-Foscarini-Luceplan-Flos - Guzzini - Barovier & Toso. Participants will progress their work in project development and choice of illumination for the projects. Week 3
Bespoke lighting solutions for domestic interior spaces is a growing trend and pivotal in defining the style and mood for interior solutions. Communal and social spaces within domestic interiors, as well as private spaces, will be illustrated by case-study presentations. Outdoor and urban lighting solutions are also discussed along with event lighting that present different dynamics in developing project solutions. In the final week participants will focus on the processing of their final design project. The course will conclude with a presentation and discussion of the final body of work. Pre-requisites
The course is addressed to students in Interior Design and Architecture who would like to explore the lighting theme in Interior projects and for experts who desire to keep pace with the latest international trends. Language
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By Nadia Carminati
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Livorno goalkeeper Marco Amelia has revealed his desire to join Roma.Livorno goalkeeper Marco Amelia has revealed his desire to join Roma.
The Italy international has been one of the revelations of the Serie A season and has caught the eye of Roma.
Giallorossi coach Luciano Spalletti has been impressed by Amelia's performances and is now considering a January bid.
Spalletti has not been happy with Curci and Doni - the two keepers currently at his disposal - and is aiming to tempt Amelia to Stadio Olimpico.
Amelia is receptive to Roma's overtures and confirmed his wish to sign a contract in the Eternal City in the New Year.
"I'm ready to sign a contract for life with Roma," Amelia told a Tuscan television programme.
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