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Anzen rally announcement at Toyota Uganda
By toyota on Tuesday, October, 25th, 2016 in Latest News
August 2014 was declared the ANZEN Month at Toyota Uganda.
The first rally was conducted at Gulu Toyota on 8th Aug.14, then to Head- office Kampala on the 11th Aug.14 and toward close of the month on the 28th Aug.14.
The announcements declaring the state of emergency in regards to safety at Gulu Toyota and Head-office were made by the Chief Operations Officer—Peter Matiru while that at Mbale Toyota was made by Paul Rugambwa—National HR Manager.
A report on the three (3) fatal accidents that occurred in the group was shared and a moment of silence at all the rallies was called to remember the loss in the Toyota Family.
The team was advised to always be safety compliant and conscious both at the workplace and at home.
The HRM advised the staff in Mbale Branch to always wear their PPEs and ensure their work places are tidy and clean at all times.
"Team we should ensure we return to our homes safe like we left", said Jane Makanga the HR Assistant behind this activity. The Safety Flags were signed by all staff at the rally. The Safety slogan was thereafter said three (3) times and teams dispersed.


text: 24 Richard Chamberlain Countdown to Christmas - A Christmas Carol (2017) Dec Every Christmas season, I will watch and listen to multiple versions of the Charles Dickens classic tale, A Christmas Carol. That said, the bar is set high for whenever I listen to a new version. For movies, Alastair Sim is king as Scrooge (1951) is the definitive adaptation. For audio, nothing surpasses Lionel Barrymore in the Campbell Playhouse presentation from 1939 that features Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Players. That said, I finally listened to one of the most recent audio plays

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Talking Carl is an interactive little monster with big eyes and a big mouth. He will giggle when tickled, and complain when poked. Children almost always crack up laughing themselves when they tickle or poke Carl. If you have a nonverbal child, just being able to get a giggle or an "ouch" in sympathy is good speech practice.
The other key thing Carl does is listen to what your child says when they talk into your phone and then repeat their words back to them. So if your child says, "Hi!" Carl will repeat, "Hi!" Carl will repeat anything the child says. If you are looking for a fun way to get your child to talk, this might do the trick for you. Check it out.
Here is a short YouTube video that demonstrates most of the things Talking Carl does (except the giggling). I chose this one because it was short, but did a nice demonstration of the speech repetition (not in English, but still a good demonstration).
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Dicking around with digital coloring and painting. Since I'm coloring Suicide Sisters myself, it behooves me to figure out as much as I can about how I work and how to work in general before spending hours and hours fucking it up and fixing it on the page. This was just supposed to be a color study, but I ended up getting lost in it and spent over 2 hours on it instead of the 30-40 minutes I intended. If I were to take it to finish, there's still a lot of work to be done to it, but I've got more pressing work to get to. Sigh.
The photo I referenced from is on Driven By Boredom (I don't remember what gallery I got it from, it's one of the recent ones, but I don't recall. He's a great photographer).
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This weekend's Red Bull Divide and Conquer Adventure Race will be a divider in more ways than one for Boise adventure racer Michael Tobin. The race takes place outside of Durango, Colorado, and runs along North America's continental divide. It will also divide Tobin and his Nike ACG/Balance Bar teammates who are used to racing together. The Divide and Conquer is a four-person relay race and each team member will race the event that they specialize in.
"I feel a little more pressure in this kind of event because when you're together, you can kind of carry each other," Tobin said. "When I'm out there alone, doing my thing, I had better perform to the best of my abilities so I don't let my teammates down."
The Divide and Conquer passes through the San Juan Mountain Range between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. Events include trail running (Tobin's specialty), paragliding, kayaking and mountain biking. The lowest elevation during the race is just under 7,000 feet and the highest point is above 13,000.
It's been business as usual for Tobin. In May, he raced with Balance Bar teammate Mike Kloser in a 24-hour orienteering competition, picking up a win in the eastern Arizona desert.
"Everyone was given a map to the course two hours before the event started. We surprised ourselves (with the win)," he said.
Tobin and his teammates will participate in several more races this summer as a warm-up for the Primal Quest, which is in Washington state in September.
Couer d'Alene-based martial artist Trevor Prangley will graduate to the big-time of freestyle fighting on Saturday, June 19, when he makes his debut in the Ultimate Fighting Championships. Prangley, 32, a South African transplant by way of a wrestling scholarship at Northern Idaho College, has already compiled a six-win, one-loss record in professional mixed martial arts, and is coming off of a high-profile win at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. He was also the 1995 South African National Freestyle Wrestling champion, an alternate on that country's freestyle Olympic team, and a runner-up at the 1997 National Junior College championships. But until this weekend, he has yet to enter the illustrious and purse-heavy world of UFC fighting.
Prangley's opponent on the undercard of "UFC 48: Payback" at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, is 30-year-old middleweight Curtis Stout. Stout is an expert in the Thailand boxing style known as Muay Thai, and has compiled a one-win, no-loss and one-draw record in his brief UFC career. For more information about Prangley's bout and how to view it, go to www.ufc.tv.
Boise Hawks kick (hit?, pitch?) off their 21st season on Friday, June 18, in a game with the Spokane Indians.
Opening night highlights include:
• Players will be available on the field for autographs from 6:15-6:40 p.m. followed by a special introduction of the new team.
• Team mascot Humphrey the Hawk will make an assisted flight into the stadium aboard the Saint Alphonsus Lifeflight helicopter.
• The first 1,000 fans will receive a baseball.
• Troy McClain of The Apprentice fame will throw out the first pitch and sign autographs.
• Fireworks display follows the game.
For more information go to www.boisehawks.com or call 322-5000.
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That is a sick TL. Triple step?
triple step ,mah body..
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triple step ,mah body..
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I fixed the pix for you - I guess the camera got it backwards huh?
There, looks much better now.
Guitars are the essence of meaning for all life in the universe.
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Forgot to join the club.
Here's my new TL60 with all kinds of oddball options:
Hog neck/Alder sides
Alder top and headstock
Holdsworth Headstock
Push/Pull Coil Split w/5-way switch
Custom Trans Orange with Sunset Burst Edges
ST300 style Deeper Forearm and Belly Contours
The contours make for an insanely comfortable TL shaped guitar.
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My TL looks good either way!
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Ooo! Nices TLs! Can I play...
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Great looking bunch of guitars.
The thing I love about mine (Besides the neck) is that it is the most versatile guitar I own. I have the SSH configuration and can slip easily from Nashville twang to creamy Clapton blues tones or humbucking metal tones.
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jay--sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Spud's got it almost exactly right, except that the logo is abalone, not gold. Options that aren't apparent in the pics are the 20" fretboard radius (R20) and stainless steel jumbo frets (STJF).
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And we both forgot the rosewood knobs. :-p
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Darn it, if I had ordered a TL instead of a DC with the wilky back in '96, I'd still have a Carvin guitar.
TL's are awesome. Rokdog, that deep blue is "WOW!"
Bring back the ST body option
and the Quad-X
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here is my TL with the 14"radius and 3 way mini-toggle.
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Gotta love the little face in the back of the guitar! Great score bro, and welcome to the club!
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My 1994 Classic sunburst TL60T
In case it's not obvious from the photo: Classic sunburst quilted maple with matching headstock, black hardware, dual humbuckers, coil taps, tung oiled neck, Dunlop strap locks.
In many ways, the coil taps were the best option I ordered. I love the clean tone I get mixing tapped and untapped sounds.
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Love the finish gregorbill!
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That's the first thing I noticed too .. lol
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This Club TL needs to get bigger...
SO here's one more many of you just recently saw.
Seafoam Green (not Metallic as builder states) and shade runs more toward Mint Green.
Mahogany Neck/Alder body, Birdsey FB, MJ/SS frets, 12" radius, M22T/AP11/AP11
I am really impressed with this guitar. TL60's are one of the more affordable builds and it plays superbly and sounds incredible as well.
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I agree the TL club must get bigger. You will agree the spalt still cannot be handled.
Mahogany body/spalted maple top and 5 piece mahogany/maple neck. Heavy as hell but oh the sustain.
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Mines a TLB60 swanp ash
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@Roy Munson: That is a beautiful guitar and some SICK low string action! Holy crow!
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Thanks Dude, I'm diggin this guitar a lot. Great to look at even better to play.
Yep action is fairly low, but the pics are a bit of an illusion. I actually raised it from there a turn to about medium-low. Carvin standard setup is very low out fo the shop. Even though I asked for medium I got the ultra-low.
But they did setup perfectly for D-standard with my DAddario 10-52's and 4-springs on the Wilky as requested.
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Solar Champions Whisper Into Melbourne Motor Show
25th January, 2008
Two of Australia's most successful solar racing cars will take pride of place as the most 'eco-friendly' cars of all at this year's Melbourne Motor Show.
Aurora Vehicle Association will highlight 20 years of progress in solar car design by displaying its latest solar racer beside its original 1987 model.
Both cars are also scheduled for the Motor Show Cavalcade from Town Hall to Federation Square on 27th February, 2008.
A voluntary group based in Melbourne, Aurora started in 1980 with petrol vehicles, setting the world record at 0.0553125 l/100 km - or 5,107 miles per gallon.
In 1987 it went solar to contest the first trans-continental World Solar Challenge and it has since recorded one win, four seconds, one third, one fifth, one sixth and one crash.
Its first solar racer, which has been converted to battery power and renamed "Christine", will stand beside Aurora 101, which came third in class at the 2007 World Solar Challenge at an average of 85 km/h.
Last month Christine (shown above) set a new world record for distance travelled by an electric car on a single battery charge, adding 42 km to the previous record to travel 811.6 km in 15 hours 18 minutes on just $1.28 worth of electricity.
Without its solar panel, Christine has an estimated aerodynamic drag coefficient of 0.2, which is about two-thirds that of the best road cars, but still more than double that of Aurora 101 (opposite).
On the same day, Aurora 101 set out to challenge the world record for distance covered in 24 hours by a solar car - which the previous Aurora set at 1,701 km in 2005.
Although Aurora 101 covered "only" 1,590 km, it did so while running its own LED headlights during the night - and used just 5.8 kW hours of battery power, worth just 85 cents.
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Brookings's Bill Gale talks turkey about the long-term fiscal-policy mess George W. Bush and company have gotten us into:
Posted by DeLong at July 27, 2003 07:58 PM | TrackBack
The Brookings Institution: ...My testimony focuses on five main points.
First, the conventional wisdom is accurate: The United States faces substantial projected fiscal deficits in the coming decades. A big part of the reason why is that increasing life spans, the retirement of the baby boom generation, and changes in health care technology will generate persistent increases in spending on social security, medicare and medicaid that far outstrip the rate of growth of the economy.
Second, there is another big part of the problem: namely, the sunsets that are in the tax code. If all of those sunsets were removed, revenue would fall by 2.4 percent of GDP on a permanent basis. If, in addition, the alternative minimum tax is reduced so that only 3 percent of taxpayers stayed on it--about the current level--revenues would fall by about 2.7 percent of GDP.
These prospective revenue losses are huge. They are more than three times as large as the 75-year actuarial deficit in social security, expressed as a share of GDP. They exceed the 75-year actuarial deficit in the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. They are larger than the permanent deficit in Social Security.
These facts imply that the aggressive tax-cutting agenda that the Administration has pursued the last few years deserves equal billing with Social Security and Medicare as "the real fiscal danger." They also imply that the decisions you make about extending the tax cuts, about removing the sunsets, have long-term fiscal implications that are greater than those that arise from fixing the entire social security problem.
Third, there is no hidden pot of gold waiting for us in future revenue from tax-deferred retirement accounts. Recent press reports have grossly overstated the impact of research undertaken by Stanford University Professor Michael Boskin. The press reports and some aspects of Boskin's paper suggest that future revenues from tax-deferred saving plans are (i) omitted in fiscal gap calculations, (ii) large enough to eliminate most or all of the fiscal gap, and (iii) likely to raise $12 trillion in revenues through 2040.
These suggestions are flawed. In fact, the underlying fiscal gap calculations already contain almost all of the projected revenues. As a result, adjusting the conventional estimates for the difference between Boskin's projections and the projections that are built in to the fiscal gap estimates has trivial effects on the estimated long-term fiscal gap and on estimated future budget deficits. Nor are we ever likely to see $12 trillion in net revenues from tax-deferred retirement accounts. After adjusting Boskin's estimates for reasonable parameter values, an error in the computer code, and proper treatment of interest payments, the revenue effect will be either close to zero or possibly negative.
Fourth, the economic effects of persistent budget deficits are gradual but they are debilitating nonetheless. The real problem created by budget deficits is that they reduce national saving, which in turn reduces the assets owned by Americans and hence reduces future national income. These effects can be sizable, especially in the long-term. Conventional estimates, based on models developed by the CEA Chair Gregory Mankiw, indicate that the decline in the fiscal outlook since January 2001 has reduced GDP by at least 1 percent in 2012 and national income per household by $2,300 in 2012. These effects will persist over time. To put it differently, controlling the deficit is a pro-growth policy.
Much of the public debate focuses on how deficits affect interest rates. The impact on interest rates can be an important channel through which deficits matter. But the debate about interest rates is--or should be--considered a sideshow. Persistent deficits reduce national saving and therefore hurt the economy even if they do not affect interest rates. regardless of whether interest rates rise. Nor does it matter if the deficit is completely financed by capital inflows. For example, even if capital flows in to offset the deficit, that only implies that domestic production does not fall. But since Americans would own fewer claims on that production, since they borrowed from abroad, their income would still fall.
Fifth, the fiscal problems the country faces are unlike any other the country has faced in their origin and nature. We will likely have to find a new way of dealing with them. The notion that federal spending can be held to its post-WW II norm of about 18 or 19 percent of GDP seems virtually impossible to maintain without severely cutting the major entitlement programs or eliminating the rest of government. In future years, spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone is anticipated to exceed 19 percent of GDP. The unpleasant implication is that a long-term resolution of these issues that does not destroy the role of the federal government in American society will have to include significant increases in tax revenues as a share of the economy.
So what real advantage does the US have over Europe or other economies that makes our standard of living that much higher? Basically, the US was untouched by WWII and was able to dominate economically over a devastated Europe and Japan. Equalize the playing field and our hegemony is threatened. This is all the more reason for a multilateralist approach to policy! ! :)Posted by: bakho on July 27, 2003 08:38 PM
how long is it until you Yanks wake up to the fact that Republicans cause long term ruin to the US economy by being fiscally irresponsible.
Nixon, Reagan, Bush... Is your education system that bad?Posted by: Homer Paxton on July 27, 2003 09:15 PM
Wow. I knew the sunsets and AMT were bad, but that bad.....Posted by: Jason McCullough on July 28, 2003 12:54 AM
Homer, last I heard, the GOP outspent the Democratic Party by a factor of 2-3. Basically, concentrated wealth, crony capitalism, and a corrupt religious faction pulling the strings.Posted by: Barry on July 28, 2003 03:56 AM
"...increasing life spans, the retirement of the baby boom generation, and changes in health care technology will generate persistent increases in spending on social security, medicare and medicaid that far outstrip the rate of growth of the economy."
This is Bush's fault just how? And since we can't have budget deficits without spending, why so little attention to that?Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan on July 28, 2003 07:20 AM
The future reality is not the fault of Mr. Bush. The problem is that Mr. Bush is ignoring the future reality and not preparing us economically and fiscally for the future. BTW- with Mr. Bush as president and the GOP in charge of congress, spending has increased from 19% to 20 % of GDP. Meanwhile, revenues have dropped to 16.3% of GDP.
The solution to SS crisis is already appearing. People are working longer and retired people are working part time. Welcome to Walmart.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 07:51 AM
Patrick, those factors are not Bush's fault. The refusal to look seriously at those factors and to take them into consideration when evaluating economic policies is. The resolute dismissal of these factors is. The stubborn clinging to flawed, even disastrous, economic policies is.
As for the spending, the reason so little attention is paid to it is that it has such a small impact. The mandated spending and the military spending, neither of which anyone wishes to touch, dominate the budget. I seem to recall that you could eliminate literally everything else in the federal budget and you would still have deficits.Posted by: PaulB on July 28, 2003 08:31 AM
"The mandated spending and the military spending, neither of which anyone wishes to touch, dominate the budget."
Here's one person who wants to touch both.
19% of GDP on SS, Medicare, and Medicaid. If you think that's a good idea, I'm not voting for you.
SS is a pay-as-you-go system. You can have whatever I'm paying, but I think you should have to live with that. 15% of my wages is plenty.Posted by: Chad Peterson on July 28, 2003 08:43 AM
What is always forgotten is that the underlying issue concerns the size of government, not the size of the deficit per se. The Republicans exercise what leverage they can muster on the tax side, denying government direct financing in order to make it small, and the democrats exercise what leverage they have on the spending side, financing be damned. The rest of us are caught in the middle, with the underlying question never resolved for any length of time, partly because it is never really debated directly in the first place.
Divisions of opinion like this have ruined lesser countries.Posted by: Jim Harris on July 28, 2003 08:57 AM
"The Republicans exercise what leverage they can muster on the tax side, denying government direct financing in order to make it small"
Let's see the evidence, Jim, so we can be united on this front. How much has Dubya cut spending by during his time in office. What about the other Republican presidents? I guess if you keep saying that Republicans are for smaller government it must be true, right?Posted by: achilles on July 28, 2003 09:16 AM
I've asked bakho before for the source of his figure of 16.3% and didn't get an answer. The CBO says it was 17.9% in 2002.
To PaulB, spending has exactly the same impact on the deficit as tax revenue. Dollar for dollar.Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan on July 28, 2003 09:21 AM
What we must do is cut government spending. As soon as we get Democrats who will abandon Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, all will be well. Republicans will be ohhh sooo happidy. Besides, the deficit must be all Clinton's doing.Posted by: lise on July 28, 2003 09:23 AM
The real reason we may be able to pull through all this without major damage to our standard of living is that the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. If the Euro, Yen, Renmimbi, or some other currency ever reaches parity with us we are doomed to an Argentina-style collapse.
BTW: Saddam started charging for Iraqui oil in Euros... Was that his weapon of mass destruction?Posted by: claude tessier on July 28, 2003 09:28 AM
The real reason we may be able to pull through all this without major damage to our standard of living is that the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. If the Euro, Yen, Renmimbi, or some other currency ever reaches parity with us we are doomed to an Argentina-style collapse.
BTW: Saddam started charging for Iraqui oil in Euros... Was that his weapon of mass destruction?Posted by: claude tessier on July 28, 2003 09:30 AM
The real reason we may be able to pull through all this without major damage to our standard of living is that the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. If the Euro, Yen, Renmimbi, or some other currency ever reaches parity with us we are doomed to an Argentina-style collapse.
BTW: Saddam started charging for Iraqui oil in Euros... Was that his weapon of mass destruction?Posted by: claude tessier on July 28, 2003 09:30 AM
The real reason we may be able to pull through all this without major damage to our standard of living is that the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. If the Euro, Yen, Renmimbi, or some other currency ever reaches parity with us we are doomed to an Argentina-style collapse.
BTW: Saddam started charging for Iraqui oil in Euros... Was that his weapon of mass destruction?Posted by: claude tessier on July 28, 2003 09:32 AM
The real reason we may be able to pull through all this without major damage to our standard of living is that the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. If the Euro, Yen, Renmimbi, or some other currency ever reaches parity with us we are doomed to an Argentina-style collapse.
BTW: Saddam started charging for Iraqui oil in Euros... Was that his weapon of mass destruction?Posted by: claude tessier on July 28, 2003 09:34 AM
"The rest of us are caught in the middle, with the underlying question never resolved for any length of time, partly because it is never really debated directly in the first place."
All too true.
And are these 19% worries entirely due to taxation deadweight loss, or something else?Posted by: Jason McCullough on July 28, 2003 09:42 AM
"The rest of us are caught in the middle, with the underlying question never resolved for any length of time, partly because it is never really debated directly in the first place."
All too true.
And are these 19% worries entirely due to taxation deadweight loss, or something else?Posted by: Jason McCullough on July 28, 2003 09:45 AM
It Looked Good on Paper
By DANIEL ALTMAN
IN a flash of intuition, Michael J. Boskin had found a silver bullet. Or so it seemed.
About six months ago, Professor Boskin, an economist at Stanford who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the first President George Bush, released a paper suggesting that the federal government had a bounty of $12 trillion coming that no one had bothered to count.
Baby boomers and others, who spent decades making tax-free contributions to their I.R.A.'s and 401(k) plans, would soon begin paying taxes on withdrawals from those accounts, Professor Boskin noted. The windfall from all that, he argued, would more than cover the deficits in Social Security and Medicare. He even suggested that the government sell securities abroad, backed by the expected revenue, to cover its more imminent deficits.
But now it appears that Professor Boskin fired a blank....Posted by: anne on July 28, 2003 10:57 AM
Red Ink in States Beginning to Hurt Economic Recovery
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
Having already stripped the nation of a source of economic growth, the budget crises in California and in almost every other state are now beginning to drag down the national economy, prolonging the weak, jobless recovery, the latest budget numbers show....
No problem, at least we're not Japan. Say what?Posted by: bill on July 28, 2003 11:41 AM
The rebuttal on Boskin's deferred tax savings paper addressed two of the supposed claims about his paper. Boskin's results did seem to hinge on an alleged increase in national savings, which sounded fishy. It was. Boskin's claim to have found something new sounded bogus. It was. My third problem with the supposed benefits from deferred taxation actually came from reading an NRO (Bartlett I think) review of it where NRO put forth the silly notion that the government could lend at risk-free rates and hope to recoup returns from the private sector investing in higher return investments. Boskin did scribble a lot on the appropriate discount rates but I was not sure whether he was to blame for this naive argument or whether this was the NRO's error. It would seem that the rebuttal to Boskin did not even consider it - so maybe it was the NRO misreading Boskin and not Boskin's fault after all.Posted by: Hal McClure on July 28, 2003 11:49 AM
"spending has exactly the same impact on the deficit as tax revenue. Dollar for dollar."
OK, say we reduce Bill Gates' taxes and get the money by firing teachers.
What positive impact on the economy is attained by cutting Bill Gates' taxes? What's he going to do with the money that he isn't already doing with the $100 billion he already has?
But clearly firing teachers to finance that tax cut has a HUGE impact.Posted by: IssuesGuy on July 28, 2003 11:54 AM
Figure it out. The revenue drops and GDP expands. The revenue as % of GDP shrinks.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 12:27 PM
Figure it out. We got problems, folks, that is is you like social services and benefits.
Figure it out. The deficit is a big big problem. The surplus was a blessing we have squandered with absurd tax cuts for the richee rich, and the consequences will be sharp and long for the middle class and poor. Imagine, I dared mention the poor. Shudders....Posted by: lise on July 28, 2003 12:49 PM
June 13, the 10 year treasury yield was 3.11%. July 28, the treasury yield is 4.28. This is quite a sharp increase, and can in time effectively turn back the effect of the last 2 Fed rate cuts.Posted by: anne on July 28, 2003 01:07 PM
Here is linkto revenue figures. I think the 2004 estimate will be too low if the stock market recovers enough.
Under Presidents Reagan and Bush the elder, federal spending averaged 22 percent of GDP. George W. Bushs budgets will take spending from around 20 percent of GDP toward 19 percent over the next decade.
Even skeptics who think Bush is lowballing his spending plans reckon hell come in at 21 percent -- the equivalent today of $100 billion a year less than what Ronald Reagan and Bush's father spent.
Revenue as a share of GDP is the measure to watch. From 21 percent of GDP in 2000 and 20 percent in 2001, revenue will drop to 16.3 percent of GDP this year, and 16 percent in 2004.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 01:37 PM
OK folks, try this. GDP is $10688 billion. 16.3% of GDP is $1742 billion.
Spending is about $2200 billion. Projected deficit is $455 billion.
Projected revenue is $1745 billion. Give or take a few rounding errors that is only 16.3% of GDP. A lot of economists are scratching their heads over why this number is so low. Tax cuts don't account for it.
BTW- Spending is 20.5% of GDP, up from the 19% that Clinton was spending. Just goes to show that the GOP fiscal policy since Reagan has been Borrow and Spend.
"The European Central Bank is selling its holdings of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bonds and has recommended its national central banks do the same, according to a person who has seen the recommendation."
"U.S. Treasuries fell in New York, pushing 10-year note yields to the highest since December, as the government said it would borrow a record $230 billion in the third and fourth quarters to finance a growing budget deficit."Posted by: dirk on July 28, 2003 02:15 PM
In the movie version of Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," Vivien Leigh plays Blanche DuBois, the spinsteresque, neurotic, Southern Belle. She's offered the arm of an elderly doctor as she's led away to the institution, "a place populated by 'strangers'... where real human contacts will once again be severed." Blanche says to the doctor, "Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." We in America have never been more dependent on the kindness of foreigners than we are today. Over the past 12 months through May, the merchandise trade deficit totaled a record $511 billion. The balance of payments always balances, and over the past year a record $654 billion in purchases of U.S. financial securities by foreigners more than balanced the trade deficit (Figure A). Over the past 12 months through June, the Federal budget deficit totaled a near-record $312 billion, with kind foreigners financing 58% of this gap!
Cash Out. We may depend a great deal on foreigners fo finance our "twin deficits," but they depend greatly on our domestic market for their goods and services. Co-dependence can be healthy and good for all the parties involved. It can also be toxic. I am becoming a bit concerned about the amounts of foreign borrowing that are supporting the co-dependence relationship of Americans and all those kind foreigners, whoever they are. We are talking some very big numbers indeed. Let's first put our dependence on foreign capital inflows into some perspective.
Attempting to revive economic growth and jobs, the Federal Reserve has lowered the Federal Funds rate down to only 1%. Such easy credit terms have stimulated a record $767 billion in mortgage borrowing to finance new and existing home purchases over the past four quarters through the first quarter of this year.1 This total includes so-called "cash-outs" during mortgage refinancings, which have also boomed and provided homeowners with an opportunity to raise some extra liquidity. As they have borrowed against their home equity, most of these funds were parked in savings deposits, rather than spent, in my opinion. Savings deposits are up $534 billion over the past 52 weeks to a record $3.1 trillion through the week of July 7.2
In recent years, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have come to rely heavily on foreign investors to fund their rapid growth. In the 12 months ended May 2003, for example, foreign investors purchased $221 billion in so-called agency securities, up from $195 billion in 2002 and just $57 billion in 1998, according to Bianco Research LLC, a Chicago investment-research firm.
At Fannie Mae, some 34% of the company's so-called benchmark debt securities, one of its primary sources of funding, are held by non- U.S. investors. If that source of capital were to dry up, it would greatly increase Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's cost of borrowing, making them less profitable while also potentially driving mortgage rates higher.
There were already signs that foreign investors were growing wary of the two companies. Agency debt held in custody at the Federal Reserve on behalf of foreign central banks fell to $183.2 billion in the week ending July 23 from $188.9 billion in the week ending June 11.
Many market analysts say investors are losing interest in the two companies in part because they are becoming more aware of the risks the companies face. Historically, non-U.S. investors didn't seem to care much about the fundamentals of Fannie's and Freddie's businesses, largely because they believed the federal government would bail the two companies out if they ever ran into trouble.
The recent Freddie Mac accounting scandal could change that by reminding investors that the two companies aren't like the U.S. Treasury.
"If you start viewing Fannie and Freddie like stand-alone corporations, what you see is some of the most leveraged financial institutions in the world," said James A. Bianco, president of Bianco Research.Posted by: dirk on July 28, 2003 02:41 PM
Yeah, the OMB data also put revenue at 17.9% of GDP in 2002, but revenue continues to deteriorate as does the budget deficit. OMB predicts 2003 revenues at 17.1% of GDP but that is old news. They also predicted a $300 billion deficits and that is off by $300 billion or so from the updates. You are looking at old numbers. Clinton collected over $2 trillion revenue in 2000 and spent under $1.8 trillion. 2003 revenue will be under $1.8 trillion and spending definately over $2.1 trillion if not $2.2 trillion. They use so many gimmicks, the war costs get added later etc. we are looking at a moving target.
Whether or not you like Bush and his policies, the imbalance between revenue and spending is not sustainable. The policy obviously needs to change.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 02:48 PM
BTW- The WH numbers from omb are here:
They need to be updated.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 02:50 PM
And Sullivan, please note that the President's own OMB numbers show he is not planning to cut spending. Spending would jump from under $1.8 trillion in 2000 to over $2.7 trillion in 2008, a 50% increase in 8 years. Mr. Bush has plans to increase spending by at least $120 billion every year from now until 2008. These are the President's own numbers. So all this about GOP fiscal responsibility and they will cut spending is nonsense.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/hist.pdfPosted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 02:56 PM
a cryptic idea for a short sale: http://www.grantspub.com/search/index.php?search=TLT
"TICKER: TLT, TRADES AT 33X WITH ROIC OF ONLY 3.3%. REVENUES ARE GOING DOWN, COSTS ARE GOING UP. HUGE UNFUNDED RETIREE LIABILITIES. CFO DOESN'T MIND IF STOCK GOES DOWN." http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TLT&d=cPosted by: dirk on July 28, 2003 03:08 PM
" Revenue as a share of GDP is the measure to watch. From 21 percent of GDP in 2000 and 20 percent in 2001, revenue will drop to 16.3 percent of GDP this year, and 16 percent in 2004."
Hmm, bakho recently you wrote:
" Patrick- you wrote 21% is an abberration and unsustainable. I agree. "
So, it seems disingenuous to be griping that we aren't going to have the 2000-01 figures (which were actually 20.8% and 19.8%).
Then there is the quesion of the predicted 16.3% figure for this year. The lowest I see for the last forty years is 17.2% in 1976, when the top marginal income tax rate was 70%, which would seem to indicate there is more to the story than tax rates. I repeat a post:
The below lists in the first column the % of GDP for federal government revenues, and in the second column spending as % of GDP:
1986 17.5 22.5
1987 18.4 21.6
1988 18.1 21.2
1989 18.3 21.2
1990 18.0 21.8
1991 17.8 22.3
1992 17.5 22.2
1993 17.6 21.5
1994 18.1 21.0
1995 18.5 20.7
1996 18.9 20.3
1997 19.3 19.5
1998 19.9 19.1
1999 20.0 18.6
2000 20.8 18.4
2001 19.8 18.6
2002 17.9 19.5
Why is it that when the top marginal rate was 28% on the very rich in 1987, revenues amounted to 18.4% of GDP. And after the TMR had been raised to almost 40%, revenues in 1994 were lower than in 1987?
And why is anyone projecting revenues will be 16% in the future with a TMR of, iirc, 33% ?
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan on July 21, 2003 03:57 PM
Patrick, you aren't proposing the "tax cuts pay for themselves" theorem here, are you?
what your numbers demonstrate is that clinton/rubinomics was a fiscally responsible approach, and reagan/bush I/bush II have all had fiscally irresponsible approaches. was this your intent?Posted by: howard on July 28, 2003 06:05 PM
Patrick, your answer to me was a non-answer. Unless you're prepared to cut Social Security, Medicare and military spending, there's little in the budget to cut. Certainly not enough to even make a dent in those massive deficits.
If you are prepared to cut the entitlement programs and the military, then by all means, say so. Just don't expect this administration or the Republican Congress to go along with you.
As for the figures you posted, they are meaningless, in and of themselves. Did you have a point to make?Posted by: PaulB on July 28, 2003 08:27 PM
It seems to me that in 1986, the capital gains tax was raised from 20% to 28%, the largest capital gains tax in history and it happened under Reagan. Tax revenues increased almost 1% of GDP between 1986 and 1987.
Patrick, you miss the point that the truly wealthy investor class that owns almost half of the wealth in this country does not work income jobs that are taxed at 39% or 33%. They live off investments that are taxed at 20%. Note that between 93 and 94 revenue went up from 17.5 to 18.1% of GDP. That is huge! Under Clinton, capital gains taxes eventually went back down to 20%.
Just because the top rate is 39% does not mean that there are people that actually pay that percentage. It is much less.Posted by: bakho on July 28, 2003 09:17 PM
I can't help but note that both PaulB and bakho are struggling mightily to keep their heads above water in their responses. So, as is my wont, I reach over and exert downward pressure on the scalp.
Paul, nothing you have said answers my point. $100 billion dollars of tax revenue still equals $100 billion dollars of spending.
bakho, whatever. And you are wrong about the largest incomes. Often they are stock options, which are taxed at income tax rates. A lot of people learned this the hard way when they exercise options and didn't cash them in right away. To find themselves stuck with huge tax liabilities when the market crashed.
Which still leaves you without an explanation for the 16% prediction.Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan on July 29, 2003 07:31 AM
Those that got taxed on the stock options also have a huge benefit. They have huge stock losses that can be used to balance any investment profits they make for years to come. Current tax code allows a write off of up to $3000 in investment losses and the remaining losses can be rolled over.
As for why revenue has declined for three years in a row, the CBO, OMB and numerous economists do not have an explanation. Revenue is just decreasing faster than estimates. This is a fact. One reason why it is difficult to figure why revenue is dropping is it takes IRS about 2 years to post its final data on revenue. So 2 years from now we may be able to discover why revenue is so low. We also know that revenue greatly exceeded estimates during the late 90s. This is why the budget came into balance much sooner than Clinton, the GOP or anyone expected.Posted by: bakho on July 29, 2003 08:15 AM
Bakho provided an explanation for his number, but it is only a projection (as the CBOs is) for 2003. The CBO numbers, done in March, which predict that revenues will be 17.6% of GDP for 2003 were based on a deficit of $250 billion.
The deficit numbers have been revised upwards to $450 billion or so for next year and this year, Bakho was adjusting his forecast for revenues and spending (since the higher deficit is both due to increased spending and lowere revenues than prior forecasts) accordingly to come up with the ~16% number.
Bakho's assumptions as to how much of the deficit revision was due to higher spending or lower revenue may be imperfect, but quoting the CBO figures which were last revised in March doesn't really disprove his estimate.Posted by: achilles on July 29, 2003 08:27 AM
Here are the President's own OMB numbers posted today. Note that revenue estimates are 1756 for 2003. Note that this is 16.4% of Q3 GDP estimate of $10,688 trillion and that number should go up in Q4. Note also that 2004 revenue estimates are also below $1.8 trillion. With GDP expansion, that will further decrease revenue as percent of GDP unless revenue recovers.
Also look at Table S9. It shows that the budget deficit would go away but for the spending policies that Mr. Bush is promoting that keep deficits above $200 billion for the rest of the decade and start to rise again at the end of the 5 y estimate. Mr. Bush no longer shows the 10 y because it is too ugly.
Reality is that Bush policies have created and are creating structural deficits. Why deny reality?Posted by: bakho on July 29, 2003 08:28 AM
Correction to the last post. Revenue estimates are for 2003 $1756 billion and Q3 GDP is $10688 billion or $10.688 trillion.Posted by: bakho on July 29, 2003 08:39 AM
Note, GDP will go up in Q4, not revenue estimate so revenue as % of GDP will come in below the 16.4%.Posted by: bakho on July 29, 2003 08:42 AM
"And you are wrong about the largest incomes. Often they are stock options, which are taxed at income tax rates. "
I am no CEO nor a tax lawyer but I am pretty sure that the type of stock options CEOS receive are incentive options that are taxed at capital gains rates.
Paging Jim Glass....Posted by: achilles on July 29, 2003 09:04 AM
No, Sullivan is right about stock options taxed as salary. The truly wealthy have shelters and ruses for manipulating the system. Still, the 2 million lost jobs means 2 million fewer tax payers. A very small percentage of tax payers pay top rate and only the income over the minimum level is taxed at that rate. The first $6000 of everyone's income is taxed at only 10%.
According to the Office of Management and Budget midsession review in fiscal 2002, the top revenue sources were individual income taxes ($858 billion), social insurance and retirement receipts ($700 billion), corporate income taxes ($148 billion) and excise taxes ($67 billion).
Thus, less than 10% of GDP is collected as income taxes.Posted by: bakho on July 29, 2003 09:25 AM


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By: Bill Pilchak – 07/07/15
Most news media outlets reported on Saturday, June 27, 2015, that French taxi drivers went on a rampage, overturning and destroying vehicles used by Uber drivers, skirmishing with and holding them and their passengers (including Courtney Love) hostage, erecting barricades and setting fires to block traffic. CNN was one of the few who mentioned the role of the French unions (the National Union of Taxi Drivers and the FTI taxi union) in the lawlessness.
Rideshare technology is annoying unions elsewhere. Media sources say that in the UK, the creators of the ridesharing app Hailo saw their offices vandalized – the word "scabs" was written on the wall – after Hailo's app was expanded to include private vehicles instead of just taxis. Last year, Autoblog.com wrote of physical encounters between cabbies at O'Hare airport and Uber drivers after the Chicago city council declined to require Uber drivers to have cab licenses to pick up passengers. The New York cab union has apparently sought to become active in Chicago.
These incidents point out two main problems that anyone dealing with unions knows but which most people in business cannot say out loud without being tarred with the label of "anti-union animus" in their next proceeding before the NLRB: First, that unions will fight improvements, technological or otherwise, that require change or more effort by their members and certainly if the change makes existing union jobs or their artificially high compensation obsolete. Anyone responsible for a business knows that in today's technology-driven environment, business must change or die. When Eastman Kodak went bankrupt in 2012, Bloomberg business reported the cause as Kodak's failure to embrace digital cameras despite having invented the technology. Bloomberg said "They were a company stuck in time." A company might have to turn on a dime when a competitor makes a move, a customer issues a demand or a technology emerges that will cut costs. Provisions of a union contract could easily prohibit such a move. The implications of yesteryear clauses in a constantly changing environment cannot possibly be predicted in advance. If clauses block change, a company with a union might be precluded from making that change during the life of the collective bargaining agreement. During the three years left on the cba, the customer and indeed the entire industry may have moved on.
Second, the Uber protests illustrate that unions have historically resorted to threats, thuggery, violence and criminal behavior to achieve their ends. NLRB case law is surprisingly tolerant of such conduct. Indeed, from the beginning, the National Labor Relations Act has been interpreted to endorse violence:
""[S]ome disorder is unfortunately quite usual in a…drawn out strike. A strike is unfortunately a battle waged with economic weapons. Engaged in it are human beings whose feelings are stirred to the depths. Rising passions call forth hot words. Hot words lead to blows…The transformation from economic to physical combat…is difficult to prevent… Violence of this nature, however much it is to be regretted, must have been in the contemplation of Congress. "
Republic Steel Corp. v NLRB, 107 F.2d 472, 479 (3rd Cir., 1939)
Accordingly, picket line assaults and vandalism frequently occurs and goes unprosecuted because local prosecutors are politically vulnerable. Other conduct that would be considered intolerable in other contexts is given protection if committed by unions to obtain their ends. Stating "Section 7 rights "may permit some leeway for impulsive behavior," the Board has precluded discharge of union employees for calling the boss a "F**king Queer" (Webster Clothes, 222 N.L.R.B. 1262), addressing written communications to co-workers as "Dear Pussies," leading to complaints by female workers (Fresnius USA, 2012 NLRB LEXIS 611; later vacated by D.C. Cir.) and most recently, shouting at African American replacement workers ""Go back to Africa, you… f**king losers," "f**king monkey scabs" and "f**king ****** scabs," even though an arbitrator upheld dismissal. (Cooper Standard, June 15, 2015)
Sometimes unions cannot rein in the criminal license the NLRA grants them. In February, 2014, ten leaders of the Ironworkers Local 401 (Philadelphia) were indicted for setting fires, starting riots, and taking crowbars to the competition in an effort to protect union jobs. The group called themselves "The Helpful Union Guys" – "THUGS" for short. At the time of the indictment, prosecutors said "violence was not just a tactic in the ironworkers' toolbox. It is deeply ingrained in the structure of their organization." After most of those indicted took plea deals, the only official to go to trial was convicted in January.
My two points above, are interrelated. Just as Uber is bypassing the business model of the taxi, civilized society has moved past the days when bloodying the nose of someone we disagree with is acceptable. But unions fight change and resort to thuggery. In the same way that civilized society decries efforts by the Taliban, Al Quaeda and ISIS to drag us back to 7th century customs, 21st century America should decry union tactics that were barely tolerable in 1939. One can only hope that younger Americans, who embrace rapid change, who take economic charge of their lives in the fashion of Uber drivers and have too much respect for their fellow human beings to call them "queers" and "n*****s," will decry such tactics. And, indeed, maybe they are decrying union tactics. Maybe that's one reason for plunging union membership across the country.


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So the author does not like guns or technology. I am sure he want us to hunt with stone axes
Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 13, 2013
TrackingPoint's Smart-Rifle™ technology has run the gambit of journalistic opinion, but an editorial review by Slate generated an incredible 1000+ comments discussing the disruptive systems' impact on hunting and the second amendment. The conversation also brought a number of readers to the defense of the American tradition of hunting. Writer Justin Peters started off with an extra-inflammatory title "The TrackingPoint "Smart Rifle" Exemplifies Everything That's Horrible About American Gun Culture" that immediately created a negative connotation for 2nd Amendment and hunting supporters viewing the article, driving the discussion in the comments beyond just the rifle, and into the origins and continuation of American tradition itself.
NPR describes TrackingPoint's Smart Rifle system as "The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game. But here's where it's different: You pull the trigger but the gun decides when to shoot. It fires only when the weapon has been pointed in exactly the right place, taking into account dozens of variables, including wind, shake and distance to the target." The TrackingPoint system is available for purchase in 300 Win Mag and 338 Lapua.
Comments range from "So the author does not like guns or technology. I am sure he want us to hunt with stone axes." to "This weapon in my opinion is actually a way to reduce crime and the minimal dangers of weapons. I really hope the writers of this article spent more time understanding the industry and firearms. "
One of the more important points brought up was the advocacy of the word smart. Firearms is the only industry where "smart", as described by the media, means safer, rather than more intelligent. This comment sums up the situation clearly
"Gun control advocates dilemma:
"Gun owners should have to use 'Smart Guns'"
Enter TrackingPoint
"Wait, we have to get rid of these 'Smart Guns'""
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Ellen H. Doring, age 91, of Hutchinson, died Sunday, March 26, 2006, at the Birchwood Hospice House in Hutchinson.
A memorial service took place Wednesday, March 29 at 11 a.m. at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Hutchinson, with interment in Oakland Cemetery. Pastor Brian Brosz officiated at the memorial service. Organist was Sharon Barton, and the congregational hymns were "Amazing Grace" and "In The Garden." Pastor Brian Brosz sang a solo, "The Lord's Prayer."
Ellen was born April 1, 1914, the first child of Frank Hardy and Elsie Alice (Pierce) Hardy. She spent her childhood in Rosemount and Dassel, and grew up caring for her many animals. She especially loved showing her Guernsey cow at the fairs, and won many ribbons and trophies for her showmanship.
Ellen met her future husband and the love of her life, Theodore Roosevelt Doring, and became his bride Oct. 16, 1929. They farmed in Appleton for several years, and then, in 1940, purchased land south of Hutchinson, where, together, they built a new farm site.
They raised five children: Edwin, Darlene, Patricia, Mary, and Bruce. The family became members of the First Congregational Church, where Ellen remained as a member of the congregation at the time of her death.
Ellen joined 3M in 1957. There, she made many lifelong friends, and eventually retired in 1978.
In 1968, Theo and Ellen moved to their home on Lake Washington in Darwin. After 52 years of marriage, Theo passed away Jan. 7, 1981.
Ellen remained in their lake home for nearly 20 more years, and then moved to Hutchinson. For the next six years, Ellen's friends and family continued to depend on her for the wisdom and sage advice she dispensed.
Arrangements were by the Dobratz-Hantge Chapel in Hutchinson.
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Last year we researched tradeshows, conventions and expos occurring all over the country – and some global – and posted a list of our favorite 10 Awesome Tradeshows. These are the types of shows that most people attend for fun and a lucky few get to attend for work. We've decided to go back to that list, put our promotional consulting skills to the test and pick out some promos that we think would be perfect for those lucky few. Here is our list for the ultimate giveaways for 10 awesome tradeshows.
The Surf Expo
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American International Toy Fair
This insanely fun convention has been around for over 100 years, so it's no small feat if you want to give out something that's new and unique. Luckily you have us on your side. We suggest giving out a classic throwback, like Pick-Up Sticks in Wood Box or a Rubik's 9-Panel Cube, instead of searching far and wide for something that's never been seen before. Nostalgia can be a very powerful marketing tool.
The Philadelphia Tattoos Arts Convention
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Super Zoo: The National Show for Pet Retailers
What do all furry pet owners have in common? The fur! At a show where pets are welcome, there is a good amount of hair to be brushed off of business casual attire. There isn't a dog or pet owner alive who doesn't appreciate a lint remover, and you can use that fact to your advantage by giving out your own custom printed Full Color Lint Rollers. Get some adorable animal art printed on it and add your business name and web address to ensure you'll be just as memorable as the furry critters.
Scarefest: Horror and Paranormal Convention
If you're looking for a product that will scare up some real promotional value, you have to know your audience – and these people love monsters! We know because we have a few monster and horror lovers in our ranks and they are all going AHS Lady Gaga for the Monster Hand Stress Reliever Phone Holder. It's the perfect desk accessory for the event attendees who love all things spooky.
The Philadelphia Travel & Adventure Show
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Agenda, Project, Liberty Fairs, and Capsule Tradeshows in Las Vegas
Ever since the launch of our new and improved apparel line, we've been waiting for an opportunity like this to toot our horns about the new fashion-forward inventory – and what better place is there to flex your style muscles than at a fashion and clothing brand tradeshow! Embroider an understated logo on a Port Authority® Denim Ladies' Shirt that's sure to demand plenty of wear come Fall, or go for a Hilo Ladies' Funnel Neck Full Zip Sweatshirt in neutral smoke or army green. Your brand will be trending straight through till next spring.
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Meet our friendly, experienced pediatricians and staff at Hagan, Rinehart & Connolly Pediatricians! Our entire team is dedicated to helping you and your child feel at home from the moment your walk through the door. We're proud to be members of the Burlington community and serve the needs of their children.
We pride ourselves in being an exceptional clinic where children come first. Our child-focused practice works hard to meet the needs of children from infancy through adolescence. Compassionate, knowledgeable and supportive staff is the cornerstone of Hagan, Rinehart & Connolly Pediatricians's quality care. All of our pediatricians and medical staff are highly trained professionals, and maintain the highest level of accreditation in pediatrics to address the special needs of infants, children, and teens.
We strive to treat each and every patient as we would want our own children to be treated. Our doctors and staff look forward to building a relationship with you and your family.
Joseph Hagan, Jr., M.D., F.A.A.P.
Joseph F. Hagan, Jr., MD, FAAP is clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Vermont Children's Hospital.
Dr. Hagan is Past-Chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health and he Chaired the Academy's Task Force on Terrorism. He has served as an Advisory Board member to the Maternal and Child Health Benefits Study of the National Business Group on Health. Hagan Chairs the Vermont Citizen's Advisory Board (VCAB) for the Vermont Agency of Human Services Department for Children and Families.
A contributor to the four major pediatrics textbooks published in the U.S., Dr. Hagan co-edited The Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents, Fourth Edition, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and designated as the standard for preventive care for youth up to age 21 in United States health reform. He is currently working on the fourth edition of Bright Futures.
Dr. Hagan practices primary care pediatrics in Burlington, Vermont.
Jill Rinehart, M.D., F.A.A.P.
As the eldest sibling of two children with special health care needs, Dr. Jill Rinehart grew up in Minnesota, with the intimacies of a family in need of the support a Medical Home provides.
This spring, Dr. Rinehart has led the practice to a level 3 NCQA Medical Home, for the third time
and is currently involved with creating Pediatric community health teams as part of Vermont's
"Blueprint for Health." Additionally Dr. Rinehart has been part of a national advisory put
together by the Lucille Packard foundation for Chidren to create guidelines for a "Shared Plan
of Care" for children with special health care needs.
Dr. Rinehart is the President of the Vermont chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics, the
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award for her contributions to child health in her state. Alongside physician business partners,
Dr. Rinehart has created a Medical Home practice that embraces health promotion through
implementation of Bright Futures guidelines, care coordination and collaborative community
Gregory Connolly, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Dr. Connolly returned to his hometown to join the practice in 2010. He is a graduate of Burlington High School. He then studied English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College. After this he attended the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He did his residency training at the Maine Medical Center, where he was awarded a 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics Special Recognition Award for his commitment to residency education. He has a special interest in global health, having worked in Romania, Nepal, and Haiti. He serves on of the Vermont Children's Hospital's Newborn Nursery Committee. He lives in South Burlington with his wife, son and daughter.
Maryann Lisak, R.N., M.S., P.N.P.
Maryann Lisak has worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner with Dr. Hagan since 1995 and has had the pleasure of watching the practice grow and evolve into its current form.
She graduated from Boston University in 1979 and began her career as a neonatal intensive care nurse in Boston, then decided to expand both her role and patient population by studying for a master's degree from Yale University and becoming a pediatric nurse practitioner in 1987. In this capacity, she worked in a variety of settings including an urban emergency department and a pediatric sub-specialty clinic.
At Hagan, Rinehart and Connolly Pediatricians, she enjoys seeing patients from diverse backgrounds who have a variety of needs. In an effort to supplement her education, she recently completed a fellowship from Arizona State University in pediatric and adolescent mental health. She often provides clinical teaching for nurse practitioner students from programs throughout New England.
She lives in South Burlington with her husband and three children who have all taught her more about pediatrics than they will ever know.
Ashley Boyd, BS-RN, M.S., C.P.N.P.
Ashley Boyd is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner who recently returned to Vermont after spending several years in New York City working and then studying at Columbia. Ashley has a special interest in adolescent medicine, including mental health. Ashley also enjoys volunteering annually at a summer camp for children with muscular dystrophy.
- MS, Columbia University School of Nursing (2012)
- BS, Columbia University School of Nursing (2010)
- BA, English, Middlebury College (2006)
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Kelly Brush Davisson, R.N., M.S., F.N.P.
Kelly Brush Davisson is a family nurse practitioner who recently returned to her home state of Vermont. She grew up in Charlotte, VT, went to the Green Mountain Valley School for high school, and graduated from Middlebury College. After a short career with ESPN, Kelly went back to school, graduating from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston in 2013, and began working in Maine in primary care pediatrics.
She loves working with children and families to help build healthy lifestyles and is excited to do so in her home state as a nurse practitioner with Hagan, Rinehart, and Connolly Pediatricians.
Kelly lives in Charlotte with her husband and their daughter. She enjoys skiing, biking, golfing, and being outdoors in her spare time.
Kimberlee Roy, Ph.D.
Kimberlee Roy, is a doctoral level psychologist with a license to practice in the State of Vermont. She is a child and adolescent psychologist with specialized training in pediatric psychology (medical psychology with children).
She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2008. She completed her internship and fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT. She has expertise in treating anxiety, pain, sleep problems, and in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, although she also has experience in all types of child and adolescent mental health issues including ADHD, behavioral problems, and depression.
She treats children and adolescents ages 2-18 years. She has been treating patients at Hagan, Rinehart and Connolly Pediatricians since April of 2012 through her job with Fletcher Allen Healthcare.


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For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the USD rose 0.89% against the JPY and closed at 113.37.
In economic news, Japan's consumer confidence index unexpectedly dropped to a level of 43.3 in June, defying market consensus for the index to advance to a level of 43.9 and compared to a reading of 43.6 in the previous month.
In the Asian session, at GMT0300, the pair is trading at 113.25, with the USD trading 0.11% lower against the JPY from yesterday's close.
Overnight data showed that the nation's monetary base climbed less-than-anticipated by 17.0% YoY in June, compared to a gain of 19.4% in the previous month.
The pair is expected to find support at 112.57, and a fall through could take it to the next support level of 111.89. The pair is expected to find its first resistance at 113.70, and a rise through could take it to the next resistance level of 114.15.
Looking ahead, investors will keep a close watch on Japan's final Nikkei services PMI for June, due to release overnight.
The currency pair is showing convergence with its 20 Hr moving average and trading above its 50 Hr moving average.


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Click here for Slate's complete Kosovo coverage.
Wag the Dog was on television again last night, for at least the fourth time. It made for more powerful viewing than I expected. Watching the scene in which Dustin Hoffman directs the pseudo-Albanian girl in pseudodramatic footage, punching in destruction and fire effects on the computer, S. said, "It's not that simple at all."
"Do you mean war or computers?"
"Computers," he laughed. "It takes a lot more work to create those effects."
War, on the other hand, is pretty simple. You make people feel physically unsafe–and in a few days, peaceful civilians are rearing to pick up guns and defend what is left of their land, their dignity, and their sense of purpose. Gradually, we are all becoming military experts here. Yesterday, someone brought in a 6-year-old issue of the Serbian journal Military Affairs, dedicated to the New World Order. This is, after all, what Milosevic would have his people fighting–and all indications are that more and more Serbs are eager to do that. Sitting around waiting to get bombed night after night will do that to you. We have been following the Slate "Dialogue" on ground troops, as well as the Stratford intelligence site, and we all agree that NATO will bring in ground troops and that they don't understand what they will be in for: fighting not the Serbian military but a desperate, armed nation. Drawing on the distinct sense of superior perspective that being in the line of explosions grants us, we have concluded that Americans lack the experience of seeing what a war that violates their own land does to people.
"What do you think is going to happen?" Andrei, an occasional visitor here, asked me while we watched the film. Everyone asks me that these days. I told him. He seemed to like my view of Serbians as getting ready to stand to the death. He wears a fanny pack over his shoulder, like a holster.
"What are you going to do?" I asked.
"What choice do I have?"
"You could try to leave the country." He laughed. "You could try to avoid military service." He sneered. "You could go into the military."
"So you see–I have no choice! We have nothing to lose. We already lost when the bombing started."
"How old are you?"
"Have you been in the service?"
"Why not?"
"That's a personal question." Any Serbian male who has not served in the military is a one-time draft dodger. Now many are starting to feel ashamed of it. "You see this film? That's what's going on. What do you think?"
"I think it's a film. I think what's going on is more complicated."
"You don't understand. You know when all this started?"
"I'd say about eight years ago."
"You don't know history. It started 400 years ago."
I do know history, but I have become too well versed in the arguments: that "it" started 400 years ago and not 55, when Allies bombed Belgrade; or 59 (to the day–this surely could not be coincidental!), when the Nazis bombed Belgrade; or 85, when the Austrians across the Sava River in Zemun shelled Belgrade; or 500, when Columbus discovered America; or 610, when the Serbs lost the Battle of Kosovo Polje; or 845, when the church split. "I do know history. I just have a different view of it," I say.
"No, you don't know history. What newspaper do you work for?"
"That's a personal question." I was hoping he'd leave me alone to watch the film now.
We have had a steady diet of excellent American films, all of which happen to prove that Americans are corrupt, war-mongering, brainwashed, sex-crazed and gender-confused: Apocalypse Now, JFK, The Godfather, Network, Mrs. Doubtfire and Tootsie. Good thing Imbacil's wish that NATO would destroy television has not come true. Before we found the Wall Street Journal's explanation–that NATO needed Belgrade TV to show it the wreckage–Imbacil wondered why they hadn't got around to it. I suggested it might be difficult to justify bombing civilians who work for television.
"And bombing people who were coerced into going into the military is easy to justify?" she asked.
There are a lot of people in this country who are in a position to get killed now because they chose it over a situation where they might have been killed even faster. Last year I made an unlikely friend in the Serbian information secretariat in Kosovo–the journalists working there quickly dubbed it "The Ministry of Truth." This guy, as it turned out, had been a independent-television journalist, had got into trouble for something, and had employed family connections to keep him out of prison. Now his job was to create obstacles for working journalists. On my first day here this time, I stumbled into a police raid at B2, the independent radio station. I managed to interview one of the station's editors, but he asked me not to use his name: He will probably be going into the army soon, if that's all he can do to stay out of prison. So from Milosevic's target, he would turn into a NATO one.
About a year ago, I spoke with an International Red Cross worker whose job it was to "disseminate the Geneva convention" in conflict zones. I asked whether it made much sense to say, "You can kill people with this sort of bomb, if you like, but please don't use that other nasty sort."
She responded, "You see, war is perfectly legal."


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- Developed product specifications by understanding consumer needs through field trials and interviews.
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The purpose of this website is to give you resources to TEACH your baby (or toddler) to READ. Yes babies CAN learn to read. Keep reading below.
Have you ever seen a two or three-year-old child recite the presidents of the United States or do some other amazing feat? We were excited at how brilliant this child was. Early Childhood Learning experts have found that the fastest learning period in a baby's life is between birth and two and a half or three years old. During that time tens of thousands of brain connections are being formed and they are strengthened by the baby's mind being stimulated by the people around them. The most fun thing a baby can do is learn. The more you interact with your baby from the very beginning the more they will learn.
Years ago Dr. Glen Doman wrote a book called "How to Teach Your Baby To Read" I read this book and I used its principles in teaching babies in the church nursery while we were in Bible School. I saw wonderful results. To quote Glen Doman "People say don't talk over kids heads. Why not? Talking over their heads causes them to reach up! You don't want to talk down to kids." The more you talk to your baby the bigger their vocabulary will be. We have been duped to think that kids can't learn to read until they are five or six. That's when their learning begins to slow down. If we wait till then, the best learning years of their life are past. We think some kids are gifted and others are not when the truth is that the gifted kids probably just got more attention from their parents and more stimulation to learn at an early age.
Early in the 80's when we got our first computer, I had a vision to write children's books to introduce them to the Bible, the church, principles of faith, etc with large type. I thought that vision had fallen by the wayside, but the truth was, all this time God has preparing me. In 2010, I was sharing my vision of teaching babies to read the Bible with a young mother. That night my vision of writing children's books began to explode and all kinds of ideas started coming. It's my vision to see these books not only in homes but also in church nurseries, daycares and homeschooling. Children who learn at an early age are very happy, creative children who continue to learn at a faster rate for the rest of their lives.
The difference between the Big Letter books I am developing and books already on the market are that most children's books have small type and big pictures so somebody can read to them. It has been observed that when children are read to they focus on the pictures and not the words. Big Letter Books for Children have large print words and pictures between the pages – not on the same page so that as your read to your child you point to each word and with repeated readings they will recognize the words and not be distracted by the pictures. The story can be reinforced by talking about the picture which is between story pages.. We cannot comprehend the wonderful effect of teaching toddlers how to read the word of God and love His Word from a very early age. I believe Creation is the place to start. More books will follow.. This is part of "Training up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
In a secular presentation by Dr. Bob Titzer, developer of the Your Baby Can Read Early Language Learning Program, he interviews his 16-year-old daughter who learned to read (using Glen Doman's methods) before she was one year old. She now reads thick novels in two hours. At the time of the interview she was 16 and a sophomore in college. Can you imagine if Church Nurseries, Daycares and Christian parents begin getting the vision for teaching their children to read from birth what an amazing effect it can have on the foundations of their life, especially if you are teaching them to read the Bible!
The goal of this website is to provide you with Christian materials & resources in very large type to use as a teaching tool..
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There are teethers and there are teethers. Then there are the mum friendly delights of Jellystone Designs.
When Charlie began teething, anything I had around my neck was fair game and so began the never ending necklace extraction. His other favourite, is to grab the resin bangles I often wear. I am not interested in him chewing or sucking on these for his health as much as for their safety.
After seeing the silicone jewellery from Jellystone Design, I was really keen to review the product. I suspected I would love the pieces. What I hadn't realise was how much Charlie would love the pieces. LOVE them.
He has spent much of the last week like this-
The range of colours available is delicious and you could have some serious fun stacking them up. I also think the price point is terrific. They look so good, you would be forgiven for thinking they were more expensive.
One of the things I really love about the pendant is that when I'm holding Charlie, he can hook his finger inside the pendant, tug it and swing it. This is especially useful when I'm nursing him as it wards off that repetitive looking around during a feed that babies do as they get a little older. Playing with the pendant kept him occupied enough to pay attention to the task, and I wasn't worried that he would snap the chain as I would be if it were another piece of jewellery. The clasp on the pendant is a breakaway so if he tugs too hard it will just release itself. Now he has been tugging hard enough to hurt my neck, but not hard enough for the clasp to open, so it can take a fair amount of baby play!
The bangle has been regularly taken off and passed to him in the pram to stave off baby grizzles. If he drops it I don't worry-just rinse it off under warm water (or give it a quick clean with a wipe) and hand it back. The silicone is firm enough for his gums to get some relief as he chews on them, and I find them really comfortable to wear.
Tamara Grieve has cleverly managed to fill the void where something absolutely necessary for your baby can be absolutely fabulous for you. There is a great range to choose from. She has also produced a 'Juniors' range for children over the age of three and, of course, no baby is required if you fancy some bright fun jewels to adorn yourself with. There is a very cool robot pendant that one of my big boys would love and one of my friends without children is going to snap up the beaded necklace for herself.
The products are made from food grade silicone, FDA approved and, with regular toxicity testing, they also comply with European Safety Standards. You can read all the facts here and be assured of the quality product you are purchasing.
Over the last week I have got into the habit of putting the Jellystone jewellery on as I'm walking out the door with the children. I have never felt in any way that I am wearing anything less than some funky jewelery for myself. Friends have admired them repeatedly which is a lovely confidence booster. In fact one was a little alarmed when I took off the bangle and handed it to Charlie not realising how very clever my bangle was at double duty!
I found I was enormously impressed with this product and very happily recommend it to you.
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Missions Matter
We believe our generation is going to have the privilege of experiencing the largest global reaching of lost souls that the world has ever seen. Here at Lakeland we are committed to being part of it. By moving forward with bold steps, we will impact the world locally and globally.
For more information, please contact Jeff Hendrychs.
Increasing our love for neighbors,
Locally, our desire is to reach new levels of compassion through our own initiatives and partnerships with local organizations and ministries.
and spreading our arms wider.
Globally, we are ready to see the family of God come together, to accomplish the task of reaching and caring for the lost abroad as we partner with a number of missions and missionaries.


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Research In Motion has officially opened the first BlackBerry Lifestyle store in Indonesia. If you've been following BlackBerry, you'll likely know Indonesia was a key region to open a new store. With the grand opening there are a few discounts to go along. Here's how the promotions work:
The first 250 buyers will get 50% discount for all product options BlackBerry. There will be a lucky draw session to get a discount of 50% to 50 BlackBerry devices.
That 50% discount is of course for the newly announced Bold 9790. The 9790 is an Indonesian exclusive, until we see it hit TELUS and others later this year.


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BodyWork Episode 4: Pray For My Nose
In the fourth episode Rosa, who is about to turn 50, goes to see Dr. Wolf about facelift surgery, along with chin and eye enhancements. Also, 18-year-old Cecilia is not fond of her nose, and she comes to see Dr. Wolf for nose surgery. Meanwhile, model Nicole needs breast implants. Last year she had a car collision that destroyed the shape of her left breast, and she looks to Dr. Kelly and his team to help rebuild her breasts and alleviate her pain. It is also Dr. Herman's birthday, and his surgical tech, Janette, plans a surprise party for him at work. After an ear surgery, Janette develops a little disfiguration in her ear and Dr. Herman performs surgery to remove excess cartilage from her ear.


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Asociacion Tawantinsuyuman Evangelioq K'ancharinanpaq (ATEK) is an inter-denominational organization founded in 2004 by a group of Peruvian Pastors wanting to reach the Quechua people of Southern Peru. They recognized a need in rural communities for Biblical training and discipleship. It is our vision to form functional and healthy families, strong churches and Quechua communities that are organized and united.
We are convinced that the Quechua people have a special purpose to fulfill in God's perfect plan. Thus, we commit ourselves to serve God and our neighbor by contributing to the holistic and self-sustaining development of Quechua communities. This is carried out by training courses and in developing tools to support evangelism and strengthen families and communities.
ATEK's headquarters is based in Cusco, Peru.
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Operation Enduring Freedom, the US's over-13-year-old campaign in Afghanistan, is just a few weeks away from ending. The next chapter in Afghanistan's modern history — one that's left all but the most remote corners of the country impacted by decades of conflict — is about to begin.
The country remains deeply troubled, with a resurgent Taliban, a highly suspect military, and an economy where the opium industry remains the largest single employer. But before the US invasion, before the Russian war, and before the country's Marxist experiment, Afghanistan used to be a far different place.
An astonishing collection of photos from the 1960s came to light in early 2013.
In the 60s, amateur photographer and college professor Dr. William Podlich took a leave of absence from his job at Arizona State University to work with UNESCO in the Afghan capital of Kabul, bringing his wife and daughters with him.
Later, his son-in-law Clayton Esterson found the late doctor's photos and put them on the web. The response was amazing.
Esterson told the Denver Post: "Many Afghans have written comments [on our website] showing their appreciation for the photographs that show what their country was like before 33 years of war. This makes the effort to digitize and restore these photographs worthwhile."
An earlier version of this article was produced by Geoffrey Ingersoll.
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Dominic Ferris gives an insight into how to succeed as a freelance musician and musical director, currently working in several genres of the British music industry including Musical Theatre, Songwriting, Session Work and Teaching.
Dominic Ferris is a musician and producer whose field of expertise crosses over multiple genres including Musical Theatre, Pop/Rock and Classical. He studied piano performance and musical direction at the Royal College of Music, London. As well as giving classical recitals all over the world (including playing at Lancaster House earlier this year for the international press launch of the Royal Wedding), Dominic is currently musical director of West End Experience, giving masterclasses all over the UK on West End productions including Les Miserables, Billy Elliot and Wicked. Dominic is also at work on a new project entitled 'The Steinway Brothers', working closely with the makers of Steinway & Sons Pianos. He has plans to record albums with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, set for release in 2012.