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The 'crisis' of the week for the financial sector is the definition of income that qualifies for capital gains tax rate preferences for fund managers. The noise level suggests the apocalypse is again pending.
As usual, the country's inability to have an intelligent discussion, as opposed to the battling of vested interests, will result in bad policies: neither simplicity nor fairness nor principal nor the expected revenue collection will be enacted or achieved.
There is a reason for treating capital gains more favorably than salaries for labor and services. It coaxes money into long-term investments that create valuable products and American jobs.
That's it. There is no divine right of hedge fund managers to keep a greater portion of their incomes and thus either force up deficits or have others pay for what they are not paying. And, to my progressive colleagues, I would tell them that if someone is willing to put his money at risk, over time, and create jobs and value, they ought to be pleased with the benefits to society and incomes that provides.
The correct and consistent solution to the current brouhaha over taxing "carried interest" -- the amounts hedgies receive if the investments they choose for their partners are successful -- is to correlate capital gains preferred rates to job creation.
The simple way to do that is to provide the capital gains preferences only for direct investments in US companies, where the invested capital goes into the company coffers and not to some other investor with whom all that happened is that the shares have been purchased and traded, and money has gone from the hands of one investor to another.
In financial jargon, that would mean that only investments in "newly-issued" stock by the company would qualify for capital gains treatment.
All other arguments are self-servingly ridiculous. For example, I heard today on a financial network the argument that hedgies are really like homeowners, borrowing from banks (i.e., it is not "their" money invested) and then getting a gain when their home is sold.
Well, no.
A homeowner may have borrowed money from a bank, but he is on the hook for the entire amount over time, and is paying off that loan gradually. By contrast, a hedgie is investing other peoples' money and benefiting if those investments pay off. He is not on the hook for the investment if it goes sour and owes nothing to the investors (those whose money he is managing) if it implodes.
For this year, and this year only, I have previously argued that gains from all investments in "newly-issued stock" be taxed at zero regardless of when that investment is sold. That would cause a rapid rush of capital into companies, and provide them with confidence and capital to hire. After that one year, the capital gains rate should be raised back to, say, 20%, for qualifying investments made subsequently.
But, the basic point is that capital gains tax preferences should be tied to job creation, and the best way to do that is to define a qualifying investment as one that directly provides new money to the company -- i.e., "newly-issued stock" from the company to the investor.
This policy is simple, fair, productive, and consistent with the rationale for a capital gains preference in the first place.
Will it be discussed and considered? Of course not.
It does not pit one set of absurd arguments against another, so it has no value as spectacle.
(Disclosure: I invest and help manage a fund that only makes investments in newly-issued stock and thereby creates jobs. My investment far outweighs my management portion, so this proposal is of no great importance to me personally, but I thought it should be disclosed).


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Savory Strata Egg Bake with Caramelized Onions, Garlic & Greens
Serves 8
- 3 Tbs. vegetable oil or butter
- 2 large onions, thinly sliced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 Tbs. chopped fresh thyme or 1 tsp. dried thyme
- zest from one lemon (about 2 tsp.)
- 10 eggs
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- 1 tsp. freshly cracked black pepper (to taste)
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- Heat oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add onions, stirring to coat evenly. Cook slowly over medium-low heat, 20 to 25 minutes, until browned and caramelized, stirring every 5 to 10 minutes. A few minutes before the onions are done, stir in garlic and thyme.
- Whisk together eggs with kefir, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Spray 9X13 baking dish with cooking spray. Put 2/3 of the bread on the bottom of the baking dish. Top with caramelized onions and greens.
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- Preheat oven to 325°F, remove plastic wrap and bake strata uncovered 40 to 45 minutes, until puffed, golden, and the eggs are set.
- Serve warm garnished with fresh herbs.
*If you don't have day old bread, spread bread cubes on a baking sheet and bake in a 250°F oven for 10 minutes to dry out. The drier the bread, the more custard it will soak up.
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- Heat butter in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add apples, stirring to coat evenly. Cook over medium-low heat, for 8 to 10 minutes, until softened. Stir in cranberries and maple syrup and cook 2 to 3 minutes longer. Remove from heat.
- Whisk together eggs with kefir, sugar, orange juice and zest, vanilla and cinnamon.
- Spray 9X13 baking dish with cooking spray. Put 2/3 of the bread on the bottom of the baking dish. Top with apples and cranberries.
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*If you don't have day old bread, spread cubed bread on a baking sheet and bake in a 250°F oven for 10 minutes to dry out. The drier the bread, the more custard it will soak up.
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While all eyes have been on Syria, Islamist rebels in the Philippines are having their own moment. 200 fighters from the Moro National Liberation Front, a separatist organization, began a six-day standoff with authorities Monday when they took over 100 people hostage. So far, 22 people, including 15 militants, have been killed in sporadic fights between rebels and troops. Although the group's leader agreed to a truce on Friday, by Saturday the group of fighters was still holding its position, exchanging gunfire with troops sent in to end the standoff. The country's vice president said he planned to fly in on Saturday to assist with negotiations.


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ZCS 5.0.5 Open Source on CentOS 5 upgraded from 5.0.2
I ran into the same problem with mail not being sent through the system mta at the command line or through php scripts.
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ZCS 5.0.5 Open Source on CentOS 5 upgraded from 5.0.2
I ran into the same problem with mail not being sent through the system mta at the command line or through php scripts.
Take the '=' sign out of the code line. so line should read. Thanks for the quick fix. I also ran into the same issue with IMAP and clear text login. Second code line addresses that.
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Sixty five sewing machines and thirty five hair dryers together with hair rollers and pins have been presented to some beneficiaries of the Trade and Vocation module under the National youth and Employment Programme in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality.The presentation was done yesterday at the premises of the National Youth Employment in the Municipality.Presenting the items to the first batch of the group who have successfully undergone one and half years apprenticeship in both sewing and hair dressing, the Municipal Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme, Mr Charles Amoateng encouraged the beneficiaries to set themselves up since they now had what it took to go into their chosen trade and vocation.
He said the move was part of government's programme to reduce youth unemployment country wide and discounted rumours that distributions of the equipment had political inclination. "Anybody who is interested in learning a trade or vocation under any module can enrol, it's not political", he added. He, however, cautioned them against any attempt to sell the equipment instead of using them for the intended purpose.Beneficiaries who could not hide their excitement commended government for its commitment to reduce unemployment among the youth, adding this is indeed a better Ghana Agenda.Parents of the beneficiaries also extolled government for lifting up some burden off their shoulders.Ghanadistricts.com


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The horizontal gaze nystagmus test is an eye test approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (hereinafter NHTSA) as a tool to detect clues of impairment in drivers. The HGN test is one of three psychomotor tests approved as part of the standardized field sobriety testing protocol employed by law enforcement officers throughout the United States and used here in Ohio. The HGN is a test broken down into three components:
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- a portion of the test requires the officer to take the eye to its maximum deviation and discern whether or not the eyeball exhibits a twitching or bouncing;
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The smooth pursuit portion of the test is strongly influenced by gender. Women do worse on this portion of the test than men. ICS Medical Corporation, Pursuit Testing with Computers: A Status Report, ENG REPORT (Feb. 1988); D.H. Jackson, J.A. Sharpe, Smooth Pursuit in Senescence: Effects of Target Acceleration and Velocity, 104; 290-297, ACTA OTOL (1987). Read more about this topic in Understanding DUI Scientific Evidence, 2001 Ed., Apastore at pp. 52-53. Your DUI attorney can tell you how to use this scientific information in such a way as to win your case. This type of scientific evidence can be a valuable tool in plea negotiations and/or in determining if probable cause existed upon which to base an arrest.
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During the height of the 2003 fire season, Bill Holmes, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) Amador-El Dorado unit, walked with retired CDF Director Bill Teie through the tinder-dry grasses at the unit's Northern California headquarters.
They passed an old, 100-foot-tall lookout tower, empty and unmanned -- a relic of an era when paid CDF staff manned the towers watching for smoke in the surrounding hills. Holmes and his staff only occasionally used the tower to confirm a fire.
Holmes gazed at the lookout tower and the taller communications tower nearby and thought out loud, "It sure would be nice if we had a camera and fire detection system to spot and locate new fires." There is, in fact, a fire detection system in South Africa with cameras connected to a dispatch center, Teie replied.
The proverbial light bulb went on in Holmes' head, and he soon contacted the fire chief in Zululand, South Africa, to learn more about the fire detection system. Holmes found that the Firehawk fire detection system had been used in South Africa for 10 years, and was also being used in Chile, Greece and Canada with successful results.
Through Holmes' diligence in requesting and garnering scarce grant money for the equipment, two fire seasons later, on Aug. 23, 2005, the Firehawk system was installed at the CDF base in Camino, Calif., east of Sacramento.
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The Firehawk fire detection system consists of a camera mounted on top of the same 160-foot communications tower that Holmes eyed at the Amador-El Dorado Unit headquarters. The distance the camera can see varies with air quality, and whether the camera is looking into the sun. "It's not unusual to see 20 to 30 miles," Holmes said. "The camera spotted a fire in Lincoln one day, which is probably 50 to 60 miles away."
The system also includes a video monitor at the CDF headquarters, and software that detects potential fires. It is the first and only Firehawk system operating in the United States, and the maker, Alasia Marketing, has allowed the CDF to use the Firehawk Forest Watch software free for a year.
One camera, one video monitor, two computer screens, keyboard, joystick and hundreds of feet of cable amounted to $10,000.
The Firehawk camera rotates 360 degrees every three minutes and analyzes 21 vectors, or windows, per rotation, day and night. If the software analyzing the camera data detects changes related to what a fire -- or smoke from a fire -- looks like, it activates an alarm at the CDF dispatch center.
The dispatcher then looks at the Firehawk video monitor's live camera feed and uses a joystick to manually tilt or zoom in the camera to visually check the smoke trail. When the trail is found, the software's computer mapping function uses the camera's images to provide an exact location of the smoke source, down to the street name.
"The dispatcher can move the camera, and zoom in and see if it's a controlled burn on a property or a larger fire," Holmes said. "In the past we had to have somebody come out and look."
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After nearly a year, the Firehawk fire detection system has proved useful, and this fire season, it has detected more than 20 fires, Holmes said.
In July 2005, a 911 call reported a fire at the south fork of the American River, but the U.S. Forest Service could not locate the fire. With the Firehawk camera, however, the Amador-El Dorado CDF dispatcher pinpointed the location.
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I've asked this before and I was never able to get good specifics. I'll layout my hardware and software first:
Outside IP behind DMZ
Domain, single mail server
Ubuntu 6.06
Zimbra NE 5.0.11
Outside IP behind DMZ
Subdomain, single mail server
Ubuntu 8.04
Zimbra FOSS 5.0.11
Essentially I need to find a way to move individual user accounts from the NE server to the FOSS server.
I have the backups from the NE box, but of course I can not us that backup/restore on the FOSS unit. We want the FOSS so that we can have the unlimited users where our NE box fills up due to employee turnover.
I need to find a way to move a user account, mail, calendar, contacts, the whole nine yards. With high turnover my managers want to keep a record of what was done by whom and have notes for future employees to look at if needed.
I'm updating here with what I need to do with the current script posted in the code box below. The posts below are problems or solutions and comments as I am working on this.
Still to do:
- DONE: Script via SSH the restore remotely (possibly on hourly basis via cron?)
- DONE: Mark restored accounts as closed or locked on archive unit via script
- DONE: Currently script needs to run on production unit as Zimbra user, make possible via sudo and root maybe?
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- Create a way to transfer all account info: Name, phone number, address, ....
- Add test and verification that user was restored on archive unit
- Create Zimlet for easy use by my non-CLI friendly admins (ie. my boss)
Use "sudo su zimbra - x -c /opt/zimbra/bin/zmuserback username" to run as the Zimbra user account. Easy to script this for each admin user for a simple command like ./zmarchive or something similar.
This is the basic script I set up to run the main script as the Zimbra user.Code:#!/bin/bash # zmuserback -- Script to export select Zimbra accounts # The above is called using "zmuserback username" # A file email@example.com is created in the directory specified. # It then will use SCP to copy the file to the new server. # Using SSH commands will run to create and restore the account USERNAME=$1 DOMAIN=domain.com NEWDOMAIN=test.domain.com NEWSERVER=188.8.131.52 #I used IP address rather than DNS TODAY=`date` LOGFILE="/opt/zimbra/backup/zmback/zmbackuplog.txt" if [ -z $USERNAME ]; then echo Please enter a username next attempt exit fi echo --------------------- >> $LOGFILE echo Deleting previous backup file for $USERNAME@$DOMAIN rm -f /opt/zimbra/backup/zmback/$USERNAME@$DOMAIN.tgz echo Exporting $USERNAME - $TODAY echo Exporting $USERNAME - $TODAY >> $LOGFILE /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m $USERNAME@$DOMAIN gms >> $LOGFILE /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m $USERNAME@$DOMAIN getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz" > /opt/zimbra/backup/zmback/$USERNAME@$DOMAIN.tgz scp /opt/zimbra/backup/zmback/$USERNAME@$DOMAIN.tgz zimbra@$NEWSERVER:/opt/zimbra/backup/ #Commented out the delete function while testing #echo Delete $USERNAME@$DOMAIN #/opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov deleteAccount $USERNAME@$DOMAIN >> $LOGFILE echo Creating user account for $USERNAME on $NEWDOMAIN ssh zimbra@$NEWSERVER /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov deleteAccount $USERNAME@$NEWDOMAIN >> $LOGFILE ssh zimbra@$NEWSERVER /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov createAccount $USERNAME@$NEWDOMAIN 'p@sSw0rd1234' >> $LOGFILE echo Restoring user account fot $USERNAME on $NEWDOMAIN ssh zimbra@$NEWSERVER /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m "$USERNAME@$NEWDOMAIN postRestURL '//?fmt=tgz&resolve=reset' /opt/zimbra/backup/$USERNAME@$DOMAIN.tgz" ssh zimbra@$NEWSERVER rm /opt/zimbra/backup/$USERNAME@$DOMAIN.tgz echo Locking $USERNAME@$NEWDOMAIN ssh zimbra@$NEWSERVER /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov modifyAccount $USERNAME@$NEWDOMAIN zimbraAccountStatus closed echo --------------------- >> $LOGFILE
Code:#!/bin/bash # zmarchive # This basic script runs the zmuserback script as the Zimbra user. # It will compress the specified user. # The compressed file is sent to the test server for a live archive. # The account will be deleted from the production server. # Commands will be issued via SSH to restore the account on the archive server. # The Archive account is then closed. USER=$1 if [ -z $USER ]; then echo Please enter a username next attempt exit fi sudo su zimbra -c /opt/zimbra/bin/zmuserback $USER


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While I still havent totally gotten behind the idea of FX adapting Ethan and Joel Coens Fargo for TV, as of this writing, the drama can already boast it has one of the best casts on TV. Billy Bob Thorton, Martin Freeman, Joey King and Colin Hanks are now being joined by the outstanding trio of Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad), Glenn Howerton (Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Oliver Platt (The Big C) according to THR, as well as Private Practices Kate Walsh. While this crew doesnt add up in theory to William H. Macy, Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi, its the most impressive movie-to-series cast I can think of, and we wont even need to compare them, since the plotline will be completely different.
Fargo will be a limited series that follows another crime story in the same humorously offbeat and murderous vein of the film. While Im not sure who the killers or victims will be, we do have some character descriptions, ya know.
Odenkirk will star as Deputy, a Bemidji, Minnesota cop with rank over a younger and smarter deputy played by Allison Tolman (Sordid Lives). I cant wait to see how obnoxiously stubborn hell be. Howerton will play the ambitious personal trailer Don Chumph, which should give him a chance to pop his shirt off every now and then, something his character on Its Always Sunny is constantly trying to do. Gina Hess (Walsh) is a former stripper turned trophy wife and mother of two boys, while Stavros Milos (Platt) is none other than the Supermarket King of Minnesota. Somebody better ask Stavros if he got some of his meat from any local woodchippers.
Odenkirks popularity has skyrocketed recently, with Breaking Bads audience growing in droves over the last couple of years, enough so that a spinoff series centered on his Saul Goodman character is in the works. Theres no sign on when that AMC project will begin, and I'm now assuming that itll happen after Fargo is filmed.
You can catch also catch Howerton in It's Always Sunny's ninth season, in the decent CollegeHumor flick Coffeetown that hit VOD a few months back, or in the last couple of The Mindy Project episodes. Platt is currently filming Matt Shakmans small town thriller Cut Bank, and can hopefully soon be seen in the star-studded comedy drama Gods Behaving Badly, with quite a few projects coming out next year. And Walsh will be seen next year in Courteney Coxs directorial debut Just Before I Go and Ross Clarke adaptation of Craig Clevengers Dermaphoria.
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Gerald Holtham says the UK government and Treasury are living in shame but are apparently immune to embarrassmentJune 23rd, 2012
The Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales found that the country was under-funded relative to English regions, not to mention Scotland and Ireland. The criteria for that judgement were the needs-based formulae that the UK government used to distribute health, local authority support and, formerly, education spending around the English regions. If the Barnett formula were replaced with a needs-based formula reflecting similar distributional judgements to those embedded in existing formulae used by the government, Wales would get more public spending per head. When we factored in the formulae used within Scotland and Wales to distribute part of the block grant to local authorities, the distributional judgements were not much changed.
Those distributional formulae were very complicated, one might say unnecessarily so. But it was possible to find a much simpler needs-based formula that replicated their results and could therefore serve as a basis for replacing Barnett.
Need itself is an infinitely contestable concept but we finessed philosophical discussion by simply processing existing formulae. Our argument is not that the UK government's preferences are right or wrong but simply that its treatment of Wales is inconsistent with the distributional preferences it has revealed elsewhere. Its procedures are therefore unfair.
Now, politicians have tended to seize on numbers in the report and brandish them in political debate – "Wales underfunded by £400 million a year" for example. That is fair enough and Leanne Wood's 'updating' of our numbers is in that tradition. However, if we approach the report forensically rather than attempting to make (legitimate) political points, we notice aspects that have been underplayed.
First we produced a range of estimates of Welsh spending 'need' running from 114 to 117 per cent of the UK average, depending on which of a number of assumptions were made – all of them defensible. For example, does Wales 'need' bilingual schooling or is it a choice? How much adjustment should there be for different local-authority tax bases? Reasonable people could differ.
For illustrative purposes we focused on 115 as the 'needs' ratio – but making it clear that different, defensible political preferences could result in other numbers in the range. That range implied under-funding of between £300 and £750 million, given estimated actual expenditure in 2010-11 (out turn numbers for that year were not available when the report was published).
Commentary has tended to focus on the 115 estimate and the implied £450 million underfunding. But it is unnecessary to impart spurious precision to these estimates. We can say with some confidence that Wales is a underfunded by a few percentage points but there is no hard science that pins the number down very tightly. There is a fair-enough range within which legitimate differences of view can imply somewhat different outcomes. What we get is likely to be determined by our negotiating strength. Unfortunately all the evidence is that Wales remains in a weak bargaining position, whichever parties are in power in London.
Leanne now infers that actual devolved expenditure in 2010-11 was rather less than we estimated in relation to the rest of the UK. That is a surprising result because static or declining public expenditure in the UK would normally arrest convergence and lead to Wales' relative share rising. In any case, the 'revised' shortfall she produces lies within our original range of estimates.
And while Leanne says our numbers have been widely accepted, that 'widely' does not encompass Her Majesty's Treasury. They cannot justify any alternative numbers but unfortunately they don't have to in order to simply refuse to accept ours. It is a shame the Treasury could not be lured into a sensible, honest debate on these matters. Yet I never doubted that if they were so lured they would find reasons, strong, weak or weaker still, to argue for reducing our estimates by a couple of percentage points.
The real moral strength of our position is this: we can haggle over the extent of under-funding but no reasonable needs-based estimate would find Wales relatively over-funded. Therefore, there is no justification whatever for a formula which reduces Wales' relative share over time as nominal public spending grows. That is what Barnett does and that is why it should be dropped or at the very least amended.
The so-called Barnett floor that we proposed would prevent Wales' relative share converging to the English level in defiance of relative need. The case for the floor still seems to me unanswerable and is resisted not by counter-argument but only by a pig-headed exercise of raw power politics. The UK government and Treasury are living in shame but are apparently immune to embarrassment.
And over a decade or two, as public spending resumes nominal growth, the Barnett formula would reduce Wales' relative share and lead to cumulative under-funding of billions of pounds – numbers that will make discussion of whether the present shortfall is £400 or £500 million seem scholastic.
All Wales can unite around the proposition that Barnett convergence must cease and insist that is a cornerstone of fiscal reform.
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Mary Jones says:
Read no further, the title tells it all 'Wales Suffers'! Until we release ourselves from the 'overlords and serfs' mentality, and the negative energy this demands, we shall remain at the bottom of the international pile. Wales should seek to release itself from a dependency 'needs based' culture and consider how we can compete as a vibrant and viable independent country. When times were tough in the inter and post-war years, my father's brothers and cousins didn't sit and wait for the state to sort out a job, nor did they take to their bikes, they took to the boats, to America and Australia, to make new and rewarding lives. My own son did this six years ago, with 12 GCSE's, 4 A levels and two degrees, finding little or no opportunity in Wales, barriers around nepotism and the Welsh language constructed so high he could not see over or under them. In six years he has transformed his life in New Zealand and though his heart remains with us in Wales, he would not – could not – consider a return to a country dominated by the public sector, falling educational standards and an over-blown and inefficient health service. In New Zealand they systematically and routinely set about restructuring their public services, to keep them affordable and efficient, and my experience during visits to my son is of getting it 'right first time and every time'…including a small payment for visits to the GP. Come on Wales, climb out of the trenches, and consider what 'freedom' really means!
Bill Chapman says:
"All Wales can unite around the proposition that Barnett convergence must cease and insist that is a cornerstone of fiscal reform." No, Wales can't unite around this proposition. No one I have spoken to has shown the remotest interest in this topic, I'm sorry to say.
Jon Jones says:
The long term economic success or failure of Wales is already largely in the hands of the Welsh Government. How they spend the block grant could lead to greater or lesser poverty in Wales. You can already see the Tory Government pointing to Welsh Labour policies and suggesting that these have resulted in failure in the education system, failure in NHS provision, failure to stimulate the Welsh economy. Wouldn't a Needs Based formula be a reward for failure?
John R. Walker says:
There seems to be some confusion between the words want and need here! It's no surprise that the tax-and-spend state-control left wants a Barnett floor of 115%. But I can't see any reason why a well run Wales needs more than about 104% of the 'England' average. When calculating the 'England' average London should be left out because it is a special case arising from its high labour costs and its position as a national 'hub'.
When you do this you find that the needs of Wales are broadly similar to the needs of the English shire counties. London weighting skews a whole raft of NUTS1 Regional figures including spending on education.
Comparison between Wales, Scotland and Ulster isn't really valid either since issues like law and order and water supply are not directly comparable.
But one thing remains fairly obvious – the 4 highest spending NUTS1 Regions (Wales, London, Scotland, and Ulster) all have one thing in common. They are the 4 with elected legislatures, and all the overheads that go with them which simply duplicate existing UK executive functions. This arguably serves to illustrate that devolution is a more expensive, therefore less efficient, way to run public services. Which is why so many of us would rather the needs assessment for all the NUTS1 Regions was done in London by the same 'team' with access to the 'best' information – poor though it seems to be for a costing system that has been in place for so many years already.
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"The long term economic success or failure of Wales is already largely in the hands of the Welsh Government." I don't support Labour but can't agree with this. The decisions being mooted on benefits, rail electrification and tax by the UK Government this week will all have a greater effect on the Welsh economy than anything the Welsh Government is responsible for. Could you substantiate your comment?


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DeKalb School spokesperson Quinn Hudson says all students have been accounted for, and that no injuries were reported.
DeKalb County Police said they responded to a call of shots fired at the Ronald McNair Discovery Learning Academy on 2nd Avenue.
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AAR reports carload and intermodal volumes are down for week ending February 25
March 02, 2012
Rail volumes were down for the week ending February 25, according to data from the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Carload volume—at 281,644—was down 5 percent annually and slightly behind the week ending February 18 at 281,989 and ahead of the week ending February 11 at 279,501. It was also behind the week ending February 4 at 284,546 and the week ending January 28 at 283,654.
Eastern carloads were down 8 percent, and out west carloads were down 2.9 percent.
Intermodal volumes—at 214,402 trailers and containers—were down 2.8 percent annually. This was down compared to the week ending February 18 at 221,003 and the week ending February 11 at 227,207 and the week ending February 4 at 232,950 and the week ending January 28 at 235,028.
Of the 20 commodity groups tracked by the AAR, 9 were up annually. Motor vehicles and equipment were up 30.9 percent, and petroleum products were up 25.6 percent. Coal and grain were down 13.1 percent and 11.9 percent, respectively.
Carloads for the first eight weeks of 2012—at 2,272,480—were down 0.3 percent over the first seven weeks of 2011, and intermodal was up 1.6 percent at 1,772,839 trailers and containers.
Estimated ton-miles for the week at 32.2 billion were down 0.3 percent, and for the year-to-date it was up 0.6 percent at 258.6 billion.
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New York Evening World, April 25, 1916:
Touché. That hits a bit close to home, old-timey people. (I should mention that the "Answers to Queeries" below the linked blurb gave me a chuckle or two.)
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OTP 2016 April 25: Forget politics, baseball season in full gear
We all have our ways of marking the seasons. I know it's spring when in early April I start my morning by skipping The Washington Post front page and going right to the sports section. It's not until I've fully savored the baseball box scores that I resignedly turn to politics.
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It was definitely not the cleanest game ever played, but there were so many uncommon events that this one will be remembered for quite some time.
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Arrieta can join these six pitchers who threw two no-hitters in one season
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NYT - What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team?
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LMAO! I love reading from all these keyboard warriors here thinking they know how to fix the Ducati and then having the audacity to blame Rossi or Stoner for its trouble. Stating that only Stoner can win on the duc is also a joke. Stoner complained about the issues with the duc for years. That is why he left duh..! They didn't fix it for him, and they didn't fix it for Rossi. Dovi and Hayden say they need a totally new bike. I believe them.


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Aggie Basketball Season is Underway —By Daulton Perry on 11/11/2012 Goodwell, Okla.—The OPSU men's basketball team was ready to get their season started and after a blowout win at home on Wednesday night against the New Mexico All-Stars, the fans were ready as well. That game, however, was just an exhibition, so this game on Saturday night was the real deal with Barclay College coming to town.
The Aggies got the opening tip off and a couple seconds later, Damar Hill sent an alley-oop up for Tavien Rosemond who slammed it down with authority and that got the fans in it right away. From then on out, the Aggies kept the momentum and would never let it up. The Aggie defense played the Barclay Bears tough all night and caused them to turn the ball over more than 40 times in the ball game. Most of these turnovers led to fast break points by OPSU. The Aggies were on fire from the behind the three-point line and it seemed as if every Aggie hit one during the game. At the end of the game, there were seven different Aggies with double digit points and the Bears had no answer for the Aggie offensive attack. OPSU was victorious in their first regular season game winning big, 143-63. Michael Patterson led all scorers with 27 points followed closely by Krys Randolph with 26 points as he hit eight three-pointers. Bill Lee had 16 points followed by T. J. Farrell with 15 and the Carlos Tapia-Ponce with 14 and then Trestin Clay with 13 and finally rounding out the double digits scorers was Brandon Caruthers with 12. What really helped the Aggies was their three-point shooting as they went 21-42 from beyond the arc.
The Aggies head to Fairbanks, Alaska next week to play in a tournament where they have three games in three days. Their next home game is on November 24 against Western State.###


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The B Street Living Museum Story
The B Street Living Museum project site is located on a Metro-owned property less than a mile from the Pacific University campus in Forest Grove, near the B Street bridge over Gales Creek (at 1155 B St., for the purposes of GPS or mapping programs).
The B Street Living Museum is an emerging grassroots organization and demonstration site whose mission is to provide inspiration and information about environmentally sensitive, sustainable living practices for Pacific University students, city residents, local schools and other Forest Grove community members. Site projects engage participants in community building, research, and demonstration for the purpose of providing the impetus for sustainable practices in the Forest Grove community in accordance with permaculture principles and ethics. Read about B Street Living Museum in the Pacific magazine.
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We envision a vibrant, thriving, and just community that provides for its food, water, and energy needs through informed stewardship of the ecosystems within our bioregion.
To provide inspiration and information on resilient and sustainable systems through demonstration, exploration, and discovery for the learning communities of our bioregion.
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We are guided by a collective value system that includes respecting the earth's geophysical processes and limitations, caring for the earth's living communities, and distributing the abundance of renewable resources in a fair and equitable manner.
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From now until August 28, B Street Living Museum will be open from 8:00am-2:00pm (rather than the normal 9:00am-3:00pm).
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I declare Blade Runner the best sci-fi movie of all time. Arguments? No? Okay. So long. Please upvote the guest book on your way out.
WAIT! There's more. At the risk of whistling conspiracies and setting off inappropriate vibrations in your slacks, you see, this Ridley K. Dick concoction is going on right now. While we're all transfixed by the endlessly goofy droppings from the web, forever staring down and swiping things on our smarty-pants phones, retweeting selfies of infinitely mirrored selfies; proliferating at light speed, every aspect of humanity is being replica... read the rest.


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Divorced Mom: How Do I Rebound Financially?
Splitting up makes a mess of your finances,as Lynn, a nurse living in Florida knows all too well. Her 2008 divorce from her husband of 28 years left her in debt, with bad credit, and with limited financial skills. She's already begun to dig out, but she needs a better plan.


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Index of Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches
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Barbara Mackin Barker, renowned scholar, teacher, and dancer, was born in Seattle, October 31, 1938, daughter of Esther and Hoover Mackin, the noted moon geologist. She received her dance training at the Cornish School of the Dance in Seattle and later at the University of Utah. After performing with Ballet West in Salt Lake City, she studied dance in Paris with Roland Petit and was a member for two years of the dance company that performed nightly at the Lido.
Subsequently, she returned to the United States and completed a master of fine arts degree in theatre and dance at The University of Texas in 1971 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1981. She was an assistant professor at The University of Texas beginning in 1980 and was promoted to associate professor in 1985. During that time she worked closely with Ygor Youskevitch, one of the world's great dancers. At Texas, she taught a wide variety of courses, among them Movement for the Actor, Ballet Technique, Modern Dance, History of Dance, History of the American Musical Theatre, Women in Dance, Dance Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Dance.
In 1987 she accepted a position as coordinator of the dance program at the University of Minnesota, where she continued to be employed until her death on January 2, 2002. She was an extremely successful administrator at Minnesota, where she was able to attract donors who, in addition to other support, underwrote three academic chairs in dance. She also helped to raise funds for a dance building, which was dedicated in 1999 and named the Barbara Barker Center for Dance. She was successful in coordinating the various dance groups in the Twin Cities to create cooperative programs where none had previously existed. She also choreographed numerous musicals and dance programs.
Professor Barker was very active in promoting dance education and research in the United States. She served as president of the Society of Dance History Scholars from 1992 to 1995. In 1988, she directed an international conference on the Ballets Russes held at the North Carolina School for the Arts. She also received a Fulbright award for research in England, as well as many fellowships and grants in support of her research elsewhere.
Professor Barker was an authority on 19th century American ballet and musical entertainment. She was the author of Ballet and Ballyhoo: the American Careers of Maria Bonfanti, Rita Sangalli and Giuseppina Morlacchi (1984) and Bolossy Kiralfy: Creator of Great Musical Spectacles (1988). She published numerous articles in journals and essays in books. At the time of her death she was working on a comprehensive study of the work of Agnes DeMille.
She is survived by two daughters, Amy Reilly and Molly Gray, and her husband James H. Warner.
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A judge will hear arguments on Tuesday to determine whether the Metropolitan Water District overcharges the San Diego County Water Authority by millions of dollars every year and in doing so subsidizes cheaper rates for users across the rest of Southern California.
The water authority contends that Metropolitan's alleged overbilling amounts to $57 million this year alone and cumulatively $150 million since 2011. That practice treats San Diego ratepayers as a "cash cow" for Metropolitan, the authority claims.
"The case is all about whether Metropolitan can set whatever rates it wants to charge or whether it is governed by the California constitution and statutes that require public agencies to only recover the costs of service," said Dennis Cushman, assistant general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority.
Metropolitan, the Los Angeles-based wholesaler that supplies the authority so it can then redistribute the water throughout the San Diego region, dismisses the allegations as false.
"Our water rates are legal and reasonable," Marcia Scully, Metropolitan's general counsel, responded in an interview.
This lawsuit is the latest turn in a long feud between the authority and Metropolitan, which provides water to six Southern California cities and 19 million residents. In one of the more eye-opening allegations, San Diego officials claim Metropolitan formed a "secret society" among some member agencies that plotted to discredit San Diego's various bids for water from independent sources. Metropolitan has denied the charge.
Some of the member water agencies have spent tens of thousands of dollars of ratepayer funds on studies and public relations to counter San Diego's claims. The San Diego authority has for years believed that it overpays Metropolitan and is unfairly cut when shortages occur.
A number of legal skirmishes between the agencies have played out in the court over the last three years. But Tuesday marks a milestone when San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow opens a days-long hearing of arguments and expert witness testimony to answer this central question:
Has Metropolitan illegally inflated delivery charges to the county water authority by more than the cost of providing the service? If so, that could be a violation of state law and Metropolitan may have to repay the alleged overcharges.
If the water authority wins, Cushman said the board has agreed to distribute refunds to its member agencies after subtracting attorney fees, now estimated at $7.2 million. It will be up to those agencies to determine whether to give ratepayers refunds, he said.
The hearing comes at a time of escalating anger over rising water rates throughout San Diego County, where homeowners and businesses are seeing larger bills even as they use less. The city of San Diego last month approved rate increases of nearly 15 percent over the next two years, depending on the amount used. The typical San Diego household now pays about $72 per month, compared to $32 in 2002.
Metropolitan moved 186,000 acre-feet of water for the San Diego County Water Authority in 2012. That's enough for nearly 375,000 homes for a year. Metropolitan's delivery charges to San Diego have ranged from $314 per acre-foot to an estimated $445 next year. In contrast, the charge for the water itself has actually fallen from $170 in 2010 to an estimated $148 next year, according to authority figures.
The county water authority contends Metropolitan sets shipping fees in ways to cover other expenses, such as adding in unrelated conservation and power costs.
That practice amounts to "hidden taxes," the authority alleges, and violates Proposition 26's requirement that two-thirds of voters approve. Metropolitan's climbing rates are a tax because the charges exceed the cost of service, the authority says.


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An East team rope master gives the command to pull during the 43rd annual Naha Otsunahiki, or Naha Giant Tug-of-War at Naha City, Okinawa, Oct. 13. The rope masters direct the efforts of each team, helping the participants pull in unison. The tug-of-war has roots dating back to the 15th century when Okinawa was a part of the Ryukyu Kingdom. The East and West teams represent competing dynasties of the kingdom.
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That's what happened in Germany in 1933 when Hitler's National Socialist Party was voted in by the majority. Hitler then consolidated his power into the Nazi dictatorship with its deranged racism and plans for world domination. All of this was stated by Hitler in his own book, Mein Kampf, which any German could have read. At first German Jews assumed that Hitler would not last long. The Nazi movement was so much against basic German traditions of cultural and religious tolerance. But they were wrong. Not only was their property plundered, they were also murdered.
In January 2006, in a democratic election among Palestinians, encouraged by the U.S, which seems to believe that a democratic election solves all problems, Hamas, a political party that advocates the destruction of Israel, won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliarment. This was pure "democracy" at work, unfettered by any constitutional limitations. Hamas had stated its goal of destroying Israel in its Covenant adopted in 1988. Like Hitler's Mein Kampf, the Covenant spelled out its evil intentions in plain language.
In June 2007, Hamas took control of the government in Gaza after the Israelis had withdrawn from the territory, dislocating over 5000 Israeli citizens and destroying all of the towns, farms, and businesses they had created. And no sooner was Hamas in charge than it began lobbing bombs into Southern Israel.
It is uncanny how similar are the events that took place among the Palestinians and what happened in Germany in 1933. The Germans had Mein Kampf, and Hamas has the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement. In the case of Germany, it led to a world war, millions of deaths, and total ruin. In Gaza it has already led to a full-scale military action by Israel to stop Hamas's nonstop bombardment of Israeli towns. And even after that military action, Hamas is still lobbing shells into Israel.
The Covenant states:
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.… Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious ... The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realized ... The Movement's programme is Islam ... and the Quran is its constitution. Its extent in place is anywhere that there are Muslims who embrace Islam as their way of life everywhere in the globe.
[Hamas] is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood ... [T]he Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take ...
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day ... Nationalism, from the point of view of the Islamic Resistance Movement, is part of the religious creed ... Since this is the case, liberation of Palestine is then an individual duty for every Muslim wherever he may be.
Hamas sees its movement as part of the Muslim Brotherhood engaged in the centuries-long struggle against the Christian Crusades and the later ideological invasions by missionaries and secular orientalists who influenced Arab education. The Covenant states:
This, in its turn, paved the way for the imperialistic invasion that made [Gen.] Allenby declare on entering Jerusalem: "Only now have the Crusades ended." Gen. Guru stood at Salah el-Din's grave and said: "We have returned, O Salah el-Din."
To Hamas the liberation of Palestine is part of the greater struggle of Islam against the Christian West, and particularly against Western ideology. "Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes." For this reason Hamas seeks a revitalization of pure Islamic education for Muslim men and women who will be willing to die for the cause. The Covenant states:
Side by side with this, a comprehensive study of the enemy, his human and financial capabilities, learning about his points of weakness and strength, and getting to know the forces supporting and helping him, should also be included.
Thus, it was possible for the 9-11 hijackers to live in America and enjoy its freedoms without being converted or seduced from Islam. Their hatred of the infidel provided the motivation to kill more Americans in a few hours than would have otherwise been possible. The Covenant states further:
The Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day ... This Waqf remains as long as earth and heaven remain. Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic Sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void....
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors....
Since this is the case, liberation of Palestine is then an individual duty for every Muslim wherever he may be ... This should be realized by every Muslim.
It is important that basic changes be made in the school curriculum, to cleanse it of the traces of ideological invasion that affected it as a result of the orientalists and missionaries who infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah el-Din (Saladin) ... It is necessary to instill in the minds of the Muslim generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.
Hamas, like Hitler, also believes that Jews are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to control the world:
They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist Revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different part of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests ...
They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it ...
After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates ... Their plan is embodied in the "Protocol of the Elders of Zion," and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying ... The present Zionist onslaught has also been preceded by Crusading raids from the West and other Tatar raids from the East.
Obviously, Hamas has a view of history that has become part of the fantasy world Palestinians believe in. Also, the Waqf concept must serve as a warning to Europe, which is in the process of being colonized by Muslims. The Covenant also states that when the leaders of the Islamic armies conquered Syria and Iraq, "it was decided that the land should be left with its owners who would benefit from its fruits. As for the real ownership of the land and the land itself, it should be consecrated for Muslim generations till Judgment Day."
In 20 to 50 years, Western Europe may be dominated by Muslims who will claim it as a Waqf.
The Covenant makes it plain that Hamas cannot compromise on its basic program without destroying its reason for being. Hamas has also joined forces with Iran which has the same goal of destroying Israel. Iran provides Hamas with financial support and has tried to smuggle arms into Gaza. And that is why Israel has set up a naval blockade to prevent Iran from landing heavy weapons on Gaza's coast. Hamas has been named a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. But since Hamas and Fatah, its political rival, have patched up their differences and created a unified Palestinian government, Israel can hardly negotiate with those dedicated to its destruction.
Has President Obama read the Hamas Covenant? If he has, then he'd know that any concessions by Israel in pursuit of peace would be seen by Hamas as merely a means of weakening the Jewish state. He would also know that the proposals he made of Israel returning to the lines of 1967 would be considered by Netanyahu as impossible and counterproductive. And now that Hamas and Fatah have created a unified Palestinian government, the goal of destroying Israel must be considered as the long-range policy of the Palestinians.
By the way, the entire text of the Hamas Covenant, adopted 18 August 1988, is available online at The Avalon Project of the Lillian Goldman Library, Yale University. Article Two clearly states:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgement, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.
There ought to be a course at a university in Washington so that members of the government can study Hamas and the Moslem Brotherhood and understand the nature of the war we are in. One of the most important aspects of war is to know your enemy. If you don't you will suffer needless losses.