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Which regions, provinces, cities are Philippines' richest?
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Regions, provinces and cities in Luzon are the richest while the poorest local government units (LGUs) are from Mindanao, according to the latest 2014 Annual Financial Report of the Commission on Audit (COA).
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) remains at the bottom of the country's wealth ladder, while the National Capital Region (NCR) tops the list, followed by Region 7 with Cebu as the province with the highest in assets and total equity.
Equity is the difference between the amount of assets and liabilities of LGUs. It is a financial resource that may be saved, or used for local projects such as infrastructures, investments and operating expenses.
RICH AND POOR REGIONS
The NCR has the biggest equity at P137.649 billion, followed by Region 7 (Central Visayas) with P61.731 billion and Region 4A (Calabarzon) with P60.509 billion.
Meanwhile, the ARMM is at the bottom of the list with only P4.434 billion equity.
Here is the complete list of the regions with their total equity:
- NCR: P137.649 billion
- Region 7: P61.731 billion
- Region 4A: P60.509 billion
- Region 10: P22.274 billion
- Region 11: P12.15 billion
- Region 4B: P9.479 billion
- CAR: P6.455 billion
- ARMM: P4.434 billion
RICH AND POOR CITIES
Meanwhile, six cities in the NCR had the highest equity in 2014, led by Makati City at P34.461 billion; Quezon City, P31.917 billion; Pasig City, P20.036 billion; Manila City, P13.131 billion; Caloocan City, P6.894 billion; and Marikina City, P4.887 billion.
Calamba City, where many factories are located, is also in the top 10 with P4.69 billion equity.
The only city in the Visayas on the top 10 list is Cebu City with P7.855 billion equity.
Two cities in Mindanao made it to the top 10: Zamboanga City with P10.464 billion, and Cagayan de Oro City with P4.67 billion.
Highest equity:
- Makati City: P34.461 billion
- Quezon City: P31.917 billion
- Pasig City: P20.036 billion
- Manila City: P13.131 billion
- Zamboanga City: P10.464 billion
- Cebu City: P7.855 billion
- Caloocan City: P6.894 billion
- Marikina City: P4.887 billion
- Calamba City: P4.690 billion
- Cagayan de Oro City: P4.670 billion
Lowest equity:
- Balanga City: P384 million
- Calapan City: P374 million
- Mabalacat City: P366 million
- Catbalogan City: P354 million
- Silay City: P351 million
- Ilagan City: P322 million
- El Salvador City: P309 million
- Iriga City: P301 million
- Lamitan City: P190 million
- Malolos City: P180 million
RICH AND POOR PROVINCES
Among the provinces, Cebu is highest in terms of financial capability with P28.181 billion equity. Five provinces near NCR made it to the top 10 provinces with the highest equity: Rizal, P6.715 billion; Cavite, P4.918 billion; Laguna, P4.474 billion; Batangas, P4.381 billion; and Pampanga, P3.883 billion.
Five Mindanao provinces, meanwhile, have the least equity. Dinagat Islands in Region 13 came last on the list with only P281.292 million. Batanes, an island in the northern part of Luzon, is second to the last with P285.229 million equity. Four Luzon provinces and a Visayan province are also part of the bottom 10.
- Region 7, Cebu: P28.181 billion
- Region 4 Rizal: P6.715 billion
- Region 4A, Cavite: P4.918 billion
- Region 6, Negros Occidental: P4.741 billion
- Region 4, Laguna: P4.474 billion
- Region 4, Batangas: P4.381 billion
- Region 1, Pangasinan: P4.225 billion
- Region 7, Negros Oriental: P3.951 billion
- Region 2, Isabela: P3.909 billion
- Region 3, Pampanga: P3.883 billion
- Region 8, Biliran: P459.870 million
- Region 5, Sorsogon: P450.999 million
- CAR, Mountain Province: P446.644 million
- Region 4B, Romblon: P435.060 million
- Region 10, Camiguin: P426.851 million
- Region 11, Davao Oriental: P397.771 million
- ARMM, Sulu: P298.580 million
- ARMM, Maguindanao: P296.914 million
- Region 2, Batanes: P285.229 million
- Region 13, Dinagat Islands: P281.292 million
WHY ARE THEY RICH?
University of the Philippines (UP) Center for Public Integrity Executive Director Prof. Edna Co explained that the number and type of investments affect the equity of an area.
She said infrastructures, transportation, communication system, and educational attainment of human resources play a big part in attracting investors.
Co said Cebu, for example, has a big number of investors because it has paved roads, efficient information technology, and high number of employable population.
Metro Cebu is considered the largest and most progressive urban center in the country outside NCR. Aside from its agricultural industry, it houses big foreign and local companies in the Mactan Economic Processing Zone and in its industrial park.
"It probably has the biggest investment that business puts into it and why? Because of the infrastructures that are available in Cebu for example, or probably because of the high level of IT [Information Technology] communication that is available to let business grow, and there are sufficient qualified human resources which are key to making industries, business grow in a particular area," said Co.
Co also pointed out the importance of accessible and quality education in economic progress.
"Cebu is a metropolitan, is an urban area. I think because of the availability and proximity of schools, marami dito ang human resources na sinasabi natin na nakapagaral, at ito ang mga tao o population na importante para ma-employ, para magkaroon ng jobs. So, I would say that is a factor for Cebu. Metro Manila also has big [number of] schools," explained Co.
WHY ARE THEY POOR?
The disparity between the richest and poorest regions indicates the areas which receive the least attention from the government, added Co.
Even though ARMM provinces receive annual Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for general administration and support for its projects, the region still has the highest poverty incidence among families since 2006.
The latest study of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) in 2012 revealed that 48.7 percent of families in the ARMM are poor.
Meanwhile, the poorest province with 67.3 percent poverty incidence, Lanao del Sur, received P1.4 billion IRA in 2014, and P1.2 billion in 2013.
Based on the NAPC poverty threshold, a family with an income of less than P10,534 a month is considered poor.
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) earlier explained that the high poverty incidence in Mindanao was due to limited employment opportunities.
"Ang ahensya lang na meron sa Mindanao ay ahensya ng gobyerno. That actually accommodates some employment in Mindanao. Pangalawa ay small and medium enterprises," said Aleem Siddiqui Guiapal, director of the Bureau of Muslim Economic Affairs-NCMF.
Co pointed out that an area becomes more vulnerable to higher poverty incidence and threats to peace and order as the gap in local government's economic status widens.
"Kapag lumaki ang gap between the rich and the poor, lalong vulnerable ang mga tao na magkaroon ng conflict, dissatisfaction, giyera. At ito 'yung ground for recruiting the most dissatisfied sector of the population. So probably, rebellion will rise, terrorism, this will be inclined to support terrorist acts, more criminal acts, therefore, more problems on peace, security and order in the community," she said.
National agencies and local government units must work in improving the necessary improvements on infrastructures, communication and education system in areas with the least equity.
"Itong mga lugar na ito ay may kakulangan sa atensyon ng gobyerno upang ito ay pagbuhusan ng mga investment at budget para paunlarin ang infrastructures, road system, communication system. Kasi kung wala kang ganitong klaseng infrastructures... mahirap iengganyo ang sinuman na gustong mag-stay sa lugar, o kaya mahirap maengganyo ang negosyo na doon mag-invest dahil malaki ang kakaining capital para maging posible ang isang negosyo," Co explained.
With the absence of big foreign and local investors, NCMF is working to improve the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Mindanao.
President Benigno Aquino III highlighted the importance of SMEs in economic development during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Leaders Meeting on November 17.
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Where To Find Your Mansion If You Have Champagne Tastes and a Moscato Budget
by Candy's Dirt
If your Pinterest board is mansion after mansion, but your bank account is slightly less accommodating to your champagne wishes and caviar dreams, the idea of buying a more luxurious property in DFW might make you a touch incredulous.
But, according to a recent GoBankingRates survey of 48 U.S. cities, if you don't mind the 'burbs, you can totally find the Lone Star largesse you're looking for when it comes to square footage.
A July study by the company looked at the 200 largest U.S. cities and then, using a definition of homes between 5,000 and 8,000 square feet to determine what a mansion is, researchers multiplied median list price per square foot, and estimated about how much a 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, and 8,000 square foot abode would set you back in the pocketbook.
So where can you live in North Texas and score a big ol' house for less than $1 million? GoBankingRate found three cities. We've linked to a representative listing for each price point (when we could find one), just to further illustrate. (more…)
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It's My Mansion: Providence Village Colonial Is Whole Lot of House For Under $200K
Much is said about small-town living, and it's a major reason people move to the suburbs. The upside is you get a lot of house for your money and many are family-friendly communities that make for a nice place to raise kids.
We've found a small-town house (that's anything but small) in Providence Village at 10325 Nantucket Dr. This Colonial-style home has 2,263 square feet on two stories with three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a powder room, and it's under $200K.
Providence Village is a Denton County master-planned community of about 5,750 people and 1,700 homes. It is located along U.S. Highway 380 near FM 2931, about halfway between Frisco and Denton.
The owner of this home, Angela Swenson, says she bought this home because it's a "real neighborhood—the kind that the rest of America wishes still existed."
Swenson has an elementary-aged son, and said the community in Providence Village is ideal for him.
"We have blue-ribbon schools, all in walking distance, awesome houses for cheap, and almost every home has kids, so kids are everywhere on their bikes, playing with friends in their yards or at the parks with very little supervision," Swenson said. "It's the community for kids and families—we have a waterpark with huge water-slides, seven catch-and-release lakes filled with fish, huge Easter-egg hunts and fireworks displays, and Santa Claus rides down the street in a sleigh giving out inexpensive toys at Christmas."
This house was built in 2004 and Providence Village is a resort-style community with everything Swenson mentioned, plus four swimming pools, three tennis courts, three dog parks, four baseball fields, four soccer fields, four basketball courts, a clubhouse, community dock and boat ramp for Lake Providence (a 25-acre lake), greenbelt, jogging/bike path, 11 parks, and playgrounds.
Swenson is a Realtor with United Real Estate, and is the listing agent for this house. She put it on the market Feb. 5 for $197,500. HOA fees are $60 per month and cover full use of facilities, maintenance of common areas, and management fees.
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15 Year Old Who Shot McKinney Pool Party Video Says He Thought Police Were Racially Motivated
by Candy Evans
His name is Brandon Brooks, he's 15, and is the astute young man who shot the video of McKinney police breaking up that pool party on Friday that has resulted in the nation's eyes focused on McKinney, Texas, often voted as the Best Place to Live in America, as perhaps being the the Worst Place to Be If You Are Black and a Teenager.
"The cops showed up and the parents immediately started yelling, 'you need more cops, there's too many of them.' And most of the kids weren't even involved. It was a fight between a mom and girl, which had nothing to do with all the other kids that she apparently needed more cops for," Brooks explained.
That's when Brooks says the officer, reportedly identified as Cpl. Eric Casebolt, arrived on the scene and flipped out. "He trips and drops his flashlight. He's going crazy, putting people in handcuffs, tackling people, slinging them on the ground." So, why wasn't Brooks handcuffed? "I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening. You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kinda like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down."
How Much Can We Blame DISD for Toyota Not Moving to Dallas?
By now you've probably heard that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings blamed Dallas's loss of the big Toyota Headquarters to Plano move on low performing Dallas Public Schools, or DISD.
In an interview on KERA's Think, Rawlings said Toyota ultimately decided to relocate to Plano because of the schools in Dallas.
"We don't get Toyota in Dallas because of the school system. We've talked to them. They want to be in Plano," Rawlings said.
Rawlings said it's difficult to sell a company on moving to Dallas when it has so many low-performing schools that produce few graduates. He said the schools played a role in 7-Eleven deciding to move its headquarters from Dallas to Irving recently.
"They looked at a lot of things — the location, cost of real estate," Rawlings said about Toyota. "But they want a school … The 7-Eleven CEO said, 'I need to be where our families are sending their kids to school,' and they are not sending them to DISD." (more…)
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Biography of Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was born in February 6, in 1895 in Baltimore under the name Herman George Ruth Jr. He was born in the family of eight children and survived along with his sister Mamie. His parents, Kate and George Sr. Ruth, worked as labours; hence, he never enjoyed parental support and warm attitude alongside his sister. Being most of the time without parents he did not have parental advice, which made him unruly while causing troubles and skipping school. At age of seven, his parents realized that he was rude and needed a strict environment to guide him. St. Mary's industrial school for boys was the only available school with stricter environment being an institution run by monks under the leadership of Xaverian Brothers. In St. Marys, Ruth was shaped and provided with a regiment environment that moulded his future. While studying in St. Marys he learned vocational skills and developed love and passion for the game of baseball. Babe Ruth made a significant impression as a sportsman in America in respect to baseball.
Brother Matthias in St. Marys, after realizing Ruth abilities, became his role model and a mentor while assisting him to refine baseball skills. The brother worked with Ruth on pitching skills, fielding, and hitting. When George Jr. became good at playing basketball, brother Thomas invited the owner of Baltimore orioles Mr. Jack Dunn to come and watch the young player. The Baltimore orioles' owner was impressed and offered George Jr. a contract. After watching his play in 1914, Dunn decided to be his guardian in order he could complete the contract under the agreement. From the responsibility taken by Dunn, the other players referred to him as "newest Babe", hence the origin of the name. Henceforth, George Jr. was known as the Babe. Through his brilliant performance, the owner of Baltimore orioles sold Babe to Boston Sox.
His fame started as a pitcher although he was a powerful slugger. Finalizing the games he played in 1914, Babe appeared in five games for the Red Sox after pitching, four out of the five played in the season . By July 1914, Babe had won his major league debut but due to the loaded roaster, he opted to play in the minor league of Red Sox team. As the team member in the Providence Grays Babe assisted the team and ensured they played in pennant, which was an international league. After this appearance Babe became a permanent fixture in the team hence accumulating 18-8 record with 2.44 as the ERA. In 1916, Ruth lead the league with a 1.75 ERA, and this followed his success during the previous season where he had 23-12 campaign. Before displaying his natural abilities, his enormous power had enabled him to be on daily line up for the game. By 1918, Ruth had been an everyday player and having a lot of fans and followers hence trying for a major league, which enabled him 11 home runs. This allowed Ruth to set a single record in 1919 with 29 dingers. After the record in 1919 season Ruth moved from Boston to New York Yankees. He later became a full time outfielder and this made him a New York Yankee.
After 1919, Babe dominated baseball with scores that had never been witness in the history. His experience in the game changed baseball into high and power scoring game from the previous game of grind. Babe success was also exhibited through the way he scored and he re-wrote the record books to a high batting average from a hitting standpoint accompanied with unbelievable power. Babe broke the most hallowed records, and this was considered as an assault to earlier record breakers. In the year 1920, Babe bested the previous record after belting 54 staggering homeruns. There had been no player who had ever achieved this record since the highest number of home runs had been less than nineteen. No individual apart from one team also had broken this record. Babe made a history in MLB in the year 1921 after blasting a new 59-homerun record. Babe had scored 177 run and drove in 171 RBI, batted .376 and overall .846 slugging percentage which had never been scored. He became an official superstar enjoying popularity surrounded by the baseball professionals. Babe set attendance record and made Yankees to be the most dominant and recognizable team while leading the way in baseball. From his successful career, a new stadium built in 1923 for Yankees was dubbed "the house that Ruth built".
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Babe continued to develop. In 1927, he set another new record of 60 in homerun when he was the member of "Murderer's Row". This record stood for thirty-four years since Babe was igniting the greatest and the most valued dynasty in American sport. Before joining Yankees, the team had never won such a title, indeed he assisted the Yankees to capture and defend four World Series titles and seven pennants. In the American history, his team of 1927 has been always considered the greatest that have ever existed.
Though he faced critics, many people had to admit that Ruth was a great player regarding hits. It was impossible to deny that Ruth's strength enabled him to remodel the rule of baseball since he made a score every time he stepped up to the plate. The supporters of cob hated Ruth due to the fact that he did not applied science of baseball but his natural ability. Ruth did not require study or scheme, but only strength; hence, he considered that the scientific baseball was unnecessary. His abilities were totally opposite to those of Ty since Ty applied scientific hitting and his playing techniques while Ruth had never followed any set of rules and had not accepted them. Ruth was known to flout rules and disregard science while using the powers of his unequalled talent. He influenced the system that could later be used in the major leagues and remained a role model as well as a mentor in the sportsmanship of baseball. He also introduced slugging as a winning strategy pitching old players to relinquish scientific baseball. According to most sportswriters, slugging may not have led to wins, but it ensured that real baseball was in the middle ground accompanied by the batters hence diverting from pure science to a mixture of strength. Aberration was omitted while slugging was accepted as the legitimate tactic of winning.
The influence of Ruth extended beyond his playing times and it was mostly felt by the youngsters. This was evident in the letters he received from the children while he was fighting a losing battle to cancer. For his remembrance of the impact he made on baseball, there are many Babe Ruth leagues across the world since he ensured that baseball would continue being successful even after finishing his career. His home runs symbolically signified man's triumph over harsh conditions that were experienced in the West. Babe easily conquered the baseball barriers while ensuring that this kind of sport expanded outwards.
To sum up, Babe's impact on the game of baseball was not only breaking all records, but he also changed old strategies giving way to the new system of winning the game. According to Smith, his one swing of the bat signified a change in playing history of the game and hence proved that science was unnecessary in respect to the current baseball. To appreciate his sterling performance, he was inaugurated as the first inductee of the Baseball Hall Of Fame. At the end of his lifetime career he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1946, and his health deteriorated quickly. He lost the battle with the deadly disease in august 16, 1948.
In conclusion, despite sixty years have passed, Ruth remains one of the greatest figures in baseball major leagues in the world. In the American history, Babe has remained as a true sport icon since he helped save the game from a scandal that was associated with the Black Sox. Babe Ruth influenced baseball game in a way that had never been witnessed before, and he continued being the benchmark due to which other upcoming players were valued. He influenced the system that could later be used in the major leagues and remained a role model as well as a mentor in the sportsmanship of baseball while introducing slugging as a winning strategy pitching old players to relinquish scientific baseball. Indeed, Babe Ruth dominated baseball with scores that had never been witness in the history. He is also known for changing baseball into high and power scoring game from the previous game of grind. Babe's success remains in the books and will always be associated with the game and how he re-wrote the record books to a high batting average from a hitting standpoint accompanied with unbelievable power. He also remains a hero who proved that everything was possible and only will and power assured prosperity.
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Letters to Hitler published
Posted on August 29, 2012 by petrel41
This video is called Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation.
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Letters to Hitler
Edited by Henrik Eberle (Polity Press, £20)
The KGB special archives in Moscow have recently thrown up another historic gem, in the shape of a large cache of letters sent to Hitler between 1925-45.
Removed by the Red Army from Berlin at the end of WWII, and now published for the first time in English, they allow us to see the appeal that Hitler held for Germans across the social spectrum.
To a certain extent the contents mirror the postbag of any politician insofar as there are requests for assistance over personal issues such as complaints about neighbours and requests for employment.
The cult of personality encouraged by the nazis also meant requests for photographs.
The widow of the car magnate Carl Benz thanked Hitler for one such picture, "in the evening of my life, with the satisfaction of knowing that Germany's welfare is in safe hands."
But what makes the letters particularly interesting is that though Hitler saw virtually none of them himself, the annotations from his staff give a clear insight into the mindset of the nazis.
These usually directed an acknowledgment, a few words of encouragement, or referral to an official for assistance but could also be a referral to the Gestapo.
With his nazi party gaining 37 per cent of the vote in July 1932 and signing the Enabling Act in 1933, allowing Hitler to assume the position of dictator, the letters of unconditional support and encouragement peaked.
Once the mass arrests and killings began, the sense of unease among a number of writers was palpable.
Included in the letters of protest is one from six young people in Blackpool urging the release of communist leaders Edgar Andre and Ernst Thalmann, both of whom were later murdered on Hitler's orders.
The number of letters gradually tailed off until only the most fanatical continued to urge their support, pledging their lives for the fascist cause.
The book relates the fate of a number of the writers and many of them did indeed lay down their lives for Hitler.
Eberle's work is an interesting but chilling case study on how a seemingly educated and mature society can be manipulated to the point of blind fanaticism, at such a ghastly cost.
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lowerarchy on August 29, 2012 at 6:04 pm said:
My dad's unit liberated a camp at the end of WW2. I've got a good story about when he was in Holland as well – tell you later
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Imagine what life would be today in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />India if hire purchase had never been introduced. Lorries would be almost as rare a sight as they were in 1950, confined to the cities and larger towns. Bus travel would remain the luxury of the urban middle class, far beyond the reach of the masses and the rural areas. Motor cars would be few. Where lakhs of stone houses now stand, there would still be empty fields, paddy lands, and hutments. Just as the computer has revolutionised modern business by performing highly complex tasks in a fraction of the time and cost required by man, creating new jobs, new industries, new wealth in the process, so hire purchase has revolutionised commerce in India.
The traditional view that development is solely a function of capital has given way to the realisation that a new system or a new institution can have a greater developmental impact than thousands of crores of investment. The rapid proliferation of drive-in restaurants in the USA like MacDonalds, which has five thousand branches offering quick service meals at nearly the same cost as home cooking, is an example of a new system that generates billions of dollars of business every year.
In India the system known as hire purchase has played a parallel role, stimulating a dramatic growth in the road transport and housing industries. About 50% of passenger road transport and nearly all lorry transport is in the private sector. Since 1960 there has been a fivefold increase in the total number of motor vehicles. This enormous expansion was made possible by a system permitting the owner to make a 25% down-payment on a new vehicle and pay the balance in installments over several years.
More recently this system has been extended to the purchase of motorcycles and auto-rickshaws accounting for a twenty-fold increase in these vehicles in the last twenty years.
A similar expansion has taken place in the housing industry by permitting would-be home owners to borrow 75% of the construction cost and repay it by installment out of future income. House building which was once beyond the means of nearly the entire population due to the need for a huge lump sum investment, has now become possible for many more people with steady income and job security.
Actually the use of the term hire purchase for these activities is a misnomer inherited from the British who remain confused on this issue up to this day. The purchase of houses or vehicles on an installment basis with transfer of ownership at the time payment is completed, is properly referred to as a conditional sale, the transfer being conditional on completion of the payment schedule. Whereas hire purchase refers to a lease or rental transaction wherein the leasee retains an option to either return the property at the end of the lease period like any rental or purchase it for a fixed amount.
This system is known as lease purchase in the USA where it is widely employed due to certain tax advantages in transactions involving motor vehicles and office equipment. It has more recently been extended to the leasing of large office buildings and even industrial units. Internationally, lease purchase is being used by bank consortiums to finance large petro-chemical complexes in Asia for hundreds of millions of dollars.
By whatever name you call it -- hire purchase, installment loan, conditional sale, lease purchase -- there is vast scope for application of this very useful system in India to the benefit of both industry and the consumer.
Money, labour, raw materials and machines can only generate wealth when they are put to use; and it is one of the chief characteristics of the poorer nations that the bulk of their resources lie untapped or under-utilised. Hire purchase is a means by which a portion of this potential can be brought into productivity.
When a pump or tractor sits in a showroom for months, it brings no benefit to anyone. The same pump or tractor put to work on the field can bring new land under cultivation and produce new wealth from crops where previously there was none. All that is needed is a system that can secure a buyer for the pump salesman and provide a means for the farmer to pay for the pump out of the new wealth generated by its use.
Hire purchase is such a system and it can be employed not only to put new equipment into production but for establishing new industries as well.
The Government of Tamil Nadu has recently sanctioned a few crores for development of the jasmine and citronella oil industries. In both cases a simple oil extraction unit, which can be operated by any farmer on his own lands, costs only about Rs.25,000. The Government can arrange for fabrication of these extraction units and make them available even to small farmers on a hire purchase basis to be paid for out of earnings from production. A farmer with two acres of jasmine can easily pay for the unit in the first year of operation and earn a Rs.50,000 profit besides.
The same principle can be extended to stimulate the growth of many other industries where market demand is greater than present supply. For instance, handmade cardboard units can be established in industrial estates by institutions like SIPCOT for Rs.2 or 3 lakhs and leased to capable entrepreneurs or experienced engineers who could repay quarterly installments out of profits from the industry.
Two hundred years ago Adam Smith described in The Wealth of Nations the great spur to commerce in Scotland resulting from a new system of installment credit available to any individual who could procure two persons of proven worth as surety. This innovation permitted Edinburgh merchants to outperform their London counterparts to the great benefit of that country.
New systems of credit can play an equally beneficial role in the field of consumer credit. Poverty like depression is a vicious cycle which tends to perpetuate itself because it lacks the purchasing power necessary to stimulate demand and generate greater economic activity.
Consumer credit is a means to break this cycle by giving purchasing power to future income and thereby creating demand in the present which stimulates production, creates new jobs, increases wage incomes, and consequently further increases demand. Thus a positive cycle of economic expansion replaces a negative cycle of stable poverty.
The tremendous growth in consumer credit after World War I was an important factor in the development of mass markets for consumer durables and luxury goods, and in the overall rise in living standards in the West. The movement began in the USA and spread rapidly in Europe. The Soviet Union and other Communist countries followed in the 1960's.
Modern society has adopted many new forms of credit to suit the needs of the consumer public and business -- the credit card, the charge account, the installment loan, hire purchase, etc. The installment loan for automobiles and the house mortgage were the common early forms.
The credit card was first introduced in the 1940's by large American petrol companies. A customer possessing a plastic card issued by one of these companies, can present it at any of the company's petrol stations in the USA, and charge his purchase of petrol, replacement equipment, and repairs. The company then sends a monthly total bill to the customer by post and payment is returned in the post by cheque.
Later the same idea was extended to payment of restaurant and hotel bills, then consumer goods and durable goods. Today some of these credit cards are accepted for a wide variety of purchases including air travel, car rental and gifts by merchants on every continent.
With the latest developments in computer electronics, credit is more and more replacing cash as a means of exchange in the western nations. In 1945 American consumer credit purchases excluding housing mortgages totaled $6 billion (Rs.5000 crores). By 1950 the total was over $25 billion, representing 12% of personal income in the USA; and in 1979 the total exceeded $375 billion (Rs.300,000 crores) or 22.4% of personal income -- an increase of 36 times over 35 years. Of this amount approximately 25% was for purchase of automobiles on an installment basis. Mortgages are usually considered separately since repayment is over many years. In the USA mortgage debt is more than double the size of all other consumer debt, and together they equal about 2/3 of total disposable income.
While India lags far behind the West in this field, there is a growing consumer credit system here which has already made a substantial contribution to the living standards and comfort of many in the urban areas. Government servants and industrial workers who used to walk miles to work every day are now riding cycles purchased on installment basis. Higher level officers, college lecturers and plant managers have financed their scooters in like manner. Today it is possible to buy nearly every type of consumer product -- TV's, radio, clocks, mixers -- on credit.
Recently Co-optex introduced installment sales for handloom cloth at their retail outlets and found many more employees of government and private industry purchasing these goods.
The Diner's Club credit card, first introduced in America forty years ago for payment on restaurant and hotel bills, is gradually coming into use here, signaling the emergence of an entirely new way of life which requires a new legal basis.
What is needed now is to make these systems available to a much wider section of the population, to the weaker sections in the cities and villages, to enhance their purchasing power. This is especially important as a means to increase productivity and incomes by making the means of production, e.g. pumps, motors, sprayers, fertilizers, tools, carts, etc. available on credit and payable out of the greater future income these products can generate. This expansion can be facilitated by introducing new laws to define and protect the rights of buyer and seller alike. Britain established its first Hire Purchase Law in 1938 and there have been many more since.
As far as the seller is concerned he will extend credit wherever he is confident of recovering the money due him without trouble. The Government can pass a law in support of installment purchases backed by the security of an employee's pay cheque.
Suppose a government clerk, assistant engineer, college lecturer or factory superintendent earning around Rs.1500 wants to buy new furniture worth Rs.500 to be paid in 5 installments over 5 months time. A new law can specify a standard form of coupon, perhaps carrying a Re.1 stamp, to be filled in by the buyer for each of the Rs.100 installments and endorsed by his employer if the employer is willing. In case the buyer fails to pay any installment on time, the employer can deduct the Rs.100 from his pay cheque and pay it directly to the seller on presentation of the coupon.
This law would guarantee the right of the seller to recover his dues without recourse to costly and time-consuming legal action, thus increasing his willingness to extend credit to lesser known and lower income parties with permanent jobs.
Legislation is also needed to protect the buyer from unfair interest rates which are often difficult for him to calculate, by making the seller declare the actual simple interest rate, and also to define the rights of both parties in cases of defective merchandise or payment defaults.
Credit is a great lever for development. It is an expansive institution which can create new markets and generate economic activity ten times or even a hundred times greater than before. Basing itself on a greater trust, confidence and cooperation between business and the public, it is a cornerstone of modern economic life which needs the full support of law.


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Recreational marijuana takes center stage in Massachusetts Statehouse hearings Monday
By Phil Demers |
Hearings on Massachusetts' recreational marijuana begin in the Statehouse in Boston Monday, where lawmakers will mull potential changes to the voter-approved legislation legalizing marijuana use among adults and paving the way for commercial sale of the drug.
Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg has said he intends to respect the voters' wishes while also publicly considering changes, including sharply increasing the proposed 3.75 percent tax on sales, decreasing the number of plants residents are allowed to grow and increasing the legal age for purchase past 21, according to the
Rosenberg, an Amherst Democrat, supported legalization.
Governor Charlie Baker, meanwhile, opposed legalization and signed a bill -- supported by ill-attended sessions of the House and Senate -- delaying the likely opening date of retail marijuana shops from January to July 2018.
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, another Democrat, also opposed legalization.
The joint House-Senate committee beginning its hearings in the Statehouse Monday was created by Rosenberg and DeLeo.
Expected to testify are members of the "Yes on 4" group that helped lead the ballot initiative legalizing marijuana in Massachusetts, according to the Associated Press.
The group has gone into defense mode since its victory -- 54 percent of state voters approved of legalization on Election Day -- seeking to rebuff attempts by lawmakers to weaken, delay or substantially change the law by appealing to popular democracy.
"The idea that legislators in my state could eviscerate a popular ballot question, as I watch a minority of conservative voters overrule the majority of national voters, I'll be damned if I'm going to sit still," Northampton lawyer Michael Cutler, who helped write the state's legalization law, told The Globe.
State treasurer Deb Goldberg, whose office will oversee regulation of marijuana sales, will also appear before the state panel, the AP reports.


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No Decision On Printing Rs 2000 Notes, Have Adequate In System: Official
Over 35 per cent of the notes in circulation are those of Rs 2,000, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said
All India | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: January 04, 2019 12:52 IST
Amid reports that Rs 2,000-rupee notes are being phased out, the government today said there was "no decision" on printing more of the notes as there are "more than adequate" in the system.
Printing of notes is planned per projected requirement and now, over 35 per cent of the notes in circulation are those of Rs 2,000, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said.
"We have more than adequate notes of Rs 2,000 in the system... There has been no recent decision regarding 2000-rupee note production," said Mr Garg.
On Thursday, a report had said the government had stopped printing 2,000 rupee notes and planned to phase it out.
Printing of notes is planned as per the projected requirement. We have more than adequate notes of Rs 2000 in the system with over 35% of notes by value in circulation being of Rs 2000. There has been no decision regarding 2000 rupee note production recently.
- Subhash Chandra Garg (@SecretaryDEA) January 4, 2019
A finance ministry official said last evening that the printing of the notes, which debuted after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock demonetisation move in 2016, had been reduced to the "minimum" by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Soon after the overnight ban on Rs 500 and 1,000 notes, which wiped out 80 per cent of the currency in circulation, RBI came out with the Rs 2,000 note and a new-look Rs 500 note.
When the Rs 2,000 note was launched, it had been decided that the printing would be "scaled down", since the new high currency value note was meant for "remonetisation", said the official.
"The printing of 2,000 rupee notes has been substantially reduced. It has been decided to limit the printing of 2,000 currency notes to minimum. This is nothing new," the official said.
According to the RBI data, there were 3,285 million 2,000-rupee notes in circulation in March 2017. A year after, there was only a marginal increase in the number at 3,363 million notes.
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Distinguished visitors at the WOLFFKRAN Plant in Brandenburg
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The Minister President visited several companies in the region to find out about the current economic situation, also with regard to the corona pandemic. "The WOLFFKRAN production site in Luckau has so far come through the crisis without any problems and without short-time working, and continues to produce at full capacity", explained plant manager David Zelder. " We also want to invest during these times and will further improve the productivity and ergonomics of the existing production facilities", WOLFFKRAN COO Ralf-Dieter Koch announced.
Guests were given a tour of the plant, which opened in 2008 and currently employs almost 200 people, including five trainees, and manufactures the entire range of WOLFF Clear cranes for customers throughout the world. At the end of the tour, David Zelder and Ralf-Dieter Koch proudly presented the new WOLFF 235 B luffing jib crane to their guests. Woidke and Lehmann were equally impressed by the new XXL tower element TV 60 with an exterior dimension of 6 x 6 meters, that was developed in Luckau specifically for the Spitallamm Dam Project in the Swiss Alps.
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Pressing for Freedom
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Despite the many challenges facing Afghanistan, the country can boast some major successes and perhaps none is more amazing than the success of its media. In name, at least, we now have a free press.
Afghanistan today boasts seven private television channels, dozens of private radio stations and hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Media of all sorts in Afghanistan have flourished and could be used as a model for other Central and South Asian nations moving toward democracy, and this no doubt will shape President Hamid Karzai's legacy in the decades to come.
Over the past year, however, there have been troubling signs that not everyone in the Afghan government supports this development. The pressure comes on many fronts.
Some of the heat comes from Islamists who fear that free media will corrupt Afghan morals. Some attempts to constrain the press draw support from corrupt politicians who fear their misdeeds will be exposed by enterprising reporters. Others fear that the media's reporting on war crimes from the past two decades will awaken old demons and create unnecessary social tensions. Some officials are simply uncomfortable with the idea of a free press and are genuinely afraid open media will destabilize the young regime.
These elements exert influence in complex and often opaque ways. As far as we can tell from the outside, the Ministry of Information and Culture is the main center of anti-press activity. Several high profile incidents, especially a conflict between Minister Abdul Karim Khuram and the management of government-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan, raise questions about Mr. Khuram's commitment to a free press. He has also spearheaded moves to stop the broadcast of programs of Al Jazeera English by Lemar TV, asking the Attorney General's Office to press charges against the broadcaster despite the lack of any law authorizing such a prosecution.
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Mayor Cassie Franklin identified gangs and youth violence as a top public safety concern and issued a Mayoral Directive (PDF):
"Develop and implement a comprehensive gang reduction/youth violence initiative focusing on prevention and intervention of gang involvement among Everett's youth population."
To carry out this directive, a core-working group of City employees and community stakeholders were identified to meet and find solutions. The group determined that identifying at-risk individuals and quickly connecting them to services is critical to successful prevention and intervention of youth gang violence. The group wanted to utilize the many programs already in place but needed a framework to connect selected youth and families to providers who could help. The group also supported creating a community driven program that incentivized positive decision making and behavior.
The core-working group recommended a three-part approach:
Resource Guide: Create a comprehensive list of the existing intervention and prevention services available within Snohomish County. The list will include all types of human services (public and private), provider information, and population groups designed for the services .
PIVOT for Youth: Implement the Positive Intervention Outreach Team (PIVOT) for Youth. This new multi-disciplinary review team will identify individual youths, and their families, who are at high risk of youth and gang violence. The team would categorize specific needs, challenges, and opportunities before creating an action plan that identifies resources available.
PAY Program: Develop and enact the Pathways for Adolescent Youth (PAY) program. PAY provides community role models and positive reinforcement for youth who are at high risk of youth and gang violence. The program will initially focus on Explorer Middle School with school staff and Everett Police School Resource Officers selecting participants. The program aims to support both the youth and their entire family, through positive mentorship and enrollment in the Strengthening Families program. An additional component seeks to incentivize good behavior and decisions of selected youth by offering "rewards", in the form of gift cards and recognition, for positive behavior as a healthy replacement for "rewards" and lure of the "gang-life".
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PIVOT for Youth is a newly created multi-disciplinary youth violence prevention and intervention review team that identifies individual youth who are at high risk for youth and gang violence. The team will identify specific needs, challenges, and opportunities to help at-risk youth and their families. Action plans for the youth, and their family, will be created to help support the family and direct them to resources that currently exist within the community.
PIVOT provides a mechanism for existing agencies that often share overlapping goals, to collaborate and leverage resources for the best outcome for the individuals served. PIVOT review team members are multi-disciplinary and selected for their understanding of the complex issues involved, their field of discipline, and the agency they represent. Members work in collaboration to create action plans that integrate services of stakeholder agencies. PIVOT members include the following agencies:
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PAY was created to surround participants and their families with positive role models, positive opportunities to get involved with the community, and reward positive behavior through incentives, which may include public recognition, unique training opportunities or gift cards to local businesses. Similar to PIVOT, PAY relies upon strong community partners willing to come together to support youth and families that have been identified as being at greater risk for youth gang involvement. Those partners include the following:
Explorer Middle School (Mukilteo School District)
Boys and Girls Club of Snohomish County
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Families who are identified and agree to participate in PAY will be enrolled in the nationally recognized Strengthening Families program which focuses on youth aged 10-14, and seeks to provide the family unit with information on building bridges, protecting against substance abuse, and dealing with stress and peer pressure. Families will also be assigned a mentor and given opportunities to volunteer or engage in other positive community activities.
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Combo Classes Feed Our Brains
Alex Muegge, Mirada Staff|February 26, 2016
Do you ever get really stressed writing essays for multiple classes on the same day? What if you had a combination of two classes in one? What if your history teacher knew that your English teacher was assigning an essay and, because of that, he didn't give you another one? What if your English and history classes were combined? You could be passing English and history with the same grade.
The school offers two classes such as this: U.S. History and English 3 taught by William Taylor and Jolynn Mason, and World History and English 2 with Christyn Thomas and Teresa Tolbert.
We should combine more classes this way. Teach and make the connections for students to the real world by combining different subjects.
Even though it is hard to combine classes for a whole semester, classes can combine for units. With P.E. and physics for example, students could run and do a speedometer lab with sprinting people instead of remote control cars.
Mr.Taylor recommends the class, saying, "We reach across a lot of levels and abilities but also there's an interest we have in both of our subjects that we want to give the kids not in History and English, but in History-English." Even he believes that the subjects are taught better together.
Unfortunately, the only Combo class we currently have is U.S. History and English 3, we should have another one that's AP US History and AP Language Arts. If we did that, then all the students that are in the honors and A.P. programs could receive the benefits of a combo class.
But if it's really working out for history and English, let's combine other classes too. The teachers want to do it. Ms. Mason said, "You could tie English into anything but I think particularly science because you could do some cool things, like Frankenstein. It raises some ethical questions in science, but it's an English novel."
Every December or so, Spanish teacher Michael Carroll gets together with the Physical Education department to teach a Spanish dance lesson. It satisfies the P.E. curriculum because it is a variation of dance P.E. students need to learn and it satisfies the Spanish curriculum because it teaches Spanish students about the Latin American culture.
Industrial Arts and Math, Art and History, anything can be taught together.
Last year, Josh Murray and the band joined forces with Phil Montbriand and the Chemistry department to sing some chemical Christmas carols and put students at ease before finals and winter break. It was a finals review through song. That class combination had to have helped some kids.
I think we should combine more classes together. The two classes we have right now aren't enough to make the district's decision and it doesn't help that they combined the same two subjects for sophomores and juniors (history and English). Let's try and science and math class, or a woodshop and physics class. Let's learn the fun way.
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B-58 Hustler
C L I C K T O E N L A R G E
It was the world's first operational supersonic bomber, capable of sustained Mach 2 speeds for up to an hour. Yet, within a decade it was retired from service. SAC, the Strategic Air Command, was never happy with its modest range and its maintenance costs seemed exorbitant against the financial drain that was Vietnam. Finally, its inflexible strategic role was viewed superfluous with ICBMs being the more credible deterrent to nuclear war. The illustration above is 400 x 281 and 300 dpi. It is from World War II Aces.
Crew: 3 - pilot
bombardier/navigator
defense systems operator
Power: 4 - General Electric 7082 kg / 15,600 lb afterburning thrust J79-5B turbojets
Max. Speed: 2128 kph / 1322 mph
Ceiling: 19,520 m / 64,000 ft
Range: 8248 km / 5125 miles
Climb: 5310 m / 17,400 ft per minute
Empty: 25,224 kg / 55,560 lb
Max. Take Off: 74,002 kg / 163,000 lb
Wingspan: 17.32 m / 56 ft 10 in
Wing Area: 143.35 sq m / 1543 sq ft
Length: 29.49 m / 96 ft 9 in
Height: 9.58 m / 31 ft 5 in
1 - 20 mm / 0.78 in cannon in tail
8830 kg / 19,450 lb payload - nuclear or conventional
There was no room for a conventional bomb bay in the narrow Coke bottle shaped fuselage so ordnance was kept within a large, streamlined centerline weapons pod tucked beneath the aircraft. The pod's size required the B-58 to have long, mosquito legged landing gear. A wartime mission would normally include five atomic weapons, one for each assigned target. Actual missions would require at least one in flight refueling with a KC-135 tanker. The photo is from Strange Cosmos and is 621 x 441.
Engine pods were mounted outboard of the thin delta wing which had a 60 degree sweep. The speed of the aircraft was not limited by power but by allowable inlet air temperatures and the structural integrity of the aircraft. Sharp cones or spikes protruding from the jets prevented sonic shock waves from entering the engine intakes and disrupting air flow and power. The 750 x 583 image is from Fighter Plane Photos.
Pilot Station
Each of the three crew members was isolated in their own separate compartment, arranged in tandem. There was no possibility of stretching your legs during flight. Each flight was carefully planned in advance and personnel were usually too busy to find their situation claustrophobic. The picture is 1200 x 961 at 300 dpi and is from Cybermodeler.
Escape Capsule
Ejecting from an aircraft flying at supersonic speeds is not safe with a normal ejection seat. Each crew member of the B-58 was contained within a specially designed escape capsule that was pressurized and provisioned with oxygen, food, water and flotation equipment. Besides deploying a parachute it had a suspension system to soften the landing. This photo is 2560 x 1920 and is at Wikipedia.
Crew of the Rapid Rabbit
The Soviet's proven ability to down high altitude aircraft was a game changer for the strategic bomber. The stratosphere was no longer a safe haven for high speed aircraft. B-58 crews now trained to fly close to the deck in order to avoid radar detection but the dense atmosphere at these altitudes slowed speed and gobbled fuel. The role of the B-58 was being crowded out with the deployment of solid fueled Minuteman missiles and the launching of Polaris armed submarines. By 1970 all 87 Hustlers were mothballed to the Arizona desert. The picture above is 1659 x 1128 at 300 dpi and is posted at Jet Pilot Overseas.
Strategic Bomber
The B-52 survives today because it proved to be a highly adaptable weapons platform, capable of adjusting to changing circumstances and needs. The B-58, on the other hand, was a revolutionary design focused on successfully completing a specific mission. Prior to the deployment of reliable missiles on land and sea there was a strategic justification for the bomber's expense. But while sophisticated defenses can knock most any aircraft from the sky they remain to this day unable to counter an incoming missile attack. The bomber today earns its keep as a tactical weapon in conventional engagements. For these missions there are cheaper, more efficient alternatives to calling on the services of aircraft like the B-58. The above image is 846 x 550 and is located at Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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Labels: B-58, B-58 Hustler, Convair
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