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This Is The All-New 2016 Chevrolet Volt: NAIAS 2015
by Aaron Brzozowski
A few days ago, we were invited to GM's Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant — the birth site of the 2016 Chevrolet Volt — for an informational backgrounder regarding the head-to-toe reimagining of America's best-selling EV.
All About The Customer
As Chevrolet explains it, the next-gen Volt is all about the customer. A common claim among automakers, we know, but in the case of the Volt, it's an undeniable fact; the first-generation Chevy Volt was largely an experimental EV program of sorts. Not to the same extent as GM's EV1 of the mid- to late-nineties, to be sure, but as EV Executive Chief Engineer Pamela Fletcher puts it: "[Volt customers] are probably the most studied group of owners in recent history – maybe ever."
The first-generation Volt served as sort of a canary in the coal mine: Chevrolet listened extensively to customer feedback, gathered a mountain of numerical data from current owners, and allowed themselves to be guided through the revamping process mostly by consumer demands. Ms. Fletcher explained that topping the list of consumer wishes were greatly extended electric range, smoothness, quietness, and surprisingly, more fun-to-drive.
That last attribute was unanticipated on the first-generation car; a low-hanging battery pack kept the car's center-of-mass close to the ground, and the instantaneous thrust of the electric drive motors lent itself to satisfying quickness, but few customers necessarily expected an electrified vehicle to be such a lively thing. But happily, all of these demands could be at least partially addressed by redesigning the Voltec propulsion system – which is exactly what Chevrolet did.
Leaving out the sophisticated technical deep-dive, the two-electric-motor drive system of the 2016 Volt manages a weight reduction of about 100 pounds (45 kilos), and occupies a much smaller space within the vehicle. It's up to 12 percent more efficient, too, depending partly on vehicle operating mode. As a result, not only does the new two-motor drive system tax power output less, but it also simply puts out more power. Torque is rated at 294 pound-feet, with 45 kW of battery regeneration.
The 2016 Volt rides on the new D2XX vehicle architecture, and the car's onboard gas-powered generator is improved, as well. Chevrolet is using a 1.5-liter inline-4 in place of the 1.4-liter mill seen in the last-gen Volt, with a resulting gain of about 14 horses. It boasts direct-injection, cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) as on the previous motor, and thanks to its larger displacement and higher output, generally runs at lower speeds for improved quietness.
Needless to say, loyal Chevrolet Volt customers will be getting what they've requested. Zero-to-sixty in the 2016 Volt is about 0.5 seconds better, at 8.4 seconds, and the all-electric range on a full charge is around 30 percent better, at 50 miles. On a full tank of gas and a full battery charge, the 2016 Chevrolet Volt will do in excess of 400 miles before running out of steam.
What's more, survey data reveals that owners of the first-generation Volt have historically seen around 80 percent of their total mileage come from pure electricity, lending itself to 900 or more miles between fill-ups. But Pamela Fletcher projects that those numbers will swell to 90 percent and well in-excess of 1,000 electric miles, respectively.
Chevrolet takes great pride not only in this car, but in the fact that it's born locally here in Detroit. Over 70 percent of the parts found in the #NextGenVolt will originate here in America, and it will continue to roll off the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly line.
But it's not just Chevrolet that ought to be proud of the 2016 Volt. It's Americans – and specifically Detroiters – as well.
— Aaron Brzozowski
Aaron Brzozowski is a writer and motoring enthusiast from Detroit with an affinity for '80s German steel. He is not active on the Twitter these days, but you may send him a courier pigeon.
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It kinda looks like a blend of Astra hatchback with Acura zdx
caddyzig says:
Great job, GM! Looks like a really impressive second generation car. You've addressed and improved so many things compared to my first generation car. I can't wait to drive the new one!
Jamel says:
My first impressions of the new Volt were "meh" when it was revealed a few days ago. But now after reading the details and seeing some more photos, I'm somewhat more satisfied with the end results. I applaud GM's efforts at really diving in and redesigning the new Volt. The overall styling is much improved over the current model as is the updated power train; although I'd still like to have seen a greater EV range. The interior looks great, despite the plethora of hard plastics; but hey, in order to provide a less expensive Volt there had to be some cost cutting.
Good job GM, let's just hope it delivers!
billfracthecarguy says:
A slam dunk, in my opinion, as a Volt salesman and GM guy of almost 40 years. Better range, more mainstream styling (all the other forums complaining/comparing it to Acura/Honda Civics, to me, not such a bad thing). Had it been more revolutionary, the naysayers and the outliers would have a field day, and sales would suffer. Available rear view camera, advanced safety features, wireless phone charging, new interior stack all add up to a more attractive package, along with the range and efficiency improvements and noise and vibration reductions, all are compelling reasons that this car, if priced right, should appeal to more buyers.
That being said, after rushing around the internets, I still can't find a picture of the back seat! Not a good thing…..or it would be shown.
Overlordspock says:
The interior looks like a vast improvement over the first generation car. The exterior is…nice. As someone above said, it's definitely more mainstream. The first gen car's styling was a bit quirky, in a good way. This car is a bit bland, but not in a bad way. But it doesn't stand out as much.
Big question: does it seat 5?
Aaron Birch says:
Yes it does, although we feel that the fifth seat is only usable in a pinch. The space for that fifth seat remains severely limited by the large battery pack tunnel running longitudinally through the car, so calling it a "seat" is somewhat generous…
Cool GM. I like the improved range too. Nailed It.
Daniel Hana says:
My first impression was wow, that's one cool looking car with new technology and then I looked at the pictures and found an incandescent light bulb for a the turn signal made me laugh 🙂
62vetteefp says:
That jumped right out at me too. I would never buy a car that uses incandescent light bulbs. It just makes it so nonfunctional. Who would ever buy a car with those?
I'm not sure why you were so sarcastic. I merely pointed out an irony that made me laugh. I never said I would not buy a car with incandescent light bulbs or that the car was not worth buying because of it. I was assuming most would think of the Chevrolet Volt as the future of automobile technology and as such it was amusing to see an old style bulb when LEDs are so much more efficient for a battery powered vehicle. My first new car was a 01 Saturn SC2 and it came with all incandescent light bulbs. I ended up changing them all to LED sometime in 04. It's interesting and sad that you would read my comment and reply with something so extreme.
opc says:
each day will be more pleasing to change. Previous crease was also the case. How interesting it would be a silver grille in black.
Old Ampera liked me more than the old one volt.
Overall, a pretty good guess might say. any other color machine, and is certainly the impression of a second.
Different images will give different impressions, and in real life as well.
But at the moment it is not suitable for silver grille.
magirus says:
Still an expensive way to save cheap gas.
Actually, since you mention it, we've been told that about $10,000 has been taken out of manufacturing costs, and that this will be reflected in the sticker price of the second-generation Volt. We don't have an MSRP as of yet, but the 2016 model year car is expected to cost *less* than the outgoing model.
Grawdaddy says:
6 months from now, you'll be crying when gas prices collectively push a boot up you.
First time I looked at it, I thought it was a honda civic. Not sure if I am interested in that.
Backwards says:
Welcome to early 2000s styling 🙂
Wow, that is one dated bad proportioned looking car.
Must be a GM.
AP Sloan says:
Could not disagree more.
What's more to be said? Manufacturing costs have come down, electric range has gone up by a good margin, and the sticker price, if reduced by at least $5000, if not more, would be a very strong second generation volt. Each new gm model getting better and better.
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Fights Erupt During 'Jews for Trump' Rally in Manhattan
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Two men fight as clashes erupt between supporters of President Donald Trump and anti-Trump protesters in Times Square in New York on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
NEW YORK — Political tensions over the upcoming presidential election escalated on New York City's streets Sunday, as supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with counterprotesters during a day of demonstrations.
Eleven people were arrested, police said, during skirmishes between opposing sides in Manhattan, where Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer and the city's former mayor, encountered protesters targeting a caravan of cars organized by a group that identifies itself as Jews for Trump. All have been released except for a 36-year-old man who threw eggs in the faces of two police officers, police said.
In one video, Giuliani could be seen in the passenger side of a vehicle with the window rolled down as anti-Trump protesters screamed at him.
In an interview, Giuliani said that he had encountered the caravan and the protesters while driving down Fifth Avenue after taping his radio show.
"I would love to have had a campaign commercial of it and put it on in the middle of America and say, 'Who would you prefer for the next four years?" he said. "This group of foul-mouthed people who don't seem to have a vocabulary beyond three words, or these very nice Jewish people who are driving in the car and not saying anything back and not doing anything other than exercising their right to say they're for Donald Trump."
According to the police, the pro-Trump caravan passed through Times Square, where it converged with a group of anti-Trump protesters who had marched from Brooklyn. The cars in the convoy were then blocked by counterprotesters, and some drivers got out of their cars to confront the anti-Trump demonstrators.
The two sides hurled political slurs — calling each other "fascists" and "anarchists"— traded blows, and fought over the Trump supporters' flags before police broke them apart, according to videos posted online.
In some videos, a group of people can be seen yelling expletives and throwing eggs and other projectiles at passing cars flying pro-Trump flags in midtown, while in another, a group of people holding pro-Trump banners march on one side of the street as people across the street yell, "New York hates you."
The clashes came as the Police Department was preparing for more possible unrest as Election Day approached, including days or weeks of protests in the aftermath of the vote. Hundreds of police officers have been assigned to polling stations for both early voting and Election Day, with thousands more on standby for protests.
Top police officials have stressed the need for officers to remain neutral, despite their unions' open embrace of Trump. But officials said an officer crossed the line late Saturday, when he used a police loudspeaker to voice support for the president while arguing with a man on the street in Flatbush, Brooklyn, who called him a "fascist."
"Trump 2020," the officer responded. "Put it on YouTube. Put it on Facebook. Trump 2020."
The officer, whose name the police withheld, was suspended without pay Sunday after videos of the incident went viral on social media. Department policy prohibits officers from engaging in political activity on duty or in uniform, including endorsing a candidate or party.
"One hundred percent unacceptable. Period," Commissioner Dermot F. Shea commented on one of the videos of the suspended officer on Twitter. "Law Enforcement must remain apolitical, it is essential in our role to serve ALL New Yorkers regardless of any political beliefs. It is essential for New Yorkers to trust their Police."
The Police Benevolent Association, the officer's labor union, declined to comment.
It is unclear whether two other officers who were with the suspended officer will face discipline.
His suspension is the beginning of a disciplinary process that can take months or even years to play out. But Mayor Bill de Blasio promised quick action.
"ANY NYPD Officer pushing ANY political agenda while on duty will face consequences," he wrote on Twitter. "We will act fast here, and this will not be tolerated."
State Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, expressed concern over the incident, noting that police officers transport ballots from poll sites to the Board of Elections.
"There must be swift consequences and protections against election interference," he said.
Despite the directives from the top, the city's biggest police unions have heartily embraced Trump, whose law and order message resonates with those who feel Democrats have made the city too soft on crime. Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, endorsed the president in a speech before the Republican National Convention. Ed Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, has appeared at the White House and regularly praises Trump in his official messages to officers.
The demonstrators detained in Times Square on Sunday afternoon, five men and two women, were expected to be charged with disorderly conduct, police said. Investigators were also looking for at least two people seen throwing projectiles at a pro-Trump caravan as it traveled on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
The caravan, organized by Orthodox Jewish leaders, consisted of dozens of cars and trucks whose participants rode from Brooklyn to Manhattan's Upper East Side on Sunday. Drivers honked their horns and passengers waved American flags.
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Known as the Gateway to Monument Valley, the Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road is called Tse' Bii' Ngzisgaii by the Navajo, which means Valley of the Rocks. At an elevation of 5,200 feet, the scenic road weaves through breathtaking landscapes of majestic sandstone, rock formations, and buttes that tower at heights from 400 feet to over 5,000 feet. The history of the Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road is that of the American West. The Navajo presence in the region extends back hundreds of years. Today their history, intertwined with the early Spanish and Mexican incursions into the area, as well as the frontier period, provides many rich stories for visitors to explore. The archaeological significance of the region stretches back thousands of years before the time of the Ancestral Puebloan or Anasazi ("Ancient Ones") who resided in the area. The area's earliest inhabitants include Paleo-Indian hunters and archaic hunter-gatherers. Much of this history is told through the excellent interpretive materials on display at the Kayenta and Monument Valley Visitor Centers. The Monument Valley area is home to the largest tribe in North America, the Navajo or the Diné (The People). The scenic road is steeped in rich Navajo culture, and at the very heart of Navajo culture is the language. The Navajo language ties the people in present times with stories, songs, and prayers that have been passed down through the ages. These oral histories are often translated into their art, crafts, and events. The Navajo people value their traditions, harmony, and life, all of which are intimately tied together in their language. Traveling on the Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road, one can hear the language spoken and experience the culture through visits to the nearby Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park and Visitor Center and the Kayenta Visitor Center. Many types of Navajo-guided tours are offered in Monument Valley, including jeep, van, truck, horseback, and hiking. The Navajo language played a very significant role in World War II, ultimately helping to win the war. On Highway 160, near the Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road, there is an exhibit honoring the Navajo Code Talkers inside the Burger King establishment. Navajo code talkers were Navajo soldiers who used the Navajo language as a code during World War II to relay messages by phone and radio. The code was never broken by the Japanese and is credited for the success at Iwo Jima. There were over 400 Code Talkers in World War II, and they were praised for their skill, speed, accuracy, courage, and for saving many lives. Along with Navajo language, weaving is at the center of Navajo culture. While traveling on the scenic road, visitors can see the various Navajo textile designs and the complexity of this traditional art form. Navajo rugs and blankets detail their history and interactions with other cultures. Navajo weaving is a valued art form with textiles selling for hundreds and often thousands of dollars. Other nationally renowned Navajo arts and crafts include silversmithing and jewelry, basket making, and sandpainting. If you want to immerse yourself in Navajo culture while being surrounded by breathtaking scenery and the most iconic views of the west, plan a trip on the Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road and weave your own tapestry of memories. This senic byway intersects with the Trail of the Ancients National Scenic Byway at Monument Valley.
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By air, major airlines serve the Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Denver airports. Smaller airlines offer scheduled flights to Flagstaff, Arizona; Durango, Colorado; and Farmington, New Mexico, just outside the Navajo Nation. Rental cars are available at all these airports. By Car From the south, take Highway 160 (that runs east to west across the Navajo Reservation). At Kayenta, turn north on Highway 163 to Monument Valley. From the north, follow Highway 191 from Moab, Utah through Monticello and Blanding to Bluff. Then take Highway 163 to Monument Valley. Distances to Monument Valley From Phoenix: about 300 miles From Flagstaff: about 150 miles From Page, Arizona and Lake Powell: about 125 miles From Moab, Utah and Arches National Park: about 150 miles From the south entrance of the Grand Canyon: about 170 miles
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Geological formations and peaks: Comb Ridge, Agathla Peak (also named El Capitan), Owl Rock, Boot Mesa, The Mittens. Nearby: Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park and Visitor Center, Navajo National Monument, Mystery Valley Tours (only accessible with a Navajo Guide), Navajo Code-Talkers Exhibit/Navajo Shadehouse Museum - This is between Hampton Inn and Burger King on Hwy 160 in Kayenta. Monument Valley Tours – jeep, van, truck, horseback, and hiking The View Hotel Goulding's Museum and Trading Post. Historic Gouldings Lodge is in Monument Valley.
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100+ degrees Farenheit in summer months preclude safely allowing pets to run free. Care is recommended if traveling with pets. Carry enough water for your pet. Do not leave pets unattended in a vehicle. Pets are not permitted on tours or in public facilities.
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LittleSins is a Dance & Lounge concept that fulfills the need of 'going out in a different way'. LittleSins organizes private dance parties for 200 to 400 couples at special locations (like Castles, Caves, Churches, Boats, etc.) with a sensational dress code & colorful themes and based on a perfect mix of Music & Lights!
LittleSins is a full partner with SDC (Swingers Date Club). You can add yourself to our community and look at the guestlist for our parties to see who's coming to our events.


Hollie Mackenzie explores the notion of the impossible Utopia by creating her own version of a dystopian landscape in the form of installation. She creates this to engage her audience in interpretation of its proximity to the reality in which we live. By doing this she aims to provoke questions about the presented impossible utopia and why it is conveyed as unattainable within our society.
Mackenzie's artistic practice is informed by her theoretical learning, developing different and new ideas of which she then chooses to take further in sketches and experiments. By encountering her presented deviant reality, the viewer can question and interpret the artwork's meaning whilst stimulating thought and discussion about the dystopian landscape/installation.


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Just this weekend, while in town to do a book signing, I went into two establishments in Baltimore hopefully buy a few bottles of local wine. Neither liquor store/ wine shop had any wines to offer. And more so, the owners and clerks went out of their way to bad mouth Maryland wine, telling me that it was "inferior" and "not very good." They in fact, said one, they outright refused to carry it.
This was not the first time I have run into this situation, especially within Baltimore's city limits. This is in fact the fourth or fifth time in the last two to two-and-a-half years. I was appalled.
Firstly, I was always taught never to disparage another man's livelihood unless it was harmful to others. Sure, you can have your own opinion, but to present a negative opinion as fact, is downright wrong. I wouldn't go around saying, oh, don't go into that store, they don;t know what they're doing. They couldn't tell you the difference between bourbon, rye, single malt nor blend. Which, in three of the five cases, was in fact true. And none could tell me what a Baltimore rye was (btw, a Baltimore rye is at least 51% rye, 49% a blend of other grains).
But to tell consumers that the state's wine industry doesn't know what it's doing, or doesn't make a good product? And there were plenty of questionable products from other regions on all the shelves. No store was spared the cheap brands and awful sweet plonk that were for sale at great prices and mass produced by the super tanker-ful.
As a retailer in my lifetime several times, I understand the issues of the multiple SKUs and the limited space, more popular national brands, etc. But to bad mouth local industry? Seriously.
If this had been one incident, I might have been able to laugh it off. But I must say, five stores, all in Baltimore, ripping local wine. And, it was amazing to me, because when asked what wines or wineries they didn't like, they couldn't name one. Not one! But they had no problem bad mouthing the industry despite.
I was curious, so I asked a few other local folks I knew. All said the same exact thing: Oh no, if you want local wine, you have to go to the winery, or there's one good store in Frederick, MD, that has an excellent selection. Baltimore is a local wine dessert.
Now, Baltimore has long been one of my favorite cities. Long before we decided on the Hudson Valley for our home, Maryland was first on our list. We were enamored with the Inner Harbor and the Eastern Shore, and Western Maryland. And we've gone to many games at Camden Yards.
So, here is my request to the Maryland State Licensed Beverage Association - educate your people. Partner with the Maryland Wine Grower's Association and Maryland Wine! Raise awareness of your local wine industry. At least get your membership to stop bad mouthing Maryland wine! It's time to put the skirmishes of the past behind you (ah, yes, you know what I am talking about), and befriend the one thing that would make your stores unique. You don't do into California wine shops and not find any Napa or Sonoma wines; in Burgundy it's almost the ONLY thing you can find at Burgundies; in Spain the same thing. And here's another fun fact - stores closest to the winery always sell the most wine of any liquor store in the supply chain from that nearby winery, The one that's closest to the winery. Go figure. Doesn't make sense, does it? That's a lot of wine your members are leaving on the table.
I have traveled to California (Napa, Sonoma, Temecula, Santa Barbara), France, Spain, Italy, Chile, Virginia, New York (Finger Lakes, Hudson, LI), and many other regions. And let me tell you, there are some spectacular wines available made in Maryland!
On the other hand, I challenge the Maryland wineries to show case their wines to these retailer in a more imaginative way. Think outside the box. Band together and come up with mixed sampling cases, or some such other concept. It's not just all on the retailer. Push harder. Be more creative. It's not always about spending money - sometimes it's that more valuable resource - time.
Here's a top ten list to help you out! Please pass this along to your owners and clerks.
The list does go on...but that's a baker's dozen.
These are talented winemakers. Passionate owners. Dedicated workers. Making wines that have been reviewed on numerous websites, in newspapers, magazines, even the venerable Washington Post.
It' time to recognize that your state is making terrific wines and spirits. And tell those owners and clerks they don't know what they are talking about!
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Kathryn majored in Art History and Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Throughout college, she nurtured her passions for these two disciplines by studying abroad in Bologna, Italy, and by closely researching nineteenth-century sculptor Anne Whitney through the lens of Whitney's travels to Europe. Kathryn sees art as a reflection of a culture's unique values, and in her study of art history, she specifically enjoys making the connection among art, culture, and language.
Annie writes about American pop culture and mass media with an intersectional perspective. She earned her BAs in Art History and Cinema & Media Studies at Wellesley College, and is completing her MFA in Dramaturgy at Columbia University School of the Arts. Her academic and artistic foci are on Orientalism, western imperialism, AAPI representation, and immigrant narratives in the performing and filmic arts. When not critiquing art, she can be found making it. Hit her up on Twitter!
When Katie is not climbing up a mountain or camping in the woods, you can find her learning about life through the stories we are told via film. She is fascinated by all of the specific mechanics that are used to bring together such moving pieces. To her, film is not something you watch and then forget. It is something that teaches you how to deal with the difficult parts of life because, whether you're a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal, there is always more to what you see.
Claire's that person in your class that is always amazed by something. She is enthralled by the positive social outcomes of arts and trying to learn how best to encourage those kinds of changes. Photography is her main focus for its capacity to capture the world we know while leaving a record for people who will not know our faces and names. She also loves a good cookie and biking.
Catherine has been passionate about art for as long as she can remember. Her love affair with art started with her drawing on the walls of her house as a small child, and has since evolved and continued with her completing a double major in Studio Art and Art History at Wellesley College. In her senior year, she fulfilled a thesis in painting that brought challenges and avenues for artistic exploration that she plans to continue investigating. Catherine believes that everyone can benefit from exposure to art, and that everyone should study it, since art is such an important part of culture.
Kathryn fell in love with Art History on her first trip to Italy and never looked back (unsurprisingly, she loves cappuccinos). In addition to Italian Renaissance art, she is interested in art of the ancient world, especially the Roman Empire. She is fascinated by the stories that emerge from the study of objects and what they reveal about the lives and society of the people who used them.
Tiffany decided to take Art History on a whim her first year of college and hasn't stopped since. While her primary interest is the built environment, she is fascinated by the combination of utility and art in all forms of design. She likes analyzing the everyday beauty and enjoys disciplines such as jewelry and fashion design. Tiffany is particularly interested in the sleek aesthetics of the 1920s and 1960s. She also occasionally takes pictures, you can find them here.
When Talin was younger she was fascinated by the Ancient World. She owned almost every picture book and museum catalog about Ancient Egypt, and each Sunday she watched Jason and the Argonauts, which is still one of her guilty pleasures. Anticipating becoming a Classical Civilizations major she took an intro Art History course to expose herself to the art of Greece and Rome, which sparked her initial interest in the civilizations of the Near East. While her main focus is on the artistic, societal, and militaristic achievements of the Assyrian Empire, Talin has used her travels in Morocco, Armenia, and Lebanon to study the art of the Phoenicians and Urartians as a way to gain insight into the expansive reach and influence of the Assyrians on nearby societies. She plans to continue her studies of the Near East in Graduate School.
Chelsea double majored in Theater Studies and English at Wellesley College, and she earned her M.A. in Contemporary Literature, Theory, and Culture at King's College London. Her dissertation, "Entertaining the Offered Fallacy," explored ways to create third wave feminist narratives in pop culture. She is the fiction editor of the Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal and loves to write everything from personal essays, to media criticism, to fiction.
Alison is an editor at Critical Flame. A Boston-based writer and graduate of Wellesley College, her writing has appeared in Atticus Review, Burningword, and Origins, as well as in Counterpoint Magazineand The Wellesley Review, where she also served as editor.
Morgan is pleased to serve as The Female Gaze's consultant for all things related to grammar, mechanics, and style. A student primarily of literature, she writes elsewhere about language, performance, and national identity in Wales and England during the Middle Ages—and is frequently delighted by the way the traditional boundaries between 'art', 'art history', and 'history' blur in studying these periods. Her fascination with medieval manuscripts lead her to spend three years as an assistant to the Special Collections curators at Wellesley College while a student there, learning about books as material culture through a combination of classroom and hands-on experience. She has also spent time as a Curatorial Intern with the College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center, and as a gallery attendant at the Aberystwyth Arts Center. Outside of her medieval focus, Morgan is an enthusiastic observer of art drawn to periods and styles ranging from Jan Vermeer to James Turrell.
Artistic Interests: Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Impressionism, Theatre, and anything Rococo!
Jessica graduated from Wellesley College with a History major and a Sociology minor. With a concentration in European History (and a focus on people of color), she studied abroad in the South of France. Her earliest memory in a museum is sitting in the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after a school trip and being utterly awestruck by its beauty. Since that moment she's made an effort to visit as many museums as she can when she travels or remains in her home city, Boston. As a member of the TFG team, Jess has been able to combine her social media savviness with her love for art in all its forms. She aims to expand TFG's audience and learn more about art in the process. When she's not borrowing too many books from the library, you can find her traveling, watching cooking videos, or trying to finish a scarf she's been knitting for awhile now.


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Sand People - TSC - Vintage
Name: Sand People
Collection: The Saga Collection
Number: N/A
Source: A New Hope
Availability: April 2006
License: Hasbro
Celebrate the legendary Star Wars films that changed the universe forever, with The Saga Collection. This collection brings to life the incredible story of good versus evil that captured our imagination and took us to a galaxy far, far away. The finest re-creations of the iconic Star Wars heroes and villains are back with incredible detail and premium features to commemorate each epic tale in the Star Wars saga. And, as a tribute to the dedication of Star Wars fans everywhere, we are re-releasing elements of the original packaging that harken back to the creation of Star Wars action figures, which began over 25 years ago with the Original Trilogy. May the Force be with you!
The Sand People (more commonly known as Tusken Raiders) are one species that we have seen multiple times throughout the basic figure line. Hasbro produced some great moments and then not-so-great moments for collectors. Despite the rollercoaster ride, fans and collectors kept clamoring for more, because we knew each successive release would be better than the previous. 2006's "Vintage" The Saga Collection sub-line may have been too soon for Hasbro to delve into this character again. They did significant work and produced a version of the character, which is far superior to all the other past efforts. However, the Sand People action figure isn't perfect, and it's high time we got a perfected one. When it came time to schedule what characters would make the "cut" for the returning "vintage-styled" sub-line for 2006, Hasbro determined that the Sand People would be one of the limited five courses served. We're on the fence if that was a wise choice or not. Their sabbatical year gave them some time to think of the most-needed cast of characters for definitive status. And the Sand People ultimately made the final cut. The Sand People is unique for a couple of reasons, but it's one of the few "vintage-styled" figures to get the most substantial use of premium soft-goods and heavily rely on them for screen authenticity. This decision thrilled many and disappointed others. We're impressed with the success of the included soft-goods materials. But the figure lacks in other ways which take away from the accomplishments they made with the soft-goods. To be upfront with you, Hasbro needs to take another stab at this character because this one doesn't meet our standards. They can produce a significantly better action figure of the Tusken Raider characters by changing one articulation area.
It's not that we don't like how this Sand People action figure turned out. We do. It has merit. But in the sea of phenomenally-sculpted figures that possess mind-blowing on-screen accuracy, collectors may want to throw this one back until something more significant and better comes our way. There are two specific issues we take exception to with the 2006 VTSC Sand People action figure. First, the figure's head is too small (or too round – we can't decide either way or both). The pea-sized portrait became an ongoing issue for Hasbro as far back as 1995. But during the 2002-2004 Star Wars "Saga" era, the Tusken Raider action figures remain the most-accurate and proportionate of all of them. Of course, nothing will match the charm of 1978's SW Sand People figure. The head mostly matches the body frame, and the sculpting looks flawless, but it did have issues because the hard plastic robes made posing and movement nearly impossible. Hasbro did their best to remedy the head size issue by giving the 2006 VTSC release soft-goods from neck to boots. But to accomplish this, Hasbro also sacrificed a few unfortunate things. There are other issues. The Sand People figure also comes with swivel-cut elbow joints. We despise these joints, and we hope that Hasbro never utilizes them again. It's difficult to achieve specific poses due to how the joints affect the arms, and you're limited with how many ways you can situate them. There is no doubt that Hasbro put a massive amount of time, energy, and effort into this action figure, so why did they take the wrong route for its elbow joints and head size? As a part of the premium vintage-styled assortment, Hasbro should expend all of their tooling budgets on the figures in this lineup. In other words, the extra pennies should have been "wasted" on the Sand People figure.
Despite the figure's two significant issues, Sand People does have its moment, seven if it's not many of them. We adore the beautiful tan crepe soft-goods fabric they've woven for the action figure. They are free of dirt and grime, but they have a fantastic tattered look to them that is quite stunning. After posing the figure, you'll find threads "everywhere" as they pull out from the main garb. The top portion of the soft-goods functions like a cloak and is removable, and the Sand People action figure looks splendid with or without it removed. For the modern vintage-styled update, Hasbro threw in an extra weapon, the long rifle, and the signature gaderffi stick. For the last few years, our opinion remained steadfast that gaderffi sticks seem too small for the figures. However, there are dissenting opinions about that detail. Also, we should note that Hasbro cast the gaderffi stick from flimsy plastic, so it doesn't hold its intended shape that well. Interestingly, the rifle is much sturdier, but it too appears to be bending a bit right out of the packaging. The final wash on the figure is incredible, and it looks nomadic as this species is. Unlike the soft-goods, all of the "dirt" is on the molded parts of the figure, not the soft-goods. We feel that Hasbro did a beautiful job here. While our opinions may come across as a mixed bag, we genuinely do like aspects of this action figure. We're just frustrated by Hasbro's shortcuts. Specifically, the swivel elbows are no longer an acceptable medium for Star Wars figures, and that's the root of our frustration. Regardless, Sand People is a pleasant update to the many satisfactory previous versions we have received throughout the years. We think this tooling will need a few more tweaks and another chance at enhancement before we say it's knocked out of the park. But for now, it will certainly do!
Sand People
Status: Sand People is an all-new figure.
Articulation Count: 20 points (14 areas of articulation)
Articulation Details: ball-socket head (1), ball-jointed left shoulder (2), ball-jointed right shoulder (2), swivel left elbow (1), swivel right elbow (1), swivel left forearm (1), swivel right forearm (1), swivel waist (1), swivel left hip (1), swivel right hip (1), ball-jointed left knee (2), ball-jointed right knee (2), ball-jointed left ankle (2), ball-jointed right ankle (2)
Accessory Count: 3
Accessory Details: removable soft-goods cloak, gaderffi stick, sniper rifle
Date Stamp: 2005
Assortment Number: 87065/87129
Retail: $9.99 USD
Market Value: Click here to check the latest prices based on listings.
"Vintage" The Saga Collection Wave 1 (2006)
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Category: Saga Collection, The
Reviewer: Paul Harrison
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Growing up there was a rusted metal box in one of our closets that was filled with cans of 16mm film. As a child they seemed kind of creepy to me. Trapped memories. We had no way to watch them. By the time I was old enough to appreciate their value they had started to disintegrate. They had that vinegary smell that old film gets. Now working at a post house in New York that transferred film to tape, on one of my visits to my mother's I put all of the film in ziplock bags and took it back with me on the plane to New York. I was able to transfer most it. A few rolls were badly melted and fused together, so had to be thrown out. Most of the film was so delicate that we opted not to clean it before we transferred it. Again like the family photos there was little information written on the film boxes. –Sometimes I think of the journey that the photographs and films have made. Leaving New York, traveling thousands of miles to sit in a closet for years untouched then back to where they started. I'll never forget the feeling of seeing them come to life. When I began my blog almost a year ago I posted this clip, so some of you who have been following may remember it. It's a short sampling of some of the film footage I put together when I was working in Post Production.
Julia, this is wonferful! How lucky you are to have the "living" memories of your family.
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We did a funeral on Friday afternoon at 2pm, the Tahara the night before. As we proceeded to the plot nobody seemed to be stopping. The Ashkenazic Rabbi said it's not done on Friday. Is stopping 7 times seen as a delay in preparing for Shabbat?
In Talmudic and Geonic times, it was customary for the funeral procession, on its return from the cemetery, to stop and sit down seven times. Although several medieval authorities maintained that this practice had been dispensed with altogether, it persisted in some places, seven or three sittings being observed. Toward the end of our period these halts were coupled with the recitation of Ps. 91 to verse 11, which comprises seven words, one word of that verse being added at each stop. It was frankly admitted that this was intended to confuse and shake off "the evil spirits which follow them home." After the service the chief mourners passed between a double line of people and were then escorted home by the entire company.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms32.htm#an_11_54
While it was a widespread custom to make seven halts in the funeral procession to the cemetery. (Baba Batra 100b) Today, it is more usual to make the seven stops on the way to the grave in the cemetery. The explanation given for the seven is that they correspond to the seven times the word vanity occurs in Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) while Ganzfried adds the seven halts in the Temple, the seven portals of Gehenna and the seven judgements passed on the dead. (KSA 4, 198, 12)
http://exploringeastlondon.co.uk/jc/death/death.htm
"on Friday, the day before a Yom Tov, on Rosh Chodesh and duing Chol HaMo'ed, when it is forbidden to recite Tzidduk HaDin…"
Mourning in Halachah – p. 133
Because the spirit of the processional is governed not only by the desirability of personal participation and accompaniment of the deceased, but also by hesitation and unwillingness to remove the presence of the dead, the procession pauses briefly several times before it reaches the gravesite, except on festive days when the spirit of communal joy modifies the expression of grief at funerals.
www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/281569/jewish/The-Processional-and-Burial.htm


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Administration: State Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services. Payments are made under the State/County Special Assistance program.
Effective date: Adult care homes, January 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: General Statutes of North Carolina 108A.40 through 108A.47 and chapter 143B-139.5.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to all aged, blind, and disabled adults living in adult care homes. Children who are legally blind may be eligible for optional supplementation.
Income exclusions Federal SSI regulations apply.
Interim assistance: State participates (2 counties).
Payment calculation method: The federal SSI payment and any countable income are deducted from a standard amount set by the North Carolina General Assembly. The remainder is the state supplementation.
Total expenditures: The state reported expenditures of $79,107,294.04 for calendar year 2010 in state-administered payments to SSI recipients.


We made this recipe with shrimp, but any meaty fish works well as do chicken, pork chops, scallops, or even swiss chard for a meatless option. The sauce has a little heat from the poblanos, but it works well with most of the protein options.
Roast all five peppers over an open flame or under the broiler until the skins are black and blistered.
Place in a bowl covered with a towel or in a closed paper bag until cool enough to handle. Use our fingers to remove the skins, stems, and seeds.
Roughly chop the garlic, then saute in olive oil until soft. Use a slotted spoon to remove the garlic from the oil and place in a blender jar. (A blender works much better than a food processor.) Add the milk, roasted poblano peppers, masa harina, and about 1tsp of salt. Blend until smooth (even if this takes 60 seconds or more of blending).
Cut the roasted red peppers until small dice.
Steam the spinach (which can be done by microwaving it in the bag in which it was sold).
Get the shrimp (or fish, or chicken, etc) ready to cook. Season with salt and pepper. Heat some oil over medium-high heat in a nonstick skillet. Heat another skillet over medium high heat. Add the sauce to one pan and the shrimp to another. Whisk the sauce while it comes to a light boil and thickens, then turn heat to low. Continue to sauté the shrimp until barely cooked through. Remove shrimp from heat and place on plates. Add the spinach and roasted red peppers to the sauce and stir or toss until well coated. Spoon some sauce-spinach mixture over the shrimp on each plate.


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The Magic Whip — восьмой студийный альбом группы Blur, изданный 27 апреля 2015 года. Первый студийный альбом группы за 12 лет после Think Tank 2003 года и первый за 16 лет альбом после альбома 13, где в качестве гитариста выступает Грэм Коксон.

Надпись на обложке альбома представляет собой перевод на китайский названия группы () и альбома (), стилизованные под неоновые вывески.

Об альбоме
Заявление о выпуске нового альбома было сделано 19 февраля 2015 года, в первый день китайского нового года, на пресс-конференции в одном из китайских ресторанов Лондона. В тот же день группа выложила видео к песне «Go Out». Большинство песен, вошедших в альбом, были записаны в 2013 году в Гонконге, и атмосфера города, как подчеркнул Деймон Албарн, оказала большое влияние на создание альбома. По его словам, альбом по стилю похож на творчество Дэвида Боуи середины 70-х годов. Композиция «Pyongyang» («Пхеньян») повествует о впечатлениях Албарна от посещения Северной Кореи.

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 Алекс Джеймс — бас-гитара
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Альбомы Blur
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Mona Lisa's Tomb Opened
Updated Apr. 20, 2017 5:47PM ET / Published Aug. 10, 2013 10:39AM ET
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Art historians have proposed many theories over the years about the historic basis of the Mona Lisa—even suggesting it might be Da Vinci in drag. Archaeologists now hope to get one step closer to tracking down the actual woman, basing their search on the popular theory that she was Lisa Gherardini, a silk merchant's wife. They have opened a tomb in Florence hoping to compare DNA from the skeleton of Gherardini's son with samples taken from three different skeletons in the convent where she died. After that comes the really cool part: once a body is identified, scientists can scan the skull to generate an image of Gherardini's face, which can then be compared to the painting. Modern art?
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If we have any reservations about the Village Hotel at Sentosa being hands-down the most family- and child-friendly accommodation in the State of Fun, they are quickly dispelled. Kids are the VVIPs here, as we find out when we step into the hotel's bright, airy lobby.
Firstly, kids do the 'check-in' at the VIK ("Village Important Kids") counter. There's a cute set of steps that little ones can stride up on to sign their signature (just like mummy and daddy) and check the family in.
In addition, every child (up to age 12) who stays in the Family Room will have a set of their own amenities to make their stay ultra-comfortable. Depending on their age, this can range from baby cots, bathtubs, baby toiletries, door stoppers and corner protectors to clothes hangers, and even traditional Singaporean games like Five Stones.
Perfect for a family of four, the connecting rooms come with two of everything. Yes, that means two bathrooms, two sets of amenities, two TV sets, two flip-down desks, and so on.
Light Scandinavian decor, clean lines, and bright seaside prints on the walls make it soothing, pleasant, and easy on the eyes.
Size-wise, the smallest rooms are compact and cosy. If you need more space (to park a stroller, for instance), opt for the larger connecting Deluxe Rooms. Do note too, that there is no cupboard, just wall pegs, and hangers.
In-room water: Each room has a Hyflux tap which uses nanofiber membrane technology to give pure, drinkable water straight from the tap. It's like having your own personal water cooler in your room. Best of all? You're helping to save the planet as you hydrate.
The Village Hub: With one of these on every lift lobby, you'll never go hungry. This consists of a vending machine with snacks, drinks, and holiday essentials — sunscreen, Panadol, Mopiko, Po-Chai pills, among others. There's also an ice maker, and tea and coffee sachets that you can help yourself to.
Built-in USB ports and universal outlets: A set on each side of the bed and ample ones around the room lets everyone can stay connected.
The Supply Depot: Situated next to the lifts at the lobby, this bar-style provision outlet sells gourmet snacks and sandwiches, pastries, salads, sweet treats, and yes, alcohol.
There are FOUR pools, I repeat. Four. Pools. 'Nuff said.
With lush greenery overhead, this shallow, curvy, water play area has two slides and a circular mini fountain zone. A gentle walk-in slope allows smaller ones can get used to the water, little by little.
Grab a doughnut float (the hotel provides some), sit back, and let the water lull you into bliss as you meander along. Watch out for the water curtain!
With curves and steps to reflect the features on the hotel walls, this is the pool for family play. There are deck chairs around one side, so parents can sit back and relax – but remember to keep an eyes on the kids!
The Pamukkale Pool is inspired by the mineral-rich thermal pools in Turkey. This adults-only infinity pool has a swim-up bar with seats, and glorious sea-view vistas.
Snacks and drinks are available 24/7 at the Village Hub, but if you seek something hearty, head to the hotel restaurant – Native Kitchen (#NativeKitchenSG). This islander-inspired restaurant helmed by Executive Chef Patrice Godino from France serves iconic dishes from Asian and Polynesian cultures.
Order a platter or two (the Appetizer and Meat platters are divine) to share with the family, or individual plates if you're not too hungry. We recommend the Island Ceviche (served in a coconut!) and the Bebek Goreng, which is as good as the one we tasted in Bali.
This is also the place to get breakfast in the morning. The spread is ample, with eggs cooked to your choice, hot and cold options, and even smoked salmon!
Frankly, with the pools, the activities, and the super-cute rooms, we are tempted to stay in the hotel all day. But Village Hotel at Sentosa is just a stone's throw from KidZania, the Luge, and the beaches – who could resist?
The monorail station is a two-minute walk away, and there's a bus-stop directly outside the hotel, with buses to all parts of the island. The hotel also offers a half-hourly shuttle to Vivocity, in case you feel the need for some mall-style retail therapy.
Then again, you may not want to leave the Village at all!
We have a 2D1N Family room stay with breakfast (worth over $580) for a family for four to give away!
3. Sit back and relax. We'll be in touch if you've won!
• Valid from 15 April – 14 October 2019 for use at Village Hotel at Sentosa only.
• Booking must be made at least 14 days to arrival with Village Hotel at Sentosa. Booking is subject to room availability. Last minute reservations will not be entertained.
• Blackout dates apply. Giveaway stay is not valid on the eve of Public Holidays and Public Holidays.
• Hotel check-in time is after 3pm, and checkout time is at 12 noon (Singapore local time).
• This giveaway (including its letter certificate) is non-replaceable, non–refundable and is not redeemable for cash. This letter certificate is not valid without the Hotel's authorised signatories, and not applicable for use with other promotions, offers, letters or discount cards.
• After the expiry date (14 October 2019), there will be no extension of the letter certificate's validity period.
• The original letter certificate must be presented upon check-in, and is valid for one-time use only.
• Failure to arrive at the hotel is regarded as a no-show and no refund will be given.
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2022
An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State
Clyde Wayne Crews • 10/26/2022
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Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers, businesses, and the U.S. economy at large. Written by CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews, it shines a light on the large and under-appreciated "hidden tax" of America's regulatory state. The current edition marks 28 years since the first report was published as part of the Journal of Regulation and Social Costs in 1993.
Federal government spending, deficits, and the national debt are staggering, but so is the impact of federal regulations. Unfortunately, the financial impact of these rules gets little attention in policy debates because, unlike spending and taxes, they are unbudgeted and difficult to quantify.
By making Washington's rules and mandates more comprehensible, Crews underscores the need for more review, transparency, and accountability for new and existing federal regulations.
This 2022 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments is the latest in an annual series that examines the scope of the federal regulatory state to help illustrate the need for transparency, disclosure, and congressional accountability. This report contains six major elements:
Highlights in regulatory trends.
An overview of some of the ways the Biden administration has overturned Trump administration attempts to ease the pace of new regulations and roll back old ones.
An overview of the scope of the federal regulatory state, including a taxonomy of categories of unmeasured costs of regulation and depictions of its size compared with federal budgetary components and gross domestic product (GDP).
An analysis of trends in the numbers of rules and regulations issued by agencies, based on information provided in the Federal Register and in "The Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions," and a brief survey of executive branch memoranda, notices, and other "regulatory dark matter."
Recommendations for reform that emphasize disclosure and improving congressional accountability for rulemaking.
An appendix containing historical tables of regulatory trends over past decades.
For the economic health and stability of a nation confronting inflation, supply-chain disruptions, debt, and other self-inflicted wounds, the regulatory process should be made as transparent as possible and should be brought under greater democratic accountability and constitutional norms. Some highlights from the report follow.
Overall final rule counts remained historically low at the conclusion of Biden's first calendar year, with the calendar year count of 3,257 rules containing 105 Trump "midnight" rules among them. However, Trump's rule counts also contained some deregulatory elements, and Biden's significant rules in the pipeline appear destined to return to pre-Trump levels, exceeding all Trump years except the last.
Biden's repudiation of the Trump deregulatory agenda is thorough. While the Trump administration claimed to have met internal goals of implementing a "one-in, two-out" process for rules and freezing costs, the longer-term horizon revealed resistant agencies poised to unleash substantially more regulatory actions than deregulatory ones. That impulse is now unleashed via Biden's directives to agencies.
Biden's expansion of an equity agenda changes the nature of the debate over the regulatory state.
Given the limited available federal government data and reports, and contemporary studies—and the federal government's failure to provide a regularly updated estimate of the aggregate costs of regulation—this report employs a placeholder estimate for regulatory compliance and economic effects of federal intervention of $1.927 trillion annually. It does so for purposes of context and rudimentary comparison with federal spending and other economic metrics. The figure is updated slightly from prior years with OMB Report to Congress editions that became available in 2021 providing some limited cost information for some rules. This report also presents an outline of the sweep of intervention and policies that belong in any tally but for which costs are disregarded and unfathomed.
Much of the economic and social intervention entailed in pandemic mitigation measures and in the Biden spending agenda will never show up as costs of regulation in the formats that purport to address or score them, the Report to Congress on Regulatory Benefits and Costs and the Unified Agenda. Both already provide only partial overviews and are chronically late besides.
Federal spending topped $6.5 trillion in 2020, then surged to $6.822 trillion in 2021 with COVID-related spending and bailout efforts. These federal outlays are projected to reach $5.872 trillion in fiscal year (FY) 2022. The burden of regulatory regulation is equivalent to 33 percent of these projected federal outlays.
Regulatory costs of $1.927 trillion amount to 8 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, which was estimated at $23.99 trillion for 2021 by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
When regulatory costs are combined with federal outlays of $6.822 trillion in 2021, the federal government's share of the entire economy reached at least 36 percent (30 percent is the typical figure; state and local spending and regulation would add to these).
If it were a country, U.S. regulation would be the world's eighth-largest economy (not counting the United States itself), ranking behind France and ahead of Italy.
The regulatory hidden "tax" exceeds individual income taxes, estimated at $1.705 trillion for 2021. It rivals individual and corporate federal income tax receipts combined, estimated at $1.973 trillion in 2021 ($1.707 trillion in individual income tax revenues and $268 billion in corporate income tax revenues).
Regulatory costs rival corporate pretax profits of $2.18 trillion.
If one assumed that all costs of federal regulation flowed all the way down to households (131 million "consumer units"), U.S. households would "pay" $14,684 annually on average in a hidden regulatory tax. That amounts to 17 percent of the average pretax income of $84,352 and 24 percent of the average expenditure budget of $61,334. The regulatory "tax" exceeds every item in the household budget except housing. That means that a typical American household "spends" more on embedded regulation than on health care, food, transportation, entertainment, apparel, services, or savings.
Trump's total of 2,964 final rules in 2019 was the lowest count since records began being kept in the 1970s and is the only tally below 3,000. (In the 1990s and early 2000s, rule counts regularly exceeded 4,000 annually.) An additional 202 Trump administration rules were added between New Year's Day 2021 and Biden's inauguration.
A subset of rules are deemed "significant," of which there were 387 in calendar year 2021, compared to 462 in 2020 (some deregulatory). Trump's three other years produced record-low levels of significant rules, so Biden's return to pre-Trump levels will bear watching.
During calendar year 2021, while agencies issued those 3,257 rules (some of them deregulatory), Congress enacted "only" 143 laws. Thus, agencies issued 23 rules for every law enacted by Congress. This "Unconstitutionality Index"—the ratio of regulations issued by agencies to laws passed by Congress and signed by the president—highlights the entrenched delegation of lawmaking power to unelected agency officials. The average ratio over the past 10 years is 26.
In 2017, Trump's first year, the Federal Register finished at 61,308 pages, the lowest count since 1993 and a 36 percent drop from President Barack Obama's 95,894 pages, which at the time was the highest level in history.
The 2021 Federal Register contained 74,532 pages, dropping from 86,356 pages in 2020, which stands as the second-highest count ever. However, Trump's rollbacks of rules—and historically there are still fewer rules overall—also necessarily add to rather than subtract from the Register. All other Trump years were below Biden's count. Biden's count may drop slightly as the National Archives adjusts the Federal Register for skips and blanks.
Since 1993, when the first edition of Ten Thousand Commandments was published, agencies have issued 114,821 final rules (this does not include guidance documents). Since the Federal Register first began itemizing them in 1976, 211,911 final rules have been issued.
Of 95,848 final rules issued since the Congressional Review Act passed in 1996 under President Bill Clinton, revocations of just 20 rules have occurred, including one guidance document not published in the Federal Register.
The Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center in Washington, D.C., jointly estimate that agencies spent $78 billion in fiscal year 2020 to administer and police the federal administrative apparatus. These amounts are embedded in the federal budget, so are separate from compliance, economic, and other burdens of federal intervention.
At the end of calendar year 2021, 2,094 proposed rules had been published in the Federal Register, 272 of them deemed significant, which the federal government defines as those rules having annual economic effects of $100 million or more. The 2,149 proposed rules issued in 2020 was Trump's highest count, while Trump's 1,834 in 2017 was the all-time low. Obama's lowest count was 2,013 in 2009, his first year in office.
Alongside the 3,257 rules finalized in calendar year 2021, there is also the flow in the pipeline itself to consider. According to the fall 2021Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, 68 federal departments, agencies, and commissions have 3,777 regulatory actions in the pipeline at various stages of implementation (recently completed, active, and long-term stages), as follows:
2,678 rules in the active phase
475 completed rules
624 long-term rules
By contrast, Trump had a higher count of 3,852 rules, but 653 of them had been deemed "deregulatory" via Trump's since-repealed Executive Order 13771 for a lower "net." The breakdown was as follows:
2,636 rules in the active phase, 496 deemed deregulatory
630 completed rules, 101 deemed deregulatory
586 long-term rules, 56 deemed deregulatory
Of the 3,777 regulations in the 2021 Agenda's pipeline (completed, active, and long-term stages), 295 are "economically significant" rules. Of 261 economically significant rules in 2020 under Trump, 36 had been deemed deregulatory (14 just completed, 20 active, and two long-term).
The Biden administration's spring and fall 2021 editions of the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions contained a combined 105 completed "economically significant" rules. The count was 97 in 2020 under Trump, with 21 of those deeded deregulatory. The yearly average for Barack Obama's eight years was 69; George W. Bush's average over his term was 49. Trump's average was 72, but his Agendas are the first and only to contain rules expressly designated deregulatory.
During calendar year 2021, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted 98 finalized "major" rules—a category similar to but broader than the economically significant tally in the Unified Agenda. President George W. Bush's administration averaged 61 major rules annually in eight calendar years. President Obama's administration averaged 84. Obama's eight years accounted for 675 major rules, compared with Bush's 492. Trump's four-year total was 343 for an average of 86, but a significant portion were deemed deregulatory. (These tallies emphasize calendar year, and therefore ignore pre-inauguration days attributable to a predecessor in transition years. They also reflect retroactive changes that have occurred in GAO's online database.)
Of the 3,777 rules and regulations in the fall 2021 pipeline, 693 affect small businesses, up from 635 under Trump, of which 83 had been deemed deregulatory. Of Biden's 693, 354 required a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, which is an official assessment of small-business impacts. An additional 339 were otherwise noted by agencies to affect small businesses in some fashion.
The five most active rule-producing executive branch entities—the Departments of the Interior, the Treasury, Transportation, Commerce, and Health and Human Services—account for 1,528 rules, or 40 percent of all rules in the Unified Agenda pipeline. The top five most active independent agencies account for another 341 rules.
Biden issued 77 executive orders in 2021; Trump issued 16 before Biden's inauguration, for a total of 93. For comparison, President Trump issued 69 executive orders in 2020. (Trump had issued 47 E.O.s in 2017, 35 in 2018, and 63 in 2019).
From the nation's founding through 2021, more than 15,582 executive orders have been issued (numbering of them is a more recent phenomenon). President Obama issued a total of 276, similar to President George W. Bush's 291. Before the 20th century, most presidents had issued no more than a few dozen. In contrast, Woodrow Wilson issued 1,803, Calvin Coolidge issued 1,204, and Franklin D. Roosevelt issued 3,467.
There were 31 presidential memoranda that appeared in the Federal Register database in 2021, 26 of which were from Biden, and five from Trump. This compares to 59 from Trump in 2020 (after having issued 26, 30, and 38 from 2017–2019, respectively).
George W. Bush issued 131 memoranda during his presidency that were published in the Federal Register, Barack Obama issued 257, and Trump 152.
Public notices in the Federal Register normally exceed 21,000 annually, with uncounted guidance documents and other proclamations with potential regulatory effect among them (other guidance documents are issued that do not appear in the Register at all). In 2021, 21,985 notices were issued based on the Federal Register database, compared to 22,480 in 2020. There have been 661,090 public notices since 1994 and over 1 million since the 1970s.
Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Biden's Regulatory "Modernization" Expanding Government Affirms the Unworkability of Administrative State Rule
Chapter 2: Beyond a Federal "Regulatory Budget"
Chapter 3: What Comes after "Trillion"? The Unknowable Costs of Regulation and Intervention
Chapter 4: Tens of Thousands of Pages and Rules in the Federal Register
Chapter 5: The Presidential Dimension of Regulatory Dark Matter: Executive Orders and Memoranda
Chapter 6: Another Dimension of Regulatory Dark Matter: Over 21,000 Agency Public Notices Annually
Chapter 7: A Note on Notice and Rule Reviews at OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Chapter 8: Analysis of "The Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations"
Chapter 9: Government Accountability Office Database on Regulations
Chapter 10: Liberate to Stimulate
Appendix: Historical Tables
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Chris Columbus directed from a script by Tim Dowling and Tim Herlihy. The film is based on the award-winning short film by Patrick Jean.
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