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Essential workers push House coronavirus panel for more PPE, unemployment benefits
by: Jessi Turnure
Posted: May 21, 2020 / 07:22 PM CDT / Updated: May 21, 2020 / 07:22 PM CDT
WASHINGTON, DC (NEXSTAR) — A House coronavirus panel heard from medical staff, first responders, grocery store employees, drivers, custodians, and other essential workers Thursday about how the coronavirus has impacted them.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis reports these Americans have experienced some of the highest rates of cases and deaths because they lack basic protections against the virus, like testing and personal protective equipment (PPE).
Eric Colts, a Michigan bus driver, told lawmakers he fears sick passengers.
"I go to work every day afraid," Colts said.
Diana Wilson, a New York EMT, testified that she feels unprepared.
"We could have saved more lives," Wilson said.
Marcos Aranda, a California custodian, said he faces job insecurity.
"I worry about feeding them, keeping them healthy," Aranda said of his large family.
All are essential workers who shared a common concern with the panel: they still need more masks, gloves, wipes and more so they don't get themselves or their loves ones sick.
"Personal protective equipment has been a constant, constant battle," Colts said.
Other essential workers, like Maryland grocery store worker Leilani Jordan, lost their lives to COVID-19. Her mom blames the lack of PPE.
"She risked her life to help seniors, to help those that are disabled," Zenobia Shepherd told lawmakers.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-SC, calls the current lack of PPE unacceptable.
"These shortages must be acknowledged, and immediate steps bust be taken to procure and distribute these necessary supplies," Clyburn said.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-LA, said his colleagues should hold China accountable and increase the national manufacturing of these supplies.
"America has paid too high a price for China's lies," Scalise said. "This subcommittee owes it to all of our frontline heroes to expose the truth."
Scalise and the other Republican members on the panel want to hold a hearing on China, but Clyburn, the chair, has not indicated if that will happen.
The panel of essential workers also asked lawmakers to extend the $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit and the timeline for small businesses to pay back loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Sen. Dick Durbin, lawmakers re-introduce Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act bill
by Darronté Matthews / Jan 19, 2021
WASHINGTON D.C. (WMBD) — U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and bi-partisan lawmakers are re-introducing the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act.
Durbin announced the re-introduction during a press conference Tuesday along with U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-Illinois), Robin Kelly (D-Illinois), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Don Bacon (R-Nebraska), Lou Correa (D-California), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania).
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Eriks Rudans, a monk for art, sculpts the real world.
Eriks Rudans: New Work
Where: Obsidian Gallery, St. Philip's Plaza, 4320 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 130.
When: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, through July 5.
Info: 577-3598.
Erisk Rudans
At St. Philip's Plaza, among the chi-chi restaurants and the haute fashion boutiques, a searing sculpture by Eriks Rudans inflicts the grief of the dispossessed on the plaza's rich patrons.
"Death in the Desert" is a huge carved Madonna towering some 6 feet tall. She throws back her skeletal head and wails, open-mouthed, over the death of the Christ-like son lying lifeless in her lap. On view at Obsidian Gallery, this modern-day Pietà, knocked together out of recycled wood scraps and bolts, delivers a horrifying message from America's underclass. Rudans' work reminds us that impoverished Third World migrants, guilty only of wanting to pick our tomatoes and clean our toilets, routinely die terrible deaths among the cacti just up the road from town--death in the Arizona desert occurs every day.
It's not exactly the kind of piece that's going to get a Foothills stockbroker breaking out the old credit card (price tag: $6,000), but then again, Rudans has always been an artist of conscience. Years ago, he abandoned a secure university teaching job in favor of a life fully engaged in art. That plan was successful if you look only at the art. His searing paintings of saints and sinners and his wrenching wooden figures have won him a rep around town as a painter's painter. He's the very model of the artist living the authentic life, doing his own work, oblivious to art world trends and trendies.
But the plan's been a failure economically.
Rudans has lived in utter poverty for years, in a crumbling downtown adobe crowded with paints and tools. Canvases are stacked up against every wall, their painted women staring plaintively out into the tiny rooms. It got so bad a few years ago that his buddies Terry Etherton and Tom Philabaum contrived to get him some attention--and cash--through a sale and celebration marking his 50 years in America. (He's a native Latvian made a refugee by World War II.)
While some of his art is decorative and unabashedly lusty, much of it is hopelessly uncommercial. An example is the huge painting that has hung for years above the stairs at Etherton Gallery. A scathing indictment of Rudans' potential customers, it pictures evil-looking rich people gathered in a Foothills aerie, and their greed and lust are palpable. Ditto for his longtime series on the Seven Deadly Sins, excoriating the lamentable human traits of avarice, pride and envy.
Lately, things have been picking up for Rudans. Just last month came the good news that he had been selected artist of the year, winning a $25,000 Arizona Arts Award from the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. And Obsidian opened his one-person show, New Work, on the heels of the award ceremony.
The exhibition is a collection of nine sculptures, some of them painting-sculpture combos that hang on the wall, and five colored drawings rendered in oil pastel. Not everything is as wrenching as the mourning mother. In fact, "The Philosophers," a gathering of four busts of wise men on four pedestals, is its opposite number, a celebration of cool reason. Each of the figures is painted in the soothing, rational tones that colored the rooms of the French Enlightenment--pale blue, gentle green, austere white. There's a wonderful sculptural "Big Cat" as well. The unpainted wood scraps have been assembled into a deliciously muscular feline, its haunches poised and waiting, its orange eyes every bit as piercing as those of Rudans' long-ago painted saints.
Rudans deploys the same sculptural techniques on the philosophical worthies and the kitty that he does on his Pietà. Taking a cue from the Cubists, he breaks forms down into component parts--fashioning angled noses, sharp shoulders and blades of hair--then bolts and glues these disassembled pieces back into a harmonious whole. His drawings borrow from the same technique, their forms made up thousands of shard-like strokes of color.
A few of the drawings skewer sinners. "Payday Madonna Study" pictures an old-fashioned workman, in cap and tank shirt, leering over a sharp-toothed prostitute whose fulsome breasts are busting out of her bustier. Rudans uses color effectively to convey man's raging desires: The working girl's skin is a lurid green, her nipples headlight orange. In "Study--The Seven Deadly Sins," a woman's red-orange hair explodes out of her scalp. Rudans can be accused of exercising that tiresome old male gaze on the female body, and he most certainly uses women to illustrate desire. Still, he offers equal opportunity condemnation to sinners of all genders.
Rudans has always had a Gauginesque side as well. This one impels him to paint picturesque bare-breasted women, desirable and lovely, more often than not inhabiting a fertile landscape as overflowing as the Garden of Eden, or Gaugin's Tahiti. If the sin paintings explore eros' dark side, these exuberant women embody the joy of sex. The Obsidian show has its share of these cheerful women. "Nature of the Garlic Tree Blooms at Night" is a two-parter. One piece is a wooden woman seated on a stool, the basket on her lap overflowing with fruits de mer and fruits of the earth. On a nearby easel, a "painting" made up of sculptural painted pieces portrays a bountiful land, where silver fruits ripe for the picking hang from boughs of a tree and silver fish jump out of the reeds.
The rainbow colors of this happy work, all about fertility and abundance and joy, are light years away from the dispirited monotones of "Death in the Desert." "Garlic Tree" is a fantasy about what life could be. "Death in the Desert," unfortunately, is reality: what life in Southern Arizona has become.

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Allen was born on July 20 1975. Allen was an Iraqi war veteran and father of two. On February 23 2011 while working as a partner in J & J Towing he lost his life. He will be missed by his wife Dawn and children Tiffany and Michael and several family members and friends. Due to the circumstances of Allen's death a Senate Bill was developed and Colorado now has a new law the Allen Rose's Law making it a crime to get into a car being towed.


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On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2019, Gucci has inaugurated Gucci Décor, its first temporary store fully dedicated to the brand's furniture and home décor collections at no. 19 via Santo Spirito. The store, an elegant space with wall design with the distinctive Gucci prints, enhanced by restored vintage furnishing, coffered ceiling and a marble fireplace is set to remain open until late June 2019. In the display space, guests can admire and purchase a selection of ceramic vases and tableware with Gucci's decorative elements and crafted by Richard Ginori, porcelain candle holders with Herbarium, Kingsnake and Star Eye patterns, porter's chairs, silk or vinyl wallpapers, as well as cushions with hand-sewn decorative elements. The full collections by Gucci Décor are also available at Gucci's flagship store and online on the official website.


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Nexstar, Tribune Media announce $6.4 billion merger
Posted 7:27 AM, December 3, 2018, by CNN Wire and Q13 News Staff, Updated at 09:09AM, December 3, 2018
CHICAGO -- Tribune Media, the parent company of Q13 FOX, is being sold.
Nexstar Media Group announced Monday it will buy Tribune's 42 television stations and cable network in a deal that includes $4.1 billion in cash, along with the assumption of debt. The merger, worth $6.4 billion, will form the nation's largest TV station company.
The acquisition comes four months after Tribune canceled a merger deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group. The FCC ruled the deal needed further review, and Tribune executives decided it wasn't in the company's best interest. Tribune has since filed a lawsuit against Sinclair, seeking $1 billion in damages.
Pending FCC approval, the combined Nexstar-Tribune company will own more than 200 TV stations and cover 39% of US households.
Tribune calls off $3.9 billion buyout by Sinclair, files suit
Nexstar will gain a foothold in major markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago for the first time, plus a cable channel (WGN America) and a 31% stake in the Food Network.
"We are delighted to have reached this agreement with Nexstar as it provides Tribune shareholders with substantial value and a well-defined path to closing," Tribune Media CEO Peter Kern said. "Together with Nexstar we can better compete by delivering a nationally integrated, comprehensive and competitive offering across all our markets. We believe this combination will produce an even stronger broadcast and digital platform that builds on the accomplishments of both companies and benefits our viewers and advertisers."
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said in a release that the two companies have a "clear path to closing."
"Nexstar has long viewed the acquisition of Tribune Media as a strategically, financially and operationally compelling opportunity that brings immediate value to shareholders of both companies," Sook said.
The company acknowledged it will have to divest some local TV stations to gain FCC approval.
The long wait for a buyer is good news for Tribune shareholders: The new deal is a 45% spike in value of its stock compared to its July 16, 2018 closing price when the Sinclair deal was delayed and ultimately canceled.
FCC head has 'serious concerns' with Sinclair-Tribune deal
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Canada's unions play key role in ILO negotiations on addressing violence at work
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Representatives from labour, governments, and employers are meeting this month as part of the 108th International Labour Conference in Geneva. Marie Clarke Walker, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), serves as the Worker Spokesperson and will continue as a key leader in the effort to strengthen obligations…
Canada's unions call on governments to defend freedom of the press
Canada's unions are marking World Press Freedom Day by calling on governments around the world and here at home to do more to protect the rights of journalists to practice their profession without fear of reprisals, violence or even death. "Far too many journalists continue to risk their lives in upholding a basic cornerstone of all democratic societies: press freedom,"…
One is too many: no one should die for the job
April 28 is the National Day of Mourning, a day to commemorate those who have died or been injured as a result of their job. This year, Canada's unions are calling on employers and governments to do more to protect workers. "One workplace death is already too many. Workers deserve to arrive home safely at the end of their workday.…
Six years after Rana Plaza, workers' rights still not respected in Bangladesh
April 24 marks the 6th anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse that killed 1,134 garment workers in Bangladesh. Canada's unions remain concerned about working conditions in factories where Canadian retailers source their products. "Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment exporter. Roughly 4 million people work in the country's four thousand plus factories. Nearly 80 percent of these workers…
Day of Mourning Ceremonies 2019
The labour movement honours April 28 as the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. Find an event near you.
Canada's unions mourn the death of three rail workers in BC
Canada's unions are mourning the loss of three railroad workers after a train derailment in British Columbia on Monday. The Canadian Pacific (CP) train derailed east of Field, BC, near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary. "On behalf of the over 3 million CLC members, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the victims' families, friends and co-workers who are mourning the loss,"…
Canadian workers have the right to refuse unsafe work, the right to be informed about hazards in the workplace, and the right to participate in health and safety discussions. Employers must fulfill their obligations to keep workers safe.
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Canada's unions applaud the federal government for introducing regulations to ban the import, export, manufacture, sale and use of asbestos and asbestos-containing products. The regulations, announced in December 2016 will come into force on December 30, 2018. "This is a critical step on the long road to banning asbestos, and will, without a doubt, save lives for generations to come,"…
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On the afternoon of August 10, 1966, a 160-foot span of a new bridge being built over the Rideau River and Canal gave way, dropping hundreds of tons of half set concrete about 60 feet into the river valley. Nine workers were killed and another 55 injured in the disaster – Ontario's worst workplace "accident" It's not listed among the…


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Elizabeth Chambers Reveals the Key to Maintaining a Long Distance Marriage With Armie Hammer
By Dory Jackson
Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambersattend the premiere for 'Bad Boys for Life' at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Stewart Cook/Shutterstock
In it for the long haul! Elizabeth Chambers opened up about how she has continued to make her marriage with Armie Hammer work, especially when they have to be long distance.
Celebrity Couples Who Prove That Love Isn't Dead
"Water your grass where you want it to grow," the journalist, 37, told Us Weekly exclusively at the LA Art Show opening night gala on Wednesday, February 5. "I feel like that's such a cheesy, weird thing to say. But you have to put work into a friendship, a working relationship. Wherever you put the work, that's where it's going to blossom."
Chambers didn't sugarcoat how much work it takes to maintain their nearly 10-year marriage. Due to their busy schedules, it can be challenging to spend quality time together. This year's Valentine's Day won't be an exception, as the Game Plan actress noted how "horrible" the holiday will be since they intend to travel abroad separately.
"He is leaving for London on Valentine's Day. I'm flying with the kids the night before. He literally has to be on a plane that day," she explained. "So we're flying to Chicago for 12 hours just to all be together."
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The former Cupcake Wars judge noted that making it work means both parties "always have to put the effort in."
Chambers married the Call Me by Your Name star, 33, in 2010. They have since welcomed their daughter Harper, 5, in 2014 and son Ford, 3, in 2017.
The origins of Chambers and Hammer's romance wasn't easy, breezy either. The twosome were good friends before they began their relationship in 2008 because Chambers was dating another man. Eventually, the Sorry to Bother You actor could no longer conceal his feelings and asked Chambers to break up with her boyfriend for him.
"Our friendship continued to grow and grow until one day when I was like, 'I can't be friends with you anymore. You've got to break up with your boyfriend, and we've got to start dating,'" Hammer, 35, told Vulture in November 2017.
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In June 2013, Chambers opened up about what led to them to marriage. "When we finally got together, Armie really wanted to get married," she told Town & Country at the time.
"He sat me down and said, 'Look, we don't have to do this. We could just go our own ways, and then one day you'll be 40 and divorced and we'll run into each other,'" she recalled Hammer saying. "'We'll laugh and go out to dinner and have this same connection, and we'll wonder why we wasted all of that time. Or we could just do it now and enjoy the ride.'"
With reporting by Taylor Ferber


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interface CiInterface
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     * Return true if this CI was detected.
     */
    public static function isDetected(Env $env): bool;

    /**
     * Get name of the CI server type.
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    public function getCiName(): string;

    /**
     * Return key-value map of all detected properties in human-readable form.
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     * Get number of this concrete build.
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     * Get URL where the repository which is being built can be found.
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Prepare for your heart to go aflutter: one of the most tender, haunting, wholesome love stories ever bursts – quite literally – from the cinema screen this year, as Emma Rice spoke to us about Brief Encounter's return to the West End.
Based on the classic Noël Coward film, Rice and Kneehigh's unique adaptation has played to critical acclaim around the world, seamlessly blending film, stage play and musical elements.
Brief Encounter is based on a chance meeting in a railway station café, where two people were brought together by one 'getting a little piece of grit in my eye', culminating in a haunting and heart-breaking love story.
Combining the romance of cinema with all that live theatre can offer, Brief Encounter is a story of magic, passion, surprise, suggestion and naughtiness. Radical and romantic, nostalgic but relevant – let passions ignite!
The Brief Encounter cast features Jim Sturgeon, who returns to the role of Alec, along with Isabel Pollen as Laura, Lucy Thackeray as Myrtle, Beverly Rudd as Beryl, Jos Slovick as Stanley and Dean Nolan as Fred/Albert, as well as Katrina Kleve and Peter Dukes.
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Christopher Lippert (known as Chris Lippert; born March 31, 1963) is an American retired rugby union player who played at prop for the United States national rugby union team and the Barbarian F.C.

Early life and career
Lippert was born in San Diego, California, U.S., on March 31, 1963.
Lippert debuted for the United States national rugby union team on September 23, 1989.
He made a total of 38 test appearances for the USA Eagles, including the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and captained the team in the 1996 Pan-American Championship.
Lippert played 3 matches for the Barbarian F.C. He was an All-American and won a National Championship with San Diego State University in 1987.  He also won five national titles from 1989 to 1996 while playing as a front-row stalwart for the Old Mission Beach Athletic Club.

Lippert was the first USA player to surpass 36 caps and his 38 caps was a national record when he retired in 1998.

Coaching career
After retiring from professional rugby, Lippert served as the Manager for the United States national rugby sevens team and for the USA Eagles 15's, including the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Awards
Lippert was inducted into the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame in 2020.

See also

 United States national rugby union team

References

American rugby union players
Rugby union props
Living people

1963 births
United States international rugby union players

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The Tunnel and its exquisite sandstone curves.
The Cathedral Peak - The inspiration for the Nature's Light Logo!
The 'Hanging Boulder' - that would even wow Indiana Jones!
Having highly experienced tutors watching over your shoulders and helping you on the spot as you craft your images of the amazing Drakensberg and its beautiful valleys and peaks.
The first day, which includes travel from St. Lucia/Durban ends at the Royal Natal National Park where we stay at Thendele Hutted Camp with it's phenomenal outlook of the famous Amphitheatre massif. This curved escarpment wall rises to over 3000m above sea level and is the home to the Tugela Falls. These falls, dropping 947m, are officially recognised as the world's second tallest waterfall, but recent measurements have made a case for it actually being the tallest (actually beating Angel Falls in Venezuela by 50m!).
The second day involves a long day walk along the Tugela River Valley to a point where the river flows through a narrowing in the sandstone rock called 'The Tunnel'. This spectacular feature is akin to the slot canyons of the United States (albeit on a smaller scale). We return in the late afternoon to watch the sunset and prepare for star trail photography over the escarpment.
After a sunrise photoshoot on the third day we make our way an hour's drive south to Cathedral Peak and the Didima Hutted Camp. Here we start out immediately on the 13km round round trip to the astounding Rainbow Gorge. Walking into this gorge with the river flowing through the bottom always feels to the walker as if they are exploring it for the first time. The narrow gorge terminates near the impressive 'Hanging Boulder', a massive chock-stone rock that has wedged into the gorge and under which we walk to the end. On our return we have a convivial barbabcue with the shadow of the tall spire of Cathedral Peak overlooking us.
A final optional dawn shoot is the perfect way to begin our final day in the mountains.
The Drakensberg is one of South Africa's most beautiful landscape features and possesses some of the world's top trekking routes (the Giant's Castle Cup Trail is ranked in the top 50 trails of the world and is considered equal to the Fish River Canyon, Otter and Atlas Mountain Trails). Because the Drakensberg is mountainous (an average escarpment height of 3000m above sea level) it experiences extreme weather throughout the year. This can mean that rain or snow can put a damper on activities. From a photographic point of view though, extreme weather also means for the most interesting images. During winter it does snow, so be prepared for cold weather (I have experienced a snow storm on the escarpment on New Year's Day – the middle of summer).
Water in the streams is drinkable away from the actual lodges and there are no water-borne bacteria in the streams in the escarpment proper as well as in the foothills. The foothills all have decent walking paths and see day visitors walking comfortably in all manner of ill-equipment. The escarpment is another matter. The route we are taking onto the escarpment is popular and well trodden, unlike most of the rest of the escarpment, so trainers or even running shoes are adequate.
This is a flexible workshop, running on enquiry basis. So if you're keen, just drop us an email on info@natureslight.co.za and we'll see if you or we can find some other participants to reach the minimum four. And then lets go and have some fun!
R9 500 per person (approximately USD 655 / EUR 570 as of October 2018 Exchange rates). Minimum 4 participants, maximum 9 participants.


Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigations many times start with a tip from the public and now the agency has a new way for citizens to forward those tips, and do so anonymously.
MDEA Director Roy McKinney said the agency gets an average of two dozen tips a month from concerned Maine citizens about suspected drug activity and many of those tips results in seizures of drugs and arrests.
Maine residents without a smartphone can also share information with MDEA by sending an anonymous text tip via their cell phone by texting keyword MDEA and their message/tip to 847411 (tip411).
Anonymous web tips can also be submitted through the agency's website.
I hope you enjoy your visit to our site. If you have any questions that are not addressed here, comments or suggestion, please contact us.
To submit an anonymous tip via text message to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, text the keyword MDEA and your tip to 847411.
Click the links below to download the Maine DEA app from your app store. This app allows citizens to submit anonymous tips from their mobile device.
You may also submit an anonymous tip to the Maine DEA, use the form below.
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At our next event kindly hosted by Sackers we will look at the story of MNT's - how and why it all began.
To see the agenda please click on the green ATTEND EVENT button.
What really happened and could it ever happen again?
What are they, why are they needed and do they have any powers?
IORP II – What is it and what does it mean for MNTs?
What (additional) roles should MNTs play in the future – if any?


The Resin Range from the Horse, is a beautiful unisex watch with the same specifications as the Original - wrapped in an acetate finish. Features nougat case, white face, olive leather band and The Horse logo lettering on dial. One year warranty and packaged in an attractive box for easy gifting.


Shauna Kahiapo opened Fresh Inc. at Windward Mall to give her love of beautiful writing materials an outlet.
Have a tip for From the Hip? E-mail style detective Lacy Matsumoto at Lacy.FromTheHip@gmail.com, or buzz us on Twitter: @FashionForum. Read From the Hip on the Web at www.Honolulu.Metromix.com.
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With e-mails, text messages and social networking sites on top, you may think the tradition of writing a letter is long gone. Not so for 26-year-old Kane'ohe resident Shauna Kahiapo, owner of Fresh Inc., a new stationery and environmentally conscious gift shop in Windward Mall.
Kahiapo's love affair with stationery began as a child. "My grandma Carole moved to the Mainland, and she would write me letters filled with empowering and inspirational words," says Kahiapo. "Her influence through those letters helped to shape who I am today, and I kept every single one. ... I've always enjoyed being the go-to friend to design wedding invitations, and now I get to help couples create beautiful announcements every day."
Her shop has stationery choices for every occasion, from weddings to thank-you notes. And all items in Fresh Inc. are Earth-friendly, made of recycled paper goods. "The most memorable letter I received from my grandma was written on paper embedded with wildflower seeds that grew when you planted the card. I carry the same type of card in my shop," she notes. Fresh Inc., Windward Mall, 428-6756, www.freshinc.net.
• What do graduates really need now? Well, it's not flower lei. Tradition is tradition, and we don't want to mess with that, but all we really wanted back then was cash. And today? In our cash-strapped economy, the next-best grad gift is something meaningful, and consumable. Who needs more "stuff"? Deck out your grad with a mani-pedi, dinner out, a massage or a salon gift certificate. They'll need to look ready for the work world or the next step up (college), and it's a must to do it in style. Picks: Rainbow Nails, 1154 Koko Head Ave., Kaimuki (735-1751); town restaurant, 3435 Wai'alae Ave., Kaimuki (735-5900); Aveda, Ala Moana Center (947-6141); J Salon in the IBM building, 1240 Ala Moana Blvd. (550-4441).
• The sun is in full force, the days are hot, and the rain has ceased. All we want to do is spend hours each weekend lying out at the beach, but better judgment and a fab fake tan tint are stopping us. That's where Benefit's Talk To The Tan comes in. The bottle's looks are enough to have us sold, but the product really works. And unlike fake tanners that keep you guessing if you've had "enough," with this sheer facial tint, what you see is what you get. If you overdo it, just wash it off! At $26 it's a whole lot cheaper than the fancy eye creams you would otherwise need later, hiding the fact that at one point you got a little sun happy. At Macy's, throughout the Islands; www.macys.com.
• Add a cute suit to the mix this summer. With Memorial Day just a week away, it's time to find the perfect one. Urban Outfitters online just marked down swimwear, including brands Betsy Johnson, Billabong, Kimichi Blue and Brazilian designers Despi and Salinas, among others. Prices are marked 20 percent off and more, with a Volcom top starting at just $14.99. Shipping isn't bad either, starting at $10; you might want to throw in a totally great spinning bird earring rack for just $32. Check it! www.urbanoutfitters.com.
• Sometimes good things in life really are free. Book your appointment for a free Kerestase treatment and blowout this Wednesday at J Salon, Chop, W, Heaven on Earth, Salon Blanc, Allure and Beauty Bar. Our Treat event invitations are available online: www.kerastaseusa.com. Bring your printed invitation with you.
So you want to be a beat-juggling, scratching, master DJ? At the QBert Skratch University, you can take scratch lessons from the master himself. DJ Qbert's online school gives tips, step-by-step instructions, and an introduction to new music to help you with your new hobby or possible career. No matter what your DJing level or skill, the video curriculum makes it easy to cut into the classes and take the time you need. Your personal questions can be submitted and will be directly answered by Qbert. He even offers feedback on your freestyle skills. Enroll at www.qbertskratchuniversity.com. The introductory price starts at $60 for a three-month membership.
The mission — to make a chair out of wire, cage, foil, glue, cork and no more than two champagne bottles. Using craftsmanship, creativity and innovation, 50 contestants created miniature chairs for the National 2009 Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest; three chairs were honored as winners.
With some 50 chairs on showcase at the DWR Ala Moana Center location, the exhibition includes the top three winners, 47 other designs and a chair from Honolulu designer Andrew Numan. Today's the last day of the chair exhibition; check it out at Design Within Reach, Ala Moana Center; 941-1140, www.dwr.com.
Satomi & the New York Connection will put on a special two-part concert at The ARTS at Marks Garage on Friday, in two sets that cut across a wide swath of jazz and Latin music influences.
Seven New York musicians join up with local musicians for the show. Shawn Conley, a Punahou grad and now a bassist based in Brooklyn, is flying in.
The Valery Ponomarev Quintet holds down the first set, with Ponomarev (far right) on trumpet, Satomi (right) on piano, Darryl Pellegrini on drums, Reggie Padilla on sax and Conley on bass. Ponomarev was formerly with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
The second set features the Arturo O'Farrill Septet, with bandleader O'Farrill on piano, Vince Chenico on drums, Jim Seeley on trumpet, Ivan Renta on sax, Luis Bonilla on trombone, Tony Rosa on conga, and Conley. O'Farrill, a 2008 Grammy Award winner, is leader of the Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a regular at Birdland.
Satomi & the New York Connection, 7:30 p.m. Friday, The ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu'uanu Ave.; $20; tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Tickets may also be available at the door.


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Resuming the Renourishment at Myrtle Beach
By Ed Johnson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, Maj. Gen. Scott Spellmon, discusses beach re-nourishment operations with local government officials, USACE personnel and contractors along Myrtle Beach, S.C., following Hurricane Florence here, Sept. 22, 2018. These operations are designed to help rehabilitate shorelines to mitigate risk of storm-related damage to coastal communities and infrastructure. This project is part of rehabilitation efforts from previous hurricanes, but was put on hold due to Florence. Work resumed today because dredging craft, moved to safe harbor during the storm, have since returned to continue operations. U.S. Army photo by Edward N. Johnson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, Maj. Gen. Scott Spellmon, discusses beach re-nourishment operations with USACE personnel underway along Myrtle Beach, S.C., following Hurricane Florence here, Sept. 22, 2018. These operations are designed to help rehabilitate shorelines to mitigate risk of storm-related damage to coastal communities and infrastructure. This project is part of rehabilitation efforts from previous hurricanes, but was put on hold due to Florence. Work resumed today because dredging craft, moved to safe harbor during the storm, have since returned to continue operations. U.S. Army photo by Edward N. Johnson
South Carolina is no stranger to hurricanes and each one takes its toll on shorelines and beach communities located here and across the Atlantic coastal region.
After each significant storm, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel assess erosion impacts, work hand-in-hand with state and local partners to determine mitigation measures for erosion damage to shoreline projects and take authorized measures to rehabilitate affected areas.
According to USACE Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, Maj. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, these efforts are extremely beneficial to both local communities and nationwide efforts to protect the environment and foster economic growth.
"Our scientists venture out and measure where shoreline erosion has occurred," said Spellmon. "At Myrtle Beach, it appears the impacts of Hurricane Florence were enough that we're adding additional quantities of sand to an existing contract that was underway to address damages from Hurricanes Matthew and Irma."
Work was paused here because dredging vessels and equipment were moved to safe harbor during the storm. Work was able to resume a little more than a week later.
"We deployed high-tech equipment to quantify the losses and then utilizing dredging vessels and ship-to-shore pipelines to rehabilitate the federal project, thus ensuring beaches and dunes are ready to provide their full benefits whenever the next storm may impact the area," added Spellmon.
Brian Williams, Charleston District chief of programs and civil project management, says this project covers more than 25 miles of beach shoreline.
"Under normal conditions, we cost-share 65 percent of this work at the federal level," said Williams. "But in emergency situations like the one following Hurricane Florence, we fully fund all rehabilitation operations, subject to Congressional appropriations, in support of our state and municipal partners."
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC, contracted to complete this project, utilizes hopper dredges to pump sand from the sea floor through drag arms from a location approximately three miles from the impacted shoreline.
The sand being pumped to the beach comes from an underwater area about 30 feet below the Atlantic Ocean's surface.
The re-nourished shoreline beaches and dunes serve to reduce the impacts of future hurricanes and other coastal storms to communities and infrastructure. With that in mind, USACE partners with state and municipal officials on shoreline restoration initiatives like the one in Myrtle Beach.


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The Tour de France will not end in Paris for the first time in 110 editions | Tweet
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The 2024 edition of the Tour de France will end the July 21 in the city of Nice and with a time trial stageas announced by the organization on Thursday, thus confirming the rumors that Paris would not host the final of the test due to Olympic Games.
After 110 editions ending in the mythical Champs Elyseesthe proximity with the Olympics Paris 2024to begin on July 26, has caused the organization to opt for dispense with the capital for that edition.
The presence of the Games created "logistical imperatives" that made the capital discard, above all due to the Champs Elysees blockade several days prior to the inauguration, the organization explained in a statement.
The ending chosen will be in Niceother city of great cycling traditionand it has also been decided to return interest to the last day with a time trial What can be decisive for the final classification.
In 1989 the American Greg LeMond snatched the final victory from the French laurent fignon in a time trial on the final day, which allowed him crowned in the Tour by the second smallest margin in history of the test, with only eight seconds.
The Tour de France will arrive July 20 to the Nice area (south-eastern France) and Sunday 21 the time trial will be held that will close the test and can have strong implications in the final classification. "There could be opportunities to make the yellow jersey tremble"warns the organization.
(With information from EFE)
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Shangri-La's Sanya Resort & Spa Showcases UNESCO-Recognized Li Jin Embroidery
Shangri-La Group is honored to serve guests in some of the most culturally significant destinations in the world. Among the many vibrant and fascinating locations, UNESCO recognizes the Silk Road in China as having many points of cultural heritage including traditions or living expressions.
Along the Silk Road, travelers can learn about Hainan Li Jin embroidery, a textile method that appears on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in the domain of traditional craftsmanship. Known for its colorful and exquisite handmade patterns featuring natural elements, Hainan Li Jin embroidery reflects the ways of life for the Li community and is an important part of social and cultural occasions. In the absence of a written language, the patterns record the history and legends of the Li culture and are an indispensable part of the cultural heritage of the Li ethnic group.
According to UNESCO, the techniques involved, including warp ikat, double-face embroidery, and single-face jacquard weaving, are passed down from mothers to daughters from early childhood through verbal instruction and personal demonstration. Unfortunately in recent years, the number of women with the weaving skills has declined to the extent that the techniques are at the risk of extinction.
On October 24, Shangri-La's Sanya Resort & Spa, Hainan celebrated its sixth anniversary by showcasing Hainan Li Jin embroidery made by teachers of the Haitang Jin Cooperative, an organization that supports women in the Li community who create Hainan Li Jin textiles, in the hotel lobby. Teachers from the cooperative showcased their products, while guests and colleagues learned about the history and culture, and participated in sewing demonstrations.
"While making Li Jin, guests developed a deeper understanding of Hainan Li culture," said Patricia Xu, executive secretary at Shangri-La's Sanya Resort & Spa, Hainan. "Even young guests participated by making Li Jin sachets with the direction of the teachers."
"Our guests not only had fun, but also experienced the local culture and enhanced their sense of regional belonging and cultural identity," continued Xu.
Thank you to the resort and the women from the Haitang Jin Cooperative for showcasing the meaningful cultural practice. Through activities like this, we can help ensure historic practices and traditions are not forgotten.


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Vitanova (1899-től Vidháza, szlovákul Vitanová) község Szlovákiában, a Zsolnai kerületben, a Turdossini járásban.

Fekvése
Trsztenától 10 km-re keletre, az Oravica jobb partján fekszik.

Története
1550-ben alapították a vlach jog alapján, ekkor már "Vitanova" néven említik először. Az árvai uradalomhoz tartozott. Határában a 17. században vasércet bányásztak. 1626-ban mintegy 170 lakosa volt. 1683-ban lengyel és litván hadak pusztították el, többször szenvedett árvíztől is. 1715-ben 170 lakosa volt. 1770-ben már 319-en éltek a településen. 1828-ban 145 házában 823 lakos élt, akik földműveléssel, állattartással foglalkoztak, de fejlett volt a háziipar is. Fűrésztelepei, posztószövő kallómalmai voltak. 1899-ben nevét Vidházára magyarosították.

Vályi András szerint " VITANOVA. Tót falu Árva Várm. földes Ura a' Királyi Kamara, lakosai katolikusok, fekszik Tersztenához 1 1/4 órányira, Oravicza vize mellett; határja 3 nyomásbéli, termékeny, de nagy viszontagságoknak vagyon kitéve, mivel a' Kárpát hegyéről sebesen leomladozó vizek, és zivatarok nem tsak vetéseiket semmivé teszik néha, hanem szántóföldgyeiket is nagyon rongállyák."

Fényes Elek szerint " Vittanova, tót f. Árva vm. a gallicziai határszélen: 810 kath., 10 zsidó lak. Földje felette sovány. Van fűrészmalma, falerakó helye, s 46 4/8 sessioja. Gyolcscsal is kereskedik. F. u. az árvai uradalom. Ut. p. Rosenberg."

A trianoni békeszerződésig Árva vármegye Trsztenai járásához tartozott. A második világháború végén az egész falu leégett, csak néhány kisebb házikó maradt meg belőle.

Népessége
1910-ben 817, túlnyomórészt szlovák lakosa volt.

2001-ben 1225 lakosából 1218 szlovák volt.

2011-ben 1299 lakosából 1249 szlovák volt.

Nevezetességei
 Jézus Szentséges Szíve tiszteletére szentelt római katolikus temploma 1938-ban épült.
 A barokk Szent Rókus szobrot 1770-ben készítették.
 A falu Mária-oszlopa népi kőfaragó munka.

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
 E-obce.sk
 Községinfó
 Vitanova Szlovákia térképén
 Peknykraj.com
 A község az árvai régió turisztikai oldalán

A Turdossini járás települései
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Home Latest Historical novel set mainly in Asia, London and USA
Historical novel set mainly in Asia, London and USA
Emma's Tapestry by Isobel Blackthorn, historical novel set mainly in Asia, London and USA.
In the epilogue, the author states that this book is an imaginative re-telling of a period in the lives of her maternal great-grandparents, spanning the period from just before WW1 into WW2.
Emma Harms travelled as a little girl with her Mennonite family from Germany to Philadelphia, where she grew up and eventually met Ernest, her soon-to-be-husband. Their relationship got off on the wrong foot, as he unromantically asked her to inspect his bunion problems, given that she was a trained nurse. This request didn't seem to deter her, however, and they married.
Ernest worked in textiles and moved his young wife to Singapore, where he worked tirelessly, joined various ex pat clubs and socialised. She meanwhile was left to build a life of her own and find entertainment where she could. Their housemaid introduced her to the craft of weaving, and her preoccupation with creating tapestries become a leitmotif as she learns to negotiate her way through life. Ernest's penchant for wearing a sarong whilst at home became a real turn-off for her and from the love of her life he morphed into a husband who failed to prioritise the couple relationship.
They then moved to Kobe in Japan and soon there were two young daughters to care for.
Much of the story is told in reflection, coming up to WW2. War is clearly imminent and Emma is now caring for an elderly woman in Wimbledon, and we learn more about the trajectory of her life up until this point, and how it is that she has come to be in London. Her own life comes into sharp relief as she learns more about the life of Oscar Wilde, who was a dear friend to the old lady.
This is an engaging story of family, a struggling marriage and the pressures of being a 'foreigner' in an unfamiliar land, at points in history when world politics are inexorably stoking the fires of hatred, racism and 'otherness'. It is also about the resilience of human nature.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received the subgrant application for First Presbyterian Church and park repairs due to damages in Hurricane Irma (DR-4337-FL-PW-04990). Pursuant to Executive Order 11988 and 44 CFR Part 9.12, final notice is hereby given of FEMA's intent to provide funding for this project under the Public Assistance (PA) Program.
An initial disaster-wide Public Notice was published October 6, 2017 for Hurricane Irma. Comments and other information received were fully evaluated by FEMA along with evaluation of social, economic, environmental, and safety considerations. This notice serves as a project-specific final notice for FEMA's funding action located within the floodplain. FEMA has determined that the only practicable alternative is to locate this facility at its original location within the floodplain because the facility is functionally dependent upon its location within the floodplain.
Proposed Work and Purpose: First Presbyterian Church made repairs to copper gutters, interior drywall, cupola stained glass windows, soffit, flat roof rubber membrane, powder coated square bars, small gate, and wood fencing.
The alternative that has been considered is the no action alternative. This alternative is not feasible as the area will remain vulnerable to flood risk, including property damage and hazards to human life and safety. Alternate locations were not considered as relocating the facility outside of the floodplain is not feasible. The facility supports the Miami community by providing a sanctuary and recreational space to the surrounding community and relocation may adversely impact social or economic resources for the community.


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Kotaku East
An Inside Look At Yu-Gi-Oh Creator's Studio
Brian Ashcraft
Have you ever wondered where Yu-Gi-Oh comes to life? Why, it all happens in Kazuki Takahashi's studio, that's where. Let's have a look inside!
As 2ch recently pointed out, in the Jump-Ryu! Volume 8 video from a while back, we got a look at where Takahashi creates. Jump-Ryu takes viewers into the studios of famous manga artists, like Eiichiro Oda, shedding light on how these artists work and think.
Upon arriving, the camera is greeted by Takahashi's dog, which will remind Yu-Gi-Oh players of the Shiba Warrior Taro card.
This room houses various Yu-Gi-Oh merchandise. and mementos.
Like these Yu-Gi-Oh rollerblades.
There is a game room with a pool table. Takahashi says he doesn't much play pool, but staff do.
The light fixture above it.
Under a nearby staircase are collectibles from Star Wars, Alien, Terminator, and more.
Takahashi said he began collecting these about ten year ago, and likes the Alien design in particular.
This is the in-house bar, where he and staff get together for drinks.
The studio has a movie theater, too.
Takahashi says he's never counted to see how many movies he has, but guesses the number is around 5,000.
His favorite is Jaws.
I always like looking at people's book shelves.
Here is Takahashi's work space.
Right behind his desk is a Millennium Falcon.
He now has a tablet.
But Takahashi's work still starts on white paper with a mechanical pencil.
For more on Shonen Jump, check out its official English site, and for more on Yu-Gi-Oh, you can see the worldwide card game site here and the series' official site right here.
Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.


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One week after her participation at the United Nations World AIDS Day 1994 events, Surgeons General Joycelyn Elders was fired by President Clinton supposedly for comments on masturbation.
"Our children have seen 15,000 hours of TV to only 11,000 hours of reading, writing, and arithmetic. We've not used the most powerful medium -- that's our television -- to educate our people [against AIDS]. That says our country has really not made a commitment."
As a candidate for President, Clinton had spoken in support of public education's role in preventing AIDS by saying that children "should be told in blunt, clear, but sensitive terms how people get AIDS and how to avoid it."
After 12 painful years of genocide from Reagan/Bush NEGLIGENCE, there was hope that AIDS would finally be addressed by the White House with Clinton's appointment of Joycelyn Elders as Surgeon General because of her forthright and frank advocacy in the fight against AIDS.
When Joycelyn Elders was asked to speak at the United Nations on World AIDS Day 1994, she heard from a high school student who had not been allowed to graduate because he had passed condoms out at a high school prom. The speaker suggested that the U.S. government could do more to reach the administrators in the school to address the AIDS crisis.
Half of all new HIV infections occur in youths younger than 25 years of age.
* later she said, "masturbation is really something you don't have to teach."
for "values contrary to the administration."
After all Clinton's sexual proclivities, it would be only benignly ironic except for the political negligence and malfeasance in the fight against AIDS -- with the consequences leading to increased diseases, suffering and death.
The number of new AIDS cases appeared to increase in the United States last year after seven years of steady decline, prompting some experts to worry that Americans are taking the deadly disease less seriously. The nation's health departments reported 42,008 new cases in 2001, up to 8 percent from the 38,864 in 2000, according to preliminary numbers released yesterday by the CDC. Much of the increase came along the East Coast. ... Researchers cautioned that the 2001 numbers are considered raw data that are likely to change. But the past six years' worth of the same preliminary reports ended up close to the final figures. The CDC figures showed jumps of 59 percent in Kentucky, 41 percent in Georgia and North Carolina, 10 percent in Pennsylvania and 4 percent in Florida. New York City, which reported separately from upstate New York, had a 47-percent increase. Rates dropped by 28 percent in Michigan, 22 percent in Kansas and 9 percent in California.
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Liz Alderman has a terrific piece this morning assessing how well -- or, to be more accurate, how poorly -- austerity economics worked for Ireland. As she reports, when the collapse hit, the small, heavily indebted country hiked taxes and raised spending. And in some tellings of the crisis, that should've worked. The European Central Bank is saying that "the idea that austerity measures could trigger stagnation is incorrect," because "confidence-inspiring policies will foster and not hamper economic recovery." Ireland, however, stagnated.
As Paul Krugman points out, their theory was exactly what the ECB advised: "When our public finance situation blew wide open, the dominant consideration was ensuring that there was international investor confidence in Ireland so we could continue to borrow," said Alan Barrett, chief economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland. But a few years on, unemployment is at 13 percent and the absence of government stimulus contributed to the country's economy shrinking 7.1 percent last year. It's a mess.
For a variety of reasons, Ireland was always going to get hit pretty hard if a financial crisis befell the world in late 2007. But it didn't have to be this bad. It does seem, however, that Ireland made the wrong choice: They focused on lifting uncertainty around their debt rather than lifting uncertainty on the government's commitment to fighting the recession.
As it happens, a paper came across my desk this morning that tests this exact question: Using a lot of firm-level data, Ruediger Bachmann, Steffen Eistner and Eric R. Sims find that "high uncertainty events are a mere epiphenomenon of bad economic times: recessions breed uncertainty." You can read an ungated version here (pdf). The paper, as I understand it, tries to test the premise that economic uncertainty drives firm behavior in downturns and finds it wanting. The authors find that insofar as there's uncertainty, it's mainly a byproduct of recession, which is what's causing the firm to hold back. So without a plausible plan for getting out of the recession, the uncertainty is never going to lift.
"hiked taxes and raised spending"
Ezra, the Irish budget went from a surplus of 0.1% of GDP in 2007 to a deficit of 14.3% of GDP in 2009. I'm baffled that Keynesians are even drawing attention to it.
As you note, Ireland was in for trouble in 2007 no matter what. Ireland's real estate/construction bubble dwarfed America's on a per capita basis.
Ireland completed 88,200 homes in 2006 with a population of 4,500,000. The U.S. completed about 1.9 million with a population of 300,000,000. If the U.S. had built in the same proportion to its population in 2006, it would have completed 5.9 million homes.
In 2006, Ireland employed 282,000 people in construction. The U.S. employed 7.689 million. If the U.S. had employed in the same proportion it would have had 18.8 million people in construction.
Remember, the U.S. itself was in an unsustainable housing boom. Ireland was off the charts - rather on the charts with Spain. Per capita, Irish building was close to what it was in Spain.
Anyway, Spain tried stimulus spending 3 times - $13 billion, $30 billion and $21 billion (potentially more - see comment on the link below). Since Spain's economy is 1/10th of America's, this is equivalent to about $640 billion in stimulus in the U.S. Spain's unemployment is at 20% of GDP, and a budget surplus of 1.9% of GDP is now an 11.2% deficit.
Correction: Spains unemployment is at 20%* - not of GDP.
Krugman, Ezra, Matt and many other Keynesians do not get it - how to politically sell the stimulus spending.
1. Show some spine in holding off 'unjust entitlements' and 'high public labor costs'.
2. That should free at least some tax dollars and use those for your employment creation / stimulus spending.
3. Beyond that the state will at least have credibility so as public will believe in any borrowed money subsequently for stimulus funding.
Today Public is rightly apprehensive about borrowings to spend on stimulus (when all of them do want stimulus) as long as their is no spending discipline and proven willingness in cutting of spending where tax dollars are wasted.
Let the war begin - 'borrowed money for union teacher salary' versus 'money for improving roads'; 'pulling plug of Grandma' to 'spending Trillions on Smart Grip and Alternative Energy'. Unless people are told how 'entitlements for some' and 'plum public union jobs for few' are essentially holding all of us at ransom by forbidding any employment creation stimulus; there is no chance that we will avoid slower growth.
Ireland is rich becasue it's capitol is Dublin and has been for years.
The whole austerity thing is short-term ridiculous from the U.S. point of view. In the current global economic climate, investors are going to keep their money where the most innovation and productivity will be found, with the most political freedom, in the most land area. That is their best bet. Where else are they going to go? So the U.S. has a little more breathing-space to do a short-term stimulus. And if the new CBO long-term budget outlook (which is due this week) shows some improvement, then there will be a little more breathing-space. And we should use it, to pull global demand back up and help everybody else too. If we don't do a stimulus and the U.S. economy continues to tank, why would interest rates go back up?
Same with Japan in the '90s. After the Japanese real estate bubble burst in the early '90s, the government ran massive deficits for new public works/infrastructure projects. This was great for Japanese linked into the supply chain of contractors winning those government projects.
However, the Japanese government also raised the consumption tax, siphoning money from all citizens - lower, middle, and upper incomes - as a partial offset to the deficit.
So did that kind of 'stimulus' plan work? Half-solutions rarely do.
Ireland was screwed no matter what, we've spent most of the last decade balancing on the edge and responding to 'you can't support an economy purely on construction' with our fingers shoved resolutely into our ears.
And now the leader of the opposition switched his shadow finance minister from one of the smartest and most popular people in the party to someone who most people haven't heard about.
Although, it doesn't matter if what they do works or not, we're not going to stop complaining; it's not in our nature.
the current decline of ireland is largely predicated on their success of going with the lowest corporate tax rates in europe.
as bad as things are in ireland, it is only magnified by their previous revenue increase from drawing corporations to their nation.
Mr. Klein exhibits the left's biggest blind spot - he thinks that government can change reality and that there is no price to pay for decades of bad, not to mention stupid, policy. Ireland has recognized reality and Ireland is paying that price. When its paid, the Irish citizens will reap the reward. The US, or at least the 20% or so of the public that is "progressive" is trying to hide from reality. If they succeed, we will face decades of stagnation and poverty will increase. While I believe the "progressives" think that they mean well, in reality they are willing for all of us to pay whatever price is necessary to hide the reality that they have been wrong for 50 years. They just cant take reality.
In economics, austerity is when a government reduces its spending and/or increases user fees and taxes to pay back creditors. But Ireland raised taxes and spending. That's not economic austerity! Most economists associated economic austerity with cuts in government spending.
Why don't they give free market capitalism a try?
Ezra, can you make sure George Will sees this paper, too?.
From a different perspective, the WSJ is reporting today on economists who say that Ireland's economy is set to return to growth in the next quarter, as the drop in the euro makes tourism and other industries more competitive.
Ezra and Krugman are MORONS! Austerity? Blame the Euro and the raising of taxes. Since Ireland does NOT have the reserve currency of the world, they can't PRINT their way out of trouble. Only we can keep printing money. However, that will catch up to us pretty soon and all HELL will break loose. Brought to you by Obama, Ezra, Krugman and the FED.
Its pretty obvious to me no matter what happens, Europe and the US is in for some serious pain. You can either subscribe to the Keynesian philosophies and prolong the pain and kick the can down the road by providng temporary relief through stimulus measures or you can begin the austerity measures that will heighten the pain in the short term, but will lead us to a more sustained recovery 4 to 5 years out.
Japan is slightly different but similar, the main difference is that the bubbles in the stock and housing market were much much much bigger than what we are facing today, so the downturn was much more pronounced.
The US right now has a STRUCTURAL problem in its labor force. Construction and manufacturing jobs will not be coming back any time soon. Which of course has a negative residual effect on the rest of the labor force. I believe that in most recessionary cases, a keynesian stimulus plan works more often than not, but in this recession/depression it wont work.
Think about it like a bridge. The stimulus is the bridge, and on one side is pre recession and the other side is the RECOVERY. The idea of the stimulus was that it would help guide us from the pre recession to the recovery. Sounds good, but two main problems, one, the distance between pre recession to recovery was much much farther than most economists anticipated and two, there was structural damage to construction and manufacturing. The stimulus bills that were enacted, dont address these areas. It mainly helped unemployed people with checks, subsidies for health insurance, state aid that helped avoid layoffs and some minimal infrastructure projects, that were temporary jobs as it is.
Not only were the stimulus bills rather ineffective in regards to helping our economy recover on a sustained basis, but the policies of the president has created a lot of uncertainty. The national debt and binge spending from our president is also hampering hiring in the private sector. Small business owners are fearful of all the taxes and mandates from the health insurance bill. Any one with at least half a brain or that isnt a partisan puppet knows that this tremendous spending will have to be largely made up of tax increases. Who knows what cap and trade will do, and that adds to the uncertainty. Corporations are being demonized and that doesnt help foster job growth.
"Meanwhile, both the OECD and the EU's statistics agency predict that Irish growth – still seen slightly down for this year – will pick up to 3 per cent in 2011, well above their average forecasts for the overall euro zone. What a difference credibility makes"
Looks like Ezra is getting some bad information.
Ezra is both foolish (about economics) and a poor proofreader - I am reasonably confident by the links he provides that he intended to say "cut spending" early in his piece (which is what the Irish apparently did).
However, I am also confident that tax increases are not part of an austerity program - in what way is increasing the amount taken from private citizens an act of self-discipline by a government? The real lesson of this article is that increasing taxes is foolhardy in times like these.
Speaking of Ezra's links, does anyone else see the irony of Krugman's comment "Of course, I know what will happen next: we'll hear that the Irish just aren't doing enough, and must do more. If we've been bleeding the patient, and he has nonetheless gotten sicker, well, we clearly need to bleed him some more" Hmmm, perhaps he's getting a message from his subconcious about deficit spending?
You continue to mislead your readers!
You conveniently ignore the first part of the story, where liberals bankrupted the country by offering unaffordable promises to those foolish enough to trade their vote for government handouts. This led the country to the verge of bankrupty.
This "austerity" you speak of is the natural result of giving away the treasury of a nation in return for votes. When the bill comes due the people pay!
Liberals in the US must stop "investing" in fat public sector union contracts and unaffordable post-retirement health care and pensions. Instead let the industrious people and business in this country keep our money so we can innovate, grow private sector employment, grow the tax base, save for our own education and retirement, and increase our standard of living.
To save this country we must outlaw all defined benefit plans immediately and convert all plans to affordable defined contribution plans. To ignore this issue is the ignore the fundamental challenge facing this country!
I constantly hear the choice framed between deficit spending (stimulus) to prop up the economy or austerity measures in the form of cutting public programs. Neither seems very convincing to me.
Back up a bit - why do we even have the deficits to begin with? It's definitely not because of Obama or the stimulus. The stimulus, spread over several years, is a miniscule portion of the overall deficit - and not a huge amount more than Bush spent on his prescription drug benefit alone, which no one even remembers.
In fact, the deficit exists largely because of a much simpler cause - the gap between spending and revenues. The last President who left office with a deficit approximately the same as when he arrived (in other words, when spending and revenues matched) was...Jimmy Carter. It was when Reagan came into office and slashed taxes for the wealthy (from the 70% range to the 30% range!) without corresponding spending cuts that our debt began to surge - and we haven't looked back since. This was truly a case of America deciding we could have our cake and eat it too. Well, clearly not.
And although Republicans would now like to renounce George W. Bush as "not a real conservative" simply because of his unpopularity, he was actually a Reagan Republican in the truest sense - pursuing ANOTHER massive tax cut, while actually increasing spending at the same time.
Now given that the causes of the debt are fairly obvious (or should be, unless you want to engage in self-serving mental gymnastics), why on Earth can't we just solve the crisis by eliminating the thing that caused the problem - low taxes on the rich? Bring taxes in line with spending by returning the top rate a reasonable level, and we could be FREE of our debt problems and move on as a nation. Of course, conservatives will probably say the wealthy will rebel, or leave, Atlas Shrugged style, but where exactly would they go - Europe? We're already the most free market Western democracy. Is it worth seeing the country go under so that someone can have 100 million instead of 90 million?
Today's Irish Times reports that the Irish economy grew in the first quarter -- at a 2.7% rate -- for the first quarterly growth since the final quarter of 2007. I suppose that supports the position that "austerity economics" worked poorly for Ireland??


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Large scale technologies and smart systems often get all the attention when it comes to businesses making the most of their energy needs, but, from an efficiency perspective, it's often the case that the first step is making sure you've eliminated waste and you are operating efficiently. That's why we're really excited to have come together with a forward-thinking organisation like Savills on this experiment and show there are improvements that can still be made, even in a modern and well-managed office.
For businesses looking to replicate the effects of the experiment, there are a few simple changes that you can make to help see reductions in your energy cost.
Install prompts across the office, to remind employees to use less energy – for example above light switches and printers, to remind users to switch them off when not in use. These can range from fun engaging stickers, through to small and simple pieces of text, depending on what works best for your office environment.
Appoint energy ambassadors to keep colleagues motivated and on track. One task includes checking everyone has switched off their computer monitors at night, leaving red and green stickers to indicate who has and hasn't remembered. This encourages people to compare themselves to other colleagues and uses social norms theory, which shows that sustainable behaviour can be encouraged in environments (for example work offices) where individuals don't typically have these habits.
Give regular feedback on how staff are doing and giving them a comparison – for example to other parts of the business or similar businesses. This maintains momentum as well as encouraging a bit of healthy competition.
Encourage goal-setting by challenging colleagues with clear goals to commit to. This takes advantage of the fact that we seek to be consistent with our public and personal promises that we make.
At the core of this experiment, E.ON and Savills were looking to test how a range of behavioural science theories can be used to change employees' habits and help reduce energy use – from switching off computer monitors and printers at night, to turning off lights and leaving the office thermostats alone.
The set-up of this office proved ideal for the experiment. Each side of the office has its own energy meter, which made it easy to directly compare the impact that small and low-cost nudges can have on our energy use at work, as well as the financial savings to the business, compared to a control group with no nudges installed.
The nudges used varied from simple stickers above light switches prompting people to turn them off, text above heating controls guiding employees to keep it within an advised range to goal-setting 'contacts' and assigned energy ambassadors to keep people accountable. The nudges installed were all subtle and low cost to produce, costing less than £50. The experiment was designed and delivered by a team of behavioural science experts from H+K Strategies.
As a result of these nudges, the experiment saw significant reductions in the energy use, with the amount used for sockets and lighting falling by 4%. Meanwhile, with the experiment taking place in the colder autumn months, energy use for heating in both halves of the office saw a rise. However, while the control nearly doubled its usage, the experiment group only rose by a quarter2.
This resulted in a total saving of 26% in energy use for the half of the office undertaking the experiment. When applied to the entire office, over the course of a year, this represents an energy saving big enough to run an office of 81 laptops for 8 hours a day for a year.
These figures are significant when compared to other similar experiments to reduce energy use, which typically achieve 3-5% decreases. For example, a programme undertaken in the United States using letters comparing consumers' energy use to other households saw just a 2% reduction3 in energy. Moreover, when considering the fact that the Savills office used for the experiment already had a building management system, this experiment demonstrates the powerful role behavioural science has to play in energy saving.
For more information about how E.ON can help your business manage its energy use, visit www.eonenergy.com/for-your-business.
When applied to the whole office, annual energy reduction found in the experiment group would be equivalent to a 12,120 kWh saving. Based on dividing this figure by a 0.225 kWh average energy use to boil a kettle (source) and a 225 kWh average energy use to run a laptop for 8 hours a day for a year (source). Year is based on a working year of 250 days.
Energy use for heating in the control group increased by 90%. The experiment group rose 26%.
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Corporate Responsibility 07 Oct 2020
BBVAMF receives award for helping "build and rebuild a historic region"
Julia Ortega
The Ibero-American Communication Association (ASICOM), together with the University of Oviedo and other iberoamerican institutions, awarded the work implemented by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation in Latin America, where it accompanies more than 2.3 million low-income entrepreneurs in five countries in the region. According to the organizers, this award acknowledges the work of the Foundation in "improving the standard of living of millions of people with their efforts."
The Northeastern territorial director of BBVA, Yolanda Martínez-Bajo, received this recognition on behalf of BBVAMF, and she emphasized the importance of receiving such acknowledgements, which imply an "enormous motivation for BBVA Microfinance Foundation to continue supporting entrepreneurs living under vulnerable conditions." And to them, the Foundation dedicated this award, because in these times of hardship, "they are showing versatility and perseverance to move forward, adapting their businesses and reinventing themselves with great effort, worthy of praise."
In the words of the BBVA director, this effort is accompanied by the commitment of the more than 8,200 employees in the six institutions of the BBVAMF, who work "convinced that contributing to reduce poverty is an extraordinary way to bring the age of opportunity to everyone."
The ceremony took place in the assembly hall of the Historical Building of the University of Oviedo, with the attendance of the Dean, the Mayor and the Vice President of ASICOM. Among other laureates are historian Raquel Varela, former football player and coach Vicente del Bosque, scientist Raúl Rojas Martínez, sports journalist Juan Ignacio Gallardo and musician Silvio Rodríguez. BBVA Microfinance Foundation is the only institution to receive this award.
Award-winners with the Dean of the University of Oviedo, the Mayor and other local representatives and the Vice President of ASICOM
"All of them represent the most select in our countries in different fields: from historic and scientific research, to sports, journalism and development finance", assured ASICOM Vice President, Laura Galguera. To conclude the event, she thanked the contribution and the example of all the laureates "in building Iberoamerica and a world, more just and more dignified."
Microfinance Foundation Updated: 13 Oct 2020


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