text:
Toilet lighting is quite essential. Lighting makes it much easier for you to sleep through the nighttime, so you might want to consider adding more light fixtures throughout the place. You can also go with a comprehensive makeover and replace all your old bedding together with fresh bedding.
If you are considering a foam mattress, then then this may be the time to buy one. Memory foam mattresses come in several diverse types, like an ultra-plush pillow top mattress, down mattress or perhaps a spring mattress. A memory foam mattress is the ideal sort of mattress you can buy for your bed since it may help keep you comfortable during the night and cool during the summer. In the event you decide to purchase a memory foam mattress, then make sure to purchase one that is really a size you would typically sleep on.
There are many tiny things you can increase your room to make it look nicer. Adding a brand new carpet is a great way to bring extra seating to a room. A major thing that people have a tendency to forget about with a room is mirroring. Mirrors help reflect light, that may make a room seem larger. You can even add a chandelier to your own bedroom to add a little additional lighting.
Eventually, they need to think of what kind of lighting fixtures and accessories you are going to require to add to your space. This will be dependent on what subject you have opted to choose. Toilet lighting should complement the furniture and also the colors of this room. Attempt to locate cheap items you need to use to replace lighting fixtures. Also, attempt to discover some light that you’re able to put on low voltage, which you can usually find at almost any home center retailer.
Toilet remodeling could be a fun job that you can do yourself or with the help of a professional. Before you start looking for paint or furniture, first you need to develop a budget. Whenever you’ve got a budget, you can plan ahead and buy the items you want, instead of going all out and finding things that you do not really require. Be realistic with what spent and don’t go overboard. If you take some time and effort, then it’s really a very simple procedure and also you are able to have a gorgeous bedroom to be proud of!


Multi-Displacement System in HEMI-Equipped Grand Cherokees
Date 2004/6/18 0:00:00 | Topic: Grand Cherokee
|Run on 8-cylinders when you need power, 4 when cruising.|
(from a DaimlerChrylser press release)
"The Chrysler Group Multi-Displacement System (MDS) seamlessly alternates between smooth, high fuel economy four-cylinder mode when less power is needed, and V-8 mode when more power from the 5.7L HEMI engine is in demand," said Eric Ridenour, Executive Vice President Product Development, Chrysler Group. "This optimizes fuel economy when V-8 power is not needed, without sacrificing vehicle performanceó2005 Chrysler 300C and Dodge Magnum RT owners will get the maximum benefit without any compromises."
The HEMI-powered 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee will come equipped with MDS as standard equipment. Owners of the Chrysler 300, Dodge Magnum and Jeep Grand Cherokee will receive the powerful benefit of the HEMI engine with the fuel economy that they would only expect from a smaller, less powerful engine. "The MDS was part of the engine's original design," said Bob Lee, Vice President Powertrain Product Team, Chrysler Group. "This resulted in a cylinder-deactivation system that is elegantly simple and completely integrated into the engine design. The benefits are fewer parts, maximum reliability and lower cost."
The HEMI engine with MDS has completed over 6.5 million customer-equivalent miles through Chrysler Group's development and durability testing. It is covered by the 7-Year/70,000-mile Limited Powertrain warranty.
The system deactivates the valve lifters. This keeps the valves in four cylinders closed, and there is no combustion. In addition to stopping combustion, energy is not lost by pumping air through these cylinders.
Customers will experience estimated fuel economy gains of up to 20 percent under various driving conditions, and a projected 10 percent aggregate improvement. Improved fuel economy is realized without any change in customer experienceódrivers will receive the benefit without changing their driving habits and without compromising style, comfort or convenience.


text:
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The warrant is the first issued by the Hague-based court against a sitting head of state since it was set up in 2002. The move could spark more turmoil in Sudan and the surrounding region.
The court said it did not find sufficient grounds to include the count of genocide in Bashir's arrest warrant, but indicted Bashir on seven counts for war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder, forcible displacement and other crimes.
Omar al-Bashir's official capacity as sitting head of state does not exclude his criminal responsibility, nor does it grant him immunity against prosecution before the ICC, court spokeswoman Laurence Blairon told a news conference.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Khartoum to protest against the arrest warrant.
It is a flawed decision, said Sudanese presidential spokesman Mahjoub Fadul. We do not recognize it, nor the court that issued it and we do not care about it at all.
Tension also mounted in Darfur, where U.N. officials said hundreds of Sudanese government troops paraded through the regional capital El Fasher in a show of strength.
The court's move could hurt prospects for peace in Sudan and pit Western powers against backers of the Khartoum government.
The United States believes those who have committed atrocities should be brought to justice, U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said of the ICC decision during a trip by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Jerusalem.
Bashir has dismissed the allegations made by the ICC, the world's first permanent court for prosecuting war crimes, as part of a Western conspiracy.
China, the African Union and the Arab League suggest an indictment could destabilize the region, worsen the Darfur conflict and threaten a troubled peace deal between north Sudan and the semi-autonomous south -- potentially rich in oil.
U.N. officials say as many as 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region since 2003, while Khartoum says 10,000 have died.
A further 2.7 million people are estimated to have been uprooted by the conflict, which began when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has accused Bashir of orchestrating a campaign of genocide in Darfur.
The court said its decision on Wednesday not to include a genocide charge could change if additional evidence is gathered by the prosecution and it sought an amendment to the warrant.
Moreno-Ocampo has acknowledged that help from the more than 100 states backing the court would be urgently needed after the arrest warrant to enforce it.
Violence has spiked in Darfur in the months leading up to the ICC decision. Sudanese government officials have said they expect Darfur rebels to step up attacks after the court's announcement.
Aid workers said Sudanese officials told them to pull some staff out of parts of Darfur earlier this week because the humanitarian workers might be targeted in the aftermath of the ICC decision.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit called on the U.N. Security Council to suspend Bashir's arrest warrant, but Libyan envoy Ibrahim Dabbashi said before the ICC announcement there were no plans for an immediate council meeting.
The council has the power to defer ICC proceedings for up to one year at a time.
Moreno-Ocampo requested the warrant for Bashir last July, making him the third sitting head of state to be charged by an international court following Liberia's Charles Taylor and Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.
Both were forced from power and brought in front of international tribunals in the Hague.
(Additional reporting by Aziz El-Kaissouni and Andrew Heavens in Khartoum and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Editing by Charles Dick)

domain: news


text:
Lower back pain
Sir! I am 25 years and my height is 6. Couple of weeks before I have back pain which I had get rid of massage and all. But these days again back pain started and I have cough also. So when I sniff it make more pain. So please recommend some medicine and what to do. Have more pain when i stand and sit
Like the answers? Chat privately with the doctor of your choice
Disclaimer : The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding your medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.

domain: health


text:
The Saramonic SR-HM7 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone is a A perfect all-purpose, versatile stage and recording microphone.
Exceptional sound reproduction for vocals and instruments- live performances and recording
Saramonic SR-HM7 is a unidirectional dynamic microphone with cardioid pick-up pattern, specifically designed for interview and presentation used, the easy-to-handle product structure minimizes wind and handing noise, making it ideal for ENG & interview applications.
It can be used to capture audio for live stage, theater, and presentation events. This handheld microphone minimizes wind and handling noise and the design is easy-to-handle. Built with a 3-pin XLR jack, the SR-HM7 Unidirectional Dynamic Cardioid Microphone is equipped with a rugged all-metal body.

domain: artistic


text:
A true red-blooded male, Rafe does his best to teach Emma her place in the universe, but her human attitude gets in the way. So why doesn’t he sell her when he gets the chance? Damned if he knows, but despite his motto of ‘the universe revolves around me,’ he finds himself putting his life in peril to save hers. But that doesn’t mean he’s letting her in on all his secrets. Some things a man has to carry alone, and some revelations a pirate will kill to keep.
The universe might be out to get him, but he’s not giving in without a fight.
Contains mature themes.

domain: literature


text:
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus distributed all over Africa, South America and Asia. The infection with the virus may cause acute febrile sickness that clinically resembles dengue fever, yet there is no vaccine, no satisfactory treatment, and no means of evaluating the risk of the disease or prognosis in the infected people. In the present study, the efficacy of the host's immune response in reducing the risk of infectious diseases was taken into account to carry out immuno-informatics driven epitope screening strategy of vaccine candidates against ZIKV. In this study, HLA distribution analysis was done to ensure the coverage of the vast majority of the population. Systematic screening of effective dominant immunogens was done with the help of Immune Epitope & ABCPred databases. The outcomes suggested that the predicted epitopes may be protective immunogens with highly conserved sequences and bear potential to induce both protective neutralizing antibodies, T & B cell responses. A total of 25 CD4+ and 16 CD8+ peptides were screened for T-cell mediated immunity. The predicted epitope "TGLDFSDLYYLTMNNKHWLV" was selected as a highly immunogenic epitope for humoral immunity. These peptides were further screened as non-toxic, immunogenic and non-mutated residues of envelop viral protein. The predicted epitope could work as suitable candidate(s) for peptide based vaccine development. Further, experimental validation of these epitopes is warranted to ensure the potential of B- and T-cells stimulation for their efficient use as vaccine candidates, and as diagnostic agents against ZIKV.
Janahi, E. M., Dhasmana, A., Srivastava, V., Sarangi, A. N., Raza, S., Arif, J. M., Bhatt, M. L. B., Lohani, M., Areeshi, M. Y., Saxena, A. M., & Haque, S. (2017). In silico CD4+, CD8+ T-cell and B-cell immunity associated immunogenic epitope prediction and HLA distribution analysis of Zika virus. EXCLI Journal, 16, 63–72. https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2016-719
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Immunology and Microbiology


In addition to water hoses, industrial hoses include the hydraulic hose, pneumatic or air tool hose, chemical hose, beverage and food hose, steam hose, and ventilation hose, among others. A hydraulic hose, along with the proper hydraulic hose fittings, conveys pressurized fluid to actuators and tools.
Here at Global Couplings, we offer a vast range of camlock fittings (also known as cam and groove couplings) and quick couplers to suit your specific needs. Supplying to customers all across the Globe, our industrial hose fittings raise the bar for exceptional quality and competitive prices.
· Boiler Hoses can work for the necessities of boiler producers. Also, they delivered in a stainless steel structure either as single or twofold serpentine when required. Boiler Hoses Description-These stainless boiler hoses assemblies have a specially designed corrugated profile.
A general purpose agricultural spray and chemical hose for medium pressures, consists of PVC/nitrile in the inner tube and cover for superior resistance to solvents and longer life. Suitable for transferring diluted weedcidal, pesticides in general agricultural and horticultural applications. This hose is same size as a standard garden hose, it
Irrigation hose from Zyfire Hose Corporation. Search High Quality Irrigation hose Manufacturing and Exporting supplier on Alibaba.com.
Dn16 Stainless Steel Flexible Boiler Hose , Find Complete Details about Dn16 Stainless Steel Flexible Boiler Hose,Boiler Hose,Flexible Boiler Hose,Flexible Hose from Refrigeration & Heat Exchange Parts Supplier or Manufacturer-Tianjin Wide Metal Hose Co., Ltd.
Finish Line Factory’s Stainless Steel Braided Hose uses high-quality steel braids and rubber lining that resists oxidation and is more than strong enough to withstand the toughest racing duties. Our hose is compatible with most fuels, coolants, and oils, and has a high operating temperature and maximum pressure rating so that it can get your
2,952 fire hose 50mm products are offered for sale by suppliers on Alibaba.com, of which fire hose accounts for 75%, firefighting equipment accounts for 15%, and plastic tubes accounts for 1%. A wide variety of fire hose 50mm options are available to you, such as reducing, equal.
Find all types of silicone hose | tube,custom food grade silicone hose on siliconehose-china. Sunrise Silicone Hose Co.,Limited is a best silicone duct hose manufacturer in China. Custom design service!
NovaFlex Group - Specializing in Flexible Hoses, Fabric Ducting, Extruded Thermo Plastic Hose, Composite Hose, Quick Disconnect Dry Break Couplings, Venting, and Chimney Liners.
Agricultural & Pesticide Spray Chemical Hose. Chemical & Chlorine Hose Assemblies. Paint & Solvent Spray Chemical Hose. Wing Style VFF Series,WS Series,BOP Hydraulic Quick Connects. R14 PTFE, Thermoplastic R7/R8/R Aeroquip Misc, 1S, 2-Piece, Sewer Hydraulic Crimp Couplings ©2020 New Line Hose & Fittings
Each industrial hose is designed to be as easy to handle as safety and job performance will allow. Chemical Hoses Extreme chemical resistance makes Eaton industrial hose products a go-to solution for transferring easily contaminated or hazardous materials where they need to go.
You can count on Gates to supply innovative new products that push the boundaries of materials science. We engineer our products to continually exceed expectations and outperform industry standards. We are constantly expanding our product catalog and services to support every facet of …
Pensteel Limited are pleased to announce the opening of our online store. Now you can buy parts, spares and accessories from us with just a couple of clicks!
AG Chemical Spray Hose 8mm I.D. Available Lengths: 20m, 30m, 50m, 100mInner Diameter: 8mmWorking Pressure: 300 PSI (2.2 Mpa)Minimum .. AK REELS Chemical & Pesticide 15 metre Auto Retractable Hose Reel. $360.00 . Add to Cart. YELLOW TAIL Heavy Duty Suction Delivery Hose 50mm. A heavy duty suction and discharge hose well suited for use in
feeding bottle Ink-Jet Filters New Style Patent Number NO.D146280 Good chemical compatibility New patent number NO.M 417540 Diversified filter selection ISO9001 & 13485 international certification Can be customized Low residual
Hosecraft USA offers every type and style of quality chemical hose. Compare the various chemical hose benefits to determine the best choice for your application. OVERVIEW: The chemical hoses below are used in a wide variety of services. Compare the various chemical hose benefits for the proper choice in …
As a distributor of rubber, hose fittings and power transmission, TOTALRUBBER services all facets of Australian industry and agriculture. Call now.
Tigerflex® Industrial Hose Tigerflex ® Thermoplastic Industrial Hoses Manufactured in the USA by Tigerflex Corporation and distributed by Kuriyama of America Inc. - …
Designed to spec and built of the highest quality materials, our industrial reels stand up to the most demanding conditions of any industry. We offer thousands of industrial hose reels and cable reels to address your requirements, while improving efficiency, productivity, and safety in your operation.
HCD Flow Technology. HCD offers a wide range of fluid handling and conveyor belt products to customers throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Our stainless steel braided rubber hose is suited for use in anti-vibration, building services, ceilings, fan coils, heating OEM and plumbing applications. If you require any further information then don’t hesitate to ring us here at Pipestock on 0845 634 1053 .
Peristaltic Industrial Hose and Tube pumps. Verderflex® Industrial peristaltic pumps are extremely robust pumps, ideal for heavy duty operations on intermittent or continuous duty cycles. They are a simple to use, easy to control, versatile and reliable way to pump liquids.
CHEMICAL HOSE. Product Compare (0) Sort By: 10MM X 20M CHEM 10MM X 20M CHEMFLEX BLACK PRESSURE HOSE A medium pressure hose with a specially formulated chemic.. $77.00 Ex Tax: $70.00. POWAFLEX TPR 50MM X 20M TRANSLUCENT FOOD CONTACT APPROVED HOSE Translucent multi-purpose hos..
New Listing Vintage US Military M17 Gas Mask & Hood size M CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL MASK. $69.00. 0 bids. Free shipping. Ending Mar 29 at 12:08PM PDT 6d 2h. or Best Offer. Soviet russian military Gas mask GP-5 with hose. grey rubber new full set. $16.99. Soviet Russian USSR Military Gas mask GP-5 black hose respiratory surplus NEW. $18.95. Got
2019 popular hose oil, cooler pipe, hose rubber, 1 hose trends in Home Appliances, Vacuum Cleaner Parts, Home & Garden, Garden Hoses & Reels with 50mm Hose and hose oil, cooler pipe, hose rubber, 1 hose. Discover over 918 of our best selection of hose oil, cooler pipe, hose rubber, 1 hose on AliExpress.com with top-selling hose oil, cooler pipe, hose rubber, 1 hose brands. Shop the top 25 …
hose shop - Rubber. Avondale Ph 09 828 4710 Fax 09 828 9165 [email protected]: East Tamaki Ph 09 271 6433
Zhejiang Lanboom Rubber And Plastic Co., Ltd., Experts in Manufacturing and Exporting Rubber Hose, PVC Hose and 909 more Products. A Verified CN Gold Supplier on Alibaba.com.
New Type Chemical Hose 50mm High Pressure Hydraulic Rubber Hose , Find Complete Details about New Type Chemical Hose 50mm High Pressure Hydraulic Rubber Hose,Chemical Hose 50mm,High Pressure Hose,High Pressure Hydraulic Rubber Hose from Rubber Hoses Supplier or Manufacturer-Jia Hao Technology Co., Ltd.
- Water Cleaning & Blasting Hose ( Golden Blast ) - Industrial Rubber Hose - Aviation Hose - Bulk Material Hose - Custom Made Rubber Hose - Welding Hose - Chemical Hose - Air Hose - Multipurpose Hose - Steam Hose - Fire Fighting Hose - Sand Blast Hose - Oil Suction/Discharge Hose - Cable Cooling Hose - Roof Drain Hose - Water Suction/Discharge Hose


text:
SMARTlab Research Administrator/Exec Assistant
Ricki has recently joined the SMARTlab team at University College Dublin as Executive Assistant/Graduate Research Administrator, after spending the last 12 years in the Dublin office of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD). The IICD was established by the Good Friday Agreement in 1997 to deal with the issue of paramilitary weapons; as part of her role with the Commission she was awarded an MBE in 2007.
She completed her Masters Degree in European Economic and Public Affairs at UCD after having done a business diploma in Switzerland in the early 1990s and a 4-Year BA in Geography at the University of Winnipeg in the mid-1980s. She was born in Switzerland and has lived in Germany, England, Austria and Canada; she has made Ireland her home since she moved here to do her Masters in 1991.

domain: geography


text:
Spicy Asian Dipping Sauce Free PD Recipe
- Skill Level: Easy
- Print Recipe
Direct link to this recipe: https://protectivediet.com/recipe/spicy-asian-dipping-sauce
This spicy dipping sauce is a perfect complement to Protective Diet Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Just made this to go with Fresh Spring Rolls…really good with the perfect amount of heat!
This is excellent! I cooked some brown rice, steamed some broccoli, mixed them together and poured this over top. Oh my! My lips are burning, but it’s a good burn! 🙂

domain: food


Miami, FL (PRWEB) April 23, 2007
KillerStartups.com, a site that implements the opinion of the people to help predict the fate of internet startups, just became three months old.
"We launched KillerStartups.com with the idea of making it like Digg + Techcrunch," said Gonzalo Arzuaga, founder of the site. "Soon, it evolved into a place where people interested in the internet could go and discover great new startups."
The motto of KillerStartups is "tapping the wisdom of the crowd to find the next internet big thing." Site readers check out the constantly growing list of startups reviewed and vote as to what they think will happen to the startups. This user driven internet startups community is where entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers are heading to stay updated on the up-and-coming internet startups.
Each review includes a report of what the startup is about, what they say about themselves, why they might be a killer startup, and what some of the problems might be. A fact folder where the reviewed startups can update various information including funding, foundation information, site traffic, and more is built-in at the bottom of each review. KillerStartups also makes it easy for users to contact the startups that interest them.
Within only three months, KillerStartups has reached several milestones. The site has been climbing the Alexa rankings, making it to 13,000 several times. Though the site has only been available for three months, they have managed to grow a community of readers larger than many sites that have been around for over a year.
KillerStartups has recently been working on content partnerships. Selected reviews from KillerStartups.com can already be seen daily on Profy.com, FranticIndustries.com, CenterNetworks.com and EverybodyGoTo.com. Many other sites are interested in partnerships as well, and deals are in the works.
KillerStartups tops every other site currently available in terms of the amount of newly reviewed internet startups it offers everyday. There are already over 800 startups reviewed, the top startup having over 100 "killer" votes and another 20+ startups are being reviewed daily.
The response to KillerStartups has been overwhelmingly positive:
"KillerStartups is really well done," wrote Ouriel from TechCrunch FR. "The user experience is really cool. I know there are already tons of Web2.0 directories. But this one mixes quite well review/voting/rating/poll/community features and the structure of the website is original."
HireVue wrote, "I have to say that this site is very, very cool and I found a few companies on the site already that I have started using."
Tomorrow's Playground mentioned, "It's a pretty good way to keep abreast of what's new out. And also a nice white board for a bit of inspiration."
KillerStartups.com is a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors and bloggers are staying updated on up-and-coming internet startups using our blog platform, where internet entrepreneurs submit their startup to see what others think about it. At KillerStartups, you can submit a startup, vote startups as "killers", vote in the poll as to how you think the startup will do, leave comments, contact the startups, tell a friend about the ones that intrigue you, and add startups to your site. Check out the most recently added startups, or see which ones have gotten the most "killer" votes. You can find startups by searching for key words or clicking on the different tags to discover the ones you want out of the huge selection available. By using the wisdom and power of the community, KillerStartups.com will be able to detect what the next big thing will be on the internet.
About the founders
KillerStartups was founded by Gonzalo Arzuaga and Matias de Tezanos, two entrepreneurs with much experience in the internet business. Gonzalo has written five books covering the business and marketing sides of the internet, as well as the successful sites GauchoNet (one of the most visited sites in Argentina) and TheBlogCompany.com (who has already reached 1.8 million unique users). Matias is the founder of the popular site Hoteles.com (which grew 500% in its first year before being acquired), co-founded ClickDiario.com Network (which grew to a user base of over 45 million before being acquired) and currently is focusing on new internet startups.
For more information, don't hesitate to contact the KillerStartups.com Team


text:
AUGUST 22ND, 2012
Singapore Changi: Operating indicators for July 2012
SINGAPORE, 22 August 2012 – The number of passenger movements at Singapore Changi Airport increased 4.5% on-year to 4.36 million in July 2012. Air traffic movements grew in tandem, with 27,100 landings and take-offs recorded at Changi during the month, or 4.6% more compared to a year ago.
Traffic to and from the Middle East, Southwest Pacific and the Americas remained strong and witnessed double-digit growth. However, the growth in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia traffic was weaker and in the low single digits. These two regions account for about 70% of total passenger traffic at Changi.
On the cargo front, Changi handled 152,900 tonnes of shipments last month, a decrease of 4.5% on-year.
On a rolling year basis, passenger traffic and aircraft movements increased to 49.3 million (12.0%) respectively. Airfreight movements were stable at 1.85 million tonnes for the 12-month period.
As at 1 August 2012, 100 airlines operate at Changi Airport, connecting Singapore to more than 220 cities in 60 countries around the world. With more than 6,200 weekly scheduled flights, an aircraft takes off or lands at Changi roughly once every 100 seconds.
Changi Airport’s traffic statistics are available at http://www.changiairportgroup.com/cag/html/the-group/air_traffic_statistics.html.

domain: economics


text:
"..."This is Jerry Wexler."..."
"...I knew Jerry Wexler. That’s no boast..."
"...Atlantic Blues (1949-1970) began the rollout this spring, and Atlantic Vocal Groups (1951-1963) concludes the series next year. “By 1959 the original rock & roll momentum was slowing down, and many of Atlantic’s attempts at keeping up with the kids were starting to sound alike and somewhat contrived,” furthers Vera. “Everybody at the company was tired of, in the words of Cashbox, ‘chasing teen coin,’ and the records reflected this fatigue.” Atlantic Soul (1959-1975) is what the late Ahmet Ertegun and his partner Jerry Wexler came up with instead...."
"...The correlation between music and math, if not explicit, is seldom documented with as much panache as Tom Dowd & the Language of Music. Dowd was one of the Atlantic Three; while Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler scouted talent, Dowd, a young physics student straight out of the university, recorded it and engineered it..."
"...At first, the fire is hidden in the smoke. Twelve bell-bottom bluesy country songs on a new CD, produced for vinyl in 1972 by Atlantic Records legend Jerry Wexler, performed by progressive country pioneers Freda & the Firedogs for a debut that never came out..."
"...At this point in his career, Willie had made his celebrated move back to Texas and was in the process of bringing Austin's rednecks and hippies together, playing everywhere from car dealerships on Sixth Street to the fabled psychedelic dungeon called Armadillo World Headquarters. While the world at large wasn't tuned into this, some of its hipper denizens were, and among these was Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler, who'd decided it was time for his label to gently test the waters of country music, especially when he found out Willie's contract with RCA was up and Reshen was seeking more salubrious waters for his client's talents..."
"...The band consisted of Marcia Ball, John X. Reed, Steve McDaniels, David Cook, and Bobby Earl Smith, and in the early part of 1972 legendary producer Jerry Wexler, who'd already signed Doug Sahm and Willie Nelson, took a shine to them, and had them record an album for Atlantic..."
"...At the turn of the century, Atlantic Records mogul Jerry Wexler, whom Doug Sahm called "the funky Jewish king of black music," began dispersing his record collection to family and friends. A few crates' worth of Western swing records – mainly compilations of 78s preserved onto LPs in the 1970s – went to Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson..."
"...Their "stuff" caught the attention of Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler, who brought Sahm and Meyers into the studio for the sessions that became 1973's Doug Sahm and Band. "Band" was an understatement; the lineup included Lone Star pals such as Jack Barber, Atwood Allen, and Flaco Jimenez, plus Dr..."
"...Wexler Loved Sahm..."
"...Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records man and stone soul brother, was sent a copy of Los Lonely Boys, told only, "Willie Nelson's taken these boys under his golf swing." Wexler, who signed the Red Headed Stranger to Atlantic and produced the ultimate "Bloody Mary Morning" in '74's Phases and Stages, was intrigued...."
"...The audiences loved it, but the labels ignored them. Frank Zappa's imprint, Discreet, flirted with the Twinkies, after which Hubbard had a misunderstanding with Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler as drinking and drugging in the band worsened ("A Man and a Half," Music, December 1, 2000)..."
"...Attn: Jerry Wexler..."
"...Today, Scott spends much of his time out on the road and in Europe. His debut at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April found the elfin singer mesmerizing a packed jazz tent with a set of lugubrious standards such as "All of Me," "Sweet Embraceable You," and "When Did You Leave Heaven." Both Dorn and his boss at Atlantic, Jerry Wexler, say Scott no longer exhibits the unmatched vocal gifts of his youth, but then one would be hard-pressed to find a contemporary vocalist whose ability to turn timeless compositions inside out, wrench from them every ounce of feeling, matches Scott's..."
"...Bert Berns' name doesn't command the same recognition as fellow trailblazing songwriter-producers Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Jerry Wexler, perhaps due to his death in 1967 at the age of 38, or perhaps because of the many bridges he burned during his brief but meteoric career. Yet his best work, productions with Solomon Burke, the Drifters, and the Isley Brothers, plus iconic compositions "Twist and Shout," "Hang On Sloopy," and "Piece of My Heart," attests to his immense talent, and veteran San Francisco Chronicle critic Joel Selvin's ambitious bio makes a convincing case for Berns as the artistic equal of his aforementioned peers..."
"...Okay, this is getting stupid! I would expect this in the Ohio or Iowa type Chronicle. But The Austin Chronicle? Yes, the guy in the picture with Jerry Wexler is the one and only Sir Dad Sahm ["TCB," Music, July 14]..."
"...The legend died July 4, 1974, at Willie's Picnic in Bryan. An ill-fated attempt by Jerry Wexler to record the Firedogs for Atlantic went awry over contracts (see Nowhere But Texas)..."
"...John to Flaco Jimenez's debut in the Anglo world on it. Jerry Wexler, who'd produced it, was a frequent San Francisco visitor in those days, and he'd call his press friends together at his hotel, play us some new releases, and then take us out for epic Chinese meals...."
"...HOFFBERGER Jerry Wexler, Danny Federici, Guns n' Roses..."
"...You can be quite sure that the unidentified (unknown) cowboy in the Jerry Wexler photo ["TCB," Music, July 14] is none other than the late and great Doug Sahm, who was in the same recording sessions in New York on that groovy day. You should have (really) picked it up...."


IF 2016 was a year of shocks, what will the next 12 months bring? It is time for the annual tradition (dating all the way back to 2015) when this column tries to predict the surprises of the coming year.
By definition, a surprise is something the consensus does not expect. A regular survey of global fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) points to what most people believe. Following the election of Donald Trump, investors are expecting above-trend economic growth, higher inflation and stronger profits. They have invested heavily in equities and have a much lower-than-normal exposure to bonds.
So it is not too difficult to see how the first surprise might play out. Expectations for the effectiveness of Mr Trump’s fiscal policies are extraordinarily high. But it takes time for such policies to be implemented, and they may be diluted by Congress along the way (especially on public spending). Indeed, it may well be that demography and sluggish productivity make it very hard to push economic growth up to the 3-4% hoped for by the new administration. Neither fiscal nor monetary stimulus has done much to lift Japan out of its torpor,…Continue reading
IT WOULD seem to be a stunning comeback for Rupert Murdoch and his clan. Five years ago News Corporation was engulfed by scandal. One of its British papers, the News of the World, had routinely hacked private phones. In the aftermath the company gave up a bid it had made for BSkyB (now simply called Sky), a satellite broadcaster in which it had a stake. A parliamentary report declared Mr Murdoch unfit to lead a large company. James Murdoch, his son, resigned as chair of BSkyB and chief of the newspaper division. Ofcom, Britain’s media regulator, eviscerated his leadership as “difficult to comprehend and ill-judged”.
Now the Murdoch empire appears to be striking back. On December 9th, 21st Century Fox, the Murdochs’ entertainment business, said it had reached a preliminary deal to pay £11.2bn ($14.1bn) for the 61% of Sky it does not already own. James Murdoch is ascending once more: indeed, this deal is chiefly his doing. Last year he succeeded his father as boss of 21st Century Fox, and in January he reclaimed his Sky chairmanship. But the show of strength comes with new weaknesses.
Much has…Continue reading
NO BOSS in French business can match Vincent Bolloré for swagger and aggression. Variously described by the press in France as a stubborn Breton, a ruthless profiteer and a smiling killer, the 64-year-old corporate raider has acquired interests in media, transport, advertising, telecoms and more, scattered across Europe and Africa. Opinion at home is divided between those who say his methods are too brutal and others who welcome his effect on an often dozy business world.
This week it was the turn of Italian newspapers to rant against the French “pirate” and “mercenary”. On December 13th the news came that France’s Vivendi, a media firm in which Mr Bolloré’s company, Bolloré Group, owns 20% (he effectively controls it) was racing to buy up shares in Mediaset, Italy’s biggest TV-broadcaster. Things moved swiftly. By the next day Vivendi had a 20% stake in Mediaset, up from 3% two days earlier. The Italian firm claims a hostile takeover attempt—the smiling killer’s speciality—is under way.
Mr Bolloré has long aimed at winning a share of Mediaset. Earlier this year, Vivendi had agreed a plan with Mediaset in which…Continue reading
“JUDGE a man by his questions, rather than his answers,” Voltaire advised. Google has become one of the most successful firms in history by heeding that advice. It evaluates the intention of web-surfers’ queries and returns relevant advertising alongside search results. But for years there has been a lingering question about Google: can it create a new, highly profitable unit to rival its search business?
Not yet. In the past five years, Alphabet, formed as a holding company for Google and other disparate projects in October 2015, has spent $46bn on research and development (see chart). Much has gone to so-called “moonshot” projects, such as self-driving cars, smart contact lenses and internet delivered via balloons. Its British artificial-intelligence unit, DeepMind, also falls into the category of other projects. Since the start of 2015, these bets have together recorded a loss of $6bn.
FROM its headquarters in Brasília, a sterile, technocratic city, Brazil’s federal government doles out money for health, education, generous pensions and artistic awards, among other things. Over the past two decades, this spending has grown by more than 185% in real terms. Over the next 20 years, its growth will be zero.
That, at least, is the intention of a constitutional amendment passed this week by Brazil’s Senate. The measure, which allows federal spending (excluding interest payments and transfers to states and municipalities) to grow no faster than inflation, is an unusually ambitious example of a fiscal rule: a quantitative limit on budget-making, which lasts beyond a single year and perhaps beyond a single government.
The best known, and least loved, fiscal rule is the euro area’s stability and growth pact. But such rules are also now common among emerging economies. According to the IMF’s latest count, 56 developing countries in 2014 had rules of some kind, including 15, like Brazil, that impose limits on the growth of public spending.
The reasons so many emerging-market governments choose to limit their fiscal…Continue reading
INSURANCE is banking’s boring cousin: it lacks the glamour, the sky-high bonuses and the ever-present whiff of danger. So European stress tests for insurers, whose results were due to be published on December 15th after The Economist went to press, have attracted far less attention than those for banks in July. Yet insurance also faces a grave threat, from prolonged low interest rates.
Insurers invest overwhelmingly in bonds, so low interest rates make their lives difficult. The last time the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) conducted an insurance stress test, in 2014, a quarter of participants scored poorly: they would not have met their capital requirements in the test’s long low-interest-rate scenario. The proportion jumped to 44% in an alternative scenario involving an asset-price shock. The new results are unlikely to be better. Each year of low interest rates worsens the problem. Higher-yielding bonds mature and insurers end up with ever more newer ones with low, or even negative, interest rates.
Insurers are focused on the problem. One strategy is to outsource more to external…Continue reading
“IF THEY resented me they didn’t talk to me about it,” says a young German manager at a media firm in Frankfurt. Still, he says it was noticeable that when a subordinate 20 years older than him thanked him for buying lunch he had to swallow twice before adding the word “boss”.
Older workers sometimes begrudge being managed by a callow colleague. Precocious youngsters, too, can feel awkward about bossing their elders around. But in Germany a shortage of skilled workers means that such situations are becoming ever more common.
The country’s population is projected to shrink. Among rich-world countries, only in six nations including Japan and Greece are populations expected to decrease faster. As more Germans retire, fewer youngsters are entering the workforce to replace them. As a share of the working population the number of 15-to-24-year-olds has fallen by ten percentage points since the 1980s, says the German Federal Employment Agency. Firms competing to retain young talent are tempted to promote them earlier as a result. A paper by professors at the University of Cambridge and WHU, a…Continue reading
DEEPMIND’S office is tucked away in a nondescript building next to London’s Kings Cross train station. From the outside, it doesn’t look like something that two of the world’s most powerful technology companies, Facebook and Google, would have fought to acquire. Google won, buying DeepMind for £400m ($660m) in January 2014. But why did it want to own a British artificial-intelligence (AI) company in the first place? Google was already on the cutting edge of machine learning and AI, its newly trendy cousin. What value could DeepMind provide?
That question has become a little more pressing. Before October 2015 Google’s gigantic advertising revenues had cast a comfortable shade in which ambitious, zero-revenue projects like DeepMind could shelter. Then Google conjured up a corporate superstructure called Alphabet, slotting itself in as the only profitable firm. For the first time, other businesses had their combined revenues broken out from Google’s on the balance-sheet, placing them under more scrutiny (see Continue reading
IT IS a short walk from a tiny shop with peeling yellow paint in downtown La Coruña, in northern Spain, to a dazzling five-storey store, opened in September by Zara, by far the world’s most successful purveyor of “fast fashion”. In this stroll across three city blocks, the career of Amancio Ortega unfolds: from teenaged apprentice in the corner shop, Gala, a men’s clothing business, to Europe’s richest entrepreneur, the majority owner of one of its best-performing firms.
According to one employee of Zara who works with him, “the true story of Amancio Ortega has not been told.” Mr Ortega, the son of an itinerant railway worker, who started at the corner shop aged 13, had a basic upbringing: an ex-colleague says he talks of meals of “only potatoes”. He has lived mainly in Galicia, a relatively poor region with no history in textiles. Yet there, in 1975, he founded Zara—a manufacturer-cum-retailer that, along with its sister brands, has over 7,000 shops globally.
Mr Ortega (pictured) is now 80 but he remains energetic and involved in the business (if uninterested in wearing trendy clothes). He owns nearly 60% of…Continue reading
IN SEPTEMBER 2010 Brazil’s then-finance minister, Guido Mantega, gave warning that an “international currency war” had broken out. His beef was that in places where it was difficult to drum up domestic spending, the authorities had instead sought to weaken their currencies to make their exports cheaper and imports dearer. The dollar had recently fallen, for instance, because the Federal Reserve was expected to begin a second round of quantitative easing. The losers in this battle were those emerging markets, like Brazil, whose currencies had soared. Its currency, the real, was then trading at around 1.7 to the dollar.
These days a dollar buys 3.4 reais, but no one in Brazil or in other emerging markets with devalued currencies is declaring a belated victory. A cheap currency has not proved to be much of a boon. Indeed new research from Jonathan Kearns and Nikhil Patel, of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a forum for central banks, finds that at times a rising currency can be a stimulant and a falling currency a depressant. They looked at a sample of 44 economies, half of them emerging markets, to gauge the effect of changes in the exchange rate on exports and imports (the trade channel) and also on the price and availability of credit (the financial channel).
They found a negative relationship between changes in GDP and currency shifts…Continue reading
ANNIVERSARIES should be happier than that on December 11th, marking China’s 15 years as a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). On that day, China expected to be unshackled from its legal label as a “non-market economy” and attain “market-economy status”. In the event, America and the European Union refused to give it the nod. On December 12th the Chinese reacted: see you in court.
The fight will focus on the wording in the original accession agreement. The Americans and the Chinese are both confident of winning. Legal experts are divided. The WTO does not provide a clear definition of a “market economy”. And clumsy legal drafting does not help.
The meat of the row is over the method WTO members use to protect their industries against cheap Chinese imports. Alleging that Chinese companies enjoy subsidised credit, energy and raw materials, America and the EU slap anti-dumping duties on 7% (see chart) and 5% respectively of their Chinese imports. The agreement welcoming China into the WTO explicitly gave other members licence to treat it as a non-market economy until December 11th 2016….Continue reading
NEXT year marks the 500th anniversary of the event which, more than any other, gave birth to the modern world: Martin Luther promulgated his 95 theses and called the Catholic church to account for its numerous theological errors and institutional sins. Revisionist historians have inevitably complicated the story (including questioning whether he did actually nail his proposals to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg) but the narrative remains clear. The church was ripe for change. It was sunk in corruption and divorced from the wider life of society. And by unleashing that change, Luther brought the Christian faith, including Roman Catholicism itself, a new lease of life.
The similarities between medieval Christianity and the world of management theory may not be obvious, but seek and ye shall find. Management theorists sanctify capitalism in much the same way that clergymen of yore sanctified feudalism. Business schools are the cathedrals of capitalism. Consultants are its travelling friars. Just as the clergy in the Middle Ages spoke in Latin to give their words an air of authority, management theorists speak in mumbo-jumbo. The medieval…Continue reading
SINCE Donald Trump won America’s presidential election investors have salivated over the prospect of lower taxes. Mr Trump has promised to cut corporation tax, a levy on firms’ profits, from 35% to 15%. Republicans remain in charge of both houses of Congress; Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, wants to cut the levy to 20%. The coming reforms, though, are about more than just lower rates. Republicans want to overhaul business taxes completely. Unfortunately, this task is far from straightforward.
America’s corporate-tax rate, which reaches 39.6% once state and local levies are included, is the highest in the rich world. But a panoply of deductions and credits keeps firms’ bills down. These include huge distortions, such as a deduction for debt-interest payments, as well as smaller scratchings of pork like special treatment for NASCAR racetracks. After all the deductions are doled out, corporate-tax revenues are roughly in line with the average in the rest of the G7, according to economists at Goldman Sachs.
Still, a high tax rate and a narrow tax base is a glaringly inefficient combination. Politicians of all…Continue reading
ROUGHLY a third of food produced—1.3bn tonnes of the stuff—never makes it from farm to fork, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. In the poor world much of this waste occurs before consumers even set eyes on items. Pests feast on badly stored produce; rough roads mean vittles rot on slow journeys to market. In the rich world, waste takes a different form—items that never get picked off supermarket shelves, food that is bought but then goes out of date.
Such prodigious waste exacts multiple costs, from hunger to misspent cash. Few producers and processors record accurately what they throw away, and supermarkets resist sharing such information. But some estimates exist: retailers are reckoned to mark down or throw out about 2-4% of meat, for example. Even a tiny reduction in that amount can mean millions of dollars in savings for large chains.
Waste also damages the environment. The amounts of water, fertiliser, fuel and other resources used to produce never-consumed food are vast. The emissions generated during the process of making wasted food exceeds those of Brazil in total. Squandering meat is particularly…Continue reading
AMERICA’S central bank tries to be predictable. When in December 2015 it raised interest rates for the first time since 2006, nobody was much surprised. The central bank had telegraphed its intentions to a tee. Similarly, if the overwhelming consensus in financial markets is to be believed, on December 14th—almost exactly a year later—rates will rise again, to a target range of 0.5-0.75%. Donald Trump’s tweets and phone calls may upend trade, fiscal and foreign policy in a matter of minutes, but Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve’s chairwoman (pictured), is tweaking monetary policy at only a cautious annual pace.
Yet in another sense, the Fed has confounded predictions—at least, those it made itself. A year ago the median rate-setter foresaw four rate rises in 2016. None has happened yet. This might seem like a straightforward reaction to events. At the start of the year, stockmarkets sagged on worries about Chinese growth. Then, in June, Britain voted to leave the European Union, sending markets spinning again for a while. But the delay also resulted from a gradual acceptance by Fed officials that low rates have become a longer-lasting feature…Continue reading
CHARLES KOCH may well be the most demonised businessman in America, with his younger brother, David, a close second. Journalists argue that he is the mastermind of the country’s vast right-wing conspiracy. Lunatics have made death threats. The ultra-rich, particularly those who made their original fortunes in oil and gas, are supposed to make amends by giving their money to liberal causes. The Kochs have instead spent hundreds of millions backing conservative political causes (though Charles Koch has no love for Donald Trump), lobbying for lower taxes and attacking the idea of man-made global warming.
Mr Koch doesn’t come across as Dr Evil. True, the headquarters of Koch Industries is a collection of black boxes outside Wichita, Kansas; the security screening is rigorous. But its CEO has more of the air of a university professor. Despite his $40bn fortune, he lives in a nondescript neighbourhood in one of America’s most boring cities, puts in nine or more hours a day in the office and lunches in the company canteen. He doesn’t seem that interested in his surroundings: complimented on the firm’s art collection, he says his wife takes care of that…Continue reading
ACCOUNTING scandals are nothing new in Brazil. Its former president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached in August for cooking her government’s books. The bosses of its biggest building firms have landed behind bars for padding contracts with Petrobras, the state-run oil company. At least, governance gurus joke, all the imbroglios—and a three-year-old law against bribery—have prompted companies to replace what people used to call corruption departments with compliance offices. How ironic, then, that Brazil’s latest affair involves a firm that is meant to ensure that firms stay on the straight and narrow.
On December 5th it emerged that America’s Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) fined the Brazilian arm of Deloitte, the biggest of the “Big Four” accounting networks, $8m, for what Claudius Modesti, the watchdog’s director of enforcement, called “the most serious misconduct we’ve uncovered”. Deloitte is the first of the Big Four to be accused of failing to co-operate with a probe by the PCAOB, created by the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002, itself a response to a massive accounting scandal at Enron, an energy giant. The firm will also have to pay 5.4m…Continue reading
FOR the South Korean public, the sight of nine of their most powerful business chiefs, who are rarely seen, submitting to a day-long grilling by South Korean MPs on December 6th was remarkable (eight of them are pictured). During the hearing, broadcast live on television, the heads of CJ, LG, Hanwha, SK, Samsung, Lotte, Hanjin, GS Group and Hyundai, all family-owned conglomerates, or chaebol, denied they had sought favours in return for the billions of won they paid into two foundations controlled by Choi Soon-sil, a former confidante of President Park Geun-hye. (As The Economist went to press, Ms Park faced an impeachment motion by parliament over her ties to Ms Choi.) Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong, whose 20.4bn won ($17.6m) grant was the biggest, was the most intensively interrogated. On many minds was the last time big bosses were thus summoned, during an inquiry in 1988 into the corporate funding of a foundation run by then-dictator Chun Doo-hwan. Six of those tycoons’ sons were among those testifying this week.
FOUNDED by former African American slaves, the west African country of Liberia has produced an insurance case that has bounced between the courts of several countries for a quarter of a century, condemning the claimants and their opponent to a generation of legal bondage. At long last, the saga might just be drawing towards a conclusion. It may also leave a legacy: to shift the calculus when third-party litigation funders assess the risks they face.
In the early 1990s, Liberia’s biggest importer, Lebanese-owned AJA, sued Cigna, an American insurer, in the federal court in Philadelphia for refusing to pay out over property damage incurred during Liberia’s civil war. AJA won, but a district-court judge overturned the verdict with a “judgment notwithstanding the verdict”—a rare device that can be employed when a jury is deemed to have deviated far from the law (in this case by failing to acknowledge a war-risk exclusion). The judge’s move was upheld by a higher appeal court.
Livid, AJA applied to Liberian courts and in 1998 won a judgment for $66.5m (now worth double that with interest). Cigna counter-sued, and in 2001 won an…Continue reading
Engine of progressWHEN the covers come off the Vanguard Roadster at the New York Motorcycle show on December 9th the moment will mark the launch not only of a brawny new bike but also of a new brand with big ambitions. Vanguard is an audacious startup …
PROUDLY, they call themselves elephant hunters. They are the geologists who scour the treacherous depths of the Arctic, or Brazil’s Atlantic pre-salt fields, or offshore west Africa, or the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to bag giant oil discoveries that can generate billions of dollars of cash for their firms over a span of decades. In some cases, they get naming rights. The Gulf of Mexico is peppered with fields named after geologists’ wives (risky if they are duds), or their favourite albums, bands, stars and football chants. They are part of the industry’s folklore. The question is, are they a dying breed?
Several prospective deals announced this month, from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to onshore Iran, suggest that the industry may be shying away from expensive forays into uncharted territory, and taking a more cost-conscious approach to exploration and production. It remains to be seen whether they can maintain their discipline if oil prices recover. But, for now, “they’ve all gone back to the drawing boards,” says Andy Brogan, an oil-and-gas specialist at EY, a consultancy.
On December 1st BP, a…Continue reading
BANK runs, with depositors queuing round the block to get their cash, are a familiar occurrence in history. A run on a pension fund is virtually unprecedented. But that is what is happening in Dallas, where policemen and firefighters are pulling money out of their city’s chronically underfunded plan, and Mike Rawlings, the mayor, is suing to stop them.
At the start of the year the fire and police pension fund had $2.8bn in assets. Since then nearly $600m has been withdrawn from the plan, of which almost $500m has been taken out since August 13th. That is an alarming acceleration; in 2015 total withdrawals were just $81m.
Even at the start of 2016, the plan was just 45% funded, and was expected to become insolvent within 15 years. When some workers take out their money, they get the full value of their benefits; leaving a smaller pot to be shared among the remaining members. (The city estimates that the funded ratio has fallen to 36% after the withdrawals.) As in a bank run, it seems rational to withdraw your money if you worry that all the benefits won’t be paid.
The crisis…Continue reading
SELL on the rumour, buy on the news runs one version of a hoary stockmarket adage. And it certainly applied to last month’s presidential election. Before the poll, many investors were concerned about the risk that Donald Trump might become the 45th president. But as soon as the result was confirmed, they piled into shares. American equity mutual funds enjoyed four consecutive weeks of inflows, the longest streak since 2014, according to EPFR Global, a data provider.
One driver of the rally was Mr Trump’s planned fiscal stimulus. Investors believe this will lead to bigger deficits; hence the rise in bond yields since the election. But they also hope it will boost the American economy. That may explain why the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies, which tend to have a domestic focus, has outperformed the S&P 500 since the election (see chart). If this goes on, such stocks may become known as the Trumpettes.
Another factor was the planned cut in corporate-tax rates. The official American corporate income-tax rate is 35% (rising to 39% when state taxes are added). Standard & Poor’s, a ratings agency, reckons…Continue reading
GLENCORE, a Swiss-based commodities company, and its biggest shareholder, the Qatar Investment Authority, are set to take a €10.2bn ($11bn) stake in the Russian oil giant Rosneft, giving them 19.5% of a business targeted by Western sanctions since Russia fuelled a war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The unexpected deal, the largest in an ambitious Russian privatisation plan, delivers Vladimir Putin and Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s boss, a victory. The Russian state will keep control of the company, while filling a gap in the 2016 budget.
The transaction will also stir up old jealousies in the oil-trading business, which, as one industry participant puts it, is in “a pissing match to be top dog with Rosneft”, the world’s second-biggest crude producer. Last year Glencore was forced by the commodities slump to suspend its dividend, sell assets and issue $2.5bn of new shares. Its acquisitive boss, Ivan Glasenberg, had not been expected to make such an expansive move so soon.
In a statement Glencore said it will put only €300m of its own equity into the deal. The rest of the…Continue reading
THE first casualty was Matteo Renzi’s hold on office. As he had promised, Italy’s prime minister resigned on December 7th, three days after voters rejected his proposals to overhaul the constitution. The second is likely to be a planned private-sector recapitalisation of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the country’s third-biggest bank and the world’s oldest. As The Economist went to press, the scheme’s chances looked slim. A government rescue was reportedly being prepared.
Monte dei Paschi has been in trouble for years. It has already had two state bail-outs and frittered away €8bn ($10bn) raised in share sales in 2014 and 2015. Its stockmarket value has dwindled to €600m, having fallen by 85% this year (see chart). Its non-performing loans (NPLs), even after provisions, are 21.5% of its total; the gross figure is 35.5%. In July it fell ignominiously short in European stress tests, ranking 51st of 51 lenders. The European Central Bank, its supervisor, asked it to raise more capital by the end of the year. This week the bank asked for more time.
Pre-empting the test results, Monte dei…Continue reading
THE life of a predator can be fraught. Expend too much energy on hunting your prey and even success can be costly. Saint-Gobain, a French maker of glass and other building materials, might be learning that lesson. It mostly grows by snapping up smaller fry, but an attempt to buy a midsized Swiss rival, Sika, has gone on for two years. It could take as long again for Swiss courts to resolve the most intractable corporate struggle in Europe.
Pierre-André de Chalendar, Saint-Gobain’s CEO since 2007, was doubtless impressed by Sika’s high returns on its business selling industrial adhesives, mortar and construction chemicals. Its annual return on capital over the past decade has been an attractive 12.6%, more than double Saint-Gobain’s 5.1% (see chart). So when in 2014 the current, fourth generation of the Burkard family, which founded Sika in 1910, offered to sell 52.4% of the voting rights in their firm, Mr de Chalendar bit.
The family investment is kept in a body called Schenker-Winkler Holding (SWH) which, following the death of the matriarch in 2013, the dynasty agreed to sell to the French firm for SFr2.75bn…Continue reading
AS HACKERS wreak havoc with depressing regularity, the insurance industry finds itself forced to contemplate a whole new set of risks. They range from the theft of millions of credit-card numbers from American retailers to the disabling of the power grid, as happened in Ukraine last December. The dedicated “cyber-insurance” policies that companies offer against data breaches have become relatively routine. But the risks they insure under other policies are also affected by cyber-risks—and they are still struggling to understand this so-called “silent” cyber-exposure.
Insurance that protects firms who suffer data breaches has been on offer for around 15 years. It is much harder to put a precise value on, for example, stolen health records than on a property or car. Insurers sidestep the problem by covering only the direct costs that a company incurs from a hack. Typically, these include hiring a specialised forensics firm to work out exactly what was stolen, notifying affected customers (which 47 American states currently require), short-term business interruption and fines.
The industry will be shaken up by new EU data-protection…Continue reading
IT DOESN’T take long to walk from Siemens’s old headquarters in Munich to its new one, inaugurated in June: the German industrial conglomerate has built it right next door. The design is cutting-edge, as are the building’s environmental features. It is packed with energy-saving sensors; channelled rainwater is used to flush the toilets.
General Electric, Siemens’s big American rival, will soon have a new base, too. But it takes three hours to drive from the old site in Fairfield, a Connecticut suburb, to the new one in Boston. Its building will also boast plenty of green technology, such as a huge canopy made of solar panels, as well as spaces that the public can enter, including co-working areas and lounges. There will be laboratories both for internal startups and some from outside.
The two industrial giants aren’t so much showing off as signalling transformation. Both firms are going through the most profound change in their corporate histories, attempting to switch from being makers of machines into fully digital businesses. GE’s chief executive, Jeff Immelt, says the plan is to join the world’s top ten software firms…Continue reading
“SELL-SIDE” analysts, whose firms make money from trading and investment banking, are notoriously bullish. As one joke goes, stock analysts rated Enron as a “can’t miss” until it got into trouble, at which point it was lowered to a “sure thing”. Only when the company filed for bankruptcy did a few bold analysts dare to downgrade it to a “hot buy”.
Economic research shows that there is some truth to the ribbing. The latest figures from FactSet, a financial-data provider, show that 49% of firms in the S&P 500 index of leading companies are currently rated as “buy”, 45% are rated as “hold”, and just 6% are rated as “sell”. In the past year, 30% of S&P 500 companies yielded negative returns.
Profits forecasts made more than a few months ahead have a dismal record of inaccuracy. According to Morgan Stanley, a bank, forecasts for American firms’ total annual earnings per share made in the first half of the year had to be revised down in 34 of the past 40 years. Studying their forecasts over time reveals a predictable pattern (see chart 1).
In theory, a diligent share analyst should do his own…Continue reading


- Keyboard and Mouse
- 2.4GHz Wireless Connection
- Logitech Nano-USB Receiver
- Up to 30′ Range
- Eight Hot Keys
- Battery Powered
- Windows and Chrome Compatible
Logitech MK270 Reliable Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo
Logitech MK270 price in Kenya is Ksh 1850. The Logitech MK270 Keyboard and Mouse 2.4 GHz Wireless gives you a fast, reliable connection up to 10 meters away with virtually no delays or dropouts. You can use the slim carry-in mouse anywhere thanks to the small nano receiver. The Logitech MK270 is a Comfortable, full-sized, and efficient keyboard complete with easy access to media controls, this keyboard lets you get more done in less time with eight media controls that let you instantly access music, media, volume, and more.
This combo comes with a compact and wireless mouse that is designed to be equally comfortable for both left- and right-handed users. Plus, its smooth cursor control allows you easy navigation on most surfaces. The keyboard comes with a spill-resistant design tested under limited conditions, durable keys, and sturdy tilt legs with adjustable height. A 36-month keyboard and 12-month mouse battery life Keyboard and mouse battery life may vary based on user and computing conditions -along with on/off switches—means you can go for months without the hassle of changing batteries.
Get more computer Keyboards from here.


text:
With roughly 33% of global food production for human consumption lost or wasted every year, and global food demand set to increase by 35 percent by 2030, how will the digital transformation of agriculture transform life on the farm? What impact will this have on a world in which around 40 percent of the population work in agriculture.The Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Q4 (2015) report states: In monetary terms, agriculture’s share of the South African economy has long been outstripped by those of the secondary and tertiary industries such as banking and finance, education, health and other sectors over the past years. Agriculture now accounts for less than 3% of GDP. According to the General Household Survey, carried out by Stats SA (2016), less than one-fifth of South African households (16,9%) were involved in agricultural production activities in 2015. Of these, 11,8% cultivated farmland while 91,3% created backyard gardens. Only 12,1% of the households involved in agriculture reported getting agricultural-related support from the government. Nationally, 2,1% of the households reported receiving training and 6,8% received dipping/livestock vaccination services.
However, it is a common phenomenon that as other sectors grow as a result of economic development, the contribution of agriculture declines. Agriculture remains a vital sector in the economy through the provision of employment, foreign exchange, and raw materials. It also stimulates growth in the rest of the economy through its forward and backward linkages with other economic sectors.
Agricultural transformation in South Africa will build social cohesion, drive beneficial continental trade, provide a platform for sustainable exports to the rest of the world, and, most importantly, help create millions of jobs while pulling subsistence farmers out of poverty.

domain: agronomy


NACHI 7326DF Description :
We specialize in supplying original NACHI 7326DF bearing and provide customers with NACHI 7326DF bearing size, specifications and drawings for customer reference. My company's NACHI 7326DF bearing price concessions, adequate inventory, and other similar products are available for recommendation
Packaging Details :
1 . Industrial tube packing + cartons + pallets
2 . Individual colorful or white box + carton + pallets
3 . As the clients ' requirement
1 . Less than 45 KGS, we will send by express. (Door to Door, Convenient)
2 . 45 - 200 KGS , we will send by air transport . (Fastest and safest, but expensive)
3 . More than 200 KGS, we will send by sea . ( Cheapest and common use )
NACHI 7326DF bearing NSK 23230CCK/W33 Bearing Size and Specification From oman
Imported NSK 23230CCK/W33 bearings sales center - CRB Bearing Co. Ltd. stock NSK 23230CCK/W33 bearings, 23230CCK/W33 bearings to provide professional information of NSK images, NSK 23230CCK/W33, NSK 23230CCK/W33 bearing design specifications, NSK bearings 23230CCK/W33 bearings, 23230CCK/W33 bearing NSK price for your weight!
NACHI 7326DF bearing Full Specifications KOYO KDC047 Deep groove ball bearings
About us. Hot Bearing Co.Ltd offers some advanced manufacturers like SKF, Fag, Timken, NSK, NTN, Koyo, Nachi, etc. Each order can be delivered to our customers in the world within 7 days through DHL and AirFlight.
NACHI 7326DF bearing FAG|NUP2328E|-|bearings
The rotation sound of the NUP2328E FAG bearing is checked with a stethoscope, etc., and there are metal noise, abnormal sounds, irregular sounds, etc. The reason may be that the NUP2328E FAG bearing has poor precision, and the NUP2328E FAG bearing is damaged to prevent foreign matter from entering. ... NUP320E NACHI. 7326DF KOYO.
NACHI 7326DF bearing NACHI 7326DF Bearing | 7326DF bearing -
☴☴ Nachi 7028DF Bearing.7226DF Nachi 7226BDF Nachi 7226CDF Nachi 7326DF Nachi 7326BDF Nachi 7028DF Nachi 7028CDF Nachi 7228DF Nachi 7228BDF Nachi We cooperate with UPS,TNT,FEDEX,EMS,DHL,etc.They guarantee to meet your needs in terms of time and money,even if you need your 7326BDF bearing tomorrow morning (aka overnight or next day air) on ...
NACHI 7326DF bearing SKF|NNCL4860CV|łoży
The size specification of SKF NNCL4860CV is 300 - 380 - 80 (IDxODxB). We have deep cooperation with major manufacturers around the world. To provide you with high quality and cost-effective SKF NNCL4860CV, if you need other brands of NNCL4860CV bearing model replacement, we can also provide you.
NACHI 7326DF bearing NACHI 7326 Bearing for sale, 130x280x58 NACHI 7326
NACHI 7326 bearings for sale. NACHI 7326 bearing size and price. Angular Contact Ball Bearing. Bearing a is a leading online supplier and distributor of over 1,000,000 bearings and ancillary products, from some of the world's most trusted brands including SKF, FAG, NTN, NSK, Timken, INA, IKO cheap NACHI 7326 Bearing bearings for sale.
NACHI 7326DF bearing Nachi 7028CDF Bearings - FAB Bearing Co.,
FAB Bearing Co.Ltd specializes in selling Nachi 7028CDF bearings, Nachi 7028CDF bearing related information: Model: 7028CDF Bearing; Brand: Nachi, want to know more about Nachi 7028CDF Bearing for information, you can do online consultation or call the hotline and email us [email protected], we will serve you in detail.
NACHI 7326DF bearing NACHI 7307DF bearing, bearing size: 35mm*80mm*21mm,Bearing
NACHI 7307DF Bearing is one of our main products. We have the most detailed information about NACHI 7307DF Bearing, bearing sale, bearing size, bearing price and bearing dimensions. NACHI 7307DF Bearing is mainly sold to South Africa, Philippines, America, Malaysia, India, England, Canada, Australia. If you want to know their price, size and other information ,can contact us.
NACHI 7326DF bearing NTN 7320DF Bearing onlineno1 -
NTN 7320DF Bearing onlineno1 . If you want to confirm some technical details before you order, just need to send a message or e-mail: [email protected]. Then our professional sales staff will contact you within 2 hours.


text:
As any local knows, Miami isn’t only beaches, nice cars, and bad fashion choices. This city has a rich cultural background that begs to be explored. The fourth-annual Taste of Historic Downtown offers a walking architectural tour of downtown Miami’s most unique sites, with complimentary cocktails and fun along the way.
The tour kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday with check-in and tasty local food at the Ingraham Building (25 SE Second Ave.). Participants can enjoy mojitos and Cuban jazz at La Epoca Department Store; a look at Miami’s first Roman Catholic parish, Gesu Church; and cocktails with Capone at the Bank Lounge (139 NE First St.), where Al Capone stashed his riches in the 1920s.
Advance tickets cost $35, which includes wine, cocktails, food, and admission to the VIP afterparty. Tickets purchased at the door the day of the event cost $45. Call 305-379-7070 or visit downtownmiami.com.
Fri., April 11, 6 p.m., 2014

domain: entertainment


A local business came up with this interesting product and asked me to provide the informational voice-over for it. The videos purpose is to entice investors to get the product to market.
Followup: I’ve heard from the inventor, and he has secured the funding and manufacturing that he was searching for. In fact, as of now the product has a website and is being sold commercially. 🙂


Students from Highfields School in Matlock, Derbyshire have praised the support and guidance of the Rural Derbyshire School Sport Partnership and ‘Women in Sport’ after the first screening of a film to highlight the range of sporting careers available to women and girls.
Women in Sport (formerly known as the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation) premiered the “Careers in Sport” film at Highfields on Tuesday 18th November. It showed three students interviewing women working throughout in sport including TV presenter, Charlie Webster, and women with roles in organizations, including UK Sport and Virgin Active. Its aim is to help address a situation which sees women underrepresented at all levels of the sports industry.
15 year-old Grace Pickford, who was involved in the project, said: “The best bit was going to London to interview so many women with different roles in the sport industry. We got to find out about their careers and how they got there. We want to thank Ms Allen [RDSSP School Sport Coordinator] for the opportunities. We wouldn’t have been able to do it if she hadn’t backed us. Getting involved has been the best thing we’ve done.”
15 year-old fellow students Emily Hancock and Mimi Evans, and 16 year-old Niamh Robertson said: “Being involved with the RDSSP has opened so many doors for us, it’s been mind-blowing. It’s helped us to develop skills in teaching and become more confident. We’ve made new friends and it’s given us amazing opportunities like this one.”
The school’s Voice of Sport Representative, 14 year old Sophie Hamilton-Cody said: “Ms Allen has been so encouraging, she works to get girls in my year involved in sport and so many are now getting involved and enjoying it. It’s given us so many prospects and has been really good fun.”
The launch of the short video follows the inaugural Women’s Sport Conference at Lord’s last month, aimed at improving the gender balance in sport, which the girls also attended.
They had the chance to meet and interview a number of high-profile women figures in the sporting world including Sports Minister, Helen Grant; TV presenters, Clare Balding and Jane Dougall; Olympic athlete, Gail Emms MBE; Captain of the British Fed Cup team, Judy Murray; Chief Executive of England Rugby 2015, Debbie Jevans; CEO of The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation, Ruth Holdaway; sportswear designer, Lily Rice; and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion, Chrissie Wellington.
RDSSP School Sport Coordinator, Jayne Allen, said: “The film launch has given the girls excitement. They’ve grown so much in confidence as role models throughout this project. I hope they’ll go back into their year groups and be able to share their passion and interest for Women in Sport with others. Certainly from my point of view, it’s food for thought on how we can transmit that enthusiasm to the rest of the school.”
Strategic Lead for Sport and Fundraising at Women in Sport, Radha Balani, said: “We want to see more women in the industry and make women realise that sport isn’t the easy option. By exposing the type of jobs available in the industry and the skills you may need, for example, to be a sports lawyer, you need to be as competent as a property lawyer.”
“We want to make women realise there’s a place in the sports industry for them and they have every right to it, in the same way as men do. It’s a worthwhile and rewarding career and even if they don’t want a career in sport, being active, healthy and taking part makes such a different to your life generally – physically, emotionally, socially and mentally. So whether you work in sport or not, if you enjoy it, there is never a reason to stop doing it, and being a woman is not a reason to not be playing sport.”
Head Teacher at Highfields, Eddie Wilkes, says: “This work is the tip of a huge iceberg. For the youngsters who’ve produced the brilliant film and spoken to all these amazing people, it’s been the culmination of years of work with the RDSSP. They’ve learnt skills from this experience that don’t just apply to sport, but to life in general. They can think about how this has challenged them, and how they can meet the challenges in their day-to-day life, how they’ve been inspired, how they actually deal with situations where they’re not successful, and building on resilience that they’ll need in life as well. Working together as a team, relying on others and being relied on, there are so many different dimensions to this.”
Film available to view here https://vimeo.com/112395006
Photos above include students chatting to Clare Balding and Chrissie Wellington. Download high resolution images: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjCz9zKZ
Find out more about the organisations mentioned above:
• Highfields School website – http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
• Women in Sport website – http://www.womeninsport.org or follow on Twitter @Womeninsport_uk
About Women in Sport
Women in Sport (formerly the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation) is the leading charity dedicated to transforming sport for the benefit of every woman and girl in the UK.
With 30 years’ experience of working in the sport sector, Women in Sport draws on its unique insight to champion the right of every woman and girl in the UK to take part in, and benefit from, sport: from the field of play to the boardroom, from early years and throughout her life.


text:
that they be taxed as an employee- even if they are working through a personal services company - will not only have a hugely detrimental effect on the professional flexible staffing sector but will also result in increased costs for UK employers at a time when many businesses are struggling with the current realities of the economy.
That's the message from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and the Institute of Interim Management (IIM). Yet again, the professional staffing sector and UK employers are in danger of suffering collateral damage in the Government's broad brush approach to employment legislation, says Ann Swain, Chief Executive of APSCo. These professional contractors are not the fat cat tax avoiders referred to in recent press reports but are skilled professionals working on short term projects for organisations undergoing change management programmes, turnarounds or other
business critical issues.
The difficulty stems around the Government?s incorrect assumption that a controlling person? being someone who has managerial control over a significant proportion of employees and/or control over a significant proportion of the company's budget must be an employee. Additionally, the Government believes that there is an established and growing problem of
individuals working through personal services companies to disguise employment, basing this supposition on the misguided belief that when IR35 legislation was introduced 12 years ago, it was unusual for a senior/controlling person to be engaged through their own limited company.
Assuming that all controlling persons are in fact employees is a fundamentally flawed argument as it takes no account of the professional interim market,? says Ann Swain. ?Additionally, the frankly bizarre conclusion that the increase in individuals using personal services companies is related to a deliberate attempt at disguising employment status is also flawed. There has indeed been an increase in the use of personal services companies by professional contractors operating at a senior level - but this is directly related to the growth of the interim market. According to a recent IPsos MORI Survey the amount of business generated by the interim management sector has jumped 93% in the past five years which, given the Government's agenda for growth, should be applauded rather than penalised.
Ad van der Rest, co Chairman of the IIM agrees: These proposals are ill considered, they attempt to address the wrong problem and they threaten to damage the UK economy by freezing out a vital community of interim executives who are just the sort of flexible leaders that are needed in the current climate. Senior interim executives undertake engagements, often in turnaround and crisis situations on finite contracts and carry out assignments as independent businesses moving from engagement to engagement.
The implication that all senior interims are in some way trying to evade their legal obligations by hiding behind personal service companies is perverse and the notion that an independent professional providing business services should be debarred from their professional trade on the basis of their seniority is illogical and anti-business.


text:
Every Tuesday in August - Decorative Painting
9:30 to Noon - $15.00 tax included. Please pre-register.
August Calendar of Events & Information
Pre-Registration Form for Events and Classes
Monday, August 12th – 2 ‘n’ A Twist Sterling Silver Chain Maille Bracelet-
1:00 to 4:00 pm - $55. Please pre-register.
A Bonnie Grant innovative tweak to a simple classic pattern! Its simple elegance is its charm: you can wear it formally or informally and never be out of style!! Advanced Beginner. All materials provided!
Please check back often!. Thank you!
Disclaimer: The Gallery and it's artists are not responsible for pricing or information errors on this website.
If you choose to preregister, you must submit a separate registration form for each event and for each participant. Please do not forget to click the SUBMIT button. (You can also register by calling 315-308-4410.) If you are having ANY issues with the pre-pay buttons please email email@example.com Thank you!
$10.00 Tuesday Get-Together-
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - $10.00 . Please pre-register.
Need extra help finishing a jewelry or painting project, want to start a new one but are having trouble getting started, want help fixing a broken piece or to learn a new technique? This is the place just for you!! Bring your project or your questions. Or, bring your project and just hang out with us!!
Saturday, August 3rd – Waddington Home Coming Family Activities
10:00 to 2:00
It’s Homecoming Weekend!!
The Gallery is joining in on the festivities by offering painting projects to kids of all ages!!
We have rocks and ceramics to paint, and for the little ones: painting with a golf ball!! Donations Accepted
Saturday, August 10th – Intro to Silver Smithing-
10:00 to 2:00 pm - $135 Please pre-register.
Artist Tina Siebel will help you make this beautiful pendant! You’ll use the techniques and tools of the trade; cutting silver sheet, setting gemstones into bezels, measuring, cutting, filing, and soldering. You will go home with a beautiful sterling silver pendant on a 16” silver chain! Bring a lunch and a drink. No loose scarves or flowing sleeves. Materials provided. Bring magnifying glasses if needed for close work.


Shooting or the use of optical equipment with a NBC - mask with centre filter is always a problem.
Our undivided knee enables the bearer to swing the filter either to the right or left side without disconnecting the filter and it stays in the decided position.
100% tight while swinging!
No reduction of the airflow!
The weight of the filter stays in the centre of the mask.
Changing the position of the filter is always possible.
Fits to any mask with NATO-standard thread.


text:
Stephen Kijak's documentary traces the "Wizard of Oz" star's marriage to third husband, Sid Luft, and features Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
The "Rocket Man" singer told British GQ he wished he'd "been invited to the party more" when it came to Disney's photorealistic remake of the 1994 classic.
A snippet of the romantic moment from Disney's live-action remake will make you feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk "Zombieland: Double Tap" and a possible “Deadpool 3.”
The "Friends" alum paid the price for saying Marvel is "diminishing" what's coming out of Hollywood.
"Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston led the tributes, calling Forster a “lovely man and a consummate actor”
The industry is often still surprised when films like "Hustlers" hit big at the box office.
So bad that they're worth a watch.
A new "Breaking Bad" movie debuts.
The actor made the revelation while addressing Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel movies.
The Joaquin Phoenix-fronted supervillain film generated over $93 million at the box office.
The Oscar-winning director won't even deign to watch one in its entirety.
And, of course, woke Twitter came for the “Hangover” director.
The 70-year-old director on "Pain and Glory," Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, almost working with Madonna and the Trump impeachment inquiry.
In the trailer, Harley Quinn not only chops off her hair but reveals she has cut her boyfriend the Joker out of her life.
The actor recalled an awkward moment at a movie premiere with his fellow film legend.
Watch Ewan McGregor in the original "Trainspotting."
Women in global box office hits are more likely to be portrayed as sexual objects, according to an analysis from the group founded by actor Geena Davis.


text:
From a Senate Majority Press Office release (with accompanying thousand-word photo):
Today, Senate Democrats responded to the Republicans “plan” to balance the budget and to oppose the budget balancing plan discussed on the Senate floor today with House Bills 1189-1199. Yesterday the Republicans offered an ill-conceived plan to balance the budget which didn’t quite add up. Today, Senate Majority Leader John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) addressed it on the Senate floor, as he held up a copy of “Cliff’s Notes: Basic Math”:
Senator Morse’s statement: “Today, I present the Minority Leader with the Cliff Notes version of Basic Math. Because your math is so far off I’ve gotten you a book on math. And I’ve gotten you a Cliff’s notes version since you are coming at the 11th hour. With great honor I give you this book and look forward to your proposal.”
“After reading the Republican budget fix it is quite clear that they can’t add or subtract. The budget shortfall is $1 billion. The Republicans proposed a reckless “off the cuff” idea to fire state employees to save $17.8 million. $17.8 million in cuts to solve a $1 billion shortfall. Now they just need to come up with 50 more plans so the math will add up. The problem is their plan doesn’t even identify the first $17.8 million.
“The Governor’s budget proposal cuts state spending by $700 million. Removing corporate tax credits and exemptions provide the balance of the $300 million needed to balance the budget. It’s a balanced approach to serious financial crisis. It preserves as best it can our core values. It protects the most vulnerable of our citizens. It asks everyone to pull together during these tough times. The Governor’s plan demonstrates leadership. There’s an old saying that if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. It’s time the Republicans either offer a serious solution or get out of the way.”
The Denver Post’s Tim Hoover writes that Josh Penry didn’t appreciate getting called out:
“Sen. Morse, thank you for the book,” [Penry] said. “Let me remind you of some more recent math. 52 to 48. That was the margin by which the voters of Massachusetts rejected your tired arguments that budget cuts are impossible, and that taxes and fees are the catalyst for economic recovery.
“The math was the same in New Jersey and Virginia, and the math will very soon be the same in Colorado, too.”
We think this retort from Penry says a mouthful: about his motivations, that is. It’s about as frank an admission as you could ever ask for that electoral posturing is his biggest priority, not good policy. And in terms of a substantive response to the charge that the GOP’s ‘budget plan’ is based on poppycock fantasy math, more or less exactly what we said yesterday?
That’s where the bravado ends and the backpedaling begins, folks. Hoover continues:
Senate Republicans now say their figures have been misinterpreted. On Thursday, they put out a statement that said their budget proposal “includes a 0.25 percent reduction in state payroll spending for the current fiscal year, and a 4.4 percent reduction for next fiscal year.” They also said the plan “would require Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter to cut the state’s $3.2 billion state payroll budget by $19 million for the current fiscal year.” Republicans said the plan would save $306 million in the next fiscal year.
Republican staff told reporters that the 0.25 percent figure pertained to payroll.
But by Friday evening, they said that what they meant was that they were calling for a 0.25 percent cut in the state’s total general fund operating budget. That’s roughly $7.5 billion.
The thing is, nobody ‘misinterpreted’ anything. As Hoover plainly states, the GOP release cited exactly the “payroll” figures that were deconstructed by Sen. Morse. They were wrong, laughably wrong, and substituting a completely different suggestion a day later does not excuse the original grandstand founded on misrepresentations and bogus arithmetic.
We received an unusual number of messages from under the Dome yesterday about this budget debate. By all accounts, the level of factless acrimony and election-minded posturing is peaking in the legislature this year in a way that few have ever seen. We think the Democrats are doing as good a job as they can responding, but aside from a few quickly-buried posts on The Spot, we’re concerned that the full facts–like Morse’s shredding of the GOP’s math into bite-size pieces, and their feeble backpedaling in response–are not being adequately reported to the public.
And that, we’re afraid, is why Penry is so unflappably smug.


A majority of Americans are convinced that immigration reform done the right way will help our country. In June, a bipartisan group of senators worked together, came up with a common-sense solution and passed a bill that is not perfect but is a step towards real immigration reform. So we are nearly there, right?
But where is our representative? Speaker John Boehner has said the House will not take up the Senate bill but has not offered a reasonable alternative. Our member of Congress needs to listen to his constituents and tell House leadership to get on board with the majority of Americans.
We cannot let immigration reform stagnate. Now is the time for real reform on a bipartisan basis. I call on my representative to tell House leadership that they need to either lead with their own bipartisan bill, follow the Senate's actions, or get out of the way and let the bipartisan majority of the House move us toward the economic boost that comprehensive immigration reform will provide.
- 33 Mark Twain quotes that prove he was an...
- Charles Krauthammer: The nation expects...
- Dan Liljenquist: Rights vs. privileges...
- My view: The best legislation meets all sides
- A. Scott Anderson: Give students skills that...
- Richard Davis: Can a Mormon not be a liberal?
- Michael Gerson: The new impression of Ebola...
- Jay Evensen: Unfortunately, Canada may never...
- In our opinion: Utah gun law that... 152
- Richard Davis: Can a Mormon not be a... 74
- Jay Evensen: We're becoming a nation... 43
- Dan Liljenquist: Rights vs. privileges... 35
- Robert Bennett: Former Defense... 30
- My view: The best legislation meets all... 30
- Letter: Lessons for Greg Bell 29
- Letter: Legal weapons on campus 29


text:
UK Pink Floyd Experience
Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser
This event has been and gone.
Recreating the sights and sounds of the legendary Pink Floyd live in concert, this highly authentic show showcases over 50 years of hits by this iconic band.
The acclaimed show also features over two hours of songs from both iconic albums Dark Side Of The Moon and Animals as well as Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In The Wall and Comfortably Numb. Featuring impressive video projection , a stunning light show, outstanding musicianship, superb vocals and world class production.
This spellbinding show is a true celebration of all things Pink Floyd!
Cheltenham Town Hall
- Imperial Square
- GL50 1QA


text:
Mumbai: The stock market which plummeted yesterday was in the green today, gaining 500 points after it was reported that few SBI employees were found working during lunchtime.
Our reporter spoke to Mr. Waghmare, Head Cashier at Mumbai’s busiest retail SBI branch and also winner of Online Solitaire competition last year, who was among those whose picture went viral on social media.
He said, “To tell you honestly, I was not aware that it was lunch time. I usually keep my watch ahead by 10 mins so that we get extra time to relax. But yesterday I think the watch stopped working just before lunch time and I didn’t realize that I had to shut the window. I am happy that stock market is doing good but a little scared that people from the Staff Union will now take me to task for not doing what is expected of me.”
The news went viral on social media after a customer uploaded a selfie on FB with caption ‘SBI staff working during lunch time’.
“I have been a customer of this branch for 20 years. Never before has something like this happened. I thought the staff will ignore me like they always do, but that did not happen. I had to take a pic,” said Mr. Lele, still shocked with what he experienced.
Our reporter also spoke to Senior Stock Market analyst at Jyotilal Bhoswal to get a sense of how investor sentiments were affected. He said, “It is common knowledge that stock market reacts on sentiments. I think just the image of SBI staff working and not playing Soliataire gave a sense of hope to investors and that fuelled the upswing.”
Apparently, many Foreign Institutional Investors are now upbeat about Indian economy and have expressed interest in investing in the country.
Meanwhile, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan heaved a sigh of relief and thanked SBI staff for their presence of mind. “I had said yesterday that PSU banks don’t need band aid, they need a surgery. But SBI employees today proved that I was wrong. Non performing assets have started performing again. My heart is going dhak-dhak,” he said while jerking his chest, with a wide grin visible on his face.


text:
“This recipe yields nicely 'eggy ' waffles that comes out tender and soft, ready to take on butter and syrup.”
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooks I Like
Cooking Level: Intermediate
The most-tender new vegetables are here just in time for early spring salads!
Creamy, comforting potato soups will warm you up.
Delicious recipes, party ideas, and cooking tips! Get a year of Allrecipes magazine for $7.99!
Wake up to a classic breakfast treat that's easy to make.
See how to make light, fluffy Belgian waffles with a cinnamon kick.
Make a sweet treat for breakfast with this recipe for chocolate chip waffles.


text:
Andrew Meieran has made a tidy sum rehabbing historic properties around L.A. Now he’s pouring that coin into another kind of property — film projects.
The financier has 10 projects in development at Bureau of Moving Pictures, the film arm he set up with Matt Tabak 18 months ago. The projects, in varying stages of development, including “Without Reservation,” a look at the creation of the New England gambling mecca Foxwood Casino, run by Native Americans; a Steve McQueen biopic set during the making of “The Great Escape”; and an adaptation of “We Are All the Same,” a book about a white South African woman who adopted a black boy with AIDS. Naomi Watts is attached to star in the latter, which “Hotel Rwanda” co-scribe Keir Pearson is writing (Daily Variety, June 7).
Meieran said Bureau plans to pro-duce two films a year, maintaining a constant pipeline of 10 projects. Budgets will run from $4 million up to the $15 million-$20 million range, depend-ing on the talent attached and the nature of the project.
Tabak brings experience as a writer, director and producer of film and TV projects to the Bureau. His projects include “Beyond Suspicion,” a Jeff Goldblum thriller he wrote and di-rected, and “Plain Truth,” a Lifetime movie he adapted.
Meieran pointed to “We Are All the Same,” which is furthest along in development, as a project that “exemplifies what we want to do.
“We are looking for very intimate stories but with global reach,” he said.
The projects are “true stories, for the most part,” which reflects Meieran’s interest in history. The financier, who studied film at UC Berkeley, has launched three downtown L.A. niteries in rehabbed properties: the Edison, located in an old boiler room; Mercury Liquors, once home to a bank vault; and the Golden Gopher, one of the oldest bars in the neighborhood. Marc Smith is his partner in those ventures.
Meieran said he always intended to get into filmmaking, but started rehab-bing properties while in college, then continued to pursue that passion in San Francisco before relocating to L.A.
“So many filmmakers seemed frustrated because they could never create their vision, so I decided to get the money first,” he said. “It’s funny. Everyone in Hollywood wants to get into real estate — and everyone in real estate wants to get into Hollywood.”