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When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if they speak you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. Allah assail them! How they are perverted! (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4)
Allah says they are empty, like propped-up planks of wood. They have to lean against something, and they lean against unbelievers. Allah says they are like propped-up planks. Planks lean against walls, while hypocrites lean against unbelievers. The hypocrite is a dead, soulless entity. Satan has taken over their souls, they have become satans. Imagine that satan has possessed a log, so it is cunning but foolish and unintelligent. It also has a lifeless quality to it. But when it speaks, people imagine it is something worth listening to. But this is something that comes from satan inhabiting that log. The hypocrite is as cunning but also as stupid as satan. Like satan, they bring troubles on themselves. Satan spends all his life suffering and hypocrites spend their whole lives in pain.
The hypocrite is a very different entity. He regards everything as working against him. Newspaper reports are against him and reports of any offensive by Muslims also work against him. For example, a rash develops on his skin and he thinks it will kill him. He cannot escape that idea even if you try to disabuse him of it. He has an insane thirst for life. He uses religion so expertly that people listen when he talks, but the hypocrite is in fact irreligious, and that becomes clear in the Hereafter. Muslims must not drop their guard and imagine that the hypocrites can do no harm. Hypocrites are their enemies, in the same way that satan is. That characteristic of enmity never disappears. That is why you are making a rod for your own back if you say that these people are harmless or that no harm can come from satan. Satan permits the Muslim to remain sound and healthy. The same with the hypocrites. Sloth arises where there are no hypocrites. It is the hypocrites that brought [former Prime Minister] Erbakan back to life. I consider the people mentioned, and Numan Kurtulmus apart. The hypocrites also made the Companions hugely enthusiastic in the time of our Prophet (saas). Hypocrites hurt themselves by the day. They always grieve over things. They complain about all the efforts they have made, their impaired health and their sufferings. These pains start to suffocate them.
So beware of them: Allah says, therefore, be on your guard, be strong. And be allies. Muslims must protect and support and watch over one another. Hypocrites enable believers to be like buildings welded together with lead.
Allah assail them!: That means that Allah will assail and destroy them. They are destroyed psychologically in this world and suffer the pangs of Hell in the Hereafter. These can be no ease in their hearts. Allah will inflict suffering on them.
How they are perverted: They go alongside Shaykh Nazim [al-Haqqani al-Qibrisi] and pretend to be with him, then they join the communists and resemble them, when they join the satanists they resemble them. The hypocrite is always flexible.
Hypocrites think they supposedly deceive Allah, but in fact Allah deceives them. Allah locks them into very painful lives. Religion is what angers them the most, and Allah locks them inside religion. They are forced to talk in terms of religion.
Allah says in the verse that if they pray, they do so reluctantly. If there is someone with them, then they are prepared to pray, but unwillingly. Prayer hurts them. They do not like prayer at all.
They remember Allah very little. Hypocrites talk a lot about religion when there are Muslims with them. But very little among themselves. They hardly ever say "insha'Allah." The others are then astounded and ask if they said that because they really believe it.
When they are told, "Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask forgiveness for you," they turn their heads and you see them turn away in haughty arrogance. (Surat al-Munafiqun, 5)
Hypocrites accept no leader. They want nobody at their head. They set up a separate mosque in the time of the Prophet (saas). Hypocrites are amazingly proud and arrogant. They try to keep away from and not speak to Muslims, and at the end of the day they sever all links with them entirely. All hypocrites also greatly admire themselves. But they never like one another. This is one of their most blatant characteristics, but they try to keep it hidden by using very humble language. They try to conceal themselves because they are cunning. But disbelief from time to time escapes their lips, and that is what one must notice, as that is when their disbelief becomes apparent.


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Fox & Friends reported that a school in central Florida had banned the "traditional Christmas colors" red and green from classrooms. In a statement to Media Matters, the school's district spokesperson, Regina Klares, has denied this, stating, "There is not a ban on the colors red and green at Heathrow Elementary."
Fox runs with story, claims teachers are "not going to let red and green in the classroom"
WESH.com reports an anonymous parent's claim that red and green are banned at Heathrow Elementary. On November 24, WESH.com in Orlando reported that one parent of a student at Heathrow Elementary claimed the students can't use Christmas colors:
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Fox Nation: "School Bans Christmas Colors." On November 29, Fox Nation linked to the story under the headline, "School Bans Christmas Colors." Fox Nation linked to Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes' blog, in which Starnes discussed the original WESH report. Starnes asked readers: "Has your school district declared a war on Christmas? If so, contact Todd." From Fox Nation:
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I too am having a real bad vibration problem in my 76 Camaro RS.
The vibration appears at around 65 and gets more violent as the speed increases.
It is impossible to see through the rear view mirror at highway speeds.
The car has been in storage for the past 3 years.
Thanks for the input. At least I am not alone. I am pretty bummed out that I can't drive my car.
I am reading a lot about pinion angle and I am still working changes to see what happens. While the rear is on the ground (not hanging) I am sure that you need to ensure that the transmission angle and the rearend pinion are parallel. Then you have to ensure that the pinion angle, the angle between the drive shaft and the pinion yoke is less than 3*. I am still fighting it and I ain't giving up.
The new Moser rearend uses the larger 1530 u-joints and they fit perfectly. I have new rims and tires too so that's not the problem.
What I really need to know and can't find is what is the stock angle of the transmission output shaft on a 69' camaro.
I will keep you informed.
|Just curious if you have checked the tires for slipped/broken belts. I know from experience that a slipped belt can cause vibration in the 55-60 mph range.
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|this is gonna sound lame..... but, I installed new ujoints in an old f150 i had, test drove it, haD a vibration that started @ 50 lasted to 65 and settled down, but it was still there. long story short. the parts place sold me the wrong ujoints.... not off by much, as i couldn't tell looking at them but it was enough...... does your new rearend use the same ujoints? or is it a different ujoint? just looking at the obvious.......... good luck.
I hope that you get this Email.
I have the same problem. I have a 1985 IROC 5 Speed, 3:73. @ 60 mph +, I have a vibration. I rebiult the trans, new engine mount, and last light I just pulled apart the rear to replace the gears and bearings. I'm thinking about replacing the axel's also. I just put in a new drive shaft last week. I changed the engine mounts, trans mount, balencer, flywheel, clutch plate, balanced the tires...
I'm really lost with this... Reading your Email reminded me that when I put a lot of weight in the rear of the car, the vibration gets better. I changed the trans mount also. ON my IROC, there is rubber bushings under the transmount on the trans cross member. I'm going to order those Monday.
I try to think back when this vibration started. (if I was a girl, I might like it...) I blew the original rear and I think that it started after that. I'm thinking maybe I bent the trans cross member.
I just want you to know that you are not alone in this. I have spent about 3 to 5 thousands dollars on this vibration. It just makes me so mad!
I don't see when everthing is stock and the same that I would have a vibration like this. Well I did change the rear lower arms in the rear. It did push the rear back a little. I called Hotchinks and they said it wasn't a problem. I don't know...
Let me know what you came up with...
I had a similar viberation that I couldn't find. Being that the newly aquired '70 Chevelle wagon was for the wife's daily driver I decided to replace the entire front end..new bushings, tie rods, idler arm, everything. Then I replaced the front and rear wheel bearings. Still viberated . I went out bought new tires and rims..balanced of course. Then had the drive shaft balanced..yep, still viberated. I gave up and said I'll have to live with it.
Last week I decided to put a new crate engine in and when I went to unbolt the motor mounts..they were finger tight!
I just finished up with the engine install, drove it on the highway and guess what?...No more viberation. Could have been the engine but I think it was the motor mounts not being tight.
Just my .02 cents.
Thanks for the advice. The rear end is a brand new complete Moser 12-bolt/eaton posi. The drive shaft is new and balanced.
I got the new transmission mount in and it moved the transmission angle to 2* down (from 4* down). So, I am going to shim the rear at 2* up to compensate. Then I am going to verify that the pinion angle is less than 3*. If I still have vibration then I suppose I will need to have the transmission looked at and possibly rebuilt. I read that a tranmission bearing could also cause vibration and my Muncie M-21 2nd gear is a major whiner. The vibration has much worse in 4th than in 3rd (although still there) so I am figuring the bearings may be the problem if the angle changes don't resolve the problem.
Does anyone with a 1st Gen camaro have any specs on transmission angle and pinion angle relative to ground? I am wondering if my setup is abnormal somehow from stock.
I had a vibration problem couldnt figure it out. I took it to shops someone said it was the driveshaft, another dimwit said it was the freakin tire. I changed the deiveshaft, nothing.
So one night after i was driving home from work i feel this big thump and jolt. Still couldnt figure it. So im driving home on Valentines day, i hear that thump again but two more thumps than i heard before.
I feel the driver side rear fall and see all sparks in the rearview. Just like the 4th of July. I look in my side mirror and something catches my eye, its my damn tire passing me up with the axle still attached.
Man, if that tire wouldnt have taken a short hop right before hitting the concrete highway divider, someone in oncoming traffic would of taken it right in the windshield.
needless to say my date didnt "up" any that night.
Check the bearings just to keep you and others safe.
I have always heard to use 3* on the rearend, but here's a part of a post from anothe forum I belong too........joe
This information was taken from a website that provides information to people like up, Drivetrain Specialists of Las Vegas - Las Vegas NV, 89102, www.drivetrain.com/main.html
High angles combined with high RPM is the worst combination, resulting in reduced u-joint life. Too large and unequal u-joint angles can cause vibrations and contribute to u-joint, transmission and differential problems. The improper u-joint angles must be corrected.
Ideally, the operating angles on each end of the driveshaft should be equal to or within 1 degree of each other, have a 3 degree maximum operating angle and have at least 1/2 of a degree continuous operating angle.
RPM is the main factor though in determining maximum allowable operating angles. As a guide to maximum normal operating angles, refer to the following chart:
5000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.25º
4500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.67º
4000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.25º
3500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00º
3000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.83º
2500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00º
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.67º
1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5º
When the transmission output shaft centerline and axle input shaft centerline are parallel, the u-joint operating angle permissible is length of driveshaft divided by five. Example: A short coupled driveshaft with a 15" length would be limited to 3 degrees maximum operating angle. A 30" shaft would be limited to 6 degrees.
When the transmission output shaft centerline and axle input shaft centerline intersect midway of the driveshaft, the joint angles are equal. However, due to the change to unequal joint angles during up and down axle movement, this is a more undesirable condition than parallel centerlines. In this case, the maximum u-joint operating angle is determined by dividing length of driveshaft by ten. Example: A 30" driveshaft with intersecting angles would have a 3 degree permissible operating angle.
I thought I'd give credit where credit is due. I remembered someone here posted something like this in the past. The important thing is to keep the difference between both angles as close to zero as possible. And now that the chart shows danger levels for increased joint angles, please keep rpms in mind when setting up to race.
Even with a resulting angle of zero, you can still exceed the allowable angles based on rpms. Like they say, you should have at least 1/2 degree working angle, even in a straight line shot, to keep the bearings rolling withing the trunion caps.
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in my 69' Camaro I replaced my 10-bolt 3.08:1 rearend with a new Moder 12-bolt 3.73.1. I have a terrible vibration at 55 MPH+ in the drive line and I can feel a "whir, whir, whir" at lower speeds. I had a new driveshaft built and balanced and still experienced the same problem. I just had the pinion angle and the transmission output shaft angle checked. The transmission shaft is at 4* down. The rearend was 1* down. I shimmed the rearend to 4* up to cancel them out. The vibration is better but it is still there. So I had the rear end and drive shaft runouts checked and they are all within proper tolerances.
I think that the 3:08 ratio was spinning the drive shaft much slower so I never noticed a vibration at that lower driveshaft RPM. Now that I have the proper 3:73 ratio, the vibration problems that were probably always there at much higher speed are now at a lower RPM and noticable.
My question is, 4* seems like a lot of angle. Would it be recommended to try and shim the transmission up a degree or two (to 2* down) and shim the rearend down to match at 2* up? Do you think this would make any difference?
I am currently looking at replacing the transmission mount. I believe there may be some metal to metal contact. I should have an answer today.
If I still have a vibration I am thinking of having my Munci M21 rebuilt. It is pretty worn out and 2nd gear is whining like no other. I do not believe the tail bushing is worn out though.
Any more advice???
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Liftline status: No more than a 5 min wait at Eagle Bahn and MidVail
Run of the day: Cats are taking people to the very top part of Simba which is usually a 5 min hike. It's groomed and riding fantastically.
Breakdown: It's cloudy today, but the surface is soft due to the warm temps. Nothing is getting sun baked, so the groomers are holding their form later in the day. It's a great day for spring skiing.
Snowcast: There should be something falling between Friday and Sunday, and it could be good, say forecasters.
On the Hill is shot with a GoPro HERO3 Silver Edition.


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Howard was a brilliant photographer on our wedding day, who captured many special moments during our celebration. He was easily approachable and contactable during the planning process, was professional on our wedding day and accommodating of our wishes. The photos were fantastic and arrived in a timely manner, even before we were home from our honeymoon. We would highly recommend him to other couples looking for a wedding photographer. Andrew and Catherine Firth.
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From our initial meeting through to delivery of the photos, Howard was very thorough and hardworking. We were very impressed with his service and very happy with our photos. He put us and our guests at ease and captured our day perfectly. Very highly recommended.
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Superb quality both technically and professionally. Howard's excellent photographs have provided the perfect souvenir of our day. I recommend him to anyone both for quality and value for money.
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Our home economists tossed together mixed greens, fresh raspberries, mushrooms, feta cheese and more in this pretty salad. Toasted pecan halves add fun crunch...and a homemade raspberry dressing brings a delicious tan to the mix!
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- 4 cups torn red leaf lettuce
- 1 package (5 ounces) spring mix salad greens
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 cup julienned red onion
- 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1/4 cup pecan halves, toasted
- 2 tablespoons 100% raspberry fruit spread, melted
- 2 tablespoons raspberry vinegar
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
- In a large salad bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. In a small bowl, whisk the fruit spread, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. Pour over salad and toss gently to coat. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Raspberry Tossed Salad in Light & Tasty February/March 2003 , p55
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Green Bay Loses Nail Biter to Southern Illinois
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Sophomore Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) kept rolling with a game-high 22 points on Saturday night, but visiting Southern Illinois (5-2) scored four points late and made an uncharacteristically high percentage from the foul line to deal short-handed Green Bay (3-7) a 72-70 loss, its first home non-conference setback since Dec. 8, 2010. The Phoenix suited up just eight players for the contest.
In what started as a back-and-forth affair, Green Bay led by as many as eight points in the opening half thanks to Sykes and a balanced offense which got points from seven different players. The opening 20 minutes featured 22 fouls and 35 free throws, and the Phoenix connected on 19-of-22 from the line to lead 41-37 at intermission.
The second 20 minutes included seven ties and seven lead changes, with Green Bay holding a six-point advantage on five different occasions. Midway through the half, the teams traded three-pointers on five out or six possessions. After SIU's T.J. Lindsay made the last in the stretch, Sykes scored on an old-fashioned three-point play. After Lindsay scored on a layup, Sykes answered again with a layup to make it 62-56 with 7:59 to play.
Including four free throws, the Salukis would score the next eight points to grab a two-point edge at the 4:10 mark before Sykes converted another three-point play to give Green Bay a 65-64 lead with the clock at 4:00. SIU entered the game shooting just 63.4 percent from the line but connected on 16-of-19 free throws (84.2%).
With the game tied at 66, Desmar Jackson put SIU ahead before sophomore Greg Mays (Chicago, Ill.), making his first career start, made a pair of free throws for the game's 11th tie (68-68). Mays made all three of his field goals and had eight points, three rebounds and two blocked shots.
Southern Illinois' Josh Swan made a ridiculous layup on the next possession over the outstretched arms of junior Alec Brown (Winona, Minn.), and after a turnover by junior Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.), SIU went ahead by four with 1:04 to play.
Sykes was fouled on the ensuing possession and knocked down both free throws, and a steal gave Green Bay the ball with 4.5 seconds to play. The Phoenix got the ball into Sykes, but his runner in the lane would not fall.
Despite the final play and outcome, it was yet another home terrific performance for Sykes, who upped his average to 16.4 points per game this season and 24.7 points per game at home. The Chicago native made 5-of-13 shots from the field but converted 11-of-13 free throws and added a season-high five assists.
Cerroni made a trio of three-pointers and hit all five of his free throws to finish with 14 points off the bench while Brown added 10 points and seven rebounds. Cerroni is now 21-of-21 from the free throw line in 2012-13 and has made 36 in a row dating back to last season. As a team, Green Bay finished 26-of-31 from the stripe for 83.9 percent.
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This week my WoW is.......
Here's the summary from Goodreads: One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
Divergent was one of the first books I ever reviewed here on Fuzzy.Coffee.Books, so it has a special place in my heart. Not to mention, I thought it was a fantastic book, and I am going crazy with curiosity about what is going to happen next with Tris and Four. So I am definitely excited to Insurgent to come out in May!


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Before we talk about this amazingly fun recipe please make sure to enter the Manna Organics Giveaway that ends on Sunday at midnight HERE! Winner receives a free case of Manna Bread!!
Now, let's talk rainbow fruit leathers……..
I am super excited to share how to make rainbow fruit leathers, however I did make one mistake while experimenting, so I will also share with you what NOT to do! 🙂
I wrote a blog post when I first started this website called Taste the Rainbow-and it basically was a post about how the candy Skittles has nothing to do with tasting the rainbow…..it is one of my most popular posts! Every day when I check my blogs stats, that post has been viewed! So, if you haven't read it take a moment to read it HERE!
Instead of tasting the ARTIFICIAL RAINBOW, let me show you how to taste a real fruit rainbow!!
Making fruit leathers are pretty simple, and it is a great recipe for the kids to help with!
I started with pureed fruit in red, yellow, green, and purple.
For the red I used blended up strawberries…..
For the yellow I used blended up mango
For the green I used blended up kiwi (this was a fail…kiwi wouldn't dry out-however, banana blended with spinach does work!!)
and for the purple I used blended up blueberries.
Next, I used a dehydrator sheet on a cookie tray but you could also use parchment paper or grease a cookie sheet with coconut oil.
I started with a strip of red puree, to make the orange color I mixed some of the red puree and some of the yellow puree and made a strip of orange, then I made a strip of yellow, a strip of green, and lastly a strip of purple.
I turned my oven to the lowest temperature which was 170 degrees, but if your oven goes lower set it lower. I also kept the door open so the actual temperature would be lower…..the idea is to dry the fruit out not cook it. Keep checking it but you will need to let it be in the oven at least 2 hours but probably closer to 3 or 4 hours.
Now, here is where I ran into a problem. The green puree made from kiwi wouldn't dry out. It stayed moist so my fruit rainbow leather didn't actually work out….here is what I salvaged.
However, the purple strip turned out and the red, orange and yellow turned out. So, we still ended up with some cool fruit leathers, they just didn't turn out like they did in my head! LOL The next time I do this I will use a banana blended up with spinach-it will work this way!
The only other problem were that these didn't last very long!!!
Have you ever made fruit leather before??
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Arsenal Football Club Supporters Consultative Forum 2005/2006 Season
Meeting held at the Club Museum, Arsenal F.C, at 10 am on Sunday 2nd October 2005.
Attendees (in alphabetical order):
ARMITT, Lee - Gold Member
BOWLES Mick - Arsenal Supporters Club Branch,
BUDDLE, Rita - Over 60 year old Representative
BURRELL, Paul - Stadium Announcer
CAMPBELL, Sue - Arsenal F.C
COXHEAD, Stephen - Red Member
DOCHERTY, Amanda - Arsenal F.C
EDELMAN, Keith - Managing Director, Arsenal F.C.
FORD, Adrian - Arsenal F.C
GOODWIN, Steve - AISA Representative
GOULDING, Peggy - Arsenal Supporters Club - St Thomas's Road
KNIGHTS, Steven - Head of Technology - Arsenal.com
MABERT, Allan - Disabled Supporter (Roger Salmon, Helper, was also in attendance)
MILES, David - Arsenal F.C.
MIRZOIAN, Olga - 16-21 yr Old Representative
NORGAARD, Henrik - Arsenal Supporters Club - Overseas
O'BRIEN, Michael - Arsenal F.C.
PATRICK, Martin - Executive Suite / Private Box Member
PYMAN, Steve - Family Enclosure
RANDS, Neil - Gold Member
ROBERTS, Elliot - Electoral Reform Services (Independent Chair)
SANDZER, Philip - Gold Member
SMITH, Jill - Arsenal F.C
WALKER, Sophia - Silver Member
WITHEY, Simon - Arsenal Supporters Club - Norfolk
WORSELL, Ivan - Arsenal F.C
Chris Dowd
Mark Halfpenny
Minutes of the Last Meeting:
There has been some disruption for Supporters Club coaches - what are the arrangements for next season?
There will be occasional disruption this season due to on-going work at Emirates Stadium. There will be parking facilities for next season, although we are not able to disclose where they are as yet.
Will Arsenal be providing any travel facilities for the boxing-day match to Charlton?
We will be providing a coach from Highbury for fans to Travel to Charlton. We will be selling tickets in due course.
Are there any arrangements for a park-and ride scheme and free travel for the new stadium?
Unofficially, a lot of fans park at Cockfosters station at the end of the Piccadilly line, as it's not too far from the stadium and has quite a large car park. However, as a lot of people do it and with it also being close to the M25, it does take quite a bit of time to get out. In terms of an official site in North London, there aren't many options available on a Saturday afternoon, but we are still looking. Being based in North London means we don't have the same park-and-ride options available to some other clubs.
We've had discussions with Islington Council in terms of free travel, but the complexity of the potential arrangements surrounding this means it's highly unlikely that anything will come to pass. We are trying to persuade fans to come to the new stadium via the Victoria Line (Highbury & Islington & Finsbury Park), as this has more spare capacity than the Piccadilly line, especially as the costs involved in opening Drayton Park specifically for our games on the weekend are prohibitive. We do have a good relationship with TFL in trying to keep line and station closures to a minimum on match days, but ultimately it is their decision.
When buying tickets on-line, it has been stated that they aren't any booking fees for buying tickets this way, whereas in fact there are.
We currently use ticketmaster, a 3rd party ticket sales outlet for our on-line sales of match tickets and whatever technology or outlet you use, there will always be a service charge related to transactions. We will look into the charges for Junior Gunners and family enclosure ticket purchases which you refer to. We need to bear in mind that Ticketmaster use the same technology across all ticket sales and is probably geared more towards large, standardised ticket sales.
We are looking into bringing more of our on-line ticket sales operations in house, to give a more tailored service to our supporters. We have been trialing and volume testing this system and we're hoping to roll out the on-line booking service in Mid-November. This process will continue to expand in the future, including the internalisation of the sale of away tickets and the ability for members to view, via the membership site, the away credits that they have accrued.
This will enable supporters to identify if they qualify to apply for certain away match tickets. Longer term, we hope to be able to provide some virtual reality views from different areas and zones of the stadium, giving on-line ticket purchasers an idea of what the view is like for particular tickets
Will there be a facility to see a view from a particular seat?
There is technology available for this, but it only really works for people on broadband connections and there probably aren't enough people on this connection to currently make it viable.
There was an advert in the Sun on Friday 30th September, from an agency advertising tickets for Arsenal games - how are they doing this?
These same agencies are also advertising tickets for Emirates Stadium, even when there are none available - they are using this approach as a way to build up their client base as well as to offer other products to them. This year, the police have arrested and convicted 10 ticket touts and we've been working closely with the police on this. There are touts on the street offering tickets but they then usually take people to a central contact, which suggests that they are now getting their hands on fewer and fewer tickets - It will be more difficult to tout tickets at Emirates Sadium as it will have electronic access.
Will the ticketing arrangements for non Members be the same at the new stadium?
It will be the same. We currently have about 130,000 members on our books and we expect to have extra 15,000-20,000 members at Red membership level - therefore there will probably be fewer tickets available on a general sale basis.
What are the arrangements for away tickets next season?
We will still be using the credits system and with our on-line ticketing system outlined earlier, this should hopefully make it run smoothly. Box holders do have some rights in purchasing tickets but we are not expecting a huge take up as many will be corporate clients.
What about seating for champions league games?
UEFA have specified what seats will be needed by them for Champions League games and we are contractually obliged to abide by their choices. The season ticket prices for the seats in specific areas will be discounted, as these people will not be able to take up those seats for Champions League games.
As it's the last season at Highbury - will supporters clubs be able to submit more than 1 team for the end of season 5-a-side tournament?
As you can imagine, there will be a lot of demands at Highbury towards the end of the season. Last year, 20 clubs submitted teams for the tournament and we would expect more clubs will want to submit teams this year, as it is the last season at Highbury.
There are financial considerations to take into account which means it's in our interest to close the stadium down as early as we can, but that is unlikely to happen before mid July, so there should be more time for events to take place - we will try to allow as many teams as possible to enter.
A letter dated 28th July to supporters offering an Arsenal Credit Card was signed off as the champions, was this not a bit inaccurate?
It was a mistake by the company that offer the Credit Card and we apologise for any misunderstanding.
A supporters group called Red Action has been liaising with the Club about Themed days to improve the atmosphere - one idea put forward has been a Dennis Berkcamp themed day.
As far as the Club is concerned, this is something that needs to be decided by fans and this forum as to what ideas get moved forward - we are happy to get involved in this. However, for things like this to work, we need more people to get involved in the organisation and distribution side of things - like orange t-shirts to get as many fans involved as possible on the day. We don't yet know when it is going to take place as we haven't finalised arrangements for the end of this season and the beginning of next season, but if forum members can come back with some other ideas and possible help then that will be great.
Atmosphere at the stadium
As we know there have sometimes been problems with atmosphere at Highbury - what thoughts/ideas have been put forward to create a more intimidating atmosphere at the new stadium?
We have been working in conjunction with Red Action and have designated an area of about 550 seats in Emirates Stadium for Red Action registered members to help create the atmosphere (provided they've passed the singing test!). It's worked at Portsmouth and we hope it will work in Emirates Stadium. We know that both fans and the Club have to have an input, some schemes we've tried haven't been that successful (e.g. leaving flags at seats) but we will hopefully have an anthem for the team to walk out to by the end of the season.
We will try and create a flow of information amongst fans, by giving advance notice on things like the anthem or other strategies and try to build up the groundswell of support for them. We have also had discussions with Sanctuary records regarding maybe bringing out a CD of Arsenal songs. The atmosphere at away games is usually better as fans are all in one group, which is why we think the designated area in Emirates Stadium will work. Part of the problem at Highbury is that there isn't that turnover of fans, due to lack of available tickets.
One thing that has worked is where the first name of the player is announced and then the crowd shout the surname - this works well at Bayern Munich.
We will be looking to try ideas like this over the Christmas period, where we have home games against Chelsea and Manchester United. We also have traditions at Arsenal, like welcoming the away fans and we will continue with these to maintain sportsmanship at the club. The Club will give some lead on this but also the build up to the new stadium also means that ideas will organically come from the bottom up. We will also trial things like having a drummer in the stands to see how it works. With the jumbotron, we have commercial obligations in the run-up to kick off and we also think that the pre-match interview with Arsène Wenger works well, but we also know that sometimes it can't be heard very well.
We need to create an intimidating atmosphere at our ground, we can feel the atmosphere, especially at away games in the Champions League, where the atmosphere is electric for the home team.
We will have new opportunities at the new stadium as we can create 2 different types of atmosphere, one inside the stadium and one in the concourse - fans can then choose where they want to be. We need to look at the crucial time during the 15 minutes in the run up to kick off.
Is the Demolition DVD of the 7-0 win against Everton only available by signing up to a new magazine subscription?
We've taken the view that as a stand alone product it wouldn't support itself - it lends itself more to be used as a promotional tool.
Is there a reason why the full versions of penalty shootouts are not shown on the end of season DVD/Video?
It's mainly an editorial decision to show the highlights of the penalties, however, on this years' output, it showed all the penalties from the F.A Cup final against Manchester United. We want to keep the format fast moving and it is ultimately a highlights package. We will look into the possibility of adding it as a 'DVD extra'.
There is a big jump in the price of a replica kit from my 4 year old son to my 8 year old daughter - why is this?
We obtain the kit from our suppliers NIKE and then we add our margin on top of that. We don't change the margins across the range and effectively cross-subsidise for different ages and groups. Similar products without the Arsenal branding are the crux of the issue, in that there is a premium to pay to obtain official Arsenal merchandise. The structure is that NIKE give us an amount of money each year and we then have to buy the kit from them and based on expected demand, they price accordingly. The margin we apply is lower than products we source from other suppliers. Some retailers are selling shirts cheaper than us, but our after sales service is better and they are using our branded products to entice people into the shop and then buy other goods. Some clubs do sell markedly cheaper shirts - a 2nd string version of the official version but it's not something we support.
Weren't there problems with some of the new shirts selling out?
We did sell out of the XXL size - in the previous year we sold 600 of this size and we ordered a lot more than that, unfortunately our fans are getting bigger! In total we ordered 50,000 shirts over 2 drops.
Arsenal.com - Overview and Survey
Stephen Knights informed the forum that a complete re-design of the Arsenal.com website is forthcoming. Some members might have already seen the new look on the membership section of the site.
About 200-250 disabled supporters are taking part in a survey to check the member website's accessibility, prior to it being rolled out to the full website. Arsenal.com would also like to get feedback from able-bodied members of the site to see if the proposed new layout also works for them. Stephen asked the forum if they would like to help by sending him contact details of at least 5 committed supporters who would be willing to participate in a survey - he confirmed that all information provided will be treated with the strictest confidence. Forum members agreed to help.
Are Arsenal disappointed about the report in the Sunday Mirror that there will be no seats under £30 in the new stadium.
It is disappointing as it's an inaccurate quote. For Tier B games, some tickets are under £30 and this Tier applies to 12 of the 19 home premiership games we have. We are keeping prices the same next year as they are this year. On the general issue of ticket pricing, it is very difficult to have 1,000 very cheap tickets, as it is hard to means test who should be eligible to receive them.
Will the Family section at the Emirates stadium be next to the away fan section?
No. Away fans will be in the S.E corner of the stadium, with the family enclosure being in the S.W. corner Even in FA Cup games, there will be a section of home support between the away fans and the family enclosure.
The meeting closed at 11.55amCopyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 193, April 14, 2000
Conquering the I/O Bottleneck[[ Our thanks to the authors for submitting this article. ]]
by Joseph Werne, Paul Adams and David Sanders
March 31, 2000
Ever turn off the I/O when benchmarking your code, knowing scaling with the number of processors is ruined by the massive data transfers current MPP platforms can generate? Fear no more. In this article we describe a technique for properly dealing with massively parallel I/O. We call the method Hierarchical Data Structuring (or HDS). Our experience with 500-PE tests on the Cray T3E demonstrates speed-increase factors that range from 1.4 to 2.1 or more, depending on the number of data files created by the application program. The method is simple, and we fully expect similar performance gains on other MPP platforms.
The work we report involves a DoD Challenge effort to simulate atmospheric turbulence in support of the Air Force AirBorne Laser (ABL) program. High-resolution simulations are conducted using a pseudo-spectral Fortran code written by one of us (JW) with as many as 1000 * 360 * 2000 spectral modes. Data-transfer needs for this project are large. A single 20-hour (wallclock), 500-processor run on the ERDC and NAVO DSRC's* T3E's generates 410 GB of data. Each processor opens and writes its own set of direct-access fixed-record-length binary output files. The files are opened just before writing and then closed again after writing is complete to minimize the number of simultaneously open files and to avoid problems with unflushed file buffers when a run is unexpectedly stopped. Write-behind I/O buffering is accomplished via the -F bufa:2000:4 option to the Cray assign command. **In order to facilitate real-time data migration to the ERDC Mass Storage Facility (MSF) or the NAVO Mass Storage and Archive Server (MSAS1), separate sets of files are created throughout the simulation; these sets are bundled together in tar files and moved off-line by a companion shell script as soon as the files are closed by the application program.
Through the course of the 20-hour simulation, 72,000 individual files are written to disk by the T3E. With the aid of our real-time data migration strategy, all of these files do not reside on the T3E's /tmp space at the same time; however, a minimum of 9,000 files do simultaneously occupy the local T3E disks. This number (9,000) is sufficient to adversely impact performance when HDS is not implemented.
The directory structure we initially used before employing HDS for massively parallel disk I/O was inhereted from our code's (author's) shared-memory, vector ancestry. For example, 3D volume files written at time levels 00, 01, etc to the "data" directory were previously (not) organized as follows:
data/: file1.00.0000, file1.00.0001, ... file1.00.0499, file2.00.0000, file2.00.0001, ... file2.00.0499, ... file1.01.0000, file1.01.0001, ... file1.01.0499, file2.01.0000, file2.01.0001, ... file2.01.0499, ...In contrast, rather than simply placing all of the output data into a single directory, our new HDS strategy divides and subdivides the output data directory into multiple subdirectories and sub-subdirectories, ending with tails that contain no more than NCPU files (NCPU is the number of processors used for a given calculation). The new directory layout is
data/00/file1/: file1.00.0000, file1.00.0001, ... file1.00.0499 data/00/file2/: file2.00.0000, file2.00.0001, ... file2.00.0499 data/01/file1/: file1.01.0000, file1.01.0001, ... file1.01.0499 data/01/file2/: file2.01.0000, file2.01.0001, ... file2.01.0499, ...The finer resolution via the HDS directory tree insures that the application program does not spend time wading through an overwhelming number of filenames. For example, for the ABL simulations and data migration described above, the time required to complete 50 timesteps and the associated I/O when HDS is employed is 59 minutes. By comparison, when the older non-HDS directory layout was used, 82 minutes were needed. Furthermore, when data from previous (failed) runs also occupied the directory, as much as 2 hours could be required; and, in an extreme case while performing tests to diagnose the source of the variable execution time, we intentionly allowed the data directory to fill with O(100,000) files from previous failed tests. In this case our 50-timestep test did not complete in 6 hours, and we encountered the error "_sma_deadlock_wait" on the T3E.
With our new HDS strategy, execution time no longer varies. Dedicated 20-hour runs consistently tranfer data off-line every 50 timesteps in 59 minutes +/- 1 minute, regardless of the number of files in the directory tree.
Figure 1 shows a plot of the ABL turbulence-code performance as a function of NCPU. The wallclock time tc required per processor-gridpoint (Ng/NCPU) per timestep is reported. Ng= NX * NY * NZ is the total number of gridpoints. The per-processor problem size (Ng/NCPU) is held fixed as NCPU is varied. Deviation from exactly linear scaling on NCPU (i.e., tc= constant) results from 1) the nonlinear dependence of the FFT cost on NX, NY and NZ (most noteable as NX,NY,NZ tend to 0) and 2) differing cache utilization as the problem shape is varied to keep Ng/NCPU fixed. For the case with NCPU=500, we also include execution times without HDS (indicated by crosses).
Figure 1: Wallclock time tc per processor-gridpoint Ng/NCPU) per timestep for ABL spectral turbulence code. Ng/NCPU is held fixed for all tests. Exact linear scaling on NCPU would result in tc= constant. Circles indicate wallclock time when HDS is used to conduct I/O. Crosses indicate the best-case and typical times required when HDS is not used. They are 1.4 and 2.1 times slower than the same run with HDS. The difference between the two non-HDS timings result from larger numbers of files in the data directory for the slower case. Tests with even more files in the data directory did not finish in six hours (i.e., tc > 31 * 10-5). The dotted line shows the time for the 500-PE HDS case.
Though the execution times quoted here and reported in Figure 1 involve a specific code on the Cray T3E, we expect the performance enhancement exhibited by HDS will be universally applicable to other architectures. Given its simplicity, we believe it should be implemented for all MPP applications that generate large amounts of data and large numbers of individual files. An additional benefit of HDS is the user can easily navigate the directory tree and inspect data as it is being generated by the application program. This is not feasible with a non-HDS directory containing O(10,000) or more files.
Joe Werne is a research scientist at the CoRA division of NWRA. He has 11 years of experience in high-performance computing on shared-memory vector and distributed-memory parallel platforms. He has written highly optimized Fortran programs, including the ABL turbulence code, for both stably and unstably stratified turbulence simulations as part of NSF and DoD Grand Challenge applications since 1993. Paul Adams recently moved from Applications Support Analyst to User Services Manager at the ERDC DSRC. He has 12 years of experience in the computer industry, providing programming and user support on Cray, SGI, and IBM platforms. David Sanders is an Applications Support Analyst at the ERDC DSRC and a Systems Support Engineer with Silicon Graphics, Inc. He has 16 years of programming and user-support experience on shared-memory, distributed-memory parallel, and distributed- shared-memory platforms. David will join Cray, Inc. in April 2000. JW receives support for ABL simulations from AFRL F19628-98-C-0030 and AFOSR F49620-98-C-0029. Related supercomputer work is sponsored by ARO DAAD191-99-C-0037.
To learn more about the ABL turbulence simulations (the highest resolution stratified turbulence simulations on the planet), see the March 2000 issue of the ERDC DSRC Resource Newsletter or the Spring 1999 CEWES Journal. See also the publications listed below to learn more about the exciting and new scientific results from the project.
Questions and comments may be addressed to Joe Werne at:
[1] J.Werne and D.C.Fritts, Geophys. Res. Letters, 26 (1999) 439. [2] J.Werne and D.C.Fritts, Phys. Chem. Earth, (1999) in press. [3] R.J.Hill, D.E.Gibson-Wilde, J.Werne and D.C.Fritts, Earch Planets Space, 51 (1999) 499. [4] D.E.Gibson-Wilde, J.Werne, D.C.Fritts and R.J.Hill, Radio Science, (2000) in press. [5] R.Strelitz and J.Werne, CEWES Journal, (Spring 1999) 4. [6] ``Interview with Joseph Werne'', ERDC Resource Newsletter, (March 2000).FOOTNOTES
* U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development center (ERDC) and Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC).
** We learned about this technique from David Cole and Mike Patterson at NAVO. Our specific implementation grew out of valuable correspondance with another DoD user, Alan Wallcraft, who conducts global and basin-scale ocean modeling on the NAVO T3E and the new ERDC IBM SMP.
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New Communication and Scalability Paper on PEMCS SiteSee the electronic journal of Performance Evaluation and Modeling for Computer Systems (PEMCS):
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Comparing the Communication Performance and Scalability of a Linux and an NT Cluster of PCs, a SGI Origin 2000, an IBM SP and a Cray T3E-600, Glenn R. Luecke, Bruno Raffin and James J. Coyle, Iowa Sate University, Ames, Iowa, USA, March, 2000
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Welcome to the Concord Coalition's weekly Washington Budget Report: a nonpartisan plain English summary of key budget, appropriations, and tax developments.
The Concord Coalition Washington Budget Report is written and edited by Charles Konigsberg, Chief Budget Counsel of The Concord Coalition. If you have questions or comments about the Washington Budget Report, contact us at email@example.com.
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Budget Process: Step-by-Step
Track 1- Economic Stimulus:
- Feb 17: Signed into law by the President (Concord Summary)
- Track expenditures at www.recovery.gov
Track 2 - Completion of '09 Appropriations:
- March 11: President signed omnibus appropriations bill funding agencies through the rest of FY09
- April 9: President transmitted an $83 billion FY 2009 supplemental request to Congress
Track 3 - FY 2010 Budget:
- February 26: President Obama transmitted a budget outline.
- March 13: Congressional committees transmitted "views and estimates" on the FY 2010 budget to their respective Budget Committees.
- March 20: CBO released its Preliminary Analysis of the President's FY 2010 budget (using CBO economic projections)
- March 25-26: House Budget Comm and Senate Budget Comm marked-up their respective versions of the FY 2010 Congressional Budget Resolution.
- April 2: House (H.Con.Res.85) and Senate (S.Con.Res. 13) passed their respective versions of the FY 2010 Budget Resolution.
- Week of April 20: House-Senate conference on Budget Resolution.
- Early May: President to transmit FY 2010 budget details
- Note on Appropriations timing: Action on appropriations bills will not begin until after Congress receives the President's budget details
- May-Sept: Action on FY 2010 appropriations bills and budget reconciliation bill(s) (if called for by the Budget Resolution).
Track 4 - Stabilizing the Financial, Housing, and Auto Sectors (Ongoing)
- Concord's Financial Crisis Timeline
- Feb. 10: Treasury released Financial Stability Plan.
- Feb. 18: President announced Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan
- Feb. 26: President released 2010 budget including a $250 billion contingent reserve for additional financial stabilization
- March 3: Treasury and Fed announced launch of TALF to boost consumer, small business credit
- March 18: Fed announced plan to pump $1.15 trillion into financial markets
- March 23: Treasury announced plan to purchase "toxic assets"
- March 26: Treasury Secretary announced regulatory overhaul for financial industry
- March 5: White House Summit on Health Reform
- Sept 29: Tentative deadline for congressional committees to report health care reconciliation legislation (assuming the reconciliation instructions proposed by the House are in the conference report on the budget resolution)
- March 31: House Energy & Commerce Chairman Waxman (D-CA) released a discussion draft of a climate-energy bill, although it remains unclear if Ways & Means Democrats will back Waxman's cap & trade approach or prefer an emissions tax.
- April 27: Target date for markup of legislation in House Energy & Environment Subcommittee
- Senate Democrats are currently stalled in their efforts to find 60 votes for a climate-energy bill, although Majority Leader Reid is hoping to bring a bill to the Floor by summer.
Health Care Reform: Will Conferees Opt for Filibuster-proof "Reconciliation"?
The President's Budget calls for comprehensive health care reform to rein in skyrocketing health care costs and cover the uninsured. Specifically: a $634 billion downpayment on health care reform, funded by $316 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reforms, and $318 billion in new revenues from limiting tax deductions for upper income earners.
The House- and Senate-passed budget resolutions call for health care reform as a general proposition, and commit to offsetting the full costs of health care reform, but don't address details.
The Senate-passed resolution requires that health care reform be "deficit neutral" over the next 11 years, that is, total new spending on health care over the 11-year period must be offset by spending cuts and/or tax increases over that period. This type of mechanism is known as a "reserve fund." It does not require action, but provides a budgetary placeholder that allows spending and revenue levels to be adjusted at a later time to accommodate a new deficit-neutral program. (Important note: Typically, reserve funds would require legislation to be deficit neutral over 6 years and over 11 years. The Senate's health care reserve fund requires offsets, but only over the entire 11-year period, recognizing that health care reform is likely to have a net cost up front, with savings not accumulating until later years.)
A key difference between the House and Senate budget plans is that the House-passed plan would allow for use of the filibuster-proof "budget reconciliation" process to facilitate passage of health care reform. The Senate resolution would not use reconciliation, and health care reform would therefore be susceptible to a filibuster -- with 60 votes being required to overcome a filibuster.
The key strategic question of whether reconciliation will be used to expedite health care reform will be decided during a House-Senate conference committee on the budget resolution the week of April 20. As reported by Congressional Quarterly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, "I believe it is absolutely essential that we come out of this year with substantial health care reform legislation. That is best secured by having reconciliation in the package."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled openness to including reconciliation in the final budget resolution, saying "we're taking nothing off the table."
However, in a letter released prior to the Easter recess, the Senate's President Pro Tempore Robert C. Byrd (D-WVa) argued that the purpose of reconciliation is to "adjust revenue and spending levels in order to reduce deficits. It was not designed to create a new climate and energy regime, and certainly not to restructure the entire health care system."
However, as a point of history, the budget reconciliation process was used in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005 to reduce taxes (as opposed to deficit reduction). Some observers also argue that health care reform--if it includes spending restraints and squeezes inefficiencies out of the system--is integral to reigning in the rapid growth of health care costs which is a major driver of deficits.
The $2 Trillion Tax Cut and PAYGO
A major issue in the budget resolution conference has unfortunately escaped media attention.
The 2001 tax cuts are currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. Both the House- and Senate-passed budget resolutions assume enactment of legislation extending the 2001 tax cuts (excluding taxpayers earning over $250,000 per year).
The cost of extending the tax cuts (without offsets) is more than $2 trillion over 10 years -- revenue losses that would erode the revenue base and seriously exacerbate the already precarious fiscal position of the U.S.
A major issue before the House and Senate budget conferees is how the PAYGO rule will apply to the tax cut extension.
In the Senate, legislation to extend the tax cuts (without offsets) would violate the PAYGO requirement that new tax cuts be offset with tax increases or spending cuts. The Senate would therefore have to muster 60 votes to waive the PAYGO rule before passing a permanent tax cut extension. However, given widespread bipartisan support for extending the tax cuts, there is little doubt that the Senate could easily waive the PAYGO rule for that purpose.
However, a more fiscally responsible approach would sunset a tax cut extension after the recession has run its course.
Unlike the Senate, where the members will have to vote to waive PAYGO, the House-passed budget resolution would establish a mechanism to avoid such a vote. The House budget resolution, in section 401, would assume extension of the tax cuts in the baseline (or budgetary starting point). Consequently, enactment of the tax cut extension would not be considered a new reduction in taxes. However, this baseline mechanism is made contingent on legislation that re-enacts "statutory PAYGO." (Statutory PAYGO is the stronger, self-enforcing PAYGO mechanism in place in the 1990s).
The irony is that in securing re-enactment of statutory PAYGO the House would be accepting a major violation of the PAYGO principle requiring that new tax cuts be offset.
(Update: Prior to the Easter recess, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) introduced legislation that would permanently extend most of the 2001 tax cuts. Baucus press release)
Defense: $83 billion Defense Supp; Sec. Gates Proposes Major Shifts
FY 2009 Defense Supplemental Request: On April 9, 2008, the Administration submitted to Congress an $83 billion FY 2009 Supplemental Appropriations request, including $75 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The large request was necessary because the outgoing Bush Administration had requested only partial war funding for FY 2009 in their final defense budget. The supplemental would bring total war spending for FY 2009 to $141 billion.
In addition to war funding, the supplemental also requests funds for international affairs, nuclear non-proliferation, Dept of Justice anti-terrorism efforts, wildfire suppression, and Capitol Police.
Gates Proposes Major Changes in Defense: During Congress' Easter recess, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates released proposals for a major shift in defense spending. In general, Secretary Gates proposed scaling back some major weapons systems originally conceived during the Cold War, while putting a new emphasis on counterinsurgency training and troop support.
- Figher planes: cease production of F-22 and continue development of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
- C-17 cargo plane: cease production with completion of the 205 either built or on order
- VH-71 Presidential Helicopters: end the program for 28 redesigned Marine Ones
- Army's Future Combat Systems: cancel the vehicle segment
- Missile Defense:cancel 2d Airborne Laser plane and increase funding for short-range defenses
- Next generation bomber: place development on hold
- Special ops forces: add 2,800 to the force and buy new specialized aircraft
- Helicopters: recruit and train new Army crews to meet high demand in Afghanistan
- Buy more surveillance and reconnaissance equipment including Predator and Reaper drones to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
Impending Fight over Plan to Change Student Lending
The President's FY 2010 Budget proposes to eliminate the federal guaranteed student loan program, and instead expand the Direct Loan program, thus saving $94 billion. (According to CBO, "under the Federal Credit Reform Act, the budgetary cost of direct loans and guaranteed loans reflects the total cash flows over the life of each loan....(T)he direct loan program is estimated to have a lower cost for each dollar loaned than does the guaranteed loan program.")
The $94 billion in 10-year budgetary savings that would result from originating all student loans in the Direct Loan program would pay for an expansion of the Pell Grant program for low-income students. Each Pell grant would increase by $200 to $5,550 for 2010 and thereafter the amounts would be automatically adjusted for inflation (by making the program an entitlement -- that is, not subject to annual appropriations decisions).
The Obama Administration proposal has ignited opposition on two fronts. Congressional appropriators resist the move to make student loans a "mandatory program" with automatic cost-of-living adjustments that circumvent annual discretionary spending decisions by the Appropriations Committees.
And the private loan industry is gearing up strong opposition to shifting student loan origination away from private banks, over to the Department of Education.
NY Times: "Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight"
Social Security Deficit
As previously reported by WBR, there is broad agreement among our nation's top economic officials that the U.S. is currently on a perilous long-term fiscal path -- a path leading to unsustainable levels of Federal debt that the threaten the long-term stability of the U.S. economy.
In addition to rapidly rising health care costs, another major contributing factor is the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation, which began in 2008. With the retirement of the boomers, outlays for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will rapidly increase.
Prior to the current recession, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had projected that, in the next decade, the retirement of the boomers would cause Social security to begin paying out in benefits more than it takes in through payroll taxes.
Due to the current economic downturn, CBO now projects that Social Security will run a cash deficit this year -- fiscal year 2009. CBO estimated in March that Social Security benefits in 2009 will amount to $659 billion -- more than the estimated payroll tax receipts of $653 billion. The last time the program ran a cash deficit was 1984. CBO Fact Sheet
The cash deficit does not have any specific ramifications. Benefit levels are set by a statutory formula that is not tied to the program's bottom line. Nevertheless, the estimated cash deficit this year means that Social Security will begin increasing the nation's total deficit, and the situation will seriously worsen in the next and subsequent decades -- unless actions are taken to address the program's unfunded liability.
Recent Budget Documents
President Obama: April 14 remarks on the economy
Treasury: Monthly Reports for March w/ Data from First Half of FY 2009
CBO: Historical Effective Tax Rates: 1979 to 2006
CBO: Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income
Senate Budget Committee: Budget Resolution mark-up documents
House Budget Committee: Budget Resolution mark-up documents
Concord Coalition: Financial Crisis Timeline
White House: Report on Forum on Health Reform
White House: Report on Fiscal Responsibility Summit
CRS: The Cost of Government Financial Interventions, Past and President
NYTimes: Adding Up the Government's Bailout Tab
NYTimes: Recipients of TARP Funds
Concord Coalition Statement on CBO Projections
CBO: Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget
CBO: Options for Controlling the Cost and Increasing the Efficiency of Health Care
Concord: Issue Brief on President's BudgetAmerica's Priorities: How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3 Trillion Per Year, by Charles S. Konigsberg, Editor, The Concord Coalition's Washington Budget Report.


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The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the act the week of June 25.
The court will review the individual mandate provision that requires most people to purchase health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. At question is whether this mandate is within the purview of Congress to guide the national economy via regulation of interstate commerce.
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