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Islanders Team With Local Non-profit to Increase Amateur Hockey Developmentby Staff Writer / New York Islanders
The New York Islanders announced today that they are partnering with Pride in Athletics for Life (P.A.L.) Hockey, a non-profit, amateur hockey organization, for a momentous partnership on Long Island.
"This partnership is an unbelievable opportunity for boys and girls on Long Island to have access to the best hockey expertise, instruction and rinks in our area," P.A.L. Executive Director Tom Palamara said. "By teaming with the Islanders, we can help develop our players into great athletes, and more importantly, great people, through a streamlined structure of teams."
This partnership marks the formal creation of the P.A.L. Junior Islanders Hockey Club. The organization will operate teams at six different levels, including: mite, squirt, peewee, bantam, midget and junior. All levels of the P.A.L. Jr. Islanders will split their practice and game time between two home rinks, Islanders Iceworks in Syosset, NY and The Rinx in Hauppauge, NY.
"Teaming with P.A.L. solidifies our commitment to youth hockey on Long Island," Islanders General Manager Garth Snow said. "The experience that the overall P.A.L. organization brings to the table is paramount to the success of this program. Not only will this strengthen the overall quality of hockey on Long Island, but we believe our new partnership will also strengthen the overall quality of our community."
The Islanders and P.A.L. will work in conjunction, providing coach and player development, hockey expertise, marketing assets, promotional assistance and public relations support. The team will assist directly with youth hockey on Long Island at the Tier I level and provide co-branding for the teams at the Tier II and Tier III levels.
The P.A.L. executive board currently consists of ten volunteer board members, but will expand to 12 to include Islanders Assistant Coach and Senior Advisor to the GM Doug Weight, as well as another member of the Islanders organization.
One of the oldest, most well-respected hockey organizations in the Northeast, Pride in Athletics for Life represents the message we have been delivering to our players since 1975. Skate with the passion which drives your desire to succeed. Treat your fellow teammates, opponents and our great game of hockey with respect. Live your life with integrity during all that life brings you. Approach your life with discipline both on and off the ice and never lose the enthusiasm for life, sport or the desire to achieve. P.A.L. Ice Hockey has travel teams, recreational house leagues, skills development, and USA Hockey initiation programs. This organization is not affiliated with Suffolk Police Athletic League.


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McGehee intent on giving quality at-bats
ATLANTA -- Throughout his home-run drought, Casey McGehee stayed true to his hitting approach and maintained his sense of humor.
After blasting a two-run homer off Tim Lincecum in Miami's 3-2 win over the Giants on Sunday at Marlins Park, McGehee reminded that he entered the game with two stolen bases and one home run.
McGehee's shot to left at Marlins Park snapped a spell of 232 at-bats without a homer, the longest long-ball drought of his career.
All season, McGehee noted that he was focused on hitting the ball hard, and striving for productive at-bats. What he's been doing has worked. McGehee has 56 RBIs, and he's batting .322, while providing protection in the cleanup spot for Giancarlo Stanton.
"Obviously, for the sake of the back of a baseball card, it looks good to have some homers and stuff," McGehee said on Monday. "It really doesn't bother me."
McGehee is showing how production can come in ways other than simply home runs.
Still, to drive in as many runs with just two home runs is unusual. No other big leaguer with as few as two home runs this season has driven in 40 or more runs.
Hitting coach Frank Menechino has stayed on McGehee to keep a line-drive approach, while not trying to force home runs.
"Every day in the cage, Frank has reminded me," McGehee said. "He's been really, really good."
It's rare for players to drive in as many as 90 runs while hitting 10 or fewer homers. Tommy Herr in 1985 finished with eight homers and 110 RBIs. Paul Molitor in 1996 connected on nine homers with 113 RBIs, and Tony Gwynn hit nine homers and drove in 90 in 1995.
"There's a time and a place for the three-run homer," McGehee said. "Of course, you'd love to have them. There's also a time and a place to keep the line moving, and take what the pitcher gives you.
"There's nothing wrong with the home runs. I'll take them when they come. But it doesn't bother me."

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In the heat, I suffer. At 6'5″ and almost 200 pounds, I've got a lot of surface area and my heart has to work harder than an average 5'8″ rider in order to get blood to all my appendages. I've found myself suffering in the heat to the point where I thought that if someone were to hand me a gun, I'd blow my head off. My first AZT 300 was like that. My final day found me in the hot box between the Gila and Picket Post. Temps were in the 90's. I know because I use one of these. I remember running low on water with about 18 miles left (at least 2 hours), and passing a Polish guy who was out of water. I just stared at him as I kept moving by. No way was I going to risk running out of water in that desert.
In grad school I was the only test subject to complete all three trials of a heat study. Ride in a small room filled with heaters and hot plates with boiling water for 3 hours at 50% max VO2. Esophageal temp probed shoved up my nose and down my throat, blood draws every hour, and 5 minutes in the mask every 20 minutes. The seat killed my prostate and if I had to pee, I had to do it on the bike into a graduated cylinder….once with a boner…very difficult and a tad bit embarrassing with more than a few coeds checking things out. The fridge holding the blood samples lost electricity for a weekend and all the samples were lost.
My third AZT 300 found me early into day 1 with a missing chainring bolt. I rode really fast trying to catch up to people who were a good 20 to 30 minutes ahead of me after that. I blew up in the heat a couple of hours before Kentucky Camp. Hiding under a tree trying to escape the heat, I quickly realized my attempt at a 3rd consecutive finish was done. Day 2 found me going through so much water there was no way I'd make it to the next water source before running out. I turned around on Reddington Rd., spent an hour at a Safeway, then took the road to Oracle eventually being swept up by my ride.
Tour Divide found me in some heat too. I went north opting to take the heat early. Near the end of Day 1 I rolled out of Silver City with a full bag of ice on my back. I really didn't see heat like that again until Canada. Yeah. 92 degrees just north of Butts Cabin. Luckily there were clean water sources everywhere. Since my 2014 Divide Ride, I haven't done much serious riding other than the Puzzler 50.
I have a neighbor that is into hot yoga. She convinced me to do a Bikram class with her….in her little yoga room with a enough heaters to keep a public housing complex comfortable during the worst El Paso winter day. An hour and a half listening to some Indian dickhead that calls(ed) himself a Yogi bark instructions and insults putting me into positions I'd never been in before. I was pretty sore the next day despite doing many of those poses on a daily basis under my own terms for several years. I wasn't sure what to think. I later attempted an Ashtanga class….normal temps….but the video instruction we watched just went on and on with the guy basically showing off how awesome he was at doing handstands.
Still not a fan of a structured yoga class and much less a fan of doing it in a room that is 100 degrees, I was convinced to go to a real hot yoga class as part of my neighbor's yoga training certification process. It was pretty good…only an hour. It wasn't that hot, but hot enough to get me really loose and into some good poses. The scenery was really good so I decided to tag along with her to some other classes eventually winding up in a studio in Las Cruces for a hot flow class (some call it Bikyasa) that lasted 2 hours. The temp hit 102 and the humidity was at 57%. I would have made it all the way through if I didn't have to pee. It was by far the hottest thing I've ever done. Kuwait in full battle rattle had nothing on this. Sweat dripped onto my towel covered mat sounding like the rain in that section of Forrest Gump when he was in Vietnam.
I was getting most of the poses and trying not to pass out every time I stood up and reached upward…..toward the heater just above my head. Seeing the rock bodied and tattooed Meg to my right and the creamy skinned Maria to my left kept me motivated. I thought about my hottest bike races and they didn't come close to this horror. People were dropping out left and right. Child's pose was being practiced by more than a couple folks as the rest plowed on. Warrior 1 to warrior 2, eagle, warrior 2, warrior 1, foward fold, flow high to low, downward dog, yada yada yada, more flows, sweat, drink water, wipe sweat off of hands, focus man. Focus!
The next day I injured myself doing a not so heavy lift of an empty shelf and my weekend went to shit after that. Three days later I was still guzzling water, hitting the foam roller, and doing several drugs. I started thinking about why so many people are doing this crazy shit. I remember when Willow Koerber (Rockwell)….damn she's still so fucking hot… was trying to continue racing after having her first baby (I think she has 2 kids now) and she blogged a bit about doing Bikram. It sounded like a surreal experience for her. Kind of like going into an opium den and participating in whatever craziness happens in an opium den. I also thought she was a wack job searching for answers. Recently I started to wonder if maybe there was something more to this. Maybe there was something that could be applied to my competitive mindset. Maybe there is a physiological training advantage happening.
I won't get nerdy with Aldosterone, but it's the "sweat hormone". It controls internal temps by causing you to sweat. It's affected by hydration status and whether or not you are "heat trained". I can tell you right now, I sweat more than anyone in those classes. You can hear my mat…it sounds like a rain storm. You don't hear it from the others. They don't have the surface area I have. Maybe this is a "fun(ner)" way to build that tolerance to heat – lots of hot girls sweating and bending their bodies into all kinds of fascinating positions. Maybe the mental aspect of pushing your body to complete all the flows is a great form of mental training. Maybe it can translate to someone's ability to make it through the hot parts of the day during a race. Maybe hot yoga stimulates the production of Aldosterone. I really hated doing research when I was in grad school, so I'll just speculate and let you do whatever research you want to do. If nobody has done any research on this stuff, here you go.
I do know that anything that flips a switch in your brain causing you to push yourself harder, focus more intently, and drive yourself to complete a difficult task is something that will help you be a better athlete. I'm still not convinced that hot yoga is safe or even that awesome, but it is surreal and it does weird things to your brain. I'm always down for stuff like that.


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I've written code that I've compiled into an .exe file just fine. Now I need to create a .dll that I can call from within other applications to do exactly the same thing.
Using Dev-C++ 4.01, when I follow the wizard after clicking on File New Project DLL option, I insert filenames when prompted and files get created all over the place. I don't know how to hook this up to the code I've written. I just need to know, in plain English step-by-step, which of these files I need to edit and into which I can insert the code I've written (the MainDll.h? MainDll.cpp? DLLProjectFilename? DLLTestProjectFilename? ... I've tried almost all combinations) so that the final .dll file will run just like my .exe file.
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I have a tic tac toe game, and I have a file that stores information about all the different people who played my tic tac toe game.
Sometimes an existing player comes in and wants to play again. So, if he wins or loses, I have to update the number of wins and losses he has, in the file.
Except the entire file keeps on getting deleted!!!! Here's exactly what happens: let's say I have ten players in my file. Two of these players get called and successfully retrieved. Then, after the game, I want to overwrite both of the new players' information with their new information. What winds up happening is all ten players are overwritten by the new player info. So, I started off with ten players, and end up with one.
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After taking a backseat to corn for the past several years, soybeans are in the spotlight for 2014. Other crops, such as cotton, rice, peanuts, sunflowers and canola, have also found their way back into farmers' crop mixes.
In its annual Acreage report, released at the end of June, USDA shows more soybeans will be planted this year than ever before. For 2014, 84.8 million acres of soybeans were planted, up 11% from last year. Farmers in Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin planted record-high levels of soybeans.
Meanwhile, corn acres are estimated at 91.6 million acres, down 4% from last year, representing the lowest planted since 2010.
The shift from corn to soybeans wasn't a surprise, says Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group. "Seed companies had told us they sold a lot less corn and more beans this year," he says. "Farmers responded to the marketplace and said they would plant corn, but not go overboard. Then it got late and they switched over to beans."
Crop comebacks
For farmers in areas that have crop options beyond corn and soybeans, this year is a step back to other crops. Here are a few of the crops that are back in vogue for 2014:
- Canola: 1.75 million acres, up 30% from 2013
- Peanuts: 1.32 million acres, up 23% from 2013
- Rice: 3.05 million acres, up 22% from 2013
- Cotton: 11.4 million acres, up 9% from 2013
- Sunflowers: 1.71 million acres, up 8% from 2013
All wheat acres encompass 56.5 million acres, which is up less than 1% from 2013. Sorghum acres dropped 7% from to 2013 to 7.47 million acres for 2014.
As of early July, the 2014 crop season is shaping up well in some areas and is challenging in others, according to farmer reports to AgWeb's Crop Comments. "My crops are off to a good start," says a farmer in Macon County, Ga. "Most corn is tasseling and the first cutting of hay is done and we have fertilized for the second. Weather is about as good as we could have hoped."
In Adams County, Neb., a farmer says the crops look great and record-high yields may be in the cards. "We've had lots of rain, which is far better than drought and declining aquifers," the farmer says. The soybean crop is also off to a great start in the South. "Some localized areas have been wetter than others this spring but on average, things look good," says a Tippah County, Miss., farmer.
Yet, wet weather and summer storms have wreaked havoc in some areas. Flash flooding, hail and continuous days of heavy rain were reported by farmers in Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.
"Crops started late but came up good," says a farmer in Pennington County, Minn. "But, rain and cool weather has hurt small grains and the row crops are small. We are going to need heat and dry weather soon."


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The Watermarks Project, going on this week in Bristol, England, is using projectors in a pretty interesting way. Artists are superimposing plausible high-tide lines onto buildings, demonstrating life should the Greenland ice cap melt.
We believe that most (or all) of these shots are just photoshops teasing the actual projector installations. But it seems like a striking idea—to be walking around your city and see a familiar building half-submerged would really put somewhat incogitable concepts like "global climate change" into tangible perspective. [Watermarks Project via bldgblog]


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Grain markets were mixed on Wednesday with heavy bear spreading in corn and bull spreading in soybeans. The threat of late planting has traders buying corn and selling beans with the idea that some acres will have to switch if planting delays continue. Our outlook remains the same. We want to stay hedged and look to buy some short-dated calls to help protect the upside should spring problems persist.
Soybean basis was stronger again Wednesday on slow producer selling. Traders may also be trying to get long before tomorrow's export sales report is released with expectations of "stronger-than-needed" old crop soybean sales. So far we contracted 1,334,800,000 bushels for export while the USDA is estimating total demand to be 1,350,000,000. With 21 weeks left in the marketing year we have to average less than a million bushels a week in sales to stay under the current estimate. Last year we managed 11.6 million per week during this timeframe, but obviously this was a different year/situation. South American production is much larger than last year but some traders are worried that shipments may not be quick enough to suit China's near term appetite and we could see more old-crop US sales as a result. On the flip side, the March 1st stocks count found more bushels than expected and crush is showing signs of slowing down. That large South American production can quickly turn into a long tail of exports which may lower new crop US bean demand. The bottom line - old crop/new crop soybean spreads once again hinge on the upcoming export demand.
I read an interesting article today about late planting written by Bob Nielson of the Purdue Agronomy Department. Please follow the link below to read about some historical data on late planting.
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Bay Ridge Cares Kitchen: Sandy Relief Through Feeding the Soul
"You want to feed their souls," Francis Lam said to a fellow volunteer as they sorted through a service tray's worth of cauliflower in search of blemishes. "You don't want them to think, 'oh, this is just someone else's garbage that they're throwing away.'"
We were working the prep table of Bay Ridge Cares Kitchen (BRiCK), a pop-up soup kitchen that's been putting out 800 meals a day*, six days a week for those suffering from Hurricane Sandy. Run out of the basement of Saint Mary's Church on 81st and Ridge Avenue in Brooklyn, the kitchen has just one oven and stovetop. Most of the equipment is donated. The backbone of the operation is found in an army of local home cooks, who spend hours dicing stock pots of celery, carrots, and apples. Members of the food industry—whether they be local grocers or high-end cooks—have been helping the operation produce the finest fare possible.
*By the end of the day, they will have served 12400 meals.
BRiCK was born out of the efforts of Allison and Matt Robicelli, whose grassroots relief efforts we profiled; Justin Brannan, an aide to city councilman Vincent Gentile; and Karen Legnetti Tadross, a local theater producer who has taken on the role of floor general with untold vigor.
Occupy Sandy, who the Robicellis connected with before the operation launched, has provided drivers and intel. It is where the gourmet food industry, the church, and radical politics intersect. An early grant from the Mayor's Fund, in tandem with $5,000 credit at Whole Foods secured by Food52, has covered the organization's funding.
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"I've been there sporadically working a few days, sketching out menus based on what we had donated, but mostly my job has been outreach. It's a weird time for me as this is also my company's busy season. We just launched the online store and the MadeInNYC thing, my first draft of the book is due in a few weeks, I've had obligations at my kid's schools, and the boys have been coming home from school covered in germs and getting me sick every week. I am trying to juggle all of this the best I can," Robicelli told me. "I feel like there needs to be six of me right now."
During the days leading up to the kitchen's launch, Robicelli continued to "scream as loud as she could on Twitter and Facebook." Her calls were heeded when she was contacted by Lawrence Daggett, a navy veteran with a background in pastry. Although he had not worked in a professional kitchen for almost a decade, he fell right back into it. Daggett, now a student at Fordham University with aspirations of working in the business side of the food industry, has helped Tadros—described by Robicelli as "the real star of the show"—to run the operation. Robicelli believes the kitchen would not be able to function without Daggett, who she described as "my rock" and a hero. For his part, he wants nothing more than for his love of food to touch those he is cooking for. This was never more obvious than when he recounted a woman enthusiastically thanking BRiCK for making a salad; she had not eaten greens in a week.
There has been other help from within the industry. Robicelli is, herself, in the kitchen whenever possible. Dan Rothstasdt, the River Cafe's banquet chef, relieved Daggett on Fridays and Saturdays for the first two weeks. He logged additional hours this past week, working Monday through Wednesday. Joe Dobias of JoeDough sandwich shop swung by one Monday. Other writers have joined Lam, including Siobhan Wallace and our own Donny Tsang.
"It takes a lot of foresight to put out a meal for 800 people, and Dan knows how. Me and Francis made chili for 500," Daggett told me, "using 30 pounds of beef. It's guerrilla warfare, you just make it work. The first few days were rough. We were trying to piece things together without everything we needed. You have to think about who you're feeding."
Local businesses have been integral to the kitchen's success. Robicelli cited both Charles Elias Salon and the Arab American Association of Bay Ridge as having donated "huge" quantities of meat. She praised Three Guys From Brooklyn for donating fresh produce until they could no longer afford to. On Saturday the 11th alone, local CSA Yellow Hook dropped off three boxes of apples, and Cathy Chambers of Grow NYC dropped off a box full of bread and twelve industrial-sized trash bags stuffed with produce donated by local farmers at a nearby market.
Both The Bread Depo and the International Culinary Center have donated bread. Yemeni live poultry shops brought turkeys for Thanksgiving and—after a kitchen space fell through—many of these birds were roasted at the eleventh hour by local restaurants Tanoreen, Ho'Bra, Elia Restaurant, Something Greek, Casa Calamari, and Cebu.
"My biggest concern when we started was that we knew Thanksgiving was on the horizon. Doing sides and turkey at the same time would've been impossible," Lawrence admitted. "So last Tuesday, I went with Katie [Benner, of Fortune] to the bakery in Bed-Stuy we were supposed to cook turkeys at. But the ovens were too small. At that point, I just didn't know how we were going to do it. I didn't want to put out something I wasn't happy with, and the process of cooking 24 turkeys at 160° and keeping them at holding temperature was daunting. Tommy Casatelli, who owns Ho'Bra and Kettle Black was instrumental in making it happen: he personally butchered and cooked six turkeys in his restaurant, himself. We wouldn't have been able to pull it off without him."
I talked with Lawrence about how his blue collar background has informed his views on food ("I always thought of it as a gift," he told me) and how he never visits Philly, where his two children still live, without getting a roast pork sandwich. We talked about Court Street Grocers, a favorite of his, and how their new Red Hook location was lost to the hurricane. Because they had not opened, taxes were not filed. There will be no relief besides generosity.
BRiCK will close shop on December 15th, when the church will start undergoing renovations. But Robicelli imagines they will have run out by funds by then. She will continue to work on relief-related projects on the side and intends to help out at Occupy Sandy's new Bay Ridge operation. Robicelli is worried, still, that volunteerism will fade. But she has never been prouder to be from Bay Ridge.
As we walked together to his Bay Ridge apartment, Rothstadt told me about how he had been only a few credits away from a masters degree in social work when he dropped out to attend the Culinary Institute of America. But his first foray into the food world had been in high school, when he and a few friends started a soup kitchen that exists to this day. The connection between the soup kitchen and the opulent River Cafe, in Dan's work and the food industry at large, is illuminated by Lam's words on volunteerism in the food world.
"What is it about people in food who reach out to give even when they're not rolling in dough themselves? I don't know," he wrote. "Maybe it's because, for all the glamour around food, it's still very very much a working class industry, and people who work in it know what it's like to be nervous about making it. Maybe it's because some people do get into food service because they love to feed or serve people. Maybe it's because hard work is the primary ethos in food service, and these are people who live and breathe hard work all the time. I can't say, but I do know that Allison and Larry are inspiring to me in how much they care and how much of themselves they're putting into this."
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January 13, 2012
"Most of Apple's $82 billion cash stockpile is 'trapped' overseas."
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- Mark said...
I feel so terrible for them, without a tax loophole to move their money through.
Has Apple ever paid the full 35% corporate rate on any of their current taxes?
Why should I consider the 35% a valid talking point if they never pay at that rate?
- Bob Ellison said...
Similarly, I've got about $10 "trapped" in my wallet, because I could've bought a sandwich yesterday, but didn't, because I thought it'd be cheaper to make one at home.
I agree with the above--I'm open to the argument that corporate taxes are too high, I'm even open to the argument that there shouldn't be corporate taxes (because it's really just a hidden tax on the consumer), but I'm not open to the argument that some special rule should be created allowing Apple to keep all its money simply because it has so freakin much of it.
- KCFleming said...
But but but ....Bain!!!
BTW, Althouse, the left doesn't understand economics in the least. There's no point putting posts up to challenge their view. It won't work.
Ideologically, it's like they're colorblind. They cannot comprehend it.
Even a smart guy like Krugman is dense as hell here. He actually believes there is a multiplier greater than 1 for government spending.
Talk about your Flying Spaghetti Monsters.
NYT calumnist Tom Friedman also believes in the socialist unicorn. It's impossible to fix that degree of stupidity.
(Yes, calumnist.)
- Seeing Red said...
You mean Jobs didn't care about the little people? Who would have known?
- Joe Schmoe said...
Sure it's available for jobs. They'll just be jobs in China, India, and any other up-and-coming technology manufacturer overseas, like South Korea.
Apple's a global company. They'd be stupid to have all their cash in one country's domain. Spreading it out is the smart thing to do and protects them in the event that a national ecomony goes bust (e.g. Europe).
- edutcher said...
In a nutshell, how the Lefties have been driving jobs out of the country for 80 years.
Throw in all the EPA and OSHA regs as well as union "work" rules and even Hatman could understand it.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Who says that the money 'trapped' overseas was ever going to 'create jobs' anyway?
Maybe the company wants to do something else with the funds. It is THEIR choice.
If they want to buy purple giraffes for everyone in their company and throw the biggest party evah!! they can.
They are not obligated to 'create jobs'.
In fact, they may want to decrease jobs. It is none of our business.
- Michael said...
Pogo has it exactly right relative to the financial acumen of the left. For the most part lefties have never owned or started businesses or studied the topic in school. They are spectacularly innumerate.
DBQ, as usual, has the immediate topic pegged. Businesses are not formed, maintained, sold, acquired or dismantled to "create jobs." they are there for the purpose of making the owners and investors money. That said, the trapped cash would make a spectacular dividend if they thought that was the wisest use of the capital. As it is they do not. It would also be stupid on stilts for them to repatriate at current tax rates. Better to be used to expand operations overseas.
- David said...
This money was not made in the United States because it can't be made in the United States. Apple does most of its production offshore because they must do so to compete. Even Apple can not charge any price it wants, just for the privilege of paying higher US costs and taxes. Plus a large percentage of their customer base is overseas.
Just to understand how onerous the corporate tax system is, suppose that Apple then pays the $54 billion out to its shareholders in dividends.
The dividends are taxed at 15% (more if you consider state taxes, surtaxes, AMT etc.). That sends another $8.1 billion to the federal government.
In short, nearly half of the hard earned profit goes to the feds if they repatriate the cash and pay it out to shareholders.
Some may think that's a great result. But it's not the way to create growth and jobs.
- Levi Starks said...
The story is obviously an attempt to paint Apple as unpatriotic.
Apple is one of the biggest corporations on earth. And that 82billion that they've acquired is by making products that consumers around the world have bought with their own hard earned money because they felt like it was the best product they could afford to buy.
It's taken them 30 years of hard work and risk taking to amass that large a sum. By contrast 82B would not be enough to reduce to zero the deficit of one month of the current US budget. (not that we actually have a budget)
If you had 82B where would you put it?
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
If you had 82B where would you put it?
I sure wouldn't put in into the hands of the US Government. You might as well buy the purple giraffes. You'd get a better return on your investment and you would definitely be able to SEE where your money went.
Seriously. I would invest in building businesses or expanding my business in areas of the world that will be experiencing growth and that are more business friendly. India and Malaysia come to mind.
- Unknown said...
Mark: the trapped money was earned overseas, they paid host countries taxes. They'll have to pay another tax moving their money back.
Apple should invest in where their money comes from.
It's not a special rule for Apple. So happens Apple has most money and is preyed on by politician vultures. You know what, Apple can headquarters in the Caymans and not pay US taxes. Their main office can stay in Cupertino.
Do you think it's fair that corporations and the "rich" pay more taxes to finance politicians' vote buying? What happened to the $435 million of taxpayers' money given to billionaire Kaiser's Solyndra? Solyndra's gone bankrupt, workers lost their jobs, management is getting bonuses, Kaiser gets his payback and doubles his bundles to support Obama's re-election. What happened to the three quarter billion given to Pelosi's brother-in-law? Another $400 million to billionaire Perelman? $20 billion to Soros Brazil Petrobra, $2 billion to Al Gore's Spanish green tech? Those are tax money from corporations and the "rich" re-distributed to the super rich. The money given away so readily to the super rich dwarf whatever Apple earns.
- Unknown said...
"US$54 billion of Apple's overall $82 billion in cash is in offshore accounts'...
If Apple attempted to bring that money into the States, through the magic of taxes that $54 billion would transform into $35.1 billion, with the other $18.9 billion disappearing down the federal money hole."
Apple was on the verge of banruptcy before the second coming of Jobs. It may do so again if it does not have another "killer" product. Are we going to bail it out?
- Known Unknown said...
If they want to buy purple giraffes for everyone in their company and throw the biggest party evah!! they can.
Well, that could create jobs for purple Giraffe trainers and party planners.
- holdfast said...
But remember, Apple already paid the local corporate tax rate in the country in which the money was earned.
The US is the only nation in the civilized world which taxes its corporations this way.
- Christopher J Feola said...
Those who levy taxes make the same mistake over and over:
-The business of a business is to make profits.
-If you raise taxes high enough the most profitable thing for a business to do is to avoid taxes.
Simple question: where else could Apple get $18.9 billion?
I guess there's a simple question about all this tax rhetoric: Which is more important to you-having the highest tax rate, or collecting the most tax money?
- Moose said...
Well, so is quite a few other large company's money. Not to give Apple any slack on this, but its endemic to American companies as a whole. Another feature from your old friend, "unintended consequences". It's amazing how often government gets it wrong...
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
It's amazing how often government gets it wrong...
Why....it is almost like they don't have a fucking clue about what they are doing. It is as if they have no real world experience.
Nah. Can't be.
- MayBee said...
The US is the only nation in the civilized world which taxes its corporations this way.
And one of what? 3? that does the same to our citizens.
- cubanbob said...
The shareholder would lynch the board of directors if they repatriated the money. And rightfully so. Giving US corporations the incentive to repatriate their profits would be the true stimulus package, not the idiocy of the last three years.
The duty of management is to the owners, not to waste their money on unnecessary foolishness such as paying taxes they don't have to for services never rendered. But the idiocy of the left is eternal and like the weather there is nothing that can be done about it.
- ken in tx said...
Corporations don't pay taxes, they collect taxes from consumers and pass them on to the government. This needs to be repeated loudly and often.
possible double post, blogger said the first one did not work.
- Col Mustard said...
Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy before the second coming of Jobs. It may do so again if it does not have another "killer" product. Are we going to bail it out?
Apple's new "killer" product is the iCloud. You vill be coerced to keep all your favorite stuff there and share from there. It will cost you money (and privacy and control of your data).
I like to work with pictures and video and treated myself to the Big iMac for Christmas. So purty.
But just try burning a slide show or video on the thing. Absent third-party solutions, no-can-do, anymore. Apple, without fanfare (or forthright acknowledgement) removed the dvd-burning software from the latest version of OS X. In spite of the existence of the software, Apple will not sell it to you.
You can, of course, stream your stuff to the cloud or facebook and the like and expose yourself to the copyright police and God knows who else. If Apple and Google and Facebook have their way, those nasty dvds will soon join 8-track, VHS and floppies in the Tech Museum. Bastards.
Amazon was kind enough to let me return the thing yesterday and seemed genuinely interested in the fact that Apple had altered the capabilty of the machine.
- Revenant said...
Why should I consider the 35% a valid talking point if they never pay at that rate?
I neither know nor care if Apple has ever paid the 35% rate.
The point is that the existence of that 35% rate distorts the economy in ways that hurt Americans.
- Revenant said...
Why....it is almost like they don't have a fucking clue about what they are doing. It is as if they have no real world experience.
The funny thing is... that's the *optimistic* view.
I would say they know exactly what they're doing: winning votes. Either the corporations pay the tax (win) or they keep the money overseas, making them great targets for demagoguery (also win).
Most Americans are too ignorant to understand that every penny a corporation makes ultimately ends up as one or more peoples' income. Ergo corporate taxes are pointless; all they do is get corporations to waste a lot of money and effort trying to minimize tax liability. Oh, and earn votes for politicians.
How much of this cash (or any company w/large amounts of cash overseas) is in Europe and subject to risk from the European financial crisis?
- Brennan said...
Would this be why Apple is rumored to be making a bid for the full broadcast rights to the English Premier League?
If your cash is stuck overseas it will flow to the easiest place to park it while also earning returns.
- Brennan said...
This is an act of patriotism. Apple farts in the general direction of the US corporate tax octopus.
- cubanbob said...
ChRanier said...
How much of this cash (or any company w/large amounts of cash overseas) is in Europe and subject to risk from the European financial crisis?
Whatever the risk actually might be, the perceived risk at this time isn't worth a 35% risk premium.
If the democrats had any brains (but then again if they did they would not be democrats)they would join with republicans and abolish the corporate income tax and just tax the pass through to the shareholders. Cleaner, simpler and more economically efficient and would eliminate a lot of corruption.
But that is too simple and transparant for politicians and bereft of opportunities for graft.
Similarly, I've got about $10 "trapped" in my wallet, because I could've bought a sandwich yesterday, but didn't, because I thought it'd be cheaper to make one at home.
I hope this is as sarcasm because there is no similarity at all.
An actual similarity would be this:
You bought the sandwich at store Y, instead of store X because when you go into store X, the host or hostess takes 35% of whatever is in your wallet before you can buy anything in the store, whereas store Y simply sells you a sandwich without intruding in on and stealing the contents of your wallet for the simple pleasure of stepping into store X.
Who says that the money 'trapped' overseas was ever going to 'create jobs' anyway?
Seriously? If the money is saved, then wherever it is saved will lend out that money to be invested. If it is spent then that spending increases demand on whatever the money is being spent. Either way, both of these activities increase the number of jobs compared to how many jobs exist without that money. In fact, even your example does this.
If they want to buy purple giraffes for everyone in their company and throw the biggest party evah!! they can.
The people who cater that party, supplying the food and drink have jobs because of this spending. The people who breed purple giraffes have jobs because of this party. The people who own and operate the venue where the party is being held have jobs because of this party.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
Seriously? If the money is saved, then wherever it is saved will lend out that money to be invested. If it is spent then that spending increases demand on whatever the money is being spent. Either way, both of these activities increase the number of jobs compared to how many jobs exist without that money. In fact, even your example does this.
You are, of course correct.
However, we all know that isn't what the Democrats mean when they petulantly demand that Apple or other companies bring their money back to the United States.
The expectation is that Apple itself will add to its work force and 'create jobs' by hiring more people do do whatever it is that Apple does.
The expectation is that if Apple doesn't 'create jobs' then the government will confiscate their money and magically wave a big assed fairy godmother wand and 'create jobs'.
In fact, by following your rationale of allowing the money that was saved and earned to be spent into the economy and that spending therefore by default 'creates jobs'.....then if the Government let us KEEP more of our money (instead of confiscating it) we the people would spend it and create a lot more jobs.
The money spent directly by the businesses and by the PEOPLE would in fact create MORE jobs than the government because there would not be a gigantic black hole, called the Federal and State governments, that sucks up a big portion of the funds before they get to the job creators or even to the employed.
If we have more money IN our own pockets we can more quickly and more directly increase the velocity of money.
For every dollar of taxes stolen by the government, it is probably that only 15 cents actually goes towards the 'creation of jobs'.
* as if jobs are some sort of product that we can manufacture from thin air with no demand and shove out on an assembly line.
Thanks for the clarification, Bunny.
- Revenant said...
Who says that the money 'trapped' overseas was ever going to 'create jobs' anyway?
I'm trying to think of how I could spend $85 billion of my own money without creating any jobs. So far I've come up with "spend $20 on a paper shredder and feed the other $84,999,999,980 into it".
Maybe you're more imaginative than me?
- viator said...
One of Sarah Palin's proposals in the Indianola speech addressed this problem. She advocated eliminating the corporate income tax which would immediately repatriate approximately $1.5 trillion of offshore monies including Apple's profits and at the same time eliminate the ongoing scam of congress selling tax loopholes to corporations for campaign contributions.
- Bob Loblaw said...
Has Apple ever paid the full 35% corporate rate on any of their current taxes?
No, and neither does just about any multinational. Most of them use offset pricing schemes to move US profits to places like Ireland where the corporate tax is lower.
Corporate taxes are a feel-good policy for people who think they're getting something for nothing instead of paying the tax when they buy products and services. In the case of the Ireland shifters like Microsoft, American consumers are paying Irish taxes.
You must have to be a genius to work in Washington.
Revenent, you are still creating jobs for paper shredder companies. But along this line, you could just get all that money into a room and leave it there never to spend.
But even this is good for everyone else. By taking $85B out of circulation, you increase the purchasing power of all other dollars that are being spent.
Having Apple's money overseas like this doesn't do this, since I'm sure Apple doesn't have an extra room somewhere to house $85B in cash, so they have it stored in a financial institution. This institution is using that money to finance other investments. But since this money will remain overseas (many places outside the US accept dollars as currency), the investments will too (otherwise they will be subject to the same taxes). Thus all the jobs created from these investments will be overseas.
In other words, this tax policy is actively driving jobs from the US to overseas locations. Not to worry, though, somebody in favor of corporate taxes (especially high corporate taxes) will simply dismiss this as non-sense and continue to enact policies that drive jobs away from the US.
- Jason said...
Hey, libtards! Which represents more money for the Treasury? 10 percent of an assload of money? Or 35 percent of nothin'?
I'm looking at you, Garage!
Answer on point for once in your pathetic, miserable existence.
- rcocean said...
Apple is a global company with plants , officers, stockholders, and employees all over the world.
If you think its "American" you're an idiot.
- rcocean said...
"Corporations don't pay taxes, they collect taxes from consumers and pass them on to the government."
That's bullshit. Corporation's sell stuff based on what price maximizes revenue. It doesn't raise or lower prices based on how much Tax it pays.
As stated above, Apple is a global corporation, the effect of the US corporate tax rate is minimal.
That's bullshit. Corporation's sell stuff based on what price maximizes revenue. It doesn't raise or lower prices based on how much Tax it pays.
First and foremost, corporations are collections of individuals pursuing a common goal and interacting with other individuals, who may be working with other individuals towards a common goal or simply by himself. All taxes are paid by the individual. Either the customer or the shareholder. You cannot get something for nothing; all taxes have costs. Those costs fall on individuals. Obfuscating or deliberately misunderstanding that fact by calling a collection of individuals corporations is simply a game to be played to ignore the very real human costs of taxation.
Additionally, you clearly have no idea how much your third sentence contradicts the second. Taxes affect revenue. Raising taxes reduces revenue. Because of this government imposed reduction in revenue, prices will certainly be affected, as the incentives for the individuals changed.
Do you really think that taxes are a free lunch? That government taking wealth from people has no costs?
- rcocean said...
I have no idea how your post related to mine. I know my point, I don't know what your's is.
So I'll restate my point. Corporation charge what the market will bear. The price consumers pay is base on that. Remember that supply and demand curve from Econ 101?
Whether Apple, for example will raise it prices to "pass on a tax" or eat it will depend on a lot of factors. Therefore, to say consumers ultimately pay the Corporate tax is bullshit. If that's the case, why are Corporations trying to get rid of it? After all, if they pass on the tax, what do they care?
Its Bullshit argument, like "free trade is ALWAYS good" or "Immigration ALWAYS makes everyone richer".
- Automatic_Wing said...
And which corporations are "trying to get rid of" corporate taxes, rcocean? Certainly not Apple.
- Known Unknown said...
Whether Apple, for example will raise it prices to "pass on a tax" or eat it will depend on a lot of factors. Therefore, to say consumers ultimately pay the Corporate tax is bullshit. If that's the case, why are Corporations trying to get rid of it? After all, if they pass on the tax, what do they care?
If they paid less in taxes, they could lower prices (thsu the tax burden to the consumer) increase volume, and make more money.
Or they could invest in R&D, new lines of business, acquisitions, expansion, or purple giraffe parties.
All of which is part of GROWTH POLICY which no one in Washington talks about anymore.
- Known Unknown said...
Corporation charge what the market will bear.
Taxes distort markets.
- Carnifex said...
@$#@$#@%@$&#&$# damn computer
Had a long post trying to explain to rcocean econ 102 and hit the wrong button and erased everything.
So I'll settle for a quote by Jack Kennedy (the second coming before Obama for dems) "A rising tide floats all boats", ya' douche.
I have no idea how your post related to mine.
Because you talk of a corporation as if it's devoid of any real humans, when in fact corportations are groups of people cooperating to achieve some objective. When you raise corporate taxes, you raise taxes on these people and their consumers. McDonald's doesn't pay their corporate taxes, their customers, shareholders (through lower stock prices and dividends) and employees (through lower wages) do. Reading what you've written about corporate taxes you seem blithely aware that it is a double tax. You first tax employees for income, consumers in sales tax, and shareholders in capital gains, then take from these people further, but call it "corporate" taxes, as if some piece of paper or sign, not hard working people bear this burden.
to say consumers ultimately pay the Corporate tax is bullshit.
Since corporations only earn money through consumer transactions it's merely a tautology to say that consumers pay corporate taxes. To say that's "bullshit" is simply to say that you don't understand markets, which is taught in Econ 101.
If that's the case, why are Corporations trying to get rid of it?
Because they know higher prices reduce consumption. The best way to maximize profits is to sell to as wide an audience as possible. Ask Sam Walton. Addtitionally, since the US has one of the most highly skilled workforce and the most dynamic work force, executives want to do business in the US as much as possible, particularly high tech companies like Apple. Since the government takes 35% right off the top, it's not worth it to tap that US work force. While they don't make as much money as they could using foreign workers as they could using US workers in a free market, they can make more using foreign workers because greedy politicians make it that way and are supported by useful idiots such as yourself.
Its Bullshit argument, like "free trade is ALWAYS good" or "Immigration ALWAYS makes everyone richer".
No one makes these arguements. The arguemnt is that in the long run both ARE good and DO make people richer. But why bring these up? These are simply red herrings to distract from your own demonstrable stupidity.
Its Bullshit argument, like "free trade is ALWAYS good"
I'd also like to clarify that free trade is always good. I don't think this is clear from my previous comment, since I was addressing immigration as well. The reason free trade is always good is because the freedom to do what I want with my own body, capital, and property is good. In fact, that is the definition of free trade. Since this liberty is equivalent to free trade and that liberty is always good, free trade is good.
Tell me, what is good about reducing my choice about what products to purchase? Is it good to force me to buy hamburgers exclusively from McDonald's rather than any other hamburger vendor? If not why not?
Even you should be able to figure out that keeping me from purchasing a burger from Wendy's, Five Guys, or Outback, by force, is not good. If you can recognize that I should able to buy a hamburger from any restaurant I want (and that that liberty is always good because the alternative is the use of force on someone who is going about their day in a peaceful manner), why is it so hard for you to understand that it is always good for me to have the choice to buy something from Canada? Or Germany? Or China? Or Iran?
Free trade by definition means voluntary exchange of goods and services free of coercion. But because you don't like the way some people spend their money, you gladly use force to make others buy things you want them to buy without regard to their desires or preference. Then you have the audacity to say that force is good.
It's repulsive.
Not sure what happened to one of my comments, but anyway…
The first part of my original comment was to remind you that corporations are simply groups of individuals. The use of the word corporation blurs or completely hides that as is evident from your language. Taxes hurt consumers, the individuals who purchase products (which is everyone on the planet) and all those working together to form corporations. It's easy to spew envy and jealousy at a corporation because you've lost touch with the humanity of what a corporation is. You view collections of people, seemingly, with disgust and hate, as if these groups of people (which includes nearly everyone on the planet) are less than human. Guess what? If you have a job, you're part of a corporation. Use you the word corporation to distance yourself from humanity in order to spew the destructive non-sense that brings misery to real people, many of whom are struggling right now.
The second part of my original comment was to get you to understand that there are costs to taxation, which directly, and negatively, impact everyone, except for the greedy politicians who stand to gain enormously from this wealth appropriation.
to say consumers ultimately pay the Corporate tax is bullshit.
Since corporations only get their money from consumers, it's a tautology to say this. To call it bullshit only highlights your misunderstanding. But I assume you mesa something like: if taxes on A increase the cost per unit X by $t, then the price, $y, of X doesn't increase by $t, right? So what? The government still burdens people unnecessarily by $t/X, right? The entire cost must be burdened by someone. These burdens are born mostly by the consumer, seen in increased prices, which results in reduced consumption. This again is another cost. Those who could originally afford X now cannot due to higher prices. Additionally, the reduced consumption may result (but not always) in less revenue. If this is the case, workers will begin to lose their jobs. What do you have against all these people?
Its Bullshit argument, like "free trade is ALWAYS good" or "Immigration ALWAYS makes everyone richer"
I've all ready addressed why you're wrong about trade and that it really is always good. But as to people who say "immigration ALWAYS makes everyone richer", I'm calling bullshit. I bet you can't find anyone who makes such a statement. However, the liberty of free movement of peaceful (which represents almost all immigrants) IS always good, but I don't know too many people who say that it always makes us richer. On average is does, but not always. You've simply erected a straw man, but couldn't even muster the intellectual competence to knock it down. Ha! So lazy.
Taxes are passed along to customers. Here is an example from the company I work for, a multinational big box with 2,000 stores in the U.S., plus more overseas.
Each store's performance is judged by sales, profit margin, NBT (Net profit Before Taxes), and after tax profits. We track these metrics daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually.
Now, hypothetically, let's say our store's goals for this year are: annual sales of $30 million, gross profit margin of 30 percent, and NBT goal of $9 million. Our after tax profit goal, with the existing federal tax rate, is $3 million.
Next year, the federal tax rate is increased.
The company now has a choice to make. Raise prices to maintain each store's after tax profit, i.e. pass the higher taxes onto the customer, or accept reduced profitability.
Since the company is in business to make a profit, and the corporate officers and directors have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits, then the cost of goods sold will most likely be increased to maintain profitability.
Competition will limit price increases to a certain extent, but our competitors are facing the same choice. Increase prices to maintain profitability, accept lower profits thus violating the fiduciary responsibility to the owners, or, start closing marginally profitable stores to lower costs and maintain the corporation's overall profit rate.
Keep in mind, though, that the difference between an acceptably profitable store (10 percent after tax profit) and a marginally profitable store (below 10 percent after tax profit) may be the amount of the tax increase.
If a store is making 10 percent after taxes but the tax increase lowers that to eight percent, then the store is in trouble.
If the market can not bear higher prices, and the store is already operating as efficiently as possible, then that store and its employees are history.
Shorter version: Taxes are a cost of doing business and that cost is paid for by the consumer because the cost of taxation is built into the pricing and profit formulas from day one. There is no other way to pay the taxes and pay the owners at the same time.
- Rusty said...
The reason free trade is always good is because the freedom to do what I want with my own body, capital, and property is good. In fact, that is the definition of free trade. Since this liberty is equivalent to free trade and that liberty is always good, free trade is good.
That should be etched on the wall,above the dry erase board, of every economics classroom in the country.
- Carnifex said...
Yeah!!! What those guys said!!
- Lord Whorfin said...
They should leave it overseas, unless they can make an investment big enough to cover the tax, then they will spend it.


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By Robin Schmahl
The cycle of low milk prices has again returned. This is shown by the Class III futures contracts for 2009. Next year will be a time to tighten our belts again. Milk prices will be below almost everyone's cost of production, similar to how it was in 2000, 2002, and 2006.
The average base milk price in 2000 was $9.78 and the average in 2002 was $10.42. In 2006 the average 2006 was $11.89 and the average for 2009 is currently at $14.19 per cwt. Most contracts for the first half of the year are trading below $14.00. There is some anticipation that Class III price will drop below $13.00 before it is all said and done. Earlier this summer there was an estimate released that suggested the milk price would cycle back up to high prices by late next year. However, that idea has since been abandoned due to the impact of the financial markets on potential demand.
Economic times such as how have not bee seen in quite some time. The deflationary cycle is feeding on itself and it is unclear what it will take to break that cycle. We are treading in new territory of which none of us can anticipate what will happen next. Now is the time of year when consumer buying is typically at its peak.
Dairy prices have been falling in most cases despite the strong cheese prices. At least this is extending the duration of time that better milk prices will be received. Dry whey price has fallen to 18 cents per pound; nonfat dry milk price is at 87 cents (with powder being sold to the CCC almost on a daily basis); and butter has dropped into the $1.20s. The November Class III price was announced at $15.51 per cwt. and even though it is a decrease of $1.55 from October, the price is still not too bad. If the current cheese prices are maintained for another two weeks, the December price will not be too bad either. There real concern is over prices for next year. The Holidays will be over and a period of slower demand will be upon us.
During the past two years the seasonality of the market has changed. Buyers are willing to purchase cheese during the early part of the year and pay the extra storage. Waiting became too costly as they chased the market higher in the summer and fall, many times paying more for cheese or butter than they wanted. Recently, buyers became more aggressive pushing cheese and milk prices to record highs during spring flush.
It is likely this will change again in the upcoming year due to the tight credit and the unwillingness to hold product any longer than necessary. Buying will be done only when necessary unless they feel prices are low enough to be attractive to build some cushion for later demand. Manufacturers will limit production to orders rather than keep plants full and then market the manufactured products. Once all holiday orders are filled, I anticipate the cheese market to decline quickly and significantly. It is likely cheese prices will fall below $1.60 with a possibility of falling below $1.50 before it is over. This is the cold, hard reality.
On the bright side, the November milk/feed ratio improved, posting a ratio of 2.13. This is the best it has been since February. The fact that feed prices have dropped faster than milk prices is a blessing. This may not last indefinitely and these low prices are prompting us to sit up and take notice. The recommendation is to set target prices for feed purchases for next year. Grain markets are weak, but prices may be near the bottom, and once that is evident end-users will step up and buy for the upcoming year pushing grain prices higher. You do not want to be caught with increasing feed costs and low milk prices.
Upcoming reports to watch for are the World Agricultural Supply and demand report on December 11; the Crop Production report on December 11; the November Monthly Milk Production report on December 18; The November Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Monthly report on December 18; and the November Monthly Cold Storage report on December 22.
--Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their Web site at www.agdairy.com.
The thoughts expressed and the data from which they are drawn are believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. Any opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. There is risk of loss in trading and may not be suitable for everyone. Those acting on this information are responsible for their own actions.
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Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi is where you will discover a vibrant blend of East and West influences. The city has successfully come through decades of war practically unscathed and as you stroll through the Hanoi streets, you'll come across pieces of history from bygone days.
Hanoi is the home to narrow streets where the atmosphere is always bustling and full of life. You will be able to catch a glimpse of a great selection of Colonial and Pre-Colonial architecture that can be spotted in a large number of areas of the Vietnamese capital.
Hanoi is moped country and you will see dozens of mopeds whizzing by at incomprehensible speeds. It can be fun trying to cross any Hanoi street as you will definitely have a close encounter with a moped at some stage of your holiday to Hanoi.
The Vietnamese capital is where you will discover a great selection of historical and cultural monuments and you will have the chance of learning about different Vietnamese dynasties that have enjoyed power in Vietnam.
Hanoi's Old Quarter, which is situated close to Hoan Kiem Lake, is a very popular place to visit during your holiday in Hanoi. During your visit to this spectacular Old Quarter, you are sure to come across merchants selling their goods and it is a major hub for small artisans.
If you are a history buff, this Vietnam city is definitely for you. You will be able to learn about Hanoi's 1,000 year history and learn all the historical facts of what happened in this city and further afield during that time.
Hanoi is also the home to breathtaking lakes and the city of Hanoi has been dubbed ''The City of Lakes.''
There are so many sights and attractions for you to see during your holiday in Hanoi, including the Vietnam Military History Museum, Cat Ba National Park, One Pillar Pagoda, which is a historic Buddhist Temple. It is known throughout Vietnam as one of the country's two most iconic temples after the Perfume Temple. Other places that you certainly have to visit are the Temple of Literature and the 900-year old Hanoi Citadel.
Hanoi is where you will find a great selection of stylish bars and hip nightclubs where you will able to enjoy the night-time scene and party until the wee hours of the morning.
Enjoy this charming Vietnamese city where imagination certainly becomes reality.
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The CAS Writing Center
The CAS Writing Center will offer online consultations for the duration of BU's remote learning period. Students in WR and other CAS courses can sign up for an appointment via WCOnline using the scheduling link below. Students can sign up for appointments up to a week in advance. A few minutes before your scheduled appointment time, please log into WCOnline, click on your appointment, and then click "Join online consultation" in the pop-up window.
While the Writing Center hopes to maintain a regular schedule, please note that we may need to make scheduling adjustments based on the availability of our consultants. Thank you for your patience and flexibility during this time. If you have any questions, please email Writing Center Coordinator Heather Barrett at email@example.com.
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Writing Appointments
The CAS Writing Center offers one-on-one appointments free of charge to students with papers from Writing Program courses (CAS WR courses) and their equivalents (such as EN 120, EN 220, HI 150, etc) and to students with papers from other CAS courses (on a walk-in basis only). Appointments are provided for CAS academic papers only. For help with career-related, technical, and professional writing, or papers for other BU courses, please contact the Educational Resource Center, the COM Writing Center, or the Center for Career Development.
Appointments take place at the Writing Center and at a satellite location at Mugar Library. Students may reserve writing appointments online, by phone, or in person as follows:
If you are seeking help for a WR paper or a paper in a WR-equivalent course, you may sign up by phone (617-358-1500), in person, or online . Be sure to sign up with the consultant specializing in your class level. For example, if you are enrolled in WR 111, sign up only with those consultants next to whose names you see a (WR 111) designation. If you are enrolled in WR 120 or WR 150, please do not sign up for slots intended for students in other class levels. Because of the high demand for writing services, signing up for consultants who do not specialize in your class level will cause you to receive a warning notice and your appointment to be canceled.
If you are seeking help for a paper from a CAS course that is not a WR course, you are welcome to use the center on a walk-in basis. Online or phone reservations will not be accepted for non-WR (or non-WR-equivalent) CAS courses. As a walk-in, please come at the start of an appointment time to check if a consultant is available. Appointments begin at 9 a.m., and each one lasts 45 minutes.
Due to the high demand for services in the center, we encourage you to reserve your appointments a week in advance. Please review our policies before coming to your first appointment.
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"The Sydney Consort is one of Australia's most energetic music ensembles devoted to early music of the 17th and 18th Century. Originally consisting of three members the group brings together Australia's finest musicians and singers to a small chamber orchestra of up to fifteen performers. Formed in 1997 and led by artistic directors Monika and Stan Kornel, the Sydney Consort is an ensemble dedicated to bringing beauty and wisdom of Baroque music to a rapidly growing audience. The ensemble has performed music ranging from the 16th to 18th Century, as well as contemporary Australian music, and with concert themes such as English, French, German and Italian Baroque, Music and Poetry, and the Johann Sebastian Bach concertos."
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Turns out Ryan Gosling plays a good Samaritan in real life.
The Academy Award-nominated star was apparently caught on camera breaking up a fight in an intersection in New York's East Village.
A YouTube video documenting the deed shows a man who looks like the "Crazy, Stupid, Love" actor successfully separating two men who were getting physical near St. Mark's Place (Watch for Gosling's entrance about 30-seconds into the video. He's wearing a blue cap and striped tank top). The incident went down on 8th Street, according to the New York Daily News.
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At some point in the vid, onlookers realize they're watching "that guy from the movie … 'The Notebook'" and begin to shriek.
"Are you serious?" one woman says. "You're lying … Oh My God it is!"
E! News reports Gosling's rep has yet to comment on the viral vid, which was uploaded two days ago.
Selected Reading: E!, Daily News, EW


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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, Sept. 4
Picks of the day
- 12-for-28 (.429) vs. DET LHP Kenny Rogers
- 13-for-31 (.419) in last 7 G
- 1-for-1 vs. OAK LHP Dan Meyer
- .500 AVG during 8-game hit streak
Yesterday's picks, results
- Derek Jeter (NYY), 1-for-5
- Brian Roberts (BAL), 1-for-3
Top 5 current leaders
1. cubdane (Dustin Pedroia)
2. huhino (Albert Pujols)
3. jnay017 (Raul Ibanez)
3. rustyolson56 (Dustin Pedroia)
3. trizzy7 (Albert Pujols)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
The Top 5 — the last remaining BTS competitors capable of reaching 57 games — all survived to play another day. BTS leader cubdane took another step closer to Joe DiMaggio at 35 games after staying with the hot-hitting Dustin Pedroia, who went 1-for-3 against the Orioles.
Also benefiting from Pedroia's performance was rustyolson56, whose streak improved to 32 games. Keeping pace were his third-place counterparts jnay017 and trizzy7 (yesterday's Fan of the Day), thanks to the steady hitting of Raul Ibanez (2-for-4) and Albert Pujols (1-for-4), respectively.
Picking Pujols also kept second-place competitor huhino in the running, right behind cubdane, at 33 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players:
1. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 8.6%, 3-for-4
2. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 7.8%, 1-for-4
3. Albert Pujols (STL): 7.7%, 1-for-4
4. Derek Jeter (NYY): 4.2%, 1-for-5
5. Matt Holliday (COL): 2.9%, 0-for-3
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It looks like frewerdj has won the MLB.com Survivor contest! The 2nd place runner up at 33 games (1 of only 2 fans to survive the leaderboard cleansing when the Twins lost to the Mariners 3-2, in 11 innings in Seattle with Liriano starting against Batista I believe,) lost with the Brewers today, 5-2 to the Padres.
In retrospect, his pick makes sense, in accordance with the way he's picked his teams over the last week or so, which emphasized the team, home-field advantage, and hot/cold streaks, regardless of who was pitching. That's how he came up with the Cubs that huge elimination day, even though the Pirates were starting Jeff Karstens who had only made 4 starts so far this year at that point, all quality starts.
I know the Brewers just got swept by the Mets, but the Brewers at home against the Padres is a tempting proposition, especially with just 6 games to pick from (although you could have used the Royals with the doubleheader and still won with them sweeping, but no one would ever do that for the team contest.)
However, I think the Devil Rays were the core pick today, simply because of a mix of team advantage: Yankees probably won't sweep IN Tampa Bay and pitching advantage: Kazmir over Darrell Rasner.
No one else on the leaderboard is even active, which means at best, someone's streak is at 24 games, which still gives them enough time.
However, that 6-8 week period was unlike any in MLB.com Survivor history, so with the last fragment of that group being eliminated, I think frewerdj can breathe a sigh of relief and finally celebrate his victory!
After all, the old Survivor record was only 24 games coming into this season. Now the whole leaderboard is at least tied with that mark. So most likely that period of intense activity will never be reached again…at least not for another 6-7 years.


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I got Feldman fever folks! And the cure right now is some new stills from his upcoming spooky new supernatural flick "Six Degrees Of Hell". I'm not sure I would be talking about the movie if Feldman wasn't in it but if you think about it I wouldn't be talking about Feldman if he wasn't in "Dream a Little Dream". Did I just mind F you so hard that you need a cigarette?
Let's be honest there's no real reason we should be covering "Real Steel" on this site but the fact that the movie stars Hugh Jackman as a father trying to bond with his son by fixing up a fighting robot means I will give this thing more coverage than "Scream", "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" combined. It's that important. And today there's an adorable new Brazilian poster for the film that has Jackman looking like a dream boat while two robots fight. My heart has never felt this kind of warmth.
"Straw Dogs" has officially shot it's way to the number 1 spot on my list of most un-needed remakes. But it's happening and today there's a couple new clips from the movie that hits theaters on September 16th. For those of you who don't remember the original it stared Dustin Hoffman as man who moves to a small town with his wife and begins being terrorized by some local workers. Things get uncomfortable... in a "Last House On the Left" sort of way.
Indie zombie flicks are usually about as fun as... well indie zombie flicks but every once in a while you come up with a winner. I can't think of any off the top of my head but I'm sure there's one out there. Was "Shaun of the Dead" indie or just British? Anyway "Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles" is indie and by god it looks pretty decent. At least the zombies do. I don't know, watch the trailer and shut your face.


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When she speaks at the Women Together event in Rutherford County Feb. 2 at Isothermal Community College�s Performing Arts Center, Jeanne Robertson will use her funny style to illustrate that a sense of humor is more than a laughing matter.
When she speaks at the Women Together event in Rutherford County Feb. 2 at Isothermal Community College�s Performing Arts Center, Jeanne Robertson will use her funny style to illustrate that a sense of humor is more than a laughing matter. It is a strategy for success that she will share in her down-home Southern drawl. Here�s a list of five things you need to know about this former Miss North Carolina.
1. Barefooted with her hair �mashed� down, she�s 6 foot 2 in her size 11B stocking feet. She was the Miss Congeniality winner in the Miss America Pageant.
2. She has been awarded every top honor in her profession including the top award in professional speaking �The Cavett Award.� She is also a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame and recipient of Toastmasters International�s Golden Gavel award. The NC Press Association named Jeanne its 2001 North Carolinian of the Year. Most recently, he National Speakers Association honored Jeanne with its 2012 Master of Influence Award.
3. Her YouTube clips have had more than 15 million hits. She has given thousands of speeches or theater shows around the country over the last 49 years.
4. Her humor has a serious message: �A sense of humor is an attitude, an approach toward working with people.� She believes that this humor attitude can be developed and improved, and she outlines how to do so while captivating audiences with funny, original stories.
5. She has been interviewed by CBS correspondent Morley Safer on �60 Minutes,� can be heard daily on Sirius/XM Radio�s Family Comedy Channels.
Want to go?
Tickets for Robertson�s performance are $34 and $29 and may be purchased by calling Isothermal�s box office at 828-286-9990 or online at Foundationshows.org. Come early to view the Lilly Oncology on Canvas and Statesville Stained Glass exhibits. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m., and Robertson�s performance will begin at 3. Women Together is Rutherford Regional Health Foundation�s annual event to provide financial support for women�s programs offered through the Rutherford Regional Cancer Resource Center. Proceeds will be used to pay for mammograms for uninsured women in the Rutherford County area and to sustain the Cancer Patient Navigator program for women from their diagnosis with cancer through their recovery. Rutherford Internal Medicine Associates and 21st Century Oncology are sponsors of Robertson�s performance.


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Students walk across a new bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village on November 29, 2012.
Children in Indonesia are taking a perilous route to school using a broken suspension bridge. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
A perilous daily journey undertaken by a group of Indonesian schoolchildren just got a whole lot easier.
In January, PhotoBlog reported on the dangerous river crossing the children faced after a bridge collapsed. Ten months on, Reuters reports that a new bridge has opened.
Epi Sopian, the head of Sanghiang Tanjung village, said the bridge had been built with the assistance of non-governmental organizations and the country's largest steel producer, PT Krakatau Steel.
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Then and now: A combination photo shows children crossing the old collapsed bridge (top) on January 29, 2012, and students using the new bridge (below) on November 29, 2012.
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The massive earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan hit home in California, and we aren't just talking about the damage in the harbor in Santa Cruz.
There are deep historical ties that run deep between Japan and California. Japanese began coming to the U.S. more than one hundred years ago, with most first settling in California.
Even today, two of the three Japan Towns in the U.S. are here in California -- one in Los Angeles and the other in San Jose.
The destruction in Japan has caught not only the attention of California, but the U.S. government as well. As has been the case with disasters elsewhere--Indonesia and Haiti are recent reminders--the U.S. government is delivering everything from food to technical assistance. All this will cost money in the form of what we commonly call foreign aid, and that presents its own firestorm.
Foreign aid long has been a controversial topic in American politics. A number of leading Republicans have recently said that we need to drastically limit foreign aid to help reduce our $1.4 trillion deficit. Unfortunately, foreign aid accounts for a drop of that amount.
A recent national survey found that on average, people believe we spend 25 percent of the national budget on foreign aid; that would be about $850 billion. When asked what we should spend on foreign aid, the median reply in the same survey was 10 percent, or $350 billion. In fact, the U.S. spends $35 billion on foreign aid, or about 1 percent of the budget. Not only that, but when compared to other industrialized nations, the U.S. spends a smaller percentage of its budget on foreign aid than all of the others.
Why do we make foreign aid available to other nations when we have so many problems at home?
Here the answer is somewhat philosophical and practical. They range from feelings of humanitarianism to promoting political alliances.
All of which takes back to the tragedy in Japan. The Japanese need help desperately and the U.S. is helping along with other nations. In the wake of this disaster and our longstanding alliance with the Japanese, it will be interesting to see whether the calls for reduced foreign aid persist.