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Picketty, Rifkin and the future of prosperity
Thomas Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century is drawing much deserved praise. I've also been reading Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, an envisioning of a post-Capitalistic collaborative commons, which deals with a scenario Picketty describes but cannot project in his economic analysis, because it assumes unlikely progress in clean energy and technological gains that, even after all we've seen in our lives, may not be plausible. Rifkin's vision, which proved extremely compelling in The Third Industrial Revolution and his popular writings on the impact of the Internet, may be an important element of the future economy. Picketty's analysis suggests we need that vision if we are to sustain anything close to the prosperity we are used to in the West as economic opportunity spreads.
Picketty's findings that inequality is a structural feature of capitalistic societies suggests that, if we do not put policies in place to modulate the level of inequality, the economy will eventually collapse in social unrest. Equality of opportunity — access to knowledge, education, and the basic requirements of life — is the soundest foundation for an unequal but fair outcome. I wholeheartedly agree with Picketty that the U.S. in particular has failed to continue to invest in providing that fair start to its citizens.
In Rifkin's model, the cost of producing the next copy of virtually anything, except for the cost of materials, will be negligible in the future, because of the increased efficiency of production, logistics and support systems due to digitization, transportation and communications innovations. Meanwhile, the cost of inventing the next new thing will remain high, and it is in that innovation space that fortunes will be made, as investment and risk are part and parcel of any innovation. So, someone may discover a new drug at a very high cost, but the cost of reproducing that drug, once it is discovered, will be very low. Wealth will be made in volume, so to speak, selling lots of copies of that initially expensive design for the drug in the form of pills or injectables, a little each time the product is delivered. The paydays for those innovations happen before the wealth is actually earned, as the startup is sold to the public, which can harvest the projectable, but still uncertain, profits of distributing that innovation. Sounds very much like what we have today, right?
But it is not, it represents a segmentation of economic activity into innovation and reproduction. Rifkin's innovators will continue to have huge paydays, the copiers of innovation — even within the company doing the inventing — will be living on marginal improvements in their income and what they can reap in terms of improved standard of living and buying power due to the efficiencies. A new organizational model, the collaborative collective, in which costs and benefits are shared, sometimes literally in the sense that a purchase may be shared by many people, will fill in the "gap" between wealth and sustenance. Think car-sharing or serial re-use of products. I would call this "public hand-me-downs" as a kind of shorthand for the idea that someone buying a car may pass it along in a structured agreement to others; one may buy a new car every year for the enjoyment of it, but the car comes with a built-in sharing network that will distribute the residual value of the vehicle to others as the first buyer moves on to the next car.
Here's where Picketty's findings come back to present the real challenge. If inequality is a structural feature of markets — and it is, Picketty shows as incontrovertibly as an economist can — the innovators will increasingly separate themselves from the other citizens of their countries in order to increase the efficiency of their capital investments — they will seek out low-tax or special tax situations for physical plants and ethereal innovative thinking will no longer have a home in a nation. Vast differences in pay today will continue to translate into growing inequality in the future. Rifkin's notion of a collaborative commons co-existing with an innovation economy describes what will happen to the ordinary person in any country: They'll be left to fend for themselves as the wealthy pursue innovative opportunities anywhere on the planet. In those local lobes of the Marginal Cost Society, poorer citizens will have to share goods they could not afford alone. I think Rifkin's projection of the collaborative commons is a picture of the post-national capitalism that will give the wealthiest people a perpetual and increasingly closed range of options that others do not share, even if that is not his intention — he's simply projecting the economic model that is emerging in response to pervasive inequity. The new transnational aristocracy will get these options without sharing their fair share of the cost of sustaining a nation, its legal system, its rights and the burdens of citizenship.
Wealth is going trans-national, beyond the control of any organizational model. Picketty's inequality leads to the necessity of Rifkin's collaborative commons, because everyone in today's upper middle-class down to the poorest of people will be competing only for a fraction of the marginal cost of production while innovation becomes the province of the super-wealthy. The gains from innovation will continue to accrue to the wealthy and economic mobility will be a very rare phenomenon.
Some of you will be screaming "Marxist" or "Leftist" by this point, but I want you to suspend that for a moment. I am not calling for any particular program to respond to this phenomenon, rather I am saying we need to recognize it and factor it into our thinking. If reasoning based on well documented historical data is not allowed because it suggests an ideology, we're never going to make any progress. We'll just argue over ideological ghosts. Communism was a spent notion before the Soviet Union, even if it seems to be threatening to rise again in the Age of Putin. Put that behind us and begin to reason about how to establish a fair foundation for competition from any economic level of society, which will increase economic and mobility, and you have a chance to stem the tide if inequity. Why?
Because inequity can eventually destroy our societies. The Economist argues effectively for aiming for a measure of overall material well-being, as it both acknowledges inequity and dismisses the inevitability of revolution due to inequity. I think the editors at The Economist are being a bit glib about the impact of inequality; our memories are conditioned by extraordinary progress in technology, organization, energy production and much, much more, and they minimize what it would be like to recognize stark inequity in one's own life. But stark inequity is what all but the top .06 percent or so of the population experience as a growing reality in their lives. Yes, the quality of our lives may be improving overall, but the disparities are increasing, too. An accurate measure of material well-being, even one predicated on the buying power of a population relative to the value of their currency, as Picketty suggests, would be a far better basis for policy analysis.
In the long run, we'll all be dead, Johnny Depp's transcendence notwithstanding. But I worry for my children and children's children that, if inequality continues to expand from today's near-historically high levels, they will be relegated to something similar to slavery. They will have choices, but they will be property of the innovators' influence, having to endure the kind of capricious and arbitrary exercises of power and wealth that we are familiar with today. Donald Sterling's an example of it — because he has money, he feels entitled to denigrate blacks without remorse. Fortunately, the NBA did not grant him a pass, as he has been granted during thirty-plus years of documented racism. This time, inequality was not rubber-stamped. However, we see this kind of personal expression of indifference to the values of anyone with less money across society. Sterling, or the idiotic pro-slavery rantings of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who succeeded in avoiding payment for use of public property but thinks blacks would be better off if they were still slaves, down to the local bigotry of the Boy Scouts against gays, and calls for the wealthy to have a greater say in politics than others (one-dollar-one-vote and venture capitalist Tom Kleiner's ridiculous arguments that the rich are persecuted) to the imposition of religious tenets on the employees of private companies, which is headed to the Supreme Court in the case of Hobby Lobby, where the owners insist everyone should live by their moral decisions; all these are not isolated examples of poor judgment or bad taste. They are evidence that inequity is rising and the most fortunate of today's families are seeking to ensure they are always on top of the economic pile. Surely, that's rational at one level, but when it becomes ideology it becomes poison to society.
The crisis will come when wealth divorces nation, building its own systems for enforcing contracts and seeking to avoid any cost not directly related to the product they want to invent or manufacture. At this point, national investment in opportunity, which is one of capitalism's greatest features, will be undercut completely. High personal wealth will exist extra-nationally and we'll hear howls about the unfairness of paying any taxes at all, but wealth will still want everything it can get for free from the nations where it chooses to do business. The only logical solution is policy that establishes a baseline of opportunity, with completely free access to education and information for anyone at any stage of life, because, as capitalism has proven, we never can predict where the next great idea will come from. This is not an argument for life-long welfare, just lifelong education, which is a tenet of post-industrial civilization. Policy can ensure opportunity is (more) equally distributed, that it not retreat to become the playground of a very few families. If we fail in this effort, we would complete our return to pre-Industrial life, but with television to entertain us.
Read together, Piketty and Rifkin paint a range of potential economic outcomes we may see in the future, but it is certain that the disappearance of inequity in opportunity will not come to pass without the political courage to stand up for an equal start, even as we accept unequal outcomes. Bully for the innovators, who should profit from their hard work. Yet let's remember that Teddy Roosevelt, a conservative, finally had to recognize and stand up to the inequality of his time in order to lay the foundation for a century of unprecedented growth with less inequality than at any time in history.
Shiller's insight is generalizable to all markets, perhaps into biology
A few years ago I had the good fortune to interview Robert Shiller of Princeton University (Listen to the audio interview.) His name will probably be familiar to you. Shiller won the Nobel Prize for Economics, along with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago this past week. Shiller is an influential economist whose housing index is a valuable leading indicator of home prices. We spoke about documenting human capital.
He's also the man who coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" that described the behavior of investors during the dotcom and housing bubbles. The upshot of this is that there are huge variations in the price of an asset compared to its intrinsic value, but that prices will return to an average price over time. In the long run, the markets win, which was the contribution of Shiller's co-Nobelists, Fama and Hansen.
I've been thinking about bubbles. They seem to occur at the outset of every market, a bubble unto itself, in essence, that will make or break a new industry. It is clear a market can be organized around anything, and within any market there is opportunity to profit by jumping aboard. Within those nascent markets, firms act like individual investors (and firms) that drive exaggerated valuations. I think this describes all fad behaviors and the market organized around them. Likewise, as a vet of the trade and financial press, I've seen whole industries form around, and that intense activity dissipate, a market as it grows until it reaches maturity. From inception to maturity, markets act erratically. Investors put money into the wrong places, and at the same time more investors enter the market, exacerbating the chaos of early growth. Some bubbles actually die out, like the pet rock of the gasoline automobile, but others become part of the sedimentary history of an economy.
This occurred to me because I read about the explosion of scientific papers published annually, which is resulting in very high degree of findings which cannot be reproduced. Eugene Samuel Reich, writing in Nature this week, quoted Henk Mode of scientific publisher Elsevier:
He notes that some institutional rankings, such as the Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, give explicit weight to the number of Nature and Science papers an institution has produced — making it likely that some universities would then begin to rank prospective faculty by the same measure. "There is more and more evaluation, and a need for researchers to prove their quality," Moed says. "Journal reputations play a role, and that role has increased."
That is the description of what happens in the early stages of growth, too, as intermediary players pile into a new market. Publishers of key data and news fructify around the mass of investors in the market, whether for dotstocks or housing derivatives or, as I see here in Washington State with the nascent marijuana market. All the missed investments will be recaptured by the market aggregator that eventually triumphs. This is why the greatest wealth is almost always from a reorganization of the economy, not simply innovation. The Walton and Gates fortunes, for example, come from aggregating markets in the wake of early broad innovations, which are consolidated and made normal, in the sense the product becomes a commodity.
The chaos at the core of the market, where the most investment exists in the form of capital and labor working in close order, is also analogous to the hot center of a bee colony, where the queen and the genetic investment exist in a perpetual swarming, while the bee colony as a whole maintains an equilibrium. In markets, the rapid early growth will end, consolidation will occur, and prices will settle down to at or near their intrinsic value, so that the only action in the markets come as long options chains.
Shiller's insight will be discovered to be richer by each generation for millennia to come.
Born of blogging and the return of a blogger
I note in The Economist that there is a school of economic thought that was "born in the blogosphere," neo-chartalism (represented by Mecpoc.org and TheMoneyIllusion.com), which is really only a way of saying that the ideas were not incubated in the mainstream media. See Heterodox economics: Marginal revolutionaries in The Economist.
A few years ago, in Extreme Democracy, I was fortunate to work with a group of authors who examined how the forging of political movements could be influenced by the Internet and agile programming concepts. The Economist's unbilined column is generally positive on the phenomenon of economics concocted outside the mainstream, because, it concludes, economic theory is often distilled from the less refined ideas from the fringes. Okay, but is it not the case that all movements — well-thought through and those built on whack-o assumptions alike — are always talked up from oblivion to prominence?
For what it's worth, Extreme Democracy can be sold back to Amazon for $0.54 after all these years, though it'll still cost you $13.48 to buy it used (or $28 new). Consider this my $0.54 on the following….
"Forged in the Blogosphere" is only a way of saying that the ideas were developed through the most contemporary form of discussion available, just as Enlightment thinking grew on branches of the early mail networks that carried private letters to and fro across Europe, North America and Latin American, Asian and African colonies. It's good to see ideas developing from the ferment of the blogosphere, but they also need to develop in academy, the "mainstream" (e.g., something still printed or delivered via television) press and elsewhere.
The challenge neo-Chartalists face is not so different from any prior school of economics or Web political campaign, to "cross the chasm" into widespread contemporary thought.
And that is hard.
But this is all a way of saying, by the by, that I am going to be participating in the blogosphere, again, after a break of a few years. Something about writing became very difficult for me during my neck problems — probably due to all the Percoset I was chowing down on – but it got no better in the first couple years that I've worked at Microsoft, either. So, it's time that I just churn it out and see what happens. The worst that could happen is that I remain a movement of one, I guess, but that's always been the way it is with writing.
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The Jefferson County Commission asked a controversial billboard in Birmingham to come down on Thursday, but a company spokesman said they are considering expanding in Alabama.
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After the sign went up, ArrangementFinders.com received more than a thousand signups of men and women.
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Thursday, the Jefferson County commission passed a resolution asking the company and the owner of the billboard to take down the sign.
"The billboard is inconsistent with the values of most people in Jefferson County hold. I think the one thing the people of this state are concerned with are our children," Jefferson County Commission Presiden David Carrington said.
Carrington said he has now received more than 1,000 emails from people objecting the billboard. Carrington said the county's bankruptcy did not generate so much emails.
Perkins tells Fox6 the company has no plans to take the billboard down and indicated the company may look at expansion in the state.
"Pretty large number for us, especially for that area of the country. We need to be deeper into Alabama, into Birmingham than we originally were," Perkins said.
Carrington said it will be up the general public to generate pressure on the owner of the billboard to remove it.
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Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 20 mins - 25 mins Plus chilling
Skill levelEasy
ServingsMakes 24 slices
This rich home-baked treat is a real crowd-pleaser
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- Place the butter and 140g sugar in a food processor and whizz until smooth. Tip in both the flours and a pinch of salt, then whizz until mixture comes together.
- Using your hands, roughly spread the mixture out in a 20 x 30 x 4cm baking tray. Cover with cling film and smooth over until there are no wrinkles. Place in the fridge, uncooked, for at least 30 mins and up to 2 days.
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Remove cling film, then lightly mark the shortbread all over with a fork. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar, then bake for 20-25 mins. Leave to cool in the tin, then cut into 24 thin slices. Shortbread will keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
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Baked this today as we all love shortbread. Was not sure how to prepare the tin as there were no instructions?, so I buttered it and dusted with rice flour. Like a few others my mixture was quite dry, so I tipped it onto the work top and quickly needed it all together. Then I squashed it into the tin. Put it into the fridge for about 4 hours and baked as instructed. Had to bake for approx 10 mins more but it was fab!! Fiance loved it. Delicious.......will make again.
It simply fabulous! Every time fantastic! Also, it can be rolled out after refrigeration as well as can be frozen if need be. Best refrigerated for 3+ hours though. Works great with a hint of vanilla and even lemon juice/zest, dusting sugar on top works great too - to be applied after the shortbread fully cools. All in all, a great recipe.
I'm glad I tried this as it made me understand the effect the rice flour had. In this recipe I think there is far too much this is why it's too flakey. Here is a better recipe. Prepare using same method and use 6oz of butter, 3oz of caster sugar, 8 and a half oz of flour and 2 tablespoons of rice flour (not too heaped but not level). When I cook them I usually cook for 30 min at 160 degrees, while still hot score grooves so when it cools you can break into fingers, I cut about half way through, you can make as big as you like. Once cool if still a bit too moist bring oven up to160 degrees put fingers in turn of oven and leave in for at least 1 hour or more as oven cools. Once cool this will beautiful shortbread.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (September 27, 2013) – In its American Athletic Conference opener, the Rutgers Volleyball team (4-11, 0-1 AAC) dropped a straight-set decision to the University of Houston (8-7, 1-0 AAC) at the College Ave. Gym on Friday night. The Cougars defeated the Scarlet Knights by scores of 21-25, 24-26 and 15-25.
"It just seems like late in games our maturity and age is getting the best of us," said head coach C.J. Werneke following the match. "It's not the talent, because we get to 21-17 and that happens with talent. We just need to figure out the mental block late in games that's hindering us from crossing the finish line with a win."
Sophomore defensive specialist Ali Schroeter (Bakersfield, Calif.) led the RU defense with 13 digs. Schroeter has now recorded double-digit digs in all but one of RU's matches.
Second-year outside hitter Alex Lassa (Eagle, Colo.) tied with classmate Mikaela Matthews (San Diego, Calif.) for the team-lead in kills, as they each recorded eight putdowns. Matthews finished the match with a .417 hitting percentage, recording her eight kills on 12 attempts.
The Cougars were led by Emily Howard's 12 kills.
After dropping a tightly-contested first set, Rutgers seemed to be heading toward a second set win, as the team led by seven points at 21-14. Houston would ultimately close out the frame on a 12-3 run however, to capture the come-from-behind victory. Matthews recorded five of her eight kills in the second set alone to finish the stanza with a .833 hitting percentage.
The Cougars carried the momentum into the third stanza, as an 8-1 spurt mid-way through gave the visitors a lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the set.
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A more complete listing of international stock market holidays can be found in our article dedicated to stock exchanges, which contains links to the largest markets in the world, including their individual holiday schedules.
All of the major American exchanges, including the NYSE Euronext, and the NASDAQ, follow these same holiday schedules. Listed below are the calendars for the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014:
Stock Market Holiday Schedule 2014
Stock markets will close early (1:00 p.m.) on Thursday, July 3, 2014, Friday, November 28, 2014, and Wednesday, December 24, 2014.
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Stock markets will close early (1:00 p.m.) on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Friday, November 29, 2013, and Tuesday, December 24, 2013.
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Stock markets will close early on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, Friday, November 23, 2012, and Monday, December 24, 2012.
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New Years' Day (January 1, 2011) falls on a Saturday. The rules of the exchange state that when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is observed, unless the Friday is the end of a monthly or annual accounting period. Friday, December 31, 2010 is the end of both a monthly and annual accounting period. The exchanges will be open that day as well as the following Monday.
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Don't worry too much, they are pretty high—10 simultaneous connections per IP address (yours) per user account (in our systems, which also means per datacenter). You have to be trying pretty hard to hit those. If you do, we will be returning a normal error message, so you will have every opportunity to handle that gracefully in your applications. Note: currently there are no options to raise that limit on a per-customer basis.
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We have worked very hard to ensure that this will not affect typical usage, even if yours is pretty high. Even then, nothing will actually fail, we will just slow you down. As you make calls to the API, we will be looking at your average calls per second (c/s) over the previous five-minute period. Here's what will happen:
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Those delays will, of course, be added before we execute your call and return its results. As your average drops below those thresholds, the delays will be removed.
It should be pretty rare to have either the Connection Limits or Throttling affect you unless you are trying to be abusive or have some code that is... not very well thought out. If you fall into the latter case, see the use-case information below, or contact us and we'll be happy to help. Note that we also monitor how often these limits are hit and adjust things accordingly.
- 7. I'm worried about the reliabilty of something run by a chimp!
Fair enough. First, if you are cool with just flying by the seat of your pants, then you will be happy to hear that we have 99.9% uptime.
Still reading? Good. The fact of the matter is that everyone has outages, unplanned downtime, and the such on occasion—it's simply a fact of life, especially when dealing with the intertubes and the bazillion services out there you may connect to. If you are serious about caring about potential outages of partner systems you work with, then we suggest you have some method of running calls through some sort of queuing system so that you can retry any failures. Obviously, that also means that you need to be doing good error checking in your code as well.
- 8. How do you handle downtime?
First, know that we've never taken the API offline unless the main web app also had to be taken down—when we know there will be downtime it will be Tweeted via our @mailchimp account (and probably re-tweeted via @mailchimp_api). There's also a good chance of a blog post, an in-app messages when you login, and via the Announcement group.
Typically, the only time that happens is when we do releases that require major database changes, though those typically don't affect an account for too terribly long.
Other than planned downtime, the API reliability tends to directly follow the app's since they are generally using the same resources. As stated above, we have 99.9% uptime, though as with most things, there are occasional bumps or slow downs due to load issues, but even those aren't common. We also use DNS load balancing, so if you are pinned to an app server due to your DNS not respecting our TTLs, you could have issues if an app server in our clusters goes down. Regardless, any time unexpected downtime occurs, information is typically disseminated via the @mailchimp twitter account.


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The innovative "Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic" exhibit opened yesterday at the National Postal Museum. The exhibit, which will be open through January 6, 2014, brings together artifacts from the zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg and ocean liner RMS Titanic, the world's largest mobile post offices.
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Exhibit highlights include a very rare piece of mail sent from Titanic and burnt mail salvaged from Hindenburg. Other items include mail, postcards, menus, photographs, keys from Titanic's post office and the salvaged postmark device from Hindenburg. Many of these photographs and artifacts have never before been available for public viewing.
Joining us at the ribbon-cutting ceremony was Frank Ward, a ground crew member for the Hindenburg and eyewitness to the airship's 1937 disaster. His account of the experience is nothing short of harrowing! Here Mr. Ward signs a book for Stephen Kearney, Manager of Stamp Services, USPS.
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As we go in to the vacation months we may start to plan a getaway. Everything is arranged and we are very excited, except for one big problem, what to do with the pet? Today's pets are not just dogs and cats and birds, they are family members and to some of us the only ones we have for companionship. Some of us are lucky and able to take our angels with us, but others have to find the perfect solution. Here are some helpful tips on pet sitting and boarding.
The most desirable solution is to leave the pet at home with a trusted friend. Your pet will miss you, but if he/she is at home with somebody it knows it is OK
If you don't have a friend who can do that, turn to a trusted pet sitter who is willing to live at your house for the time you are gone. The charge would be around $75 -$100 per day. Talk to your veterinarian about recommendations.
The second choice is a pet sitter willing to take your pet into his/her house. You should inspect the house to make sure there will not be too many pets around, and the house needs to be clean. This should cost about $35 -$45 a day.
A good pet sitter will ask for proof of vaccination and medical history. If you decide to go with a pet sitter make sure to provide your pet with its own food, a favorite toy and a T-Shirt that you were wearing for at least 24 hours so it has your scent on it.
If you cannot find either of these services, the next best bet would be a dog or cat daycare facility. Within the last couple of years quite a few have opened in our area.
This will be fun for your pet because most will have plenty of space for your pet to play and interact with others. The same rules apply: A good place will ask for medical records and a behavior evaluation.
Prices range anywhere from $25-$50 a day depending on size and special packages you can book, such as pool time, a trip to the beach, grooming etc.
Last but not least there is the possibility to have your pet boarded at your veterinarian or local boarding facility. It is not the happiest choice simply because of limited space, and your pet will most likely spend a lot of time in a crate. However, your pet will have lots of supervision and proper care at the doctor's office. I always found it helpful to ask one of the caretakers to take my dog out two more times than the normal routine and a $50 bill would take care of that. The price range for boarding will be $20-$35 a day. Depending on size or special needs, it could be a little more.
As its owner, help your pet out by being confident about your choice and don't tell your pet how sorry you feel about leaving him or her behind. Our pets are very sensitive to our feelings, so if you don't feel good about your choice they will pick up on that and become insecure for no reason. Also, it is a good idea to bring your pet to the sitter a day before you leave so the pet does not get stressed seeing you pack and so on. Please be assured all pet professionals will give your pet the best possible treatment while they are in their care; after all, most of us started this because we love pets just like you.
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Tiptoeing toward a presidential run; going toe-to-toe for spelling title
The Washington Post and The New York Times called it a stir in the GOP, as former Sen. Fred Thompson took steps to run for president.
USA TODAY posted an interview with the actor-politician on its Web site Wednesday. "'Law & Order' actor planning a bid for the GOP nomination that will mix his folksy approach with some tech-savvy campaign tactics," it said in a centerpiece on today's front page. So far, Thompson is taking steps to run. How best to describe the news? The Des Moines (Iowa) Register said: "Thompson tiptoes toward official '08 bid." In Nashville -- from which Thompson plans to run his campaign -- The Tennessean reported that he is expected to officially announce his bid for the presidency on July 4.
Second-day news about a tuberculosis scare brought questions about governments' response. "How did infected man leave Atlanta?" The Journal-Constitution asked. "Tuberculosis patient was not stopped by safeguards," The Miami Herald International Edition said.
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