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No. 1, March 2007
For the next fiscal year, the George W. Bush administration has requested over $20 billion for bilateral foreign assistance. How should that aid be allocated and how should its effectiveness be measured? Perhaps surprisingly--given the cost and range of foreign aid programs the United States administers--there have been few comprehensive attempts to answer these questions.
In 2005, the United States spent $11 million on "Child Survival and Health" programs in Guatemala. Was this the right thing to do? Guatemala ranks 134th among countries in infant mortality, with almost 37 deaths per 1,000 live births. It certainly seems that it could use the help.
Eleven million dollars was an amount clearly insufficient to solve the problem. Should more money have been spent? Should the United States have used that money in a different country with greater child health needs? Haiti's infant mortality rate, for example, is 74 deaths per 1,000 live births. Or perhaps the money could have been better used in Guatemala for other purposes, such as improving education or reforming the criminal justice system. How should U.S. policymakers decide among competing priorities for foreign assistance? And how can they tell whether the money has advanced U.S. interests?
These questions have traditionally been avoided in discussions of U.S. foreign assistance. One reason for this is that there is not a single pot of assistance money from which administrators fund programs. Assistance flows through distinct accounts such as "Child Survival and Health," "Development Assistance," or "International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement." Congressional earmarks heavily influence the allocation of funds. The difficulty of moving money between accounts keeps administrators from having to ask whether the last million dollars of aid funding is best spent on nutrition or on combating drug gangs. This structural constraint can be a disincentive to a rigorous, evidence-based decision procedure for aid allocation.
When a program's value is questioned, the most common response is that it addresses a clear need. This is a necessary--but not sufficient--condition for making good aid allocation decisions. Foreign aid will never be capable of meeting all the needs of poor countries. To be effective, aid administrators must choose the most important from among many urgent needs. Instead of simply asking whether a program has a positive effect, administrators should ask whether it has enough of a positive effect to overcome the high opportunity cost of those funds.[1]
Enhancing the efficacy of foreign assistance and making sure it serves U.S. interests are key problems facing the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), through which the bulk of U.S. foreign assistance flows. After a 2005 review, there was a consensus among policymakers and legislators that U.S. foreign assistance could be allocated more efficiently.
This Development Policy Outlook offers some ideas for how to achieve this. How to meet apparently limitless needs with limited resources is a classic problem in economics. The economic approach of "constrained optimization" can serve as a guide to improving the efficacy of U.S. foreign assistance.[2] There is no simple mechanistic solution to improving U.S. aid programs, but this analytic approach can ensure that some of the necessary questions are posed: What is the right prioritization of the objectives of U.S. foreign assistance? How can progress toward these objectives be measured? What happens when the impact of aid is ambiguous or impossible to measure?
Prioritizing the Objectives of U.S. Foreign Assistance
The first step in making aid as effective as possible is to prioritize the competing objectives that foreign aid seeks to address. Weighting the competing objectives would then allow for comparisons such as whether the payoff to the United States from an extra million dollars for democracy promotion in a given country was greater than or less than the payoff from an extra million spent on education. Ideally, with money optimally allocated, the payoff to the last dollar in each program would be equalized.[3]
This prioritization is a fundamentally political task that must be accomplished by senior policymakers; there are no easy formulas to determine the payoffs from assistance. There are a number of public goals for assistance, but they are not prioritized and they do not match up with U.S. interests. Perhaps the most prominent set is the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focus on poverty reduction.[4] Although reducing poverty is a central objective of U.S. foreign assistance, the MDGs do not include other important objectives, like ensuring security and promoting the rule of law.[5]
A broader set of indicators used by the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) assesses countries' progress in three broad categories: economic freedom, investing in people, and ruling justly. But these indicators are not ideal. They were selected in part because publicly available objective indicators exist to measure them. There could be important goals excluded because they are difficult to measure.[6] Further, the MCC governing board neither weights nor aggregates the component measures.
Without a ready-made solution for assessing the payoff from assistance, what would factor into a custom-built one? Here are some likely objectives for U.S. aid programs:
- alleviating poverty
- fostering economic growth
- minimizing environmental damage
- mitigating security threats
- improving public perceptions of the United States
- strengthening bilateral relations
There is no reason why the United States cannot pursue one objective in one country while pursuing a different objective in another (e.g., transboundary migration is likely to be a bigger concern for our dealings with Mexico than it is for our dealings with Bangladesh). And there is no reason to have only one objective for U.S. aid in a given country; there will normally be several.
In a well-designed aid allocation process, top policymakers would assign weights to competing policy objectives. To date, this has been rare.[7] The nearly twenty different accounts and countless earmarks that constitute the foreign assistance budget do not make it easy.[8] The most effective means of demonstrating the costliness of earmarks, however, is to develop a clear plan for how funds should be spent if they are to do the most good. Prioritizing goals is the first step in this process.
Measuring the Objectives
After objectives are prioritized, the next steps are to measure progress toward each objective and then link that progress with the corresponding assistance program. Neither is an easy task. It is not difficult to determine economic growth rates or measure public opinion; it is harder to assess the quality of the rule of law or quantify how well-disposed other countries are toward the United States in international organizations.[9]
Where such measurements have been attempted, as with the MCC's indicators on ruling justly, some of the measurement challenges have been avoided by looking at relative prowess (comparing countries' performance to that of peers) and by requiring progress in only a fraction of the indicators. But in order to accurately measure progress, one would need to rely on absolute levels and there would need to be some way of aggregating progress across all relevant indicators.
Even with a precise measure of progress in each area, the level of progress does not matter as much as the extent to which it is valued for U.S. foreign-policy purposes. Even within a well-defined objective like economic progress, which should be valued most highly: a 1 percent increase in the growth rate, a 1 percent drop in unemployment, or a 1 percent drop in inflation? All are valid indicators of progress. An objective measure of aid success will inevitably contain some subjectivity.
The aid administrator is left with only two choices: to try to overcome these technical hurdles and construct objective measurements, or to accept some subjective measures (for example, U.S. representatives to international organizations could assign "helpfulness" scores to other countries, relying upon information that is not publicly available). Before grappling with this choice, it is worth considering two additional technical obstacles that any serious attempt to measure the efficacy of foreign assistance needs to confront.
Which Program Goes with Which Effect?
A key condition for efficiency as described above is that the return on the last dollar spent on democracy equal the return on the last dollar spent on education. The implicit assumptions underlying this condition are that programs targeting democracy and education are distinct and that progress in one does not depend on progress in the other.
The effects of programs are sometimes distinct, but not always. A rule-of-law program is one example of an assistance program with effects across multiple areas. A direct impact of improved rule of law might be a decrease in crime. At the same time, the improved court system might spur economic activity by enhancing contract enforcement. Failing to account for these interdependencies would throw off the optimization of assistance allocation. The true marginal payoff on rule-of-law spending includes the effects both on crime and on economic activity. If the latter is not accounted for, there will be underinvestment in rule-of-law programs. This interdependence works in reverse, too. Investment in a dam could spur economic growth but set back environmental protection efforts. In that case, ignorance of the latter link would lead to overinvestment in dams.[10]
A second problem in determining the effect of an assistance program occurs when multiple donors operate in the same country. It might be possible to disentangle effects with statistical methods if there is good information about the extent of other countries' assistance activities and if aid flows from different sources do not move in tandem. But in practice, such comprehensive information is scarce.
In addition to the problem of attribution, there is the problem of observability. In order to compare the payoffs from different aid programs, one needs to observe the effects of a "marginal dollar" spent on each, but this may not be easy. Some effects take time to appear. For example, additional primary education this year will almost certainly have no positive effect on economic growth. In the long run, though, primary education is essential for economic growth.[11]
Within a well-defined objective like economic progress, which should be valued most highly: a 1 percent increase in the growth rate, a 1 percent drop in unemployment, or a 1 percent drop in inflation? All are valid indicators of progress.
"Latent variables" represent a different example of unobservable effects. These are factors that go unobserved until crossing a particular threshold and causing visible effects. Democracy-promotion aid in Ukraine was linked to an unobservable variable that one might call "strength of civil society." As civil society was steadily being built up there, observable indicators were unchanged. Then, after a critical point was reached, a strong civil society propelled the Orange Revolution. Up to that point, however, it would have appeared to the observer as if democracy-promotion spending was having little or no effect.
This concern also applies to crime-fighting. We do not observe the true level of crime; we observe reported crime. If aid dollars increase the effectiveness of the police force and the trustworthiness of the court system, it is possible that citizens who used to address problems informally will turn to the justice system. The result could be an increase in reported crime (the observable effect) at the same time the true crime rate falls (the latent variable).
Practical Implications
Assessment. The intricacies described above preclude a mechanistic approach to the optimization of foreign assistance. To the extent that objective measures of success or reasonable proxies are available, they are vital inputs to informed assessments. Gaps in measurement that require expert assessment and detailed knowledge of the recipient country will remain.
Given the subtlety of the assessment challenge, this argues for empowering officials to seek and then draw the appropriate conclusions. The traditional structure of aid allocation in the U.S. government is not conducive to this. Most aid is allocated by geographic region (e.g., the Western Hemisphere Affairs bureau in the State Department and the corresponding Latin America and the Caribbean bureau in USAID). Funding plans are put forward by region, and reallocation within a region is substantially easier than reallocation across regions. Yet the development and foreign policy challenges of Haiti likely have more in common with those of Sierra Leone in Africa than with those of, say, Brazil.
Ideally, an office with oversight of post-conflict countries could develop the expertise to assess the most effective means of restoring stability, for example. It would have the power to propose reallocations from programs that are ineffective to those that are more effective. This would need to be balanced against political considerations to ensure that effectiveness is measured with respect to foreign policy, not just development. Furthermore, if the efficacy of U.S. aid is to improve, such an office should be able to propose experimentation across comparable situations. Such experimentation has traditionally been anathema in Congress, but this aversion fails to recognize the limits to current understanding of aid effectiveness.
The new Office of Foreign Assistance in the State Department has taken a step in this direction by classifying countries by their level of development and assigning staff to each level. Whether these individuals and the relevant functional bureaus are sufficiently empowered to enhance policy effectiveness remains to be seen.[12]
Prioritization. The most novel challenge is the systematic ranking of foreign assistance goals. As difficult as it may seem to choose poverty reduction over democracy promotion (or vice versa), the presence of budget constraints means that such choices are already being made implicitly.
The planning of foreign assistance programs should begin with a prioritization of U.S. objectives in a country. Past practice has been to select programs on the basis of whether they sound like a good idea. Is it worthwhile to promote biodiversity in South America? Sure. Is it worthwhile to combat drug trafficking? Absolutely. Is infrastructure important? Yes. Each program is funded without adequate consideration of whether moving a dollar from biodiversity to infrastructure would promote U.S. interests more. Given the scarcity of U.S. assistance dollars, there are programs that have a positive impact but that should nevertheless not be funded.
Making U.S. foreign assistance more effective will require reallocation within country programs. It will also require reallocation among countries. If the best use of a marginal dollar in South America is for infrastructure and the best use of a marginal dollar in Africa is for girls' primary education, which of those dollars goes further toward advancing U.S. national interests? That is a fundamentally political question which top policymakers must address.
The planning of foreign assistance programs should begin with a prioritization of U.S. objectives in a country.
Eliciting policymaker preferences on prioritization is no easy task. It makes little sense to ask in the abstract whether democracy is preferable to poverty reduction. Instead, intensively prepared alternative scenarios should be made available to participants in high-level discussions, with each scenario depicting a different prioritization. Given the scarcity of top policymakers' time, this necessitates taking on a limited number of countries at a time. Those countries can then serve as examples for the rest.
For example, returning to the case of Guatemala above, one scenario might focus on stemming the growing violence in the country. It could be argued that without public security, development is impossible. Few donors other than the U.S. government would provide aid for security. Under this scenario, programs to address child survival and health or other legitimate concerns would be reduced or eliminated, not because of failure, but because security needs would be more urgent, funds would be tight, and other funders would likely address health needs.
A second framework might focus on trade, subsequent to Guatemala's adoption of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The top U.S. priority would be to assist Guatemala in taking advantage of the new trading opportunities. Such a program would focus on promoting economic development, building trade capacity, and ensuring that more of the population can benefit.
The case could be made that the purpose of U.S. assistance is to address humanitarian concerns. Thus, a third approach might focus on poverty alleviation and health concerns. This would have the added virtue of being visible and popular.
A central problem with foreign assistance now is that it attempts all of the above. Without sufficient funds to tackle these problems, such diffuse purposes risk failure on all counts.
Making foreign assistance more effective is a challenge for all donor nations. Despite a tendency in international discussions to stress quantity over quality, even the strongest proponents of quantitative increases recognize that without demonstrably effective assistance programs, public support for substantial aid programs will continue to wane.
Philip I. Levy is a resident scholar at AEI. Resident fellow Mauro De Lorenzo is editor of the Development Policy Outlook series. Research assistant Cindy Soo and editorial assistant Evan Sparks worked with Messrs. De Lorenzo and Levy to edit and produce this Outlook.
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1. The opportunity cost of funds for a program would be the benefit derived from putting those funds to their next best use. That is likely to be greater than zero. This begs the question of how one defines the benefit of an assistance program, addressed in note 2 below.
2. Constrained optimization is a formal mathematical approach in which an objective function is coupled with constraints. For example, individuals might gain pleasure from the goods they consume (described by their objective functions), but the individuals' purchases are limited by their budget constraints. Constrained optimization yields conditions that describe the best possible outcomes. In the consumption case, this would determine the demand for each good. In foreign assistance, it could be the allocation of funds to different programs and countries.
3. If this condition were not met, one could do better just by shifting dollars from a category with a low marginal payoff to one with a high marginal payoff. The exception to this occurs when one reduces spending to zero. There may still be a difference in payoffs, but that is as far as one can go.
4. United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, September 2000, available at www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ (accessed February 21, 2007). For a concise description of U.S. activities in development assistance, see Center for Global Development, U.S. Assistance for Global Development, June 2006, www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2852%20 (accessed February 21, 2007).
5. If the objective of U.S. foreign assistance were only to foster development or reduce poverty, there is already a substantial literature that discusses the efficacy of assistance in achieving this goal (or failing to achieve it). For a prominent skeptical view, see William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: Penguin, 2006); for a positive view, see Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (New York: Penguin, 2005). One central point of contention is whether it is unfair to look at politically motivated aid flows and then measure their effectiveness in fostering development.
6. Millennium Challenge Corporation, "Selection Criteria," available at www.mcc.gov/selection/index.php (accessed February 21, 2007). New indicators have been introduced over time as measurement problems have been overcome.
7. The new Office of Foreign Assistance in the State Department has created a framework that describes the goals of assistance for different types of countries but does not explicitly prioritize them. See U.S. Department of State, Office of the U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance, "Foreign Assistance Reform," available at www.state.gov/f/reform/ (accessed February 21, 2007).
8. Foreign assistance is provided through a number of channels in the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense. The bulk of assistance is overseen by the State Department and USAID. Budget requests for this assistance appear in the "International Affairs Function 150 Account."
9. In development assistance, the practice of project evaluation is relatively advanced. The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, for example, regularly assesses whether bank programs are effective in reducing poverty. This problem is more acute for political and security objectives.
10. Such questions of interconnection underlie academic and policy debates over the proper sequencing of economic liberalization that took place after the fall of the Soviet Union. Was it better to try everything at once or should legal and regulatory reform have preceded the privatization of state-owned enterprises? For a discussion of this topic, see Gerard Roland, "The Political Economy of Transition," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 29-50.
11. One contribution to the literature on whether aid has been effective argues that it is this lag in aid's effect that critics often miss. When separating out aid flows that could plausibly have a short-run impact, the authors find a substantially greater effect of aid on growth. See Michael Clemens, Steve Radelet, and Rikhil Bhavnani, "Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth" (working paper 44, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, July 22, 2004), available at www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2744 (accessed February 21, 2007).
12. For the outlines of the country classification scheme, see U.S. Department of State, Office of the U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance, "Foreign Assistance Framework," January 29, 2007, available at www.state.gov/documents/organization/79748.pdf. The functional bureaus are those that address particular topics such as economic growth or international narcotics and law enforcement.


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Because of increasing innovation and feature requirements in the market smartphone manufacturers are facing pressures to find quickly integrable solutions to differentiate from competition and satisfy the consumer expectations. According to recent studies interoperability and performance are one of the smartphone users' top requirements. With Tuxera file systems manufacturers get full compliance with the latest mobile storage standards and can reach snappy user experience with improved device performance and functionality.
"Android smartphones are leading the mobile user experience and innovation. We have worked hand in hand with Panasonic R&D team to ensure the devices perform optimally and reliably no matter the use case, and we believe every end user is pleased with the result. The new Tuxera-powered phones have both substance and style," says Kanae Kubota, Director of Software Solutions at Tuxera.
Leading Android device manufacturers in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and elsewhere are licensing Tuxera exFAT, NTFS and other file systems for seamless cross-platform interoperability. Tuxera file systems are available for evaluation and licensing on all popular Android phone and tablet platforms. For more information about Tuxera file systems please contact [email protected].
About Tuxera: Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across mobiles, tablets, home entertainment, consumer, industrial or any other electronics. Tuxera's industry-standard file system solutions for Android, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have hundreds of millions installations. Close collaboration with industry leaders ensures reliable compatibility and helps to set high standard in performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.tuxera.com
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Samsung VP Jacopo Lenzi, who headed the company's recent SmartThings acquisition under the auspices of Samsung's Open Innovaction Center (OIC), answered a few questions we had about the deal. This interview was in conjunction with our interview with SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson. IoT Journal: SmartThings was developed in an open, standards-agnostic platform, and will now be part of Samsung's Open Innovation Center. Can you elaborate on your commitment to keep the platform open? Jacopo Lenzi: Samsung recognizes that true, accelerated innovation cannot be driven from one source, but requires a...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, will describe how to revoluti...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, will discuss how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money! Speaker Bio: Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, has spent 16 years as a marketing, product management, and busin...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, will exhibit at Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, a...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash Inc., will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone a...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Matrix.org has been named "Silver Sponsor" of Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Matrix is an ambitious new open standard for open, distributed, real-time communication over IP. It defines a new approach for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP based on pragmatic HTTP APIs and WebRTC, and provides open source reference implementations to showcase and bootstrap the new standard. Our focus is on simplicity, security, and supporting the fullest feature set.
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic • Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural style...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SOA Software, an API management leader, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA Governance products that equip business to deliver APIs and SOA together to drive their company to meet its business strategy quickly and effectively. SOA Software's technology helps businesses to accelerate their digital channels with APIs, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets, and achieve a...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley announced on Thursday its first 12 all-star speakers and sessions for its upcoming event, which will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. @ThingsExpo, the first and largest IoT event in the world, debuted at the Javits Center in New York City in June 10-12, 2014 with over 6,000 delegates attending the conference. Among the first 12 announced world class speakers, IBM will present two highly popular IoT sessions, which will take place November 4-6, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif...
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WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix.org, will discuss how Matrix is a new non-profit Open Source Project that defines both a new HTTP-based standard for VoIP & IM signaling and provides reference implementations.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to require a new way of thinking and of developing software for speed, security and innovation. This requires IT leaders to balance business as usual while anticipating for the next market and technology trends. Cloud provides the right IT asset portfolio to help today's IT leaders manage the old and prepare for the new. Today the cloud conversation is evolving from private and public to hybrid. This session will provide use cases and insights to reinforce the value of the network in helping organizations to maximize their company's cloud experience.
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Last month, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society announced that in October its 765 locomotive, a gigantic, old-fashioned, coal-fired steam locomotive, would be making two excursions from Fort Wayne to Lafayette and back – a 230-mile trip.
The 1,200 or so tickets available would go on sale Sept. 1, but they wouldn't be cheap. They'd cost from $89 to $119 each.
Nobody was too concerned the tickets wouldn't sell, though. The 765 travels all over the Midwest, as far east as Pennsylvania and West Virginia and as far west as St. Louis and Iowa, and it is always sold out.
"Since we've been operating public trips, they've all been complete sellouts, especially those lately," said Kelly Lynch, a member of the railroad society. "It's consistent, wildly consistent. It's a promise, every time you fire the engine up."
The train draws crowds, too. Recently, at an excursion starting in Cleveland, 20,000 people showed up just to see the locomotive, not counting the people with tickets and the several hundred people who were on a waiting list for tickets.
In Owasso, Mich., 30,000 showed up to see the engine and early 20th century passenger cars, and 40,000 showed up to see it in Davenport, Iowa.
In one small Ohio town, when word got out the train would be stopping there, the schools closed for the morning so students could see it.
"It's a 400-ton people magnet," Lynch said of the locomotive. "Even when it's standing still, being worked on, it attracts a crowd."
I wondered, though, how did ticket sales go for the October trips for the city? Usually, tickets for the train's excursions sell out in a couple of days.
Well, in Fort Wayne, tickets went on sale Sunday and sold out in an hour and a half.
Four hundred people are on a waiting list if more cars are added to the train. Passengers include people from as far away as Florida, Texas and New Jersey.
Right now, there's some talk of running excursions to Chicago and other cities next year.
One inconvenient aspect, though, is that there is no suitable boarding spot in Fort Wayne. For the October excursions, for example, passengers will have to board at the Do it Best headquarters between Fort Wayne and New Haven.
There is a push to establish a home for the train near downtown Fort Wayne, possibly using some of the Legacy money. The train would have access to all possible routes.
The train, after all, is permitted to use all 22,000 miles of Norfolk-Southern track.
The problem is that creating a new base for the train would be expensive, upward of $15 million.
I've spoken to people about the train's potential in the past, but a lot of people tend to brush it off as a novelty.
That bugs me.
Old-fashioned railroad operations attract huge crowds. There's a little railroad in Strassburg, Pa., that runs 45-minute trips on a route that goes out 4 1/2 miles and back. It attracts 350,000 people a year, according to officials with that operation.
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society has other engines in addition to the behemoth 765 that could do the same thing here.
So it's disappointing that some people don't take the train too seriously.
The community doesn't seem to realize what it has, sort of like the woman who brought her $20 table to "Antiques Roadshow" and found out it was worth $450,000.
Fort Wayne is always looking for new ideas that will draw people into the city and get them to stay in the hotels and eat in the restaurants and see the sights.
This train is unique, and it's proved its ability to draw crowds.
"We have an amazing zoo," Lynch said. The train, he said, "is like having the last tyrannosaurus rex and no zoo to put it in."


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Shovel? Check. Rototiller? Check. $500 Wellies? Check.
Some weekend gardeners are adopting the look of the English manor for yard work, exchanging ratty jeans and rubber clogs for trim trousers, sturdy jackets and hunting boots that look to be straight out of "Downton Abbey."
Whether it's waterproof utility jackets from J. Barbour and Sons Ltd., English riding breeches from Ariat International Inc., or leather and rubber Wellingtons from Dubarry of Ireland and Le Chameau, the items are seeing sales and popularity surge, and in some cases scoring prime berths with retailers. Other chains are selling the look, if not the authentic brands.
Many people who garden enter a creative fantasy mind-set, even while pulling weeds and digging flower beds, and they want to dress the part. It's worth remembering that gardening is a hobby done in full view of the neighbors. "Everybody's secret wish is to transport themselves to a more romantic era and have Mr. Darcy call them while they're picking the flowers," says Danny Hulse, general manager of Dubarry's U.S. arm.
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We walk many a mile in our lives, our shoes are almost part of us. Our choice of footwear is a representation of our personalities, they are us. I used to have quite the shoe collection, mostly dominated by worn out cowboy boots, my favourite choice for many years. But they're a bit showy and impractical in my line of work, so they've all gone bar one pair. What I wear now is all about hard-wearing practicality. Handmade. Leather
The way I've treated my old worn out boots, is similar to how we tend to treat nature. We take and take and really give little in return. I know I go on about this but it's the undeniable reality. It's something visible to even the untrained eye. Our houses are filled with stuff, all made with natural resources as the base. This computer I'm typing on used natural resources. The clothes I wear, natural resources. So that makes all these things all the more precious. Instead of discarding items when they seem less useful, appropriate or out of fashion, is it not better for us to retain them, to wear them out completely before replacing them? This is what I ask myself. This is what I end up thinking about when I'm rubbing bee's wax leather treatment over my worn out boots. I wish I didn't think so much about this stuff, just shut up and polish the damn boots Rohan.
Over the last few months, we've been either selling or giving away many of the items in our house that are not necessary to us. Other people can get some use out of them, as long as they're not discarded to trash. One thing that can't be discarded is these old boots. With a little love they'll serve me many a year. And as I age so too will my boots. They will scar as I do, they will tell stories as I will and eventually like me, they will outlive their purpose and be returned to nothing but mere particles in a world that is forever changing and recycling itself, towards the inevitable. But for now these old boys are now ready to face the new day.
Wise words courtesy of Rohan Anderson. Read the full article here!
Warm blood hits my boots, the wall, the cone. The bird will wriggle. The last bit of living electricity exiting the body then falls limp. It's a kill, there is no bullshit about it. Some TV shows talk about the humanity of the dispatch but the reality is, you're killing another animal in order to balance your omnivorous diet. I don't deny that.
It's just the same as me catching a fish, shooting a rabbit or quail on the run. It's us animals killing another animal to get that essential protein that our bodies have evolved to expect. The sad fact is that process of a kill is nowhere advertised or communicated to the billions of people that eat a chicken subway, Macca's burger or a million processed chicken nuggets consumed every day. That pisses me off. I lament that we have lost that connection with how meat is produced. So much so that when I show someone how to kill a chicken they predictably cry. Tears will slide down cheeks as they hold the neck of the bird, blood starts to flow and the animal dies by their hand. It's bloody and gory and it's something every meat eater should know or they should stop eating meat. Opinionated? Bloody right I am.
You imagine for a minute if there wasn't that John Smith working on the killing floor at the factory that kills your animals for you. Would you still eat meat? I asked myself that question years ago and find myself here. Taking care of the dirty work myself. It doens't make me a better person. It just means I'm a true omnivore.
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Pronunciation: /ˈtʌŋst(ə)n /
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The chemical element of atomic number 74, a hard steel-grey metal of the transition series. It has a very high melting point (3410°C) and is used to make electric light filaments. (Symbol: W)
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|July 9th, 2008, 01:17 PM
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Desperately trying to find a specific painting
Hi everyone, I am desperately trying to find a particular painting/drawing that I once saw in an art book I was flipping through in a book store, but I do not know the artists name nor the title of picture. When I saw this painting I just fell in love with it and i've spent the last 3 years scouring all available resources to try and find it.
I've come to nickname the painting "Facing Worlds" when I talk about it with my friends.
The painting depicts a scene in a futuristic city centered around a two way highway in the center going from the foreground into the horizon. To one side of the highway and including one of the lanes the city is really dark, polluted, and raining down what I would assume is acid rain. The sky is scorched in an electrical storm, the buildings are windowless and black with nearly all of them shooting upwards a plume of thick smog. The street of the highway is dirty and corroded while the vehicles themselves also fire thick black smoke from their exhausts. The scene-section is lit by neon street lights and building signs.
Then, across the highway, the artist gracefully merges into the other side of the highway. The Vehicles here are a bright, shimmering silvery-blue that matches the clean steel of the buildings. The sky is a perfect spring blue, dotted with snow-white stratus clouds and flocks of birds. Behind the buildings the viewer can see the oceans waters glistening in the reflective sun light. No smoke, smog, or exhaust is rising from the building or vehicles. The highway passes over a healthy green field that also surrounds the outskirts of this side of the city; you can even see a horse in the foreground grazing on the lush green grass.
The contrast of this painting just stuck with me and I am just bent on finding it, please, do any of you know the painting/drawing I am describing or know of another place I can look to try and find it?
Thank you for any help you can offer! =)
|October 27th, 2009, 05:09 PM
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hope someone can help
i am looking for the name of a john horsewell painting it is of a beach yes i know there are lots of them. this one has palms in the distance or does anyone know of a book that shows his lifes work so i can find it
many thanks
|October 28th, 2009, 08:06 AM
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Here's the site where they sell his paintings. I see the one with the palm trees is sold and there is no name on it. Perhaps you could email them to find out the name. http://www.courtenaysfineart.com/John_Horsewell.html
|January 31st, 2010, 03:09 PM
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Trying to find a painting I once saw in New Orleans
I am trying to find out who the painter was of this painting I once saw in New Orleans. I believe the painting was a remake, but it was of a girl wearing a white dress. She was sitting on the floor and I think she was draped over one knee. She had dark hair but you can see her face. It was completed in the impressionist style and the background was red in colour. Any help would be greatly appreciated
|October 4th, 2010, 02:49 PM
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I'm also trying to find the name of a specific painting. All I know is the name on the painting says P Scott. I've tried Googling it and can't seem to find it anywhere. A Peter Scott comes up but I don't see this particular painting from him.
The description of the painting is snowy mountains in the background w/ pine trees, a cabin, a path and a lake.
If anyone knows what this painting is called or where I can find anything about it online, please help me! =)
Thanks a lot!!!!
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Hey. Im also looking for a specific painting. I know the name is
"Rough Ride"
but i dont know who the artist is. It is two horses pulling a carriage. I cant find it on the internet.
Can someone maybe tell me who the artist is or give me a web adres of where i can find this painting? Note: I dont want to buy it, i only need it for a project.
|August 11th, 2011, 10:13 AM
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Please Help
I am trying to find a painting, heres a discription:
-The room was purple, including the couches, lamps, etc.
-A bunch of lime green dogs crawling around the room
-A couple sitting on the couch, their backs facing the audience, completely oblivious to the strageness around them
|October 7th, 2011, 10:14 AM
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5 Fishermen and a boy
I'm looking for a painting that I have not seen, but it was described to me, I don't know the name or the artist.
It had 5 fishermen all outfitted like they'd been to Dicks,
and little boy wearing blue jeans with holes in them,
a straw hat,
carrying a string full of large fish,
a tomato soup can with worms in it,
the fishermen were eyeing the boy who had caught more then they had with less then they had.
Hope someone has seen it!
|October 7th, 2011, 01:21 PM
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This is the closest I could find to your description although there are only two fishermen. Could be by the same artist.
Beginners Luck by J. F. Kernan [1950's]
Have gone through the prints at the above site. There are a few with a young boy in a straw hat.
|December 31st, 2013, 07:38 PM
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Searching for a Painting!!!
The painting is based on Beauty and the Beast. It takes place outside in the snow and I believe it is when the Beast is attacked by wolves going after Belle. And she is like tending to him. I had the name and artist at one point but can not remember! Any help is most appreciated!
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered the tech giant to make full refunds for any such in-app purchases made by kids using mobile phones and other devices or any other charges by accident or without parents' permission.
According to Fox News, Apple would be required to change its billing practices to make it more obvious that an actual purchase is taking place during the course of the game or app.
FTC head, Edith Ramirez said that the settlement involves mobile apps and charges that shot up to even hundreds and thousands of dollars in some cases when kids bought things such as virtual currency or dragon food.
The complaint stated that when parents entered their password while a child played a game, Apple did not make it clear that that they unwittingly may be buying something in the game the child had clicked on, such as a chest of gems or treats for a virtual pet, the report said.
The commission further stated that parents were not told that once entering the password would open a 15-minute window in which kids could make unlimited purchases without further need of any password.
The tech giant has been ordered to modify its rules until Mar. 31 and come up with a billing system that ensures the company obtains consumers' informed consent before billing them for in-app purchases, the report added.
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The church member across the table (can be any gender, of course) turns to the broker and says "Excuse me, but why did you Starbucks people air-brush off the nipples of the Fish-goddess? Her navel is gone too." He replies paternalistically, "Well, ma'am, back in 96 we went into more conservative demographics like Ohio and Dubai -- the old logo was actually quite sexy. Can't have that!" The church member replies "Oh, why do that predictable phallic thing? Expand schmexpand. Just breathe and float in the mermaid's ocean, feel the soft protection of her lovely womb." He edges away from the nut. But she is getting angry. "Look at her in the logo. She is the oceanic fertility goddess of the sea. She is Pina and Fan and Sheel-a-nagig!"
The stockbroker gets a call on the cell. It's the New York Stock Exchange calling. Starbucks has announced a thousand more coffeeshops in Africa and the stockbroker has made $100,000 in the last ten minutes. He leaps us from the chair! ANOTHER TRIPLE LATTE FOR ME! THE MERMAIDS TAKING THE SUBSAHARA LIKE A PACK OF F-16'S!" This trips something in our church member. A mermaid starts to move within her, to kick, to be born. The woman is undulating. We hear a long beautiful moan from the primeval underwater caves. To the astonishment of our Wall Streeter, this mermaid is swimming to the surface. She is a great fish. "WHAT AM I? I AM BECOMING! I AM THE MERMAID FROZEN IN THE LOGO. AND I WANT MY NIPPLES BACK!" Then she stands on the chair, and then the table. (Careful!) She addresses the whole Starbucks, "YES I AM THE STARBUCKS MERMAID AND I AM GETTING MY NIPPLES BACK!"
More women rise from surrounding tables. They swim through the Starbucks, out onto the sidewalk and into the next Starbucks. More mermaids emerge, more mermaids, bare-breasted and undulating their fins, it's the Mermaid Parade let loose in the city. "We are the mermaids who swam out of the Starbucks logo, and we have our power!"
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We know that it's agonizing waiting for a game to be released with nothing but screenshots and bits of news to ease the pain and sate your cravings. But hey, at least there's a new trailer for you race fans who are patiently awaiting the arrival of the Xbox One and Forza Motorsport 5.
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Biden gets a new national security advisor
Today, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech defending the Obama administration's foreign policy and attacking the foreign policy views of Mitt Romney in New York. Back in Washington, Biden took on a new top staffer to advise him on national security and foreign policy going forward.
As part of a set of ongoing staffing changes in the national security leadership at the White House, Biden will get a new deputy national security advisor Monday, Pentagon official Julianne Smith. Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Miller announced Smith's move in a Thursday note to staff, obtained by The Cable.
"I am writing to announce that Julie Smith, who has served brilliantly as principal director for Europe and NATO policy for the last three years, has been selected as deputy national security adviser to the vice president. Julie will start in her new position on Monday April 30," Miller wrote. "We will greatly miss Julie in OSD Policy, but very much look forward to continuing to work closely with her in her new role."
Smith replaces Brian McKeon, who moved over in March to become deputy assistant to the president, executive secretary, and chief of staff of the National Security Staff (NSS). McKeon replaced two senior staffers. The position of executive secretary had been held by Nate Tibbits, and the position of chief of staff had been held by Ambassador Brooke Anderson, who left government and moved to Bozeman, Montana, according to a White House press release last month.
The jobs of NSS executive secretary and chief of staff were merged into one position for McKeon, "creating a more integrated approach to the management of the NSS," the White House said.
Smith had been serving as the Pentagon policy shop's principal director for Europe and NATO policy for the last three years. Part of that job will be immediately filled by Evelyn Farkas, who will take over Smith's role as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense for the NATO Summit next month in Chicago. Farkas has served for the past two years as senior advisor to EUCOM Commander and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Adm. Jim Stavridis.
The Pentagon's regional director for Europe and NATO Chris Skaluba will be taking over Smith's duties as principal director of the Europe/NATO office on an acting basis, while the Pentagon looks for someone to fill that position permanently, Miller wrote. Col. Sean Scott will fill in for Skaluba as acting director of the Europe/NATO regional directorate.
According to Politico's Playbook, Smith previously worked as director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Europe Program and also has worked at the German Marshall Fund, the British American Security Information Council, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Germany.
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