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Hines Presents VATs and International Trade Today at UCLA
James R. Hines, Jr. (University of Michigan, Economics Department) presents Value-Added Taxes and International Trade: The Evidence today at UCLA as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Workshop series. Here is the abstract:
This paper examines the effect of value-added taxes (VATs) on international trade. Destination-based VATs are commonly thought to encourage exports, since exports are exempt from tax while imports are taxed. Economic theory implies that exchange rate adjustment prevents destination-based VATs from affecting exports and imports, since exchange rate appreciation completely undoes the effects of introducing a VAT. Indeed, this proposition is so well accepted among economists that it has not been subjected to serious prior testing. Evidence from 136 countries in 2000 indicates instead that reliance on VATs is associated with fewer exports and imports. Countries using VATs have one-third fewer exports than do countries not using VATs, and 10% greater VAT revenue is associated with 2% fewer exports. A similar pattern appears in an unbalanced panel of 168 countries from 1950-2000, in which VAT use is associated with 12% fewer exports. These patterns persist with the inclusion of income and geographic controls, and while the effect of VATs on exports is stronger among low-income countries than it is among high-income countries, there is a significant negative effect of VATs on exports even among high-income countries. The behavior of American multinational firms in 1999 is consistent: 10% greater local VAT collections are associated with 5% fewer exports by local American-owned affiliates. Two features of VAT implementation may account for these effects: VATs tend to be imposed at higher rates on traded goods than on nontraded goods, and exporters often receive only incomplete VAT rebates.
The workshop is from 3:00 - 5:00 pm PST in Room 2448 at UCLA.


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Mexico, John M. Ackerman wrote recently for Foreign Policy, "is not a functional democracy." Instead, it's a "repressive and corrupt" oligarchy propped up by a "blank check" from Washington. Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in security aid through the Mérida Initiative. Clinton's State Department overlooked human rights abuses and corruption while keeping a lucrative flow of contracts moving to U.S. security firms working in Mexico.
March 25, 2016
This article was prompted by the unrelenting campaign by friends and associates of the late Dr. Walter Rodney, to maintain the false accusation that Forbes Burnham ordered Walter Rodney's assassination. Many of these academics and commentators are not Guyanese and do not fully understand the circumstances in 1980 that led to Walter Rodney's demise. The adage, chanted by Bob Marley, that "half the story has never been told" is 100 percent correct.
August 9, 2015
Graduating from Antioch University's PhD program in Leadership and Change on Aug. 1, 2015, Cynthia McKinney fulfilled a lifelong dream to complete her education with a terminal degree. In keeping with her interests in U.S. policy, Dr. McKinney wrote her dissertation on the leadership challenges faced by President Hugo Chavez as he asserted the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's right to sovereignty.
February 14, 2014
Want to eat poisoned food or triple your medication costs? TPP will do that. Confused about how multinational corporations created the TPP, a Trans Pacific Partnership "trade deal" that will hurt people globally? WikiLeaks recently published two chapters of the agreement big corporations developed in years of secret talks. Before we have our say, Obama wants to Fast Track TPP through Congress. Here's a quick summary of why we should flush the TPP.
September 26, 2012
The NATO powers and the bureaucrats they installed in Libya want you to think that all 5.6 million Libyans are happy that NATO and its proxy terrorists destroyed Libya, a country which under Qaddafi had the highest standard of living in Africa. They want you to think that there is no Green Resistance to the NATO imperialists or NATO's Islamist allies in Benghazi. Because of this denial, the internet is filled with blind guesses regarding the Benghazi incident Sept. 11 in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and at least three other American personnel were killed.
September 7, 2012
Haiti's brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today. Join Haiti Action Committee for a discussion on the roots of paramilitarism in Haiti at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, featuring Jeb Sprague, author of 'Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti.'
August 15, 2012
There are periods in a country's history when the signs and warnings that that history will soon enter into a dramatically different phase are clear as day. Such is the period today in Haiti, where daily events portend an inauspicious development for the future: The Haitian Army may soon be returning.
April 10, 2012
On April 8, The Black Star News published "Invisible Children, Makers of Kony 2012, Spied for Ugandan Regime – Wikileaks." Milton Allimadi, Black Star News publisher, says that his website has become inaccessible due to a "distributed denial-of-service attack" (DDoS attack).
August 24, 2011
Libya is a small country of just over 6 million people, but it possesses the largest oil reserves in all of Africa. The oil produced there is especially coveted because of its particularly high quality. The Air Force of the United States along with Britain and France has carried out 7,459 bombing attacks since March 19. Britain, France and the United States sent special operation ground forces and commando units to direct the military operations of the so-called rebel fighters – it is a NATO-led army in the field.
August 18, 2011
Did Bishop Louis Kébreau, president of the Haitian Episcopal Conference, call on Haitian President Martelly to be ruthless and dictatorial?
July 1, 2011
Leading members of Haiti's bourgeoisie tried to turn the Haitian police force into their own private army, according to a secret U.S. Embassy cable provided to Haïti Liberté by the media organization WikiLeaks.
May 6, 2011
Under the guise of a humanitarian mission, NATO and the combined militaries of the U.S., England and France are stealing Libya's sovereign wealth and resources. President Obama has already frozen US$30 billion that belongs to the Libyan Central Bank to inject into the U.S. economy.
April 9, 2011
"Had the RPF not been made militarily dominant by outside support and the two presidents not been assassinated in the RPF assault for power, the ICTR evidence suggests that the Rwandan genocide would never have occurred," concludes Professor Erlinder.
March 12, 2011
"I have slain Pharaoh" is now the collective cry in Africa and the Middle East. All people dedicated to freedom should join in their cry.
March 3, 2011
Women's History Month and the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day March 8, 2011 – what a great month to toast the New Year. The name itself is an action, a call to action: MARCH – Move!
February 23, 2011
This "run-off" presidential election, scheduled for March 20, helps to explain the re-emergence of Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, since both candidates, Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly, have links to the Duvalier past. Manigat's husband is said to have advised Duvalier to create the dreaded tonton macoutes. And Martelly, who was himself a tonton macoute in his youth, has pledged to make Duvalier one of his advisers. Join the Haiti Action Committee for "Seven Years after the Coup in Haiti: Democracy at the Crossroads" at Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland, on Tuesday, March 1, 7 p.m.
February 18, 2011
Davey D from Hard Knock Radio, Breakdown FM and daveyd.com breaks down WikiLeaks, net neutrality and what is happening to this democratic library called the internet, formed by the U.S. government.
January 31, 2011
In a momentous decision Jan. 27, Botswana's Court of Appeal quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral lands.
January 23, 2011
Confidential U.S. diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released this week by WikiLeaks reveal Washington's well-known obsession to keep exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti and Haitian affairs. "All efforts must be made to keep Aristide from returning to Haiti or influencing the political process," the U.S. embassy told Brazil, which heads the U.N. occupation of Haiti. Did those efforts include covering up the assassination of the Brazilian general in charge who had no taste for slaughtering Haitians who simply want their president back?
January 21, 2011
Haiti's infamous dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned to his country this week, while the country's first elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington's policy toward Haiti and our government's respect for democracy.

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Lord Lucas: My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord raised that question. As a result of all our reforms, school governors are taking a very active and personal interest in the health of their schools. We are delighted that that is the case. It is a development which the party opposite would never have allowed had they been in power.
Lord Morris of Castle Morris: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that answer. Perhaps I may now ask him to answer the question that I put. Why are school governors threatening to resign in such significant numbers?
Lord Lucas: My Lords, I do not believe that they are threatening to resign in significant numbers. Certainly, some are threatening to resign. They are concerned about the level of the funding settlement, as expressed to them by their local authorities. It has been a tough spending round, but local authorities have a great deal of flexibility to ameliorate the general level of funding. One tough year after 15 good years is not so hard to take.
Baroness Lockwood: My Lords, is the Minister familiar with the latest figures which indicate that a higher number of children left school last year without any qualifications? If so, is he satisfied that the Government's policy will now help children across the board? I refer to those who are not gaining qualifications as well as the more gifted children.
Lord Lucas: My Lords, I am familiar with that report. Of course, the Government are not satisfied that that should be the situation. As the noble Baroness will be aware, when the results for the first tests for 14 year-olds were published recently, they showed that around 20 to 25 per cent. of the school population were producing results that were worse
Lord Peston: My Lords, did I misunderstand the Minister? Did he say that variations in class sizes did not affect educational performance? Is that his department's view? Before he answers, I should perhaps point out that I have only just looked at the latest research which appears to show precisely the oppositethat is, that lowering class sizes is highly advantageous. That is evidenced also by the fact that those parents whose children go to fee-paying schools are extremely keen on small class sizes. If it makes no difference, why are they wasting their money?
Lord Lucas: My Lords, research shows that when class sizes are reduced to around 15, the effect begins to be noticed. Class reductions to that level, involving double the expenditure compared with present levels, would produce benefits. But that additional expenditure can be much better spent in producing advantages in other ways.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon: My Lords, the Minister said that local authorities have a great deal of flexibility. He admitted that the Government were engaged in a strong spending round. However, does he agree that many local authorities and local communities want to spend more money on education? In those circumstances, and bearing in mind that the Government believe that people should have as much freedom as possible, will he remove the capping levels from local authorities?
Lord Lucas: My Lords, I would not dream of trespassing on the territory of my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Quirk: My Lords, does not the Minister agree that to urge funding as the basic cause of our educational ills is in fact to delay addressing their real underlying cause?
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Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, I deeply regret the death of Mr Abel and extend my deepest sympathy to his family. It is for health authorities to identify local needs, including provision for emergency admissions, intensive care and neurosurgery. It is they and not central government who are in the best position to do that.
Lord Smith: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her reply and for sending me the clinical story from High Wycombe hospitala tragic and
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, some patients with severe brain haemorrhaging may not be able to withstand major brain surgery and we know that doctors have to make agonising decisions whether or not to operate. I am not saying that Mr Abel was such a patient. He was 68 years oldI am sure your Lordships will agree that that is not so old these daysand was receiving treatment with anti-coagulant drugs. I fear that that told against him.
The scan results available within 30 minutes of admission showed that he had suffered a large haemorrhage; he was deeply unconscious and needed medical assistance to breathe. It would be wrong to judge the whole of the National Health Service from one single case. Inevitably clinical judgments are made and many neurosurgeons are reluctant to intervene unless they believe that there will be a positive result.
Lord Strabolgi: My Lords, is the noble Baroness aware that over 3,500 patients recently had operations cancelled, with all the anxiety that causes, due to a shortage of beds in London and the South East? Is she further aware that a three year-old girl, suffering an asthma attack, had to be driven 60 miles to Cambridge because there was no hospital bed available in London, although doctors had telephoned 14 hospitals? Are the Government prepared to take some responsibility for that?
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, we recently had a full report on a survey undertaken on intensive care beds. The report showed that although there were sufficient beds, they were not necessarily in the right place and were not being used in the correct way. One in six cases in those intensive care beds were inappropriately placed. We have drawn the attention of all health authorities to the report. We circulated it and asked them to consider it carefully when purchasing services for their populations.
Baroness Robson of Kiddington: My Lords, does the Minister agree that in circumstances such as those we have just heard about, when no emergency beds are available, NHS hospitals should be entitled to contact the nearest private hospital with beds available rather than leaving it to a relative of the person suffering from the haemorrhage to arrange for his
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, in the case cited it was not an emergency bed that was needed; it was a bed in a neurosurgical unit. We have since contacted all the hospitals approached. We found that in two hospitals there was a place and that in one case the senior registrar felt that it was inappropriate that a patient who was so ill should be transferred.
Lord Bruce of Donington: My Lords, the noble Baroness cannot have it both ways. In her first Answer she suggested that the prognosis was that the patient would not respond to treatment because of his age and his specific situation. That may well have been the case. If so, why did the same people go to all the trouble of trying to find a hospital in which a neurosurgeon could be found? The two answers do not tie up.
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, there is a difference between referring a patient and accepting a patient. In this case the doctors felt that it was appropriate to refer the patient. However, those in the neurosurgical units in some casesnot in all casesfelt that it was inappropriate for that patient to travel that far for that operation.
Baroness Jay of Paddington: My Lords, is the Minister aware that whatever the specific clinical circumstances of that tragic case, it is not an isolated instance? Is she aware of the reply given to my right honourable friend Mrs. Beckett by the Minister for Health on 3rd February in another place in which she was told that the attendance at casualty and emergency departments throughout Greater London had risen by 2 per cent. in the recent past? If that is the case and those figures are available, why do not the Government take direct action?
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International soloist: Why I slept on airport floor
September 30, 2015 by norman lebrecht
We have received a full account from Rachel Barton Pine on why she and her family spent the night on an airport floor after US Airways refused to board her precious Guarnerius violin. Rachel is at pains in her email to point out that the US Airways attendants were never rude. Just bloody unhelpful. Read Rachel's tale below.
On Sunday night, my family and I were flying US Airways from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Chicago O'Hare. Ironically, I had been in Phoenix to film a performance and interview for the upcoming Cremona violin exhibit at the Musical Instrument Museum, an installation designed to increase the general public's understanding of these special antique instruments.
My husband, daughter and I arrived at the airport in what should have been plenty of time to get to the gate early, but we had a "perfect storm" of delays with returning the rental car, checking in, and going through security, so we ended up being one of the last to board which was very unusual for us.
As we were about to board, the gate agent told me that there was no room left for my 1742 "ex-Bazzini ex-Soldat" Guarneri del Gesu in the overhead bins and indicated that it would have to be gate checked. After I explained that this would not be possible, she allowed us to board the plane to see if accommodations could be made. We found that there were a number of purses and bags in the overhead bins that could have been rearranged so that the violin could be placed behind them. Unfortunately, the flight attendants were unwilling to assist in rearranging the overhead bins. We didn't want to make a fuss and delay takeoff, so we exited the plane and the airline booked us on another flight. As all of our luggage was still on the original plane and our next flight was in five hours, we waited through the night in the terminal for our morning flight.
I want to be clear that everyone at US Airways with whom we interacted conducted themselves professionally – no one was rude. I sent out the tweets/posts because this is such an important issue for all touring musicians. There seems to be a real lack of awareness in the airline industry. I think that their belief that gate-checking the violin was a workable solution might have led to their lack of willingness to help us rearrange the bins so that everything fit.
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It would appear to be more than incompetent, and questionable on grounds of safety, for the airline to have insisted that a passenger be forced to fly on a different aircraft to their checked suitcases. This is exactly the kind of crass safety breach which elaborate and time-consuming measures are intended to prevent.
Correct. At least on an international flight, they would have delayed the flight and removed the bags. Bags can not fly in the hold unless the passenger is aboard. Not removing the bags is possibly the most shocking part of this sad saga..
I agree about failure to remove bags. Even in Australia where the US-style security carryon is largely not followed (we leave shoes, coats on, dont take out every conceivable electronic device from our bag etc) planes are grounded if bags are loaded and the passenger isnt on board. Looking at the photo I guess she is lucky noone walked off with the valuable violin while they slept! All in all, a rather unpleasant and unnecessary hassle for another musician (and in this case her family as well).
A bit of clever free publicity
This looks like your usual rubbishy cynicism. Anything that involves a family, including a child sleeping on an airport floor is hardly "free." And the previous two posters are correct: the unaccompanied baggage situation is a stunning breach of international air travel protocols.
Polite or not, the cabin staff ought to have more judgment. Shifting a few objects is not a hugely time-consuming process. And do these people not have ship-to-shore communications? Couldn't the gate attendant have let the cabin staff know "violin boarding — passenger in Row G — check adjacent bins and see if and where there can be space made"?
On full flights, the instructions from the flight crew about stowing personal items *always* include the admonition that purses, backpacks, and other small items should be placed under the seat rather than in the overhead, to make sure every passenger has their share of overhead locker space,so it appears that the airline staff were unwilling to follow their own rules.
I hadn't considered the baggage angle, but had the airline removed the bags as they were supposed to, it would have taken vastly more time and resulted in vastly more delay than a slight rearrangement of the items in one overhead bin. I'm glad to hear that they weren't rude, but it simply defies all logic that this was the best solution either for Rachel and family *or* for the airline.
I'm glad that it gives publicity to the plight of traveling musicians. All the better if it helps bring about further change in airline policies and procedures.
Goodness, what a mean-spirited and nasty thing to say! Totally out of line, and totally in the wrong. I cannot imagine what is going through your head to make such an ill-tempered claim. Whatever it is, I am glad I don't know you, you must be an exceedingly unpleasant person in real life.
Indeed, the most shocking point of this story is that an airline in a country as paranoid about security as the United States would allow baggage to fly onboard without the passenger. The second equally as shocking thing here is that the airline would prefer to leave a family with a child stranded in an airport, without their luggage, to sleep on the floor, rather than moving some things around in the overhead luggage containers in order to accommodate a violin case. That is what is shocking. Having travelled throughout the world, both in the past and today, it immediately brings to mind the sort of thing that would have happened in the former Soviet Union. Nowadays, the United States seems to get closer by the day to that sort of totalitarian 'Soviet' notion of service, where the well being and satisfaction of the customer is definitely not the first priority. Each visit to the U.S. I am shocked at the utterly abysmal level of service and rigidity of those interacting with the public. Often, it's like I'm back in the old USSR of Soviet times. These stories and the dozens of others on a near daily basis only confirm this impression.
I would have happily gate checked my bag to make room for an instrument of this caliber. The flight attendants should have asked and any musician/music lover would have done the same.
Considering that the violin is on loan to her, she made the right call.
Not going to a hotel with her child; publicity stunt!
Shame on the airline and others who did not rearrange their carry-on trunk!
Five hours isn't exactly a lot of time to leave the airport, get to a hotel, get a room, rest for 2 maybe 3 hours, get back to the airport, go through security again, and get to the gate. For five hours, I probably would have stayed at the airport myself.
American airports practically demand you turn up five hours early.
Not at all a 'publicity stunt'. That is unfair. There was not enough time to go to a hotel and then get back for the next flight. The callousness of US the Airways staff is the issue, and it is a significant one to me…shame on them…:-0
Cabin crew will not touch overhead baggage. I have seen them refuse to assist or make accommodations under many circumstances. Once a guy put his downhill skis in the overhead bins across three rows of seats and no one else's bags would fit in. The crew refused to intervene. They do not care.
What bin is big enough to hold downhill skis? I don't believe it.
"Not going to a hotel with a child, publicity stunt!"
Another mean-spirited and ill-conceived remark.
You clearly have not flown very often. Airport hotels are extremely expensive, and often overbooked. It would take the family at least an hour to get to one, and if there was a room, get to the room, only to have to wake up with no more than two hours of sleep in order to get through security and back to the plane. So the result would have been less sleep for the child than she got in the airport.


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What is the perimeter of a square with side length 6?
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What is the perimeter of a regular pentagon whose side lengths are all \(6\)?
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Find the perimeter of a triangle \(ABC\) with \(AB= 3\text{ cm}, BC=4\text{ cm},\) and \(\angle B= 90^{\circ}.\)
First, use Pythagorean theorem to find the length of \(AC:\)
\[AC^{2}=AB^{2}+BC^{2}=3^{2}+4^{2} \Rightarrow AC=5.\]
Then add \(AB,BC,CA\) to get the perimeter, which is
\[3+4+5 =12\text{ (cm)}.\ _\square\]
Suppose an ant walks along the boundary of a triangle with side lengths \(4, 6,\) and \(7\). If the ant starts at one vertex of the triangle and makes \(3\) complete trips around the triangle boundary to return to its starting point, what is the total distance traveled by the ant?
Since the perimeter is the sum of edge lengths, the perimeter of the triangle is \(4 + 6 + 7 = 17\). Since the ant makes \(3\) complete trips around the triangle boundary, the total distance traveled by the ant is
\[ 17 \times 3 = 51. \ _\square \]
Find the perimeter of the given figure.
We have
\text{Perimeter} & = \text{Sum of side lengths}\\ & = 9 + 8 + 7 + 3 + 4 + 5\\ & = 36.\ _\square \end{align}\]
Perimeter of Other Shapes (Circles, Fractals, etc.)
The perimeter of a circle with radius \(r\) is \(2\pi r\). The perimeter of an arc of a circle subtending angle \(\theta\) (in degrees) at the center is \(2\pi r \times \frac {\theta}{360}\).
What is the perimeter (circumference) of a circle of diameter \(14\text{ cm}?\)
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\text{Radius} & = \dfrac{\text{Diameter}}{2}\\ & = \dfrac{14}{2}\\ & = 7\text{ (cm)}\\ \\ \text{Circumference} & = 2× \pi × r\\ & = 2 × \dfrac{22}{7} × 7\\ & = 44\text{ (cm)}. \end{align}\]
Find the perimeter of a semicircle of radius \(21\)cm.
We have
\text{Perimeter of a semicircle} & = \left( \dfrac{1}{2} × 2 × \pi × r \right) + 2r\\ & = \left( \dfrac{1}{2} × 2× \dfrac{22}{7} × 21\right) + 2×21\\ & = 66 + 42\\ & = 106\text{ (cm)}. \end{align}\]
In the figure to the right, a circle is circumscribed around a regular hexagon, and the same circle is inscribed within another regular hexagon.
Let \(P_1\) be the perimeter of the larger hexagon, let \(P_2\) be the perimeter of the smaller hexagon, and let \(C\) be the circumference of the circle.
The circumference of the circle can be approximated by finding the mean of the two perimeters: \[C\approx \frac{P_1+P_2}{2}.\] If \(\pi\) is approximated using the approximation for circumference above, then \(\displaystyle\pi\approx\frac{a}{b}+\sqrt{c}\), where \(a, b, c\) are positive integers, \(a\) and \(b\) are coprime, and \(c\) is square-free.
Find \(a+b+c\).
Perimeter using Polar Coordinates
We can calculate the perimeter of an enclosed figure if its graph on a Cartesian plane is a function in polar coordinates. Specifically, suppose the figure has the equation \(r = f(\theta)\) such that \(f\) is a continuous, nonnegative function for \(\theta \in [0, 2\pi]\) and \(f(0) = f(2\pi)\). Then its perimeter is given by the following formula:
\[P = \int_{0}^{2\pi} \sqrt{r^2 + \left(\dfrac{dr}{d\theta}\right)^2} d\theta.\]
Suppose we want to calculate the circumference of a circle with radius \(r\). Then \(r\) is a constant, and its derivative is \(0\). So the formula gives us
\[P = \int_{0}^{2\pi} \sqrt{r^2 + 0^2} d\theta = \int_{0}^{2\pi} r d\theta = r(2\pi-0) = 2\pi r.\]
Therefore the circumference is \(2\pi r.\)
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A red rectangle is reshaped into a blue square, as shown below, such that both quadrilaterals have the same perimeter. The area of the square is \(4\text{ cm}^2\) larger than that of the rectangle.
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Frederick remembers the early signs that his safe, timeless world of childhood is cracking, and will not always be such a haven. His first sign is when he realizes that the people he loves have two sides to them. There is the side that they show to him, an expression of their love for him, but there is also another, more selfish side, which is still capable of seriously hurting the people that they love. Freddy's father sometimes laughs in a terrifying way, as though something is broken in him. At times when adults deceive him, or when his father's drinking frightens him, Freddy feels that maybe the world is not put together quite perfectly. This is especially jarring to him, since he has no permanent home, but rather...
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My Sunday began with a visit to a tourist attraction – and ended with finding out my mother was a spy.
I knew she had worked with the Bletchley Park code-breakers whose decrypting of enemy messages shortened the Second World War by two years.
I knew she spent the post-war years in occupied Germany investigating the Nazi past of scientists Britain wanted to recruit.
What I didn't know until that Sunday was that she was in MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service.
Mum had always been secretive about some things and I have fond memories of teasing her about the mysteries she might be concealing.
A working-class girl from Mountain Ash in the Rhondda, she came to London in search of work but was vague about what she found.
And she never allowed her age to be disclosed publicly as she always looked younger than she was.
I was even forbidden from putting her birth date on her tombstone.
But it rankles that she never let on she was a spy – and that I never guessed, especially as I have spent so much of my professional life burrowing into the secrets of the espionage trade.
It is 12 years since she died and only now have I been able to piece together some of the secrets of her life.
But massive gaps remain.
For all I know she was solving murders until I was born, like the four ex-codebreakers in ITV's Bletchley Circle set in the 1950s.
Mum was always tight-lipped about what she did at Bletchley.
"Just a Foreign Office clerk," she told me airily.
Bletchley was wartime Britain's most secret estabishment, a 55-acre complex of cold, wooden huts hastily put up around an imposing mansion in the Buckinghamshire countryside.
And it was destined to be bulldozed by property developers until local enthusiasts saved it for the nation in 1992 and turned it into a museum.
As the forerunner of today's GCHQ eavesdroppers, it tapped into nearly all German and Japanese battle plans by inventing the ancestor of modern computers to process their secret communications.
Its 10,000 staff – who were mostly women – swore a lifetime vow of silence. Such enduring secrecy broke up many subsequent marriages.
But as the years wore on and Bletchley's crucial role in the war effort became more public, Mum let slip an occasional snippet.
She had worked in Bletchley's famous Hut 4 , plotting the positions of U-Boat wolfpacks stalking the north Atlantic supply routes.
Occasionally the information was not passed on to our convoys in case the Germans discovered we had cracked their Enigma coding machines.
Mum felt guilty about that.
That Sunday I visited Hut 4, which is now the site's tea shop.
It was hard to imagine my mother there with her naval charts.
I looked at the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour and searched under her maiden name, Iris May Phillips. And there she was: IM Phillips.
But that's all. The other entries where the ranks and service details of most personnel are now recorded were blank.
There was a note that only the Foreign Office held those details.
I asked a Bletchley staffer why.
"It means she was in MI6," he said.
Suddenly mysteries that had niggled throughout my life became clear.
As a teenager I'd known a friend's uncle who was a retired MI6 spy.
He held "diplomatic" posts all over eastern Europe before becoming an international antiques dealer. Good cover if he hadn't really retired at all.
I mentioned mum's past to him.
They talked – and she gave me the biggest rollocking of my life.
I was never, under any circumstances, to tell anyone anything about her ever again. Especially people like him.
I was mortified I might have given something away. But what?
My friend's uncle hadn't worked at Bletchley. And mum hadn't worked for MI6!
The summer before leaving school and making plans for university I stayed with my pal and his uncle at a house he owned by an Austrian lake.
One evening over dinner the conversation turned to spies as it often did when we got together. And then it turned suddenly serious.
I was being sounded out for a job.
"It will be so much easier for you with a family connection like yours," the uncle said.
What family connection? My family had no connection with MI6.
In any event I had decided I would rather reveal secrets than guard them and would be better suited to journalism.
But how would my mother feel about me trying to tell her story now after a lifetime hiding it from me?
I reread something she wrote to me about her life shortly before her death.
In the light of what I now know I recognise it as a challenge.
"You may find a little useful information if you look hard enough," she wrote at her home in Tenterden, Kent .
"You will just have to fictionalise the rest! After all you are the storyteller."
And when I looked again there was the clue.
Every MI6 officer claims publicly they work for the Foreign Office.
And in the letter Mum says although "the Foreign Office" wanted her to stay in London after the war, she wanted to go to Germany.
I know she was horrified to see the concentration camps before they were cleared.
I know she was at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials where top Nazis were sentenced to death but I don't know why.
I know she was arrested by Soviet troops for straying into Germany's Russian Zone but not what she was doing there.
I know she was billeted in a former SS officer's apartment in Munich and had her office in the old SS HQ.
And I know she travelled across Germany tracking down scientists to recruit for Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
"I went all over Germany searching for one," she remembered.
"I eventually found him living in one room with four children. The children were ill in bed coughing their little hearts out.
"He was eager to come to Britain. I asked if he had been a Nazi and of course he said no.
"But we always checked very thoroughly. He had been a member of the Nazi Party so we were no longer interested in him."
In 1953 Mum married businessman David Nelson, now also dead, and after I was born the following year she settled down to a life of domestic but uneventful bliss, though she had a brief moment of local fame when she met Princess Diana at the opening of Tenterden leisure centre in 1990.
I have tried to find out more at the Public Record Office in Kew, south-west London.
But every time I identified documents that might mention my mother, they were missing from the files.
And I was told they will not be considered for release until 2021. I have approached Whitehall security contacts for help. MI6 turned me down flat.
And it is immune from freedom of information laws.
Wartime PM Winston Churchill called people like my mother "the geese that laid the golden egg and never cackled".
And actress Rachel Stirling, 36, star of The Bletchley Circle, agrees.
She said: "The ladies of Bletchley have that wonderful quiet dignity that comes with being able to keep secrets.
"I don't think people can in this day and age."
On a visit to Bletchley Park two years ago the Queen said: "It is impossible to overstate the deep sense of admiration, gratitude and national debt that we owe to all those men and, especially, women.
"They were called to this place in the greatest of secrecy – so much so that some of their families will never know the full extent of their contribution."
How right you are, Ma'am.


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So it was fitting that the week I found out I was pregnant, it was communion Sunday. I was filled with emotion as I received that communion. The body and blood of Christ, this very special eucharist meal, was nourishing this body - my body. It was giving me life, and in turn, it was being passed to my child. I see communion in very physical terms. It is deeply spiritual, but it is also physical for me. So as my body ingested communion that day, I cried, knowing that as this food literally sustains me, it helps my body grow this precious life. I was able to pass that beautiful gift of communion onto my son before he even left my body. I continued to receive communion throughout my pregnancy and it was a cherished time for me.
Last Sunday was the first Sunday Henry was outside of my womb and in Church on a communion Sunday. I held him close. This moment was special to me. I knew it was special for my husband as well, and he asked to hold him as we walked up to receive the sacraments, but I selfishly shook my head. "I want him this time." I whispered. He can hold him during communion any other time, but this first one - this one is special for me. It was the first time he was really here with us, receiving communion as a family. We had shared that together, just the two of us, for so long and now he would get to expeiece it with the Church. We walked up and after I received each element, the pastor put her hand on my sweet baby's head and said "Henry, this is the body of Christ broken for you," and the intern next to her proclaimed "Henry, this is the blood of Christ shed for you." It was a beautiful moment I will always hold dear to my heart.


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September - Poem by Joanne Kyger
The grasses are light brown
and ocean comes in
long shimmering lines
under the fleet from last night
which dozes now in the early morning
Here and there horses graze
On somebody's acreage
Strangely, it was not my desire
that bade me speak in church to be released
but memory of the way it used to be in
careless and exotic play
when characters were promises
then recognitions. The world of transformation
is real and not real but trusting.
Enough of the lessons? I mean
didactic phrases to take you in and out of
love's mysterious bonds?
Well I myself am not myself
and which power of survival I speak
for is not made of houses.
It is inner luxury, of golden figures
that breathe like mountains do
and whose skin is made dusky by stars.
O fresh day in February
Come along
with me under pine whose new cones
make flowers. In a mellow mood
let's take anything
and you're better
in the peaceful flowing
in the bech
in the bird who flys up
out of coyote bush,
bob cat who crosses the road.
For who could think I could see
the grace of other souls born, and reborn
before in crab shells
snail shells, the head of a grebe
molesin, new onions up. Drawn by
your clever sleigh of tortoise
I listen for the melody
to sing along.
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MoanaDownloadable Audiobook - 2016
Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped—and no one today knows why.
From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors' unfinished quest. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho) meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds. Directed by the renowned filmmaking team of Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess & the Frog) and produced by Osnat Shurer (Lifted, One Man Band), Moana sails into US theaters on Nov. 23, 2016.
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|ROKISKIS: Rokiškis district, Panevėžys County
Alternate names: Rokiškis [Lith], Rokishki [Rus], Rakishok [Yid], Rakiszki [Pol], Rokišķi [Lat], Rokischken [Ger], Rakishik, Rakishki, Rakiski, Rekishok, Rokishki, Rokishok, Rokishuk, Russian: Рокишки. ראַקישאָק-Yiddish. 55°58' N, 25°35' E, 50 miles ENE of Panevėžys, 37 miles W of Daugavpils, Latvia, about 22 kilometers from the Latvian border. 1900 Jewish population: 2,067 (75%). 1923 Jewish population: 2,013. Yizkors: Yisker-bukh fun Rakishok un umgegnt (Johannesburg, 1952); Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Lithuania (Jerusalem, 1996); Lite (vol. 1) (New York, 1951). ShtetLink. Before WWII, Rokiškis traded with nearby Dvinsk/Daugavpils/Dunaburg, Latvia connected by a rail line. During the 1920s, Lithuania's border with Latvia was closed so trade increased with towns to the west that were connected by rail lines, such as Panevezys/Ponevizh, Siauliai/Shavli, and Kaunas/Kovno. In the Lithuanian Republic, anti-Semitism became pronounced. A boycott was organized against Jewish merchants and other businesses. Many Jewish businesses went bankrupt in 1925 and between 1926 and 1930 many Jewish families immigrated to South Africa, the U.S., and Palestine.In 1939 3,500 Jews lived in Rokiškis (40%).. They were mostly Habad Hasidim. The town prospered although located in lowland with nearby swamps and TB frequent. Two hot springs were nearby. In the inter-war period, the muddy and ditch filled street was paved, sidewalks installed, and trees planted. Dozens of new streets led from the railway station three km from town. Business clustered around the large marketplace. A Lithuanian high school with eight grades, a Lithuanian grade school, a Lithuanian library, and a Jewish library without books, a movie theater, and one yavne [Mizrakhi Zionist school] existed. The Russians took the town. Poles and Polish Jews immigrated to Rakishok welcomed warmly by the Rakishok Jews. photos and Rakishok links. [March 2009]
CEMETERY: Located originally a half-km from present-day Rakishok, the town belonged to the anti-Semitic Count Titushevna whose administrator had a child friendly with a little local Jewish boy, a tailor's only son. By legend, the boys had a fight, won by the Jewish boy. The Count ordered that when the son was to be married, the Count be informed or the father would be punished. Years later, the father reported time of his only son's wedding. As the bride and groom stood under the chuppah, the Count brought dry willow branches and set them afire before all of the town. The Jews were ordered from the town. Some settled where present day Rakishok exists, a half-kilometer from the tragedy. Purportedly, that site became the present Rakishok cemetery. photos [March 2009]
MASS GRAVES: On June 22, 1941, the Germans bombed Kovno. On Monday, June 23, 1941, a German airplane flew over Rakishok, but did not bomb. Another plane flew over at 5 p.m. Wounded Soviet soldiers were being brought from the Soviet-German border. Lithuanian nationalist partisans shot the Russian soldiers, hung anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic banners and Lithanian flags on posts. Jews on the roads were killed by these Lithuanians. The Soviets lost control and evacuated on Wednesday, June 25, 1941 at four p.m. Almost half of the Jews of Rakishok fled, including 99% of the youth, in the direction of Abel, Subot, Dvinsk, and the Lithuanian-Soviet border where Lithuanian soldiers would not allow the fleeing Jews to cross the border. Some were killed. The Germans arrived, forced the Jews to do horrid manual labor such paving of the highway extended to the marketplace. They were beaten, tortured, and stabbed. Before the men were murdered on August 10 and the women on August 20, they were told that they were being sent to work in Smolensk. 5,800 Jews from Rakishok and nearby Abel, Kamai, Ponidel, Suvianishok, and Raduteh were shot at a place behind "Boyar" in five to seven mass graves. The Germans confiscated all property of the murdered Jews and put it in a stable and a synagogue and sold it for negligible prices. The bombs had not damaged any buildings. Only the railroad station and a few houses near the church were damaged. After liberation, all Jewish houses remained with peasants living in them. [March 2009]
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More than 133,000 veterans may qualify for a refund of federal taxes they paid on disability severance pay dating back to 1991 ― taxes that shouldn't have been collected in the first place.
These refunds, which are the result of a law passed in 2016, apply to veterans who received this pay dating back to Jan. 17, 1991, with taxes withheld, and who also qualified for disability from the Veterans Affairs Department. President Obama signed into law legislation supported by the National Veterans Legal Services Program, to ensure that veterans who suffer service-ending combat-related injuries are not taxed on the severance payment they receive from the Department of Defense.


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With their lightweight, four-way stretch material and virtually seamless construction, the only sensory indications that you're wearing Castelli's Secondapelle RC Gloves are the added comfort and grip of the AX Suede palm. The subtle graphical treatment is as clean as the gloves' bodies are unobtrusively aerodynamic, so they won't stand out as a garish accessory, either.
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Glad my real skin doesn't tear so easily
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: Medium
There appears to have been some thought in the design and materials used in this glove, but the execution is lacking. Second skin is right - they are about as easy to pull on and off and one's own skin (read: difficult). After only 5 uses, the stitching along the edge of the thumb - on both right and left gloves - has started to separate (see photo) and I will shortly need to purchase another set of gloves.
Nice minimalist mitt
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Large
I like the minimal material and logoing, good understated summer glove. The palm material pooches out a little when my hands are off the bars. There's a little bit more padding than expected at the base of the thumb, yet to see if it's too much for me. Note that there's no nose- or sweat-wipe material on the thumbs.
Very Pro
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Small
I like this gloves because they are very simple, aerodynamic and comfortable. It is true there is no sweat accesorie, and they are difficult to try to take them off after riding them, but this are minimal things for me... Had some problems with the seam in my right hand glove.
These road gloves look and feel awesome.
1.) Minimal padding provides better bar feel, comfort, and control. Fantastic feel. 2.) No velcro for better aerodynamics, and easier to wash (was with the rest of your kit, no snagging on your expensive jerseys!).
3.) Very clean elegant styling. 4.) Synthetic AX suede palm is more durable and washable than leather. 5.) Very fine, soft lycra top provides snug, aero fit.
"Secondapelle" means "second skin" in Italian.
Cons: 1.) Expensive. $60 for short-finger gloves made in China? 2.) No sweat wipe on the thumb top. 3.) Most importantly: Longevity. The laser cut "raw" hem along the top wrist is fraying after only 10 uses. In addition, despite VERY careful removal, I'm having trouble with a second pair tearing along the middle finger seam after only 4 uses. Anyone else?
(I'm using Pearl Izumi's PRO Aero glove as back-up. No problems there at all.)
Sizing: Per usual with Castelli gloves, size up +1 (here, for sure). Sizing for gloves in general: Pearl Izumi = L. Giro = L/XL. Castelli = XL.
Oh hey, what's the problem with Made in China???
Interesting question with multiple implications. There is nothing inherently wrong with outsourcing production to China with regard to quality (however, this begs the question why the seams on this item are failing so easily). And China is one of the oldest, richest cultures on the planet. But Castelli is -not- an Asian company. It is a famous Italian cycling sportswear company with deep roots in cycling that go back to clothing 5-time Giro winner Alfredo Binda in the 1920s and 30s and 5-time Giro winner Fausto Coppi in the 1940s.
The only reason for a famous Italian sportswear company to outsource production is to lower labor and production costs. Yet plenty of Italian cycling sportswear companies still manufacture ALL of their clothing in Italy (SMS Santini, De Marchi, ALÉ, Nalini), or all of their clothing in Europe like Sportful --and-- their prices are roughly equal to or lower than Castelli's (such as with these gloves). Castelli has elected to outsource all of their production (except socks) to China, Macau, Vietnam, El Salvador, etc. to lower their costs. Ok, fine. But this should be reflected, for example in the price of these simple, short finger gloves. But it is not.
I completely agree with you about outsourcing. I recently purchased 2 pairs of Castelli aero shorts, supposedly their high-end shorts. One was manufactured in Bosnia, the other in El Salvador. The shorts were stitched very differently, the Bosnia one being superior quality to the one made in El Salvador. I assumed that I had received a counterfeit product but Castelli reassured me that the shorts could be stitched differently and might be made of different materials depending on where it was manufactured. I expected way better quality control for a $169 pair of shorts. I will be switching brands. Too bad Castelli doesn't care!
nice lightly padded race glove
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Very little padding but very very solid race glove. I don't like much padding in my glove it's just for crash protection and grip. I like this glove cause it's light and ventilates well.