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This has the word "nuclear" written all over it.
Suffice it to say women's rights groups will go ballistic over the GOP leadership in the Michigan House for muzzling two Democrat female lawmakers for their comments and actions on the abortion issue this week.
Rep. Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) was censored and not allowed to participate in floor debate on Thursday for using the word "vagina" during the abortion debate on Wednesday.
"What is wrong with that?" she asked during a scrum with capitol correspondents after she was told to be quiet.
"I used an anatomically correct word. I said vagina. Is there something wrong with that? Can I not say elbow? I don't see the difference," she concludes.
Rep. Lisa Lyons calls out Democrats, using words like 'liar,' 'disgraceful'
Rep. Lisa Brown questions whether her Jewish faith led to being censored
Rep. Barb Byrum: Apply abortion rules to vasectomies
Michigan House Democrat women lawmakers get feisty during abortion debate (video)
Michigan lawmakers weigh in on anti-abortion legislation
Anti-abortion bill approved by Michigan House; debate likely to rage at Capitol all summer
Well the House GOP Speaker ruled that her comments were "unprofessional" and disrupted the "decorum" of the House or so his mouthpiece Ari Adler explained for MLive.
Also told to sit down and be quiet was Lansing area Rep. Barb Byrum who shouted on the house floor during the same abortion debate trying to speak to an amendment she was offering. She was gaveled down but her behavior drew the same GOP response: "unprofessional" and disrupted the "decorum."
Mr. Byrum said she was "standing up for the people in my district. I am very disappointed. No one should be censured in the House," she opines.
As for the GOP Speaker Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), Ms. Byrum says she would look him in the eye and say, "How dare you squash my constituent's voice."
Which is precisely the battle cry you may hear from others around the country once this thing goes viral...and it will and it will get ugly.
Watch Off the Record with Tim Skubick online anytime at video.wkar.org


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I finally got around to making these as I've had this idea for a while now, and since there is a torrential blizzard outside right now I have no more excuses. I found the great muslin for 25% off at Joann's. I found the hounds tooth for $1.50 a yard at Walmart so I bought a bunch since I have other plans for it too. The tulle and felt I had on hand. Even though this was SUCH a simple project, my ocd kicked in after the first stocking, so I have yet to complete the other two. Also, do you know how weird it is to make a stocking for yourself as 'mom' when you never have been one up to this point? Yea. Weird.
The first thing I did was find a stocking in storage that my hubby and I had bought at the dollar store last year, cuz that's how we roll. Nice and cheap. I cut the muslin around the stocking just a little larger in order to allow for a seam.
I then used the muslin cutout as the pattern for the next two. I only needed three stockings, so I probably used about 1/2 yard on them. I did buy more muslin, because our family might *possibly* be bigger in the future.
The muslin stockings were about 8 inches wide, so I cut the hounds tooth into a strip about 4" by 15" long.
I put a basting stitch on both sides of the strip and gathered it loosely, then pinned it to the top of one side of the stocking.
I cut a small strip of tulle- about 20 inches long. When you sew the tulle will typically gather itself if your strip is only about an inch wide which mine was. I put that under the hounds tooth and then re pinned, because I was pretty much just making this up as I went along. All I knew was that I wanted muslin stockings, so...yea.
Sew your pieces down. Then pat yourself on the back. Then continue.
I cut a strip of felt about 9" long and 1" wide. I placed it over the seam and sewed lines into the felt so it would get that cute stitched look. At least that was the intention.
At first I was going to the back the exact same, but then I thought, "How cute would it be to do a pocket for notes from Santa on Christmas night?" See I don't need kids yet to still be a total five year old sometimes. It could also be a note from Mom and Dad if you've got some 'non-believers' in your home. ;)
I sewed a line across the top of the piece of felt I cut out then pinned the felt to the muslin.
I then stitched the other three sides with the machine.
I wanted to personalize the stockings so I attempted to make stencils from a font I liked on word. After I realized
I stitched over each letter carefully and called it good.
Then at the top of each stocking side I folded it over and did a quick seam to finish them.
Then I put wrong sides together and sewed the two sides.
Trim any excess so that the sides are smooth when it's flipped.
I made a quick strip out of felt, looped it and then pinned it over the side seam.
Then I just sewed it down over the seam.
Flip it out and voila! You're done! I would have finished the other two, but I didn't. Apparently facebook was way more appealing than sewing. Don't worry, they'll be done shortly. Probably.
Note from Santa!
My parents used to leave us a 'note' by the cookie plate, I mean, SANTA used to leave us a note and we loved it as kids. How fun to have your own!
Happy sewing! Let me know if you have any questions, and if you like it! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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SKY REPORTER: The Search for Habitable Planets main content.
by Steve Beyer on
Like a sharp-eyed lookout reporting from high in an orbiting crow's nest, the Kepler Mission telescope is aimed at a direction in space near where the Solar System is racing at half a million miles per hour. But rather than warning of impending close encounters, Kepler has over the past four years returned evidence that over a hundred planets orbit distant stars across a patchwork of sky in the northern constellations Lyra and Cygnus. The Kepler Mission is especially looking for planets about the size of Earth in so-called "Goldilocks" zones around Sun-like stars. In such regions planets with proper atmospheres could possibly maintain surface temperatures allowing the presence of liquid water, an essential medium for life as we know it.
Recently NASA announced astronomers working with the Kepler observatory had identified additional planets including three that are relatively small, rocky, and orbiting within prime habitability zones around Sun-like stars. What made the news especially exciting was these worlds are the most similar in size to Earth ever found in such temperate regions. One of them, known as Kepler-62f, has a diameter estimated at 11,000 miles, compared to 7,900 miles for Earth. Kepler-62f orbits at a distance of 66 million miles, taking 267 days to circle yellow star Kepler-62, which is about 70% as massive as the Sun.
During evenings of April and May the Kepler Mission search field, between stars Vega and Deneb that mark corners of the Summer Triangle asterism, is situated in our northeastern sky. Kepler-62 and its family of planets is about seven degrees of arc north of brilliant Vega, brightest star in Lyra. On clear nights you should have no trouble spotting Vega but Kepler-62 is 1,200 light years from us, and about 300,000 times fainter than Vega, therefore it's best considered in our mind's eye or through a very large telescope.
There is a partial lunar eclipse on April 25; however it's not visible from North America. During early evening of April 14, the thin crescent Moon is about two degrees from Jupiter in the western sky. The Moon is about five degrees from Saturn during the night of April 26.
|Last Quarter
|April 2, 11:36 pm
|New Moon
|April 10, 5:35 pm
|First Quarter
|April 18, 8:31 am
|Full Moon
|April 25, 3:57 pm
At the start of April Mars, Venus, and Uranus are all too close to the Sun's position for casual viewing. Mercury is not easily visible low in bright predawn twilight. Venus is beginning a period of evening appearances that lasts through the rest of 2013. However for several months it will be quite low in the western sky during twilight.
Jupiter remains the dominating celestial point of light during evenings of April.
Mars is at conjunction with the Sun on April 17, after which it will be in the early morning sky.
Saturn is at opposition, 180o of arc from the Sun, on April 27, that night it is above the horizon from sunset to sunrise.
|Rises 5:34 am
|Sets 7:56 pm
|Sets 7:35 pm
|Sets 11:36 pm
|Rises 8:28 pm
|Rises 5:43 am
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As we discuss radically altering the state's tax structure, honesty and accuracy will be essential.
There are good reasons to be skeptical, but we must at least begin from a point where there is agreement on the numbers.
As we discuss radically altering the state's tax structure, honesty and accuracy will be essential.
There are good reasons to be skeptical, but we must at least begin from a point where there is agreement on the numbers.
A cornerstone of the ongoing debate over Gov. Bobby Jindal's effort to do away with the state's corporate and personal income taxes is the governor's promise to make the plan revenue-neutral.
That means the governor's plan, if it works as it should, will take in the same amount of money that the current system would next year and in years to come.
The central idea is that an increase in sales taxes across Louisiana would make up for the money lost by doing away with income taxes. By doing so, Jindal and his advisers argue, the state would do away with many of the loopholes that currently plague the system while giving most families a bit of a tax break in the transition.
Keeping the plan revenue-neutral is a must. The state even now is dealing with crippling money problems that have led to severe cutbacks in money spent on health care and higher education. So it is troubling, to say the least, that a statewide group has taken issue with the numbers the governor is using to defend his plan.
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana is a nonprofit, nonpartisan good-government watchdog group. In its analysis of the governor's plan, PAR says the state could end up $500 million to $650 million short of current revenues under Jindal's proposal.
While PAR applauds the governor's actions in starting the conversation over taxes, it says some of the assumptions made in his plan are unrealistic and could lead to serious money problems in years to come.
For instance, PAR says the plan overestimates the money the state would take in by increasing the cigarette tax by $1.05 a pack. The state's numbers also underestimate the money the state would take in under the current tax system, PAR says.
Tim Barfield, who is overseeing the tax restructuring for Jindal, stands by the state numbers and says PAR's own calculations misinterpret the state's.
PAR has a long history of making accurate, nonpartisan analyses of government action, and its misgivings give us ample reason to question Jindal's plan.
There will be time in the coming weeks to sort out the numbers and make sure the math is correct. And we must do exactly that.
The Legislature must delve into the tax plan, and it must be allowed the autonomy to do so. When the Legislature took up education reform last year, it did so hurriedly and with precious little debate. Now, those reforms are facing legal challenges, the outcomes of which are uncertain.
As we embark on potential changes to our tax system, the debate must be real and must be based on accurate information. We simply cannot afford to place fiscal landmines in future budgets.
Whether Jindal is right, PAR is right or the truth lies somewhere between the two, the Legislature must base its debate and ultimate decision on good numbers.
PAR's analysis gives us a great place to start the debate.
Editorials represent the opinions of
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By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON Idaho (Reuters) - Conservationists said on Wednesday they will sue the Obama administration over its decision to deny federal protections for rare wolverines in the mountains of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
In a 60-day notice of intent to file the suit, a coalition of 13 conservation groups told the administration that politics underpinned this week's decision, instead of the "best available science" as required by the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Last year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the estimated 300 wolverines in the Lower 48 states to the federal endangered and threatened species list, saying global warming was reducing snows in the high country that the animals depend on for digging dens and storing food.
But on Tuesday federal wildlife managers said there was "insufficient evidence" that climate change would severely harm wolverines, carnivores from the weasel family that resemble small bears with bushy tails. Wolverines are known for their cantankerous disposition and fearless defense of their territories.
The Obama administration's decision on wolverines came after states such as Idaho opposed the proposed listing, which would have banned the trapping of the animals and imposed restrictions on snowmobiling and other winter recreation in areas inhabited by the solitary creatures.
Bethany Cotton, wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians, one of the 13 groups, said peer-reviewed scientific studies show wolverines depend on snow, and that the amount of snow in their range is expected to decrease because of a warming U.S. West.
"The Fish and Wildlife Service's own biologists recommended listing and then the agency did an about face after complaints by states and industry," she said. "Science and the law are on the side of saving the wolverine from extinction."
The Fish and Wildlife Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Bill Trott)


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How does error handling work
WARNING: error handling is still in state of flux, the following page is primarily intended for developers.
1 Validation errors
error handler -- method called when an error occurs.
Let foo be a function defined as
@expose() @validate(validators={"bar":validators.Int()}, "baz":validators.Int()) def foo(self, bar=None, bar=None): pass
1.1 Basics
Basic form of error handling is via decorator error_handler with error handler as argument:
my_eh can have an arbitrary signature, however one might wish to declare parameter tg_errors wherein errors (causing our error handler to be called) will be passed. Other parameters of interest are any named the same as arguments being validated, allowing us to fully reconstruct the original call (that failed validation). A more general approach would be using *identifier and identifier.
my_eh now looks something like:
def my_eh(self, tg_errors, bar): pass
Of curse nothing prevents us from using an existing (exposed) method as error handler.
A method can even be it's own error handler when error_handler is applied without any arguments:
or by declaring parameter tg_errors:
def foo(self, bar=None, tg_errors=None):
Mind, tg_errors should be a keyword argument, when used in this manner (since for valid input the method will not get re-called as error handler, hence tg_errors will not get passed in).
If no appropriate error handler is defined and validation failed, NotImplementedError? exception (from standard library) is raised.
1.2 Dispatch rules
What if we want to handle invalid baz-es differently than invalid bar-s? Fortunately for us, error_handler takes a second keyword argument rules, making it possible to influence selection of appropriate error handler (actually a limited interface to RuleDispatch?[1]). Rules are arbitrary logical Python expressions passed as lists. For example:
@error_handler(baz_eh, "'baz' in tg_errors") @error_handler(bar_eh)
The most specific applicable rule is selected, meaning if validation of baz fails, baz_eh will be called regardless of bar's state or in other words, bar_eh will be called if and only if validation of bar fails and baz passes.
Any number of calls to error_handler can be made with the same handler.
Since both arguments of error_handler are optional, specialisation is possible even when method is it's own error handler:
@error_handler(rules="'baz' in tg_errors")
1.3 Fail-safe mechanism
If validation fails for an input, said input also does not get to be converted to designated Python type, which could be rather inconvenient. A fail-safe mechanism is provided for such cases. Decorator validate can take two additional keyword arguments failsafe_scheme and failsafe_values to fine-tune how to failed inputs are handled.
Predefined schemas (see turbogears/errorhandling.py):
- FailsafeSchema.none: Default. No conversions are preformed, input remains as is:
or explicitly:
@validate(validators={...}, failsafe_scheme=errorhandling.FailsafeSchema.none)
failsafe_values is ignored.
- FailsafeSchema.values: If failsafe_values is a dict, every input for which exists a key in failsafe_values is replaced with corresponding value. Otherwise all erroneous inputs are replaced with (same instance of!) failsafe_values.
@validate(validators={"bar":validators.Int(), "baz":validators.Int()}, failsafe_schema=FailsafeSchema.values, failsafe_values={"bar":1, "baz":2})
If erroneous, bar is set to (int) 1, while baz to 2.
@validate(validators={"bar":validators.Int(), "baz":validators.Int()}, failsafe_schema=FailsafeSchema.values, failsafe_values=13)
Both bar and baz are set to 13 when erroneous.
- FailsafeSchema.map_errors: Inputs are mapped to corresponding exceptions.
@validate(validators={"bar":validators.Int(), "baz":validators.Int()}, failsafe_schema=FailsafeSchema.map_errors)
failsafe_values is ignored.
User defined schemas can be added by defining new specialisations for generic function errorhandling.dispatch_failsafe.
2 Exceptions
2.1 Basics
Analogue to error_handler and tg_errors, exception_handler and tg_exceptions are defined.
If no appropriate exception handler is defined, exception is passed to a lower layer (e.g. CherryPy?).
2.2 Combining with error handling
One method can have any number of exception handlers and error handlers.
If having the same handler for errors and exceptions is desired, one can use errorhandling.register_handler which is similar to error_handler and exception_handler but without inherent specialisations.
3 Advanced topics
3.1 Utilities
3.1.1 bind_args
3.1.2 bind_rules
3.2 Generic functions
3.3 Continuations
[1] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cppeak2/index.html
Further reading
Generic functions


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April 26, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Isaac Taylor tallied a game-high four goals and added an assist in leading MIT to a 10-4 victory over UMass-Dartmouth in men's lacrosse action on Tuesday. With the win, the Engineers snap a two-game losing skid and bring their record to 5-6. Ryan Leary paced the Corsairs (4-8) with two goals and an assist.
Taylor lit the lamp 4:40 into the game with an unassisted goal. Nearly five minutes later, Stefano Young extended the Engineers' lead. Carter Powers set up Taylor for the final goal of the period at 2:17.
MIT continued to roll in the second stanza with Taylor earning a hat-trick with 10:33 left in the half. An unassisted goal by Scott Purchase was followed by Tyler Sorba scoring on a pass from Powers. The Engineers recorded their final goal of the period when Young set up Powers at the 5:51 mark. Within 22 seconds, UMass-Dartmouth's Leary ended the shutout by connecting on a feed from Kyle Griffin. MIT entered the halftime break with a 7-1 advantage.
In the third period, Sorba scored an unassisted goal at 11:57. The Corsairs' responded with Leary finding Patrick Roach for a quick goal. During the next 10 minutes, MIT faced relentless offensive pressure from UMass-Dartmouth. The Engineers eventually got the ball out of its defensive zone as Taylor notched an unassisted goal with 1:52 remaining.
Leary led off the scoring in the final frame by connecting on a pass from Griffin. Powers scored MIT's last goal after receiving a feed from Taylor. The Corsairs continued to fight as they posted the final goal of the game. Nick McEvoy set up Ryan Grant for an extra-man goal with 1:13 left on the clock.
In the net, Zach Brewer collected 21 saves for MIT. Steve Chase made 14 stops for UMass-Dartmouth.
The next game for MIT will be on Thursday, April 28 at 4:00 p.m. when it hosts UMass-Boston.


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Applications for three black students to enter the University of Alabama at the beginning of the next semester in February were received by the university's Office of Admissions and Records. Names were not released, but a 20-year-old Mobile coed at Alabama A&M College, Vivian Malone, confirmed that she was one of the three.
Alabama Gov.-elect George Wallace said he planned to follow in the footsteps of Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett to try to thwart any attempts to integrate Alabama schools.
West Blocton High School and Bibb County High School were dropped from accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools because the county school superintendent, Francis Pratt, did not have a graduate degree.
City officials announced a crackdown on parking meter violations and said police had started checking cars parked in downtown metered zones each hour.
The Orange Bowl-bound Alabama football team jolted underdog Auburn with a 92-yard touchdown run by halfback Butch Wilson on the opening kickoff and went on to crush the shaky Tigers 38-0.
The Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to archrival Auburn 10-0. It was the first time Alabama had been shut out since losing to Notre Dame 7-0 in 1980, and the first time the Tide had been shut out by Auburn since losing 40-0 in 1958.
Tide football Coach Bill Curry said the loss against Auburn hurt very much, but that a win against Michigan in the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa on Jan. 2 would supply a little momentum going into the future.
A single-engine plane crashed near Bridge Avenue and the Hugh Thomas Bridge in Northport; all four people aboard survived.
An ordinance creating a new city Department of Transportation was adopted unanimously by the Tuscaloosa City Council.
Long lines in the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse for car tag renewals prompted officials to investigate setting up a satellite office in Northport.
Ground was broken at a site under the Hugh Thomas Bridge for the city's new $464,000 youth sports complex.
Inmate Clistopher Thomas, in jail for murder, managed to escape from the Greene County Jail for the third time.
Asked about rumors linking him to the head coaching job at Texas A&M, University of Alabama head football coach Dennis Franchione reiterated that he had a great contract already and recommended focusing on the upcoming Alabama game against Hawaii. The Crimson Tide rolled past Hawaii 21-16.
Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital in Linden wanted the county to pay for indigent care at the hospital in order to keep the hospital a place in Marengo County that for the previous 35 years had not turned down a patient, whether they could pay or not.
The University of Alabama was fine-tuning its Crimson Ride bus service to make it more efficient. GPS systems were installed on each bus with a monitor at transit hubs so students could tell whether to wait or walk.
The Tuscaloosa County Board of Education delayed a vote regarding the book "Sandpiper" by Ellen Wittinger that a student and her grandmother had asked to have removed because of its graphic sexual nature.
A jury awarded $5 million to a former University of Alabama football booster, Ray Keller, who claimed the NCAA defamed him when it imposed penalties on the Crimson Tide in 2002.
Deaths this week included Edwin Lester Minges, 87, who founded the Pepsi bottling plant in Tuscaloosa in 1946.
Northport firefighter Byron Claybrook was severely burned and faced months of painful recovery after a caustic agent was put into his boot; officials said it was a deliberate act.
Funds were unavailable for repairing the historic building at 2624 University Blvd., home to the Guiding Light Worship Center and formerly the first synagogue in Tuscaloosa, that was damaged when storms spun from the April 15 tornado caused a tree to fall through the roof.
The second-ranked Crimson Tide football team throttled cross-state rival Auburn 42-14.
Internationally recognized singer and musician Doff Proctor was named artistic director of the Alabama Choir School, founded in 1985 as the Tuscaloosa Boychoir that now comprises six choirs for young singers in grades 1-12.
Mayor Walt Maddox asked the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education to consider rebuilding Alberta Elementary School and University Place elementary and middle schools in the same locations.
The original date of closure for the 88-year-old W.D. Partlow Development Center passed with the Department of Mental Health still trying to place the last few residents in homes in the community.
The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art held a grand opening at the Westervelt Co. headquarters on Jack Warner Parkway, where much of Jack Warner's collection from the NorthRiver Museum had been relocated.
Compiled by retired news librarian Betty Slowe.


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Book description
The real impacts of inflation and its most extreme form – hyperinflation – are known only too well: they erode value, unbalance economies and destroy wealth.
In the wake of the financial crisis a huge monetary overhang threatens the major developed economies.
The iron laws of economics have no respect for modern semantic niceties of "quantitative", "credit" or "monetary" easing: these policies all portend of inflation that must work its way out of the system.
As a result markets have focused attention on assets that protect the investor from loss of purchasing power.
Inflation-sensitive assets – including commodities, equities, infrastructure and real estate investments, and inflation-linked securities – have in fact become a new asset class.
Many institutional investors controlling trillions of dollars' worth of assets are allocating an increasing weight to the sector as an alternative and complement to other traditional assets.
In Inflation-Sensitive Assets: Instruments and Strategies, Stefania Perrucci and Brice Benaben blend insights and experiences from market participants including investment bankers, asset and pension fund managers and central bankers to guide the reader through this emerging sector.
This book, for the first time, addresses the commodities and inflation markets together, providing a holistic treatment from an inflation perspective.
Inflation-Sensitive Assets: Instruments and Strategies provides the reader with a deep understanding of the drivers of inflation, the assets which can be used to hedge it and how investors can formulate strategies when managing assets and liabilities in an inflation-sensitive environment.
Designed for practitioners, the book includes important academic contributions, and will be of interest to portfolio managers, risk managers, plan sponsors and researchers alike.
Book details
- Book 9781906348625 / EBook 9781906348625
- Publish date
- 18 Jul 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Size
- 155mm x 235mm
Table of contents
This is a provisional table of contents and may change on publication
Part 1 - Introduction: Markets and Instruments
1 Inflation Sensitive Assets
Stefania Perrucci
2 Investable Commodity Indexes and Inflation: A Brief History
Bob Greer
3 The Commodity Market: Implications for Policy and Investments
Kamal Naqvi and Ric Deverell
4 Real Estate Investments and Inflation
Brad Case and Susan Wachter
5 Infrastructure Assets and Inflation
Gerald Stack
6 Equity Strategies and Inflation
Steven Bregman
7 The Inflation-Linked Market
Gang Hu, Stefania Perrucci
8 Inflation Derivatives and Options
Brice Benaben, Stefania Perrucci and Franck Triolaire
Part 2 - Research and Macro Perspective
9 The Role of Models in Modern Monetary Policy
David Vavra
10 Market Inflation Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Jing-Zhi Huang and Olesya Grishchenko
11 Monetary Policy, Inflation and Commodity Prices
Frank Browne and David Cronin
12 Inflation and Asset Prices
John (Jack) Tatom
13 Inflation and Equity Returns
Jeff Oxman
14 Dynamic Inflation Hedging: What Works and When?
Alexander Attie and Shaun Roache
Part 3 - Practical Insights from Market Participants
15 Practical Models for Inflation Forecasting
Nic Johnson
16 Insurance Companies Management of Inflation Risk
Ken Griffin and Edward Yao
17 Pension Funds Management of Inflation Risk and Liabilities
Markus Aakko
18 Ultra High Net Worth Investors and The Real Asset Value Chain
Ian Barnard
19 Actively Managed Real Return Strategies
Stefania Perrucci
20 Opportunities in Inflation: Emerging Markets
Brice Benaben and Stefania Perrucci
"This book provides an essential resource for investors, consultants and service providers keen to preserve wealth"
Mihir Worah,
Managing Director, Head of Real Return Portfolio Management, PIMCO


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"The West Wing" star exchanged vows with "The Big Bang Theory" producer Rob Cohen at a drive-through chapel two decades ago in Sin City, but they didn't realize the wedding was for real until the TV executive started making plans to marry his new fiancee.
The pair's divorce finally came through on Saturday, shortly before they met up at the New York Comedy Festival as part of a reunion of workers on "The Ben Stiller Show" – the actor's 1990s comedy sketch series.
Garofalo tells New York Post gossip column Page Six, "Rob and I got married, for real, which we had to have a notary dissolve (a dissolution of marriage) not 30 minutes before we got here tonight. We were married for 20 years until this evening. … We got married drunk in Vegas. … We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. (We thought) you have to go down to the courthouse and sign papers and stuff, so who knew? We were married, and apparently now that (Rob) is getting married for real, his lawyer dug up something."
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Tn3270 is a terminal emulation program for connecting to computers which use IBM 3270 terminals. Major features of the emulation include color, extended highlighting, support for different screen and font sizes, and SSL support. Some more obscure features include support for the APL character set, and support for file transfer and remote printing when tn3270 is used with an IBM VM/CMS host. The Classic version of tn3270 also supports 3179 graphics emulation.
There is no license fee for either commercial or non-commercial use of the tn3270 application. The tn3270 source code is freely-licensed for non-commercial use, but must be licensed for commercial use.
To use tn3270, the host computer must provide a telnet server which supports the extensions for 3270 terminals. On your Macintosh, you must be able to connect to the host server using TCP/IP.
Although primarily a 3270 emulation program, tn3270 also supports ordinary line mode telnet connections. This support allows tn3270 to operate with hosts which establish a line mode connection before entering 3270 mode, as well as with line mode only hosts. When operating in line mode, tn3270 emulates a DEC VT52 terminal.
The latest version of tn3270 X, 3.4.0, is supported on OS X 10.3.9 and later, including macOS 10.12 Sierra. Older versions of tn3270 X are available for use with OS X 10.1.5 and later. The Classic version of tn3270, 2.5b5, is compatible with older MacOS versions.
Yes, the latest version of tn3270 X, 3.4.0 is a "universal" version which will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel machines.
Version 3.4.0 is an update to version 3.3 that adds support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks and later versions of OS X. Currently, it has also been tested successfully with OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, and macOS 10.12 Sierra. Besides supporting the latest versions of OS X, it also includes experiment support for the tn3270e protocol and for client SSL certificates. See the release notes for more information.
tn3270 X 3.4.0 Release Notes, November 9, 2013
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A tn3270 mailing list, macintosh-tn3270, is available for discussing tn3270. It is also used for announcements of new test and final releases. To join or search the list archives, go to the macintosh-tn3270 list web page.
tn3270 for the Macintosh was written by Peter DiCamillo. It includes code written by Greg Minshall to support the tn3270 telnet protocol, Copyright © 1984-1988 by the Regents of the University of California and by Gregory Glenn Minshall.
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January 10, 2014 by Innkeeper
Winter adventure awaits at Bristol Mountain! Enjoy the highest vertical rise between the Adirondacks and the Rockies, 1,200 feet! The resort also has 34 trails, two terrain parks and two Nordic loops, as well as two high-speed lifts and a mountainside waffle hut. Bristol Mountain Winter Resort, 5662 Route 64, Canandaigua.
Fight off those winter blues with some chocolate! Sweet Expressions offers a variety of fudge, boxed chocolates, bulk candy, truffles, gourmet foods and gift baskets. Sweet Expressions,169 South Main Street, Canandaigua. 585-394-5250.
Stay warm this winter at the Smith Opera House. From concerts to movies, there's something for everyone. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva. For show details and tickets call 315-781-5483.
Step inside the Ontario County Historical Society Museum and learn about Ontario County's rich history. Check out the brand new exhibit that explores the shaping of Western New York between 1680 and 1797. Ontario County Historical Society Museum, 55 North Main Street, Canandaigua. 585-394-4975.
Wine is great in the Finger Lakes! This winter visit one of our local wineries and breweries for tastings and products. For a list of wineries and breweries visit www.visitfingerlakes.com or contact the FLVC office for more details, 25 Gorham St., Canandaigua. 585-394-3915.
We think it's the only 2-story brick outhouse in the country! We're serious, too! Tour the Phelps Historical Society Museum to see this unique feature and to learn about many other interesting facts of local history. Call for hours. Phelps Historical Society Museum, 66 Main Street, Phelps. 315-548-4940.
Looking for a place to shed those holiday pounds? Our largest indoor walking track is at Eastview Mall in Victor. With over 160 specialty stores and four department stores, you'll have plenty to see as you walk the halls. Eastview Mall, 7979 Route 96, Victor. 585-223-4420.
Take a class and beef up your culinary skills at the NY Wine & Culinary Center. From macaroni and cheese to vegetarian cooking to chicken wings and more, there's a class for every skill level and interest! Reservations necessary. NY Wine & Culinary Center, 800 South Main Street, Canandaigua. 585-394-7070.
Feeling lucky? Head to Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack and bet on some simulcast horseracing or enjoy more than 1,500 video gaming machines. The 10,000 square-foot "All You Can Eat" Vineyard Buffet is also open daily. Finger Lakes Casino and Racetrack, 5857 Route 96, Farmington. 585-924-3232.
Explore nature while snowshoeing or cross-country skiing at the 900-acre Cumming Nature Center. Cumming Nature Center is an environmental education center with 15 miles of groomed ski trails and a 3-mile loop for snowshoeing. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Road, Naples. 585-374-6160.


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Last week, when President Obama went down to sunny Cabo for the G20, he missed an opportunity to show the world how the lessons from the women's movement can solve the world's growing economic woes. Obama could have argued that, just as the women's movement helped grow the American economy in unprecedented ways in the 20th century, today's global aging population drive economic growth in the 21st century.
The lessons of America's women's movement are clear: while liberation was certainly "the right thing to do," it has also proven to be an economic miracle. Women jumpstarted an extraordinary economic growth story, and President Obama should have brought this case to the G20. It would have been an illuminating parallel to the case that today's 450 million global "baby boomers" are the world's greatest untapped economic resource. And in a world where there will soon be 2 billion people over 60 -- more than under 14 -- re-imagining this demographic role in economic life offers the structural shift needed for fiscal sustainability in our century.
Had Obama made these claims, he would have led the G20 in aligning economic and fiscal policy with this 21st century demographics, and he would have led the G20 in seeking to answer an imperative question: How can the swelling over-60 demographic turn from dependent to economically active and productive? As many G20 nations will soon have over one-third of their population over 60, it is vital to find new health, education and "retirement" policies to transform this aging segment into a driver of growth.
Moreover, he would have had a receptive audience in Cabo. A number of his G20 counterparts are already working on the "aging issue." The Japanese, for example, who are officially the world's oldest population, released a cabinet policy paper last week that argues that Japan "needs to realize a society where ageing people can participate in the labor market or in social activities... to boost its economic growth." And the Europeans dedicated 2012 as the Year of Active Aging.
The BRIC nations, too, would have perked up, as they and others in the developing world are aging at an even more rapid pace than Japan, Europe or the United States. And their leadership is taking note. For example, the Mexican Minister of Health has endorsed the UN's project on non-communicable diseases; China has placed aging at the heart of its latest five-year plan and one is beginning to hear whispers of the Brazilians holding the first "Age-Friendly" Olympics when they host in 2016.
The President's argument would indeed draw on powerful data from America's experience with an untapped segment of the population. Just a few short decades after women were economically enfranchised in the U.S., they now add nearly $3 trillion to the economy. And women-owned businesses employ nearly 16% of the workforce. If businesses owned by U.S. women accounted for their own economy, it would have the fifth-largest GDP in the world. The parallel to today's global disenfranchisement of older adults is clear. The traditional paths of retirement and dependence are robbing the global economy of its full growth capacity.
If President Obama had pushed for aging populations to be on the G20 agenda, he could have drawn from compelling precedent where his own Administration broke ground. Last year, under American leadership, the Asia Pacific Economic Council embedded aging populations in its 2011 Ministerial pronouncement. Undersecretary of State Robert Hormats later said, "We need a focused, society-wide effort to transform our vision of aging from a time of dependency to a time of continued growth, contribution and social and economic participation."
Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, furthered the theme at the Pan American Health Organization's celebration of Population Aging this past April when she said, "by keeping our seniors healthy and engaged, we [begin] to write a new story... in which every nation will have more productive workers... and every nation thrives."
Today, the idea of "every nation thriving" may seem like a pipe dream, especially with Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and others at financial risk. But, like the women's movement, great leadership can make the ostensibly impossible feel attainable. That was the opportunity at this years' G20.
And it was missed. So here's an idea. In October, the IMF and World Bank Group will meet in Tokyo for their annual meeting. In discussing development, fiscal sustainability and economic growth, leaders there could transform the conversation by arguing for innovative public policy that unleashes the economic potential of the globe's aging populations. It is 100% certain that those in Tokyo will be applauding.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil futures settled lower on Friday, contributing to an overall loss for the week, as disappointing U.S. retail sales and consumer sentiment data dulled the outlook for energy demand.
The market continued to keep tabs on efforts to avert a U.S. military strike in Syria, but the focus has shifted to the Federal Reserve's upcoming decision on monetary policy next week, analysts said.
Crude oil for October delivery CLV23, -50.22% shed 39 cents, or 0.4%, to settle at $108.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, giving back a portion of the 1% climb it scored Thursday.
For the week, prices ended 2.1% lower.
London-traded October Brent crude UK:LCOV3 shed 15 cents, or 0.1%, $112.78 a barrel on ICE Futures after it too rose 1% on Thursday.
The October contract, which was 2.9% lower for the week, expired on Friday. November Brent UK:LCOX3 edged up 0.2% to end at $111.70.
"U.S. oil prices pulled back on some economic signals suggesting U.S. domestic fuel demand could be slightly lower, based on the weaker University of Michigan consumer [sentiment] reading, and the retail sales estimate," said Richard Hastings, a macro strategist at Global Hunter Securities.
The University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters consumer-sentiment index fell to a preliminary September reading of 76.8 — the lowest level since April — from a final August reading of 82.1, according to data released Friday.
Retail sales, meanwhile, climbed a seasonally adjusted 0.2% last month, the Commerce Department said. But that was the smallest increase since April and well below the MarketWatch forecast of a 0.5% increase.
Oil prices were already pressured by the easing of any kind of attack on Syria in the near term, said Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors. The "consumer confidence number that came out this morning definitely didn't help."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held their second and final day of talks in Geneva on Friday to study the proposal for Damascus to give up its chemical weapons.
"As we go into next week ... the focus in our opinion will shift from Syria to the Fed," said Zahir.
But Hastings believes that Syria wasn't really priced in on Friday.
Syria was "already baked into the story over the last three days," he said, "and the real driver ... is macroeconomic signals and Fed tapering."
Economists have been eyeing the latest economic data for signs that the economy has recovered enough for the U.S. central bank to announce the start of tapering at its Sept. 17-18 meeting.
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Beyond the Fed and Syria, oil investors continued digest the International Energy Agency's projection that global oil demand will rise 1.2% next year.
Separate monthly reports from the Energy Information Administration and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries were released on Tuesday. Both showed a sizable production climb from non-OPEC oil producers, which include the U.S.
And some analysts said the data show progress toward U.S. oil independence.
The oil market is also gearing up for a seasonal decline in fuel demand.
There's typically a seasonal slump in gasoline and diesel demand as driving season concludes, "so we might see some [West Texas Intermediate crude] trades testing the $103 per barrel level next week if the market decides sell Brent and assign a lot more weight to the latest economic signals," said Hastings.
On Nymex, October gasoline US:RBV3 rose by less than a penny, or 0.3%, to $2.77 a gallon, and saw a loss of 3% for the week, while October heating oil US:HOV3 shed less than half a cent, or 0.1%, to $3.11 a gallon, finishing the week 1.6% lower.
October natural gas US:NGV13 tacked on 1.1% — or 4 cents — to $3.68 per million British thermal units. It rallied 7 cents Thursday on the back of data showing the weekly rise in U.S. supplies was in line with forecasts. For the week, prices gained of 3.7%.


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Ranging from the wide sweep of Whitsand Bay to tiny hidden coves reached by winding tracks, the beaches of South Cornwall are as perfect for lazy summer days as for invigorating winter walking. In North Cornwall, surfers flock to catch the waves all along the coast from Sennen to Newquay and Bude, and while Gwithian Beach offers the best kite and windsurfing in the country, there are also miles of clean, sandy beaches. Sea angling trips and boat rides from charming fishing villages like St Mawes, Mevagissey, Looe and Polperro attract many visitors staying at our holiday parks in Cornwall, and Fowey is a firm favourite with the sailing community. The spectacular coastlines of the North and South Cornwall are great for walking too as is the Camel Trail, a disused railway line following the River Camel between Bodmin and Padstow.
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GBUS 8459 Innovation and Design Experience
The course examines how design thinking and innovation principles can be used to enhance the value and accelerate the development of business opportunities that deliver organic growth. Students will apply design methodologies and innovation tools in a live, corporate project, working closely with a client company with a real problem to solve.
Corporate-innovation projects will be aimed at providing market/user insights, deep-concept thinking, and rationales for specific recommendations on innovation opportunities of significant economic value to the client organization. The Darden School's Batten Institute will facilitate the identification of appropriate student projects through a network of corporate relationships. A team of three to five students will undertake each project, and teams, under the supervision of the course faculty, will be assisted by one or more project liaisons from the client organization. Students will study business-model-innovation success stories emerging from recent research in organic growth, and they will learn how to employ a business-design framework that includes: identifying new business opportunities based on market needs; designing and testing breakthrough concepts; and developing a viable business strategy and multifunctional operating model. Specific topics to be studied will include market-driven design, ethnographic research methods, idea generation, hypothesis development and testing, prototyping and experimentation, concept visualization, and business-model design.
Course topics, class sessions, team meetings with clients' project liaisons, and project work will be structured and sequenced as a practicum in which each student team applies the course concepts and tools to design and build new business ideas and models for its client organization. At the conclusion of the course, each team will present its plans to both faculty and clients.
Academic course objectives:
· Introduce students to approaches that enhance corporate-innovation activities in terms of market impact, value creation, speed, and efficiency
· Expand students' thinking about corporate design and innovation beyond the design and development of new products to other fundamental sources of value creation
· Strengthen students' individual and collaborative capabilities to develop market/user needs, create sound concept hypotheses (business, product/service, market, systems, and technology), collect appropriate data, and develop an analytical confirmation or rejection of concepts in a real-world environment
· Teach students to translate identified opportunities into actionable innovation possibilities and recommendations for their client organizations
· Prepare a senior management "client report," addressing the opportunity potential, concept analyses, business-model recommendations, and implementation challenges
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Like dandelions sprouting on lawns, tents and stands selling fireworks are sprouting this week on roadsides as people get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Like dandelions sprouting on lawns, tents and stands selling fireworks are sprouting this week on roadsides as people get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Shane Rokowski, owner of S&T's Fireworks in Taftville, opened tents Friday in Norwich, Montville, Plainfield and Groton. The tents will stay open through Saturday, and Rokowski expects business will be booming as they sell sparklers and fountains, the only types of fireworks that are legal in Connecticut.
Only the Taftville store will stay open all summer. "It's a seasonal business," Rokowski said.
Michael Malone, of Salem, bought several fountains at S&T's tent in Norwich on Friday. He said he planned to set them off that night, and then, if he likes them, come back this weekend and get more to use on the Fourth.
Malone said he's celebrated the holiday by buying fireworks for years.
Because of the danger they pose, fireworks also are heavily regulated. Local fire marshals inspect each tent, Rokowski said, to make sure fireworks are stored safely and no illegal ones are being sold.
"We make sure they're on top of everything," Norwich Deputy Fire Marshal Lauren Casady said. Tents must have sealed and locked steel containers where the fireworks are stored, clear exit and no-smoking signs and signs announcing that no sales will be allowed to anyone younger than 16.
"We look at the quantities to make sure they are Connecticut-legal fireworks," Colchester Fire Marshal Reed Gustafson said.
Connecticut bans fireworks that explode or shoot into the air. It sets a limit of 200 grams of pyrotechnic material. Still, that doesn't mean legal fireworks can't be spectacular. For example, S&T's sells a fountain that advertises its colorful sparks can go 30 feet high.
Malone said he'd like the chance to be able to buy other types of fireworks. "I like aerials," he said. "I think it's kind of baloney that the state won't allow them."
Plenty of illegal fireworks will be exploding across the region, however. If they want to risk breaking the law, people can import them from several nearby states.
Rhode Island also allows only hand-held and ground-based fireworks, but it permits up to 500 grams of pyrotechnic material to be used in them.
Maine recently changed its laws to allow all types of consumer fireworks sales, and New Hampshire has allowed sales of them for years — and doesn't charge sales tax.
The only four states that ban all fireworks sales – Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Delaware — are clustered in this region, however. In addition, Vermont permits sales of just wire or wood stick sparklers.
Pennsylvania has a unique law that allows sales of sparklers and fountains to anyone, and sales of aerial and exploding fireworks only to out-of-state residents — perhaps reasoning that if someone is hurt or property is damaged, it's another state's problem.
"Different states take different tacks," said state Rep. Stephen Dargan, D-West Haven, co-chairman of the Legislature's Public Safety Committee. A bill that would have legalized the sale of all consumer fireworks in Connecticut was referred to the committee this year, but no hearing was held or vote taken on it.
Dargan said he didn't remember why the bill didn't get more support. "We've only changed the law once in the 23 years I've been there," he said. That change, in 2006, was minor. "All we did was to clarify the definition of fireworks."
Anyone in Connecticut caught in possession of illegal fireworks can face a $100 fine, three months in jail or both, even if they bought the fireworks legally in another state.
On July 8 a year ago, a cache of illegal fireworks was blamed for a fire that destroyed an abandoned paper mill in Colchester. According to Gustafson, dozens of bottle rockets and other illegal fireworks blew up and started the fire. The case was turned over to the state police, he said. No arrest has been made.
Nationwide, fireworks were involved in an estimated 8,700 injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms in 2012, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission report issued earlier this month. About 60 percent of the injuries happened between last June 22 and July 22.
"Every year there's one or two," said Dr. Greg Shangold, medical director of the Windham Hospital Emergency Department. "I think every emergency department in the state gets their share of them."
Shangold said although fireworks injuries have the potential to be disastrous, most are fairly minor, often burns on people's hands, perhaps caused when people try to relight a fuse they mistakenly thought had gone out.
Many of them have a common ingredient, Shangold said. "The injuries you do get somehow seem alcohol-related."
At least six people were killed handling fireworks nationwide last year, the safety commission report said. All of the fireworks were either illegal in any state for consumers to use, or homemade.
"The legal ones can do damage also," Casady said. Small, hand-held sparklers burn at temperatures higher than 1,000 degrees, he said. They can catch clothing on fire or burn skin.
"The best thing to do is not to hand them to children," Casady said.
Sparklers and fountains accounted for about one in seven injuries caused by fireworks that require an emergency room visit, according to the safety commission report.
About one in 50 fireworks injuries occurred at professional shows, the report said, making them much safer than handling even legal fireworks.
"I'd just rather watch a legal fireworks display," Dargan said.
Before they take place, they too are inspected by local and state fire marshals, Casady said.
"We work with the fireworks company to make sure they are properly positioned," he said. Fire marshals also have to power to stop the show if there's a problem, such as the wind blowing smoldering debris from exploded fireworks onto a crowd, Casady said.


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Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" (Times Books) and editor of a book assessing former President George W. Bush's administration, published by Princeton University Press.
(CNN) -- Just as the 2004 presidential election was all about the concept of security, the same term will shape the campaigns of 2012.
But this time around, the issue is not national security and the threat of terrorists but the search for security amid the ongoing struggles that Americans have faced with the economy.
High unemployment, laggard economic growth and a turbulent stock market have left many middle class Americans terrified about what comes next. Almost three-quarters of Americans, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, said that the country is moving in the wrong direction.
During the 2012 election, voters will be looking for a candidate who can restore some sense of economic security: a candidate who can provide them with confidence that their jobs won't disappear (and that new jobs will emerge for those without them) and that their income will remain steady.
Voters want to know that they will be able to pay their next mortgage payment and, if needed, get themselves out of debt. Voters want to know that, even with the normal fluctuations in the stock market, they can have some confidence that the wild swings that the nation has seen in September 2008 and August 2011 won't happen again in the near future.
When handled effectively, the theme of security has been powerful on the campaign trail in difficult economic times. Nobody understood this more than President Franklin Roosevelt, who in the 1930s and 1940s made security the defining message of his presidency. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kennedy showed how Roosevelt's rhetoric and policies revolved around giving Americans a modicum of freedom from their economic fears (and later national security fears).
Voters knew he was a president who was working to solve the problems they faced. As Roosevelt had said in May of 1932, "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
Roosevelt continually assured Americans that the federal government would restore confidence in the fundamentals of the economy. Roosevelt was no radical. In fact, he aimed to restore the nation's sense of security in the market economy, which he thought was necessary to ward off radical alternatives, by providing insurance for their bank deposits, public jobs to alleviate unemployment, economic assistance for the elderly and more.
Although the ultimate economic revitalization would not take place until World War II, Roosevelt's early presidency did produce big gains, as University of California economist Christina Romer, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, wrote in The New York Times: "From 1933 to 1937, the real gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of almost 10 percent, and unemployment fell from 25 percent of 14. To put that in perspective, G.D.P. growth has averaged just 2.5 percent in the current recovery, and unemployment has barely budged."
FDR's notion was that all risk was not acceptable -- even in a free market economy. Even during the war, Roosevelt conveyed this message. Calling for an Economic Bill of Rights in 1944, Roosevelt proclaimed: "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
Presidents who fail to provide a sense of security in hard economic times suffer at the polls. This was the case in the second half of the 1970s when Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter struggled to create a sense of confidence among voters that the nation could to get out of its economic malaise. Both presidents, one Republican and one Democrat, seemed overwhelmed by the triple whammy of unemployment, inflation and oil shortages.
When Carter delivered his famous "malaise" speech in July 1979, his focus on the problems within American society seemed to confirm that he was a leader who could not ensure that the future would be better for Americans.
Which party can make the case effectively in 2012? Both have been struggling. For all of his legislative accomplishments, such as health care, the economic stimulus and financial regulation, Obama's biggest vulnerability has been an inability to significantly lower the unemployment rate.
After the events of August, he now must struggle to contain the wild fluctuations of the stock market and growing fears about the effect of the deficit on the stability of the nation. Even if the recession might have been worse without Obama's stimulus, the overall economic security record of the administration has not been good.
Republicans have not done much better. Upon announcing his candidacy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry made clear that economics would be his focus. "One in six work-eligible Americans cannot find a full-time job," he said, "that is not a recovery. That is an economic disaster." But his speech did not offer much in terms of how he what his solution would be. Although he boasted of the employment record of Texas, the fact that the state leads the nation in minimum wage jobs should be troubling to all Americans, red and blue.
Republicans have not provided much of a vision of how they would restore economic security for the middle class. They have focused on the traditional conservative magic bullet solutions of deficit reduction and government spending cuts -- without tax increases -- neither of which would have any major impact on the current unemployment rates or address the underlying challenges that the economy has been facing for over a decade.
Today's candidates from both parties are closer to their predecessors in the 1970s than the 1930s. Political leaders are having trouble providing guidance and hope as a devastating economy has turned life into a constant struggle for many Americans. In 2012, the nation will have a chance to hear what each party plans to do to turn things around. The candidate who can offer a more compelling case is likely to end up in the White House.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian E. Zelizer.


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A businessman who bought the No.1 limited edition licence plate in Abu Dhabi for Dh31 million has been sentenced to three years in jail for issuing a dud cheque to the organisers.
The Emirati man had bought the special number plate at an auction last year.
The Abu Dhabi Misdemeanour Court handed down the sentence to the Emirati man after he was found guilty of fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
Abu Dhabi public prosecution had ordered for the detention of the 32-year-old man after organisers of the auction filed a complaint that he issued them a cheque after buying the number plate, even though he didn't have enough balance in his bank account.
Prosecutors had detained the businessman. He was charged with fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
And during interrogation, the Emirati admitted to giving the cheque to orginisers despite being aware he didn't have sufficient funds in his account, said prosecutors.
"He said he was planning to re-sale the rare number plate at a profit so he could pay the value of the cheque to the organisers and maintain enough balance in his account," said a prosecutor.
Authorities, however, said one can only re-sale a number plate bought in an auction after one has paid the full amount and that any resale before making the payment is considered illegal.
The auction, which generated Dh99 million, was hosted by Emirates Auction in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Police on November 19, 2016 at Emirates Palace hotel to commemorate the Abu Dhabi Government's Golden Jubilee.
And the Emirati beat several bidders for the coveted plate after starting at Dh1 million. The limited-edition golden jubilee plates all featured the number 50 in the top left corner.
Fifty vanity Abu Dhabi number plates were up for grabs at the Emirates Auction event.
As popularity grows, the prices reached for the most expensive plates are always increasing. As of 2008, the record price for a number plate is £397,500 paid at auction in September by an anonymous buyer for the plate S 1. This was originally owned by Sir John H A MacDonald, the Lord Kingsburgh and was Edinburgh's first ever number plate. Car design entrepreneur Afzal Kahn paid £375,000 on 25 January 2008 for F 1 previously owned and sold by Essex County Council and affixed originally in 1904 to the Panhard et Levassor of the then County Surveyor. £330,000 was spent on M 1, sold at auction in Goodwood on 7 June 2006.
For those residents wishing to secure their vehicle registration plates, and so preventing them from being stolen, the Kirwans Bridge Neighbourhood Watch is holding a Safe Plate Day at the next Nagambie market.
The group will be setting up in Blayney Lane on Saturday.
For just a gold coin donation, get your number plates secured with the one-way safety screws.
● Another crime prevention initiative being held this weekend will be at the Tallarook market on Sunday.
Police will be there with engraving equipment to put identifying numbers on residents pushbikes, scooters and any other similar equipment.
Bring your property down, with your drivers licence and that number will be engraved on the item.
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Even a mere decade ago, drivers with personalised registration plates were seen as wealthy and successful. In the present day, car registration plates are now more accessible and economical for the everyday working man to purchase. Drivers looking for a potential investment must keep in mind that the registration plate they purchase must be easy to sell on in the future.
If Sydneysiders thought property prices had hit peak ridiculous, licence number plate collectors have gone one better with the original NSW No.4 plate up for sale for between $1.2 million and $1.4 million.
The asking price tops the $1.18 million median house price in Sydney, and doesn't even include the Rolls-Royce that it was attached to until early last year when it was owned by Aussie John Symond.
The founder and executive chairman of Aussie Home Loans bought it in 2010 from property developer Ivan Holland, who had secured it in an art swap from businessman and art collector John Schaeffer.
Aussie John was approached to sell the 1910-registered plate early last year, but with a $1.2 million price tag the buyer from Asia declined.
Mr Symond has confirmed he sold the plates 18 months ago to a mystery buyer in South Sydney.
Numberplate aficionado Shane Moore said the plate is widely rumoured to have been sold by Mr Symond for about $1 million.
"Single-digit plates rarely trade so quickly," said Mr Moore, who runs the numberplates.com.au website.
"They are usually held within the one family for decades. As an asset class they've appreciated in value in recent years, but they're also a volatile asset. If things go badly, investors will sell off the plates."
Registered in 1910, the No.4 licence plate is the most expensive item set to go under the hammer on August 28 at the 2017 Shannons Sydney Winter Classic Auction.
It tops the asking prices for 26 cars on offer, including a 1924 Rolls-Royce for $120,000, a 1964 Porsche for $125,000 and a Mustang Fastback for $120,000.
Single-digit, heritage licence plates have long been a highly prized collectible among the ultra-wealthy. In 2008, the No.6 NSW number plate sold for $800,000. It topped the previous high of $683,000 paid in 2003 by an Asian businessman for No.2.
The No.1 plate is owned by the family of the late founding chairman of Australian National Airways, Sir Frederick Stewart, who had owned it since the 1930s.
The No.8 plate was regarded as the most valuable because it is regarded as auspicious in traditional Chinese culture. It last traded in 2010 for $500,000.
In Victoria, single-digit number plates are also investment-grade assets. The number 1 VIC plate is owned by former Foster's Group chief Peter Bartels.
In 2013 British businessman Afzal Kahn knocked back £8.5 million for his "F1" numberplate, having bought it for a record £440,000 in 2008, according to The Telegraph in London.
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The South Region Private Business tax practice is set to achieve significant growth over the next few years, we are making a significant investment in new people because we are already successful and believe we can achieve much more. Working alongside private businesses, our Managers share their clients's stories as they grow. They experience what it's like to deliver value over the long term and make a meaningful contribution to their successes by helping them solve problems and manage risks.
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For these Senior Manager roles, experience of leading the delivering advisory and compliance work to private businesses is required, as well as the kind of skills that any Senior Manager in practice would be expected to display: portfolio management, people and team management , day-to-day client handling etc. A track record of work-winning is highly desirable. We may consider those whose experience is heavily skewed towards private client work, but ideally we are looking for corporate/mixed tax backgrounds. You will also be expected to show an awareness of wider business and economic issues generally.
The roles will predominately be to support the Partners and Directors and leading the delivery of services to existing clients and growing the business. In addition to taking on responsibility of existing clients, an enthusiasm to win work and build the business is key. Projects will be varied and wide ranging, so for example from outbound expansion to shareholder planning to transactions to innovation-based tax reliefs. You will receive full support from the Partners, Directors and from internal technical specialists based in the region and nationally.
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- Analytical skills and a ability to solve complex problems in a collaborative and creative way.
- Evidence of work-winning is desirable.
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We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we're one of the UK's leading tax practices.
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We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
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