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Judge Napolitano: Kavanaugh is an Enemy of the 4th Amendment
Judge Napolitano: Kavanaugh is an Enemy of the 4th Amendment
Memories of Rothbard at UNLV
Returning today to Mises University 2018, it's difficult and even a little scary for me to accept that thirty summers have gone by since my first Mises University in 1988 on the Stanford campus. And it's been twenty five years since I graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) with a master's degree in economics, earned under Dr. Murray Rothbard and Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
My "informal" instruction at UNLV is what I remember most. In the early 1990s we had an incredible group of Rothbardian and proto-Rothbardian graduate students, all gathered at one of the few Austrian-friendly economics programs in the country. Sadly, Rothbard died and Hoppe left UNLV before a PhD in economics was established. But for those few brief years the Nevada desert was home to an outstanding cadre of Austrian thinkers.
Both Rothbard and Hoppe were incredibly accessible, friendly, and willing to engage ideas. Office hours were opportunities to learn and grapple with issues, not the kind of rote meetings most students have with professors. Our ideas were considered important, and even debated, despite the tremendous disparity in knowledge between us and our interlocutors. We were never made to feel like stenographers receiving one-directional knowledge from authority figures.
Best of all, Professor Hoppe frequently joined our gang at the "Stake-Out," a downscale burger and video poker joint well off the Las Vegas strip (still in business!). Those evening sessions remain among my best memories of those years.
Rothbard's affability, however, did not mean he held low expectations for us or demanded little academic rigor. Just the opposite was true. Both as an instructor and thesis chair, he turned out to be as academically demanding as he was generous with his time.
I still recall the unanticipated sting of long hours spent charting out the timeline of such thinkers as the Spanish Scholastics and Turgot on large poster boards, attempting to fully synthesize each theorist's contribution and the chronology of their work for an upcoming exam in Rothbard's History of Economic Thought class. Clearly (and fortunately), this was not a class wedded to Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophers, the text foisted upon most students by most departments. We quickly set it aside, ready for return to the university bookstore. No, our instruction came from a stack of handwritten notes scribbled on unbound and disheveled pages torn seemingly eons ago from a yellow legal pad, yet magically transcribed in perfect order by Rothbard onto the chalkboard before us.
Despite his physical stature, Murray was an intellectual giant, a bigger than life character, and huge icon for certain writers with the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. One of the few big city newspapers with a slight libertarian bent, the Review Journal ran a front page caricature of him as a dragon slayer. His labeling of Clintonomics as "sort of psychotic" in that that same paper is forever etched in my mind.
Not surprisingly, Murray went greatly underappreciated by his UNLV economics department "peers." It may have been envy on his colleague's part (no students were flocking to UNLV from anywhere to study under them), or his colleagues' devotion to mathematical modeling. But it's safe to say they didn't much appreciate the genius in their midst.
In many ways Rothbard was the prototypical eccentric university professor. Murray, a night owl who eschewed early mornings, would awaken just in time to teach his night classes. As a Manhattanite he had never bothered to drive a car, making him dependent on one particular student to drive him to campus in his early-model-yet-still-somehow-running-vehicle (an experiment in hyphenation that perhaps only Murray would truly appreciate). After being returned home, Murray would commence writing all night long on a manual typewriter before turning in at sunup.
One of my task as a graduate assistant was serving as an unassuming communications conduit between the Austrians and the rest of the professors in the department, who despite working together in a relatively small office space seldom spoke to one another (and especially not about economics). Luckily for me, when I would bring an empiricist's refutation of something "Austrian" to Murray he always patiently explained their error-- and taught me a lesson in the process.
Twenty five years later I still treasure Murray's devotion of his time to improve my understanding of economics.
The Mueller Indictments and The Trump-Putin Summit: Triumph of the Deep State?
The term "deep state" has been so over-used in the past few years that it may seem meaningless. It has become standard practice to label one's political adversaries as representing the "deep state" as a way of avoiding the defense of one's positions. President Trump has often blamed the "deep state" for his political troubles. Trump supporters have created big conspiracies involving the "deep state" to explain why the president places neocons in key positions or fails to fulfill his campaign promises.
But the "deep state" is no vast and secret conspiracy theory. The deep state is real, it operates out in the open, and it is far from monolithic. The deep state is simply the permanent, unelected government that continues to expand its power regardless of how Americans vote.
There are factions of the deep state that are pleased with President Trump's policies, and in fact we might say that President Trump represents some factions of the deep state.
Other factions of the deep state are determined to undermine any of President Trump's actions they perceive as threatening. Any move toward peace with Russia is surely something they feel to be threatening. There are hundreds of billions of reasons – otherwise known as dollars – why the Beltway military-industrial complex is terrified of peace breaking out with Russia and will do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening.
That is why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's indictment on Friday of 12 Russian military intelligence officers for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election should immediately raise some very serious questions.
First the obvious: after more than a year of investigations which have publicly revealed zero collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, why drop this bombshell of an allegation at the end of the news cycle on the last business day before the historic Trump/Putin meeting in Helsinki? The indictment could not have been announced a month ago or in two weeks? Is it not suspicious that now no one is talking about reducing tensions with Russia but is all of a sudden – thanks to Special Counsel Robert Mueller – talking about increasing tensions?
Unfortunately most Americans don't seem to understand that indictments are not evidence. In fact they are often evidence-free, as is this indictment.
Did the Russian government seek to interfere in the 2016 US presidential elections? It's certainly possible, however we don't know. None of the Justice Department's assertions have been tested in a court of law, as is thankfully required by our legal system. It is not enough to make an allegation, as Mueller has done. You have to prove it.
That is why we should be very suspicious of these new indictments. Mueller knows he will never have to defend his assertions in a court of law so he can make any allegation he wants.
It is interesting that one of the Russian companies indicted by Mueller earlier this year surprised the world by actually entering a "not guilty" plea and demanding to see Mueller's evidence. The Special Counsel proceeded to file several motions to delay the hand-over of his evidence. What does Mueller have to hide?
Meanwhile, why is no one talking about the estimated 100 elections the US government has meddled in since World War II? Maybe we need to get our own house in order?
Brazil's Libertarian Renaissance: Why It Matters
Any Brazilian libertarian gets the same questions: What the heck is happening there? How come you have people with "Menos Marx, Mais Mises" signs down the streets? Aren't you some kind of left-libs? Isn't Lula, now jailed for corruption, 'Obama's man'?
The curiosity about Brazil and what is happening here is so widespread that people have discussed that in the US (see here and here), in the UK, and even in Italy.
Every time people ask me about it, I tend to respond in a somewhat different manner, and I tend to forget stuff. So here I want to tell you what I think about the whole thing.
Usually I divide my explanation into three parts:
1. Eight years of hard interventionism (2008-2016 under Lula da Silva and Roussef) pushed the country to the limits. There was no way out, either more libertarian ideas would enter in the common discussion or we would be heading to full blown real-life communism, Venezuela style;
2. Internet, social networks, and bottom up organization via 'apolitical' movements; and
3. A weak but vigorous intellectual environment is slowly forming for libertarian (or what Americans might call "conservative") ideas. (See, for example, Olavo de Carvalho.
#1: There are more than 30 political parties down here. Only one, the NOVO labels itself as "classical liberal/libertarian." There are more than ten communist/socialist parties. The so called 'conservative' candidate for the forthcoming presidential election had to strike an agreement with a lib-left party to get his way into the candidacy.
Since redemocratization in the late 1980's/early 1990's, Brazil has had five presidents, two of them communists. Lula da Silva and Roussef. There was one social-democrat: Cardoso. These presidents served 22 years in total. The current president, Temer, belongs to a center party that has never been anti-establishment in the last 35 years. Our system gives way too much power to the executive branch, which lead to growing interventionism. The government represents 40% of the GDP and has been growing in the last 20 years.
On the practical side, the last relevant libertarian politician in Brazil, Roberto Campos, passed away 30 years ago. There was nobody defending libertarian ideas in the political world, which was a reflection of the cultural and academic environment. Statism, empirically represented by the expenditures with the soccer stadiums for the 2014 World Cup, lead the country to the biggest economic crisis in its history. The GDP decreased by more than 3% in two consecutive years, 2015 and 2016. In 2017, there was no growth.
#2. Another new development was the Brazilian Mises Institute (Instituto Mises Brasil - IMB), inspired by the MI. It emerged in the mid 2000's, and was founded by Hélio Beltrão with the academic support of Prof. Ubiratã Iorio. From the beginning, the institute distributed a lot of free material online and used social media to spread the ideas, some facts on that:
There was no libertarian movement in Brazil in 2010 (I'm writing that in 2018!), people had started talking about it, but there was nothing organized. Nowadays, there are around 40 thousand visits to mises.org.br every day, in 2008 the number was 13 times lower. There are 300,000 likes on Facebook. The Institute has a podcast running for 5+ years with more than 300 episodes. 1 million books have been downloaded. Since 2013, "Mises" has more Google searches than "Keynes."
Well, here is where the story gets complicated and this is where we get to #3.
In my view there are two complementary responsible for the intellectual change: Olavo de Carvalho and Instituto Mises Brasil.
Olavo is a Brazilian philosopher, he became known in the late 1990's, but gained traction in the mid 2000's with a weekly web-radio show where he presented his conservative positions and waged cultural war on widespread communist ideology in Brazilian culture, universities, and the media. With his attack on the centralization of power, he always mentioned the calculation debate and has used methodological individualism in his political analysis.
Meanwhile, the IMB provided materials and events on economics and political science and spread the ideas to a wider and more libertarian, less conservative, audience.
So, what is ahead?
In October there will be national elections in Brazil, including races for congress and the senate, new governors and houses in the states, and a new national president.
There is likely to be be somewhere between 20-25 libertarian representatives, a huge jump from the zero of the last 30 years. Maybe some senators and numerous state representatives.
But, we have got to keep fighting the ideological war.
The Brazilian experience can be an inspiration to other movements elsewhere in the globe, and those lessons could be a starting point to those that want to do something about it.
Big Corporate Mergers Often Come with Big Risks
The June 29th edition of Grant's Interest Rate Observer led with, "Time Warner, Inc. was put on this earth not to produce Game of Thrones but to punctuate the cycles of investment enthusiasm." Grant's reminds the forgetful that a few bubbles ago Time Warner and AOL merged and that "announcement in 2000 rang down the curtain on the dot-com era."
The Time Warner — American Online (AOL) merger was a colossal $111 billion deal. A blink in time later, May 2009, the CEO of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, announced the two companies were separating, the merger was but a brief hookup instead of a marriage.
Now Time-Warner is making merger with AT&T, and Grant's wonders if the deal "may epitomize the post-2008 corporate-credit boom."
"The new AT&T is a kind of triptych," writes Grant's, "one-third wireless, one-third wireline and one-third entertainment."
Of course, anything can work on paper if the guys and gals in the corner office want it to. In a 2011 piece for mises.org , I wrote,
A former director of Coopers & Lybrand told author Mark Sirower, "Lotus is the culprit in failed acquisitions. It is too easy to assume anything you want in perpetuity without any understanding of the economics of an industry, and package it in a beautiful report."
In his book The Synergy Trap , Sirower says valuation models turn on three things: free-cash-flow forecasts, residual value, and a discount rate.
The cost of capital is integral to making these assumptions. The lower the assumed interest rate or cost of capital, the higher the price for the acquisition that the models will justify.
And if anyone is assuming today's Fed-induced microscopic interests rates will last forever, well, now would be the time to be selling instead of buying. Once interest rates go up, these valuation models will be blown up along with the government-employee pension-plan assumptions.
It's hard to make something work out economically if you overpay in the first place. And that is most often what happens. Companies overpay for the firms they acquire.
It's the rare business combination that works out. I mentioned,
according to Max Landsberg and Dr. Thomas Kell at the consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles, 74 percent of mergers fail. "Two-thirds of the newly formed companies perform well below the industry average," according to the Harvard Management Update. Although "up to 70 percent [of mergers] failed to create value, it seems clear that the end is not yet in sight," claims Financial Executive. And the Journal of Property Management says "60 percent to 80 percent of all business combinations undergo a slow, painful demise."
In the AT&T/Time Warner merger there is the additional problem of the debt load. "If pro forma AT&T were a country," Craig Moffett tells Grant's, "it would place 32nd on the list of highest total debt burdens, between Indonesia (at $335 billion) and the UAB ($220 billion). Pro forma leverage, on an adjusted basis, will now be 3.9 times EBITDA,"
"M&A is now — arguably, always has been — a leap in the dark," Grant's writes. The primary problem is size itself. Ludwig von Mises explained that socialism doesn't work because there was no market to determine prices and thus calculate how resources should be used. Behemoth companies are no more immune than government bureaucracies.
Murray Rothbard explained,
Economic calculation becomes ever more important as the market economy develops and progresses, as the stages and the complexities of type and variety of capital goods increase. Ever more important for the maintenance of an advanced economy, then, is the preservation of markets for all the capital and other producers' goods.
Professor Peter Klein furthers the point in his book The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur,
as soon as the firm expands to the point where at least one external market has disappeared, however, the calculation problem exists. The difficulties become worse and worse as more and more external markets disappear, as [quoting Rothbard] "islands of non calculable chaos swell to the proportions of masses and continents. As the area of incalculability increases, the degrees of irrationality, misallocation, loss, impoverishment, etc, become greater.
Grant's closed the AT&T analysis with, "There is nothing certain about the new Time Warner corporate marriage, only the time-honored tendencies of governments to inflate, investment bankers to promote, corporate CEOs to deal — and ground-hugging interest rates to addle the brain."
In the end, this latest corporate knot-tying will crumble and destroy capital.
Medicare Part D and the Opioid Crisis
Medicare Part D is a relatively new "entitlement" program that provides a subsidy to retirees for prescription drugs. It is supposedly designed to help seniors, but is the drug companies that benefit most. Started in 2006, it was expected to cover 11 million, but that figure was 24 million after just one year! Not surprisingly the costs of the program have escalated far beyond original projections and are expected to continue to rise in the future.
One recent development intersects the opioid crisis. Seniors are receiving vast amounts of opioid prescriptions using this subsidy. Almost 5 million received three or more months of pills and nearly 60,000 received "extreme amounts" in 2017. Many seniors are receiving multiple prescriptions and using multiple prescribers and pharmacies. Surely, some of these extreme users are diverting pills to increase their income, but many are at risk from overdosing and dying.
Just as sure, this would not be a problem if they had to pay the regular retain price.
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The Fed's Latest Claim of "Independence" Is As Unconvincing as Ever
Here we go again. A fed official is once again going to the media to repeat the age-old myth that the Fed is totally independent of political influence.
The last time we heard about this from someone at Powell's level what last year, when Steve Mnuchin reminded everyone of the Fed's alleged independence in January:
Responding in writing to questions from Senator Bill Nelson , Steve Mnuchin described the Fed as "organized with sufficient independence to conduct monetary policy and open market operations." He also praised "the increased transparency we have seen from the Federal Reserve Board over recent years."
This time, it's Fed chair Jerome Powell himself, who granted an interview to NPR's Marketplace . Most of the interview was devoted to making this point about independence. Here's some of it:
Ryssdal: There is a question that has to be asked — actually a couple of them — about the political environment in which this economy operates right now. Granting that the Fed has always been a source of political frustration for many in the executive branch, it's worth pointing out here that Larry Kudlow, the chairman of the president's National Economic Council, and the president himself have said they are low-interest rate guys. Larry Kudlow encourages the Fed to move very slowly on interest rates on the theory that rising interest rates would be a tricky thing for the president politically. Do you think it's appropriate for the White House to be not telling the Fed what to do, but saying these things in public?
Powell: Let me just say I'm not concerned about it, and I'll tell you why. We have a long tradition here of conducting policy in a particular way, and that way is independent of all political concerns. We do our work in a strictly nonpolitical way, based on detailed analysis, which we put on the record transparently, and we don't consider political considerat — we don't take political considerations into account.
I would add though that no one in the administration has said anything to me that really gives me concern on this front. But this is deep in our DNA. For a long, long time the Fed has felt it important to conduct our business that way. I'm deeply committed to that approach. And so are all of my colleagues here.
Ryssdal: Which I understand, but you're also humans. And when the White House leans on you, you must feel it.
Powell: Again, nothing has been said to me publicly or privately that gives me any concern about our independence.
Ryssdal makes a point that anyone not trained to believe Washington, DC sound bytes would see. Powell, like everyone else involved in the Fed's governance is a human being and brings with him his own biases.
We saw some of this in 2016 when it came to light that Fed employers donated far more money to the Hillary Clinton campaign, than to any other campaign:
Bloomberg had an interesting report this week looking at the political contributions of Federal Reserve employees this election season. Unsurprisingly, Hillary Clinton is dominating the field, receiving $18,747 in contributions — over four times more than all other candidates combined. While most of the donations came from lower level Fed officials, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard came under fire for making several donations to Clinton's campaign.
When people like Powell say "non-political," though, they don't mean non-ideological or unbiased. They mean they aren't making decisions in a way so as to benefit certain candidates or certain political parties.
Even if this were true — which it's not (see below) — it would be of little comfort. The Fed can still act to benefit certain groups over others. Its policies can be employed to keep interest rates low for governments, so as to keep the cost of the national debt low. The Fed can adopt policies that benefit Wall Street more than Main Street. The Fed can act to benefit spenders rather than savers.
These acts of picking winners and losers, and influencing public policy, would be considered "political" by a normal person — as indeed they are political. They're just not directly connected to any political campaign.
Besides, the fact the Fed behaves as a political institution has been documented for years by political scientists. ( Whole classes are taught on the subject .) Only economists and media talking heads are so naive or so willfully ignorant as to believe a policymaking institution can be "non-political."
But even on the matter of straight-up efforts to influence elections, the Fed is guilty. In 2010, when Fed Chairman Arthur Burns's diary was published, Doug French noted:
Burns's diary is page after page of political dirty dealing, lying, and backstabbing. Nixon went so far as to plant negative press about Burns and threatened to expand the Fed's Board of Governors to dilute the chairman's influence, all to bring Burns in line with the president's economic meddling. None of that seems necessary; Burns's diary would indicate that the president had him at hello.
No doubt a well-worn path still exists between the Eccles Building and the White House. But the myth continues. Economist Mark Zandi told CNBC's Lori Ann LaRocco recently,
I think the worst thing that could happen is if the Fed was politicized. An a-political Federal Reserve is a cornerstone of our financial system and broader economy. So nothing is more important than maintaining the Fed's independence. And the fact that its wrapped in the political process is just disturbing and disconcerting.
Ultimately, though, we need to ask ourselves if "independence" is even something that is desirable. After all, the flipside of "independence" is a lack of accountability. The only way for the Fed to be truly independent would be if it was totally unaccountable. Murray Rothbard wondered if that would be a good thing:
"Independent of politics" has a nice, neat ring to it, and has been a staple of proposals for bureaucratic intervention and power ever since the Progressive Era...But it is one thing to say that private, or market, activities should be free of government control, and "independent of politics" in that sense. But these are government agencies and operations we are talking about, and to say that government should be "independent of politics" conveys very different implications. For government, unlike private industry on the market, is not accountable either to stockholders or consumers. Government can only be accountable to the public and to its representatives in the legislature; and if government becomes "independent of politics" it can only mean that that sphere of government becomes an absolute self-perpetuating oligarchy, accountable to no one and never subject to the public's ability to change its personnel or to "throw the rascals out."
Income Equality: The Middle Classes Aren't Much Better Off than the "Poor"
It's easy to find income inequality in the United States when we compared the super-rich with the middle class. But when we compare the middle class to the "poor" there's a surprising amount of income equality.
But how can the middle class have incomes similar to the poor? Isn't that logically impossible?
Well, this sort of income equality is made possible by the existence of government social benefit programs. When we account for income transfers to low-wage workers — or to people who don't work at all — we find that the incomes of middle class people — in spite of often working far longer hours — are similar to the poor.
The political implications of this are significant.
This is explored in a fascinating new article by Robert Ekelund and Phil Gramm, "How Income Equality Helped Trump," at the Wall Street Journal last month.
The authors note:
The most surprising finding is the astonishing degree of equality among the bottom 60% of American earners, generated in part by the explosion of social-welfare spending and the economic and wage stagnation during the Obama era. Hardworking middle-income and lower-middle-income families must have recognized that their efforts left them little better off than the growing number of recipients of government transfers. The perceived injustice of this equality helped drive the political shift among blue-collar workers, many of whom supported the pro-growth candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016 despite having voted for Mr. Obama in the two previous presidential elections.
The bottom quintile earned 2.2% of all earned income in 2013, but after adjusting for taxes and transfer payments, its share of spendable income rose to 12.9%—six times its proportion of earnings. The second quintile's share more than doubled, rising from 7% of earned income to 13.9% of spendable income. For the third quintile, middle-income Americans, the increase was much smaller, from 12.6% to 15.4%.
Not surprisingly, high earners lost a considerable share of their earnings after taxes and transfers are taken into account. The fourth quintile's share fell from 20.5% to 18.6%, while the top quintile dropped from 57.7% of earnings to 39.3% of consumable income. In other words, the top quintile's share of earnings was 26 times that of the bottom quintile, but after taxes and transfer payments its share of spendable income was only three times as much.
Even more startling is the near equality among the bottom three quintiles. The bottom quintile, which earned only 2.2% of all earned income, had virtually the same share of spendable income as the second quintile, lower-middle-income Americans. This equality is despite the fact that lower-middle-income workers earned more than three times the share of income and worked 21/2 times as much, measured by comparing each group's number of full-time workers relative to its working-age population. Middle-income workers earned almost six times the share of income and worked almost four times as much compared with the bottom quintile, but they enjoyed only about 20% more spendable income.
This equality in income endured in spite of the fact that many middle-income families worked far harder for what income they did have:
And even these numbers understate the huge difference in work effort. Compared with the bottom quintile, the lower-middle-income quintile had almost four times as many working-age families whose members worked two or more jobs, and the middle-income quintile had more than seven times as many families with members working two or more jobs.
As Gramm and Ekelund explain, middle class people know that the wealthy make a lot more than the middle class does. But the middle classes can also see they've benefited from the goods and services brought to the market by the wealthy.
Meanwhile, a middle-class worker who has two jobs, or a 55-per hour work week looks around and sees relatives or neighbors who never seem to work, but who also have a similar standard of living. They might know perpetually unemployed acquaintances who rely on CHIP or Medicaid, free school lunches, food stamps, and a myriad of other programs, all available to many. Meanwhile, the middle class worker is putting in long hours to obtain the same amount of food and health care.
The middle class workers then realizes he's working to pay for his own needs, and also those of the neighbor.
It's easy to see why this might breed resentment.
Napolitano: Kavanaugh "is at the heart and soul of the DC establishment."
Not surprisingly, Judge Napolitano sees the Kavanaugh appointment for what it is — a nod to the DC establishment. On Fox and Friends this morning, Napolitano said:
"The Washington establishment, sometimes known as the swamp, wanted Judge Kavanaugh," said Napolitano. "I am disappointed in the president because this is not the type of person he said he would pick. Justice [Neil] Gorsuch was. This person is at the heart and soul of the D.C. establishment against whom the president railed."
See the video:
.@Judgenap: "I am disappointed in the president because this is not the type of person that he said he would pick… this person is at the heart and soul of the DC establishment." pic.twitter.com/Dygeg4zywi— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 10, 2018
What is "Advanced" Technology?
During research for my book The Skyscraper Curse I started using the phrase "Advanced technology." It means a means of production that is currently beyond the capability of society or at least something that is "cutting edge." I would argue that is also useful in terms of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) because when artificially low interest rates impact an economy's structure of production, it typically induces the production and introduction of new "premature" technology that typically would only occur in the future, if at all.
We might be witnessing one such advanced technology on the campus of Auburn University--a robot bricklayer. The reason for this speculation is that low interest rates have increased the amount of construction and driven up costs so that new technology in the form of the robot bricklayer have been rush in to alleviate the high cost and lack of labor. Two masons and the robot can lay rough four times the number of bricks that two masons can lay.
SAM100, short for Semi-Automated Mason, will be the first of its kind in Alabama. It lays more than 3,000 bricks per day, using a conveyor belt and a robotic arm. Auburn University and Construction Robotics have partnered together to bring SAM to life on campus.
Construction Robotics, located in Victor, New York, created SAM to "leverage human jobs, not replace them." According to the MIT Technology Review, human masons can lay 300 to 500 bricks a day -- three times less than SAM.


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EGHS 25th 'continuation' reunion Nov. 24 in Newport
The East Greenwich High School Class of 1987 will hold its 25th High School reunion on Saturday, Nov. 24 at the Mudville Pub, 8 West Marlborough Street, Newport. Members of other EGHS classes are also welcome to attend the gathering, a Thanksgiving weekend "continuation" of the Class of '87's reunion held earlier this fall.
There is no charge for the reunion, which will be held at the well known Newport Sports Pub owned by EGHS Class of '87 alum Swaze Armstrong. However, attendees are asked to make a voluntary donation of $10 to offset costs of refreshments and to allow a charitable gift to be made on behalf of the Class of '87.
Those planning on attending are asked to contact Sue Burnett Pullyblank (EGHS '87) at firstname.lastname@example.com, but no RSVP is required to attend. For directions to the Mudville Pub, located adjacent to Cardine's Field, home of summer collegiate baseball's Newport Gulls, visit www.mudvillepub.com.

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NUMBER:Lab Previews Their FW13 Collection
NUMBER:Lab has finally revealed their Fall 2013 collection, and it looks like they're heading Back to the Future.
From water-repellent sweaters and thermals, to insulated lightweight synthetic jackets, this collection is the perfect infusion of sports, style and technology working together. With inspiration and ideas from Creative Director Luis Fernandez, NUMBER:Lab spearheads futuristic style (think: The Fifth Element & Blade Runner) into the now.


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Be careful what you wish for; TV star Kaley Cuoco in her Super Bowl commercials for Toyota seems intent on actually giving it to you.
The star of the CBS sitcom "Big Bang Theory" is featured in a teaser ad released by Toyota ahead of the Feb. 3 championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. The spot promotes the all-new RAV4 crossover that the automaker recently put on sale.
Set to Skee Lo's 1990's hit "I Wish," the video shows Cuoco walking down the street granting wishes to various passersby. Per the song's well-worn lyrics, one guy gets taller, another becomes a baller, while a third finds a girl and can call her.
The ad concludes with Cuoco climbing in a RAV4. A rabbit in a hat sits shotgun and the pair drive off.
The video teases additional ads that Toyota will run during the Super Bowl. The automaker joins several others vying for attention during the much coveted commercial airtime. Mercedes-Benz (featuring Kate Upton), Audi, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Lincoln are just a few of the other companies willing to spend an average of $3.8 million for a 30-second spot.
Toyota's fourth-generation RAV4 debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. It features new styling and a six-speed automatic transmission, and aims to steal back some sales from the Honda CR-V, Mazda CX-5, and Ford Escape.
Stay tuned to Highway 1, as a 2013 RAV4 arrives to test later this week.
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Nunavut[1] is an extensive territory in the far North of Canada, located east of the Northwest Territories (of which it used to be part), north of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, and west of the Danish territory of Greenland. Nunavut comprises a large portion of the northern tip of the North American continent and a large number of islands on Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
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Until the end of World War II The Canadian far north was seen as a barren and desolate place, inhabited by indigenous peoples and containning vast mineral resources that have yet to be exploited. At the end the Canadian government began to realize its stratgic importance. In 1982 after much debate and arguement it was decided to devide the Northwest territories into Nunavut and the former. On april 1, 1999 Nunavut came into existence.
It is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the world - fewer than 30,000 people in an area the size of Western Europe. The immense territory includes most of Canada's Arctic Islands, from Baffin Island in the territory's southeast, where the capital Iqaluit is located, to Ellesmere Island a few hundred kilometers from the North Pole. The territory also includes all of the islands in Hudson Bay.
Around 65% of people living in Nunavut speak Inuktitut as a first language. Inuktitut is the traditional language spoken by the Inuit people, and is closely related to Greenlandic. It is a hard language to learn, and most people won't even be able to read it because it is written in its own unique script. Though most Inuit probably speak English it would be a good idea to learn a few key phrases or bring a Inuktitut phrase book along. Learning the script in any case is actually relatively easy to do. French may also be useful though not necessary. In the more remote places Inuktitut may be necessary.
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Access is only by air - there is no road or rail from the south, and consequently prices are rather expensive owing to the difficulty of shipping goods in.
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Boot camp trains students for technical jobsBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 10. 2017 2:05AM
NASHUA - Kyle Perras was working at Dairy Queen in a Manchester mall when he quit to join a 10-week boot camp to learn microelectronics.
"It was pretty daunting at first," the Bedford twentysomething said last week. "I walked in there with all this high-tech machinery, and I had never seen anything or heard anything about this at all."
Today, he's making $25 an hour working at BAE Systems after graduating last January.
Last Friday, the boot camp graduated its sixth class at Nashua Community College - seven men and three women.
The boot camp acts as a pipeline for BAE Systems and a few other companies to find skilled workers.
BAE Systems is "reaching out to the academic community around us and using that as a way of helping our hiring," said Jeremy Tondreault, vice president of operations in the electronic systems division.
The defense contractor donated $200,000 worth of equipment and was involved in the curriculum development.
Its electronics systems division employs about 5,400 people in southern New Hampshire. Its products include laser-guided rockets and electronic warfare systems for military aircraft.
A dozen students spend 40 hours a week in class for 10 weeks.
"I treat it as a company that they're working at," said Steve Jencks, who teaches the boot camp. "They come in, and it's like they're working for me."
Students learn standards and assembly technique for radio frequency and microwave electronic assemblies, working with parts measured to a thousandth of an inch.
Jencks said 95 percent of the graduates have found jobs. The grads, who have ranked from age 19 to 61, generally earn between $16 and $25 an hour.
Once they graduate from boot camp, "they have a future and they can grow old with the jobs they get from here," he said. "This is a real career path."
BAE hired about 30 graduates as of November and didn't have a figure yet on how many of the latest graduates would get an offer. All students at least receive an interview.
"They're great jobs," Tondreault said. "One of the things about manufacturing for a company like us, it's not necessarily what everybody thinks of from a preconceived perceptions of manufacturing."
Mercury Systems, a defense subprime contractor that employs about 200 in Hudson, has hired one graduate and made a job offer to a new grad.
"They're coming to a job Day 1 with 400 hours of experience," said Alex Badalamenti, director of operations at the Hudson Advanced Microelectronics Center. "It's very helpful to hit the ground running."
"There's no other program like this," said Kevin Beals, vice president and general manager of the RFM group at Mercury Systems. "We're actually trying to build a program like that on the West Coast," where the company also has operations.
Hiring workers is "pretty difficult" because you have very experienced people demanding higher salaries or new graduates bringing no experience, he said.
The company has given kits of materials for students to work on, had its workers visit the classroom and hosted a company tour.
During Friday's graduation ceremony, NCC's Jonathan Mason noted the transformation in the graduates.
"I always say the first week is deer in headlights; no one has any idea," said Mason, the college's corporate, community and continuing education coordinator. "They don't even know how to use a microscope."
And now they can talk the microelectronics lingo that is foreign to most people, he said.
Graduate Jonathan Rivera, 30, of Nashua was unemployed when someone at New Hampshire Employment Security recommended the boot camp.
"It was like a boost for me," he said.
Rivera got a job offer from BAE the day before graduating.
"It makes me very happy and proud of myself," he said.
"It's a good opportunity for him," said his wife, Katherine, who attended Friday's ceremony.
Graduate Brianna Terrizzi, 20, of Nashua, said she was working in retail and restaurant jobs.
"I never knew what I wanted to do," she said, so she enrolled in the program and loved it.
BAE offered her a job last week.
Graduate Devon Malburne, 24, of Hudson, was working as a mechanic in a Manchester auto dealership.
"My career path hit a dead end pretty early," he said.
Malburne, who quit his job to attend the course, said he was accustomed to handling big components and found himself dealing with microtechnology in class.
"It was a little intimidating at first," Malburne said.
The boot camp costs $5,500 with the next class starting Jan. 8.
My Turn, a Manchester nonprofit that helps youth develops skills through education and employment training, has provided financial help to 13 boot camp participants, including two from the latest class.
Executive Director Allison Joseph said some students get help with tuition, car payments and other monthly bills while attending.
Perras, who helps in the boot camps, told graduates they had gained a lot of knowledge about their new field.
"But you are always going to learn more on the (company) floor," he said.


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Arnold (Arnie) Hirt, 90, of Talent, Ore., passed away Sunday, March 3, 2013.
He was born in Killdeer, N.D. He was the eighth child of Peter and Veronica Hirt. He served in the Navy as a radioman 1st Class aboard the USS Honolulu and was a member of the Pearl Harbor survivors club.
He was preceded in death by his wife Annie of 63 years in December 2006. He is survived by his four children, Karen, Ron, Kathie, and Rand. He had 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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A San Francisco man has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for using insider information to profit off The Walt Disney Co.'s $4 billion purchase of Marvel Entertainment.
Toby Scammell was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and ordered to pay more than $120,000 to brokers who sold him stock options. He was also ordered to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $801,000 in a separate civil settlement.
Prosecutors say the 29-year-old was tipped off to the 2009 Marvel acquisition by a girlfriend who worked for Disney. He made a profit of more than $190,000 from the deal.
Scammell pleaded guilty in April to securities fraud through insider trading.
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New Weevil Gnawing at Arkansas Soybeans
Source: University of Arkansas Press Release. www.uaex.edu
Marvell, Arkansas (June 15, 2014)--Arkansas soybean growers are facing a new enemy -- the pea weevil -- an insect that hitched a ride from Europe in a legume used as a cover crop.
So far, the pea weevil's presence is limited to just a few fields south of Marvell in Phillips County where Austrian winter field peas had been used as a winter cover crop. Farmers use cover crops to prevent erosion, hold moisture and add nutrients to the soil. The field peas, being legumes, help add nitrogen to the soil, thanks to a friendly bacteria living in the plant roots that fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.
The pea weevils have also been found in Louisiana and Washington State. In all three instances, "this pest situation is strictly related to this cover crop," said Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. "We're introducing a problem with the cover crops."
"It appears that the weevil is a legume feeder," he said. "The immature form feeds on the nitrogen fixing nodules in the soybean roots."
When the cover crop dies back and soybeans grow up through the residue, the soybeans - also a legume - become the weevil's target. As adults, the weevils feed on the soybean leaves, leaving a most unique, scalloped pattern.
"It looks like you took some pinking shears and went around the edge of the leaf," said Robert Goodson, Phillips County extension agent for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. "It's a very distinct feeding pattern."
The quarter-inch brown weevils have proven to be very hard to control, Lorenz said.
"As many as you see on the leaf, if you dig down into the cover crop residue, there's a ton more of them," he said. When a farmer applies an insecticide, it kills the exposed weevils on the plant, "and more come up and you have to spray again. It may take two or three applications or more to get them under control."
Goodson said that, "right now, we're working with the farmers to find the right control product and application timing to work on this insect. We're talking about a product that has a little more residual action and trying to time the applications for when the weevils are out feeding and not under the residue refuge."
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The cover crop has created a second problem for area corn growers.
"Evidently, the winter field peas attract brown stinkbugs, so you get this big population under the cover crops and when farmers plant corn into it, the stinkbugs start feeding on the corn," Lorenz said.
The brown stinkbugs are not a new problem for Arkansas, but this is the first time producers have seen this many this early in the season.
"When they start feeding on seedling corn, they can kill it or severely stunt it," Lorenz said, adding that the feeding pattern is also very distinct.
"What you get is this progression. They'll start on one plant in the row, kill it, then move on to the next one and severely stunt it," he said. "Then they'll start on the next one and the damage will be pretty bad, then the next one moderately bad."
Corn that survives will see its ears targeted, sometimes damaged in such a way that the ears will curve, like cow horns.
The producers began seeing problems in corn last year, Lorenz said. "In some areas, the producer cut 170 bushels per acre, and in some spots, zero."
By the time the ears appear, the farmer may have had to make three or four insecticide applications for stinkbugs.
"You go across or down the road into where the farmer didn't use the field peas as a cover crop and there's no damage," Lorenz said. "Cover crops have advantages, but these producers are paying a big price."


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After five years during which he emerged from France to become an important figure in the international jazz world, pianist Michel Petrucciani (still a few days shy of his 23rd birthday) debuted on Blue Note with this superior trio outing. Assisted by bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Eliot Zigmund, Petrucciani sometimes shows off the influence of Bill Evans both in the nearly equal roles played by the instruments and in his chord voicings. However, the pianist's own personality does shine through often on the set, which features explorations of four of Petrucciani's tunes, "Night and Day," and "Here's That Rainy Day." Superior post-bop music played by the already brilliant pianist. ~ Scott Yanow


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A mismatched-friends drama whose overall sensitivity is belied by a couple of clumsily contrived plot points, Sean Baker's "Starlet" pairs story and setting perfectly.
Set in California's San Fernando Valley where, according to production designer Mari Yui and high-def director of photography Radium Cheung, primary colors simply do not exist, the film is as pale as its protagonist's blonde hair — distractingly so, though the look does suit a film about seeking connection in a soulless world.
Dree Hemingway plays Jane, a frighteningly skinny 21 year old who finds $10,000 rolled up in a Thermos bought at a yard sale. Conscience-struck, she tries to return the loot to the ornery 85 year old who sold it to her, but Sadie (Besedka Johnson) won't even let her get a sentence out. "I told you, no refunds!" she shouts, slamming the door in Jane's face. Johnson's performance received special recognition on the festival circuit, and if the nod comes partly because it's the actress' late-in-life acting debut, it probably didn't hurt that Johnson is admirably committed to this sketchy premise, rebuffing Jane's inquiries with such baffling ferocity that the girl has to stalk her way into Sadie's life.
Hemingway finds soul in a vacant-looking character, a girl whose passive acceptance of the sleaze around her (like her drug-abusing roommates' lifestyle) makes her seem unlikely to pursue a friendship both challenging and far outside her world. Starlet is the name of Jane's Chihuahua, but the movie's title hints at the way Jane and her friends make their living; the script is slow to reveal details, but Baker's camera doesn't flinch when it's time to show the character going to work, and this part of Jane's life is a provocative counterpoint to scenes in which she ferries Sadie to the grocery store and sits playing Bingo with her.
The elder woman has her own secrets, and viewers may come to accept her initially outrageous behavior as a natural response to deep pain. But "Starlet," thankfully, keeps armchair psychology to a minimum, and is best when these two women (and the dog) are alone in the frame, trying to be human beings in a place where humanity can be a liability.
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10 Fresh Summer Recipes for Sweet Corn
I live in the Midwest, in the heart of sweet corn country. The fields are full of plump ears of sweet corn right now, and there are piles of golden tassels and green husks at the farmers markets every weekend. Earlier today we asked you about your favorite way to get all the silk off an ear of corn. Now we're turning to even more pressing matters: Eating lots and lots of that sweet, juicy, crisp summer corn. Here are 10 ways to enjoy it.
My own personal favorite way to eat corn right now is probably in a corn and tomato salad. What about you? Do you prefer it straight up, on the cob, and held fast by a couple of these little gadgets? Or do you prefer something fancier?
None of these recipes are terribly fancy, but they do show off that sweet corn flavor in some different ways. From roasted elote to fresh cornbread, and from scallops with corn salsa to a simple salad, these are some of our collective favorites.
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• 2 Phoebe's Scallops with Tomatillo Guacamole & Corn Salsa
• 3 Scrambled Eggs with Fresh Corn, Goat Cheese, and Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
• 4 Mung Bean Salad With Corn and Basil
• 5 Potatoes, Green Beans, and Corn in Lemon Brown Butter Sauce
• 6 Herbed Sweet Corn and Tomato Salad
• 7 Grilled Cactus and Corn Salad
• 8 Vegan Corn Tamales
• 9 Tomato, Corn, and Basil Bean Burgers
• 10 Double Corn Bread with Smoked Mozzarella and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
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With Thanksgiving a week away, we asked islanders what they have to be thankful for:
Shelley Campbell said she is grateful for her granddaughter, 2-year-old Lilyanna Chase. "I'm thankful for every minute I have with her."
John Williamson said he's thankful for everything he has and living on Jamestown. "I'm thankful I'm not a turkey."
Sherri Messenger replied, "Freedom."
Kathleen Golini said she's thankful for "my health, my job, my family and friends, and all my patients."
Norma Willis said she's grateful for a wonderful family and living on Jamestown.
Laura Smith is thankful for her health, her job and her son.
Cynthia Flagg is thankful for "my wonderful family who have bought homes on Jamestown and live here with me."
Cathryn Jamieson is grateful to be an American and to have had the parents she had.
Kim Taylor replied, "My health."
Alice Dunn, who turned 60 yest erday, said she's thankful for life.
Laura Trainer said she is thankful she "can afford to go to college and live in a country where women are treated equal to men."
Driving down Narragansett Avenue and seeing the magnificent display of American flags at East Ferry on Veterans Day choked me up. *** The Jamestown Community Theatre's "The Wizard of Oz" opened to a sold-out audience last Friday night. Laura Smith, who plays the Mayor of Munchkin City, a Jitterbug and the Emerald City hairdresser, said a couple of kids in the audience were so scared when the Wicked Witch of the West, played by Hayley Carlisle, came on stage that they left the building.
Laura's vocation as a hair stylist made her the perfect choice as the hairdresser who prepares the mane of the Cowardly Lion for his appearance in the Emerald City. In her third appearance in a JCT play, Laura also stands out in her role as a scary Jitterbug with her perfect Munchkin voice. She said the play is wonderful and she's having fun. "Mary Wright is amazing," she said.
"The Wizard of Oz" ends its run this coming weekend with performances tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 4 p.m. at the rec center.
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up, sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up the Wicked Witch is dead.
The Jamestown Country Club last weekend had an impressive display of American flags on its fence next to the first tee.
Kudos to Joshua Gray, 8, a third-grade student at the Melrose Avenue School for his promotion to blue belt in karate on Oct. 28. On the same day, his father, Chris, better known as "Papa," was promoted to orange belt and selected as the adult student for the month of November at Ichiban Karate in Wakefield. Ichiban Karate practices in the style of Shorin-Ryu Shidokan from Okinawa.
Grateful for each hand we hold,
Gathered round this table,
From far and near we travel home,
Blessed that we are able.
Kudos to Jamestown Wine & Spirits for giving discounts to veterans on Veterans Day.
The Jamestown School Warrior reports that the PLO will host a free family movie night tomorrow, Nov. 18, at 6 in the Melrose multipurpose room. The feature will be "Cars 2." Pizza, popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase.
Next week is National Family Week.
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Kopio wrote:I'd expect some sort of reduplication or at least a lengthened initial vowel after the preposition.
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Learning in Context
An effective professional program prepares students for the conditions they will meet in practice by making the challenges they face in graduate education mirror those they will encounter in professional life (Barrows, 1986; Baskett & Marsick, 1992; Boyer, 1990; Cavanaugh, 1993; Harris, 1993; Hmelo-Silver & Barrows, 2006; Jennet & Pearson, 1992; McParland, Noble & Livingston, 2004; Merrill, 2007; Norman & Schmidt, 1992; Schön, 1987, 1995; Slotnick, 1996). This entails re-orienting professional education to focus on practical applications of knowledge in anticipation of the realities of practice (Barr & Tagg, 1995; Benson & Lewis, 1994; Boyer, 1990; Fox, 1994; Gold, 1993; Macallan, Kent, Holmes, Farmer & McCrorie, 2009; Peterson, 1985, 1987; Peterson et al., 1997; Rice, 1991). Studies in cognitive psychology reveal that expertise - pragmatic knowledge, or "knowing how" - is a form of knowledge acquired through practical experience (Curry & Makoul, 1996; Farnham-Diggory, 1994; Jarvis, 1992; Lewicki, Hill, & Czyzewska, 1992; Regehr & Norman, 1996; Rubinstein & Firstenberg, 1987; Willingham, Nissen, & Bullemer, 1989; Zeitz & Spoehr, 1989). This is because "learning in a clinical context causes the information that is being acquired to be organized or structured in the mind in ways that are useful to clinical tasks" (Barrows, 1985, p. 4). Further, contextual learning as the basis of clinical education fosters not only technical skill, but provides:
[the] opportunity to use higher order, more clinically relevant reasoning skills in applying this information to situations that resemble future professional tasks in ways that will reinforce the usefulness and likely recall of this important information in both the contexts and the cognitive processes used in later clinical work. (Barrows, 1986, p. 24)
Thus, the successful use of scientific knowledge in the actual clinical context is more likely if that the information has been learned in conjunction with work with patients (Barrows, 1985, 1986; Chang, Cook, Maguire, Shakun, Yakimets, & Warnock, 1995; Jarvis, 1992; Jennett & Pearson, 1992; Regehr & Norman, 1996). As pointed out by Barrows, "the cues that appear while working in the task situation will stimulate retrieval of the appropriate information through memory associations" (1985, p. 4). Many professional schools, particularly medical schools, have instituted curricular changes that facilitate learning clinical skills in a clinical context (Chang et al., 1995; Des Marchais & Vu, 1996; Kaufman, Mennin, Waterman, Duban, Hansbarger, Silverblatt et al., 1989; Norman & Schmidt, 1992; Taylor & Miflin, 2008). Most notable of the curriculum reforms is the New Pathway Program at Harvard Medical School, which incorporates an experiential approach to the study of medicine. The curriculum facilitates the development of physicians who practice "science-in-action" by exposing students to practical clinical experience from the first day (Barrows, 1986; Moore et al., 1990; Moore, Block, Style, & Mitchell, 1994; Rice, 1991; Tosteson, Adelstein, & Carver, 1994). Meta-analyses and literature reviews show the superior performance of students on knowledge application measures, when trained in context using problem-based curricula (viz., Colliver, 2000; Dochy, Segers, Van den Bossche, & Gijbels, 2003; Hmelo-Silver, Duncan, & Chinn, 2007; Tan, 2005).


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How long has K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen been open?
K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen opened its doors at 416 Chartres Street on Tuesday, July 3, 1979.
Does K-Paul's take reservations?
Yes, since 1993. Guests are able to make a la carte reservations for parties up to 25 via our regular reservations department. Reservations are accepted up to a maximum of one month in advance. Parties larger than 25 are accommodated through K-Paul's Catering Expedition (link to reservations).
Does K-Paul's serve lunch?
Yes! In honor of our 30th anniversary and in tribute to our original deli once located on the second floor years ago, K-Paul's now serves lunch "deli style" Thursday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Menu items reflect our inherent philosophy regarding fresh ingredients while being geared more toward our local lunch crowd. Check out the sample deli menu. For more information, or to place a deli to-go order, dial (504) 522-8880. Click HERE to see the most recent deli-style lunch menu.
How long is the line these days outside of K-Paul's?
The historic line of waiting customers outside of the restaurant largely decreased following our renovations in 1997. Our remodeled facility, which once had a seating capacity of 62 guests, now accommodates over 200 guests comfortably at a time. In 2004, we totally eradicated the line by allowing our waiting customers to wait inside at the bar and retail areas.
Does K-Paul's still require community seating?
No. In our early years, when we only had 62 seats and several hundred people waiting to dine, we encouraged guests to share a table with other waiting diners to accommodate as many hungry patrons as possible. However, since our renovations, we can easily offer appropriate seating for your party, provided the reservations for the evening do not restrict it. We are often surprised by diehard K-Paul's fans who remember community seating and still request it! We can only graciously oblige.
"I've had blackened dishes at other restaurants and did not like the heavily charred spices. What else does K-Paul's offer besides blackened dishes?"
We get this question a lot. First of all, Chef Paul Prudhomme invented the blackening process. Unless you have tried our blackened dishes, you really have not had authentic "blackened" food from its birthplace. We find that our guests who ask this question and try blackened items at K-Paul's prepared by chefs who were trained under Chef Paul Prudhomme quickly change their opinion of blackening. However, if some other experience with blackened food outside of K-Paul's has scarred you for life, we offer other fabulously delicious options. See our sample menu for examples of what we offer.
While having a very wide array of business interests, Chef Paul loves to spend as much time as possible in the restaurant. Although he no longer cooks for the public at the restaurant, he enjoys meeting and talking to as many of our patrons and his fans as possible.
How often is Chef Paul Prudhomme in the restaurant?
Does K-Paul's offer parking?
For our dinner service only, two hours of validated parking is provided based up availability at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel located on the corner of Chartres and St. Louis Streets. A vehicle claim check from the authorized parking facility must be presented at the first floor podium to receive parking validation. We do not offer valet parking or validated parking for our deli lunch service at this time.


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The match will serve as preparation for this summer's Gold Cup tournament, which kicks off on July 7. It will be the first national team match at Commonwealth Stadium since 2008.
"We are pleased to bring this match against Costa Rica to the passionate western Canada soccer community," CSA president Victor Montagliani said in a written statement. "This match, which will serve as great preparation for the Men's National Team in the lead up to this summer's Gold Cup, is the result of the strong relationships the Association has been able to build with other CONCACAF nations."
The most recent meeting between Canada and Costa Rica at the senior men's international level came back in 2009, when the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw at that year's Gold Cup competition. Canada sports a record of 4-7-7 (W-D-L) against the Central American nation since 1985.


text: Friday, July 01, 2011 CMS Releases 2012 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule On July 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the proposed physician fee schedule rule that would update payment rates and other policies under the Medicare physician fee schedule for services furnished on or after January 1, 2012. If this rule becomes effective, physicians, physical therapists, and other health care professionals would receive a 29.5% cut in Medicare payments January 1, 2012, due to the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Over the last few years Congress has taken action to avert these cuts prior to their effective date. If the 29.5% cut is averted by Congress, the projected impact of other changes in the rule on outpatient physical therapy services in aggregate would be a positive 3% in 2012. In addition to the payment updates, the rule also proposes to extend the multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) policy to the professional component of imaging services, resulting in significant reductions in payment for radiology and interventional radiology. CMS also indicates that over the next year it will review more closely whether specific CPT codes billed under the fee schedule are overvalued or undervalued, and specifically identifies manual therapy (97140) and group therapy (97150) as codes the agency would like to examine. In the proposed rule, CMS announces its plans for continuation of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2012, which will involve bonus payments of .5% of allowed charges for physicians and other health care professionals—including physical therapists—who who successfully participate. Twenty-six additional new measures were added to the program for individual claims and/or registry based reporting. APTA will complete a comprehensive review and summary of the rule in the coming week. This summary will be posted at www.apta.org. CMS will accept comments on the proposed rule until August 30 and will respond to them in the final rule to be issued on or about November 1. APTA will submit extensive comments in response to this rule. Comments It would appear that the CPT Codes under review also include 97530, 97112, and 97001 (noted on page 96). Is there any thing we can do to avert any adverse changes in our (already low) Medicare fee schedule? Thank you for your anticipated response. Sincerely, Randy Veroline Posted by Randy Veroline on 7/1/2011 9:43 PM The proposed fee schedule cuts approaching 30% will cause unprecedented casualties throughout the medical community and to the healthcare economy. It will also leave medicare recipients struggling to find quality medical services as more and more practitioners opt out of medicare contracts. Our outpatient physical therapy practice sees a population that is currently 25-30% medicare recipients. If the fee schedule cuts are imposed, we will likely have to lay off one full time PT and one full time office assistant while trying to manage the same volume of patients. Needless to say, everyone, patients included will lose. My question: why is the government so concerned with cutting the fee schedules to medical practitioners when the real money is spent on hospitalization costs and prescription drug benefits? This is just not right! Posted by Matthew Spiegelman, MPT, CSCS on 7/3/2011 1:14 PM These proposed 30% cuts are only going to hurt patients and their care. During the last few years, i have seen more and more patients that are misdiagnosed by physicians. I see that physicians are spending less and less time with their patients (i.e. 30% less care). Physicians are NOT going to take a pay CUT! They will only spend 30% less time with their patients. I feel like PT's may become more of a PCP for their patients, since we get more time with them. The cut in payments to MD's (and PT's)will only hurt the patients....not the providers. Go look at Senator Kathy Gifford. She could tell you how important PT's are....and that capping rehabilitation services should be abolished. Posted by P. Navarrete on 7/5/2011 10:30 AM I'm glad I will be retiring in a few years. It is a disgrace how beaten down by payors this profession. There soon will be no creativity to practiing physical therapy but rather a cook book of what to do with limited care. Posted by Michael DeLuca on 7/5/2011 6:20 PM The government does not understand that quality care for vulnerable patients isn't something squeezed into a square accounting box. We provide services that can be measured, but warmth and attention that can't. Posted by Chris Co on 7/5/2011 9:14 PM I provide the only source of outpatient P.T. in a small town in GA where the local hospital closed and the nearest alternative hospital or oppt is 25 miles away. Pts can't afford to travel elsewhere for services. The proposed cuts would likely cause my practice to reach the tipping point of closing. Posted by Donna Benton on 9/24/2011 5:05 PM When apat going to start working for PT's ? out patients cap is been there for 5 years what have you done ? Now physical therapy is combine with physicians fee schedule. Where is apta voice. If apta wants more members they have to start working for us, not just get together and have a few drinks Posted by noman on 10/21/2011 1:07 AM I am getting out of the medical field. This is not sustainable. Posted by Kostantinos Koutelos on 10/29/2011 12:11 PM As an owner of an HHC, I am wondering at what point lower compensation will mean lower compensations for PT's. The economics are staggering. Right now a PT goes for 3 -4 years of training at 150K expense. If you make 50-60k per year, you will not repay your loans. Fewer bright students will go into PT into the future. This is juxtaposed with a growing population of seniors particularly needing services. My feeling is that eventually the economic lesson that is rehabilitation services save on rehospitalizations and put individuals back to work will have to be learned again and again. Posted by Benjamin Gilbert MSPT on 11/16/2011 9:45 PM


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Mattel's Wonder Woman Invisible Jet isn't just invisible, it's nonexistent. The Hot Wheels packaging suggests that the jet is nestled within the cardboard and plastic molding (pictured on right).
Gullible buyers can be forgiven for thinking there's a miniature jet in the box — Mattel's designers had weights hidden inside to make it feel as if it actually contained a toy.
The joke continues on the back of the box, in the place where Mattel usually provides quick facts about the vehicle inside, such as its make and model. Here's an excerpt:
Designer: The Amazons
Birthplace: Paradise Island
Specialty: Created by Amazon engineering, Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet can make transatlantic flights without refueling.
The idea was spawned April 1, when Mattel's social marketing team came up with a prank post on Facebook that announced it would start selling the jet. Its artists mocked up a box and posted the picture. Most got the joke, but many didn't. So many people asked the company where they could purchase the item that Mattel decided to make it a limited-edition collectible.
Mattel is selling the $5 non-toy as a Comic-Con International exclusive item on the show floor until Sunday, after which the invisible jet will disappear. For real.
— Alex Pham
PHOTO GALLERY: Scenes from Comic-Con 2010
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Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren see "RED"
"Scott Pilgrim" in San Diego…with jet-packs
Jeff Bridges, old and new, plugs in "Tron: Legacy"
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Photo: Mattel's limited edition Hot Wheels version of Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet. Credit: Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times.


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According to Vortex Aquaponics,
"Aquaponics" the combination of Aquaculture (culture of fish) and Hydroponics (culture of plants without soil) integrated into a single agricultural system that works in many climates yielding an abundant amount of organic vegetation and edible fish."Aquaponics"
Why choose Vortex Aquaponics?
All of the materials that are used by aquaponics systems align with their eco-friendly vision and include
1. Vertical growing columns (Aquapot Vertical Towers): These are used for green leafy veggies and herbs2. Media Beds: For vines and larger crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, fruiting plants, and root vegetables3. Fish Tanks: For raising the fish of your choice4. Solids Collector: For keeping the system clean5. De-Gasser: For putting oxygen back into the system6. Water Pump: For pumping the water up to the top of the column and recirculating the water7. Air Pump: Provides oxygen for the plants and the fish 8. Dome Greenhouse or hoop house
Vortex aquapnics also has an education system where they teach school children how the system works and why it is important for our future.
These systems are already underway and being used to grow food. There are already 3 successful systems set up in Puerto Rico, China and Canada. The goal is to make these systems, widespread across the globe and supplement the demands for organic produce, while most likely over time wiping out other forms of agriculture that are not sustainable for our planet.
This goes that we do have the technology that is needed to ensure that no one goes hungry and we don't have to be using the outdated and often destructive methods of industrial agriculture anymore. Times are changing and this system has the potential to transform the agricultural industry in a big way.
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Not long ago, Egyptian Archaeologists discovered a huge 2,000-year-oldsealed coffin, and as you'd imagine, they want to open it to see who or what is inside.
The sarcophagus was discovered in a tomb deep under the Egyptian city of Alexandria earlier this month (July 2018). It's believed to be the largest sarcophagus ever discovered in Alexandria. It's 9ft long, 5ft wide and 6ft deep, according to Mostafa Waziri, the general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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"Mediterranea," an exhibit at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas highlights the works of American artists who used the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea for their inspiration.
The touring exhibition is comprised of works by 19th century American expatriate artists in Italy and features works by artists such as William Merritt Chase, Elihu Vedder, Frank Duveneck, and Charles Caryl Coleman. This exhibition reveals a specifically American view of the Mediterranean that circulated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It will be on display through Sept. 1.
The exhibit is from the Graham D. Williford Collection and made possible by the Graham and Jean Davoe Williford Charitable Trust. Graham Williford was born in Fairfield, Texas, in 1926 and became a renowned art collector. His pieces range from the "Mediterranea" collection, to other collections including silver pieces housed in the Dallas Museum of Art and the American Silver Gallery.The New Phytologist
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Two of the cost-savings reforms now in play would modify the Standard Utility Allowance. One proposal would require states that game the system by granting token LIHEAP benefits to provide LIHEAP benefits of at least $10 in order to qualify for the exemption. This proposal would save about $4.5 billion over ten years. A second proposal would repeal the entire LIHEAP-SNAP link so that families that receive the allowance would need to show their utility bills in order to receive the utility portion of the deduction. This proposal would save around $15 billion over ten years. At least part of the savings in both proposals are based on the assumption that some households that have to experience the hassle of showing some or all utility bills would forego the utility deduction. The tendency for some families to accept the lower benefit by avoiding the hassle of showing utility bills would be strengthened by the fact that most of them would still receive a SNAP benefit; the effect of the policy change would be to reduce the size of the SNAP benefit, not to eliminate it altogether for most households. In effect, these proposals save money by reducing the size of the SNAP benefit. Losing part of the SNAP benefit certainly does not help these households, but most of them would still receive a SNAP benefit.
A third policy change that would save money, and one already enacted by the House Budget Committee, would be to convert SNAP to a block grant and reduce the amount of money in the block grant as compared with spending under current law. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that spending on SNAP will decline from $80 billion in 2012 to $73 [17] billion in 2021 [18] as the economy recovers. Thus, funding in the block grant would have to be lower than the amount by which SNAP is already projected to decline. [19] The more general point on block grant funding is that Congress can save a great deal of money by lowering the number of federal dollars in the block grant each year below the CBO spending baseline.
Because the 1996 Welfare Reform Law converted the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program from an open-ended entitlement like the current SNAP program to a block grant with capped funding, the federal government has experience with what happens when states receive block grant funding. The new program created in 1996 was the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, a block grant of $16.5 billion that gave states enormous flexibility as long as they met program requirements, especially the stringent work requirements, and spent the money on poor and low-income families. Three lessons of the decade and a half experience with TANF should be considered as Congress contemplates a SNAP block grant. The first is that the value of a capped block grant declines every year due to inflation. The $16.5 billion TANF block grant has lost about one-third of its value since the mid-1990s. In the case of the SNAP program, the explicit purpose of converting the open-ended entitlement to a block grant is to save money. Still, in assessing the adequacy of funding in any block grant with capped funding, Congress must take into account the fact that without an inflation adjustment, the value of the block grant will actually decline even faster than whatever annual caps are placed on the block grant.
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