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Does Rick Santelli Have To Go Off On Another Rant From The Trading Floor?
August 5th, 2011 MacAoidh
Apparently, he does. Hot Air has this video today, in which Santelli is beset with the dopey socialist Ezra Klein as he spews nonsense about "money moving around in ways that are unfair." Mr. Stop Spending handles it pretty well and schools Klein on basic economics…
Ed Morrissey does a nice job of analyzing the exchange…
The entire problem with this economy is the notion that some people have of "unfairness" in markets. In fact, that's how we got here in the first place. Government intervened to correct what was seen as "unfairness" in the housing market by guaranteeing risky loans, which set off a housing bubble that left the economic system in ruins. We got Obamanomics as the end result of that, which is all about "fairness," and which has utterly failed to produce growth thanks to the arbitrary and punitive ways it treats investors.
Furthermore, despite Klein's citation of two authors he claims has done "the best work" on this crisis, Klein is advocating for a policy which has already failed. He wants the Fed to intervene by creating inflation, which is exactly what they did with their two rounds of quantitative easing. Not only has that failed to produce actual growth, as the latest GDP numbers show, it threatens to escalate a global debt crisis while weakening the value of assets for most Americans. The Fed has no more options to play.
We're not seeing growth because of the hostile environment for investors, and a lack of consumer demand related to high unemployment. We could solve those tomorrow by reducing regulation (especially the arbitrary ObamaCare legislation that makes risk calculation nearly impossible), unfettering American energy exploration and extraction to create jobs and lower energy costs, and reform the tax system to put all investors on an even playing field and reduce the corporatism that drags down small-business creation and innovation. We don't need social engineers tinkering with the economic system to achieve their notion of "fairness" — we need actual economic growth, which the social engineers have proven completely incompetent at delivering.
True dat.
Fairness as applied to economics is and has always been an unworkable concept – because what the market regards as fair is that those players in the market who bring value will be rewarded, and those who do not will be punished.
Morrissey's social engineers act at contretemps to this process. They impose their moral structure upon the market, and destroy wealth in the process.
An example which comes to mind which is more theoretical than practical: the constant screaming about how pro athletes make millions of dollars and school teachers are paid poorly. We hear this as a standard critique of the free market, and out of some sense of propriety it's seldom ridiculed for the feint at socialist tyranny it is.
The biggest problem with the athletes-are-paid-more-than-teachers-and-it's-unjust meme is that it's simply not true. Sure, if you compared Peyton Manning or LeBron James to the nice lady who teaches math to your sixth-grader, you'll come away with the idea that pro athletes are paid exhorbitant sums and teachers are exploited by the market. But that's not an apples-to-apples comparison. The nice 6th Grade Math lady isn't at the top of her profession, as much as the kids might like her. She's probably about average.
The average teacher makes $32.17 an hour, which is more than accountants make. The average teacher salary is somewhere between $40,000 and $45,000 per year, and teaching is a profession in which someone can build a 40-year career. Data on the average length of a teaching career is a little fuzzy, and it's hard to quantify it because so many young teachers decide to exit the profession. We know that the termination rate for public school teachers, which constitute 90 percent of the K-12 market, is under five percent. Let's say, however, for the purpose of comparison that an average "lifer" in the teaching profession makes $45,000 per year over a 30-year career. This would come to $1.35 million in career earnings.
Compare that teacher to the average NFL player, let's say. The average NFL salary is $770,000, according to BusinessWeek, and the average NFL career is 3.5 years, and while players who have had careers of 10 years or more frequently decide to retire the vast majority of careers in the league end because the player in question can't make a team. In any event, 770K for 3.5 years comes to a career earnings figure of $2.695 million, which is about double what an average teacher would make.
So NFL players make more, right? OK – how many people try to become pro football players but can't make the League? And how many people try to become teachers but can't get a job in that profession? Is it twice as hard for, let's say, a college scholarship football player to make an NFL team than it is for a college education major to get a teaching job?
That's a pretty safe statement, wouldn't you say?
There are 32 NFL teams, with a 53-man roster in each. They carry other players on things like the developmental squad and the injured reserve and so forth, so let's say 70 players draw NFL salaries on a typical team. That gives you about 2,240 NFL players in a given season.
Generally speaking, you can't get to the NFL if you're not a scholarship player on a college team. There are 120 teams in the Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision, who carry 85 scholarships each (for various reasons, most teams will in a given year carry a handful less than 85, but we'll assume all of them carry a full roster for the purposes of this calculation). That comes to 10,200 players who might have a chance at an NFL career. Add to that another 117 teams in the Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision (the old Division 1-AA), in which most (but not all, as Ivy League clubs don't give football scholarships) teams carry 65 players on scholarship. Let's call that another 7,605 players, and we'll cut that number in half and say that 3,800 of those players would be legitimate, if perhaps long-shot, hopefuls for an NFL career.
So out of 14,000 or so players on college football teams with some hope of maybe eventually getting on an NFL roster there are only 2,240 or so spots in the league. That comes to AT BEST one college player in seven in theoretical numbers; in practical numbers it's far worse.
If you can't make it in the NFL as a college player, you do have a couple of other options. There's the Canadian Football League, for example – in which there are eight teams with 47 players apiece. That's 376 players, with an average salary of $100,000 or so and an average career length of 3.2 years (average career earnings: $320,000). Or the Arena Football League, which has 18 teams with 24-man rosters (432 players), an average salary of about $85,000 a year and an average career length of three years (average career earnings: $255,000).
That's about 3,000 opportunities for pro football players. So the "average" college football player will make nothing as a pro football player. Which is considerably less than what the average college education major can expect to earn as a teacher.
Now, if you want to make a more valid comparison, since NFL players (and for that matter CFL and AFL players) represent the very top of their professions, let's set them against the top of the teaching profession – university professors.
The average salary of an American university professor is $73,000 per year, and there are 1.7 million people employed as post-secondary instructors. At the highest rank within that realm, namely that of a full professor, the average salary is $99,000. And the average career length for a full tenured college professor is 22 years; the average age at which those professors are given tenure is 39, meaning they've moved up the ranks from assistant and associate professors to that point.
That's an average career earnings of $2.178 million. For working nine months per year. And getting paid to publish, plus earning research grants. Yes, the NFL season only lasts 16 weeks, but they're in preseason for another 4-5 weeks, fall camp for a good three weeks prior to that, there's a month's worth of playoffs, every team will do a couple of minicamps and woe betide the player who doesn't bust his rear end all year with conditioning, weight training and so forth.
When you add in the side income most professors can make, they can easily hit the $2.7 million career earnings figure. And they can do it without the ailing backs and knees and the concussions NFL players get.
But no professors make $25 million a year like Philip Rivers does, right?
Probably not. But Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard Law professor, has a reported net worth of $25 million. And how many professors across the country are earning royalties off patents their research generated?
We could probably find a few folks at the very top of the educational pyramid whose spin-off income directly related to their employment helps them pull in a high seven-figure, or maybe even eight-figure, income. And let's remember that a professor who can get to the top of his or her field and roll in the big dollars can do so for maybe twice as long as an NFL player can.
In other words, athletes don't really make more than teachers. Not when you really analyze it.
And yet we're bombarded with that myth by people who purport to tell us what's the moral way to decide who makes what. In other words, to do as Klein tried to do this morning and pontificate about how the market will allocate resources according to "fairness." As the athletes/teachers example shows, though, guys like Klein aren't just wrong on philosophy they don't have the fact, either.
What this comes down to is, when you attempt to deny the rainmakers a drink because you think it's "unfair," you force a counter-market allocation of resources. The effect of that, nearly always, is to destroy the very wealth you seek to redistribute. Yes, that's another way to phrase Morrissey's assertion that what's important is to grow the economy rather than try to make it fair.
We're seeing an administration and a Senate majority made up of Ezra Kleins. And they're destroying the America's wealth. They've got to be stopped and the ideology they adhere to buried in the ash heap of history if we're going to have a future as a great nation.
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Q: RegEx for not allow space at starting and allow some special characters in middle At present I have this
^[^a-zA-Z0-9\\-\\s]+$

Expression but it allows special characters. I just want to allow these [- .,$% ] characters in middle.

A: You can use negative lookahead assertion

$('#input').on('input', function(i, v) {
  $(this).css('color', /^(?!((^[- .,$%].*)|(.*[- .,$%]$)))[^a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]+$/.test(this.value) ? 'green':'red' );
});
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<input id="input" />

Regex explanation
^(?!((^[- .,$%].*)|(.*[- .,$%]$)))[^a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]+$

A: This will not allow space & will also allowed mention special character
^[A-Za-z0-9_@./#&+-\[\]$%]*$

For allowing in between but not at starting
^[^-\s][a-zA-Z0-9_\s-_@./#&+-\[\]$%]+$

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Two and three-wheeled machines gear up for new show
Stuart Anderson
stuart.anderson@archant.co.uk
Trikes and bikes will roll into North Walsham for a show this Easter weekend. Picture: Ian Burt
Magnificent machines on two or three wheels will roll into North Walsham for the town's first ever Trike and Bike Show this weekend.
The event will take place the town's football club on Easter Saturday from midday to midnight, and from 10.30am on Easter Sunday at the Market Place.
Peter Edge, organiser, said he hoped hundreds of bike enthusiasts would come along to enjoy live music from bands The Blackjacks and the Grease Moneys, as well as a bar and food stands. The event is raising money for North Walsham Cottage Hospital and the charity Disabled Ride.
Mr edge said: "I love bikes, and I love North Walsham. This will be great for the town. The weather should be fine and I hope a lot of people will come along and enjoy it."
Visitors can camp overnight at the football club for £10, and tickets for the music cost £5. Entry to the Sunday show is £10 per trike or bike, with the winners announced at a presentation at the White Swan pub at 2.30pm.

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Benambra has existed since 1877 and has always been a conservative seat. For much of the period between 1918 and 1976 it was held by the Country Party, in the hands of the Country Party's T.W.Mitchell from 1947 until 1976. On his retirement, Benambra fell to the Liberal Party's Lou Lieberman on Labor Party preferences. Lieberman retired at the 1992 state election to contest the Federal seat of Indi, succeeded by Tony Plowman who retained the seat until his own retirement at the 2006 election.
At the 2006 election Labor recorded 54.6% at Beechworth Primary School and 56.8% at nearby Stanley Primary School, but the Liberal Party recorded majorities in the remaining 25 booths, rising to 85.7% at Tallangatta Valley Public Hall on the southern shore of Lake Hume. The Liberal result was above 70% in six booths, above 80% in three.
At 21.3% Benambra is the electorate with the state's third highest proportion of the workforce with trade qualifications.
O'Connor has a long long family history and connection with the North East Victorian region and has worked as a nurse and counsellor for over 25 years in health and community services. She is currently a small business operator in north east Victoria and lives in Beechworth. She was second on the Greens Victorian Senate ticket in 2007, third in Northern Victoria region at the 2006 Victorian election, and contested the local seat of Indi at the 2010 Federal election.
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Williams lives in Yackandandah and was the Labor candidate for Indi at the 2004 Federal election. He was a candidate for Indigo Shire Council in 2008.


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Q: The most simple LINQ to XML query. But I can't get it I'm new to LINQ. My XML:
<Config>
<remainingDays>7</remainingDays>
</Config>

How to get 7 using LINQ?
I've tried the following and none helps:
XElement doc = XElement.Load("Config.xml");
remainDay = Convert.ToInt32(doc.Element("remainingDays").Value);
remainDay = Convert.ToInt32((from ele in doc.Elements()
                             let e = ele.Element("remainingDays")
                             select e));
remainDay = Convert.ToInt32((from el in doc.Descendants("remainingDays")
                            select el).First());

Updated.
remainDay is a int. I want to get the value of day in XML and assign to remainDay

A: What you want is
var config = XElement.Load("Config.xml");
var remainingDaysElement = config.Elements("remainingDays").First();
var remainingDays = int.Parse(remainingDaysElement.Value);

off the top of my head.

A: doc.Descendants("remainingDays").FirstOrDefault().Value;

This will help you get the value 7, Now you can parse it using int.Parse and assign to remainDay.

A: Try this
 using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(store.OpenFile(_strXMLFile, FileMode.Open)))
   {
      XDocument _xDoc = XDocument.Parse(reader.ReadToEnd());
      _strDays = _xDoc.Element("Config").Element("remainingDays").Value;
      return _strDays;
    }

and define using System.Xml.Linq;
that's it.


We weren't as thrilled with the gigantic salad — under-dressed and topped with insanely oversalted fried onions — but Slapsie Maxie loved the two fried eggs that adorned its top, so we'll give it a pass.
Besides, who orders a friggin' salad at a burger joint anyway?
Our 1/3 lb. cheeseburger, decent vanilla malt, and forgettable fries came to $11.49. We left a buck-fifty tip.
Tomorrow is International Macaron Day!
Actually that salad looks pretty good. Although the lettuce seems irrelevant and it probably has more calories than the burger.
That salad looks like a hot mess – literally and figuratively speaking.
Lets see.. Fried onion rings. Fried egg. Bacon. Guacamole. Yeah.. the lettuce is getting in the damn way.
Smashburger expanded into the Dallas area recently. There is a location close to me. I've been twice. It's pretty good. If you are a Las Vegas local and live nearby, go check it out. But if you are a tourist coming into town to spend some time on the Strip, I wouldn't bother.
I tried Smashburger on Sunday and was not pleased at all. The smashfries were extremely greasy I did not eat that much of them. Then the burger was so greasy it kept falling apart I gave up and threw it away. I won't return to this place.
I was not pleased with the portion sizes. They are very very stingy.
And one more thing, I'm not convinced that my 1/2lb burger was even a 1/2lb. That kind of cheap behavior by a company is just not cool business.
Sorry, but this burger is nothing that sets the world on fire. Over priced too!
I tried it last week and it is good. The meat gets a nice crispy texture to it from the grill. I like the fries – they are greasy because they are tossed in olive oil, so it's sorta like a yummy grease.
I was shocked how good my 1/3 pound smashburger was. Fresh bun, perfect griddle char, crispy and fresh vegetables. My step son wanted to go and I was reluctant. I'm glad I went.
This is as tasty and fairly priced as any burger I have ever had–and at my age, 77, I have been an expert on inumerable burgers.
Went back again and it was nasty. Under cooked meat, stale bun, cold fries. Oh well.


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The mental health community has come a long way in identifying which chemicals and behaviors are addictive, what qualifies as an addiction, why we are addicted and how to treat an addiction.
The Diagnostics Statistical Manual (DSM) has become the medical "bible" so to speak when it comes to diagnosing an addiction. This text onlines a set of criteria for not only determining if an individual has an addiction to chemicals, for example, but also for measuring the degree to which an individual may be addicted. As a clinician specializing in addiction, I have used the DSM many times to diagnose an addiction. As a clinician who also specializes in anxiety disorders, I developed a curiosity about the addictive nature of the underlying problems with anxiety: thoughts.
When I read that bells, whistles, sirens and streamers when off in my head. It suddenly all made sense. Fearful thoughts lead to fearful chemicals, worry thoughts lead to worry chemicals, hopeful thoughts lead to hopeful chemicals, and joyous thoughts lead to joyous chemicals.
I thought about which thoughts I was entertaining. Fear based, obsessive worry, shame, regret , remorse, self pity and negative thoughts ran wild in my head. I knew why my brain was sick: my thoughts were sick.
Once I understood the problem I thought the answer would be simple: if I changed my thoughts I would be healed. Well, it was not that easy. There's a problem I discovered along the way to my own recovery and in treating other people with anxiety: Thoughts are really, really hard to change.
How do thoughts cause anxiety?
Walter Cannon's articulation of the Fight or Flight response to a threat helped give the disturbing symptoms of anxiety some clear understanding. Hans Selye's subsequent clarity that humans can experience the sensation of anxiety whether the threat is real or imagined changed the way psychology and medicine understood and treated anxiety. Selye essentially says that thoughts are chemical. If we perceive a threat – even if we are only thinking about that threat – our brain responds as if the threat is real and prepares us for fight or flight.
Why do humans have negative thoughts?
The reason for our negative thoughts is as simple as it is complicated. It all comes down to nature versus nurture. We inherit personality characteristics, and tendencies toward negative thinking can be inherited as well. They can also be learned, by watching people who are influential to us cope with their lives and by creating thought constructs from traumatic experiences in our own lives.
Understanding how these though characteristics were developed helps one to understand how challenging they are to break.
When I say thoughts are hard to change, I mean they are stubborn, resistant and defiant, like an angry toddler that lost his favorite toy. It's like we are married to these thought habits.
· Taking the Substance(engaging in obsessive worry or negative thinking) in larger amounts or for longer than you meant to.
· Wanting to cut down or stop using the substance (engaging or negative thoughts) but not managing to.
· Spending a lot of time getting, using, or recovering from (engaging in obsessive worry or negative thinking) use of the substance.
· Cravings and urges to use the substance (engage in obsessive fear or worry).
· Not managing to do what you should at work, home or school, because of substance use (obsessive fear or worry).
These are just a few of the criteria on the list. Consider them for a moment. Have you ever had an emotional hangover? Have you ever found it impossible to get a task done because you are exhausted from worrying about something or someone? Have you ever tried to think positively for an extended period of time only to find yourself not being able to resist the urge to worry? The answer is clear. Negative thinking can be addictive, at least in theory. When you consider the astronomical physical ailments related to chronic stress, it becomes clear that negative thinking can also be mentally and physically devastating.
How do we change those stubborn thoughts?
Just like substance abuse disorder, negative thinking can be changed. It isn't easy. It takes practice and work.
The first thing to do is identify what you are actually thinking, so you can challenge the truth about those thoughts. Even if the thoughts are true (for example, if your loved one is making dangerous choices) it is important to manage the time you spend thinking about it.
The second step is managing the time you spend in fear based, worried thinking. It may sound silly, but make an appointment every day to worry. This will help to increase your awareness to your negative thinking so that you can better manage the time you spend in it.
Finally, make regular use of some sort of positive meditation, hypnosis or guided imagery like Neurogenesis Meditative Therapy (NMT). These types of practices work well to change those old self destructive thoughts because they are able bypass the conscious and critical thinking layers of consciousness to reach into the subconscious mind where the scripts to the thought patterns reside.
Thought is the problem and thought is the solution. Think about what you're thinking about, your health depends on it.
Suzanne Jessee holds a Master's Degree in therapy and is the creator of the ESCAPE Anxiety in-home therapeutic program and a pioneer of Neurogenesis Meditative Therapy. She has worked and trained in the world's leading hospitals and treatment centers including the Betty Ford Center, Brighton Hospital, Foundations Recovery Network and Dawn Farms. She is devoted to helping people find ways to escape the debilitating effects of anxiety and reclaim their lives.


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Male harbour seals weigh 90 - 114 kg , females weigh 68 - 90 kg, and seal pups weigh 5.5 - 9 kg.
Male harbour seals are 1.5 - 1.7 m in length, females are 1.2 - 1.4 m, and pups are usually less than a metre long.
Harbour seals have a compact body with short pectoral and hind flippers. Their pectoral flippers can barely touch the ground and the hind flippers are fused, which makes it hard for them to move around on land.
Colouration of a harbour seal is variable, ranging from black and tan with mottled patterns of light or dark spots on some parts of their body. Harbour seals are not sexually dimorphic; there is no large significant difference is size between males and females.
Harbour seal haul out on rocks during low tide and occurs at specific sites that are used on a daily basis. When hauled out, harbor seals often lie with their heads and hind flippers elevated in what is often referred to as banana boating. When resting in water, harbor seals can be seen in what we call the "bottling" position, with heads tilted straight back and perpendicular to the surface; thus assuming the appearance of a floating bottle.
As a higher predator, the harbour seal is an important indicator species. The health of harbour seal populations can tell us a lot about the health of our marine ecosystems. Predators help to control the populations of their prey, which is important for the overall function of the food web. Pollution -High concentrations of PCB's Harbour seals are vulnerable because they feed high on the food chain, consuming prey that have bioacummulated with these long-lasting contaminants. This is of concern because harbour seals in the Salish Sea have been found to carry some of the highest concentrations in the world. These high levels of pollutants can affect reproduction.
LONGEVITY: 20-25 years MATURE: Males - 4 - 6 years Females - 3 - 5 years NUMBER OF PUPS: 1 GESTATION: 9 - 10 months (delayed implantation) Courtship and mating take place underwater, but their young are born on land.
Harbour seals were hunted by First Nations of B.C. for their pelts, meat and oil. A small number of animals are still taken in subsistence hunting. Between 1900 and the early 1960s, harbour seals were hunted commercially and to reduce competition with humans for commercial fish stocks. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans offered a bounty on seals between 1913 and 1964, causing populations to decline substantially. The Fisheries Act now prevents killing of harbour seals except with a permit. As a result, populations of harbour seals have closely returned to historic levels.


Located at one of the most famous avenue in the city of Paris, there are a few art installations that are absolutely breathtaking. Paris Design Agenda shows you the recent artwork brought to you by the Bouroullec brothers, in collaboration with Swarovski.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were the two french designers that joined forces onto a massive collaboration with Swarovski, to design six bronze fountains, at Avenue de Champs-Elysées, in Paris. Swarovski was included in this project, with the important contribution of more than 3000 crystals.
At this famous location, every fountain out of the six ones that were designed, there's a central bronze mast that serves the purpose of being the base, to support three poles that are suspended from the top of the installations. Every branch that completes this artwork, includes 258 custom made Swarovski crystals, which are lit up through LED lights.
Every installation has a rotation programmed, as well as the water that goes up the bronze central masts, and then end up down from the Swarovski crystal tubes, into the pool at the bottom of these pieces. Daylight plays a big part on the installation because it has the capacity of playing with the water and crystals, giving them amazing effects, while at night, LED's illuminate these structures from the Bouroullec brothers.
The Bouroullec brothers and Swarovski were very innovative in these installations, in the fact that this is the first time that these crystals are used for this kind of art. It was a long and creative process behind it, since they had to work with Swarovski in order to create durable crystals and the LED sustainable system, that contains about 60 metres of LED strip.
These art installations designed by the Bouroullec brothers, along with Swarovski, is the first project by the Fonds Pour Paris Foundation, a fund that has the purpose to restore the city within the places that spread across Pairs, through the use of contemporary art. The french designers already worked with Swarovski, when they installed a luxurious chandelier at the Château de Versailles.


As we look forward to another summer of ministry and fun, we want to take the time to thank you for your consideration in sending your child to camp at Grindstone Lake Bible Camp. We hope their time spent here at camp will continue to shape them and help them grow in their love for Christ.
Enclosed you will find the Summer Camp Scholarship Application form. Please fill the whole form out and return it to Grindstone Lake Bible Camp as soon as possible. These scholarships are only available for the summer camp weeks offered for grades Pre-K-12. We have also seen an increase of the amount of campers who need financial assistance, and because of this we have needed to set some limitations.
The maximum amount for a scholarship is $100, and can be changed based on the financial need. With this process, we will require a family to fill out as many applications, which are needed for as many children in the family that will be attending. This is to make sure that each child has their own documents with their own information.
Any extra costs need to be covered by the family.
Along with this application there needs to be a $35 non-refundable deposit that accompanies it, and verification of income. This $35 deposit is not an extra cost along with the tuition fee, but will be subtracted from the amount owed. This deposit guarantees that your child will have a spot at camp for the week they are signed up to come. Once we have received and processed the Scholarship application form, we will notify you via email or phone of the amount that has been issued to your child's account.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at the information provided.
We do not make decisions based on gender, we use this information to make sure that the registration and application match.
Source is funds received from a church, or county scholarships. This does not effect the scholarship eligibility from Camp. Please list the organization's name.
Please remember to send in verification of income, as asked for above.


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Workers in Philippines to see 5.5% salary hike in 2023
PHILIPPINES: The Philippines will see an average 5.5% increase in salaries in 2023, up from 3% the previous year. This marks a return of stability after years of below-average increases due to the pandemic, a new survey found.
Asset management company Mercer's Total Remuneration Survey 2022 polled over 100 companies across 22 countries and territories worldwide including the Western European Union, Japan and Asia Pacific.
"This return to the pre-pandemic level reflects continued growth among the businesses surveyed amidst a more positive outlook as (the) inflation rate is forecasted to decrease to 4.3% from this year's high of 5.3%," Mercer said.
The data also showed that the median salary increment in the Philippines is higher than other countries in the region at 4.8% above average.
"Salary increases are gradually increasing now that business activities in the Philippines are picking up post-pandemic," Floriza Molon, Mercer's Career Business Leader for the Philippines said.
"But inflation hit a high this year and there was little to no real salary increase for employees. The situation will improve for 2023, as the market outlook is forecasted to improve with lower inflation rates. Employees will be able to benefit from some real salary increase, which will be welcome news for many."


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Ragnvald Hvoslef (19 September 1872 in Oslo – 8 August 1944) was a Norwegian Nazi politician and collaborator during the Second World War. He was a co-founder of the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling in 1933. In 1940 he was named by Vidkun Quisling as Minister of Defence in Quisling's attempted and ultimately unsuccessful coup government, but declined the position. From 1941 he held several roles in Quisling's collaborator regime, including as Police President in Kirkenes 1941–1942, as head of Nasjonal Samling's effort to fight "sabotage" and as head of Quisling's personal intelligence organisation within Nasjonal Samling from 1943 until his death.

Hvoslef was a volunteer in the Winter War on the Finnish side.

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Court: Closely held companies can't be required to cover contraceptives
Pro-life demonstrators celebrate June 30 outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington as its decision in the Hobby Lobby case is announced. The high court ruled that owners of closely held corporations can object on religious grounds to being forced by the government to provide coverage of contraceptives for their employees. (CNS photo/ Jonathan Ernst)
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a narrowly tailored 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court June 30 said closely held companies may be exempted from a government requirement to include contraceptives in employee health insurance coverage under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The court said that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods, the two family-run companies that objected to the government mandate that employees be covered for a range of contraceptives, including drugs considered to be abortifacients, are protected from the requirement of the Affordable Care Act. The opinion essentially held that for-profit companies may hold protected religious views.
But the court also said that government requirements do not necessarily lose if they conflict with an employer's religious beliefs.
The ruling is not a slam-dunk for all entities that oppose the contraceptive mandate for religious reasons. The court noted that cases challenging the mandate for nonprofit entities, such as Catholic colleges and faith-based employers, are pending and that the June 30 ruling doesn't consider them. The decision also did not delve into whether the private employers have religiously motivated protection from laws under the First Amendment.
It said the government failed to satisfy the requirement of RFRA, a 1993 law, that the least-restrictive means of accomplishing a government goal be followed to avoid imposing a restriction on religious expression.
The majority opinion said the ruling applies only to the contraceptive mandate and should not be interpreted to hold that all insurance coverage mandates — such as for blood transfusions or vaccinations — necessarily fail if they conflict with an employers' religious beliefs.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the primary holding, which was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote a separate concurring opinion, which agreed with the ruling, but made clear that while the opinion applies to the particular companies involved in this case, it's not a sweeping condemnation of the key elements of the contraceptive mandate itself.
"It is important to confirm that a premise of the court's opinion is its assumption that the HHS regulation here furthers a legitimate and compelling interest in the health of female employees," wrote Kennedy in his concurrence. He went on to say that the federal government failed to use the least restrictive means of meeting that interest, pointing out that it has granted exemptions from the mandate for employees of nonprofit religious organizations.
"That accommodation equally furthers the government interest, but does not impinge on the plaintiff's religious beliefs," he wrote.
In the 49-page majority opinion, Alito noted that the department of Health and Human Services that administers the ACA has already provided exemptions from some of the coverage requirements for employers in a variety of situations, including some that were grandfathered in without certain provisions and employers of fewer than 50 workers.
He also said that the standard for the government of meeting a general good by the least restrictive means is "exceptionally demanding," and that the contraceptives provision fails to meet it. The federal government could easily, and relatively inexpensively, cover the cost of providing the disputed contraceptives coverage, Alito said.
And he said the federal government already has a system for handling the mandate for nonprofit religious organizations with objections to the mandate.
Under that accommodation, organizations self-certify that their religious objections entitle them to exemption from the mandate. In those cases, third party insurers arrange for the provision to be handled without involvement or cost to the employer.
Alito specified that the opinion does not decide whether the accommodation approach complies with RFRA for all objections. "At a minimum, however, it does not impinge on the plaintiff's religious belief that providing insurance coverage for the contraceptives at issue violates their religion, and it serves HHS's stated interests very well."
Alito also noted that the opinion should not be understood to mean any religion-based objection to a requirement of the ACA would be upheld. Different issues would arise, for instance, in the case of objections to vaccinations that protect public health, he said.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, said the court's decision means "justice has prevailed." In a joint statement, the two archbishops said they would continue to press for a culture that respects religious liberties.
"We welcome the Supreme Court's decision to recognize that Americans can continue to follow their faith when they run a family business. In this case, justice has prevailed, with the Court respecting the rights of the Green and Hahn families to continue to abide by their faith in how they seek their livelihood, without facing devastating fines. Now is the time to redouble our efforts to build a culture that fully respects religious freedom," the statement read.
A case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor and the HHS is still pending.
"The Court clearly did not decide whether the so-called 'accommodation' violates RFRA when applied to our charities, hospitals and schools, so many of which have challenged it as a burden on their religious exercise. We continue to hope that these great ministries of service, like the Little Sisters of the Poor and so many others, will prevail in their cases as well," the archbishops' statement noted.
Ron Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, the policy arm of the Catholic Church in Arizona, said the court's decision was important for religious liberties.
"Certainly it showed that these two families have the right to have their freedom to not be forced by the government by way of paying draconian fines just because they decide to do their business under the form of a corporation," Johnson said. "The Supreme Court was correct in establishing that the contraceptive mandate did not apply to them, which is very good news."
In her dissent with the main opinion, Justice Ruth Ginsburg called the court's decision one of "startling breadth" allowing commercial enterprises to "opt out of any law" except tax laws that they "judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs."
Ginsburg, joined on its merits by Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, said she was "mindful of the havoc" the ruling could produce and noted that the court's emphasis on RFRA failed to take into account the impact the decision would have on "third parties who do not share the corporation owners' religious faith." She said she believed the law was enacted by Congress "to serve a far less radical purpose."
"Until today," she wrote, religious exemptions have not been extended to the "commercial profit-making world" because these groups do not exist to foster the interests of those of the same faith, as religious organizations do. She also questioned why the court failed to make the distinction between a group's members of diverse beliefs and members who share the same faith.
"The court's determination that RFRA extends to for-profit corporations is bound to have untoward effects," she said, adding that even though the court "attempts to cabin its language to closely held corporations, its logic extends to corporations of any size, public or private."
The Alliance Defending Freedom's senior counsel, David Cortman, was quick to react to the decision.
"In its decision today, the Supreme Court affirmed that all Americans, including family business owners, must be free to live and work consistently with their beliefs without fear of punishment by the government," Cortman said. "In a free and diverse society, we respect the freedom to live out our convictions. For the Hahns and the Greens, that means not being forced to participate in distributing potentially life-terminating drugs and devices."
Conestoga Wood Specialties President and CEO Anthony Hahn also reacted to the court's decision.
"We wholeheartedly affirm what the Supreme Court made clear today—that Americans don't have to surrender their freedom when they open a family business," Conestoga said. "All Americans, including family business owners, must be free to live and work according to their beliefs without fear of government punishment."
— By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service.
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US bans electronic gadgets on flights from 10 nations
The Trump administration has banned laptops, iPads, cameras and other electronic goods larger than a cell phone in carry-on (cabin) baggage for flights to the US originating from 10 Gulf, West Asia and North Africa airports. The ban is temporary, and all said items can be checked in the baggage that goes into the cargo hold. The ban will not apply to return flights from the US to the 10 red-flagged airports.
News of the ban emerged on Monday from the Royal Jordanian Airlines and the official news agency of Saudi Arabia, whose airlines will be among those affected, before it was confirmed by the department of homeland security (DHS). The ban covers all flights to the US from Cairo, Egypt; Amman, Jordan; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; Istanbul, Turkey and Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE.
The new rules will come into effect immediately, and the DHS pointed to terror threats as the eason for the ban, while indicating more airports might come under the restrictions. "Intelligence indicates terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks, to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items," a DHS fact sheet explained. The banned devices include laptops, tablets, e-readers, cameras, DVD players, and any electronic game bigger than a smartphone.
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Oprah Winfrey has adopted a new cocker spaniel puppy from a shelter. Oprah was devastated when her dog Sophie died at the age of 13. Oprah and Stedman visited PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving) animal shelter in Chicago and picked out a female cocker spaniel puppy to take home.
Oprah's beloved 13-year-old cocker spaniel, Sophie, died of kidney failure last March. Oprah also has another cocker spaniel: a male called Solomon -- in addition to a pair of golden retrievers.
Oprah's golden retriever, Gracie, died in 2007 when she choked to death on a plastic ball belonging to Sophie.
Oprah is the sponsor of a special room at PAWS that features dogs needing homes. This is one lucky puppy. We wonder what Oprah will name her? And does Stedman get a say in the name?


My photos show everyday moments we would pass by unnoticed, simple objects, daily situations and modest places, unexpected standpoints we overlook so often.
But stepping back one moment, one fraction in time, one thought, one question, respecting one silence, holding one sharp attention…maybe they do hide a certain beauty, a fragment of that wonder, a smile of surprise.
Maybe these photos reflect a nanosecond of happiness, an eternity of joy, an echo of a cosmic mystery, if you are willing to "join in", to stop thinking and to look with your heart through wondering eyes.


This is one of the most crucial departments in the organization.
It coordinates the invitations for the tanker inspections by oil companies.
It gives guidance and instructs masters/officers for the above inspections.
Internal vetting and visits always take place prior and during vetting inspections.
A superintendent from the above dept. is always attending vetting inspections.
The dept. follows up any observations that might have been noticed during vetting inspections.
There is constant communication and correspondence between the dept. and the Oil companies after an inspection takes place.
The dept. has to update the management and the crew onboard vessels about latest regulations concerning oil companies requirements.
The manager of the marine/safety/vetting dept. often visits oil companies offices and discusses matters relating to the group's tankers.
It follows up the certification process of the ISM code and revises the SMS.
It updates the management and the vessels for all matters related to safety as per flag states, IMO, Class Societies etc.
It conducts training seminars for the office staff and seafarers.
It monitors the safety and pollution prevention aspects of each ship's operation, ensuring that adequate resources and shore based support are applied as required.
It ensures that the requirements of the International Safety Management code (ISM) and the group's Safety Management System (SMS) are implemented, maintained and wherever possible improved.
It ensures the investigation of accidents and the accurate reporting of hazardous occurrences.
It organizes and coordinates management review meetings and revises whenever necessary the group's controlled documentation system.
A superintendent from the above dept. routinely attends vetting inspections.
The manager of the marine/safety/vetting dept. often visits oil companies offices and discusses matters relating to the managed vessels.
It ensures that the requirements of the International Safety Management code (ISM) and the company's Safety Management System (SMS) are implemented, maintained and wherever possible improved.
It organizes and coordinates management review meetings and revises whenever necessary the company's controlled documentation system.