KOMA in Omaha, Nebraska is a medium sized airport that handles national flights. Eppley Airfield has an interesting history in that it was used as the setting for two movies. In the early 1960s it was built into a jetport by the hotel magnate Eugene C. Eppley.
KOMA parking is not difficult to negotiate in Omaha as it would be in a large city. There are positive factors to be considered in smaller airports.
Private jet KOMA is available to provide five star flight services to travelers who have a busy schedule and cannot wait for a flight to arrive that might only come once a day. Busy ceos need to be able to fly during unscheduled commercial carrier flights.
Jet charter Omaha has several programs to offer you. One way flights, discounted empty legs and point to point pricing are all available. Since we have access to over five thousand aircraft we are able to schedule a small jet within a four hour time frame. The sizes of jets start from the light jets to the heavy jets. This also includes helicopters.
The aircraft will always have two pilots onboard with have been carefully screened for their experience and qualifications. They must also be able to fly overseas. Omaha private jets also prides itself on their highly trained cabin personnel who will set up a personal profile for each client to keep a record on their needs and wants.
Some clients have special medical requirements while others may have dietary guidelines that they must follow. If a client has a preferred cuisine then we try to provide these services also. Private jet charter Omaha strives to provide five star service to each of our valued travelers.
If the client wishes to have a business reception onboard at Eppley Airfield prior to departure this can easily be arranged. If he wishes to have the reception on arrival at his destination this too can be easily arranged. Omaha private jets has a five star concierge service. All arrangements are pre-planned. If our client wishes to use the interior of the aircraft as a venue for promoting his brand and logo he can certainly do this.
Private jet KOMA can help in the selection of items to be chosen such as napkins, match books, pens and more. Depending on the size of the group the venue can consist of a simple cocktail reception to a buffet meal. The jet is at a private terminal so there are fewer restrictions for individualized events.
Private jet charter Omaha is not restricted to business purposes. Many families like the convenience of private travel. They can control their schedule and do not have to go through the unnerving experience of security checks and noisy travelers.
If traveling with young children the concierge will try to ascertain what special tips the client advises to make the journey fun and pleasant for the children too. Omaha private jets children's needs. They will have fun traveling in their own private playroom.
Upon the return flight your vehicle will be picked up from KOMA parking and brought to your terminal. Debarking will be just as flawless as embarking. With speed and efficiency Omaha private jets maintains a five star standard of service.
It is easy to go online and learn more about the membership program. A representative from private jet KOMA is available to answer all your questions and welcome you to the world of private flying services. You will be joining an elite group of travelers who have discovered that traveling by air does not have to be stressful.


David Airey, author of the Logo Design Love blog (which gets over a million page views each month) shows how to create timeless logos.
David not only shares his experiences working with clients' including sketches and final results of his successful designs' but uses the work of many wellknown designers to explain why well-crafted brand identity systems are important, how to create iconic logos and brands, and how to best work with clients to achieve success as a designer.
Contributors include Gerard Huerta, who designed the logos for Time magazine and Waldenbooks; Lindon Leader, who created the current FedEx brand identity system as well as the CIGNA logo; and many more.
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Q: Spring boot - DI - Unit testing I have DI chain (DbConfig -> Repository -> Component -> RestController)
DataSource in DBConfig is AutoWired in Repository. Repository is AutoWired in Component...etc.
Application class - CtnStatusCheckerApplication.class
DataSource is created lookup JNDI ("eis.OT4.SBL_DS"). I am mocking the DataSource and putting it in the Spring JNDI tree.
This is my unit test (In Groovy):
 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = CtnStatusCheckerApplication.class)
class SiebelRepositoryTest {
    @Autowired
    SiebelRepository siebelRepository

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("sblDataSource")
    DataSource sblDataSource

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpClass() throws Exception{
        DataSource ds = mock(DataSource.class)
        SimpleNamingContextBuilder builder = new SimpleNamingContextBuilder()
        builder.bind("eis.OT4.SBL_DS",ds)
        builder.activate()
    }

    @Test
    public void testContext(){
        assert siebelRepository != null
        assert sblDataSource != null
        println Whitebox.getInternalState(siebelRepository,"sblDataSource") // prints "null" why?
    }
}

1 - Why is sblDataSource inside siebelRepository null?
2 - In this type of scenario, @SpringApplicationConfiguration should be initialized with which class? top level object or each individual Beans? (like Service, component, Repository etc.)

A: Pls try this :-
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = CtnStatusCheckerApplication)
@WebAppConfiguration
class SiebelRepositoryTest {

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Facebook Management For Client and Manager Communication
Facebook has recently undergone some considerable changes. I'm sure you've noticed the different look to business pages along with a change on the back end of the page as well as page management. Facebook has now grown Facebook Business Manager to be mandatory for pages to utilize. This platform allows the management of Ad Accounts, pages, apps, and the people who work on them all in one place. This makes it easy to manage access to your business page(s) should employees or service providers change at any point.
Yardstick Services is now utilizing this platform to manage clients' accounts to gain access without any other complications.
How To Sign Up For Facebook Business Manager
Before you set up a new Business Manager, ensure you are the best person in your company to do so. This should be done by the primary admin on your company's Facebook page(s) or Ad accounts. For instance, Yardstick Services would be looking to gain access to your Facebook page and applicable Ad accounts by requesting access, not by creating a Business Manager for you.
To get started you will need a personal Facebook account to confirm your identity and an ad account you want to move to Business Manager. It is optional to have a Facebook page you want to move to Business Manager (this can be setup at a later time) and it is also optional to have the names and email addresses of the people you'd like to add.
Establish Your Facebook Account
Go to business.facebook.com
At the bottom of the page, click "Get Started."
On the Getting Started page, click "Next."
If you do not have a Facebook page:
Enter a name for your business, select the primary page, and enter your name and work email address. If you don't yet have a page for your business, you can create one in this step. It's required to have a page for your business to proceed from this point.
Click "Create Business," and a welcome message will pop up.
If you already have a Facebook page:
You will need to claim your business asset by clicking "Claim Assets".
Start to type the page name in the field and your page should appear.
If you are an admin on the page, your request will be processed right away.
If you are not, you will have to wait for an admin to accept your request to claim the page.
From here you can add people to your individual applications as access is required.
Adding People To Your Facebook Business Manager
Once you create your Business Manager, you can send email invitations to other people to grant them permission to manage the aspects of the profile that are applicable to their roles.
Go to Business Manager
Click "Add New" and then click "People"
Enter the work email addresses of the people you want to add and select the role you'd like to assign them.
Business Manager Admin allows people to manage ALL aspects of the business settings including modifying the account and adding or removing people from the employee list.
Business Manager Employees provides people the opportunity to see basic business information and be assigned roles by admins of the business, but they can't make any changes.
Choose which pages or Ad Accounts you'd like them to be able to access.
They will then receive an email that you have added them and will need to accept your request to be fully added to the Business Manager account.
Setting Up Ad Accounts
In order to be able to add an Ad Account, your account must be in good standing. There is a limit of the number of Ad Accounts you can manage on Business Manager, so be sure to add in only those that are applicable directly to you.
How To Add Ad Accounts
Request access to manage an Ad Account; this is when you are not the owner of the page but need to access it. The original owner will have the ability to accept or deny your request for access and maintain control over the Ad Account.
On the left side of your Business Manager, click "Request Access" and then click "Ad Account".
Claim an Ad Account to move the account permanently; this will force the previous owner to forfeit the Ad Account and it will only be able to be managed in Business Manager. It is important to note that you must be both the owner of the Ad Account and an admin in Business Manager to claim an ad account.
Create a new Ad Account; this will create an Ad Account that will permanently below to the business and can't be transferred to individual owners on Facebook.
Confirming Access To Your Ad Account By Another Party
In order for someone else to have access to your Ad Account on Business Manager, you need to follow these four steps:
Log into your Facebook account.
Go to company page and select "promote" to access your Ad Manager.
Ensure there is an up-to-date payment method on your account and everything is in good standing order.
It is important to ensure that the page spending limit can accommodate the promotional amount that you wish to utilize for this ad.
Note: Ad Accounts are attached to your personal account/login information, not with any business page(s) you have attached to that account.
Working with Facebook Business Manager definitely has its new learning curves, and as such, check back here for future updates and tips and best practices on how to work with it best.
If you have any questions or are looking for support on how to work most effectively with this newly updated platform, please feel free to comment below, send an email or give us a call: 604.474.3631.

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Q: How to provide additinal data on click event (amchart + react) I have data struct
{
Priority    int    `json:"priority"`
Component   int    `json:"component"`
}

Example of the data:
[{
  Priority: 1,
  Component: 4
 }
,
 {
  Priority: 2,
  Component: 3
}]

And I have the amchart
const chart = am4core.create("testChart", am4charts.XYChart);
const categoryAxis = chart.yAxes.push(new am4charts.CategoryAxis());
categoryAxis.dataFields.category = "priority";

And I have function that handle "hit" event
categoryAxis.renderer.labels.template.events.on("hit", function (event) {
  console.log({"dataItem": event.target.dataItem})
  props.setID(
    parseInt(
      (event.target.dataItem as AxisDataItem & { category: string })
        .category
    )
  );
});

So when I click on the Y axis categories the code call setID() with "priority" value from the category.
The problem: I need to provide for setID() not "priority", but "component".
But I can't present the "component" values in the amchart Y axis. The client should see only "priority" values. But when the client click on this value the setId() should to get "component" value that is corresponded to this "priority".
For example when I click on 1 it should call setId() with 4.
How I can to do?
Thanks!

A: I found the solution.
categoryAxis.dataFields.dataFields has 2 additional properties: id and data.
https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v4/reference/icategoryaxisdatafields/
can use them to set
categoryAxis.dataFields.id = "component";

and then to get it
event.target.dataItem as AxisDataItem & { id: string })
    .id


"WALLDORF, Germany, Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies deploying SAP® Jam Collaboration demonstrated an increased return on investment (ROI) through faster access to information, decreased employee training costs and reduced time spent on closing deals, according to a study commissioned by SAP SE (NYSE: SAP).
The July 2016 study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on SAP's behalf, calculated the total economic impact (TEI) of SAP Jam through a combination of qualitative and financial analyses from a portion of SAP's customer base. The study found that the enterprises using SAP Jam reported a combined net present value (NPV) of more than 19 million dollars and an ROI increase of 11 percent from a previous study in 2015. The results speak to the possible transformations and long-term financial benefits business enterprises using SAP Jam could experience. SAP Jam can help businesses through social collaboration rooted in business value, by providing a centralized, cloud-based platform that can help make it easier to find and share information, reduce the time it takes for sales to close deals, improve the speed of onboarding new employees and cut the response time of support organizations.
"Growing evidence points to a road to measuring collaboration success," wrote Art Schoeller, vice president and principal analyst, Forrester, in the March 2016 report "Define Business Value in Collaboration."
"Sales, customer service and the supply chain are initial areas where collaboration adds measurable business value. Once organizations achieve success in one or more of these roles, they seek out broad adoption to build on this early success."


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Lime är ett studioalbum från 1999 av det svenska dansbandet Arvingarna. Det utgavs under samma år som bandet firade 10-årsjubileum.

Låtlista
Du vet var jag finns - 4:16
Är du lycklig nu - 3.45
Det svär jag på - 3:33
Sommar och solvarma dar - 3:16
När jag flyger - 4:03
Jag vill ge natten till dig - 4:12
Magdalena - 3:02
Halvvägs hem till dig - 3:38
En ledig sommardag - 2:56
Bye Bye So Long - 3.00
Programmerad kärlek - 3.40
Jag vet vad kärlek är - 3:35
Låt oss bara vara vänner - 3:24
Att va' kär - 2:50
Jag och min gitarr - 3:48
Det svär jag på - remix - 2:48

Listplaceringar

Referenser

Externa länkar
 Information i Svensk mediedatabas.
 Information i Svensk mediedatabas.
 Information i Svensk mediedatabas.

Album av Arvingarna
Musikalbum 1999
Flerspråkiga musikalbum

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There was no quit in the West Linn football team.
But there were too many big plays by Sheldon on Friday night.
The Irish racked up a 38-13 halftime lead in their Class 6A state quarterfinal, and while they wouldn't score again, the Lions' solid second half was not enough in their 38-26 loss.


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How to deal with the growing incentives competition
Kenneth Thomas | October 29, 2014 9:46 pm
This article was originally published in the Columbia FDI Perspectives series of the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, #131, September 29. I have left it largely unchanged, except for adding a link and a comment, and correcting a grammatical error.
As I discussed in an earlier Perspective,[1] the use of investment incentives is pervasive and growing. The most recent example [this was completed prior to the Tesla auction] of a big bidding war was when Boeing threatened to move production of its 777-X aircraft out of Washington state, prompting some 20 states to offer incentive packages to the company (including $1.7 billion from Missouri). In the end, Washington gave Boeing a package of tax incentives worth a record-breaking $8.7 billion over the 2025 – 2040 period to stay, and the unions made substantial concessions regarding pensions.
What can be done to control such auctions, which are often international in scope? The most robust control method, regional in scope, is embodied in the European Union (EU) Guidelines on Regional Aid. These rules guarantee transparency, set variable limits (in terms of "aid intensity," which equals subsidy/investment) for aid levels based on each region's per capita income, and reduce the value of aid to large investment projects over €50 million. They require projects to stay at least five years and mandate the use of clawbacks for firms that fail to meet their commitments in investment contracts. Moreover, the guidelines provide demerits for firms in a dominant position in their industry, although they do not mandate a particular reduction in aid.
The other international control measure comes under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. While these rules are more tailored to production subsidies than to investment incentives, the latter certainly come under the purview of the Agreement as well, as illustrated by the EU's successful complaint against subsidies for Boeing in the states of Washington, Illinois and Kansas.
However, this case also illustrates the limits of WTO subsidy control. The EU has already filed a compliance complaint,[2] and there is little likelihood the United States (US) will comply anytime soon (the US Trade Representative's office claims that the US has complied, but as long as the state and local tax credits continue in Washington state, that is not correct). Indeed, as mentioned, Washington state has approved a new round of subsidies for Boeing that is likely to initiate a new WTO dispute.
While the WTO rules require frequent notification of subsidies, there is no penalty for failure to notify, with the result that subsidy notifications are of very uneven quality. Federal states outside the EU frequently make poor quality notifications regarding subnational subsidies. Finally, the TRIMs and GATS agreements regulate performance requirements, but not investment incentives.
What, then, can be done against incentives competition? First, there must be continuing efforts to improve the transparency of location subsidies. This is necessary for jurisdictions to make effective investment promotion policy (especially in a region such as the European Union and the United States, where there are many competing governments) as well as for international policy discussion.
Second, the EU's example shows that incorporating subsidies rules into regional agreements can be a fruitful way to bring bidding wars under control. For many products, such as automobile assembly and steel, corporate location decisions still focus on a single region, meaning that such rules would be geographically comprehensive enough for a variety of industries. Consequently, major stakeholders—including the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—should unite in promoting location subsidy guidelines within regional trade areas. There are no doubt numerous other non-governmental organizations that would endorse such a move.
Third, WTO notifications should be strengthened. Incomplete notifications should be flagged and countries involved should be pressured to give cost estimates for subsidies at all levels of government. Still, it is difficult to envision that sanctions for non-compliance will be introduced.
Fourth, no-raiding zones could be a first step for countries to negotiate controls over investment subsidies. A no-raiding agreement simply commits a state to not give a subsidy to relocate an existing facility from another state; it would not apply to new investments. Their track record is mixed—several agreements among US states failed quickly, but Australia (2003-2011) and Canada (1994-present) have been more successful.[3] Despite these mixed results, it is easier to demonstrate to policymakers the futility of relocation subsidies, since they create no new jobs, than it is to do for incentives for new investment, which could make this a more feasible first step.
Though national and subnational jurisdictions have incentives to offer location subsidies, these proposed measures would help keep their value to more reasonable levels with a lower likelihood of distorting competition and international investment flows.
[1] Kenneth P. Thomas, "Investment incentives and the global competition for capital," Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 54, December 30, 2011.
[2] Emelie Rutherford, "EU wants $12 billion in U.S. sanctions over Boeing subsidy spat," Defense Daily, September 27, 2012.
[3] Kenneth P. Thomas, "Regulating investment attraction: Canada's Code of Conduct on Incentives in a comparative context," 37 Canadian Public Policy, 3 (2011), pp. 343-357; Kenneth P. Thomas, "EU control of state aid to mobile investment in comparative perspective," 34 Journal of European Integration 6 (2012), pp. 567-584.
From: Kenneth P. Thomas, "How to deal with the growing incentives competition," Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 131, September 29, 2014. Reprinted with permission from the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (ccsi.columbia.edu).
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U.S. median wealth up from 27th to 25th
Kenneth Thomas | October 18, 2014 11:28 am
Yesterday Credit Suisse released its Global Wealth Databook 2014 to go along with the Global Wealth Report issued Monday. Global wealth hit another new record of $263 trillion as of mid-2014, up 8.3% from mid-2013 (Report, p. 3). Rich people are doing well, but how about the middle class? One measure of this is median wealth per adult, the exact midpoint of the wealth distribution.
In the United States, mean wealth per adult reached $347,845, and median wealth per adult hit $53,352 (Databook, Table 2-4). This represents an increase in median wealth of 18.8% over 2013, enough to move the U.S. up two places to 25th in the world.
Before we congratulate ourselves too much, we need to remember that $53,352 is not all that much money, especially for retirement (don't forget that figure includes home equity). With 49% of Americans in the private sector having no retirement plan at all, and only 20% having a defined-benefit pension, a retirement crisis is looming for younger baby boomers and all later middle-class retirees. Meanwhile, if Republicans take control of the Senate in this year's elections, we are likely to hear increasing demands for cuts to Social Security, when what we actually need is to raise Social Security benefits.
The relatively low median wealth also points to persistent inequality in the United States. While only 25th in median wealth per adult, the U.S. ranks 5th in mean wealth per adult. With a ratio between mean and median wealth per adult of 6.5:1, this is higher than any of the other top 25 countries. Number one Australia has a ratio of less than 2:1. Without further ado, here is the list of all countries with median wealth per adult above $50,000.
Median wealth per adult, mid-2014
1. Australia 225,337
2. Belgium 172,947
3. Iceland 164,193
4. Luxembourg 156,267
5. Italy 142,296
6. France 140,638
7. United Kingdom 130,590
8. Japan 112,998
9. Singapore 109.250
10. Switzerland 106,887
11. Canada 98,756
12. Netherlands 93,116
13. Finland 88,130
14. Norway 86,953
15. New Zealand 82,610
16. Ireland 79,346
17. Spain 66,752
18. Taiwan 65,375
19. Austria 63,741
20. Sweden 63,376
21. Malta 63,271
22. Qatar 56,969
23. Germany 54,090
24. Greece 53,375
25. United States 53,352
26. Israel 51,346
27. Slovenia 50,329
Source: Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2014, Table 2-4
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Is Piketty wrong about British and Swedish wealth?
Kenneth Thomas | October 14, 2014 2:12 am
Embarrassingly, I missed this reply by Tim Worstsall to my post "Understanding Piketty, part 1." My apologies to Mr. Worstall and my readers; despite his writing it August 14, I just discovered it the other day when I was mindlessly looking at site traffic data from Alexa.
In his post Worstall takes issue with Piketty's claim (which I endorsed) that if Financial Times author Chris Giles was correct about the level of British wealth concentration (the top 10% controlling 44% of UK wealth), then British wealth inequality in 2010 was lower than that of Sweden and, indeed, lower than even the lowest share ever held by the top 10% of wealth owners in Sweden (about 53%) which, he said, "does not look very plausible."
Worstall's point was that, surprisingly enough, if we measure wealth inequality by the Gini index, Sweden in 2000 had greater inequality than did the U.K, 0.742 to 0.697 (higher is more unequal). His ultimate source (according to the Wikipedia article he cites) was work by the creators of the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, a research effort which Piketty praises as "innovative" in capital21c, p. 623 n. 8.
Let's first note that even if that were true, it does not get Giles off the hook. Giles, whose error was to tack survey-based UK wealth data for 1990-2010 on to earlier tax-based wealth data (thereby biasing it severely downward; see also Howard Reed in The Guardian), does not dispute that the proper measure for inequality is the wealth share of the top 1% and top 10% of wealth owners. Giles makes no appeal to alternate measures to save himself. Thus, on their agreed measure of wealth inequality, Giles fails to make a dent in Piketty's data.
However, Worstall's point is an interesting one on its own merits to Piketty's attempted reductio ad absurdum. While in part 1, I pointed out that income inequality measured by the Gini index is lower in Sweden than in the United Kingdom, the further fact that wealth inequality is always higher than income inequality within each country does not mean, as I blithely assumed, that the country with lower income inequality will necessarily have lower wealth inequality as well.
The question then becomes which is the more meaningful measure of wealth inequality. The U.K. has higher top 1% and top 10% shares but, evidently, a lower Gini coefficient. As I noted in part 3, Piketty deliberately avoids using the Gini index. As Piketty's sometime-collaborator Facundo Alvaredo writes, "The most commonly used measure of inequality, the Gini coefficient, is more sensitive to transfers at the center of the distribution than at the tails." This is not a problem for the top shares measures; they have a much more intuitive meaning than the dimensionless Gini index. One might well argue that there is more political significance for the top 1% of wealth owners to increase their share from 20% to 30% than there is for owners at the 85th percentile to gain a corresponding amount of wealth from those below them. But to make that argument doesn't prove it's true.
Alvaredo also elaborates on a way to adjust the Gini index for variations at the top of the distribution, which he attributes to Atkinson. As Alvaredo shows in his paper, it is possible for the unadjusted Gini index to be falling even as the adjusted Gini index is rising. I took a stab at adjusting the figures given by Worstall by taking the top 1% share of Sweden in 2000 as 20% and the U.K.'s as 30%. That gives adjusted Gini indices of (.742*(1-0.2)) + 0.2 = 0.7936 for Sweden and (0.697*(1-0.3)) + 0.3 = 0.7879 for the UK. These are much closer, but the U.K. is still slightly more equal if I have gotten this right. In any event, while Swedish income inequality remains robustly lower using either top shares or Gini index, wealth inequality for Sweden is only lower using income shares, but still not Gini.
There remains an obvious question for Worstall: What is the trend of U.K. wealth inequality using the Gini index? If it increased, then Piketty's finding of an increase using wealth shares will be robustly backed up with this measure Worstall is preferring. Gini may give Worstall a desirable result for a comparison, but still unpleasantly show that Britain is more unequal in wealth than in 1980. That's the actual question Piketty and Giles were disputing. However, I have yet to find a such a 1980 Gini index for wealth; as Piketty notes in capital21c, the drawback of the Credit Suisse research is that it does not go back in time very far. Perhaps a reader knows where a series of Gini indices for wealth (unlike income, which is easy to find) can be found.
So the answer to the question in the title is that we don't actually know. Likely, however, it doesn't matter as far as trends in inequality since 1980 are concerned. It's definitely worth thinking about what it might mean that the two wealth inequality measures diverge for ranking Britain and Sweden in 2000, even if we eventually conclude that one measure is definitely better than the other.
And it's not like Piketty is unaware of a potential for greater wealth inequality in Sweden. In June, he lectured in Helsinki, arguing against a recent trend in the Nordic countries to abolish estate (inheritance) taxes. Sweden abolished its inheritance tax in 2005. Not only does this shift the tax burden to those with lesser wealth, as he argued in Helsinki, but it follows from the argument of the book that it takes away the possibility of generating the most reliable form of data on wealth inequality itself.
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New government accounting standards to require subsidy disclosure
Kenneth Thomas | October 9, 2014 1:21 pm
In a move with potentially enormous implications, Good Jobs First reports that the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) will soon issue new draft rules for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for governments. Don't fall asleep; this could be awesome!
As regular readers know, one of the things bedeviling subsidy debates is the lack of transparency in what governments actually give to businesses, and on whether incentive recipients actually deliver on their promised jobs and investment. We have just seen how Boeing is moving 2000 jobs out of Washington state despite receiving huge subsidies there. And since the stakes nationally are $70 billion a year, by my estimates, better transparency is a must if we are to have any kind of democratic debate and accountability.
As Good Jobs First reports, the GASB proposal would require governments to publish detailed information on "tax abatements" (an oddly narrow term it applies to the wider concept of tax incentives; but what about cash grants or free infrastructure?) in order to comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. State and local governments will have no choice but to comply with whatever is adopted, as it is impossible to issue bonds or carry out other basic financial operations unless they meet GAAP standards. This is why Good Jobs First has long campaigned for a change by GASB. The centrality of GAAP means that we have to pay attention to the draft rules and comment on them in the three-month comment period starting in November.
It turns out that taxpayers aren't the only people who want to know about tax incentives. Bond analysts want to know about present and committed tax subsidies to help them assess whether bond issuers can really pay them back. Good Jobs First cited the example of Memphis, where tax breaks consume about one-seventh of potential property tax revenue.
What we have now is a complete patchwork where some states (and proportionately fewer cities) have good disclosure and others don't. This requires the constant monitoring and central aggregating of subsidy costs that Good Jobs First does so well (250,000 subsidies and counting). It also necessitates the construction of estimates, like mine, of the overall costs of investment incentives and other subsidies to business. In a good world (not even a perfect one), these data would already be available in easy-to-analyze forms. Really strong GASB rules would get us a long way to reaching that point.
I'll let you know when the comment period starts.
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Boeing moving 2000 jobs from Washington state
Kenneth Thomas | October 3, 2014 2:04 am
Via @BlogWood, I learned that Boeing is going to move 2000 skilled jobs away from Washington state, despite just receiving $8.7 billion (with a B) in subsidies for the years 2025-2040. Really, I'm speechless. "Chutzpah" is one of the more printable words I can think of to describe this.
You will recall that the state's legislators were angry when their $2 billion (present value of $3.2 billion over 20 years) 2003 subsidy for the Dreamliner did not stop Boeing from putting a Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina. So the 2013 subsidy was supposed to guarantee that Boeing couldn't do this again.
Boeing's response no doubt will be that these jobs are in the Defense division, not in civil aircraft. Thus they are not covered by either the 2003 or the 2013 subsidy. This has already been hinted at by a commenter on the Business Week article, wraiths13@yahoo.com. This is true, but cold comfort: It's still a reduction of Boeing's footprint in Washington.
Let's take a similar example in North Carolina. In May 2010, American Express announced that it was building a $400 million, 50- to 150-job, data center in Greensboro, without incentives. Why would it not want incentives? Take a guess.
Here's mine, which seems to be pretty widely shared: American Express already knew that it was going to close its call center in Greensboro, at the cost of 1900 jobs, which it announced in January 2011. Thus, it would have been subject to clawbacks of any incentives it received for the data center, so why bother negotiating for incentives it couldn't keep?
What American Express knew it couldn't do in North Carolina is exactly what Boeing is now doing in Washington. This suggests the Washington has weaker job creation requirements than North Carolina, which ties subsidies to the total number of jobs in the state, not just at one location. So Washington has combined the nation's largest-ever subsidy with weak performance requirements. Meanwhile, Boeing has done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt regarding its motives. This is just one more indication that the company will try to find a way to worm its way out of commitments directly covered by the incentive packages. When that happens, try not to act surprised.
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Apple set to lose billions in EU state aid case
The Financial Times reported on September 30th that the European Commission has decided to open a formal investigation into whether Apple received illegal subsidies ("state aid," in EU-speak) from Ireland going as far back as 1991. The FT quotes "people involved in the case" as saying that this can cost Apple billions of euros.
What the decision technically does is establish what is known as an "Article 108(2)" investigation, which means that the Commission has concluded from its preliminary investigation that state aid has been granted in violation of the EU's competition policy rules. It is therefore opening a more comprehensive investigation. It is worth noting that if the Commission opens an Article 108(2) investigation, it almost always decides that illegal state aid was given. The only recent exception I can think of is state aid from Poland to relocate Dell computer manufacturing from Ireland in 2009, and I actually think the Commission should have ruled against that as well, as I discussed in my book Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital.
As I speculated in June, one issue raised by the Commission is Apple's "nowhere" subsidiaries created under Irish law. Both Apple Operations Europe (AOE) and its subsidiary, Apple Sales International (ASI), are incorporated in Ireland, hence not immediately taxable by the United States until they repatriate their profits to the U.S. However, they are managed from the U.S., which by the provisions of Irish tax law makes them not taxable in Ireland. It is these provisions that are at issue in the case. See, in particular, paragraphs 25-29 of the decision, especially paragraph 29: "According to the information provided by the Irish authorities, the territory of tax residency of AOE and ASI is not identified." Richard Murphy suggests today that these corporate provisions account for the largest proportion of Apple's tax risk.
What is especially important for this investigation (and the similar ones of Starbucks and Fiat) is that if the Commission finds that state aid was given, it was never notified in advance to the Commission. The state aid laws require that any proposed subsidy be notified in advance and not implemented until approved. Ever since the 1980s, the penalty for giving non-notified, illegal ("not compatible with the common market") aid is that the aid must be repaid with interest. Since this alleged aid was not notified, and will probably be found to be incompatible with the common market, Apple will be on the hook for aid repayment.
As I reported in June, this would not be the first time the Commission has used the state aid law to force changes to Ireland's tax system. In 1998, it ruled that Ireland's 10% corporate income tax for manufacturing was specific enough to be a state aid. Ireland then reduced the corporate income tax to 12.5% for non-manufacturing firms, while raising it to that level for manufacturing (mainly foreign multinational) companies.
If the Commission rules against Ireland and Apple, this will send a signal that the European Union is going to take tax manipulation very seriously with all the tools at its disposal. It would be especially great to see one of the pioneers of arcane tax avoidance strategies taken down a notch. For Ireland, at least there would be a small silver lining from losing this case: Apple's aid repayment would go to Ireland and help reduce its budget deficit.
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Iceland: Bankers convicted, unemployment down
Kenneth Thomas | September 26, 2014 3:20 pm
Remember Iceland? During the high-flying early 2000s, its three main banks went berserk, paying high interest rates to international investors that accumulated deposits equal to more than 100% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and making loans equal to 980% of GDP. When the collapse came, Iceland took a route not taken by Ireland, Spain, and other EU countries: Rather than bail out the banks, the government simply let them go bankrupt. The value of the krona fell by about half, the country was embroiled in disputes with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom over paying off Dutch and British depositors, and it had to take an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan just to stay afloat.
When we last checked in, there were indictments and criminal investigations of the officers of all three banks, and Icelandic banks were forced to forgive all mortgage debt in excess of 110% of a home's value. Iceland's 2012 unemployment rate was 6.0% compared to Ireland's 14.7%. But that was two years ago; what's happening now?
In December 2013, four top officials of the country's formerly largest bank, Kaupthing, were sentenced to jail terms ranging from five and a half years for its chief executive to three years for one of the majority owners. While their cases are currently under appeal, they were indicted this July for further fraud charges. Various bank and government officials have had final convictions as determined by the Supreme Court of Iceland; Wikipedia has a handy rundown on where numerous cases stand, all based on Icelandic-language sources so I cannot read them myself.
Homeowners are still in difficulty in Iceland, however. This is because mortgages in Iceland are usually indexed to the inflation rate; that is, the amount of principal is increased by the rate of inflation. Iceland's inflation rate was 5.2% in 2012 and 3.9% in 2013, while Ireland's inflation was 1.7% in 2012 and a near-deflation 0.5% in 2013. That is a pretty hefty load for Icelandic homeowners. The current conservative government has instituted a new round of mortgage relief, but there are a lot of devils in the details. Almost half of the "relief" comes in the form of people being allowed to use their retirement savings (which are tax-advantaged like U.S. individual retirement accounts) to pay down their debt. Yeah, it's great to pay your mortgage with pre-tax dollars, but it's still your own money you're paying, which will no longer be available for retirement. The IMF has raised doubts about the plan's overall effect on government finances, too.
As I mentioned in my last post, unemployment in Iceland stood at 4.4% in July, versus 11.5% in Ireland (navigate to Labour Force Statistics, then Short-term Statistics, Short-term Labour Market Statistics, then Harmonised Unemployment Rates). And, as I also mentioned in the post, Ireland's unemployment rate has been artificially lowered due to net emigration from the country.
While Iceland suffered a great deal from the crisis and is by no means out of the woods, it looks like the country made the right call by not bailing out the banks. The economy is growing and unemployment is down to less than half of its peak crisis level. As Paul Krugman has emphasized, having your own currency to devalue helps as well, although it substantially raised inflation and mortgage balances. Iceland was dealt a bad hand by its bankers, but it's making at least some of them pay for that, which is more than we can say in the United States.
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Irish austerity exodus lingers on
August brings us the annual Irish immigration data, so it's time to look at what has happened in their statistical reporting "year" that ended in April 2014. While better than last year, it's still not pretty.
According to the Central Statistics Office, net emigration continued in 2013-14, with net emigration of 21,400. a decline of just over 1/3 compared to net emigration of 33,100 in 2012-13. Of the new total, once again, the Irish themselves accounted for over 100% of the net departures, with 29,200 more Irish nationals leaving the country than returning.
This continued out-migration continues to diminish any published improvements in Irish employment numbers and unemployment rate. In the year to the second quarter of 2014 (the closest quarter to April 2014 immigration figures), employment increased to 1,901,600, a rise of 31,600 over a year previous. Unemployment fell by even more, 46,200, in the year to Q2 2014. So, while there is definite improvement even accounting for emigration, Ireland is nowhere near back to its peak 2007 employment figure of about 2.15 million. So employment is still 11.6% below its peak.
In Iceland (create a custom table here), by contrast, despite (but also in part because of of) the almost 50% decline in the value of the kronor, the sharp dip in unemployment has been almost completely erased, with July 2014's value of 179,000 employed being a mere 1.7% below May 2008's maximum of 182,100. Indeed, Iceland's unemployment rate has fallen to a mere 4.4% in July 2014, compared with 6.2% in the United States — and 11.5% in Ireland.
So the lesson, if I have haven't pounded it into your head enough already, is that Ireland's austerity measures are not paying off, as it has failed to regain its pre-crisis employment level and has seen its unemployment rate fall only by reverting to its historical solution of exporting people, as in the 1980s.
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Tesla deal even worse than first thought
Kenneth Thomas | September 16, 2014 10:07 pm
Via an email from Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First, we learn that the Tesla deal, as enacted by the Nevada Legislature, is even worse than announced. Aside from the widely touted 6500 jobs only being 6000 jobs for which the state is paying for, it turns out that Tesla doesn't even have to create the jobs itself!
You read that right. Tesla gets to receive tax credits for investment and job creation not only for itself, but for any of its suppliers ("participants," in the law's language) that locate on the project's huge location. Theoretically, Telsa does not even have to create half the jobs for which it will receive subsidies.
Why does this matter? Isn't Tesla still responsible for bringing all those jobs (assuming they all come, which Richard Florida doubts) to Nevada? Yes, but it tells us that all the figures bandied about for indirect and induced jobs are just malarkey. The state claims that there will be a total of 22,000 jobs ultimately due to the project, but that depends on Tesla itself creating 6500 jobs. If the state is instead paying for some of the indirect jobs it claims would be due to the project, it is admitting that the Tesla base of direct jobs is smaller than 6000; therefore, 22,000 jobs would no longer be supported (assuming you buy into that methodology in the first place, which you shouldn't). These multipliers are easily manipulated, and we have just gotten an object lesson in how to do that.
Amazingly, the media is not paying much attention. As far as I can tell from searching the Web and the premium Nexis news service, the only place that has picked up LeRoy's statement is the Las Vegas Sun's blog. Really, this is no time for the media to be letting us down!
I encourage you to check the link to the legislation above. It is a sight to behold, and proof once again that bad economic deals are a dime a dozen, leaving the average taxpayer to pick up the slack.
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Understanding Piketty, part 5 (conclusion)
Kenneth Thomas | September 11, 2014 3:55 am
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to make a data-driven examination of economic inequality. Based on hundreds of years worth of data, it attempts to determine the long-term trends in inequality and the social and political consequences that follow from them.
In this final post, I want to highlight the most important points of the book, including a few I have not yet discussed. Beyond that, I want to consider parts of the book that are perhaps a bit less persuasive.
First of all, the data has been almost unchallenged. The one person who claimed substantial flaws in it, Chris Giles of the Financial Times, is road kill.
Second, three major results emerge from the data bringing dearly-held economists' views into question. A) There is no Kuznets Curve: Developed countries do not keep getting more equal; rather, the data show that they have become less equal since about 1980. B) There is no fixed share for capital and labor income, as assumed by the Cobb-Douglas production function: Capital's share of national income has risen since 1975. C) Franco Modigliani's view that most savings was for retirement, not inheritance, is wrong. Depending on the country, no more than 20% of private wealth is in the form of annuitized wealth that ends at death.
Third, the big theoretical payoff is that some economists' happy stories about how everyone earns their marginal productivity are simply incorrect. These bedtime stories may make the rich feel like their high incomes and wealth are deserved. The fact of the matter, though, is that high incomes are not the result of merit but of bargaining power. The increase of capital mobility since the 1970s is one element in disciplining labor, while the reduction in the top income tax rate gave top corporate executives more incentive to push for large wage increases and exploit the large uncertainty regarding their individual contribution to corporate success.
Fourth and most obviously, r>g* is no historical necessity, but it has held true virtually everywhere for all of human history. As long as it is true, there is a tendency for inequality to worsen.
Moving on to aspects of the book I have not previously covered, one discussion that stood out was Piketty's discussion of the weakness of measures of gross domestic product (p. 92). In particular, he notes that there are no good quality measures for adjusting GDP:
For example, if a private health insurance system costs more than a public system but does not yield truly superior quality (as a comparison of the United States and Europe suggests), then GDP will be artificially overvalued in countries that rely mainly on private insurance.
Parenthetically, it seems to me that any high-cost low-quality system would overstate GDP, whether it's private or public. But the point to remember is that we are talking big bucks here: if the United States were spending merely what the #2 country (Netherlands, in terms of percent of GDP) does, we would be spending almost $1 trillion less, so presumably this means U.S. GDP is overstated by $1 trillion. That's still a lot of money!
As I discussed before, Piketty advocates a global annual tax on wealth as the solution to the problem of inequality. However, he relegates an alternative global tax, on financial transactions, to a single paragraph plus a single footnote. He claims that an FTT would "dry up" "high frequency transactions," and for that reason would not raise much revenue. Of course, this would depend on which transactions are taxed (James Tobin had originally proposed taxing foreign exchange transactions) and what the tax rate is. A balance can be struck between "throwing sand in the wheels," as Tobin described it, and raising revenue. Contra Piketty, I don't think it is something that can be rejected out of hand, and I plan to discuss an FTT more fully in the future.
So what's wrong with the book? Honestly, not much. I mentioned before that I wasn't fully persuaded by Piketty's evidence that bigger fortunes necessarily earn higher rates of return. However, this is not a big issue, especially as the claim does seem fairly plausible.
At times, however, Piketty's political arguments seem almost ad hoc. He attributes (p. 509) the rise of Reaganism and Thatcherism in part to a feeling people had that other countries were catching up to them. He presents no evidence for this claim, which does not strike me as particularly plausible. Similarly, he lectures the leaders of large EU countries (p. 523) for their failure to align taxation among the Member States, rejecting their leaders' point that EU institutions (unanimity is required for changes affecting direct taxation) and other Member States (read: Ireland) can block fiscal coordination indefinitely. But it's true! It's right there in the Treaty! So he's a little too glib about politics for my tastes; but then, I'm a political scientist, so perhaps I'm not the most neutral of sources.
Bottom line: You've already bought the book, so take it off the coffee table and read it! It may take you a few weeks, or a few months, but you'll be glad you did.
* r>g means that the rate of return on investment, r, is greater than an economy's growth rate, g.
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Smokers, it is the year 2009. Bars and bowling alleys are completely free of secondhand smoke, while a few still puff on cigarettes outside in a cold and barren wasteland.
Suddenly, news from the government is handed down. Taxes will rise $1.01 for all tobacco products. Somewhere a smoker coughs in disgust, but no one hears.
"It's a person's personal choice to smoke, and they're not forcing it on anybody else," said senior psychology major Valerie Van Voltenburg. "So if they want to smoke, they should be allowed to smoke and not taxed to death over it."
That sentiment seems open-minded enough, but the country is facing an economic downturn so extreme that news pundits have compared it to the Great Depression. Smokers are a renewable resource that can be tapped to solve all our economic woes. And to ensure that all forms of smoking produce revenue, some states, including Illinois, are moving to legalize medical marijuana.
In a near and ironic future, citizens will be taxed on tobacco products that cause cancer and then smoke medicine charged to their insurance company. A March 27 Wall Street Journal blog commented on New Jersey's medical marijuana bill, which was recently voted out of committee and passed onto the state's legislature. While some may see this as a slight case of hypocrisy, everyone still has a chance to escape the smoking cycle.
"I'm going to cut back from smoking a lot right now," Van Voltenburg said.
Her decision could be the answer smokers need. Instead of paying high costs to push our economy forward, smokers could simply quit. Of course that decision seems awfully selfish when our economic stability balances on the tip of a BIC lighter.
In this desperate time, desperate measures need to be taken. Marijuana is no longer the enemy if the government accepts its usefulness to make money, and tobacco needs to be monetarily punished for all the harm it causes. Smokers, understand that you are not being unjustly persecuted; you've simply become the most profitable natural resource this country needs.
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Halle Berry - The actress revealed in 2007 that she would talk to people on chat rooms anonymously at first. "When I decided to say: 'Oh by the way, the person you've been chatting with for a week is me, Halle Berry,' they thought I was just some kook," she said.
Khloé Kardashian -
Following her split from James Harden in 2016, Khloé Kardashian revealed her friend set her up on OK Cupid, and though she said nothing came of it, she added, "It was actually really fun to do, LOL!"
Adele - Adele tried her hand at online dating, but didn't find success. "I signed up for eHarmony," she admitted in her memoir. "I can't put a photo of myself, so I don't get any e-mails!"
Tiffany Haddish - The actress said on 'The Tonight Show' that she doesn't like online dating because she meets a lot of creeps. She explained there are guys with nice photos, but "then you go to the Starbucks to meet him and you're like, 'Oh my God, he is a booger wolf.'"
Lindsay Lohan - The actress posted on Instagram after running into her brother on Tinder back in 2013. "Look who I just found on @tinderapp ... hey bro," she wrote.
Martha Stewart - Martha Stewart gave Match.com a shot in 2013, and actually went on successful dates with two men on the site. Her profile reportedly read: "Yes, it's really me."
Amy Schumer - Schumer met her ex-boyfriend, carpenter Ben Hanisch, on a dating app. Schumer wrote in her book, 'The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo,' that Hanisch wasn't like the other guys on the app, and they mostly exchanged funny messages.
Laverne Cox - In 2018, Laverne Cox told Access Hollywood that she met her boyfriend on Tinder. "When I broke up with my ex, I went back on Tinder," she added, "because I feel like if you want to date, you have to be on the apps."
Orlando Bloom - Bloom went at things a different way and reportedly used his friend's photo and a fake name on Facebook in order to talk to women without revealing his fame. This is also known as catfishing.
Hilary Duff - The singer's 'Sparks' music video features the star going on real-life Tinder dates, a decision which she explained in a radio interview came from a desire to date casually for the first time in her life.
Charlize Theron - In a 2017 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, the actress said her friend, comedian Chelsea Handler, gave her a Tinder lesson, but said of the experience: "It's just awkward. This is why I'm still single."
Demi Lovato - In her 2017 documentary, 'Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated,' the singer revealed that she'd had a profile on members-only dating app Raya. "I am open to human connection," she said, "So whether that's through a male or a female, it doesn't matter to me."
Katy Perry - Though she's with Orlando Bloom now, there was a time that Perry was all about Tinder. She told The Breakfast Club radio show, "I'm really deep on Tinder so I don't have a whole lot of time."
Ashton Kutcher - Both Kutcher and Mila Kunis got Tinder accounts, not because they were looking for a third, but rather Kutcher was interested in the tech side of the app.
Mariah Carey - In her post-Nick Cannon 'Infinity' music video, Carey joins Match.com. "I hope every woman who is single and listens to this song goes out and finds her infinity, whether on Match or the traditional way," she said in a statement.
Zac Efron - The actor revealed that he created a Tinder profile in the past, but he explained in a 2016 interview with The Times, "Amazingly, when I signed up for Tinder, nobody swiped me! They thought [my profile] was fake."
Ronda Rousey - Ronda Rousey told Sports Illustrated that she created an alter ego for Tinder back in 2015, but hadn't found any success.
Lily Allen - In 2015, the married star was reportedly using Tinder to make new friends while on the road.
Chelsea Handler - The comedian and TV host has a lot of experience dating online, and said in 2016 that the experience "works when you work it," adding that you have to be really involved if you want results.
Eric Stonestreet - The 'Modern Family' star told Howard Stern that he tried Tinder in 2014. "I've gone out with a couple girls in LA that I met on Tinder, like on real dates," he said. "It's hard to meet people."
Charlie Sheen - It's rumored that when Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards were divorcing, the actor reportedly started to chat up girls on Millionairematch.com.
Adam Rippon - The Olympic skater is a big fan of Tinder, having met his boyfriend on the app.
Chace Crawford - The 'Gossip Girl' star revealed to Now Magazine in 2010 that he has "a bunch of different accounts" on various dating apps, though he said no one knew about them.
Joan Rivers - In 2006, the then-72-year-old reportedly had her assistant set up an account for her on Match.com.
Jenny McCarthy - Jenny McCarthy gave Match.com a try in 2011, specifically looking for guys between 35 and 48. "It's so hard out here," she told Radar Online. "The guys are like chicks here," she said of the men in LA.
Andy Cohen - In 2015, the TV host told People he was a Tinder fan. "I like it," he said. "Where am I going to meet an architect who lives in Brooklyn besides Tinder at this point? It's the modern-day singles bar."
Carrie Ann Inaba - 'Dancing With The Stars' judge Carrie Ann Inaba was once engaged to a man she met on eHarmony. In a 2011 interview, the dancer described her profile: "I said, 'You need to be sexy' [and] 'I love cats.'"
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Hannibal Buress -
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"What interests you about owning a nightclub?" I asked. Laura was currently working as a massage therapist, and nightclub ownership looked like a very different career step.
"Have you ever worked in a nightclub?" I pursued.
There were thunderclouds racing across Laura's face. I saw the "Yeah, but" before it issued from her mouth. Oh, resistance, you drag your feet across all our lives….
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I remember this incident like it was yesterday, even though it was about 15 years ago. It was pretty funny at the time, and still puts a smile on my face. There is a lot of room in our consciousness for fantasy lives – things we can dream about without having to actually do the hard work of trying to manifest! Maria Nemeth, in her book "The Energy of Money" talks about there being a metaphysical reality and a physical reality, with a border in between them. She said lots of people are having trouble at the border!
Have fun with your dreams, the fun fantasies that make you smile, where you try on the life of a rock star, a movie mogul, or president of the United States. When one of those dreams strikes your fancy so hard that you're willing to work to achieve them, create an action plan and then get to work. If your goal is juicy enough, just working on achieving it will also be juicy! And I think that's the point of it all – choose goals that make life fun just working to achieve it.
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Agus Setyadi, Aceh – Bireuen regent Saifannur has issued a new regulation on the "standardisation" of coffee shops, cafes and restaurants in the regency in accordance with Sharia law.
In one of the points, it states that it is haram (forbidden under Islamic law) for men and women to eat at the same table unless they are muhrim – lawfully married or related.
"Point number 13 says that it is haram for men and women to eat or drink at the same table except with their muhrim. If they are with their muhrim there's no problem right, but if it's not with a muhrim then it is haram, because under sharia law that's haram", said the head of the Bireuen sharia agency (Kadis Syariat Islam) Jufliwan when sought for confirmation by Detik.com on Tuesday September 4.
The regulation on the standardisation of coffee shops was signed by Saifannur on August 30. The regulation contains 14 points which regulate behaviour at coffee shops. Of these, points 9 and 13 have attracted most attention.
Point 9 states that it is forbidden to serve women customers after 9pm unless they are with a muhrim. The other points meanwhile regulate what types of clothing are acceptable and prohibit coffee shops from employing members of the LGBT community or waria (trans women).
According to Jufliwan, the regulation was issued in order to prevent violations of sharia law in Bireuen. The regulation on non-muhrim men and women sitting at the same table meanwhile is designed to prevent illicit affairs (perselingkuhan).
"It's to prevent things like perselingkuhan happening. Our aim is to prevent violations of sharia law taking place, nothing else", explained Jufliwan.
"So it sets standards for coffee shops right, that's the standard. Meanwhile if women want to drink coffee [in public after 9am] please go ahead, but only with your muhrim. That's sharia law right", said Jufliwan.
Despite this however, there are no penalties stipulated yet for violating these standards. The Bireuen regency government is simply appealing to the public and will continue to socialise the regulation so that people obey the values of Islamic law.


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Q: Unzipping a file (.gz) in JRuby using Gem Does anyone know of a gem that is compatible with JRuby 1.6.5 that can extract the files from a .gz zip file?
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A: I use Zlib in my JRuby app. It is a standard Ruby library.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/index.html
In Rails you can also use ActiveSupport::Gzip http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Gzip.html
Here are examples how to unzip a file: Zlib in Ruby to uncompress .gz


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This page contains Eugène Louis boudin s biography.
Extractions: Born at Honfleur, Normandy, the son of a sailor, he worked as cabin boy onboard the rickety steamer that sailed between Havre and Honfleur across the estuary of the Seine. But before old age came on him, Boudin's father abandoned seafaring, and his son gave it up too, having no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character, frankness, accessibility, and open-heartedness. Trouville. 1864. Eugène Boudin.In 1835 his family moved to Le Havre, where his father established himself as stationer and frame-maker. He began work the next year as an assistant in a stationery and framing store before opening his own small shop. There he came into contact with artists working in the area and exhibited in his shop the paintings of Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet, who, along with Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Thomas Couture whom he met during this time, encouraged young Boudin to follow an artistic career. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce, started painting full-time, and traveled to Paris the following year and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, although he often returned to paint in Normandy and, from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany.
Extractions: @import "/files/css/3d1cf129ce0ea688d258d92e2ce57d01.css"; Submit Content Login ... Gadget Reviews addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'erku'; The art of French landscape painter Eugƒ'¨ne Boudin (1824 - 1898) will get a rare showing in America, when Eugƒ'¨ne Boudin at the National Gallery of Art goes on view in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, March 25 through April 5, 2007. The exhibition of approximately 40 paintings and works on paper will honor the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon, the Gallery's founding president and the benefactor largely responsible for its Boudin collection, which is one of the largest and most distinguished in this country. Proclaimed the "king of the skies" by Camille Corot, Boudin influenced a number of impressionist painters, most notably Claude Monet. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It will travel to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as Eugƒ'¨ne Boudin 1824-1898: Works from the Mellon Collections at the National Gallery of Art, from November 14 through January 27, 2008. It has been more than 30 years since the last monographic American exhibition of Boudin's work was held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1976. "The works gathered in this exhibition add up to something timeless in their beauty: the play of light on water and clouds, carefully observed over the course of a lifetime. It is perhaps this very duality, of momentary sensation and timeless beauty, that made Boudin such a natural addition to the collection of Paul Mellon," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "In Mr. Mellon's own words, 'It seems to me that art makes one feel the essence of something, turning the ordinary, everyday object or scene into a universal one.'"
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In his preoccupation with the effects of atmospheric light, his work is seen as strongly influenced Claude Monet and the other Impressionists.
Extractions: Eug¨ne Boudin was born in Honfleur. The son of a fisherman and a stewardess, he would have been destined for a life at sea and in fact began to work as cabin boy when he was ten. When he fell overboard one day, however, his mother decided that he had better work on land. Boudin worked first as a printer's clerk and then as a salesman in an art supply shop in Le Havre. The only formal art training Boudin received came from Millet , who bought his paints at the shop and gave the young man criticism on his drawing. Boudin continued in the art supply business until 1846, when he began to devote all his time to painting. By 1852, he an exhibition of his works was held in Le Havre, and in 1859 he began to show annually at the Paris official Salons, where he received a third-class medal in 1881.
The first American exhibition in 30 years to be devoted exclusively to the work of 19thcentury French artist Eugène boudin opens Wednesday, Nov.
Extractions: NOTE: The exhibition has been extended and will now be open through Feb. 17. Checklist "Boudin is an artist who has often been overlooked in the history of Impressionism, yet he remains one of the most charming and accessible painters of that generation," says VMFA Director Alex Nyerges The exhibition, which will remain on view through Jan. 27, 2008, is part of " Celebrating Paul Mellon ," VMFA's year-long commemoration of the centenary of benefactor Paul Mellon's birth. Boudin, who lived from 1824 to 1898, was one of Mellon's favorite French painters, Nyerges says.
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eugene boudin (18241898) Anything painted directly, on the spot, always has a strength, a power, a lively touch that is lost in the studio.
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1835 eugene, as a pupil of the Christian schools of le Havre, writes his name on an exercise book.
Extractions: HONFLEUR SOUVENIRS ET REVERIES Eugène BOUDIN BIOGRAPHY p. I - II Léonard-Sébastien Boudin, a sailor, marries Marie-Félicité Buffet in Honfleur in 1816; she gives birth to their son EUGENE in the Bourdet street on July 12, 1824. Settled in the seaport town of Havre, 51 Grand-Quai, in 1835, Léonard-Sébastien Boudin starts working at the Albrecht Company and works on boats ensuring the connection Havre to Hamburg. Eugene, as a pupil of the Christian schools of le Havre, writes his name on an exercise book. according to the catalogue of the exhibit E.B. 1992. 1836 - Eugene Boudin enters the working life. He begins as a clerk at the printer Joseph Morlent, place de la Comédie in le Havre, then at the stationer's shop of Alphonse Lemasle, rue des Drapiers.
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