I got e-mail from Cynde Sears in response to last Sunday's Phony Campaign Update. If you'd like to read that first, go ahead. I'll wait.
Unlike other responses within the blogosphere to my letter to the Washington Post, I found yours a bit charming and silly, not mean or vindictive. But I would like to correct one detail. I would not likely be sipping lemonade while folks earned a living working in my garden - don't care for it, to be honest. No, I would likely be drinking a fine Spanish cava, as I did while enjoying roast suckling pig in one of the finest restaurants in Segovia, Spain, as I did just this afternoon while on holiday. Or perhaps sipping a dram of the world's finest Scotch, as I did while on holiday in Edinburgh this spring.
You see, even as a liberal, I can make money, open a business, have significant savings and a good retirement, send my child to the college of his choice, take European vacations at least once a year -- and still feel that when given a choice between being cheap and giving people meaningful work that pays well, I will always choose to share my good fortune. If Romney will not support three or four workers with his hundreds of millions, why would any reasonable person conclude he would spend what it takes -- from either the public or private sectors -- to put millions to work? His penury and personal greed reflect exactly what's happening in this country. Major corporations are acting like Romney: putting more money in the bank while depriving people of work, thereby contributing to our national economic malaise. They sit on record profits and won't hire. Like Romney, they are cheap. And I don't care for cheap people.
While my original post took Cynde Sears to task for "irritating judgmentalism", her response caused me to regret that a little. Although my mostly-libertarian politics should imply a live-and-let-live attitude, I can be kind of judgmental myself.
And when you're judgmental about the judgmentalism of others, the whole enterprise turns into a sort of Ouroborosian dining on one's own tail, and I have no idea what sort of wine would go well with that.
So, although I'm a lousy Christian, I reread Matthew 7:1-5 and will try to take that to heart, for at least the next few minutes.
I still think her criticism of others' behavior is economically misguided. Like many who claim the "liberal" label these days, Cynde Sears looks at the economic decisions of other people—from "major corporations" down to individuals like Mitt Romney—and thinks: I could do a better job than that.
Even occasional readers know where I sit on that topic: scale up that attitude, add political power, and you find yourself in the Choomwagon riding down the Road to Serfdom . Again, see David Boaz for more specificity.
Scrooge has been called ungenerous. I say that's a bum rap. What could be more generous than keeping your lamps unlit and your plate unfilled, leaving more fuel for others to burn and more food for others to eat? Who is a more benevolent neighbor than the man who employs no servants, freeing them to wait on someone else?
In this whole world, there is nobody more generous than the miser--the man who could deplete the world's resources but chooses not to. The only difference between miserliness and philanthropy is that the philanthropist serves a favored few while the miser spreads his largess far and wide.
If you build a house and refuse to buy a house, the rest of the world is one house richer. If you earn a dollar and refuse to spend a dollar, the rest of the world is one dollar richer--because you produced a dollar's worth of goods and didn't consume them.
Christmas is coming, so I suggest you Read The Whole Thing™. God bless Us, Every One!


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The Abundance Agenda
We Need an Abundance Agenda
Feeding 8 Billion People Has Never Been Easier
The Greatness of Growth
Testing Freedom
A Successful Abundance Agenda Must Address Americans' Anxieties
Time to End the Manufactured Shortages in K-12 Education
Some scarcity comes from technical limits, but most of it is self-inflicted
Will Rinehart December 7, 2022
This is post 1 of 6 in the series "The Abundance Agenda"
Scholars, journalists and other contributors discuss the need for society to embrace an abundance agenda that will lead to greater prosperity and human flourishing.
At a recent checkup, my father's primary doctor asked him if anything was giving him problems. While the doctor was talking about physical ailments, my dad said: "The biggest stressor in my life is that me or my wife have to spend half of the day on the phone dealing with these medical supply companies."
It wasn't a stint in the hospital, physical therapy or a new dietary regimen that was bothering my dad. What was bothering him were ongoing supply chain problems that he and my mom were then navigating.
Although it is not as common to hear about it on the news as it was during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply constraints still grip the medical field. Saline solution, tubes, vials, pipettes, ventilators, defibrillators, amoxicillin and Adderall are all in short supply. In total, some 34 product categories currently are listed in critical need, according to the Food and Drug Administration. What's more, the agency expects these conditions to continue into the near future.
Meanwhile, when people moved during the pandemic, limited housing became a national issue. According to current estimates, at least 5 million homes need to be built.
Long-lasting shortages in the United States were unheard of before COVID-19. But in the last two years, scarcity has gripped countless industries. Baby formula, timber, paper products, butter, computer chips, meat and poultry, passenger cars as well as trash trucks and other commercial vehicles have all been on backorder. The same goes for many other items, including fiber optic cables, electronics, jewelry, clothing, pet supplies and garden items.
As this long list makes clear, disruptions to production and trade directly translate into material deprivation and hardship. But they also bring into focus another important issue: that we are living at a time of artificial scarcity.
It doesn't need to be that way.
After the pandemic hit the U.S., new, groundbreaking vaccines were developed, tested and out to the public in less than a year. So, why does it take a decade or more to do the same with cancer drugs? Even today, nearly three years since the pandemic began, the number of physicians needed to treat our population remains in short supply. As Robert Orr uncovered in careful research, the federal government deliberately crafted and implemented a plan to limit the supply of doctors.
Policymakers, the commentariat and others in positions of power are waking up to the fact that scarcity is a serious public policy problem. While some of that scarcity comes from technological limitations which will require innovation, a good deal of it is self-inflicted. What is needed is a reversal of the policies that created these scarcity trends. What is needed is an agenda based on abundance.
Scarcity, Enrichment and Slow Decline
Scarcity is the true state of nature. For almost all of our recorded and unrecorded history, scarcity has been the bane of human existence. Only recently, in the last 200 years or so, have we been able to build abundance.
Scarcity used to cause all kinds of inadequacies. Malnutrition, famines, disease and early death were common. Today an injury might require a cast or perhaps outpatient surgery, but 300 years ago it would often lead to permanent disfigurement or even death. All of these ills were created by scarcity.
To take one particularly bad time, the 14th century, France experienced serious famine in 21 growing seasons. Sometimes these famines would last for two or three years. The Great Famine, from 1315 to 1317, was one of the worst, killing one out of every 10 people.
Then two decades later, when children of that era came to adulthood, the Black Death swept through the population, decimating cities and the countryside once again and this time killing up to half of all people. It is now thought that the two are connected. Malnutrition and hardship early in life meant the population was susceptible to disease as they grew to adulthood.
France might be affluent now, but on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, as Adam Smith pointed out, the country was poor. In "The Wealth of Nations," he wrote that laborers "of both sexes appear there publickly [sic], without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes bare-footed." It is difficult to imagine the good life living, even in Paris, during winter without shoes.
The Industrial Revolution changed all that, radically reshaping life and bringing with it an explosion of wealth and income. Since the 1800s when the Industrial Revolution fully kicked off, the average person has experienced a real income increase of 1,550%. The U.S. figure is even higher. As of today, we are 2,100% wealthier than we were in 1800.
In just the last 100 years, life has gotten measurably better. Today's workplace is about 30 times safer than it was a century ago. At the turn of the 20th century, a worker would be on the job upwards of 60 hours during an average week. Today that number is just under 35 hours. In 1920, 28% of American youth aged 14 to 17 were in high school. Today, that number is over 90%. During the same 100-year period, life expectancy has increased from just over 53 years to just under 79 years.
Rightly so, Deirdre McCloskey calls this change the Great Enrichment.
Increasingly though, the Great Enrichment is being challenged by the Great Stagnation, a slowdown in growth rates. Beginning after World War II and continuing into the early 1970s, the productivity growth rate grew about 2% per year. But for some reason (or some confluence of reasons), it slowed down to 1% per year beginning in 1971. The United States and other wealthy countries just aren't growing like they used to.
The decline from 2% to 1% might not seem like much, but like interest paid to savings account depositors, growth compounds over time. Today, households bring in about $70,000 in income every year. Had the U.S. grown at 2% per year over the last half century, the median household would be close to $150,000 in income.
Using more sophisticated models than simple linear extractions, researchers estimate that the missing growth in the last 50 years comes to about $11 trillion in lost annual GDP.
If not for the Great Stagnation and 50 years of 1% growth, Americans would already live in an era of abundance.
The Causes of Decline
While there is substantial evidence documenting the slowdown in the 1970s, there is little agreement on what exactly caused this economic stall-out. Two of the biggest possible culprits come in the form of energy prices and the expansion of the regulatory state.
J. Storrs Hall's "Where is My Flying Car?" is a book-length treatise on how these two forces interact. Over 20 chapters, Hall's book explains what happens when energy usage fails to expand. It means that we don't get technical innovations like flying cars.
In a blog post that adds some context to the book, he explains,
We have had a very long-term trend in history going back at least to the Newcomen and Savery engines of 300 years ago, a steady trend of about 7 percent per year growth in usable energy available to our civilization. Let us call it the "Henry Adams Curve." The optimism and constant improvement of life in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries can quite readily be seen as predicated on it. To a first approximation, it can be factored into a 3 percent population growth rate, a 2 percent energy efficiency growth rate, and a 2 percent growth in actual energy consumed per capita.
The Henry Adams Curve, named for the novelist and historian who wrote about these trends in his 1907 autobiography, is a rough approximation of the old path of U.S. energy usage. From 1800 until 1970, actual energy consumption in the United States grew at a brisk pace, following the trend that Hall computed. But in the 1970s, this consumption plateaued.
Why is this important? Because there is an "extreme interconnectedness of energy and economic systems," as one researcher has framed it. In other words, there is a clear connection between energy consumption and economic growth, and the flatlining in the 1970s helps tell us why growth slowed at the same time. The way modern economies produce, package and consume energy isn't advancing like it once did. So, if we are going to punch out of our economic rut, we should look to punch out of our energy consumption rut.
Some of this flatlining since the 1970s is due to hard technical limitations. Energy goes into personal homes, for heating and lighting offices and other buildings, for transportation as well as for industry. Moving up the curve means consuming more of everything, but there are limits to the number of cars a household can own and the size of a home they can afford. The United States is one of those rare countries that is already on the far edge of energy consumption. If we have hit a limit, then perhaps there is an upper limit to energy consumption, if not economic growth.
However, the flatlining of the Henry Adams Curve also has come as a result of regulation. In fact, most of the slowdown is the result of bad decisions rather than tough challenges. For instance, nuclear power should have been the primary source of electricity for the U.S., and it was on track to be that way, as Hall has explained. Yet, changes in the regulatory structure of energy generation in the 1970s stymied that upgrade. Today, the U.S. gets about 20% of its electricity from nuclear, while France, which went on a nuclear-plant-building spree in the 1970s, gets over 77%. It shouldn't have been like this.
What's more, energy isn't the only industry being held back by excessive permitting and ill-considered government processes. Nearly every sector in the economy faces challenges because of the layers of permission needed to operate. All combined, this needless regulatory crust creates a system of vetocracy, or rule by veto. As I explained earlier this year, "A good part of the rise in housing costs and home prices can be accounted for by these veto forces. Rail and other infrastructure projects face decades-long delays. Vetocracy restricts projects throughout the United States," and any agenda aiming to make the future more innovative must tackle this phenomenon.
The Abundance Agenda in Practice
An agenda of abundance would confront the twin problems of artificial scarcity and technological scarcity. For starters, this means addressing the housing crisis. The game plan here is well-trodden. Cities and states need to deregulate land use, which would allow denser housing and mixed-use neighborhoods to develop on their own. After World War II, Tokyo built its way to abundant housing, and U.S. cities can, too.
Another central part of the abundance agenda would aim to upgrade our energy system. Building an electricity transmission line needs to be easier, geothermal permitting should be simplified and the next generation of nuclear reactors, which are safe to operate, should be ushered through the approval process rather than subjected to layer upon layer of regulatory obstacles.
To directly combat the problem of technological scarcity, an abundance agenda would need to be focused on ensuring an abundance of capable minds. That means that immigration reform has to be a key part of this. As my colleague Josh Smith has suggested, there are a range of options on the table. Policymakers could automatically make a U.S. college degree into a work visa for foreign students, expand the H-1B visa program and use immigration-generated fees to promote retraining for native-born Americans.
How we regulate transport also needs a major overhaul. Among other things, the Jones Act needs to be abolished, ports and railways need to be automated and commerce in space must be encouraged and nurtured.
Finally, there are a host of smaller changes that need to be implemented. More modest fixes include allowing people to purchase better sunscreens, giving all patients access to ordering prescription glasses online and making telehealth services available to everyone—permanently. And that is just a small fraction of an ever-expanding list.
It remains uncertain if the public and policymakers will actually advance an abundance agenda.
Still, there are reasons to be hopeful. Recent polling conducted by my organization, The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, finds that people aged 18–29 are—among all age groups—the most optimistic about the future. It is also clear that young people want to own a home and build successful careers.
Making the right kind of arguments for the abundance agenda could be a winning ticket for future politicians. In fact, politicians today may already be jumping on board. Earlier this year, for example, Democrats and Republicans came together to pass the CHIPS Act, which will pump $52.7 billion into domestic semiconductor manufacturing. It is a landmark bill that came about because both sides wanted to counter China. It's not a bad reason, and it may be the impetus to passing more abundance items like the ones my colleagues at The Center for Growth and Opportunity have outlined for Congress.
I recently told my dad, by some reckonings, this is the year George Jetson was born. "I always wanted a flying car," he responded.
Truth be told, we aren't far off the timeline. "The Jetsons" is set 40 years in the future, and in the next decade, a new generation of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, also known as eVTOLs, is set to take the skies.
"The Jetsons" was a world where robots, floating cities and flying cars were the backdrop to life. If we are smart enough to work toward abundance, we can soon live in a world of flying cars as well as one with bountiful medical supplies.
But abundance offers more than just cool new stuff or even better access to necessary things. By creating substantially more wealth, an abundance agenda means more resources to solve big problems. And by creating a substantially wealthier society, abundance means more opportunities for more Americans of all stripes to pursue their professional and personal goals.
The best part is that we already have everything we need to make this new world a reality. Going forward, the only question is whether we will settle for continued stagnation or make the kind of decisions that take us toward a more abundant future.
The choice is ours. So let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.
This essay is the first in an ongoing series entitled The Abundance Agenda. At a time of slow economic growth and social and political dysfunction, it's clear that the way to a better and more prosperous future for the United States can be found in a wide range of pro-abundance policies touching on many areas, from energy to philanthropy. In this Discourse essay and the essays in the series that follow, we'll make the case that abundance is not just about economic growth, as important as that is. An "abundance agenda" is also necessary if we are to effectively tackle the great social, environmental and even political challenges our country faces and is essential if we are to successfully promote human flourishing.
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Authors of a recent study published in PLoS ONE questioned the use of two commonly prescribed presurgical tests in the US. They somewhat predictably found that while prothrombin time (PT) was ordered unnecessarily in 94.3 per cent of the cases, activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) was unnecessary in 99.9 per cent of cases. The authors, Capoor et al., point out that these tests were intended primarily to be diagnostic and there is no rationale to indicate their use in routine screens.
The sample was quite extensive, as it included 1,053,472 consecutive patients from 27 medical facilities enrolled from 2009 to 2012, with complete data gathered for 65 per cent of those patients. Thus, these findings have significant weight, considering that the US, and for that matter, all governments are striving to rationalise healthcare costs.
The authors of the PLoS ONE study conclude that over-diagnosis of disease seems to be a modern epidemic in high-income countries. But there is clear evidence of symptoms of this epidemic in India as well, spanning not just over-diagnosis but for instance, medical implants like heart stents.
Timed with World Heart Day on September 29, our lead story in the Cardiac Care special examines this controversial topic (See story, The Stent Saga, pages 42-45). While stent manufacturers tend to refute this allegation, cardiac surgeons weigh in on both sides of the debate.
There are already signs of regulation. For instance, cardiologists from AIIMS formed the Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM) last year, and with growing support, the initiative went national this May.
Globally too there is a move towards relooking practices and procedures, evolving towards a more rational healthcare model. Medical practitioners will feel that to 'test is best', simply to avoid medico-legal consequences but there has to be a balance between evidence and experience-driven clinical practice.
A decade later, as Chairman of his brainchild, Medanta-The Medicity, he still doesn't believe in mincing his words. Driven by a dream to "create a distinct identity of healthcare delivery that India provides", the good doctor has often courted controversy, like his unceremonious exit from Escorts to being slapped with a medical negligence charge when former Chief Justice of India JS Verma died of multiple organ failure at Medanta.
In the coming issues, we hope to feature the views of more state governments on their plans to implement healthcare schemes. Some states have announced schemes which prove that at least they are not afraid of trying out new models. For instance, take Rajasthan's announcement that it would run its primary health centres in a public-private-partnership mode. Such initiatives may have teething problems like the Chhattisgarh government's move to outsource diagnostic services in health facilities in 2013 which was put on hold pending a 'fresh look' at the gaps but today, we have some guidelines in place for the free diagnostics initiative under the National Health Mission as well as operational guidelines for mobile medical units. As policy evolves, there is also the sense that health is finally on the political agenda. Thanks no doubt to rockstars like Dr Trehan who take it upon themselves to champion the cause. More power to them.


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Jacek Matuszek (ur. 11 września 1985) – polski wspinacz – alpinista. Wicemistrz Polski w boulderingu z 2007. Paralotniarz łączący wspinanie i latanie.

Pomysłodawca polskiego zespołu wspinaczkowego Alpine Wall Tour (Jacek Matuszek i Łukasz Dudek).

Za zespołowe przejście Brento Centro 8b 900m – nominowany do Kolosów 2015 i nagrody Travelerów National Geographic.

W zespole Alpine Wall Tour skompletował Alpejską Trylogię i dokonał 1-ego powtórzenia drogi Hiszpańskiej 8b+/c 550m, 3-ciego powtórzenia drogi Project Fear 8c, 550m oraz 1-ego polskiego przejścia Bellavista 8b+, 550m.

W 2018 w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem wytyczył nową drogę Premiere 7b, 450m,R w Dolomitach.

Laureat nagrody im. Andrzeja Zawady, za pomysł wspinaczkowo-paralotniowego trawersu Dolomitów – climb&fly.

Współautor filmu "Alpine Wall Tour" i "Mama".

Ważniejsze wspinaczki

Wspinanie wielowyciągowe
 End of Silence X+ (8b+), Alpy Berchtesgadeńskie, Niemcy, sierpień 2013 (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)
 Des Kaisers neue Kleider X+ (8b+), Wilden Kaiser, Niemcy, sierpień 2014 (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)
 Silbergeier X+ (8b+), Rätikon, Szwajcaria, sierpień 2015[8]
 Brento Centro 8c 1000m, Monte Brento(wł.), Włochy, czerwiec 2015, drugie przejście (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)
 Bellavista 8c 500m, Dolomity, Włochy, sierpień 2015 (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)
 Project Fear 8c 550m, Dolomity, Włochy, sierpień 2017, trzecie przejście (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)
 Premiere 7b, IV, R, 450m, Dolomity, Włochy sierpień 2018 – nowa droga (w zespole z Łukaszem Dudkiem)

Wspinanie sportowe
wybrane przejścia:

 Ichi ban 8c, 90m, Zillertal, 2020 RP
 Fumar Perjudica 8c – Dol. Kluczwody 2012 RP
 Pata Negra 8c, Rodellar, 2010 RP
 Capoeira 8c – Dol. Kluczwody, 2009 RP

Bouldering
Jacek pokonał bouldery do 8A+.

W tym wytyczył kilka z przedziału 7C – 8A np. Wresling nie Zupa 8A, Rozmowy z Katem 7C.

Przypisy

Polscy wspinacze
Urodzeni w 1985
Polscy filmowcy

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'Swallows Under 13's test their metal' 30/06/04
Mmabatho Tournament - 11 June to 13 June 2004 - The Under-13, Moroka Swallows Youth Development team participated in a Tournament held in Mmabatho.
This team as invited to attend the Knowsley Liverpool Tournament in July/August 2004, but were unfortunate to raise enough money for the team to go on tour, despite desperate endeavours to do so. The proceeds that were raised were thus used for this tournament. The objective of the tournament was to give the team some other exposure and the opportunity to bond.
Twenty seven Under-13 players, departed for Mmabatho on Friday 11th June 2004. As soon as the party arrived, they had to go straight to the Mmabatho stadium where they played a select Under-15 side from Mafikeng. A 3-3 score drew the match. The players were very excited to play at such a magnificent stadium.
The team then reported back to the hotel to book in. A pleasant Friday evening was enjoyed by all players, parents, managers and coach's.
An early start on Saturday morning, 12 June 2004 brought the team into playing a tournament consisting of ten teams, originating from Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Mafikeng. Moroka Swallow Youth Development, entered two teams, namely 'Moroka - A' and 'Swallows - B' sides. All in all nine games were played by both teams. Some excellent soccer was experienced.
Balfour Park won the tournament, taking home the gold, with Moroka - A, finishing in the silver, one point behind the winners, after having won eight games and losing one Swallows - B, finished a creditable third, and brought home bronze medals.
Sandile Ngidi of Moroka Swallows was awarded with two additional trophies for 'Top Goal Scorer' and 'Player of the Tournament'.
The weekend had a beautiful atmosphere and the organisers of the tournament can be commended for all their hard work and commitment. We believe that development teams need more exposure in such tournaments, unfortunately the costs for creating this platform is always the deciding factor.
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LASU matriculates 7,968 students, VC charges character and learning
Lagos State University (LASU) yesterday matriculated about 7,968 students into the university system for 2020/2021 academy session.
Speaking at the ceremony, which was held both at the main campus and virtually, the Vice-chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, said the institution offered admission to 7,968 candidates for the 2020/2021academic session out of 21,626 applicants.
Fagbohun, charged the new students to ensure excellence in character and learning by the end of their programmes.
"During the 2020 admission screening exercise, we recorded 21,626 applications but we were only able to admit 7,968. Consequently, you should consider yourself lucky to be here. It is one thing to be here, it is another thing to earn your stay on campus.
"I have a strong feeling for this moment knowing that this is the last set of candidates that I will conduct their matriculation as the 8th substantive Vice-chancellor. Let me see you 10 years down the line and be proud of you.
According to him, "Your choice of LASU will help you sow seeds of change. As teeming adults, you must be ready to embrace the consequences of responsibility. We have rules at the Lagos State University -on dressing, cultism and conduct. Deviance from these rules can lead to accelerated graduation, i.e. expulsion, dismissal and rustication. It is imperative that you acquaint yourselves with the Student's Handbook."
The university Don also implored parents and guardians to keep up with their wards; saying, "Your support will go a long way in seeing them through life. We have an active Parents Forum that constantly liaises with the management and Faculty heads on matters that affect your ward. You should get involved."
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Well, I'm back. My apologies to those whose emails I've yet to respond to. I'm just a little overwhelmed right now with all the stuff I have to do. Yes, photos from India are forthcoming, but it will take a few days to upload them and label them, etc. But I've given you a taste above. This tomb is from a collection of seven Islamic tombs in Hyderabad, not far from the Golconda Fort.
I am a computer geek, a bit of a history geek and very much a science geek. But I am not a camera geek. Hence, it wasn't until late in my trip that I figured out how to use the video capture function on my digital camera. And it wasn't until just now that I realized that this function comes with audio! Had I been so revelated whilst in India, I would have recorded many more video snippets. Sadly, you must make do with what I managed to film: mostly rickshaw rides and random street scenes.
So for those so inclined, I've provided links to snippets of video from India on my new Home Movies page. Please read and respect the disclaimer at the top of that page.
The flight back to Canada was, as always, an experience. Within 20 minutes of taking off into the 14 hour flight, the woman to my left asked if she could exchange her middle seat for my aisle seat. I'm usually a very courteous and accomodating fellow. But India has taught me that courtesy often goes punished. (I had, on an earlier flight, given up my aisle seat so a family could sit together, and ended up squished between two fat guys for the duration.) So I was quick to say no, since I had specifically requested an aisle seat. But it made the rest of the flight a bit awkward. I wish she hadn't asked.
Arriving in Newark was odd. First, we were held up for 20 minutes while a woman overcame her fear of escalators. Then, US immigration chose to process all the US citizens first, from a series of incoming flights, which meant that all of us non-Americans had to languish for hours until every last US citizen was processed, then it was our turn. I'm not sure why this was done. Doesn't seem very efficient, since one would think that the international travellers (like me) are more likely to have time-sensitive connecting flights to make (like me).
Arriving in Ottawa was doubly odd. I was, of course, the only person selected for a baggage inspection. The customs official asked me to unpack my spanking new electric sitar and to play a song for them. Maybe they suspected that it was fake and filled with drugs? In any case, I obliged. So there I was, jetlagged and unwashed in an empty Ottawa airport, playing unplugged electric sitar to an audience of one.
Tomorrow: back to work. Sigh.


Manchester City are set to take on FC Basel in the UEFA Champions League first knockout round 1st leg game on tuesday night, 13 February 2018 at the St. Jakob-Park in Switzerland. The first leg is important for both sides, specially City who will be looking to finish off the tie in first leg while FC Basel who historically created all sorts of problems for English clubs over the years need to take a positive result back to Eithad to stand a chance of qualification. The game will kickoff at around 20:45 CET / 19:45 uk time.
Manchester City are playing away from home against FC Basel in a game which kicks off at traditional 7:45 p.m uk time. BT Sports has the live coverage rights in the UK and they will broadcast the match live starting 30 minutes before kickoff at BT Sports 2. This will be the first leg of the tie and second leg will be played couple of weeks later.
Team News & Short Preview: Manchester United qualified for Champions League via winning Europa League and Jose Mourinho has already laid out plan for this year's Champions League campaign. He wants his team to qualify for knockout stages and from there learn from the experience without any burden or expectations of winning the tournament. Its more of a learning curve as United go through transition. Its evident Mourinho has priorities Premier League title this season and he will stick to his guns just like last year when United put emphasis on winning Europa League rather than going all out for top 4 finish.
FC Basel are a decent side who were one of the reason's United knocked out of the group stages back in 2011. On paper this is pretty much given three points for United however Mourinho won't take Basel lightly considering he has kept De Gea in goal for United. Lukaku and Pogba should both start while players around them are set to exchanges places from the bench.
Manchester United last played FC Basel under Sir Alex Ferguson back in 2011 and they drew 3-3 at Old Trafford and lost 2-1 in Switzerland which ultimately knocked them out of the group stages.
Predictions: Not a hard one to predict this one. Looking at United's Europa League campaign last year United were formidable at home specially at the back. But they struggled to score goals going forward but with Lukaku, Rashford, Mkhitaryan and Martial in good form I can see them scoring at least a couple of goals and should keep a clean sheet at the back. Im going with a straight forward 2-0 win for United in this one.
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Dr. M. Newcome Schleier, Gregorio de Ferrari, Turin, 1998, pp. 125-126, under no. 103.
The present work is based on Gregorio de Ferrari's painting (130 x 100 cm.) in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa. Giolfi repeated the central figures from de Ferrari's upright composition, but enlarged the landscape background (see La Pittura del '600 a Genova, Milan, 1988, no. 300).
Please note that this lot is to be sold not subject to a reserve.


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On my way to work in knights bridge this morning again I noticed the windows of shops. Not for Harrods this time but for Harvey Nicoles. The theme is just stunning being a circus and acrobatics all within 'the big top', their windows.
They are still planning some of them so they are yet to all be completed. But they are still stunning!
My favorite has to be the water tank with all the bubbles representing the model being submersed in water. I will try and get some more photos when they are all completed.


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Successive governments fail to implement social, economic justice: Egypt NGOs
57 NGOs send report to UN claiming Egypt's successive governments failed to implement 25 January demands
Wednesday 9 Oct 2013
File photo: A protester holds up his palm during a protest for labour rights on Labour Day or May Day, in Cairo in this May 1, 2011 (Photo: Reuters)
Analysis: Egypt economy to avoid contraction with help of Arab aid, consumption
Egypt economy needs stimulus, gradual subsidy reform: Finance minister
Egypt economy in 'crisis management' mode: CBE governor
In a joint report, 57 Egyptian NGOs said successive governments have failed to implement the demands of the people regarding human dignity, social marginalisation and justice.
The report was sent to the United Nations' committee on economic, social and cultural rights, ahead of Egypt's annual presentation, which will take place in November.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights were among the NGOs to draft the report.
The report said authorities have not seized the opportunity to undertake important and necessary structural economic reforms amid political change. It also accused successive governments of ignoring "citizens' legitimate demands," and criticised the lack of transparency regarding the state's economic policies.
Egypt's economy has been suffering since the 25 January 2011 revolution that toppled longtime autocrat Hosny Mubarak. Tourism, a vital sector that accounts for 11% of the country's GDP, has been hard-hit by successive waves of unrest. Foreign investments have also witnessed a sharp decline.
The report also said the suppression of state subsidies would have a negative impact on the country's poverty rate, especially in the absence of efficient social solidarity networks.
There have been repeated calls for Egypt to cut its subsidies, which the poor rely on for basic necessities. During the 2012-2013 fiscal year, Egypt's subsidy bill reached nearly a third of its total budget expenditure.
The 2011 popular uprising was fueled by widespread discontent over worsening economic and social conditions. According to official statistics published in 2012, Egypt's poverty rate reached an average of 25.5 per cent for the year 2010/2011, compared to 21.6 per cent in 2008/2009.
A joint policy note, published in May 2013 by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Food Program, said a removal of food subsidies could further increase national poverty estimates to 34%.