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If I were going to buy an AirPlay speaker today, I'd get Audyssey's Audio Dock Air. Compared to other speakers that use Apple's proprietary streaming protocol, the Audio Dock Air is reasonably affordable (no small feat for AirPlay speakers), has a great form factor, and can produce big, room-filling, sound.
That said, AirPlay speakers are still very much a nascent category. So while we've seen a bunch of new offerings from companies like JBL, Logitech, iHome, and Altec Lansing this year, the fact is you're still going to pay an unnecessary premium for AirPlay compatibility—not to mention limit yourself to playing music through iOS devices. That's why we can still easily recommend something like the $300 Sonos Play:3 or a Bluetooth speaker if you truly want the most wireless bang for your buck. You'll not only get more flexibility with these speakers, you'll also get audio quality that at the very least rivals Apple's CD-quality AirPlay.
Here's why.
If your goal is to build out a multi-room audio setup, Sonos even has distinct advantages beyond price. Both the Play:5 and Play:3 use Sonosnet, a proprietary wireless network that's more reliable and robust than standard WiFi, which AirPlay uses. Airplay, on the other hand, must duke it out for bandwidth with other WiFi users in your home so when usage is high, reliability is affected and dropouts can occur (see Tim Gideon's critique of Audio Dock Air below). Sonos can also stream multiple sources to multiple rooms at the same time. ITunes also lets you create multiple listening zones, but you're limited to listening to the same thing in every zone. To play different music in different rooms like a Sonos systems allows, you'd need multiple iDevices or multiple instances of iTunes running.
Also, while AirPlay devices have the benefit of simply existing on your home network—eliminating the need to constant re-pairing—something like the bluetooth-based wireless speaker, the Big Jambox, can remember up to eight devices, which also does away with that annoyance. It will also be cheaper at $300 and work with more than just Apple devices.
Heck, you can now even invest in a $99 AirPort Express and use it with a Sonos or an existing speaker system. That would be another (better) option at this point. After all, if it's got a 3.5mm input (and is relatively close to a power outlet), it can be a AirPlay speaker.
But fine, we know that there are plenty of people out there who already have thriving Apple ecosystems at home and who just want a dedicated AirPlay speaker. And for them, the Audio Dock Air is definitely a solid choice. Lex Friedman of Macworld gives it 4 out of 5 mice and says this monolithic speaker generates some impressive sound, is easy to set up, and complements any genre of music. "I was satisfied with the Audio Dock's ability to fill even big rooms with sound," Friedman says. "Even at full volume, which falls just shy of ear-splitting levels, music playback was crisp and distortion-free."
Laptop Magazine agrees. "The Lower East Dock Air took everything we threw at it and more," says Sherri L. Smith. "Highs, lows, and everything in between sounded rich and balanced."
Sam Biddle at Gizmodo recently compared four AirPlay speakers (the Libratone Live, the Audyssey Audio Dock Air, the Logitech UE Air Speaker and the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12) and says the Audyssey made short work of the more expensive competition, earning a score of 4.5/5. "The Audio Dock Air is just fantastic: a little heavy on bass, but able to fill a room with incredibly rich sound, across genres," he says. "It's only about the width of couple dictionaries, but the sound is not confined to any given bookshelf, dresser, or countertop. Even with poor apartment acoustics, a room swells with bright highs, satisfying lows, and terrifically sharp fidelity."
There are some downsides, of course. While he ultimately gave the Audio Dock Air a respectable 3.5/5 score, PC Mag's Tim Gideon had considerable connection difficulties on his home Wi-Fi network. He also warns that these are not speakers for people looking for accurate or flat sound. "AirPlay's sound quality is actually pretty impressive, with strong bass performance," he says. "The Audio Air Dock only adds to the bass experience; Even at low-to-moderate volumes, one might say it sounds 'thunderous.'" If you're hoping to take that thunderous sound away from an outlet, you're out of luck. Unfortunately, despite being a very portable 5 lbs, the Air Dock is not battery powered.
And yes, other AirPlay systems out there sound better. If you're one percenter and don't mind dropping $600, the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air is a good choice. Critics almost universally love it. Frankly, I think it's still an insane given that you can directly hook an Airport Express up to something like Audioengine's A5 and not just better sound, but a much wider soundstage. Total cost? $400. (Sound and Vision's Geoffrey Morrision has a great piece on building a AirPlay/Wi-Fi compatible audio system, if you're interested.) The $500 Altec Lansing InAir 5000 and the $400 Sony RDP-XA700IP are both slightly more affordable than the B&W and have also been well received. But again, you can spend your money more effectively.
As for the cheaper AirPlay speakers, yes they do exist. But even opting for something like the new JBL OnBeat Air you'll be paying more than you should, reviewers say. Even with its $200 price tag, PC Mag's Gideon says the OnBeat Air is vastly underpowered and can distort on deep bass tracks.
There's no doubt that AirPlay speakers will get better and cheaper over time. And we'll continue to take into consideration any new speakers that come out. But as Biddle says, for now, the Audyssey Audio Dock Air "is a near-perfect split between a fair price, splendid sound, and friendly form."
If you want to see what else is out there in the wireless speaker realm, check out our favorite Bluetooth speakers, the $300 Big Jambox and the more budget minded $100 Soundfreaq Sound Kick SFQ-04, as well as our best pick for multi-room wireless: the Sonos Wireless Zone Players.
Airplay speakers aren't our favorite, but if you definitely know you want one, the Audyssey's Audio Dock Air takes the most balanced approach.
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- Audyssey Audio Dock Air on Audyssey
- Audyssey Audio Dock on Amazon, 4/5 stars (7 reviews)
- Lex Friedman, Macworld, Audyssey Lower East Side Audio Dock Air, 4/5 mice, March 30, 2012, "The passive radiators offer an impressive degree of oomph—you can feel the bass presence even at moderate volumes."
- Sherri L. Smith, Laptop Magazine, Audyssey Lower East Side Dock Air Review, 4/5 stars, December 12, 2011, "This AirPlay-enabled speaker packs great audio no matter the music genre and is well worth the $400 price tag."
- Tim Gideon, PC Magazine, Audyssey Audio Dock Air, 3.5/5, "With its boosted bass, the Audyssey Audio Dock Air is an AirPlay dock intended for lovers of low frequencies, but it has some occasional streaming issues."
- Sam Biddle, Gizmodo, The Best AirPlay Speakers, Bestmodo (Gizrank: 4.5/5 stars), May 3, 2012, "Audyssey has made terrific small speakers and docks, and they've finally made the one folks have wanted all along. The Audio Dock Air is just fantastic: a little heavy on bass, but able to fill a room with incredibly rich sound, across genres."


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DENVER - The Calgary Flames stayed out of last place and halted a dubious streak in the process.
Not a bad night in a season that's hardly lived up to expectations.
Mike Cammalleri broke a second-period tie and Joey MacDonald stopped a season-high 39 shots, helping the Flames snap a 13-game road winless streak with a 3-1 victory over the slumping Colorado Avalanche on Monday.
Roman Cervenka also scored and Alex Tanguay added a late short-handed goal to wrap up the win for the Flames in a game that featured the bottom two teams in the NHL.
Now, they're three points clear of Colorado in a race to stay out of the league's cellar.
"I don't want to say it was one of those games that we had to win, but we are obviously extremely happy, and hopefully we can get a winning streak going," said forward Roman Horak, who had two assists as his team won on the road for the first time since Feb. 17 at Dallas. "It was huge for us."
Brad Malone scored his first NHL goal for the Avalanche, who have dropped five straight games. That his team couldn't generate any more of an offensive attack infuriated veteran goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere.
"We spend too much time in our own zone. That's hard. We know we can score some goals, we have some offensive tools, but when you spent part of your second period and you give them too many scoring chances, it's not going to win games like that," Giguere said. "We talk about it every day. At some point, we have to understand. There's no more excuse. It's not about being young. We have to put our head into the game."
MacDonald came up big late in the third period, stopping a point-blank backhanded shot by Matt Duchene and weathering back-to-back hooking penalties on Cervenka in the final 5 minutes.
""It has been awhile since we won," MacDonald said. "It's a nice win."
Tanguay gave the Flames some breathing room when he skated in all alone and beat Giguere over his right shoulder with just over 3 minutes remaining. Down two goals and up a skater with 2 minutes left, the Avs pulled Giguere but couldn't score.
These days, the bounces simply aren't going Colorado's way.
"You work for your bounces," Avs coach Joe Sacco said. "When we get chances right now, we're not having the ability to finish them off. We're around the cage but we're not finishing them off."
There was a scary moment early in the third period when referee Brad Meier was hit in the left leg by a puck that an Avalanche defenceman was attempting to clear. Meier crumpled to the ice and stayed down for several minutes before gingerly skating into the dressing room.
Trailing 1-0 midway through the second period, Cervenka tied the game when he beat Giguere with a wrist shot. Six minutes later, Horak took advantage of an Avalanche miscue to corral the puck near the goal and quickly flipped it to a wide-open Cammalleri, who shot the puck over Giguere's shoulder.
It was Cammalleri's 12th goal of the season. The goal also helped the Flames snap a five-game losing streak. Their last win was at home on March 27 against Colorado.
Malone gave the Avalanche a lead early in the second period when he tipped in a shot from Tyson Barrie. Malone was just called up from Lake Erie of the American Hockey League last week. He's known more for his physical presence — he led the Monsters with 99 penalty minutes — but also had 10 goals.
"Getting that first one is great, but it's about winning in this league," Malone said.
The Flames dominated a penalty-filled first period, but couldn't score on Giguere. They even had a 5-on-3 opportunity for 1:36 that only produced two shots.
This is a season that's gone downhill for both Calgary and Colorado. They're now contending not for a playoff spot but for the first pick of the NHL draft this summer.
"Right now this game is about what kind of percentage we are going to get on the draft picks," Tanguay explained. "It's hard to get motivated for that. We are professionals. We show up. It's not a good situation."
For Duchene, being in last place is "embarrassing," especially since he thought this team could contend in a lockout-shortened season.
"We were right there for a while and hit the skids," Duchene said. "Had we gone the other way, we're in a playoff spot. But it came to that crunch time and we weren't able to perform way we should have."
NOTES: Calgary centre Jiri Hudler (upper body) didn't play against the Avs. He's day-to-day, coach Bob Hartley said after the game. ... Tanguay scored his fifth career short-handed goal. ... Avs F Paul Stastny (foot) will practice Tuesday and may play Wednesday in Anaheim. Stastny has missed the last eight games. ... F Milan Hejduk (shoulder) skated with the team Monday morning, but isn't any closer to a return. ... The Avs were 6-for-6 in killing penalties on Monday.


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Spain Compromises on Abortion Reform Bill
Spain's ruling Socialist Party agreed last week to remove a provision to their abortion reform bill that would have allowed girls between age 16 and 18 to obtain abortions without their parents' knowledge. The revised version of the bill also includes a provision that allows doctors who register as "conscientious objectors" to refuse to perform the procedure. The center-right Basque Nationalist Party will now vote for the bill "as its demands have been incorporated," according to Agence France Presse.
The new version of the bill allows for an exception to the parental notification provision if there is a "certain danger of family violence, threats, pressure, abuse, family exclusion, or distress." Carmen Monton, the Spanish Socialist Party's spokeswoman on women's issues said, "the important thing is that the consent comes from women, regardless of age...The parents will be informed and there will be exceptions. I thinks it's a good agreement," according to the Associated Press.
Currently, abortion is legal in Spain only in cases of rape, severe fetal abnormalities, or when the mother's mental or physical health is at risk. The proposed reforms would legalize abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. If a mother's health is at risk or if the fetus has a serious or incurable illness, the procedure will be permitted up to 22 weeks.
The reform of abortion laws is part of the social change program undertaken by Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose Socialist government has removed religion from the public education curriculum, reformed divorce laws, and legalized gay marriage since assuming power in 2004.
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Cork to Mark St Patrick's Weekend with Move to Become Global Smart and Connected City
Cork, Ireland and San Francisco, USA, Thursday, 14th March 2013: San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will make history this weekend by leading the US city's parade from Cork.
Mayor Lee will march in the St Patrick's Day Cork parade, and on the previous day (Saturday 16th ) using Cisco TelePresence will virtually lead the San Francisco parade via a live stream to the crowds watching on their mobile devices and smartphones in San Francisco's Civic Plaza. To view the broadcast including traditional music and dancing from Cork in Ireland, tune in starting at 13.30pm PDT / 20.30 pm Irish time to http://ustream.tv/ciscotv. Download the Ustream app on your mobile device for the optimal viewing experience, and join in on Twitter using the hashtag #StPatricksDay
It's the first time a Mayor will lead St Patrick's Day parades on both sides of the Atlantic, and it's just one part of a fun and technology packed weekend that could see Cork become a 'future city'.
"The ability to virtually lead the San Francisco St Patrick's parade from Cork is just one example of the exciting opportunities which today's technology creates," commented Tim Lucey, Cork City Manager. "This follows on the recent success of the ITLG Conference which took place in City Hall, Cork in January and which saw over 40 US investors and senior executives take part. We aim to explore the opportunities that new technology such as this provides for the benefit of jobs, business and citizens in Cork."
Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor John Buttimer added, "I am delighted to welcome Mayor Lee and his official delegation from San Francisco to Cork for our St Patrick's Festival. The fact that Mayor Lee has chosen Cork for his first international visit shows the strength of the twinning relationship between Cork and San Francisco. I am very excited to be addressing the St Patricks Day parade in San Francisco from Cork with Mayor Lee and I look forward to the weekend's events."
"Ireland has a city centric population. Globally world populations are shifting to urban centres. As a result community leaders are increasingly pressed for answers to problems including budget and resource constraints, aging infrastructure and the impact of global warming," commented Adam Grennan, Cisco Ireland general manager. "Cisco Smart+Connected Communities solutions use intelligent networking capabilities to bring together people, services, community assets and information to help community leaders address these world challenges."
The programme will explore how Cork can most cost effectively implement a Smart+ Connected Community for the benefit of the city and the country. Programmes in other cities include walk in centres where entrepreneurs and other business people can use the latest video conferencing technology to connect with prospects and customers globally.
In San Francisco, Cisco is collaborating with the city to develop several Smart+Connected Community projects aligned with the vision of a 'Sustainable 21st Century San Francisco' which builds on the memorandum of understanding signed with California Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom during his visit to Cisco's Bangalore campus in 2009. The Connected Urban Development program, which has been jointly promoted by Cisco and the city since 2006, was born from Cisco's commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to reduce carbon emissions. The Urban EcoMap initiative is an extension of the engagement between Cisco and the City and County of San Francisco, resulting in projects such as the Urban EcoMap and the Connected Bus.
Also as part of the St Patrick's Day Telepresence broadcast, Cisco, in conjunction with the Irish Technology Leadership Group, will announce the 2013 Cisco Transatlantic CoderDojo Software Innovation Challenge, a competition for CoderDojo kids. CoderDojo is a youth club movement teaching children aged seven to 17 about software, programming and technology. The competition, which is open to children here and in the US, has a $5,000 prize fund for the winning individual or team.
Barry O'Sullivan, senior vice president, Cisco, said, "Cisco is always looking at ways to encourage young people to get involved in science, technology, engineering and maths, and CoderDojo is one exciting way for children to get their first taste of tech. It's initiatives like these which can spark a lifelong interest and create the tech stars of tomorrow."
James Whelton, co-founder of CoderDojo, said, "Cisco is the largest networking company in the world, responsible for much of the internet's architecture and the software that drives it. The "Cisco Transatlantic CoderDojo Challenge" is a great way for kids to gain a better understanding of the software and code that makes the internet work, how to leverage it and shape it's future."
Supporting resources:
- To watch the live stream of the TelePresence session between the Imperial Hotel in Cork and City Hall in San Francisco, please visit http://ustream.tv/ciscotv starting from 13.30 pm PDT on Saturday March 16th (20.30pm Irish time). Viewers may watch on desktop computers or smart phones and tablet devices.
- Join in the conversation and enjoy the festivities on Twitter using the hashtag #StPatricksDay
- On Sept 26, 2012 Cisco announced the acquisition of ThinkSmart Technologies, headquartered in Cork, Ireland. ThinkSmart's location analytics technology complements Cisco's networking infrastructure and expertise by providing location analytics to customers to more effectively analyze end user behaviour. To learn more visit this blog.
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OK, here's the situation… Anyone familiar with the DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince hit song (or Leslie Knope's tribute to it in Parks and Recreation) knows that it is generally believed that "parents just don't understand." This can seem especially true for comedians and other people that choose to pursue their interests in the arts. But maybe some of our parents understand us a little more than we may think. In our new series, "You Should Call Your Parents," comedians will interview their parents to find out how they feel about their offspring's pursuit of the stage.
Kristen Schier: What did you think when you found out I was performing comedy?
Marilyn Schier: My first thoughts when you said you wanted to perform comedy were: "Gosh, I hope she doesn't want to move to New York," closely followed by, "she still needs a 'real' job to buy food."
KS: Are there things you remember about me growing up that explain why I became a comedian. Or is it a total surprise to you?
MS: When you were growing up I knew you were destined for the stage. I remember one time when you and your sister (you were about 3) performed a rain dance on a piano bench for everyone at Doris' house. Your sister played the piano (not well, she was 4) and you interpreted the music through dance. Then there was the time we were driving back to Emerald Isle from Wilmington, NC and you had me laughing so hard in the car that I missed the turn and ended up on a very dark road in Camp LeJeune with guys dressed in camouflage and carrying M-16's. I told you not to say another word until we got back to the beach house.
KS: In your own words, explain to me what it is you think I do?
MS: I am pretty sure I know what you do, I am just not sure how you do it or where it came from. Neither your father or I are very funny, but you, my dear, are hysterical. Even when I come down for breakfast or lunch, you usually say something while we are driving around that is either mildly offensive or makes me laugh.
KS: Who are some of your favorite comedians?
MS: Well, I love early Bill Cosby. Lots of those older comedians whose names I can't remember and they are all probably dead now anyway.
KS: What do you wish I was doing with my life?
MS: My dreams for you have come true. You are doing something that you love doing and that's the best job in the world. I am, have been, and always will be very proud of you.
Kristen Schier is one half of the Philadelphia-based improv duo The Amie & Kristen Show/The Kristen & Amie Show, as well as a Philly Improv Theater instructor; improv instructor at University of the Arts; director for PHIT House Team ZaoGao; and Artistic Director for the short-form Philadelphia improv group The N Crowd.
If you are a Philadelphia-area comedian who'd like to interview one (or both) of your parents send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. Go ahead, do it. You should really call your parents more anyways.
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love it. I think there is something in all performers that started to show early on in one aspect or another. Your mother is right, you are hysterical. Gotta bring a piano bench to PHIT and do a re-enactment sometimes with Amie banging on the keys.. ha. hugs ~ Rob


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A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - voted one of Scotland's top 10 political websites.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The right of Scottish Labour MPs to deny equal marriage rights to English people - is this the elusive 'union dividend'?
But of course there is something else. Without the union, several Scottish Labour MPs would never have had the opportunity to vote against marriage equality for gay people in England and Wales, on a bill that has no relevance to Scotland at all. As Duncan Hothersall would doubtless remind us, that's what this whole union shebang is all about. Internationalism. Solidarity. Inequality (but only for English people).
Naturally the six SNP MPs abstained, as they do on all non-Scottish legislation. When Pete Wishart pointed out that Labour's Willie Bain (a supporter of the bill) and his colleagues perhaps ought to consider doing the same, this was the rather extraordinary Sir Humphrey-esque response -
"I am grateful for that intervention, but I urge the hon. Gentleman to check clause 10, parts 2 and 3, and schedules 2, 5 and 6. He is sure to find that they apply to his constituents and mine in Scotland."
Doesn't that make you feel proud to be British?
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This was the verdict of comedian Susan Calman on Tuesday night's events -
"Well done Westminster. Now, before I can get married someone else needs to do something. *stares at Holyrood. Coughs. Stares again*"
I have no problem with the latter sentiment, even though it's just a matter of time. But someone really ought to disabuse Ms Calman of the notion that "Westminster" has actually legislated for equal marriage. It may yet do so. But if you want to make swift progress on social reform, as a general rule of thumb it's best not to have bishops and "elected hereditaries" doing the legislating for you.
If anyone has any lingering doubt that the unelected nature of the Lords compromises Britain's credentials as a fully-fledged democracy, take a moment to consider this authoritative opinion from PB's resident legal expert on why the Parliament Act (ensuring the supremacy of the Commons) is so rarely invoked -
"The reason...is because usually the Lords doesn't reject government Bills in principle, but modifies them. It is generally far more convenient for the government to accept Lords amendments and get their Bill through, than to have the whole Bill in limbo for a year for the sake of a one or two clauses."
There you have it. The unelected Lords is a "revising chamber", absolutely - but it's revision by blackmail. That's democracy, UK-style, folks - and people still have the nerve to ask "what is the problem to which independence is the solution?"
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I mentioned Duncan Hothersall earlier - he must be reeling with disbelief at the news that Labour's NEC voted earlier this week to cancel the party's membership of the Socialist International, and to take up observer status instead. Duncan always told us that Labour was nothing if not an international movement - well, it looks like it's nothing. Meanwhile, the SNP of course remains a leading member of the European Free Alliance, a registered European political party that promotes progressive values and democratic self-determination.
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I'm sure most of you will already have seen this, but Wings Over Scotland's RevStu has launched a fund-raising appeal to enable him to run the site as a full-time journalistic endeavour. Full disclosure - I haven't personally got round to donating yet (I'm a bit stretched at the moment!), but I do think this is a great cause, and a fantastic opportunity for supporters of independence to make a real difference. Direct funding of the Yes campaign (and of the SNP) is of course absolutely vital as well, but one thing it can't and won't do is address the horrific imbalance in media coverage of the referendum. RevStu's initiative is a rare chance to do something about that.
Don't get me wrong - I don't concur with every dot and comma that RevStu writes, and indeed I passionately disagree with him on some subjects. Regular readers will recall that I clashed with him on NATO membership and the morality of using nuclear weapons. But that isn't the point. The question facing Scotland over the next 21 months is "Independence - Yes or No?", and there is quite simply no better written-word advocate for the Yes side than RevStu. Anyone who reads the site will have seen comments from people who openly admit that they were hostile to independence or undecided until they discovered Wings - but have since been converted. In a modest way, what RevStu does reminds me of how Thomas Paine engaged the hearts and minds of the apathetic majority in the run-up to the American Declaration of Independence, by encouraging critical thought, and by making people realise that they are far more intelligent than they previously believed. In January, Wings reached an unprecedented audience of 30,000 - can you imagine the potential impact if the site could reach ten times that figure? OK, not all of them would be in Scotland, but even if half of them were that would still constitute roughly 3% of the entire Scottish population.
Newsnet Scotland also has a part to play, but Wings is far superior because it treats its readers as grown-ups, and doesn't feed them one-dimensional propaganda. James Mackenzie once said in his (mercifully) inimitable style that "the guy" (RevStu) is "part of the problem, to say the least". Au contraire, monsieur. Whatever else might be said of him, he's part of the solution. Only a part, to be sure, but definitely of the solution. If you agree, you can read the fund-raising appeal in full by clicking HERE.
Of course, every effort to redress the media imbalance always seems to have the shortcoming of being online-only, and this one is no exception. Even in this day and age, there are plenty of Scots who rarely if ever use the internet, and who are therefore unreachable by pro-independence websites. But with time marching on, I suppose we have little option but to restrict ourselves to the art of the possible.
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Ms Calman eh! One would have thought that the Daughter of convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution would have known better.ReplyDelete
Labour's (so I guess by them being the only people he doesn't criticise) Loveandgarbage was banging on about this yesterday, saying the SNP "weren't bothered" about the Equal Marriage LegislationReplyDelete
Pete Wishart assured him that theybhad, but felt it was an English bill.
There is no way to separate the English Bill from the Scottish provisions. I would put a bet that if the SNP had coted on the Bill, there would be cries of hypocrisy.
Our politicians are full of some childish twerps
" In a modest way, what RevStu does reminds me of how Thomas Paine engaged the hearts and minds of the apathetic majority in the run-up to the American Revolution, by encouraging critical thought, and by making people realise that they are far more intelligent than they previously believed."ReplyDelete
Crivvens. Thanks! I wouldn't put it quite so grandly, but I much prefer your interpretation to James Mackenzie's at least :)
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2013 at 10:43 PM
Can I just say, having enjoyed reading all the parts of your article above, that I concur with you on the subject of Wings Over Scotland, and Rev Stu . The site/magazine is doing a fantastic job in debunking the garbage spewing from the Better Together campaign.ReplyDelete
Like you, I don't agree with everything he writes, and I don't agree with everything you write either (I'm trying very hard, and failing, to think of anyone I've always agreed with), but that doesn't diminish my undying admiration for the work both of you do in our cause.
I'd say that if you, James, ever decide to do the same thing, I will be more than happy to make a contribution to your site too.
Thank you both.
That's unbelievably generous of you, Tris, but in all honesty I think I'd lose the will to live if I ever tried to write this blog full-time! (Come to think of it, I sometimes lose the will to live writing it anyway...)ReplyDelete
You do a marvellous job writing Munguin's Republic in your spare time, keeping up an extraordinary pace that I can only marvel at.
I would contribute too if you put up an appeal. Cannot stand Rev Stu's football articles but like the way he debunks the Better Together nonsense.ReplyDelete
I'm bored senseless by the football articles, but you know what? I don't have to click on them!ReplyDelete
RevStu has pointed out that the football articles have been instrumental in drawing hordes of readers to the blog who would never have encountered it otherwise. I think the rest of us can go find a classical music blog to read for half an hour or so, it's all in a good cause.
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 11:54 PM
That's very kind of you, James. Thank you. It means a great deal to me.ReplyDelete


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) The only passes from Christian Ponder that didn't sail over a receiver's head or bounce harmlessly out of bounds seemed to land in the arms of a Green Bay defender just as the Minnesota Vikings were approaching the end zone.
At one point, the beleaguered quarterback went nearly 39 minutes of game action without completing a pass, rendering moot another breath-taking performance from Adrian Peterson.
Yet through all the struggles, all the poor footwork and all the back-breaking mistakes that allowed a winnable road game against a division opponent to swirl down the drain, coach Leslie Frazier stuck with Ponder. And he sticks by him still.
Frazier said Monday he never considered pulling Ponder against the Packers and believes he is the QB that gives the team the best chance to win against Chicago this week.
``It hasn't come up any time this season where I thought we needed to pull him out of a game,'' Frazier said. ``That hasn't occurred.''
Frazier acknowledged such unwavering support, whether solely his decision or a result of a directive from the front office that drafted Ponder in the first round last season, has the potential to rankle other players in the locker room - players who seem to be held to a different standard of accountability.
``I've thought about that a lot because when you're struggling at a position, the guys know how we talked about everybody doing their jobs and why it's important for us to have our success,'' Frazier said. ``You don't want to send mixed messages at any position.''
The Vikings led the Packers 14-10 at halftime, jumping on Peterson's broad shoulders to move into position for a commanding lead early in the third quarter when Peterson ripped off a 48-yard run to the Green Bay 12-yard line. Ponder was intercepted in the end zone on the next play.
With Percy Harvin missing his third straight game, Ponder didn't complete a pass to a wide receiver until late in the fourth quarter. The putrid air game allowed the Packers to weather a 210-yard day from Peterson and a shaky performance from their own offense to drop the Vikings to 6-6.
Ponder's struggles were so glaring that Frazier was asked repeatedly Monday about his reluctance to play backup Joe Webb in the second half. Webb has provided a spark periodically over the past two seasons, including games at Philadelphia in 2010 and at Washington last year.
Frazier has shown a willingness to rotate players during games at other positions, including safety with Jamarca Sanford and Mistral Raymond, and right guard with Brandon Fusco and Geoff Schwartz. But the coach said Monday he approaches quarterback with a different view, one that values continuity above all else.
``I think there's something there where in my mind you don't want to get into a situation where you're not sure who your No. 1 is,'' Frazier said. ``We believe that Christian is our No. 1. ... That being said, if things get to a point where your No. 1 is really costing you some situations that could preclude winning, you do have to do what's best for the football team.''
It's getting harder for Frazier to argue that Ponder remains the right choice for the Vikings. They started the season 5-2 thanks in part to Ponder's steady play, but have dropped four of the last five while he has crumbled.
Ponder entered the fourth quarter Sunday with just five completions in the game, all on one drive. He finished 12 of 25 for 119 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. In this pass-happy era of the NFL, Ponder has actually thrown for 76 fewer yards than Peterson has rushed for over the last six games.
For a team holding faint hopes for a playoff berth, the imbalance to the offense has been the biggest reason for its recent downfall.
The unwillingness to go to Webb, even temporarily, would seem an indictment on the depth at the position. The Vikings cut veteran Sage Rosenfels in favor of Webb and developmental quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, giving them three young and largely unproven players at the game's most important position.
Frazier said Monday the team is confident Webb would do well if called upon. But he doesn't see the need right now.
``We believe that Christian is going to continue to develop and grow and be the quarterback that we all expect him to be,'' Frazier said. ``That being said, there's a lot riding on this next ballgame for our football team, and I'm sure there are a lot of guys looking and wondering if we can get it done under the current situation. I believe we can. I believe we'll play better, not only at the quarterback position but at other positions as well. We'll need to as a team.''
NOTES: Frazier said DE Jared Allen would get an MRI after having back spasms, but expected him to be ready for the Bears. ... C John Sullivan has bruised ribs that are considered a minor injury, and it's still too early to say if Harvin's sprained left ankle will be ready to go this week.
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Yogurt taps: Sweet Frog leaps into town
Sweet Frog, the new frozen yogurt place beside the Mudhouse on the Downtown Mall, officially opened today just in time for Fridays after Five.
Owners Giovanni Sestito and Robert Lupica were out pinning up the "now open" sign on the awning and fretting a bit about having to open on such a busy evening.
However, Dish had a chance to sample the goods yesterday and we don't think the duo has much to worry about.
The blueberry, peanut butter, and mango yogurts we sampled tasted remarkably fresh, plus there's an impressive array of toppings to choose from. It's also self-serve. Grab a cup, belly up to one of the yogurt machines (which look like those soft-serve ice cream machines ) dispensing your chosen flavor, place your cup under the nozzle, and pull the tap down. Then go over to the toppings bar and add what you like. At checkout they'll weight your cup and charge you 39 cents an ounce.
As Lupica emphasizes, all the yogurt is non-fat, rich in calcium, high in vitamin B12, and gluten free.
Ironically, there wouldn't be a Sweet Frog if it weren't for Joe Gieck, the Downtown property owner who demolished the historic fa§ade of the building, once home to the Victory Shoe Store, last November without Board of Architectural Review approval. The BAR reluctantly accepted a historical reinterpretation of the fa§ade from Gieck, but he could still face a hefty fine for the unauthorized demo, up to double the value of the property. According to deputy City attorney Richard Harris, no decision has been made yet on whether or not to fine him for the indiscretion.
"Opening as Sweet Frog was a consequence of all the delays," says Sestito, who owns Vita Nova on the Mall as well, pointing out that he and Lupica had originally planned to open the place as Yofina more than a year ago. During the delays caused by the unauthorized demo, says Sestito, the original Sweet Frog on West Broad Street in Richmond, near the Short Pump Town Center, came up for sale. Lupica happened to live nearby and had always admired the business, so he bought it and decided to duplicate the concept here in Charlottesville.
Sestito says they plan to be open from 11am to 10pm seven days a week. There's also a sweet promotion being advertised–look for it in the print edition of the Hook!
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Want to correct the "and" now?
How do you know it's overpriced?
I assume it is 0.39 cents an ounce, not pound.
should not assume. makes an ass out of u and me.
I have a real comment. My friends and I went there Friday night, it was very refreshing on a hot summer night and the people were very friendly. As a matter of fact my girlfriend has been back several times and really likes it. Good luck Sweet Frog!!!!
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WOW! Ten pounds of frozen yougurt for $3.90
Yes, it's 39 cents and ounce. Its been corrected. Thanks for noticing, guys.
what exactly is ironic about that?
I was there Friday night too. What do you look like? I saw a group of girls walk in as I was leaving and one of them stole my heart


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That is the strange and terrible way of inflation, said State Street Global senior portfolio manager Chris Goolgasian in a panel talk on Thursday at Morningstar ETF Invest 2012. Inflation has a way of appearing to be a distant threat before it sneaks up suddenly and starts driving prices through the roof.
Quoting from Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises," Goolgasian took note of a passage where a man is asked how he went bankrupt. "Two ways," the man answered. "Gradually, then suddenly."
"The danger is in the future, and it's important to manage portfolios for the future," Goolgasian concluded. "Real assets can give you some assurance against that chance."
Also appearing on "The Inflation Boogeyman—How Do I Protect My Portfolio?" panel was currency guru Axel Merk, who recently spoke with AdvisorOne about his Merk Hard Currency Fund and how the currency sector can be used as an inflation hedge.
On Thursday at Morningstar ETF Invest, Merk also put forward a case in favor of investing in gold, while acknowledging its volatility.
"It's the purest indicator of the monetary madness that's out there," Merk (left) said. "The rise of gold correlates perfectly with central bank easing around the globe. Gold by all means should do well, but we realize that it's volatile."
Like Merk, Northern Trust is overweight gold, said panel speaker Mark Carlson, a fixed income investment strategist for FlexShares exchange traded funds at Northern Trust Global Investments.
Carlson believes that the conditions have been set for inflation given the vast amount of liquidity – to the tune of $6 trillion excess liquidity – that has been unleashed into the marketplace thanks to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program. And regardless of how fast or slow the inflation boogeyman sneaks up, it's best for investors to prepare for inflation in their portfolios now, Carlson said.
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That remains my mission but times have changed. The internet has made it easier to market and deliver legal services anywhere in the world with the result that my work now comes from all parts of the UK and overseas. Amendments to CPR Part 63 and the Part 63 Practice Direction enable the Patents County Court to provide a cost-effective forum for the resolution of intellectual property disputes for litigants throughout England and Wales. It has been obvious to me for over two years that if I was to continue to provide the best possible service for my clients I had to be in London.
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Financial Planning Association CEO Lauren Schadle said during an interview on Monday that membership in the planner's association has "stabilized" at the 23,000-plus mark, and reported a 4% increase in the retention rate among FPA members who are also CFPs.
As part of finding "operational efficiencies" in FPA, a focus Schadle announced when she took the reins of FPA last August from Marv Tuttle, Schadle argued that FPA realized it couldn't "be all things to all people." She said that she and Mike Branham, the group's 2013 president, and other board members looked at the "40-plus committees and councils" at the FPA and have "pared down" that list, with an eye toward determining what best could be accomplished by FPA staffers and what could best be handled by its member volunteers. When asked if she was pleased with the progress made in identifying those efficiencies, Schadle said, "I'm comfortable. But happy? Ask me in a year."
Regardless, Schadle said FPA would continue to focus on its CFP members, on fostering the diverse communities within the overall community of the FPA, on advocacy, professional education and on providing tools and resources to help members run stronger businesses. The group remains committed to "finding its value proposition" and communicating it to members and prospective members, "delivering benefits in the way that members want it." Core to that value prop is the FPA community itself, seen in programs like Mentor Match, which connects veteran planners with younger advisors, and in reverse mentoring of those veterans by younger planners.
In the same interview, Branham cited himself as a beneficiary of the FPA's peer-networking and career support capabilities. When he joined the wealth management firm Cornerstone Wealth Advisors in Edina, Minn., Cornerstone principal and noted advisor Jonathan Guyton "told me on the second day that I had to join FPA," Branham joked. He did join FPA and became involved in NexGen, one of the FPA "communities of interest" that comprises younger planners. Branham became president of NexGen, a group he eventually "aged" out of before becoming a leader in FPA.
He joined the FPA Board in 2009 and became FPA president-elect last year before assuming his current leadership role. "My career wouldn't have progressed as it has without membership in FPA," he declares. Schadle suggested Branham's experience showed not only why membership is important, but how its value changes over time. "People might join for different reasons than they stay," she says.
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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on November 27, 2017
At the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will pay an official visit to China and hold the second China-Canada Prime Ministers' Annual Dialogue from December 3 to 7.
As important countries in the Asia-Pacific region, China and Canada have extensive converging interests and enjoy broad space for cooperation. Presently, the China-Canada relations maintain a sound momentum of growth and are faced with important opportunities for further development. The two countries boast frequent high-level exchanges and exchanges at other levels and maintain close communication and coordination on international and regional issues with positive progress being achieved in pragmatic cooperation in various areas. The Chinese side attaches great importance to developing its relations with Canada and is willing to join hands with the Canadian side to enhance political mutual trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation, expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit so as to move forward the China-Canada strategic partnership.
This visit is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's second visit to China since he assumed office, which aims to hold the second China-Canada Prime Ministers' Annual Dialogue with Premier Li Keqiang. During his stay in Beijing, President Xi Jinping and Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau respectively. The leaders of the two countries will have an extensive and in-depth exchange of views on the bilateral, regional and global issues of common interest. We believe that this visit will inject new impetus into the growth of the China-Canada strategic partnership.
At the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs Damdin Tsogtbaatar will pay an official visit to China from December 3 to 5.
China and Mongolia are each other's important close neighbors. The development of China-Mongolia relations serves the interests of the two countries and two peoples. Since the new administration of Mongolian People's Party assumed office, it has demonstrated a positive attitude towards developing relations with China. The Chinese side is willing to work with the Mongolian side to move forward the China-Mongolia relations and bilateral pragmatic cooperation.
This is the first visit of the Mongolian Foreign Minister since the establishment of the new administration. During the visit, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks and a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Damdin Tsogtbaatar. The two sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on cementing political mutual trust, deepening pragmatic cooperation, expanding cultural and people-to-people exchanges and advancing China-Mongolia relations. During the visit, Foreign Minister Damdin Tsogtbaatar will meet with the Chinese leaders and leaders of other relevant departments.
Q: I have noted that this morning the Foreign Ministry released the information that President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy Wang Jiarui will attend the inauguration ceremony of the Kenyan President. How does China view the current China-Kenya relations?
A: At the invitation of Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of the Republic of Kenya, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Jiarui will travel to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Uhuru Kenyatta as the Special Envoy of President Xi Jinping on November 28.
During the past 54 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Kenya, bilateral relations have enjoyed sustained, sound and steady growth. Recent years have witnessed the enhancing of political mutual trust and fruitful outcomes being reaped in various areas. The Chinese side always views and develops China-Kenya relations from the strategic and long-term perspective. We are willing to make concerted efforts with Kenya to follow through on the outcomes of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, jointly advance the Belt and Road Initiative and continue adding more dimensions to the China-Kenya Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership so as to deliver greater benefits to the two peoples.
Q: It is reported that on November 24, Zimbabwe's new leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was formally sworn in as the third President of Zimbabwe and delivered his inauguration speech. In the address, he said that Zimbabwe will take an active part in international affairs and comprehensively develop relations with all parties. He solemnly vowed to protect the security of foreign investment and observe bilateral agreements on investment promotion and protection. How does China view the message conveyed in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration speech and what is China's expectation for China-Zimbabwe relations after he took office?
A: The Chinese side congratulates President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his formal inauguration. We have noted that his inauguration speech has been well received by the people in Zimbabwe and the international community. The Chinese side steadfastly supports Zimbabwe in pursuing a path which suits its own national realities. We believe that under the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the national development of Zimbabwe will score greater achievements.
China is willing to join hands with Zimbabwe to move forward China-Zimbabwe friendly relations and cooperation in the principle of equality, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation. We will also adhere to the principles of sincerity, practical results, affinity and good faith and uphold the values of friendship, justice and shared interests to continue supporting Zimbabwe's efforts to accelerate economic and social development and improve people's livelihood as our capacity allows.
Q: According to media reports, Myanmar's State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China. Can you confirm this information? When will she visit China and what's the purpose for her visit? Secondly, Reuters has reported that Zimbabwe's intelligence documents showed that China had discussed the removal of Robert Mugabe during General Constantine Guveya Chiwenga's visit to China and that China and Russia had said they wouldn't interfere in Zimbabwe's internal affairs on Mugabe's behalf and will secretly supply weapons to fight Mugabe. Can you confirm this?
A: I will take your second question first. As for the visit of General Constantine Guveya Chiwenga, commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces to China, we have taken similar questions before. I would like to say that Zimbabwe is a friendly country to China and the two countries have maintained normal exchanges. General Chiwenga's visit to China was a normal exchange between the two militaries and was agreed by the two sides. According to our information, General Chiwenga's visit was approved by former President Robert Mugabe. The Chinese side always follows the principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs and this position remains unchanged. As I said just now, the Chinese side is willing to join hands with Zimbabwe to move forward China-Zimbabwe friendly relations and cooperation in the principle of equality, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
As for your first question, according to our information, the high-level dialogue between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and political parties of other countries hosted by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee will be held in Beijing form November 30 to December 3. The leaders of some foreign political parties and political organizations will be invited to attend the dialogue under the theme of "Fostering a Community of Shared Future for Mankind, Jointly Building a Beautiful World: the Responsibility of Political Parties". As for the attendance of the people from specific countries, I am not aware of the relevant information now and I would like to refer you to competent authorities.
Q: According to media reports, on November 24, the terrorist attack targeting a mosque in Egypt's North Sinai province has killed 305 people, including 27 children and injured 128 others. This is the deadliest attack in the modern history of Egypt. What is your comment?
A: The Chinese side strongly condemns the severe terrorist attack in Egypt's North Sinai province. President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi have sent messages of condolences over the attack to Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi, Prime Minister Sheref Ismail and Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry respectively. The Chinese side opposes all forms of terrorism, supports Egypt's efforts to safeguard national stability and stands ready to step up counter-terrorism cooperation with the international community.
Q: It is reported that the Argentine submarine San Juan, which has been out of contact for more than 10 days, is still unaccounted for. This has drawn wide attention to the lives of the 44 submariners aboard from the international community. What's your comment on that?
A: China pays high attention to the missing of the Argentine submarine San Juan. We express sincere condolences to the Argentine government and the families of those missing, and hope that the search and rescue efforts will make progress.
Q: If the news that Myanmar's State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China is true, we shall say that China and Myanmar maintain very close high-level interactions in the fields of diplomacy and military. Against the backdrop of the Rohingya issue, what's China's consideration in stepping up exchanges with Myanmar?
A: You are surely aware that we do not answer hypothetical questions.
I just want to say that as friendly neighbors linked by rivers and mountains, China and Myanmar have maintained close communication and exchanges at various levels all along. Not long ago, Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid a visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar, during which he proposed the three-phase solution to the Rakhine State issue and it was agreed by both Bangladesh and Myanmar. We are pleased to see that positive progress has been made for the situation and China will continue with its constructive role for the settlement of the issue.


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The winds are finally changing for Medicaid recipients, as evidenced by a recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that eases state-imposed restrictions on the use of annuities, reducing the need for your clients to spend down assets in order to become eligible for Medicaid assistance. The 6th Circuit ruling shut down the state's attack on Medicaid-compliant annuities in this case, ruling in favor of clients who rely upon these annuities to provide sufficient income even if one spouse requires Medicaid assistance to pay for long-term care in a nursing home.
Based on this precedent, your clients may begin to experience a much more favorable Medicaid planning environment as they gain greater flexibility in the purchase timing and beneficiary designation requirements for annuity contracts that escape the Medicaid resource calculation formula, without jeopardizing an unhealthy spouse's Medicaid eligibility.
Medicaid-Compliant Annuity Basics
Medicaid-compliant annuities are typically useful in situations where your client is married and the two spouses are in unequal health positions. They serve to ensure the healthy spouse—known as the "community" spouse—has sufficient income, while allowing the second, less healthy, spouse to qualify for Medicaid assistance in paying for long-term care expenses, typically within a nursing home.
Rather than treating the purchase of the annuity as an impermissible transfer of assets in order to meet Medicaid's means-tested eligibility requirements, the federal Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) treats the purchase as a permissible investment, and the annuity payout stream as shielded "income" of the community spouse. This technique allows the community spouse to use funds in excess of the Medicaid-permitted resource allowance to purchase an annuity that provides additional income for the remainder of his life expectancy.
Despite this, many states have attempted to add qualification requirements for these annuities that are not specifically required by the DRA, making it much more difficult for clients to qualify for Medicaid assistance.
The Medicaid Compliant Annuity Controversy
In Hughes v. McCarthy, the most recent challenge to the use of annuities in Medicaid planning, the Ohio Medicaid agency attempted to treat the purchase of the annuity as an impermissible transfer of assets (for less than fair market value) that was subject to penalty—and caused disapproval of the institutionalized spouse's Medicaid application—because it was purchased after the date that one spouse entered a nursing home but before his Medicaid eligibility was determined.
The community spouse purchased an immediate single premium annuity after four years of paying her husband's nursing home expenses, naming the husband as contingent beneficiary and the state Medicaid agency as remainder beneficiary. The state Medicaid agency challenged both the timing and the naming of the institutionalized spouse as contingent beneficiary.
Fortunately for clients, the U.S. Appeals court disagreed, finding that the state is not permitted to impose more restrictive requirements than the federal statute, which does not restrict the annuity purchase to the time period before one spouse enters a nursing home. Further, the court found that, as long as the community receives no more than the amount invested in the contract, plus interest, for a period based on his life expectancy, the institutionalized spouse may be designated as contingent beneficiary.
The Details: Ensuring Compliance
In order to qualify as a Medicaid compliant annuity under the DRA, the terms of the annuity contract must satisfy certain criteria. The income from the annuity contract must be payable to the community spouse, the contract must be irrevocable, and the payment term must be based on the life expectancy of the community spouse.
This is because, in a situation where one spouse requires long-term care and the other remains in the community, the assets of the community spouse are counted—up to a certain level—in determining whether the institutionalized spouse qualifies for Medicaid, but the income of that spouse is not counted.
Further, the state must be named as the remainder beneficiary on the contract, allowing it to receive up to the amount that it has paid for the institutionalized spouse's long-term care.
While many states have attempted to impose additional restrictions upon the purchase of Medicaid-compliant annuities, the courts have finally begun to strike these restrictions down, easing the path for clients to secure sufficient income while simultaneously meeting Medicaid's means-tested eligibility requirements.
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An honest essay from the Los Angeles Times "A Writing Career Becomes Harder to Scale". As you guys know, I'm a fan of positivity when it comes to dealing with the book world, but even though this article paints an unfortunate picture, it's not bleak, and the information within it is very interesting and useful to know. However, if you aren't in the mood to deal with the issues of being an author in today's market, maybe skip this link for now.
And to cheer everyone up, a demonstration of a true Canadian athlete: gold medal winner of men's skeleton John Montgomery apologises (without anyone asking him to) for getting excited he won.
Lastly, here's a fun video for any LOST fans (of which I am one). Some staff members from Newsweek are shown clips of LOST and asked to explain what's going on. Oh how we shall laugh at their false assumptions watching clips that utterly do not relate to each other from a show that's now six seasons long and requires a vigilant attention to follow and is not always comprehensible to people who've seen it on multiple viewings. Those fools.
Seriously though, it's pretty funny.
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NEWTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - General Electric Co (GE.N) Chief Financial Officer Keith Sherin said he would like to see lawmakers reach a solution to avoid a year-end fiscal cliff but believes it may take longer for a full accord on reducing the U.S. deficit.
"We have elected officials who have a primary responsibility to help us manage the fiscal situation of the country and they're not getting it done," Sherin said. "It's in everybody's interest to find some way to have a bipartisan solution to deal with our deficit situation, which cannot continue obviously at the level they've been. It's going to be a combination of raising revenue and cutting long-term spending."
The fiscal cliff refers to $600 billion in spending cuts and higher taxes scheduled to take effect early in 2013 if Obama and Congress are unable to reach a deal on cutting the federal budget deficit. Going over the cliff could send the U.S. economy back into recession, economists forecast.
The largest U.S. conglomerate refinanced a $5 billion bond that had been due to mature in February with an eye towards avoiding any disruptions to debt markets that could result if the U.S. economy went over the fiscal cliff, Sherin said.
"We looked at the situation and we said, 'Why are we going to wait? We like the rates, we have a bit of uncertainty here, obviously,'" Sherin said at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, outside Boston. "We just did it so we didn't have to refinance that in potentially disrupted markets."
The financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 shook GE to its core, prompting the company to rethink the way it finances itself. GE now holds enough cash on hand to run for more than a year without accessing capital markets, Sherin said.
Sherin's boss, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt, was one of a dozen top U.S. CEOs called to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to discuss a solution to the fiscal cliff.
The meeting was a "constructive, detailed discussion," Sherin said, citing a conversation with Immelt.
Sherin said lawmakers may not be able to agree on an overall deal to address the deficit issue by the year's end and instead may need to come up with some stop-gap solutions.
"There has got to be a little more time to work on the full grand bargain," Sherin said. "I don't think they could possibly resolve all of that by the end of the year. Could there be some kind of agreement that gets at some of these issues and then a further timetable to resolve them completely? That's highly likely."
Still, Sherin said he is expecting the U.S. to avoid a crisis.
"We're not planning on disaster recovery plans and all that," Sherin said. "I'm not losing sleep over the fiscal cliff."
Reporting By Scott Malone


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- July 11th, 2016
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[Shokanbetsu Teuri Yagishiri Quasi-National Park] Beautiful Sceneries Containing Seabirds, Sheep, Virgin Forest, Blue Sea, Mountains and Wetland Can Be Enjoyed in Little‐Known Tourist Attractions
- Shokanbetsu Teuri Yagishiri Quasi-National Park
- Teuri Island
- List of Nature and Tourist Attractions
- Tasty Foods
- List of Events
- List of Activities
- List of Accommodations
Shokanbetsu Teuri Yagishiri Quasi-National Park
Shokanbetsu Teuri Yagishiri Quasi-National Park (暑寒別天売焼尻国定公園) is a quasi-national park between Ishikari city, Shin-totsukawa town, Uryu town, Hokuryu town and Haboro town in the northern part of Hokkaido along the Sea of Japan (日本海), and extends from the north to the south, and has been designated as the quasi-national park since 1990. The area is 43,559 ha, and the the quasi-national park has the 8th largest area in 57 quasi-national parks (not include national parks) in Japan. It consists of 2 isolated islands, Shokanbetsu Mountain Range (暑寒別山系) and a coast, and beautiful nature such as the sea, the mountains, sea birds, trees, wild flowers and wetlands is highlight. The Shokanbetsu Teuri Yagishiri Quasi-National Park is divided into 4 areas, Teuri Island (天売島), Yagishiri Island (焼尻島), SHokanbetsu Area (暑寒別エリア) and Atsuta and Hamamasu Area (厚田・浜益エリア), and the Teuri Island, the Yagishiri Island and the SHokanbetsu Area mainly have a lot of highlights.
The Teuri Island is well-known as an island for the sea birds, and the Yagishiri Island is famous for sheep and Onko trees. Points worthy of note are beautiful sceneries of the remote islands' own. The SHokanbetsu Area has Mt. Shokanbetsudake (暑寒別岳), Mt. Gunbetsudake (群別岳), Mt. Hamamasudake (浜益岳), Mt. Ofuyu (雄冬山), Mt. Minami-shokanbetsudake (南暑寒岳) and the Uryunuma-shitsugen Wetland (雨竜沼湿原), and a point worthy of note is hiking. As for the Atsuta and Hamamasu Area, it is said that cliffs such as Amoi Cave (アモイの洞門) is highlight.
I introduce about Teuri Island on the 1st page, and introduce about Yagishiri Island on the 2nd page. I introduce about Shokanbetsu Area and Atusta and Hamamasu Area on the 3rd page.
Teuri Island
Teuri Island that about 300 people live is a small island, and the circumference of the island is about 12 km. The Teuri means "Fish's intestine" or "A footprint" in Ainu language. About 7,000 tourists come to the island. Speaking of the Teuri Island, it is famous as a paradise for the sea birds, and 8 types of One million extinct sea birds such as Common Murre, Spectacled Guillemot, the Rhinoceros Auklet and Auk inhabit, so most of tourists attractions are related to the sea birds, and bird-watching in the southwestern island and the central part of the island and going a superb view trip in the southwestern island are main sightseeing. A part of roads in the island changes to the one way road from June to August, so toursits had better go a trip clockwise. Kusrosaki Coast (黒崎海岸), Akaiwa Obseravation Deck (赤岩展望台), Chidorigaura-enchi Park (千鳥ヶ浦園地) and Kannonzaki Observation Deck (観音崎展望台) are famous as tourist attractions. Teuri Ferry Port is built in the northern part of the island, and most of local people live between the northern part and the eastern part. There are accommodations such as ryokan between the northern part and the eastern part, too.
Sightseeing Map of PDF in Japanese
In addition, Umi-no-Uchukan (海の宇宙館), Teuri Hometown Museum (天売ふる里館), Teuri Island Park Golf Course, Forest of Wild Brids (野鳥の森), Teuri Island Camping Ground (天売島キャンプ場) are also in the island. By the way, 3 restaurants, Sumibi Kaisen Banya (炭火海鮮番屋), Meshidokoro Kaiyumaru (めし処 漁師の店 海友丸) and B Port (Bポート), and a cafe, remincarnation, open a business for a limited season, and 9 accommodations are built in the island. The Teuri Island is more large-scale than the Yagishiri Isalnd. Unfortunately, hot springs do not gush out in the island. Haboro Onsen Sunset Plaza (はぼろ温泉サンセットプラザ) has onsen in Haboro town, Hokkaido mainland, so tourists can enjoy the onsen, too. The Teuri has some events. Teuri Sea Urchin Festival (天売ウニまつり) is held between 2days in late July, and Treasure Island "Treasure Legend of Brother Islands" (宝島「兄弟島の財宝伝説」) is held from mid July to late August.
A sightseeing reachs its peak from July to August. The breeding season for the sea birds is from May to July, and it may be said that those seasons are suitable for the sightseeing most. Means of transportation to the Teuri Island are a ferry and a high‐speed craft. Those services run between Teuri Port and Haboro Port or Yagishiri Port. There are some means of transportation for the island tourism, for example, a guided tour, a rental car, a rental motor scooter and a rental bicycle. I went around the Teuri Island by the rental motor scooter, and it was very comfortable. Walkers can go around for about 3 hours on foot.
List of Means of Transportation for Island Tourism
Refer to following the means of the transportation in the Teuri Island.
|Ororon Rental(おろろんレンタル)
|They rent the rental car, the rental motor scooter and the rental bicycle near the Teuri Ferry Terminal.
|Wakomaru Rental Bicycle(和光丸貸し自転車)
|They rent the rental bicycle near the Teuri Ferry Terminal.
List of Nature and Tourist Attractions
The Kurosaki Coast, the Akaiwa Observation Deck, the Chidorigaura-enchi Park are in the southwestern part of the island, and the Kannonzaki-enchi Park and the Forest of Wild Birds are in the cetral part of the island. The sea birds can be observed from the sea side, and the wild birds can be watched from the land side, so the island is a paradise for birds. The Umi-no-Uchukan and the Teuri Hometown Museum are in the eastern part of the island, and Teurito Lighthouse (天売島灯台) is in the northern part of the island. The lighhouse is not a tourist attraction, but I like a path to the lighthouse. I think that it is worth seeing.
Akaiwa Observation Deck
Akaiwa-enchi Park (赤岩園地) is a lookout point in the southernmost part of Teuri Island (天売島), and is famous for the blue sea and an observation deck jutting out the sea, and is also well-known as breeding grounds of Rhinoceros Auklet and Common Murre. About 800,000 Rhinoceros Auklets have digged myriads of holes around Akaiwa Lighthouse (赤岩灯台) at about 130 m elevation. It is said that it is one of the largest Rhinoceros Auklet's breeding grounds in the world. The scenery is very strange, and I think that visitors get a mysterious impression. Their breeding reachs its peak from May to Junly, and Night Guided Tour for the Rhinoceros Auklets Coming Back to Their Nests (ウトウ帰巣ナイトガイド) is held to observe sea birds in the early evening, too. Akaiwa Observation Deck (赤岩展望台), a visitor route, a parking lot and a public restroom are built at the site. Admission free. The parking lot is free of charge. Article is here
Chidorigaura-enchi Park
Chidorigaura-enchi Park (千鳥ヶ浦園地) is a lookout point in the southwestern part of Teuri Island (天売島), and is near the highest place in the island. People and wild animals are hard to get close the sea side of precipitous cliffs, so sea birds such as Common Murre and Cepphus Carbo make a nest there. Seabird Observation Hut (海鳥観察舎) is built to observe the sea birds on a cilff of about 150 m elevation. Visitors can enjoy good views as well as the sea birds, too. This place is not famous, but I think that here is a good tourist attraction moved by superb views. A free parking lot is built at the site. Admission free. The parking lot is free of charge. Article is here
Kannonzaki-enchi Park
Kannonzaki-enchi Park (観音崎園地) is a lookout point in the west coast of Teuri Island (天売島). Kannonzaki Observation Deck (観音崎展望台) is built on a cliff of about 140 m elevation, and the sea of Japan, precipitous cliffs and Teurito Lighthouse (天売島灯台) can be viewed. It is said that the sunset looks beautiful from here, and here is also famous for seeing black‐tailed gulls coming back to their nests in the early evening. When I went here in the daytime, unfortunately the black-tailed gull did not fly, so I looked over just the splendid scenery. A free parking lot is bult at the site. Admission free. The parking lot is free of charge. Article is here
Kurosaki Coast
Kurosaki Coast (黒崎海岸) is in the southern part of the island. Visitors can observe a state that Japanese cormorants (海鵜) have some rest on the reef. Please beware of a viper because the viper (マムシ) inhabits grass. By the way, there is not facility besides a parking lot.
Tasty Foods
The Teuri is surrounded by the sea, so seafood is tasty, after all. A local speciality of the island is a sea urchin in particular. A lot of sea urchins grow surely on quays of the port. Such the live sea urchins can be eaten at a souvenir shop beside the Teuri Ferry Terminal.
Sea Urchin
Sea urchins for souvenirs are sold, and the live sea urchins can be eaten at the souvenir shop beside the ferry port. As for prices, an extra large sea urchin is JPY 500, and a large sea urchin is JPY 300, and a regular sea urchin is JPY 200. I bought the large sea urchin and the regular sea urchin. Edible parts of the sea urchin are orange ovaries and testicles. It was difficult to eat only the orange parts because around the ovaries and testicles had sands, but my mouth was full of the taste of the sea.
Movie of Sea Urchin
List of Events
In the Teuri Island, the Sea Urchin Festival is the largest event.
List of Activities
Refer to following websites for the activity companies in the Teuri. You can get information regarding online reviews and photos.
Teuri Sighseeing Guided Tour
|Nature Live(ネイチャーライヴ)
Guided Walk
|Guest House Teure(ゲストハウス天売礼)
Fishing Boat Cruise
|Minshuku Sakaemaru(民宿 栄丸)
Experience Activities
|Teuri Island Activate Party(天売島おらが島活性化会議)
|Nunome Ryokan(布目旅館)
List of Accommodations
Refer to following websites for the accommodations in the Teuri. You can get information regarding online reviews and photos.
|Ryokan Aoitori(旅館青い鳥)
|Ryokan Ororonso(旅館オロロン荘)
|Minshuku Sakaemaru(民宿栄丸)
|Minshuku Takeuchi(民宿竹内)
|Ryokan Nogami(旅館のがみ)
|Yamada Minshuku(山田民宿)
|Only Tel:+81-1648-3-5151
|Yorozuya Ryokan(萬谷旅館)
|Guest House Teure(ゲストハウス天宇礼)
I introduce about Teuri Island on the 1st page, and introduce about Yagishiri Island on the 2nd page. I introduce about Shokanbetsu Area and Atusta and Hamamasu Area on the 3rd page.
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