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In next week’s blog, I’ll explore more about how anger and aggression can be a healthy and necessary part of our relationship with our children.
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The Democrats have said they would not negotiate while the government is under hostage. That’s over. What is not over is the issue whether the United States needs a wall.
While I disagree with the way that Trump has approached the entire immigration issue since he announced his presidency, and while I am uncertain whether a wall is absolutely needed or not needed, I am certain about one thing. Democrats, the main stream media will be making a major mistake if they take this opportunity to gloat and announce a major victory and White House capitulation.
Instead, it is time to negotiate in good faith. It is time to give President Trump credit for making immigration a major issue. It is time for Trump to realize that he did not break any legitimate campaign promise. Anybody who really believed that Trump was going to make Mexico pay for the wall, which was his pledge, should check into the loony bin for being politically gullible.
Now it is time to get to work and do what is right for the country, not for any political party or against any political leader. If a wall is absolutely needed, let’s get it. If less of a wall is required, let’s approve that.
The US government has been on shut down for too many days. Let us not shut down the opportunities to find resolution when others demand political scalps.
Oh, I was waiting for you to chime in.
Above are a selection of tweets post-Trump border wall-government shutdown announcement.
Katia Ivanova was brought to tears in the Celebrity Big Brother house after “heartbroken” ex-flame Jonas ‘Basshunter’ Altberg reminded her she was only on the show because of her relationship with a Rolling Stone.
The Swedish DJ made the dig at Ronnie Wood ‘s ex after confessing how much he still liked her to Vinnie Jones .
He told her she was only in the house because of her “public relationship” after Alex Reid suggested to Katia that continuing the romance with Basshunter would guarantee she stayed in the house.
“Yeah, but you can’t deny those feelings you had in the first place. That initial attraction,” Alex added.
Jonas then weighed in: “Well you are in here because of a public relationship.” A tearful Katia then got up and left the bedroom.
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You can now send your location to a friend directly through Facebook’s Messenger app, the company announced Thursday. You can also send a different location, say, a prospective meeting point.
Head of Product for Messenger Stan Chudnovsky said in a blog post that Facebook has been working on the feature over the last few months.
As always, Messenger doesn’t get any location information from your device unless you enable location services for the app.
Messenger does not get location information from your device in the background—only each time you select a location and tap Send when you use the Messenger app. We are not requesting any new permissions for your information.
WhatsApp, a messaging app Facebook acquired last year in a $22 billion deal, has long had a similar location-sharing feature.
Lagarde is on the same track as my mother: Remember, in your refusal, that there are many who are infinitely worse off than you. Lagarde’s target was ostensibly Greece, but her real aim was at the countries of the West, including her own, that in the last two decades have luxuriated twice. First, in being the victors in the Cold War, as they watched their systems of a free market and democratic politics be judged superior by erstwhile enemies. Later, in enjoying a boom which, with blips, saw all boats rise, even as the super-yachts rose (and rise still) further and faster than the smaller craft.
Put simply – and in the welter of competing complexities with which we, especially those of us in Europe, are confronted, something should be simply put – the West, and particularly most of Europe, has made its beds too soft; and now no one can lie on them. We must exchange fluffy for harder, thinner mattresses, and we must hope it will be good for us.
There are exceptions. Although a receding tide beaches all boats, some countries are much fitter than others. Of these, Germany (among the larger countries) and Finland (among the smaller) stand out. Both conduct themselves with a blend of social democracy and bourgeois propriety, a mixture that emphasizes hard work and self-improvement, as well as a broadly egalitarian ethos.
There is too little of this elsewhere in Europe. Weak and partly corrupt governments in Greece were unable or unwilling to make its citizens observe their civic duties, including paying tax. In the past two decades, Italy’s dominant politician, Silvio Berlusconi, debauched an already wildly self-serving political class, in which the opposition was too split and uncertain to offer an alternative governing narrative. Spain and Ireland allowed property bubbles to grow huge. Britain racked up a vast external (both public and private) debt, second highest in the world in absolute terms, at nearly $10 trillion after the U.S.’s near $15 trillion.
The weaker economies needed to make large structural reforms, but those they did make were small and inadequate to the task. Yet for the 1990s and the 2000s, the closer union ushered in by the 1992 Maastrich Treaty and the waves of cheap credit allowed the unreconstructed states to disguise their problems with cheap credit.
Krugman’s point about the incapacity of the zone to deal with its problems is the largest reason why the Brits and Americans are getting an easier ride than many members of the zone itself. The issue is as much political as economic: a fear on the part of the markets that the institutions for dealing with the crisis exist outside the zone. With each crisis meeting that passes with no solution, and with each forecast that a Greek exit is likely, that fear deepens.
Characteristically, the magazine had a solution: a moderate version of “more Europe,” which it admitted was “tricky.” More Europe – that is, greater fiscal and oversight powers centralized in the European Commission – would, on most analyses, certainly be tricky. It would be less disruptive to the European and the world economy than a breakup, which would be very bad news for everyone. But Europe’s desire to create even a modest version of a superstate is presently lacking. And if it were found, it would have to ride a storm – social, economic, and above all political: even violently so.
Politically, what must happen in a “superstate” of any version is that weak and little-trusted European Union institutions would have to take upon themselves more power. But all the indications are that Europeans want them to have less. These centralized bodies would be committed to guide a large part of a continent through very rocky economic times for the foreseeable future; at the same time, they would need to develop a cadre of politicians and officials who could speak and appeal, not just to their co-nationals but to the “Europeans” – a diverse set of peoples with many languages, with something of a cultural identity but a very weak political one.
Joe Nye, the Harvard professor who invented and constantly develops the concept of “soft power”, the ability of states to project values and culture, said during a talk at a dinner organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations in London last week that the euro crisis had “exposed the limited trust among member states.” He rejected the parallel made between the U.S. today and the declining Roman Empire (he said American decline was relative but not absolute) and asked a different, uncomfortable question: Is it possible that Europe, not America, is more like the Roman Empire in decline? Are Europeans, too, disintegrating from within?
Will our culture and an educated view of our ultimate self-interest see us through, and keep us from the fate of ancient Rome? Only if we heed the strictures of Lagarde, who implores that we observe the really poor, remember our luck and pay our taxes. “Europeans” need enough solidarity to forgive the mistake that was the careless creation of the euro, avert our minds from the undemocratic capture of centralized power that a concerted response to the crisis requires, and keep taking a medicine that politicians we hardly know would administer.
That is a very, very tall order, but it is the order of the day.
Are Europeans too soft. Yes, just look at how they are trying to build their Imperial superstate? Nothing but a crumbling currency for a foundation and non entities like a Herman Van Rompuy for a Caesar. That the Euro was introduced despite or, perhaps, in spite of the fact that there was no real desire for genuine integration was obvious even before it became apparent half the nations in the EU were bankrupt. Remember the “Polish plumber”? The ‘no’ votes on the Lisbon treaty?
Sheesh, anyone could see that “Europe” only existed in the eyes and dreams of washed up local politicians like a Romano Prodi or Tony Blair as new sinecures with even greater power and less accountability than running a middling nation state!
I don’t see anything better than the euro, the euro zone or the EU. does anyone have a better idea that has a chance of becoming reality? The problem was letting countries borrow unilaterally while effectively making the entire zone responsible for paying back the loans. My suggestion is to fix that aspect right now – no more unilateral loans by any EU country.
They’d all be better off never having done the Euro and keeping their own currencies. Some smart people were saying that 10 years ago. Now they can’t unwind it, and there’s no roadmap to dig themselves out.
End tax and spend. End all the entitlement/social programs for the freeloaders.
One currency backed by all nations is a recipe for disaster. Some nations are fiscally responsible, others are not.
Let each nation be responsible for their finances.
The clothes have no emperor, but if anyone’s foot fits the glass slipper, it’s Lagarde’s. But really, wasn’t the EU project entirely directed at avoiding WWIII? As long as THAT’S avoided, all other failures are minor in comparison. The main thing is, Europe hasn’t had a genocidal war since the 1940s. I mean, the 1990s.
Quite right. Bring back borrow and spend. Reserve all the entitlement/social programs for the big financial institutions.
What Europe needs right now is the modern version of the Alexander the Great and his way of solving the very complex European problems in cutting the present day gordian knot. But this time Alexander is not going to be the Greek; it must be the German. I do not see why the solution is not going to be Germany exits the Eurozone? The rest of the Eurozone countries can run the monetary policy as they like, they can print the Euros as they need to pay back their Euro denominated debts in their Fiat currency, make their workforce competitive again … On the other side Germany can reintroduce deutsche marks which will be at par (if not higher) than the Euro left to the others, can assume the part of liabilities on the ECB balance sheet (30%) for a 30% of collateral (both in Euros)at practically no loss for them, can afford to loose (subsidize) on some on the Bundesbank accumulated liabilities in Euros (some 600 billion Euros) but, at the end, the bill is going to be smaller than the cost of being the only solvent banker in Eurozone. So why German politicians are not pursuing this road? Because, as it was mentined, Eurozone is the “political” project, like the Potemkin village, which do not have any economic justification unless the creation of the united Europe becomes reality. But Europe had much more time and much more and “critical” events in the past then the US when that would be the best outcome and still, it did not happen. Regardless why it did not happen in the past what are the core issues there, we should remember that the “historia est magistra vitae” and should finally learn to distinguish “utopia from reality”.
The wealth disparity is greater than it has been in 100 years. Some people are getting beached, others are riding a tsunami of cash.
Interesting comparison of the decline of ancient Rome and the situation in the USA and Europe.
Rome declined because its ethos, military might and subjugation of other peoples, was incompatible with newly dominant Christian ethos, which had no place for the Roman one it displaced. In effect, the Roman elite, who had made Rome great, but who rejected Christianity, gave up, since they couldn’t regain political power.
It is hard to imagine that USA is in such a crisis, but their failure to collect enough taxes to fund the government is reminiscent of Rome before the 4th century reforms.
Certainly, there might be something to be discovered in Europe’s loss of a sense of purpose, and the split between the north and the south.
The Greek people don’t want to lose their pensions, but surely they don’t expect the German to pay them; yet that is the only option available if pensions are not cut. On the other hand, while their salvation could be achieved through tourism, they are doing their best to discourage potential tourists.
The Spanish at least have elected a government who want to fix the problem, and Ireland seems to be on the mend. Goodness knows what is going to happen in France with a president promising to abandon austerity.
The German solution is surely the only way ahead: work, work, work; pay your taxes; look to earn your money before you spend it. This is far from the current economic commentary, which thinks that more of the old-fashioned “spend your way to prosperity” is the way to go.
Christine Lagarde is a distinguished member of the elite EU Banksters.
Now that their Ponzi scheme has been exposed they all have their explanations….
Another Nuremberg on the horizon.
Stop your “holier than thou attitude”.
This continual Euro-bashing by authors is getting more than a bit tiring.
Your ignorance of European history and peoples — including your call for a “superstate” — is stupid beyond belief.
And your personal prejudices are showing.
By the way, in Europe Christine LaGarde whom you deify (comparing her to your mother?) was severely castigated for those same remarks you included, mainly because of her lifestyle.
A lifestyle which includes “an official of an international institution, her salary of $467,940 a year plus $83,760 additional allowance a year that is not subject to any taxes.
Don’t expect much from ‘journalists’ who come a-dozen-a-dime, especially those who pretend to be also politicians & economists, and everything else.
Um yes, under the brilliant administration of those two whizz kids Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And who was one of the dynamic duo’s leading cheerleaders in the media during this period?
One John Lloyd, of course. Fancy that!
The big story in financial planning has been and will continue to be affording retirement, which makes ample sense with the retirement of tens of thousands of baby boomers expected every week for several consecutive years.
For boomers, many of whom have little to no retirement plan in place, affording retirement may be their generation’s last great social cause.
“The concerns over Social Security solvency alone epitomize the fact that your personal wealth, a clear-cut concern for each individual, extends beyond only you,” says Edward Sota, the president and co-founder of Safeguard Financial Services, Inc., and a partner at Safeguard Investment Advisory Group, LLC, (www.safeguardinvestment.com).
As crucial as it is to afford retirement during one’s golden years, Sota discusses the many ways in which retirement planning extends beyond the individual.
Long-term care: No one wants to think about struggling with debilitating illness or injury, but experts calculate that 70 percent of people older than 65 will need some form of long-term care at some point. Absence of planning for this potential eventuality is like gambling on a stock that’s at a 70 percent risk of loss. But it’s worse than that, because of the toll infirmity places on immediate and extended family. An inadequate long-term plan for health care can not only eradicate savings for you and your spouse, but most other assets you are planning to leave to your children and grandchildren.
Grandchildren: Grandparents often prove to be indispensable teachers and caregivers to grandchildren. Whatever saving and spending habits you inculcate into your grandchildren are likely to stick with them their whole lives. Think of it this way: The more financially adept you can make them, Sota says, the more you can spend out of their inheritance without feeling guilty! On a more serious note, grandparents who lead by example with a strong ethic in money may serve as the best examples. And an ability to contribute to a grandchild’s college fund can make grandparents feel more confident in their future well-being.
Community/charity: While some retirees are trying to turn the tide from a lifetime of poor financial planning habits, others have been meticulously accounting their spending habits and expectations for the future. Or, some folks have always been financially blessed. Whatever the circumstances, many retirees want their legacy to be felt beyond the benefit of their family. There are ways to maximize one’s contribution to the community, and the earlier you understand what you’d like to accomplish in this capacity, the better.
Edward Sota (www.safeguardinvestment.com) is the president and co-founder of Safeguard Financial Services, Inc., and a partner at Safeguard Investment Advisory Group, LLC. For 20 years he has helped families with financial planning, wealth management, life insurance and long-term care insurance, as well as advanced estate planning.
Team Scoring (Large Schools): Passaic Tech 104, Ridgewood 101, IHA 72, Elizabeth 46, Kearny 41, Fair Lawn 35, Indian Hills 26, Pascack Valley 19, Passaic 10, Perth Amboy 5.
(Small Schools): Ridgefield Park 86 1/2, NV/Demarest 77, West Milford 52, Cresskill 39, Emerson 28 1/2, Park Ridge 20, Saddle Brook 15, New Milford 13, Newark Tech and Leonia 12.
4-x-100: 1. Elizabeth, 51.4; 2. Ridgefield Park, 52.1; 3. NV/Demarest, 52.5; 4. Ridgewood, 52.6; 5. tie between Passaic Tech and IHa, 53.1.
4-x-200: 1. Elizabeth, 1:46.9; 2. Kearny, 1:50.3; 3. NV/Demarest, 1:50.9; 4. Ridgewood, 1:52.9; 5. Passaic Tech, 1:53.8.
4-x-400: 1. Park Ridge (Alli Uhl, Samantha Green, Sarah Geormaneanu, Megan Gasnick), 4:02.5; 2. Elizabeth, 4:14.6; 3. Emerson, 4:17.4; 4. Passaic, 4:19.6; 5. Ridgefield Park, 4:25.9.
4-x-800: 1. NV/Demarest (Bree Nolan, Georgia Markham, Maya Barnes, Lola Gueguen), 10:13.3; 2. IHA, 10:28.3; 3. Passaic Tech, 10:47.3; 4. Fair Lawn, 10:52.0; 5. Ridgefield Park, 11:17.2.
4-x-1,600: 1. Ridgewood (Evelyn Kotch, Meghan Adams, Hannah Fishbein, Cassie Keyes), 21:58.4; 2. Indian Hills, 22:10.6; 3. NV/Demarest, 23:24.5; 4. IHA, 23:36.4; 5. Kearny, 24:03.6.
Sprint medley: 1. Indian Hills (Lauren Henson, Beliz Kalkandelen, Shea Gilmour, Leah Sussman), 4:34.0; 2. New Milford, 4;35.0; 3. Cresskill, 4:47.4; 4. Emerson, 4:51.4; 5. Saddle Brook, 4:53.0.
Distance medley: 1. Ridgewood (Sarah Policano, Michelle Grassi, Brittany Schofield, Katie Keyes), 13:33.9; 2. Kearny, 13:44.3; 3. Passaic Tech, 14:23.9; 4. Ridgefield Park, 14:38.2; 5. West Milford, 14:50.3.
Shuttle hurdles: 1. Passaic Tech, 1:11.3; 2. Ridgefield Park, 1:14.1; 3. IHA, 1:16.1; 4. NV/Demarest, 1:19.2; 5. Cresskill, 1:22.1.
3-x-400 IH: 1. Ridgewood (Katherine Muccio, Virginia Morley, Victoria Purritano), 3:15.5; 2. Cresskill, 3:41.8; 3. Passaic Tech, 3:46.7; 4. IHA, 3:52.6; 5. Ridgefield Park, 4:00.8.
Shot put: 1. NV/Demarest (Bella Sposato, Jada Sewell, Cat Light), 106-9 1/2; Ridgewood, 97-9; 3. Fair Lawn, 89-3; 4. IHA, 82-11; 5. Newark Tech, 80-9.
Discus: 1. NV/Demarest (Cat Light, Claudia Volpe, bella Sposato), 268-9; 2. Ridgewood, 265-8; 3. Fair Lawn, 247-5; 4. IHA, 232-0; 5. Leonia, 221-0.
Javelin: 1. Fair Lawn (Nicole Sacchinelli, Anne Sachinelli, Bednarz), 261-7; 2. NV/Demarest, 232-1; 3. Ridgefield Park, 226-8; 4. Passaic Tech, 209-6; 5. IHA, 198-10.
High jump: 1. tie between Passaic tech and Ridgewood, 13-6; 3. tie between Ridgefield Park and Emerson, 13-3; 5. Passaic, 12-3.
Long jump: 1. Elizabeth, 44-1 1/4; 2. West Milford, 43-10; 3. Ridgefield Park, 43-5; 4. Park Ridge, 43-5 3/4; 5. Passaic Tech, 41-8.
Triple jump: 1. Passaic Tech (Imani Durham, Kianna Severe, Ashley Martinez), 97-2; 2. Ridgewood, 92-8; 3. West Milford, 91-3 1/2; 4. Ridgefield Park, 89-5; 5. IHA, 87-3.
Pole vault: 1. Pascack Valley (Melissa Purcell, Allison Sumereau, Katherine Sandt), 28-6; 2. Ridgewood, 26-6.
Team Scoring (Large Schools): Passaic Tech 113, Ridgewood 93, Fair Lawn 68, Kearny 57, Indian Hills 52, Seton Hall 22, CBA 8, Perth Amboy 4, St. Joseph Regional 2.
(Small Schools): Ridgefield Park 90, NV/Demarest 77, Emerson 61, West Milford 52, Saddle Brook 28, Leonia 27, Park Ridge 23, Newark Tech 10, New Milford 5.
4-x-100: 1. Ridgewood (Justin Dickson, Danny Romero, Matt Tai, Sean Emmanuel), 46.0; 2. Kearny, 46.4; 3. Passaic Tech, 46.6; 4. Emerson, 46.9; 5. Ridgefield Park, 47.2.
4-x-200: 1. NV/Demarest (Peter Bae, Serban Ionita, Chris Panzella, Eric Swatek), 1:35.7; 2. Ridgefield Park, 1:37.0; 3. Passaic Tech, 1:37.3; 4. Park Ridge, 1:38.0; 5. Indian Hills, 1:39.2.
4-x-400: 1. Fair Lawn (Jon McPartland, Calvin Torres, Jon Marcus, Pat Touhey), 3:41.2; 2. Ridgefield Park, 3:41.3; 3. Saddle Brook, 3:42.7; 4. Emerson, 3:53.0; 5. Newark Tech, 3:56.8.
4-x-800: 1. Fair Lawn (Pat Tuohey, Calvin Torres, Allen Manjarrez, Jon Marcus), 8:43.4; 2. Kearny, 8:50.2; 3. West Milford, 8:53.1; 4. Ridgewood, 8:59.7; 5. Passaic Tech, 9:04.2.
4-x-1,600: 1. Seton Hall Prep, 18:54.6; 2. Ridgewood, 18:55.3; 3. CBA, 19:35.1; 4. Kearny, 19:48.3; 5. West Milford, 20:02.0.
Sprint medley: 1. Emerson (Danny Gordon, Chris Ocelotl, Aidan Triana, Jake Cooper), 3:46.0; 2. Kearny, 3:46.8; 3. Passaic Tech, 3:58.0; 4. Indian Hills, 4:08.8; 5. West Milford, 4:12.3.
Distance medley: 1. Indian Hills (Steven Fiumefreddo, Corey Girard, Justin Kelly, Ara Araz), 10:55.9; 2. Ridgewood, 11:05.2; 3. Fair Lawn, 11:34.2; 4. West Milford, 11:35.6; 5. 5. Passaic Tech, 11:58.2.
Shuttle hurdles: 1. Kearny, 1:04.2; 2. Seton Hall, 1:05.2; 3. Ridgewood, 1:09.2; 4. NV/Demarest, 1:09.4; 5. Passaic Tech, 1:10.1.
3-x-400 IH: 1. Passaic Tech (Oliver Garcia, Jordan Ricketts, Shamar Taylor), 3:09.1; 2. Ridgewood, 3:11.0; 3. Leonia, 3:21.3; 4. Ridgefield Park, 3:28.9.
Shot put: 1. NV/Demarest (Ralph Aris, Marc Santonocito, Connor Scaglione), 146-10 1/2; 2. Ridgewood, 121-1; 3. Passaic Tech, 120-2; 4. Indian Hills, 113-5; 5. Saddle Brook, 112-0 1/2.