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We stayed in this place for two nights. All rooms in this hotel dont have windows. Bed was too soft. Ac in room is too loud and you cant switch it off otherwise you have no fresh air coming in. When we came downstsirs for breakfast at 9:30 it was already closed. Price for room too high and not worth it at all. I will never stay there again
The complimentary breakfast is awesome there are soo many options kids love it. Rooms are clean and beds are comfy rooms are spacious..
Bathrooms could be updated tubs look dirty just cause they are old
the morning breakfast was very good.
Hot tub water was not to clean looking. This was the first time we had seen the hot tub this way.
The room was comfortable
The hotel was filled with unsupervised children running up and down the hall. The hotel hosted large and noisy events both nights so it was not a peaceful place to stay. Would not stay there again, wasn't worth the money.
Really just a roadside motel. Shocked this cost $92.
We were put in a room directly by the elevator and ice vending machines. Not the best.
Breakfast and pool
Room was excellent. Staff awesome. Central location great for us as we were all over the city. Food nearby and very good. Many upgrades done and/or in progress. Suprisingly quiet even on a Fri nite downtown.
The management of this motel made my life better. I was absolutely worn out when I arrived. I was treated like one of their relatives. Thanks for your kindness.
I really liked the location on the river it was very pretty.
We started in a smoking room which we had to change. But the floor we were on still smelled of smoke in the halls. The carpet in the halls were worn and stained the room carpet was ok. But it was so so on the cleaning. The bed was like sleeping on the floor.
Easy to access and staff were friendly and helpful.
Breakfast not included in price.
Clean, Nice Staff.
Small room, small pool. No free breakfast.
Wonderful staff, helpful, friendly. Free (and good!) breakfast. Free underground, heated parking. Wifi in room. Mini fridge, microwave, iron & hairdryer all provided. I found the bed to be particularly comfortable. Highly recommended.
There wasn't really anything I didn't like. Considering the star level of the hotel, it exceeded my expectations. So, no complaints. One suggestion - I had to ask for an extra blanket so it might be good to have one in the room.
Very well located, attached to Perkins restaurant, so lots of choices for breakfast.
This is a great place to stay! We were here on a couple day stay for snowmobiling! They had fantastic breakfast options as well as light dinner options! I would highly recommend this to anyone, great value for the money!
The breakfast was good and work out room was nice.
When we booked our rooms there wasn't any mention about major construction going on in the hotel. For instance the floor we were on was the pet floor they had carpet removed right when you open the elevator door to our room. You could see visible pee spots where the dogs went to the bathroom! The urine smell was intense and gave my wife migraines and when we asked to change our room all they had available was smoking rooms. They put us on a waiting list to change our room and after three days they still didn't have any rooms available. The amenities in the hotel was supposed to include a microwave in the room but, there wasn't one. In the room there were items being held with tape instead of being repaired correctly. The TV remote wasn't user-friendly! My wife is hearing-impaired and it took over an hour and a half with three different people to come to the room to try and figure out how to get close caption working. One of our days there they were servicing the Jacuzzi so we couldn't enjoy that either.
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I love the new renovations they have done from my last stay back in 1996.
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Kadri's attorney, Gregg D. Adler, has asked that a neutral arbitrator, instead of the board, oversee the hearing.
"Mr. Kadri does not feel that you or the other board members would be in a position to act as an objective, unbiased tribunal at this juncture in time," Adler wrote in a letter addressed to Board of Education Chairwoman Kirsten Hoyt.
Adler said a condemning letter from Hoyt and various other actions and statements show the board does not have a truly open mind regarding the issue.
Kadri was placed on paid administrative leave in May and faces a host of claims from current and former employees who allege a pattern of bullying, intimidation and verbally abusive behavior. An investigator's report also alleges unprofessional and unethical behavior such as using school district personnel to perform personal tasks and requiring the former assistant superintendent to campaign for a school building project during her vacation time.
More recently, the board voted to investigate Kadri's use of school district grant funds based on statements from a former grants administrator that hinted at misuse of those funds.
Kadri, who was hired in 2008 and continues to earn his $167,475 yearly salary, said he is being falsely accused. He emailed a letter Monday addressed to Groton students, school district staff, and Groton taxpayers, saying he has not been given the opportunity to defend himself.
"After sitting patiently in exile for the past 179 days while my reputation has faced numerous false accusations, I have reached the point to where I have no more hope that the Board of Education will do the right thing in allowing me to address the charges against me," Kadri wrote.
Hoyt was not immediately available for comment.
The school board will have 30 days to convene a hearing to determine whether Kadri should be fired, according to his contract. The board's recommendation is due within 20 days of the end of the hearing. Adler said he has not yet made a decision about whether the hearing will be public or private.
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Hey peacenluv22, it definitely sounds like he likes you. If he has a girlfriend, it may be best to wait until he's out of a relationship to make your move. I would text him but only as a friend because you don't want to get involved or cause any relationship drama. Hope this helps! Xoxo
soo i really like this guy...and last night my friend was texting him(he doesnt really know her at all) and he told her to have me text him so i did. we talked for like 3 hours or so and he put a lot of smiley faces and winkey faces. and he also gave me a compliment!!! then after a while i told him i had to go and he replies.. ok night<3........how can i tell what all this means!?!?!?!?
and should i text him again or wait untill he texts me first!? And its weird cuz we have really never talked in person and im pretty sure he still has a girlfriend please help!!! Lynae P.
by peacenluv22 on 8/4/2012 10:56:09 AM
Hey kfashionqueen900, yeah I would wait for him to come around. Give it a few days and see if he reaches out to you. Xoxo
this guy told me he liked me but then when out with another girl 2 days later, even though i said i liked him. but she broke up with him. i dont know if he still likes me. should i go after him or just let it go ? Lynae P.
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Some guys are just mean. They don't seem to know how much they can hurt someone.
by LovelyDays111 on 7/14/2012 11:06:57 PM
About a year ago, the guy that i have liked since about 3rd grade asked me out. So we go out for 6 months. Durning that time i thought that i had just won the lottery. Turns out durning that time 'boyfriend' was justa word. He still was with other girls, but just never called them girlfriend. I was so mad. He used me the whole time; asking questions about how to talk to girls, and what they like. It never came to my senses that it wasn't about me. Now were not friends but i think i made the wrong decision.
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I have a mk4 1.4 ford fiesta and I'm wanting to convert it to a 1.7 puma.
I'm wondering what parts I would need for this conversion aswell as the 1.7 engine (if I need any others)
Iv been told I'd be best of keeping my 1.4 gearbox in it to provide quicker acceleration.
A list of parts needed would be good if possible or even a guide to the conversion.
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Summer squash spacing
So this spring I planted the Flying Saucer variety of squash. I planted 2 plants, about 8 inches apart from each other, with 2 ft between each mini row of 2 plants. Should I pull out one out of each 2? Will they stunt each other if I leave them there? All of the plants came up, and all of them look healthy, so I hate to pull them out, but if it is going to effect the health/production then I'll do it. I don't have any room to transplant them anywhere.
I should have said in my original message that there are 6 plants total, planted in 3 separate little rows, 2 ft between each row, with 2 plants per row(about 8 inches apart) Hopefully that clarifies a bit!
But I'm guessing I should still thin them out to just one plant per 2 ft.
I would pull the two in the middle of each row. Fly Saucer squash grows a lot like zucchini so it doesn't crawl much like a spaghetti squash but the bushes can still get quite large.
I try and plant all my squash a min. of 3 ft apart and I still have a hard time walking through them if they grow well.
If you're worried about the others dying after you pull them, wait a little longer before removing them.
Also - don't think just about the number of plants or spacing - think if you really need all that squash!!!
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Thirty participants representing every law school in Alabama are slated to attend Maynard Cooper & Gale's first ever Life at a Law Firm event this Friday, February 20, 2015.
The half-day event is designed to introduce diverse first-year law students to the private sector practice of law as they evaluate their respective career paths. The program also provides students a unique opportunity to network with other area law students, refine their interviewing skills, and talk one-on-one with practicing lawyers. This experience will give students the skills to secure and succeed in summer internships as well as a better understanding of law firm structure, management, lawyer compensation, practice areas and life as an associate at a law firm. A networking reception concludes the event.
Maynard Cooper's Diversity Committee organized the program.
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Maynard Cooper & Gale is pleased to announce that attorney Lauren DeMoss has been named one of the 2015 Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal. This award, which recognizes talented up-and-comers on the Birmingham business scene, is one of the most coveted distinctions for young professionals in Birmingham. Continue reading...
Maynard Cooper Offers its 7th Annual Minority Scholars LSAT Prep Course
Maynard Cooper & Gale PC is pleased to offer its Seventh Annual Minority Scholars LSAT Prep Course, beginning in April. The Prep Course is geared to highly-motivated undergraduate minority students who intend to pursue a career in law. Offered in an interactive group setting with approximately 10 students, the class will focus on LSAT strategies and methods covering every skill tested on the June 8, 2015 LSAT exam. The course will be provided to qualified students selected by the firm. Students' acceptance into the program will be based on college GPA, resume and personal statement.
"We are thrilled to be hosting this program for the seventh straight year," said Kathie Weber, Co-Chair of the firm's Diversity Committee. "It is an honor to work with the students as they prepare to embark on the journey of law school."
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Janine McAdory Named to National Black Lawyers Top 100
Maynard Cooper & Gale PC proudly recognizes Janine McKinnon McAdory being named to the National Black Lawyers Top 100 list for 2015.
"Janine is a rising star in our midst – both in the firm and in our community," said Kathie Weber, Chair of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. "An active member of our Diversity Committee, Janine has taken on responsibility for our new Life at a Law Firm program; and has played a vital role in the success of our Minority Scholars LSAT Prep Course program."
The invitation-only professional honorary organization recognizes the top 100 black lawyers in each state and is "comprised of America's top attorneys who represent individuals, families and businesses in the American legal system." Membership in the National Black Lawyers Top 100 is recognition of "superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence and performance in their area of legal practice."
McAdory is an associate with Maynard Cooper's Insurance & Financial Services Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation practices. She was previously recognized as an "Outstanding Attorney" by Birmingham Magazine's Best in Minority Business Awards.
She received her J.D. from Howard University and holds a B.E. from Vanderbilt University. Continue reading...
Anthony Joseph Elected to Alabama Power Board of Directors
Maynard Cooper congratulates Shareholder Anthony "AJ" Joseph on his recent election of the Board of Directors of Alabama Power.
Joseph joins Dr. Cathy Randall as the newest members of the company's board.
"We are proud and honored to welcome Dr. Randall and Mr. Joseph to our board," said Alabama Power Chairman, President and CEO Mark Crosswhite in a release. "They each bring a lifetime of excellence and integrity to our company. They are leaders in their fields and highly respected by their peers."
Joseph is Co-Chair of the White Collar Criminal practice at Maynard Cooper. He has a long and distinguished career in the legal field. He first served as an Assistant District Attorney for Jefferson County, Ala. before joining the FBI as a Special Agent working in Birmingham, St. Louis and Philadelphia. Upon his return to Birmingham he worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney before entering private practice as an attorney. He joined Maynard Cooper in 2006.
He was the 2013-2014 President of the Alabama State Bar, a former Alabama State Bar Commissioner, and Vice President of the Alabama State Bar, a past Chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, and is currently a member of its White Collar Crime Committee.
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Maynard Cooper & Gale PC proudly announces the firm's five newest shareholders: Josh Baker, Jack Bethay, Stephanie Mays, Randall Minor and Harrison Smith.
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Maynard Cooper & Gale PC welcomes Brian Sattizahn to its Intellectual Property & Technology practice.
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As News Corp's titles attempt one of the boldest publishing moves in history, Kipp's poll reveals that people simply won't pay. No surprise there, says Sam Potter.
July 5, 2010 3:09 by kippreport
It's happened. The famous newspaper titles owned by Rupert Murdoch, the Times, the Sunday Times, have erected paywalls on their websites to prevent people accessing content for free. It is one of the boldest moves in publishing history.
At stake is the future of journalism, no less. If Murdoch's ploy succeeds, he will usher in a new era of internet journalism which could save an industry in dire straits. If he fails, then the gambit will likely be remembered as a major milestone in the continuing decline of the professionally reported news.
The introduction of the paywalls was widely reported to be taking place this month, so Kipp decided to do a survey of readers to see how the average internet user would respond if confronted by such a wall. Would they pay for newspaper content online?
The answer is bad news for Mr. Murdoch. A thumping 64 percent of readers refuse to pay on the basis that there is plenty of content out there for free. And with organizations like the BBC setting the standard for online journalism, and doing it for nothing, that seems likely to remain the case. A further 11 percent of readers said they might pay if content was good enough – an indication perhaps that newspapers need to up their game to have even a chance of attracting online dollars.
On the plus side, there were some readers willing to open their wallets. A healthy 12 percent say they would be persuaded to shell out if the content was something they really needed, while 6.5 percent say they will pay whatever. (They recognize the hard work put in by journalists, perhaps.)
The final 6.5 percent say they'll stick to print editions for their daily news needs. All in all, not very encouraging for the world's most prominent media magnate. And Kipp readers aren't the only ones predicting failure for News Corp – the online sphere is littered with blogs predicting the project's downfall.
Other publishing houses are watching the developments carefully – they hope and pray that Murdoch's experiment finds a way to make a large journalistic operation pay on the web, because their own futures may depend on it.
But I believe that in their hearts of hearts, they're thinking the same thing I am: This isn't going to work. If there was some magic way to make everyone on the internet start charging at the same time, the News Corp move might stand a chance of success. But the fact is there will always be people willing to create and provide content for free, and as long as that is true the vast majority will not pay. It's human nature. Why pay when it comes for free? So for newspapers, salvation lies not in charging for content (unless you specialize in a valuable sector, like the Financial Times) but in finding alternative revenues.
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One glimpse of Riggs' success comes in its use of medication, which is coordinated by the psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and nursing staffs to attune with a patient's history and needs. This stands in sharp contrast to standard operating procedure. Most psychopharmaceuticals are dispensed by general doctors. Even patients seeing a psychiatrist often spend little time in conversation, let alone developing a real relationship. But the evidence shows that relationships matter. "The most powerful part of a pill," says Dr. David Mintz, Austen Riggs' director of residency training, "is the meaning that's attached to it and the relationship that goes along with it." One NIMH-funded study found that patients taking a placebo, but who had a good alliance with their doctor, actually got better than patients with a poor therapeutic alliance who received an active drug. Indeed, the relationship had an effect seventeen times more potent than the drug itself. Even the much discussed placebo effect -- where patients respond to a sugar pill -- is often misunderstood as negligible, when in fact it is quite real, biologically, and often springs from real factors -- like a patient's willingness to change, or her trust in a doctor. In any case, no drug can help if a patient neglects or refuses to take it, which happens in the culture at large 50 to 70 percent of the time, depending on the diagnosis. At Austen Riggs, by contrast, non-compliance rates run from 10 to 21 percent.
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Eduardo Porter ends an interesting piece on declining income inequality in Latin America with a warning that the decline may not continue, insofar as exports of commodities was a major cause. The argument is that China's growth is slowing, and since China was a major market for exports, this means that growth in demand in the future might be much slower than growth in demand in the last decade.
The problem with this view, which is frequently repeated in the media, is that it ignores the fact that China is much larger now than it was a decade ago. China's economy has more than doubled in size over the last decade. This means from the standpoint of the world economy, 7.0 percent growth in China today has far more impact than 10.0 percent did a decade ago. It may well be the case that demand for commodities exported from Latin America is weakening, but if we are comparing the impact of growth in China on this demand, it is undoubtedly a larger factor in 2014 than it was in 2004.
Thomas Edsall used his column today to agree with Charles Schumer that the Democrats made a mistake by pushing through Obamacare and should have instead focused on the economy. As I've noted previously, this is wrong on both sides.
On the economy side, what does Schumer think the Democrats would have accomplished if they had never said a word about health care? Would they have gotten another $20 billion a year in stimulus spending, $30 billion, $40 billion? Plug in your number, but it doesn't have to get too high before it doesn't pass the laugh test. Of course any additional spending would have been good both for creating jobs and the longer term benefits, but if Schumer is claiming that barring a whole different political world (i.e. doing a lot more than skipping health care reform) we would have seen enough stimulus to make a qualitative difference in the state of economy, and the public's view of the economy, then he's been smoking something strong.
There is a plausible alternative economic story, but it has nothing to do with Obamacare. Instead of using Big Government to protect the Wall Street gang from their own greed and incompetence, Obama could have let the market work its magic and put most of the Wall Streeters out of business. (Left to the market, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup certainly would have gone bankrupt.) He could have used the Justice Department to put the Wall Street felons behind bars. (Knowingly putting fraudulent loans in a mortgage backed security is fraud. Selling an investment grade rating for a mortgage backed security is fraud.) And, he could have tapped into populist sentiment to impose a Wall Street sales tax that would tax financial speculation. Even the I.M.F. has recommended increasing taxes on the financial industry, recognizing it as an undertaxed sector.
In short, there is a populist economic path that Obama could have pursued that would have put the economy and the Democrats in a very different position. But nothing about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prevented them from going this route. Furthermore, it's unlikely that Senator Schumer has any interest in following this path, unless the NYT neglected to cover his endorsement of a financial transaction tax and the jailing of Wall Street bankers.
Wow, some things are really hard for elite media types to understand. In his column in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen struggles with how we should punish bankers who commit crimes like manipulating foreign exchange rates (or Libor rates, or pass on fraudulent mortgages in mortgage backed securities, or don't follow the law in foreclosing on homes etc.).
Cohen calmly tells readers that criminal prosecutions of public companies are not the answer, pointing out that the prosecution of Arthur Andersen over its role in perpetuating the Enron left 30,000 people on the street, most of whom had nothing to do with Enron. Cohen's understanding of economics is a bit weak (most of these people quickly found other jobs), but more importantly he is utterly clueless about the issue at hand.
Individuals are profiting by breaking the law. The point is make sure that these individuals pay a steep personal price. This is especially important for this sort of white collar crime because it is so difficult to detect and prosecute. For every case of price manipulation that gets exposed, there are almost certainly dozens that go undetected.
This means that when you get the goods on a perp, you go for the gold -- or the jail cell. We want bankers to know that if they break the law to make themselves even richer than they would otherwise be, they will spend lots of time behind bars if they get caught. This would be a real deterrent, unlike the risk that their employer might face some sort of penalty.
Why is it so hard for elite types to understand putting bankers in jail?
Andrew Ross Sorkin used his column today to complain about the AFL-CIO and others making an issue over Wall Street banks paying unearned deferred compensation to employees who take positions in government. He argues that the people leaving Wall Street for top level government positions are victims of a "populist shakedown."
Sorkins's complaint seems more than a bit bizarre given recent economic history. In the housing bubble years the Wall Street folks made themselves incredibly wealthy packaging and selling bad mortgage backed securities. When this practice threatened to put them all into bankruptcy, the Treasury and Fed stepped in with a bottomless pile of below market interest rate loans and loan guarantees to keep them afloat.
This was explicit policy as former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes very clear in his autobiography. He commented repeatedly that there would be "no more Lehmans," and he ridiculed the "old testament" types who thought that somehow the banks should be made to pay for their incompetence and left to the mercy of the market.
The result is that the Wall Street banks are bigger and more powerful than ever. By contrast, more than 10 million homeowners are still underwater, the cohort of middle income baby boomers are hitting retirement with virtually nothing but their Social Security and Medicare to support them, and most of the workforce is likely to go a decade without seeing wage growth. And Geithner is now making a fortune at a private equity company and gives every indication in his book of thinking that he had done a great job.
This state of affairs would probably not exist if the Treasury had been full of people without Wall Street connections. If we had more academics, union officials, and people with business backgrounds other than finance, it is likely that all the solutions to the economic crisis created by Wall Street would not have involved saving Wall Street as a first priority. (And, we would not have that silly second Great Depression myth as the guiding story for public policy. Getting out of the Great Depression only required spending money -- even Wall Street folks could figure that one out.)
Anyhow, the AFL-CIO is right to raise questions about policies that further Wall Street's dominance of economic and financial policy. It's striking that Sorkin can't even see a problem.
Yep, that's right, just as it did over the last fifty years. Nonetheless, the NYT thinks we should be very worried telling us:
"The population shift will be a major problem by 2060, when there will only be 1.3 workers per retiree, against 2.3 now."
Of course if we go back 50 years it would have been almost 5.0 workers to retiree. (The OECD puts the ratio at 4.9 in 1964, compared with 2.9 today and a projection of 1.5 in 2064.) So basically we will see the sort of demographic crisis going forward as we have seen in the past.
But the hard to get good help crowd is very worried. Remarkably, the piece never once mentions wages. The traditional way in which employers dealt with shortages of labor is to raise wages. The employers that can't afford to pay the going wage go out of business. It's called "capitalism." This is the reason that most people don't still work on farms. Wages are not rising especially rapidly in Germany, which seems to contradict the headline of the piece, "German population drop spells skills shortage in Europe's powerhouse."
The piece also gives readers Germany's official unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, as opposed to OECD harmonized rate of 5.0 percent. This is likely to mislead readers since almost no one will know that Germany counts part-time workers in their unemployment rate. By contrast, the OECD harmonized rate essentially uses the same methodology as the United States. (This is a piece from Reuters, but presumably the NYT's editors can make edits so that it is understandable to its readers.)
Finally, an entry in the great typos on the month contest:
"There is a particular deficit of workers with adequate qualifications in maths, computing, science and technology."
Brad DeLong tells us that he is moving away from the cult of the financial crisis (the weakness of the economy in 2014 is somehow due to Lehman having collapsed in 2008 -- economists can believe lots of mystical claims about the world) and to the debt theory of the downturn. Being a big fan of simplicity and a foe of unnecessary complexity in economics, I have always thought that the story was the lost of housing wealth pure and simple. (And yes folks, this was foreseeable before the collapse. Your favorite economists just didn't want to look.)
Just to be clear on the distinction, the loss of wealth story says it really would not have mattered much if everyone's housing wealth went from $100k to zero, as opposed to going from plus $50k to minus $50k. The really story was that people lost $100k in housing wealth (roughly the average loss per house), not that they ended up in debt. Just to be clear, the wealth effect almost certainly differs across individuals. Bill Gates would never even know if his house rises or falls in value by $100k. On the other hand, for folks whose only asset is their home, a $100k loss of wealth is a really big deal.
The debt story never made much sense to me for two reasons. First, the housing wealth effect story fit the basic picture very well. Are we supposed to believe that the housing wealth effect that we all grew up to love stopped working in the bubble years? The data showed the predicted consumption boom during the bubble years, followed by a fallback to more normal levels when the bubble burst.
The other reason is that the debt story would imply truly heroic levels of consumption by the indebted homeowners in the counter-factual. Currently just over 9 million families are seriously underwater (more than 25 percent negative equity), down from a peak of just under 13 million in 2012. Let's assume that if we include the marginally underwater homeowners we double these numbers to 18 million and 26 million.
How much more money do we think these people would be spending each year, if we just snapped our fingers and made their debt zero? (Each is emphasized, because the issue is not if some people buy a car in a given year, the point is they would have buy a car every year.) An increase of $5,000 a year would be quite large, given that the median income of homeowners is around $70,000. In this case, we would see an additional $90 billion in consumption this year and would have seen an additional $130 billion in consumption in 2012.
Would this have gotten us out of the downturn? It wouldn't where I do my arithmetic. For example, compare it to a $500 billion trade deficit than no one talks about. Furthermore, the finger snapping also would have a wealth effect. In 2012 we would have added roughly $1 trillion in wealth to these homeowners by eliminating their negative equity. Assuming a housing wealth effect of 5 to 7 cents on the dollar, that would imply additional consumption of between $50 billion to $70 billion a year, eliminating close to half of the debt story. So how is the downturn a debt story? (You're welcome to put in a higher average boost to consumption for formerly negative equity households, but you have to do it with a straight face.)
Finally, getting to the question in my headline, the current saving rate out of disposable income is 5 percent. This is lower than we ever saw until the stock wealth effect in the late 1990s pushed it down to 4.4 percent in 1999, it hit 4.2 percent in 2000. The saving rate rose again following the collapse of the stock bubble, but then fell to 3.0 percent in 2007. The question then for our debt fans is what they think the saving rate would be absent another bubble, if we eliminated all the negative equity.
Robert Samuelson apparently didn't know that all sorts of good Keynesian types, starting with Paul Krugman, predicted that the recovery would be weak due to inadequate stimulus. (Here, here, and here are a few of my own contributions along these lines.)
The basic story is pretty damn simple. When the housing bubble collapsed we lost well over $1 trillion in annual demand. Housing construction fell from a record share of GDP to near record lows, as the boom had led to enormous overbuiilding. In addition, consumption fell as the $8 trillion in ephemeral housing equity created by the bubble disappeared. When this massive amount of housing wealth vanished so did the consumption that it supported.
As all good Keynesians tried to explain, there is no easy way to replace this loss of demand in the private sector, hence the need for government stimulus. And, we said at the time, we needed a larger and longer one than the stimulus package approved by Congress.
Apparently Samuelson is unaware of this history. He pushes his idea of leaving everything to the free market telling readers, harkening back to the recovery to the downturn following World War I:
"The recent financial crisis and the (unpredicted) weak recovery have exposed economists' fragile grasp of reality. There has been a massive destruction of intellectual capital: Old ideas of how the economy functions and can be improved have been found wanting. Since the Great Depression, governments are expected to react to economic slumps with countercyclical policies that reverse the downturn and relieve personal suffering. These understandable impulses may compromise the economy's recuperative rhythms. That's a troubling possibility that echoes from the 1920s."
It's truly amazing to find something like this comment in a major newspaper.
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The NYT tells us that we should still be pushing people to be homeowners, based largely on a report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, which gets much of its funding from industry groups. The editorial is in many ways a classic exercise in bad logic.
The basic point seems to be that homeowners accumulate more money on average than renters. While this is true, the relevant question is not whether homeowners accumulate more money, but rather whether homebuyers accumulate more money. The group of people who remain homeowners are a subset of the former group. A study of low income homebuyers in the 1980s and 1990s (i.e. before the bubble) found that the median period of homeownership was less than five years. While the people who remain homeowners for long periods of time were likely successful in accumulating wealth in their home, the half that left their home in less than five years almost certainly were losers due to the transactions costs (which are income to banks and realtors).
The other point worth noting is that the ability to accumulate equity in a home depends to a substantial extent on price movements. While real house prices are well below bubble peaks, they are high relative to longer term trends or rents. This raises a risk that they will decline if interest rates rise in the years ahead, as is predicted by the Congressional Budget Office and other official forecasters.
The study cited by the NYT seems almost designed to misrepresent the impact of the bubble on wealth accumulation. It finds that the median household who started in 1999 as renters and then switched to be homeowners ended up with more wealth in 2009, even if they had switched back to being renters. There are two obvious problems with this analysis. First, most of the people who bought in this period and then sold would have sold before 2007, meaning they would have sold in years when the bubble was sending prices soaring. It would be surprising if homeowners were not able to accumulate wealth if they sold near the peak of the bubble.
Furthermore, 2009 was still far from the trough of house prices. Prices did not bottom out until 2012. While this is presented as a test of the impact of homeownership under extraordinarily adverse conditions, the opposite is the case. More of the people who bought and sold in these years would be expected to be gainers than would typically be true. A better test would have included more years following the bursting of the bubble to prevent the impact of the bubble year prices from dominating the results.
The Joint Center continued to push homeownership on low and moderate income families during the bubble years. It doesn't seem as though its pattern of behavior has changed.
Nicholas Gage uses a NYT column to tell us that Greece is on the path to recovery and that the main risk to its prosperity is the rise of the left-wing political party Syriza. Both claims are dubious.
In terms of the recovery, Gage points to the country's strong third quarter growth, increased tourism, an improved budget situation and a decline in the unemployment rate. While the lower deficits would be good news, if the European Union was prepared to allow Greece to have a substantial stimulus, this does not seem likely anywhere in the foreseeable future. Therefore it is simply a bookkeeping entry from the standpoint of the economy. The third quarter growth, spurred in part by tourism, is a positive, but quarterly data are erratic so it will be necessary to see several more quarters before the trend is clear.
Gage touts the drop in the unemployment rate to 25.9 percent from 28.0 percent last year. However, most of this drop is due to people leaving the labor force. The employment rate, the percentage of people employed, is up by just 0.6 percentage points from its low. It is still down by 12.2 percentage points from its peak in 2008. This would be equivalent to 30 million people losing employment in the United States.
According to the most recent projections from the I.M.F, even in 2019 (the last year in the projection period) Greece's GDP will still be almost 10 percent less than its 2007 level. This is far worse than the Great Depression in the United States. And, the I.M.F.'s projections for Greece have consistently proven to be overly optimistic.
By contrast, Gage warns of the bad scenario for Greece's future:
"While the €23 billion shortfall in that year was covered by the E.C.B., today a much weaker eurozone would hardly be in a position to transfer over €100 billion to Greece if another huge run were to occur.
"In this scenario, the vacuum of currency would bring Greece to technical bankruptcy. The hard-won gains of the past two years would vanish. Access to loans would disappear. The faltering economy would come to a standstill, and the only recourse for Greece would be to return to the drachma, a disastrous move for a country that imports much of the goods it consumes."
Almost every part of this is wrong. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) has no shortage of euros. It can make as many of them it wants. (Is Gage worried about inflation?) If a flight of capital means that Greece needs 100 billion euros, the ECB would have no problem providing them.
Gage is also wrong with the bad story about Greece leaving the euro. The drop in the value of its currency would instantly make its goods and services more competitive in the euro zone and elsewhere. The country already has a current account surplus. If Greece renegotiated its debts and increased its exports with a lower valued currency, it should have no problem at all paying for its imports.
The basic facts of the situation show that any plausible stay the course route for Greece implies a level of pain that exceeds that experienced by the U.S. in the Great Depression long into the future. The alternative path of leaving the euro holds out the possibility of a much quicker return to normal growth and potential GDP.
Paul Krugman tells us that "Keynes is Slowly Winning." The immediate cause for celebration is Catherine Mann, the new chief economist at the OECD, calls for stimulus. By contrast, her predecessors in 2011 were calling for rapid increases in interest rates to normalize the economic situation.
This is indeed good news, but as a practical matter the flat-earth crowd is still calling the shots outside of Japan. There is little hope for real stimulus any time soon. The Austerians in power in the EU and to a lesser extent the U.S. are inflicting the sort of damage that our enemies could only dream about. Keynes might be winning slowly, but it is "very slowly."
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, his latest being The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive. Read more about Dean. Archives
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A substantially indestructible magnetic card key having an exterior formed completely of metallic material such as stainless steel. In the preferred form, one side of the key is of magnetizable material and the other of nonmagnetizable material to enhance the operation of the key and simplify its encoding.
1. A generally planar metal card key comprising:
a pair of sheets of metallic material,
a planar member of magnetizable material interposed between said sheets and coded with magnetic spots,
means fixedly securing said sheets together along their peripheries and clamping said member between said sheets,
one of said sheets being of nonmagnetizable material.
2. A card key according to claim 1 wherein one of said sheets is of nonmagnetizable material and one of magnetizable material.
3. A card key according to claim 1 wherein both of said sheets are of nonmagnetizable material.
4. A generally planar metal card key adapted for use with a lock which includes at least one locking pin adapted to be moved from a locking position to an unlocking position by a magnetic spot on such key when the latter is inserted in said lock,
said key comprising:
a pair of sheets of metallic material,
a planar member of magnetizable material interposed between said sheets and coded with at least one magnetic spot in a predetermined location,
means fixedly securing said sheets together along their peripheries and clamping said member between said sheets,
one of said sheets being of magnetizable metal and the other of nonmagnetizable metal.
This invention relates to a magnetic card key of the type that is adapted to actuate various types of magnetically operated sensors, including reed switches, coils, Hall cells, magnetic pins and locks. The invention will be described herein as applied to a lockset structure which includes one or more magnetic locking pins that normally cooperate with holes in a locking plate to hold a movable slide in locked position. When the magnetic card key is inserted in the lock, magnetic spots on the card key magnetically repel the locking pins out of the holes in the locking plate, thus permitting the slide to be moved by the proper card key to an unlocking position to open the lockset.
Heretofore most magnetic card keys of the subject type have been made of flexible plastic and have usually comprised a pair of plies of plastic material between which is sandwiched a sheet of readily magnetizable material such as a rubberized sheet of material containing barium ferrite.
Numerous disadvantages exist in such plastic card keys and their use in the past has been circumscribed for various reasons:
First, the structural strength of such plastic card keys is considerably below that of other available materials--for example, structurally strong metals such as stainless steel. This structural weakness restricts the use of such plastic keys to conditions under which care can be taken to preserve the structural integrity of the deivce.
Another limitation to the use of such plastic keys is that the plastic employed does not lend itself to use with attachments such as eyelets to provide means for conveniently carrying such card keys as by a key ring or the like.
The main object of the present invention is the provision of a rigid metal card key which overcomes the above noted disadvantages of plastic card keys and greatly increases the potential use of magnetic card keys.
Another object of the invention is the provision of a metal card key which is constructed of extremely strong materials for optimum structural strength and resistance to high temperature, wear, impact and other adverse factors.
Still another object of the invention is the provision of a metal card key that can be formed to minimum thickness without sacrificing the strength required to depress the movable slide and turn the housing in its associate lockset.
Yet another object of the invention is the provision of a substantially indestructible card key which lends itself to being debossed, stamped and engraved for permanent identification.
Another object of the invention is the provision of a magnetic card key having a structurally strong exterior and which at the same time permits the encoding of the key through the metal of the key with magnetic spots which are sufficiently strong and permanent to actuate the associated lockset in an efficient and dependable manner.
Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following specification and from the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the card key housing.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the magnetizable interior member.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the cover.
FIG. 4 is a section taken in a plane indicated by lines 4--4 of FIG. 1 .
FIG. 5 is a greatly enlarged plan view of the assembled card key.
FIG. 6 is a section taken in a plane indicated by lines 6--6 of FIG. 5.
In detail, and first with reference to FIG. 6 the card key comprises three main elements: a pair of sheets of metallic material generally designated 1, 2 between which is sandwiched a planar member 3 of highly magnetizable material, such as a rubberlike compound containing barium ferrite.
The housing 1 is shown in FIGS. 1, 4 and preferably comprises a sheet of nonmagnetic stainless steel formed with a peripheral flange 5 within which are received the magnetizable member 3 (FIG. 2) and the cover 3 (FIG. 3) which is preferably of magnetizable stainless steel.
At assembly the flange is crimped over the cover 2 to provide the configuration of FIG. 5.
To provide means for conveniently carrying the key the planar member 3 may be provided with an aperture 7 and, at assembly, sheets 1, 2 may be punched with registering holes so as to permit an eyelet generally designated 9 to be fixedly secured by swaging as seen in FIGS. 5, 6.
The housing 1 and cover 2 may be conveniently be formed of stainless steel having a thickness of only about 0.010 inch. The magnetizable layer 3 may be only in the order of 0.020 inch thick to provide magnetic spots of suitable magnetic strength. Thus, the thickness of the main body portion of the key need not exceed 0.040 inch to provide a substantially indestructible assemblage. The width and length of the complete key need not exceed 1.5 inches and 2.5 inches respectively.
After assembly the magnetizable layer 3 may be magnetized with a plurality of magnetic spots by passing a strong magnetic field through the card from a pair of pole pieces (not shown) charged with direct current. In FIG. 2 an example of a method of arranging such spots in a predetermined manner is shown. A predetermined field of magnetic spot positions is indicated by the numerals 15, and a certain combination of magnetic spots may be impressed at a number of selected positions such as the four spots indicated by dotted lines at 17.
Since the number of spot positions may be in the order of 35, as shown in FIG. 2, it will be apparent that the number of combinations of only three or four magnetic spots is an almost limitless amount, thus enhancing security.
One example of the type of lock structure with which the herein described magnetic card key may be used is disclosed in my copending patent application Ser. No. 746,705 filed Dec. 2, 1976. The card 62 in that disclosure may be of the type described herein and it will be noted that by inserting the card into the lockset with the cover 2 facing away from the magnetic locking pins the nonmagnetic housing 1 of the card does not magnetically interfere with the actuation of the locking pins by the magnetic spots 17.
By making the cover 2 of magnetic material such as magnetic stainless steel said cover acts as a keeper to strengthen the effect of the magnetic spots and at the same time shields the card from outside magnetic influences.
It is possible to make an operative card key by making both housing 1 and cover 2 of nonmagnetic materials and thus permit the use of magnetic spot positions to make the card key reversible. However, it is preferable to make cover 2, that is, the side facing away from the magnetic locking pins, of magnetic material to gain the above noted advantages. To this end an indicium such as an arrow indicated at 21 in FIG. 5 may be stamped on cover 2 to indicate to the user the manner in which the key is used.
The particular contour of the key and its elements with rounded corners as indicated minimizes any danger of the device snagging on clothing or other articles. The eyelet 9 permits securement of the card key to a conventional key ring or to a hook for storage purposes.
As states above, although both housing 1 and cover 2 may be of nonmagnetizable material it is preferable that the cover be of magnetizable material for the reasons stated. Another advantage of the preferred structure is that it lends itself to use with a single pole encoding device operated from one surface which need not incorporate a steel backing plate to increase the magnetic strength of the spots; this function being performed by the magnetizable cover itself.
Another advantage inherent in the invention is that the card key need not be discarded when it is desired to change the combination of the lockset-- it merely being necessary to demagnetize the key with a degausser and apply new magnetic spots as desired.
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Members of the EDC operations board took a closer look Thursday at the organization's $735,000 in reserves and how the money is designated.
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