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on Mar 5, 2010 at 7:33 am
Hello Everyone
I am a parent that support the schools. However, one of the problems with the day of action, is that is done EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Any type of protest loses its impact when it is done too frequently. Education was actually cut the least in the state budget mess. However, the simple fact is this year we actually do have less money. Because the same reaction, pink ribbons/shirts/etc has been done every year, it will not be as big an impact this year. Last year Green Valley had missing chairs out in front of the school to note missing teachers, what can they do this year to top that?
The reality is that a new parcel tax was passed, providing additional money for the school last year, the assessed value of property is down significantly, causin a reduction of county taxes paid. The job loss rate is high, people are losing their homes. Where do you think additional money is going to come from? It is probably time to REALLY look at budgets and decide where to cut. Instead of three secretaries in a school office have one and supplement with volunteers, if the extra help is actually needed. It is not optimal but there is not a lot of money right now.
on Mar 5, 2010 at 8:25 am
How about an 11 1/2 % flat tax on ALL Americans. Roughly 70% of the taxes come from 10% of Americans, almost 50% of Americans pay less than 1% or no taxes. We all benefit in some way, we are all Americans why such a disparity? California is in such a mess because of this disparity. Federal and State taxes are going up and the 10% of Americans paying the bill are frustrated. This is the real issue, and the only reason it is not debated is the fact that politicians want the 50% of the people paying no taxes to vote for them in 2010.
on Mar 5, 2010 at 8:32 am
Nancy you're exactly right, but it will never happen.


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Powell has been at the department since January. Lilley has been at the department even longer, according to Powell.
"We're glad to have this finalized," Powell said after the meeting. "We just want to be able to continue to serve the people of Oakman and keep improving this department."
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Currently one vehicle is equipped with the needed equipment.
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The Cadets fell to Greencastle six days previously before Wednesday's sectional contest at Bethesda Christian. The Sept. 27 match was a 1-1 tie that headed to overtime before being decided in penalty kicks.
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Does the Sony F3 Have 5X the Light Gathering Ability of the RED EPIC?
I'm working on an in-depth post comparing the Sony F3 with RED's forthcoming EPIC-S. While the F3 is shipping in limited quantities and the EPIC-S has only been announced, it's possible to compare the two because the EPIC-S shares its sensor with the just-shipping (and significantly more expensive) EPIC-M. In putting together the post, there's one section that I'm not sure of: the pixel pitch of each camera's sensor. Anyone out there want to help me with my math?
UPDATE: see some of the comments below, but it's being reported that the F3 in fact has a 3.4-3.6 megapixel sensor. And from further reading it seems engineers find that, while very small pixel pitches bring with them increased noise, once you reach a reasonable size — 4-6 microns — the benefits of larger pixel pitches in terms of noise are reduced. Thanks for the comments — that's exactly the kind of info I was trying to suss out.
Everyone loves to argue about 4K versus 1080p, and the argument usually centers on whether 1080p is "good enough." I happen to think the answer — for the next several years at least — is yes. All things being equal, would I rather have a 4K instead of a 1.9K image? Of course. But all things are not equal, and there are a hundreds of other considerations besides resolution. In fact, there are some situations where 1080p has advantages. For the same reason the megapixel war is waning, there's a downside to packing more pixels into the same-sized sensor: less light sensitivity. And while the consumer megapixel war was always foolish simply because the sensors were so small — normally in the neighborhood of 1/3″ — the same formula applies to large-sensor cameras. The smaller the pixel pitch, the less light a sensor can gather.
Before we go any further, a disclaimer: I'm sure some RED fans are going to hate all over this post, but I have nothing vested in either company: I'm equally interested in both cameras. I have posted a lot about RED, and I have posted a lot about Sony. If these two cameras were made by Kraft Foods and Yokohama Tires, I'd be writing the same thing. The point of this post is for me to throw some numbers out there and see if the math is right.
No matter how good RED's technicians are — and RED's Graeme Nattress is a software engineer of the highest order, whose new noise reduction algorithm is apparently something to behold — the RED is at a physical disadvantage compared to the F3 when it comes to low-light shooting. Why? Thanks to its large sensor and two MP (megapixel) sensor, the F3 is blessed with a pixel pitch that makes it optimal for sucking the most light out of a scene. Four times more than a Canon 5D, by some calculations. This got me to thinking: how much better in low light should the F3 be than the EPIC, simply from a mathematical standpoint?
The F3 has a 2 MP sensor; the EPIC-S has a 14 MP sensor. From a resolution standpoint, the EPIC-S owns the F3. But the larger a pixel is, the more light it can gather. Let's run our own calculation of pixel pitch:
- With a sensor size of 23.6 X 13.3 mm and a resolution of 1920×1080, the F3 has a pixel pitch of 12 microns.
- With a sensor size of 27.7mm x 14.6mm and a resolution of 5120 x 2700, the EPIC-S, EPIC-X, and EPIC-M have a pixel pitch of 5 microns.
When it comes to pixel pitch, bigger is better. Think of the pixels as if they were buckets, and light as if it were rain. If you've got larger buckets (pixels), you'll catch more rain (light). As such, the Sony has more than double the light gathering capability of the EPIC, right? 12 microns verses 5 microns? Actually, I think — and here's where my math fails me — that it should be five times as much. This is because pixel pitch is only a measurement of the width of pixels, and we're talking about pixels arranged in a two-dimensional grid — buckets that are lined up in vertical as well as horizontal rows. The pixel pitch measurement is consistent for the vertical dimension of each sensor — we're talking about sensors of the same aspect ratio — so for two dimensions, we'd be talking about double the 2.4X ratio that is 12 microns to 5 microns, which would mean the Sony has pixels 4.8X the size of the RED's pixels. I ran the math a few different ways and always ended up in the ballpark of a factor of five, but given I'm a writer/director/shooter/blogger and not a camera engineer, please feel free to tell me I'm terribly wrong.
Of course, this is all just math. There's more to "light gathering ability" than the size of the pixels, but it is a primary consideration, and in my mind this is nothing to sneeze at. Still, the proof's in the pudding, right? While I'd mentioned previously that the F3 was reportedly terrific in low light, here's a video shot on the F3 solely with candles as lighting, at ISO 6400 (yes, 6400!):
Very, very impressive. I could do without some of the banding seen on her arm at 0:30 — in fact, the camera's rolling-off of highlights (or lack thereof) is one of my early concerns — but the camera's low-light capability, both mathematically and practically, is damn impressive so far.
So, about that math — I know images much better than I know numbers, so please correct me if I'm wrong…
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I think the math on the PMW-F3 sensor might be off. I don't think it's 1920 x 1080 within 23.6 X 13.3 mm.
At a Sony event Dr. Hugo Gaggioni CTO, VP Technology said it was a 3.43 Megapixels sensor, and that they aren't disclosing the number of pixels across the vertical, and it has a "very interesting" color filter array.
Neil on 03.4.11 @ 1:59PM
Can't you just throw an anamorphic lens on to your 5D and get a perfect 4K image? Or is that just with a GH2? I'm confused… Gotta stop going to other sites…
And yes, I'm kidding.
You're a brave man Koo getting in to this debate. You're rolling the dice on coming home and finding that a disgruntled RED user has left a rabbit boiling on your stove.
Wait, what do you have against rabbit stew?
Just kidding. I could be way off with this math, or my understanding of pixel pitch could be fundamentally flawed. That's why I'm posting this — to suss out the wisdom of the crowd…
Your complaint over banding and highlight roll-off in the test video are compression artifacts no? Could even be caused by the vimeo compression? or does the sensor play into that too?
I'm really interested in what you find out about this, it's something I've been wondering about a lot myself, but the math definitely keeps me from going as far as you have haha
William on 03.4.11 @ 2:56PM
There is so much more to pay attention at when it comes to sensitivity. In-camera noise reduction algorithms have become at least as important as having a good s/n on the sensor. Look at the last Canons XF series : they perform better in low light with their 1/3″ chip than the Sony EX-1 which has a 1/2″ sensor and the same pixel count.
The microlenses technology and the sensor's technology are by far much more relevant than a simple calculation based on the sensor's size and the pixel count.
Matter of fact, the F3 is rated at 320 ISO while the EPIC is, as you well know, rated at 800.
All depends on the noise on the image. Maybe the F3 @ 800 ISO has less noise than an EPIC ( but I doubt that. )
And remember, you cannot measure digital sensitivity on the same basis as the film sensitivity, but that's another story.
The F3 isn't rated at 320, it's rated at 800. And I say right there in the post, "There's more to "light gathering ability" than the size of the pixels, but it is a primary consideration" …
Color Depth on 03.4.11 @ 5:55PM
It is true that lower res (larger pixels) gives higher sensitivity, greater dynamic range, lower noise and other benefits, all other variables being the same.
However, there is "physical" advantage that higher resolution sensors have over lower res sensors — greater color depth.
All variables being the same, if we increase the resolution of an imaging system, we simultaneously increase the color depth. This principle is basic to all photography and imaging. This color depth boost happens even if the bit depth remains unchanged.
Bit depth and color depth are actually two different properties. Basically, color depth is a product of bit depth and resolution.
Given a 1920×1080, 10-bit-per-color-channel sensor, if we increase the resolution just four times (to approximately "4k"), we yield a 64-times increase in color depth.
Just a disclaimer: I am not a high res fanatic and I would sooner use an F3 or an Alexa or a Genesis, rather than use any Red product. I am just mentioning a little-known (yet significant) photographic principle that is relevant to resolution discussions.
There are more details on the relationship between resolution and color depth here: http://marks.org/color_depth/
I think you should incude the Alexa in this comparison also. A more expensive camera of course, but it has gained a lot of credibility from a few of the more traditional film makers.
Judging by the footage I've seen so far, it's the F3 that has impressed me the most. Even the cheap glass movie you posted the other day. There's just something about that look that really appeals to me. The colours especially. Red footage on the other hand has never really impressed me as much. When I first saw the tv show Misfits, it looked to me like they'd shot it using a 35mm adapter. The shallow depth of field was there, although it still looked like video. But no, it was shot on the Red One.
I think the main advantage you get from shooting on Red would have to be the higher frame rates. The additional resolution would be nice too. But for me, only for cropping parts of a shot. Like using a wide shot at 5k and cropping to a 2k close up. Or for funky zoom effects in post.
I don't agree on the initial premise: that of two sensors with the same physical size, one with more megapixels than the other, the one with less megapixels can gather more light
it cannot
it gathers exactly the same light: that which comes through the lens and hits that surface; minus whatever is lost in the spaces between microsensors, which with today's gapless microlenses, is basically zero
and I've carried out an experiment to back up this theory:
I compared the following two sensors:
* the 4.5 Mpix/cm2 sensor from a canon 500D (DSLR)
* the 41 Mpix/cm2 sensor from a casio z270 (point-and-shoot)
both cameras were released around the same date, so, if anything, the more expensive DSLR should have better technology than the point-and-shoot
still, I found that, while the point-and-shoot delivers much more noise per pixel, it delivers much less noise per sensor area
that is: if I could build an APS-C sensor full of microsensors like those in that point-and-shoot (and if that could work reasonably well in terms of heat and speed…), I'd have a 130 Mpix APS-C sensor that would be able to give me 15Mpix downsampled images with A LOT less noise than what I got from that 500D
this is not a universal rule, but it tells me that less megapixels doesn't mean less noise
noise depends much more on other factors than on pixel density
here are my results:
which, by the way, doesn't mean I want 16K footage (unless for some intermediate steps in VFX-rich sequences), because my eyes can't even see 4K
and I'm not the only one finding this kind of results
you may want to visit this (very long) thread:
From dpBestflow: "Increasing the number of megapixels results in higher resolution but if the sensor size remains the same, it results in smaller photosites (pixels). Photosite size is referred to as the pixel pitch. Smaller photosites gather less light, so they have less signal strength. Less signal strength, all other things being equal, results in a less efficient signal to noise ratio, therefore more noise."
This is the the thinking that got me to write this post (and to make these calculations). However, according to luminous landscape: "sensors with photosites down to about 6.8 microns produce the highest quality, with little if any image quality degradation over ones with larger photo sites."
That quote is a bit dated but it does get to the heart of the matter, which is that sensors of considerable sizes such as these seem not to suffer from the "too tightly packed, too hot" issues that tiny (1/3″, 1/2″) chips suffer from. In fact, the EPIC's signal-to-noise ratio of 66dB beats the Sony's S/N of 63dB (both specs provided by the manufacturers; not verified).
I'll wait to update the article itself until someone can verify this, but if the Sony sensor is indeed 3.6 or 3.4 megapixels, it's likely using a non-standard bayer pattern (four colors instead of three), which is interesting in its own right. Interesting, that is, if you're a camera nerd, which anyone in this comments section obviously is.
these tests tell me that it is "noise per pixel" which is increased, not "noise per sensor area": once you downsample your images to match the lower pixel density sensor, you get A LOT less noise, at least with these specific sensors; it doesn't have to be like that in all cases, but it's proof that you can go both ways
a requirement for this is that background electrical noise has to be very low, but it seems already in 2009 it was low enough for 130 megapixels to deliver less noise than 15 megapixels, on an APS-C sensor, and it's the other requisites that are holding the megapixel count back (sensor speed, heat, data throughput, etc)
that pixel density translates to photosites 1.6 microns apart from each other, which would mean a 4x improvement from 2006 (your link) to 2009 (my test); sounds plausible, but it's not even needed at all: I just checked that 130 mpix was better than 15 mpix, but maybe the optimal was 60 mpix, and for that you just need a 2x technological improvement in 3 years; I stand by my conclusions
on another topic: that non-standard bayer pattern looks great!!
I thought about this a while ago, and my approach would be to go for a 2×3 basic structure, with five colors (red, green, blue, white, gray) arranged in a pattern like (GWR,WBK) (where K means black means gray, and is designed to protect your highlights, while W means white means clear and is designed to protect your shadows and reduce noise in the luminance channel); it's just like applying a 4:2:2 color subsampling directly on the sensor, and the aim is to gain dynamic range and reduce luma noise, at the expense of color depth (as defined in another post by someone else on this comments section) and maybe chroma noise (which would be a problem)
I should state this: I'm not an expert, or an engineer, or work making cameras or sensors
these are just personal opinions based on some empirical tests, possibly flawed conclusions, and wild speculation
Luke on 03.10.11 @ 4:34PM
I've had a think about this and I'm wondering if the results you're seeing are more due to the benefits of downsampling than anything intrinsic to the sensors themselves.
My thought is that perhaps you're not getting less noise per sensor area, but that the averaging process is essentially helping eliminate it. Averaging will tend to smooth things out, and since noise is entirely statistical it seems to me that averaging over multiple pixels each with a random amount of noise will tend to decrease its appearance. It doesn't decrease the level of the noise, but it makes it more uniform in appearance. This is not the case with actual information, since that has structure.
Consider an image entirely made of noise, distributed in a gaussian shape between white and black with the peak at 50%. Averaging the entire image results in 50% grey on every pixel. This is the extreme case – the point is that the more pixels you average over the more uniform a contribution the noise will make. It's still there, but it doesn't look as much like noise any more.
I've just been thinking about this now, there may well be significant flaws in it but it's worth considering.
"Averaging will tend to smooth things out"
it is exactly that
for an APS-C sensor, you could have 15 milion of big photosites, or 130 million of much smaller ones, and then average the signal coming out of them to get a 15mpix image
what my test shows is that the second option can deliver less noise in the final 15mpix image than the first option
it doesn't need to be that way in all cases, but to me it means that photosite size is not the most important factor determining noise
cmac on 03.11.11 @ 4:38AM
Hi, some people seems to vastly misinterpret the basics:
In computer graphics, color depth or bit depth is the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel (bpp), particularly when specified along with the number of bits used. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.
Make it simple: color depth is the POSSIBLE number of colors that an image can retain – not the ACTULA number of colors, so it has nothing to do with resolution. A single pixel image with logarythmic 32 bit depth has more color depth that a Gigapixel image with one bit per color. Simply because You will approximate the colors of the image – it's not the same as if they are there.
is 10 bit's an advantage? Yes. But… It's the incoming bits that matter also – are we interpreting the light at 12,14,16 bits?
So does really F3 has cleaner image at basic level – I think YES. Some more arguments – SONY probably uses Backlit CMOS in it's camera – where the electronics produce less noise.
As for the noise – the problem is that when there is noise there is detail loss. Yes it is an advantage to have more pixels, but I rather prefer a large pixels with less noise in 2K image, than having a large noisy images.
Unless there is a head to head comparison – we can't tell. But I think SONY has an advantage in this area.
I think he's talking "color depth per full image" while you're talking "per pixel"
he's got a point, and so do you; maybe the name wasn't properly chosen, I'm no expert
about the head to head comparison: pvc posted one a couple of days back, but then it dissapeared; I don't know if it's back online again, but you can read their summary: the F3 smokes both the AF100 and the 5D
(and I still think this doesn't mean less pixels means less noise, there are other more important factors at work)
Luke on 03.11.11 @ 8:49AM
I'm not convinced by the idea of colour depth over the entire image. It's basically talking about supersampling to avoid aliasing, but talking about it in terms of colour which to me confuses the issue. And if I've misunderstood it then perhaps that at least makes the second half of my point for me! Obviously this, again, is a benefit of downsampling a larger resolution image but I don't think it requires the new (and confusing) term of 'colour depth'.
Furthermore I think the actual maths he does is even more confusing; colours per image as opposed to colours per pixel is IMO an almost totally useless number. Defining a quantity which is 64 times larger when you increase resolution by 4, but imparts to the average viewer almost no additional visual information, is confusing and inelegant. The quantity he defines as colour depth has basically no counterpart in physical reality; it's just a number which sounds impressive. It only makes sense to talk about colour depth in terms of differences between adjacent pixels, or areas of colour. And inevitably, downsampling a larger image helps in this regard. So why not just talk about it in terms of anti-aliasing or supersampling?
But this is all somewhat superfluous anyway; in reality a sensor with no downsampling, no line-skipping and no gaps between pixels IS 'downsampling' the real image incident upon it; as such (apart from noise) all these considerations are pretty much abstract.
To be totally honest, I'd have to talk to the writer of the colour depth article properly to be sure of my interpretation of what they're saying; I honestly found the article very confusing, whether that's my fault or the authors (although impact font really doesn't help! :p)
P.S. Samuel, I'm not trying to target you here! And I realise it wasn't even you who brought up the colour depth thing in the first place.
Luke on 03.11.11 @ 9:02AM
Hmm… reading the colour depth article again it would appear that the benefits he's discussing only hold if you display the final image at that higher resolution too; i.e. not downsampling. I think he's talking about the human eye combining two pixels into one – the eye is what does the downsampling, as it were, not the camera. If I've read that correctly, then this issue has nothing to do with this blog post anyway as we're talking about a higher res chip outputting 1080p.
I think his point is that you can make up for color depth (per pixel, as in the usual definition) by increasing resolution
I don't know if the correct term should be "color depth", but the idea has merit: ever saw a color picture on a newspaper? most of them are made with only 4 colors, and make up for that with resolution
as you say, it's an "in eye" subsampling that's working its magic there, but you could run it on a computer too, and deliver a very nice lower-res image with lots of colors (you need clever software for that, though)
P.S.: nevermind, I thought this was a very polite and edifying discussion
(ever been on a forum that's not populated by grown-up professionals? I was amazed to find out there was something different when I moved from "PC nerd forums" to "moviemaker forums"; people even dare to use their real names here sometimes, as if they were not planning to troll around day and night…)
Stephen S. on 03.11.11 @ 2:39PM
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, higher resolution actually compensates for noise"
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John Philips on 03.20.11 @ 11:35PM
I don't know about all this techno-babble, but after everything has been said,
it's all about what appeals to our visual sense of the image. The F3 strikes a
near perfect balance between cost, technology and visual aesthetics. (The banding
was most likely caused by recording through the camera's native 8-Bit Codec).
All in all the F3 is bringing affordable Digital Cinema to the next level. Thank you Sony!
phillip on 01.27.12 @ 11:41AM
I don't know why anyone looks at these tests at all, you can't make a comparison with any of these cameras on Vimeo and be able to pass a fair opinion on anything. Hulu has banding in the dark areas…. what is hulu…. 2 bits? The best way to have a comparison test is to shoot everything… no grading, grab a raw frame from each scene and let everyone download it and be able to form a favorable estimate based on reality and not Hulu's good but horrid image!
Just my 31/2 cents in West Hollywood!!!
I've made many tryouts with F3 in low light. What i've found to be quite amazing – is the absence of noise…
By the way the FS100 is not too far from the F3 in this field… here are some samples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1nDkBjFOvo
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- Does the F3 Have 5X the Light Gathering Ability of the RED EPIC? at DVinfo.net on 03.4.11 @ 11:04AM
- The Sony F3 Put to the Test: 12+ Stops of Dynamic Range and a Bit of Aliasing | NoFilmSchool on 03.19.11 @ 12:18PM
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | 5pm - 6:30pm
When Mandates Work
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Edited by Michael Reich, Ken Jacobs, and Miranda Dietz
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence for the first time, reviews it as a whole, and considers its lessons for local, state, and federal policymakers.
Monday, January 27, 2014 | 12pm - 1pm
Pooled Synthetic Control Estimates of Minimum Wage Effects
Ben Zipperer, Economics, University of Massachusetts(Amherst)
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We apply the synthetic control approach in a setting with multiple case studies and recurring treatments. Using minimum wage changes as an application, we propose a simple distribution-free method for pooling across cases using mean percentile ranks, which have desirable small sample properties. We invert the mean rank statistic in order to construct a confidence interval for the pooled estimate, and we test for the heterogeneity of the treatment effect using the distribution of estimated ranks. We also offer guidance on model selection and match quality—issues that are of practical concern in the synthetic control approach generally and when pooling across many cases. Using 19 cases of state minimum wage increases between 1998 and 2007, we do not find a statistically significant effect on teen employment, with the mean and the median elasticity close to zero. There is also no indication of heterogeneous treatment effects. Finally, we discuss some important practical challenges, including the ability to find close matches and the choice of predictors used for constructing a synthetic control.
Monday, February 24, 2014 | 12pm - 1pm
Waiting for Change: Is It Time to Increase the $2.13 Subminimum Wage?
Sylvia Allegretto, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, IRLE
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | 12pm - 1:30pm
Multidimensional Determinants of Inequality: A Post Crisis Analysis of Employment-Focused Welfare Changes
Pelin Sekerler Richiardi, Economist, International Institute for Labour Studies of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
Discussant: Professor David Card
Welfare and inequality (defined as the uneven distribution of welfare) have mainly been measured in monetary terms. Welfare measures seek to give an indication of how "good" the individuals' life is, and focusing on income alone is certainly not sufficient to give a comprehensive definition of welfare. While the necessity of including non-monetary dimensions to better understand this phenomenon has been gaining ground, the role of employment has not been emphasized. Employment constitutes a key component of welfare not only through labor income but also through other conditions such as type of contact or working hours. It also considerably affects the feeling of self-respect and fulfillment. Therefore, this study aims at developing a multidimensional index of welfare that contains non-monetary dimensions linked to the labor market, then, by using this index, at analysing the changes in inequalities before and after the 2008 global economic crisis. For this project, survey data from European Social Surveys (ESS) and European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) will be used. The presentation will focus on challenges of developing multi-dimensional measures (i.e assigning weights to various dimensions) and different inequality indices that might be used (i.e General Entropy family of indices).
Monday, March 3, 2014 | 12pm - 1pm
The State of Unions in the European Union
Philippe Pochet, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | 12pm - 1:30pm
Translating Employment Terminology: A Comparative Analysis
Martina Ori, PhD student, University of Bergamo, Italy and ADAPT research fellow
Research has extensively investigated the concepts of integration and differentiation in employment practices across countries, highlighting that on the one hand national legal systems influence each other to a great extent, whereas, on the other, employment practices still differ greatly across countries due to persisting differences in national institutions. There is therefore the need for comparative, international and interdisciplinary research in a field that has so far been widely neglected. The presentation will analyze the interaction between language, legal systems and culture with a focus on employment law drawing on concepts and terminology. It will provide an overview of translation pitfalls and of the strategies that can be adopted in multilingual and multicultural research across different legal systems.
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Labor Standards and the Reorganization of Work: Gaps in Data and Research
Annette Bernhardt, Visiting Researcher, IRLE; Visiting Professor, Sociology
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Efficiency and its Determinants of Higher Education Institutions in Europe and in the US
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Economist, Assistant Professor, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
The purpose of this study is to examine efficiency, productivity and their determinants in a set of higher education institutions (HEIs) from several European countries and the US by means of non-parametric frontier techniques. We conduct a two-stage DEA analysis (Simar and Wilson, 2007), first evaluating DEA scores and productivity changes (based on Malmquist indices) and then regressing them on potential covariates with the use of a bootstrapped truncated regression. Results indicate a considerable variability of efficiency scores within and between countries. Unit size (economies of scale), number and composition of faculties, sources of funding and gender staff composition are found to be among the crucial determinants of these units' performance. Specifically, we found evidence that a higher share of funds from external sources and a higher number of women among academic staff improve the efficiency and productivity of the institution.
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Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street
Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic Policy Research and
Rosemary Batt, ILR Cornell University
Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first comprehensive examination of this topic, Private Equity at Work provides a detailed yet accessible guide to this controversial business model. Economist Eileen Appelbaum and Professor Rosemary Batt carefully evaluate the evidence—including original case studies and interviews, legal documents, bankruptcy proceedings, media coverage, and existing academic scholarship—to demonstrate the effects of private equity on American businesses and workers. They document that while private equity firms have had positive effects on the operations and growth of small and mid-sized companies and in turning around failing companies, the interventions of private equity more often than not lead to significant negative consequences for many businesses and workers.
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The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy
Richard Locke, Department of Political Science, MIT
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | 12pm - 1:30pm
Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace and the Construction of Social Capital
Frederik Thuesen, Senior Researcher and Program Director at SFI—The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen
The effects of increasing ethnic diversity in the labour market on social capital in the workplace are contested. I will present findings concerning the relationship between ethnic diversity in the workplace and social capital, building on a qualitative analysis of 49 interviews from 3 different highly ethnically diverse Danish workplaces. I will also present the design and the preliminary findings from an on-going quantitative analysis concerning the impact of ethnic diversity in the workplace on tolerance among the working population in Denmark towards immigrants coming to Denmark to work, building on linked repeated cross-section survey data and register data. Finally, I'll briefly outline possibilities for non-Danish researchers and PhD-students for accessing Danish survey and/ or register data (in case you are interested, please see http://www.sfi.dk/cssr-7745.aspx).
Thursday, April 10, 2014 | 12pm - 1:30pm
The Characteristics of Individually-Affiliated Unions in Japan: Toward the Comparison with Community Organizations in the United States
Sachi Kotani, Sociology, Nihon University, Japan
Discussant: Professor Kim Voss
Since the mid-1990's, economic globalization has reduced the leverage of labor unions in Japan and caused a rapid decline in the unionization ratio. Consequently, the study that focuses upon the economic feasibility of the company-based capital-labor relations has reached its limits. The purpose of this presentation is to suggest a future labor movement and construct a new methodology by using a case study of individually-affiliated unions established in the mid-1990's. In my presentation, I focus in particular on attribute-based individually-affiliated unions, which represent workers at the margin of the labor markets. I pay particular attention to their age, gender, ethnicity, and their status within the company. My previous research investigated the newly-formed individually-affiliated Tokyo Managers' Union and Women's Union Tokyo. Findings suggest that by cooperating with social movements and NGOs, individually affiliated unions have a wider social function than company based unions in the following ways: 1) They are better equipped than company-based unions to meet the needs of diverse workers through consultations. 2) They are able to solve over 90 percent of the labor disputes by means of individual negotiations, giving the workers a high degree of satisfaction. 3) Both unions, especially women' s labor unions, are capable of serving public interests by translating individual labor problems into larger social issues when they unite with other social movements and the NGOs. 4) They can empower individuals through various activities and mutual support among union members. 5) As a result of these activities, many union members of managers have reassessed the outlook for the company and attitude toward work, while individually-affiliated unions of women are geared toward gender sensitivity. Finally, this presentation will discuss the similarities and differences between community organizations such as worker centers in the United States and individually-affiliated unions in Japan with the view towards the comparative studies between them.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 | 5:30-7:00pm
When Mandates Work
Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level
Event Speakers Ken Jacobs, Gordon Mar, Ann O'Leary, and Michael Reich
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence for the first time, reviews it as a whole, and considers its lessons for local, state, and federal policymakers.
Monday, April 21, 2014 | 12pm - 1pm
The Working Rich: Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry
Olivier Godechot, Max Planck Sciences(MaxPo), France
This presentation looks at the dynamics of skyrocketing wages in the financial industry to open the black box of rapidly increasing wage inequalities. My book (Working Rich: Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit, 2007, in French, translation forthcoming from Chicago University Press) relies on a detailed fieldwork of the French financial industry in the early 2000s to unpack the social mechanisms that have produced ever increasing levels of compensation in that sector. I show how financial operatives set up informal property rights on the assets they work with (clients, formulas, software, knowledge, teams). These assets enable them to make proprietary claims on the origin and therefore the destination of profit. Those who are in a position to move financial assets between competitors can efficiently threaten the firm and its stakeholders --a situation I call "hold up"-- unless their demands for higher compensation are met. In such a framework, wages reflect not only traditional human capital variables but also the potentially proprietary assets that financial operatives can move.
Monday, April 28, 2014 | 12pm - 1pm
Trends in U.S. Wealth Inequality, 1913 to 2012
Gabriel Zucman, Post-Doctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley and Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | 12pm - 1:30pm | CANCELLED
Unions' Participation in Politics: Recent Legislative Developments
John Logan, Director, Professor of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University; Senior Research Associate, CLRE
In November 2012, Californians voted 56.1 per cent to 43.9 per cent to reject the nation's most sweeping effort to date to undermine organized labor's political voice. The pro- and anti-Proposition 32 camps spent a combined total of over $135 million on a campaign that was organized labor's top priority in California, and, along with the re-election of President Obama, one of its highest priorities nationwide. The 2012 election marked the third time in 15 years that California voters have rejected a so-called 'paycheck protection'—legislation restricting how unions can raise and spend money on political activities—ballot initiative. In 1998, in what the then AFL-CIO president John Sweeney called a 'modern political miracle', California voters rejected Proposition 226, the highest-profile paycheck protection ballot measure of the 1990s. And in 2005, in an early attempt to constrain the political activities of public-sector unions, Californians voted down the highest-profile paycheck measure of the 2000s, Proposition 75.
The defeat of Proposition 226 slowed paycheck's momentum in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But since 2011 paycheck protection has, once again, become a high priority for conservative politicians and anti-union organizations. After the failure of Proposition 32 at the ballot box, its principal backers—primarily conservative activists and out-of-state Super PACs (political action committees) stressed that the initiative was part of longer-term effort in California and the rest of the nation to neuter organized labor's political activities. Conservative lawmakers are currently pursuing paycheck bills in both Pennsylvania and Missouri. This paper analyzes the debate over paycheck protection and other similar state-level anti-union legislative initiatives of the past few years
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By Susan Johnston
NEW YORK (MainStreet) --The recession forced countless millennials into boomeranging back home with their parents to save money. But even some of those adult children who are gainfully employed, financially independent and perhaps even engaged or married still piggyback on the family cell phone plan. In fact, 29% of parents of 18- to 35-year-old children continue to pay their cell phone bill after their kids move out of the house, according to a Harris Interactive survey of 620 parents for the Wall Street Journal.
Kristin Serio, a 24-year-old account executive in Orlando, Fla., is part of this trend. Her grandparents paid her college phone bill through college graduation, when her parents added her to their plan, which includes unlimited data, talk and web. Serio says she'll eventually start her own family plan once she gets married or her three-year-old son is old enough for a cell phone.
"But until that happens it's very nice to not have to worry about [the bill]," Serio said.Susan Newman, a New Jersey-based social psychologist and author of Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father (Walker and Co, 2003), says this dynamic is common. "While they have financial independent children, it's still a way for them to feel like they're taking care of their kids," she says. "One of the issues is how complicated these cell phone plans are. In some respects, it's less expensive and a lot easier just to keep your son or daughter on your plan." Still, that's not to say that sharing a family plan is without complications. A mom blogger made headlines in December for having her teenage son agree to an 18-point contract in order to get an iPhone. Although Newman says that parents of adult children probably shouldn't have their child's smartphone password or review the list of calls, they should discuss who pays for overages in advance. After all, exceeding data caps or shared minutes can prove costly. "As soon as you have a cell phone plan, you need to understand your data plan no matter who's paying for it," says Wendy Weaver, a certified financial planner with Bethesda, Mar.-based wealth management firm FBB Capital Partners. "It's a good lesson you can use to teach your children about financial literacy."
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Osvaldo off the mark for Juventus
9:26am Friday 21st February 2014 in Sport
Dani Osvaldo scored his first goal for Juventus last night, following his loan move from Saints.
The striker netted in the 15th minute of the Italian side's 2-0 win over Turkish club Trabzonspor, in the Europa League.
Saints' record signing Osvaldo was making his first start for Juve, after leaving St Mary's on transfer deadline day.
The 28-year-old was moved on after a training ground incident in which he allegedly headbutted his teammate, José Fonte.
Speaking after the first-leg match in Turin, the Saints record signing said: "It's been great mostly because of the result, but I'm obviously also pleased with the goal."
The Italian international scored after pouncing on a loose ball to slot home.
"Making the right movements is part of my playing style, I'm not one to wait for the ball to come my way," he said.
Osvaldo was partnered with former Manchester United and Manchester City frontman Carlos Tevez for the match.
"It's easy to work alongside Tevez," he said. "He's a phenomenal player, so an understanding with him would no doubt come naturally to anyone.
"Besides Tevez, I also feel comfortable with the team as a whole. I'm happy because I think I've adapted quite well to playing with them right from the start."
Juventus hold an option to purchase Osvaldo permanently at the end of the season, for a fee of about £15.6m, payable over three years.
The striker is hoping to impress so that the Serie A club activate the clause. However, he also wants to do well in order to secure a place in Italy's squad for this summer's World Cup.
"I really hope I'll be there, it's one of my aims this season, so I'll try my very best," he said.
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10:36am Fri 21 Feb 14
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JohnItaly wrote:Whilst I do agree with you, I don't think they'll even count that one!
Hope this is one of many he scores for Juventus. The more times he hits the net (on the inside!!) the better our chances of Juventus buying him.
Did you see it? It was quite a simple, standard goal and was only against Trabzonspor.
He's going to have to do a lot more than he has to impress, bearing in mind their other strikers.
I'm honestly getting worried that we'll be stuck with him.
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Shiner Oktoberfest - Spoetzl Brewery
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Ratings: 711 | Reviews: 221 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by StArnoldFan:
3.75/5 rDev +13%
12-29-2012 00:30:32 | More by StArnoldFan
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North Carolina
3.53/5 rDev +6.3%
Poured into a stein a clear copper/bronze with a well formed one finger crown atop.Caramel,light toast,and bread dough aromas,the caramel malt is the most assertive of the three,maybe a bit one sided but not bad.Caramel sweetness also dominates the flavors at the onset,slightly doughy with a bit os anise-likeflavors in the finish.Its a decent stab at a fest/marzen beer,maybe a little sweeter than I would like but its not bad.
09-12-2010 19:26:46 | More by oberon
3.75/5 rDev +13%
06-17-2014 02:49:48 | More by legalag11
3/5 rDev -9.6%
Pours a copper-amber color with excellent clarity; small, off-white head fades fast. Heavy, malty aroma; caramel and toffee with a slight tartness to it, and some grains in the background. The taste has a slightly metallic flavor that is a little off-putting. It comes hand in hand with an apple skin and grape-like sweetness that hits immediately but fades quickly. Caramel malt undertones play throughout the whole sip. Grains are heavy in the aftertaste, toasted and bready. Very low hop profile in this one, maybe some dry florals in the background but at this point, it's a stretch to even say that they're really there. A mild cheesiness comes out as it warms up, again, a little off-putting but not so much as to make it undrinkable. Some leafiness in the very back end of the brew, but it doesn't feel very "hoppy". An astringent bitterness lingers afterwards, with some fading malts and yeast. Thin body, a touch of creaminess, but overall pretty thin with medium carbonation.
Eh, not awful, but not something I'll be likely to revisit. A couple weird off-flavors keep this one from being a solid Oktoberfest. Definitely many better options out there.
12-24-2012 06:09:10 | More by tectactoe
3.98/5 rDev +19.9%
The pint has a truly inviting,warm, subdued orange color. I'm not just being non-descript, its truly orange, like a lollypop. It is crystal clear and has about three fingers of fluffy bright white head that dissapates to thin film with dissapointing efficency.
I caught a slight whiff of sweet malt in the nose, with just a hint of cinnamon.
The taste is a light, mellow, malt sweetness with some nut characteristics that are quickly washed away by very citrusy hop bitterness. The aftertaste is bready and pleasing. Though this is not the most complex beer, I feel it is probably the most balanced example of the Marzen style I've had. The color is right-on and it avoids the sickly-sweetness that can often plague a Marzen.
12-20-2005 08:13:43 | More by JudgeRoughneck
3/5 rDev -9.6%
08-29-2013 06:31:17 | More by Tiernan
3.58/5 rDev +7.8%
Looks like a marzen/oktoberfest is supposed to look. I like their look, so good points in that catagory. I also like the type of paper they used for the labels on the bottle.
Malty sweetness characteristic of oktoberfests. Spot-on.
Taste is pretty good. Has a bit of that burning sensation that cheap(er) beers give your mouth. Otherwise its a nice marzen, and on the light side.
Better than some oktoberfests I've had lately, and not as good as others. Does Shiner make this one year-round? If so, that would be the advantage to buying this beer: getting an oktoberfest in the spring/summer.
03-14-2006 00:42:24 | More by chOAKbarrell
3/5 rDev -9.6%
09-17-2013 15:54:36 | More by RoninBirdman
2.98/5 rDev -10.2%
In a pint glass, the beer was an amber color with a pretty small white head and a tiny bit of lace.
Sweet caramel aroma. Not very noticeable, but not invisible either.
Same thing with the taste. Caramel, sweet bread. Again, neither overwhelming nor underwhelming.
Very, very sweet. Too sweet for me.
10-19-2010 00:14:48 | More by lordofthewiens
3.25/5 rDev -2.1%
01-06-2014 00:13:44 | More by Brauntasaurus
3.75/5 rDev +13%
05-17-2013 01:35:58 | More by SmellsofMahagony
3.6/5 rDev +8.4%
12oz brown bottle with no freshness date.
LOOK: Dull orange color, clear though.
SMELL: Malt sweetness, fresh baked bread, faint herbal hop, dusty grain, clean.
TASTE: Semi-chewy, wet, mild sweetness, spicy hop, floral, bread crust, toasted grain, slightly dry, clean.
Extremely clean and very drinkable. Just as smooth as it is crisp. Well balanced from malt sweetness to toasted flavors to bittering hops. A happy brew to knock back.
09-01-2012 23:50:24 | More by Jason
3/5 rDev -9.6%
09-01-2013 02:03:33 | More by ctodda
3.68/5 rDev +10.8%
The beer pours an amber/copper color with a white head. The aroma is toffee, earthy hops and surprisingly, some flowery notes. The flavor is toffee, caramel and light earthy hops. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Not one of the best beers of this style that I have tried, but one of the better offerings from Shiner.
09-14-2010 05:46:52 | More by Mora2000
3.58/5 rDev +7.8%
Poured from the bottle.
Clear-amber and slightly orange in colour. The nose didn't have much to it with only a slight malt-sweetness. The taste was more complex than the smell with a nice sweet-malt upfront taste. It was pretty typical for an Oktoberfest-style beer.
Would I buy it again? Yes.
01-08-2013 20:24:01 | More by NilocRellim
3.5/5 rDev +5.4%
02-24-2012 22:53:28 | More by IrishGermanAmerican
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3.5/5 rDev +5.4%
06-15-2014 03:40:42 | More by Irish_Fan
3.5/5 rDev +5.4%
07-19-2014 22:43:37 | More by Dello
3.25/5 rDev -2.1%
08-06-2013 23:08:39 | More by mjh0527
2.5/5 rDev -24.7%
08-25-2013 19:38:32 | More by jminch
3/5 rDev -9.6%
12-13-2011 17:03:52 | More by valkyre65
2.5/5 rDev -24.7%
01-04-2012 17:18:50 | More by jaredseaman77
3.25/5 rDev -2.1%
07-31-2014 16:19:54 | More by Ortonius
3/5 rDev -9.6%
01-17-2012 23:41:04 | More by dsauter
3/5 rDev -9.6%
ST: 12oz poured into a pint glass. The bottle does not have a drink by date or brewed on date, nor does the bottle list the alcohol percentage.
A: Clear light copper (not nearly as dark as I was expecting) with a half-a-finger-nail white fluffy head that has great retention. It has steady carbonation.
S: Mild citrus hop, sweet malt, and slight metallic aroma.
T: Bread malt, slight citrus hop, biscuit mild bitterness on the finish.
M: Light and on the drier side.
O: Overall, I am not very impressed. I look forward to fall offerings all year, and I am a huge fan of many German and micro-brewed Marzen or Oktoberfest beers. This one is less expensive than most, and it tastes like that as well. The color is a bit light, the flavor is a bit bland, and the aroma is no very strong. It does have a nice head, but other than that, I would not recommend buying this beer when there are much better examples out there.
08-27-2011 20:50:42 | More by ianjsullivan
Shiner Oktoberfest from Spoetzl Brewery
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Romney and Women's Rights
Original post made by Gail on Oct 3, 2012
-Mormon position on women has changed little since the early 1800's, when the official view was that "woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband"
-Mormonism has created an ingenious system of oppression, in which opposition towards men is tantamount to arguing with God.
-At age twelve, boys become members of the Aaronic, or lesser priesthood, and at nineteen become eligible for the Melchezedek, or higher priesthood. Members of either priesthood are higher authorities on everything than are non-members. Women are, of course, excluded from the priesthood. This practice in effect says that a woman's prepubescent son is more qualified to advise her than she is to advise him.
If Romney is elected President, how will this effect the rights of women in this country?
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ZIP !!!stop stirring up sxxx. you're showing your blind partisanship and ignorance.
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I know a few mormons and while I don't accept their religion, they are among some of the finest people I've met. This post is obviously meant to be divisive and the writer hopes it will pass muster because it ends in a question.
I have a question --
Gail, were you scared by a mormon when you were a child?
on Oct 4, 2012 at 8:19 am
No, but the thought of Romney as president does. This article from a couple of days ago also discusses the second class citizen status of women in the Mormon church, the Mormon church's opposition to the equal rights amendment, and its extraordinary effort to ban same sex marriage [article-jim lehrer ask mitt romney if he stands by mormon views of women] Web Link


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Happy Labor Day!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Ceramic Roses are in Bloom!
It has been a long winter..and since I have posted. Spring is finally here, and I love it!
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Hoo! knew how fast time floooo!
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Fall is here!
Fall is here and gorgeous weather is here in the Pacific Northwest! I'm excited.
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Christmas in July at Make Mine Pink
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Pink birds are my newest little cute design!
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