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Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Market Failure
Here are some revision quizzes for students to check their understanding of market failure
read more...»The 'Gentleman in Whitehall' does not know best
The government is relaxed about people cashing in their pension schemes to buy a Lamborghini. But the left-leaning liberal commentariat is certainly not. Abuse has been heaped onto George Osborne's Budget measure of removing the requirement for people to buy an annuity. The main thrust of the attacks is that individuals may act irresponsibly. They may take financial decisions that are not in their best interests.
read more...»The changing face of Government Spending - a teacher resource
Here's a short but fun classroom starter to stimulate discussion about how the Government Spends its money.
Based upon information from a BBC article showing how Government spending has changed since 1953, the resource asks students to separate 'blocks' representing the percentage of overall spending on each department (e.g. health, defense) into those that they think represent spending in 1953 and those that represent 2013. Having separated the blocks, students must then re-arrange the blocks into perfect squares on the printable 'mats' provided as part of the resource.
As well as stimulating discussion about how the Government spends its money and changes in its priorities, it may provide a useful hook for getting your students to remember the proportion of spending the Government places on each of its department which they can use as evidence within their exam answers.
Click on this link to download the resource.
Click on this link to go to the original BBC article.
Unit 1 Micro: Smoking Bans and Obesity
Anti-smoking measures, such as taxes and bans, eventually lead people to eat better and lose weight. That is the central conclusion of research by Luca Savorelli, Francesco Manaresi and Davide Dragone, to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's 2014 annual conference. The three economists overturn the conventional wisdom that kicking the smoking habit is healthy but results in weight gain.
Labour Market: UK Minimum Wage does not Cost Jobs
The introduction of a national minimum wage does not lead to job losses. That is the central finding of research by Peter Dolton and
Michael Stops, to be presented at the Royal Economic Society's 2014 conference.
UK carbon taxes in a mess
Climate change is back in the news, and continues to stir up heat, but not much light. It's proving fantastically difficult to come up with consistent and efficient policies to reduce CO2 emissions.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Energy firms face competition inquiry
The big six energy firms in the UK - who account for more than ninety per cent of suppliers to UK household, commercial and industrial consumers - will be subject to another investigation by the competition authorities.
A report by regulator Ofgem has called for an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which could take nearly two years to complete - effectively pushing the issue into the long grass well beyond the date of the next election.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Smoking Bans Improve Health
In 2007 a ban on smoking in enclosed public places was introduced in England - Scotland had introduced a similar measure a year earlier. Fresh evidence published in the medical journal The Lancet finds that enforced bans on smoking are now having a discernible effect on measures of public health.
read more...»Why are rich countries democracies?
You may be asking why what sounds like a politics question finds a place on the economics blog. The answer of course is that the issue of governance crops up a lot in economics. Governments have to address the challenges thrown up by market failure, and offer a fiscal framework that helps tackle macroeconomic problems. Regulators intervene in uncompetitive markets. Those of you looking at development economics don't get far before asking if poor quality government holds back the weakest economies.
Hence the question (above). All rich, developed, mature economies are democracies. Ricardo Hausmann offers and insight into why this might be so on the pages of Project Syndicate.
read more...»F585 Pre-Release Resources (and F583, F582 & F581 too)
I thought it worthwhile sharing my resources which I have been collecting for students (and teachers alike). I have been promoting them on Twitter (@Economics_KSF) through scoop.it but for those of you not on there, the link for the scoop.it boards are here:
read more...»Unit 2 Macro: Hurdle Rates and New Housebuilding
The government wants more new homes to be built, so too do hard-pressed home-buyers facing a continued problem of low property affordability. But cautious construction companies are reluctant to press ahead favouring share buy-backs (returning money to their shareholders) and only a limited expansion of new building.
read more...»Unit 4 Macro: Oxfam and IMF Focus on Inequality
Inequality is an issue that remains firmly in the spotlight of the news media and also of policy makers in different countries.
read more...»Unit 2 Macro: UK R&D Spending Remains Low
For years the government has tried to lift research and development spending as a share of national income - but seemingly to no avail. The latest data finds that the UK is spending less on R&D than any other EU country. What might this mean for the supply-side competitiveness of the economy?
The data finds that
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure and Coca Cola
In this memorable Newsnight interview, Jeremy Paxman quizzes / interrogates a senior Coca Cola executive about the amount of sugar in Coca Cola drinks. Coca Cola wants to "make sure that the information is available" but if they did would students, cinema goers and millions of other consumers change their preferences?
read more...»Price Regulation in Industries
Regulation of prices through price capping has been a feature of regulation of the utilities in the UK for many years – although this is now being phased out as most utility markets have become more competitive.
Price capping systems
- Price capping is an alternative to rate-of-return regulation, in which utility businesses are allowed to achieve a given rate of return (or rate of profit) on capital.
- In the UK, price capping has been known as "RPI-X". This takes the rate of inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index and subtracts expected efficiency savings X. So for example, if inflation is 5% and X is 3% then an industry can raise their prices on average by only 2% per year
- In the water industry, the formula is "RPI - X + K", where K is based on capital investment requirements designed to improve water quality and meet EU water quality standards. This has meant increases in the real cost of water bills for millions of households in the UK.
Capping is an appropriate way to curtail the monopoly power of "natural monopolies" – preventing them from making excessive profits at the expense of consumers
Cuts in the real price levels are good for household and industrial consumers (leading to an increase in consumer surplus and higher real living standards in the long run).
Price capping helps to stimulate improvements in productive efficiency because lower costs are needed to increase a producer's profits.
- The price capping system is a tool for controlling consumer price inflation in the UK.
Price caps have led to large numbers of job losses in the utility industries
Setting different price capping regimes for each industry distorts the price mechanism
read more...»Executive Pay: Shareholders have failed to curb excesses
Despite public calls for shareholders to get tough on executive pay, a new study of the UK's highest paid company directors reveals that shareholders are overwhelmingly inclined to approve the pay packets of top directors, just as they were before the crisis
read more...»Transport Economics - compensation for rail delays
Did you know that most train operating companies will refund 50% of your ticket for a delay of 30 minutes or more, and will double that if the delay is for an hour or longer? And that, if you are travelling by tube, Transport for London offers refunds if your journey is delayed by 15 minutes or more (although you won't get a refund if the delay is caused by a security alert, "third party action" such as a strike or bad weather)? Most probably you didn't, as a survey by the Office of Rail Regulation has found that more than 75% of rail passengers know "not very much" or "nothing at all" about what they are entitled to when services are disrupted.
The report also found that 74% of passengers felt that train companies do "not very much" or "nothing at all" to proactively provide information about compensation when there are delays. As Simon Gompertz found in this video report, there are plenty of ways in which the train operating companies could make the information available, whether through instructions on the back of the tickets and announcements on trains to apps.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Economics of a £7 Minimum Wage
These slides are from our January 2014 revision workshops for unit 3 microeconomics. They focus on some of the arguments surrounding the possible introduction of a £7 per hour national minimum wage in the UK
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Information Failures in Markets
This blog brings together some of our resources on information failures in markets.
Click below for:
Mo Tanweer's superb revision notes on aspects of information economics
Try our short Zondle revision quiz on information failure
read more...»Boris Bikes - Do Benefits Exceed the Costs?
Boris Johnson, The Mayor of London, has been happy to extend the use of bicycles in London; and the pattern of use has thrown up some interesting points. There were 7.4 million cycle hire trips last year but an estimated 71% of cycling use was by men. Most of these journeys would have been made on foot (31%) or by public transport (47%). Coverage of the study published in the BMJ looked at the health effects is found here.. The notes in the article, provide good examples of the strengths and weaknesses of cost benefit analysis.
read more...»Government underestimates the amount of student loans that are likely to be paid back
According to a report published by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, the Government are currently underestimating how many students will actually pay back their university loans over the coming decades. Currently, the Government estimates that between 35 and 40% of loans to Higher Education students are never paid back - the Committee believes that the rate on non-repayment is much higher and reflects a weakness in the loan collection method. The primary reason for non-repayment is that student details get lost over a period of time particularly if the graduate moves and works abroad or was an EU citizen who has returned to their own country. The method of using the income tax registration process as a way of locating former students has been criticized for not being an effective method of collecting information. It is estimated that the shortfall could be as much as £80 million by 2042.
read more...»UK economy: Tidal Lagoons
Cost benefit analysis, economies of scale, energy economics, regional development, economic growth, competitiveness ... there is a veritable a tidal wave of applied economics in this article from the Guardian on plans for Tidal Lagoon Power.
Alcohol Floor Price Scheme Announced for England & Wales
This will be an excellent case study to use when you're discussing the issues around minimum prices to solve the problem of externalities.
read more...»Energy companies charge cash-paying customers more - market failure and Government intervention
If you attended the recent tutor2u revision conferences for up-coming micro-economic exams (look out for the macro workshops and combined micro and macro to come in March) you will have seen how fuel-pricing was used as an example of market failure, government intervention strategies and government failure.
Fortunately, the energy market is a gift that keeps giving to us in the economics world (every cloud has a silver lining) as a report out today (see this link for the BBC version of the story) indicates that Parliament is about to intervene to try and stop the energy companies charging more to customers who pay by cash rather than by direct debit (£114 per year, according to the report).
read more...»Government looks to abandon use of Microsoft Office to save money
It was announced yesterday that the Government is planning to abandon its use of expensive software such as Microsoft Office (see article in the Guardian here) partly as a way of reducing costs but also as a means of breaking some of the software company's 'oligopolistic' stranglehold on the market.
As well as offering an example of Government policy to combat market failure, this story gives us a little insight into the issue of contestability in the software industry.
read more...»Building a Future for Chocolate
Here is a short video on the challenges and opportunities facing cocoa producers across the world but especially in sub Saharan Africa which accounts for 70% of global production. Supply is struggling to keep pace with rising world demand and there have been some structural declines in production in several countries.
The FT's Emiko Terazono reports from Ghana on how chocolate manufacturers and traders are striving to boost cocoa supplies, which are coming under pressure from climate change and urbanisation amid growing demand for confectionery in emerging markets. Farmers are being encouraged to develop supplementary incomes and invest in sustainable production methods.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Government Intervention
Here are somr revision resources on government intervention in markets. There are some revision notes, a streamed revision video from PJ Holden and then ten questions for students wanting to check their understanding on government intervention in markets
read more...»Capping Bonuses for Bankers - Unintended Consequences
Capping seems to be all the rage at the moment. We read of capping electricity and gas prices, capping welfare payments for families ... and now a proposed cap on bonuses for bankers is being put forward by the EU and by the Labour Party.
In this article, Tim Harford cuts to the chase and highlights the contradictions in the EU blanket policy on capping bankers' bonuses. It is a good example of a policy where the unintended consequences include the probably that banking salaries would rise still further.
Under the EU proposal, a cap on rewards would limit payouts to banking executives to annual pay - or twice that only if shareholders approve.
Further reading:
BBC - banking bonuses - how much do they matter?
BBC Hard Talk: Adair Turner on the effect of a bonus cap on bank salaries
read more...»Information failure in the NHS
The NHS gives us so much value, as Economics teachers, as it serves as a great example of so many areas of theory. The story which heads up the BBC News site this morning is another useful one: NHS waiting time data for elective surgery has been found to be 'unreliable'
read more...»Government help for exports - could do better?
This report which the Public Accounts Committee published on Friday, entitled Supporting UK exporters overseas, gives a useful piece of background reading, as it marries up AS and A2 level theory, and micro and macro topics. It looks at the combined efforts of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and UK Trade and Industry to help UK firms, particularly small and medium sized businesses, boost their exports and so contribute to UK GDP recovery. The summary of the report on the PAC website could be used by students to consider a couple of questions:
How many examples of government failure can you identify?
Given that the UK does not currently use monetary policy to influence the exchange rate, what mix of government policies might be used in order to meet the target of doubling exports by 2020?
Fog and filthy air
Here's another weather blog. It's cold and atmospheric conditions are right for exceptionally severe local air pollution; smoke, micro particulates and sulphur dioxide combine into a greasy 'smog'. The health impact is severe. People start talking about a 'killer fog' and even an 'environmental disaster'. Thousands die over the next few days and weeks, many more face serious long term consequences.
Where am I describing?
read more...»Energy saving tips from the Government - effective Government intervention
Proposing Government intervention strategies for dealing with externality market failure is a common enough exam question. Many of my students will concentrate on the use of indirect taxation, subsidies, pollution permits or regulation as a method of reducing consumption - often forgetting that the Government can use good, old-fashioned advice as a way of altering purchasing patterns.
read more...»Revision Planner For AQA Unit 1 - Markets And Market Failure
I put this together this morning, to help students understand where they need to revise for upcoming mocks, or for the real event in May. I hope some of you get some use out of it too.
read more...»The NHS: Blinded By Love
The NHS is part of the British establishment just as much as tea, talking about the weather and sarcasm. This view through rose-tinted spectacles has prevented serious debate and clouded our judgment. Foreign visitors are now being charged to use our A & E services, yet they can still see GP's for free. This ludicrous half measure is just one example that we are blinded by love for our NHS. A situation has arisen in which any attempt from politicians to discuss much needed improvements for the current healthcare system is political suicide. This is hindering development.
read more...»The Blunders of Governments
Most first year Economics students consider government intervention and government failure as key topics in their introductory microeconomics course. Finding compelling examples of state blunders is not that difficult but understanding how the complexity of the government apparatus lies behind failures of project and policy requires digging deeper.
read more...»Competition Commission investigating the Car Insurance Market
You may have seen news reports today about the Competition Commission announcing that it will continue its investigation into the car insurance market having decided that there are concerns to be addressed. The headlines concentrate on the market failure caused by the current system of non-fault claimants organising their own replacement vehicles (and then charging the at-fault insurers) but I thought it was just as interesting that the CC are looking at the relationship between the insurers and price comparison websites.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Housing Rent Controls
The cost of renting property in many parts of the UK continues to rise - would rent controls make any difference? Here is an updated Unit 1 economics revision presentation.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Producer and Consumer Subsidies
Here is a revision presentation on the economics of producer and consumer subsidies as forms of government intervention in markets. There are a number of up to date examples highlighted together with an evaluation of the benefits and costs of subsidy payments. This is designed as a revision aid for unit 1 students taking their microeconomics papers.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: US food authorities take step to ban transfats
Here is an example of direct intervention in markets to address some of the information failures associated with the obesity epidemic. US food authorities have taken the first step towards banning artificial transfats, substances that are found in processed foods. They say it is a move that could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths a year. According to the BBC website
"Artificial trans fats are used both in processed food and in restaurants as a way to improve the shelf life or flavour of foods. The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, making it a solid."
read more...»econoMAX - Energy Price Capping – Does it Address the Right Problem?
Ed Miliband's promise at the Labour Party conference to cap energy prices for 20 months if Labour were to win the next election, has raised many questions about what we pay for domestic energy, how it compares with other countries, and what the energy companies do with their profits. Pondering those points has led me to an over-riding question, which is whether the price paid by consumers is really the most important issue for government intervention in the energy market.
read more...»Unit 1 Micro: Volatile Prices and Buffer Stock Schemes
Here is an updated revision presentation covering price volatility in commodity markets and the economics of buffer stock "price stabilisation" schemes. designed for unit 1 micro course
read more...»Immigration - the Fiscal Costs and Benefits
UK immigrants who arrived since 2000 are less likely to receive benefits and less likely to live in social housing than UK natives. What's more, over the decade from 2001 to 2011, they made a considerable positive net contribution to the UK's fiscal system, and thus helped to relieve the fiscal burden on UK-born workers.
The positive contribution is particularly evident for UK immigrants from the European Economic Area (EEA – the European Union plus three small neighbours): they contributed about 34% more in taxes than they received in benefits over the period 2001-11.
These are the central findings of a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal consequences of immigration to the UK, published today by the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London.
read more...»The Circular Economy
The FT video clip below provides a short interview with Dame Ellen MacArthur - the former ocean yachtswoman - and her idea of building a circular economy - this idea might be a fruitful area for student exploration when studying environmental economics. To quote from the web site:L
"The linear 'take, make, dispose' model relies on large quantities of easily accessible resources and energy, and as such is increasingly unfit for the reality in which it operates. Working towards efficiency—a reduction of resources and fossil energy consumed per unit of manufacturing output—will not alter the finite nature of their stocks but can only delay the inevitable. A change of the entire operating system seems necessary"
read more...»Unit 4 Macro: Daron Acemoglu – Institutional Development
In a recent assignment, A2 students were asked to write a 500 word profile on each of two development economists of their choice and to capture their key ideas and connect to one or more current issues in development. I will be adding some of their responses to the economics blog. Here Ben Evans focuses on the work of Daron Acemoglu
read more...»Cricket Balls and the Coase Theorem
An autumnal hat tip to Jonathan Portes, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research for spotting this textbook example culled from the Daily Mail of the problem of social cost and how application of the Coase theorem might be a solution! Click here for the article.
If you would like to know more about the Coase Theorem and the work of Ronald Coase who died earlier in 2013 at the ripe old age of 102 then click here for a superb blog entry from Mo Tanweer.
Paul Ormerod: Energy and Emissions: Taxation or Technology?
Energy prices are in the news. The recent actions of some of the energy companies can plausibly be described as provocative, no matter how well founded their decisions might be. They run the risk of provoking the ire of both the Opposition and the Government.
One interesting aspect of the debate is that it has become even clearer that decisions taken by Ed Miliband himself in the Brown government are partly to blame for our high energy bills. The plethora of green taxes and subsidies has become very expensive for consumers.
But how effective have such policies been? Not very much, seems to be the answer.
read more...»How Ronald Coase would have tackled the UK Nuclear energy problem
UK nuclear energy is painfully burdened by regulation. Energy prices are at an all time high, so much so that politicians are desperately trying to find policy solutions to utilise this dissatisfaction for votes. There are widespread complaints that energy companies' profits are too large. The Prime Minister encourages us to look for a cheaper energy deal. Surely there could not be any clearer signals from the market and society that now is the time for suppliers to enter the energy market. But unfortunately this is not the case; a detriment to us all.
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Hinkley China Power.
A huge reminder about the shifts in economic power arrived with the news about the development of Hinkley C nuclear power station.
read more...»Gresham's Law in Education: How the Bad Drove Out the Good
Young adults in England have scored almost the lowest result in the developed world in international literacy and numeracy tests. A study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows how England's 16 to 24 year olds are falling behind their Asian and European counterparts. England is 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy out of 24 countries.
New Labour and the educational establishment harangued us for years about the stupendous success of the system, as record numbers of both passes and A-grades in GCSE and A-levels were registered year after year. The OECD study, by no means the first of its kind, confirms what many suspected. Grade inflation was rampant, and the statistics had as much meaning as the pronouncements about production levels made in the Soviet Union. Actually, that is unfair. When the Soviet Union said 10 million boots had been produced, they really had been. They might have been poor quality and all left-footed, but the boots did exist. It now turns out that many people with GCSE passes can barely read and are virtually unable to add up.
read more...»Supporting and Encouraging Entrepreneurs - Do We Need an Entrepreneur's Union?
The entrepreneur is considered crucial in economics: so crucial that they are even described as a factor of production, listed alongside land, labour and capital. Supply side economic approaches often recommend policies that will encourage and support entrepreneurs, as a way of stimulating the economy.
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Hi everyone! Because I was out of town and did not have access to a computer, I did not update the site. So sorry! I'm back now and will be updating every I've missed during the last couple of days.
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American Standard Version (ASV) | New International Version (NIV) |
1 Let love of the brethren continue. | 1 Keep on loving each other as brothers. |
2 Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. | 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. |
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body. | 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. |
4 [Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. | 4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. |
5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee. | 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." |
6 So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me? | 6 So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" |
7 Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith. | 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. |
8 Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and to-day, [yea] and for ever. | 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited. | 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them. |
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle. | 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. |
11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned without the camp. | 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. |
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate. | 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. |
13 Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. | 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. |
14 For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come. | 14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. |
15 Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. | 15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that confess his name. |
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. | 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. |
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you. | 17 Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. |
18 Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things. | 18 Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way. |
19 And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. | 19 I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon. |
20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus, | 20 May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, |
21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen. | 21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. |
22 But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words. | 22 Brothers, I urge you to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written you only a short letter. |
23 Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. | 23 I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you. |
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. | 24 Greet all your leaders and all God's people. Those from Italy send you their greetings. |
25 Grace be with you all. Amen. | 25 Grace be with you all. |
The American Standard Version is in the public domain. (The American Standard Version Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 6:53
While not a current pic, Taurus is a bit larger and in full bloom here at the house. 'black earth live again' |
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I do not see any picture, current or otherwise??? |
- Posted by birdsong72 7/Northshore NJ (My Page) on Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 21:16
Luis, I have been able to upload some rhody pics - toggle on over to the gallery. |
- Posted by birdsong72 7/Northshore NJ (My Page) on Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 22:58
Wow, with all the winter-burned rhodys around here it is lovely to see yours...beautiful! |
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Mar 02, 2013, 07:16 PM | |
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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1843473 I figure I'd go into more detail on getting those Micro Losi \ Walkera battery connectors to work better as many still have problems with them. The first thing to address is the pin angles on charger\RX connector. Typiccally the pins are pointing the wrong way as pictured below. The pins are pointing downwards which will make it hard to insert the connectors as well as cause bad electrical contact if they're that way on your charger: You want to get a small flat head screwdriver and slightly pry them upwards. You'll notice the connectors will go in easier and make better contact. The first time you insert the battery, it may go in rough, but the the angle of the pins will self-adjust and subsequent insertions will go much more smoothly: We've been offering a service on our Lipos to remove the little nubs on the batteries in order to make it easier to take the connectors apart. You can see the nub in the picture below: Instead of modifying each battery, a much better solution is to remove the locking tabs on the the RX connector using a pair of nail clippers: Tabs removed vs stock. This picture also shows the pins tweaked vs stock: So there you have it. Happy quading!! |
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Mar 02, 2013, 08:57 PM | |
Thanks GJ,
The leads are probably stamped out and the metal deforming looks makes it look that way (my guess). I hate the JST connectors, but that's because they sucked on my V929. The ones on the 959's seem to mate really well and snug, albeit a PITA to get apart. I usually don't insert them all the way, just enough to where they won't come loose in flight. |
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The LEDs are fragile at the solder connection so be careful handling them. I've attached mine by smearing a light coat of super glue over the bottom of the boom using a toothpick or pin being careful not to get glue near the gear housing or frame. You should mount the closer to the gear housing than the mainframe. I then placed a piece of clear drinking straw cut about 1-7\8" over each boom to protect the LED strip from crashes and handling. If you use drinking straw, you'll have to take a hole punch and enlarge the stock canopy holes. We'll be selling drinking straws for $99 as LED protectors btw |
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Mar 06, 2013, 06:26 AM | |
Thanks for the feedback GJ. The V959 requires alot more pre-flight checks than the micro quads. Making sure the booms are fully inserted and tweaking the booms so that prop thrust is square to the bird. If you guys get a chance to see if you get more flight time out of the 600 Turnigy's please let us know.
SF, we also have UDI batteries on their way. They're the 15C not the 25C, but I'm not sure if you all have been raving about the 15C or 25C's and if their is a weight difference between the two (I'm guessing there is). It would be nice to carry only one or two micro quad batteries....one for longevity and one for maximum punch......maybe another momma bear version. I don't know why we leave the warranty stickers on the Turnigy's. I'm sure Hobby King wouldn't cover shipping return costs and it may lead customers to think we actually offer a warranty on them but I guess I should do a little more investigation on their policy. |
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PORTAGE — Munster officials have long sought a solution to traffic problems at 45th Street and Calumet Avenue, where trains can back up traffic for 45 minutes.
Now, work on a project to have the traffic flow under the rail line could start as soon as 2015.
That was the latest update provided at Tuesday's Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission's transportation policy committee meeting.
The first phase of the grade-separation project, estimated to cost $28 million, would reconstruct about 800 feet of the eastern part of 45th Street to run through the site of Munster Steel, which is moving to Hammond.
The Canadian National tracks will be elevated on an overpass, and the second phase of the project — estimated at $20 million — calls for an underpass connecting the north and south sides of Calumet Avenue.
Joe Nordman, the senior project manager from Robinson Engineering, said town officials are discussing a property transfer from Munster Steel to gain the right-of-way.
The project will be paid for with state and federal funds, Munster's TIF funds and some money from NIRPC.
Concurrently, the town will extend the Pennsy Greenway trail south of its current end point of Fisher Street to take a diagonal route across Calumet Avenue and 45th Street via a tunnel and an overpass to Centennial Park.
Nordman said officials hope to start letting bids for the project in spring 2015, but a few stumbling blocks remain.
Nordman said engineers are meeting with utilities in March, and are trying to meet with CN officials to avoid building temporary tracks (known as a shoo-fly) that could add up to $8 million to the cost of the project.
Instead, Nordman said, "we're trying to do a short-term shutdown of the railroad."
In other news, NICTD grant administrator Joe Crnkovich said ridership on the South Shore railroad was down 9 percent in January, due to severe weather that affected service and even forced the line to shut down completely Jan. 6.
Gary's bus service saw a similar downturn, said David Wright, marketing manager for the Gary Public Transportation Corp.
NIRPC Planning Manager Eman Ibrahim also announced seven Creating Livable Communities grants — totaling $402,000 — for seven communities:
Chesterton's Calumet Connection/Dunes Kankakee Trail project: $24,000
Crown Point's North Street Corridor Vision and Guideline Plan: $72,000
East Chicago's transit-oriented development project for the Roxana, South Side and Calumet areas: $60,000
Gary's urban revitalization plans for Downtown/Emerson and Horace Mann: $150,000
Downtown Highland Kennedy Avenue Corridor Plan: $24,000
Downtown Porter improvements: $32,000
Downtown Winfield master plan: $40,000


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Thurman J. "TJ" Hunker, age 93 died peacefully at the Veterans Center in Norman, OK on Wednesday March 5, 2014.
He was born Dec. 3, 1920 in Wheatland, Okla. to Thurman Joshua and Lucille M. (Weiche) Hunker and lived his entire life in Wheatland. He was a graduate of Capitol Hill High School and had a degree in business from Oklahoma City University. He proudly served his country in World War II serving in Italy, Africa and France. He was in the 45th Division, 645th Tank Destroyer Unit. After his service he returned to Wheatland where for many years was in business with his father at The Hunker Agency. He serviced the surrounding community with insurance, tax accounting and was the local tag agent. He was a lifetime member of Wheatland United Methodist Church and served many years on the cemetery board of Pleasant Valley Cemetery, where he also served as cemetery sexton. TJ was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dollie; and stepson Eddie. He is survived by two nieces, Janice Low of Oklahoma City and Sharon Trogdon of Broken Arrow; several great-nieces and nephews and three step-grandchildren, Brandy, Byron and Kevin.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to any veteran's service organization or the American Cancer Society.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, in the Chapel of The Good Shepherd at McNeil's Mustang Funeral Service. Interment with military honors will be held at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Wheatland, Okla. Online condolences may be made at www.mcneilsmustangfs.com.


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Not a great deal of change here, but as they say, if it ain't broke... The PS4's DualShock 4 controller resembles the existing DualShock, adding a touchpad and re-branded Select and Start buttons. Sony has taken a leaf out of Microsoft's book with the thumbsticks and triggers, though – the thumbsticks now sport more grippy tops, and the L2 and R2 triggers are concave, so your fingers are less likely to slip off. About damn time.
The DualShock 4 features a light bar that can be used to identify players – the console will also be able to tell who's using what controller, so if you swap seats on the sofa during a multiplayer gaming session, the PS4 will helpfully reorganise the split-screen layout.
The Xbox One can also do the same thanks to the wonders of Kinect and as it'll be bundled with each unit, everyone can take advantage of it out of the box. The DualShock 4 also sports a headphone jack and built-in speaker, plus enhanced rumble tech.
The Xbox One controller closely resembles its predecessor – though it now has more subtly coloured buttons. Vibration feedback through each of the triggers opens up the possibility for deeper in-game immersion and we were thoroughly spooked and impressed by the subtle vibrations during our E3 demo. You also get a more sensitive D-pad, grippier (but smaller) joysticks, a better integrated removable slot and more efficient Wi-Fi syncing.
Overall, bar a few individual minor gripes, they're both excellent and we'd happily take either.
For a thorough look at both controllers, check out our Xbox One vs PS4 controller showdown.
More after the break...
Blu-ray and optical drive
Although there was talk of the PS4 ditching physical media to rely on the cloud all together, Sony has packed in a Blu-ray drive that's three times faster than that found in the PS3. Microsoft has similarly added a Blu-ray drive to its console – no format wars in this console generation.
Submitted by toby liversedge on Wed, 2013-06-19 14:02.
If you want an upgradable media centre then buy a media centre pc. They're designed to do everything you mentioned, are software AND hardware upgradable, have the multi-codec capability that a console can only dream of, and can be bought and set up for half the price of an xbox one. You'll have no restrictions on what you can install and because individual components can be upgraded a media centre pc is pretty much future proof.
A console is a games machine first and a media centre second. You're just wasting money if you buy an xbox one and then don't play games on it.
Submitted by JohnA on Wed, 2013-06-19 13:14.
"The only people who buy consoles are gamers." - really?
When it came time for me to buy my first Blu-Ray player, the PS3 was a no brainer.
Upgradeable to 3D just with software updates; streaming music, photos and videos from my PC, internet access and other Smart-TV features are just some of the reasons for buying a console.
As for playing games - I don't.
The X-Box One simply offers the next logical step in the evolution of media centric appliances.
Submitted by toby liversedge on Wed, 2013-06-19 11:17.
I think Microsoft have dropped the ball with the xbox one. The only people who buy consoles are gamers. There's no other reason for having one. To then say to your target audience, you have to have a broadband connection preferably always on, we will restrict your ability to play second hand games and we're going to charge you £80 more than our nearest rival, well that's just dumb.
More than 70 million xbox 360's have been sold worldwide, but there's only around 30 million xbox live accounts worldwide. So more than half of the world's xbox 360 users do not use their machine online.
Also Microsoft seem to have forgotten that there is a worldwide economic crisis right now. Current gen games cost £30 - £40 new. I bet the next gen titles will cost more. How many people have the spare cash to buy all the games they want to play? Second hand gaming and rental subcriptions like Lovefilm give people on a limited budget the chance to play the games they want. Ok so there's less money going to the publishers, but less money is better than no money at all.
As to the price, let's be completely honest here. The tv functionality, the ability to go online, chat via skype, watch movies, listen to music, all these features are mere frippery. The ability to play games is the raison d'etre of a console. To then offer up a machine that is substandard to it's nearest rival (DDR3 vs GDDR5?, no contest) and then to charge an extra £80, that's just plain insulting.
I used to be a loyal xbox supporter. I bought the original xbox over the PS2 and loved the 360 and laughed at PS3 owners. Time to eat humble pie.
Submitted by snowditch on Wed, 2013-06-19 03:15.
Are you serious, who cares about a few hundred bucks these days. I spend that much on a round of drinks for my mates, so I am more than happy to spend a bit more on a console that clearly has more to offer... Get a real job.
Submitted by Shadowyugi on Wed, 2013-06-19 00:31.
Even if one buys the PS4 with the Playstation eye, it would still be cheaper than the Xbox One