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In Praise of Brain Drain
Want to help the developing world? Hire away its best minds.
- By Robert GuestRobert Guest is the business editor of the Economist. This article is adapted from his new book Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism.
My first child was delivered by a Nigerian midwife at a hospital in London. It was an arduous labor. My wife, Emma, did not want to take a pain-soothing epidural injection until it was absolutely necessary. After several hours, when the contractions were excruciating, she asked for a jab. "Sorry, too late," she was told — the baby was almost out.
So Emma winced and gasped and gave birth without anesthetic. The midwife was impressed. "You did OK for a Caucasian," she said.
Like many rich countries, Britain imports planeloads of medical personnel like my wife's midwife from poor countries like Nigeria; without them, Britain's hospitals could barely function. But this transfer of intellectual capital raises a troubling question: Is it fair for rich countries to poach talent from poor ones? After all, it seems intuitive that "brain drain" hurts the poor. Frank Dobson, when serving as Britain's health secretary, called it an "international disgrace." If all the best doctors and engineers move to the West, who will staff hospitals or build railways in Nigeria or Bangladesh? Simple justice, it would seem, requires that rich countries should stop recruiting doctors and engineers from poor ones.
Or does it? One of the most surprising findings in modern economics is that the brain drain reduces global poverty. On balance, the outflow of talent from poor countries to rich ones is actually good for poor countries — and even more so for poor people, since many escape poverty by emigrating.
Migration makes poor countries better off in several ways. First, the prospect of earning big bucks working abroad spurs more people to acquire marketable skills. They scrape together college fees and stay late in the library. Having qualified as doctors or engineers, many will promptly emigrate. But many will not. Some will fail to obtain a visa; others will stay behind to look after their aging parents.
The Philippines, for instance, is the world's largest exporter of nurses. Because so many eager students pack its private nursing schools, however, it still ends up with more nurses per head than Austria. The same holds true for other brain drainees as well. A 2009 study of 127 developing countries found that overall, the loss of skills to migration is outweighed by the extra skills acquired by people contemplating it. That study's authors, however, found in an earlier study that you can have too much of a good thing: Once countries start to lose more than 20 percent of their college graduates, they reckon, brain drain starts to act as a drag on economic growth. In other words, China and India, which export only a small share of their skilled citizens, would benefit from exporting a lot more. By contrast, war-scorched disaster zones such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose most talented people have fled in droves, probably wouldn't.
The second way in which brain drain benefits poor countries is that migrants often send money home. Consider the story of Haddish Welday. As a young man in Ethiopia in the 1980s, when the country was a Marxist dictatorship, Welday watched as 20 soldiers strolled into his biology class one day and dragged off his teacher. The next day, the teacher's body was found lying in the street, shot to death.
Welday lived in fear. Many days, he'd see bodies lying in the streets with paper warnings pinned to them; "Let Red Terror Rain on Me" was one slogan that stuck in his memory.
So Welday decided to emigrate. After a detour through the Soviet Union, he found his way to the United States, where he sought and received asylum. When I met him in 2010, he was working as an accountant in Arlington, Virginia. He has become American, yet he maintains close contact with his homeland. He keeps a house in the Ethiopian city of Axum and sends money to his mother every month. Sometimes he wires it to Ethiopia via Western Union; sometimes he gives envelopes of cash to visiting Ethiopian friends, who deliver it for him.
The money that migrants send home is a huge source of income for poor countries. Recorded remittances to developing countries surged tenfold between 1990 and 2009, from $31 billion to $316 billion. Unrecorded ones — those envelopes stuffed with cash — nudge the total even higher. All told, remittances are more than double the amount of foreign aid sent to the developing world, and unlike aid, they are seldom stolen by grasping officials.
Remittances are also less volatile than other financial flows. Bad news can make ordinary investors drop a country like a wriggling porcupine. Families are not like that; Welday will not stop sending money to his mother just because Ethiopia has suffered a corruption scandal or a coup.
Remittances are not only more stable than other forms of financing; they are also countercyclical. That is, they tend to rise when other flows fall, creating a useful cushion. When financial crises hit Mexico in 1995 and Indonesia in 1998, the inflow of remittances actually increased, as worried Mexican- and Indonesian-Americans sent cash home to their struggling relatives.
Additionally, migrants often invest in their homelands. A study of 6,000 small businesses in Mexico, for instance, found that 20 percent of their capital came from remittances, mostly from Mexicans working in the United States. Diaspora investors are braver and more patient than others because they have a long-term attachment to their homeland. Short-term shocks don't worry them as much. A typical foreign investor in Nigeria would be very frightened if he thought the local currency might collapse, since he wants to convert his profits into dollars and take them home. For a Nigerian-American investor, however, the same currency crash offers a chance to buy up land cheaply and build a mansion for his eventual retirement.
Remittances also ease poverty. In Bangladesh, a country that sends tens of thousands of construction workers to toil in oil sheikhdoms, families that receive remittances typically rely on them for half their income. In nearby Nepal, household surveys suggest that remittances account for perhaps half of the country's poverty reduction in recent years.
Emigrants take their skills with them when they leave home, but the money they send back helps others learn. It does so directly, when it is spent on school fees. It also does so indirectly, when it puts food on a poor family's table. Hungry children cannot concentrate in class. Amply fed families are less likely to pull their daughters out of school and put them to work in the fields.
The third way brain drain helps poor countries is that as migrants move back and forth, they open channels for commerce. Countries trade more with countries from which they have received immigrants. This is partly because diaspora networks speed the flow of information: A Chinese trader in Malaysia who spots a demand for plastic mobile-phone pouches will quickly urge his cousin, who owns a factory in Zhejiang, to start cranking them out. Because these two Chinese businessmen know each other, they trust each other. This is hugely important — it means they can seal a big deal with a single phone call and get their product to market before anyone else.
Diaspora networks have been around for centuries, but they have grown much more powerful of late, for three reasons. First, they are bigger than ever before. Seventy million Chinese live outside mainland China, and 22 million Indians live outside India. There are also hundreds of smaller networks, from the Lebanese in West Africa to the South Koreans in the United States. All told, there are 215 million first-generation migrants in the world, an increase of 40 percent since 1990.
Second, diaspora networks have been massively empowered by modern communications. In the old days, a transatlantic phone call might cost several months' wages. Now it is free via Skype. So migrants stay constantly and intimately in touch with the countries they came from, and with each other.
Third, the places from which migrants come, such as India, China, and Africa, are much more open to trade than they were a generation ago. When China was a closed society, overseas Chinese traders had to make do with linking one foreign port with another. Now they link the world to China and China to the world.
These merchants speak the language, understand the culture, and know whom to trust. In countries where the rule of law is unreliable — which includes most fast-growing emerging markets — this matters. Some 70 percent of foreign direct investment into mainland China passes through the Chinese diaspora, broadly defined. American firms that hire Chinese-Americans find it easier to do business in China without the aid of a joint venture.
Diasporas also accelerate the spread of technology to poor countries. Most Asian scientists in Silicon Valley share ideas with their friends back home. The world's cheapest refrigerator, which costs only $70, was developed through the collaboration of brainy Indians in India and brainy Indians in America. So was the software behind India's drive to give all 1.2 billion of its citizens a biometric identity, thus enabling the hundreds of millions who cannot prove who they are to open bank accounts and borrow money.
The final, and most important, argument in favor of brain drain is that migration is good for the migrants themselves. If they did not think so, they would not move. Four out of five Haitians who have pulled themselves out of poverty (if one uses a global poverty line of $10 a day) have done so by moving to America. Nearly half of the Mexicans who have achieved this modest standard of living have done so by crossing the Rio Grande. And tens of thousands of infants are prevented from dying each year by the simple fact that their parents emigrated.
In the battle against global poverty, the most powerful weapon is a welcome mat.
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ATM it seems to be kind of useless but. I took out my my Engines and Deflectors for Borg Tech and the procs from those and the Assimilated Module are so much better for survival in my cruiser.
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MANILA, Philippines—An association of corporate lawyers called on the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to exercise great care in choosing the next Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan following the nomination of an outsider with close ties to Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas.
During last week's interview of Sandiganbayan top post aspirants, one of the candidates, Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Rafael Santos, said his decision to apply for the judicial post has a go-ahead signal from Roxas. Santos made the remark after one of the JBC members asked if it was okay for Roxas to lose an able undersecretary.
"A nominee for the Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan who openly admitted that he had obtained the 'blessings' of a political patron before applying for the said post is clearly not suited for the role. More so if that same nominee was previously a senior partner in a law firm known for its political ties," lawyer Maribert Q. Pagente, president of the Legal Management Council of the Philippines (LMCP), said in a letter to the JBC dated June 24.
The JBC is constitutionally mandated to screen aspirants to the Judiciary and the Office of the Ombudsman.
Santos was Transportation Undersecretary for Operations when Roxas was the DOTC chief.
When Roxas succeeded Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash off Masbate in August last year, he appointed Santos as DILG Undersecretary.
"The Sandiganbayan's mission is to give life and meaning to the constitutional precept that a public office is a public trust and to impress upon the public offices and employees that they are at all times accountable to the people," Pagente said.
"It is a basic precept of judicial ethics that a judge, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. He must not only be impartial but should also appear impartial," the letter read.
Pagente said he has nothing against any of the nominees for the Sandiganbayan post.
"However, I believe that great care should be taken in the selection of the next Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan to preserve the credibility of the institution," he added.
Aside from Santos, others vying for the post vacated by Presiding Justice Francisco Villaruz Jr. include Court of Appeals Associate Justice Apolinario Bruselas, Sandiganbayan Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang, Atty. Jsper Lucero, Sandiganbayan Justice Efren Dela Cruz, Sandiganbayan Justices Teresita Diaz-Baldos, Gregory Ong and Alex Quiroz.
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3DS NFC reader news... one more thing to add to the inevitably close Nintendo Direct
Dear diary: my hate for NoA grows day by day now
The character seems to be still locked, as you can clearly hear the "denied" sound in the video. Not saying this is %100 true, but it looks really convincing at the very least. Theres also a 3DS version CSS with Rayman and Mewtwo floating around too.
I... I'm speechless, I can't believe they actually managed to do it. Just last week or so it came into my mind as an example of a community game that never went through... I should probably check it out, it takes some mad dedication to do something like this for a month-long fad.
Why the hell would they make Toad the rarest one, given that he doesnt have a Smash figure he's 100% guaranteed to be the most demanded one. Oh well, I'm skipping this series altogether anyway, I'll stick to Smash for now.
The original hit just about the right point between challenging and frustrating. I don't I'll play through this one. Also, ghost levels, I just remembered I'm yet to play those
Pre-installing file/Download if HD textures maybe? I need to get a hard drive for my Wii U soon anyway.
I hate to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure weather got introduced in Gen 2.
Well I had that trilogy for about a year without knowing how valuable it had become, I don't think it'll change anything for me to see the price drop. The more people playing the merrier
Im pretty sure I read about it preparing for my Virtual Console run on the 3DS when I got it as an ambassador.
I dont know, if I had preordered, I would gladly take those $50 without complaining. I personally liked the Monster Hunter design a lot more, even though I'm not into the series and won't be buying until I know for sure the regular one won't come out
Wait, should I register all my remaining games then or are the same codes going to be used for the new thing?
I kinda hope they'd keep the british voice acting in the US again, I know they kept it as to not consume resources but it really grew on me by the end of the game. Well, the game is supposed to take place in Neo LA anyway so it sounds unlikely and rather unfitting for this one...
Definitely getting Ness and Robin, not sure if I should get Marth or Lucina, as they're a little too similar to be worth to get both
I will hold from buying until they release the standard one in the US. I dont even care at this point if they dont bring any face plates, the xl is just too uncomfortable for me
Good list overall, though Earthbound/Mother are sorely lacking. Well, I guess I can just download the ripped file for Smiles and Tears then...
Coming from a South American country Nintendo has never served themselves, probably not much will change in Brazil. Video games stores will import and sell at huge prices on their own, and people who can will still avoid paying those prices at all costs.
First thing I thought of when reading the name was that tagline
I'm a little surprised and disappointed Mario Kart 8 won over Smash and that no RPGs made it to the top three on the 3DS. Well, overall still solid choices.
And I just bought a new 3DS game case last week :/. Might still get one though
Might just end up buying because pikachu is my smash main, but I really dont need any more controllers as is.
Pre-ordered Shulk and Toon Link right away. No way I'm letting another Xenoblade Chronicles happen on me.
Ok good, I'll probably still pick a villager then
It did seem like it based on prices and availability when I checked yesterday. I kinda wanted a villager, now I guess I'll just preorder the other ones I want just to be safe
@Fishiefish I knew I wasn't the only one :/
Good thing he gave the rumor a death date. We'll know if it's fake by then
I love how they keep tracking PSP; good for them, their sales went up by more than 50% this week
Ok that feels way too crushing to be accurate, but perhaps some bias in the type of people rushing fpr Black Friday deals is showing. I'll wait till the end of the holiday period for better results before judging.
I feel so good for preordering almost a month in advance now
I was planning to write you a complaint e-mail if Thomas didn't review this one
Let's be real, even if he went through all the trouble of designing and animating a smaller Ridley for battle, he would not be an exactly original fighter in playstyle. I'll have to agree with Sakurai here in that it's most likely not worth it.
Desert Bus marathon? Is that the one AVGN talked about? Mad props to whoever puts himself to such boring torture.
I think I'll get Pikachu, Toon Link, Shulk, Mega Man and Ness when they release him. Probably also Kirby and Yoshi, depending on what they'll do in their games.
That was awesome, for the exception of the weirdly placed/synced Mario noises... Those seem pretty awkward
I'm gonna download ASAP, but I'm keeping from playing it until the evening after my midterm, to have something to look forward to and to feel better in case everything goes down. What a time to be a Wii U owner!
Wow, that sounds like some "16-year-old learning to program through videogames" level glitch. Did they ever care enough to play test this?
Favorite game revealed at E3 this year (I'm not counting Zelda since they basically only showed the expected teaser), I'm really glad I'm sticking to the good games and not all the over-hyped games people are so disappointed about right now. I've waited really long for Nintendo to bring it's charm to the multiplayer shooter genre, I can't freaking wait!
Well, tbh if there was just one amiibo to be exclusive at all, Shulk in gamestop is the one that makes the most sense. Would be kinda angry but I have a Gamestop at 15 min walking from my dorm so I'm ok with it.
As long as I can change the game with the same amiibo, I'd be getting more than I expected from those comments at E3... Surely some of my Smash Bros fighters won't be as valuable as to not change their game.
Smash 64 is just way too recent for teenagers to be surprised of it... Kids, I would understand, but people at most 5 years younger than me should have an idea if I was able to play it back in the day.
I still wonder if this game inspired Splatoon in a y way...
Yeah I'm gonna buy Yoshi then just based on the number of compatible games he has. Feels kinda cheap that some figures such as Captain Falcon () will get much less use in comparison.
I'm still only getting the ones whose both fighter and design I like. Might have to rush a little into getting them though. A few of them took a pretty big blow in quality since E3 so I'm going to be checking them in-store before buying.
Thats actually a pretty good space to fill with that product. There's one or two very high selling sleep pattern apps on the app store right now, though they're highly inconvenient and probably not accurate enough. I know people would be interested in this if its cheap enough.
Any word on how exporting creations would work? I've been interested in trying pixel art for a while (I suck at regular art, at the very least), but not being able or being too hard to export to my computer would be a total deal breaker in any case.
Never actually thought about it, but that's a really good reason for the absense of traditional Nintendo Directs lately.
Early comparisons to MOBAs have me really excited on the posibilities, though more than definitely 1vs1 will still hold the main stage.


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Last week, the Elkin Board of Commissioners held its annual project update meeting with its department heads to gauge the status of existing projects. Commissioners also considered new projects, one which may lead to the building of a second fire station, a revamp of the town website, along with incorporating a cloud-based rapid communications system.
"We had an excellent project update," said Mayor Lestine Hutchens. "The department heads with ongoing projects presented progress reports and estimated costs. The citizens of Elkin demand a high level of service and it is to that end that we spend our time and effort. As always in the equation is a balancing act between needs, wants and a way to pay for it."
Second fire station in future?
According to Hutchens, Chief Tommy Wheeler of the Elkin Fire Department discussed the need for a second fire station in the north of town where the majority of the commercial growth has been.
"We had a presentation from the architect for a building on a town lot on the new 268 Bypass next door to the Coffee Shop. The building proposal was not extravagant, but there are requirements for fire stations that don't exist for other town facilities for safety and storage. The estimated cost was $1.9 million," said Hutchens.
"It would be a good thing. The town paid for the consultant several years ago about how to improve our fire rating. The study said that in order to maintain our fire rating, we would be best to consider putting in a second fire station on the north side of town," said Wheeler. "It's going to depend on the funding. We got a truck and equipment that can move. From an economic development perspective, you have businesses who like moving closer to fire stations. My point of view is safety. Our response would be greater to an emergency situation if we have a station in the north side of town."
Communications discussion held
Town Manager Lloyd Payne introduced commissioners to Blackboard Connect, an online suite of strategic communications solutions used to send out bulk communication.
"It is a mass communication system like the Elkin City School System uses. It will allow us to very rapidly communicate with citizens via every type of medium (cell phone, home phone, email, Twitter, Facebook, fax, etc.)," said Payne.
One of the features in Blackboard Connect would allow the town of Elkin to "Geo Target" messages to a precise area, thus avoiding information from going out citywide unnecessarily. As an example, should a power pole be down in a residential area in the south side of town, officials can select streets immediately impacted.
"Yes, we can target who gets messages. People can even sign up for what they want messages about and we can create as many groups as we want provided we have a staff member to oversee that group and send out information as needed," said Payne.
The annual cost for the system is estimated slightly more than $4,000.
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According to Leslie Schlender, director for the Elkin Economic Development Department, an updated economic development plan should be completed by March. An online survey on economic development received 151 responses. Data is being compiled and processed for a report.
Schlender said he is actively seeking funding for the Heritage and Trails Center project for the Standard Street property. "Discussions with various funding agencies will be set up in this first quarter of 2014 in hopes to reach a substantial goal of the $1.6 million budget so that we may begin construction late this year," said Schlender.
According to Schlender, the Built Asset assessment program through the N.C. Rural Center has now been reactivated and the report, which is to be supplied to Elkin through this program, highlighting possible redevelopment solutions for the Chatham Mill and other vacant properties in Elkin, should hopefully be received in the next several weeks.
Schlender said the Yadkin Valley Heritage Corridor and Scenic Byway signage program continues to progress with signs budgeted and contracted for by Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin counties.
"I have now completed the Scenic Byway grant bid documents and they have been sent back to DOT for their approval prior to going out to bid on these signs and kiosks. Once this occurs, Elkin will look at what signs it can budget to support these in our town areas through Main Street or TDA funds," she said.
Schlender indicated a Request for Proposals was sent out to local and surrounding area website developers for quotes related to revising the elkinnc.org website and the creation within it of a tourism/visitor information based website portal.
Parks and Recreation discussed
Adam McComb, director of Elkin Recreation and Parks Department, updated commissioners on Elkin Valley Trails Association projects withing the municipal park and parks master plan projects.
"Thus far they (EVTA) have been able to enhance the nature trail within the municipal park as well as many other projects too numerous to mention," said McComb. "Their primary goal is to install a bridge across the Elkin Creek and extend the greenway trail another half mile north. The $91,871.27 bridge has been purchased, through a private and public collaborative funding campaign, and is currently being manufactured in Abingdon, Va. The bridge is expected to ship to Elkin by the end of February. Bridge bids have been received and EVTA is reviewing those bids and plan to let the bid within a week or so. The EVTA is still in need of donations to ensure the bridge goes in by their goal of May 2014."
The Recreation, Parks & Greenway Master Plan provides capital improvements for the short-term (one to five years), mid-term (six to 10 years) and long-term (10-plus years).
"Town staff are currently going through the master plan and installing the short-term capital improvements into the budget process for board consideration. Some items identified within the short term are: Recreation center improvement & expansion, relocation/renovation of bandstand, athletic field lighting in municipal park, increase benches within parks, outdoor fitness stations along the walking track and mountain bike trails and among others," said McComb.
"The Recreation and Parks Plan was reviewed and approved at the meeting," said Hutchens. "This gives a direction for the advisory board and others to see what the five-, 10- and 20-year needs for maintaining and upgrading the park facilities we now have."
Planning and Zoning addressed
Planing and Zoning Officer George Crater discussed violations of ordinance of codes and demolition properties that were uninhabitable.
Commissioners reviewed steps which have to be taken when a violation occurs.
Questions were posed from several commissioners about unkempt properties and what constituted a violation.
Airport improvements
"We have been extremely fortunate in efforts to fund airport improvements to up-fit and improve the airport facility with NC DOT Aviation grants," said Hutchens. "New lighting, new storage and fuel tanks, the t-hanger project for aircraft housing, all have been partially funded with grants. With these grants, the town invests $16,333 and the NC DOT Aviation grants $150,000. Also the airport property has been timbered and the proceeds used to paint the main hanger."
Other issues
In closing, Hutchens said that she believe the problems that cause her most concern regarding Elkin's future are the hidden ones.
"The pipes in the ground, the improvements that need to be made to our delivery system for clean water, and the streets we drive on," said Hutchens. "The streets are not hidden, but we don't all drive down the same streets and see the same problems. Our main thorough, North Bridge, is an NC DOT maintained highway. The Rock Facade is another of my concerns."
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Residents of the Edayar island and the mainland at Thiruvallam pointed out that coastal erosion and the heavy pollution of the canal had made life miserable for them. The contamination of the scenic backwaters poses a threat to the nascent tourism industry in the area. It also raises a serious public health hazard for hundreds of families and the pilgrims visiting the Parasurama shrine at Thiruvallam to offer the Bali ritual.
Karamana River, flowing through the city, joins Killi River at Pallathukadavu, upstream of Thiruvallam, and wraps around the Edayar Island on its way to the Poonthura estuary. Both the rivers carry large quantities of raw sewage discharged from city drains. The heavily polluted Parvathy Puthanar canal joins the river at Munnattumukku near the Poonthura coastal village.
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China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (NASDAQ:CAEI), a leader in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of high-end building envelope systems, today announced that it has been featured in Gene Marcial's "Inside Wall Street" column, expected to be published globally in this week's June 16th issue of BusinessWeek. Mr. Marcial has been the author of BusinessWeek's "Inside Wall Street" for the past 26 years after serving as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (NASDAQ:CAEI), which began operations in 1992, has maintained a leading position in the global commercial construction industry by providing timely, high-quality, reliable, fully integrated and cost-effective service solutions to its clients utilizing specialized technical expertise in the design, engineering, fabrication and construction of structural exterior cladding systems. It specializes in high-end curtain wall systems (including glass, stone & metal curtain walls), roofing systems, steel construction systems, eco-energy saving building conservation systems and related products, for public works and commercial real estate projects.
CAE has worked with world-renowned architects and building engineers from China and other countries and has completed over 100 large, complex and unique projects throughout China, Hong Kong, Macau, Australia and Southeast Asia, including numerous award-winning landmark buildings in many of Asia's major cities. It is now capitalizing on its industry-leading expertise by expanding aggressively beyond China into some of the most active construction markets in the world, including the Middle East, Central Asia, United States and Eastern Europe.
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Horizons announces June 2012 distributions for its covered-call ETFs18:58 EDT Thursday, June 21, 2012TORONTO, June 21, 2012 /CNW/ - Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") and its affiliate AlphaPro Management Inc. are pleased to announce the distribution amounts per unit (the "Distributions") for certain of the Horizons ETFs family of exchange traded funds (the "ETFs"), for the period ending June 30, 2012, as indicated in the table below.The ex-dividend date for the Distributions is anticipated to be June 27, 2012, for all unitholders of record on June 29, 2012. The Distributions will be paid in cash or, if the unitholder has enrolled in the respective ETF's dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP), reinvested in additional units of the applicable ETF, on or about July 12, 2012.CLASS E UNITSETF NameTicker Symbol Distribution per Unit Annualized Yield * Frequency Horizons Enhanced Income Equity ETFHEX$0.059629.88%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Energy ETFHEE$0.0712813.31%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Gold Producers ETFHEP$0.0537010.04%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Financials ETFHEF$0.056078.55%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income International Equity ETFHEJ$0.1011613.85%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income US Equity (USD) ETF (1) HEA.U$0.078289.26%MonthlyHorizons Gold Yield ETFHGY$0.071179.53%MonthlyHorizons Silver Yield ETFHZY$0.059709.04%MonthlyHorizons Crude Oil Yield ETFHOY$0.0904514.53%MonthlyHorizons Natural Gas Yield ETFHNY$0.067189.06%MonthlyADVISOR CLASS UNITSETF NameTicker Symbol Distribution per Unit Annualized Yield * Frequency Horizons Enhanced Income Equity ETFHEX.A$0.055069.09%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Energy ETFHEE.A$0.0674612.52%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Gold Producers ETFHEP.A$0.049249.25%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income Financials ETFHEF.A$0.051097.76%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income International Equity ETFHEJ.A$0.0956413.10%MonthlyHorizons Enhanced Income US Equity (USD) ETF (1) HEA.V$0.071618.47%MonthlyHorizons Gold Yield ETFHGY.A$0.064798.68%MonthlyHorizons Silver Yield ETFHZY.A$0.054088.19%MonthlyHorizons Crude Oil Yield ETFHOY.A$0.0851313.68%MonthlyHorizons Natural Gas Yield ETFHNY.A$0.060878.21%Monthly* Based on the applicable June 20, 2012 net asset value per unit which is available at www.horizonsetfs.comDistributions will vary from period to period.(1) Distributions for Horizons Enhanced Income US Equity (USD) ETF are declared and paid in U.S. dollars.Each ETF makes Distributions to unitholders based on the amount of call option premiums received during the month, along with any dividend income received, less expenses payable by the ETF. Call option premiums, and therefore the amounts distributed, tend to reflect the prevailing market volatility, either higher or lower. Should volatility levels increase in the future from current levels, it would be expected that call option premiums would generally rise.About Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc. (www.horizonsetfs.com)Horizons ETFs is an innovative financial services company offering the Horizons ETFs family of ETFs. The Horizons ETFs family includes a broadly diversified range of investment tools with solutions for investors of all experience levels to meet their investment objectives in a variety of market conditions. With more than $3.4 billion in assets under management and 86 ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Horizons ETFs family makes up one of the largest families of ETFs in Canada. Horizons ETFs is a subsidiary of Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. and a member of the Mirae Asset Financial Group.For further information: Martin Fabregas, Investor Relations, (416) 601-2508 or 1-866-641-5739


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In People v. United States Fire Insurance Co., 2012 DJDAR 15367 (2012), the California Court of Appeal for the Fifth Appellate District declined to award fees to county counsel in proceedings arising out of bail bond forfeiture proceedings.
County Counsel prevailed in bail bond forfeiture proceedings. The outcome resulted in the bail bonds being forfeited. County Counsel then moved the trial court for an award of attorney fees. The trial court denied the motion for attorney fees in its entirety.
County Counsel appealed the denial of fees, arguing that recoverable "costs" in bond forfeiture proceedings should include "attorney fees" too. The court of appeal declined to award any fees and affirmed the decision of the lower court.
The court noted that under Penal Code Section 1305.3, County Counsel may recover "costs" incurred in successfully opposing an adversary's efforts to overturn the forfeiture of bail bond proceeds. The court cited to the general American rule in civil litigation that "costs" do not include "attorney fees." The court reasoned this rule applied to bail bond litigation as it is predominantly a civil action.
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Government Technology Leaders Preview Announcements to be Made at Gov 2.0 Expo
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- Exhibitors and sponsors of Gov 2.0 Expo will use the event as center stage to announce their latest technology innovations supporting Government 2.0, including:
- Caspio, the leading cloud computing platform for publishing database applications without programming, will be offering a new pilot program designed to help government agencies address eGov, Open Gov, and Gov 2.0 initiatives. Visit Caspio in the Innovator's Pavilion to see a live demo. A free trial is available at http://www.caspio.com/gov.
- CiviGuard will announce its first government customer at Gov 2.0 Expo. CiviGuard is the world's first smart phone-optimized, near real-time and location-specific emergency communication platform.
- EveryBlock will share compelling 15-second case studies covering everything from policy to technology, and demonstrate how government agencies can use open data to transform their organizations. EveryBlock is an innovative site that filters an assortment of local news by location enabling users to keep track of what is happening on a block, in a neighborhood and all over a city.
- LevelUp-Group (www.levelup-group.com) announces for the first time from Gov 2.0 the beta release of MobileUp4JobTraQ® (www.m4jt.com). MobileUp4JobTraQ® extends JobTraQ®'s enterprise workflow and task management software to mobile smart devices. JobTraQ® is fast to implement and adjusts on the fly. When you want results, JobTraQ® it with LevelUp-Group.
- Supporting Gov 2.0 Expo's commitment to bringing the latest innovations in the government IT industry, the event announces the first ever Innovators Pavilion showcasing next-generation Gov 2.0 companies, including Blogtronix, Caspio, CiviGuard, DataPortal, DotGov, Inc., Forio Business Simulations, GovLive, IdeaScale, Igloo Software, Limehouse Software, Mashery, Meghaware, PageFreezer, Ravenflow, Semantifi, Simpler Systems, and Twilio.
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I'm sorry, but what the fuck is this bullshit? I entered the contest back in 2009, which had a reward of a guitar signed by the entire band. And it never even got judged. And then the time they judge it, it's not even signed by actual band members? What is that? I'm glad I didn't know about this one. Whoever is running these things isn't doing too great a job with any of it. I'm still just pissed that the other contest was never even judged. But seriously? I don't even know who the guy that signed this one is, nor do I care. Ugh whatever.
About time you guys came back to Nashville! I just hope Disturbed comes AFTER Korn...
To David: When/how did you lose your hair, or did you shave it all at first? I've seen some pre-Sickness videos of the band live with you having hair and was just wondoring haha.
All of Disturbed: is there any genre of music you all absolutely despise?
Is that cover contest you guys have on your website ever going to be judged? Or did somebody running the message board just play a mean trick on us?
I assume Disturbed only watches the ones deemed decent enough to be watched. Well, good luck to everybody entering. I just wondor how many entries will be submitted...


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IT data scientists are responsible for mining complex data and providing systems-related advice for their organization. They design new ways to incorporate vast information with a focus on information technology topics. They work with teams of other IT professionals to manage statistical data and create different models based on the needs of their company. They possess advanced analytical skills, in addition to their exceptional oral and written communication abilities. They process research information for easier consumption and transform it into actionable plans. They also provide value to their businesses through their findings and thoughtful insights.Read More...
IT data scientists follow specific, strict company and industry guidelines in their work. They observe data privacy rights to ensure client satisfaction and avoid legal issues. They create networks of professionals to consult, including internal partners and external colleagues. Most of the time data scientists work in teams using collaborative filtering, k-nearest neighbors, market basket analysis and matrix factorization methods. They deal with cutting edge technologies on a regular basis, and often have the best tools available at their disposal. One of their main work tools is usually an industrial computer with high processing power and proprietary software applications for research tasks.
IT data scientists usually must possess previous work experience in a similar position. They should have advanced knowledge of different data mining techniques such as clustering, regression analysis, decision trees and support vector machines. An advanced degree (such as a PhD) in computer science is usually required for this kind of position, in addition to previous years of work experience in a related field.
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Hercules And The Secret WeaponHercules And The Secret Weapon (1998) Season 1 Episode 103- Disney's Hercules Cartoon Episode Guide
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The brutal Ares once again hatches a plan to overthrow sister Athena's city-state. He demands an ultimate weapon of destruction from Hephestus, the smith of the gods, who creates the Armageddon Bow- so deadly and accurate that Athena comes to Hercules to help her find and destroy it. Going behind the "olive curtain", Hercules and Phil venture to Sparta- where Hercules inadvertently winds up as Ares' envoy. Things get complicated when it's discovered that the Bow has a personality, and a heart- and Icarus and Cassandra show up at the wrong place and the wrong time {with Icarus spilling the beans, as usual}. The gang winds up as living targets on Ares' shooting range, and only Hercules' quick thinking- and newfound maturity in making decisions- help save the day.
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Recently found myself on the CIA land and came across this cemetery. Thank you for taking these pictures. I have recently found the genealogy of the graves to be an interest and your contribution was very informational. Thank you.
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someone else told me that this cemetery was separate from Beulah cemetery. I have been there, and these cemeteries are RIGHT BESIDE each other, literally only divided by a chain link fence. though, after having gone there, I think they are indeed two separate cemeteries, though without that small fence, they would appear to be the same cemetery. hope that helps answer your question.
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