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I have adopted a view of the labor market where productive resources are allocated to firms
subject to frictions. Both workers and firms come in a wide range of productive capabilities.
Workers are engaged in a perpetual search for higher wages and in the process they move
between jobs so as to improve their productivity. At any point in time, the empirically
observed large number of job-to-job transitions is a (possibly noisy) reflection of the labor
market's reallocation of resources in the direction of greater productivity.
High and low productivity firms co-exist in an uneasy relationship where the high productivity
firms are expanding their scale of operations and employment of workers at the expense of the
less productive firms, thereby increasing aggregate productivity. The selection into the most
productive firms is limited by frictions in the expansion and maintenance of scale; research
and development to expand demand for the firm's output and/or output capacity are costly
activities, and so is the effort to hire and retain workers in the labor market.
Wages reflect productive heterogeneity of both workers and firms, labor market frictions, and
since wages are a primary driver of flows also the particular joint distribution of worker and
firm types over matches that the market is implementing. The production function is both the
key determinant of returns to worker and firm heterogeneity, and the allocation of worker and
firm types over matches.
The measurement of heterogeneity's impact on labor market outcomes allows quantification of
the returns to for example human capital accumulation and job search. It is at the core of the
evaluation of policies that impact the labor market's ability to implement efficient
allocation of workers to firms. Given frictional job search, the labor market may not achieve
the efficient match allocation. Policies that affect the strength of frictions can impact
aggregate productivity through their impact on allocation. Furthermore, as we emphasize in
Lentz and Mortensen (2008a) aggregate labor productivity growth is in part a result of more productive
firms making scale investments that crowd out less productive firms. We refer to this channel
as the selection effect. In Lentz and Mortensen (2008a), we find that 54% of Danish productivity growth
comes from the selection effect. Labor market policy can impact aggregate productivity growth
through this channel if it impacts the mechanisms by which the labor market reallocates
workers from less to more productive firms. The latter point applies more broadly to any
policy that has a disparate impact on the expected profitability of scale investments across
firm types.
In my ongoing agenda on firm heterogeneity and productivity with Dale T. Mortensen we study
selection in isolation from allocation. One can well imagine the introduction of allocation
considerations in the analysis, although at substantial technical cost. In my work with Jesper
Bagger labor market frictions impact both allocation and selection.
In the following, I initially discuss measurement concerns that are common to the two
projects. I then proceed to first discuss my project on firm heterogeneity, productivity and
labor market friction with Dale T. Mortensen. Then, I discuss my project on sorting and wage
dispersion with Jesper Bagger.
Estimation is done by indirect inference. If we could estimate by maximum likelihood, we
would. However, the models do not produce likelihood expressions that are practically
implementable. Furthermore, a maximum likelihood estimation strategy requires constant access
to the data throughout the estimation process and because data access is limited due to
confidentiality requirement, computation must therefore be done on servers of the statistical
agency that hosts the data. For obvious reasons, statistical agencies typically have
computation solutions that are focused on data hosting and access. Less attention is paid to
raw computation power and clusters for parallel computing. This is not a good environment for
numerically intensive model solving tasks such as those I am facing.
Indirect inference provides a feasible estimation strategy. In addition, it has a few
practical advantages as well. First, through the specification of the auxiliary model, it
allows a focus on the particular aspects of the data that the model is supposed to speak to.
Of course, the freedom of choice of auxiliary model involves the risk of leaving out relevant
information in the data, and so care must be taken in this step. Second, the auxiliary model
can be designed so that the statistics involved are not subject to the data confidentiality
restrictions and can therefore be extracted from the servers of the statistical agency.
Estimation can subsequently be done on the researcher's preferred computation solution. This
is really practical. It also broadens data access to researchers without access to the actual
confidential micro data - as long as the specified auxiliary model also provides
identification in these other cases.
Finally, by including existing reduced form approaches to the question at hand in the
auxiliary model, indirect inference allows an easy bridge between the model estimation results
and existing reduced form studies. While the existing studies will typically not be actual
reduced forms for the model in question, they nevertheless often times contain valuable
identifying information. And in the case where they do not help identification, that is an
important point as well since the interest in the reduced form typically comes from the
conviction that it identifies key points of interest.
In my work with Dale T. Mortensen on firm heterogeneity and productivity we establish a
framework consistent with the data that explicitly connects labor market frictions with the
determination of aggregate productivity. The model is a modification of the general
equilibrium model of firm dynamics in Lentz and Mortensen (2008a), which builds on Klette and Kortum (2004).
Firms produce intermediary goods. Each intermediary good has a demand that is determined
through the aggregation of intermediary goods into a final consumption good. The production of
an intermediary good requires labor and firms differ from each other in their labor
productivity. It is assumed that production is constant returns to scale in labor. A firm can
expand its scale of operations by undertaking a costly product innovation effort which
according to a stochastic arrival process yields a new intermediary product which I will also
refer to as a product line. Firms can have multiple product lines.
Labor is obtained from the labor market subject to frictions. Matches are a result of costly
search and recruitment effort by both workers and firms. Each product line operates its own
hiring process and sets wages according to a Stole and Zwiebel (1996) bargaining mechanism. In this
wage setting mechanism, each worker bargains with the firm as if the worker is the marginal
worker. By assumption worker reallocation between product lines within a firm is subject to
the same frictions as those of the overall labor market.
A firm is fully characterized by its labor productivity type and its product portfolio,
including the labor force size state of each product line. A firm is born with a single
product line as a result of entry effort by a potential entrant. Upon entry, the firm
immediately learns its productivity type. A firm exits upon the destruction of its final
product. A firm's type is persistent but need not be permanent.
More productive firms have greater expected profits from scale expansion than less productive
firms. Consequently, they choose greater product innovation rates. A product line is destroyed
according to the same obsolescence rate regardless of its inventor, and so on average more
productive firms obtain greater scale (number of product lines) than less productive firms.
The differential scale expansion rates across firms is at the core of the selection
contribution to productivity. Because more productive firms expand at a greater rate, in
steady state they employ a greater share of productive resources compared to their birth
distribution representation. In this case, the selection effect contributes positively to
productivity as the more productive firms crowd out the less productive ones. In
Lentz and Mortensen (2008a) we estimate a growth version of this model without labor market frictions on
Danish firm panel data. We find the selection effect to be a very important source of
productivity growth. In the counterfactual where the distribution of productive resources over
firm types is set according to the type distribution at birth rather than that in steady
state, productivity growth is less than half.
The impact of labor market friction on the selection effect turns out to be non-trivial. Firm
size is in the model constrained by current product demand and labor market frictions. For
some firm types, product demand is the more important constraint, for others labor market
frictions play a greater role. Therefore, a policy that reduces the level of friction will
impact the strength of the selection effect through a disparate impact on firm types. As a
side note, this is also an example of an environment where it is crucial to correctly model
heterogeneity. A representative firm model completely misses this point.
A product line's labor force size follows a stochastic birth-death process. Workers are added
as a result of recruitment activity and they are lost to exogenous separation and to quits to
other firms. Broadly speaking, a more productive firm has a greater return to recruitment than
a less productive firm. In combination with a higher match acceptance rate by workers, a more
productive firm has a greater hiring rate. The more productive firm also tends to lose workers
to other firms at a lower rate. Therefore, absent demand constraints, more productive firms
will on average be larger. A reduction in labor market friction will unambiguously strengthen
this pattern and the impact on the selection effect would be unambiguously positive.
The interaction with demand constraints complicates matters. If greater productivity does not
increase a product line's frictionless labor demand level much, then it is possible to find an
environment where labor force size is primarily demand constrained for high productivity firms
and primarily labor friction constrained at the low productivity end. A friction reduction
will in such an environment do little to labor demand at the high productivity end but expand
labor force size at the low end. This would in isolation weaken the selection effect and could
pave the way for the somewhat counterintuitive result that a labor market friction reduction
lowers aggregate productivity. I emphasize this complication not because I have any particular
reason to believe that it is empirically relevant, nor do I know it to be irrelevant. Rather,
I want to highlight that the evaluation of policy instruments and counterfactuals depends
crucially on the particular model parameter specification. Hence, the obvious value of fully
estimated model.
We are currently working with two versions of the model that differ in the firm's product
pricing mechanism. In one version, product pricing is a result of Betrand competition between
the innovating firm and a competitive fringe that can also produce the product but at a
productivity disadvantage. One interpretation of the competitive fringe is home production
within households. We describe this version of the model in detail in Lentz and Mortensen (2008a). In this
case, the marginal productivity of a worker within a product line is constant up to the point
where product demand is exhausted. As a result, worker reallocation is purely driven by a
desire to move up the product line productivity ladder.
In the other version, product pricing is set by monopoly pricing and the marginal productivity
of a worker within a product line is decreasing in the line's labor force size. In this case,
worker reallocation is not just from low to high productivity product lines, but also from
well staffed lines to newly created ones that have yet to staff up. Labor market friction and
the degree of substitutability between intermediary products determine the extent to which
marginal worker productivity is equalized across product lines.
We are in the process of estimating the model and will subsequently explore the link between
labor market policies and counterfactuals on aggregate productivity.
Worker heterogeneity is modelled as a simple single dimensional characteristic referred to as
skill. Similarly, firms are characterized by a single dimensional productivity index. For the
sake of simplicity, it is assumed that firm production is additively separable across matches.
This is clearly an assumption that must be relaxed as the literature moves forward, but for
now it allows a relatively simple discussion of the mapping between match production function
characteristics and the joint distribution of worker skill and firm productivity over matches.
It is assumed that productive heterogeneity is absolute meaning that for any given firm type,
a more skilled worker is more productive than a less skilled worker. Similarly for firm
There is positive complementarity between worker skill and firm productivity if the match
production function is supermodular in skill and productivity. In this case, the sum of
production from two matches where a high skill worker is matched with a high productivity firm
in one match and a low skill worker is matched with a low productivity firm in the other
exceeds the output sum of the two matches where you match the high skill worker with the low
productivity firm and the low skill worker with high productivity firm. There are negative
complementarities in production if the production function is submodular. In this case, the
inequality in the example above is reversed, that is, matching opposites produces more than
matching likes.
The studies of the partnership model in Becker (1973) and subsequently with matching
frictions in Shimer and Smith (2000) emphasize the connection between matching function
complementarities and sorting patterns in the equilibrium match distribution. Absent
frictions, production function supermodularity (submodularity) induces positive (negative)
sorting. Matching frictions complicate matters somewhat. Shimer and Smith (2000) show that
log-supermodularity and log-submodularity of the production function are sufficient for
positive and negative sorting, respectively. The partnership model takes as given a fixed
population of heterogeneous agents. They can match with only one agent at a time. In
Shimer and Smith (2000), matched agents cannot search while matched. In their ongoing projects where they apply the
partnership model to the study of wages and sorting, Lise, Meghir and Robin (2008) and de Melo (2008) relax
this assumption on the worker side of the market. In his study of replacement hiring and
wages, Bobbio (2009) relaxes this assumption on both sides of the market. The partnership
model's assumption of scarcity in matching opportunities is a key source of discriminating
behavior. In order to accept a match opportunity, it has to compensate the agent for the loss
of value from the meeting process while matched. The application of the partnership model to
multi-worker firms typically assumes that each position in the firm has its own hiring process
that produces meetings that apply only to the position in question.
In Lentz (2010), I set forth an on-the-job search model where sorting can arise as a result
of search intensity choice variation across worker types. I show that if the match production
function is supermodular, more skilled workers have relatively greater gains from outside job
opportunities, they consequently search harder and in a stochastic dominance sense end up
matched with more productive firms. That is, positive sorting. In the case where the match
production function is submodular, negative sorting obtains.
Unlike the partnership model, firms are non-discriminatory as they are unconstrained in
matching opportunities due to the assumption of constant returns to scale. Each firm has a
central hiring process that produces meetings. If a firm decides to match with a worker, it
does not reduce the value of the hiring process because it always has room for any additional
match opportunity the process produces. If workers were to receive job opportunities at the
same rate regardless of skill level and employment state, this environment would produce no
sorting regardless of the match production function characteristics. This is exactly the case
in Postel-Vinay and Robin (2002). Workers, of course can only match with one firm at a time, but
since they receive job opportunities at the same rate while matched as they do unmatched, they
too are non-discriminatory. Allowing workers to choose the amount of resources they dedicate
to the creation of meetings through their choice of search intensity brings back the
possibility of sorting.
The sorting by search intensity model and the partnership model represent two benchmark views
of the firm's role in the determination of sorting in the labor market. In the partnership
model, firms are highly discriminatory since they are for the purpose of sorting just like
single worker firms. In the sorting by search intensity model firms are completely
non-discriminatory due to complete absence of match opportunity scarcity. Both views have
obvious merit and underscore the importance of a continued push towards a deeper understanding
of the firm in labor market research.
In my work with Jesper Bagger, we build an empirical general equilibrium model of sorting and
wages based on the sorting by search intensity mechanism. We assume wage bargaining as in
Dey and Flinn (2005) and Cahuc, Postel-Vinay and Robin (2006). In this model workers move up the firm productivity ladder
through the offer accumulation process. As the worker accumulates offers, she also accumulates
bargaining power since wages are effectively set through bargaining with a worker's outside
option of full surplus extraction with the second best job offer during the employment spell
in question. For a given worker-firm match, job separation and worker search intensity are
jointly efficient.
The match production function translates worker skill and firm productivity indices into
output. It is the production function that determines the productive returns to both worker
skill and firm productivity. It is also a key determinant of allocation patterns. Hence, model
estimation can in many ways be thought of as a structural production function estimation. In
most employer-employee data sets, the Danish one included, we only have output measures at the
firm level. At the firm level, output is a convolution of the firm productivity effect and the
skill effects of all of its workers. However, the data contain wage observations at the match
level. Insofar that wages reflect the characteristics of the match production function, one
can use wages for identification of the production function. One notable candidate is the log
wage decomposition in Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999), where unobserved individual worker and firm wage
effects are identified in addition to the impact of observed worker characteristics. The
identification strategy relies on the assumption that log wages be an additive and monotone
function of the worker and firm wage effects.
Both the sorting by search intensity model and the partnership model produce a wage function
that relates worker and firm characteristics to average match wage realizations. As it turns
out, in contrast to the match production function, the average match wage realization is not a
monotone function of worker skill and firm productivity once sorting is allowed. The ongoing
sorting and wage projects based on the partnership model are finding a similar result,
although through a substantially different mechanism. Needless to say, this throws quite a lot
of sand into the gears of an identification strategy based primarily on something like the
Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) wage decomposition. For example, all of the mentioned projects on sorting and
wages emphasize that it is perfectly possible to have an estimated negative correlation
between worker and firm wage effects in an environment characterized by positive
complementarities in production and an associated positive sorting between worker skill and
firm productivity in the match distribution.
Eeckhout and Kircher (2009) and de Melo (2008) propose identification strategies for
the strength of
sorting based on the idea of comparing variance of worker types within firms
to that of the
overall population. The approaches are useful advances, however, the
strategies do not
identify the type of sorting and in addition the identification of worker
types may be quite
sensitive to the particular modelling framework at hand. So, more
information must be
brought to bear. In Bagger and Lentz (2008) we propose one identification strategy that combines the
observation of unemployment and employment durations with the observed job flows in and out of
firms. The type of sorting is revealed by correlating observed unemployment duration with a
measure of a worker's position in the skill hierarchy. In the model, high skill workers have
short durations when there are positive complementarities in production and long durations
when the complementarities are negative. The firm productivity hierarchy is identified by
observing a firm's relative inflow of job-to-job transitions to its outflow of job-to-job
transitions. This measure stems from an ongoing project I am engaged in with Chris Taber and
Rune Vejlin where job-to-job transitions are viewed as a possibly noisy revelation of a
worker's preferences over the two firms involved. Identification of worker skill is
facilitated by the identification of the productivity hierarchy. The use of worker flow and
duration data for the purpose of identifying match allocation and heterogeneity is sensible
but the information that is extracted from flows and durations is typically quite model
sensitive. A major challenge moving forward is to formulate
identification strategies
that are robust across modelling frameworks.
We are currently estimating the model and exploring additional identification strategies.
It's not clear which way this heterogeneity cuts for macro price flexibility. On the one hand, the frequent changers could be
"waiting" for the stickier prices to fully incorporate a nominal macro shock. On the other hand, some of the
stickiest categories don't really have a business cycle (e.g., medical care). The more flexible categories, such as new cars, tend to
be more cyclical.
Another route would be some form of sticky information, as advanced by Mankiw and Reis, Sims, or Woodford. Firms may only periodically revise their
pricing plans to incorporate macro information, as in Mankiw and Reis. Or they may be too busy paying attention to first order
micro and sector shocks to pay much attention to second order macro shocks -- that's Sims' rational inattention story.
As recent papers by Nakamura and Steinsson and by Kehoe and Midrigan have emphasized, temporary price discounts are prevalent in
food and apparel in the U.S. Sales are much less common in the Euro Area. In their "Billion Prices Project", Cavallo and
Rigobon look at online consumer prices from many countries and find sales are of intermediate importance in a number of Latin
American countries.
I think the jury is still out on whether there is any macro content to sale prices and other short-lived prices. At one
extreme, one can imagine the frequency and magnitude of sales responding to unexpected inventory in cyclically important sectors
such as autos and apparel. It's possible most quantities are sold at discounts from list prices in these categories. At the
other extreme, sale prices may reflect idiosyncratic price discrimination that is completely unresponsive to the macro
The fact that many sale price episodes end with a return to the previous regular price would seem to limit their macro content
-- at least for macro shocks that are persistent in levels. This point is stressed by Kehoe and Midrigan, for example.
But in the U.S. CPI over 40% of sale prices episodes give way to new regular prices. Think clearance prices in apparel and
electronics that pave the way for new products with new prices. And most regular price changes are not reversed. For the
typical good two "novel" prices appear each year. This is what Ben Malin and I report in a chapter for the new volume of the
Handbook of Monetary Economics.
The bottom line is we really don't know yet how important short-lived prices are for macro price flexibility.
Our 2009 summer meeting in Istanbul was a huge success. Our thanks go out
to the program chairs, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Martin Schneider, as
well as the local organizers, Nezih Guner, Refet Gürkaynak, Selo
Imrohoroglu, Gökçe Kolasin and Kamil Yilmaz for all of their hard work in
leading to this success. As many of you know, the Istanbul conference
coincided with the end of David Levine's three year term as President of
the SED. We are all very thankful for his service to the society, and he
has left the society in an even stronger position than it was when he began
his term. He oversaw three highly successful meetings (in Prague, Cambridge
MA, and Istanbul), initiated a considerable expansion in the size of the
summer conference, and took steps to have the SED become an official non-profit organization.
The 2010 meeting of the SED will be held in Montreal, Canada from July 12-14. Mark Aguiar and Michèle Tertilt have agreed to serve as program chairs,
and have already arranged for an outstanding slate of plenary speakers:
Susan Athey from Harvard University, Bob Hall from Stanford
University, and Ellen McGrattan from the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis. The local coordinators for the conference are Rui Castro and
Francisco Ruge-Murcia, and I know they are working hard to ensure another
very successful meeting.
The 2011 meetings will be held in Gent, Belgium. The local coordinators are
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Gert Peersman and Robert Kollmann. They made a presentation to the Council
during the Istanbul meetings and it looks like we will have a great time in
Gent in 2011. While the tradition has been to have the location of the
conference to alternate between Europe and North America, the more likely
pattern in the future is to have a three year cycle with two meetings in
Europe and one in North America. At this point it looks like the 2012
conference will be held in Cyprus. Alex Michaelides and Chris Pissarides
have put together a proposal that looks very impressive.
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his years of service as Managing Editor of RED. He devoted a great deal of
energy to RED and the journal has done very well under his leadership. I
would also like to thank Gianluca Violante, who has taken over from
Narayana as the Managing Editor of RED. I am confident that RED will
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to thank Ellen McGrattan and Christian Zimmermann, for their years of hard
work as Treasurer and Secretary of the Society, respectively.
See you all in Montreal!
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The Big Ten Explorer
Central America
Countries Visted: Costa Rica
8 days / Trip Code: CRT 104
(double / per person)
Trip Overview:
The Big Ten Explorer program offers 10 adventures for a great price. The tour features Manuel Antonio national park kayaking, a coffee tour, canopy tour and also some horseback riding and crocodile viewing. The Big Ten Explorer is an affordable mix of soft adventures in one program.
This Adventure Includes:
10 Adventures - 8 Days
- Private arrival & departure transfer at the airport
- Shuttle bus transportation in a deluxe A/C motor coach throughout the whole itinerary.
- 3 nights / El Rodeo Country Inn Hotel / Superior room
- 2 nights / Villa Lapas Hotel / Standard room
- 2 nights / Mimos Hotel / Jr. Suite
- All meals as described above (daily breakfast & 3 lunches).
- All 10 tours described above
- Poas Volcano
- Doka Estate Coffee plantation
- Orchid Garden
- Canopy Tour at Villa Lapas
- Sky Way at Villa Lapas
- Jungle Crocodile Safari tour
- Horse back riding tour
- Coastal Kayak tour
- Snorkeling tour
- Manuel Antonio National Park tour
- Services of a local tour operator
- All taxes and service charges
Important Note: Tours order in Manuel Antonio will be subject to tide chart & weather.
This Adventure Does Not Include:
International Airfare and departure taxes
Some meals - Review Itinerary
Service Level:
Three Star Level
(The Three Star level features 3 star accomodations and comfortable transportation on the itinerary. Daily private guides and great service. Some Eco lodges that are remote may require shared facilities where noted.)
Physical Demand Rating:
Departure Info:
Guaranteed Departures - Minimum 2
Additional Trip Notes:
Adventure Type:
Adventure Honeymoon, Budget Adventures, Eco Adventure, Family Explorer
$1001 ~ $1500
Day 1
Arrival in San José. A representative from Costa Rican Trails will meet you at the airport and will provide transfer to your hotel located 20 minutes from San Jose downtown.
Overnight at the Hotel El Rodeo Country Inn, Superior room, breakfast included.
Day 2
(Poás Volcano – Doka Cofee Tour– Orchid Garden
We begin our journey driving by the city of Alajuela which is proud to display the monument of our National Hero "Juan Santamaría". We now begin our assent to the Poas National Park.
You will feel a change in temperature and the lush vegetation becomes apparent, preparing us for the pleasures of the exuberant cloud forest of the Poás Volcano.
On a clear day the view of the main crater is admired by all visitors, its diameter is considered one of the widest in the world.
Continue to Doka Estate Coffee Farm, which offers to the visitor an unforgettable experience in a plantation unique for their technology and coffee process.
The tour includes transportation, entrance fees, guide & lunch.
Overnight at the Hotel El Rodeo Country Inn, Superior room, breakfast included.
Day 3
(Villa Lapas – Canopy Tour)
Today you will be picked up at your hotel and you will be provided with a shuttle bus transfer to the Central Pacific area where the Villa Lapas Hotel is located.
Afternoon tour where you will fly through the rainforest. Fly over exotic trees and flora and see birds, monkeys and other exotic animals firsthand, Includes: entrance fees, equipment & bilingual guide.
Overnight at the Hotel Villa Lapas, standard room, breakfast included.
Day 4
Jungle Crocodile Safari & Horseback riding)
Jungle Crocodile Safari offers a tour specially designed for adventurers and bird watchers, yet safe for the whole family. The adventure takes place on the Tárcoles River, one of four rivers flowing out into the Nicoya Peninsula, and home to one of the world's largest crocodile populations in the wild with individuals up to fifteen feet long. In addition to the crocodiles, over fifty different kinds of birds can be seen on site, including the very rare scarlet macaw and a great variety of resident and migrant waterfowl. Iguanas and Jesus Cristo lizards are very common as well. After this tour continue the Horseback riding adventure through the jungle where you can see the spectacular flora and fauna in this area.
Includes: RT Transportation, entrance fees, bilingual guide & lunch.
Overnight at the Hotel Villa Lapas, standard room, breakfast included.
Day 5
(Sky Way – Manuel Antonio)
IIn the morning you will enjoy the raw power of the rainforest through our Sky Way walking tour. Of 1.5 miles (2.5 km) in length, this all-ages tour lets you observe a wide array of exotic flora and wildlife firsthand. Make yourself one with the jungle!
Includes: entrance fees & bilingual guide.
After this tour, you will be picked up at your hotel and you will be provided with a shuttle bus transfer to the famous Manuel Antonio National Park.
Manuel Antonio is considered to be Costa Rica's most beautiful park, with enchanting white-sand beaches ideal for swimming, and tropical rainforest forest alive with wildlife. Watch for the monkeys and iguanas who share the park with you. Most hotels are small and intimate, set high on a hill overlooking the rain forest, endless beaches and the national park.
Overnight at the Hotel Mimos, Jr. Suite, breakfast included.
Day 6
(Coastal Kayak – Snorkeling Tour)
Come experience one of Costa Rica's most striking coastlines by open- seat ocean kayak. Paddle to Biezans Bay for a refreshing swim and delicious local snacks. Feel free to have your bilingual naturalist guide direct you to the best snorkeling spots as you experience threes small but growing, active, and astounding coral reef systems nestled very close to the shore of Biezans. Or just relax and enjoy the tranquility of a private white sand beach. After an unforgettable experience at Biezans, continue kayaking towards Manuel Antonio National Park and wonder at the nearby nesting islands where exotic boobies and frigates call home year round. Finally, a rewarding hot meal in typical restaurant.
Includes: RT Transportation, entrance fees, bilingual guide & lunch.
Overnight at the Hotel Mimos, Jr. Suite, breakfast included.
Day 7
(Manuel Antonio National Park Tour- San José)
After breakfast, Pick-up at the hotel and transfer to the Manuel Antonio National Park.
Have an experienced nature guide take you on an informative hike through the park. Our guides know where you are most likely to encounter sloths, monkeys, etc. they will also provide a great deal of information on the history, flora and fauna during this easy 2 % hours walk. Snacks are offered during the tour, and guest may remain in the park after wards.
Includes: RT Transportation, entrance fees & bilingual guide.
After this tour, you will be picked up at your hotel and you will be provided with a shuttle bus transfer back to San José.
Overnight at the Hotel El Rodeo Country Inn, Superior room, breakfast included.
Day 8
Transfer back to the International Airport
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The Siberian High and climate change over middle to high latitude Asia
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The Siberian High is the most important atmospheric centre of action in Eurasia during the winter months. Here its variability and relationship with temperature and precipitation is investigated for the period 1922 to 2000. The pronounced weakening of the Siberian High during the last ∼ 20 years is its most remarkable feature. Mean temperature, averaged over middle to high latitude Asia (30° E–140° E, 30° N–70° N), is correlated with the Siberian High central intensity (SHCI) with correlation coefficient of − 0.58 (1922–1999), and for precipitation, the correlation coefficient is − 0.44 (1922–1998). Taking the Arctic Oscillation (AO), the SHCI, the Eurasian teleconnection pattern (EU), and the Southern Oscillation (SO) index into account, 72 percent of the variance in temperature can be explained for the period 1949–1997 (for precipitation the variance is 26 percent), with the AO alone explaining 30 percent of the variance, and the Siberian High contributing 24 percent. The precipitation variance explained by the Siberian High is only 9.8 percent of the total.
- Title
- The Siberian High and climate change over middle to high latitude Asia
- Journal
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Volume 72, Issue 1-2 , pp 1-9
- Cover Date
- 2002-05
- 10.1007/s007040200008
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- 1434-4483
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- Springer-Verlag
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- D.-Y. Gong (A1)
- C.-H. Ho (A2)
- Author Affiliations
- A1. Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Institute of Resources Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, CN
- A2. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, KR


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January transfer window: Nottingham Forest rumours- McLeish remains patient over Billy Sharp's future
Posted: January 17, 2013|
Alex McLeish has declared he will hold on until the summer before making an attempt to sign Billy Sharp on a permanent deal.
The Forest manager is prepared to wait before making an official approach for Sharp's signature, allowing him time to focus on bringing in two or three new faces before the end of January.
The Southampton striker, who is tied into a season long loan deal at the City Ground, cannot be recalled to his parent club due a clause in his loan agreement.
This allows the Nottingham Forest boss to prioritise in a hectic January window as he searches for a winger and also an 'experienced' goal keeper to fill the void left by Lee Camp.
Meanwhile, it was reported in the Nottingham Post that sources close to Dexter Blackstock believe Forest have tabled a contract offer to keep the 26-year-old at the club for a further three years.
Forest have also made offer to Polish midfielder Radaslow Majewski but their intentions to keep the player have not yet come to fruition.
The Reds are yet to make an offer for Lewis McGugan who is also out of contract in the summer.
McLeish had previously spoken about unlocking McGugan's potential but has since given the Nottingham born midfielder limited chances in the starting eleven.


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Although one of her parents always was within arms' reach, she got the sink-or-swim message and simply would roll onto her back if she felt tired. Family pictures of her swimming with dolphins at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys show the 5-year-old Missy as much in her element as the marine mammals. She was, in a way, up to speed with them from the start, with the same near mystical "feel for the water" all exceptional swimmers have.
Adjusting to her size was trickier. One day in an elementary school math class, each student was asked to put his or her weight on the blackboard. A succession of boys wrote "40 pounds" or "45 pounds." Franklin wrote 70, adding to self-consciousness that came from getting new pants what seemed like every two weeks because she had outgrown the legs.


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NEW ORLEANS – The University of New Hampshire women's track and field team, as well as graduate student Rita Ciambra (Hanover, N.H.), were recently honored by the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for their academic achievements during the 2010-11 season.
UNH's track and field team was one of 164 Division I women's track and field programs recognized as a USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team. The Wildcats were one of four America East squads to be recognized, and finished with a grade-point average of 3.42, tied for highest in the conference and well above the minimum 3.00 needed to qualify for the award.
The 'Cats enjoyed an impressive spring season as they captured the New England Championships for the first time in school history after a third-place finish at the America East Championships.
Ciambra, who capped off a remarkable career in the pole vault and submitted a 3.92 GPA, was one of 663 student-athletes named to the Division I All-Academic Track and Field Team.
Ciambra set a new meet record in a winning effort at New Englands and captured her third title at the America East Championships, where she broke her own school mark as well as the all-time conference championship record. She also placed 24th in the event at the NCAA East Regional with a cleared height of 3.70m.
To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and must have participated in any round of the NCAA Division I Championships (including preliminary rounds).
For the full list of all 164 USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field Teams, click HERE.


text: FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 file photo, an advertisement in the classified section of the Boston Herald newspaper calls attention to possible employment opportunities in Walpole, Mass. Economists forecast that employers added 155,000 jobs in December, according to a survey by FactSet. That would be slightly higher than November's 148,000. The unemployment rate is projected to remain at 7.7 percent. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)


text: I have purchased an older brunswick 4.5x9 and am going to get it moved this week. I called a shop to do this for me but the price to take apart move and reassemble was 400.00, I paid just over that for the table. I know the slates must be carefully moved and they will be . Is there any tips you can give me before attempting this move? I will have plenty of help and no alcohol.....Any tips?............Joe


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I used to hate garage sales. I couldn't fathom why anyone would want the old junk I was throwing out. That is, until I decided thrifting is a way of life. Despite the insistance during my last yard sale two years ago that I would never, EVER have another, that I'd just donate all the crap I didn't want, we decided we'd collected enough junk that a garage sale could be financially beneficial. And it was — more than $200 FROM OUR OLD CRAP. Mind boggling.
I think it was my stellar advertisement and marketing for my garage sale. I mean, this is what happens when you merge eight years of marketing and advertising experience with garage sale advertisements. Here's a pictorial guide to
How to advertise a garage sale for free
1. Advertise garage sale specials, even if you're just moving 10 cent items into a 10 cent bin and not really lowering the price.
2. Connect the sale to the local football team when you advertise a garage sale for free. People really love that.
3. Use interjections like WOW and also overdose on exclamation points when you advertise a garage sale for free.
4. Price to sell. Seriously, are you going to donate the stuff at the end of it anyway? Some is better than none. Move it. MAke deals. Watch Pawn Stars for inspiration.
5. Use amounts. "I have 20 pairs of women's jeans!" "Check out 234 coffee mugs!" "We're selling three TVs!"
6. Pull out your Sharpie and get creative with your signage when you advertise a garage sale for free. Examples are:
7. Advertise a garage sale for free on social media. Leave no virtual stone unturned. Pimp it out like it's your job. Post a picture on Facebook of that one single tv that NOBODY WILL TAKE EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR GAMERS AND FOR CRYING OUT LOUD YOU'RE FIXING TO TELL ME THERE IS NOT ONE GAMER IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN TOWN WHO NEEDS A GAMING TV?????
8. Walk inside and get a donut to calm down.
9. When it starts slowing down, introduce a special guest.
10. Mark everything down to 10 cents. EVERYTHING. Make your garage sale one big 10 cent bin. Resist the urge to make a great big sign that says this.
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Posted at: 11/06/2012 11:56 PM
By: Steve Mieczkowski
Photo: Monica Zamora
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - District Judge Monica Zamora of Albuquerque has been elected to the New Mexico Court of Appeals.
Zamora, a Democrat, defeated sitting Court of Appeals Judge Miles Hanisee. She has 55 percent of the vote compared with Hanisee's 45 percent.
Zamora is a graduate of the University of New Mexico's law school. She worked as an attorney for 25 years before becoming a judge in the children's court division of the 2nd Judicial District in 2005.
Hanisee is a former federal prosecutor. Republican Gov. Susana Martinez appointed him to the court last year.
Hanisee had a private law practice in Albuquerque before serving on the court, which handles cases appealed from trial courts and some administrative decisions by government agencies.
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Holly's Paleo Jerky
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 15
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 121.3
- Total Fat: 1.9 g
- Cholesterol: 60.4 mg
- Sodium: 455.7 mg
- Total Carbs: 3.7 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.1 g
- Protein: 25.4 g
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Number of Servings: 15
2.5 lbs Venison Backstrap or any really lean cut of beef
2/3 C. Bragg Liquid Aminos
1/3 C. Water
1/4 C. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp Liquid Smoke
1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
1 Tbsp Onion Powder
1/2 Tbsp Cayenne Pepper
Serving Size: 3 (2 1/2 inch pieces) Makes 45 pieces total
Number of Servings: 15
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Not sure what happened to them but I mix all of the ingredients in a plastic container with a lid and let it soak overnight in the fridge. I then lay the strips in the dehydrator for 12 hrs. Hope this helps. :)


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The Blog
Defending Free Trade
Its costs have been exaggerated and its benefits neglected.
11:00 PM, Feb 25, 2009 • By DUNCAN CURRIE
In their 2005 study, Groshen, Hobijn, and McConnell discussed how free trade encourages "specialization" among individual countries and thereby reduces the cost of producing goods and services. "Specialization makes trading partners richer because each exchanges goods it produces efficiently for goods that its partners can produce at lower cost," they wrote. As Cato Institute trade expert Daniel Griswold explained in a 2007 report, "Trade is not about more jobs or fewer jobs, but about better jobs." It has made the U.S. economy and U.S. workers more productive. While trade competition causes job displacement, "the number of people dislocated from their jobs each year because of shifting trade patterns is relatively small in America's dynamic market economy where 'job churn' is a normal, healthy fact of life."
What about China and its undervalued currency? Economists Christian Broda and John Romalis of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business argue that Chinese exports have provided a significant boost to low-income American consumers. Broda and Romalis estimate that between 1994 and 2005, U.S. trade with China "helped reduce the relative price index of the poor by around 0.3 percentage points per year. This effect alone can offset around 30 percent of the rise in official inequality we have seen over this period." They reckon that "while the expansion of trade with low-wage countries triggers a fall in relative wages for the unskilled in the U.S., it also leads to a fall in the price of goods that are heavily consumed by the poor," and "this beneficial price effect can potentially more than offset the standard negative relative wage effect."
Swiss National Bank economists Raphael Auer and Andreas Fischer recently examined how cheap imports from nine low-income countries--Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam--have affected the U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation rate. Auer and Fischer concluded that "from 1997 to 2006, imports from [the nine] low-income countries reduced the U.S. PPI inflation rate in the manufacturing sector by about two percentage points (each year). China accounts for over half of the total effect."
The U.S. manufacturing sector is currently hemorrhaging jobs, but so are manufacturing sectors around the world, due to the sharp drop in global demand. As the dismal economic news has accumulated, the temptation to turn protectionist has grown. The international community needs America to offer a robust defense of free trade. Too bad that, as Jagdish Bhagwati told me, "We are failing to provide the leadership."
Duncan Currie is managing editor of the American.


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Contemporary Upholstered Window Valance
A clean-lined valence strikingly contrast a traditional, ornate fabric.
"Upholstery and drapery details are back but in a looser way than before," says deputy editor Hilary Smyth. "Even drapery valances have returned but with stronger silhouettes." Here, ribbon trim echoes the shape of the valance, creating the effect of millwork and bringing an architectural element to the room. Modern lighting, a neutral chair and a bold ikat pillow look fresh.
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One of the best things I enjoyed about this trip was that there were many route options each day and that you could go at your own pace and "customize" your ride. I heard other similar companies don't offer this flexibility and for me this helped make this trip amazing.- Grosse Pointe, MI
I have to admit, I'm addicted. This was my third trip and they just keep getting better (perhaps as my cycling ability improves). I thought my trip leaders on the first trip were unique, but they were not - Backroads seems to have an exceptional ability to recruit and train the best people who are perfectly suited as trip leaders (which requires a complex and well-rounded set of skills). I'm thoroughly impressed and am already thinking of my next trip as soon as I can!- New York, NY
It was a totally amazing experience, from the physical challenges (and constant encouragement), the beauty of the location, the Backroads crew and the other guests, it just rocked! I can't say enough good things.- San Angelo, TX
Backroads supplies amazing vacations, a truly admirable company clearly devoted to surfacing and training their trip leaders to work with the trip development team and support staff seamlessly and effectively. SO WELL DONE!!!- Orlando, FL
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Death Valley is an underappreciated place. It's amazing! The ride along Artist's Palette, the last optional ride is among the most beautiful and really should be something everyone gets to see.- Brookline, MA
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This was a well-planned and well-executed trip... It was our first time in Death Valley. We just loved it. Furnace Creek Inn was such a nice comfortable place. The food was great too.- Clayton, MO
The beauty of Death Valley is a sight to behold. The opportunity for all levels of biking was outstanding.- Calgary, Alberta
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Review: Simon Friend's Seismic Survey at The Flowerpot, Derby
Posted: December 11, 2012|
When compere John Atkin introduced the band with the words that this was going to be a gig that would live long in the memory, you had an inkling it was going to be something a bit special, writes Andy Darlington.
A huge cheer from a near-capacity audience went up as Simon Friend's Seismic Survey took to the stage at The Flowerpot.
I'd seen Simon himself with The Levellers only a couple of weeks earlier, at Rock City. And one of my favourite live performances of all time was their 1994 Glastonbury headlining set.
Yet he looked just as at home on the tiny Flowerpot stage as on the Pyramid Stage – "walk with kings nor lose the common touch" and all that.
He sat down with his acoustic guitar, illuminated by four simple red lights above.
To his right was Paul Miro, also on guitar and a fantastic singer-songwriter I've seen several times performing in the duo Bloodsimple.
The pair were flanked by Mick Doyle – the other half of Bloodsimple and mandolin player in Neverland – and Andy Cooper on double bass, best known for playing alongside Mick in No Right Turn.
So, along with Simon, who also has local connections, there was no doubt that this foursome had formed something of a Derby supergroup. The gig was rather super, too.
The material had been penned by various members of the ensemble and I must confess I hadn't heard some of it a great deal before – tunes such as There's An Angel, My Lucky Day and Sugarloaf Mountain.
But it was all beautifully played and sang, with some lively banter in between numbers, especially from Paul, who you could argue really led the show.
I was on more familiar territory with Levs numbers, such as Is This Art?, Julie, Hope Street and Battle Of The Beanfield, although all had been reworked.
And there were a couple of Neverland instrumentals for good measure in a gig that included both an interval – handy in a pub with such excellent real ales – and an encore.
"The Surveys" ended the night with another Levellers classic, The Boatman, and left the stage to rapturous applause. A cracking gig – and we didn't need to travel to Nottingham to see it either.


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True Blue LA: Kenley Jansen threw a perfect game and nobody noticed. Los Angeles Times: Yasiel Puig is now without his handler, Tim Bravo. —– Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Zack Greinke scrapped his best pitch and he's still getting outs. Baseball Prospectus: Yasiel Puig has adjusted to the league's adjustments. Feelin' Kinda Blue: Lindsey Caughel scouting report. —– Sports On ... Read More »
Making Moves: Medina & Aquino Signed, Three More Invited To Spring Training
The Dodgers continue to spend internationally with the signings of teenagers Michael Medina and Carlos Aquino out of the Dominican Republic, both of whom Chad covered here. —– The Dodgers signed three more players to minor-league deals with invitations to Spring Training: Victor Garate, Mario Santiago, and Ryan Mount. Garate is a former Dodger prospect who is probably best known ... Read More »
Making Moves: Peter Moylan & Jesus Flores Sign Minor Deals, 3 More Dominicans Inked
The Dodgers have signed former Braves righty reliever Peter Moylan and former Nationals backstop Jesus Flores to minor-league deals with invitations to Spring Training. Flores has shown enough flashes that he could feasibly challenge for the backup job should Tim Federowicz falter, though he's almost certainly going to spend the majority of the season in Albuquerque. Moylan figures to be minor-league ... Read More »
Making Moves: Dodgers Sign Zack Greinke & Hyun Jin Ryu, Lose Alfredo Silverio
Zack Greinke and the Dodgers have agreed to a 6-year, $147 million mega-deal, the largest in MLB history for a righty and one that makes him the highest-paid pitcher on an average annual value basis. Greinke slots in behind Clayton Kershaw in the rotation and gives the Dodgers a formidable 1-2 punch while lengthening the staff. Speaking of Kershaw, he ... Read More »
2012 MLB Playoff Chase: Dodgers still trying to become the least best NL playoff team
The Dodgers are currently three games back of the Cardinals for the National League's final playoff spot. Los Angeles has a 4.5% chance of making the playoffs according to Cool Standings and a 5.6% chance according to Baseball Prospectus. Doesn't take a math whiz to figure that 1-in-20 aren't good odds, but gaining a game and a half over the ... Read More »
Tonight's win expectancy chart for Dodgers/Nationals game is a middle finger, which about sums it up
The Dodgers were sailing along to an easy 6-0 victory today when a funny thing happened on the way to Josh Beckett's complete game shutout. Mike Morse led off the bottom of the eighth with a homer, and two batters later, Steve Lombardozzi cut the lead by two more. By the end of the inning, it was Morse again hurting ... Read More »
Los Angeles Dodgers Ownership Bidding War: The Figureheads & Their Financial Backers
With the Los Angeles Dodgers in the news for the impending bidding war over the ownership of the team, I thought this would be as appropriate a time as ever to run through the publicly declared bidders, as the deadline for submission has come and gone. Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times breaks down the specifics of the bidding ... Read More »


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Storyteller Solina Marquis Be part of the story! Join bilingual teller Solina Marquis as she weaves tales in English & Spanish of tricksters, bullies, sillies, and wise guys from around the world. Be there - all ages will help bring life to stories & stories to life! Room 205 upstairs at 2pm.
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Two Victorian scientists penetrate the Stygian depths of the Cayman Trough in a submersible, there encountering an exotic undersea race of intelligent amphibians.
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Cutting off access to the outside world, is a good way to create suspense. Being trapped below the ocean is about as isolated as you can get, short of being in outer space. This was a fun episode with an entertaining ending. Did RMT adapt any other H.G.Wells stories?
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|Title: TH Daytripper: No finer day in Shiner
|Authors: Garner,Chet
|Source: Texas Highways, Oct-11, 58 :10 ,pg 72-
|Subjects: Shiner (Tex.)
|Ref ID: 92230
|Title: Cowgirl up: Sometimes it seems as if women are almost invisible in the history of the West, but the truth is that they were there the whole time, working cattle, going up the trail, and building ranches all across Texas. Problem is, the only word we have
|Authors: Nelson,Barney
|Source: Texas Monthly, Aug-11, 39 :8 ,pg 90-193-
|Subjects: Cowgirls Blue Jesse Crosson Lizzie Hasselstrom Linda Hudgens Mindy Maret Elizabeth Hudgens Canvas Kloxin Kyra Kloxin Teresa Shiner Coree Saunders Madalynn Saunders Leslie Ann Peebles Kyle Hawkins Chachi King Henrietta Betancour Maria Hinojo
|Additional Information: Mentioned: Leaning into the Wind by Linda Hasselstrom; Women of the Range by Elizabeth Maret; and Cowgirls by Teresa Jordan.
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|Title: A Century of Shiner
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|Title: Sci-fi everyman finds self-help in the music of the past (review of Glimpses by Lewis Shiner)
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The Danger Assessment
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The Danger Assessment
What is the Danger Assessment?
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What is the Danger Assessment?
The Danger Assessment is an instrument that helps to determine the level of danger an abused woman has of being killed by her intimate partner. The tool was originally developed by Jacquelyn Campbell (1986) with consultation and content validity support from battered women, shelter workers, law enforcement officials, and other clinical experts on battering. There are two parts to the tool: a calendar and a 20-item scoring instrument.
The calendar helps to assess severity and frequency of battering during the past year. The woman is asked to mark the approximate days when physically abusive incidents occurred, and to rank the severity of the incident on a 1 to 5 (1=slap, pushing, no injuries and/or lasting pain through 5=use of weapon, wounds from weapon) scale. The calendar portion was conceptualized as a way to raise the consciousness of the woman and reduce the denial and minimization of the abuse, especially since using a calendar increases accurate recall in other situations (Campbell, 1995; Ferraro et al., 1983).
The 20-item instrument uses a weighted system to score yes/no responses to risk factors associated with intimate partner homicide. Some of the risk factors include past death threats, partner's employment status, and partner's access to a gun.
In 2008, researcher Nancy Glass and colleagues published study findings in the American Journal of Public Health that revised the Danger Assessment (DA-R) to predict reassault in abusive
female same-sex relationships
. After using focus groups and interviews to examine the DA with this population and identify new risk factors, a same-sex tool was developed and evaluated. The new tool comprises 8 original DA items and 10 new items, and is a predictor of risk of reassault, not lethality. This instrument is available for
on the website; we recommend that you review the associated PowerPoint presentation before using the tool with victims which is available on your My Account page after you have become certified in using the Danger Assessment.
A short four-item version called the Lethality Assessment has been developed for use by law enforcement officials responding to domestic violence calls. Women at high risk are then referred to advocates who have been trained in the Danger Assessment.
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An additional version for use with immigrant women will be available shortly. Check this website periodically for updates.
What is the training?
The training module, offered in several forms on this website, provides instructions on how to score and interpret the tool. The presentation gives background information about the development of the tool and its importance to anyone interacting with abused women. It also explains the weighted scoring of the tool, which is vital to accurately determining the level of danger for the woman. In the training, Dr. Campbell gives recommendations for follow-up for the different score levels.
Who should be trained to use the Danger Assessment?
The challenge for those who encounter abused women is to identify those with the highest level of danger. For 25 years, the Danger Assessment tool has been used by law enforcement, health care professionals, and domestic violence advocates.
What are the benefits of certification?
After successfully completing the post test for the training, you will be certified in using the Danger Assessment. You will be able to download a certificate with your name on it, a scoring page that you can use to put in case files for documentation, and the scoring system worksheet which includes the scoring system's danger level interpretation, personalized with your name, to more accurately determine the level of danger your victim is in. This documentation has proven to be valuable for use in court proceedings.
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Greetings and welcome to my website!
First of all, I want to thank those of you who have purchased my book or taken any of my workshops its been such an unbelievable journey for me since The Script-Selling Game first debuted in 2002. In the past several years, so much has changed in the industry and thanks to my publishers (Michael Wiese Productions), Im very proud that there is now a 2nd edition of The Script-Selling Game which contains two brand new chapters: The Animation Revolution: So Much More Than Saturday Morning Cartoons and Using The Internet: How The Web Can Be Your New B.F.F.
And in an overwhelming response to my writers whove been working on television projects, I heard your voices and have also added a new comprehensive section, Submitting for Television And Cable Venues.
Throughout the creative journey I took in doing the 2nd edition, I realized just how fortunate Ive been to have had the friendship and support of so many people, most of whom have been acknowledged in my book.
And through my dozens of seminars and workshops, I also realized the amazing and rewarding lessons Ive learned from being in the company of writers, like you!
To all of you wonderful writers Ive worked with past, present and future thank you for inspiring me with your creativity and empowering the world with your words and visions... and may all your cinematic dreams come true!
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Florida legislators are considering a bill that annually would lower the cost of most vehicle registrations by up to $25.
Okaloosa County Tax Collector Ben Anderson has begun removing the two-year renewal option on all vehicle registrations sent by his office, which can save $585,000 for Okaloosa County residents. Vehicle owners can choose to register their vehicle for one or two years.
Vehicle registrations can be processed at www.OkaloosaTax.com or at the Brackin Building, Suite 101, 302 N. Wilson St., Crestview. Details: 651-7300.


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Tickets for Crossing Border 2015 go on sale on September 1st.
Your printed e-ticket must be exchanged, on the corresponding festival day, for a wristband. Don't buy printed tickets of people you don't know: the barcode can be false!
Ticket prices
Tickets for Friday 13 or Saturday 14 November are €30. A passe-partout ticket for both days costs €50 (ex. service fee).
Tickets for the various day programmes will be sold seperately.
Festival times
Doors open at 18.00 hours on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November. Performances take place from 19.00 – 24.00 hours.
Times for the various day programmes will be announced at a later time.
Buying tickets
Tickets are available on our website and at the Royal Theatre. Passe-partout tickets are only available on our website.
Podium Cadeaukaart
You can also buy your tickets for Crossing Border with the PODIUM cadeaukaart. This is only possible when you purchase them at the Royal Theatre.
With a wristband you'll have access to all the festival venues and stages, allowing you to compile your own personal programme. Around two weeks before the festival kicks off, a complete timetable will be available on the website. Tickets are non returnable. The festival organisation is not responsible for the quality and the duration of a performance or its sudden cancellation. The programme is subject to change. The times indicated on timetables published in advance of the festival are for guidance purposes only. Please be sure to double-check with the finalised timetables on hand during the festival.


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Retirement community planned
Site will offer rooms for independent living and assisted living
A Dallas-based corporation is bringing an upscale, 115-room retirement community to Corpus Christi.
The community, dubbed Mirador, will be on 13 acres on the Southside near where a Wal-Mart Supercenter had been proposed.
Mirador will offer independent living as well as assisted-living one- and two-bedroom facilities, that will have a design and decor that fit the nearby community, said officials with the development company.
Nancy Hillmer, vice president of marketing for Greystone Communities, Inc., said Greystone would be in charge of developing and managing the facility. The community will include on-site amenities and activities, as well as access to nearby restaurants, shops and entertainment venues.
"The people living there will have a menu prepared by a chef and there will be a pub and a theater where people can socialize," Hillmer said. "The facility will be catered for active seniors."
A one-time, partially refundable entrance fee of about $190,000 and monthly fees of about $2,000 for electricity, housekeeping, taxes and other services are expected to be the average prices, but prices depend on the size of the apartments as well as the real estate market, Hillmer said.
Hillmer said her company knew there was a need in the area for a retirement community after conducting research studies and wanted to find the right demographics that could support the project.
"Many people want to stay here in Corpus Christi, but they don't want their children to have to go through the process of selling a home if they pass away and this relieves them of all those duties," Hillmer said.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, those over 85 years old are projected to be the fastest-growing part of the elderly population into the next century.
The company has met with more than 100 seniors in the area who have expressed interest in investing in the community and reserving a room. They expect construction to begin January 2009.
The community also will employ about 100 people, most of whom will be local hires, Hillmer said.
Led by a local board of directors, Mirador will be a not-for-profit community sponsored by Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation of Dallas, which owns four similar communities throughout the state.
Other communities owned by the corporation are Edgemere in Dallas, The Buckingham in Houston, Querencia at Barton Creek in Austin and The Stayton at Museum Way in Fort Worth. Greystone Communities, Inc., of Irving has worked with more than 350 senior living communities across the nation.
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Using BrainPOP Quizzes
On August 17, 2009 I had the privilege to meet the extraordinary staff of Harlandale ISD in San Antonio, Texas.
Many of the teachers that I spoke with loved that students could email their quiz results to the teacher. Some secondary teachers even set up an individual folder for each student to keep track of their BrainPOP quizzes. What a great way to ease report card time! All the students need to do is choose the Graded Quiz option and then type in the teacher's email address at the end. Did you also know that you can now take the quizzes full-screen? Just click on the icon with the arrows in the top right corner of the movie screen. To return to normal view, just hit the Esc key. For those of you who have interactive whiteboards, the quizzes also work great with learner response systems.
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I'm so excited I've found this website. It will be great to be able to communicate with other artists. My dad is also a member here/artist. Sharing some samples of my art:
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Not being a Twilight fan, I was taken aback when items for someone named "Booboo" started popping up on the photo services lately. I was surprised to find that Booboo is neither a drag queen, nor a stripper, nor Jessica Simpson's new replacement cock-a-poodle.
Booboo– whose real name "Nils" must have been too boring and conventional– is slated to play Seth Clearwater in Twilight: Eclipse. He's Taylor Lautner mini-sized so the 12 year old girls can continue to have someone for whom to pine without making everyone feel a little uncomfortable once Lautner becomes legal. He's making the mall rounds, and stopped off at the Metrotown mall in Vancouver this weekend to greet fans and sign autographs.
He seems like a nice enough kid. I don't know what the hell my problem is. Oh right, it's because he's named after a baby's pacifier; a 5 year old's skinned knee; a psychotic circus clown; a gorilla that knows sign language.
I wanted to try to find some sort of explanation for the name, so I visited his personal website, Booboo Stewart Online. There, I found the following sentence:
"Yesterday, Booboo and his sister Fivel attended the "The Spy Next Door" movie premiere!"
… Booboo and his sister, Fivel. Well, there's your explanation right there.


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My entire professional career has happily been devoted to helping others achieve their goals. Beginning with more than 20 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and eventually transitioning to a Real Estate professional, I have been committed to listening to the desire and needs of individuals and families wishing to make a better life for themselves and assisting them in achieving their goals.
My experience in social work has enabled me to gain a unique perspective in how to serve my real estate clients in the best possible way. While I work closely with clients in the New York counties of Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess, I have a vast network of trusted agents in other areas around the country as well as throughout the world. Whether you are looking for a home in the New York area or need to relocate to another state or country, you can rest assured that you're in the right hands.
My commitment to serving my community didn't stop when I became a REALTOR®. I am proud to be an active member of the local Rotary Club, an organization famous for providing humanitarian service and goodwill to any community they serve.
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NYIT Faculty Publish Important Clinical Study in March issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
The March 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA) features as their cover article the results found in a clinical study undertakent at NYIT.
JAOA (March 2011 issue) prominently features on its cover an image of NYIT professors Saggio, Flaum, Yao and Gilliar performing osteopathic manipulations.
The authors of the study are Gregory Saggio, D.O., Salvatore Docimo, D.O., Jennifer Pilc, D.O., Jennifer Norton, D.O., and Wolfgang Gilliar, D.O. In addition, Dr. Theodore Flaum, Dr. Sheldon Yao and Dr. Dan VanArsdale were involved in providing the osteopathic manipulative expertise in the treatment during the study phase.
In the article "Establishing a Link Between OMT and Secretory Immunoglobulin A Levels ," the authors of the study found that Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) increases a specific biomarker called surface immunoglobulin A, thus demonstrating the positive effect in persons experiencing high stress. These results suggest that OMT may have therapeutic preventive and protective effects on both healthy and hospitalized patient, especially those experiencing high levels of emotional or physiological stress and those at higher risk of acquiring upper respiratory tract infections.
"This is a wonderful example of collaboration between students and faculty in an effort to objectively demonstrate what OMM does," Wolfgang Gilliar, D.O., professor and Chair of the OMM Department at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, says about this landmark study. "Dr. Saggio, the lead author of the study, put a lot of effort into making sure to see this study and its publication to completion. He deserves special credit for this accomplishment." Gilliar says.
"This study is a good example of having an idea, putting it on paper and getting it to a final printed version" Dr. Saggio states. "We were very pleased with the results of this study but, it is only the first step, a pilot. A lot more work needs to be done in the future. Hopefully this is just the beginning of exciting creative scientific investigation at NYIT" Dr. Saggio adds.


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Designing complex embedded circuitry used to require many components from different vendors. Start with a fast microcontoller, mix in some flash memory, select an A/D converter, add an instrumentation amplifier to boost the signal, drop in some communications chips, and glue it all together with some digital logic. Now, thanks to Cypress Microsystems, all that has changed.
The PSoC™ family of programmable system-on-chip devices replace multiple MCU-based system components with one single-chip, configurable device. A PSoC device includes configurable analog and digital peripheral blocks, a fast CPU, Flash program memory, and SRAM data memory in a range of convenient pin-outs and memory sizes. The driving force behind this innovative programmable system-on-chip comes from user configurability of the analog and digital arrays: the PSoC blocks.
With over 20 years experience designing embedded systems, you can depend on ABCDEF to provide the right solution for your needs. Wether you require the high-speed of assembly language, or the power and efficiency of C, we have the tools to get the job done accurately and on time. Thorough testing of the application ensures that the results are reliable and dependable. Call or email for a quote on a specific project that you are planning.
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The ultimate resource
in grid systems.
" The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice. "
Josef Müller-Brockmann
July 22, 2009
An on-line companion to the book Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton that contains a section on single-column, multi-column and modular grids.
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An article by Italian designer Andrea Peltrin on how to effectively use grids for web design.
July 22, 2009
An online grid generating tool that pumps out the CSS source code as well as a downloadable png file of your grid.
July 22, 2009
NineSixty is a Drupal theme that is based on the 960 Grid System.
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