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The Economy of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growthby Susan M. Collins
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A territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.S. legal, monetary, security and tariff systems. Despite sharing in these and other key U.S. institutions, Puerto Rico has experienced economic stagnation and large scale unemployment since the 1970s. The island's living standards are low by U.S. standards, with a per capita income only half that of Mississippi, the poorest state. While many studies have analyzed the fiscal implications of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, little research has focused broadly on the island's economic experience or assessed its growth prospects.
In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the island's economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Rico's past experience with various growth policies. They then analyze several reforms and new initiatives in labor, education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, migration, trade, and financing development, which they incorporate into a proposed strategy for jumpstarting Puerto Rican economic growth.
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The Economy of Puerto RicoRestoring Growth
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Chapter OneIntroduction and Summary
SUSAN M. COLLINS, BARRY P. BOSWORTH, and MIGUEL A. SOTO-CLASS
At the close of the millennium, Puerto Rico was a tale of two economies. It had achieved some impressive economic milestones. Per capita income was substantially higher than in the rest of Latin America. In terms of quality of life measures such as literacy rates, years of schooling, and life expectancy, it ranked close to the most highly developed countries. But in other key dimensions, Puerto Rico appeared stuck under an economic glass ceiling. Although Puerto Rican residents have been American citizens since 1917, nearly half of them still lived under the U.S. poverty line, and the income gap relative to the mainland was widening.
As a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico shares key U.S. institutions; in particular, the region operates under U.S. judicial, monetary, and tariff systems. It is one of the world's most open economies, with free mobility of goods, services, capital, and labor to the large, prosperous U.S. market. One might expect these conditions to pave the way for rapid economic development in Puerto Rico, with living standards converging steadily with those enjoyed in the rest of the nation.Indeed, in the decades following World War II, Puerto Rico was hailed as a success story, sustaining impressive rates of economic growth and significantly raising domestic living standards. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per worker rose from 30 percent of the U.S. average in 1950 to 75 percent in 1980, a remarkable achievement.
But over the past twenty-five years, the economic situation on the island has deteriorated. Growth in GDP has slowed substantially, and no further progress has been made in narrowing the gap with the U.S. mainland. Gross national income per capita, a more appropriate measure of living standards, yields an even less favorable picture. While income per capita doubled from just over 20 percent of the U.S. average in 1950 to roughly 40 percent in the early 1970s, it has drifted back down to only about 30 percent more recently. Living standards in Puerto Rico are farther from the U.S. average today than they were in 1970, and per capita income is only about half that of the poorest state.
Why did Puerto Rico's economic progress stall? More important, what can be done to restore growth? These are the questions that motivated the Center for the New Economy and the Brookings Institution to undertake this collaborative research project. The objective was to examine Puerto Rico's economy and propose strategies for sustainable growth. Although it necessarily touches on political issues at times, no assessment of the alternative political options for the region was intended. Indeed, our economic analyses and proposed growth strategy are status neutral and will be relevant regardless of political regime.
The issues raised by Puerto Rico's puzzling economic performance are both important and interesting. Many Americans are unaware that the incomes of a large group of fellow citizens have been far below the average. More broadly, it is critical to understand why an economy with so many of the characteristics economists deem key to growth should not perform better. And as economic integration expands and deepens in Europe and elsewhere, it is ever more essential to understand which policy levers remain available for a small but open peripheral economy to ensure that it does not fall behind.
A preliminary analysis of Puerto Rico's economic situation highlighted a set of overlapping concerns that appeared to be at the heart of Puerto Rico's economic difficulties. These included dimensions of labor supply and demand, entrepreneurship, the fiscal situation, financial markets, and trade. In selecting authors to study each of these topics, we paired Puerto Rican and mainland experts so as to ensure that the analysis was appropriately grounded in the relevant historical context. The authors met for an initial conference in San Juan in May 2004. Drafts of all the papers, as well as commentary by invited discussants, were presented at a second, academic conference in March 2005, also in San Juan. The revised analyses and discussant remarks are presented in this volume.
The volume consists of nine substantive chapters-each summarized briefly in the remainder of this chapter. Chapter 2 provides an empirical overview of Puerto Rico's growth experience, setting the stage for subsequent chapters. Motivated by the island's extremely low employment rates, the next two chapters study labor supply from two different perspectives. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of public transfers on labor supply, and chapter 4 examines the influence of a broader range of determinants. Chapter 5 addresses the quality of the labor supply, looking at the educational system and its performance. Private sector development, a critical component of labor demand, is the focus of chapter 6. Chapter 7 examines fiscal policy, an area of considerable local autonomy but growing difficulties. Puerto Rico has much less control over its monetary and trade policies than it would if it were an independent country. Nonetheless, financial markets and cross-border interactions are central to the island's economic performance. These issues are the subject of chapters 8 and 9. The final chapter of the volume pulls together the lessons from these analyses and sets out a growth strategy for Puerto Rico.
In the second chapter, Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins examine the level and growth of production and income in Puerto Rico. Pulling together data from a variety of sources, they analyze why economic performance faltered, identify the main characteristics of the current economy, and highlight the key challenges to restoring sustained growth.
The analysis uncovers three main sets of findings. First, official statistics substantially overstate production of goods and services on the island. The problem arises from section 936 of the U.S. tax code, which provided strong incentives for U.S. corporations to use transfer pricing to shift reported income to Puerto Rico. Profits earned in Puerto Rico are effectively exempt from U.S. taxation. These provisions were introduced in 1976 and remained in force until they were repealed in 1995, with a ten-year phase-out. The authors document the magnitude of the distortion in a number of ways and then construct "adjusted" GDP estimates. Their preferred measure cuts the level of Puerto Rican GDP by about 20 percent in 2003 and that of output growth by 0.7 percent a year since 1975. The tax distortion explains much of the growing gap between Puerto Rico's measured production and national income, and the adjusted data highlight the sluggishness of recent economic performance. Bosworth and Collins conclude that U.S. tax policy has done a disservice to Puerto Rico by providing U.S. corporations incentives for investments with few or no employment or local linkages.
Second, their examination of the relationship between GDP per worker (productivity) and income per capita (living standards) highlights the reasons why Puerto Rico's income per capita has fallen relative to the U.S. level since 1970. Using the adjusted GDP data, they find that labor productivity in Puerto Rico stalled and employment as a share of its working-age population declined to just two-thirds of the U.S. level.
Third, they undertake a growth-accounting analysis that decomposes growth in Puerto Rico's output per worker into the contributions from increased physical and human capital per worker and those from a residual measure of total factor productivity. This analysis clearly distinguishes two periods in Puerto Rico's economic performance. In the early period (roughly 1950-75), the island sustained growth rates in output per worker near 5 percent a year, comparable to rates achieved in the rapid growth phases for Ireland and East Asia and well above the Latin American average. With growth rates more than double those on the mainland, this was a period of significant catch-up for Puerto Rico and was characterized by both capital deepening and increased efficiency of factor usage. In contrast, since 1975 Puerto Rico has fallen behind. The authors estimate that Puerto Rican growth in output per worker dropped to just over 1 percent a year, below that of the mainland.
The growth accounts uncover two reasons for Puerto Rico's slow growth in labor productivity. One is that capital accumulation did not keep pace with increases in employment. Although investment rates have recovered somewhat, they are insufficient to support long-term growth at the level achieved in the earlier period. In contrast, Puerto Rico stands out for relatively high contributions of increased human capital to growth, owing to continued gains in educational attainment. Indeed, the island has largely caught up with the mainland in terms of average years of schooling. The other is a sharp, persistent slowing of growth in total factor productivity. Again using the adjusted output measure, the authors find that total factor productivity growth fell after 1970, turning negative in the 1990s. This pattern suggests a secular deterioration, which is more worrisome than the typical Latin American experience of sharp cyclical fluctuations in economic growth.
Puerto Rico's per capita income is less than one-third that of residents of the U.S. mainland. Much of this difference can be traced to employment rate differences-and ultimately to labor force participation rate differences-between the two economies. Furthermore, these differences have increased substantially over time. The labor force participation rate of Puerto Ricans between the ages of twenty and sixty-four is currently just 85 percent of the equivalent participation rate on the U.S. mainland for men and 62 percent for women.
In chapter 3, Gary Burtless and Orlando Sotomayor examine reasons for the trend toward lower relative employment rates in Puerto Rico. Their analysis focuses on implications of the generosity and structure of government transfer benefits available to Puerto Rico residents. The chapter presents empirical evidence, including the timing of changes in policy versus employment rates and differences in trends across differentially affected groups. Although other developments, including a minimum-wage hike and two severe recessions after 1973, account for part of the slump in Puerto Rican labor supply, the authors conclude that changes in the generosity of transfer benefits played a crucial role.
Burtless and Sotomayor document that government transfer payments account for a large percentage of the total income received by Puerto Rico residents. This percentage rose steeply in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1990, government transfer benefits have provided 25 to 28 percent of Puerto Rico's personal income, twice the equivalent percentage on the U.S. mainland.
The authors examine the effects of five transfer programs in detail: Puerto Rico's equivalent of the food stamp program, unemployment insurance, Social Security retirement and disability benefits, government-provided health insurance, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. All of these programs has important work-discouraging effects because they reduce benefit payments to recipients who find employment. The chapter documents cases in which an increase in earned income may be more than offset by reductions in various public assistance payments.
Burtless and Sotomayor also note that, because average incomes are lower in Puerto Rico than on the mainland, the U.S. Social Security program offers significantly more attractive retirement and disability benefits to Puerto Rican workers. In view of the generosity of disability insurance pensions for low-wage Puerto Rican workers, for example, it is not surprising that the disability rate in Puerto Rico is well above the U.S. average. The authors document differences that may account for 2 to 3 percentage points of the lower labor force participation rate in Puerto Rico relative to the United States.
Burtless and Sotomayor argue that policymakers should aim to increase employment and labor force participation rates on the island so they approach or match those on the U.S. mainland. To reform social protection programs so they encourage rather than discourage work, the authors call for modifications in current benefit schedules and new eligibility rules for assistance that would redesign transfer programs to increase incentives to work and encourage workers to earn higher wages.
The authors emphasize the importance of linking program benefits with incentives to seek employment or to increase the hours of work. An example of such a program is the earned income tax credit in the United States, which provides a supplement to earnings. In contrast, a typical assistance program, such as Puerto Rico's Nutritional Assistance Program, discourages work among recipients by reducing benefits to those who find employment. To reduce program costs and encourage bigger increases in workers' weekly earnings, Burtless and Sotomayor propose a Puerto Rican wage supplement program that requires participating workers to hold jobs with minimum hours conditions. Such restrictions would allocate larger subsidy payments to those workers who make the biggest increases in their monthly hours of work.
María Enchautegui and Richard Freeman also focus on Puerto Rico's strikingly low employment rates. Their analysis concentrates on men, because they find that it is the low male employment rate that is "off the map" in comparison with other countries. A unifying theme of their work is the "rich uncle (Sam) hypothesis": the primary reason for the low employment, the authors posit, is that Puerto Rico's unique relationship with the United States has produced an economic environment that discourages work on both the supply and demand sides of the market. This hypothesis suggests that the close tie between the island and the mainland has been double edged, offering Puerto Ricans many of the benefits of living in a highly advanced economy but also contributing to the employment problem.
The authors begin by documenting what has happened to male labor force participation and employment, using measures of labor force activity from the census and household surveys. They conclude that at the turn of the twenty-first century, Puerto Rican men had an exceptionally low involvement in the labor market by global standards. This resulted from both a downward trend in participation in the 1970s, which produced a permanent detachment of many men from the workforce, and a rising proportion through the 1990s who reported themselves disabled. The remainder of the chapter attempts to answer the question, "Why don't more Puerto Rican men work?"
Enchautegui and Freeman identify and examine a number of interacting factors that may play a role. One is the distorted relationship between aggregate demand and employment. The authors show that employment in Puerto Rico has been more closely related to the slower-growing GNP than to the faster-growing GDP. Furthermore, the tax incentives for investing in capital-intensive activities may have also distorted the pattern of GDP and employment in Puerto Rico.
Second, like Burtless and Sotomayor, they argue that transfer programs-especially the Social Security Disability Insurance and the Nutritional Assistance Programs-are likely to have had large disincentive effects on male employment. A third potential factor is the option for workers to migrate to the mainland. The authors explain that this has both direct effects-such as reducing labor force participation if those most willing to work are more likely to migrate-and indirect effects-such as raising the reservation wage of those on the island.
Finally, the authors focus on Puerto Rico's wage structure in comparison with that on the mainland. Surprisingly, the highest relative earnings are for less educated workers-in contrast with the normal pattern in cross-country earnings differences, whereby the earnings of the most educated workers in developing and high-income countries are more similar because of their greater opportunities for emigration.
Three possible explanations are examined. Puerto Rico's adoption of the U.S. minimum wage has limited downward wage flexibility. Income transfers may have created a reservation wage considerably above the minimum and above the full employment wage rates. Finally, potential migration to the United States may have created a wage floor above the minimum.
There is a widespread belief that many jobless Puerto Rican men work in the informal sector and are therefore not measured by standard labor force surveys. Thus Enchautegui and Freeman undertook a small pilot study to find out what men in communities with potentially low employment were doing. Their results suggest that the official Department of Labor data understate employment considerably but understate labor force participation only modestly.
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Susan M. Collins is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at Georgetown University. Her publications focus on various dimensions of economic policy and performance for developing countries. Barry Bosworth is a senior fellow and Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution. Miguel A. Soto-Class is the executive director of the Center for the New Economy, a Puerto Rico-based think tank focusing on economic development issues.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that AppNeta, the leader in performance insight for business-critical web applications, will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. AppNeta is the only application performance monitoring (APM) company to provide solutions for all applications – applications you develop internally, business-critical SaaS applications you use and the networks that deli...
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Rush Medical College is strongly committed to the selection of individuals who will become vital members of the medical community as students, practitioners, educators, and researchers. Throughout the curriculum, emphasis is placed on the preparation of physicians who will function chiefly as medical practitioners and who will be committed to the delivery of quality health care to a variety of populations, including those now underserved.
Because Rush seeks to train physicians who will be committed to meeting society's health care needs, the Committee on Admissions seeks excellence in academic achievement and values, individual goals, personal accomplishments, and related experiences. The Committee looks for individuals who exhibit social and intellectual maturity, personal integrity, empathy, professionalism, and motivation for medicine.
Admission to Rush Medical College depends upon satisfactory completion of a minimum of 90 semester hours (135 quarter hours) of undergraduate study prior to matriculation. Rush requires all entering students to have successfully completed at least eight semester hours of physics, eight semester hours of biology, eight semester hours of inorganic chemistry, and eight semester hours of organic chemistry. In lieu of eight semester hours of organic chemistry, students may take four semester hours of organic chemistry and four semester hours of biochemistry. Survey courses in the premedical sciences will not fulfill these requirements. Though not required, courses in mathematics, social sciences, and English are strongly recommended. The committee suggests that comprehensive courses be selected that includes study in the following areas:
The required courses provide the foundation upon which modern biological and medical sciences are built. The committee requires all coursework submitted in fulfillment of specific admissions requirements must be evaluated on the basis of a traditional grading system. In addition, all applicants are advised to pursue subjects beyond the stated minimums in the required courses.
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Rush Medical College will enforce the Medical School Matriculant Criminal History Records Check Act which states: "a medical school located in Illinois must require that each matriculant submit to a fingerprint- based criminal history records check for violent felony convictions and any adjudication of the matriculant as a sex offender conducted by the Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the medical school admissions process."


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The Role of Science in Public
Health Decisions
Many people assume that science provides clear answers to guide personal and public health policy decisions. In fact, although science is an important tool, it is often a blunt tool, capable of answering only certain narrow questions. Without an understanding of the strengths and the limitations of science, and an awareness of how both can be used and manipulated, we risk making personal and public policy decisions that will not best protect our children and ourselves.
This chapter first examines what science and scientific inquiry can and cannot do, what kinds of answers they can and cannot provide. Following is a look at animal testing and epidemiological research, two forms of scientific inquiry that are central to decision making concerning environmental reproductive toxicants. Finally, we consider quantitative risk assessment, a tool meant to improve our ability to make decisions by incorporating both scientific knowledge and uncertainty.
Science is a way of looking at the world, a system for increasing our knowledge of the world, a tool for making decisions about how to act in the world. Fundamentally, science provides a structure for exploration: the scientific method, a well-defined system that scientists worldwide recognize as the basis for scientific understanding.


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2009: NCAA West Regional qualifier in the 110-meter hurdles ... Finished third at the Steve Scott Invitational with the 10th-fastest mark in school history at 14.27 ... Placed fifth overall at the Big West Conference Championships (14.51) ... Established a lifetime-best 55.51 in the 400m hurdles at the Cal-Nevada Championships ... Ran the fourth-fastest 60m hurdle time in indoor school history with a mark of 8.31 at the NAU Team Challenge.
2008: Finished fourth in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 14.53 at the Big West Championship meet ... Ran a then lifetime-best 14.47 earlier in the year ... Also competed in the 100m, 200m, 400m hurdles and the long jump ... Notched a personal-record 21-05.50 in the long jump at the Big West Challenge ... Tied the fourth-fastest 60-meter HH time in indoor school history at 8.36.
High School: Competed at Galt High School ... Was the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II champion in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 14.56 as a senior ... Also won the long jump (21-06.00) at the 2005 championship meet.
Personal: Majoring in human development.
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Viacom is a major entertainment company based in New York City. Their current incarnation, which was spun off in 2006 from what is now CBS, consists of Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET, among other properties.The original Viacom started as CBS's "film sales" division in the mid-1950s, founded to sell some of the network's biggest hits into the syndication market. Back then, CBS had a policy of either owning its shows outright or purchasing the distribution rights, making it so that most of CBS's output from 1950 to 1970 ended being syndicated by CBS as well.This changed in 1971, when the FCC adopted the "fin-syn" rule. Fin-syn basically stated that television networks could no longer syndicate their own shows. CBS decided to spin its sales division off. Following this lead, Viacom became one of the busiest syndicators in the USA. Armed with huge hits such as I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hawaii Five-O and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Viacom was doing well for itself by the early 1980s, and was looking to expand.Its first big purchase was MTV Networks note in 1985. Later, Viacom got the distribution rights to The Cosby Show, still a massive hit at the time and a huge potential money maker. The really big purchases came later though after the company fell under the control of theatre magnate Sumner M. Redstone, as Viacom successfully devoured Paramount in 1994, Blockbuster Video and Spelling Entertainment Group note in 1999 and finally its own former parent, CBS, in 2000, though its last major purchase was that of BET in 2001.In 2005, however, it was decided that Viacom should be split in two. The rationale given at the time was that MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount were "hot" and the rest of CBS was more "cool", as far as growth was concerned. Viacom spun off MTV Networks and Paramount as a "new" Viacom that took the name, and then the old Viacom renamed itself CBS Corporation. (Paramount Television and its library was kept by CBS, separating it from the movie studio. It was soon merged with CBS' in-house studio to form CBS Paramount Television. The studio is now named CBS Studios.) However, many people actually believed that the real reason for the split was a result of declining revenues caused by bad publicity stemming from Janet Jackson's Wardrobe Malfunction during the half-time show for Super Bowl XXXVIII (which was produced by MTV, whom the NFL has banned from ever producing another half-time show; the de-merger conveniently separated MTV from CBS), and a report on 60 Minutes spinoff show 60 Minutes II questioning George W. Bush's service in the National Guard, which later turned out to be forged. The separation was also a Solomon-esque resolution to an intra-company "bake-off" between co-COOs Les Moonves and Tom Freston to replace Sumner Redstone, the majority owner of the company, as CEO. Moonves is still the CEO of CBS Corporation, while post-separation Viacom CEO Freston was fired several years afterward and replaced with Philippe Dauman, a Viacom director and close friend of Redstone.It's infamous among many YouTube users for removing videosnote . Before that, it was notorious for attacking Star Trek fan sites.Besides being a syndicator, Viacom has also produced several shows by itself:
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Rumen Petkov studied at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, where he graduated in 1978. He started to work in the comics and animation field, and became one of the main contributors to Bulgarian comics magazine Duga, that appeared between 1979 and 1992. His best known comic creations are 'Choko and Boko' and he was the author of the first Bulgarian full-length animated movie 'The Treasure Planet'. Later, Rumen Petkov built a successful career in the West and became one of the creators of such famous characters like 'Johnny Bravo' and 'Dexter's Laboratory'.
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Apple Lighting port not identical on both sides
A bit of investigation done on Apple's iPhone 5 and the Lightning cord and docking port this week has turned up an oddity: the pins on both sides are not the same as one another. It would appear, according to Double Helix Cables' own pro Peter that the 8-pin lineup is not in the same order on both sides of the cord's head. Because of his discovery that one pin does the same as the pin that's directly behind it, Peter has proven that Apple must be using some sort of process to dynamically identify which pin order the cord is currently using - depending on which side is up and which is down, that is.


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SEATTLE — Regulators have received an unprecedented number of public comments on a disputed proposal to export millions of tons of coal to Asia from a facility along the Columbia River in Washington.
The Army Corps of Engineers, Washington's Ecology Department and Cowlitz County are preparing to sift through more than 163,000 comments to decide which environmental effects should be reviewed.
"This obviously is more comments than we've had for most projects we've been involved in," said Ecology spokeswoman Linda Kent. "What I'm hearing is that they haven't seen this level before."
Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, owned by Ambre Energy Ltd. and Arch Coal Inc., wants to build and operate a $650 million terminal at Longview to export coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia. The coal would be carried on trains to the dock, which would ultimately be able to handle 44 metric tons of coal a year.
It's one of three coal-export docks proposed in Washington and Oregon. The others are projects near Bellingham and Boardman, Ore.
Millennium officials have said the Longview facility would create jobs and generate millions of dollars during construction and through yearly state and local tax revenues. The terminal, once fully operational, would produce 300 direct and indirect permanent jobs.
The scoping comment period ends Nov. 18 and is only the first step in a yearslong process to determine the project's environmental effects. Such a review is required before many local, state and federal permits can be approved.
The county and state are conducting one review, while the Army Corps is doing a separate one.
Five public meetings held throughout the state drew thousands of people, and many businesses, groups, legislators and cities throughout the region have weighed in.
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On Monday, Les Anderson, who lives in Longview, was part of a group that delivered thousands of comment cards to the Seattle headquarters of the Army Corps.
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Last July, the state ecology department said it would consider a sweeping look at the Gateway Pacific terminal coal-export dock proposed near Bellingham, including train traffic and the climate change effects of burning the exported coal in Asia.


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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp 335-373
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BRACID: a comprehensive approach to learning rules from imbalanced data
- Krystyna NapieralaAffiliated withInstitute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology Email author
- , Jerzy StefanowskiAffiliated withInstitute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology
In this paper we consider induction of rule-based classifiers from imbalanced data, where one class (a minority class) is under-represented in comparison to the remaining majority classes. The minority class is usually of primary interest. However, most rule-based classifiers are biased towards the majority classes and they have difficulties with correct recognition of the minority class. In this paper we discuss sources of these difficulties related to data characteristics or to an algorithm itself. Among the problems related to the data distribution we focus on the role of small disjuncts, overlapping of classes and presence of noisy examples. Then, we show that standard techniques for induction of rule-based classifiers, such as sequential covering, top-down induction of rules or classification strategies, were created with the assumption of balanced data distribution, and we explain why they are biased towards the majority classes. Some modifications of rule-based classifiers have been already introduced, but they usually concentrate on individual problems. Therefore, we propose a novel algorithm, BRACID, which more comprehensively addresses the issues associated with imbalanced data. Its main characteristics includes a hybrid representation of rules and single examples, bottom-up learning of rules and a local classification strategy using nearest rules. The usefulness of BRACID has been evaluated in experiments on several imbalanced datasets. The results show that BRACID significantly outperforms the well known rule-based classifiers C4.5rules, RIPPER, PART, CN2, MODLEM as well as other related classifiers as RISE or K-NN. Moreover, it is comparable or better than the studied approaches specialized for imbalanced data such as generalizations of rule algorithms or combinations of SMOTE + ENN preprocessing with PART. Finally, it improves the support of minority class rules, leading to better recognition of the minority class examples.
KeywordsRule induction Imbalanced data Classifiers Nearest neighbour paradigm Nearest rules
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- Title
- BRACID: a comprehensive approach to learning rules from imbalanced data
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Volume 39, Issue 2 , pp 335-373
- Cover Date
- 2012-10
- 10.1007/s10844-011-0193-0
- Print ISSN
- 0925-9902
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7675
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Rule induction
- Imbalanced data
- Classifiers
- Nearest neighbour paradigm
- Nearest rules
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- Authors
- Krystyna Napierala (1)
- Jerzy Stefanowski (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland


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Nanchong's Limed Egg is the top one among limed eggs. It is made by the traditional natural materials with many amino acids, but without lead or any deleterious material. When taking a limed egg, it is easy to put the shell off. Then you will find clear shapes of pine flowers inside the transparent and springy egg white, and the unctuous yolk with slight sugar.
Recently, there is a new kind of limed egg with shapes of pine flowers of various colors inside the egg white, such as: red, orange, yellow, green and blue and so on. It is named the multicolored limed egg, which has been a new addition in the large banquets and the menu of technical cooking. In 1982, Nanchong's Limed Egg won the 2nd place in a quality contest for exported food in Luojiang, which was held by Foreign Trade Department. And it won the 1st place in Sichuan food quality contest. When Nanchong's limed egg came into the market of Beijing in 1984, it was entitled with "the best limed egg o
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A new push from a local career center aims to get high school freshmen with plans to study engineering or computer programing in college to consider their classes, too.
For more than a decade students and parents have viewed the Central Nine Career Center as a school for students interested in starting their careers immediately after high school. Central Nine offers courses and certifications for careers that don't require a bachelor's degree, such as mechanics and firefighters; but officials want college-bound students to know they can take courses there, too.
Fewer students have been attending Central Nine over the past four years — 1,135 students attend the center now, down from 1,356 during the 2010-11 school year, a 16 percent drop, according to curriculum director Nicole Otte.
Now Central Nine officials want all students, including those with college plans, to consider taking career center courses. To make that happen they'll need to show all students the kinds of programs available.
If more students attend Central Nine, then they'll have more hands-on experience they can use to market themselves after high school, during college or after graduation. The career center also would receive more funding, Otte said.
The career center bills school district based on the number of students each has enrolled in the center's courses. The school districts, which receive state money based on enrollment, receive additional funding for students attending the career center, Otte said.
Students planning to study engineering or computer programming in college, for example, can take Central Nine courses in both subjects. They can use that experience to start earning certifications to market themselves when they apply for internships and jobs. She said students also could realize they don't want a career in that field, and they can focus earlier on finding the right profession.
"Regardless of what (their) career is, we want to provide a path for that," Otte said.
Local high schools have started requiring freshmen and sophomores to take a course about college and career planning. The earlier students start thinking about what they might want to do for a living the earlier they can find career center courses or programs that could benefit them.
If students know from the start of their freshman year that they want to be teachers, then Central Nine probably doesn't have a program for them, and they can focus on taking more college-level and Advanced Placement courses, Otte said. But students who plan to study nursing can get experience through the health care courses at Central Nine, she said.
Often college-bound students focus on taking Advanced Placement courses, typically starting in the junior year, which is also when most students start attending Central Nine.
Many students don't believe they can afford to choose the career center over a college-level course, but they can explore their options at their high school and at Central Nine. They may be able to take a mix of college-level and career center courses.
Even if a student spends one year at Central Nine, Otte said, that will give them a head start over other students who haven't had any hands-on experience, especially in health care, manufacturing and information technology.
"If we can get a kid for one year, instead of two years, that's a great opportunity as well," Otte said.
At Franklin, incoming eighth-graders can meet with Central Nine teachers and employees to learn about career center programs and courses they can take while in high school. Principal Doug Harter also wants the career center to work more closely with teachers and counselors, creating specific course plans students can follow if they're interested in a particular profession.
If students want to study nursing, as early as the freshman year they can know the courses they need to take at the high school and what programs at the career center give them the best chance at getting into a college and getting the job they want.
Earlier this school year, career center officials started meeting with businesses and companies in manufacturing, information technology and health care about job shadowing, internship and job opportunities for students. Otte said the hope is that within the next year Central Nine can start showing students specifically how their courses can help them get jobs without leaving Johnson County.
"If the students plan early enough in their schedule, and they work it, they can make it happen," Otte said.


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Eight murders within twelve months, including two in the downtown area this summer, have prompted a public outcry to figure out a way to cut down on crime in Greenville.
Monday night, city council members listened to a presentation by city staff addressing the issues of crime with proposed ordinances.
"A total waste of time" is how Greenville City Councilmember Max Joyner described the presentation on proposed ordinances to cut down on crime in Greenville. Joyner said, "We can't legislate our way to a better uptown Greenville through this. This makes no sense."
Joyner and the rest of city council voted Monday night to delay any decisions on the proposed ordinances until November 1st.
Zeke Jackson believes city councilmembers are delaying any action due to the upcoming municipal elections on November 3rd.
ECU's Homecoming and Halloween bring thousands of people to the downtown area--making October the busiest month for nightlife downtown. Jackson says the public's safety should be considered first and foremost.
Club owners were given an October 30th deadline to submit suggestions on how to protect the downtown area.
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Chennai, Oct 14 (TruthDive): Everyone was thinking that Jayalalithaa can be replaced only by another Jayalalithaa. She has no match. Now Rajinikanth is projected as a leader to fill the political vacuum created in the absence of Jayalalithaa. Without proper Public relation exercises it will be very tough to build up a political image for Rajinikanth. For this the popularity of AIADMK has to be brought down drastically by manufacturing opinion against Jayalalithaa. It is unlikely.
If BJP can bring in Rajinikanth, the additional votes should come from some other party. DMK and other minor political parties still possess fixed vote banks. But even these vote banks have been spent and touched a minimum level in the recent Parliament elections. Therefore the campaign for Rajinikanth can mostly target only AIADMK votes. You can take only from where it is abundantly available.
The AIADMK vote bank cannot be suddenly brought down to half of its numbers. That means if Rajinikanth floats a party or go for BJP the strategy should be worked out. There should be a split in votes of AIADMK for the success of Rajinikanth. That will further fracture the people of Tamil nadu.
Creating political uncertainty and disturbing the political stability of Tamil nadu is hidden behind. Such a motivation can be traced to the recent events surrounding Jayalalithaa and efforts to rope in Rajinikanth.
Again the guess game of probability has started. Rajinikanth may come or may not come. He may join BJP or may not. He may float political party or may not. He may express voice of support to BJP or may not. Rajinikanth is enjoying the may or may not game. Rajiniknth may also backtrack saying " God only knows", " Even if I come late, I will come as latest". If he drags like this it will be too late. Such a bad reputation in making decision does not augur well for a person aspiring for a top post. Procrastination in decision making goes against the principles of good leadership. A person with endless wavering mind may lead Tamil Nadu to disaster. Already the tables have been turned, with Bihar at top and Tamil nadu at bottom in growth rate.
The rumors about political entry of Rajinikanth can promote Linga. After successful Linga Rajinikanth may decide about it. That will be the latest.
Ever since the Dravidian movements gave undue importance to the talents in the screen, the Tamil people are addicted to following the film stars. The workers at grass root level can never become a top most leader in a political party which can capture power. It is either dynastic rule or a film star rule. Why this land of ancient culture cannot evolve a good leader? There is no evolution of leadership in Tamil nadu. It is always imposition of leadership. Tamil people have become drunkards and the rest are sleeping.
Now another puppet show has been announced. The main puppet is proposed to be Rajinikanth. It is easier for BJP to rope in Rajinikanth since he himself is a follower of ideals of BJP. Anyway he may not go against the policies of social justice carefully implemented in Tamil nadu. The communal tag tainting BJP shall also taint Rajinikanth. But communal tag does not mean electoral defeat. In fact it brings success.
MGR avoided drinking and smoking in his films, Rajinikanth films show the times have changed and virtues are given a go bye in the screen plays. However Rajinikanth is not concerned about his physical appearance in real world. He promotes human values personally. The faith, virtue, devotion, philosophy are intermingled. The films of Rajinikanth such as Ragavendra and Baba were in tune with the policies of BJP. Nothing wrong. If this is the way India has to reconnect with its ancient culture and this is the trend, let Tamil nadu follow. A millennium back Bakthi movement originated from Tamil nadu and spread to north India .
Rajinikanth naturally fits in to the role in BJP. Definitely Rajinikanth can add up to BJP. But there is a possibility that BJP will reduce the image of Rajinikanth. Tamil nadu need not worry about it. Nothing can destroy the indigenous culture of India well preserved in Tamil nadu. If Dravidian movements have gone in a wrong direction, the BJP has to come in and try to do well following the policies developed by Periyar and Anna and take the same to the north.
If Rajinikanth is a rider and BJP is a horse, the horse can run using its horse power in the central government operated by Narendtra modi. If BJP is the rider and Rainikanth is a horse then we must understand that it is a old horse not trained for a running race. So far the horse has been rented for shooting and it has done well. But running on track is a different game.
Hope Rajinikanth do not meet the fate of Vijayakanth. Good start but bad finish.
We can very well imagine a CM Rajinikanth arguing with the opposition leader Vijayakanth in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. A Kanth Vs Kanth show that can be successfully run in social media. A competition will erupt on claiming who is fit to be Black MGR.


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I'm just starting a regular cycle commute to work. It's 15 miles each way, mainly along road of varying quality. I am currently using an old Giant Boulder Alushock with slicks, but I have to be honest I find even in the faster gears it could be performing better, added to that I am fairly unfit and carrying a bit too much weight (another reason for commuting by bike).
My prioirty is to make the journey as quick as possible, but I would still like to take the bike along tracks and the odd trail.
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New Yorkers had their first chance to view Michael Moore's latest, "Capitalism: A Love Story" last night at Alice Tully Hall, and the ever vocal filmmaker received a very warm reception from an audience that mostly seemed to agree with his assertion that capitalism, at least the form practiced in the United States, is ruinous and inherently flawed for the majority of Americans in the middle and working classes. "This movie gives voice to people who have no voice," Moore said during an on stage interview with the Daily Beast's Tina Brown. The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted the U.S. debut of the film, which opens in New York and Los Angeles beginning Wednesday, September 23, with a further release on Friday. FSLC arranged the event ahead of its official opening of the New York Film Festival, which is also on Friday.
The film journeys from the personal (he interviews his father who worked at a now shuttered GM factory in Michigan) to the macroeconomic, with interviews of people in government agencies trying to explain how the bailouts worked - and more importantly for Moore - where all that cash went. He also profiles Americans in the process of being evicted from their homes, a tragic event that takes place every 7 1/2 seconds in this country, according to Moore. And he points his lens at other egregious spoils of unchecked capitalism gone awry, for example, for profit juvenile detention centers in Pennsylvania which locked kids up for insane sentences (and higher profits), corporate giants such as Walmart taking out life insurance policies on their workers for windfall earnings on individual misfortunes, and even the plight of overworked and way underpaid commercial airline pilots.
"Investigative journalism no longer exists," said Moore, who lambasted the decline of daily newspapers across America. "If it comes down to some guy in a baseball cap and high school education to do this, then we're really in a tough spot."
Moore said that he has a sizeable amount of footage devoted to declining print journalism in the U.S. that ultimately wasn't used in the film and he blamed the closure of dailies on bad planning, misguided priorities and even support for Republican presidential nominees.
"Newspaper editors [mostly] supported Republican candidates in recent decades, and this is the party that wants to get rid of the Department of Education," he said laughing. "This is the party that has turned us into a nation of semi-literate ignoramuses."
When asked what about the project had surprised him the most, Moore said that requests of help from Republicans had shocked him. "I was surprised that Republicans were coming to me for help. These are people who clearly don't share my politics, but they're getting the crap kicked out of them and had nowhere else to turn," he said referring to two families in his film.
Also surprising for viewers perhaps is the use of religion in "Capitalism." Moore interviews a parish priest who calls capitalism "evil," and even interviewed a Michigan bishop who also condemns the economic system practiced in the United States. Moore said during the on stage interview that his politics were rooted in his Catholic upbringing, and though he said he preferred to keep religion a personal matter, he felt compelled to make it part of this film.
"The Fox News network and others have gone to great lengths to try and define me as a godless left-winger, but the fact of the matter is, my beliefs are formed though my Catholicism."
Another surprising and powerful moment in the film came from lost footage of President Franklin Roosevelt who made a speech in which he called for a "second Bill of Rights" that would guarantee among other things, decent housing, education and universal health care. Moore said he had heard the footage existed, but was told it was impossible to find. Roosevelt said it was necessary to guarantee a decent livelihood for all Americans, and apparently had insisted that his speech be taped, despite his declining health. The audience Monday night watched this footage intensely, and erupted in spontaneous applause afterward.
"This is what he wanted for America, and unfortunately he died soon after before the second Bill of Rights could be [pursued]," said Moore who appealed to the audience and those who will be watching his film when it opens beginning Friday via Overture Films to fight for new priorities. "I love this country, and I'm not going anywhere. My movies are acts of patriotism."


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Some residents and businesses in Richlands are being asked to boil there water after an outage this morning.
Crews are making emergency repairs along Wilmington Highway and water could be off through most of the day. Residents of Maidstone and Brookhaven subdivisions, East and West Hargett, East and West Foy, and North Wilmington Highway from Hargett to the town limits may have low or no water pressure during these repairs.
Once water is restored those residents and businesses will be asked to boil water for human consumption. ONWASA advises residents to boil water used for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth or preparing food. There is no need to boil water for showering or bathing.
The boil water advisory will remain at least for 24 hours until lab testing shows there is no contamination in the system.


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VAT'S THE WAY TO EXORCISE DEMONS; Priests to Get Lessons in Fighting Evil Spirits
Byline: STEWART MACLEAN
THE Church is fighting back against Satan - by offering priests lessons in EXORCISM.
The Vatican announced the plans yesterday as it launched a new course in the art of casting out evil spirits.
And the move means the horror of cult film The Exorcist could become a reality for priests around the world.
The 1973 classic movie shocked film fans when it showed two terrified priests battling to rid 12-year-old Regan of the evil spirits trapped inside her.
The scenes of exorcism were judged so scary that the film was banned in many countries, including Ireland, for more than 20 years.
But yesterday Fr Pat Collins, one of just a handful of practising exorcists in Ireland, said there was nothing to be afraid of.
And he welcomed the inclusion of exorcism in the course for trainee priests at the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum in Rome.
He said: "There's a shortage of anyone who is officially able to do this but there are people who are troubled or depressed and who need help.
"What's surprising is that in other countries on the continent they have many people registered in this type of work.
"Having the course in Rome is a breakthrough because it means at a university level people will be taught about the psychology of exorcism as well as trained in the skills needed to perform these acts."
Fr Collins, who lectures in spirituality at All Hallows College in Dublin, admitted the refusal of the Church in Ireland to accept exorcism had left his own work in the field open to criticism. …


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Superheroine Applejack by raspbearyartWatch
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3rd in the series yay! Used a pic of j alba as pose inspiration.
She can lasso me anyday......
She reminds me of every amazing heroine I know. And that's why best pony is best superhero... :3
It's amazing!
I in love. ty for sharing you talents with us all
She reminds me of Wonder Woman! But perhaps her other superhero name should be...Miss Integrity.
This would make a bitchin' tat!
This is an amazing series of MLP:FIM heroine mash-ups. I love them all. This one is my favorite though, she looks fabulous and very believable. Will you be making any others in the future? Thanks so much for sharing them on deviantart with us!
a western Wonder Woman concept crossed my mind (JLU) but this takes the cake..or at least a quarter of it cause since this is Wonder Woman We're talking about after all (-_-)
You are forcing me to rethink my 'best pony' list.
(and move the orange one waaay up)
You are forcing me to rethink my 'best pony' list.
(and move the orange one waaay up)
This is not Applejack, its Apllejack on meth.
I think somebody needs to burn this piece of shit here.
Where are the decriptions of power and things
interesting......i like it!
These are so well done :d
The world's strongest woman!
Aaaaaand this one's my favorite.
Ah, no wonder she reminded me of Nancy Callahan.
Sick !
O.O This is EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously this is pure epicness!
its so....magical
This is great!
she is very funny, but i think she looks like Nancy Callahan (Cin City)
AJ is best super hero
Ahh! She's so gorgeous. <3 I love the way her hair looks!
Can I just have an ounce of your skills?
just - wow <3
just - wow <3
This is fantastic like all the others. And might I say, I would die of joy if you humanized Big Macintosh!
Cool one
APPLEJACK IS BEST SUPER HEROINE! *waves the Applejack flag* I'd totally like to see Sidekick!Big Macintosh. (weakness: stuffed animals)
A western Wonder Woman. Neat.
Oh gosh do The Flim Flam Brothers.
my favorite, nice
First Applejack pic I've ever fav'd. Ever.
Seriously this is awesome. Thank you.
Seriously this is awesome. Thank you.
Very cute, and very dramatic. I love that her sidekick is Big Mac xD Big Mac is favorite pony! I named my laptop after him (cuz it's a Mac...), it's got a name tag and everything. Are you gonna draw him too? Huh, huh, are ya? Pweeeease!!
She looks amazing, I love the hair and the cute freckles.
"sidekick: Big Macintosh" lol that made me smile.
"sidekick: Big Macintosh" lol that made me smile.
This is the best thing ever!
Beautifully drawn and designed. Her face is so lovely.
She is cute though, but MAN is she tall.
just amazing
Wow!!!!! you've done an absolutely epic job here ^^ <3
Had a quick browse through your gallery and even though i like the rest of what i see, this is still my fave by far so you get a fave for this and a watch for being awesome.
Had a quick browse through your gallery and even though i like the rest of what i see, this is still my fave by far so you get a fave for this and a watch for being awesome.
I have to watch you now.
I have to watch you now.