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Lawrence sales tax collections still up for 2015, but beginning to slump to close out the year
Lawrence sales tax collections are a bit like the Kansas City Royals these days: They're still in good shape, but concern is starting to grow that I shouldn't have ordered 150 pounds of bean dip for the World Series party. In other words, both are in a bit of a slump.
The latest report from the Kansas Department of Revenue shows that Lawrence's sales tax collections for the year are still 4.2 percent above last year's collections at this point in time. But the report shows that most of that growth came early in the year, and now sales tax collections are coming in slightly behind last year's total. For the August reporting period, the city's sales tax collections were down 1 percent.
A slight drop in sales tax revenue for a single month isn't that concerning. But what is more noteworthy is that city officials are continuing to express some concern that the 2015 sales tax total may fall short of budget. The city staff had been projecting that sales tax revenues would grow by 5 percent over 2014 totals. Staff members are now not confident such growth will occur.
"Our 5 percent revised budget doesn't appear as conservative as we once thought," staff of the city's finance department wrote in a memo to the city manager's office. "Staff will continue to monitor sales and recommend adjustments to the budget if it appears projections through 2015 continue to drop below the the 5 percent revised budget amount for the year."
As we previously have reported, the city may find itself making some spending adjustments in 2015, in part because it wants to enter 2016 with a certain amount of cash reserves. If sales tax grows less than expected in 2015, that means sales tax collection in 2016 will have to grow more than expected in order to meet their budgeted amount.
We'll see how the rest of the year goes. This most recent report was for the August period, but because of a lag in the sales tax reporting process, the report reflects purchases that were made in the mid-May to mid-June time period. Lawrence traditionally sees a spike in sales tax collections when students and their families prepare to return back to school. When the state issues its next couple of reports, we'll know how big of a bump the city got this year from back-to-school activity.
As for how Lawrence compares to other large retail communities, it is a bit of a mixed bag. The latest report shows that Lawrence is lagging while several other communities are picking up steam. Of the eight major retail markets we track, only Sedgwick County posted a decline of more than 1 percent (down 1.7 percent) for the August period. Johnson County, on the other hand, posted a 1.4 percent gain in August, and Topeka was up 0.5 percent. Manhattan was up 1.1 percent and Salina up 1.9 percent.
But when you look at the year-to-date numbers, Lawrence is still doing well, thanks in part to a very hot start at the beginning of the year. Here's a look at how Lawrence's year-to-date growth rate of 4.2 percent stacks up to several of the other large retail centers in the state:
— Johnson County: up 1.3 percent
— Kansas City: up 3.9 percent
— Lenexa: up 4.1 percent
— Manhattan: up 2.4 percent
— Overland Park: down 1.9 percent
— Salina: up 3 percent
— Sedgwick County: up 1.7 percent
— Topeka: up 0.8 percent
On that list, Lawrence is still having the best year of any of the other retail areas.
So, maybe the bean dip order will be all right after all. But I've become convinced that I definitely should not have practiced the championship celebration in the living room — at least not with Gatorade that didn't match the carpet.
Lawrence's sales tax collections growing at fastest rate in the state; a final payment on Rock Chalk Park recreation center
Maybe Lawrence shoppers have crystal balls. Here we are in June, and the latest signs out of Topeka are pointing to a sales tax increase. So, what did Lawrence shoppers do in May? They bought, bought and bought some more. So much so that Lawrence, at the moment, is the fastest growing major retail market in the state.
Based on the latest sales tax figures, Lawrence shoppers don't just have crystal balls in their closets, but likely mountains of new shoes, clothes and three-quarters of the inventory of the QVC shopping network. Sales tax collections in Lawrence rose by a whopping 11.4 percent last month.
The latest figures from the Kansas Department of Revenue are for the May reporting period, which generally covers sales that were made from mid-April to mid-May. The 11 percent increase in taxable retail sales is one of the larger monthly increases I can remember for Lawrence. What's behind the increase is tough to say. Certainly there is some increased visitor spending generated by tournaments and other such events at Rock Chalk Park. But that's not likely to account for all of the increase. When you do the math on the May numbers, Lawrence consumers spent about $14 million more last month than they did for the May period of 2014.
Monthly sales tax totals can be erratic. The year-to-date numbers generally are more meaningful. Lawrence is excelling in that area too. Through the May reporting period, Lawrence's sales tax collections have grown 6.9 percent. That's a higher growth rate than any of the other major retail markets in the state. Here's a look:
— Johnson County: up 2 percent
— Kansas City: up 5.2 percent
— Lenexa: up 6.2 percent
— Manhattan: up 4.4 percent
— Overland Park: down 2.9 percent
— Salina: up 5.4 percent
— Sedgwick County: up 3.8 percent
— Topeka: up 2.1 percent
If this trend continues for Lawrence, it could make for a bit easier budget process at City Hall this summer. When city officials were putting together the 2015 budget last summer, they budgeted for about a 3 percent increase in sales tax collections. If the increase instead comes in closer to 7 percent, that would provide a bit of a windfall. Based on rough numbers in the city's budget, the city is on pace to receive about $1.25 million more than what it had budgeted to receive in sales tax dollars.
But, that is dependent upon the city maintaining its current pace. For that to happen, City Hall leaders had better hope Lawrence consumers still have some closet space left.
In other news and notes from around town:
• Tuesday's City Commission meeting may produce an uncomfortable vote. Commissioners are scheduled to to make the final $50,000 payment due to Gene Fritzel Construction for the construction of the recreation center at Rock Chalk Park.
As is fairly common with large projects, the city withheld payment on a portion of the $10.5 million construction contract for the recreation center to ensure that all miscellaneous "punch list" items were taken care of before the contractor received its final payment.
City officials say those punch list items are now completed. I'm not exactly sure what those items consisted of for Sports Pavilion Lawrence, but I'll check. In other projects it has involved everything from touch-up paint to readjusting how doors fit to other issues that you don't typically notice until you have used the building for a bit.
As we previously have reported, the building has had some issues related to some concrete cracking and water leakage. The city, the builder and the architects have been working on those issues. This final payment doesn't preclude continued work, if other such issues develop. City officials note the entire building is under warranty until Sept. 1.
The vote may be an interesting one, however, because there is only one commissioner left on the City Commission that actually voted for the Rock Chalk Park project. That's Mayor Jeremy Farmer. Commissioner Mike Amyx is the only other member who was on the commission during the time the project was being approved, but he consistently voted against the project. The other three commissioners all took office in April, and all of them expressed significant concerns about how the process that was used to approve the project.
But it is worth remembering a couple of points. First, the recreation center portion of the Rock Chalk Park Project did go through the city's standard bidding process. The $10.5 million bid from Gene Fritzel Construction was the low bid in what was a very competitive bid letting. It was the approximately $12 million worth of infrastructure work at Rock Chalk Park that didn't go through the city's bidding process. Second, the city signed a contract saying the city would pay the company $10.5 million for the construction of the building, as long as certain conditions are met. City staff members are saying those conditions have been met. You can go back and argue about the process surrounding the Rock Chalk Park project, but failing to pay an executed contract likely will land the city in a different type of a process: a legal one that involves attorneys who bill by the hour.
Given all that, I would expect the commission will find the necessary votes to make the final payment.
Lawrence's retail sales growth near the top in the state; update on Dale Willey expansion on South Iowa; city commissioners seek more info on solar power
Whether it be new events held in town or just a new outlook on life, Lawrence shoppers continue to spend more these days, according to the state's latest report.
According to the Kansas Department of Revenue, taxable sales in Lawrence were up 6.4 percent for the April reporting period. That period generally covers sales made from about mid-March to mid-April.
For the year, sales tax collections are up 5.8 percent compared with the same period a year ago. That puts the Lawrence market near the top of the list when it comes to growth totals for major retail areas in the state. Here's a look at several other large markets:
— Johnson County: up 2.9 percent
— Kansas City: up 5 percent
— Lenexa: up 7.5 percent
— Manhattan: up 3.8 percent
— Overland Park: down 0.1 percent
— Salina: up 4. 4 percent
— Sedgwick County: up 2.7 percent
— Topeka: up 1.7 percent
Retail sales have been on a hot streak in Lawrence lately. In 2014, retail sales grew by 4.1 percent. It is still early, but if Lawrence stays on its current pace, 2015 will be the fourth time in the last five years that the city has posted retail sales growth above 4 percent. I would think chances are good that Lawrence will see strong retail sales growth throughout 2015. Menards is set to open at some point this year (I'm still guessing late summer), and that will be one of the largest new retail stores built in the city in recent years. Plus, 2015 is the first full year for tournaments and other events being held at Rock Chalk Park.
The city expects to host more than 30 tournaments or camps at Sports Pavilion Lawrence in 2015. It is tough to estimate how much new retail spending those events are creating, but they're certainly adding some. I've heard talk that city officials have been seeking some information from tournament organizers about how many of their families are spending the night in Lawrence and other information such as how often they eat out while attending a tournament. I'll do some looking to see if any of that information has been compiled yet. I've also heard talk at City Hall that more efforts are on the way — through signs or other means — to make sure tournament participants known they have plenty of time to get downtown or elsewhere in the community while they are at these daylong tournaments.
In other news and notes from around town:
• Some of you may be wondering about more changes you are seeing on South Iowa Street. Demolition work has begun at the car wash between Dale Willey Automotive and the now defunct Payless Furniture building.
As we previously have reported, Dale Willey Automotive is going to use the property to expand its dealership. I've recently confirmed with Dale Willey officials, however, that they've decided to keep the two automatic car wash bays that are located at the site. They'll continue to be open to the public after the dealership takes over the property.
The dealership also has bought the Payless Furniture building. Expect renovations to begin on that site in a matter of days. The building will become a showroom and offices for the dealership's used car headquarters. Yes, the change in ownership will mean an end to the bright red and blue paint job on the building. Managers at Dale Willey said the exterior of the building will be remodeled to closely resemble Dale Willey's main showroom just down the street.
The big open space where the car wash currently sits will be used to store more cars. General Manager Jeff Hornbeck told me the new space will allow the dealership to stock both more new and used cars. Hornbeck is hopeful renovation work will be completed by July 1, but certainly by the time students start arriving again in early August.
By the way, when it comes to the strong growth in sales tax receipts, don't forget the local car dealers. If I had to bet on the one factor that is the strongest contributor to sales tax growth in the last year or two, it would be increased car sales. Car dealers have pointed to a lot of numbers that show the average age of vehicles on the road are the highest they have been in decades. Combine that with the fact most of the Lawrence car dealers have undertaken major renovations to become more attractive, and you have to figure auto sales in Lawrence have been on the rise.
• Someday, the sun will shine again, and when it does there may be a larger discussion at City Hall about whether solar panels on city buildings make sense. City Commissioner Leslie Soden made a point at Tuesday's meeting to question city staff about whether any city buildings use solar panels today. She did so after noticing that the city's payment to Westar Energy was about $270,000.
The city has a pilot project, funded by Westar, that has placed solar panels at the Prairie Park Nature Center. But other than that, the city doesn't have any of its other buildings using solar panels.
The city, however, has been looking at whether some of its street lighting projects could be powered via solar. City engineers have considered using solar powered street lamps for a lighting project along 23rd Street. They did so after Lawrence school board member Kristie Adair came to a meeting and suggested the city was missing an opportunity to use solar powered lights.
The city last week got bids back for that project. The city hasn't yet brought those bid totals to city commissioners for consideration, but public works director Chuck Soules told commissioners on Tuesday the solar option didn't look too promising.
"That didn't come back too well," Soules said. "The lighting isn't as powerful as we want for street lights, and the costs are significant."
Soden said she would like staff members to look at whether there are opportunities to add solar panels to existing city buildings.
As for the street light project, it proposes to add new LED street lights to the north side of 23rd Street, roughly from Iowa Street to Alabama Street. If the project proceeds, work likely would begin in July, and some temporary lane closures would occur on 23rd Street while the work is underway.
Retail sales in Lawrence hit new high; Biggs opens downtown location; Burger Fi expected to open in matter of days
Maybe it was the gross of red, white and blue streamers that I bought, or perhaps the case of burn ointment that I ordered, or maybe even the significant amount of foundation work I had to perform after my buddy lit a firecracker that looked and sounded a lot like a half-stick of dynamite. Whatever the case, a new report shows retail sales in Lawrence reached an all-time high for the period surrounding the July 4 holiday.
The latest numbers show that consumer spending in Lawrence for the period of mid-June to mid-July grew by a whopping 7 percent from the same period a year ago. With 8 of the 12 reporting periods for 2014 now in the books, consumer spending in Lawrence is up 4 percent for the year, compared with the same period in 2013. Simply put, Lawrence consumers have been as protective of their money this year as the Detroit Tigers bullpen has been of a late-inning lead. (I know, that was weak. But I'm a Kansas City Royals fan, and the idea of making jokes about other baseball teams is still a new concept.)
Consumer spending in Lawrence has increased eight of the last nine reporting periods. The one period it declined was last month's reporting period, so this news of strong spending should ease some concerns that perhaps retail spending was beginning to cool. In fact, here's an interesting piece of trivia for you: Taxable sales in Lawrence totaled just over $130 million during the mid-June to mid-July reporting period. Based on the records I have from the city, that appears to be the highest total for any month of any year in the city's history. Now, none of that is adjusted for inflation, so I'm sure there have been some better months once you make that adjustment, but still it is a neat little barstool conversation-starter. (Assuming you are in a bar full of economists, auditors and accountants, which likely would be named Liquid Assets, or perhaps the Denominator, if you wander into a tough-guy mathematician bar.)
But speaking of inflation, the numbers in 2014 are strong even when you factor inflation into the equation. Thus far in 2014, consumer spending in Lawrence is at $958 million. That's up by $147 million from the same period in 2010, which was when the economy was at a real low point. If you adjust those numbers for inflation, they still show that consumer spending has grown by about 8 percent during the time period. That's about 2 percent per year, after inflation, which may not sound like a lot, but actually is pretty good compared with some past periods. For 2004 to 2008, for example, consumer spending in Lawrence actually declined slightly when adjusted for inflation. Going back further, the go-go years of 1996 to 2000 saw consumer spending in Lawrence increase by a little more than 12 percent after inflation, or a bit more than 3 percent a year.
As for the here and now, Lawrence's 2014 performance is stacking up well against other retail markets in Kansas. I look at 16 different communities in the state, and Lawrence's 2014 growth rate currently is the fifth highest. Here's the list:
• Dodge City: down 0.7 percent
• Emporia: up 4.8 percent
• Garden City: up 5.2 percent
• Hays: down 15.9 percent
• Hutchinson: up 2.3 percent
• Junction City: down 0.2 percent
• Kansas City: up 3.4 percent
• Leawood: up 1.2 percent
• Lenexa: up 4.6 percent
• Manhattan: up 1.5 percent
• Ottawa: up 3.5 percent
• Overland Park: up 3.8 percent
• City of Shawnee: 5.3 percent
• Salina: up 3 percent
• Topeka: up 1.2 percent
• Sedgwick County: up 3.6 percent
In other news and notes from around town:
• Downtown Lawrence is back in the barbecue business. As we reported in June, Lawrence's Biggs BBQ signed a deal to open up Biggs on Mass in the former Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse location at 719 Massachusetts St. The restaurant opened on Monday.
The menu focuses on barbecue, with both full barbecue meals or simple sandwiches available. It doesn't carry the chicken fried steak and other such meals that the large Biggs BBQ restaurant on South Iowa Street carries. The restaurant also is a quick service type of establishment, where you place your order at a counter and someone brings it out to you in just a couple of minutes.
The restaurant has remodeled the Buffalo Bob's space and replaced much of the western decor with old photographs of Lawrence and Jayhawk sports teams. The remodeling job also includes an element that should please economists, auditors and mathematicians. There is a flat-screen television in all 18 of the booths in the restaurant. So, now you don't have to miss out on C-SPAN, CNBC or PBS. Actually, I don't think that is quite the concept. Doug Holiday, owner of Biggs, told me that while the restaurant isn't trying to be a traditional sports bar, it definitely wants to have plenty of televisions for sports fans who want to come in for dinner.
"I learned early on at my days at the Hereford House that you really need to have televisions in Lawrence," Holiday said, referring to his time as the general manager for the Lawrence steak house. "People in Lawrence really like their sports."
• In other restaurant news downtown, look for Burger Fi to be open in the coming days. The restaurant at 918 Massachusetts St. — the former Chutney's location — has scheduled a ribbon cutting for Oct. 1. As we reported in March, the hamburger chain is excited to move into the Lawrence market. It had hoped to open in midspring. The restaurant makes all of its hamburgers from free-range, hormone-free, never frozen Angus beef. It also carries a line of ice cream and desserts that are made with sugar cane instead of the more common high frutose corn syrup. When I chatted with the franchise owner in March, he said the company also had signed a marketing deal with the Sporting KC soccer club, which means the restaurant plans to have some team events at the Lawrence location. I've got a call into the Burger Fi folks to get the latest update on their current plans.
• I'm also keeping an eye out on the Buffalo Wild Wings location. As we have reported several times, the construction work underway at the northeast corner of 27th and Iowa streets is for a multitenant building that will house Buffalo Wild Wings. I previously have not gotten Buffalo Wild Wings to confirm that it will close its downtown restaurant when the new location opens, but I haven't checked in on that front for awhile. That certainly is the expectation, though, in the restaurant and real estate circles around town.
Retail sales grow for sixth consecutive month in Lawrence; KU launches 25th startup company; city receives another incentive request
March Madness. You all remember those days in Lawrence. We were all mad. Stupid doctors who can't fix Joel Embiid's back. Stupid Stanford mascot. Stupid television screen that can't withstand a platter of 23 pounds of bean dip being thrown at it.
Well, evidently we weren't so mad that it stopped us from shopping. In fact, perhaps nothing in 2014 will stop us from spending our dollars in Lawrence. The latest sales tax report from City Hall shows that spending for the period from mid-March to mid-April was up nearly 4 percent compared with the same period a year ago. The bigger news is that this is the sixth consecutive report that has shown an increase in spending by Lawrence consumers.
For the year, sales tax collections are up 3.8 percent. That's a welcome sight to those who watch the Lawrence economy. The 3.8 percent growth rate is better than the 2.1 percent growth rate posted in 2013. Retail sales activity in 2013 began to show some signs of slowing, but the 2014 numbers should be easing those concerns.
Even though state revenue figures have been less-than-stellar lately, the sales tax numbers show a retail rebound is underway in several of the state's larger communities. Lawrence's 3.8 percent growth rate is just middle-of-the-pack compared with several other communities. Here's a look at the growth rates in other major shopping areas in Kansas:
• Emporia: 5.1 percent
• Garden City: 5.7 percent
• Hays: down 23.4 percent
• Hutchinson: 2.4 percent
• Junction City: down 0.3 percent
• Kansas City: 4.2 percent
• Leawood: down 1 percent
• Lenexa: 5.1 percent
• Manhattan: 0.8 percent
• Ottawa: 6.3 percent
• Overland Park: 5.5 percent
• Salina: 2.1 percent
• City of Shawnee: 3.9 percent
• Topeka: 1.5 percent
• Sedgwick County: 3.1 percent
So, the numbers are good, but it is important to keep them in perspective. Two other closely watched sets of numbers haven't gotten off to as strong of a start in 2014: home sales and local building permits. We'll have an update on the latest numbers from those sectors in the coming days.
In other news and notes from around town:
• Here is another Lawrence number to take note of: 25. Kansas University has recently announced that its 25th startup company has been formed. This one is all about protein. Yes, I have a platter of bean dip that would seem to make me an expert on protein. (Well, I have pieces of the platter.) Regardless, that's not really the type of protein we're talking about.
KanPro Research is a company that produces laboratory proteins that are used by other research companies. KU biochemist Philip Gao is the founder of the company. The firm currently has two employees and is located in the Bioscience & Technology Business Center on KU's West Campus. Gao said he believes the company could grow to 10 employees by 2017.
The company expects to sell its proteins — it specializes in hard-to-produce proteins — to other universities and to the private sector. In particular, Gao expects the large and growing animal health sciences industry that is centered on the Kansas City area to be a major source of industrial companies.
Currently, the company is producing smaller, laboratory-scale batches of proteins, but Gao said he thinks there's potential to grow into a larger regional facility that would produce large batches for manufacturing purposes.
"Our goals are long-term," Gao said. "We want to create a lasting company in Lawrence with a focus on serving regional scientists and benefiting the biotech community."
• Yesterday we told you about a financial incentives request city commissioners have received for a $75 million apartment project. Commissioners also have received another request for a smaller scale project.
As expected, local architect Stan Hernly is requesting a partial property tax rebate and fee waivers to facilitate the rehabilitation of an old home and barn at 1106 Rhode Island St.
In case you have forgotten, 1106 Rhode Island St. is the property the city bought through the eminent domain process earlier this year. The house and barn are historic structures that had fallen into disrepair under previous ownership. The city's plan was to purchase the property and then make it available for redevelopment by the private sector.
Hernly's group has proposed renovating the structures to accommodate residential and office uses. But Hernly sad the numbers clearly show that project isn't feasible without financial incentives. Hernly is asking for the city to waive about $26,000 in development fees, such as building permit fees and utility connection fees.
As for tax incentives, Hernly is asking for a property tax rebate through the Neighborhood Revitalization Act. The project is seeking an 85 percent abatement on new property taxes generated by the project for a 10-year period.
City staff members are recommending that the request be forwarded to the Public Incentives Review Committee for study and recommendation.
Retail sales in the city up 3 percent for the year; SLT opponents organizing "occupation" event at the wetlands
There must have been a lot of families with back-to-school shopping lists this season much like mine: pencils, erasers, notebooks, diamond earrings. (What's that? I was told it is a necessity that mothers looks stylish at PTO meetings.)
Regardless, the latest sales tax report from Lawrence City Hall shows that something caused a spike in sales during that back-to-school season. The city's September sales tax report — which actually includes sales data from the mid-July to mid-August time period — shows taxable sales in the city were up a whopping 17 percent from September 2012.
I never make too much of one month's worth of data because statistical anomalies can pop up, but the bigger picture also is looking more positive than it did for the city just a few months ago. With nine months of sales tax checks in the bank, retail sales in the city are up 3 percent from the same period a year ago.
Bottomline: Retail sales are growing at a decent clip in Lawrence, but not nearly as fast as they did in 2012. At this time last year, retail sales were up 6 percent. But I can tell you that City Hall officials who rely on sales tax collections for a big part of their budgets are breathing a little easier now. At the midway point of 2013, retail sales were up just 1.7 percent for the year, and it was uncertain whether the city's sales tax collection would meet budget for the year.
It appears more likely that the city will make its budget at this point. With just three more checks to collect in 2013, collections in the city's largest sales tax fund are about 1 percent over budget projections. So, the fourth quarter still will be key, but City Hall budget-makers feel better about their chances than they did a few months ago.
As for how Lawrence stacks up with other cities, it is a mixed bag. The data indicates Lawrence's retail sales growth may be a little bit behind the statewide average. For all jurisdictions that collect a local sales tax, the average growth rate thus far for 2013 has been 3.7 percent compared to 3.0 percent for Lawrence. Here's a look at how some of the larger retail markets in the state have fared year-to-date:
• Emporia: up 3.6 percent
• Hays: down 8.3 percent
• Kansas City: up 5.7 percent
• Manhattan: down 0.1 percent
• Olathe: up 4.5 percent
• Overland Park: up 3.2 percent
• Salina: up 2.9 percent
• Shawnee: up 5.1 percent
• Topeka: up 1.7 percent
Here's a look at some of the smaller markets around Lawrence. The sales totals in these communities are much smaller, so wilder swings are possible. But with nine months in the books, most are having a strong year:
• Baldwin City: up 1.4 percent
• Basehor: up 16 percent
• Eudora: up 14.2 percent
• Ottawa: up 6.9 percent
• Tonganoxie: up 10.0 percent
And finally, here's a look at how Lawrence's retail sales totals year-to-date compare to the same period in past years, and how they have been growing once adjusted for inflation. The number in parenthesis is the inflation-adjusted total for the year:
2013: $1.03 billion 2012: $1.00 billion ($1.02B) 2011: $947.9 million ($985.5M) 2010: $916.5 million ($983.0M) 2009: $930.7 million ($1.01B) 2008: $966.2 million ($1.04B)
So, once adjusted for inflation, Lawrence's retail sales are up about 1 percent for the year, and we're still lagging behind where we were before the economic downturn that hit in late 2008. But don't worry, we'll catch up. I think there is another PTO meeting coming up.
In other news and notes from around town:
• From PTO to WPO — the Wetlands Preservation Organization. As I've been telling you, get ready for some protests out at the Baker Wetlands as roadwork on the South Lawrence Trafficway likely will begin in the wetlands next month. Well, the WPO — which includes a lot of students from Haskell Indian Nations University — is beginning to show its hand in that regard. The organization's Facebook page is advertising an "Occupy the Wakarusa Wetlands" event on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26. According to a flier on the site, the group is encouraging people to camp at the wetlands and "help us protest this atrocity." The website also says the group is trying to "organize resistance and awareness in any way possible," and it even makes reference to the large protests that have gripped the Arab world. "There is an Indian Summer coming this fall," an organizer wrote on the page. "It looks a lot like an Arab Spring."
It will be interesting to watch the changing of the seasons at the wetlands in the coming weeks.
• In the category of notable commercial sales: It looks like one of Lawrence's more renowned music venues has taken a step to secure its future in downtown Lawrence. According to a filing at the Douglas County Register of Deeds, a company led by Brett Mosiman, owner of The Bottleneck, has purchased the building at 737 New Hampshire, which houses the The Bottleneck. The building was owned by a trust in the name of longtime Lawrence attorney Lance Burr.
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Kellie Pickler recently returned to the United States after brightening up the holidays for U.S. soldiers overseas as part of the annual USO holiday tour. It marked Kellie's sixth overseas tour to perform for the troops.
Kellie joined fellow celebrities from the sports and entertainment world as they visited hospitals and installations in Afghanistan, Germany and other locations. She always looks forward to spending part of her holidays with the men and women of the Armed Forces, who cannot be home to celebrate the season.
"During the holidays, everyone wants to be home with their families and loved ones," Kellie said in a release about her travels. "And I know it's just as hard for [your] families back home, so they're making a sacrifice as well. I just want to say thanks so much for all that you do, and thank you to your families as they make a huge sacrifice. This time of year is really hard so I hope that you know that we love you."
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The Devils Lake Firebird football team is having their annual Lift-A-Thon Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Devils lake Sports Center. The proceeds from the Lift-A-Thon are used for football equipment for the Firebird football team.
The Lift-A-Thon has been going on for the past 12 years in is for grades 9-12. DLHS football players will be split into groups of three. At this point, the bidder will put a value for the group of three will lift per pound by bid.
If each athlete presses 100 pounds for a total of 300 pounds and you bid 10 cents per pound, $30 is raised. The good part for the bidder is that you get to have the group of three as laborers for two to three hours per athlete for whatever you need them for.
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So first, you must download this file here. It should be 950.exe. As usual for me, this is a self-extracting archive, once downloaded, click on it and select 'install'. It will then extract the file and directory needed for the rest of this guide.
I am still playing around with the profiles settings in setcpu and will add more to this guide if I find there is any benefit from using them, and any recommended settings. . .
Now, as I mentioned at the beginning, the creator of this kernel does NOT reccomend using this with a sholes.info ROM. However, I did use one of his (earlier) overcclock kernels over my sholes.info v4 (pre RC1) ROM. I used a different (harder) method, so don't know if that had anything to do with it, but it did break the regular WiFi on my phone. I did get it fixed (it took a couple of tries) and will post the method below, however I used the same (harder) method to do this 950 one and WiFi stayed fixed. I then used SPR to create this file here to make the easy way to do this.
OK, if this breaks your WiFi download this file here, tiwlan_drv.ko. Now plug your phone into your pc and mount your sdcard. Copy the tiwlan_drv.ko file to the root of your sdcard and un-mount your sd card. Now you can either use adb shell or a terminal emulator on your phone for the rest of the commands, so here they are:
Give it a little while after your phone reboots and if your WiFi is still not working, then you could try using the commands above while your phone is in recovery mode, but then you HAVE to use the adb shell to do them. To do that, plug your phone into your computer, and after navigating to the /tools folder for your andoir sdk on your computer enter these additional commands:
Then enter all the commands above starting at number 2, because your phone is already at the root prompt and entering 'su' will just give you an error. Like I said, I had to play around a bit to get my WiFi working up to and including starting all over, that is why I INSIST you make a backup way back up there.
Finally, and I should put this stuff at the beginning, but I didn't come up with this, all credit goes to tasmanian_droid from alldroid.org, the other guy who writes setcpu, rainabba from alldroid.org gave me the idea how to create the nandroid file so you could do this from the phone and save a few dozen complicated -nix commands typed into your phone or adb shell like I did to get the first part. All I do is put the files here on my server, and then write the guide so all the info is in one writing instead of so scattered.
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This was the quick update. All of the above commands were copied directly from AdamZ post over @ alldroid.org. I used these files and commands on my SholesMOD 2.0.5 ROM and got the setcpu settings I wanted, no problems.
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Confirmation of agreement for sale of Songhees Indian Reserve
1. The agreement for the sale of the Songhees Indian Reserve contained in the schedule to this Act is hereby confirmed and, notwithstanding anything in The Indian Act, the whole of the amount payable to each head of an Indian family under the terms of the said agreement may be paid in the manner therein provided.
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made (in duplicate) between The Government of the Dominion of Canada, represented by the Honourable Frank Oliver, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs of Canada: and The Government of the Province of British Columbia, represented by the Honourable William Roderick Ross, Minister of Lands for the Province of British Columbia:
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Together with all mines royal and all mines and minerals and all rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever to the said hereditaments belonging, and all the estate, right, title and property whatsoever of the said Vendor in, to, and out of the said premises.
(4) Remove the dead, together with all monuments and tombstones from the said Songhees reserve in the city of Victoria to the new reserve at Esquimalt, and there re-inter and replace them in a manner satisfactory to the Superintendent General, the whole at the cost of the Government of British Columbia.
In witness whereof the parties have hereunto affixed and set their hands and seals of office this 31st day of March, A.D., One thousand nine hundred and eleven.
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2010 Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (2009)
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Minimum Timing Jitter in Timing Recovery Based on Pre-filtered Square-Law Timing Detection (Abstract)
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Self Fault-Managed and High Available P2P Architecture for Next Generation Network Management Systems (Abstract)
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Evaluating the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (Abstract)
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Goldie pieced quilts for most of her life. She recalled stitching her first quilt blocks as a child of only three, then as she matured, her quilts became more precise and creative. Goldie related that she made about 14 quilts per year which she sold in the trading post. Quilt blocks were priced at fifteen cents each. Most of Goldie's quilts, with her amazing original designs, were sold to tourists and business people who traveled the highway between Tucson and Ajo. Goldie might have only learned that a quilt buyer was a teacher from California, or a collector from New York. As a result, the whereabouts of many Goldie's quilts are unknown.
Goldie did leave vague descriptions of several of her lost appliqué quilts:
Because Goldie's quilts were so dramatic and unique-most won blue ribbons at the Arizona State Fair-it is likely that they were cared for and treasured by their new owners. These would not be quilts used as everyday bedcovers or picnic spreads! It is hoped that as more people learn of Goldie's amazing life and her remarkable stitching talents, more of her quilts will be located and documented.
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Boeing to Lead Fuel-Cell-Powered Airplane Demonstration
The Boeing Company announced in July that its research and technology center in Madrid, Spain, would lead a project to explore the use of fuel cells for commercial airplanes. As part of the project, which involves five partner companies, the companies will develop, build, and fly an electric-motor-driven airplane powered by fuel cells. See the Boeing press release.
The other U.S. partner in the project, Advanced Technology Products (ATP), has already developed an electric plane that runs on the power of lithium batteries, provided by Lithium Technology Corporation, and using a motor and controller from UQM Technologies, Inc. The plane is a retrofit of an American Ghana Aircraft model that features a carbon- fiber fuselage. ATP hopes to eventually outfit the plane with a fuel cell, and is on its way toward that goal with a recent $400,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane was exhibited at the annual air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, last week. See the ATP Web site and the UQM Technologies press release.


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Answers to your questions about gardening, energy, homesteading and other sustainable living topics.
By Vicki Mattern
flowering plants, onions, garlic, Vicki Mattern
I noticed onion flowers and garlic flowers in my garden last summer. What caused this, and, in the future, should I remove the flowering stems or let them bloom?
Onions are biennial, which means they ordinarily produce bulbs in their first year of growth, then, if left in the garden, they flower and bear seed in their second year. George Boyhan, a vegetable specialist at the University of Georgia extension office, says springtime temperature swings — such as a warm spell followed by a cold snap — can sometimes cause onions to bloom. That's especially true if cold weather strikes an onion that is approaching maturity, a state usually indicated by seven true leaves. Younger plants with fewer leaves are less likely to bloom early.
What to do? Harvest any flowering onions and use the bulbs immediately, because they won't keep well. (You can put the pretty flowering stems in a vase with water.) Do not break off the flower stems or leave the bulbs in the ground for later harvest — the bulbs won't grow any larger, and the broken, hollow flower stems will channel rainwater directly to the bulbs, encouraging rot.
According to Boyhan, onions are regionally developed. To reduce the chance of onion flowers blooming (or "bolting") too soon, check with your extension service for recommended varieties. Bulb formation is triggered by the amount of daylight, so be sure you are planting the right "day length" type for your area — "long day" onion varieties in northerly latitudes, and "short day" onion varieties in southerly latitudes. Smaller onion sets (less than the size of a dime in diameter) are less likely to bolt than larger sets. (MOTHER EARTH NEWS' comprehensive, step-by-step guide to growing onions is available at All About Growing Onions.)
Hardneck garlic produces long, curled stems, called "scapes," in early to midsummer, following a fall planting. Snip off the scapes as soon as they appear, but don't harvest the garlic bulbs yet. Unlike onions, the flowering garlic bulbs will continue to grow after the scapes have been removed, putting all of their energy into making the bulb. A tasty bonus: You can use scapes from flowering garlic — which have a pleasantly mild garlicky flavor — in soups, salads, stir-fries or pestos. Harvest garlic bulbs when the lower five leaves of the plant have turned brown.
Above: Springtime temperature swings can cause onions to bloom early. Harvest the flowering onions, as they won't keep well.
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The 2006 All-Standard Democrat Dream Team
K 6-1, 156, Sr. * This is Ressel's second selection to our team. With one of the most powerful legs in the area, Ressel connected on 30 extra points and five field goals to account for 45 points. He also consistently booted kicks into the end zone for touchbacks.
Trey Porter
RB 5-10, 190, Sr.
* The Green Wave's running threat went three deep and Porter was the leader with 1,331 yards and 16 touchdowns. Porter led Malden to an 8-2 record the program's most wins since 2001. He finished second in the area in rushing and scoring. Porter also had seven receptions for 118 yards and two receiving touchdowns.
Kendrickus Reed
RB 6-0, 205, Sr.
* Reed wrapped up his fabulous career with his best season yet as he rushed for 2,400 yards and was the area's leading scorer with 28 touchdowns. At 6-
foot, 205 pounds, Reed has all the necessary physical tools to play at the next level with speed, vision, balance and toughness. He is the heavy front-runner for the Carr Trophy this year.
M.C. Williams
RB 5-5, 165, So.
* At 5-5, 175 pounds, Williams was small in stature but put up big numbers for the Eagles. He became East Prairie's main threat on the ground in Week 2 and did not disappoint throughout the rest of the regular season. In nine games, Williams rushed 186 times for 1,198 yards and 10 touchdowns. His rushing yardage was good enough for third in the area. He also had four receptions for 53 yards and a touchdown.
Ryan Criglar
UTILITY 5-10, 170, Sr.
* Criglar was a dual threat on the field for the Green Wave either running or catching the football. He had 102 carries for 817 yards and nine rushing touchdowns. Criglar also had 10 receptions for 223 yards with a touchdown. He averaged over nine yards a touch on the year for Malden.
George Hamilton
WR 6-1, 172, So.
* An athletic receiver with good size, Hamilton was the Tigers' top threat through the air as he hauled in 32 passes for 566 yards and four touchdowns. He was picked as first team all-conference and all-region.
Josh Stevens
QB 6-0, 212, Sr.
* Stevens had a good season leading the Bearcats to an 8-2 record. He passed for 1,440 yards, completing 83-of-174 passes with 15 touchdowns and only four interceptions. Stevens also rushed for 213 yards on 97 carries with six rushing touchdowns.
Logan Swindle
WR 5-10, 175, Sr.
* If an acrobatic catch was made by an area receiver, you could be sure that Swindle had his hands in the mix. With 607 yards on 32 receptions and nine touchdowns, Swindle was a steady target for the Bearcat offense.
Tim Stonecipher
TE 6-2, 190, Sr.
* Stonecipher had a nice season for the Mules despite a new run-oriented offensive philosophy at Poplar Bluff. He led all area tight ends with 29 catches for 518 yards and scored four touchdowns. Stonecipher was also a solid blocker for a team that mainly ran the option all season long.
William Cooper
OL 6-6, 260, Jr. * This will mark the second time Cooper has made the team. Cooper was a wall at right tackle on a line that averaged 6-2, 265 pounds for a Class 1 school. The Indians had a good year losing out on a district championship in the last game to St. Vincent. Cooper is up for all-state honors.
Alex Watkins
OL 5-8, 190, Sr.
* Watkins had a motor that ran at full throttle for every game. Not blessed with overwhelming size, Watkins had excellent agility and great footwork to overpower many opponents. He was named the best lineman in the SEMO Central Conference and was a first team selection for both all-conference and all-region for Class 3.
Patrick Guest
OL 6-0, 225, Sr.
* Guest was a beast on both the offensive and defensive lines for the Eagles. Guest was an key component for a team that upset Dexter to capture the Class 3, District 1 title. Guest used excellent leverage and helped the Eagles gain over 2,300 yards on the ground. He was a first team Class 3 all-region selection. Guest also had a rushing touchdown for two yards.
Ben Wood
OL 6-4, 280, Sr.
* Despite a late injury, Wood was dominant along the offensive line for the Indians. A rare combination of agility and size made Wood one of the best lineman in the area. Wood was explosive out of the blocks and was a first team selection for Class 4 and 5 all-region team.
L.T. Sutton
DL 5-11, 220, Sr.
* Sutton was a force along the defensive line for the Eagles. Sutton had 82 tackles with 15 sacks, 24 tackles for loss and forced six fumbles for a district championship team. Sutton made first team all-region for Class 3.
Ted Van Ausdall
DL 6-2, 280, Sr. * A 6-2, 280-pound behemoth, Van Ausdall was a force on the offensive and defensive lines for a talented Caruthersville team. He was named first team all-conference and first team all-region.
Salamar Cox
DL 6-2, 228, Sr.
* Cox was shifted to the defensive line for his senior season and he played as if that were his position all along. He recorded 50 tackles and four quarterback sacks to lead the Bulldog charge up front. He was first team all-
Jerod Scott
LB 5-11, 185, Sr.
* A three-year starter for the Bulldogs, Scott led the team in tackles with over 60 and he also had four quarterback sacks and an interception on defense. Scott was selected as first team all-conference.
Sedrick Hemphill
LB 5-10, 180, Jr.
* Although not the biggest linebacker around, Hemphill was certainly one of the best in the area. The all-region linebacker led the Eagles with 94 tackles, had 16 tackles for loss, recorded three sacks and had three interceptions.
Asa Wyatt
LB 5-10, 200, Sr.
* With over 90 tackles, Wyatt was the leader of the Mules defense at linebacker. In addition to his defensive skills, Wyatt was the quarterback for Poplar Bluff and put up equally impressive numbers through the air and on the ground. Wyatt was a all-region selection for Class 4 and 5.
David Hessling
LB 5-11, 170, Jr.
* Hessling was a first team all-region selection for Class 3 and was a linebacker that could roam sideline to sideline in making plays for the Bearcats. He led Dexter in tackles with over 85 and was a key contributor to a defense that allowed only eight points a contest.
Chad ventura
DB 5-8, 155, Sr.
* Ventura's outstanding speed allowed him to cover virtually any receiver in the area in man-to-man coverage if the Bearcats needed to do so. He recorded numerous interceptions and had the ability to break big returns as well.
Justin Clark
DB 6-3, 185, Sr.
* Clark was an all-state defensive back last year and this year, despite battling injuries early on, he was still one of the best corners in the region. He combined tremendous size and quickness that you don't see very often.
Blake Slattery
DB 6-3, 185, Sr.
* Slattery was mostly known for his ability behind center as the Tigers' quarterback. But people should also taken notice of his skills as a defensive back. Slattery had a nose for the ball and could lay a big hit on opposing receivers. Slattery was first team all-region and all-conference.
Rashad Fields
DB 6-2, 205, Jr.
* We feel Fields might be one of the best pure athletes in the area. The 6-2, 205-pounder has outstanding speed and is freakishly athletic for his size. He was quite a weapon on both sides of the ball for the Tigers. Rarely, when Fields was on patrol, did teams score on long plays because he had the ability to hawk them down. He was first team all-region and all-conference.
Rex Meyr
P 5-11, 185, Sr.
* All the best kickers and punters seem to come out of Jackson lately. Add Meyr to the list as he was named first team all-conference and all-region. He had excellent hang time on his punts and had the ability to get them off in time.
* It's the second straight year Pixley has been named our coach of the year. Last year it was because of his rebuilding process in leading the team from a 1-9 season to a 7-3 campaign. This year, he took it another step by winning a district championship.


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Hedge Fund Activists' Real Returns
The market likes hedge fund activism — a lot. On the date a hedge fund announces plans to take an activist shareholder stance in a firm, the stock of targeted firms jumps 6 to 7 percent above the day's average stock price gain. This enthusiasm suggests investors have high expectations of hedge fund intervention.
But critics claim those expectations are unwarranted. Targeted firms, they say, may pay more dividends in the short run but also take on more debt in lieu of shaking up underperforming firms or adding long-term value through real productivity gains. The critics argue that hedge funds make only quick cosmetic fixes and perform superficial financial engineering designed to produce only short-term gains.
Are hedge fund activist gains purely cosmetic, or do their interventions result in substantive long-term changes? Professor Wei Jiang, working with Alon Brav of Duke University and Hyunseob Kim of Cornell University, shows that improved performance in the wake of hedge fund intervention is a real phenomenon.
The researchers first looked at firm productivity, using the US Census' annual surveys of US factories that employ two or more people. The surveys record capital stock, labor hours, materials input, and output at each factory, which the researchers used to estimate productivity for both individual factories and averages. The surveys offer an assessment of productivity independent from stock market activity and any alleged attempt to make productivity gains appears through financial engineering.
Next, the researchers looked at approximately 650 instances between 1997 and 2004 in which hedge funds exerted an activist role over manufacturing firms, allowing the researchers to compare market performance with productivity surveys. They found that after a hedge fund takes an activist stance, productivity increases by 10 percent, on average.
How might this be happening? "One way to increase productivity is to sell off underperforming assets and concentrate on core competencies, " Jiang says. "We find that hedge funds not only improve the productivity of assets in place but that they push away underperforming assets — and, importantly, the assets' new owners increase productivity, too."
Just spinning off underperforming assets, while typically a good move, isn't enough to warrant the kind of market reaction described above. The researchers find that the new hedge funds owners are able to operate firms' remaining assets much more productively.
"Once we identified this channel we immediately asked, in what kinds of markets would this be best? " Jiang says. "Remember that while hedge funds are often not necessarily experts in a specific business — they plausibly don't have more inside knowledge than a CEO or senior executive at a firm, though they might have a more objective opinion about its condition — they do tend to manage portfolios that specialize in particular industries. So they could have a better understanding of the interplay between different players in that industry. "
Microsoft's Attempt to Acquire Yahoo!: A Case in Letters presents an example of how an activist hedge fund can have a real effect on a firm. I analyze how a hostile takeover can be difficult if the CEO of the target firm is unwilling to yield, even when the deal is favorable and has strong support from the majority of outside shareholders. In this case, Yahoo! rejected a lucrative deal from Microsoft, an offer that came with a heavy premium. After Microsoft's hostile takeover failed, two hedge fund activists, Carl Icahn and Third Point, came in and succeeded in ousting Yahoo's CEO. We are still waiting to see how the new CEO is performing, but overall I think people agree Yahoo! has had a favorable turnaround.
— Wei Jiang
The researchers find that hedge funds prompt the largest gains in performance in industries that are not highly concentrated rather than an industry with only a handful of players (such as soft drinks).
One noteworthy test the researchers conducted as part of this study examined when hedge funds shift their ownership stance from passive to active. When a fund (or any investor) accumulates 5 percent or more of ownership in a company and also intends to influence control of the firm, it must file a Schedule 13D form with the SEC. If the fund, despite its 5 percent holding, intends to remain a passive investor it can file a shorter form, the form 13G. The researchers find close to 300 cases between 1994 and 2007 where a hedge fund switched from a 13G to a 13D — that is, where funds didn't change ownership stakes but did shift from a passive to active stance. The real effect — the 10 percent increase in productivity — occurs only after the fund shifts its stance.
"Our research provides strong evidence that hedge funds are not simply picking firms that will improve in the future regardless of their actions, " Jiang says, "but that they are targeting companies whose performance they think the can improve through shareholder activism. "
Wei Jiang is professor of finance and economics, chair of the finance subdivision and a senior scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for International Business at Columbia Business School.
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang is Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise in the Finance and Economics Division, and the Vice Dean (for Curriculum and Instruction) at Columbia Business School. She is also a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the NBER—Law...
Read the Research
Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, Hyunseob Kim
"The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes"


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The jungles of Borneo are rapidly being replaced with palm oil plantations in a bid to keep up with burgeoning global demands for bio-fuel, causing the deaths and displacement of increasing numbers of orangutans.
With European laws demanding 2% of all diesel to be vegetable oil, rising to 5.7% in 2010 and 10% by 2020, the demand for palm oil will only increase. This has led the government of Borneo to implement a plan that will create 40,000 square miles of plantations by 2010, 70% of which will replace existing forests. The standard practice for plantation firms is to burn the forest and then buy up the degraded land for a pittance. Lone Nielsen, director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival center, estimates that for each of the 227 orangutans they rescued last year, five more were killed in central Borneo alone, most often by loss of habitat and plantation workers.


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Definition of establishment in English:
1 [mass noun] The action of establishing something or being established: the establishment of an independent government
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- Wahid proposed the establishment of an independent monitoring commission to work toward peace, but was ousted in July 2001.
- The Council recommended the establishment of an independent tribunal, plus further rights of appeal.
- Preventing the establishment of a state religion is quite clearly a permissible goal under Locke.
setting up, start, getting going, initiation, institution, formation, founding, foundation, inception, creation, inauguration, organization, building, construction, installation
2A business organization, public institution, or household: hotels or catering establishments
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- There are more than 1.1 million retail establishments across the country, an average of one every three square miles.
- Product mix and how a retail establishment looks play huge roles in attracting customers.
- It's very nice that your establishment requires their staff to dress up for Halloween.
business, place of business, premises, firm, company, concern, enterprise, venture, organization, operation, undertaking, industry;
factory, plant, house, shop, store, emporium, office, bureau, agency, franchise, practice, partnership, consortium, cooperative, corporation, conglomerate, group, combine, syndicate
informal outfit, set-up
institution, place, premises, foundation, institute
3 (usually the Establishment) A group in a society exercising power and influence over matters of policy, opinion, or taste, and seen as resisting change: he scandalized the Establishment of his day [as modifier]: she became an establishment figure
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- But the new British Establishment hates standards of any kind.
- It is high time someone kicked back at our new Establishment masters.
- Beginning in the 1950s, David was to claim a place among the postwar Establishment that ran America and much of the world.
the powers that be, the authorities, the system, the ruling class, the regime, bureaucracy, officialdom;
the status quo, the prevailing political/social order
informal Big Brother
archaic the regimen
3.1 [with adjective or noun modifier] An influential group within a specified profession or area of activity: rumblings of discontent among the medical establishment
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- Once, the family could count on its extensive connections within the Turkish political Establishment.
- This sort of history teaching has long been out of fashion among our post-modernist educational establishment.
- When did the medical establishment get behind this approach?
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a2 Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge; and Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK. E-mail: email@example.com
a3 Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: email@example.com
a4 Department of Economics, Purdue University, USA. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
a5 Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii, USA. E-mail: email@example.com
The June 2012 issue of Environment and Development Economics published a symposium with considerable focus on our paper, 'Sustainability and the measurement of wealth'. The Symposium also contained five articles in which other researchers offered valuable comments on our paper. The present note replies to those comments. It clarifies important issues and reveals how important questions relating to sustainability analysis can be fruitfully addressed within our framework. These include questions about the treatment of time, the use of shadow prices and the treatment of transnational externalities. This note also offers new theoretical results that help substantiate our earlier empirical finding that the value of human health is something very different from the value of the consumption permitted by health and survival.
(Received February 22 2013)
(Accepted March 01 2013)
(Online publication April 23 2013)