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I am a dreamer. I always have been. The one dream that has burned in my spirit for the longest time is to write — sharing God's love and my passion with others. God birthed this in my a very long time ago, but I have been so quick to give Him excuse after excuse as to why I cannot do it. After reading Holley Gerth's newest book, You're Made for a God Sized Dream, I will no longer make excuses. It's time for me to start accepting that God has given me a dream and it is totally O.K. for me to reach for that dream and achieve it.
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Hello, you . . . The one looking for more purpose and listening for God's plan. Here's what that restlessness is really all about: there's a God-sized dream knocking on the door of your heart. Before you think that sounds too big, let me assure you, God-sized dreams aren't really about size at all. They're about the desires God places within you that perfectly fit your heart. God-sized dreams are an essential part of who you're created to be and what you're called to do. They lead to more meaning, joy, and connection with the One who gave them to you. In the busyness of life, it's easy to ignore them or let fear shut them out. But this is your moment. Now is your time. The "more" your heart is longing for has been there all along. Let's open the door to all God has for you together.
With this life-changing message, Holley Gerth invites you to discover the dreams God has given you-and then dare to pursue them. She takes you by the heart and says, "Yes! You can do this!" and guides you forward with a loving hand. Along the way, she provides insightful questions and offers action plans that will help you take the next steps toward making the deepest desires of your heart a reality.
"Holley held my hand as I helped launch one of the biggest, scariest, most beautiful God-sized dreams I've ever been a part of. This book is the blueprint that helped me make it through."-Lisa-Jo Baker, social media manager for DaySpring, community manager for the website (in)courage, and visionary for the (in)RL conference
"I can't remember the last time I turned the pages of a book so eagerly. Holley's words have revolutionized my way of thinking with such a simple concept: that my dreams can't be bigger than God."-Tsh Oxenreider, author of Organized Simplicity, blogger behind SimpleMom.net, and creative director of SimpleLivingMedia.com
Holley Gerth is a bestselling writer, certified life coach, and speaker. She loves connecting with the hearts of women through her popular blog and books like You're Already Amazing. She's also cofounder of (in)courage and a partner with DaySpring. Holley lives with her husband, Mark, in the South. Hang out with her at www.holleygerth.com.
Ready for more? This book is the perfect companion to Holley's ebook The "Do What You Can" Plan.
Jen's Thoughts
Holley's book just really opened the excitement of the dream that God has given me. I find myself now craving to hear the keys of my computer click as I write out the story He has given me to share. Scared? Yes. Feeling inadequate? Totally — but thanks to Holley's words, I am going to do my best to seek out what God is wanting me to do and that is reach for the goal, trust Him, and just be obedient in the ministry and calling He has given me.
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Holley Gerth is a bestselling writer, certified life coach, and speaker. She loves connecting with the hearts of women through her popular blog and books like You're Already Amazing and You're Made for a God-Sized Dream. She's also cofounder of…
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We have lived in the same house in Whitefish Bay since I moved here form Michigan. I love living in a community in which I work, and being an active member of the community is very important to me. I have served on multiple school committees, including the WFB drug task force and am the PTO scholarship chair. In addition, I have been the health advisor and board member for a local preschool. I perform alumni interviews for high school seniors that are applying to my alma mater, Penn. Finally, I have done numerous interviews for the local TV stations in regards to breaking health news.
I diagnosed myself with celiac (an autoimmune disease again gluten) several years ago, an unfortunately my oldest son developed it. I also have multiple food allergies. Learning to live with food restrictions and having a child with it has been challenging, but also helps me to appreciate what parents of kids with food allergies are dealing with. i also have a special interest in promoting healthy diets and exercises, and trying to help those kids with obesity.
I fully admit to being a crazy soccer mom, as my kids and several of my patients will attest to! I enjoy watching football and hockey games (Packers, Lions, and the REd Wings- cant completely take the Detroit out of me!) The things I love to do in my free time include going to soccer games and other kids activities, taking the dogs for a jog around the Bay, doing Zumba, and reading.
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Maison Scotch is a brand which I can identify myself with. There outfits are also amazing and I already have a lot of Maison Scotch items hanging in my closet. Each time when I am in the store I see gorgeous items there and they have their own perfume called Barefly, lovely smell.
I was very excited to see their new lookbook and campagin on their website. Can't wait till the clothes are hanging in their shops. Fortunately I have some free time the coming weeks, so I have the chance to check the stores very often! Sorry for the amount of photos. I love so many outfits that it was hard for me to choose.
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Maison Scotch Spring Summer 2012 Collection
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Prachtige collectie, ook de foto's zijn super!
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We plan to use 2" thick rigid foam insulation along the interior perimeter concrete walls of the foundation. I know that the insulation should be between the foundation wall and the vapour barrier and should extend all the way from the footer up to the floor above, fitting snugly around joists etc.
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We also plan to install a small heater in the crawlspace as further insurance against pipe freezing, but should we insulate the pipes too?
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KEY LARGO -- A newly-formed bicycle association has submitted paperwork to state officials seeking permission to open up closed trails for a mountain bike course, complete with obstacles and technical features, inside Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park.
Steve Troeger, who opened a bicycle shop in the Pink Plaza about six months ago, has since focused his attention on making the Upper Keys more user-friendly for cyclists by founding the Key Largo Bicycle Association.
Troeger says opening the trails in the park would provide a new attraction for visitors as well as serve local biking enthusiasts. Biking is already allowed in the park, but only in certain areas that require minimal skill.
"Our hope is that district managers will recognize these benefits and agree to accept the risk of additional terrain features built on these types of trail systems akin to those on other state parks land, such as Amelia Earhart Park in North Hialeah, the Oleta River State Park in North Miami Beach and Virginia Key in Key Biscayne," Troeger wrote in his proposal to the Florida Park Service.
Troeger's group is interested in building and maintaining trails in an area of the park that was to have been the Port Bouganville development, before legal challenges and other factors in the early 1980s put an end to the project.
Troeger has also provided an application for a state grant specifically written for creating bicycle trails. He said the project could cost upwards of $100,000 if all the desired features are approved.
"That proposal has been sent up the line," said Pat Wells, who manages Dagny Johnson and John Pennekamp Coral Reef state parks.
Wells offered little insight into the appropriateness or possibility of the mountain bike feature, saying only that he would do what his superiors told him. He did say, though Troeger's submission was detailed, the state would likely ask for more information before making a decision.
The association has reached out to another avid cyclist for help -- newly elected state Rep. Holly Raschein, R-Key Largo. Troeger is expected to meet with one of Raschein's aides later this week, her office confirmed.
Raschein, who had not been briefed on Troeger's application when she spoke to the Free Press, said she supported the idea as long as it's not harmful to the environment.
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ReviewI bought this vehicle for off road. The stock vehicle is poorly set up for serious use off road (plastic bumper imitation skid plates, etc.) There 98% of complaints end. The off road ability even with stock tires is unbelievable. I have changed rims, ties and added armor (skid plates, rock sliders and real bumpers). The performance and power need to be driven to be believed. The standard vehicle is small inside, it ain't a Suburban. There is limited storage space. The hood is high and forward visibility is limited. If you can't drive with mirrors this vehicle is not for you. FJ could use more sound deadening. Very noisy at high speed. it hauls and turns on a dime. I love it.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Thanks so much everyone. This certainly gives me some new things to try. Getting hungry just looking at them. lol
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I was just in BJ's (like Costco or Sam's club) and saw a Betty Crocker Bisquick cookbook for $5.99. An entire cookbook with recipes for Bisquick!
I just made muffins by adding sugar and zucchini/apple/carrots/walnuts/coconut oil/vanilla and cinnamon to the gluten free Bisquick. They are good with a nice texture.
There is an apple cake that is yummy on their site.
Dumplings on top of stew beef or chicken. The list goes on. Biscuits for shortbread. Biscuits and honey.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Fifth-year senior defensive end Terrence Fede (Nyack, N.Y.) of the Marist football team has been named to the College Sporting News' (CSN) Fabulous Fifty Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) All-American Team.
This is the fourth FCS All-American Team that Fede has been named to. He was named to the Walter Camp Team, was a First Team selection by The Sports Network, and was named a Second Team choice by the Associated Press.
Fede was named Pioneer Football League Defensive Player of the Year this season. He finished sixth nationally in the voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, which is presented to the best defensive player in the FCS.
This season, Fede set Marist's single-season program record with 13 sacks, and led the FCS in sacks per game. This gave him a program-record 30.5 sacks for his career. Fede also registered 59 total tackles, 18 tackles for loss, four pass break-ups and a forced fumble. He had at least half a sack in nine of 11 games, and at least half a tackle for loss in 10 of 11 games. Fede was named PFL Defensive Player of the Week twice this season.
The CSN All-American Team honors the top 50 student-athletes in the FCS.
In 2013, the Marist football team won a share of the PFL championship for the first time in the Red Foxes' five years in the league. With an 8-3 overall record, Marist achieved its highest win total in its 36 years as a varsity program.


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The Last Lecture, a book cowritten by computer science professor Randy Pausch and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow, was published in 2008 by Hyperion. It is based on the highly acclaimed and inspirational lecture presented by Pausch at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, 2007.
The title of the book is derived from the concept of a retiring professor's "last lecture," which includes the professor's insights into life and what really matters. Pausch was forced to deliver an untimely and very literal last lecture after facing a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer. His lecture, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," was delivered in front of an audience filled with Pausch's family, friends, students, and colleagues; it quickly received praise from the public after a copy was posted online, and Pausch even gave an abridged version of his lecture on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Written with humor and wisdom, this book serves as a reflection of the main points of Pausch's lecture. In it, Pausch discusses the importance of childhood dreams and how to go about achieving them as one grows older. The major points of his book include taking the time to dream, the importance of good parents in a child's life, and how to put people before materials. Intertwined in the major themes of his lecture are Pausch's own personal anecdotes, complete with how he was able to turn his boyhood dreams into reality, including becoming an Imagineer for Walt Disney World, and creating the Alice software project.
In The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch says, "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." Through his stories and experience, Pausch imparts readers with a "how-to" guide when striving to reach goals and dreams, but the book also serves as one man's legacy to his three young children. Pausch lived to see The Last Lecture become a New York Times best seller in April of 2008. He lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008, at the age of forty-seven, but not before inspiring millions of readers to never stop believing in their dreams.
Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture, a slim book full of aphorisms and stories, was published in 2008 by Hyperion. In the work, Pausch describes the fulfillment of dreams he has had since childhood and the principles and lessons he has learned along the way into adulthood. The book was written primarily for Pausch's three children—Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.
Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. At 47, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. His tale in The Last Lecture is based on an academic principle in which professors are asked to imagine that they are near death and required to summarize their knowledge and wisdom and pass it along to their students in one final lecture. Pausch took his life's circumstances and formulated his tale for his children and students.
The book is a result of an actual lecture that took place in 2007 to a crowded lecture hall. Pausch addressed the audience and delivered a humorous, brave, and thought-provoking speech about achieving childhood dreams. Pausch's lecture was referenced in an article by Jeff Zaslow of The New York Times. He said:
I live in Detroit, about 300 miles away, and I ended up driving to save the cost of a flight. It was like watching Babe Ruth hit his last home run, or Michael Jordan hitting his jump shot at the end of the NBA finals. It was electric in that room. I knew it affected everyone that was there. But I could not have foreseen what followed, even in my wildest dreams.
Zaslow wrote about the lecture in his next column and provided highlights from the video. The video went viral and received thousands of hits on YouTube. ABC's Good Morning America hosted Pausch on the show, and he also was invited to speak on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The appeal of Pausch's video and book is partly due to his upfront, honest, humorous, and humble approach to the end of his life. His story is a real and welcome turn from the hype and celebrity of standard reality shows and entertainment magazines.
Randy Pausch died on July 25, 2008. His book and video became a best-selling sensation, inspiring people all over the world.


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- 4 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup chopped sweet yellow pepper
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges
- 1 cup shredded zucchini
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- Salad dressing of your choice
- In a large salad bowl, combine the spinach, beans and pepper. Top with tomatoes and zucchini; sprinkle with cheese and walnuts. Serve with salad dressing. Yield: 4 servings.
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"What a pleasant surprise. I prepared this salad tonight and we gobbled it down. Hubby told me how much he liked the salad. We both did. We both used Ranch dressing on it but the salad itself is delicious. All the many flavors blend together nicely. We especially liked the toasted walnuts. I highly recommend this delicious salad. We will be having it again.Volunteer Field Editor"
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HollywoodLife Makes Up Story About Taylor Swift Being "Mad" At Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift is "mad" at Selena Gomez for riding a Segway scooter with Justin Bieber, says HollywoodLife, an outlet that makes up stuff about the three stars with embarrassing frequency. Jay Penske's blog, which spent much of 2013 making up stories involving Bieber, Gomez and Swift, starts 2014 in fine form, making up a story that has Swift allegedly angry with Gomez for hanging out with Bieber.
According to HollywoodLife, Gomez "broke unofficial best friend law" with her outing, because HollywoodLife is governed by the laws of middle school, not journalism. A so-called "insider" tells the webloid "exclusively" that Swift "does not support the reunion."
That's weird, because in the same story HollywoodLife makes it sounds as if Swift doesn't even know about the reunion yet. "Once Taylor finds out that Selena is hanging out with Justin she will be very mad," the source tells HollywoodLife. "This is exactly what Selena has told Taylor all along that she would not do, and now that she has, [it] will show Taylor that she can't trust Selena."
The outlet writes, "Sounds like there may be trouble in paradise if Jelena continue to hang out. But we sure hope not — Selena still having feelings for Justin doesn't mean she can't love Taylor with all her heart!" This is the type of speculative b.s. "reporting" we've come to expect from HollywoodLife, which makes up stuff.
HollywoodLife spread the lie that Miley Cyrus is pregnant. HollywoodLife twisted Jennifer Lawrence's words to score a cheap fake story. HollywoodLife manipulated a tweet for a bogus Liam Hemsworth report. HollywoodLife lied about Cory Monteith after his death.
HollywoodLife makes up stuff about Taylor Swift, it makes up stuff about Justin Bieber, and it makes up stuff about Selena Gomez. Over and over again, HollywoodLife makes up stuff.
Gossip Cop spoke with a source close to the situation and asked whether Swift was actually upset about Bieber and Gomez riding Segway scooters together, and the source laughed it off, saying, "Not at all." Please keep this in mind the next time HollywoodLife makes up something.
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Despite a lukewarm reception in the States, romantics overseas are falling head over heels for Nebraska's Eagle*Seagull. Given Europe's predilection for artful music, it's not hard to see why. There's plenty to love about this sextet's visceral chamber pop, which drips with raw emotion and unrequited love one moment and jumps from whimsy to in-the-throes passion the next. We asked lead singer Eli Mardock about the band's burgeoning international love affair and why the group passed on a major-label deal.
Westword: Your tour schedule says you're in places like Omaha, and then these decadent European cities. How did that happen?
Eli Mardock: In the U.S., our label [Paper Garden] is really small, and we haven't had any distribution.... It's been frustrating here. The first thing we were able to do was to get on Lado, a really good record label based out of Hamburg, Germany. They have good international acts -- I think Metric and Gossip are on the label -- and we had a really nice release there, a ton of press, and ended up charting at number two in Austria and doing really well in Germany. It's kind of a night-and-day difference between the U.S. and Europe now, because there we headline, and here we only open for people.
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You're also signed with Konkurrent in Amsterdam. What's it like to be on three indie labels vs. one major?
It's funny, because there was a particular label that met us in New York, took us out for drinks after one of our shows and seemed really interested. I'd heard that you can get signed to a major and then the people that signed you could suddenly all get fired. That's exactly what happened, actually. Everyone we talked to at the label was gone in five months. Had we actually gone through with it, we'd be in a pretty bad position right now. The advances are much better at a bigger label, but that's all recoupable, so you have to pay them back. And if they don't do any artist development, then your CD is kind of stuck. That would have been terrible.
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FACT CHECK: Cantor Attacks Sequester Cuts He Refuses to Repeal
On Fox News Sunday this morning House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said the sequester cuts he and House Republicans forced on the American people are "not the best way to go about spending reductions."
In reality, Cantor and House Republicans voted for the sequester, and have repeatedly refused to repeal the sequester and replace it with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. The sequester is costing the American economy 1.6 million jobs, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, but House Republicans led by Eric Cantor continue to support keeping these indiscriminate cuts in place.
CBO: Sequester Will Cut Up to 1.6 Million Jobs. "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday estimated that keeping the spending cuts from sequestration in place through fiscal 2014 would cost up to 1.6 million jobs. Canceling the cuts, on the other hand, would yield between 300,000 to 1.6 million new jobs, with the most likely outcome being the addition of 900,000, the CBO said." [The Hill, 7/25/13]
Republicans Voted Against Replacing Sequester:
- In 2013, Republicans voted against considering the Stop the Sequester Job Loss Now Act, which would replace the entire sequester for the remainder of fiscal year 2013. The previous question was approved 229-196. A vote against the motion would have allowed for consideration of the sequester replacement bill. [H Res 99, Vote #59, 5/06/13]
- In 2013, Republicans voted against a budget that would have replaced the entire sequester for the remainder of fiscal year 2013. According to The Hill, "That measure would eliminate subsidies to the farm industry, scrap tax preferences used by oil-and-gas companies and implement a new minimum tax rate on people making seven figures annually — the proposal commonly known as the 'Buffett Rule.'" The budget was rejected 165-253. [H Con Res 25, Vote #87, 3/21/13; The Hill, 2/11/13]


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Great job on both!
I was trying to think of something that others have not said. Couldn't do it. Both these quilts are very nice. The people that receive them will love them, and that's what matters. You both should be very proud of yourselves. I am proud of you. BrendaK
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It is the girly in me I love the purple one.
The colors are to die for, great job.
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Both of you did work that is BEAUTIFUL!! It reminds me that I need to get bu
very nice. i hope it's the 1st of many. thank you for sharing.
wow - beautiful !! my grandson is 6 and still loves thomas the train. isn't quilting fun!! i am a newbie and i just love it!
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Website Review: Rev. Fr. J. Michael Venditti, M. Div.
A review based on: http://http://fathervenditti.com/
The homiletic and scholarly journal of Father Michael Venditti, presenting a record of his preaching and non-liturgical essays. Father Michael's Radio Theater© presents mystery and adventure from America's "Golden Age of Radio" from Father Michael's own collection of historical recordings.
The author of this site is a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, who served for more than half his priesthood in the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey; thus, the homilies recorded here may be based on the liturgical calendars of either Tradition.
Father is assigned full-time to the World Apostolate of Fatima, in which he serves as chaplain at the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, Washington, New Jersey.
The homilies are tastefully illustrated and each homily lists the feast that is celebrated in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and the Ruthenian recension of the Byzantine Rite.
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It's a new year, and when a new year comes, us marketing folk like to make grand pronouncements and predictions. We like to claim things like "It's the Year of Mobile" (which I think we've all claimed at least once in the last three years). Sometimes we're right, sometimes we're wrong. Most often, we're a bit of both – we highlight a key trend, but we don't truly know where that trend is going or where it will ultimately end up.
For example, almost exactly seven months ago, I wrote a column called "The Convergence of Search and Social," discussing the fact that search engines are becoming more like social networks and likewise, social networks more like search engines. I employed a few examples that pointed to this trend. Although I had some hunches, what I didn't do is make predictions about where this is going. That said, the recent launch by Google of its "Personal Search" did not come as a complete surprise. All signs pointed to the fact that this type of social content would start to be surfaced, and with Google's foray into the social network arena with Google+, it was only a matter of time. But we were only mid-way into the year, and I wasn't in a pronouncement-making mood. So alas, I missed out on being able to say "I told you so!" – something I very much love to say.
Jokes aside, the socialization of search is a mighty phenomenon that has real implications for marketers.
For those of you who have not yet seen the news or the new search results, here's a quick recap: Google has now begun importing the data from its six-months-old Google+ social network into the search results. That means if you're looking for information on traveling to San Francisco, you might start seeing results of friends' photo albums from sunny California.
For the full story, you can read the official launch post by Google on the service, dubbed "Search, plus Your World," and hear some perspectives on this topic:
- Michael Liedtke of The Associated Press
- Emily Jackson of the Toronto Star
- Emma Woollacott from TG Daily
Many of these articles highlight the industry's reactions to this approach, citing privacy concerns and current Federal Trade Commission allegations of unfairly exploiting its position. While all of these are valid points, it may be some time before Google is potentially forced to revisit this launch and change the way its Google+ content is integrated in its search results. So that means us marketers have to understand the near-term implications of this, and what it means to both our search and social strategies.
As I've highlighted before, the increasing personalization of organic search means that it is getting more and more difficult to apply a global SEO strategy to your website. As every person could feasibly be seeing different results, optimizing to achieve a "top ranking" in the search engines may become impossible. Which results are we referring to? Yours, mine, or a million other possible permutations of results?
And even if you achieve a ranking for certain users, you could be missing an entire piece of your audience who sees different results. If your brand doesn't have a strong social element or presence, your results may get pushed down in favor of more personalized content. And finally, how do you even measure search rankings moving forward? Manual tracking of position will only be skewed to the user doing the searching, and automated rank report tools are not currently equipped to understand and quantify the nuances of personalized search results.
The implications of this is that now, more than ever, marketers need to stop thinking about their individual search, social, and other digital tactics in a silo. They need to start developing an overall digital engagement strategy that considers the entire digital experience of a user, designed with the customer at the center. What are all of the various potential touch points that we have a chance to reach and engage this user? How can we provide high-value, personalized, relevant content in each of these instances? How can we treat everyone as an individual, rather than an audience? The more you follow the Google philosophy of customer centricity, the more chance we all have of succeeding in this new era of personalization and convergence.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Paying to Work: The Minnesota College Savings Plan Matching Grant
Example: suppose that during 2009 you contributed $4,000 to your child's College Savings Plan and had a family adjusted gross income of $80,000. You'd receive a matching grant from the State of Minnesota of $400. Now, if you were unlucky enough to have had a salary raise of just $1 during 2009, your government subsidy would have fallen from $400 to zero. In other words, an extra dollar of revenue would have led to an increase in your net tax liabilities of a little bit less than $400!
This is not an uncommon problem. At the federal level one can find many examples of poorly designed government programs. More interestingly, governments could eliminate these distortions by simply discarding stepwise income criteria for benefit concession. For example, since the Minnesota Matching Grant Program is capped at a relatively low value, it automatically becomes irrelevant as the income of a family increases. Furthermore, simplifying the program would reduce bureaucratic costs.
Given that the solution is so simple, why is it that governments insist in creating these public finance monstrosities? The explanation is given by public choice theory: the politician goal is not to maximize social welfare, but to maximize political power. Higher levels of control can be achieved by creating rules that increase the size of government bureaucracies and their effects on people's lives. The real solution to the problem, even if an uphill battle, would be to universally restrict the power of politicians to create programs that imply high marginal tax rates.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Can Smoking Bans Lead to More Passive Smoking?
We evaluate the effect of smoking bans and excise taxes on the exposure to tobacco smoke of nonsmokers, and we show their unintended consequences on children. Smoking bans perversely increase nonsmokers' exposure by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate nonsmokers. We exploit data on bio-samples of cotinine, time use, and smoking cessation, as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US states. We find that higher taxes are an efficient way to decrease exposure to tobacco smoke.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sorman on Revel's Last Exit to Utopia
French public intellectuals have a reputation—well-deserved—for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists. One thinks in this regard of popular figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, and Simone de Beauvoir, all with fan clubs on American campuses. Some French thinkers, however, have carried forward another intellectual tradition, that of classical liberalism—pro-democracy and pro-market—and running from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville to Albert Camus to the philosopher and journalist Jean-François Revel, who died at 82 in 2006. ...
Revel tried to explain this [leftist] utopian yearning through Rousseau's influential doctrine: man was inherently good, society bad. Therefore, as Rousseau had it, reforming society—starting with the suppression of private property—would allow man's fundamentally good nature to shine forth. Another source of the utopian fantasy, he believed, came from the European Catholic canon: good intentions count most. Even after learning that the Soviet Union and the Third Reich killed approximately the same number of their own citizens, leftist intellectuals rejected any comparison between the two regimes; after all, the Soviets' intentions were better than the Nazis', and intentions trump results. Revel could barely contain his ire at leftist scholars who refused to discuss the matter honestly.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Content Control in the Blogosphere: The Lockdown of Incentives Matter by Blogger
I followed Blogger procedures to reinstate my blog, as documented in this thread, but it took them 3 days to get it fixed! Fortunately to me, my sources of revenue don't depend on my blog. I know however that more and more people have been relying on blogs as business helpers. Not only that: such an inordinate amount of control over public discourse reveals the fragility of blogs as repositories of ideas.
Here are my tips in case you're not willing to see your hard work destroyed by Blogger robots: first, make sure that you backup your blog by downloading its contents periodically (you can eventually recover your latter posts that were not included in the backup by using Google's cache tool). Second, make sure that you choose a blog service that doesn't have a track history of lockdowns (at this point, I wouldn't use Blogger if I'd be starting from scratch). And third, if the blog is important as a revenue tool, think seriously about using a paid service, or by hosting it yourself.
Unfortunately, Gordon's Tech summarized the problem with Blogger well by saying this:
Google's honeymoon period is over. They've developed Microsoft's arrogance without Microsoft's monopoly power. This does not bode well for their future.
PS: Ennyman tells me that Blogger's export function doesn't export pictures and apparently doesn't export older posts too. It means that you need to keep old backups around. Also, as it can be seen in the comments to this post, transferring blogs from one service to another can be a frustrating experience.
An alternative is to use Blogger Backup. It'll allow you to download all your posts, each one in a different xml file. It'll not download images however. You'll need to use a download tool to get your pictures, for example, DownThemAll. See more instructions in this post.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Professor Arthur Goldberger Dies at 79
I've never had the pleasure of being a student of Professor Goldberger. We used however his wonderful texbook at UW-Madison, and I've had the opportunity to benefit from his insights during our econometrics workshops and to talk to him a few times about my own research.
I've never met anyone that didn't like him as a person and as a teacher. He was the most intuitive and yet analytically precise econometrician that I've ever met.
As a homage to Professor Goldberger I'll reproduce below his definition of micronumerosity, a tongue-in-cheek concept that he used to raise awareness of common misunderstandings regarding the problem of multicollinearity (see also Bryan Caplan on the topic in this post):
Econometrics texts devote many pages to the problem of multicollinearity in multiple regression, but they say little about the closely analogous problem of small sample size in estimating a univariate mean. Perhaps that imbalance is attributable to the lack of an exotic polysyllabic name for "small sample size." If so, we can remove that impediment by introducing the term "micronumerosity." ...
If micronumerosity proves serious in the sense that the estimate of [the mean] has an unsatisfactorily low degree of precision, we are in the statistical position of not being able to make bricks without straw. The remedy lies essentially in the acquisition, if possible, of larger samples from the same population.
But more data is no remedy for micronumerosity if the additional data are simply "more of the same." So obtaining lots of small samples from the same population will not help. ...
Multicollinearity is no more (or less) serious than micronumerosity. Exact multicollinearity (R2 = 1) is a close analogue of exact micronumerosity (n=0).
Monday, December 14, 2009
Paul Samuelson: Form and Function in Economics
Early in my life I was exposed to economics thanks to the celebrated textbook that he wrote with Nordhaus. My father had an old two-volume Brazilian edition of 1975 (cover on the right). I was just a kid and yet loved to flip through its pages, searching for colorful maps, graphs and tables that illustrated economic concepts.
Samuelson's influence in economics is extraordinary, but especially unique in methodology. All his contributions were based on the strict logic of mathematics and after him it became clear that any further development in the field wouldn't be achieved without the help of rigorous analytical thinking.
I always wondered however how was it that an intellectual giant like Samuelson could have ignored so blatantly the failures of socialism and communism, as described by Beichman:
World-class economist Paul Samuelson, a Nobel laureate, wrote in the tenth edition of his textbook Economics: "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia— all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks. In the eleventh edition, he took out the word "vulgar." In the 1985 twelfth edition, that entire passage had disappeared. Instead, he and his coauthor, William Nordhaus, substituted a sentence asking whether Soviet political repression was "worth the economic gains." This non-question was identified as "one of the most profound dilemmas of human society." After 70 years of Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism that took at least 100 million lives, this was still a dilemma?Naturally, intellectuals of the time tended to have pro-Soviet views, but Samuelson was not your run-of-the-mill social thinker. So what was Samuelson thinking when he wrote (or reviewed) those passages?
My favorite explanation comes from my early training as an engineer. Mathematicians are entranced by theoretical elegance, while engineers are fond of intellectual achievements that are physically and economically robust. I believe that economists like Samuelson tend to think more like mathematicians than like engineers. This is to me the main reason why he (and many that followed on his steps) may have put too much emphasis on theoretical form in detriment of economic function. The cleanliness and elegance of central planning as an intellectual construct for example, despite its incompatibility with human nature, was probably very attractive to the mathematician living inside Samuelson's mind.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tax Cuts Are More Effective than Government Spending
One piece of evidence comes from Christina D. Romer, the chairwoman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. In work with her husband, David H. Romer, written at the University of California, Berkeley, just months before she took her current job, Ms. Romer found that tax policy has a powerful influence on economic activity.
According to the Romers, each dollar of tax cuts has historically raised G.D.P. by about $3 — three times the figure used in the administration report. That is also far greater than most estimates of the effects of government spending.
Other recent work supports the Romers' findings. In a December 2008 working paper, Andrew Mountford of the University of London and Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago apply state-of-the-art statistical tools to United States data to compare the effects of deficit-financed spending, deficit-financed tax cuts and tax-financed spending. They report that "deficit-financed tax cuts work best among these three scenarios to improve G.D.P."
My Harvard colleagues Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna have recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of the issue. In an October study, they looked at large changes in fiscal policy in 21 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. They identified 91 episodes since 1970 in which policy moved to stimulate the economy. They then compared the policy interventions that succeeded — that is, those that were actually followed by robust growth — with those that failed.
The results are striking. Successful stimulus relies almost entirely on cuts in business and income taxes. Failed stimulus relies mostly on increases in government spending.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Easterly on the Growthgate
The problem here, as with climate change, is that science has also been captured by governments and interest groups. In his own words:
Of course, the policy world abhors the great Vacuum of Ignorance, which opens the door to empty pontificators like a certain bestselling writer of books about Flat Worlds, in which You Cannot Have Growth Unless You Do Precisely What I Tell You.
Carden extends Easterly's point to the recent successful discrediting of previously accepted but biased minimum wage research:
Climategate is going to make a lot of scholars across disciplines think very, very hard about what they're doing. The reaction to the Card & Krueger minimum wage paper is a feather in the cap of the economics profession. C&K appeared in the American Economic Review and was subjected to thorough examination and criticism before the bulk of the evidence came down on the side of competitive models of the labor market (cf. Neumark and Wascher).
Some have been suggesting that this kind of scientific corruption is expected, that politics inevitably affects the scientific method, so we shouldn't bother. I don't like the argument. As it's the case with corruption in any human action, the response shouldn't be leniency, it should be instead a critique of existing incentives and institutions and a cry for ethical behavior, Cato the Younger style. After all, the latter two are perfectly acceptable self-regulatory social interaction mechanisms.
The Colbert Report on the Fed
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Baby You Can Drive My Car in Copenhagen
These folks in Copenhagen on the other hand appear to be enjoying the ride in those chauffeured Mercedes. Let's not forget that it's all paid with your money (HT Cafe Hayek's Boudreaux)... Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Plus ça change...
As the French say: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
Salvador Allende's Star Trek Fantasy
What's the connection between a bad Star Trek episode and Chile's 1970-1973 Soviet-backed president Salvador Allende? The answer is Cybersyn, a make-believe project by British "visionary" Stafford Beer. Cybersyn (control room seen above) was supposed to replace free markets with totalitarian central planning, but ended up as nothing more than an expensive joke. According to Marginal Revolution's Tabarrok:
It is no accident, say Axelrod and Borenstein, that the control room looks like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise because the whole purpose of the room was to exude a science-fiction fantasy of omniscience and omnipotence. The fantasy naturally appealed to Allende who had the control room moved to the presidential palace just days before the coup.Indeed, Cybersyn is nothing more than an excellent inner mind portrait of Messianic politicians. If Beer was for Allende what Friedman was for Pinochet, than it's easy to understand why Beer's Chile resulted in economic failure while Friedman's Chile resulted in economic success.
The control room is like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise in another respect--both are stage sets. Nothing about the room is real, even the computer displays on the wall are simply hand drawn slides projected from the other side with Kodak carousels.
Ironically, when rumors of the project began to circulate, the illusion of omniscience and omnipotence that Beer had created, the same illusion that so appealed to Allende and that had funded Beer's visions and experiments, this illusion caused fear that an all-knowing big brother was on the way--and such fear may even have encouraged the coup.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A Lucid Summary of the Climategate Aftermath
I'm certainly not qualified, and ideologues won't resolve the issue. I expect this to play out in the literature as it would in any other science. I will still defer to the collected expertise of climatologists, which, for the moment, still supports the AGW hypothesis.
I also expect climatologists to defer to economists when it comes to the question of "what to do about it". ... I also think the odds of getting a well-designed regulation out of the political system are low. The question of whether a real-world regulation would create benefits greater than costs isn't yet clear to me. I'm not an advocate of the "we must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this" position on global warming.
The problem with the climate change debate is that it has clearly become politicized to the point of acquiring millennialist tones and the status of religious dogma on both sides of the divide. It has also been captured as a rallying cry by disenfranchised socialists and communists in search of an anti-free market unifying cause. The irony here is that the current state of the politics of climate change only confirms the absolute dominance of economics as a social science: if you want to discredit free market capitalism, better to use sound economic theory and find a negative externality of gigantic proportions, and that's exactly what activists believe they've found.
For me, AGW is just another mainstream scientific theory, one that may be further validated or rejected along the track. Right now, and let's be clear about it, things are not looking good for the main AGW large-scale models. Their out-of-sample predictive power is so low that they should be considered useless for policy making (and I hope the data hasn't been meddled with to produce acceptable in-sample fit). Consider for example this peer-reviewed article (abstract below available here, italics are mine):
In their new paper in a special section of the International Journal of Forecasting on decision making and planning under low levels of predictability ... Kesten Green, Scott Armstrong, and Willie Soon asked whether it is possible to make useful forecasts for policy makers about changes in global climate up to 100 years ahead. Using evidence-based forecasting principles, they chose the "no-change" forecast as their benchmark and found that, with mean absolute errors of 0.18C for 20 years ahead and 0.24C for 50 years ahead, even if perfectly accurate forecasts of global mean temperature were possible they would not be more useful for policy makers.
They nevertheless demonstrated the use of benchmarking by assessing the relative performance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's medium projection of +0.03C per year against historical data from 1851 to 1975. The errors from the IPCC projections were more than seven times greater than the errors from the simple benchmark that assumed no change in temperatures.
As a time-series econometrician, the argument strikes me as powerful, so I wonder: why arguments like these, based on strict scientific methodology, and published in respected journals, have been mostly ignored or downplayed in the climate change debate? The failure of mainstream large-scale models by the way is not a new phenomenon: economists once made the mistake of trusting such models, with dire economic consequences. As a result, I was taught at graduate school to always be skeptical about large-scale models. The same could easily apply to the current state of climate change research, so the question is: why is it that I don't see more skepticism and dissent in that field, particularly given evidence like the one presented above?
To make things worse, policy making in climate change has been based until now on insufficient research or poor economic understanding of the problem. It looks sometimes as if the debate is rigged to not allow for serious economic considerations or to marginalize dissenting voices - see for example what happened to Steven Levitt (undoubtedly an influential scholar) for speaking out his mind.
Things like these shouldn't be happening. By allowing activists, celebrities and politicos to act as bullies and speakers in their fields, climate researchers are steadily losing scientific credibility. I've become increasingly dismayed by the climate change scientific community as they've failed to clearly dissociate themselves from the massive use of political propaganda in their field (the movie poster on the right is a good example of propaganda that went mostly unquestioned by climate change scientists, and by the way, the movie sucks). Should I hope that the Hadley CRU scandal will serve as a wake up call for them?
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Jon Stewart on Minarets and Swiss Neutrality
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Anti-Free Trade Hypocrisy and the NBA
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is upset that Adidas will shift its manufacturing of National Basketball Association jerseys from New York to Thailand, and he menacingly calls upon the N.B.A. to terminate its contract with Adidas ...
I don't know Mr. Schumer personally, but I'll bet my pension that his everyday consumption consists of countless products containing such large quantities of non-American inputs and labor that, were Mr. Schumer to rid his existence of these foreign contributions to his living standard, he would soon find himself dark-ages ignorant and appallingly impoverished.
We all probably know that the NBA is a successful brand worldwide. I remember how some friends in Brazil loved to watch NBA games and buy NBA gear. As explained in this Forbes article:
The NBA's China operation is no small business. It runs one of the largest marketing machines in the region, currently hosting more than 170 special events in 112 cities in greater China, top among them the NBA China Games 2007. It also boasts deep TV penetration rates and maintains marketing partnerships with 20 of the world's leading brands, as well as sells its memorabilia to Chinese fans in more than 50,000 locations.
I would like to see anti-free trade activists supporting a worldwide ban on anything NBA related, and supporting a US ban on anything related to the Soccer World Cup. They should be prepared however to deal with some pretty angry folks out there if they would have the courage to put their money where their mouth is...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Krugman Recognizes that the Tobin Tax Isn't "Working Very Well" in Brazil
He did not oppose the tax (called IOF) on capital inflows adopted recently by the Brazilian government, at a rate of 2% on foreign investments in stocks and government bonds. But he observed that the measure is not "working very well."
Inflation Targeting: When Creator and Creature Collide
The creator's name is Ben Bernanke. The creature's name is inflation targeting. Bernanke devoted a large part of his successful career as a scholar to the analysis of inflation targeting regimes. This was probably the main reason for his appointment as Fed Chairman, as explained in this Bloomberg article of 2005:
Here's however the big irony: Bernanke was appointed to bring the creature to life inside Fed's labs. Once there, however, he became responsible for pulling the plug on his own creation.
The nomination [of Bernanke], which is subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate, may nudge the Fed in the direction of more than 20 foreign central banks that pursue numerical inflation levels or ranges, said global economists and former central bankers.
I'll use Bernanke's own words to make the point. In an American Economic Review article of 2001, Bernanke the Princeton Professor said:
What Bernanke meant is that, as long as inflation is expected to remain low and around the target, the Fed should not try to "shoot bubbles." Now, contrast the statement above with what Bernanke the Fed Chairman said recently, according to yesterday's WSJ article:
In recent decades, asset booms and busts have been important factors in macroeconomic fluctuations in both industrial and developing countries. In light of this experience, how, if at all, should central banks respond to asset price volatility? ...
The inflation-targeting approach gives a specific answer to the question of how central bankers should respond to asset prices: changes in asset prices should affect the central bank's policy only to the extent that they affect the central bank's forecast of inflation.
So, what has happened? While I worked in the Central Bank of Brazil a few years ago I tried to bring to to the attention of some of my colleagues that inflation targeting is a monetary regime that lacks a credible nominal anchor. I discovered later that John Cochrane had the same intuition and was able to formalize it in this excellent critique of inflation targeting. Most central bank economists that I met however would prefer to follow Bernanke's inflation targeting cookbook without making any serious attempt to think about its economic foundations (or lack thereof). Many among them would also choose, mostly because of Bernanke's diagnostic reproduced above, to ignore asset price runs that would periodically infest economies based on new-Keynesian interest rate rules such as is the case with inflation targeting. What followed is history: welcome to "bubble world"!
"The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future," Mr. Bernanke said in answer to a question after a speech in New York last month. ...
Mr. Bernanke is leaving himself hedged. If he felt stamping out a bubble with higher rates would forestall a rise in inflation or stabilize the economy, "We'd have to think about that very seriously," he told the New York Economic Club recently. "We can never say never."
Mistakes made by central banks during the inflation targeting years are a good example of a big problem in science: the institutionalization of scientific consensus. The Hadley CRU "Climategate" scandal is another example of the same problem, although in the latter case there was serious unethical conduct by some scientists and extreme politicization of the scientific community - something that I've never witnessed at such an inordinate level during my years in central banking.
Dissent, as long as based on the scientific method, should never be silenced. Indeed, it should be welcomed by all that are intellectually curious, ethical and passionate about science.
The Climategate According to Jon Stewart
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Krugman's Tobin Tax: Shooting the Messenger
... The transactions that would be particularly discouraged by a Tobin tax would be arbitrage type dealings trying to close discrepancies in pricing. Ending arbitrage trade would represent a big reduction economic efficiency.
And furthermore, by reducing trading volumes, slippage (the decrease/increase in price caused by an individual actor's sale/purchase, something which prevents the realization of potential gains through transactions) would increase, something which would produce non-trivial costs for people engaged in foreign trade and long-term investments.
Thus, problems with large exchange rate fluctuations are not the result of "speculation", but are inherent in the nature of fluctuating currency exchange rates. Given that system however, short-term speculation is a force that reduces, and not aggravates the problem. This applies to short-term speculation in other markets too.


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Wong Tai Sin Temple
Hong Kong Attractions
Introduction to Wong Tai Sin Temple (黄大仙祠)
Wong Tai Sin Temple was built in 1945; it is a famous historical site in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the most famous and prestigious temple in Hong Kong, and this is also a must-go Hong Kong tourist spot. On the annual Lunar New Year's Day, the public will compete for the first incense. According to legend, enshrined Cinei Sin is "responsive ", and very efficacious. The temple is also the only one that can hold Taoist weddings in Hong Kong. Wong Tai Sin Temple formerly known as the Sese Yuen, founded in 1921, after decades of careful management, the entire temple is magnificent. The temple covers an area of 18,000 square meters,
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they been doing that for years--along with some of the other stores.
wally-mart gets all those government backed perks to build those super-centers and either a cut rate or no sales tax at all is usually part of the deal.
i have yet to be in a wall mart that don't still collect the sales taxes though.
some state sued wally-martz for back sales taxes a few years back--i'll look around


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Drake and Kris Jenner NOT Having Sex, Despite Rumors (EXCLUSIVE)
Kris Jenner and Drake have been falsely linked in a new Internet rumor. The report, picked up by less-than-credible MediaTakeOut, claims Jenner "has been SLEEPING WITH DRAKE," and alleges the two "hooked up" after last week's ESPY Awards.
MTO's evidence (cough) is that Jenner wore the same outfit at a party with Drake after the event and on her plane the next day. That's pretty much it. This is, of course, the kind of nonsense we've come to expect from MediaTakeOut.
Drake is friendly with the Kardashian-Jenner clan, and has been for a while. He and Kris do not have a sexual relationship, period. It's "not true" and a "complete lie," a source close to the situation tells Gossip Cop.
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Sophie Lehto necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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