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Friday, November 13, 2009
As part of this program, the conduct of a Pilot test took place from the 17th August to 17th September THROUGHOUT Trinidad and Tobago. A pilot test is like a dress rehearsal for the census, it is a common statistical practice and an effective quality management tool. Its purpose is to test either the entire operation of conducting a survey or census or to test some major aspect of it. The results of the Pilot will be used to refine or if necessary to redesign the processes which were tested.
The operations selected to be tested were:
The content and design of the questionnaire
The enumeration strategy
The cartography
The training programme designed for field personnel.
The data processing strategy
Benefits of Conducting the Census Pilot
Evaluation of the census questionnaire. The Pilot informed on the suitability of the census topics by respondents behaviour/reactions, their willingness to respond and the frequency of answers like 'don't know', 'not stated'. Associated closely with the suitability of the questions was the design of the questionnaire. Fieldwork tested the flow and clarity of the questions as well as the wording/formulation of the questions themselves.
The accuracy and completeness of response categories were examined
Operational problems were disclosed
The average length of an interview provided by the Pilot assisted in the estimation of the 2010 census enumeration period. Similarly, data processing of the pilot provided better estimates of the census data processing activity.
The adequacy of the training procedures and other written instructions were also tested.
The effectiveness of the control documents was gauged in sufficient time for redesign or amendments.
Interviewers' remarks explained overall problems arising during execution and administrative arrangements were planned to correct the deficiencies.
Mapping inaccuracies in the selected areas were revealed.
The processing of the pilot questionnaires tested the capabilities and efficiency of not only the new hardware and software acquired but also the newly recruited Information Systems Staff.
The conduct of the Pilot at this time allowed sufficient time for remedial action before May 2010, the scheduled date for the start of Census Enumeration.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
2010 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE cont'd
The census questions on disability have been designed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics. The purpose of the questions is to gather information about limitations in basic activity functioning (e.g. seeing, hearing, moving, walking, remembering) among the national population. The questions were meant for global use in censuses so that comparisons relating to levels of participation in employment, education, could be made across countries. Also, comparisons can be made with persons without disabilities to ascertain whether the disabled persons have achieved social inclusion. The census data on disability can also provide a frame of disabled persons for use in other surveys.
Knowledge on the prevalence of certain chronic diseases is extremely important to the Health Authorities. Chronic illnesses tabulated by age, gender, ethnicity or area can be the basis for further research as well as for efficient planning, including the establishment of appropriate infrastructure and the procurement of adequate medical equipment and supplies.
Growth and development of any economy depend on the talent and knowledge of its workforce. A sound education is priceless. Allocations from the national budget to education have always been significant. Census data on educational levels and attainment are important indicators of human development and essential in gauging the success of many developmental programmes. Census education data by area can assist in estimating the demand for schools.
A main objective of collecting data on economic activity is to provide basic information on the size and structure of a country's labour force. This data can be analyzed together with other social and economic data on the economy to evaluate macro economic policies The unemployment rate is widely used as an indicator of current economic performance of a country. In addition, the census will provide employment rates at micro levels, so that planners can promote or create employment in depressed areas. Employment statistics disaggregated by age, sex, area, occupation and industry are a wealth of information for assessing government policies.
Tabulations on marital and union status cross classified by age, sex and other demographic characteristics are rich information for social and demographic research. Marital and union status also have implications on Fertility patterns. In estimating or projecting the size of the population, fertility patterns are crucial inputs in arriving at reliable estimates.
The question on census night raises many eyebrows. However, if we think about the process of counting the entire population, this takes three to four weeks in Trinidad and Tobago. During this time many changes are taking place by the minute, people are dying, babies are being born, persons are entering and leaving the country, households are changing residences etc. So in effect the population is changing by the minute. Census takers therefore set a moment in time when the population is counted. So if that moment is midnight on May 16th, an interviewer will be taking all information about a household as of that time on 16th May, although his/her exact visit was the 21st May. The question on census night, therefore, places each person, in a geographic place at a specific point in time. At census night, the count of the population is taken.
This Section is a new addition to the census instrument. Questions on ICT were not included in the 2000 questionnaire. It must be acknowledged that in the last decade there has been significant advancement in technology. Since the census is the only source of data on very small geographic areas, it is the best source to provide statistics on the use of ICT and it will be the best indicator to assess where we are in this information age. Information on the use of ICT can be cross classified by age, gender, area and other variables for meaningful analyses.
Many decades ago a Housing Census was added to the population census. This census was meant to provide information on the quantity and quality of the housing stock. Governments have realized that adequate shelter is critical to human development. Several international conventions have committed governments to providing shelter for all. Information on the housing stock can assist in estimating the demand for housing. The amenities reported will facilitate analyses on the quality of the stock eg. source of water supply, adequate sewerage disposal, lighting etc..
This is also the first time that questions on Environment appear in the census questionnaire. Today, preservation of the Environment is a main issue for policy makers.
The census therefore takes the opportunity to inform planners on the environmental problems that affect households. When this data are tabulated by area, problems affecting households can be dealt with more effectively.
It is difficult to source data on international migration, and during the intercensal years- the years between decennial censuses- the population must be estimated. This is done by taking the population at the last census, add births, subtract deaths and add or minus net migration. Since it is almost impossible to gather data on net migration, the census asks how many persons have left to live abroad and still live abroad in the last ten years. Those who left the country and returned within the 10 years will be picked up in Section 2 of the questionnaire. A brief profile of the migrants is also required to inform policy makers on who are the emigrants, in terms of age, sex, education and occupation. If we are losing our most educated people, then policymakers must seriously address this issue.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
2010 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE cont'd
Section 2 of the census questionnaire deals with Migration. The interviewers will ask the following questions:
- Place of birth
- Address in Trinidad and Tobago
- Length of stay in Trinidad and Tobago for foreign born
- Usual Residence for all persons
- Address 1 year ago, 5 years ago and in 2000 the year of the last census.
Responses to these questions assist in arriving at the count of the population and the distribution of 'usual residents' of the population. These responses would indicate:-
- who are usual residents
- where they live now
- where they lived before
- who were born abroad and what is the country of birth.
A main objective of a population census is to provide a reliable count of the population. The count can be based on all persons present in the country or on all usual residents.
This Section of the Census Questionnaire facilitates the count of all usual residents and provides planners and policy makers with the number of usual residents comprising households in particular districts and their demand for services.
The information also informs on internal migration - into which areas households are moving and from where they came- pertinent information for the development of infrastructure and accessibility to goods and services.
The number of persons who were born abroad and the country of birth further describe the composition of the population by nationality.
Comparisons of this information with previous censuses provide useful information on the growth and distribution of the population by small domains for the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Friday, January 23, 2009
Description of Project
Goal - To undertake a comprehensive and accurate count of the population and collect, compile, analyse and disseminate other critical socio-economic information on all households in Trinidad and Tobago
• Completeness of Count
• Collection of quality data
• Satisfaction of users need
• Comparability of results over time
• Timely dissemination
• Confidentiality and Data Security
• Public Understanding & Acceptance
• Population Count
• Demographic Profile of the population of TT
• Other social & economic information
• Housing Stock and its characteristics
• Sample frame
• Cartographic album
• Information will be disseminated via the www and computer readable magnetic and optical media
• Published Reports
The conduct of the census is divided into 3 phases:
Pre Enumeration Activities, Enumeration and Post Enumeration:
• Pre Enumeration Phase
– Preparation of proposal including budget, census calendar, strategies for enumeration, data processing and dissemination, quality assurance and communication
– Questionnaire design & Tabulation plan
– Procurement
– Recruitment and Training
– Planning the Post Enumeration Survey
– Printing
• Enumeration
– Canvassing of all households
• Post enumeration
– Conduct of the Post Enumeration Survey
– Data Processing
– Data Dissemination
• Census proposal completed and approved by Cabinet
• Accommodation sourced
• Draft questionnaire completed for discussion by Cabinet appointed Committees
• Staff trained in Cardiff Teleform
• UNFPA Support - census management (2), data processing (1), visit by Carlos Ellis-IT Specialist, Regional GIS workshop
• Participation in Regional meetings funded by UNFPA.
Impact Of Census
• Informs policy making and planning
• Provides data on small areas
• Facilitates the estimation of demand for housing and assesses the housing stock
• Provides a frame for sampling
• Improves other statistical products- updating of business register
• Electoral boundary delineation
• Reports on MDGs
• Sourcing quality skills
• Financial constraints
• Safety issue in canvassing crime hot spots
• High 'No contact' in elite areas and gated communities
• Timely processing & dissemination
• Outdated GIS Software
• Competing demands on CSO
Monday, July 14, 2008
The 2010 Population & Housing Census is
approaching and the advertising and
promotions campaign has begun.
Recognizing your creativity & abundance of talent, we invite you to compose a jingle and slogan to be used extensively throughout the census period.
Send your entries to:
Ms. Carol Salim
Central Statistical Office
National Statistics Building
80 Independence Square
Port of Spain
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Fax: 625-3802
If you wish to sing your jingle, please send us a taped
1st Prize: a Laptop Computer
2nd Prize: a DVD Player
For further information call: 623-6834/7276/5895
Ext: 4122 & 4123
Deadline: 30th May 2009
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Please help us to promote the 2010 Population and Housing Census by composing a Census Jingle and Slogan. Invitations to participate in the competition were sent to all Secondary Schools with a deadline date of 31st, July 08. This deadline has now been extended to 30th September 08.
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The latest official retail trade figures offer Australia's biggest shopping centre owners some much-needed support.
CFS Retail said comparable specialty retail sales gained 5.5 per cent in May from a year earlier.
Westfield's Australian special retail sales over March and April were up 4.4 per cent.
Speaking at Westfield's annual meeting last week, chairman
"Retail conditions are improving and we are hopeful this trend will continue."
Considering broader market commentary about lacklustre retail sales and consumers reining in discretionary spending or opting for cheaper alternatives such as online shopping, reports of growing retail turnover may surprise. But the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show a 1.1 per cent rise in retail trade over April, following a fall of 0.3 per cent in March.
Urbis director Simon Rumbold said there was "hope and reality" in the figures.
Big regional shopping malls were the first to experience changes in discretionary spending trends, he said.
"The consumer story is a really hard one to pick, no one really knows entirely what is happening."
Mr Rumbold said that although consumers were still "fairly cautious", the retail sector was coming off a poor six-month run.
"This has to turn around some time in the next six to nine months," he said. "Whether it's now or later in the year, it's hard to pick.
"The bottom line is that there is potential for retail sales to start growing and I think shopping centre owners are hoping for a bit more growth. It's part of a positive story, but whether it's sustained growth, we will see over the coming months."
RBC strategist Michael Turner said that although spending was subdued, it was "by no means anaemic".
"Our core view has been that lower unemployment and solid income gains will gradually result in a loosening of purse strings," he said.
Darren Steinberg, the managing director of property at Colonial First State Global Asset Management, flagged that CFS Retail Property was destined for "higher returns for unit holders" thanks to "early signs of an improvement in the retail sales environment".
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The importance of the combine is debatable. Watching grown men run the 40 yard dash in spandex is not for everyone. I don't think the combine can really hurt anyone because athletes who believe they wont perform well simply don't participate in the activities.
It does help players though. The so called twiners can carve out a niche for themselves and many a GM's radar go up during the interview process whether it be good or bad.
The Browns Jordan Cameron did benefit from the combine. Cameron was considered a Basketball player turned Football player who had one year as a starter at USC. He ran and jumped well at the combine and the Browns took notice.
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b) To strengthen co-operation among PR & Communication directors and experts, and to make this a permanent forum in the particular field of Corporate Responsibility.
c) To stress the need for a sound CSR policy in corporations, and the vital importance of its connection with Corporate PR & Communication.
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Last year I changed course around Febuary from Maths to Accounting, Business Finance & Management, after about 2 months deliberation I got confirmed an offer from the Management school, so went on a leave of absence (they said it was too late to start the course that year).
Anyway, so seeing as I was a first year student again, I thought I'd be in uni accommodation again? But I've just realised I've not received anything at all. My webmail is still 'switched off' as is a lot of the things I want to use (my username has been disabled whilst I was on a leave of absence).
Has anyone else re-done their first year, and if so do they treat you like a first year? I'd just assumed I'd be lumped in with this years freshers...
Really worried now, in fact I don't have any hard proof I'm on the management course, I just remember having a meeting where the nice lady who's in charge of that kind of thing said that it was all alright now, been ok-ed by the governors or something, and she'd see my in september! (Well, october now)
As I'm sure you can imagine, I'm quite worried. I've not looked into private accomodation at all.
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Anyone I know who repeated the first year didn't get on campus accomodation. I think you really need to ring up your new department first thing tomorrow and ask them what should be happening, then ring up accomodation office and ask if you will be getting an on campus room, if you aren't then look on websites like Sinclairs and the Uni small ads for rooms and come down to York for the day to look at them. For your computing username, give them a ring as well and get them to switch you back on again, i would do that after your department. It's a lot of ringing but it's the only way to be sure!
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Oh right then. Thing is in February existing students were invited to apply for left over on-campus accomodation for 2007/2008 but it said that did not apply to students on academic leave and I can't remember why (may have been one of the staff) I was under the impression I would just be classed as a fresher again.
It's pretty tricky trying to ring them though because I've got a summer job on as well! But thanks for the info.
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You could email most of them but be prepared for a 5-10 day wait at this time of year and it sounds pretty urgent. Can you get 1/2 a day off work to sort it all out? Or an extended lunch hour.
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I called and they said only first year freshers completely get uni accommodation. I should have applied in February, though on the email i received it said those on academic leave weren't included. So who knows. Looks like I'll be looking for somewhere to stay, hope I can find somewhere with people I get on with, last year I didn't really speak to any of the people in my accommodation as they were on busy courses and were only in a couple of hours before they went to sleep!
Apparently my SNS evision thing hasn't been updated and they've lost my details so I'm up **** creek without a paddle (still says Maths). They don't really understand why though. I'll have to talk to them tomorrow, thanks so much for your help
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Salmon and Citrus Rice Bowl
Salmon is an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which benefit not only your complexion but also your heart. A slightly sweet, ginger-spiked sauce doubles as a marinade and a low-fat dressing in this dinner.
- Servings: 4
Source: Martha Stewart Living, July 2008
- 4 navel oranges
- 1/4 ounce (1-inch piece) fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced, plus 1 teaspoon finely grated
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds, crushed
- 1 tablespoon brown-rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 pound skinless salmon fillets
- 1 cup uncooked brown rice
- 5 ounces (1 1/2 cups) sugar snap peas, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/4 cup fresh mint, thinly sliced, for garnish
- 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds, for garnish
Cut away peel and pith from 2 oranges. Cut between orange membranes, and let fruit and juice fall into a bowl. Squeeze juice into bowl, and discard membranes. Cut segments into small pieces, and place in a separate bowl. Juice remaining 2 oranges, and add to juice in bowl (for a total of 1 cup).
Bring orange juice, sliced ginger, bay leaf, and coriander to a boil in a small saucepan. Cook until mixture is reduced to 2/3 cup, about 6 minutes. Let cool completely. Strain, and whisk in vinegar, soy sauce, honey, and oil.
Combine 3 tablespoons juice mixture and salmon in a resealable plastic bag, turning to coat. Refrigerate salmon and remaining juice mixture for at least 1 1/2 hours (or up to 3 hours).
Cook rice according to package instructions.
Preheat broiler. Remove salmon from marinade, and pat dry with paper towels. Discard marinade. Place fillets on a baking sheet, and broil until cooked to desired doneness, about 5 minutes for medium. Transfer to a dish. Let salmon cool slightly, and flake into bite-size pieces.
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Besides causing the animal considerable pain, chafing, if long continued, leads to the formation of a callosity.
A callosity is a circumscribed thickening of the stratum cornium.
To a youth afflicted with the callosity of sentiment, this quaint and pregnant saying appeared merely base.
On the knee is a callosity, or round patch of bare hardened skin.
In the case of the Macartney marriage I suspect this to have been the only kind—a kind of callosity, protective and numbing.
He wonders why a bare patch, and not a callosity, should not result from this innate, apparently hereditary habit.
A callosity forms and suppuration occurs under it, the pus escaping through a small hole in the centre.
We can allow for the immense confusion at Washington—the senselessness of red tape—the callosity of politicians.
They attributed the halting in the hind legs of a lamb to a callosity formed around the spinal cord.
This is accompanied with a thickening of the layers of the cuticle, which is termed a "callosity," or "corn."
callosity cal·los·i·ty (kə-lŏs'ĭ-tē)
A localized thickening and enlargement of the horny layer of the skin. Also called callus, keratoma, poroma, tyloma.


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Gate crashing
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Gate crashing, gatecrashing or party crashing is the act of attending an invitation-only event when not invited.[1] The person doing the gate crashing is known as a gate crasher.
Reasons for gate crashing include but are not limited to:
- Avoiding entry fees
- Gaining access to free food and beverages (often alcoholic)
- Gaining access to a party that they wanted to be invited but weren't
- Getting casual sex
- Taking pictures of famous people (see paparazzi)
- Having pictures taken with famous people
And more serious crimes like:
- Stalking
- Kidnapping
- Murder
- Rape
- Theft
- Fraud, and
- Causing general disruptions.[2]
Various techniques that involve blending in with the crowd[specify] can be used to gain access to some events.[3] Various measures can be taken to prevent gate crashers from gaining access such as collecting invitations at the door and employing staff to identify potential uninvited guests, but such measures can still be thwarted by a skilled gate crasher.[4]
The first "how to" gate-crashing book, Meet the Stars,[5] was written by Charlotte Laws in 1988. She went by the name Missy Laws at the time and details how she crashed dozens of celebrity-filled events, major award shows and even got past Secret Service to interview the president. Her story about Elvis was reprinted in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.[6]
Notable gate-crashing incidents[edit]
2009 White House gatecrash incident[edit]
On November 24, 2009, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, from Virginia, and Carlos Allen, from Washington D.C., independently gate-crashed the state dinner between President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.[7]
Other countries[edit]
On 7 September 2013, after media reported the results of the 2013 Australian federal elections which saw the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia Coalition, a gatecrasher and anti-coal activist gatecrashed Coalition leader and Prime Minister-designate Tony Abbott's victory speech on stage.[8]
See also[edit]
- Freeloading
- Peter Hore
- Piggybacking (security)
- Wedding Crashers – 2005 romantic comedy film
- Wedding crashing
- ^ "gate-crashing – The free dictionary". Thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "House-trash party girl blames 'hackers'". theregister.co.uk. 2007-04-13. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ^ "Top tips for gatecrashing". BBC News. 2001-12-17. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ Angel, Amanda (2007-11-15). "Time Out New York – Holiday-party crashing". Timeout.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Stars-Missy-Laws/dp/0894960024
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=MfOqWgzMNccC&pg=PT152&lpg=PT152&dq=meet+the+stars+missy+laws&source=bl&ots=W4SBWmPwLr&sig=SsYnmHmluFdTdDl7KjVeqTEbySs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YEjBVOGdC4rVoASryoLQAw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=meet%20the%20stars%20missy%20laws&f=false
- ^ Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (2009-11-26). "Washington Post – Off the list, but somehow on the South Lawn". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ Marszalek, Jessica; Jones, Gemma (8 September 2013). "Intruder upstages Tony Abbott's victory speech in major security breach". The Mercury. Retrieved 8 September 2013.


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On 8 June 2012 05:01, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: > Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes: >> On 7 June 2012 18:03, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote: >>>> Clearly, delaying checkpoint indefinitely would be a high risk choice. >>>> But they won't be delayed indefinitely, since changes cause WAL >>>> records to be written and that would soon cause another checkpoint. > >>> But that's exactly the problem - it might not be soon at all. > >> Your customer's use-case seems very narrow, and your complaint seems >> unusual to me, but couldn't you just get the customer to force >> checkpoints in a cronjob or something? CheckPointStmt will force, >> provided !RecoveryInProgress() . > > I think both you and Simon have completely missed the point. This > is not a "use case" in the sense of someone doing it deliberately. > This is about data redundancy, ie, if you lose your WAL through some > unfortunate mishap, are you totally screwed or is there a reasonable > chance that the data is on-disk in the main data store? I would guess > that the incidents Robert has been talking about were cases where EDB > were engaged to do crash recovery, and were successful precisely because > PG wasn't wholly dependent on the WAL copy of the data. Apart from the likely point that hint bits exist on disk... > This project has always put reliability first. It's not clear to me why > we would compromise that across-the-board in order to slightly reduce > idle load in replication configurations. Yeah, it's probably not a > *large* compromise ... but it is a compromise, and one that doesn't > seem to me to be very well-advised. We can fix the idle-load issue > without compromising on this basic goal; it will just take more than > a ten-line patch to do it. So now the standard for my patches is that I must consider what will happen if the xlog is deleted? Tell me such a rule is applied uniformly to all patches then I would be happy. I will revoke, not because of the sense in this argument but because you personally ask for it. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Facebook's initial public offering is trading bait that regulators are warning Wall Street not to manipulate in a way that could jeopardize the high-profile deal. Traders on Facebook's exchange-of-choice -- Nasdaq OMX ( NDAQ) -- received an email Wednesday warning that any unusual activity in an IPO would violate Nasdaq rules and federal securities laws. "
Members are reminded that they must comply with all applicable regulations, including FINRA 5131 and prohibitions against manipulative trading behavior," according to the email alert from Nasdaq. FINRA 5131 is a rule that prohibits traders from an assortment of shady practices, including investment banks "spinning" underpriced IPO shares to clients in return for business or traders flooding an IPO with underpriced market orders that could force a halt on trading. Nasdaq also announced in the email that it plans to continue several "IPO testing" programs on Wednesday in order to make sure computer systems could handle different stress scenarios for an IPO. The exchange said it would send out quotes on a placeholder security with the ticker symbol "ZWZZT" at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. 10 Stocks to 'Like' When Facebook Goes Public >> Regulatory paranoia is at a peak as Facebook prepares to launch its multi-billion dollar IPO Friday and exchange professionals are making sure the IPO goes off without a hitch. "It's not clear what the market reaction will be and nobody wants another BATS IPO fiasco," said James Angle, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. "There will be a lot of attention to the opening." Trading glitches at the high-speed electronic exchange on March 23 forced BATS to withdraw its much-anticipated IPO. The same glitch also caused a brief, but dramatic, drop in Apple ( APPL) shares. Angle added that while a complete failure of the Facebook IPO on a BATS level is unlikely, there are numerous other ways the stock can face problems, especially given the pre-trading interest in the stock. "What if volume collapses the system or if the single-stock circuit breakers kicks in? Nobody knows how many will be lined up to buy the shares," Angle said. "As with any IPO the first couple minutes is a wild ride as everybody tries to find right price."


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1The high school kid who used Youtube and landed a prom date with a Maxim model
2The gay teen who received a Prom Queen crown
Garcia, 18, said he saw fliers advertising the prom and the election but they didn't specify that the queen must be female. He thought the role would suit him better than prom king. "I don't wish to be a girl, I just wish to be myself." (Source)
3The girl who went to Prom wearing a skimpy dress and was forced to leave handcuffed
4The dead girl who got banned from Prom for poor attendance
5The school who had Firefox running for Prom Queen
6The Prom night that was shut down because a female student wanted to bring her girlfriend
Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba, recently challenged a school policy prohibiting her from bringing her girlfriend as her date to the prom. McMillen, who is a lesbian, and the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, urged school officials to reverse the policy both on McMillen's choice of date and attire. She also wanted to wear a tuxedo to the dance. School officials told McMillen that she could not bring her sophomore girlfriend to the prom and also told her she could not wear a tuxedo. The school then circulated a memo that prohibited same-sex dates. ACLU is now filing a suit against the school. (Source)
7The girl who wasn't admitted to Prom because her date reeked pot, only it was prescribed medical marihuana
8The 84 year-old war veteran who finally got to attend Prom
9The boy who used Digg.com to ask a girl to the Prom and was rejected
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Bello Hot Pepper Sauce
Tags: hot sauce, Scotch Bonnet
Any good chilihead knows that trying different pepper sauces is the best part of loving the pepper flavor and developing your taste buds for the taste differences. It is amazing the different types of flavors that you can create with simple ingredients and some kicking hot peppers. Here is an interesting one that you may want to check out called Bello.
This hot sauce is manufactured by Perry W. Bellot, LTD which is a family owned business that has been making their famous hot sauce for over 40 years. The Bello Hot Pepper sauce is one of the most popular hot sauces used throughout the Caribbean.
The Bello Hot Pepper Sauce is made with Scotch Bonnet Peppers, mustard; onions; vinegar; salt and spices that are native to the Dominica. If you like it HOT and SPICY then this sauce is for you because the sauce is made with one of the world's hottest pepper…the Scotch Bonnet! This is a chunky version of their Special Pepper sauce and includes the seeds of the pepper too (see below).
The Bello Company also manufactures two other flavors that are sure to excite your taste buds and they are the Special Pepper Sauce that includes the Scotch Bonnet, Papaya and local spices. This is the Milder version of the Scotch Bonnet sauce, if you will. Another Bello's Sauce is called The Green Isle and it contains Cayenne peppers and it is a creole twist to a Louisiana Cajun style hot pepper sauce.
The Bello Pepper Sauces can be used in a variety of fish, meat, poultry and even in delicious cocktail drinks. The company also makes a line of fruit drink concentrates, jams, beverages and bay rum.
If you are looking for something different, try the Bello Hot Pepper Sauce for a change and enjoy a taste of the island with your next meal!
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DACS had the pleasure of working in Oban, unofficially the "Gateway to the Isles" and described as "endearingly enchanting" on the Oban Website.
The new
Village Hall on Seil Island presented what seems to be a classic
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be made. Music also suffered; dancing was virtually impossible as the beat was
subsumed in the reverberation.
The solution required absorbers that could handle 5 a side footballs on the walls, and the ceiling height could not be reduced (by hanging absorbers); we had to maintain the necessary height for the badminton players. To achieve good control of the reverb, absorbers were required on both the walls and ceilings.
We used custom panels specifically designed to fix easily to the internal uprights (i.e. the vertical studs) of the plasterboard walls, and these were fitted by a local builder's team. The colours were selected by the Hall's committee to match rather than contrast with the wall colours, except on the bright red feature wall at one end. The result was a major improvement; all the users seem to be very happy with the result.
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Blaming Unemployment Insurance for Unemployment
JPMorgan Chase released what it called an economic research report (pdf) last week that purports to show that extended unemployment insurance payments cause higher unemployment and longer-term unemployment.
the availability of these benefits has almost certainly played a significant role in the record rise in the average duration of unemployment. Consequently, they have also had a role in the stunning rise in the unemployment rate over the last two years.
Noting the current correlation of high unemployment, longer average duration of unemployment and expanded unemployment benefits, the giant, previously bailed-out Wall Street bank asserts:
The magnitude of these effects has been the subject of a vast amount of econometric investigation. The variable most studied is the degree to which unemployment duration increases for a given change in the maximum available duration of jobless benefits. Most estimates of this elasticity have centered on a finding that an increase of one week in the availability of benefits raises the average duration of unemployment by 0.2 week.
Taking an assumed national average of an additional 47 weeks of unemployment insurance payments to jobless workers, the report continues:
Based on the widely accepted 0.2 estimate of the responsiveness of average duration to the length of benefit availability, the 47 extra weeks of benefits could be expected to increase average unemployment spells by 9.4 weeks. Since only about half of the unemployed are eligible to receive unemployment benefits (the other half generally have not met the requirements for sufficient prior employment or lost their jobs through layoffs), the total average unemployment duration would be expected to increase by 4.7 weeks.
Got that? The report goes on, then, to extrapolate that the increased duration of unemployment they assert is caused by extended unemployment insurance is itself the cause of a 30% increase in the unemployment rate:
—this would imply a 30% increase in the unemployment rate. Starting from an unemployment rate before the recession of roughly 5%, this means that increased benefits can account for 1.5%-pt of the subsequent increase in the unemployment rate.
Never mind that mass joblessness and record rates of long-term unemployment both preceded the extension of additional jobless benefits.
This kind of cockamamie pseudo-science would just be laughable if it weren't a potentially dangerous threat to the survival of millions of unemployed Americans. You can bet that bank lobbyists and their conservative cronies are circulating this report and others like it to gin up opposition to extending unemployment benefits.
And this from JPMorgan Chase, the firm that helped bring down Lehman Brothers, helped precipitate the Great Recession resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs, and whose CEO Jamie Dimon meanwhile took home a $17.6 million compensation package last year.
Reading this JPMorgan Chase report reminded me of a wonderful little book that my 7th grade math teacher distributed to the class. By a terrific writer Darrell Huff, it's titled How to Lie with Statistics and was first published by Norton in 1954.
Still available in print, the book introduced me to the notion that correlation does not imply causation — meaning that just because two things occur together it doesn't imply that one causes the other.
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George Molnar's elegant wit skewered Sydney's urban planners and gave the city a sophistication ahead of its time.
If George Molnar were a cocktail, he would be a dry martini with a twist. His best cartoons were wry, sharp, direct - with a kick. They reflected Sydney from the 1950s to early 1980s, holding a mirror to the middle classes. Molnar gently ridiculed the pretensions of the bourgeoisie, but he did so with style. He understood and helped set the tone of his times.
Born in Hungary, he moved to Sydney in 1939 and witnessed its transition from an outpost of the British Commonwealth to a more vibrant city, growing upwards and spreading ever outwards. His view of Sydney was one of an outsider, unhindered by sentimentality.
In the words of the art historian Joan Kerr, a contributor to a new book on his work, Human Scale in Architecture, he "simultaneously inflated and punctured Sydney's complacent conviction that it (alone) had the most fashionable, cultural and enviably international lifestyle in the Southern Hemisphere."
But Molnar didn't sneer. Through the pages of the Herald, his main medium for 30 years, he gently chided as he engaged in serious urban planning issues, took up the cause of Joern Utzon's designs for the Opera House and worked as an architect and academic. All the while he expressed his despair at the way high-rise developments threatened the human scale of the Georgian and Victorian city of Sydney.
His black-and-white figures are spare and elegant, prancing across the page like so many dancers. Their legs extend in balletic positions, or neatly cross at the ankles. Molnar's people speak volumes in simple lines. Feet point, hips jut, backs sway, hands clutch foreheads and shoulders hunch. Art gallery patrons clasp wineglasses, while bureaucrats plant their feet foursquare to the ground.
As Kerr writes, his characters are more than line drawings, they are "real, diverse and fallible". Certain Molnar caricatures appear often, among them architects scribbling at tables; artists in little black boots, dark glasses and beards; gamin girls in leotards, cut-off tights and ponytails; Mr and Mrs Suburbia in sensible hats; eastern suburbs matrons in '50s stoles and clutch bags; white-coated boffins sporting three or four pens in their pockets; ladies in neat Jackie O dresses and with bouffant hair.
Molnar's men and women represent a section of mid-20th-century Sydney, yet they also conjure up other memories and images: Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face, Cole Porter songs, the cartoons of Jules Feiffer and the elegant black-and-white art of the Herald illustrator Michael Fitzjames.
As for Molnar's Sydney, he might have said, along with the humorist Ogden Nash:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
Molnar's main theme is the destruction of beautiful urban views through the avarice of developers or the stupidity of planners. In his cartoons, the buildings of Greenway peep from behind glass and concrete monstrosities; terrace houses jostle with modernist squares; the overhead railway creeps like a monster around Circular Quay, and neighbours stare into the apartments of neighbours in high-rise blocks in inner-city suburbs.
But Molnar's Sydney is not the whole of the city. His audience was the readership of the Herald, where his cartoons appeared from 1954. Michael Fitzjames points out that "Molnar took a particular educated bourgeoisie as his presumed audience".
He lived in the east, and retained the air of a displanted European. His cartoons reflect the Hungarian aspect of the eastern suburbs of the 1950s to 1970s, when Double Bay was an enclave of Continental delis, rissoles, "snowball" cakes, the Cosmopolitan restaurant (where a pianist played waltzes for customers seated on velvet banquettes), fashion boutiques with European imports, preparations for the Black and White Ball and Hungarian women standing behind shop counters in white sandals, inquiring of female customers "Lady is waiting?".
Molnar resembled his tall, self-contained, black-garbed figures. A cartoon by Bernard Hesling, drawn in 1960, shows a dapper Molnar, pipe in mouth, spine erect, in bow tie, bowler hat and pinstripe trousers.
Like his subjects, he was a professional man devoted to cultural pursuits. He could joke about others of his milieu because he knew them so well.
But Molnar was first an architect. Cartooning, he said, was just a way of expressing himself as one. He practised in the 1930s and continued to work as an architect in Australia into the 1950s, when he submitted a design for the Sydney Opera House. It was inspired by the Manly ferry - a floating island of light dominated by a square tower resembling a giant smokestack.
Luckily, it did not win and Molnar became one of Utzon's greatest supporters, with his most famous cartoon showing the Danish architect walking away from his completed Opera House. The caption read: "Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there."
After working for six Herald editors and drawing an estimated 3500 cartoons, Molnar retired in 1984 and died 14 years later.
What would Molnar mock in Sydney today? Perhaps those moving billboards on the city's "outdoor furniture", repro Federation bus shelters, overhead walkways, the wharf developments, the conversion of so many city buildings into apartment blocks, the endless digging of tunnels, the growing Americanisation of our footpath cafe society and the tourist strip of Oxford Street in Paddington.
Inspired by an exhibition of Molnar's work presented in the City Exhibition Space two years ago, Human Scale in Architecture is as elegant as the cartoonist's art with its colours of mint, aqua and Post-it note yellow. Its cover is a direct reference to the book cover Molnar designed for an album of his own drawings. Its title? Insubstantial Pageant.
Human Scale in Architecture: George Molnar's Sydney, by Jo Holder, Robert Freestone and Joan Kerr, is published by Craftsman House, $66.
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The Apple TV, which Steve Jobs famously once described as "a hobby," has been given a promotion. When you shop in Apple's online store, the Apple TV is now a top-of-the-page category of its own.
For now, all you see there is the Apple TV itself and its remote – unlike the other categories, where you see multiple devices: an iMac and a laptop; two iPods; different iPhones; three iPod models. But Apple's promoting of the Apple TV makes it clear that the company will be turning the device into something much more important.
It's doubtful that Apple will increase the product line; there's no need for two different Apple TVs. Since the device merely streams content – unlike its first couple of generations, when it contained a hard drive – there's no need to have a second model with more (or less) storage. Unless Apple is planning an actual TV set (which I doubt), there may never be a second product in that line.
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