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I'm so excited to finally tell you about something I've been working on A LOT lately. I've mentioned here and there (for over two years) that I'm writing a GSD (Get Shit Done) book. If you don't know, GSD is a column that I've had on my blog for four years. Sometimes (like lately) I let it go dormant, to create the demand for it (don't worry, it's coming back). It has been by far the most popular series on my site in the past 9 years.
It's been almost five years since I launched the GSD concept on my blog in 2012. Back then my site was still called MIMI+MEG, and I had dubbed 2012 The Year of Getting Shit Done which is where the whole idea for the GSD column came from. I wrote a few posts with downloadable worksheets about how to break your goals up into smaller chunks, and another about cleaning out your wardrobe. They were simple posts and PDFs but they got repinned a lot on Pinterest and were really popular posts on my site at the time. So you can see, I've been on this GSD mission for a long time.
During that time I was in the first years of being an entrepreneur. I knew there were lots of smart people with really good processes and tips about productivity and I wanted to know how they got shit done, which is why I started the column. I can definitely say I've learned some great tips from my GSD interviews, several of which I still do to this day.
After seeing the success of the column, I turned the concept into an in-person GSD workshop. The early version of that workshop focused on getting shit done in your home, closet, digital, and work life. After several more years of research, entrepreneurism, and my own trial & error, I expanded the workshop into something deeper. That second generation of the workshop started the framework for the GSD book.
When I started writing the GSD book a few years ago I realized that the first version of the workshop — the organization of your home, closet, digital, and work life didn't really make sense with the new version of the workshop. I thought it was much better described as something else, and could be made into its own thing. That thing turned out to be The Life Edit. The first book in The Life Edit series came out last September, it focuses on your closet and wardrobe. The official tagline is The Ultimate Guide to Editing the Clutter Out of Your Closet and Creating a Wardrobe You Love.
I don't know about you but I used to have a hard time getting rid of certain pieces of clothing. I used to hang on to way too much stuff that I never wore, and it looked like I had a closet full of clothes, but I only wore 20% of them. So I came up with my method — which is in the book — to help myself pare down my own closet, and now, help you do the same.
You can read more about The Life Edit here and get the digital or physical copy of it, but I felt the need to put all of this into context before getting into the rest of the GSD evolution which led to the birth of this online course.
So after I extracted what would be part of The Life Edit series, I finished writing the bulk of the newest version of the GSD book. It didn't feel complete and I kept tinkering with it. Once it was done, I didn't feel like it was something I could just release into the world without any instruction or accountability for the readers. I really felt as though the GSD book would be much better and more valuable as an online course.
Mind you I was already done writing the book (which took over 2 years), and then I decided to do 10x more work to put it into the form of an online course.
But I've got a curve ball for you, I'm not calling the course GSD. I just didn't feel like the term GSD or get shit done really encompassed what this online course is all about. It's much much deeper than just getting shit done. I just don't think it fits with what the course became. Even though it all started with the GSD column, then the GSD workshop, and even GSD notepads, it evolved into something else. And while the title GSD makes sense for part of the course, it doesn't make sense for the overall name.
Your Ideal Year
So what is the name? Well you might have gleaned it from the title and subhead. It is called YOUR IDEAL YEAR — 2 Weeks to Your Ideal 2017.
It could also be called Your Ideal Life, because we are going to go that far in the course, but life can be such an overwhelming word and I don't want you to think that this course is overwhelming. It's not.
It will however, be challenging (in a good way). You will have to be really honest with yourself and force yourself to take the time to think and come to terms with all the things going on in your head about your life — but we are going to focus a lot on the next 12 months and how you can make this coming YEAR as ideal as possible while on your way to your ideal life.
You might be wondering, if the course isn't about GSDing, then what is it about? So here's your answer.
In the Your Ideal Year course you will be walked through taking a deep dive into where you are at in your life and why, what your true passions, skills, and values are, what you want your ideal life to look like, how to set better goals, create and keep good habits, take an intense look at your plans for 2017, and then help you achieve your ideal year with tools, methods, and strategies that you can continue using forever.
I promise it's not cheesy. The course and the tools I will give you are practical and immediately actionable to your life as it is right now. The course doesn't have any woowoo elements. I'm not going to tell you that something magic will happen if you just write down what you want your life to look like.
But don't just take it from me:
"Meg's course was full of applicable tips on how to be more productive both personally and professionally. She shares quotes, resources, and methods that help you change the way you work and live for the better. The exercises throughout the course challenge you to think about how you spend your time and what your values are so you can ensure you are spending your energy and time in a more useful way that serves you and your priorities. Compared to other workshops and conferences, Meg's course definitely has the most value and immediate impact towards creating lasting changes in my life and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to improve their career and daily routines!"
— Sadie, SKC Marketing
"I have never (ever!) walked away from a course feeling as inspired as I felt after taking Meg's course. Meg gives you tangible tools for tackling life. If you're feeling overwhelmed and in need of a reset button, this is one of the best investments you can make."
— Virginia, Virginia Lucas Hart
Your Ideal Year Course Details
If you are new to online courses, let me give you some info.
The course is made up of 6 parts. Each part has anywhere from 2 to 7 lessons. Each lesson is made up of a combination of text, PDFs, videos, worksheets, and checklists. You can choose whether you prefer to type into the workbook, or print it out and write everything out on paper.
To learn more about the course and enroll — head over to the course site HERE.


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Places - Rangat and Long Island
Rangat is a 1070 sq. km. large island in Middle Andaman with pristine beaches, waterfalls, and interesting islands. This island has a population of 38815 people spread across 75 census villages and 14 gram panchayats. The population is primarily made up of people from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Fisheries and cultivation are the two primary occupations of people in this island.
Entry into Rangat is chiefly from Port Blair and by ferries from Havelock, Neil and Long Island. Therefore, tourists have to enter Andamans through Port Blair and travel to Rangat by road or sea.
Rangat is a distance of 93 km by road; morning bus services are available between Port Blair and Rangat. The travel time is about 6-7 hours. Road to Rangat from Port Blair passes through Jarawa reserves on the west coasts of South and Middle Andaman.
The island is 50 nautical miles by sea and shipping services are available for 4-5 days in a week. The travel time is about 4-5 hours.

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Here are 3 new pieces that I've started. The first one is another exercise out of Masterful Color. I just love this book and I'm beginning to really enjoy the actual application of the color. Where I once thought it would be tedious, it's now becoming a kind of meditation. I find I look forward to seeing what the color will do when I layer it. The second one is something I've had in mind for awhile now. An extreme close-up of the front tire on my Cannondale mountain bike. I think the knobbies on the tire just scream design. So we'll see how that's going to turn out. The last one is another sketch of my '66 Mustang. Y'all really didn't think you'd seen the last of my car, did you? I just love drawing shiny things and this one has lots of shine. The chrome wheels, the badges and then the reflection of the badges in the paint on the fender. I'm going to be trying that technique with the charcoal and graphite pencils that I talked about in a previous post. I don't know which of these 3 will win out and capture my sole attention to completion, but I have my work cut out for me for at least the next 3 weeks.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
3 new WIPs
Posted by phthaloblu at Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Labels: drawings, Masterful Color, Mustang
5 comments:
- Alex said...
The pear blew my mind literally! And I am a sucker of WIPs anyway :) I can't wait to see more progress!
- January 19, 2010 at 11:44 PM
- nanke's stuff said...
Your work is amazing. I was also struck by the pear. It'll be fun to see where you go next. nancy
- January 20, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Phyllis said...
The pear is certainly striking - my goodness, the design for the bicycle has me fascinated, and I'm looking forward to seeing that!
- January 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Ramona Davidson said...
Lovely sketches. Can't wait to see the end results. The pear is awesome.
- January 20, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Ann said...
All terrific starts! I'll be looking forward to seeing these progress. I find drawing all those layers of color with colored pencil meditative too :-)
- January 20, 2010 at 4:18 PM
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Photographer's Note
The sighting of the Madlenerhaus (1986m) marked the near end of a beautiful day of hiking from Vermuntsee-Kromertal-Saarbrücker Hütte-Tschifernella-Madlenerhaus-Silvrettasee. Took this image during a short rest by the beautiful and clear stream. A short while later and from higher elevation I saw plenty of fish swimming about. It made me wonder how great the fishing would be.
First opened in 1882.
Lies off the Silvretta high alpine road in a quiet location close to the Silvretta lake/dam, surrounded by a panorama of three thousand meter peaks.
Saw photos of American author Hemingway on the wall. I guess Hemingway was there too. There is in fact a lounge named after him at the hut.
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Budapestman (82620) 2009-12-12 4:11
Hi Latiff,
What a sight. This it is not possible to present the beautiful place at this with a more expressive photo. The composition demonstrates the distances and the depths wonderfully, the tiny building is the chattiest one regarding the sizes however. Romanticism streams from the photo. Great shot! Have a nice weekend!
Buin (42532) 2009-12-12 7:28
Hallo Latiff!
I'm enthusiastic! You know, why. Your photo shows Madlenerhaus from an exceptional and uncommon angle.
It looks like being situated in absolute calmness. I like this composition with the natural foreground - this little gulch, very much.
Greetings from cold Germany - with some snowflakes!
edge (7409) 2009-12-12 8:53
Hi Latiff, Wonderful shot of this area. I know it from driving the Silvertta roadway. You have captured a delightful view of this house and the beautiful mountains. Great massive rock with the earth tones reflecting in the water. I would guess there is excellent fishing here. I fished in Austria for many years, but mostly in the Salzkammergut and Oberoesterrich. Regards, Roger.
edal (6804) 2009-12-13 14:42
Nelo Latiff!
It's a very fine capture that gives good idea of the place. It's of great interest to me - some time ago I've seen it from a higher elevation, but could not see any fish;-))
Remarkable colors, the excellent dof with the peak on the horizon, and the reflection in the water, make your photo a masterpiece of mountain viewing.
Best wishes,
Urs (14082) 2009-12-15 21:18
Hi Latiff
Thanks for introducing me to the Madlenerhaus. I had no idea, that it exists, however I was not so often in Austria. You are discovering parts of Europe which I have never seen. Why not, that's the best what we can get from globalization, to mix with different cultures. The house is towering above the steep valley, it looks great up there, but trekking there can take many hours, isn't it? Fine composition with vibrant colors and high sharpness. Well done
Best regards
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- Respect the rights of other students to receive an education and not interfere with it.
- Respect all property belongings to the school and to their peers.
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I. What Is Pornography?
The term "pornography" is a generic, not a legal term. As noted by the Supreme Court in its Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) obscenity case:
"Pornography" derives from the Greek (harlot, and graphos, writing). The word now means "1: a description of prostitutes or prostitution 2. a depiction (as in a writing or painting) of licentiousness or lewdness: a portrayal of erotic behavior designed to cause sexual excitement." Webster's 3rd New Intern. Dictionary [Unabridged 1969].II. What Is Obscenity?
The term "obscenity" is a legal term, and in Miller v. California, supra the Supreme Court established a three-pronged test for determining whether a "work" (i.e., material or a performance) is obscene and therefore unprotected by the First Amendment. To be obscene, a judge and/or a jury must determine:
First, that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; AND second, that the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, as measured by contemporary community standards, "hardcore" sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable law; AND third, that a reasonable person would find that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political and scientific value.
Side note: Typical "hardcore pornography" (e.g., a magazine, DVD or Web site) consists of little if anything more than one depiction of hardcore sex after the other (i.e., it's "wall-to-wall" sex).III. Obscenity Is Not Protected By The First Amendment A. First Amendment was not intended to protect "every utterance"
The First Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law …prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press."
But as Justice Brennan observed in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 483 (1957): "[I]t is apparent that the unconditional phrasing of the First Amendment was not intended to protect every utterance." In Roth, Justice Brennan also observed that the Supreme Court had "always assumed that obscenity is not protected" by the First Amendment. The Roth Court went on to hold that obscenity is "not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press."B. First Amendment intended to protect ideas and debate, not obscene materials
In the 1973 obscenity case, Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, at 34-35, the Court said:
[I]n our view, to equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitation of obscene material demeans the grand conception of the First Amendment and its high purposes in the historic struggle for freedom. It is a "misuse of the great guarantees of free speech and free press"
Rest assured that our nation's founding fathers did not lay their fortunes, sacred honor and lives on the line so that citizens could produce and distribute pornography.C. Enforcement of obscenity laws is not "censorship"
There is a difference between a prior restraint upon publication and subsequent punishment. Obscenity laws are enforced after publication. In Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 714-715 (1931), the Supreme Court said that the "main purpose" of the freedom of speech and press clause was "'to prevent all such previous restraints upon publications as had been practiced by other governments,' and they do not prevent the subsequent punishment of such as may be deemed contrary to the public welfare."
IV. Governmental Justifications For Obscenity Laws
In Paris Adult Theater I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49, 57-58 (1973), the Supreme Court identified "legitimate governmental interests" that justify a prohibition on obscene materials "even if it is feasible to enforce effective safeguards against exposure to juveniles." These include protecting the community environment, the tone of commerce, public safety, morality and family life. The Court also said there is a "right of the Nation and of the states to maintain a decent society."
Here is another list of the harms of pornography:
· Contributes to teen promiscuity and unwed teen pregnancies
· Contributes to the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS
· Contributes to the breakup of marriages
· Contributes to sexual exploitation of children and forcible rape
· Contributes to sexual trafficking in women and children
· Contributes to the erosion of decency and to the breakdown of morality
V. Federal Obscenity Laws
Federal laws relating to obscenity crimes are contained in the following titles/sections of the U.S. Code. To obtain texts of these sections, go to: http://uscode.house.gov. The 93 U.S. Attorneys (each state has at least one) enforce the Federal obscenity laws. FBI Agents, Postal Inspectors and Customs Officers investigate violations of Federal obscenity laws.
18 U.S.C. 1461 -- Mailing obscene matter 18 U.S.C. 1462 -- Importation or use of a common carrier to transport obscene matter 18 U.S.C. 1464 -- Broadcasting obscene language 18 U.S.C. 1465 -- Interstate transportation of obscene matter 18 U.S.C. 1466 -- Wholesale and retail sale of obscene matter which has been transported in interstate commerce (must be engaged in business of selling or transferring obscenity) 18 U.S.C. 1468 -- Distribution of obscene matter by cable or satellite TV 47 U.S.C. 223 -- Making an obscene communication by means of telephone
Sections 1462 and 1465 cited above also prohibit distribution of obscenity on the Internet. To report websites that may be trafficking in obscene materials, go to www.obscenitycrimes.org.
"Dealing in obscene matter" is also a predicate offense under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. (Title 18, Section 1961-1968).
VI. State Obscenity Laws
Workable statewide obscenity laws exist in 40 states. In some states, cities and counties can also enact obscenity laws. These laws can encompass both obscene materials and performances. The prosecuting attorney of each county or judicial district enforces these laws. State and local police may make arrests.
Alaska, Maine, New Mexico, Vermont, West Virginia, Montana & South Dakota do not have a statewide obscenity law. Maine, New Mexico and South Dakota do allow local control of obscenity. Statewide obscenity laws are needed in these states. In Oregon and Hawaii, the State Supreme Court invalidated [Oregon] or greatly weakened [Hawaii] obscenity laws. Amendments to the state constitution are needed.
To obtain a copy of your state obscenity law, go to www.moralityinmedia.org/nolc.VII. Other Laws Regulating Pornography and "Adult Businesses"
* Harmful-to-minors sales and display laws: intended to shield children from pornography
* Nuisance laws: allow closure of all or part of an "adult business" (e.g., a bookstore or strip joint) if prostitution or lewd conduct occur on the premises
* Open booth laws: require that the doors of "peep show booths" be removed
* Public indecency laws: require performers in commercial establishments where no alcohol is served or consumed to at least wear "pasties" and "g-strings"
* Alcoholic beverage control laws (ABC laws): prohibit nudity in bars and bottle clubs* Sex supermarket laws: restrict the number of "adult uses" that can exist at a premises
* "Adult use" zoning laws: restrict the location of "adult bookstores," strip joints, etc.
* Obscene device laws: prohibit the sale of dildos and artificial vaginas
In 2001, Morality in Media's National Obscenity Law Center (NOLC) launched the "Safe States and Cities Project" to help communities reduce the deleterious "secondary effects" associated with sexually oriented businesses. NOLC attorneys prepared case law studies (state-by-state) addressing the following problems: Nude Dancing, Peep Show Booths, Escort Services, Massage Parlors, and Swingers Clubs. To order a study, call (212) 870-3222 or write to the NOLC at the address below.
VIII. Helpful Articles
Articles on the following subjects are available at www.obscenitycrimes.org (Porn Problem & Solutions page): "How to get porn out of video stores," "What to do about mail porn," "What to do about hardcore pornography on cable/satellite," "Fighting back against 'adult' bookstores," "Zoning 'adult' businesses," "Open booth laws to curb sexually transmitted diseases," and "Nude entertainment in bars."
IX. Public Opinion
Almost three in four (73%) U.S. adults think that viewing pornographic websites and videos is morally unacceptable, according to a survey conducted in July 2006 by Harris Interactive. A survey conducted in November 2005 by Harris Interactive found that 77% adults support the Justice Department's effort to enforce federal obscenity laws. In a survey conducted in March 2004 by Wirthlin Worldwide, 82% of adults supported "vigorous enforcement of Federal laws against Internet obscenity."
Printed with permission from Morality in Media, Inc.


text: As I'm about a little over my first year of burning wood in my NC-13. I'm really digging it. But the learning curve has been interesting. This weekend is our first good cold snap of the season. I loaded the stove good yesterday morning, in preparations for the dropping temperatures. It was still about 70 degress in the house when I got home last night. Filled it up three time before I went to bed at about 11 oclock at which it was 74 degrees in the house and 9 degrees outside. Woke up at 6:30 with temps in the house around 57 degrees and 5 degrees outside. Its now about 9 am and already about 69 degrees in the house. Its suppose to get colder tonight, drop down to about 3 degrees on a clear night. But whats interesting as I started warming up the house, even with it being in the 60's it felt so much warmer, never would have felt the same with the forced air heater. But a couple things I've learned from this fall when the temperatures dipped down is , its hard to play catch up with the wood heat, as long as your ahead of the game, the NC-13 does alright. It just needs a little more attention every 3-4 hours on maximizing the temperature, at temperatures below 15 degrees. So far this year I've only fire the heater once just to make sure it still runs, will probably do it another time before the end of the year. The only question is do I move on up to a NC-30 or stay with what I have. We usually get cold snaps like this periodically through the year maybe like a total of 3 weeks worth and just fight through it. Things to ponder. But right now I'll go back to enjoying the wood heat. Awwwww. :lol:


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Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.
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Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი, IPA: [mixɛil saak'aʃvili]; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.
Involved in national politics since 1995, he became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in the November 2003 bloodless "Rose Revolution" led by Saakashvili and his political allies, Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania. He was re-elected in the Georgian presidential election on 5 January 2008. He is widely regarded as a pro-NATO and pro-West leader who spearheaded a series of political and economic reforms. In 2010, he had a 67% approval rating[2] despite being criticized by the opposition for his alleged authoritarian tendencies and electoral fraud.[3]
Some non-Georgian sources spell Saakashvili's first name via the Russian version of the name Mikhail. In Georgia, he is commonly known as "Misha," a hypocorism for Mikheil.[4]
On 2 October 2012, Saakashvili admitted defeat in Georgia's parliamentary election against Bidzina Ivanishvili in the election the day before.[5]
Early life and career
Mikheil Saakashvili was born in Tbilisi,[1] capital of the then Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, to a Georgian intelligentsia family. His father, Nikoloz Saakashvili, is a physician who practices medicine in Tbilisi and directs a local Balneological Center. His mother, Giuli Alasania, is a historian who lectures at Tbilisi State University.
During university, he served his shortened military service in 1989–1990 with the Soviet Border Troops' checkpoint unit in the Boryspil Airport in Ukraine. Saakashvili graduated from the Institute of International Relations (Department of International Law) of the Kiev State University (Ukraine) in 1992. He briefly worked as a human rights officer for the interim State Council of Georgia following the overthrow of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia before receiving a fellowship from the United States State Department (via the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program). He received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1994 and took classes at The George Washington University Law School the following year. In 1995, he also received a diploma from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
After graduation, while on internship in the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in early 1995, Saakashvili was approached by Zurab Zhvania, an old friend from Georgia who was working on behalf of President Eduard Shevardnadze to enter politics. He stood in the December 1995 elections along with Zhvania, and both men won seats in parliament, standing for the Union of Citizens of Georgia, Shevardnadze's party.
Saakashvili was chairman of the parliamentary committee which was in charge of creating a new electoral system, an independent judiciary and a non-political police force. Opinion surveys recognised him to be the second most popular person in Georgia, behind Shevardnadze. He was named "man of the year"[dubious ] by a panel of journalists and human rights advocates in 1997. In January 2000, Saakashvili was appointed Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
On 12 October 2000, Saakashvili became Minister of Justice for the government of President Shevardnadze. He initiated major reforms in the Georgian criminal justice and prisons system. This earned praise[dubious ] from international observers and human rights activists[citation needed]. But in mid-2001 he became involved in a major controversy with the State Security Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze and Tbilisi police chief Ioseb Alavidze, accusing them of profiting from corrupt business deals.
Saakashvili resigned on 5 September 2001, saying that "I consider it immoral for me to remain as a member of Shevardnadze's government." He declared that corruption had penetrated to the very center of the Georgian government and that Shevardnadze lacked the will to deal with it, warning that "current developments in Georgia will turn the country into a criminal enclave in one or two years."
In the United National Movement
Having resigned from the government and quit the Shevardnadze-run Union of Citizens of Georgia party, Saakashvili founded the United National Movement (UNM) in October 2001, a center-right political party with a touch of nationalism, to provide a focus for part of the Georgian reformists leaders. In June 2002, he was elected as the Chairman of the Tbilisi Assembly ("Sakrebulo") following an agreement between the United National Movement and the Georgian Labour Party. This gave him a powerful new platform from which to criticize the government.
Georgia held parliamentary elections on 2 November 2003 which were denounced by local and international observers as being grossly rigged. Saakashvilli claimed that he had won the elections (a claim supported by independent exit polls), and urged Georgians to demonstrate against Shevardnadze's government and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against the authorities. Saakashvili's UNM and Burdjanadze-Democrats united to demand the ouster of Shevardnadze and the rerun of the elections.
Massive political demonstrations were held in Tbilisi in November, with over 100,000 people participating and listening to speeches by Saakashvili and other opposition figures. The Kmara ("Enough!") youth organization (a Georgian counterpart of the Serbian "Otpor") and several NGOs, like Liberty Institute, were active in all protest activities. After an increasingly tense two weeks of demonstrations, Shevardnadze resigned as President on 23 November, to be replaced on an interim basis by parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze. While the revolutionary leaders did their best to stay within the constitutional norms, many called the change of government a popular coup dubbed by Georgian media as the Rose Revolution.
Saakashvili's "storming of Georgia's parliament" in 2003 "put U.S. diplomats off guard... [Saakashvili] ousted a leader the U.S. had long backed, Eduard Shevardnadze."[6] Seeking support, Saakashvili went outside the U.S. State Department. He hired Randy Scheunemann, now Sen. John McCain's top foreign-policy adviser, as a lobbyist and used Daniel Kunin of USAID and the NDI as a full-time adviser.[6]
On 24 February 2004 the United National Movement and the United Democrats had amalgamated. The new political movement was named the National Movement - Democrats (NMD). The movement's main political priorities include raising pensions and providing social services to the poor, its main base of support; fighting corruption; and increasing state revenue.
First term
On 4 January 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili won the presidential elections in Georgia with more than 96% of the votes cast, making him the youngest national president in Europe. Saakashvili ran on a platform of opposing corruption and improving pay and pensions. He has promised to improve relations with the outside world. Although he is strongly pro-Western and intends to seek Georgian membership of NATO and the European Union, he has also spoken of the importance of better relations with Russia. He faces major problems, however, particularly Georgia's difficult economic situation and the still unresolved question of separatism in the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Abkhazia regards itself as independent of Georgia and did not take part in the elections, while South Ossetia favours union with its northern counterpart in Russia.
Saakashvili was sworn in as President in Tbilisi on 25 January 2004. Immediately after the ceremony he signed a decree establishing a new state flag. On 26 January, in a ceremony held at the Tbilisi Kashueti Church of Saint George, he promulgated a decree granting permission for the return of the body of the first President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, from Grozny (Chechen Republic) to Tbilisi and renaming a major road in the capital after Gamsakhurdia. He also released 32 Gamsakhurdia supporters (political prisoners) imprisoned by the Shevardnadze government in 1993-94.
In the first months of his presidency, Saakashvili faced a major political crisis in the southwestern Autonomous Republic of Adjara run by an authoritarian regional leader, Aslan Abashidze, who largely ignored the central Georgian government and was viewed by many as a pro-Russian politician. The crisis threatened to develop into an armed confrontation, but Saakashvili's government managed to resolve the conflict peacefully, forcing Abashidze to resign on 6 May 2004. Success in Adjara encouraged the new president to intensify his efforts towards bringing the breakaway South Ossetia back under the Georgian jurisdiction. The separatist authorities responded with intense militarization in the region, that led to armed clashes in August 2004. A stalemate ensued, and despite a new peace plan proposed by the Georgian government in 2005, the conflict remains unresolved. In late July 2006, Saakashvili's government managed to deal successfully with another major crisis, this time in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge where Georgia's police forces disarmed a defiant militia led by a local warlord Emzar Kvitsiani.
Although President Saakashvili's reforms are considered to have been of mixed success, the rate of corruption in the country has drastically reduced. According to the World Bank, Georgia is named as the number one economic reformer in the world and the country ranks 11th in terms of ease of doing business- while most of the country's neighbours are ranked somewhere in the hundreds.[7]
In his foreign policy, Saakashvili maintains close ties with the U.S., as well as other NATO countries, and remains one of the key partners of the GUAM organisation. The Saakashvili-led Rose Revolution has been described by the White House as one of the most powerful movements in the modern history[8] that has inspired others to seek freedom.[9]
Economic policy
Georgia has become involved in international market transactions to a small extent, and in 2007 Bank of Georgia sold bonds at premium, when $200m five-year bond was priced with a coupon of 9 per cent at par, or 100 per cent of face value, after initially being priced at 9.5 per cent and investors pushed orders up to $600m.[10]
Foreign relations
President Saakashvili sees membership of the NATO as a premise of stability for Georgia and offered an intensified dialogue with the de facto Abkhaz and Ossetian authorities. Until the 2008 South Ossetia war, a diplomatic solution was thought to be possible. Saakashvili's administration doubled the number of its troops in Iraq, making Georgia one of the biggest supporters of Coalition Forces, and keeping its troops in Kosovo and Afghanistan to "contribute to what it describes as global security".[11]
Saakashvili's government maintains diplomatic relations with other Caucasian states and Eastern European countries, such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine. In 2004, Saakashvili visited Israel to attend the official opening of the Modern Energy Problems Research Center, and Dr. Brenda Schaffer, the director of the center, described Saakashvili as the Nelson Mandela of the 21st century.[12] In August of the same year, Saakashvili, who holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa, travelled to Israel to attend the opening of the official Week of Georgian-Jewish Friendship, held under the auspices of the Georgian President, for which the Jewish leaders were invited as honoured guests.[12]
On 12 October 2007 Saakashvili officially visited Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland, and was informed about how the autonomy is organised.[13]
Relations with the United States are good, but are complicated by Saakashvili's "volatile" behaviour. Former and current U.S. officials characterize the Georgian president as "difficult to manage". They criticize his "risky moves", moves that have often "caught the U.S. unprepared" while leaving it "exposed diplomatically".[6]
Saakashvili's ties with the U.S. go back to 1991 (see Early life and career). Biographies of Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy can be found in his office, next to biographies of Joseph Stalin and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and books on war. Seeking U.S. support, Saakashvili went outside the United States Department of State and established contacts with Sen. John McCain and forces seeking NATO expansion.[6]
Saakashvili believes that the long-term priority for the country is to advance its membership in the European Community and during a meeting with Javier Solana, he said that in contrast with new and old European states, Georgia is an Ancient European state.
Assassination attempt
On 10 May 2005, while U.S. President George W. Bush was giving a speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live hand grenade at where Saakashvili and Bush were sitting. It landed in the crowd about 65 feet (20 m) from the podium after hitting a girl and did not detonate. Arutyunian was arrested in July of that year, but before his capture he managed to kill one law enforcement agent. He was convicted of the attempted assassinations of Saakashvili and Bush and the murder of the agent, and given a life sentence.[14]
2007 crisis
Later in 2007, Georgia faced the worst crisis since the Rose Revolution. A series of anti-government demonstration were sparked, in October, by accusations of murders and corruption levelled by Irakli Okruashvili, Saakashvili's erstwhile associate and former member of his government, against the president and his allies. The protests climaxed early in November 2007, and involved several opposition groups and the influential media tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili. Although the demonstrations rapidly went downhill, the government's decision to use police force against the remaining protesters evolved into clashes in the streets of Tbilisi on 7 November. The declaration of state of emergency by the president (7 November-16) and the restriction imposed on some mass media sources led to harsh criticism of the Saakashvili government both in the country and abroad. Human Rights Watch criticised the Georgian government for using "excessive" force against protesters in November and International Crisis Group warned of growing authoritarianism.[15]
On 8 November 2007, President Saakashvili announced a compromise solution to hold early presidential elections for 5 January 2008. He also proposed to hold a plebiscite in parallel to snap presidential elections about when to hold parliamentary polls – in spring as pushed for by the opposition parties, or in late 2008. Several concessions in the election code were also made to the opposition.[16]
On 23 November 2007, the ruling United National Movement party officially nominated Saakashvili as its candidate for the upcoming elections. Pursuant to the Constitution of Georgia, Saakashvili resigned on 25 November to launch his pre-election campaign for early presidential polls.[17][18]
Second term
Changes in the Cabinet
Saakashvili publicly announced about his plans of modernising the Cabinet of Georgia well before Georgian presidential elections. Shortly after being re-elected, the president formally re-appointed the Prime Minister of Georgia Lado Gurgenidze and asked him to present a renewed cabinet to the Parliament of Georgia for final approval.
Gurgenidze changed most ministers, leaving Ivane Merabishvili, controversial Minister for Home Affairs, Defence Minister David Kezerashvili and Minister of Finance Nika Gilauri on their former positions. Gia Nodia was appointed as the Minister of Education and Science. Zaza Gamcemlidze, former director of Tbilisi Botanic Garden, took over the position of the Minister of Human Resources and Nature Protection. Famous archaeologist, and already the eldest minister in the cabinet, Iulon Gagoshidze was appointed on a newly designated position of the Minister of State for Diasporas.
Parliamentary elections held during Saakashvili's second term were condemned by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe election monitoring mission for being marred by ballot stuffing, violence against opposition campaigners, uncritical coverage of the president and his party from the state-controlled media, and public officials openly campaigning for the president's party.[2]
On 28 October 2008, Mikheil Saakashvili proposed Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian Ambassador to Turkey for the premiership. According to the President, Gurgenidze had initially agreed to serve only for a year and that Georgia was facing new challenges which needed new approach. The Parliament of Georgia approved Mgaloblishvili as the premier on 1 November 2008.
In 2009 (2009 Georgian demonstrations), 2011 (2011 Georgian protests) and 2012 (2012 Georgian protests) protests against Saakashvili spread across Georgia.
Georgia–Russia relations
On February 22, 2008 Saakashvili held an official meeting[when?] with the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, in his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. The presidents discussed the issues of aviation regulations between the two countries.[citation needed] This was Putin's last meeting as the President of Russia, having been succeeded by Dimitry Medvedev.
However, a series of clashes between Georgian and South Ossetian forces resulted in Saakashvili ordering an attack on Tskhinvali. In response, the Russian army invaded South Ossetia, later followed by the invasion of Georgia proper. The two counterparts were led to a ceasefire agreement and a six-point peace plan, due to the French President's mediation. On 26 August the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a decree recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. On August 29, 2008, in response to Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze announced that Georgia had broken diplomatic relations with Russia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds Saakashvili responsible for the 2008 South Ossetia war, and states that Saakashvili is responsible for the collapse of the Georgian state.[19] Medvedev has stated "(a)s soon as Georgia gets a new leader we will have every opportunity to restore ties."[20]
2004 presidential election
The 2004 presidential election were carried out on 4 January 2004. The election was an outcome of the bloodless Rose Revolution and a consequent resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze. It is well known for a very high level of electoral turnout and also for the number of votes cast for one particular presidential candidate — Mikheil Saakashvili (96%). All other candidates received less than 2% of the votes. In total, 1,763,000 eligible voters participated in the election.
2008 presidential election
On 5 January 2008, an early presidential election, was held nationwide with the exception of a highland village Shatili, where the polling station was not opened due to the high levels of snowfall. In a televised address, President Saakashvili had proposed to hold the election earlier than called for by the Georgian constitution in order to resolve the political tension surrounding opposition-led demonstrations, their suppression by the government on November 7, 2007, and the closure of the most popular Opposition television network, Imedi. President Saakashvili said in his Presidential address that "these elections will be held according to our timing, and not that our ill-wishers." of the votes.
2009 opposition demonstrations and armed mutiny
The pressure against Saakashvili intensified in 2009, when the opposition launched mass demonstrations against Saakashvili's rule. On May 5, 2009, Georgian police said large-scale disorders were planned in Georgia of which the failed army mutiny was part. According to the police, Saakashvili's assassination had also been plotted.[21] Opposition figures dispute the claim of an attempted mutiny and instead say that troops refused an illegal order to use force against opposition demonstrators[22]
Journey to Polish presidential funeral
18 April 2010 Saakashvili, despite an ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, because of which airspace over most of Europe has been closed, made his way to Polish president L.Kaczynski's funeral. Dozens of foreign mourners had had their flights cancelled. Mikheil Saakasvhili was flying from the USA and first landed in Portugal, then Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania and finally found himself in Kraków airport, just on time to meet the funeral conduct walking to Wawel Cathedral.[23][24]
On 27 March 2006 the government announced that it had prevented a nation-wide prison riot plotted by criminal kingpins. The police operation ended with the deaths of 7 inmates and at least 17 injuries. While the Parliamentary opposition has cast doubts over the official version and demanded an independent investigation, the ruling party has been able to vote down such initiatives.[25]
In November 2007, Saakashvili came under criticism for dispersing with rubber bullets and tear gas hundreds of protesters who were blocking Tbilisi's main transport artery, Rustaveli Avenue.[26] The demonstrations started as protest against the arrest of two well-known sportsmen accused in blackmail but soon grew into a demonstration against the central authorities. 25 people were arrested including 5 members of opposition parties.[27] In November 2007 another series of demonstrations forced Saakashvili to set the pre-scheduled presidential elections for 5 January 2008.[16]
The deceased Georgian businessman Arkady Patarkatsishvili claimed that pressure had been exerted on his financial interests after Imedi Television broadcast several accusations against officials. On 25 October 2007, former defense minister Irakli Okruashvili accused the president of planning Patarkatsishvili's murder.[28][29][30] Okruashvili was detained two days later on charges of extortion, money laundering, and abuse of office.[31] However, in a videotaped confession released by the General Prosecutor's Office on 8 October 2007, in which Okruashvili pleaded guilty to large-scale bribery through extortion and negligence while serving as minister, he retracted his accusations against the president and said that he did so to gain some political benefit and that Badri Patarkatsishvili told him to do so.[32] Okruashvili's lawyer and other opposition leaders said his retraction had been made under duress.[33]
Patarkatsishvili's opposition television station Imedi was shut down in November 2007 after the authorities have accused it of complicity with the plot to overthrow the elected government. The channel resumed broadcasts a few weeks following the incident, but did not cover news or talk shows until after the election.[34] Subsequently the station was sold on to supporters of the Saakashvili government[35] and some Georgian journalists have called for the station to be handed back.[36]
In the 2010 study Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way cite various media and human rights reports to describe Saakashvili's Georgia as a "competitive authoritarian" (i.e., a formally democratic but essentially non-democratic) state.[37]
In September, 2012, during Saakashvili's presidency, a video taken inside Tbilisi prison Gldani #8 showing prisoners being beaten and sodomized was released to the public.[38]
Georgian Minister of Correction, Probation and Legal Assistance, Khatuna Kalmakhelidze was forced to resign over the scandal.[39] Human rights organizations including the U.N. Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement expressing outrage over the video[40] and The U.N. Office for the High Commissioner.[41]
Response to criticism
In spite of these criticisms, Saakashvili's government has been lauded for making "striking improvements" in the fight against corruption.[42][43] In addition, the U.S. State Department noted that during 2005 "the government amended several laws and increased the amount of investigations and prosecutions reducing the amount of abuse and ill-treatment in pre-trial detention facilities". The status of religious freedom also improved due to increased investigation and prosecution of those harassing followers of non-traditional faiths.[44][45]
The scrupulousness of Patarkatsishvili's political opposition toward the Georgian president has been questioned by the Jamestown Foundation's political analyst Vladimir Socor who attributed the businessman's discontentment to Saakashvili's anti-corruption reforms, which "had severely curtailed Patarkatsishvili's scope for doing business in his accustomed, post-Soviet 1990s-style ways."[46] Patarkatsishvili - who had fled the Russian authorities after allegations of fraud - was called "a state criminal" by Saakashvili, who accused him of treason while refusing to admit to any of his accusations.[47]
Personal life
Saakashvili married Dutch-born Sandra Roelofs, whom he met in 1993. The couple has two sons, Eduard (born July 21, 1995) and Nikoloz (born December 19, 2005).[48] Eduard claimed, in June 2011, the world record for speed typing on an iPad.[49]
Apart from his native Georgian, Saakashvili speaks fluent English, French, Russian, and Ukrainian,[50][51] and has some command of Ossetian and Spanish.[52][53]
Saakashvili was played by Cuban-American Hollywood actor Andy García in the 2010 Hollywood film 5 Days of War by Finnish-American film director Renny Harlin.[54] The film tells the story of Saakashvili and the events during the 2008 South Ossetia war.[55]
Further reading
- Peter Savodnik (January 2009). "Essay: Georgian Roulette: Mikheil Saakashvili beckons from the brink". Harper's Magazine 318 (1904): 36–42.
- "President of Georgia". president.gov.ge. http://www.president.gov.ge/?l=E&m=1&sm=3. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- Opinion poll show a majority support Saakashvili and his policies Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
- Opposition claims Georgia president rigged election victory
- Orlov, Alexander Arseniyevich (December 2008). "The Echo of Tskhinval". International Affairs (Minneapolis/Moscow: East View Information Services) 54 (6): 68. ISSN 0130-9641. http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/19656373.
- "Georgia President Saakashvili admits election defeat". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19798323. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- Champion, Marc, "U.S. Ally Proves Volatile Amid Dispute With Russia", The Wall Street Journal, 2008-08-30
- Rankings - Doing Business World Bank Group
- President Bush to Welcome President Saakashvili White House
- Bush: Georgia 'beacon of liberty' CNN
- Sweet Georgia Financial Times
- Georgia to double troops in Iraq BBC
- Georgian President Meets Jewish Leaders For Georgian-Jewish Friendship Week FJC
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- Ryan Chilcote (2006-01-11). "Bush grenade attacker gets life". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/11/georgia.grenade/. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- Timeline: Georgia BBC News 2008-11-05
- Saakashvili Calls Snap Presidential Polls, Referendum. Civil Georgia. 2007-11-08.
- Saakashvili Steps Down to Run for Re-Election. Civil Georgia. 2007-11-25.
- Tass article 25 Nov 2007
- "Medvedev: Saakashvili should be held Responsible for War". Tbilisi: Civil Georgia. 11 February 2010. http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=21972. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- "Russia, Georgia to repair ties after Saakashvili quits — Medvedev". Palo Alto: RIA Novosti. 24 June 2010. http://en.rian.ru/news/20100624/159551850.html. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- Georgian troop rebellion 'over'. BBC News. May 5, 2009
- Opposition Calls on Diplomats to Monitor Situation in Army
- Saakashvili makes epic journey to Polish burial
- Saakashvili Bids Farewell to Late Polish President
- Chivers. C.J. "Georgia Leader Declares Emergency Over Protest" New York Times
- Georgia: Opposition Lawmakers Protest Violence Against Demonstrators
- Praise, Scorn For Accusations Against Georgia President
- Georgia's Ex-Minister Assails President - Forbes, Associated Press
- Okruashvili Ups Ante on Former Allies - The Georgian Times
- Former Defense Minister Detained In Georgia. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 27 September 2007.
- Okruashvili May Be Freed on Bail after Pleading Guilty. Civil Georgia, 2007-10-08.
- Court sets Georgia's former defense minister free on bail. International Herald Tribune. 8 October 2007.
- Stuffed ballots, biased campaign tainted Georgia vote: OSCE Reuters
- Saakashvili's switch off - for media freedom
- Georgian journalists appeal for restoration of media freedom
- Levitsky, Steven & Lucan A. Way (2010). Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-521-70915-6.
- "Video shows prison abuse". World News. UPI.com. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/09/19/Video-shows-prison-abuse/UPI-38151348069579/. Retrieved Sept. 19, 2012.
- "Unicef condemns prison abuse of minors in Georgia". World News. YAHOO! News India. http://in.news.yahoo.com/unicef-condemns-prison-abuse-minors-georgia-210126006.html. Retrieved 21 Sep, 2012.
- "OHCHR upset over Georgia prison video". Special Reports. UPI.com. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/09/21/OHCHR-upset-over-Georgia-prison-video/UPI-95721348244378/. Retrieved Sept. 21, 2012.
- "OHCHR upset over Georgia prison video". Special Reports. UPI.com. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/09/21/OHCHR-upset-over-Georgia-prison-video/UPI-95721348244378/#ixzz27PNGuLvf. Retrieved Sept. 21, 2012.
- Anderson, James. Gray, Cheryl. "Anticorruption in Transition: Who is Succeeding and Why?" The World Bank, 2006
- "WB Reports on 'Largest Reduction' of Corruption in Georgia"
- The Human Rights Watchoverview of Georgia, 2005
- The U.S. Department of State International Religious Freedom Report 2005: Georgia
- Socor, Vladimir. "Badri Patarkatsishvili: From Russian Businessman to Georgian Presidential Claimant". The Jamestown Foundation: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 4 Issue: 237. December 21, 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- "Saakashvili accuses late oligarch of treason". Interfax. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- (Georgian) მიხეილ სააკაშვილი: თანამდებობის პირის ქონებრივი მდგომარეობის დეკლარაცია (Mikheil Saakashvili: Asset Declaration). May 14, 2011. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information. Accessed December 5, 2011.
- Georgian president's son claims 'iPad typing record'. AFP through Google News. Jule 5, 2011. Accessed February 11, 2012.
- "Profile: Mikhail Saakashvili". BBC News. 2004-01-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3231852.stm. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- Barry, Ellen (2008). "Mikheil Saakashvili". The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/mikhail_saakashvili/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- Murray, Don (2008-02-29). "Can bountiful Georgia escape the Russian bear?". CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/murray/20080229.html. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- Smock, John (2004-08-13). "As prospect of South Ossetian conflict grows, Georgia prepares to send troops to Iraq". EurasiaNet. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080511155238/http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav081304.shtml. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- "Georgia (2010)". IMDB.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486193/. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- Movie star plays Georgian leader. BBC News. October 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8316018.stm. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
External links
- The official site of the President of Georgia
- BBC News Online profile of Mikhail Saakashvili (2004)


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Job reallocation, employment fluctuations and unemployment
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The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it reviews the model of search and matching equilibrium and derives the properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and to the explanation of differences in unemployment rates in industrialized countries.The search and matching model is built on the assumptions of a time-consuming matching technology that determines the rate of job creation given the unmatched number of workers and jobs; and on a stochastic arrival of idiosyncratic shocks that determines the rate of job destruction given the wage contract between matched firms and workers. The outcome is a model for the flow of new jobs and unemployed workers from inactivity to production (the 'job creation' flow) and one for the flow of workers from employment to unemployment and of jobs out of the market (the 'job destruction' flow). Steady-state equilibrium is at the point where the two flows are equal.The model is shown to explain well the employment fluctuations observed in the US economy, within the context of a real business cycle model. It is also shown that the large differences in unemployment rates observed in industrialized countries can be attributed to a large extent to differences in policy towards employment protection legislation (which increases the duration of unemployment and reduces the flow into unemployment) and the generosity of the welfare state (which reduces job creation). It is argued that on the whole European countries have been more generous in their unemployment support policies and in their employment protection legislation than the USA. The chapter also surveys other reasons given in the literature for the observed levels in unemployment, including mismatch and real interest rates.
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2014 Holdredge Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Bucher Vineyard
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Bucher Vineyard is situated a few miles to the southwest of Healdsburg on Westside Road, an extremely highly-regarded area for Pinot Noir in the Russian River Valley AVA. There are a small handful of vineyards with names synonymous for some of the finest pinots ever to come from Sonoma County. Bucher is on the north end of the appellation, so it is slightly warmer, although the hills to the west (the beginning of the coastal range) offer afternoon shade. There is little water, and the story of the wines is told in the soils.
We take three clones from three different blocks, and they are all quite different. We take "Pommard" and "Swan" clones from blocks planted in "Josephine" soils, which are some of the oldest soils around. They come from weathered sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Our other block is on a soil called "Yorkville", which is formed from weathered schist and other sedimentary rocks. Both soils are excellent for Pinot Noir.
When I visit Bucher, there is always a sense of serenity; it's not an unusual feeling in a vineyard, but the Bucher Vineyard has always spoken to me this way. That manifests itself in the wine, which always has a sense of serenity about it.
The Wine
One of the hallmarks of this vineyard for us is that the leading aromatic isn't fruit- it's the note of Rose petals. I think this is part of how the wine conveys the serenity of the place. The 2014 is no exception; it is vividly fragrant with floral aromas. The ever present note of rose petal is there (although a bit darker than common). It also has a nice aromatic of a red apple skin, something I haven't seen from there since 2006. The 2014 is easily the "biggest" Bucher we've made; it really has startling weight. But the aromatics are still so lifted and pretty- it's like it is tethered to where it always is, but offering a little something different too. Say what you will, but I've noticed when we open these they are going pretty quickly at our table.
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A Phase 3, Multi-Center, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Induction and Maintenance Therapy With Abatacept in Subjects With Active Crohn's Disease (CD) Who Have Had an Inadequate Clinical Response and/or Intolerance to Medical Therapy
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Maxwell Kofi Jumah says footsoldiers of the NDC are taking away girlfriends of some NPP stalwarts.
Former Asokwa Member of Parliament (MP), Maxwell Kofi Jumah has claimed that footsoldiers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are now snatching girlfriends of New Patriotic Party (NPP) gurus.
This phenomenon he said has arisen as a result of the free cash being doled out by members of the ruling party.
"Now NDC footsoldiers are snatching our girlfriends from us…it's true because they have the money…," he said on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen programme.
The former Kumasi Mayor who is seeking a return to Parliament said that due to the current socio-economic hardships in the country,girlfriends of NPP politicians are 'crossing carpets' to their opponents.
He cited an incident in which a lady was nearly sacked from her home by the mother after she informed her that she was now dating an NPP politician.
Kofi Jumah further alleged that all known supporters and defenders of the government now own houses outside Ghana.
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Aviva Premiership - Round 3
What a reffing mess
Graham Jenkins
September 23, 2013
Gloucester's Billy Twelvetrees lands the match-winning penalty against Northampton at Kingsholm © PA Photos
The latest round of Aviva Premiership provided the usual mix of thrills and spills and we have picked out ten talking points to bring you up-to-date and make sure you are not left scratching your head at the water cooler.
For Fox sake
The game of the season so far - and maybe overall - played out at Kingsholm on Saturday but sadly the thrilling nature of Gloucester's narrow victory over Northampton was overshadowed by a howler or three from referee Martin Fox. Firstly there was the question of time-keeping in the wake of Jamie Elliot's late try and Stephen Myler's conversion that appeared to give Saints victory - there was some confusion over how long was left but Gloucester were handed the chance to re-start the game. Then there was the small matter of at least two Gloucester players drifting off-side at the kick off - a penalty offence missed by Fox and his assistants. Then he chose to award a penalty against Northampton for standing up at the resulting scrum despite the fact that the ball clearly exited the back of the Gloucester scrum before being illegally kicked back in by No.8 Ben Morgan. The performance of the officials was labelled "a disgrace" by BT analyst Austin Healey and his colleague Lawrence Dallaglio suggested Fox should be stood down - but realised it wouldn't happen as there are not enough suitably-qualified officials to accommodate that enforced loss.
Catch me if you can
Northampton winger George North entered this season with the weight of expectation on his shoulders having starred for Wales and the British & Irish Lions in recent months so you can perhaps forgive him for his relatively sluggish start to his life as a Premiership player. But he finally shrugged the ring rust at Kingsholm on Saturday with dazzling run from inside his own 22 that accounted for four Gloucester defenders and set up a try for team-mate Jamie Elliott - but it also promised so much more in the weeks and months ahead. Saints fans have reason to be excited.
Saracens set the standard
Three games, three bonus point victories - Saracens are in sensational form. They laid down their latest impressive marker against a Bath side that was unbeaten and had already claimed the scalp of defending champions Leicester. Sarries' three victories have produced 13 tries with an average winning margin of 23 points - next up is Harlequins.
Leave it to the experts
BT Sport listened to their outraged viewers last week and thankfully left it to their plethora of rugby pundits to discuss the action from the Saturday afternoon clash between Gloucester and Northampton. Last week's decision to throw back to the BT studios and face-of-the-channel Jake Humphrey in order to mix in some football updates sparked uproar on social media and although the criticism didn't make their 'social media hub' the message appeared to get through. BT Sport's attempts to overlap coverage and tempt football viewers into sticking with the rugby is not without its merit - and has reportedly brought a sharp increase in audience figures - but the Grandstand-style approach requires a little work.
Bunny ears but sharp teeth
Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi invited criticism for his 'bunny ears' prank on Prime Minister David Cameron last week but drew nothing but praise for his showing against Newcastle at Welford Road. "There are not many players in world rugby who can do what Manu does," was assistant coach Paul Burke's take on the strong-running centre's performance that included a key role in two first half tries. It was his first performance since the Lions tour so imagine what he will do when he has shaken off the rust.
What's in a name?
If the thought of the axe falling on the Heineken Cup was not bad enough, now we have to ponder a likely alternative called the 'Rugby Champions Cup'. We're not quite sure about the name given that at present only teams from two leagues are set to feature and a competition featuring just a couple sides would struggle to fill the void. All jokes aside, it is clear they are looking to replicate the success of the Champions League in football and being a 'champion' will not be a strict qualifying criteria should talks to save the Heineken Cup fail and this new tournament come to fruition. Premiership Rugby appear set on re-shaping the European landscape, having registered the rugbychampionscup.com and .co.uk domain names, and promise to reveal further details about the structure of the competition later this year - at which point the clubs will finally know what is required of them this season to guarantee European rugby next season.
Robshaw roars back
At the end of a week that saw countless reports suggest that Northampton flanker Tom Wood has been chosen as England's captain for the end of year internationals, a certain Chris Robshaw delivered a timely reminder of his class in Harlequins' impressive victory over Worcester Warriors on Friday night. England's captain for this year's Six Nations, Robshaw was rested for the summer tour of South America with Wood handed the captaincy. Wood was coach Stuart Lancaster's first choice following his appointment in 2011 - only for injury to intervene but the England boss has told Quins boss Conor O'Shea that any rumours regarding the captaincy were just that and Robshaw responded with a gutsy all-action display at Sixways including a key role in Danny Care's try. If form and fitness will decide the captaincy as we are led to believe, then Robshaw would appear to be setting the standard.
Hitting the headlines for the right reasons
Danny Cipriani looked set to make a quiet return to the Premiership stage on Friday night as Sale Sharks entertained London Wasps but it didn't quite turn out that way. The gifted playmaker was named on the bench having battled back to fitness after being hit by a bus at the end of last season. He hasn't been too far from the headlines in the ensuing months due to his tabloid-friendly love life, but thankfully he returned to the headlines for all the right reasons with an eye-catching and pivotal display having been thrust into the action early on following an injury to first-choice No.10 Nick Macleod. It was the Sharks' second win from three outings this season having won just seven games all last season - so have the Sharks and Cipriani emerged from the doldrums?
Who will wing it for England?
England head coach Stuart Lancaster appears to be spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing his wingers for the opening autumn international against Australia on November 2. So far this season, all the talk has been about the young guns Christian Wade and Marland Yarde and they would certainly appear to be pressing for selection with the latter having already bagged four tries this term. But spare a thought for the more mature speedsters - Saracens' David Strettle, who is currently sitting alongside Yarde at the top of the try-scoring charts, and his team-mate Chris Ashton, who may not be among the tries but according to his coach Mark McCall is in "exceptional" and "brilliant" form.
Turnstiles not spinning so fast
Premiership Rugby hailed some promising attendance figures on the eve of the weekend action that revealed an increase in the average match attendance over the first two rounds of this season compared with last season. Unfortunately, that figure has fallen below last season's numbers following the third round of action with the latest games contributing to an average over the first three rounds of 12,363 supporters as opposed to 13,578 at the start of the 2013-13 campaign.
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Basic Knowledge About Baseball Glove Break In
Everyone loves baseball – both watching and playing. Baseball is a sport about teamwork, efforts and maximum physical training. That's the reason why it gains popularity around the world in comparison with other sports. Playing and training baseball is not as hard as you think, but first, you have to invest a certain amount of money to buy some essential equipment including baseball glove. It is one of the most important devices that helps you play baseball in both defense and offense roles. You should know many things about your equipment so that you can get use to them and perform better at your training and real matches.
The basic knowledge about baseball gloves:
Among all baseball equipment, bat and glove are things that you have to put first because of their importance. They are the basic if you want to play some simple baseball with 2 or 3 people in the backyard or take part in serious baseball matches. That's the reason why in this section I will tell you some simple things about this type of glove.
- The parts of the glove: the baseball glove is made from leather with 4 main parts for different functions: Webbing, fingers, palm and heel. Each part has its own function, but you should know about all of them so that you can avoid some accidentally damages while playing and know how to maintain the glove's best condition.
- Know how to throw the ball and how to catch them: Being a pitcher or not, you should know the ways people pitch so as to catch them better and also know how to use the glove. You should also see whether you are left – handed or not so that you can have some models made just for left – handed players.
- Types of baseball glove: There are many types of glove using by people according to the parts and the designs. You can see that the webbing is the most adjustable part. They are designed for many purposes so you can use the glove to play infield or outfield. In addition, the type of web such as closed web or Trapeze web can have different impact on your hand so you should try several of the to find out what is the most suitable one for your hand and your wrist.
- How to choose the size: You can have a baseball glove made just for your hand size so that you can use them for your own convenience. If you don't have time to wait, you can use the sizing chart to match your age and your hand size to choose an average one according to the specifications.
How to break in a new baseball glove
Buying one is already a task of challenge but breaking it in for the first time is not a child's play as well. You have to know how to make it right from the beginning to know the potentials of your equipment so that you can utilize it without worrying about the quality. There are some common ways to do the baseball glove break in. I think you should know couple of them so as to have some comparison and choose the best way to perform.
- The traditional way to break in baseball glove:
This method is also called "tried and true" in some cases. This is preferred by people who don't like some technical interference to their product and they want their gloves to be as new as possible. It's also a simple way to break in the gloves. You just need some of your friends and play catch together.
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As you can see, break in baseball glove is not easy. It takes you a large amount of time and effort so as to have the best achievement. You should also look for information about the leather type and the design of the baseball glove so as to have a perfect break in method and make your glove better.


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|Hi Anthony,
Thanks for the quick response! The two insecure programs I'm trying to find right now on my Windows 7 OS are:
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.x 220.127.116.112 (NPAPI)
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.x 22.214.171.1242 (ActiveX)
Using my Search function, I can type the address of each file up to the back slash after System32, but as soon as I start to type Adobe, the file is not found.
Secunia reported 4 insecure Adobe Shockwave Player 11.x on my system. When I patched the first one, it and the second one were eliminated from Secunia's report, leaving the above two, which I was just going to delete, but I cannot find them.
Thanks again for your help.
|Maurice Joyce
|RE: insecure programs
|5th Nov, 2010 01:39
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Last edited on 5th Nov, 2010 01:39
U need to navigate to them via Windows Explorer.
Right click on start>select WINDOWS EXPLORER>expand the C DRIVE in the left pane by clicking on the + sign>scroll down to WINDOWS>Expand WINDOWS and scroll to SYSTEM32>expand it and look for the ADOBE FOLDER>expand again & U will see the two files in the right pane> RIGHT click & delete them.
Complete a full rescan of PSI & U should be OK.
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