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World Archives Project: Tips for Completing an Image Set
- 1 Can I quit an image set before completing it?
- 2 How do I turn off the auto-complete feature?
- 3 What is the best way to move from field to field?
- 4 Can I make the image darker/lighter?
- 5 Can I make the image smaller/larger?
- 6 Image Viewer Tools
- 7 How do I enter record data?
- 8 What's the list of words that appeared while I was typing?
- 9 How do I select an option from the drop-down list?
- 10 How do I key header data?
- 11 What is the header data?
- 12 What should I do if the data entry form doesn't match the image?
- 13 How long do I have to complete an image set? Is there a time limit?
- 14 How do I offer feedback or report issues with the program?
- 15 Can I view more than one image at a time?
- 16 How do I set the form type?
- 17 What is a form type and why is it important?
- 18 How do I correct my data entry errors?
Can I quit an image set before completing it?
You can quit an image set at any time and the program will automatically save the information you've input. Once you've finished an image set, remember to submit the image set so that it can move further in the process of being processed.
If you decide that you cannot complete keying an image set, you can cancel it. Click the Select Image Set tab, highlight the image set you wish to cancel, then click the Cancel Image Set button. This will clear out the data that you have typed in and send the image set back for someone else to work on.
Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to cancel an image set.
How do I turn off the auto-complete feature?
In order to turn off the autocomplete feature, select file-> options. And uncheck the box that says auto complete.
What is the best way to move from field to field?
There are a handful of ways to move from field to field, and depending on what you are doing, one way may be more useful than another.
The Tab key The Enter key The arrow keys The Tab and Enter keys are most useful while you're typing in the information from the image, and the arrow keys tend to be more useful if you want to navigate around the data fields in the table at the bottom of the application window.
Can I make the image darker/lighter?
There are a couple of ways for you to make adjustments to the contrast of the image to make it easier to read.
Click the High Contrast button at the top of the image Clicking the Image Options button Click on Image > Image Options in the menu bar.
Can I make the image smaller/larger?
There is more than one way to make the image smaller or larger.
Click the magnifying glass buttons Choose a zoom percentage in the drop-down list Click on the desired option in the Image menu Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown With the image selected, hold Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel
Image Viewer Tools
The image viewer has a number of tools to help you read the information on the image more easily. The most frequently-used tools can be found at the top of the image in a toolbar.
From left to right, the buttons are:
Zoom in Zoom out Set zoom Rotate clockwise Rotate counter-clockwise High contrast Open Image Options box These options can also be found in the Image menu in the menu bar.
How do I enter record data?
Entering record data simply involves typing the information you see written on the image into the corresponding data cell in the bottom of the application window. As you type, you can move to the next field by pressing either Tab or Enter, whichever is more comfortable for you.
What's the list of words that appeared while I was typing?
The list of words that shows up while you're typing is the drop-down list. It's a list of entries that have appeared frequently in other sets of records that have already been indexed by Ancestry.com.
The drop-down list is meant to give you suggestions for words you may not be able to read and standardize entries for fields with a limited number of possibilities, like Gender or Age.
If the information from the record is not found in the drop down list you will need to click on F7 to accept your entry.
How do I select an option from the drop-down list?
You can select an option in the drop-down list a couple of different ways.
You can type the number of the option you would like to choose You can use the arrow keys to highlight the option you want and press Enter You can continue typing to finish the entry You can use your mouse to click on the option you want.
How do I key header data?
Entering header data is just like entering data for an individual record; choose the first cell and begin typing. There are fewer fields in the header, and most of the information remains the same for the images in your image set, meaning you probably won't need to retype it all.
What is the header data?
Header data is the information for the document itself and includes fields that will stay the same for all the individuals on the image.
What should I do if the data entry form doesn't match the image?
If the data entry form doesn't match the image, go back and make sure that you have selected the correct form type in step 2.
How long do I have to complete an image set? Is there a time limit?
There is a time limit for completing an image set, but don't worry; you have 10 days to complete the image set. Also, you do not have to complete an image set in a single sitting. You can close the program at any time and your work to that point will be saved until the next time you want to work on it.
How do I offer feedback or report issues with the program?
There are a couple of ways to offer feedback or report issues.
- Click the "Contact Support" link in the top right corner of the program
- In the menu bar, click Help > Contact Support
- Use the Help link on Ancestry.com and select the "Email Ancestry Support" tab
- Send an email directly to email@example.com or email@example.com
Can I view more than one image at a time?
If you wish to view another image in the current set you are working on there is an option in the image tool bar for this. Using this you can view any of the images in the set in a separate viewing window.
How do I set the form type?
When you first open an image set that has multiple form types the Set Form Type window will automatically pop up. The different form types will be displayed on the left with a description in the middle and a list of possible data fields on the right. To set the form type you can either click on the desired option and then click OK or you can double click on the form type.
What is a form type and why is it important?
A form type is a particular format the information was recorded in. Determining the form type is important because different forms contain different information. For example, a census form has different information from a ship's passenger list and even the information they both contain could be organized differently.
How do I correct my data entry errors?
You can correct errors just by clicking in the field you want to update and typing the corrected text. When you're finished, you can move onto another field and the corrected text will be saved.

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South African Airways (SAA) warmly congratulates Angel Cabrera on his victory at the US Masters Golf championship. SAA sponsors Cabrera and is immensely proud of his recent win at the US Masters. It follows his previous outstanding performance on the greens where he won the US Open golf championship in 2007.
SAA began sponsoring Cabrera in 2006 as the airline saw great promise in him, which was realised when he won the US Open in 2007. Now this superb achievement has been topped by him wearing the green jacket symbolic of Masters Supremacy.
Cabrera's representation of SAA has provided the opportunity to further extend brand awareness of the airline in South America as well as South Africa's reach and recognition across the globe. "Our sponsorship of Cabrera, the 2007 Open Champion, and now the 2009 Masters winner, has done us proud by promoting our brand at the prestigious golfing event. We also applaud his efforts to help those less fortunate to become acquainted with the sport in his home country of Argentina" says acting SAA CEO Chris Smyth.
The fact that Angel hails from Argentina in South America has been of significant benefit to SAA in light of the decision last year to launch a route to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The inaugural flight took off from Johannesburg for Buenos Aires last week (8 April). This is the second destination in South America to which SAA now flies, adding to its already well established flights to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"Angel has played a critical role in promoting South Africa and SAA, particularly in South America. We are confident this awareness has contributed towards increasing the number of visitors into the country," says Smyth.
The Buenos Aires route expansion is in line with SAA's vision of being an African airline with global reach and complements SAA's existing daily service to São Paulo. It will feed the airline's flights from Johannesburg to destinations in Africa, as well as to Asia and Australia. From Johannesburg, travelers can fly conveniently with SAA to destinations within South Africa such as Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London, as well as to 20 destinations in Africa.
Besides being a great route for traders, Buenos Aires offers the leisure traveler cultural, gastronomic and shopping highlights, as well as the skiing sites of Bariloche, the breathtaking views of the Iguazu Falls and the ice landscapes of Patagonia, Argentina. SAA departs twice a week for Buenos Aires, and will increase the schedule to three flights per week should demand dictate.
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|This is August's stack, and that's Vegan Diner hiding up at the top.
While there's a bit of a learning curve to the techniques (especially on making them pretty--mine all look like the inside of a Pyrex bowl), Miyoko is super available via her blog and on a dedicated thread over at the PPK. She's also featured in this month's Veg News with new improved versions of some of the varieties in the book. All good stuff.
So far I've made three cheeses, quinoa rejuvelac and cashew yogurt. Most of the cultured cheeses are made tasty with the rejuvelac and yogurt, but Miyoko's instructions are simple, easy and spot-on. I especially recommend using quinoa for the rejuvelac (instead of a different grain), because it sprouts and ferments quickly.
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This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.

==Jun 3, 2011==
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Revision as of 02:07, 31 July 2013
- 1 ACL Resolutions
- 1.1 July 16, 2013
- 1.2 June 10, 2013
- 1.3 May 7, 2013
- 1.4 Aug 20, 2012
- 1.5 June 15, 2012
- 1.6 Mar 18, 2012
- 1.7 Dec 23, 2011
- 1.8 Nov 23, 2011
- 1.9 Aug 2, 2011
- 1.10 Jun 28, 2011
- 1.11 Jun 3, 2011
- 1.12 Dec 17, 2010
- 1.13 Dec 15, 2010
- 1.14 Nov 5, 2010
- 1.15 Apr 14, 2010
- 1.16 Mar 22, 2010
- 1.17 Mar 11, 2010
- 1.18 Jan 27, 2010
- 1.19 November 13, 2009
- 1.20 October 21, 2009
- 1.21 July 7, 2009
- 1.22 March 11, 2009
- 1.23 September 3, 2008
- 1.24 August 2008
- 1.25 June 10, 2008
- 1.26 May 31, 2008
- 1.27 April 14, 2008
- 1.28 April 9, 2008
- 1.29 September 14, 2007
- 1.30 June 24, 2007
- 1.31 June 18, 2007
- 1.32 June 8, 2007
- 1.33 May 16, 2007
- 1.34 May 2007
- 1.35 July 2006
ACL Resolutions
This is a partial list of ACL resolutions. Older resolutions will be added over time.
July 16, 2013
(PASSED) The exec engages Mr Tom Dartnell of Nisivoccia LLP as our new accountant as per his letter of engagement and we accept his recommendation that he start with an audit.
June 10, 2013
(FAILED) The program chairs of the ACL 2013 conference will be authorized to participate in the JAIR award track in 2013 http://www.jair.org/awardedpapers.html
May 7, 2013
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the ACL Policy for DOI assignment and the ACL Information Office budget in separate resolutions
- ACL policy for digital object identifier (DOI) assignment:
- Allow the ACL Information Officer to revoke the current ACM/ACL agreement regarding DOIs he/she sees fit within the next twelve (12) months;
- Allow the ACL Information Officer to pursue registering the ACL to become a DOI granting authority;
- Allow the ACL Information Officer to register DOIs on the behalf of the Transactions of Computational Linguistics journal (TACL).
- ACL Information Office budget (Note: supersedes / revokes previous resolution (Aug 2, 2011):
- Approve a budget of 10,000 USD for the ACL Information Office to use during the 2013-2014 year (Apr 2013 -- Mar 2014), where surpluses from the budget can be rolled over to subsequent years;
- Approve that the ACL Webmaster part-time position be given a salary of up to 30 USD / hour.
Aug 20, 2012
A person can register for ACL and CIPS simultaneously and receive a 20% discount on the membership fee from each organization.
June 15, 2012
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities (SIGHUM).
Mar 18, 2012
(PASSED) We accept the LTA Nominating Committee's recommendation to give the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to [name withheld].
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves the request from the editors of ACL TACL that reviewing of paper submissions to TACL should be double blind. More specifically, reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Action editors and the journal editors will have access to the author identities.
Dec 23, 2011
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of Sections as internal structures of SIGLEX, each having an elected representative as an additional officer, with the corresponding change of their constitution. The first Section will be on Multiword Expressions. New Sections can be introduced when necessary.
Nov 23, 2011
(PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGSLP special interest group on speech and language processing for assistive technologies.
Aug 2, 2011
(PASSED)Motion regarding Ongoing Maintenance of the ACL Portal Website
Background: Currently we do not have any programming support allocated to the Portal. We either have to abandon the Portal by default (eventually it will need some maintenance) or develop it further, if only minimally.
1. We email the membership to see if we can find someone who has a student who knows Drupal (the content management system used by the website) and is able to work on a casual basis paid for between 4 and 8 hours per week. An appropriate rate of payment would be $30 per hour. The total cost of this would be between $6000 and $12000 per year.
2. We establish an ad hoc 'information services committee' consisting of three people who take responsibility for determining and directing the activities of the portal maintainer.
Jun 28, 2011
(PASSED) A summer school on NLP & IR is being held in cooperation with SIGIR just before SIGIR-2011 (see reference to http://nlp.blcu.edu.cn/others/nlpir-ss/ in http://www.sigir.org/events/events-upcoming.html).
We hereby approve 1 and 2.
(1) The summer school will be held in cooperation with the ACL
(2) The ACL will sponsor the summer school for $1000
Jun 3, 2011
(PASSED) The ACL executive committee appoints Haifeng Wang as its liaison to AFNLP for the remainder of his term on the ACL executive committee.
Dec 17, 2010
(PASSED) New eligibility criteria for reduced membership fees to start in 2011:
Regular rates: U.S., Canada, E.U. (except Romania and Bulgaria), Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, European microstates, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E.
Reduced rates: All other countries.
Dec 15, 2010
1 Background
Historically our journal production costs have consisted of two elements: the part-time editorial assistance hired by the editor, and the production work executed and managed by MIT Press. The part-time editorial assistance costs around A$15k per annum; this pays for one day a week of Suzy Howlett, our editorial assistant. The MIT Press costs, which cover copyediting, proofreading, typesetting, web hosting plus ancillary things like marketing and the handling of rights permissions have typically been on the order of US$45-50k per annum.
2 The New Model
We have worked out a new cost structure for the MIT Press production costs. There are a number of details here, but the major substantive elements are that (a) we are reducing some of the production costs by using a LaTeX-aware copy editor; and (b) MIT Press has agreed to substantially reduce its management overhead. Consequently, the new target per annum MIT Press cost is about US$28k, representing a saving of at least US$17k per annum. This figure assumes the journal stays the size that it currently is (640 pages per annum), so the number will go up if we publish more; but the per-page production costs are now vastly improved (note that the total costs include a relatively fixed-cost management element and a variable production cost based on # of pages).
3 The Proposed Package
My proposal consists of two elements.
[1] We sign up to the new MITP model for a five year period; and [2] we invest some of the savings -- I would suggest somewhere around US$5k per annum for the period-- in further developing our instance of the Open Journal System web-based manuscript management machinery.
The aim of this second element is to further streamline our processes with two aims in mind: (a) to enable us to handle larger volumes (and in particular to cater for some possible outcomes of the ongoing conference-->journal discussions), and (b) to build infrastructure that will make it easier for us to at some point go completely independent of third party publishers, should we choose to do that.
4 Risks and Benefits
I considered trying to replace MITP with our own resources; my estimate is that this would require us, amongst other things, to hire a one-day-per-week production manager. MIT Press has got very close to matching the costs of that by reducing their management overhead. For us this is less risky, since it's quite hard for us to find people to do this kind of work, but under the proposal model, that's MIT Press's problem. Similarly, I explored hiring our own LaTeX-aware copy editors; I found an excellent candidate (who it now looks like MIT Press will use for CL) and had him to do some test editing; he's very good. But accessing this resource through MIT Press again has the benefit that if he goes sick or otherwise becomes unavailable, it's MIT Press's job to find a replacement.
Nov 5, 2010
- (PASSED) The ACL executive committee approves a new procedure for the sponsorship committee as set forth in the following document.
Apr 14, 2010
- (PASSED) Following the election of a Vice President Elect for 2010 from outside the Asia-Pacific region, which was the target region for last year's nominations by the nominating committee, the ACL Exec guides the nominating committee to nominate again candidates from that region. As implied by the ACL constitution, nominations from the floor will not be limited to any region.
Mar 22, 2010
- (PASSED) The ACL executive committee allocates $3600 to Min Yen Kan for work on curating the ACL Anthology.
Mar 11, 2010
- (PASSED) The ACL Exec would like to explore in depth the initiative for establishing a journal venue for conference publications, following the guidelines and open issues discussed at its teleconfernce on February 22, 2010. To that end, a committee is formed which will prepare a detailed proposal that can be brought up for vote by the exec. The target deadline for the committee to present the detailed proposal and recommendations to the Exec is April 15, 2010. The committee will consist of the following members:
Ido Dagan and Hwee Tou - co-chairs
Robert Dale - as CL editor
Graeme Hirst - as Treasurer
Dragomir Radev - as Secreatary
Paola Merlo and Ken Church
Jan 27, 2010
- (PASSED) That Ben Phelan be paid the sum of A$15000 for the development of the ACL Member Portal, with this payment being made in two stages; one payment of AUD10000 by end January 2010, and the remaining A$5000 paid on June 30, 2010, this being the end of the six month period during which any bugs and problems identified in the portal are to be attended to.
November 13, 2009
- (PASSED) ACL Endorsement of Scientific Meetings
The ACL is pleased to endorse scientific meetings organized by other bodies, so long as the following criteria are met:
- It is an open scientific conference related to computational linguistics
- Acceptance of submissions is based on genuine peer review
- The conference appears to be competently organized
- ACL membership materials are distributed at the conference
- Understanding that there is no implication that ACL will host proceedings in the ACL Anthology
In order to receive ACL endorsement, please contact the ACL Secretary at email@example.com. Please indicate how the conference meets the ACL's criteria.
October 21, 2009
- (PASSED) The ACL exec extends the contract for the Computational Linguistics journal with MIT press by one more year, to include the 2010 calendar year.
July 7, 2009
- (PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of the SIGFSM special interest group on finite-state methods.
Ido Dagan
March 11, 2009
- (PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGMT special interest group on machine translation.
Ido Dagan
September 3, 2008
- (PASSED) A Proposal for an ACL Member Portal
Robert Dale 6th August 2008
This document proposes that we put in place an ACL Member Portal on the web by 1st January 2009.
August 2008
- (PASSED) The ACL exec approved the creation of the SIGBIOMED special interest group on biomedical NLP.
Steven Bird
June 10, 2008
- (PASSED) Shadow Account Practices
Eduard Hovy, Donia Scott, Kathy McCoy, Mike Rosner, Diane Litman (reconstructed by Kathy McCoy 2/3/04)
Goal
To set up limited financial independence for ACL's daughter organizations (ACL chapters and SIGs).
1. Basic Structure: Shadow Accounts
1.1 All funds brought in by any ACL activity (conference, chapter conference, workshop, SIG workshop, grant, donation, membership, journal fees, etc.) ultimately belong to the ACL, unless explicitly specified to the contrary.
1.2 To give chapters and SIGs a certain amount of operational flexibility, and to facilitate affiliation of the ACL with other organizations, so-called Shadow Accounts will be set up. These accounts will record the amount of funds `belonging' to the daughter organizations.
1.3 The funds in a shadow account might be held either in a bank account separate from the principal ACL account, or they might simply be an amount earmarked as `belonging' to the daughter organization, or a mixture of the two. That is, the shadow account is a (possibly) virtual sub-account of the accounts of the international ACL.
1.4 A shadow account must be dissolved and its funds returned to the ACL either upon request of the ACL Executive, or when the daughter organization is dissolved.
2. Signature Authority and Usage
2.1 The shadow accounts will be managed by the ACL Treasurer, unless he or she allocates (partial or full) management to the daughter organization.
2.2 If management of a shadow account is allocated to the daughter organization, both the ACL Treasurer and the Treasurer of the organization will have signature authority over the shadow account.
2.3 Funds in shadow accounts can be spent by the daughter organizations without requiring formal approval from the central ACL Executive or its Treasurer, as long as this usage is consistent with the policies of the ACL. Usage of the funds in unusual ways requires approval from the ACL Executive.
2.4 To ensure consistency with ACL policies, the ACL Secretary will maintain a list of approved purposes for which shadow account funds can be used.
3. Satellite Shadow Accounts
3.1 All funds brought into a shadow account under conditions that explicitly forbid the funds to belong to the International ACL as a whole (for example, grants made by national institutions for local usage), will reside in satellite shadow accounts.
3.2 Such satellite shadow accounts will also include any monies brought in for activities that are independent of the International ACL (e.g., a grant to set up a website of training in CL within the chapter area) or monies tied to other specific projects (e.g., a grant specifically for students within the chapter area to attend ACL conferences).
3.3 Satellite accounts will be managed by the Treasurer of the daughter organization.
4. Reporting
3.1 Every year at the annual business meeting of the ACL (and also at the ACL Executive meeting that precedes it during the ACL conference), the daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities during the past year, including the activity of satellite shadow accounts.
4.2 The daughter organization must provide full accounting of its financial activities to its own members at least once a year.
5. Maintaining a Minimum
5.1 At the beginning of every financial year, the ACL Treasurer will ensure that each shadow account contains a specified minimum, by transferring from the ACL central account the requisite amount. This minimum will not take into account the contents of satellite shadow accounts.
5.2 At the time of writing, the minimum for chapters is US$5000 and for SIGs is US$0.
6. Income and Loss
6.1 Unless explicitly designated otherwise by the giver, income derived from the activities of a daughter organization will be added to its shadow account. In the case of joint ACL-chapter conferences, the income will be split. A portion of the income will go to the shadow account and the remainder will belong to the ACL and be held in its central account.
6.2 At present, the above mentioned split will be 50-50 for chapters.
6.3 In a similar way, unless explicitly designated otherwise, any loss resulting from the activities of a daughter organization will be borne against the shadow account if the daughter. In the case of a joint ACL-chapter conference, any will be borne according to the same split proportion as the income. Any loss beyond the amount in a shadow account will be taken over by the central ACL. In such a situation, the central ACL will continue to ensure that the involved shadow account contains the agreed-upon minimum at the beginning of each financial year. However, it is expected that the portion of loss incurred by ACL will be paid back to ACL by the chapter, on the basis of the surplus from subsequent chapter activities.
6.4 Should the ACL Exec deem that the shadow account is consistently in a loss situation (e.g., because of the chapter acting in a fiscally irresponsible manner), the ACL may decide to resume control of the shadow account, at its discretion.
7. Definitions
1. "ACL" -- International Association for Computational Linguistics
2. "Chapter" -- a regional chapter of the ACL (EACL, NAACL)
3. "SIG" -- Special Interest Group of the ACL, formally accepted
4. "daughter organization" -- ACL chapter or SIG
5. "Central account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by ACL
6. "Shadow account" -- real or virtual bank accounts managed by daughter
7. "Satellite shadow account" -- bank accounts, etc., held by daughter for funds explicitly earmarked by provider for daughter usage only
May 31, 2008
- (PASSED) The AFNLP representative to ACL will be invited to all ACL exec meetings but not included in the ACL exec mailing list.
- (PASSED) Prof. Kam-Fai Wong's position as AFNLP representative to ACL is hereby approved, starting immediately and for the duration of his membership on the AFNLP board.
April 14, 2008
- (PASSED) Copyright Transfer Agreement
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April 9, 2008
- (PASSED) The ACL exec appoints Mark Steedman as representative to AFNLP for the rest of his term on the exec.
September 14, 2007
- (PASSED) The initial SIG organizer(s) may serve as the de facto officers for the first year, while a nomination/election process is being established; official elections must be held within the first year after approval of the SIG.
June 24, 2007
- (PASSED) The ACL exec approves the creation of a new SIG, SIGANN for Annotation. The officers of SIGANN are Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers.
June 18, 2007
- (PASSED) In order to clearly separate discussion from voting, the voting on ACL resolutions will be done via sending the vote via email to the ACL secretary. When the vote is over, the secretary will send a summary of the vote (including the names and votes) back to the executive committee and also record the status of the vote (minus the names) on the resolutions page.

In special circumstances, the exec can decide *in advance of the vote* to change this procedure for valid reasons.
June 8, 2007
- (PASSED) To accept Singapore's bid for the 2009 ACL/IJCNLP conference.
- (PASSED) The surpluses or deficits (as the case may be) will be shared 50-50 between ACL and AFNLP. AFNLP chooses to share its share 50-50 with the local organizers.
May 16, 2007
Three related proposals about ACL's 2008 conference:
- (PASSED) PROPOSAL 1 : long and short tracks. The 2008 conference maintains the NAACL HLT distinction between long and short papers, where short papers have a serious submission number, a serious reviewing, a Coling-level acceptance rate (about 40%), and a different profile (new ideas, smaller results, smaller experiments) with different submission and reviewing requirements (completed work not required) and a much later submission deadline.
- (PASSED) PROPOSAL 2 : the structure of the PC. There are 4 PC co-chairs: 1 NLP for long papers, 1 NLP for short papers, 1 Speech (for both long and short), 1 IR (for both long and short). The senior PC will be different for long and short papers (though potentially with overlap). The short paper PC will also handle demos. The Speech and IR co-chairs should have at least some visibility in the general NLP field.
- (PASSED) PROPOSAL 3 : name. The conference has a name that (a) includes "HLT" in its short name and (b) "Human Language Technologies" in its long name. For specificity, this proposal is: "ACL-08:HLT" and "The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies".
May 2007
Free registration for some conference officials
- (PASSED) The General Chair, all PC co-chairs, and all local chairs (up to three) get free registration (not including the banquet) to ACL conferences. The free registration does not include ACL membership (it is assumed that people in these positions would already be ACL members).
July 2006
Internet access at conferences
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Power User
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socioeconomic class in the US
September 19, 2011, 05:25:27 PM »
Nothing fancy about the post below right off Drudge. It does speak to a topic I have mentioned and I think JDN also has expressed concern. I am hardly a fan of Bernie Sanders of Vermont yet it is an astounding stat when he says the top 400 wealthiest people in the US (I assume he got his information from Forbes) have as much wealth as the bottom 150 *million*.
Redistribution is a solution I abhor. Yet there has to be some other way of improving the playing field. Closing loopholes only wealthy people can enjoy. The ability to pay for a legal system that few can enjoy without limit.
The power and influence that money buys. No Repub to my knowledge ever adresses this other than trickle down talk, or "everyone has the same chance to succeed". No system is perfectly fair. And in all systems, communist, dictator, monarchy, democratic all have those at the top with advantage. Our system does offer some hope those without the advantage can get ahead yet the top 400 have the wealth of the bottom 150 million? How can anyone not think this is insane?
****September 17, 2011, 4:26 pm
Wall Street Protest Begins, With Demonstrators Blocked
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
Protestors gathered in Lower Manhattan for what some called the United States Day of Rage.
For months the protesters had planned to descend on Wall Street on a Saturday and occupy parts of it as an expression of anger over a financial system that they say favors the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary citizens.
As it turned out, the demonstrators found much of their target off limits on Saturday as the city shut down sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall well before their arrival.
By 10 a.m., metal barricades manned by police officers ringed the blocks of Wall Street between Broadway and William Street to the east. (In a statement, Paul J. Browne, the Police Departments chief spokesman said, A protest area was established on Broad Street at Exchange Street, next to the stock exchange, but protesters elected not to use it.)
Organizers, promoters and supporters called the day, which had been widely discussed on Twitter and other social media sites, simply September 17. Some referred to it as the United States Day of Rage, an apparent reference to a series of disruptive protests against the Vietnam War held in Chicago in 1969.
The idea, according to some organizers, was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind, if not the scale, of protests that erupted earlier this year in places as varied as Egypt, Spain and Israel.
Bill Steyert, 68, who lives in Forest Hills, Queens, stood near the barricades at Wall Street and Broadway and shouted, Shut down Wall Street, 12 noon, youre all invited, as tourists gazed quizzically at him.
Talking to a reporter, he elaborated, You need a scorecard to keep track of all the things that corporations have done that are bad for this country.
Nearby, Micah Chamberlain, 23, a line cook from Columbus, Ohio, held up a sign reading End the Oligarchy and said he had hitchhiked to New York. There are millions of people in this county without jobs, he said. And 1 percent of the people have 99 percent of the money.
Throughout the afternoon hundreds of demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan. They held teach-ins, engaged in discussion and debate and waved signs with messages like Democracy Not Corporatization or Revoke Corporate Personhood.
Organizers said the rally was meant to be diverse, and not all of the participants were on the left. Followers of the fringe political candidate Lyndon LaRouche formed a choir near Bowling Green and sang The Star Spangled Banner and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Nearby, anarchists carried sleeping bags and tents.
At one point in the early afternoon, dozens of protesters marched around the famous bronze bull on lower Broadway. Among them was Dave Woessner, 31, a student at Harvard Divinity School.
When you idealize financial markets as salvific you embrace the idea that profit is all that matters, he said.
A few minutes later about 15 people briefly sat down on a sidewalk on Broadway, leaning against a metal barricade that blocked access to Wall Street. For a moment things grew tense as officers converged and a police chief shoved a newspaper photographer from behind.
After a police lieutenant used a megaphone to tell those sitting on the sidewalk that they were subject to arrest the protesters got up and marched south.
Mr. Browne said no permits had been sought for the demonstration but plans for it were well known publicly.
Mr. Browne said two people in bandanna masks were taken into custody for trying to enter a building at Broadway and Liberty Street that houses Bank of America offices. A third person fled.
As a chilly darkness descended, a few hundred people realized one of the days objectives by setting foot onto Wall Street after a quick march through winding streets, trailed by police scooters.
At William Street, they were blocked from proceeding toward the stock exchange, and the march ended in front of a Greek Revival building housing Cipriani Wall Street. Patrons on a second-floor balcony peered down.
As some of the patrons laughed and raised drinks, the protesters responded by pointing at them and chanting pay your share.***
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
Reply #1 on:
September 19, 2011, 05:37:18 PM »
How many heirs to this wealth piss it away?
My point being, it's not a zero sum game. If you get four slices of pizza, it doesn't mean I have to eat the box. Wealth rises and falls and thankfully, America still has the opportunity for a poor child to rise to wealth and the wealthy don't always stay that way, although our Crony-capitalist in chief likes to pick winner using old-school Chicago graft method rather than a letting a free market decide who gets rich.
Rich people create jobs and opportunity for the non-rich.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
Reply #2 on:
September 19, 2011, 05:38:55 PM »
You make my point.
That is why the Repubs will always have a fight on their hands.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
Reply #3 on:
September 19, 2011, 05:52:05 PM »
What does it matter how much money the rich have?
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 19, 2011, 06:17:42 PM »
The datum CCP sites IS disconcerting, but IMO the problem is liberal fascism/progressivism and the reality of "public-private partnerships", Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs and the Treasury, etc, the complexity of a laws, regulations, and a legal system that effectively crowd out normal people and so forth.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 19, 2011, 10:15:39 PM »
Quote from: G M on September 19, 2011, 05:52:05 PM
What does it matter how much money the rich have?
Having traveled quite a bit in Latin America and Asia for that matter, if the rich own too much, it simply is not good for the general population.
I happen to support CCP's contention; take care of the middle class.....
I read the following in today's paper.
Why (and how) to tax the super-rich
Extreme wealth concentration threatens democracy, and the U.S. is reaching that point.
By Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott
September 20, 2011
President Obama is right to insist on the "Buffett rule": Millionaires should not be paying income tax at a rate lower than their secretaries'. But correcting this inequity is only a small step toward fairness.
The more serious inequality problem facing the United States involves overall wealth, not just income. While the top 1% of Americans earned 21% of the nation's income, they owned a staggering 35% of the wealth in 2006-07, the most recent year for which statistics are available. We should be taxing that wealth directly, and not merely focusing on million-dollar incomes.
We propose a 2% annual wealth tax on households owning more than $7.2 million in net assets. Such a tax would target the 0.5% of Americans at the top of the pyramid, and would yield at least $70 billion a year. This calculation is based on Federal Reserve data that we have updated to take into account the recession's impact on housing and stock prices to 2009. Because we have used very conservative assumptions, the revenue yield could well be higher.
Obama's operational proposal for a "Buffett tax" is vague, so it's hard to predict how much it would raise. But our initiative would generate at least half the $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction that Congress' super-committee is aiming to achieve over the next decade. And the burden would fall on the Americans who have suffered least from the economic downturn.
There is more at stake than fairness. Our proposal would address a deeper issue. There comes a point at which extreme wealth concentration threatens the very existence of democracy, and we are reaching that point.
This is one of the tragic lessons of Latin American history, where democracy has repeatedly bumped up against tight economic oligarchies that feel threatened by majority rule. Though reliable statistics on wealth equality aren't available, we do know that income inequality in the U.S. today far exceeds that in Europe, and it is getting into the Latin American range. Because wealth is generally more concentrated than income, we are clearly in the danger zone.
Remarkably enough, the CIA has investigated the matter, and its website contains some sobering estimates. It reports that income is already more concentrated in the U.S. than in Venezuela, though we still have a way to go to reach the dizzying heights of Brazil and Chile.
A wealth tax is the best way to reduce this classical danger to democracy, and it provides the primary motivation for our proposal though we also believe that it's more than fair for the super-rich to be paying more as we confront our long-term fiscal problems.
Wealth taxation is no novelty. In 2008, France, Norway, Switzerland and five other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development imposed the tax, and Italy is considering following suit. Spain, which dropped such a tax several years ago, now plans to reinstate it as part of a deficit-reduction effort.
In the United States, anti-tax zealots will try to use the Constitution to cut off debate about a wealth tax before it begins. Article 1, Section 8 grants Congress plenary power to impose any and all "taxes, duties, imposts and excises," but it contains a special limitation on "capitation and other direct taxes." Under this little-known proviso, such taxes may be imposed only if they are apportioned among the states according to their population. This provision was part of a compromise with the slave-holding South, and its intention was to prevent the North from imposing a "head tax" on slaves because this could not be apportioned equally among the population of all the states.
Given its origins, this provision has consistently been construed very narrowly by the Supreme Court, which has found only head taxes and real estate levies to be within its scope. There has been only one exception. In 1895, the court used the clause to declare the income tax unconstitutional, but this judgment was reversed by the 16th Amendment. Given this history, it is extremely unlikely that the justices will cite the founders' original compromise with slavery to bar a tax that would serve the cause of economic equality and democratic legitimacy. The Roberts court may be conservative, but it is not quite as reactionary as all that.
There is nothing that prevents us, then, from thinking outside the box, and doing something more than tinker with the status quo. Rather than draconian cuts to Medicaid or Medicare, why not a wealth tax?
Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott are professors of law at Yale and the authors of "The Stakeholder Society."
Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
Reply #6 on:
September 19, 2011, 10:36:28 PM »
"Having traveled quite a bit in Latin America and Asia for that matter, if the rich own too much, it simply is not good for the general population."
Your initial premise is flawed. Hong Kong as an example has the most Rolls Royces per capita in the world (At least this was true when I read about this years ago). Obviously, most Hong Kongers don't even own a car (with the dense population and expense, owning any car is more trouble than it's worth on a practical basis). HK developed this wealth and a middle class as well without a gov't policy to "create" a middle class.
The lesson which is omnipresent these days is that gov't intervention in the market creates market distortions that eventually explode, harming the people they were trying to (allegedly) help. Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac ring any bells?
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 20, 2011, 12:06:46 AM »
A decidedly specious piece. My major in college was International Relations with Latin America being my region of specialization so compared to the average citizen I flatter myself to think myself more familiar than most with the issues of concentration of wealth in LA and the consequences thereof. Frankly I have too little respect for this piece to bother writing the full essay it would take to lay such a vapid comparison to rest, but I will take a moment to note the extreme concentrations of land ownership (including the land held in the "dead hands" of the church) a nearly illiterate population, geographic fragmentation, and much more.
I repeat, the concentration of wealth in the US is due to the interventions of government. Hard to think of something stupider than getting the government more involved or the attendant avoidance shenanigans of tax avoidance.
"Remarkably enough, the CIA has investigated the matter, and its website contains some sobering estimates. It reports that income is already more concentrated in the U.S. than in Venezuela, though we still have a way to go to reach the dizzying heights of Brazil and Chile."
Since when did the CIA have any credibility in economic matters?
Since when does Hugo Chavez's Venezuela become a relevant bench mark for the USA?
"Wealth taxation is no novelty. In 2008, France, Norway, Switzerland and five other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development imposed the tax, and Italy is considering following suit. Spain, which dropped such a tax several years ago, now plans to reinstate it as part of a deficit-reduction effort."
Ummm , , , with the exception of Switzerland, isn't Europe pretty much going bankrupt? Certainly Spain and Italy are, and French banks are in danger in going the way of Lehman Bros. I'd want some independent confirmation that the Swiss are doing this; it is quite inconsistent with their usual way of doing things.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 20, 2011, 12:20:08 AM »
While I concede that you have a much greater knowledge of Latin America than myself or even most, I think even you would agree that wealth in Latin America is owned by a few families, a few oligopolies.
It is hardly distributed fairly nor is there much chance for the poor to rise to the top other than in the drug business.
The same can be said of many Asian countries.
Income inequality is becoming a very real issue here in America too.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 20, 2011, 05:39:14 AM »
Speaking far too quickly, hence a bit glibly, if I may, what I think your are missing is that the concentrations of wealth are NOT due to the free market, but the quasi-feudal social structures inherited from the Spanish colonial error, the roughly fifty years of quasi-anarchy that followed independence, which were then followed by rule by various forms of corporatist fascism such as the Perons of Argentina, the PRI of Mexico, and now Chavez of Venezuela. Do you really think it a good idea to have politiocal economic structures like Chavez taxing wealth?
I suspect the principal to be universal-- certainly here in the US taxing wealth will do nothing for the growth and productivity of the US economy, nor to restrain our enslavement by the tsunami of government spending which is crowding out and suffocating the private sector.
Power User
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Re: socioeconomic class in the US
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September 20, 2011, 07:03:42 AM »
You can create a society where you have equality of opportunity or equality of outcome. Pick one.
Power User
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Disparity and Governmental Cronyism
Reply #11 on:
September 20, 2011, 09:14:16 AM »
"if the rich own too much, it simply is not good for the general population"
That is the myth and perception held by the people that governments use to expand their own power and destroy your wealth and opportunity.
Crafty correctly attacked the term 'crony capitalism' recently. Correct because capitalism requires freedom and free movements of capital on a level playing field. Can we call it 'Governmental Cronyism'. Picking winners and losers with governmental power, central planning and control and using state power to build up and take down enterprises is not anything to do with economic freedom or capitalism. It is third world economics, and yes you will find it running rampant in the third world.
Show me a monopoly and I will show you that it was set up and maintained by government power. The phone company, the electric company, the post office. Oligopolies, same thing. A very few oil companies, big defense contractors, auto companies, highly regulated and maintained by the government with huge barriers to innovation or new entrants.
Freedom has a different dynamic called creative destruction. As you get more and more successful and richer and richer, you get more snobbish and averse to new ideas that could either threaten your own market share and cash flows or would simply not yield enough return for you to bother with. And then in comes the new player with disruptive innovation which is often simpler and lower in cost. The real new innovations must come from outside the dominant enterprise. There are a million examples. Hayes modems (anyone remember them) did not invent wireless data. Microsoft wrote some wireless operating systems but not any that truly innovated and changed the way people do things. Microsoft, the most feared monopoly of our time, even started naming their product after the year instead of the new capability. Pushing oil companies to dominate wind and solar is fruitless and stupid. Even if they were successful, why would we want it to be the same players that dominated the last century to dominate going forward? Instead unleash freedom and let the chips fall.
We have educational freedom (to some extent) and therefore we have educational disparity. If someone else goes on to achieve multiple PhD's and I am a tradesman, how does someone else moving forward hurt me? It doesn't, unless we find out that favors and unequal protections from government were bought and paid for with that success.
When we have advances in economic freedom, disparity increases because people make unequal use of their newly found freedom. That has NOTHING to do with kleptocracies and third world cronyism that has crept into our system. Growing and protecting the disparity with unequal treatment under the law is wrong and forbidden by our widely ignored constitution and should be stopped, but fighting off wealth creation in the name of alleviating disparity just hurts everyone.
Never explained is how I am worse off for living among rich and successful people and all the opportunities that presents. I am not worse off for it. Nor how people born today in places like Haiti or Republic of the Congo that lack rich and successful people will be better off than us. They aren't.
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September 20, 2011, 10:48:16 AM »
"I repeat, the concentration of wealth in the US is due to the interventions of government."
Well I don't think it is so black and white.
We might very well pay far more in electricity, communications, water and so forth. Bell's were broken up by government.
The cost of political campaigns is without a doubt a big factor in the corruption of our politicians. Yet the same people here who argue for keeping government out of the business sector will also call for unlimited political donations as "freedom of speech".
I hear the arguments given on the board.
I don't know if this is convincing to the middle class which seems to be a voting "group" the Dems are targeting.
We will see. It seems like the class warfare thing is more than anything else what drives the voting pendulum back and forth between crat and can.
Curiously Newt made a point of ending *Republican* government medling/picking winners and losers and everyone on the right got all huffy at Newt. He was/is also right. No one is listening. Neither side has the answer that is convincing many people who are not already part of the choir, I think.
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September 20, 2011, 10:56:09 AM »
Don't confuse the repub power structure with the republican voters, they often have different beliefs and different agendas.
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September 20, 2011, 11:10:49 AM »
The cost of political campaigns is without a doubt a big factor in the corruption of our politicians. Yet the same people here who argue for keeping government out of the business sector will also call for unlimited political donations as "freedom of speech".
Why can't I use any amount of money I wish to give to support any cause I wish to support and advocate for in a free society?
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September 20, 2011, 11:44:43 AM »
"Why can't I use any amount of money I wish to give to support any cause I wish to support and advocate for in a free society?"
Well that is one side. The flip side is that those who give more money have more access and more influence right or wrongly.
No doubt the courts have opinions on this. Obviously there are volumes and libraries filled with stuff about this.
The problem is that money corrupts and makes society less free and with less equality. But I do not have any good answer. It just is that way. Always has been and always will be. I still believe our society is still the best in attempting to make things equal - at least in theory. Reality is a different story. Perfection does not exist.
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September 20, 2011, 12:09:45 PM »
Quote from: ccp on September 20, 2011, 11:44:43 AM
"Why can't I use any amount of money I wish to give to support any cause I wish to support and advocate for in a free society?"
Well that is one side. The flip side is that those who give more money have more access and more influence right or wrongly.
Only because the (non-rich) majority has built and tolerates a system of spoils and preferences centered on unequal treatment under the law.
"I do not have any good answer."
I do (IMHO): Tax every dollar of income the same no matter who earned it and how. Slash government spending from 65% transfer payments, robbing Peter to pay Paul back to just defending our country and governing. If that is what the majority wanted from government, the rich would have no disproportionate advantage. 'Crazy talk.'
Quote from: G M on September 20, 2011, 10:56:09 AM
Don't confuse the repub power structure with the republican voters, they often have different beliefs and different agendas.
Yes, what I call elected Republicans versus conservatives.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Community Reinvestment Act, No child left behind, prescription drug benefits for some, targeted tax breaks and targeted subsidies for the few, trillion dollar deficits, hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities, these and thousands of other examples exist with the support and funding authorized by elected Republicans in their eternal quest to be reelected, but they are not conservative, libertarian or even constitutional IMHO.
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September 20, 2011, 12:32:07 PM »
"Why can't I use any amount of money I wish to give to support any cause I wish to support and advocate for in a free society?"
Well that is one side. The flip side is that those who give more money have more access and more influence right or wrongly.
No doubt the courts have opinions on this. Obviously there are volumes and libraries filled with stuff about this.
Ever wonder why the left hates the "money as speech" concept? Because they control the MSM and as such, thus wish to silence alternate voices that are funded by freely given money.
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September 20, 2011, 03:37:26 PM »
"Ever wonder why the left hates the "money as speech" concept? Because they control the MSM and as such, thus wish to silence alternate voices that are funded by freely given money."
Maybe. I thought it was because (in theory) the wealthy will have unfair advantage with lobbyists, access, influence.
Like Michael Savage states, look at the power of Jeff Immelt. Look at the power of Buffett. One gives advice on government policy all the while CEO of a multinational corp. making millions off the same policies. Reminiscent of revolving door of Fed people and Goldman Sachs jobs.
Buffett goes and talks to the Prez and makes $300 million dollars on BofA in roughly a day.
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September 20, 2011, 05:18:26 PM »
All perfect examples of "crony capitalism", as opposed to a merit-based capitalism.
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September 20, 2011, 05:20:32 PM »
Or what some of us call economic fascism, liberal fascism, corporate fascism, etc.
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Free markets work
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September 20, 2011, 11:07:33 PM »
**Must be those policies that mandate a middle class, or not....
Hong Kong unemployment falls to 13-year low
Sep 20 02:56 PM US/Eastern
Hong Kong said Tuesday its unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest in more than 13 years thanks largely to a strong local economy, but analysts warned the figure could rise again.
The unemployment rate for the June-August period fell to 3.2 percent, from 3.4 percent in the May-July, which marked Hong Kong's lowest jobless rate since February 1998, the Census and Statistics Department said.
The figure was below the average 3.5 percent unemployment rate forecast in a poll of seven economists by Dow Jones Newswires.
The total number of people in jobs in the June-August period rose by around 10,800, to 3,636,600 people -- a record high for the Chinese city of seven million people.
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September 20, 2011, 11:57:23 PM »
Asia's growing middle class fuels theme park boom
By Katie Hunt
Business reporter, BBC News, Hong Kong
Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and Lego bricks will all find new homes in Asia over the next few years as the disposable incomes of the region's newly affluent fuel a boom in theme park construction.
Disney has broken ground on a $3.6bn (£2.3bn) outpost in Shanghai; Legoland plans to open a park in Johor, Malaysia, next year; and Sanrio will open a theme park dedicated to the cute white cat with no mouth in eastern China in 2014.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's two theme parks are in the throes of a $1bn expansion to keep up with the competition.
And that's just the big names. A rash of smaller, quirkier theme parks have sprouted up, including ones in China dedicated to the smartphone app Angry Birds and the online game World of Warcraft.
"Asia's large populations are now moving up into the bottom rungs of the middle classes," says Chris Yoshii, global director for economics at Aecom, a consultancy that specialises in the industry.
"There's been a tremendous increase in discretionary spending on things like travel, which theme parks are part of," he says.
The industry expansion comes at the right time for theme park builders and investors as attendance is dwindling in Europe and the US.
Theme park visits last year were up 1.9% according to figures from Aecom, but in Asia that figure was 7.3%.
And according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the region's market will be worth nearly $8.5bn by 2012, up from $6.4bn in 2007.
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September 22, 2011, 01:07:29 PM »
Crafty wrote:
"but IMO the problem is liberal fascism/progressivism and the reality of "public-private partnerships", Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs and the Treasury, etc, the complexity of a laws, regulations, and a legal system that effectively crowd out normal people and so forth."
Except for JDN the opinion is a true free market is inherently better at resolving class issues. Perhaps this is true. I want to believe that but am not convinced. Wouldn't most people beleive we need some rules, laws and regulation to keep the plying field level? But who can enforce those rules, laws, etc if not government? The only other option is the civil legal system but everyone knows that is not fair or equal access and application.
The question than returns to how much regulation, laws, oversight. And the problem with that is that government is of course run by humans with the same weakness and self perpetuations as non government employees.
My general philosophy is that everyone rich or poor truly have equal playing field to the best degree possible.
That doens't mean those with means cannot use economies of scale, use thier expertise and honest obtained inside information to make wealth.
But someone or some entity has to "keep them honest". The free market I believe is not sufficient.
With regard to picking winnners and losers:
There is a big uproar in NJ that the Jersey Shore reality show got a 400K plus tax deduction. Many states are doing this. Giving such big incentives to entertainment groups to come to their state and shoot movies etc. The supposed benefit is an economic boon to local business.
This whole concept is exactly unfair. Why should the entertainment business get a tax break? Whatever tax break goes to them should go to *all businesses* not movie or TV or cable program makers. I agree government has to get out of picking who wins who loses. Stop the damn loopholes, the breaks, the "incentives". Everyone pays the same low rates - period.
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September 22, 2011, 01:10:45 PM »
Except for JDN the opinion is a true free market is inherently better at resolving class issues.
Show me a culture/society where there is a greater degree of social mobility and opportunity.
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Further thought food
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September 22, 2011, 01:43:32 PM »
"a true free market is inherently better at resolving class issues"
I guess my point is this is not truly a "free market". On the other hand a truly free market would I think continue to see concentration of wealth to the top. What is the solution that protects the virtue of both a "free market" and a "fair market"?
Many in this country rightly or wrongly believe the repubs are the party of the rich and the dems the party of the poor.
I don't. But I don't hear any Repubs cadidate convincingly give an argument to reassure or calm the fears of those who have not done well that transfer of wealth is NOT the answer.
Well what is the answer? Is there one? I am not talking about the slackers and those who mooch of society of which there are many millions. I am talking about those in the middle who are working harder and harder just to pay bills.
On Drudge an article points out that 80% of new jobs in Texas are taken by immigrants legal and illegal. What the heck is this all about? In NJ which has always been a big immigrant state I see massive numbers of people not born here working. I just don't get it.
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September 22, 2011, 02:38:18 PM »
As I understand the term "free market" it includes the enforcement of contract and the prevention of theft, fraud, and force and the idea that all costs to a transaction should be born by buyer and seller (i.e. pollution) Properly understood, that covers quite a bit.
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September 22, 2011, 07:23:53 PM »
Well, I'd clarify that a free market must be married to the rule of law for things to work properly. I'd point out that Hong Kong has prospered because of those two concepts and that Mainland Chinese companies often sign contracts between each other in Hong Kong just so the contract falls under HK courts rather than PRC courts. There is a reason for that.
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Soros insider trading
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October 07, 2011, 09:36:19 AM »
Of course he uses his international reach to insider trade. How else does he alsways make billions?
That said I put this under the socioeconomic class thread for a reason. This is exactly what is unfair about our system. He is so wealthy can hire armies of 1000 hr attorneys and fight this off and what is going to happen to him. A bit embarrassed perhaps.
Anyone think he will go to jail? A fine that for him is not more than a parking ticket for anyone else?
Santorum who is not getting any traction was talking about how the bankers got off without a scratch.
I guess one could use this story as the poster story for those people marching on wall street. Notwithstanding most of them are a bunch of losers and party animals and otherwise in the words of Donald Trump looking for dates:
****October 6, 2011 9:34 pm
Soros fails to quash insider trading conviction
By Sam Jones in London and Stanley Pignal in Brussels
ReutersGeorge Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights to have his criminal conviction for insider dealing quashed.
The failed appeal in a 4-3 decision by the Strasbourg-based court is the latest twist in a nine-year battle by the 81-year-old Mr Soros to clear his name following his conviction in France in 2002.
Soros insider trading case to be reviewed
Soros fund closes, but influence remains
Lex Quantum of Soros
Soros appoints new CIO to family office
Worlds rich families face US asset disclosure
The French criminal case hinged on trades that the Hungary-born investor had executed 14 years earlier in the stock of Société Générale that reaped his hedge fund, the Quantum Fund, $2.9m in profits.
Mr Soros was found by the court in 2002 to have had inside knowledge about the intentions of a group of super-wealthy French investors the golden granddads to bid for the bank.
Although the bid failed, Mr Soross fund profited by buying shares before and selling after the groups intentions became public and resulted in a spike in SocGens share price.
Mr Soros was fined 2.2m (£1.9m), later reduced to 940,507 on appeal.
At the time, Mr Soros described the guilty verdict as a gift to my enemies.
He is now left with one final, unlikely, chance to rid himself of his conviction: an appeal to the grand chamber of the ECHR. Such appeals are only heard on an exceptional basis, according to the courts rules.
Mr Soros had based his initial appeal to Strasbourg on an argument that French insider-trading laws in the late 1980s were too vague for him to know that he was in breach of them.
In its decision, the ECHR conceded that the wording of the statutes was not always precise but said that Mr Soros, as a famous institutional investor, well-known to the business community . . . could not have been unaware that his decision to invest . . . entailed the risk that he might be committing the offence of insider trading.
Mr Soross lawyers lamented the ECHRs close decision, pointing out that even the former French market regulator, the Commission des Operations de Bourse, had found Frances insider trading laws too ill-defined to warrant a civil case.
It is inconceivable to expect that the citizen has a better understanding of the law than the authority in charge, Ron Soffer, Mr Soross lawyer, said on Thursday, referring to the billionaires criminal conviction by jury.
The opinion of the regulatory authority is an irrebuttable presumption as to the lack of clarity of the law, Mr Soffer said.
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The NewsHour Hits a MUST-SEE Homerun With This Interview
Im sure whoevers idea it was has been sacked. Along with all the llama trainers.
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Peter Schiff vs. OWS
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Quote from: G M on October 27, 2011, 08:49:34 AM
Even more OWS morons getting schooled.
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I salute his courage and integrity, but frankly I don't think he's doing that great a job.
When one is outnumbered, one has to stop hit the tendency of the larger numbers to overspeak you. Begin by obtain respect for the fact that you are there outnumbered and establish that they will not overspeak and interrupt you because you are there to speak American to American. Establish an agreement to stick to one thing at a time. Continuously work in reference to points where there is agreement.
This are some things I learned while being a Libertarian candidate for US Congress.
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