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The movie looks gorgeous, and since the Coens are actual Oscar catnip, who knows how this'll play out? What if Mulligan got a nod for this and Great Gatsby?
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Graham said that only happened because the individual was subpoenaed.
Benghazi is the rallying cry for conservatives who argue that the administration tried to mislead the American people in the heat of a presidential campaign by playing down a terrorist attack on Obama's watch. In the months since, congressional Republicans have accused the administration of stonewalling their investigation.
In a letter to Graham on Oct. 28, Julia Frifield, the State Department's assistant secretary for legislative affairs, said State was concerned about forcing the survivors to undergo "additional interviews" about the attack, according to FoxNews.com. Frifield said the Justice Department suggested the survivors could be witnesses in a criminal trial, and any interviews outside the criminal justice process could jeopardize a case. But Graham dismissed that notion. "You can't hide behind a criminal investigation," he said, FoxNews.com reported. "That's not a good reason to deny the Congress witness statements 48 hours after the attack." Graham has been seeking FBI reports of interviews with survivors of the attack since last year, FoxNews.com reported.
The State Department also wrote that "because these survivors are potential witnesses in a terrorism prosecution, as well as law enforcement professionals who engage in security activities around the world including at high-threat posts, disclosure of their identities could put their lives, as well as those of their families and the people they protect, at increased risk."
Republicans who joined Graham at Thursday's news conference, including New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who served as that state's attorney general, dismissed that argument. Republicans said they would neither compromise national security nor jeopardize any prosecution.
Nominees in limbo are Janet Yellen, Obama's choice to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Jeh Johnson, tapped to fill the vacancy at Homeland Security after Janet Napolitano resigned as secretary. The Senate also must decide the fate of judicial nominees as well as military officers. On Thursday, the Senate voted not to consider the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat, to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, following resistance from Republicans over his qualifications.
That opposition led to a 56-42 vote — four votes short of the 60 needed — to stop the nomination process to a final debate and floor vote on Obama's nominee to replace Edward J. DeMarco, who has been acting director since 2009.
Less than an hour later, Republicans blocked Washington lawyer Patricia Millett, the first of Obama's three nominations to vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — considered the nation's second-most influential because it hears appeals of federal regulatory cases.
Graham's news conference came as a new poll showed the senator's support plunging among Republican voters in South Carolina. Benghazi is an issue that energizes core Republicans.
The Winthrop Poll showed Graham with the backing of 45 percent of Republican voters in October, down from 72 percent in February. The poll conducted Oct. 19-27 interviewed 887 adults and had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Graham, who is seeking a third term next year, faces primary challenges from three candidates: Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of the Citadel; state Sen. Lee Bright; and businessman Richard Cash. They have criticized the incumbent for working with Democrats on immigration and other issues.
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i need all questions answered such as material and angles and what type of welding and whatever else i need to kow to build a frame. with 102% in my welding class last year i believe i can build a strong enough frame with high quality welds (probably tig but i dont know) i just need some dimensions.
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Was looking for a frame to build up a bunch of 26er parts I have. Was going to take a risk on a Chinese carbon but saw that Jensonusa had some sale going on the ARC.
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I figured the ARC was a better buy than the Chinese carbon and it will look sweet next to my Big Top.
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REI Inc., the multi-channel retailer of outdoor sports gear and clothing, is implementing a web-based workforce management system designed to increase employee productivity and improve customer service by automatically assigning the most qualified workers based on the particular demand in each of its 66 stores, REI announced at the Retail Systems 2003 Conference & Exposition this week.
REI's Workbrain for Retail application captures sales activity from POS terminals, then integrates that data with the retailer's parameters based on employee experience and skill levels, labor laws such as those that limit the weekly or daily hours of young employees, and employee preferences for particular positions and schedules. After processing all that information, the application provides recommended employee assignments and schedules that managers access with a web browser and either accept or change if necessary.
"This is about matching about matching the right employees with expected volumes of customers to better drive sales," Dean Iwata, director of retail business development for REI, tells InternetRetailer.com. He notes that the system estimates store traffic in 15-minute intervals throughout the day. During slow periods, the system will produce lists of recommended small staffs of sales reps who are generally knowledgeable in all or most product categories, Iwata says. But during busy periods, it will recommend larger staffs, including sales reps who specialize in particular categories like canoes, skis or camping gear.
REI's 6,000 employees will also access the system with a browser to enter their names in particular job and time slots and to check final assignments. The system provides REI's managers with "real-time insight into key labor metrics that they can use to drive consistently high levels of customer service an optimal productivity," Iwata says.
Without the Workbrain system, REI managers must pore over spreadsheet records of store sales activity and tri\y to match each store's needs with available workers. "Some managers spend more than 8 hours per store per week on employee schedules," Iwata says. The Workbrain system does this automatically by pulling and integrating information from POS systems, time-and-attendance systems and other records of labor rules.
The system also automates processing of payroll data. When employees sign in through time clocks, POS terminals or other computer terminals, their time and attendance records are automatically calculated through the web-based application into payroll data and routed for manager approvals.
Brad Elder, Workbrain's director of business development, says users of Workbrain for Retail have reported an average 2% reduction in gross payroll costs, due to fewer processing errors, and a 1-3% increase in top-line revenue due to improved customer service resulting from better allocation of employees.
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Engine makers rev up technology for new narrow-body jets
The narrow-body contest pits Boeing against not only Airbus but new contenders Bombardier of Canada, COMAC of China and Irkut of Russia, all vying for a slice of what Boeing estimates is a $1.7 trillion market for 21,000 new planes over 20 years.
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FARNBOROUGH, England — Though at least five airplane makers are preparing plans for the brewing narrow-body jet battle, there are just two contenders to supply the engines that will power those planes.
In separate lavish London hotel suites Sunday ahead of the Farnborough Air Show, Pratt & Whitney and CFM International pitched their exquisitely engineered wares, and trashed each other's technology.
Pratt's engine has a huge fan at the front and a gearbox to ensure it runs efficiently. But rival CFM's executive vice president, Chaker Chahrour, contended "a gearbox is a major driver of unreliability."
CFM, in turn, touts the technical merits of its engine core, in which air is highly compressed and heated. But Todd Kallman, president of Pratt's commercial-engine division, said that for CFM to match his engine's fuel efficiency, "they'll have to do things to the core that will impact durability."
The narrow-body contest pits Boeing against not only Airbus but new contenders Bombardier of Canada, COMAC of China and Irkut of Russia, all vying for a slice of what Boeing estimates is a $1.7 trillion market for 21,000 new planes over 20 years.
The timing has Boeing in a quandary. Company leaders say they will decide by the end of the year whether to put one of these new engines on the 737 around 2015 or to sit tight and produce an all-new replacement jet much later.
The new entrants in the field have already picked their champions.
The Pratt engine will power Bombardier's CSeries jets and Irkut's MS-21 jet family, as well as Mitsubishi of Japan's smaller MRJ regional jet.
The CFM engine will power COMAC's C919 jet family.
And Airbus reaffirmed this weekend in London that it is likely to re-engine its jet and to offer both engines.
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Because the 737 wing is closer to the ground than the A320's, Boeing would have more difficulty fitting these bigger engines to its plane. Wing and landing-gear modifications would be greater and the diameter of the engine might have to be slightly smaller than is possible for the A320.
Both engine makers insist theirs offer significant fuel efficiency for the 737, though less than for a brand new airplane without constraints like wing dimensions.
"We'd have to work really closely with Boeing to see how big an engine we can get and what modifications will the aircraft have to enable us to get optimum size," said Bob Saia, who heads Pratt's next-generation engine division. "We can still provide good double-digit performance improvement."
Pratt has designed a revolutionary geared turbofan engine that promises to reduce fuel burn by 16 percent compared with current engines and to slash emissions and noise.
The key sales point is the size of the fan at the front of the engine. While the 737 engine today has a 61-inch diameter, the new engine could be around 80 inches.
By sucking air backward, the fan produces most of the forward thrust of any modern engine. A bigger fan can produce the same thrust with a slower and quieter flow of air.
"We're leveraging physics," said Saia. "Fundamentally, big fans are good for fuel efficiency and noise."
CFM, a joint venture between General Electric and Snecma of France, is offering an engine that is more evolutionary in development but that claims to match the Pratt engine's radical efficiency improvements.
The company dominates the current narrow-body engine market with its CFM-56 model, the sole engine on all Boeing 737s and on half all Airbus A320s and boasts unbeatable reliability.
For its new engine, the LEAP-X, CFM is combining the ruggedness of its high-cycle CFM-56 narrow-body engine, with the efficiency of the engine core developed for General Electric's leading wide-body engines on the 777 and 787.
The LEAP-X core, where the air volume passing through is compressed by a factor of 22, derives its efficiency from multiple technologies developed over more than a decade.
A rigid casing protects the inner parts when airplane maneuvers deliver high loads to the engine. Tiny blades on the inner spinning disks are shaped for aerodynamic efficiency.
In the combustion chamber the air is pre-swirled to mix better with the fuel.
A mix of ceramics and composites is used to line the inner shroud of the engine casing.
Last month, when Chip Blankenship, head of the commercial-engines division at GE Aviation, came to Everett for the first flight of the first 787 with a GEnx engine, he staked his claim that LEAP-X "is itself revolutionary technology."
"We've spent the last five years refining this high-pressure ratio compressor technology that we've put into the 787," he said. "We'll spend the next few years ruggedizing that based on our experience with the CFM56 and its high reliability. We'll marry those two approaches."
Saia said his Pratt engine has surpassed all expectations in demonstrator tests. It is scheduled to fly on the CSeries for the first time in 2012 and enter service in 2013.
Chahrour said the CFM engine also is passing all tests. It should be ready for service in 2015.
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I guess "cool" is relative. My brother in law, who considers himself a "hipster" and is big in the indie music scene has a scion Xb.
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This is not your typical no start thread, i belive the issue is with the lock cylinder or the anti-theft / ignition module
This is mine, a 2003 Explorer conversion Limited SE, got her some some new tyres and she grips like a rallycar
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Hero of the game inverted Y. He lives in the world of letters. He has the special ability to turn the world. Find all the secrets of this unusual world.
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 14, 2011
solid 10/10 :D
still waiting for the sequel. well done mate.
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 14, 2011
This game byfar is one of the best games I have ever played and I mean it! I give it a 10 because it has a meaning that we are all unique in our ways! I almost cried because of the begginning, this game takes base of Real Life events too! I like the idea how you put letters to represent people/things. A very good idea and which is one of the reasons why I liked it most! The storyline matches the music which is a fit. And this game is challenging which just makes you addicted and want to try more until you win it! Successful game, good job 333666 :)
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars May 14, 2011
A few timing issues but...
it was worth it to see the end. With "good G" to the left, "evil D" to the right and the wOrld in the middle of them.
That triple platform just with the really long 3rd one was still an ass though. >,> *takes off one star*
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars May 13, 2011
I have something to say
this is not an art game, art games are supposed to leave a message, this one doesn't have any message, this is more like a puzzle plataformer with a story, not a message, it's pixelated because pixel images are easy to do because if he would have done an amazing art this game would have released months after it did, plus the coding, also all the characters are letters, in fact the entire game is made of letters, so there was no reason to make an exceptional art,another reason this is not an art game is that art games do not have sequels, this game left a "this will continue..." end.
the game was awesome by the way, good gameplay, good story, good coding, but a down it was too short (maybe because that screen shifting power, or the gravity affected plataforms, but I liked it anyways
I have already voted five, by the way my voting power is currently at 0.0015 not so high but not very much users have that power (at six months ago my voting power was 0.000036 or something like that) i'm looking forward to that sequel.
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This article examines the determinants of and benefits from saving for retirement in tax-preferred accounts by permanent and transitory income levels. We find that higher incomes (both permanent and transitory) are associated with a greater probability to contribute and larger contributions. We also find that tax benefits for retirement savings increase strongly with income, although the increase is slightly smaller when taxpayers are ranked by their permanent (rather than current) income. In addition, we find that a large portion of the benefits from the Saver's Credit go to taxpayers who would not be eligible based on their permanent income. Finally, we find that recent tax changes (including the introduction of the Saver's Credit) significantly increased contributions among low-income households, although the effect was centered among those with only transitorily low income. (JEL H24, H31, E21)
]]>Debate is a "mind sport" that requires fair and impartial judging. This study examines debate rounds at the Tournament of Champions from 2004 to 2009. We use a binomial choice model to estimate the marginal effects of regional bias, sex bias, and side bias, using transitive predictions to control for idiosyncratic quality. We find evidence of region and side bias but not sex bias. These factors may explain the significant number of nontransitive outcomes in the data. Finally, we suggest some policy remedies to mitigate the impact of biases and further applications of our methodology. (JEL C25, J16, J52, J71, L83)
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]]>The existing empirical evidence suggests that in low-income economies, an increase in government spending leads to a reduction of growth. This article aims to explain this empirical fact by considering a growth model that incorporates a two-way relationship between corruption and government spending. That is, government spending gives rise to corruption and rent seeking, which feeds back by distorting the structure and size of government spending. In addition, the cost of corruption depends on the wage rate. Therefore, in low-income economies, increases in government spending tend to generate larger social losses caused by a higher level of rent dissipation and a concomitant rise in corruption and government inefficiency. Consequently, in such economies, an increase in government spending is more likely to result in a decline of economic growth. (JEL H3, O11, O41)
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]]>This study analyzes the effects of the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 terrorist attacks on stress, smoking, and smoking quit attempts using 1,657,985 observations from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Regression discontinuity results suggest that, in the fourth quarter of 2001, stress increased by nearly an extra half day per 30 days (11.9%) among ever smoking adults. In the 2 years after 9/11, smoking prevalence increased by 1.1 percentage points (2.3%) among ever smoking adults, resulting in between 950,000 and 1,300,000 adult former smokers becoming smokers again because of terrorism. The net cost to the government was between $530 million and $830 million through the end of 2003. Adults reported disproportionate stress increases based on community military participation and education. Simultaneity between smoking and stress is addressed by an instrumental variables model, providing validity to the hypothesized causal pathway between terrorism, stress, and smoking. This model suggests that an extra day of stress per 30 days causes a 3.4 percentage point increase in smoking among ever smoking adults. Results help to quantify a hidden cost of terrorism and provide a better understanding of utility maximization during periods of high stress. (JEL I12, I18)
]]>This paper investigates how asset tests for welfare eligibility affect auto ownership, employment, and welfare participation for single mothers without a college degree. We combine longitudinal data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation with data on state-level welfare program rules from the Urban Institute and data on state-level controls to test whether these single mothers were more likely to (1) own a car, (2) be employed, and (3) be off of welfare, depending on the welfare asset rules instituted in their state. We find evidence that, taken as a group, the asset rules have a statistically significant effect on the probability of car ownership. Ordinary least squares results and cross-sectional two-stage least squares (2SLS) results using the asset rules to instrument for car ownership show a large, positive, statistically significant effect of car ownership on employment. However, in 2SLS models controlling for prior car ownership and prior employment, the asset instruments are weaker and we do not find an effect of car ownership on employment. Of significance for policy makers, we find that the asset rules do not have a statistically significant joint effect on welfare participation, even after addressing possible endogeneity. (JEL I38, J68, J08)
]]>This paper proposes an explanation for several decades of rising U.S. nonmarital birth rates and shares, and for cross-sectional differences in black-white fertility. Significantly, the explanation does not rely on changes over time or differences across races in individual fertility behavior. It is consistent with the rising nonmarital fertility measures observed in the United States since the mid-1970s, higher measured fertility for unmarried blacks than whites, and differences across races in the timing of childbearing, despite nearly constant total fertility rates and increasingly similar target family sizes for blacks and whites. The explanation relies on a selection effect associated with changes in the marriage rate and on racial differences in access to human capital investment opportunities. We find strong support for the explanation using U.S. data over the period 1957–2002. Our findings suggest caution in interpreting the results of empirical studies of childbearing that examine marital and nonmarital fertility rates separately, as these studies typically ignore the selection effect of marriage. (JEL J12, J13, I38)
]]>This paper examines which economic, fiscal, external, financial, and institutional characteristics of countries affect the likelihood that they adopt inflation targeting (IT) as their monetary policy strategy. We estimate a panel binary response model for 60 countries and two subsamples consisting of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and non-OECD countries over the period 1985–2008. The findings suggest that past macroeconomic performance of a country, its fiscal discipline, exchange rate arrangements, as well as the structure and development of its financial system have a significant impact on the likelihood to adopt IT. However, the factors leading to IT adoption differ significantly between OECD and non-OECD countries. (JEL E42, E52)
]]>Recent evidence demonstrates that exchange rate movements can affect firm survival and entry. However, there is little evidence on whether there are asymmetric effects of an appreciation versus depreciation. This article uses firm-level data over a period of a large currency appreciation followed by a large depreciation to examine possible asymmetries in firm survival and entry resulting in the endurance of exchange rate effects. We find that when real currency appreciations precede depreciations, appreciations reduce firm entry rates to a greater degree than depreciations increase that rate; but appreciations reduce the probability of firm survival at a magnitude not significantly different from the increase in probability that results from a depreciation. Taken together, we find that a 10% reciprocal episode of exchange rate appreciation and depreciation will result in 1,647 (5.2%) fewer firms compared with a regime with no change in the exchange rate. These results are consistent with exchange rate hysteresis whereby a transitory exchange rate shock has a permanent effect. (JEL F1)
]]>We analyze the role of targeted enforcement of emissions taxes when the regulator wants to minimize aggregate emissions via the adoption of new more environmentally friendly technology. The regulator wants to speed up the path of technology adoption generated by a policy of uniform enforcement (that monitors adopters and nonadopters with the same probability) by engaging in a regulatory deal where a reduced monitoring probability is granted in "exchange" for adoption of the new technology. We set up a theoretical model, characterize the circumstances in which such dealing minimizes aggregate emissions, and test our hypothesis using economic laboratory experiments. Our analytical and experimental results suggest that even though such a deal might imply an increased level of violation by adopters, such tolerance is rather an integral part of an overall enforcement strategy that minimizes aggregate emissions when the rate of adoption is endogenous. (JEL L51, Q53, Q55, Q58)
]]>The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) could arise from the scale effect in abatement technology as emphasized by Andreoni and Levinson (2001) or from the induced policy response as suggested by Grossman and Krueger (1995). This paper incorporates these two contrary views into a model and quantitatively evaluates their relative importance in shaping the EKC of U.S. water pollution. Our main findings include: (a) some scale effect in abatement technology must exist, otherwise the turning point of the EKC will be unreasonably high; (b) the scale effect alone is not sufficient to explain the practical occurrence of the turning point of the EKC; and (c) the scale effect features critically in the induced policy response as well. (JEL H41, O40, Q20)
]]>Whether or not politics cause changes in monetary policy is controversial in the literature. This article re-examines the link between politics and regime shifts in monetary policy using two alternative approaches. First, empirical results show that both the presidential and Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) chairmanship regimes do not influence monetary policy under the assumption that the Fed closely follows an interest rate rule. On the other hand, evidence also suggests that changes in political regimes are able to account for the deviations from the optimal Taylor rule. (JEL E52, E58, D78)
]]>Although there is evidence that there was gender inequality in China's education system in the 1980s, the literature in China has mixed evidence on improvements in gender inequality in educational attainment over the past three decades. Some suggest gender inequality is still severe; others report progress. We seek to understand the progress China has made (if any) in reducing gender inequality in education since the 1980s. To meet this goal, we use a meta-analysis approach which provides a new quantitative review of a relatively large volume of empirical literature on gender educational differentials. This article analyzes differences across both time and space, and also across different grade levels and ethnicities. Our results indicate that gender inequality in educational attainment still exists, but it has been narrowing over time. Moreover, it varies by area (rural versus urban) and grade level. There is nearly no significant gender inequality in the case of girls in urban areas or in the case of the 9 years of compulsory education (primary school and junior high school). Girls, however, still face inequality in rural areas (although inequality is falling over time) and when they reach high school or beyond. (JEL I24)
]]>This paper builds on earlier work that used a general-equilibrium model to show that reducing employment of unauthorized immigrants in the United States through a tighter border-security policy lowers the average income of legal residents. Here we exploit further the detail available in the general-equilibrium model to look at distributional effects, recognizing that the policy increases wage rates for low-paid legal workers. We assess the social welfare effect on legal workers using a constant elasticity of substitution social welfare function. We contrast our general-equilibrium approach to immigration analysis with the more commonly used partial-equilibrium, econometric approach. (JEL D63, J61, C68)
]]>The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was first produced by Gwartney, Block, and Lawson (Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995; 1996) and has been updated annually since. During this period, the EFW index has been cited in hundreds of academic articles. Here, we provide an accounting and description of this literature. Of 402 articles citing the EFW index, 198 used the index as an independent variable in an empirical study. Over two-thirds of these studies found economic freedom to correspond to a "good" outcome such as faster growth, better living standards, more happiness, etc. Less than 4% of the sample found economic freedom to be associated with a "bad" outcome such as increased income inequality. The balance of evidence is overwhelming that economic freedom corresponds with a wide variety of positive outcomes with almost no negative tradeoffs. (JEL P0, O43)
]]>Sub-Saharan African countries have traditionally lagged the rest of the developing world in terms of overall trade relative to gross domestic product. But, there is growing interest among these countries to initiate trade policies and improve quality of institutions as a way to promote trade and boost foreign direct investment. This article extends the gravity model of trade to include proxies for trade reform policy and institutional quality among the 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for data spanning 1984–2006. Alternative methods of estimation based on ordinary least squares, Heckman two-step procedure, and Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood produce predictions that are consistent with the standard gravity model. They further highlight the evidence of restrictive trade policies and weak institutions that contribute to the failure of ECOWAS countries to boost bilateral trade. (JEL F13, F15, O19, O55)
]]>This article analyzes the differential impacts of different types of economic freedom on bilateral trade flows between the United States and 122 countries over 10 years. A gravity model of trade is employed to investigate how various freedom indices assembled by the Fraser Institute impact the volume of trade, exports, and imports. The main findings of the article are that each of the freedom indices impact heterogeneously across the measure of trade flows, with the changes in Regulation having the biggest impact on trade. All combinations of freedom are used to find the mixture of freedom which yields the largest trade gains. The largest gains from trade generally combine Business Regulation in a variety of different configurations. The smallest gains, or losses, to trade arise with augmented monetary independence. (JEL D02, F14, F55)
]]>Many countries promote participation in physical activity among its citizens. We undertake an international comparative analysis of participation using data from 34 countries in the 2007 International Social Survey Programme Leisure Time and Sports module, augmented with country-specific characteristics capturing economic freedom and national sport policy. Gross domestic product per capita and economic freedom are associated with higher physical activity participation; past success of the national team in the Olympics is associated with lower participation, but hosting sports mega-events is associated with higher participation. Our findings indicate that participation in sport and physical activity falls with age and rises with education and income. (JEL H59, I12, I18, J22, L83)
]]>Using 1981–2009 data for the 50 states, this article examines the relationship between economic freedom and the unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate, and the employment-population ratio. After controlling for a variety of state-level characteristics, the results from most specifications indicate that economic freedom is associated with lower unemployment and with higher labor force participation and employment-population ratios. (JEL J68, K31, O43)
]]>We investigate the causal relationship between income inequality and economic freedom using data from U.S. states over the period 1981 to 2004 within a panel error correction model framework. The results indicate bidirectional causality between income inequality and economic freedom in both the short and the long run. These results suggest that high income inequality may cause states to implement redistributive policies causing economic freedom to decline. As economic freedom declines, income inequality rises even more. In other words, it is quite possible for a state to get caught in a vicious circle of high income inequality and heavy redistribution. (JEL D63, H11)
]]>We examine the attitudes of Ohio homeowners about school choice, which includes open enrollment programs, school vouchers, tuition tax credits, and charter schools. Previous studies examine more limited forms of choice and investigate fewer possible influences. Overall we report at least five new findings and five findings that contradict previous studies. We find the strongest predictors of opposition for school choice are people having graduate degrees and living in high-performing public school districts. We find people living in blue collar areas and using private schools to be the strongest predictors of support. Males tend to oppose choice and African Americans support it. We find no role for income, the convenience of alternative schools, or the protection of house values in support for school choice. Overall we report at least five new findings and five findings that contradict previous studies. (JEL H44, I22)
]]>This paper examines how immigrant enclaves influence labor market outcomes. We examine the effect of variation in ethnic concentration across counties and county subdivisions on both immigrant earnings and employment using the non-public use, 1-in-6 sample of the 2000 U.S. Census. We find that there is heterogeneity in enclave impacts by ethnic group and skill composition of the enclave. While some groups tend to suffer from lower wages and employment propensities when residing in areas with larger ethnic concentrations, others have higher wages and improved employment opportunities in enclaves. (JEL J61, J15, R23)
]]>The authors survey economists in the United States holding membership in the American Economic Association (AEA) to determine if there are significant differences in views between male and female economists on important policy issues. Controlling for place of current employment (academic institution with graduate program, academic institution—undergraduate only, government, for-profit institution) and decade of PhD, the authors find many areas in which economists agree. However, important differences exist in the views of male and female economists on issues including the minimum wage, views on labor standards, health insurance, and especially on explanations for the gender wage gap and issues of equal opportunity in the labor market and the economics profession itself. These results lend support to the notion that gender diversity in policy-making circles may be an important aspect in broadening the menu of public policy choices. (JEL A11, J78, A14)
]]>In this study, we evaluate the performance of waivered recruits in the U.S. military. Unlike the private sector, the military has formal standards for identifying ideal recruits and uses a formal screening process to determine those within risky populations who are most likely to succeed. (Recruits who make it through the screening process are issued a waiver.) The military's establishment of waiver categories and its tracking of waiver status provide us with a case study for determining whether such risk-identification strategies work. Using FY99–FY08 service-level waiver and personnel data, we evaluate whether the military recruiting strategy has been successful and whether firms should consider adopting similar screening mechanisms. We estimate the effect of waiver status on attrition and promotion, our primary performance indicators, after controlling for other quality indicators. We find that waivered recruits, on the whole, are not particularly poor performers, although their inherent riskiness does vary by service and by waiver type. (JEL J45, M51, J23)
]]>The established literature shows that new stadium construction for major league baseball (MLB) teams can increase attendance, but there are limited studies at the minor league level. We use a data set encompassing all A, AA, and AAA minor league baseball teams from 1992 to 2006 to estimate the impact of stadium construction on minor league attendance. This data set includes almost 200 teams, over half of which constructed a new stadium during the 15-year observation period. Over a 10-year period our results show that new stadiums increase attendance by 1.2 million fans at the AAA level, 0.4 million at the AA and high A level, and 0.2 million at short season low A. A cost benefit analysis suggests that increased ticket sales do not offset the stadium costs, in line with previous works on MLB. (JEL H0, L83)
]]>There is evidence that attractive looking workers earn more than average looking workers, even after controlling for a variety of individual characteristics. The presence of such beauty premiums may influence the labor supply decisions of attractive workers. For example, if one unit of a product by an attractive worker is more rewarded than that by her less attractive coworker, the attractive worker may put more effort into improving her productivity. We examine this possibility by analyzing panel data for individual female golfers participating in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour. We found that attractive golfers recorded lower than average scores and earn more prize money than average looking players, even when controlling for player experience and other variables related to their natural talents. This finding is consistent with the notion that physical appearance is associated with individual workers' accumulation of human capital or skills. If the human capital of attractive workers is at least partly an outcome of favoritism toward beauty, then the premium estimates obtained by previous studies may have been downwardly biased. (JEL J3, J7, L8)
]]>The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed admission to public universities in Texas. We estimate the causal effects of this admissions guarantee on a sequence of connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above and just below the top 10% rank cut off. We assume that other student characteristics and incentives are continuous at this cut off. We find that students react to incentives created by the admissions guarantee—for example, by reducing applications to competing private universities. The effects of the admissions guarantee depend on the university and the type of students it attracts. The 10% law is binding and alters the decisions of the admissions committees. We find little evidence that the law increases diversity or leads to meaningful mismatch for the marginal student admitted. (JEL I23, I28)
]]>In this article, we use enterprise population-level data to investigate the effectiveness of Chinese unions in improving employee wage and nonwage compensation. We show that the effectiveness of Chinese unions stems from a "collective voice" face rather than from a "monopoly" face. The empirical findings on the effectiveness of unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve employee wage and nonwage compensation, along with employee training. Moreover, the presence of unions within the same region and industry generates positive spillovers for employee compensation. The unions in China do have "real" effects. (JEL J30, J50, J51, K31)
]]>This paper investigates whether regulatory forbearance for savings banks in Korea affects the market discipline of depositors using data from 2000 to 2010, which are characterized by a series of exits of savings banks. We find that depositors' sensitivity to the savings banks' asset quality decreases when there is regulatory forbearance for failing savings banks. This forbearance effect is also observed in the behavior of the depositors of the neighboring savings banks in the same business area. These results suggest that regulatory forbearance may cause depositors to misjudge bank risks, increasing the expected costs of bank failure. (JEL G21, G28)
]]>For the past 40 years, governments, utilities, and private companies have developed increasingly efficient appliances for household use and governments have initiated policies to encourage the deployment of these technologies. To the credit of these activities, we have improved the efficiency of electricity use in the United States, but it has not been enough to overcome the increasing demand from proliferation of electricity-using devices. In addition, penetration rates for some types of efficient equipment have remained relatively low in certain regions. U.S. electricity demand thus continues to grow. In this paper, we argue that to achieve significantly greater efficiency improvements needed to meet future demand for energy services, we should provide more information to consumers about their energy use and give them more control over this use. While more studies are needed to assess just how far these types of measures can take us, there is enough evidence to show that with better information, consumers often make choices that reduce energy use.
]]>The global economic and financial landscape has been transformed over the past decade by the growing economic size and financial power of emerging economies. The new Group of Twenty summit process, which includes the largest emerging economies, has established high-level international policy cooperation in this new setting. This article argues that effective global economic governance will also require changes in key global organizations—such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the Financial Stability Board—and closer collaboration between global and regional organizations. We suggest that federalism be introduced on a global scale by creating hierarchies of global and regional organizations with overlapping ownership structures in various functional areas (as is already the case with the World Bank and regional development banks in the area of development finance). Asia could contribute to this transformation by building effective institutions to promote macroeconomic and financial stability and deepen regional trade and investment integration. Similar logic could be applied to a broader issue of providing international public goods, such as environmental and climate protection, communicable disease control, and disaster risk management. (JEL F02, F13, F33, F55, O59)


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I just got back from an action-packed week of meetings in Shanghai, China.
Shanghai is one of the more exciting cities I've visited recently as they prepare for the World Expo in May as well as the upcoming Chinese New Year festivities.
As a city Shanghai is a bustling modern metropolis. A city that in a little over thirty years has gone from a small village to mega city of more then 30 million people. In talking with the people I met in Shanghai I quickly came to realize that like myself, most people in Shanghai were not originally from there, most had recently moved there from other areas of China for "economic opportunities" the city now offers.
Looking around the city you'll notice a level of wealth on par or better than most western cities. In a nutshell the reason I found myself in Shanghai was for the very reason the Chinese are now pouring into the the city, the opportunity to capitalize on the new Chinese dream.
As many of you know I've been a big proponent of Cloud Computing in the PRC for quite some time. Not withstanding that China is among the fast growing and largest economies on the globe, China has a significant data center hosting ecosystem made up of a small group of very large state sponsored telecom organizations which makes selling [hosted] Cloud services in this market a challenge to say the least. Fortunately for me their overwhelming need to equip a new and rapidly growing underlying network infrastructure is a huge opportunity, something that myself and Enomaly seem uniquely qualified to offer.
Unlike other markets around the globe the Chinese hosting business lacks any sort of small or middle tier of hosting providers, yet the country has upwards of 40 million small businesses. In my discussions with several of the largest Chinese telecom providers the opportunity is simple, to help a equip these emerging small businesses to become part of the larger global information / internet environment. Yet another driver for the use of cloud based infrastructure in China is the the rapid development found in the data center real estate market. Like the booming real-estate market itself, data center space and capacity is growing at an exponential rate. All this new space means new capacity, capacity that needs to be managed in an adaptive, energy efficient and continually evolving way. Something that cloud computing is ideal for. Also, with the development of a country wide wireless Internet infrastructure, it seems that cloud computing will play a major role in how people access applications and information in China.
How do you say Cloud Computing in Chinese you ask? 雲計算 yún jì suàn -- The reason I mention this is because to do business in China today, you must first understand the way the Chinese do business. Culture is an extremely important part of all aspects of the business environment. As for Enomaly in China, we now count several of the largest Chinese Banks, Power/Energy utilities, Regional Telecoms and even a local police force as ECP customers. What is interesting is we seem to have found ourselves a sought-after niche in the Chinese market. A particular niche that has been overlooked by most in the technology world -- that of cloud enablement. Some of the reasons are simple, others are more complex but it mostly comes down to market access. Things like culture, language and relationships play a hugh role in how business is done here.
To be honest, we were extremely lucky in that we found a major partner in Intel who provided us with on the ground support and introductions to some of the largest players in China. Without the knowhow and help of the Intel China team I doubt we would have had the opportunities that we now enjoy as a small company in this very large market. So my suggestion to any upstart trying to gain a foothold in the Chinese market is to first find an established player with a local team. And second, do not build you're own data centers, local IT policies really don't make running your own data center a reasonable option. Of those who have tried they typically do so under the rationale of "Disaster Recovery" which limits your ability to act as a production hosting facility.
In closing, when it comes to doing business in the PRC, the sky is the limit, keep watching you'll see some exciting Enomaly related news in the very near future.
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Born | Robin St. C. Hardy[1] 2 October 1929 Surrey, England, UK[1] |
Occupation | Film director, writer |
Robin Hardy (born 2 October 1929) is an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work was The Wicker Man,[2] and his latest project is a film adaptation of his novel Cowboys for Christ, which has been retitled as The Wicker Tree.[2] Hardy now lives in London and Somerset.
- The Wicker Man (1973) (director)
- The Fantasist (1986) (writer and director)
- Forbidden Sun (1989) (writer)
- The Wicker Tree (2011) (writer and director)
- The Wrath of the Gods (TBA) (writer and director)
- ^ a b "BFI biodata". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
- ^ a b thehorrorchick April 23rd, 2012 (2012-04-23). "Exclusive Interview: Writer/Director Robin Hardy on The Wicker Tree, Completing his Trilogy and More". Dreadcentral.com. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
External links[edit]
- Robin Hardy at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Robin Hardy at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview in MungBeing Magazine
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Archos, a French company known for making budget gadgets and music players, is rumored to join the Android phone race with its own range of smartphones. The company is expected to unveil its brand of smartphones in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week.
The rumor was first started by a Russian website, Hi-Tech, which leaked images and specs of the android phones. The cheapest model of smartphones from Archos is the Archos 35 Carbon. With a 3.5 inch display and a resolution of 320 x 480 pixel the device will sport a 1GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB built in memory, memory extension with microSD card support, a 5MP camera and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The device will support dual SIM functionality as well as a 1,500mAh battery. The price of the unit is rumored at $120.
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Material Type: | Music |
Document Type: | Sound Recording |
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Charles Ives; Eugene Ormandy; Leonard Bernstein; Leopold Stokowski; Philadelphia Orchestra.; New York Philharmonic.; American Symphony Orchestra (New York, N.Y.) |
OCLC Number: | 904698 |
Notes: | Title from container. Manual sequence; playable also on monaural equipment. Program notes by Ricard Kostelanetz, Jonathan Price, and Chris Nelson (12 p.) laid in. |
Contents: | No. 1 in D minor (Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor).--No. 2 (New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor).--No. 3, The camp meeting (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Berstein, conductor).--No. 4 (Members of the Schola Cantorum of New York; American Symphony Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor). |
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Other Titles: | Symphonies |
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THE Priest's House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster will be offering a hands on opportunity to find out all about archaeology on Wednesday 14 August.
Developed in the 'What's Under Your School?' project led by Julian Richards of 'Meet the Ancestors' fame and Claire Ryley, the indoor archaeology dig gives everyone a chance to find out about archaeology, what archaeologists do and what is under our feet – all without getting your hands dirty!
Choose either a morning session from 10.30 to 12.30 or an afternoon session from 1.30 to 3.30. Admission is £2 per person. The annual pass is not valid for this event. There is no need to book but numbers are limited and will be on a first come first served basis. For further information please contact the museum on 01202 882533 or visit www.priest-house.co.uk. Please remember that all children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
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24/7: Bradley-Marquez will air on Sept. 28 directly following a World Championship Boxing tripleheader on HBO. HBO's 24/7: Bradley-Marquez will debut on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 1 a.m ET/PT as a preview to WBO welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley's defense of his belt against four-division titlewinner Juan Manuel Marquez at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on HBO Pay Per View. The episode will be shown directly following a 10:15 ET/PT broadcast of a World Championship Boxing tripleheader featuring former and current titleholders in three marquee divisions fighting in three different countries. The broadcast will begin with former heavyweight titleholder David Haye in an all-English clash with unbeaten 6-foot-9 contender Tyson Fury in Manchester, England, before switching to a defense by RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson against Tavoris Cloud in Montreal. The final matchup will see former WBC middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. take on Brian Vera in a super middleweight bout in Carson, Calif. Haye (26-2, 24 knockouts) was last in the ring for a fifth-round knockout of Dereck Chisora in July, and Fury (21-0, 15 KOs) rose from a second-round knockdown to stop Steve Cunningham in the seventh round in April. Stevenson (21-1, 17 KOs) is coming off June's 76-second stoppage of former champion Chad Dawson, while Cloud (24-2, 19 KOs) was derailed as IBF beltholder by Bernard Hopkins in March. Chavez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) was last in action for a unanimous-decision loss to RING champion Sergio Martinez last Sept. 15 in Las Vegas, after which he tested positive for marijuana. In June, the Nevada State Athletic Commission reduced the fine it had initially levied against Chavez from $900,000 to $100,000, this, after the fighter already had completed the term of his nine-month suspension. Vera (23-6, 14 KOs) has won four straight fights, including the past two by knockout. Photo by Naoki Fukuda Lem Satterfield can be reached at email@example.com |


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Case Number | 47712 |
Log Number | US-05282013-0024 |
Date Submitted | 05/28/2013 07:07 UTC |
Date of the Event | 05/27/2013 08:20 UTC |
Source | MUFON |
Disposition | Unresolved |
Summary | Stationary then increased brightness, started moving then appeared to ascend until gone |
Tags | none |
Sighting Location
City | Birmingham |
Region | Alabama |
Country | United States |
Latitude | 33.522321 |
Longitude | -86.79682 |
The latitude and longitude presented here is an approximation to protect the reporters identity
Sighting Specifics
Viewing Distance | Unknown |
Sighting Duration | Undisclosed |
Object Features | None |
Object Flight Path | Hovering then path |
Object Shape | Star-like |
Weather Factors | Unknown |
Sighting Details
I was rolling my trash can out to the street around 8:15 - 8:20 pm. It was just after dark and a few of the brighter stars/planets were just becoming visible. There were no clouds. I noticed what I first thought to be an unusually bright star or planet and I noticed a smaller reddish star next to it that I assume was probably Mars. I stopped rolling my trash to focus on it and it was so bright ( much brighter than the north star ) That I started trying to remember if there was a celestial event happening with a planet or something. Then the light increased in size and brightness maybe to the size of a penny held with outstretched hand. The object then began to travel, I immediately recognized the motion because I still had the other star as a reference point. The brightness dimmed to about average star brightness as it traveled and it quickly seemed to be ascending as it quickly got smaller and vanished completely. |
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You're right, most foreign words are transliterated differently in Mandarin and in Cantonese. Sometimes there are even different standards in different Mandarin speaking regions. It's an interesting idea to use characters that have similar pronunciations in both dialects to unify the transliteration but it's not what has already happened.
A few examples of ...
In the PRC, the official agency that decides this seems to be the 中国地名委员会 (China Commission on Place Names).
They published a book called 外国地名译名手册 (Reference Book of Translated Foreign Place Names), which according to this Baidupedia entry includes the official translations of 18,000 place names plus general rules for translating place names from several ...
In all the news reports in Mainland China, "中东" refers to Middle East. This can be seen as a convention -- as a native speaker, if I hear "中东", I will definately think of the Middle East. You can take a look at the Wikipedia Page of 中东, and the Baidu Baike Page of 中东. Only one meaning is referred on both pages -- Middle East.
If anyone wants to refer to ...
亞洲 (亚洲) is short for 亞細亞洲 (亚细亚洲, Asia) which can be found as early as 坤輿萬國全圖 published in 1602 (萬曆三十年) , mainly by Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci or 利瑪竇 (Lì Mǎdòu), 6 Oct 1552 - 11 May 1610, who is believed to coin this transliteration into Chinese characters.
非洲 is from 阿非利加洲 (Africa). The above work, however, gives a different name for Africa: 利未亞 ...
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Company Names
Many big companies hire PR/Advertising firm to conduct research to create localized name or brand name. Though many times they will end up with phonetic translation, some will get nice semi-phonetic, some of them get lucky with phonetic and poetic.
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Kaifen(开封) used to be the "Dongjing" of China during Song dynasty. Xi'an(西安) was the "Western capital" of China in many dynasties. However instead of "Xijing" (西京), it was referred as "Xidu"(西都) in many ancient literature. For example:
"望西都,意踌躇。" By 张养浩( Zhang yanghao ) Yuan Dynasty.
But Xidu and Xijing are basically same meanning.
There is a 西京 to Japan's 東京; you were just looking in the wrong country: it's Kyoto, which for a short time was named Saikyō, just as Edo was renamed Tokyo when the capital moved from Kyoto to it.
This is similar to how Nanjing and Beijing got their names too, when the capital was moved during Ming from then-金陵 to then-北平. In Japan's case only Tokyo's name ...
pinyinplaces.com has an extensive list of countries, cities, and states and provinces. I contacted the author, and he said he compiled the lists by buying a bunch of atlases and country maps from Chinese bookstores and culling the transliterations from them.
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- n. The office or profession of an attorney.
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- n. The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.
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- n. The office of an attorney, or the period during which the office is held; agency for another.
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- n. the position of attorney
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