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We're in a strange area of advertising these days. As brands are moving online and becoming 'social,' they are rewriting the books and sometimes making stuff up as they go. Shit, now that I think about it, it feels like its been months since I wrote anything even about advertising. I guess now that I have a job I can post more regularly than my 4-6 posts from my senior year in college. Moving on, managing social media platforms is something most people in the ad business should be aware of, especially if you want to do it well. Now I'm not saying I'm the master, not even close, I'm just commenting on something I'm noticing across the board.
My first and foremost my biggest 'tip' would be to know who you are speaking to and how to speak to them. This includes knowing your own brand identity, as well as knowing how to use that identity to convey valued and informative messages. Particularly, small businesses and brands are using social media to just spew out promotions and whatever else just hoping they get some response. However watching bigger brands, a lot of their posted content is primarily there to start a conversation. Whether it's questions, pictures or brand related content, it all falls under their brand identity. For example, if a local college bar were to post a message about a particular happy hour event on a specific date; they'd reach somewhere around 8-10% of their fan base, and limit themselves to comments like "thanks for the heads up" and "cool."
By identifying as a college bar, your brand probably is on the younger side of the spectrum, and have a good sense of whats fun and not. With the same previously mentioned message, it could be reorganized to better reach – college students, who like to have fun, drink, and talk, specifically on social media. Something as simple as asking a question, along with a message about the brand, can generate much more overall reach and engagement. The possibilities of responses are no longer so limited, and it makes your brand appear human. And as far as branding goes, personification can be the bridging gap in helping audiences relate to you on social media.
Just remember, social media is there to be social, not a message board for promotions, because that's what your website is there for. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram give you the perfect platform to communicate back to your followers, so do it. Specifically smaller brands I've noticed are sometimes posting great content, but not continuing the conversation any further. When people ask questions, they aren't replying, and when people post things on their wall, they do nothing with it. Hell, if you don't know what to say, just 'Like" their post. Let followers know that your brand acknowledges them and cares!
Those are just my thoughts, thanks for reading. I'll hopefully add onto this in the next few weeks!


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Do you think a girl with the name calliope would get teased a lot
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Why would she be teased? Because it's not a common name? I think it's a lovely name, with a common nickname if your daughter would like to blend in more, if you know what i mean.
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Someone has told me because of the instrument. The pee sound. The spelling of it maybe being pronounced ca lee oh pee
May 11th, 2013 08:42 PM #9
I love Calliope. Sure, there's teasing potential, but it's there in most names.
I think, more than a name, there are certain types of children who will be teased. It's not fair, but that's the way it is. I know two boys with classic, very common decent names who were teased constantly (including their names) because of who they were, and I know people with very out there names that could have easily been teased but never were.
I can almost guarantee there will be one child who notices the pee sound, and depending on how your child reacts, or how well liked they are, it will continue and possibly get worse, or it will just be a passing observation. I personally would go for it if it was the name that I loved above all others.Artemis Willow ☀ Cordelia Avalon ☀ Isabeau Forest ☀ Isadora Nightingale ☀ Lorelei Ondine ☀ Lyra Snow ☀ Pandora Everild ☀ Tabitha Eilonwy ☀ Thisbe Wildrose ☀ Thora Silmarien
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The new Files app promises to help companies connect any file to any business seamlessly from any device. Companies can unlock files from third-party repositories -- including Dropbox, Box and Google Drive and SharePoint -- and make them mobile and social on the Salesforce.com platform.
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The History Channel didn't have to battle for viewers on Monday night, thanks to the feuding "Hatfields & McCoys."
The first part of the miniseries came out swinging Monday, with 13.9 million viewers tuning in.
The network expressed its appreciation for the show of support on Twitter, noting that the huge turnout made it "the No. 1 non-sports telecast in ad-supported cable history!"
In a statement on TVLine, the network's president, Nancy Dubuc, said that the History Channel has "[owned] historical drama ... with guns a-blazin'!"
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Dayananda Saraswati
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Born | Mul Shankar Tiwari or Mulshankar Karasandas Tiwari /Shuddha Chaitanya as Brahmachari 12 February 1824 Tankara, Gujarat |
Died | 30 October 1883 Ajmer, Rajasthan |
(aged 59)
Nationality | Indian |
Titles/honours | Sindhi Marhu |
Guru | Swami Virajananda Dandi |
Philosophy | Traitvad vedic philosophy based on Samhita of four Vedas and its theory derived on Nighantu and Nirukta with six Darshanas supported by Paniniya Vyakaran. |
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Dayanand Saraswati pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती, Gujarati: મહષિૅ દયાનંદ સરસ્વતી Svāmī Dayānand Sarasvatī) (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883)[1] was an important Hindu religious leader of his time. He is well known as the founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition. He was a profound scholar of the Vedic lore and Sanskrit language. He was the first to give the call for Swarajya as "India for Indians" – in 1876, later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak.[2][3] Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship prevalent in Hinduism at the time, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Subsequently the philosopher and President of India, S. Radhakrishnan, called him one of the "makers of Modern India," as did Sri Aurobindo.[4][5][6]
He remains a influential figure. Those who were influenced by and followed him included Madam Cama, Pandit Guru Dutt Vidyarthi,[7] Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Lala Hardayal, Madan Lal Dhingra, Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, Mahadev Govind Ranade[8] Swami Shraddhanand, Mahatma Hansraj, Lala Lajpat Rai[9][10] and others. One of his most influential works is the book Satyarth Prakash, which contributed to the Indian independence movement. He was a sanyasi (ascetic) from boyhood, and a scholar, who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas.
Maharshi Dayananda advocated the doctrine of Karma (Karmasiddhanta in Hinduism) and Reincarnation (Punarjanma in Hinduism). He emphasized the Vedic ideals of brahmacharya (celibacy) and devotion to God. The Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj were united from 1878 to 1882, becoming the Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj.[11] Among Maharshi Dayananda's contributions are his promoting of the equal rights for women, such as the right to education and reading of Indian scriptures, and his intuitive commentary on the Vedas from Vedic Sanskrit in Sanskrit as well as Hindi so that the common man might be able to read them. Dayanand was the first to give the word of Swadeshi long before Mahatma Gandhi.[12]
Early life[edit]
Dayanand Saraswati was born on 10, February, 1824 in Tankara, near Morvi in the Kathiawad region (now Rajkot district of Gujarat). His original name was Mool Shankar. His father's name was Karshanji Lalji Tiwari and mother's name was Yashodabai. Theirs was a Brahmin family. A tax collector, his father was a rich, prosperous and influential person. He was the head of an eminent Brahmin family of the village. When Mool Shankar was eight years old, Yajnopavita Sanskara, or the investiture with thread of the "twice-born" were performed. His father was a follower of Shiva and taught Dayanand Saraswati the ways to impress the Lord. Dayanand was also told the importance of keeping fasts. On the occasion of Shivratri, Dayanand had to sit awake the whole night in obedience to Lord Shiva. One such night, he saw a mouse eating the offerings to the God and running over the idol's body. After seeing this, he questioned himself, if the God could not defend himself against a little mouse then how could he be the savior of the massive world.
Since he was born under Mul Nakshatra, he was named "Moolshankar", and led a comfortable early life, studying Sanskrit, the Vedas and other religious texts to prepare himself for a future as a Hindu priest.[13][14]
The deaths of his younger sister and his uncle from cholera caused Dayananda to ponder the meaning of life and death and he started asking questions which worried his parents. He was to be married in his early teens, as was common in nineteenth-century India, but he decided marriage was not for him and in 1846 ran away from home.[15][16]
Dayananda Sarasvati spent nearly twenty-five years, from 1845 to 1869, as a wandering ascetic, searching for religious truth. An ascetic is someone who gives up material goods and lives a life of self-denial, devoted to spiritual matters. He lived in jungles, in retreats in the Himalayan Mountains, and at a number of pilgrimage sites in northern India. During these years Dayananda Sarasvati practiced various forms of yoga. He became a disciple, or follower, of a well-known religious teacher, Virajanand Dandeesha (sometimes spelled Birajananda). Virajanand believed that Hinduism had strayed from its historical roots and that many of its practices had become impure. Dayananda Sarasvati promised Virajanand that he would devote his life to restoring the rightful place of the Vedas in the Hindu faith.[17]
Dayanand's mission[edit]
Dayananda mission was not to start or set up any new religion but to tell the humankind for Universal Brotherhood through nobility as spelt out in Vedas. For that mission he founded Arya Samaj enunciating the Ten Universal Principles as a code for Universalism Krinvanto Vishwaryam meaning the whole world be an abode for Nobles (Aryas). His next step was to take up the difficult task of reforming Hinduism with dedication despite multiple repeated attempts on his personal life. He traveled the country challenging religious scholars and priests to discussions and won repeatedly on the strength of his arguments based on his knowledge of Sanskrit and Vedas.[18] He believed that Hinduism had been corrupted by divergence from the founding principles of the Vedas and that Hindus had been misled by the priesthood for the priests' self-aggrandizement. Hindu priests discouraged the laity from reading Vedic scriptures and encouraged rituals, such as bathing in the Ganges River and feeding of priests on anniversaries, which Dayananda pronounced as superstitions or self-serving practices. By exhorting the nation to reject such superstitious notions, his aim was to educate the nation to Go back to the Vedas. He wanted the people who followed Hinduism to go back to its roots and to follow the Vedic life, which he pointed out. He exhorted the Hindu nation to accept social reforms, including the importance of Cows for national prosperity as well as the adoption of Hindi as the national language for national integration. Through his daily life and practice of yoga and asanas, teachings, preaching, sermons and writings, he inspired the Hindu nation to aspire to Swarajya (self governance), nationalism, and spiritualism. He advocated the equal rights and respects to women and advocated the education of a girl child like the males.
Swami Dayanand did logical, scientific and critical analyses of all faiths i.e. Christianity & Islam as well as of other Indian faiths like Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. In addition to discouraging idolatry in Hinduism, as may be seen in his book Satyarth Prakash.[19] He was against what he considered to be the corruption of the true and pure faith in his own country. Unlike many other reform movements of his times within Hinduism, the Arya Samaj's appeal was addressed not only to the educated few in India, but to the world as a whole as evidenced in the sixth principle of the Arya Samaj. In fact his teachings professed universalism for the all living beings and not for any particular sect, faith, community or nation.
Arya Samaj allows and encourages converts to Hinduism. Dayananda's concept of dharma is stated in the "Beliefs and Disbeliefs" section of Satyartha Prakash. He said:
"I accept as Dharma whatever is in full conformity with impartial justice, truthfulness and the like; that which is not opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas. Whatever is not free from partiality and is unjust, partaking of untruth and the like, and opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas—that I hold as adharma"
He also said:
"He, who after careful thinking, is ever ready to accept truth and reject falsehood; who counts the happiness of others as he does that of his own self, him I call just."
Dayananda's Vedic message was to emphasize respect and reverence for other human beings, supported by the Vedic notion of the divine nature of the individual–divine because the body was the temple where the human essence (soul or "atma") had the possibility to interface with the creator ("Paramatma"). In the ten principles of the Arya Samaj, he enshrined the idea that "All actions should be performed with the prime objective of benefiting mankind", as opposed to following dogmatic rituals or revering idols and symbols. The first five principles speak of Truth and the other five of a society with nobility, civics, co-living and disciplined life. In his own life, he interpreted moksha to be a lower calling (due to its benefit to one individual) than the calling to emancipate others.
Dayananda's "back to the Vedas" message influenced many thinkers and philosophers the world over.[20]
Arya Samaj[edit]
Swami Dayananda's creations, the Arya Samaj, unequivocally condemns practices of different religions and communities, such as idol worship, animal sacrifice, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the caste system, untouchability, child marriages, meat eating and discrimination against women on the grounds that all these lacked original Hinduism. The Arya Samaj discourages dogma and symbolism and encourages skepticism in beliefs that run contrary to common sense and logic. To many people, the Arya Samaj aims to be a "universal society" based on the authority of the Vedas. However, in popular culture, it is considered a short cut way of getting married for runaway lovers. Marriage certificate issued by Arya samaj is valid for 60 days after which it needs to be ratified by the concerned Registrar of marriages which, in turn, issues the formal certificate of marriage.[21]
However, Swami Dayananand showed extreme rationalism and paradoxically made many assumptions while interpreting the Veda. He also partially accepted the authority of the Shastras and the commentaries of Sayana.
The Shastras, much like the Vedas according to the Sanatana dharma, are correct because of the yogaja pramana of the rishis. The gods cannot either be discovered by the senses or by reason.
Dayananda was subjected to many unsuccessful attempts on his life because of his efforts to reform the Hindu society such as killing dangerous snakes worshiped in temples across India.[22] In 1883 Dayananda was invited by the Maharaja of Jodhpur to stay at his palace. The Maharaja was eager to become his disciple and learn his teachings. One day Dayananda went to the Maharaja's rest room and saw him with a dance girl named Nanhi Jan. Dayananda boldly asked the Maharaja to forsake the girl and all unethical acts and follow dharma like a true Aryan. Dayananda's suggestion offended the dance girl and she decided to take revenge.[1] She bribed Dayananda's cook to poison him. At bedtime, the cook brought him a glass of milk containing poison and powdered glass. Dayananda drank the milk and went to sleep only to wake up later with a burning sensation. He immediately realized that he had been poisoned and attempted to purge his digestive system of the poisonous substance, but it was too late. The poison had already entered his bloodstream. Dayananda was bedridden and suffered excruciating pain. Many doctors came to treat him but all was in vain. His body was covered all over with large bleeding sores. On seeing Dayananda's suffering the cook was overcome with unbearable guilt and remorse. He confessed his crime to Dayananda. On his deathbed, Dayananda forgave him and gave him a bag of money and told him to flee the kingdom lest he be found out and executed by the Maharaja's men.[1]
"A man of spirit has passed away from India. Pandit Dayananda Saraswati is gone, the irrepressible, energetic reformer, whose mighty voice and passionate eloquence for the last few years raised thousands of people in India from, lethargic, indifference and stupor into active patriotism is no more." – Col Henry Steel Olcott.[23]
"Swami Dayananda Saraswati is certainly one of the most powerful personalities who has shaped modern India and is responsible for its moral regeneration and religious revival." – Subhas Chandra Bose.[24]
Dayananda Saraswati wrote more than 60 works in all, including a 16 volume explanation of the six Vedangas, an incomplete commentary on the Ashtadhyayi (Panini's grammar), several small tracts on ethics and morality, Vedic rituals and sacraments and on criticism of rival doctrines (such as Advaita Vedanta, Islam and Christianity). Some of his major works are Satyarth Prakash, Sanskarvidhi, RigvedadiBhashyaBhumika, Rigved Bhashyam (up to 7/61/2)and Yajurved Bhashyam. The Paropakarini Sabha located in the Indian city of Ajmer was founded by the Swami himself to publish and preach his works and Vedic texts.
Complete list of his works[edit]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d Dr.Krant'M.L.Verma Swadhinta Sangram Ke Krantikari Sahitya Ka Itihas (Volume-2) Page-347
- ^ Aurobindo Ghosh, Bankim Tilak Dayanand (Calcutta 1947 p1)"Lokmanya Tilak also said that Sindhi Marhu Dayanand was the first who proclaimed Swarajya for Bharatpita i.e.India."
- ^ Dayanand Saraswati Commentary on Yajurved (Lazarus Press Banaras 1876)
- ^ Living with a Purpose. Orient Paperbacks. 2005. p. 34. ISBN 81-222-0031-1.
- ^ Kumar, Raj (2003). "5. Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Life and Works". Essays on modern Indian Abuse. Discovery Publishing House. p. 62. ISBN 81-7141-690-X.
- ^ Salmond, Noel Anthony (2004). "3. Dayananda Saraswati". Hindu iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati and nineteenth-century polemics against idolatry. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 65. ISBN 0-88920-419-5.
- ^ "Gurudatta Vidyarthi". Aryasamaj. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- ^ "Mahadev Govind Ranade: Emancipation of women". Isrj.net. 17 May 1996. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
- ^ Lala Lajpat Rai Biography - Lala Lajpat Rai Life & Profile
- ^ Lala Lajpat Rai (Indian writer, politician and Escort) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ Johnson, K. Paul (1994). The masters revealed: Madam Blavatsky and the myth of the Great White Lodge. SUNY Press. p. 107. ISBN 0-7914-2063-9.
- ^ http://www.samarthbharat.com/files/indianpolitics.pdf
- ^ Sinhal, Meenu (2009). Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 3. ISBN 81-8430-017-4.
- ^ Garg, Ganga Ram (1986). "1. Life and Teachings". World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Concept Publishing Company. p. 4.
- ^ Dayanand Saraswati - Swami Dayanand Saraswati Biography - Dayanand Sarasvati Life History
- ^ Swami Dayanand Saraswati Biography - Swami Dayanand Saraswati Life & Profile
- ^ "Sarasvati, Dayananda - World Religions Reference Library". World Religions Reference Library – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). 1 January 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ Swami Dayananda Sarasvati by V. Sundaram
- ^ Light of Truth
- ^ "Gandhi on Pluralism and Communalism", p. 38, by P. L. John Panicker
- ^ Hastings, James; John A. Selbie (Ed.) (2003). Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 3. Kessinger Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 0-7661-3671-X.
- ^ خیابان جامعہ پشاور کا تحقیقی مجلہ (22 November 2010). "آریہ سماج کی تاریخ". Peshawar University. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ Indian Political Tradition: Pg 118
- ^ Mohanty, D.K. Indian Political Tradition. Anmol Publishers. ISBN 81-7488-791-1.: Pg 118
Further reading[edit]
- Dayananda Saraswati, Founder of Arya Samaj, by Arjan Singh Bawa. Published by Ess Ess Publications, 1979 (1st edition:1901).
- Swami Dayanand Saraswati, by Dhanpati Pandey. Published by Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1985.
- World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati , Ganga Ram Garg. Concept Publishing Company. 1986.
- Indian Political Tradition, by D.K Mohanty. Published by Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. ISBN 81-261-2033-9. Chapter 4: Dayananda Saraswati Page 92.
- Rashtra Pitamah Swami Dayanand Saraswati by Rajender Sethi (M R Sethi Educational Trust Chandigarh 2006)
- Aurobindo Ghosh, in Bankim Tilak Dayanand (Calcutta 1947 p 1, 39)
- Arya Samaj And The Freedom Movement by K C Yadav & K S Arya -Manohar Publications Delhi 1988
- The Prophets of the New India, Romain Roland p. 97 (Kessinger Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1425484840)
- Satyarth Prakash (1875) Light of Truth – first English translation 1908 [1][2]
- R̥gvedādi-bhāṣya-bhūmikā / An Introduction to the Commentary on the Vedas. ed. B. Ghasi Ram, Meerut (1925). reprints 1981, 1984 [3][4]
- Glorious Thoughts of Swami Dayananda. ed. New Book Society of India, 1966 [5]
- An introduction to the commentary on the Vedas. Jan Gyan-Prakashan, 1973.Flipkart.com: An Introduction To The Commentary On The VEDAS: Dayananda (9788170771296)
- Autobiography, ed. Kripal Chandra Yadav, New Delhi : Manohar, 1978.Autobiography of dayanand saraswati - Google Books ISBN 0685196682
- Yajurvēda bhāṣyam : Samskr̥tabhāṣyaṃ, Āndhraṭīkātātparyaṃ, Āṅglabhāvārthasahitaṅgā, ed. Mar̲r̲i Kr̥ṣṇāreḍḍi, Haidarābād : Vaidika Sāhitya Pracāra Samiti, 2005.
- The philosophy of religion in India, Delhi : Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2005, ISBN 81-8090-079-7
- Dr.'Krant'M.L.Verma Swadhinta Sangram Ke Krantikari Sahitya Ka Itihas (3 Volumes) 2006 Praveen Prakashan 4760-61 23 Ansari Road Daryaganj New Delhi 110002 ISBN 81-7783-122-4 (Set)
- Prem Lata, Swami Dayananda Sarasvati (1990) [6]
- Autobiography of Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1976) [7]
- M. Ruthven, Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, USA (2007), ISBN 978-0-19-921270-5.
- N. A. Salmond, Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati and nineteenth-century polemics against Idolatry (2004) [8]
External links[edit]
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Gamzee slowly took the phone, knowing that it was Karkat speaking on the other end.
"Hey motherfucker" He says, his voice not as slurred and chill as it was before.
"WHAT THE EVER PITYING FUCK IS WRONG NOW CLOWN?" Karkat's voice screamed over the phone line.
"Oh nothing much at all, brother" He replies, a slightly nervous laugh sneaking in at the end of his sentence. "I feel like I'm in motherfucking pain. My head hurts, and it's from eating poison all my motherfucking life. I feel like I'm gonna snap sooner or later…" He looked slightly scared. Yet, he didn't looked scared at all. He looked like he was enjoying it.
Karkat was silent a long moment "Can you not eat the sopor anymore?" he asked. His voice serious. "How is Jade?"
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Working Paper Archives
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis working papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critial comment.
Financing Growth: Foreign Aid vs. Foreign Loans
Compared to foreign grants, do concessional loans from foreign governments and/or unsubsidized loans from foreign private banks lead to faster growth in developing nations?
Which continuous-time model is most appropriate for exchange rates?
This paper attempts to realistically model the underlying exchange rate data generating process. We ask what types of diffusion or jump features are most appropriate.
This paper examines the relationship between trade and investment in technology adoption when firms face demand uncertainty.
Regionalization vs. Globalization
Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analyze the implications of these linkages for the evolution of global and regional business cycles.
Lobbying for a Common External Tariff from Inside and Out
We consider the interactions between domestic lobbying and two types of cross-border lobbying in a Customs Union (CU). The two types of cross-border lobbying are (i) lobbying from firms in one CU country to the governments of other CU countries, and (ii) that from firms outside the CU.
Foreign Firms and the Diffusion of Knowledge
This paper constructs a model to examine the impact of foreign firms on a developing Country's own accumulation of entrepreneurial knowledge.
What Do We Know about the Relationship between Access to Finance and International Trade?
The recent financial crisis has focused attention on the relationship between access to finance and international trade, triggering a burgeoning segment of the literature evaluating this link empirically.
International Trade, Female Labor, and Entrepreneurship in MENA Countries
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries stand out in international comparisons of de jure obstacles to female employment and entrepreneurship. These obstacles manifest themselves in low rates of female labor participation, entrepreneurship, and ownership.
On the Substitutability between Foreign Aid and International Credit
We examine the effect of relaxing a binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country on theamount of foreign aid it receives.
Comment on "Taylor Rule Exchange Rate Forecasting During the Financial Crisis"
In this note we discuss the paper on exchange rate forecasting by Molodtsova and Papell (2012).
International Channels of the Fed's Unconventional Monetary Policy
Previous research has established that the Federal Reserve's large scale asset purchases (LSAPs) significantly influenced international bond yields.
Price Equalization Does Not Imply Free Trade
In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to establish that there are no barriers to international trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade.
Foreign Aid, Illegal Immigration, and Host Country Welfare
This paper analyzes the effect of foreign aid on illegal immigration and host country welfare using a general equilibrium model.
Extensive and Intensive Trade Margins: A State-by-State View
This paper examines a topic of increasing interest, the potential determinants of extensive (i.e., number of firms) and intensive (i.e., average exports per firm) trade margins, using state-level trade to 190 countries. In addition to distance and country size, other factors affecting trade costs and export demand are explored.
What do happiness and health satisfaction data tell us about relative risk aversion?
In this paper we provide estimates of the coefficient of relative risk aversion using information on self-reports of subjective personal well-being from multiple datasets.
We study the contraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in the United States during the recent financial crisis and show their unusual non-resiliency, which depends in part on the global nature of the economic recession, but also on the increases in the cost of financing FDI in the economies in which the flows originate.
Capital Flows and Japanese Asset Volatility
Characterizing asset price volatility is an important goal for financial economists. The literature has shown that variables that proxy for the information arrival process can help explain and/or forecast volatility.
The run-up in oil prices since 2004 coincided with growing investment in commodity markets and increased price comovement among different commodities.
Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable hypotheses and then we use dynamic panel analysis to test those hypotheses empirically. Our main findings are that: (i) better access to international credit for a recipient country reduces the amount of foreign aid it receives, and (ii) there is a critical level of international financial transfer, and the marginal effect of foreign aid is larger than that of loans if and only if the transfer (loans or foreign aid) is below this critical level.
Lessons from the Evolution of Foreign Exchange Trading Strategies
The adaptive markets hypothesis posits that trading strategies evolve as traders adapt their behavior to changing circumstances.
Explaining China's Trade Imbalance Puzzle
The current global-imbalance literature (which explains why capital flows from poor to rich countries) is unable to explain China's foreign asset positions because capital cannot flow out of China under capital controls. Hence, this literature has not succeeded in explaining China's large and persistent trade imbalances with the United States.
OPEC's Oil Exporting Strategy and Macroeconomic (In)Stability
Aguiar-Conraria and Wen (2008) argued that dependence on foreign oil raises the likelihood of equilibrium indeterminacy (economic instability) for oil importing countries. We argue that this relation is more subtle.
Immigration Policy and Counterterrorism
A terrorist group, based in a developing (host) country, draws unskilled and skilled labor from the productive sector to conduct attacks in that nation and abroad.
Foreign Direct Investment, Aid, and Terrorism: An Analysis of Developing Countries
Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and foreign direct investment (FDI). We then analyze how these relationships are affected by foreign aid flows.
Technical Analysis in the Foreign Exchange Market
This article introduces the subject of technical analysis in the foreign exchange market, with emphasis on its importance for questions of market efficiency. "Technicians" view their craft, the study of price patterns, as exploiting traders' psychological regularities.
Multinational Firms' Entry, Productivity, and Inefficiency
Despite the microeconomic evidence supporting the superior idiosyncratic productivity of multinational firms (MNFs) and their affiliates, cross-country studies fail to find robust evidence of a positive relationship between foreign direct investment and growth.
How Does Multinational Production Change International Comovement?
I study the aggregate implications of the entry of Multinational Firms (MNFs) in a two country Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model in which firms have heterogeneous productivity in the sense of Ghironi and Melitz (2005).
Trade and Synchronization in a Multi-Country Economy
Substantial evidence suggests that countries with stronger trade linkages have more synchro- nized business cycles. The standard international business cycle framework cannot replicate this finding, uncovering the trade-comovement puzzle.
An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment.
Changes in the Second-Moment Properties of Disaggregated Capital Flows
Using formal statistical tests, we detect (i) significant volatility increases for various types of capital flows for a period of changes in business cycle comovement among the G7 countries, and (ii) mixed evidence of changes in covariances and correlations with a set of macroeconomic variables.


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The 32 football programs in the newly created Class 6A now have a map for plotting their course to a state championship.
On Tuesday, the Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors unanimously approved a playoff format for Class 6A beginning in 2012.
The 32 teams are divided into four sections, and the section quarterfinals will feature the No. 1 seeded team playing the No. 8 seeds, 2 vs. 7 and so on
Next, the four remaining teams in each section will square off in predetermined section crossover games.
The eight winning teams will then be the state tournament field, and those teams will be seeded 1-4 by coaches' votes. The remaining four teams will be selected by blind draw.
The section lineups look like this:
SECTION 3: Burnsville, Eagan, Eastview, Lakeville North, Lakeville South, Park, Prior Lake, Rosemount.
SECTION 4: Cretin-Derham Hall, Forest Lake, Mounds View, North St. Paul, Roseville, Stillwater, White Bear Lake, Woodbury.
SECTION 5: Anoka, Blaine, Brainerd, Centennial, Champlin Park, Coon Rapids, Maple Grove, Osseo.
SECTION 6: Armstrong, Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, Minneapolis South, Minnetonka, Shakopee, Wayzata.
There is a Pandora's Box element to the new format. In every other team sport, a section with several top teams could produce only one state qualifier. Not so now in football. The new format allows, for example, Section 6 heavyweights Eden Prairie, Minnetonka and Wayzata to all reach the state tournament.
So will other sports petition for a new playoff format?
The full release, written by MSHSL Media Specialist John Millea, is below.
DEERWOOD -- The MSHSL Board of Directors held its August meeting at Ruttger's Conference Center here Tuesday, and football grabbed the headline.
During a meeting that contained plenty of boilerplate board material, the members voted unanimously to approve a playoff format for Class 6A football. The new division will begin play in 2012.
The 32 Class 6A teams will be split into four sections, with eight teams in each section. (Sections are listed below.) For the first round of playoffs, each section will seed its teams 1 through 8. After the first round of games have been played, the four winning teams from each section will be matched with the top four from a different section by random draw; higher seeds will play lower seeds, with higher seeds being the home team.
Those section-to-section pairings will rotate every two years. After two rounds of games, eight teams will advance to the state quarterfinals and be seeded under the current format, with coaches voting to seed the top four teams and a blind draw deciding their opponents from the remaining four.
The 6A state quarterfinals will be played under the same timetable as quarterfinals in other classes. The 6A state semifinals will be played at the Metrodome on the Thursday evening prior to the traditional Friday-Saturday semifinals.
The 6A championship game will be played on Friday night of Prep Bowl weekend.
Eden Prairie and Wayzata, two of the top (if not the top two) big-school football programs in the state, will compete in the same section of the newly created Class 6A starting in 2012, the Minnesota High School League revealed today at a league board meeting.
The MSHSL added Class 6A at a meeting in April. It will consist of the 32 large-school teams, including Cretin-Derham Hall, which opted up to play in the largest class. Eden Prairie, Wayzata and Minnetonka -- winners of six of the past seven state titles in Class 5A, previously the biggest class -- are all in Section 6, Class 6A.
But they aren't necessarily on a playoff collision course.
The MSHSL board will revisit and possibly vote on the playoff format structure in August. The most likely scenario will have each team playing one game in their assigned section, followed by a crossover game against a team from another section. The eight remaining teams would then be seeded in the state tournament quarterfinals.
"The task force is leaning toward that right now as a recommendation," said Kevin Merkle, MSHSL board member and head of the football task force. Merkle added that no similar plans are being made for other classes but coaches in those classes can come forward with recommendations.
The new class will have four sections consisting of eight teams each. Section 5, containing Brainerd, Blaine and Champlin Park, also looks formidable.
Also of note: Totino-Grace, which opted up to Class 5A, will be in Section 4 along with Andover and Mahtomedi.
For a complete list of new sections for 2012, click here.
-- David La Vaque
Add another honor to the growing list of awards won by Apple Valley senior wrestler Destin McCauley.
McCauley, who completed a perfect senior year with a 49-0 record, winning the Class 3A 152-pound championship and helping the Eagles to their sixth consecutive Class 3A championship and the consensus National Championship, was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association Senior Wrestler of the Year.
McCauley completed his career as the winningest high school wrestler in Minnesota history, compiling a 286-7 record and 195 pins. He will wrestle at Wisconsin in 2012 after taking a year to train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Fifty-three female student athletes were honored Friday at the Minneapolis Athena Awards banquet in downtown Minneapolis. Here is Part II of the list of winners, along with their school and picture. The other half was on Part I.
Fifty-three female student athletes were honored Friday at the Minneapolis Athena Awards banquet in downtown Minneapolis. Here is Part I of the list of winners, along with their school and picture. The other half will be on Part II.


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Meanwhile, his regime is locked in a bloody fight with rebels. More than 100,000 Syrians have died, according to the United Nations.
How does it end for the House of Assad? There are several possibilities.
Bashar al-Assad could fight to the end, lose and be killed. He could eventually flee the country and be given refuge in Iran, Russia or Venezuela.
Or he could prevail. Tabler says if he does, Syria won't look the same.
"I think at the moment, what's likely to happen is that the Assad family will rule over part of Syria for the foreseeable future," says Tabler. "But they're never going to rule over all of geographic Syria again."


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BILLINGS - Some Montanans will lose their unemployment insurance benefits, at least for now, if Washington lawmakers don't act now. The Montana Unemployment Insurance Division sent notices to about 4,700 Montana residences earlier this month, letting them know that their federal benefits will end on Saturday.
December 29 is the last day the Federal Emergency Unemployment Program will be active in Montana, barring any further action from Congress. It compliments Montana's unemployment coverage, and allows folks claiming unemployment extra time to receive benefits.
The coverage time changes, but most recently claimants are allowed 28 weeks of coverage under the state of Montana, and an additional 28 weeks of federal coverage. The average weekly benefit for unemployment insurance is $262 per week, under the program that started in 2008, and has since been extended eight times.
About $391 million in benefits have been paid to Montanans, and we talked with the head of Montana's Unemployment Insurance Administrator on Friday about the program.
"And we really do understand the financial impact and stress and anxiety that these claimants have at this time of the year, strictly with the cold winter weather and the winter season, and we're poised and set to do all we can if in fact these extensions do get passed," Roy Mulvaney explained.
He added that anyone losing benefits can access information about other safety net programs through the Montana Department of Health and Human Services website.


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Today on my D-Nast radio show, we mentioned Mary Kate's new stepdad boyfriend. Check out how ridiculous homegirl looks next to her 42-year-old man and his daughter! I guess if you grow up on set thinking Bob Saget is your father, you're bound to grow up with some daddy issues.
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Hard work or hard play, Patagonia's Tin Shed Chelsea Boots are built to last with durable leathers and Vibram soles that can be resoled for extended life.Features/Benefits:
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Interesting - Bonita is approving the increase in traffic, revenue and attendant unsavory element that the Greyhound Track will bring, but vetoed the homeless... Hmmm. Judgement day waits - a true Sodom & Gommorah story - that city was burned not only for the unsavory elements BUT ALSO for neglecting to care for the poor and needy - read:
New Living Translation (©2007)
Sodom's sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.English Standard Version (©2001)
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Quotes were taken from Ezekiel 16:49-50
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Fun Day Skating with the crew!! Its hard to get it all together for a 6am call but some clean water
makes it mandatory. I'm a bit of a night owl and this I morning was moving a little slow.
Almond got out and was pushing for a kick flip..made Teddy and I step it up a bit!!
Teddy even took one to the head!! Going big!!
Look for more adventures with our little crew!! We've got our winch spot locked in and planning some new shoots soon!
Riders: Almond Acuna
Teddy Farina
Darrin Nupuf


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The National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at the University College Dublin and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is hosting a symposium on planning for states and nation-states in Dublin, Ireland October 15-16, 2012. The symposium will include paper presentations from leading scholars from the US and Europe and responses from seasoned planning practitioners at the regional, state, and national levels. Using case studies from several U.S. states and nations throughout the world, the symposium will offer fresh new information for those interested in comparative planning, European spatial planning, state planning, regional planning and intergovernmental planning relationships.
Information on the symposium and several papers from the event are now available online, at http://www.ucd.ie/gpep/events/seminarsworkshopsconferences/natplansymp2012/. Online streaming of the conference will also be available after October 15th here.