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How (and How Not) to Jumpstart an Economy
The author of a new book about the stimulus, Money Well Spent?, draws lessons for what the government can do now to create jobs.
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This story is co-published by The New York Times Sunday Review. The author, ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell, has written a new book, Money Well Spent? The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History.
The polarized rhetoric of the 2012 election cycle presents voters with a false choice of whether the government can create jobs or should just get out of the way. The real debate should be about which policies work and which don't.
I spent three years reporting on the $840 billion stimulus plan that the Obama administration pushed through Congress in 2009. My conclusion: government can create jobs — it just doesn't often do it well.
The stimulus — a historic package of tax cuts, safety-net spending, infrastructure projects and green-energy investments — certainly did a lot of good. As the economists Alan S. Blinder and Mark Zandi have noted, it's one of the key reasons the unemployment rate isn't in double digits now.
But the stimulus ultimately failed to bring about a strong, sustainable recovery. Money was spread far and wide rather than dedicated to programs with the most bang for the buck. "Shovel-ready" projects, those that would put people to work right away, took too long to break ground. Investments in worthwhile long-term projects, on the other hand, were often rushed to meet arbitrary deadlines, and the resulting shoddy outcomes tarnished the projects' image.
After trumpeting shovel-ready projects as the bedrock of his stimulus plan, President Obama admitted famously that "there's no such thing." But there were, and are, shovel-ready projects. The administration just needed to find them. Case in point: the nuclear cleanup at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., which received $1.6 billion in stimulus money. As soon as the money arrived in the summer of 2009, the retired cold war nuclear plant hired thousands of workers to decommission reactors, install pumps in the liquid waste tanks and ship barrels of solid waste to a salt formation in the Chihuahuan Desert. Workers from out of town filled up nearly all of the area's apartments, hotels and restaurants. The county's unemployment dropped to 8.5 percent from 10.2 percent in a matter of months.
Why did it work? Because the government could immediately send billions of dollars to contractors who were already in place for a project that had well-established plans.
The problem with most of the projects was that the Obama administration and Congress had defined "shovel ready" too broadly. The original plan called for putting "shovels in the ground" within 90 days. But when the rules were written, states ended up with 120 days to have their road projects "approved." It often took six more months to a year before most of the projects were under construction.
Weatherization, for example, was billed as the low-hanging fruit of the clean-energy movement. But states are still sitting on roughly a billion dollars in unused grant money because of a tortured bureaucracy, in which the federal government paid the states, which paid local nonprofits, which then hired the contractors.
Neither states nor nonprofit groups were prepared to handle 20 to 30 times more money than usual. And federal officials brought ready projects to a standstill in the first year by applying new rules regarding prevailing wages.
As a result, the stimulus didn't provide enough oomph in the first year to overcome the effects of the European debt crisis and rising gas prices in 2010.
The stimulus effort should have contained more programs like Cash for Clunkers, which pulled car sales forward, emptied dealership lots and prompted auto plants to bring back thousands of employees.
"We're trying to figure out, 'Man, how did that thing just blow up the way it did?'" President Obama later said. "Essentially, all the auto companies did the marketing. They did the advertising in a way the government just can't do it and, frankly, even if we did it, people wouldn't listen."
The stimulus also could have been more powerful if the administration had pursued a temporary jobs program similar to the Works Progress Administration, which directly employed eight million people during the Depression.
As it was, states could create temporary jobs programs through a $5 billion emergency welfare fund. Not enough states took advantage of it, but those that did saw real results. Fresno County, Calif., where unemployment was 18 percent, found jobs for 2,000 people who were out of work or underemployed.
It also helps to avoid losing jobs in the first place. The promise of $50 billion in state fiscal relief prompted school districts to forgo layoffs. By early 2010, the stimulus money had saved the equivalent of nearly 300,000 full-time teachers and support staff.
Even $50 billion, though, wasn't enough to plug the budget gaps. The administration should have shifted more money there, and it could have tried to prime a similar effort in the private sector.
Germany's "work-sharing" program — in which companies reduce hours rather than lay people off, with the government providing partial unemployment benefits to make up for lost wages — has helped keep its unemployment rate below 8 percent since 2008. It also will let companies ramp up quickly when the economy recovers.
Looking ahead
No matter who wins in November, the appetite for a big fiscal stimulus package won't be there. So what can be done about the 5.5 million Americans who've been unemployed for six months or more — a group that includes older workers whom Rutgers labor experts have called "the involuntarily retired"?
A temporary jobs program similar to the one tried in the stimulus, but aimed at the long-term unemployed, could help these people get the skills they need to return to work.
Shovel-ready isn't as important as it was in early 2009 because we're not scrambling to stanch economic bleeding. But the lingering malaise gives us an opportunity to make smart decisions about our infrastructure.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has given the nation's infrastructure an overall grade of D. Fixing deficient bridges, tunnels, dams and sewage-treatment plants, not to mention expanding high-speed Internet and modernizing the electricity grid, should be clear priorities.
Typically, the government spreads money like peanut butter, so that no one can do anything significant and every program is starved. Separate agencies oversee highways, aviation, transit and railroads. The 2009 stimulus introduced a better model: a competitive, $1.5 billion grant program for transportation, called Tiger, that forced local leaders to think regionally about strategies that combined multiple modes of transportation. The money untangled freight rail lines in Chicago, financed streetcars in Dallas and rapid buses in the Washington area, and helped Philadelphia build a 128-mile network of bike and walking trails. It should be a model for future transportation grant programs.
Investments in solar and wind energy, electric cars and high-speed rail make sense, but to have an impact there must be certainty around them. The fluctuations in America's energy policy, the absence of a trust fund for high-speed rail as there is for highways and aviation, and the clear lack of a plan to tackle the deficit hinder the recovery instead of helping it.
In short, there are areas where the government should get out of the away, by clearing bureaucratic hurdles. But it's equally important for politics to get out of the way of smart government policies that can help the private sector create jobs.
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The biggest problem with the stimulus is it should not have contained tax cuts. Consumers are not going to make any extra big purchases because they got an extra couple hundred bucks, and all the small extra purchases they might have made mostly go to cheap chinese imports. Infrastructure projects and education are much more effective ways to create jobs for the money.
In the summer of 2009, I spent two weeks driving across the U.S. from Cape May, NJ, across Appalachia to NOLA and then to CA on the I-10. I stayed in cheap motels that were full of construction workers doing projects that were visible from the highway. What struck me was that almost all of this activity was in "Red" states, whose representatives had ridiculed and opposed the stimulus package. Admittedly, those poorer states always have facilities in need of repair, but the hypocrisy of their congressmen was appalling.
I would add public schools to the list of infrastructure improvements. Two-thirds of America's schools are more than 50 years old. One fourth were built before 1950. School districts are struggling to maintain programs and keep teachers. Renovating and upgrading school buildings would relieve districts of a financial burden and provide a generation of students with a safe and healthy learning environment.
This is all fine and dandy but try selling that to the people who think government is the problem and that taxes are too high or that we need to rely on our neighbors and local churches.
The fact is some people are reasonable. I can agree with the bulk of what you wrote above but try selling that to someone who watches Fox News, listens to right wing talk radio or just doesn't understand much about why their life sucks and blames it on some "free loading" minority who are not righteous.
I think the administration might have proposed more direct project spending as Tim Barlow suggests if the opposition in Congress had not retained its ideologically rigid stance against it. The tax cuts were known to not be as effective but nothing else would have gotten through Congress.
No thanks to the ideologues in Congress some progress was made, however, and more is needed. Putting people back to work will be the best stimulus ever.
Great article Michael Grabell!
Deficit spending always works to add that much income and 'savings' of dollar denominated net financial assets to the economy, to the penny, as anyone at CBO will tell you.
Nor does the govt 'use up' anything, as taxation functions to regulate aggregate demand, and not to bring in revenue per se, as anyone in Fed Monetary Affairs will tell you.
When the govt. doesn't spend enough for the economy to pay its taxes and net save as desired, the evidence is unemployment.
In other words, for the size govt we have we continue to be grossly over taxed.
Warren Mosler
The Economic Pyramid
Our economy rest on a base of natural resources.
Conservation is the wise-use, management & development of the Earths natural resources, including the wise-use ot CONSUMER(taxpayer) money!!!
If you take money out of the economy, people have less to buy things with and businesses and people working for businesses suffer. If you put that money back into the economy after the government takes its share,
you still have less money in the economy for people to buy things with and the economy gets worse instead of better. The lesson is that you can't make the economy better with a stimulus. It can't be done.
If you reduce taxes, people have more money to buy things with and businesses and the people who work for them benefit and the economy gets better. More people go to work and tax revenue increases.
You don't have to take an English class from a University professor to understand this. Just pray to God for the mental strength to practice it.
Professor Mosler has it exactly right. Because the government is the sole issuer of the currency it cannot go broke. Since it is the monopoly supplier of currency it has no need to raise revenue via taxation or borrowing per se.
The gross misunderstanding clouding policy statements on deficits and debt arise from ignorance of what it means to manage a sovereign fiat currency.
Elected officials, their advisers, media mavens, academics, and TV pundits need to understand that we are no longer under a gold standard with fixed exchange rates.
Maybe they need to sit down with Bernanke, Prof Mosler recounts an interview Bernanke had with Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes, Pelley asked,
"Is that tax money that the Fed is spending?"
Bernanke responded:
"It's not tax money. The banks have accounts with the the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank. So, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed."
Prof. Mosler continues, "There is no such thing as having to "get" taxes or (borrow) to make a spreadsheet entry that we call "government spending."
http://www.moslereconomics.com "The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy"
The federal gov does virtually nothing efficiently or effectively. It is too far removed from any problem to address it. Studies have shown the most effective solutions are "bottom up" rather than "top down". This is mostly because the gov will make decisions based on politics, rather than economics. A plant is built in MI, where votes and gov support is needed, rather than expanding an existing plant in TN.
The model of cutting taxes and keeping the central gov to a minimum is effective and worked for many years, prior to the machinations of FDR and the subsequent presidents and congresses. Keynsian theory has been totally discredited by the continued failures of every economy it has been tried.
Bottom line is why would anybody entrust even MORE power and resources to an entity like the federal gov when it has shown to be a complete failure? Please, name ONE program the fed gov funds and runs that does what it is supposed to do on budget and on time?
Tom Cook
I get my SS check on time, my Medicare is not mishandled and I've been on both for over ten years. I'd like to see the military be a bit more cost effective but its certainly done a hell of job over the years. Farm subsidy programs operate without a hitch although they distart markets. If it wasn't for such a strong private sector lobby most ag and non- ag subsidies would be gone by now. NIH and NOAA do really great work that no one in the private sector wants to do because they can't get anyone to pay them to do it.
There's lot's more but you get the drift. Moreover, the Constitution defines our government and successive generations have supported it. The problem is rthat we don't have collective courage to throw the bums out when they need to be thrown out. Only then will we get the government we want rather than the one we deserve for our inaction.
This sentence is just plain wrong:
"The lesson is that you can't make the economy better with a stimulus. It can't be done."
The rest of the comment may or may not be wrong, but it's hard to tell because it's unintelligible.
The writer *does* need to take an English class from an university
professor and an Economics class as well.
As for the old cliche' about the government not doing anything right, I recommend that the writer, Mr. Cook, travel across the country on only county and state roads next summer - no Interstates, no free rest areas etc etc. Then make him wade across the Colorado River somewhere near the Hoover Dam.
That said, I applaud Pro Publica for allowing anybody to comment, including me.
My take is that there's too much corporate thinking in modern government. Take the money, give it to an agency, which gives it the states, which passes it to counties and downs, down to local NGOs, and finally to actual people. I don't know why she swallowed the fly, but each layer (just like a management layer) takes resources (money and time) without contributing to the result.
In a company, that's a good thing, because that "friction" keeps people focused and keep the company afloat at the expense of putting an upper bound on the long-term growth. But in a country that exists to help people, it's a waste.
A better kickstart would have been a bounty-based system. Pay people for filling their own potholes, fixing sidewalk cracks, and cleaning grafitti, rather than "employing" people, and you've got the ultimate low-hanging fruit. And at the same time, put a small tariff on foreign-made goods so the money STAYS in the country.
This also builds the infrastructure for building infrastructure—priming the pump to find the people willing to work in their communities, so they can be contacted when the "shovel-ready" projects come up.
After that, in the medium term, we need investment in two things.
First, we need to acknowledge that we're never getting those manufacturing jobs back from China in any meaningful way and build those automated factories we were promised decades ago before China convinced our CEOs they were cheaper than robots. This provides us with a source for cheap goods (with American product standards), gives us the potential for exports again, and potentially lowers the bar for creating a product—think "manufacture on demand" similar to "print on demand," with small runs easily changed.
Second, we need to "free" necessary Intellectual Property, and I'd recommend that Washington buy any new patents that would improve electric cars, safe food production, microprocessor design, and a few other fields that'll be key in the next few years. Buy them and release them into the public domain to spur innovation.
(I think there's also a need for Intellectual Property reform in general. We need to go back to marking things to claim copyright so people know what they can reuse. We need to reduce terms because ownership after death can't possibly incentivize more people to create works of art. Patents need a more thorough review. Software can't be covered by both patent and copyright. I could go on for another hour or so, but the point is that, while I like copyright in concept, we waste a lot of money in maintaining laws that restrict innovation to nobody's benefit. For example, there are great movies you'll never see because it's not commercially beneficial to release them and the film will decay before the copyright expires; in that case, the copyright holder and potential customers all lose out.)
We might also subsidize projects that give their processes away, like Open Source projects. Beyond software, there are project to design "free" microprocessors, houses, cars, and almost anything you can imagine. The goal is usually to have full designs that anybody can use as long as they contribute their changes back to the community.
I suggest the latter because these "open" development approaches are blowing the doors off of the corporate world in a lot of ways. If we're going to thrive as a country, we might want to encourage the Wikipedias of the world, where thousands of people contribute their free time for the rest of us to consume for free.
In the long haul, we need to change schools. They were created at a time when knowledge was hard to come by and we needed more than anything to have people who could work an assembly line. The world has changed a lot in a hundred years, and schools need to "loosen up" so that kids can learn on their own (with guidance, rather than lectures, from the teacher) and find what they're good at, rather than being forced into an "average."
To repeat, this could have been done by the Federal government (and only by them—I completely agree with Warren Mosler and have tried to explain that idea to many people over the years), but it's stopped by this corporatized idea that a big project needs lots of managers, secret planning, and a balanced budget.
(Note that this ignores that we spent about a hundred thousand dollars per minute in Iraq. For a minute of not shooting at Iraqis and failing to secure even the Green Zone, you could have hired seven full-time minimum wage employees or someone like an experienced engineer for a full year! So this could have been resolved by Obama with a snap of his fingers, basically.)
John's comment reminds me of my years in pharmaceutical sales. There were so many levels of management in the Sales Division that did nothing except get in the way; district manager, regional manager, area manager, etc etc. I always thought that the only reason for their existence (other than a local manager, perhaps) was to give people the illusion that they could move up the ladder. In fact the best job in sales is salesman and the worst is sales manager. Anyone who has tried to get other people to do something they don't feel like doing knows what I mean.
Boy are you correct about government jobs. Just look at the military, what a waste of money - and their entitlements will break us for decades.
Once more into the breach! As for John's suggestion about a "bounty system" (unfortunate choice of words.) I understood that back in the day, people in Vermont could do road work and other public service work in lieu of paying taxes every year. Every incorporated town and village had a town hall where true democracy took place and each of them had its own representative in the state legislature. It meant that something that the people in Rutland or Burlington wanted or needed could be snuffed out by a handful of farmers from towns that had only a couple of hundred people, but had been incorporated since the 17th Century.
We know how well that worked because Vermont became such a cutting edge leader in finance, manufacturing, research and personal growth during the first 150 years of its existence. NOT!
von bargen, you're not entirely wrong, but it depends on your goal and where you stop the program. My understanding has been that the "shovel-ready" part of the program was meant to (a) get small amounts of money into the hands of laborers, (b) fix long-standing infrastructure problems, and (c) find the people willing and able to work on government projects for peanuts.
I wouldn't run a plan like that for more than a year (probably six months), but as a jumpstart for the next stages, it works better than central planning through six layers of governance that each needs a cut.
And hey, did Vermont collapse when I wasn't looking? They may not be economic powerhouses, but that only happens to port cities.
Until the emigrants from NYC & Boston started moving up to Vermont in the 1960's and '70's (viz. Ben & Jerry, Bernie Sanders) it was just another backward, rural state that bragged about having more cows than people. It was probably the most impoverished and ignorant state outside the South. Even now it's pretty inconsequential on the national stage, Bernie Sanders to the contrary notwithstanding. Incidentally, it was always a conservative republican state until the demographics started changing. Studies now show that conservatives are among the least educated and least well informed group in the nation, so that seems consistent, doesn't it. Vermont = Mississippi North!
It seems to me that the real problem with the stimulus was that it was not nearly large enough, a point that Mt. Grabell misses completely. And those who commented that government stimulus does not and cannot work seem to ignore clear historical evidence to the contrary.
Those economists who argued that government stimulus is needed proposed a much bigger stimulus, on the order of $1.5-2 trillion to truly be effective. Conservatives - mainly Republicans and a handful of Conserv. Dems - forced the amount down to only $850 million. And, now that the stimulus did not work as well as it could have had it been much larger, Republicans criticize Obama's and Dems' handling of the economy, pointing to the stimulus as a failure. Coincidence? I doubt it. And Mr. Grabell's comments, to some extent, help perpetuate this notion, it seems to me.
The Great Depression and the government spending that pulled us out of it are instructive, and the economists who argued for stimulus pointed to it time and again. And what was the biggest mistake made in Washington at the time, after government stimulus was working effectively? Roosevelt caved to deficit hawks, and the stimulus was reduced too soon, reversing some of the gains it had generated. Sound familiar?
So, while we certainly can debate how best to utilize stimulus money, it is rather irrelevant as long as we allow Republicans to control the story, define the issue, ignore their tactic of making the stimulus ineffective from the outset, and don't hold them accountable for the results. I, for one, am tired of all the focus on what Obama did or did not do well with a stimulus that was doomed to minimal success not matter what he did.
To me, the real problem is not how Obama managed the stimulus. It is how Republicans forced and continue to push policies that fly in the face the facts and important historical lessons, and then evade any responsibility for doing so because we allow it. Unless we push back at the Republicans' mantra and the misguided efforts of the deficit hawks, many and perhaps most Americans will make political choices based mainly on ignorance and 30-sec sound bites, and our economy will continue to limp slowly toward recovery rather than be revitalized by truly effective and wise intervention.
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A high-profile child pornography case has been thrown into limbo following a dispute between the accused and his lawyer.
Martin Glazer announced Friday he could no longer represent Darrell Ackman, citing ongoing difficulties between the pair.
"He knows why," Glazer told the Free Press without providing specific details. Ackman, 43, expressed his own frustration for Glazer in court, then announced he is considering representing himself at any potential trial. That could lead to a difficult and rare situation for the court, where a lawyer would need to be appointed to ask questions on Ackman's behalf to prevent him from being allowed to cross-examine the alleged victims.
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REPORTS this lunchtime have linked Norwich City winger Jacob Murphy with a loan move to Swindon Town.
Murphy, who has made one senior appearance for Norwich as a substitute in an FA Cup clash with Fulham last month, is highly rated by the Premier League club.
The 18-year-old winger has impressed for the Canaries' Under 21 side this season. Murphy, who has a twin brother Josh - also on Norwich's books - is an England Under 19 international.


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When we build a set in a movie it usually consists of the efforts of a few people who will all create images such as these. In this case it was Kyle Mcnaughton, Arden Chan,Tyler Carter and myself who worked on this set. Early on Mike Knapp and Greg Couch did a lot of concept work on it.
Arden doesn't keep a blog, but most of you will know his work if you've seen Mulan, Tarzan or Lilo & Stitch where he was a layout artist (Supervisor on Lilo).
Kyle also doesn't have a blog, but currently works at Pixar.
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MOPA: The Start of a New Journey
I just started my internship in the department of marketing and communication at the Museum of Photographic Arts last week. I am a French college student graduating at the end of this year in the field of communication and culture. I chose to intern in a museum because I'm currently thinking I would like to work in one next year. My mother always took me to museums as a child and I always liked discovering and learning new things about art. But you may ask me, why a photographic museum?
When I was a teenager, one of my best friends wanted to become a photographer. I have to admit that I started to like photography more and more because of her. How did I hear of MOPA from France? I was an exchange student in UCSD two years ago and that is how I discovered the beautiful Balboa Park. I then visited MOPA and really enjoyed it.
Today, I am no artist, but still, I enjoy taking pictures of every place I travel to. I like the way photography can communicate feelings without the need of any word. I like the way it can keep memories even after the moment is gone. I like making and keeping photo albums of my family, my friends and the places that I visited. Two days ago, I was working on a project related to the Alzheimer's program at MOPA. It then reminded me of my own grandma who passed away in 2008 because of this disease. She's now gone from this world but not from my memories. And not from the photo albums I keep at my parents' house. I enjoy looking at her pictures, it's a way for me to remember her and all the good times we spent together, both before and after she got Alzheimer's, and to still feel her presence.
Today I found a nice quote online: "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind (An American photographer; December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991)
Finally, what I like the most about photography is looking at art photographers' pictures, because they're the most meaningful and the prettiest. I feel privileged being an intern at MOPA because I can have access whenever I want to the exhibitions. I just saw the current "Jessica Lange: unseen"' exhibition yesterday. I was surprised at first that there were no titles under the photographs, but I actually think it is better this way. Every person can interpret what they see in their own way, and two people can feel different emotions with the same photography, which makes it a very personal experience. And you can of course share what you see after all with other people.
This exhibition will be there until May 19th. So the last thing I will say is: Please, come to MOPA, it is really worth seeing it! :)


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Neighbours have declared a "parking crisis" in their narrow street after they were slapped with hefty parking fines in what they thought was an unrestricted area.
Temporary double yellow lines were painted around The Fairway, Mill Hill, four years ago during building work to create a new school.
When the work was complete in 2012 the lines were never removed – but neighbours assumed they would be unenforceable as they had not been informed of any changes.
However two months ago, the householders – who have no driveways – have been slapped with countless fines.
Although they claim they were not consulted, Barnet Borough Council claims it has sent two letters to people living in The Fairway about the changes - one in June and one in October 2013.
Sheethal Obrhai, 56, said: "We are at our wits' end with this. It is such nonsense.
"They've not even consulted with us or let us know that the lines are now permanent. Is that how the council treats its residents? Are we really such a low priority to them?
"We're left very confused about where we can park now, all the while having to fork out all this money for parking fines."
After months of complaints, council officers finally agreed to look into the situation at a meeting of the Hendon Residents Forum last Wednesday.
Wardens enforce the area only in the mornings, meaning neighbours regularly wake up to a ticket.
They claim the only alternative place to park is often a ten-minute walk away, something that many are reluctant to do because of safety concerns.
But when residents return home in the afternoons, they are often faced with nowhere to park as the spaces are taken up by parents on the school run at The Fairway School.
However requests to create driveways at the front of their properties or give residents parking permits have been turned down.
Mrs Obrhai, a mother-of-two, added: "They say it's about safety of the children but that's ridiculous – I don't see how us leaving our cars outside our homes could create danger.
"We're not near a station or anything so we don't need to protect our spaces against commuters.
"It's a parking crisis and we need help to sort this out."
Others claim the yellow lines have been painted "haphazardly" as in some places they are just 5m long.
A total of 27 neighbours have signed a petition calling on Barnet Borough Council to erase the yellow lines.
Ion Muntanu, who has received two fines, said: "It's ridiculous – I don't understand how they can ticket us without prior warning or letting us know the restrictions have changed."
Barnet Borough Council claims the permanent lines were introduced after a consultation with people living nearby.
However, the neighbours say they were not consulted about their views and would not have agreed to it.
The statement added: "The on-going requirement to retain the lines was reviewed last June taking into account road safety conditions around the school and a consultation carried out with residents.
"Following this consultation, revised markings were introduced by way of a traffic management order.
"Residents have since requested the parking restrictions be reviewed again, which we have agreed to do. If any new proposals arise following this review, residents will again be consulted before changes are made.
"Each crossover application will be reviewed on its merits, taking into account factors such as sufficient space to park a car without it overhanging the footway and proximity to trees."


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The photographs focus on the main architectural buildings along with cityscape views and close up details. Along with these images are explanations that define their significance in helping Edinburgh become acknowledged as a World Heritage Site in 1995. All of the images feature are Grade A or B Listed Buildings and Listed Monuments.
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The Little Black Books return! Harking back to the original release of Traveller in the 70's, the Little Black Books from Mongoose bring the latest version of Traveller to your gaming table in a handy and collectible pocket size.
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AN ENTERPRISING student from Nelson and Colne College has been praised for her "huge business potential" by Dragons' Den star Peter Jones CBE after winning a national award.
Ameena Bibi scooped the prestigious prize for her outstanding achievement in sustainability in the nationwide enterprise competition Tycoon in Schools.
The student, whose business named Occasions by Ameena makes and sells bespoke candles and other products, wowed the entrepreneur with her savvy business skills, generating fantastic profits from her 'loan of seed' funding.
To win the Tycoon in Schools special award she had to maximise profits in four weeks trading during November after receiving a £1,000 loan from the Peter Jones Foundation.
As well as her significant return on the original funding, judges were impressed by her unique products, which were decorated with henna designs.
Mr Jones said: "This business has huge potential not only locally but within other retailers and market fairs where these types of products are in great demand.
"I've no doubt that this business will continue to be successful and make money.
"I am thrilled that so many of the teams plan to continue trading their business, as it shows that this campaign has real legacy.
"As a country we need to do more to encourage enterprise and through this competition I believe we can help nurture entrepreneurial talent from the earliest opportunity in schools."Ameena said: "I am so pleased to be a winner. This has given me a platform with which to continue my business.
"I am doing something I love and making money out of it."
Justine Thatcher from Nelson and Colne College said: "All the hard work and long hours has paid off.
"Dedication and an ambitious character have been the secret to Ameena's success.
"I am immensely proud of Ameena and this has been a fantastic opportunity which has set her off on the right path to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
"The entire college has supported Ameena and we couldn't be more pleased for her."
Schools are invited to register their interest for the 2013 competition by visiting: www.tycooninschools.com.


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It's easy to have an extreme backyard adventure with this super fun zipline kit! You'll get everything you need to set up a backyard zipline for the kids in about 30 minutes, including easy-to-follow instructions. The zipline ride has a consistent speed and gradual stop. Trolley has non-slip grips and sealed ball bearings to maximize strength and speed. For ages 7 and up. Supports up to 250 pounds.
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Harper cranks first Triple-A homer
Nationals prospect hammers solo shot in Syracuse loss
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 22, 2012 5:31 PM ET
MLB.com's No. 2 prospect pulled Jeurys Familia's 3-1 fastball deep down the right field line in the Syracuse Chiefs' 6-1 loss to the Buffalo Bisons in the first game of a doubleheader split on Sunday.
"I just got a pitch I could drive," the top overall pick in the 2010 Draft told the Syracuse Post-Standard. "I was finally on time on something. I was trying to put something in play and do something."
The outfielder's homer came as part of a 2-for-3 performance. It was Harper's first extra-base hit in five games and his first RBI since April 9.
Harper was held hitless with a walk in two at-bats in Game 2, dropping his average to .243 on the season. He is slugging .375 in 17 International League contests.
The 19-year-old hit a combined .297 with 17 homers and 58 RBIs in 109 games between Class A Hagerstown and Double-A Harrisburg last season.
He entered Spring Training with an outside chance of making Washington's Opening Day roster, but after missing six games to a calf injury and recording a team-high 11 Grapefruit League strikeouts, he was assigned to Triple-A.
"Hopefully this is the start of a streak and we can keep it all going," Harper told the newspaper. "It's always fun to win. We came into this season with high hopes and thought we were going to win. That's what we want to do, and that's what we're going to do. You can turn it around really quickly."
Chiefs manager Tony Beasley, who coached Harper in the Eastern League last year, added: "I thought his swings were really good. I thought he was more calm."
On Sunday, Harper's longball was not enough to keep Yunesky Maya (1-2) off the hook. The Syracuse right-hander allowed three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits and a walk over five innings.
Buffalo starter Familia (2-1) fanned eight batters and scattered four hits to earn his second victory of the season. Harper's homer accounted for the lone run against the Mets' prospect, ranked No. 90 on MLB.com's list.
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Central Copenhagen with sunny courtyard - room #1
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I offer 2 rooms in my private apartement. The room in this listing is larger and has 1 Double bed, Table with chairs, Fridge, TV & free wireless internet - Electrical kettle with tea & instant coffee. The room is suitable for maximum 3 people. A single bed (real bed) can be provided for an additional adult or child. A cot can be arranged for a small child. My other listing is also a double room. Both rooms are private rooms not shared with others.
Beds are made and towels are provided – bathroom is shared.
The building has a sunny patio where you can relax, read a book and enjoy some good moments.
Looking forward to welcome you!
Ev kuralları> No minimum stay required
> Smoking is not allowed
> We cannot accommodate guest pets
> Children are welcome
> No childcare is provided
> Consumption of alcohol is permitted
> Check in time is to be agreed and Check out time is to be agreed
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The place was amazing. Very nice design and great area.
Frederic was the perfect host.
Thanks so much again!
I hope we will have the chance to come back.
We had such a great time in copenhagen. Not least because of the nice room and the host from Frederic. He, and also his mother, recommended some great places.
Wat een heerlijk huis om te verblijven; fijne sfeer, heerlijk thuis-komen na een hele dag stievelen door de stad, lieve leuke vent Frederic en hij geeft je supergoeie tips over de omgeving, leuke plekjes, cafeetjes, winkeltjes...plekjes die je niet in de VVV te horen krijgt, maar echt van "insiders" moet horen. Daardoor dus ook op hele leuke plekken geweest. Frederic is ook altijd even gastvrij en bereid je te woord te staan wanneer je een vraag hebt. Deze verblijfplaats in Kopenhagen heeft het voor ons helemaal geslaagd gemaakt!
tusend tag Frederic!!!
Mijke en Willeke
We have stayed one night in Frederic's appartement and it was great. The room was nice and clean. Its easy to find, easy to park your car and Frederic will provide you with all the information you must find suitable for your stay. Frederic is a kind and friendly host. The room is within walking distance from Tivoli, Town Hall, railway station Kbh H and all the attractions in the City centre. We recommend this room and host.
A wonderful offering! The room was quite comfortable and the host was excellent. Frederic proved thoughtful and attentive to questions. He provided helpful advice and recommendations, but also was respectful / not intrusive.
I highly recommend the offering.
Gemütliches Zimmer in einer schönen Wohnung. Alles in allem sehr sympatisch. Auch die Lage ist sehr gut. Gute Restaurants in der Nähe. Und auch sonst kommt man von hier aus überall gut hin. Würde gerne wieder kommen.
We were very satisfied with this accomodation. It was clean and had a nice charm. It was located centrally in close walking distance to CPH city center, supermarkets and bakeries were located nearby.
The host was very hospitable and supportive.
We very much recommend this offer.
Thank you, Frederic!
Even though we only spend one night with our 6month old son in Copenhagen, we felt welcome in Frederic's place. Frederic wasn't there himself with his family, so we had the whole apartment on our own. We only regret not having met him personally:( His mom showed us the apartment and explained important facts about the city. She was very friendly and helpful:)
Maybe it'll also be helpful for you to know that you can park your car on the street for just 35DKK a day, which is much cheaper than parking directly in the center. From the place it's easy to walk or take the Metro downtown. It's exactly like Frederic has described it. Thanks so much!
Wir hatten eine tolle Zeit in Kopenhagen, Frederic ist sehr nett und freundlich. Er konnte uns viele Tipps zu unserem Aufenthalt geben. Die Wohnung ist wunderschön und das Zimmer sehr komfortabel!
Jederzeit wieder! :)
Great location in a nice part of town. Pretty easy to get to from the airport using the metro and walking a little bit. Frederic provided great directions, and he and his mother provided useful information for discovering Copenhagen. The room was very comfortable, and they have a lovely garden in which you can relax and enjoy a take away meal. Just keep in mind that you are sharing the bathroom with the family, which most times was not an issue at all.
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US judge won't to block contact lens anti-price fixing law
U.S. District Judge Dee Benson in Salt Lake City said in court documents that he wasn't persuaded by arguments from contact-lens makers that…
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I'm kind of surprised you can't get a whole layering system from Sitka, but there is a lot of good advice already listed. I am a fan of the Sitka line and have used the brand for years in some nasty terrain, but they are kind of expensive.
I would recommend some good glass (as others have) and also a good rangefinder with angle compensation. The western hunts may present some longer shots than you are used to.
As for water, I use a Katadyn My Bottle purifier bottle and it works OK. My beef with it is the straw/hinge isn't designed well IMO.
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Grant Expands Oral History Project
A grant received from the Bay and Paul Foundations helps give voice to thousands of United States Merchant Marine veterans, whose service to their country‹in times of peace and war‹has contributed significantly to the security and prosperity of the nation. The new funding allows the Archives Department of the Seamen¹s Church Institute (SCI) to reach out to veterans across the US to create a robust online repository of stories of the sea as part of the American Merchant Marine Veterans Oral History Project.
Last year, SCI announced the launch of an oral history project seeking to capture narratives of merchant marine veterans in audio-recorded interviews. The project salutes thousands of men and women who frequently go unremembered‹both in their service to their country and in their service to the world in international trade. To date, SCI¹s oral history project has recorded interviews with seventeen mariners and port workers, including twelve veterans of World War II‹a war in which, as a civilian organization, the merchant marine suffered a higher casualty rate than any branch of the armed services.
Johnathan Thayer, SCI Archivist and leader of the project, has interviewed veteran mariners in the Port of New York and New Jersey. ³Their remarkable tales represent largely overlooked perspectives within American history,² he says. Johnathan recounts the story of John Ludwick, also known as ³Kansas,² who, although he survived the crossing of dangerous WWII North Atlantic waters in a convoy that lost 17 of 33 ships, found himself mistakenly imprisoned in a camp at Leningrad. He tells the story of his escape, stealing a Russian snowmobile and riding it hundreds of miles through arctic tundra back to his ship.
Toiling on board ships often months at a time, merchant mariners work out of the public eye, but SCI‹since its very beginnings‹has endeavored to bring their labors to light. Through its American Merchant Marine Veterans Oral History Project, SCI helps mariners gain recognition and dignity in the historic record through their own words and voices.
SCI welcomes partner institutions or individuals interested in recording interviews or donating digital photographs and other artifacts to the project¹s digital repository. If you are interested or know a mariner who would make for a good interview, please contact SCI Archivist Johnathan Thayer at firstname.lastname@example.com or +1 917-864-1993.
About SCI
Founded in 1834 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, though nondenominational in terms of its trustees, staff and service to mariners, the Seamen¹s Church Institute of New York & New Jersey (SCI) is the largest, most comprehensive mariners¹ agency in North America. Annually, its chaplains visit thousands of vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Port of Oakland, and along 2,200 miles of America¹s inland waterways and into the Gulf of Mexico. SCI¹s maritime education facilities provide navigational training to nearly 1,600 mariners each year through simulator-based facilities located in Houston, TX and Paducah, KY. The Institute and its maritime attorneys are recognized as leading advocates for merchant mariners by the United States Government, including the US Congress, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labor Organization and maritime trade associations.


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Florida Community Bankshares reports 90% increase in income
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.
Florida Community Bankshares, Inc., the holding company for Community Bank & Trust of Florida, reported net income of $4.731 million for year ending Dec. 31, a 90 percent increase over the previous year.
Total capital for that period increased to $59.9 million, or 10.53 percent of total assets. The company reported delinquent loans of 0.37 percent of total loans outstanding and non-performing loans were 1.45 percent of total loans — both an improvement over last year.
In addition, the company reported total assets of $569.7 million.
As a result of its performance, the company's board increased dividends by 50 percent, to 15 cents per share.
Community Bank & Trust of Florida was established in 1998 and has nine branches, including its latest addition in Spruce Creek. Offices are located in Ocala, Belleview, Gainesville, Summerfield and The Villages. The company employs 118 people.
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Lamar Odom returns to NBA, signs with NY Knicks
Lamar Odom has just inked a deal to join the NY Knicks for the remainder of the season.
The troubled basketball star will return to the NBA after a lengthy battle with drug abuse sidelined him and ended his marriage to Khloe Kardashian.
According to reports, Odom will join the Knicks for the rest of the season and has a non-guaranteed option for a second year contract.
The signing will put him back in the hands of the team's President, Phil Jackson, who used to coach him when he was on the Lakers.
Odom is expected to suit up for practice on Thursday.
Does this mean he has finally has kicked his habit for good?
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GIGABYTE Tease X79 Refresh: X79 G1.Assassin 3by Ian Cutress on 9/12/2013 5:55 AM EST
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silenceisgolden - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkTweaktown's video covering the new Gigabyte boards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTi_WY_Eco. Ultra Durable boards have the Thunderbolt 2 controller, x79 has dual ethernet and the USB DAC, which is explained in the video. Reply
genzai - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkThanks for the video link. UD7 TH looks awesome. Now when the hell is someone going to release a video card with thunderbolt controller and ports on it? Seriously if the Mac Pro can have its cake and eat it it too why can't the rest of us? Reply
Kevin G - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkThunderbolt on video cards would require a PCI-e bridge chip and Thunderbolt controllers on the discrete card's PCB. The PCB will obviously be custom and likely the cooling system will need to be custom as well as the GPU will likely need to be moved from reference designs. Power consumption will also be higher due to the extra chips on the board which could require additional power connectors depending on the base GPU (ie 140w GPU + 15w for TB chips would require two 6 pin connectors instead of just one). These extra components add a significant cost in the cut throat pricing market that is video cards.
There is also the buggy support with Thunderbolt in Windows. With the new Mac Pro dropping PCI-e slots entirely, there only market going forward for a Thunderbolt video card would be the PC market.
The workstation card market could absorb the costs but neither nVidia or AMD want to support the Thunderbolt spec. As long as nVidia and AMD market workstation class cards under their own names, Thunderbolt won't be included. Reply
etamin - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkIt's good to see a dedicted USB DAC port. But only 4x SATA 6Gb/s on a top end product like this? Reply
Desiderata - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkTwo from the chipset, two from Marvell most likely.
Unless you're going to be throwing more than four SSDs together in RAID, you probably won't see a disadvantage using SATA 3Gb/s ports; mechanical drives aren't renowned for their lightning speeds. Reply
jdon - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkThere are 6, the other two connectors are hanging out at the bottom of the board. Reply
wfall - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkBut does it blend?! Reply
Eufawria - Monday, September 30, 2013 - linkPlanning to get this board but there are a couple things I'm worried about (and I do know this is not the final) Watching the video, it can now support 4 way sli which is freaking awesome now as I can do three way and have a dedicated sound card but I think we need an auxiliary power to make sure card gets enough juice. Making the board E-ATX so they can cram a bit more and have the power buttons and all that on the top right instead of the bottom. And for the heatsinks, keep it simple. Maybe using something similar to the UP4 or UD5 style but now with green. These are just personal opinions and preference but that will make a huge difference Reply


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South Africa is one of the few commercial canopy tour destinations in the world.
Canopy tours in South Africa are one of the most amazing ways to see nature from a different perspective. Here you are up in the sky looking into the heart of the forest – it's very different and thrilling.
A canopy tour involves sliding from one high-level forest platform to another along steel cables suspended up to 30m above the forest floor. The idea originally came from biologists who used similar systems to access forest canopies in order to study the hard-to-get-at plants that live high up in the trees.
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June 2 the staff held a party for two of the pages who were leaving, Karen Schultz and Alison Read. Decades later Alison Read Post returned to work at the library as a clerk.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Louis Wingard was sentenced to mandatory life in prison Friday morning for his involvement in a 2011 home invasion robbery at a Jacksonville motel.
Wingard, 48, was convicted last month on charges of home ivasion robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
In August 2011, Wingard and his co-defendant broke into a teenage girl's motel room at Studio 6 on Baymeadows Road. Wingard forced his way inside the room and stole the 18-year-old victim's clothes and money.
At the time of Wingard's arrest, he was wanted in another armed home invasion robbery, kidnapping and carjacking. Wingard's trial date is pending in this case.
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D-backs' bullpen can't hold three-run lead
Delgado, Schultz give up eight runs in the eighth, ninth as Pirates rally
PHOENIX -- Sometimes it's better to take a pitcher out too early rather than too late. Leaving Randall Delgado in to pitch the eighth inning certainly proved costly for the D-backs on Friday night.
Despite holding a three-run lead going to the eighth inning, the D-backs bullpen imploded late, giving up eight runs in the final two innings of their 9-4 loss to the Pirates at Chase Field.
"We were in a bad spot today with the bullpen," manager Kirk Gibson said. "I made the decision to try to get through it with the guys I pitched, and they were unable to do so and gave up eight runs."
Gibson's go-to middle relievers -- Evan Marshall, Oliver Perez and Brad Ziegler -- all pitched in the D-backs' win in the series opener, so Gibson tried to stay away from them.
At first, it looked like that would be a fine strategy. Delgado, who had only allowed one run in his previous 14 innings entering Friday's game, pitched a scoreless seventh inning, so Gibson sent him back out for the eighth.
But unlike the previous frame, the Pirates were locked in against Delgado in the eighth. Josh Harrison hit a one-out triple off the right-field wall, Jordy Mercer walked and Andrew McCutchen cut the lead to 4-2 with an RBI double.
The double ended Delgado's night, and Gibson turned to rookie Eury De La Rosa to get out of the jam. He had no such luck.
The first batter De La Rosa faced, pinch-hitter Pedro Alvarez, roped a double into right field, tying the game at 4.
"It's not something we ask him to do a lot of," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "To stay on a left-hander like that was good to see, and it should boost his confidence."
But if the eighth inning was bad for the D-backs, the ninth inning was worse in more ways than one.
De La Rosa got the first out of the inning, and Gibson brought in rookie Bo Schultz for only his third Major League appearance. As part of the double switch to bring Schultz in, Gibson also subbed in All-Star Paul Goldschmidt, who had a rare day off.
The trouble started immediately for Schultz, who gave up back-to-back doubles to the first two batters he faced, giving the Pirates the lead. After Schultz intentionally walked McCutchen, four of the next five batters singled, blowing the game open. When the dust settled, the D-backs trailed by five.
"I hated to leave him out there," Gibson said. "Hopefully, it's something he can learn from."
But if losing a late lead wasn't bad enough, the D-backs may have suffered an even bigger loss in the bottom half of the inning.
Pirates reliever Ernesto Frieri hit Goldschmidt's left hand with a 93-mph fastball. Goldschmidt stayed in the game, but X-rays on his hand were inconclusive.
Goldschmidt said he didn't think the hit by pitch was intentional, and the Pirates echoed that sentiment after the game.
"I don't think anybody on their side was happy that Goldschmidt got hit," Hurdle said. "There wasn't any intent on Ernesto's part. He's fighting and scratching to get outs. Nobody wants to hit a guy in that situation. I just think something was said, and everybody kind of kept a calm head and walked away from it."
Lost in the late-inning fireworks was a solid start from Vidal Nuno, who surrendered only one run in six innings of work. Nuno has three quality starts since he joined the D-backs on July 6.
"Everyone's trying their best," Nuno said. "Unfortunately, they came back with their sticks and everything, and they were putting up runs."
Adam Lichtenstein is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Reducing Economic Risk: Everything to gain -- Engineer takes on financial world
In the financial world, two plus two doesn't always equal four.
Within a given financial portfolio, each investment is typically assigned a number to indicate its level of riskiness, or how likely it is to lose money. Determining the risk of the entire portfolio, however, goes far beyond simply adding the risk measures of individual investments. Often, the investments are dependent on one another, meaning that the failure of one can trigger a chain reaction and have an effect on the entire portfolio far greater than expected.
Patrick Cheridito, an assistant professor of operations research and financial engineering, is developing better ways to quantify risk that take these complexities into account. His work may one day allow individuals, regulating agencies, pension plans, insurance companies and banks to make more informed decisions.
"There are so many different reasons and methods for quantifying risk," Cheridito said. "Will there be profits or losses in a given week? How much is at stake? Risk is so complex, and it often needs to be reduced to just one number. Then, someone has to decide whether it is an acceptable financial position or not and act accordingly."
Of course, quantifying risk is nothing new: For over a century, people have been attempting to pin it down using a variety of mathematical and statistical tools.
But existing techniques have tremendous disadvantages. For example, one common technique called "variance" measures how far the performance of an investment deviates from an expected outcome, but it treats being above and below the anticipated result in the same way. Essentially, it views gains and losses equally—a position that, for obvious reasons, is not shared by investors.
Additionally, these measures were developed on the assumption that the financial world follows a normal, bell-shaped curve, so that the likelihoods of major returns and major losses are the same, with most outcomes falling somewhere in between.
"Traditional risk measures work well with a normal distribution," Cheridito said. "But in recent years, people have noticed that the financial world is not well-modeled by this distribution. Crises occur more often than you would expect, and losses are more severe than would be expected."
Finally, traditional risk measures are static, providing information about risk at only one moment in time, whereas real financial decisions are based on dynamic models that analyze data and make predictions over time. These models often rely on static measures to assign value to risk, which limits their forecasting capabilities.
"Tomorrow you'll have new information. If risk measures aren't dynamic, they may result in people and institutions acting in such a way that they contradict themselves over time," he said. "There can still be surprises, and people will still have to react to new events, but not in ways that will contradict what they did before."
To address the many drawbacks of existing tools, Cheridito is developing metrics that more accurately represent risk, work within non-normal probability distributions and change over time. In one case, his method measures asymmetries between the upper and lower ends of a distribution and also looks at the steepness of the peak in the middle of the graph. Such measures are more risk averse to extremely bad events, and thereby lessen the likelihood of financial disaster.
"Patrick Cheridito has made important contributions to a better structural understanding of risk and introduced new classes of risk measures that are able to detect risk exposures in situations where traditional methods do not perform well," said Nizar Touzi, a professor of mathematical finance at the École Polytechnique in Paris. "This has applications in risk management, the determination of insurance premiums and the pricing and regulation of complex financial products."
In May, Cheridito was awarded a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which provides $400,000 over five years to support his work on risk quantification. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2003, after a year as a visiting research fellow at the University, and holds bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
"While many of us in operations research and financial engineering call ourselves financial engineers, what we really do is study risk with an eye toward reducing or otherwise mitigating its effects," said Robert Vanderbei, chair of operations research and financial engineering. "Risk lurks everywhere and having a deep mathematical understanding of it is critical. Patrick's work provides important new ways in which we can assess risk, not only in financial markets, but in all aspects of modern life."
Cheridito's current focus on risk stemmed from a long-time interest in mathematics and probability theory. Realizing that risk is an important concept in many areas, including finance and engineering, he saw an opportunity to apply his expertise to real-world problems. Now, he can often be seen at the tables in EQuad Café, developing new measures with nothing more than a pencil and paper.
"In the broader context, lots of problems require us to make decisions under uncertainty," he said. "Sooner or later, you have to think about risk."
Asked whether his research emphasis has perhaps made him more risk-averse, Cheridito took a minute to ponder the question.
"Maybe it creeps in unconsciously," he said. "Everyone faces uncertain situations and risk. We all cross streets, ride on airplanes and invest money and I think about it like everybody else—just maybe a little bit more concretely."


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Some Allstate home insurance customers are being shown the door by the "Good Hands" people for refusing to bundle their homeowners insurance and auto insurance policies.
Insurance Journal reports that Allstate recently informed some 45,000 North Carolina customers that it will not renew their homeowners insurance policies unless they also purchase commercial or private auto insurance coverage with the company by Dec. 15.
Allstate says the move will enable it to better serve its 400,000 in-state homeowners. Minus the unbundled, of course.
Robert Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, says the "Good Hands" people are simply cherry-picking the more lucrative customers who bundle their home and auto with the company.
He may be right. Presumably, the company has made no similar moves to jettison auto policyholders who insure their homes with other carriers. After all, home insurance is where the big bucks live.
Insurance Journal reader reaction was mixed. A sampling:
- "It is my belief that this action is a violation of more than (2) North Carolina insurance laws. First, it is considered an inducement … to buy their auto insurance through Allstate. Second, this action could be in violation of both North Carolina and federal 'Unfair Trade Practices.'"
- "Next they will require a life insurance policy to write a homeowners."
- "More carriers should follow their move across the entire country. If they did perhaps rates would level out and come down slightly."
- "I think it is entirely fair that Allstate is doing this. I don't think it's fair that State Farm insures a person's home while they have their auto with Geico or Progressive, neither of whom sell home insurance, which is the most difficult to buy."
Insurance bundling continues to be a bewildering mess for consumers. It's opaque, driven by introductory offers that quickly evaporate, making it well-neigh impossible to compare rates. While most of us do bundle our home and auto coverage, many if not most would save on out-of-pocket premiums by unbundling. That said, trust and convenience factors convince the majority of us to bundle, even if we know we could pay less if we didn't.
That said, in my view it's one thing for an insurance company to offer a bundled "discount" and quite another to drop policyholders for refusing to bundle. While I'm sure it makes sense to the Allstate number-crunchers, I'm doubtful they factored in the potential brand damage from this poorly timed move.
Have you or someone you know been served with this arm-twist ultimatum from the "Good Hands" folks? I'd welcome your thoughts.
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