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The 3 P's of change
Monday, November 12, 2012
When I started out to change my life, it wasn't going to be a temporary thing I wanted to be healthier, smaller, sexier, and those are just the ones I knew at the time. I won't lie to you and say I knew what I was doing and still don' on some levels. What I can tell you is that I knew what didn't work. But I had to add a few things to the change that I have never had before in trying to loose weight . Three things that changed everything for me as a person fat bodied or not.
Patience is a virtue , that I can honestly say I have never possessed . When I started out a year ago this was the first thing I had to learn. Patience with my body as it learned to exercise the correct. Patience to wait till proper times to eat meals. Patience with my mind as it tried so very hard to gather all the knowledge it required to keep me motivated in the right direction . Patience with others around who said " you will only fail again." Patience was a very tiring trait to acquire . However if you dont have it or the desire to find it then your journey will stop before it begins.
In the past I would loose weight and then gain weight , then oh well " I am just meant to be fat" would be the thought process. I set goals that no one could ever meet. When you are 10 pounds over weight it is not that big a deal to loose and gain but when you are 200 pounds overweight it is earth shattering. I had to teach myself Persistence. I can tell you that for the better part of 30 years I persistent in gaining weight. I ate all the wrong things and hell exercise was non existent but thankfully i was active enough that I didnt end up bed ridden. Learning to persistent was key. I had to learn that no matter what the scale said one week I to stick with my plan and be painfully honest. The answers are there if you are honest with yourself. It is easy to blame the world for your failures but if you want things to change you must have the ability to see inside yourself and make the change from there.
Perseverance is another thing that is most difficult to learn. I started out with what i found to be the most trivia of exercise. Although walking to 10 to 12 feet on my foot at the time was like moving mountains I kept doing it , for fear if i stopped I wouldn't do it again. I was given the most horrible of feet that the heavens could give someone . As some know I am now recovering from the second foot surgery in a year and half. When I say I walk 6 miles that is a huge thing for me. This time last year I was barely walking without the assistance of a cane. I took this on one step at a time. I tear at a time . I have thrown my shoes across the room and swore I would never put them on again. I have sit on a bench in the park and wondered how will i ever get back to my car. I have called a friend and said please just tell me I can do this. I have sucked it up all for a goal I have never been able to reach before .
Although lately I have struggled with my recovery and a weight gain .. I didn't give up , I didn't throw in the towel and say I cant do this right now I will when this over. I looked inside with as much honesty and strength that I could and reassessed the program and what I was doing or not doing . This past Saturday I not only weighed and lost . I had managed to loose the gained weight plus some. I had a 5.2 pound loss and it was all because I was patient , persistent and found the perseverance to try it for one more week. These are things that I am grateful because with out them I couldn't do it, I wouldn't do it .
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What a wonderful blog post!! These are things I am currently working on as well. Previously, I was so impatient with myself and my body and when I did everything right and it responded by losing nothing I gave up. Now I am still not losing yet but it is not stopping me from trying my hardest. I go to the gym even when I desperately want to just go home. I struggle with food choices some days but for the most part I do well. So now I am, like you said, being honest with all aspects. Breaking it down a little at a time. It is a process. I am on the right track. And you said it well...our minds and bodies work hard to get what we are doing and to process it all and start doing what it should. So I am patiently continuing and in the end, if nothing else, I feel better when I exercise. But I truly believe my body will catch on to what I am doing and start losing as well!! Keep up the amazing journey you are on!!
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Great blog, I struggle with all 3 of these. You are doing great, if I had foot surgery I would have been sitting on the couch waiting to heal, your such and inspiration. You give me motivation to move and stop making excuses for my actions (or lack of them)
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Wow what wonderful insight yo y have gained on this journey. I am going to mark these down for me because when I stall it is usually one of these I have failed on.
Thanks for the great blog
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Fantastic Ps! The patience is really the hardest, isn't it?? Especially with everyone (MOM) around you "so how much have you lost now? How about now?" Um, hello, you just asked me two days ago! Same answer!! (Guess I come by my lack of patience naturally. :-)
Love that hourglass quote, that's about the truest, most important thing I wish I could go back and tell myself ten years ago...here's hoping I don't have that same feeling 10 years from now!
Have a great week!
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The 3-P's are all the attributes of a professional. Earl
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An IT service provider failed in its claim to recover compensation from its customer, in a recent Victorian Supreme Court decision which emphasises the importance of robust IT tender processes and the need for comprehensive contracting practices.
The facts
Ipex ITG Pty Ltd (Ipex) successfully tendered in 2000 to supply the Melbourne Water Corporation (MWC) with outsourced IT services, including help desk services.
During the preparation of the tender, MWC had supplied potential bidders with information including as to the number, type and category of help desk calls previously made by its staff.
Ipex alleged that it relied on the information provided by MWC in formulating the pricing for its bid to provide the services. According to Justice Byrne, Ipex 'was required to assume most, if not all, of the risks involved of providing IT services for MWC over the three year term of the project and it was therefore required to build into its tender price an allowance for this.' Ipex claimed that the information was inaccurate, incomplete and misleading—and that, had it known the true picture, it would have priced its bid very differently. Ipex lodged contract variation claims for additional payments to service higher than expected help desk call volumes, but MWC had rejected those claims.
The outcome
The court rejected the allegation made by Ipex that MWC's pre-contractual representations amounted to misleading and deceptive conduct under sections 52 and 51A of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). Justice Byrne held that:
- MWC did make some representations as to the average number of calls and the accuracy of the information provided to potential bidders
- Ipex had relied on this information when preparing its response to tender, but
- this information was neither false nor misleading, nor was it likely to mislead or deceive a potential bidder.
On the basis of the court's finding that the information was not misleading, Ipex's claim failed.
Lessons to be learnt
The case highlights, once again, the potential risks involved when technical information is exchanged between parties at the pre-contract stage, but not subsequently incorporated into (or expressly excluded from) the contract. Although MWC was able to successfully defend the claim brought against it by Ipex, a different finding by the court as to the accuracy of the pre-contractual information provided would likely have resulted in a very different outcome. It is perhaps worth noting that Justice Byrne referred to the 'very unsatisfactory evidentiary background' advanced by Ipex to support its case. In that sense, the judgment should not be regarded as indicating that IT suppliers will confront a generally sceptical judiciary in bringing such claims.
In similar situations, parties would be well advised to:
- ensure that information provided to the other party at the pre-contract stage is accurate and not potentially misleading
- clearly set out in the final contract what technical and commercial information has been relied upon (of course, the failure to make this clear will not mean an action for misleading and deceptive conduct will fail, but it will diminish the certainty of the consequences which follow from representatives not being fulfilled), and
- consider appropriate contract mechanisms to deal with any potential concerns regarding information relied upon. In this case, litigation could no doubt have been avoided if the parties had agreed that Ipex would be paid on a sliding scale according to the number of helpdesk calls made in a given period.


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Jones, 28, played in 15 games with nine starts for the Eagles in 2009. He had 44 tackles and two interceptions, giving him 16 interceptions for his career. The 6-foot-1, 220-pounder has started 53 games since entering the NFL with the Browns in 2004.
The Bucs also were hoping to meet today with Browns free-agent safety Brodney Pool, 25. But Pool, whose career was threatened by several head injuries, agreed in principle to a one-year contract with the Jets late Thursday.
Tampa Bay has been trying to set up a visit for Dolphins safety Gibril Wilson, 28.
The Bucs are looking to replace Will Allen, who signed as a free agent this week with the Steelers, and create competition for Sabby Piscitelli.
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Bengals: Defensive tackle Tank Johnson, who started 13 games last season despite playing with foot pain, signed a four-year deal to stay with the team.
Broncos: Defensive lineman Le Kevin Smith re-signed. Starting inside linebacker Andra Davis, a former Gator, was released.
Browns: Free-agent quarterback Jake Delhomme, 35, released by the Panthers, visited Cleveland, which also hosted tight end Ben Watson and running back Justin Fargas.
Cardinals: Offensive tackle Jeremy Bridges re-signed for three years, and free-agent linebackers Joey Porter and Larry Foote visited. Quarterback Derek Anderson, released by the Browns, is scheduled to visit today.
Eagles: Receiver Chad Hall, who spent the past two years serving as a second lieutenant in the Air Force, signed a three-year contract.
Panthers: Matt Moore, 25, signed his one-year, $3.043 million tender, and the team declared him the starting quarterback going into camp. Moore went 4-1 as a starter with eight touchdown passes, two interceptions and a passer rating of 98.5 after recently released Jake Delhomme was sidelined with a broken finger at the end of last season.
Patriots: Running back Kevin Faulk, 33, re-signed with the team that made him a second-round draft choice in 1999 and is the only team he has played for. Terms were not disclosed. "I might have left and gone, and it might have been successful, but it wouldn't have been the same if I would have been here doing it," he said.
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Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's genitals. It may also be colloquially known as wanking (usually male), jacking off, fapping or fingering (usually female). Masturbation is widely accepted as a healthy practice and safe method for sharing pleasure without some of the dangers that can accompany intercourse.
Interest in masturbation comes at different ages for different people, some earlier or later than others but usually around the age of puberty.
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Masturbation has no negative impact on physical health. It is impossible to get STDs from masturbating as well.
Masturbation may increase fertility during intercourse and lower blood pressure. Female masturbation can also provide protection against cervical infections. Males masturbating frequently had a lower probability to develop prostate cancer.
Note that masturbation can become addictive, and may therefore pose as a mental health risk.
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Two ACs, five AOs and a swag of public service medals went to commonwealth officials in the Australia Day honours. The ACs went to Chief Justice Robert French of the High Court and the vice-chief of the Australian Defence Force, David Hurley (military division). The AOs went to the secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jeff Harmer; the commissioner for taxation, Michael D'Ascenzo; the head of the Defence Materiel Organisation, Stephen Gumley; the commonwealth ombudsman, professor John McMillan; and the high commissioner to New Zealand, Paul O'Sullivan. Congratulations to all.
The former queen of accountability, Barbara Belcher (who retired last year as head of the government division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet) was not forgotten in the honours, being awarded an AM. She hasn't entirely gone, because she is heading the review of parliamentarians' entitlements. One of her erstwhile bosses, former PM&C deputy Alan Henderson, was also awarded an AM.
There are three plum deputy chief executive jobs going, two in Centrelink and one in Medicare, all at the forefront of the big service-delivery reforms. Centrelink has one new position; the other is to replace Carolyn Hogg, now the CEO. Medicare has to replace Rhona Mellor, who has been appointed deputy secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests in charge of biosecurity.
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I have Directv so hoorah!
Seems like a good idea to me.DirecTV has emerged as the best shot at the WWE Network making its way to television.
While WWE officials feel selling the network at $29.99 (at most, proposed price points listed here) will kill the pay-per-view business except for Wrestlemania, it will guarantee them money. Piracy and online stream sites remain a problem and are seen as part of the reason for reduced pay-per-view revenue. Guaranteeing a monthly amount for the WWE Network will be a way to combat this.
Were told there are some very negative on this model but its supporters point to how the NFL Sunday Ticket single handily saved DirecTV and with over 20 million subscribers, it would be enough to force cable providers like Comcast and Time Warner to carry it as well.
There also remains a possibility of Smackdown moving to the WWE Network when its contract comes up with SyFy next fall.
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I have Directv so hoorah!
*used to have DirecTV*
Granted my Internet is a LOT better since moving back to Cable... Oh well.
Think of it this way:
If I purchase WWE Network I would be paying $360 for the year ($29.99/month). That's not a bad deal at all. I'm willing to add this to my bill.
I have Direct and I find it to be a positive. I think WWE could air a lot of different stuff like NXT, Classics on Demand programming, Superstars, WWE movies and other programming that was being thought of for WWE. What about that Wrestler Wives show VH1 tried to do?
Btw I highly doubt it will be $30. That's the maximum price it will be.
This would be a risky move, it's a gamble for sure. I don't think anyone knows how successful it will be, there are so many variables.
Yeah I look at WWE Network being a mix of NFL/NHL Network and an HBO/Showtime. You can air sports and news but you also can show other shows and or older documentaries for DVD/Blu-ray. And no with the HBO/Showtime comment, I am not saying air the Hotel Eroticas with Candice Michelle or other potential softcore porn that featured future WWE divas...
So they want SmackDown to be seen by even less people?
Dish Network doesn't even have WWE 24/7
Seriously ! I don't know what their waiting for.
If the WWE Network is $30 a month, I'm out. I wouldn't pay that much for the NFL or NHL network and I won't do it for the E either. This has been my concern since they announced the WWE Network. I said back then that if they move Raw and Smackdown to their network and charge an additional fee like it was HBO than it would kill any chance of me sticking around as a fan.
Yeah, I hardly want to pay $30 to watch a wrestling show in person (especially when most WWE shows in that instance are upper deckers).
I'm sure as hell not paying $30/month to watch creative half-ass their way through Smackdown and most PPVs.
crap. now i have to buy direct tv
Dont have Direct TV so it will suck for me. I dont think they would Smackdown to it because they lose out alot of viewers. Would like to see USA pick up Smackdown for Tuesday or Thursday nights.
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The next generation of the Sony Playstation is here! Well, it's been announced, but we still don't know what it looks like. I'd say "who cares," and "shut up and take my money," but we also don't know how much it'll cost. It might cost a billion dollars! Who knows?! Here are 5 funny videos about the Playstation 4:
Leonard Nemoy Introduces The PS4
If that is actually a PS4, I might actually buy it.
PS4 Announcement (Abridged Version)
I knew his face was too Unreal to be true.
Sony PS4 Launch Event Falls Flat
It's official: Everyone hates the Vita!
Hitler Reacts To The Playstation 4 Announcement
Hitler's gonna slam the PS4 in the Kotaku comments.
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Take this course to learn how to make your Outlook message text look the way you want it to. We'll cover formatting fonts, creating and removing hyperlink text, using and customizing the spelling checker and AutoCorrect, and changing the language the spelling checker uses.
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Outlook has two tools to help you check your spelling: AutoCorrect and the spelling checker. And you can change how they work and what they check for, if you like.
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The spelling checker uses the language you specify for Windows. But you can use multiple languages for the spelling and proofing tools. Here's how to set that up.
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Entrepreneurial Development In The Health Care Industry And Spa Industry In The Northeast Of Thailand
The health care and spa industries are service industries. Many businesses in these industries try to develop their services. Meeting as many needs as possible leads not only to better quality but also to competitive advantage. This research study aims to investigate the development of the health care and spa industries. The study focused on the service of entrepreneurs and customer behaviour. The case of Khon Kaen province, where Thailand's northeast capital city is located, was chosen. The sample used in data collection consisted of customers and entrepreneurs in the region. The questionnaire technique was used for customers, while the observing and interviewing technique was used for entrepreneurs. The study found that more than half of the customers had experience in using these types of services and intended to use these services much more in the future. The customers of each industry tend to use both services but prefer convenience. The entrepreneurs have the capability to increase their service segments when a clearer view of government policy and customer needs was revealed. Entrepreneurial development in these industries tends to fall into the issue of linkage between these two industries much more than the other issues.
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For the aggressive, high-power lasers in discussion, coherence is generally reduced to the point where speckle's contribution to non-uniformity in the output beam profile is often negligible. This reduction in coherence is due to one of two factors. One factor is that independent cavities add together to reduce the speckle contrast. The reduction is defined as:
The other factor is that a single cavity often generates enough modes to result in an M2 value on the range of 10 or higher. Beam qualities of this level generally result in speckle contrasts of significantly less than 10%. For these cases, if the structure has a high enough frequency, or if the intensity contrast of the structure is low, the beam can often be homogenized with little penalty in divergence.
Unfortunately, there is no ideal solution. Every technological approach has trade-offs. Very high efficiency diffusers generally suffer from low quality uniformity and limitations to the control of the profile. High control over the output generally means a diffuser technology that results in an 8% to 20% reduction in efficiency. While this is not what the system designer, who has just spent much of his budget driving a laser solution to generate 15% more power, hopes to hear, this generally does not translate into a direct loss in overall system efficiency. Traditional methods of defocusing or clipping a beam to limit the degree of non-uniformity to the intensity profile almost always result in far lower efficiencies. For example, if a beam has a Gaussian profile (either to start with, or after some level of blur), and is clipped to hit a uniformity spec of +/-10%, only 20% of the light will be transmitted.
In general, most beams can be diffused such that well-controlled uniformity is provided with a roll-off fairly similar to the diffraction limit of the original beam. For lasers with structure that is very low frequency and high contrast, higher divergence angle copies of the original beam have to be overlapped to properly homogenize the beam. Because of the relationship of divergence to beam diameter, much of the optical train needs to be increased in diameter to reduce the divergence back to its original value.
As alluded, not only can these diffractive technologies homogenize a beam, they can also reshape angular distribution in an almost arbitrary fashion to accurately match that of the system designer's target (Figure 2). For example, a circular beam may be remapped to a rectangular field to match an imaging sensor, at a loss of efficiency of only around 20%. This angular remapping function alone is generally worth the inclusion of the technology, but the homogenization of the beam is also built into the functionality.
One method of fabrication for these diffractive diffusers is through photolithography, also known as optical lithography. This process uses a series of coating, patterning and etching steps. A reticle or contact mask is populated with the appropriate design information. Through UV exposure, that design information is transferred into a photo-resist, a light-sensitive polymer, which coats a wafer surface. The wafer is then developed and this pattern is transfer-etched directly into the substrate. Depending on the specific requirements of these diffractive diffusers, these wafers can go through the photolithographic cycle many times. The resulting structures are generally less than twice the wavelength, and the substrates into which they are patterned are typically a millimeter thick (Figure 3). The driving factors for thickness of the substrate are mechanical stability and transmitted wavefront error.
This technology has been used in many aerospace and defense applications, such as target illumination, counter measures, mine detection and LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging), where efficiency and uniformity are critical. At Tessera North America, these diffractive optical elements have been successfully designed, fabricated and tested in Fused Silica, Silicon and Germanium, for wavelengths ranging from 157nm-14um.
- J. W. Goodman, "Some Fundamental Properties of Speckle, " J. opt. Soc. Am. 66, pp. 1145-1149, 1976.
- J. W. Goodman, "Statistical Properties of Laser Speckle Patterns," Topics in Applied Physics volume 9 (edited by J. C. Dainty), pp. 9-75, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1984.


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Source: Daily Guide
About fifty Ghanaians who are living in Turkey have benefited from a largesse supplied by Black Stars defender Jerry Akaminko.
The Eskisehir Spor player presented a variety of food items to his compatriots in their separate homes in Istanbul.
Akaminko, a tough defender, is noted for his passion for extending a helping hand to the needy in society.
The presentation of food items was the defender's widow's mite in helping the beneficiaries to observe Easter with joy.
Akaminko, during the visit, also paid the rent for some of the Ghanaians in Istanbul who were struggling to settle their bills.
The player's decision to pay the rents was to save the cash-strapped Ghanaians from being ejected from their homes.
Akaminko is an integral member of the Black Stars of Ghana who would be making their third successive appearance at the World Cup in June.
The hard working player has over the years been extending a helping hand to needy Ghanaians and Africans living in Turkey.
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Maximizing the Benefit of Renin-Angiotensin Blocking Drugs in Diabetic Renal Disease.
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The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor drugs are now standard therapy for patients with diabetic nephropathy. The hypothesis of this study is that adding a diuretic agent (furosemide) will decrease the urine protein, which is a sign of disease, more than an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor alone.
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Maximizing the Benefit of RAS Blockade in Diabetic Nephropathy
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
proteinuria greater than 1 gram/day serum creatinine < 2.6 for men, < 2.0 for women
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blood pressure which cannot be controlled without a diuretic renal diseases other than diabetic nephropathy other disease which would alter renal function during 6 months
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The Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (a link to the entire Act can be found in Appendix B) was enacted to protect the public by requiring those who provide investment advice for compensation to register as advisors with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The provisions of the Act set out both required and prohibited behaviors for advisors who meet the following definition:
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Giving advice about securities
This includes references to securities in general, not just specific investment recommendations - for example, even advising a client to invest a set percentage in "stocks" is considered advice about securities.
- This includes references to securities in general, not just specific investment recommendations - for example, even advising a client to invest a set percentage in "stocks" is considered advice about securities.
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Many questions on the exam hinge on these components of the must be present to require registration as an investment advisor. For example, you might find a question where a professional such as an accountant or an attorney provides advice about asset allocation, but does not charge a separate fee for this service. In that case, he/she is not being compensated for the advice and so is not required to register.
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As a rule of thumb, if a person gives specific advice related to investments - for a client\'s specific condition or portfolio - he/she is an investment advisor.
At first glance, it seems that virtually all financial planners, stockbrokers, money managers, pension consultants, etc. would be covered under this definition. However, a number of exclusions mayapply:
Banks, or bank holding companies
Professionals such as lawyers, accountants, teachers, etc. whose advice is incidental to their profession and who receive no special compensation for making recommendations
Publishers of bona-fide newspapers, magazines or financial publications of a general and regular circulation
Government securities advisors
- Broker-dealers and their registered representatives whose advisory services are incidental to the securities business and who receive no special compensation for making recommendations
This last exception may seem illogical, since stockbrokers seem to be the major dispensers of investment advice. However, their job function is investment sales; therefore, the investment advice they give is considered incidental to that role. In addition, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regulates broker-dealers and their representatives.
Others who are exempt from registration:
IAs whose clients are all residents of the state of the IA's principal office and who do not provide advice on exchange-traded securities
IAs whose only clients are insurance companies
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You can expect at least one question on the "out of state" clients. One of the options may be "IAs whose only clients are banks", but remember it is IAs whose only clients are insurance companies that are exempt, not those with other institutional clients.
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Blog Action Day 2011 on October 16 will be an opportunity to open the conversation about how food impacts all of us – individually and globally
Blog Action Day 2011 site announced last week that since this year's event coincides with World Food Day, BAD's topic will be FOOD (find also Serious Games Market Supports Blog Action Day 2011 FOOD ).
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It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.
It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.
· Trading in the future of food. What is the impact of food speculation?
· Will we be able to feed 9 billion people in 2050?
· What food means to your culture
Adding Playnormous Serious Games Exhibit To The Woodlands Children's Museum - Adding a Playnormous exhibit to The Woodlands Children's Museum exposed young children to foods they've never seen before and gave parents a great opportunity to start healthy habits early," explained Playnormous Director of Marketing Melanie Lazarus, MPH. "Our ultimate goal is prevention of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes using media kids love to play."
The Growing Segment Of Ecological Conscious Serious Games – Includes Fate of the World, the PC strategy game where players try their hand at juggling sociopolitical events, energy consumption, population growth, food production and natural disasters. As the head of a fictitious world environmental organization, the goal is to improve the global climate-change patterns over the next 200 years.
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$15 for $30 Worth of Italian Food
The menu includes quattro formaggi pizzas ($13–$23), calzones ($8–$14.50), ricotta ravioli with pomodoro sauce ($13), and sautéed Nature veal with artichoke hearts and asparagus ($20).
La Villa Pizzeria & Restaurant
Maurina Branchinelli wakes up early to prep ingredients in La Villa Pizzeria's kitchen. The mother of the restaurant's current owner is known to make sure her pomodoro sauce has the right amount of olive oil and even hop behind the line to help sauté during the dinner rushes. This love of food runs throughout the Branchinelli family, from Maurina's husband, Benito, to her brother, Gino, who opened the family's first restaurant in 1955. The Zagat-rated restaurant has thrived since opening in Queens in 1982, enough to expand to two locations in Brooklyn.
Inside their kitchens, chefs stoke wood-burning ovens to bake more than 19 varieties of pizzas, including Neapolitan- and Sicilian-style pies dressed with whole-milk mozzarella and a specialty San Marzano tomato-and-basil sauce. Each location has a spacious dining room where patrons can split appetizers of homemade meatballs, dig into plates of sautéed Nature veal marsala, and down a rich shot of espresso before a long night of wondering whether they paid the phone bill.


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Birmingham City 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Alex McLeish refused to discuss his future after watching his Forest side beaten at his old club, leaving them with only one win in seven since he took charge. "I only want to talk about this game. There's no meeting planned with the chairman – he was at the training ground on Friday, and [what we discussed] will remain private." Birmingham's manager Lee Clark was pleased with the points but not with Forest's late penalty. "I just wish we could have got that elusive clean sheet."
Crystal Palace 2-1 Charlton Athletic
Ian Holloway praised his veteran deadline-day signing Kevin Phillips after the striker helped Palace complete a fine second-half comeback. "Lots and lots of chairman think that when you're 31, 32, 33, 34, that you're finished," Holloway said. "Some people are just starting. Kev really knows what he's doing. That was a great result for the lads and I felt we deserved it." Charlton's Chris Powell said: "In the first hour it was some of the best stuff we've played. But you have to take your chances. This is a body blow."
Ipswich Town 4-0 Middlesbrough
Stand-in manager Terry Connor said Ipswich's thumping win had provided a perfect tonic for Mick McCarthy, who missed the game due to illness. "Mick's absolutely delighted. I spoke to him straight after the game. He can come back to work on Monday knowing we won 4-0, got three points and kept a clean sheet." Tony Mowbray said: "It was poor from us and there are no excuses. We came here in a positive mood but now we've lost four on the bounce. We either curl up and die or come out fighting."
Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Dave Jones dismissed the second-half touchline incident which resulted in him and Brighton's first team coach Charlie Oatway being sent to the stands as "handbags". "Things happen in a game – the sending off [of Brighton's Ashley Barnes] was pivotal. I just felt that every challenge we made after that, Brighton were trying to even it up and I didn't think that was right. That's what the fracas was over. It's done and dusted now." Gus Poyet said his side conceded some of their "worst goals of the season".
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Two goals from Jordan Rhodes gave Blackburn a 2-0 home win over Bristol City. ■ 10-man Blackpool lost 2-1 at home to Barnsley. ■ Derby moved closer to the play-offs with a 3-0 home win over Huddersfield. ■ Millwall slipped to a third successive league defeat, losing 1-0 at home to Hull. ■ Peterborough and Burnley drew 2-2. ■ And Matej Vydra scored his 19th of the season as Watford beat Bolton 2-1.


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NEW YORK The stock market returned to record levels as gains at major U.S. companies drove stocks higher on Wall Street Thursday.
A drop in claims for unemployment benefits also encouraged investors. The number of Americans applying for benefits fell 24,000 last week to 334,000, a sign that steady job gains should continue.
Morgan Stanley was among the standouts among companies reporting second-quarter results, rising $1.19, or 4.5 percent, to $27.72. The New York bank reported sharply higher earnings driven by investment banking gains. IBM rose $5, or 2.6 percent, to $199.50 after its profit beat analysts' forecasts as software sales grew.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 115 points, or 0.7 percent, to 15,585 as of 10:55 a.m. ET. The Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 12 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,692.
The Nasdaq rose 11 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,620. The index was held back by weak earnings reports from several major technology companies.
Investors will also be watching for comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who is delivering what could be his final semiannual economic report to Congress. Bernanke is appearing before the Senate Banking Committee and repeating testimony he gave to the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday.
Bernanke gave stocks a lift on Wednesday when he said that there was no "preset course" for ending the Fed's $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program and that any change would depend on how well the economy is doing. Investors have worried that the central bank might reduce its stimulus before the economy was strong enough to withstand it.
eBay fell $3.80, or 6.6 percent, to $53.58 after its CEO John Donahoe said late Wednesday that economic weakness in Europe and Korea will "continue to be a challenge" in the second half of the year.
Intel fell 83 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $23.32 after the world's largest maker of computer chips predicted flat sales amid a decline in PC sales. The company's earnings and revenue fell in the second quarter.
The stock market has resumed its upward march in July after pulling back in June. The S&P 500 has gained 4.5 percent this month and is up 18.7 percent for the year.
Stocks may struggle to make further gains from here as the economic recovery catches up with the stock market, said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at TD Ameritrade. Economists polled by FactSet expect U.S. growth fell to 0.5 percent in the second quarter after climbing at a 1.8 percent annual pace in the first three months of the year.
"We all know that the stock market reflects the future, but I don't think that the underlying economy has as much confidence as the market does," said Kinahan. "We could go sideways for much of the rest of the year."
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year note edged up to 2.53 percent from 2.49 percent late Wednesday.
In commodities trading, the price of oil rose $1.31, or 1.2 percent, to $107.78 a barrel. The price of gold gained $8.10, or 0.7 percent, to $1,285.90 an ounce.
The dollar rose against the euro and the Japanese yen.
Among other stocks making big moves, UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest health insurer, rose $3.72, or 5.6 percent, to $69.92 after reporting earnings that beat analysts' estimates. The company's enrollment increased by 3 million people. UnitedHealth is the first major health insurer to report earnings every quarter and is seen as a bellwether for other insurers.


text: Revenue in 2013 increased as a result of moving part of the large Desert Sunlight project from 2014 to 2013. Wall Street is a big fan of getting paid today instead of tomorrow. For tomorrow, actually 2015, investors clearly keyed in on the potential earnings of up to $6 a share. The guidance given is $4-$6 a share, but who is going to remember in 2015, right? You can drive a steamship full of Chinese subsidized solar panels through that figure. In 2013, analysts have an earnings estimate of $3.46 a share on $3.15 billion in sales. This is where we find the market moving difference. First Solar is reporting guidance of $2.5-$4 earnings a share on $3.5-$4 billion in sales. After reading the increase in guidance and profit for 2013, you may be tempted to buy into the long thesis and say "this time is different and the price spike is real." But remember, "what the large print gives, the small print takes away". The difference in 2013 guidance is more a result of moving revenue and profits from 2014 to 2013 than an increase in overall revenue and income. The Street will quickly figure this out, and the time to own First Solar is after, not before. There is an old saying on Wall Street, "buy when there is blood in the streets." This is equally true for short selling, and we all know the blood is flowing after today. Disclosure: The author doesn't hold a position in any stock mentioned. Follow @RobertWeinstein


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Seven candidates have filed for four four-year terms on the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 Board of Education. The filing period closed on Aug. 12.
Incumbents Abigail Alt, Dan Luth, Jim Schmid and Robert VandenBoom are seeking re-election.
The candidates are:
Harold S. Sandahl IV, 14512 Kipling Ave. South, Savage;
Schmid, 11107 Territorial Court., Burnsville;
Bradley Wolfe, 2751 Selkirk Drive, Apt. 211, Burnsville;
Alt, 16 Marcin Hill, Burnsville;
Luth, 14855 River Crossing, Savage;
Dustin Cesarek, 11913 Baypoint Drive, Burnsville, and
VandenBoom, 2062 Royale Drive, Eagan.
The terms of board members Alt, Luth, Jim and VandenBoom expire on Dec. 31. Newly elected board members will begin their terms on the seven-member board in January 2015.


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Doeren progress likely but it will be a bumpy ride
Posted August 7, 2014
Although there's much agreement among N.C. State fans, rival coaches and the regional media that Dave Doeren will have a long, successful stand with the Wolfpack, several ACC coaches who got off to particularly poor starts in the past did not survive.
That's not really been the case at State, where only one Wolfpack coach since the formation of the ACC had a debut season generally in line with Doeren's 4-8 overall and 0-8 conference record in 2013.
That was Tom Reed, whose first team (1983) finished 3-8 overall and 1-5 ACC. Reed's second season was a duplicate of the first and his third – 3-8 overall, 2-5 ACC in 1985 – prompted a switch to Dick Sheridan.
Otherwise, first-year Wolfpack coaches have been relatively successful from the start, even those who wound up getting dismissed – Tom O'Brien (5-7, 3-5 in 2007), Chuck Amato (8-4, 4-4 in 2000), Mike O'Cain (7-5, 4-4 in 1993) and Monte Kiffin (6-5, 3-4 in 1980).
Al Michaels, who went 3-8, 2-4 in 1971, doesn't count since he was an interim to bridge the retirement of Earle Edwards and the hiring of Lou Holtz.
Doeren's problems last season are well documented – injuries, patchwork quarterback rotation and an agonizing defensive transition.
Doeren and his players are confident that positives will come from the ordeal of '13. And on paper, there's reason to think the offense will be better with new quarterback Jacoby Brissett and the defense will benefit from improved leadership and experience.
"I don't want it to happen again, but I definitely think we're a better team for it," Doeren said.
Team psychology can play a role
According to some other coaches who have been through experiences similar to Doeren's debut, physical improvement alone isn't necessarily enough to spark a clear-cut recovery.
At UNC in the late 1980s, Mack Brown pulled off one of the all-time Lazarus coaching acts when his first and second Tar Heel teams went 2-20 overall and 1-13 in ACC games.
Entering the 1990 season, Brown was under relentless criticism from the fan base. So was then Carolina athletic director John Swofford, now ACC commissioner, who had gambled on Brown even though the coach had gone only 6-5 in one season at Appalachian State and 11-23 in three seasons at Tulane.
Brown's critics didn't care that his outside schedule those first two seasons included two games against South Carolina and one each against Oklahoma, Auburn, Louisville and Kentucky.
Brown's third team was better and won three of its first four against a lighter non-league slate that included Miami of Ohio and Connecticut. But a third straight loss to State, 12-9 at Chapel Hill in midseason, led to an explosion of unrest. That Brown would be gone after three seasons was all but a foregone conclusion.
But just two weeks later in Chapel Hill, Brown's career turned dramatically thanks to a 13-13 tie against a Georgia Tech team that would a share of the national title and finish 11-0-1.
"It was all about getting enough confidence in ourselves," Brown reflected on his third season. "Until that game against Georgia Tech, we thought we could be good program, but we hadn't done anything to prove it."
Although that team lost later games to 17th-ranked Clemson and 11th-ranked Virginia, the '90 Heels finished 6-4-1 (3-3-1) and set the stage for one of the best eras in school history.
Oct. 11 game against BC could be pivotal
Thanks to a much easier non-ACC schedule, Doeren already has doubled Brown's two-season victory total and four more non-league wins are there for the taking early this season.
But on the psychological/confidence front, 2014 still might be problematic due to uneven nature of that schedule.
Since the Pack's first two league games will be against Florida State (Sept. 27 Raleigh) and at Clemson (Oct. 4), it's possible that Doeren and his players will be into the second half of their schedule before they really have a chance to get a meaningful reading on any second-year progress.
In theory, it's very possible the Pack's most important game of the entire season could fall on Oct. 11 against Boston College in Raleigh a week after the trip to Clemson.
It's not that BC is a power and has much of a chance to become one. In fact, it's likely State could be favored by a touchdown or more.
But with ensuing games after the Eagles falling on the road against Louisville and Syracuse, the last thing Doeren and his players need would be an 0-3 league start.


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An electrooptical realization of an optimal phase estimator for phase modulated communication signals is described in this work. The realization uses an electrooptical processor to perform a 1-D convolution in a 2-D space and a computer to complete the calculations. The processor is a realization of the time domain recursive nonlinear filter. This paper describes the nonlinear filter theory, the electrooptical realization, and the performance of the processor.
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Defender Maybury, 26, and 29-year-old striker De Vries have signed three-and- a-half-year contracts with the Foxes.
The duo have been registered in time to play against Blackpool in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday.
"We are not a short-term fix. The boss is trying to build something here as he did at Hearts and it is going to be good to be a part of it," Maybury said.
"The move all happened so fast but I am looking forward to it. I
know the coaches, Peter Houston and Kenny Black.
"It is important to play for people who have confidence in your ability and like your style of play."
Dutchman de Vries added: "Our aim is to bring success to Leicester and try to get them back into the Premiership."
"I am confident they will bring a lift to everyone connected with Leicester," he said.
The Foxes have had a difficult season back in the Championship after last season's relegation.
Levein added: "We are at a stage of a season where we need to change things around a little and their arrival could not be better-timed."
Republic of Ireland full-back Maybury and Dutch forward De Vries could make their Foxes debuts in Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie with Blackpool.


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Carlisle City Council has been carrying out an inquiry into the outbreak which started in February 2001 and had a devastating impact on the county.
One of the recommendations of the review is for research into the environmental and health effects of the outbreak on local children.
Cumbria was one of the worst-hit areas in the outbreak.
North Cumbria Health Authority's former director of public health, Dr Peter Tiplady, contributed to the inquiry.
He said: "A lot of the children were separated from their families and access to health care was a very important issue.
"So that we were quite concerned that there were children who were affected who perhaps weren't able to contact health services."
Stress and anxiety
More than 30 findings have been put forward by the council's community overview and scrutiny panel.
Its inquiry started in October and included three sessions, in which it spoke to witnesses of the outbreak in 2001.
Among witnesses was Dr Tiplady, Nick Utting from the National Farmers' Union and representatives from the Environment Agency, Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council.
Other findings include the need for outreach health support to rural areas and disappointment that there were no arrangements made to separately record illness attributable to the outbreak.
It expressed concern at the extent of continuing stress and anxiety and health impacts in affected communities.
There was also strong evidence that telephone helplines set up by the various agencies worked and Defra's ongoing monitoring of on-farm burial sites was welcomed.
The report has been forwarded to the council's executive committee and will also be sent to each of the organisations involved in the review and the area's MPs.


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The graphs demonstrate, in the words of James Hamilton, that "Americans want an increasing government contribution to health care, but don't want to pay for it." It might be tempting to conclude from this that we either need to raise taxes to a level that corresponds to the government contribution we want, or we need to cut government spending, or both.
But that's not the whole answer. Raising taxes might make citizens more sensitive to the real cost of healthcare, but it would kill small businesses already struggling under tax burdens, particularly as they take on the costs imposed by Obamacare. Reducing government spending might close the budget gap this year, but it would still leave our healthcare system struggling with inefficiencies and ever rising costs.
America needs to find ways of transforming the healthcare industry, not just ways to temporarily narrow the budget gap.


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Combined Spinal Epidural Urinary Retention
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The investigators hypothesize that many parturients can, in fact, spontaneously micturate with low dose combined spinal epidural analgesic doses given for labor and that Foley catheterization is unnecessary in the majority of these parturients. At Prentice Women's Hospital, almost 9000 women annually receive neuraxial labor analgesia and 98% of those receive Foley catheters. By potentially reducing the necessity for Foley catheters, the investigators should be able to ultimately reduce the rate of bacteriuria, urinary tract infections and urethritis leading to unnecessary treatment with antibiotics, as well as reduce costs of placing unnecessary Foley catheter.The hypothesis is parturients receiving low dose combined spinal epidural analgesia for analgesia after induction of labor who are randomized to a spontaneous micturition protocol will require fewer Foley catheter placements and demonstrate a lower incidence of positive urine culture postpartum than those who undergo standard Foley catheter placement.
|Anesthesia Pain Urinary Retention
|Device: Foley catheter placement Other: Spontaneous Micturation/ Post Void Residual
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Do Women Receiving Low Dose Combined Spinal Epidural for Labor Analgesia Exhibit Less Bacteriuria Using a Urinary Retention Protocol Versus Routine Urinary Catheter Placement?
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Rate of positive urine culture [ Time Frame: 48 Hours ]This study will be assessed by collecting a twenty-four to forty-eight hour midstream urine sample and performing a urine culture. The clinical and laboratory criteria used to define a urinary tract infection in a woman immediately
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: control group Foley catheter
Control group will have a Foley catheter placed after the CSE is performed as is the usual practice at this institution.
Device: Foley catheter placement
Foley catheter placement after CSE.
Experimental: No Foley Catheter
Spontaneous micturition algorithm will be assessed for spontaneous micturition and post void residual (PVR) volumes via ultrasonography at regular time intervals.
Other: Spontaneous Micturation/ Post Void Residual
the spontaneous micturition algorithm will be assessed for spontaneous micturition and post void residual (PVR) volumes via ultrasonography at regular time intervals.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nulliparous
- Term (≥37 week gestation)
- Healthy
- ASA class 1-2
- Who are being induced for labor who request labor analgesia and who successfully receive standard combined spinal epidural analgesia (verbal rating score for pain ≤ 1 after 10 min)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women with ASA 3 or greater
- BMI ≥40 kg/m2
- Prior history of urge or stress incontinence or urinary retention before pregnancy
- Women with a history of nephrolithiasis
- Chronic urinary tract infections
- Women whose post-void residual volume as assessed by ultrasonography is found to be >100ml before epidural placement will be excluded.
- Women with an absolute or relative contraindication to the usual combined spinal epidural technique
- Failed analgesia will be excluded
- Women for whom the anesthesiologist selects an analgesic technique other than combined spinal epidural technique or fail to obtain CSF for CSE will be excluded
- Women with fetal heart rate decelerations before request for analgesia will be excluded due to increased risk of cesarean delivery.
- Women who experience inadequate labor analgesia due to nonfunctioning epidural catheter necessitating epidural replacement will be included but noted as a protocol violation.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01597791
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|Contact: Robert McCarthy, PharmD
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|Northwestern University
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|May 10, 2012
|Last Updated:
|October 29, 2015
Keywords provided by Jeanette Bauchat, Northwestern University:
Urinary Retention
Urinary Catheter
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Retention
Urination Disorders
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Essays on international environmental cooperation
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|International environmental cooperation is gaining more and more importance in a world with global climate change. The problem of climate change is caused by emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG). With transboundary GHG pollution, however, there is currently no a world government that is able to force polluters to take into account the damage cost of other countries caused by their pollution. This differentiates international environmental cooperation from the issue of domestic environmental regulation in which a regulator is present. This thesis contains three chapters that study international environmental cooperation. The first two chapters are game-theoretic analyses, while the third one is empirical. A significant reduction in global GHG emissions requires (i) cooperation of countries in emission abatement and (ii) the development of technology. Chapter 1 covers both topics (i) and (ii). Chapter 2 investigates the implications of climate policymaking for the development of abatement technology in small countries. Chapter 3 is concerned with the effect of an important climate treaty – the Framework Convention of Climate Change. Abatement of GHG emissions is a global public good. An international environmental agreement (IEA) is a coalition mechanism that aims to overcome the free-riding problem underlying this public good game. Much of the IEA theory relies on a particular type of participation game in which countries individually decide whether to join or stay out of an IEA and the resulting IEA makes abatement decisions for its members. Chapter 1 modifies the canonical model that is used to study IEAs, considering both mixed and pure strategies at the participation stage, and including a prior cost-reducing investment stage. The use of mixed strategies at the participation stage reverses a familiar result and also its policy implication: with mixed strategies, equilibrium participation and welfare is higher in equilibria that involve higher investment. Nations' use of mixed rather than pure strategies creates endogenous risk; the equilibrium participation probability increases with risk aversion. The previous literature on climate policy pays insufficient attention to the role of small countries, which, in the aggregate, account for a substantial proportion of the global GHG emission. Chapter 2 investigates how alternative climate policy instruments and learning about environmental damage affect ex ante investment in the adoption of technology in small countries. I consider three policy instruments that are widely discussed in the current debate on climate policymaking: emission standard, harmonized taxes and auctioned emission permits. I identify and discuss three effects that reduce investment efficiency: the effect of uncertain participation, the strategic effect on participation and the strategic effect on regulation. Either with both learning and quadratic abatement costs or without learning, harmonized taxes outperform emission standard and auctioned permits in terms of investment efficiency. Interestingly, when learning is infeasible, a large cost of staying out of the international environmental agreement could be beneficial. Whether or not learning improves investment efficiency depends on the size of this nonparticipation cost. The IEA theory is generally pessimistic regarding the chance of a treaty with legally-binding restrictions in solving the climate change problem. A natural question thus arises: how about a climate treaty without legally-binding restrictions? Chapter 3 aims to answer this question using a real world example. Before 2005 when Kyoto Protocol was put into force, the Framework Convention of Climate Change (FCCC) did not impose any legally-binding restrictions on GHG emissions. Carbon dioxide is a main GHG. In Chapter 3, I investigate the effect of FCCC membership on countries' carbon emissions during the period of 1992-2004. I find out positive and significant effects of FCCC membership on the control of carbon emissions in the Annex I (industrialized) countries. Although a number of non-Annex I countries were attracted to the FCCC, the FCCC membership had no significant impacts on the carbon emissions of these non-Annex I countries. This fact highlights the canonical tradeoff of extensive margin and intensive margin in coalition formation.
|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2011
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The doctor called, it's March 2011. "You have a type of sarcoma" she said. At that moment I had my first out of body experience, I had just turned 51, I didn't really believe there was such a thing, guess what? There is. Shock set in immediately. Then the roller coaster ride began....surgery, chemo, and then radiation. This took the rest of 2011. It's now May 2012 and my cancer has spread to my lungs, more chemo, oh yes please, cause last year was fun...they tell me it's a rare cancer and my chances aren't great.
What do I do with all of this? It all feels too hard to process. I've read about the seven stages of grief, however not all of them apply to my situation, but they seem to come and go and then come back again, in a different order. I hear all of the things that people tell me about being grateful for each day and about the power of prayer, and I know they are trying to be kind and supportive, but I just want to SCREAM!
"The power of prayer" Now that's an issue I struggle with every day. If someone lives through something, some say their prayers were answered or they experienced a miracle. Okay, so wait, if someone dies, is it because there weren't enough prayers said or the miracle train pulled straight through? Oops, sucks to be you?
All I know is that I'm damned angry, hurt, resentful and depressed. None of these words define me, cancer does NOT define me, but there are many days when they take over. I'm actually funny, goofy, quirky, a true dork and I'm proud to say so. I don't want to lose these traits and my greatest fear is that I will. I want to be remembered for the latter rather than the former....
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Four years after the death of the designer whose name the company bears, Liz Claiborne is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific.
In 2011, the company suffered some setbacks, with a fourth-quarter loss of 9%. In November of last year, Liz Claiborne sold off the "namesake" brand as well as the brand Monet to mall retailer JC Penney, opting to retain and focus on luxury brands it owns. Kate Spade, Lucky Jeans and Juicy Couture are part of Liz Claiborne, and the company is retaining those brands. Mexx, Kenzie and Dana Buchman are among some of the other brands sold by the company in 2011 as it turns its focus to becoming more profitable.
As part of that focus, Liz Claiborne may be implementing the Fifth & Pacific name in order to distance itself from its department store feel and adopt the cachet of its more boutique-like brands. The strategy is to target customers that are more "well-heeled," according to the Wall Street Journal, due to the fact they spend more "freely" than their middle and low-income brethren during economic hardship.
In a statement, CEO of the soon-to-be Fifth & Pacific said:
"While it's difficult to replace an iconic name like Liz Claiborne, we believe that Fifth & Pacific Companies telegraphs who we are today — taking inspiration from New York and California, while describing our reach and our potential."
Liz Claiborne expects the change to Fifth & Pacific to take place around the middle of May, and the company will begin trading under the ticker symbol "FNP."