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Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA)
Graduate Program (MA)
With over 165,000 counselors in the United States assisting people with personal, family, mental health, social-impact, educational, and career decisions, problems and concerns, counselors play a significant role in the lives of individuals and communities.
We invite applications from students with a bachelor's degree and a solid academic background. You may begin the program in the summer, fall, or spring term.
To apply for official acceptance as a degree-seeking student, submit the following application materials online to the Office of Graduate Admission:
- Completed online application (choose Counseling, then Clinical Mental Health)
- One official transcript of all undergraduate and graduate work from accredited colleges or universities.
- A resume.
- A five hundred word minimum statement of purpose for graduate study.
- Two letters of reference from individuals commenting on the applicant's academic/professional potential.
- Official test scores from the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) or the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
- The MAT is offered here at Xavier. For information about registering for the MAT, please call 513-745-3531. If you have previously taken the GRE and want to have your scores sent to Xavier, please contact GRE at 1-888-GRE-SCORE.
Applicants should have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or above, a MAT score of 390 or above, or a score of 4.0 or above on the analytical section of the GRE.
Application deadlines are:
- Spring Semester: October 1
- Summer Semester: February 1
- Fall Semester: February 1
Faculty will review the pool of applications after each of these dates and will then invite selected candidates to an on-campus interview to continue the application process.
International Admission
Group I
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|COUN 501 Lifespan Development
|COUN 533 Counseling Theories & Techniques
|COUN 536 Group Process
|COUN 636 Career Counseling
Group II
|Course Name
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|COUN 579 Psychological & Achievement Testing
|COUN 630 Intro to Mental Health Counseling
|COUN 631 Counseling Issues & Ethics
|COUN 640 Family Relations
Group III
|Course Name
|Credit Hours
|Total Hours
|COUN 509 Counseling Research Methods
|COUN 638 Cross Cultural Counseling
|COUN 669 Pre-Practicum/Counseling Lab
|COUN 765 Crisis Counseling
Group IV
|Course Name
|Credit Hours
|Total Hours
|COUN 642 Consultation & Supervision
|COUN 767 Treating Addictions (Advanced)
|COUN 773 Counseling Practicum
Group V: Electives
|Course Name
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|Total Hours
|COUN 671 Counseling Internship (600 hours)
|COUN 760 Personality & Abnormal Behavior
|COUN 762 Intellectual and Personality Assessment
|COUN 763 Diagnosis of Psychopathology
|COUN 764 Counseling & Psychotherapy
|COUN 766 Intervention Skills for the Severely Mentally Disabled
Sample Courses
Lifespan Development - COUN 501 - 3 credit hours - Lifespan Development involves the study of the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels. Knowledge and comprehension of issues of human adjustment faced at all stages of development from conception through retirement are addressed through the application of psychological principles in the field of counseling.
Counseling Issues and Ethics - COUN 631 - 2 credit hours - This course is designed to increase awareness of complexities present in counselor practice and to teach a process of ethical decision-making. In addition, the student will learn ethical and legal responsibilities of the counselor and the counseling profession.
Personality and Abnormal Behavior - COUN 760 - 3 credit hours - A study of the dynamics of the disturbed personality, symptoms, causes, treatment of psychoneuroses, psychoses, and abnormal personalities. Emphasis is placed on psychopathological conditions related to children, adolescents, young and middle-life adults, and the aged.
Counseling Practicum - COUN 773 - This practicum experience involves completing recorded interviews with bona fide clients and producing appropriate client reports and student self-evaluation forms. Students must complete a total of 40 clock hours of counseling sessions with approximately four clients, 8 hours of which must be recorded for supervisor review. Students will also be expected to lead a group counseling experience.
Tuition & Fees
|Tuition, per credit hour
|MA Counseling Programs
|Student Fee, per semester
|Graduate Student Association Fee, degree seeking full-time
|Graduate Student Association Fee, degree seeking part-time
The amounts listed are for the 2019-20 school year, and include classes from Summer 2019 though Spring 2020. These amounts are updated to the most recent amounts available. For the full listing, please visit xavier.edu/costs.
100% of standards met in accreditation review by the council on accreditation of counseling and related education programs
of standards met in accreditation review by the council on accreditation of counseling and related education programs
The degree program is designed to meet the educational requirements for licensure as a professional clinical counselor.
Since a majority of students are employed, class and curricular offerings are scheduled in the late afternoon, evenings, and weekends to accommodate student schedules.
Our clinical coordinator maintains an ongoing relationship with over 100 agencies and schools and will work collaboratively with you to create a successful internship experience.
Introducing Xavier's Counseling Program
Fully accredited
The Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The accreditation runs through March 31, 2022. The CACREP 2009 standards combine the Community Counseling and Mental Health Counseling standards into standards for Clinical Mental Health Counseling programs.
Related Stories
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"Always the hope is you can expose them to things to give them hope. They all lack a belief in themselves."
Academic Partnerships: School-Based Care
Arianna Constantakes, a Xavier PsyD doctoral candidate, is gaining experience helping elementary school students through a unique partnership with TriHealth's school counseling program.
The Counseling Internship
The Ohio Counselor and social-impact Worker Board requires that a minimum of 600 clock hours of supervised clinical counseling experience in an on-site setting be completed as part of the student's Masters program. The Xavier program is designed to help students meet this requirement by offering 4 semester hours of internship activities.
The following requirements will be met during your internship:
- Direct service counseling activities with individuals and/or groups.
- Supervised activities in the area of diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
- Face-to-face meetings with an on-site PCC licensed supervisor.
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Chers Amis,
Tonight's plan was to spend the evening packing and getting everything ready for our early AM flight to L.A. But (there is almost always a but) we received an offer to go hear Kurt Elling in Paris tonight. So... I guess it'll be another late night of packing. Followed by the ardent hope of sleep during the flight. To be honest, this past month has gone by in a blur. And things are coming in quickly for the summer and later this spring. We are very fortunate to be in this position, but I sometimes wish that I felt just a little more ahead of the curve.
I am really trying to promote The "Laguna Beach Live" concert on April 25th at Seven Degrees in Laguna Beach. It is a concert to raise funds for children's music programs that are free of charge for the participants. There will be food and drinks available at the venue. We are really excited to have Peter Giron, our Paris bassist join us along with L.A. drummer and my long time musical partner Jerry Kalaf to present this music to you. I can also confirm that Luis Mascaro, the wonderful violinist who performed with us in Laguna Beach last August, will be there as well. Tickets are available at https://www.lagunabeachlive.org/special-fundraiser-for-live-music-kids We really hope to see you there for this special event.
Our other California Itinerary includes April 20th San Diego, April 21st San Juan Capistrano and April 22nd in Santa Barbara. We are hoping to have the opportunity to see as many of you as possible, although this trip is a short one and one that is quite full with work.
Thank you to everyone who has already downloaded "Fragile", our new recording. It is available as a download on CD Baby at this link. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/leslielewis5
Please check our website for news and updates. While you are there please sign up for our weekly email blast to learn where you can hear us. http://www.surfcovejazz.com
Thanks for staying in touch with us.
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I am uninsured or underinsured.
All services provided by Healthy Schools are at NO COST to parents or schools. Healthy Schools LLC is a proud participant with the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program which ensures that all uninsured or underinsured children receive their necessary routine vaccinations.
I am insured by a health insurance company or Medicaid.
If you have health insurance or Medicaid insurance, Healthy Schools will bill your insurance directly at a rate agreed upon with the insurance companies. All vaccinations are at no cost to parents, so your copay is $0.
According to the CDC, flu shots are proven to reduce the risk of your student getting the flu and should be given every year. They also reduce flu-related hospitalizations (especially in students with chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes) and reduce absenteeism in schools. For more information, see this page on the CDC's website.
On clinic day, Healthy Schools will send a team of nurses to each school at the designated time with all the supplies and vaccines necessary. Students are then called to the clinic and are out of the classroom for a short period of time.
At the time of vaccination, our nurses will provide a copy of the Notice of Privacy Practices along with a post-vaccination letter to you child. If you registered online, you will receive an email confirmation.
Healthy Schools has partnered with CareDox to facilitate online registration, so that is why you may see the CareDox logo or URL on the online registration form.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Healthy Schools at 1-800-566-0596 or email Healthy Schools at firstname.lastname@example.com.
No. Healthy Schools LLC is a Florida based (Jacksonville) Vaccine For Children Provider (which allows for us to provide for the completely uninsured students) working with local schools districts and the local health department to provide school located vaccine clinics (SLVC).
Some parents will ask why they cannot simply check uninsured- the answer is because it's considered welfare fraud. The vaccine provided for Medicaid and uninsured students is give at no cost through HHS/CDC- we have to keep the stock(vaccine) separated and qualify that only eligible students received the government provided vaccine. The vaccines are identical in terms of quality/manufacturer/etc. but we keep lot numbers for verification purposes.
We will send pre-printed consent forms to each of the participating schools to the attention of the school RN or the point of contact that has been established by the school district.
These forms will go out to all students with the request they are returned within 10 -14 days to their school. The schools will retain the forms until the clinic date.
We schedule all of our clinics with the local school district. We work with the school system to find the best dates, times, and locations that work with the individual school needs, paying special attention to testing days.
Yes. All students may participate and there is no cost to families. The benefit is providing better protection against the flu this season.
Healthy Schools administers the quadrivalent flu vaccine from two manufacturers: Flucelvax (https://www.flucelvax.com/flucelvax-quadrivalent) and Fluzone (http://www.fluzone.com/).
Our vaccines are antibiotic, latex, and preservative free.
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There's a wealth of opportunity to be found in corporate-startup alliances. Big businesses now understand the need to innovate to thrive, and startups need to forge partnerships with 'corporates' in order to solve their mutual business challenges.
This was an invitation-only event for C-Level executives to explore the dramatic values that can accrue from working collaboratively.
FUSE2015 also raised money for the charities MOET School and Action for Children, by supporting the UK's biggest corporate sleep out Byte Night.
Top Five Quotes from Fuse2015
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Presentations from FUSE2015
Trevor Owens
Author & Entrepreneur.
Trevor is the CEO & Founder of Javelin, creators of the global Lean Startup Machine workshop series that has trained tens of thousands of startup founders and innovators from Google, GE, News Corp, Intuit, and others, start new businesses around the world. Read more…
Paul Colby
IT Director, John Lewis.
Paul joined John Lewis in March 2011, and last summer set up its first Innovation Incubator. John Lewis is Britain's leading omni-channel retailer, with 36% of its sales online over the busy Christmas period. Read more…
Emma Cerrone
CEO & Co-founder, Freeformers.
Emma co-founded Freeformers to help companies tackle the challenges posed by the digital revolution – and help young lives at the same time. She is the current Duke of York New Entrepreneur of the Year, and was also named a Sunday Times 'Changemaker' for her role in developing Freeformers one_for1 model. Read more…
Steven Roberts
Strategic Transformation Director, Personal & Corporate Banking, Barclays.
Steven is responsible for the Barclays award-winning Digital Eagles initiative, which has resulted in over 26,000 members of Barclays staff across the UK, Europe and Africa providing free technology help and advice to customers and non-customers. Read more…
Jeremy Basset
Global Marketing Strategy Director, Unilever.
Jeremy is responsible for helping to shape Unilever's Marketing and innovation strategy. Jeremy is also responsible for initiating and leading the Unilever Foundry, Unilever's platform to engage with startups and innovative tech companies who can help Unilever pioneer the future. Read more…
Simon La Fosse
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I recently had one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" moments.
I was in the middle of a workout at the gym and was about to take a pull from my water bottle when I was assaulted by a disgusting, sour smell. The remnants of a thousand workout drinks & protein shakes had finally turned my favorite water bottle into a stinky, funky, moldy smelling hunk of plastic.
As the rest of the gym watched me cuss out an inanimate water bottle, another member came up to me and showed me his water bottle. He told me how the bottle unscrews from both ends and allows him to clean out all of the goo that can collect at the bottom of a water bottle.
And that's when I had my "Why didn't I think of that?" moment.
What I great idea…instead of poking around with a bottle brush or trying to shake free all of that congealed week old Gatorade, you just unscrew both ends and dive in with a dishcloth. So, I ordered a bottle from the manufacturer and over the last few weeks, have been running it through it's paces.
The Review
- It doesn't leak…thank God. This was my biggest worry.
- It's easy to clean
- The nozzle is easy to open & close (hands or mouth)
As a water bottle, it's great. Two thumbs up.
But, of course, I didn't use it solely as a water bottle.
After I worked out, I dumped a scoop of my super secret post-workout protein drink into the Clean Bottle and shook it like a polaroid picture. Bad idea. The nozzle got all clogged with protein powder goop.
However, seeing as I am a pretty creative guy, I decided to try and MacGyver a solution to my Clean Bottle / Protein Shake dilemma.
Solution – I added a wire whisk ball to the Clean Bottle and voila!!!…instant kick-ass protein shake shaker bottle….that will never get stinky.
Ain't I smart.
- If you've ever thrown out a stinky water bottle, do yourself a favor and buy a Clean Bottle.
- If you want a Clean Bottle with a wire whisk ball, you are temporarily out of luck.
Clean Bottle is a tiny little company run by a guy addicted to cycling, raising money for good causes and inventing really great water bottles for his fellow cyclists.
So, if you want to MacGyver your own custom Clean Bottle – the protein shake version – you have two options:
- Email CleanBottle and beg them to source out some whisk balls, or
- Buy your own
Note – There is another protein shake bottle on the market that uses a wire whisk ball in it's design. I have owned two of the bottles over the past year and have had to chuck both after they started leaking and/or got stinky. Just a word to the wise.
I really like this product and I will be contacting the owner about setting up an affiliate program with them so that you can buy the bottles via Health Habits.
I will also be suggesting that they add the wire whisk ball as an option.


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Director King County Records, Elections & Licensing Services Division
King County Admin. Bldg., #553 500 4th Avenue Seattle, WA 98104
Dear Mr. Logan,
We are writing on behalf of SPOGG, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. We have some good news and some bad news. The good news is this: You used a semicolon correctly in the notice you sent out to inform voters of the change in the September Primary System. For us, any correct semicolon usage is cause for celebration. Hooray!
The bad news, however, is that you omitted another necessary semicolon. Just as every ballot cast must count, every punctuation mark also is crucial. The missing semicolon is on the back of the notice. The sentence should read, "Discard any other cards you may have; they are no longer valid."
Please don't fret about the fate of the comma currently holding the place for the missing semicolon. You could put it to use elsewhere. Several sentences start with introductory phrases that are not set off with commas. Generally, it's a good idea to set any introductory clause longer than five words off with a comma. This helps with clarity. What's more, you have some subject-verb agreement problems and a missing hyphen. We will point out one particularly problematic sentence, making necessary corrections in red:
"If your residence address, mailing address or name has changed, or you would like to become a permanent absentee voter, please submit a new voter-registration form."
We are hopeful you can update this form the next time you must alert voters to important changes.
And, as a side note, we are grateful for the absentee-ballot services you have provided to some of our members. This makes it easier than ever to vote, and we are particularly excited about the upcoming presidential election. Grammatically speaking, we have never before faced such a clear choice for president, and we hope the end of an error is upon us.
Sincerely yours,


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The building tool chain broke a long time ago on my webserver and I never managed to fix it. Since then the repository died. Given the really low use of it it did not had much effect.
But it is going to come back! Differently. I will only keep a proper repository for platon where automatic builds are made to keep with the very frequent updates. The web interface to browse the repository is up and running, only the configuration package is missing. Also, only centos will be supported as Fedora releases are much more frequent. It is easy enough to recompile any rpm from the srpm. The new address for the repository is http://repository.debroglie.net/
Concerning the other rpms I have, I will publish them as is later and will not be part of a proper repository. If you are looking for a rpm that was hosted here and you cannot find it, drop me an email. If you a want build for a fedora/centos version that is not available, also drop me an email, I might be able to build it for you.
All the specs files are still available here. There are probably outdated by now but should provide a good start.


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Clearly this plaid shirt and I go way back. I keep an eye out regularly for its replacement (because I know it won't last forever), but so far I haven't found one I like quite as well. While it lasts though, I'll keep on styling it. Last week I dressed it up a little for work and paired it with a striped pencil skirt. I added a belt to break up the patterns, and red flats to add a splash of color.
Plaid shirt: Gap (similar) / striped pencil skirt: Loft (similar) / belt: Target / red flats: Gap Outlet (similar)
What clothing says "fall" to you?
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Doosan is a leading supplier of forklifts to major blue chip organisations and the only major supplier to have two series of forklifts.
The Pro-5 Series
Building rugged, reliable, yet simple trucks, has allowed us to become the leading provider of value forklifts in the UK. Our Pro-5 range is the cornerstone of our business.
The complete range of electric, LPG and diesel Pro-5 models is our most successful ever, with a host of features including our trademark oil cooled disk brakes and integral sideshift as standard, plus our award winning safety features and class-leading ergonomics.
The GX Range
Our economy GX Series was developed to provide a low-cost option of forklift without sacrificing build quality and reliability. In addition to popular features such as spacious operating compartments, excellent visibility and high powered engines, the GX also includes operator sensing and rugged, proven components.
Warehouse Range
The latest addition to our materials handling product offering, the warehouse range includes pallet trucks, stackers and order pickers designed and built by Doosan in Germany. Characterised by high quality manufacturing and heavy duty materials, the warehouse models offer rugged productivity and durability.
Low Emissions
In addition to superb features such as oil cooled disk brakes, swing-down bottle carriers and integral sideshift, Doosan continually strives to bring innovations to its forklift range. Our LPG trucks have some of the lowest emissions on the market, whilst at the top end of our range, our 11, 13 and 16 tonnes capacity models have some of the most ergonomic operator compartments in the market.
Service Backup
With over 375 mobile service engineers in the field, our UK coverage is second to none, with all our engineers receiving regular training at our Northampton HQ.
A Global Success Story
Doosan is the World's leading value forklift brand and was launched in 2005 following the purchase of a 51 percent controlling share in Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery by the oldest corporation in Korea, Doosan.
Since then, the company has experienced record growth in the UK and continues to build on its reputation for simple, powerful products designed for the UK and European markets.
UK Infrastructure
Our UK Headquarters in Northampton houses our service and technical support team, who provide factory training to all 500+ Doosan dealers' engineers who cover the length and breadth of the UK.
We hold a large stock of popular new machines in our PDI facility and our impressive UK Parts Distribution Centre is fully stocked with all the parts you need throughout the life of your forklift and we actively encourage end users to visit our centre to see first-hand our products and after-sales support we offer to all our customers.
Simple, Powerful Performance.
All our forklifts are designed with a simple ethos – to make our machines the best value truck on the market. That means we use proven technology and rugged, durable components to ensure low lifetime operating costs and with minimal maintenance.
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October 30 - November 1, 2019
Smart Infrastructure: Equitable Communities
Australia's premier gathering of smart cities leaders coming together to network, exchange and create opportunities for accelerating the region's sustainability through technology and data solutions.
Why Smart Cities Week Australia?
At Smart Cities Week Australia in 2018 we delivered something unique – Australian largest and most diverse gathering of smart cities leaders from across the country and the region. With 45% of delegates coming from the public sector and a program focussed on deep dialogue and learning, we set the benchmark for all smart cites events. In 2019 Smart Cities Week Australia will grow in size and direction. With the theme 'Smart Infrastructure, Equitable Communities' we can't wait to have you help cement this event as Australia premier smart cities convening.
Why you should be attending!
Smart Cities Week offers city officials an unparalleled opportunity to broaden their understanding of what's working and what's next in the smart cities space. At our Australia event you can:
- Network with peers from cities near and far to exchange ideas, challenges and success stories
- Connect with leading smart city experts and solution providers to get your questions answered
- Participate in group discussions about how to address urgent issues facing cities today
- Get inspiration and best practices from recent winners of Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants
- Tour smart infrastructure project sites and demonstrations in Australia, which is building what may be the world's largest smart city IoT platform
- Opportunity to participate in connectLG, Australia's first curated solutions showcase bringing local government and vendors and start-ups together to share the latest opportunities
Look who attended in 2018!
We call it Smart Cities Week, but innovative technologies are in demand today at all levels and in most every department of government and can also involve numerous external stakeholders and collaborators – nonprofits, academics, financiers and private sector smart city specialists among them. Expect to see people from a wide range of sectors and disciplines, including hundreds of elected officials and professional staff from cities, counties and towns at Smart Cities Australia.
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Discover out what nutrients (protein, carbs, fat, calories, nutritional vitamins, minerals) are in the foods you eat! Cause I say it's because most of the meals descriptions within the USDA desk are precise recipes, not just substances. Dependent dropdowns – we'd like an professional that understands kind state and AJAX to select from dropdown fields in the following order – meals group > meals sub group > meals description > weight. The dietary databases which might be shipped with our desktop software merchandise are a customized subset of the ESHA master database.
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Cubase Elements 8 here. I write instrumental music using midi and having a huge sound set
and excellent midi editing is great for what I do. Very rarely record audio but there's enough tracks when I do.
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Welcome to another new blog series where we will be focussing our attention on the 'People Of Slaters'. In this series we will be introducing you to some of the team here and the personalities that play parts behind the scenes and front of house.
We'll be starting this off with one of our behind the scenes players – Declyn Cooper.
Declyn is the buying assistant at Slaters focusing on our formal wear department. All our suits, jackets, blazers, coats etc. Whether you love them or hate them – this is the guy to send your hate/fan mail to.
- When did you start with Slaters and how?
I started at Slaters as a weekend Salesman in our Ayr store around 8 years ago when I first went to University. I needed a job and really enjoyed dressing in a suit as I was very much a big James Bond fan. It was a nice change from my Sports Management degree and getting to meet people every day and challenging myself was really fun, it helped my confidence grow.
- What's your role in the company?
I am now a Menswear Buyer for various departments including tailoring. I also put myself on the sales floor every 2nd Saturday to keep myself in 'sales mode'!
- Tell us a bit more about your time with us?
I have spent my entire adult life with Slaters and in a way it has helped shaped me. I have had the fortune to work with very interesting people, some of whom are still around. I still remember when I first walked into Ayr to ask for a job!
- What's been your highlight/greatest achievement so far?
My greatest achievement/highlight, so far, has to be when I was offered the position of menswear buyer. It was a bizarre choice initially as it wasn't really on my radar but the Sales Director had noticed something I was good at!
- Describe yourself in 3 words
Only three words?? Kidding … 3 words: Tall, Suave & Loyal!
- What do you get up to in your free time?
I have a wonderful fiancé and a dog – both of who a lot of my spare time is spent with. I travel a lot in my position so, when I am home, I make a point of putting them first and then seeing as many family and friends as possible.
- In your opinion, who is the best dressed man in the public eye today?
For me there are a few – mainly David Beckham, who for years at been at the forefront of men's fashion. The next one who be Jamie Redknapp who has rejuvenated the sports pundit fashion area along with Thierry Henry. They wear clothes well and makes it trendy to take pride in your appearance.
- What do you consider to be a tried and tested style secret?
Make sure you feel comfortable in whatever you wear. I love a well cut suit – It gives me confidence and makes me feel like I own whatever it is I am doing.
That's all from our very own 'Super Cooper' – Don't worry that is NOT a thing and only he calls himself it. Sorry Declyn! We hope you enjoyed a BTS look at Slaters buying department.


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YA bores me. There. I've said it.
It didn't always bore me. And I wish I'd read more of it when I was younger, because YA science fiction and fantasy includes a lot of stories I would have enjoyed if I had come across them when I was in my 20s.
I know a lot of people who read and love YA throughout their lives, and many who write it. But for me, an adult of near grandmother age, it's rare to find YA that even starts to engage my full attention. (Pratchett's Tiffany Aching novels and Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series are the only new YA books in many years that have achieved that.) I like individual teenagers, but I don't want to spend all my time in teenage society listening to teenage problems from a teenage point of view.
When I realized this, I also realized why I had become bored with worlds and story arcs I've been working in for a long time. Because I had almost universally cast young people as the main characters. That's what we see in much of the fantasy we consume, isn't it? That's what we storytellers are often told to do: tell the story from a young person's point of view. That way the all-important youth audience can identify with the main character, while many adults will read a good fantasy or SF adventure no matter who the main character is. Right?
Yet sticking to the point of view of the young protagonist can be very limiting. I enjoyed the Harry Potter series when I was reading it – but I'd have enjoyed it much more if it had been told at least partly from the perspective of Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, and the other adults charged with bringing Harry and his friends safely through adolescence. Instead, the narrative puts the reader in Harry's skin nearly all the time. And too often I found myself involuntarily pushed out of his point of view, watching as an adult while Harry made another stupid, self-centered adolescent mistake, and as an adult, wanting to smack him hard.
The young adult's perspective, and the coming of age themes, rarely address the challenges that are important to most adults for most of their lives. Long before we're 40, most adults are past worrying about who we are, and where we fit in the world and where we might find love. We're worried about our jobs and our marriages and paying our bills. We might be worried about raising our kids, keeping them safe, growing them into responsible adults. If we live in an imaginary world of magic, science and danger, our big worry is not how to get the adults to let us save the world. It's whether we can keep our family together and our community safe.
By the time we adults pass the half century, those coming-of-age themes can seem impossibly remote and insignificant. We learned how to do all that "who am I?" stuff decades ago. Now we're coping with losing our parents; we're seeing our adult children grapple with the challenges we faced a couple of decades ago; and we're meeting the grandchildren and wondering what kind of world we have left for them to live in. Our minds feel much the same as they always did, but our bodies are starting to look and feel like old fogeys, and the kids are starting to treat us that way.
Most important, we can see the horizon. We hear people talk about something that will happen in 50 years, and we know that we won't be around to see that. YA adventure novels may have plenty of death in them, but it always comes from an adversary: it's something that the young hero must overcome, defeat, escape.
For adults who are well into their 2nd half century, death isn't a danger to escape. It's an inevitability, like the sun sinking towards the horizon. How much time do I have before dusk? And what can I get done in that time — that remaining time ahead which is now, almost certainly, considerably less than the time that lies behind me.
So when I'm reading and when I'm looking for stories to tell, I look for stories about adults. Not children who are discovering the world, and trying to discover themselves, but adults who already know themselves – not only for their strengths, but for their weaknesses and flaws and shortcomings. People who are trying to mend the world or hold the world together or make sure it keeps going for their children.
This is why my favorite characters in the Vorkosigan series are Aral and Cordelia, while Miles doesn't become a favorite until he finally grows up in Memory. This is part of why I love Le Guin's later work much more than the early, famous books that seem to be the only ones most people have read. This is why my favorite Discworld characters are Sam Vimes and Granny Weatherwax and Death (talk about mature!); and why I like River Song better than any of the new Doctor Who Companions. They're mature adults, with adult perspectives and problems.
I always did like Angel better than Buffy.


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It's crunch time! Every Massachusetts bill that doesn't make it out of committee by this Wednesday, February 7, is dead for this session, probably dead for two years. We've put together scripts on 5 Calls for four bills that Indivisible Somerville supports, all of them currently stuck in committee.
Let's get on the phones (or emails) and tell our legislators to do all they can to enact these important bills now—not two years from now!
- Increase Massachusetts' renewable portfolio. The percent of energy that utilities have to purchase from renewables is required to increase by a mere 1% per year. H2700 changes the increase to 3%, so we can see 100% renewable in our lifetimes.
- Empower families and law enforcement to prevent gun tragedies. H3081, extreme risk protective orders, is a common-sense gun measure that allows family members, mental health professionals, and the police to temporarily restrict access to firearms for someone who presents a high risk of suicide or danger to others.
- Provide Mass communities the option to give tenants the right to purchase. The Local Option Tenant's Right to Purchase Bill (H3017) allows Massachusetts communities to adopt a program giving tenants the right to first refusal at fair market value before any sale.
- Push for the Mass Safe Communities Act. In light of the administration's aggressive tactics against immigrants, we need to enact the Safe Communities Act (S.1305 and H.3269), which provides important protections such as preventing Massachusetts state and local law enforcement from being used to help round up and deport immigrants.


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SandForce seeks to improve SSD controllers
Newcomer SandForce delivers solid-state drive (SSD) controller it claims can lower cost and improve reliability for NAND Flash.
SandForce Inc., a silicon provider for solid-state drive (SSD) OEMs, emerged from stealth mode today with a line of processors for SSD controllers it claims will improve the reliability and endurance of NAND Flash-based drives.
SandForce claims its SF-1000 SSD is compatible with all major single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell (MLC) Flash memory vendors. The SF-1000 features a 3 Gbps native SATA host interface that connects up to 512 GB of commodity NAND flash memory and delivers 30,000 IOPS and 250 Mbps performance while reading or writing 4 KB data blocks. The controller also allows SAS connectivity through third-party bridges. The processors will be available for the enterprise storage and mobile computing markets.
The controller will be available to OEMs later this month, and SandForce expects SSDs that use its controllers to ship by the end of the year.
SandForce's goal is to help resolve reliability issues that – along with price – have limited SSDs use in enterprise storage.
SandForce claims the controller's error correction (ECC) and redundant array of independent silicon elements (RAISE) technologies improve disk failure rates by 110x without limiting the number of reads and writes per given time period, or forcing storage administrators to use DRAM cache to boost the SSD.
"For SSDs, the secret sauce for success is in the controller," said Dave Reinsel, vice president for the storage and semiconductors group at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC. "While the Flash manufacturer and type [SLC and MLC] are important, without an advanced controller, little differentiation in performance will occur between SSDs."
Omura said Flash controllers released by competing silicon competitors Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and Silicon Motion Technology Corp. attempt to extend their endurance and lifecycles by adding DRAM cache, limiting the amount of writes per day and overprovisioning. He said SandForce's "being very smart" when the controller writes to the Flash memory is a key part of the company's technology. "We compensate for a lot of those Flash-related reliability and endurance-related issues with hardware and processing element automation," Omura said.
SandForce claims its controller will allow the widespread use of MLC in the enterprise. MLC is cheaper than SLC Flash.
"If enterprises could rely on MLC technology to run their businesses, it would open up a gigantic market opportunity for SandForce and similar companies," said Jeff Janukowicz, IDC's research manager for hard disk drive components and SSDs. "If all of [SandForce's] claims turn out to be true, there certainly is a pretty good market opportunity out there."
IDC forecasts a 171% CAGR for enterprise and PC SSD shipments from 2007 to 2012, to more than 40 million units shipped by 2012.


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THE SECRETS OF BLUEBERRIES, BROTHERS, MOOSE & ME by Sara Nickerson tells the heart-warming story of twelve-year-old Missy who takes a job picking blueberries over the summer.
In this coming-of-age story, Missy learns that the world isn't black and white, good or evil, or even right versus wrong. Instead, connections like divorce and remarriage, friendships, sibling relationships, and a family farm feud contain multiple perspectives that evolve over time.
Nickerson's conversational writing style is perfect for middle grade youth negotiating a constantly changing world. Many youth will relate to Missy's wide range of emotions regarding work and family.
Librarians will find a large audience for this realistic, coming-of-age novel that bridges the middle grades and young adult genres. While any of today's novels contain over-the-top drama, this quiet story is a good choice for readers seeking relatable characters and authentic situations with a twist of secrets and the feeling of magic.
To learn more about the author, go to http://www.saranickerson.com/.
Published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin on July 21, 2015.


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Sian Welby helps launch Winter Warmers campaign
14 December 2015
Today Channel 5 weather presenter, and friend of our charity, Sian Welby helped launch the Winter Warmer campaign.
'Despite it seeming like a mild Christmas in the capital this year, it only takes temperatures to drop by a few degrees for it to affect the elderly and vulnerable.
'When talking to a representative from Leonard Cheshire Disability, I was shocked to realise that most of the call outs and problems occur when the temperatures are between 2 and 8 degrees.
'So it doesn't have to be snowy and icy for people to need our help.'
It will run in partnership with Wandsworth Borough Council's Department of Public Health, the Police and Fire Services in Wandsworth, and The Wimbledon Foundation.
Winter Warmers to help older and disabled people
Recent figures show each year in Wandsworth nearly 100 people die as a result of being too cold in their own home.
The campaign has been set up to prevent vulnerable people developing serious health problems by offering a lifeline of advice and support to help them keep warm.
Kind-hearted volunteers also aim to combat this by handing out Winter Warmer packs to vulnerable, older and disabled people in the community — some of whom will be spending Christmas alone.
Emergency services have also been lending their support — local firefighters and police have been delivering packs to get as many out to vulnerable people as possible.
The campaign aims to reach over 600 vulnerable older and disabled people.
'Around 100 people die each year in Wandsworth because they are cold and the council is determined to work with our partners to bring this number down.
'We are targeting areas where numbers are higher to make sure people have the information and support they need to stay healthy and warm.
'I would urge anyone with an elderly friend, relative or neighbour to keep an eye on them this winter, so together we can protect our vulnerable residents.'
Randall Close get involved
'Winter and the cold can be very dangerous for disabled, older and vulnerable people. We are working with Wandsworth Council to save lives.
'We want to reach out to not just the people who use our services but as many people in the community as we can to let them know we are here to help.
'We can offer free warming packs to those who need them.
'This campaign is not just charity; it aims to raise awareness of a wider national problem in our society.
'I urge everyone to look out for and care for those in their communities who may need help at this time of year.'
If you have blankets, warm clothing or food you would like to donate to the Winter Warmer campaign, please call William J Gallagher at Randall Close on 020 7223 0422.


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I looked this up for my column predicting a Seattle victory over Denver in Super Bowl XLVIII today, but had no room for it in there, so why not spill the work-product over to the blog hours before kick-off…
Yes, the trend folds into my belief that the great offenses aren't at all locks for Super Bowl victories and in fact the historical trend is that the greatest NFL offenses mostly do not win titles.
It just seems like it's almost impossible to keep the scoring train going at that kind of rate into the postseason vs. good defenses; and once it stops, the teams that dominate due to a superb offense have no other way to win. So they lose.
—The top 12 highest-scoring teams in NFL regular-season history, and how far they went that postseason/
1. DENVER this season, 606 points. Postseason result: Playing Seattle in the Super Bowl today.
2. NEW ENGLAND 2007 season, 589 points. Result: Lost to NY Giants in Super Bowl 42.
3. GREEN BAY 2011 season, 560 points. Result: Lost to NY Giants in divisional round.
4. NEW ENGLAND 2012 season, 557 points. Result: Lost to Baltimore Ravens in AFC Championship Game.
5. MINNESOTA 1998 season, 556 points. Result: Lost to Atlanta in the NFC Championship Game.
6. NEW ORLEANS 2011 season, 547 points. Result: Lost to the 49ers in the NFC divisional round.
7. WASHINGTON 1983 season, 541 points. Result: Lost to the L.A. Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII.
8. ST. LOUIS RAMS 2000 season, 540 points. Result: Lost to New Orleans in the NFC wild-card round.
—9. ST. LOUIS RAMS 1999 season, 526 points. Result: WON SUPER BOWL XXXIV over Tennessee. Yes, this Rams team was the only one among the top-12 scoring offenses in NFL history that won the Super Bowl that season.
10. INDIANAPOLIS 2004 season, 522 points. Result: Lost to New England in the AFC divisional round.
11. NEW ENGLAND 2010 season, 518 points. Result: Lost to NY Jets in the AFC divisional round.
T12. MIAMI 1984 season, 513 points. Result: Lost to 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.
T12. NEW ENGLAND 2011 season, 513 points. Result: Lost to NY Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.
–And if you go by average points per game, including teams that played 14-game regular-seasons, the highest two seasons in that category during the Super Bowl era would be…
RAIDERS 1967 AFL season, 468 points (33.4 per, would rank 9th by average). Result: Lost to Green Bay in Super Bowl II.
RAIDERS 1968 AFL season, 453 points (32.4 per, would rank 14th by average). Result: Lost to NY Jets in AFL conference championship.
All in all, 10 teams among NFL's top-20 all-time scoring offenses (I only listed the top 14 here) got to the Super Bowl that season.
Those teams were 3-7 in the big game.
And 10 of the NFL's top-20 all-time scoring defenses got to the Super Bowl, where they went 6-4.
* I'll do this quickly because I've gotten sidetracked with other stuff, but let's throw out some Super Bowl prop bet guesses just for fun…
As always, I'll start with an imaginary $500, and see what I end up with at the end of the game tonight.
(This is an annual thing I do for the Super Bowl, but I skipped it last season because things got a little chaotic with the 49ers in there and good dinners to get to in New Orleans. And mainly I just forgot.)
Note: Most of these prop-bet lines are taken from the bovada.lv listings.
-How long will Renee Fleming's national anthem take? I'll put $25 to win $25 on OVER 2:30.
-Will Michael Crabtree tweet about Richard Sherman during the game? I'll put $50 to win $25 on NO.
-Will Earl Thomas intercept a pass? I'll put $50 to win $125 on YES.
-What will be the first accepted penalty? I'll put $20 to win $50 on FALSE START.
-Team to call the first timeout? I'll put $25 to win $22 on DENVER.
-Team to commit the first turnover? I'll put $65 to win $50 on DENVER.
-Longest rush, Russell Wilson: I'll put $25 to win $22 on OVER 10.5 yards
-Longest Peyton Manning completion: I'll put $25 to win $22 on OVER 37.5 yards.
-What will be the first score of the game? I'll put $50 to win $175 on a Denver field goal.
-Total team points: I'll put $55 to win $50 on Denver UNDER 25 points.
-Margin of victory: I'll put $45 to win $168.75 that Seattle wins by 1 to 6 points.
-Super Bowl MVP: I'll put $20 to win $800 (4o-to-1 odds) on EARL THOMAS.
-Over/under game total: I'll put $50 to win $44 on UNDER 47.5 points.
And again, I'm picking Seattle to win this game 24-21.


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Mini Member Meeting 12
October 16, 2018 • Chicago, IL
Conversations you can't have anywhere else.
You'll get a sample of three types of member conversations: Large Group Discussion, Unconferences, and Meal Discussions.
Large Group Discussion
As a social media leader, you rarely get to dig deep into any one issue — and you never get to do it with a room full of people who have the same job (and the same challenges) as you. That's what we do in our Large-Group Discussion. It's member-led, but a moderator will help get everyone involved and a wide range of ideas shared. It gets our energy going for the later peer-to-peer conversations.
The theme for this meeting's Large Group Discussion is social media metrics and ROI. (This isn't the topic for the entire morning, and it changes with each meeting).
Demonstrating the impact of our social media programs is one of our more challenging responsibilities and many of us go about it differently. In this conversation, we'll benchmark together by discussing what we are measuring, how we're measuring, who owns measurement, how we're reporting our data, and where we hope to go next.
Unconferences are fast-paced, peer-to-peer discussions where you suggest discussion topics, vote for your favorites, and join the conversations that interest you most. It means you're spending the entire time talking about exactly the right things for you, not some canned agenda set by meeting planners months in advance.
1. Conversations Start Before the Event
Members start suggesting topics online a month before the event.
2. Topics Are Suggested Live at the Event
Members suggest topics in real-time by writing them on cards, sticking them on the wall, and voting for their favorites.
3. We Curate Topics in Real-Time
Just before discussions start, we curate the topics to facilitate the most interesting conversations. Remaining topics are rolled back into community conversations as Fast Feedback and Community Calls.
4. We Talk!
We have multiple rounds of peer-to-peer discussions, and each round has 3-4 topics. You join the topics that are most interesting to you. There are no moderators, no recording, and no notes — it's all about sharing in off-the-record, fun, and inspiring conversations with leaders like you.
Show & Tells
Note: There will be no Show & Tell talks at this Mini Member Meeting.
A Show & Tell is a casual talk led by a member who walks us through a portion of their social media program. They're stories about something they tried, a challenge they faced, what went well, what didn't work, and what they hope to do next.
These are 20 minutes followed by Q&A. These aren't polished or canned presentations, they're a conversation and a glimpse behind the scenes of another member's program.
Member-Led Discussions
Note: There will be no Member-Led Discussions at this Mini Member Meeting.
We break into small groups where members host short conversations on topics they've volunteered to lead. These are discussions, not lectures. Sometimes members kick it off with a short presentation (no slides), and other times everyone dives right in. This is a great opportunity to explore tough questions, share experiences, and get help with specific challenges you're facing.
Meal Discussions
Our meals aren't just breaks, they're a substantive part of the meeting experience where some of the best conversations happen. Most meetings include breakfast, lunch, and dinner as official parts of the program.
You'll want to be there on time, and don't plan on bringing the laptop or opening the inbox. This is a time where we focus on unstructured conversations so you can have great conversations — both personal and business — that build those deep relationships with your fellow members.


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What are the differences between a file server and client server?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a file server?
Client Server is an architectural model, while a file server is a data organization method for storing user files centrally within a department or company.
Client Server:
In the client-server architectural model, an application is divided into two parts:
Usually the clients and servers reside inside an organization's firewall and talk with each other using technologies like RPC (Remote Procedure Call).
With the Internet, the client-server architecture is replaced by web applications, where the browser plays the part of the client and the web servers play the role of the server. The protocol is usually HTTP and the UI (user interface) is managed using HTML.
File server:
A file server provides a way of storing files like documents, presentations, spreadsheets, etc. for sharing across an organization.
Traditionally, enterprise administrators setup a common space for users to store common files - presentations, proposals, and spreadsheets, et al. This is done via many file servers with "shares". The shares may be user-based or project-based. The shares also could be private or public. Traditionally users copy files into a public share and let everyone know via e-mail.
A hybrid cloud solves these problems.
Other question(s) answered in this page include:
What is a remote file server?
Usually file servers are situated in the corporate datacenter, thus enabling access to the employees who use the services. A remote file server can either be in a datacenter that belongs to the same organization but in a different domain, or it could also be in the domain of a partner or a customer, in an entirely different data center. The two defining characteristics are the latency (because usually remote file servers have limited network bandwidth) and restricted access. A remote file server might also be under a different administrative domain and thus a user could have a different set of credentials to access a remote file server.
What is a file server network?
Obviously a file server network is a collection of file servers. The defining characteristic is the fact that the file server network would have a purpose — for example, shares for all the employees in an organization or all the "stuff" for a project that spans multiple departments/business units. Usually a file server network would have a single set of credentials to access all the file servers in that network, and likely would accept the normal corporate credentials.
What are two limitations of file servers on a LAN?


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Housing affordability is a leading challenge for local policymakers around the world, yet a coherent framework for analysing the various policy options is lacking. This column builds such a framework and uses it to show that policies that make affordable housing more efficient, that expand rent control, and that increase vouchers have a redistributive effect. Upzoning policies creates smaller, but more uniformly distributed benefits.
Jack Favilukis, Pierre Mabille, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 18 October 2019
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport, 08 April 2019
A large literature shows that generosity, both public and private, is more freely extended within the same group rather than across groups. This column examines how immigration affects natives' attitudes towards redistribution and the implications for welfare states in Europe. The main finding is that in regions which have received a larger share of immigrants, natives are in general less favourable towards redistribution. Some European countries face the dilemma of natives favouring generous welfare policies for themselves but opposing them for immigrants.
Richard Blundell, Ian Preston, 25 January 2019
Sir James Mirrlees, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away in August 2018. This column outlines how his work has transformed economists' understanding of their discipline – from the principles of tax design to the theory of contracts and beyond. By conceiving of policy questions in terms of information asymmetries between governments and taxpayers, Mirrlees demonstrated how to conduct convincing analysis of redistributive objectives together with incentive effects in the design of general tax systems and public policy more broadly. His ability to simplify complex problems in ways that reveal their tractable essence means that his work has yielded insights that have reverberated throughout the discipline. It has also proved highly fruitful for practical policy design.
Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, 08 July 2018
Financial globalisation triggers tax competition among countries and the possibility of a 'race to the bottom'. This can chip away at the domestic tax base, and the reallocation of international capital is likely to result in the downscaling of the scope and size of redistribution under the welfare state. This column argues, however, that even a reduced welfare state can still act as a device to compensate the losers from financial globalisation losers in a Pareto-improving way.
Alessandra Casarico, Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini, 28 June 2018
European countries have recently experienced an extraordinary inflow of asylum seekers. Using a theoretical framework and US data, this column studies the key economic triggers which prompt policymakers to implement immigration legalisation programmes. It shows that the more restricted the occupational opportunities of undocumented immigrants and the smaller the fiscal leakage to undocumented immigrants via the welfare state, the more desirable an amnesty is.
Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein, Mesay Gebresilasse, 23 December 2017
More Americans than Europeans oppose redistribution and government intervention in areas such as healthcare, gun control, the minimum wage, and pollution control. This column argues that the longstanding American culture of 'rugged individualism' is rooted in the history of the frontier. Even accounting for individual-level support for the Republican Party, areas in the US with greater historical frontier experience still exhibit greater opposition to redistribution and government regulation today.
Peter Lindert, 20 November 2017
There has been a blossoming of research into fiscal incidence by income class. This column combines century-long histories for Britain and South American countries with previous research to offer a global history of government income redistribution. Contrary to some allegations, the shift towards progressivity in government budgets over the last 100 years has not been reversed since the 1970s. The rise in inequality since the 1970s therefore appears to owe nothing to a net shift government redistribution toward the rich.
Marta Auricchio, Emanuele Ciani, Alberto Dalmazzo, Guido de Blasio, 01 September 2017
The nature of the relationship between public and private employment is ambiguous, with studies showing that increased public employment can have both crowding-in and crowding-out effects on private employment. This column explores this relationship across Italian municipalities. It finds evidence of strong crowding-out effects across municipalities, which is partially explained by increased competition in the housing market.
Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva, Edoardo Teso, 21 June 2017
Americans are generally thought to view the economic system as fair and see wealth as a reward for ability and effort, while Europeans tend to believe that the economic system is unfair, and that wealth is the result of circumstances. This column tests this using new evidence on beliefs about intergenerational mobility in four European countries and the US, and confirms that Europeans do indeed tend to be overly pessimistic about moving up the social ladder compared to reality, while Americans are overly optimistic. These perceptions have important implications for how redistribution and equal opportunity policies will be received.
Johanna Wallenius, Max Groneck, 01 June 2017
At the individual level, social security is a strong source of redistribution from rich to the poor in the US, due to the concavity of the pension formula. But this column argues that spousal and survivor benefits, which are important sources of retirement income for women, introduce regressive redistributive elements to social security and also provide incentives for even highly educated women to stay at home if they are married to a high earner. A means-tested minimum benefit would simultaneously increase overall labour supply and reduce inequality, compared to the current system.
Enrico Perotti, 04 April 2017
The members of the Eurozone are diverse in terms of their institutional quality. This column outlines the redistributive effects created by the rigid structure of a monetary union next to its direct effects on monetary credibility, and highlights the general equilibrium benefits that core countries draw from it and the cost paid by the productive sector in 'weaker' countries. Europe faces a clear challenge, but the success of the transition to the banking union suggests that collective efforts towards institutional evolution can succeed.
Paolo Pasimeni, Stéphanie Riso, 19 January 2017
EU budget reform is a key issue in policy debates, in particular the redistributive effects between member states. This column assesses redistribution within the EU budget over the period 2000 to 2014. It finds that the net redistributive impact of the EU budget is rather small and, contrary to common belief, that the revenue side is more progressive than the expenditure side.
Carlos Garriga, Finn Kydland, Roman Šustek, 16 October 2016
Central banks responded to the financial crisis by cutting policy rates to prevent deflation and curb the decline in economic activity, but these responses have been anything but temporary. This column explores whether the sticky price channel is still relevant in an environment of persistently low rates. Although the effectiveness of the sticky price channel is limited, monetary policy instead transmits through mortgage debt. The recent period of low rates and low inflation has redistributed income and consumption from savers to mortgage borrowers.
Roland Bénabou, Davide Ticchi , Andrea Vindigni, 19 April 2015
History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper's motivating evidence we also uncover a new fact: in both international and cross-state U.S. data, there is a significant and robust negative relationship between religiosity and patents per capita. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge stagnation, extreme religiosity with no modernization effort, and high public spending on religious public goods. In-between is a third, "American" regime that generally (not always) combines scientific progress and stable religiosity within a range where religious institutions engage in doctrinal adaptation.
Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, Benjarong Suwankiri, 17 January 2015
Allowing greater immigration may raise tax revenue and help pay for the welfare state, but it also affects the future composition of the voting population. This column discusses a political-economy model in which the largest group in a winning coalition chooses tax and immigration policies, and explains how the composition of the voting population changes over time.
Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara, 08 August 2014
Immigration continues to be a hotly debated topic in most OECD countries. Economic models emphasising the benefits of immigration for natives have typically neglected unemployment and redistribution – precisely the things voters are most concerned about. This column analyses the effects of immigration in a world with labour market rigidities and income redistribution. In two-thirds of the 20 countries analysed, both high-skilled and low-skilled natives would benefit from a small increase in immigration from current levels. The average welfare gains from immigration are 1.25% and 1.00% for high- and low-skilled natives, respectively.
Benedict Clements, Csaba Feher, Sanjeev Gupta, 17 July 2014
The discussion on pension reform typically centres on fiscal sustainability. This column argues that equity concerns are of primary importance, both in selling proposed reforms to the public, and as a first-order policy goal of the pension system. Focusing on the average pensioner is insufficient to evaluate policy.
Jeffrey Frankel, 29 April 2014
Awareness of inequality is rapidly rising. This column argues that commentators should focus on identifying the policies that are best suited to improving income distributions efficiently, and the politicians that support them. It is not sufficient to sound the alarm about inequality and the political reach of the super-rich.
Benedict Clements, David Coady, Ruud de Mooij, Sanjeev Gupta, 15 April 2014
The causes and consequences of rising inequality have stirred a lively debate on appropriate policy responses. This column reviews how governments have successfully used fiscal policy to address distributive concerns. It also examines the policy alternatives that countries can pursue in order to reduce income and wealth inequality at a minimum cost to efficiency. Such policies include exploitation of property taxes, reductions in tax deductions that favour upper-income groups, investing in increasing the human capital of low-income groups, and reforming social benefits.
Jonathan D. Ostry, Andrew Berg, Charalambos Tsangarides, 06 March 2014
Inequality has the potential to undermine growth. However, greater redistribution requires higher tax rates, which reduce incentives to work and save. Moreover, the evidence that inequality is bad for growth might simply reflect the fact that more unequal societies choose to redistribute more, and those efforts are antithetical to growth. This column presents evidence from a new dataset on pre- and post-tax inequality. The authors find that income equality is protective of growth, and that redistributive transfers on average have little if any direct adverse impact on growth.


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Crime Time March 1, 2016 – Church Cover Up and Serial Killers
This is a great episode that touches on some of Jim's early cases featured in upcoming Book II. Jim discusses Melanie McGwire and Early cases of the Catholic Church covering up sexual abuse (Philadelphia Spotlight Case).
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Much like the popular comic-movie franchise League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Penny Dreadful features its own versions of characters from classic literature. In the end of the first episode, we discover that the arrogant doctor's name is Victor Frankenstein, and that he has finally fulfilled his dream of bringing someone back from the dead.
Victor was originally the protagonist of Mary Shelley's gothic horror novel Frankenstein, and is played by Harry Treadaway on Penny Dreadful. There are many differences between the two Victors–and between their creations, too. If you haven't read Shelley's classic, here's a short summary to get you up to speed.
- The book is told in the form of a letter from Captain Robert Walton and his wife. Walton is on a ship exploring the North Pole when he rescues a man out on the ice. The man is nursed back to health aboard the ship, and gives his name as Frankenstein.
- Frankenstein detects impatience and ambition in Walton, and begins to tell him the sorry story of his life as a cautionary tale.
- Born to a wealthy family in Geneva, Switzerland, Frankenstein became obsessed with lightning after seeing its effects on a tree. He uses it in countless experiments at college, including one regarding the reanimation of dead tissue.
- Eventually, Frankenstein attempts to reanimate an entire body's worth of tissue. There are complications, however, which force him to alter the body's composition. When completed, the creature stands over eight feet tall, has yellow eyes, and its skin is thinly stretched over its bones and muscles.
- When his creation is brought to life during one of Frankenstein's experiments, Frankenstein looks at what he's made and finds it hideous. The doctor flees his home, and the creature vanishes. He does not receive a name, as he does in Penny Dreadful episode 2.
- Frankenstein gets sick and turns to his friend Henry Clervel to help him heal. Upon returning home four months later, he discovers that his brother William has been murdered, and William's nanny Justine hanged for the crime. Frankenstein sees "the Creature" at the scene of the crime, leading him to believe his creation is the murderer.
- Feeling horrifically guilty, Frankenstein flees once again into the mountains of Switzerland. The monster pursues him and eventually catches up. To his shock, Frankenstein discovers the monster is capable of intelligent speech.
- The monster explains that he spent some time living near a country cottage. He learned to speak by imitating the voices he heard each day, and found a sack of books so he could learn to read. When he tried to befriend the family in the cottage, however, they ran out of fear for his appearance. The monster then burned down their house in a fit of rage.
- Frankenstein is taken aback by the creature's next request: that he make a female monster as well. The creature promises that he will take his bride to South America and hide in the jungle forever. The doctor reluctantly agrees.
- While traveling and working on his new project, Frankenstein begins to have misgivings. He fears that the two creatures will breed somehow and create a monstrous new lineage of humanity. Frankenstein sees his creature watching him through a window, and destroys the female creation while the monster watches.
- The monster confronts Frankenstein, saying that he will be with the doctor and his fiancee, Elizabeth, on their wedding night. He then kills Clerval, who came with Frankenstein to help, and vanishes again.
- Briefly accused of Clerval's murder, Frankenstein returns to Geneva and marries Elizabeth. That night, Frankenstein goes searching for the creature for their final battle, leaving Elizabeth alone. The monster takes the opportunity to kill Elizabeth and taunt Frankenstein with her limp body.
- Frankenstein's father dies from grief, and the doctor is filled with fury. He chases his creation to the North Pole, seeking revenge, but ultimately cannot kill it.
- Walton takes over the narration here, describing how inclement weather and ice forced the ship to turn back. Frankenstein dies soon after, and the creature appears that night next to his body to express his remorse. The creature has had his revenge on his loveless creator, but it does not make him happy. Overcome by the weight of his crimes, the creature vows to kill himself to atone. In the book's final scene, Walton sees the creature sitting on a chunk of ice, drifting off into the night, never to be seen again.
- Frankenstein was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when she was just 18. Its subtitle, "The Modern Prometheus," references the myth about a man who steals fire from the heavens and is punished for his ambition.


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I got an email from the nice people at the Fargo marathon the other day. I guess when I signed up the run the 5K this past spring I gave them my email address. At the time I assumed that they would remind me when it was time to sign up for the upcoming spring because how many emails about an annual event can you really send out? Turns out they have a monthly newsletter.
Why would a marathon need a newsletter? After the race they sent out a link where you could look at the pictures they took of you sweating, struggling, and cursing life as you work through the race course. I did not find any pictures of myself, but it was thrilling to look at other people and realize that I don't look so much like a jackass when I run.
Since then, I've gotten plenty of emails, which I just deleted imagining they said something like "Only ten more months to go!" This month's had a pdf attachment of a brochure about an upcoming race in Fargo sponsored by the marathon. Intrigued I opened it up.
2.62 miles–thats kind of cute, not much of a challenge I can run the whole thing at top speed and leave people panting in my wake!
Run across the bridge–oh how scenic and lovely. Especially in the fall
Starts in the evening–again how lovely
$20–fuck that. Wait! I get a free long-sleeved t-shirt.
When I ran the 5K in the spring, I also received a free t-shirt. I misread the information on the website and thought that if you were only running the 5K, you didn't need to go get a race packet at the FargoDome. I was wrong, but thankfully the whole Tieman brood was in town that weekend, so my parents and brother went and got it for me while I was at work. I was giving my brother my license to legitimize their picking up a racing packet that was obviously not for any of them (mom, dad, brother), when my mom asked "What size shirt do you need?" I shrugged, "small." My dad shook his head frantically and responded, "Oh no, you need at least a medium, maybe a large."
I am used to my mother calling me fat, or hinting that I'm fat, "Do you really need to make another trip to the salad bar?" The salad bar, for gods sake! Thankfully, my dad never before hopped on this particular bandwagon of hers. Conspiracy theories abound in my mind: Oh my god, have I gained weight? Is he just parroting what hes heard mom say so many times? Do they talk about my size when I'm not around and lament how I've let myself go? Have I let myself go without realizing it? I kept this all inside my head and presented what I hope was an expression of indifference and apathy. I shrugged, "medium, whatever."
The medium was huge, thank god. It was mostly huge in a weird, poorly made t-shirt kind of way in that around it was too big, but mostly it was just way too long. I really don't know if a small would have made that much of a difference, but I do resent the fact that I didn't get to make that decision for myself. After trying on the t-shirt and seeing how long it was, I decided to just cut it off to normal length. It was just for running, I didn't care if it looked good. After I did that it rolled up to just above my navel so I looked like a less fashion-savvy Gwen Stefani. I do not show my stomach unless I am in a bikini, and no amount of unrolling and ironing (ironing a t-shirt!) would get the damn thing to stay where it was supposed to. I threw it away.
Now I'm offered the chance to buy another crappy t-shirt for the low, low price of $20 and 2.62 miles. What a racket. And the amount of trauma caused by reliving the previous t-shirt debacle isn't fun either. I might have done this race if it was $10, or if it was $20 for the race and the t-shirt with the option of not getting the t-shirt.
I've been trying to come up with a low-maintanence money-making scheme for months now, and I think this might be it. Have a race, give away crappy, poorly made t-shirts, get sponsors, charge a fee. Its so simple. Runners are crazy. They pay for the privilege of running on ground that belongs to everybody who pays taxes. I could make a killing.


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That headline is not a typo. It is a fact. To call Kentucky an eight seed is downright insulting and has been before their nail-biter against then perfect Wichita State. As some of the players pointed out on Selection Sunday, the NCAA didn't screw Kentucky over by making them an eight seed, they screwed everyone else.
The Wildcats posed a questionable 24-10 record heading into the tournament, making an eight seed seem like a proper fit for an inconsistent, young team. But the problem with their record is that they were far better than 10 losses could ever try to belittle. They never lost by more than five points in their ten losses, aside from two miserable beat downs issued by a Florida team that was untouchable for the better part of four months. Even then, it took a national title contender in UCONN to take them down. Kentucky's other losses were almost justifiable to growing pains, including one epic overtime upset where Arkansas buried them at the buzzer off a put-back dunk–arguably the play of the year– due to a failure to box out by Kentucky freshman, James Young. As John Calipari put it, that's just what freshman do.
While it's far from accurate to deem Kentucky "Cinderella," they do deserve some type of title in that realm for the pitfalls they've been able to overcome in the tournament. The Wildcats have won each tournament game by single digits, with their largest win against ninth seeded Kansas State in the opening round, a game they only won by seven. The succeeding wins have been even tighter with a two-point margin against top seed Wichita State, a five point victory over in-state rival Louisville, a three-point stunner against two-seed Michigan and a one point thriller against another two seed in Wisconsin. The focal point of those last three being a deciding three-pointer by freshman guard, Aaron Harrison.
Harrison has been an assassin for the Wildcats throughout the tournament. He's stepped up his behind-the-arc shooting percentage from his regular season 33% to 54%, his ability to facilitate has shown greater with two additional assists per game on average throughout the tourney and he's been the sole possessor of the killer instinct that players dream of having for his squad during the tournament. Even with a hand in his face, Aaron Harrison has been untouchable.
Don't forget about the big man, Julius Randle, either. The future lottery pick has come up huge for the 'Cats throughout the season averaging a double-double with 15.1 ppg and 10.5 rbg this season, a rare feat, especially for a freshman.
Of course, these guys just didn't come up out of nowhere. For those of you that are long-time fans of Ballislife, you know that we've been covering them since their high school days. For those of you new to the program, enjoy. These guys have had a professional career in the making for a long time now.
Don't let this piece fool you, though. Expect a dog fight tonight when Kentucky squares off against UCONN for the whole thing. UCONN, a story of their own being a seven seed, has taken down a one, two, three and four seed this tournament on their way to the championship, including top-seeded Florida. In fact, out of all three of Florida's losses this season, UCONN has been responsible for two of them, due majorly to their defense. Expect a defensive battle, possibly some bad shooting, as tends to be tradition in domes during the Final Four and a force on both ends to control the offensive glass. Kentucky has been the top team in the country all season on the offensive boards, grabbing 43% of their missed shots.
If it happens to come down to a last shot for Kentucky, you can bet that UCONN will be ready to shut down Aaron Harrison, but don't be surprised if he still manages to get the shot he wants for a chance to win. After all, this tournament isn't the first time he's hit big shots. According to his father:
"He's been hitting game-winners since he was in fourth grade. His first one, he was about 10 years-old and it was as far as that shot against Michigan. I swear."
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When I find something great, I need to share it.
Many of you who come to this site, either have small businesses or want to start small businesses. No matter which one you are, you need good information about building a profitable small business.
I've tagged a few blogs "must read daily" in my feed reader. One is Shoemoney, written by Jeremy Schoemaker a self-made internet celeb. I'm sure most of you know Jeremy's story, but if you don't you can read it here.
I read Jeremy because he is a proven leader in blogging, internet marketing, and small business. But this post isn't about Jeremy, it's about someone else I learned about from Jeremy…
It's about Andy Liu's new blog, Inspired Startup.
Andy Liu is a serial entreprenuer and angel investor. You can read his story here.
Using blogs, social media, and the internet, we can learn directly from proven leaders like Andy without ever having met them. For me the internet is the classroom of my dreams. I actually feel sorry for those that don't understand or refuse to accept the power of this new medium. We now have access to people, information, and markets in ways that were unthinkable a generation ago.
You can learn these golden tidbits from Andy right now:
The Secret to Starting a Successful Company
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I've found Andy's content so inspiring and useful I've added Inspired Startup to my "must read daily" list.


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Dredging Today Conference: Dealing with Effects of Climate Change
Climate change is real, so better be prepared. Everybody, personally and also as an industry, should make a contribution in fighting climate change.
That was the final thought of our first Dredging Today Conference, beautifully put by Mr Mark van Zanten, Senior Project Manager Water, Royal HaskoningDHV.
At the conference, held in Amsterdam on October 9-10, Mr van Zanten also highlighted "need for water safe/resilient development to deal with the effects of climate change," during his presentation about sustainable development of land reclamation.


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platinumHD's proposal was to design, build and run a 24/7 online real estate channel for McGrath, complete with a team of four presenters in NSW and Queensland who would front property videos and interview Agents on listings and all aspects of the industry.
There'd be purpose built, pre-lit studios/booths where Agents could record and file Just Listed & Just Sold pieces. Agent profiles, big and small, Auctions, Market Reviews and daily lifestyle pieces posted for Social.
Working alongside Barney McGrath, we'd introduced 'propvid' into the Sydney property market with McGrath in 2003. We knew their level of expectation. We knew the team.
The logistics for 2013: More than $300,000 worth of new gear, on top of what we already brought to the table. Six CREW cars. Three x three-person CREWS in Sydney (Camera – Assistant & Writer/Presenter – one embedded in McGrath's Lower North Shore office at Neutral Bay. In Queensland, another Presenter and two CREW covering from Bryon to Noosa in Queensland. There'd be four editors in Sydney, another two in Queensland, under a Producer. And multiple contractors to shoot lifestyle. Plus, platinumHD franchisees waiting to get turned on in Melbourne, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coasts. We had all the assets in place. Launch Presenters. Camille Bianchi. Angella Shallis. Amber Wyatt.
Gearing up, we had eight weeks to train and shoot lifestyle across about 80 regions. If we were missing any lifestyle shots, a notice would go out as soon as a job was booked, flagging the nearest CREW to go and shoot what was required and load it to a robust online system we'd built – called McGrath Vision – where the Client would then be presented with a range of new footage to select and re-arrange and send off for editing.
We went live, May 1, 2013. The property videos were some of the best mass-produced content we'd made. Intelligent, well-dressed, professional presenters interviewing informed Agents about real estate. It's how 'TV' is made. Sound. Lights. Dusting powder. Licensed music. Equally, there was pushback on formats by Agents who wanted to do their own thing, Agencies who wanted to use their own crews – all in the shadow of a looming public-listing.
The embed CREW at Dean Mackie's operation, resulted in a close-knit team – and a bond between film-makers and Agents that is still producing fist class content, five years down the track. In 2018, platinumHD still works exclusively for McGrath LNS.
Elsewhere, with the industry booming and no need for high-end video marketing when a sign-board and some photographs would do the trick, the Vendor Paid Advertising (VPA) numbers didn't just stand up to support maintaining a full-time PAYE operation. Bleeding cash, we resigned the account three years later. We learnt a lot. And lost a lot. From those lessons have come invaluable initiatives that we've embraced and integrated into our own business. For the better. Thanks John McGrath for the opportunity.