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Bill and Debra Butler announce the marriage of their daughter Nicolette to Casey Christensen, son of Kevin and Marlene Christensen on July 10.
A reception will be held in their honor that evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Huntington Stake Center, 215 North Main, Huntington.
The couple will make their home in Pleasant Grove.
Trinity and Serena Key and Wyatt Howard announce the marriage of their parents Stephanie Richens Key and Harvey Wm. Howard on July 9.
Parents of the bride are Ray and Pat Richins. Parents of the groom are James and Beaverly Howard.
Carl and Vicki Pollastro announce the marriage of their daughter Mellisa Pollastro to Devin A. Esplin, the son of Brent and Pauline Esplin of Cedar City. They will be married July 10 in the Manti LDS Temple.
Melissa is a graduate of Carbon High School and Southern Utah University. She will be teaching fourth grade at Bloomington Elementary in St. George. She also served a full time mission in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Devin is a graduate of Cedar High School and is currently attending Southern Utah University. He also served a full time mission in the Taiwan, Taichung Mission.
There will be a reception presented in their honor July 10 at the Helper Stake Center from 7-9 p.m. There will also be an open house at the Esplin residence, 883 South Fountain Drive, Cedar City, on July 17 from 7-9 p.m.
The couple will make their home in Cedar City.
Dr. Ron and Pat Sanders of Castle Dale are announcing the marriage of their daughter Leslie to Eric Larson, son of Dale and Brooke Larson of Ferron, on July 9 in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple.
Eric graduated from Emery High School and served a LDS mission in the Rapid City South Dakota Mission. He attended Utah Valley State College for two semesters.
Leslie also graduated from Emery High and has received her associate of arts degree from Snow College.
The couple plans to continue their education at Southern Utah University in Cedar City.


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They scored 33% on fragile, higher than 16% of your peers.
They scored 61% on complex, higher than 57% of your peers.
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The new analytics requires that CIOs and IT organizations find new ways to engage with their business partners. For all the strategic opportunities new analytics offers the enterprise, it also threatens the relevance of the CIO. The threat comes from the fact that the CIO's business partners are being sold data analytics services and software outside normal IT procurement channels, which cuts out of the process the very experts who can add real value.
Perhaps the vendors' user-centric view is based on the premise that only users in functional areas can understand which data and conclusions from its analysis are meaningful. Perhaps the CIO and IT have not demonstrated the value they can offer, or they have dwelled too much on controlling security or costs to the detriment of showing the value IT can add. Or perhaps only the user groups have the funding to explore new analytics.
Whatever the reasons, CIOs must rise above them and find ways to provide important capabilities for new analytics while enjoying the thrill of analytics discovery, if only vicariously. The IT organization can become the go-to group, and the CIO can become the true information leader. Although it is a challenge, the new analytics is also an opportunity because it is something within the CIO's scope of responsibility more than nearly any other development in information technology.
The new analytics needs to be treated as a long-term collaboration between IT and business partners—similar to the relationship PwC has advocated1 for the general consumerization-of-IT phenomenon invoked by mobility, social media, and cloud services. This tight collaboration can be a win for the business and for the CIO. The new analytics is a chance for the CIO to shine, reclaim the "I" leadership in CIO, and provide a solid footing for a new culture of inquiry.
In businesses that provide information products or services—such as healthcare, finance, and some utilities—there is a clear added value from having the CIO directly contribute to the use of new analytics. Consider Edwards Lifesciences, where hemodynamic (blood circulation) modeling has benefited from the convergence of new data with new tools to which the CIO contributes. New digitally enabled medical devices, which are capable of generating a continuous flow of data, provide the opportunity to measure, analyze, establish pattern boundaries, and suggest diagnoses.
"In addition, a personal opportunity arises because I get to present our newest product, the EV1000, directly to our customers alongside our business team," says Ashwin Rangan, CIO of Edwards Lifesciences. Rangan leverages his understanding of the underlying technologies, and, as CIO, he helps provision the necessary information infrastructure. As CIO, he also has credibility with customers when he talks to them about the information capabilities of Edwards' products.
For CIOs whose businesses are not in information products or services, there's still a reason to engage in the new analytics beyond the traditional areas of enablement and of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). That reason is to establish long-term relationships with the business partners. In this partnership, the business users decide which analytics are meaningful, and the IT professionals consult with them on the methods involved, including provisioning the data and tools. These CIOs may be less visible outside the enterprise, but they have a crucial role to play internally to jointly explore opportunities for analytics that yield useful results.
E. & J. Gallo Winery takes this approach. Its senior management understood the need for detailed customer analytics. "IT has partnered successfully with Gallo's marketing, sales, R&D, and distribution to leverage the capabilities of information from multiple sources. IT is not the focus of the analytics; the business is," says Kent Kushar, Gallo's CIO. "After working together with the business partners for years, Gallo's IT recently reinvested heavily in updated infrastructure and began to coalesce unstructured data with the traditional structured consumer data." (See "How the E. & J. Gallo Winery matches outbound shipments to retail customers" on page 11.)
Regardless of the CIO's relationship with the business, many technical investments IT makes are the foundation for new analytics. A CIO can often leverage this traditional role to lead new analytics from behind the scenes. But doing even that—rather than leading from the front as an advocate for business-valuable analytics—demands new skills, new data architectures, and new tools from IT.
At Ingram Micro, a technology distributor, CIO Mario Leone views a well-integrated IT architecture as a critical service to business partners to support the company's diverse and dynamic sales model and what Ingram Micro calls the "frontier" analysis of distribution logistics. "IT designs the modular and scalable backplane architecture to deliver real-time and relevant analytics," he says. On one side of the backplane are multiple data sources, primarily delivered through partner interactions; on the flip side of the backplane are analytics tools and capabilities, including such new features as pattern recognition, optimization, and visualization. Taken together, the flow of multiple data streams from different points and advanced tools for business users can permit more sophisticated and iterative analyses that give greater insight to product mix offerings, changing customer buying patterns, and electronic channel delivery preferences. The backplane is a convergence point of those data into a coherent repository. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1
A CIO's situationally specific roles
Given these multiple ways for CIOs to engage in the new analytics—and the self-interest for doing so—the next issue is how to do it. After interviewing leading CIOs and other industry experts, PwC offers the following recommendations.
One course of action is to strategically plan and provision the data and infrastructure for the new sources of data and new tools (discussed in the next section). However, the bigger challenge is to invoke the productive capability of the users. This challenge poses several questions:
What the enterprise needs is the data scientist—actually, several of them. A data scientist follows a scientific method of iterative and recursive analysis, with a practical result in mind. Examples are easy to identify: an outcome that improves revenue, profitability, operations or supply chain efficiency, R&D, financing, business strategy, the use of human capital, and so forth. There is no sure way of knowing in advance where or when this insight will arrive, so it cannot be tackled in assembly line fashion with predetermined outcomes.
The analytic approach involves trial and error and accepts that there will be dead ends, although a data scientist can even draw a useful conclusion—"this doesn't work"—from a dead end. Even without formal training, some business users have the suitable skills, experience, and mind-set. Others need to be trained and encouraged to think like a scientist but behave like a—choose the function—financial analyst, marketer, sales analyst, operations quality analyst, or whatever. When it comes to repurposing parts of the workforce, it's important to anticipate obstacles or frequent objections and consider ways to overcome them. (See Table 1.)
Table 1
Barriers to adoption of analytics and ways to address them
Josée Latendresse of Latendresse Groupe Conseil says one of her clients, an apparel manufacturer based in Quebec, has been hiring PhDs to serve in this function. "They were able to know the factors and get very, very fine analysis of the information," she says.
Gallo has tasked statisticians in IT, R&D, sales, and supply chain to determine what information to analyze, the questions to ask, the hypotheses to test, and where to go after that, Kushar says.
The CIO has the opportunity to help identify the skills needed and then help train and support data scientists, who may not reside in IT. CIOs should work with the leaders of each business function to answer the questions: Where would information insights pay the highest dividends? Who are the likely candidates in their functions to be given access to these capabilities, as well as the training and support?
Many can gain or sharpen analytic skills. The CIO is in the best position to ensure that the skills are developed and honed.
The CIO must first provision the tools and data, but the data analytics requires the CIO and IT team to assume more responsibility for the effectiveness of the resources than in the past. Kushar says Gallo has a team within IT dedicated to managing and proliferating business intelligence tools, training, and processes.
When major systems were deployed in the past, CIOs did their best to train users and support them, but CIOs only indirectly took responsibility for the users' effectiveness. In data analytics, the responsibility is more directly correlated: the investments are not worth making unless IT steps up to enhance the users' performance. Training should be comprehensive and go beyond teaching the tools to helping users establish an hypothesis, iteratively discover and look for insights from results that don't match the hypothesis, understand the limitations of the data, and share the results with others (crowdsourcing, for example) who may see things the user does not.
Training should encompass multiple tools, since part of what enables discovery is the proper pairing of tool, person, and problem; these pairings vary from problem to problem and person to person. You want a toolset to handle a range of analytics, not a single tool that works only in limited domains and for specific modes of thinking.
The CIO could also establish and reinforce a culture of information inquiry by getting involved in data analysis trials. This involvement lends direct and moral support to some of the most important people in the organization. For CIOs, the bottom line is to care for the infrastructure but focus more on the actual use of information services. Advanced analytics is adding insight and power to those services.
As with all IT investments, CIOs are accountable for the payback from analytics. For decades, much time and money has been spent on data architectures; identification of "interesting" data; collecting, filtering, storing, archiving, securing, processing, and reporting data; training users; and the associated software and hardware in pursuit of the unique insights that would translate to improved marketing, increased sales, improved customer relationships, and more effective business operations.
Because most enterprises have been frustrated by the lack of clear payoffs from large investments in data analysis, they may be tempted to treat the new analytics as not really new. This would be a mistake. As with most developments in IT, there is something old, something new, something borrowed, and possibly something blue in the new analytics. Not everything is new, but that doesn't justify treating the new analytics as more of the same. In fact, doing so indicates that your adoption of the new analytics is merely applying new tools and perhaps personnel to your existing activities. It's not the tool per se that solves problems or finds insights—it's the people who are able to explore openly and freely and to think outside the box, aided by various tools. So don't just re-create or refurbish the existing box.
Even if the CIO is skeptical and believes analytics is in a major hype cycle, there is still reason to engage. At the very least, the new analytics extends IT's prior initiatives; for example, the new analytics makes possible the kind of analytics your company has needed for decades to enhance business decisions, such as complex, real-time events management, or it makes possible new, disruptive business opportunities, such as the on-location promotion of sales to mobile shoppers.
Given limited resources, a portfolio approach is warranted. The portfolio should encompass many groups in the enterprise and the many functions they perform. It also should encompass the convergence of multiple data sources and multiple tools. If you follow Ingram Micro's backplane approach, you get the data convergence side of the backplane from the combination of traditional information sources with new data sources. Traditional information sources include structured transaction data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems; new data sources include textual information from social media, clickstream transactions, web logs, radio frequency identification (RFID) sensors, and other forms of unstructured and/or disparate information.
The analytics tools side of the backplane arises from the broad availability of new tools and infrastructure, such as mobile devices; improved in-memory systems; better user interfaces for search; significantly improved visualization technologies; improved pattern recognition, optimization, and analytics software; and the use of the cloud for storing and processing. (See the article, "The art and science of new analytics technology," on page 30.)
Understanding what remains the same and what is new is a key to profiting from the new analytics. Even for what remains the same, additional investments are required.
As always, the CIO should start with a strategic plan. Gallo's Kushar refers to the data analytics specific plan as a strategic plan for the "enterprise information fabric," a reference to all the crossover threads that form an identifiable pattern. An important component of this fabric is the identification of the uses and users that have the highest potential for payback. Places to look for such payback include areas where the company has struggled, where traditional or nontraditional competition is making inroads, and where the data has not been available or granular enough until now.
The strategic plan must include the data scientist talent required and the technologies in which investments need to be made, such as hardware and software, user tools, structured and unstructured data sources, reporting and visualization capabilities, and higher-capacity networks for moving larger volumes of data. The strategic planning process brings several benefits: it updates IT's knowledge of emerging capabilities as well as traditional and new vendors, and it indirectly informs prospective vendors that the CIO and IT are not to be bypassed. Once the vendor channels are known to be open, the vendors will come.
Criteria for selecting tools may vary by organization, but the fundamentals are the same. Tools must efficiently handle larger volumes within acceptable response times, be friendly to users and IT support teams, be sound technically, meet security standards, and be affordable.
The new appliances and tools could each cost several millions of dollars, and millions more to support. The good news is some of the tools and infrastructure can be rented through the cloud, and then tested until the concepts and super-users have demonstrated their potential. (See the interview with Mike Driscoll on page 20.) "All of this doesn't have to be done in-house with expensive computing platforms," says Edwards' Rangan. "You can throw it in the cloud … without investing in tremendous capital-intensive equipment."
With an approved strategy, CIOs can begin to update the IT internal capabilities. At a minimum, IT must first provision the new data, tools, and infrastructure, and then ensure the IT team is up to speed on the new tools and capabilities. Gallo's IT organization, for example, recently reinvested heavily in new appliances; system architecture; extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools; and ways in which SQL calls were written, and then began to coalesce unstructured data with the traditional structured consumer data.
The talent, toolset, and infrastructure are prerequisites for data analytics. In the new analytics, CIOs and their business partners are changing or extending the following:
The adoption of new analytics is an opportunity for IT to augment or update the business's current capabilities. According to Kushar, Gallo IT's latest investments are extensions of what Gallo wanted to do 25 years ago but could not due to limited availability of data and tools.
Of course, each change requires a new response from IT, and each raises the perpetual dilemma of how to be selective with investments (to conserve funds) while being as broad and heterogeneous as possible so a larger population can create analytic insights, which could come from almost anywhere.
With a strategic plan in place and the tools provisioned, the next prerequisite is to ensure that the IT organization is ready to perform its new or extended job. One part of this preparation is the research on tools the team needs to undertake with vendors, consultancies, and researchers.
The CIO should consider some organizational investments to add to the core human resources in IT, because once the business users get traction, IT must be prepared to meet the increased demands for technical support. IT will need new skills and capabilities that include:
Without a parallel investment in IT skills, investments in tools and infrastructure could lie fallow, causing frustrated users to seek outside help. For example, without advanced compression and processing techniques, performance becomes a significant problem as databases grow larger and more varied. That's an IT challenge that users would not anticipate, but it could result in a poor experience that leads them to third parties that have solved the issue (even if the users never knew what the issue was).
Most of the IT staff will welcome the opportunities to learn new tools and help support new capabilities, even if the first reaction might be to fret over any extra work. CIOs must lead this evolution by being a source for innovation and trends in analytics, encouraging adoption, having the courage to make the investments, demonstrating trust in IT teams and users, and ensuring that execution matches the strategy.
Data analytics is no longer an obscure science for specialists in the ivory tower. Increasingly more analytics power is available for more people. Thanks to these new analytics, business users have been unchained from prior restrictions, and finding answers is easier, faster, and less costly. Developing insightful, actionable analytics is a necessary skill for every knowledge worker, researcher, consumer, teacher, and student. It is driven by a world in which faster insight is treasured, and it often needs to be real time to be most effective. Real-time data that changes quickly invokes a quest for real-time analytic insights and is not tolerant of insights from last quarter, last month, last week, or even yesterday.
Enabling the productive use of information tools is not a new obligation for the CIO, but the new analytics extends that obligation—in some cases, hyperextends it. Fulfilling that obligation requires the CIO to partner with human resources, sales, and other functional groups to establish the analytics credentials for knowledge workers and to take responsibility for their success. The CIO becomes a teacher and role model for the increasing number of data engineers, both the formal and informal ones.
Certainly, IT must do its part to plan and provision the raw enabling capabilities and handle GRC, but more than ever, data analytics is the opportunity for the CIO to move out of the data center and into the front office. It is the chance for the CIO to demonstrate information leadership.
1 The consumerization of IT: The next-generation CIO, PwC white paper, November 2011, http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-innovation-center/consumerization-information-technology-transforming-cio-role.jhtml, accessed February 1, 2012.


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The Cold War in the 1980s
Ender's Game takes place in Earth's future, one in which all countries are cooperating together to save the planet from alien invasion. Nevertheless, the novel does suggest that the international conflicts of the twentieth century will not be forgotten, as an American hegemony (a group of nations dominated by one) will be pitted against a Second Warsaw Pact, led by the Russians. In this world, Russia rules Eurasia from the Netherlands to Pakistan. Peter believes that Russia is preparing for a "fundamental shift in world order." Once the bugger wars are over, the North American alliances will dissolve, and Russia will take over. This conflict may have seemed inevitable in the early and mid-1980s, when the novel was written. Since the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had engaged in a "cold war" which involved military buildups but no direct military confrontations. Almost forty years later, this conflict showed few signs of being resolved peacefully.
The two sides of the Cold War were led by the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union. The Warsaw Pact, signed in 1955, established an alliance among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. It served to defend the group against any potential military or economic threats from the West. It also strengthened the Soviet Union's hold over its Eastern European satellites and prevented them from making close ties with the West. On the other side was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which bound Western Europe and the United States together in defense against the communists. From the end of World War II, both the Americans and the Soviets increased their nuclear arsenals, each trying to prevent the other from gaining a military advantage.
The tenseness of the 1950s and 1960s had given way in the 1970s to a limited "detente," or lessening of friction between the two sides. By the 1980s, however, the Cold War began heating up once again. The Soviet Union had invaded neighboring Afghanistan in 1979, leading to increased U.S. fears of spreading communism. Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980 on a platform that included promises of a tougher stance against the Soviets. Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and his administration planned for 1.2 trillion dollars in new military spending. The government also proposed a "Strategic Defense Initiative," commonly called "Star Wars," a space-based defensive system that would intercept incoming nuclear missiles. These actions were in contrast to public reassurances from the Americans that they wanted to proceed with arms reduction treaties, so the Soviets remained nervous of American intentions. It was not until after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 that tensions eased between the two nations. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved, along with the Soviet Union itself, in 1991.
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Skip to comments.George Tiller (Child Murderer) shot to death at Wichita church
Posted on 05/31/2009 9:35:48 AM PDT by Kansas58
Kansas Abortionist George Tiller was shot today as he was going to Church.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.
If all prolifers were violent, if all prolifers were vigilantes, Tiller would have been dead a very long time ago!
The shooter is entitled to a trial by jury.....Fill the jury box.
Why shame on you.
Do you not believe that murdering legions of infants is reprehensible and has consequence.
His redemption is tween him and God, it's arrogant for folks here to insist we worry about it.
Do you pray for Hitler and Pol Pot.
Some freepers have little harsh life boots on the ground I can see.
Worrying about a mass mudering baby killer....Good lord.
Shame on you...lol...and I like you btw MPI...as do I a fair number of the other Tiller angst folks here.
Not me buddy.
Not true at all. The Leftists have lost the abortion debate.
Thanks for the link.
This was one of the few things that O'Reilly got right.
fair enough but we know it probably was...
I wonder if they'll lower the flags to half mast at the University of Notre Dame?
You know that if the perp can in any way be connected to the right wing, it will hurt the movement?
Just too close a match for the stereotypical "pro-life extremist" description to be entirely believable.
George Tiller thought his political connections to the White House would protect him. He learned far too late that Obama throws those closest to him under the bus first. The pro-abortion movement needed a fresh martyr, and George Tiller fit the bill.
FOXNews has just run it saying the authorities are in the midst of a manhunt looking for the individual/suspect who shot Tiller.
Sometimes retaliatory force is necessary to stop initiation of force by those who are violating natural rights. Preservation of life and natural rights of the innocent is a natural duty that God requires.
I was raised to feel sorrow for any soul that you know is bound for hell.
That's not in the script. These guys follow the script. White, middle-aged, Twinkie-eating Christian.
Strange coverage
If the shoot was a CCW holder, expect a BIG hit against the whole idea of CCW nationwide.
However many people didn't like Tiller, this was NOT the way to deal with him.
Which is exactly why it happened. Obama appoints a hoplophobic pro-abortion Catholic to the Supreme Court, and that very same weekend something happens to paint all gun-owners and pro-life people as dangerous whackjobs. You're free to call that coincidence, but I don't.
Murder is wrong. Murder is criminal. But it isn't necessarily "tragic." The things that Tiller did were murderous and tragic, but unfortunately not criminal. His transgressions were far more foul than his killer's.
No, justifiable homicide is a legal term and has to do with exigent circumstances. This was an execution. Legally it is first degree murder not justifiable homicide. Morally? Well that is another case and up to each individuals conscience.
KMBC TV in Kansas City will have updates
Speaking of coincidence, today is the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Eric Rudolph.
Thank God that George Tiller will not be able to murder any more innocent babies.
Agreed. Well stated.
Words fail me.
True, true....
This brings me to another thought. We need to use this event against them.
We need to start accusing Napolitano and Obama of a hidden conspiracy with the gunman of attempting to give pro-lifers a bad name by killing abortionist Tiller.
These people have no problem twisting reality to benefit their agenda, I don't see why we shouldn't do it to them.
If the killer just put scissors into his skull, it would be considered a late term abortion (60+ years late) and he would be a hero of the left, rather than a domestic terrorist.
Are you assuming this individual is indeed a rightwinger, thus inherently extremist? Hell, they have not even caught the suspect yet.
At any rate, my point remains fact: Regardless IF the suspect is a rightwing extremist or NOT, the Barry media will run it/portray it as an act committed by a rightwing extremist. +1 for Napolitano and liberals via their recently released report on Rightwing Extremists.......!
We won't lose any pro-lifers over this and mushy middle folks who don't get it never will anyhow....until they have kids or grow up or find Christ.
It'll just heat up the rhetoric but it might have other consequences...not sure any can get any worse under this administration.
Some folks might get scared.
Gun control for right wing groups (if that's the shooter) might flare up....more survellience of pro-life groups that sort of thing...
He was a Lutheran?
Good Lord! What has become of the Lutheran Church that it accepts unrepentant mass murderers?
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I don't think the number is correct either. Then again, for early-term abortions it might just be that he just has to supervise and have his staff do the actual work.
Check out an award Tiller received:
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights Faith and Freedom Award.
We are assuming on this thread that it is an antiabortion activitist.
What if it isn't.
That would be my first choice. I always told my kids that abortion is out. We'll raise any babies or help them raise them but they couldn't get abortions. My kids ended up never having that problem.
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I suppose if Hitler had been assassinated there would have been many "good" Germans who would have looked at the assassin as a "crazy". Let's face it - this country has lost it's soul. We live in a post-Judeo-Christian nation and it will only go down hill from here. There will certainly be many "good" Americans that lament the passing of this evil man. With a federal government, press and apostate "church" firmly entrenched in liberal secular theology we are witnessing the end of the founder's America.
You're probably right. I should have run those numbers before posting the quote.
Anyway. How many is too many.
Tiller went to an "E.L.C.A." Lutheran church. They do not take a stand on abortion.
Prior to that he went to Holy Cross Lutheran, a "Missouri Synod" church. They "WE" are very much opposed to abortion. Holy Cross excommunicated George from the church some time ago!
Did they stick a scissors in the back of his neck?
If they don't, then we know which side did it.
It is very possible this is Obamacide, but it will be tied to a "right-wing extremist" to cover the tracks.
FNC reporting
That's it exactly. More children will die as a result of this than were saved by eliminating Tiller. Americans have and will turn on the pro-life movement if it resorts to violence (regardless of the inherent violence the "choice" movement represents).
And it's worse than that. This thing plays into the left's hands on so many levels... media, internet, 2nd Amendment, the DHS memo, etc. This is a strategic disaster that couldn't have happened at a worse time (which makes me real curious to see who the shooter is).
But I don't mourn one second for the monster. I mourn for all the innocent people of faith and good will that will be effected by this reckless, thoughtless deed.
Tiller testified to the number in his trial two months ago.
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An Empirical Assessment of Empirical Corporate Finance
Jeffrey L. Coles
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah; Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department
Zhichuan Frank Li
University of Western Ontario - Ivey School of Business
Octobor 2, 2016
We empirically evaluate 20 prominent contributions to a broad range of areas in the empirical corporate finance literature. We assemble the necessary data and then apply a single, simple econometric method, the connected-groups approach of Abowd, Karmarz, and Margolis (1999), to appraise the extent to which prevailing empirical specifications explain variation of the dependent variable, differ in composition of fit arising from various classes of independent variables, and exhibit resistance to omitted variable bias and other endogeneity problems.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. The rate fell because more people found work, a trend that could impact the presidential election.
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What a coincidence!
They have always been wrong. Check the math closely this time.
Magically the number falls to 7.8 and when Obama took office the number was 7.9.
Rush called this months ago. The number of "government" workers started going up the last few months.
This is one of the many tricks in store for the next month.
I doubt (at least I severely hope) that the people will not be fooled by these manipulations.
Fraud !
Suddenly 873000 jobs appear out if nowhere !!!
This is a scandal of huge proportion !!!
Scam central !
Last week, the story was different. Unemployment claims rose last week.
Final September numbers would not be available yet. I bet these are preliminary.
The power of the incumbency.. place people in the right positions to manipulate data..
Gee, who woulda seen this coming?
SHAZAAM!! We are in a full speed recovery now 30 days prior to the election. Who would have figured?
Hey, if you believe this, I'd like to talk to you about how you can invest in some land on bayou down in Mississippi ... /sarc
Totally bogus. Liars liars pants on fire.
Is it true 750,000 dropped out of looking for work last month, helping to reduce the UE number?
How many hundreds of thousands dropped off the rolls to get to this number?
They have overplayed their hand with this. This discrepancy is so large, people will be forced to focus on the internals.
that number is indicative of a hangin' offense
What a LIE. And I don't always get tough on these things....but think about this.
Forecasts said we would gain about as many jobs as the report found and STAY at the same unemployment rate.
Well, guess what....the job gains were almost spot-on yet somehow we have a huge drop in the rate?
This is a LIE or it s simply caused by people stopping looking for jobs.
Yes, this is very suspicious. Remember what happened in 08 the moment McCain and Palin went ahead in the polls? Does anyone think that (the financial crisis) was a coincidence?
This is Orwellian. The road to banana republic status starts with corruption like this.
I expect many more of these "surprises" in the final 30 days.
What a surprise! The number of jobs created this month was 30,000 less than last month...but they magically knocked off .4% from that percentage of unemployed right before the election, so it was way under the dreaded 8%.
I guess that 50% of college graduates who can't find jobs should go to the Labor Dept. They've found half a million jobs there in the last month.
What a bunch of bad liars this administration is!
We knew this was coming though... BLS is looking out for the boss. Next month it drops to 7.4%.
Dear Darrel Issa: investigate BLS next.
Exactly. 28,000 fewer jobs created yet the unemployment rate goes down 3 tens of a percent? 114,000 nonfarm jobs in Sept.(104,000 private sector) vs. 142,000 in August.
The GOP needs to out in force today
Destroying this scam !
Only 900000 Lodi g jobs could do this flip .
It's not possible !
Several business anchors openly skeptical of the data.
Show them the 144 vs 139 million, and THAT they will understand very clearly. No spin can change that... which is why the numbers are rarely presented that way.
They went through previous months' data and revised each month to find 500K more jobs.
I've followed jobs reports for years. I've never seen this happen before.
Score another one for Rush Limbaugh.
We had several reports just this week saying how companies were NOT planning to hire.
I guess the SEIU HIRED ALL the OBAMA PHONE OWNERS!! One MILLION in OHIO Alone!! 16 MILLION in all!!
I hope that Mitt Romney will be able to bring this truth to the American people in the next debate...in the same fashion he used his sons as a example the other night when calling out Obama on a mis truth.
Recall the debate. Romney told Ø "You're entitled to your own house, to your own plane, but not to your own facts." Obama is trying to invent his own facts. Romney needs to educate dumb voters about this and can tie it into memories of the debate.
I bet Barack Obama's grandmother will die again, too.
I follow these things pretty closely as well and have never seen these kind of revisions. And never so blatantly timed to coincide with an election.
Well if Romney's Wall Street buddies want to see him elected, they better start working on an October Crash.
Because it's obvious which side the government statisticians are on.
So what did Obama do to cause this miracle? The stimulus was spent long ago and all his job crushing regulations are still in place?
This is why you have to be more than just about the economy and hope it will always be bad.
good point.
"Complete preelection "massaging" farce. "
No surprise here for sure.Romney needs to pound the combined rate...can't recall what it's called...the rate of the unemployed who are looking *plus* the unemployed who've become too discouraged to look and,therefore,are not counted as unemployed.
I only briefly caught a glimpse of the crew on CNBC before leaving the office,but it appeared the anchors were not only expressing surprise, but outright skepticism.
Looks like the internals have been cooked, from what I am hearing.
I wonder what the number would have been if the Muslim in Chief didn't stop the Military layoffs.
In the meantime Obama probably will start an unauthorized 'war' against some 'wink'unknown'wink' entity to appear to be 'decisive and presidential'.
Got it.
LOL! Now, who didn't see this coming?!! The Magic Negro pulls one out at the last second!
The funny part will be the talking heads who all claim 7.8% is absolutely wonderful and yet Bush at 5.2% was a dolt who couldn't do anything right.
So it has been 8.3 for years and all of a sudden it drops to 7.8?? This is electioneering, this is freaking criminal..
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